


Ukrainian strikes can shake buildings as far as the city of Zaporizhzhia and explosions light up the skies, despite the city being around 30 miles (48 km) from the frontline. Night-time missions similar to this one have so far been a defining feature of the initial stages of Ukraine’s counter-offensive, especially in the southern part of the country. “Now we finish our preparation, the bomb is ready, and we are ready to go.”

“We 3D-printed these fins, and this is from a hardware store,” a senior officer with the call sign Marat, from the Patrol Police, explains as his men glue the whole thing together. The device can carry a payload of up to 45 pounds, but this evening they’re making an improvised explosive – using a shell left behind by Russian forces when they pulled out of Kherson. On site they prepare the drone – a large, Ukrainian-made quadcopter - and the explosive they are dropping on the Russian position. It’s all carefully choreographed to hide their tracks and guarantee their position remains concealed from Russian surveillance and artillery, while they carry out their strike. Relying only on red light - which they say, is harder for Russian drones to spot from afar, especially when they’re not looking - they illuminate the way. They hide their vehicles and proceed a few hundreds of meters on foot, while Ukrainian and Russian forces trade artillery salvos. “This has to happen under all of these conditions.”

Having said that, each payment that goes through does let Frontier know that there's still active interest in the series.Before the launch they drive in complete darkness, turning off their headlights and using night-vision goggles to see the road, and reach a designated launch site. Don't expect the program to suddenly stop working or nagging you to pay up - you shouldn't really expect the police to break down your door for not paying either. I believe the Shareware version does have the fee still, but most people probably haven't paid for it. If not, then use a USB pendrive to copy them over and you'll be good to go. Simply set up DOSBox so it's pointed towards your FE2 folder (I understand there are various GUI launchers for DOSBox - perhaps someone else can point you to a good one, as I still use the old fashioned way) and run Frontier Elite 2.įor getting both those programs onto your notebook, if you've got an internet connection for it, then simply download them. You'll require it in order to run Frontier : Elite 2 on any version of Windows since 98 (that is, unless you're a technical wizard, which you've already said you're not). Have you tried downloading a program called "DOSBox"?
