Yankee Air Pirate RW – Enhanced Edition (2025)

The YAP-RW Team is proud to announce the release of the updated version of John Shelton’s masterpiece: YAP RW – Phase One Enhanced Edition (2025), a full conversion of YAP3 for Strike Fighters 2.

We have spent more than a year doing our best to correct all the issues, errors and mistakes contained in the original release.  This includes removing assets used without proper permission or those that came from unauthorized sources.  We apologize for the past. We were unaware of many of these aspects and concerns, and therefore we did not respect other’s work as we should have done.

This new versions offers 10 training and 67 historical combat missions, reconstructing the most important facts of the air war in Vietnam in its early years, from 1954 to 1965.

Yo will fly iconic aircrafts and helicopters for the most important operators of the conflict (USAF, US Navy, USMC, US Army, RVNAF, RLAF, RTAF, VPAF, and the C.I.A.) through the skies and extraordinary landscapes of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia starting from the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

The updated terrains offer more than 60 airfields, bases and dirty strips, 16 historically accurate carriers sailing the Gulf of Tonkin to Yankee and Dixie Stations and other highly detailed ships and natants patrolling the Mekong Delta, such as LSTs and ATCs of the Brown Water Navy.

But there is even more: thanks to the great work of DaddyAirplanes all models are now fitted with a better decal system and lightweight skins, improving and shortening the loading times. Moreover, a brand new Avionics protocol made by Alexis99 was realized for most of the used planes, in order to enhance the immersion in the game and, at the same time, improve the playability.

Re-live the heroic experiences of many of the men who fought one of the most intense air combat in history. Re-enact real dogfights, strikes, CAS, transport, rescue, reconnaissance and many other tasks explained by accurate briefings.

Yankee Air Pirate – Revamp Works – Phase One Enhanced Edition (2025) – “Real combat missions flown by real people“

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We would like to say THANKS to all the people who contribute to this project.

In order to improve the visual experience of the mod, and to update and enhance the graphic effects, we have used a lot of top quality materials realized through the years by many very skilled authors and modders. Enclosed in the packages is the complete list of what is included in the YAP-RW Phase One Enhanced Edition (2025).

We say Super Special Thanks to: 331Killerbee, Alexis99, ATARIBABY, Batman1978, BobRock, Bunyap, Caesar, Centurion-1, daddyairplanes, Danilo, Dave, Dels, dtmdragon, FastCargo, Gepard, HrntFixr, Jarek Hereda, Julhelm, Kesselbrut, KJakker, Kulbit80, MENRVA, Malibu43, MigBuster, Mod Mafia/TMF, MPPD, NeverEnough, Nghengo, Nyghtfall, Paladrian, Pasko, PauloPanz, Ravenshit, RussoUK, SF, Snailman, Snapper21, Sophocles, Spillone104, Suhsjake, Stary, thereg, trotski00, Veltro2K, Viper63a, Wrench and yakarov79.

We really hope that you will enjoy our work and the one of all these modders and we apologize if we forgot to mention one or more authors. If so, please let us know and we will immediately correct the credits list. Sorry!

PERMISSION

Please note that, as stated above, the YAP-RW Project offers all of its products for free. However people should fully respect that all of the models/assets in our project cannot be used anywhere else without our direct permission. They must remain exclusive to this project, like John Shelton would have wanted, but also allows us to better manage artist permissions so we hopefully don’t have any future concerns.