Strike Fighters Project 1 was developed by Third Wire Productions and released for Windows in 2002. It was first title in long running series of survey flight sims. It portrays conflict set in fictional Kingdom of Dhimar in the timeframe between mid 50s and 70s. It allows you to fly Instant Action, Single Missions as well as Dynamic Campaign in the seat of several different variants of F-100 Super Sabre, A-4 Skyhawk, F-4 Phantom or even F-104 Starfighter which was not featured in Strike Fighters 2 version. It also includes multiplayer which was dropped in the Strike Fighters 2 series of releases. The game features interesting mode where we can take part in campaign as an mercenary unit, which adds another aspect of managing funds for additional aircraft and munitions. Basically "Area 88 mode". This video depicts one of the early missions from such campaign played in Mercenary mode. As with Wings Over Vietnam I did some testing and got it to run mostly fine on Windows 10 64-bit. There are only rare occurences when after finishing the mission the game will CTD. Patching it beyond SP3.1 will make the game drop its FPS to single digits, so I recommend stopping at 3.1. Since the archived patches are gone from official Thirdwire site:
here are some alternative links: SFP1 SP1:
SFP1 SP1 to SP2:
SFP1 SP2 to SP3:
SFP1 SP3 to SP3.1
Strike Fighters Series playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIku_oD9y-RCNtajl-jcFj9mWAat-kyd1 Table of content: 0:00 Main Menu 0:31 Briefing, arming, planning map ... 2:23 Mission start 3:35 Skipping to mission objective 5:48 First bandit call - sending my wingmen to engage 6:06 Going after the bombers 6:46 Engaging first bomber flight 7:20 Snoopy gets in contact with enemy ground units 7:30 First gun kill 8:17 Engaging another IL-28, evading his tail guns, Splash Two 8:31 Enemy bombs explode below 9:20 Splash Three 9:59 Enemy IL-28 engaging friendly armor 10:40 Hell down below 12:04 Tampa 12 bags a bandit in the distance 12:51 Getting vectors from TACC 14:00 Pursuing retreating enemy 14:56 Easy kill on unsuspecting Fresco 16:35 Last sweep over target area before bugging out 18:05 Final approach 19:32 Just before touchdown 20:13 Taxi to parking 21:00 My flight landing 22:10 Debriefing #RetroFlightSims
