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Supermarine Skylark F.3 - Treble One Squadron, RAF Fighter Command, 1966

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Supermarine Skylark F.1 - No.5 & No.11 Squadrons, RAF Fighter Command, 1961 The adoption of the earlier Dassault Mystère IV (licence-built by Supermarine Aviation as the Siskin F.1) encouraged Dassault to offer the forthcoming Super Mystère to the UK Government to meet the RAF's requirement for a Venom replacement for overseas use. However, by mid-1955 the requirement had changed to that for a supersonic interceptor-fighter for RAF Fighter Command to supplement the Hunter F.6 and provide a lead-in to the Mach 2 English Electric Lightning. By this time the Super Mystère prototype had flown (initially powered by a Rolls Royce Avon RA.7R) and the successful early flight-testing gave the RAF the confidence to quickly draft an official Operational Requirement based around a Super Mystère powered by the proposed Avon RA.21R and armed with 2 x 30mm ADEN cannon. Supermarine were selected to licence-build the Super Mystère at South Marston as the Supermarine Skylark F.1 for RAF Fighter Command and with an initial order for 120 aircraft and soon supplemented with an order for 45 Skylark FR.2's for RAF Germany (carrying centreline Vinten camera pods). Whilst Dassault quickly moved on to the Mirage family of delta-winged fighters the Skylark was further developed by Supermarine as the FGA.3 fighter-bomber for the RAF and also exported to Finland, India and Saudi Arabia.

LOL - it was here for nine years but was incorrectly put in the SF1 section when admins split apart SF1 and SF2 back in the day.

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Supermarine Siskin F.1 - No.43 Squadron, RAF Fighter Command, 1956 The early 1950's was a difficult time for RAF Fighter Command. The obsolescent Meteor F.8 formed the mainstay of Fighter Command but it could barely catch the RAF's Canberra jet bombers and would have been hopelessly outclassed by MiG-15's if the Cold War had turned hot. But just at the time that Fighter Command should have been looking forward to receiving the modern swept-wing Hawker Hunter and Supermarine Swift fighters both programmes hit severe technical problems. especially the doomed Swift. Even before the decision to cancel the Swift fighter programme (taken in February 1955) the Air Ministry were looking for an 'off the shelf' purchase of an interim 'stop-gap' type and although the North American F-86 Sabre was procured in substantial numbers the desperately poor balance of payments situation with the US prevented further purchases. Dassault had previously offered the Mystère IIC to the UK Government and had been turned down. But in November 1952 an RAF evaluation team were sent to Istres to evaluate the Mystère IV and submitted an enthusiastic report to the Air Ministry who decided to place an order for 200 Mystère IV's to be licence-built by Supermarine Aviation with Rolls Royce Tay engines. Entering service in March 1955 as the Siskin F.1 this fine aircraft was used by RAF Fighter Command until the early 1960's with the subsequent Siskin FGA.2 fighter-bomber serving in RAF Far East Air Force until 1970.

De Havilland Venom FB.52 - JG71 'Richthofen' , German Air Force, 1956

Bearcat Over The Bocage!

Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat - No.1482 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy British Pacific Fleet, 1946

Actually, no. There was a reference to 'Operation Downfall' over at What If Modellers with speculation over what colour invasion stripes would have been used (if any). The above is my trial at SEAC blue tones but someone suggested orange and yellow so I also tried that on a Kiwi Bearcat (below);

Cruisin' for a bruisin'

BAC Bullfinch FR.2's - No.234 (Reserve) Squadron

Bristol Bullfinch FGA.1's of No.234 Squadron, RAF, 1962

Aeritalia G.91YS - Fighter Squadron 20, Swiss Air Force, 1976 Skin Credit: Kulbit80

Bristol Bullfinch FR.2 - No.611 (West Lancashire) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1963 In late 1953 a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) committee drafted NATO Basic Military Requirement 1 (NBMR-1) detailing the specification of a future requirement for a "light weight tactical strike fighter" capable of carrying both conventional or tactical nuclear weapons from dispersed or even rough airfields with minimal ground support. Intended to produce an aircraft that would become standard equipment across the air forces of the various NATO nations the competition stipulated many basic specifications on speed, range, weight and field length but also specified the preferred engine choice of the Bristol Siddeley Orpheus turbojet which was already funded by the US Mutual Weapons Development Program and which promised to meet the challenge of providing an engine that matched the requirements of lightweight, power, reliability and ease of maintenance. After extensive testing and evaluation against it's competitors, NATO Defence Ministers met in April 1957 to announce that the Fiat Aviazone G.91 would be the first NATO lightweight strike fighter. But, almost immediately, there was considerable controversy surrounding the decision and all hope of unity and standardisation looked to be lost when the French government bailed out to pursue development of the Dassault Étendard whilst the UK government initially ignored the competition to concentrate on the continued production of the Hawker Hunter and the requirements of Air Ministry Operational Requirement 339 (OR.339) that would lead to the Hawker P.1121 project. However, following the infamous 1957 Defence White Paper, the UK government began planning (plotting) to consolidate the remaining British aviation manufacturers into as few companies as possible and pulled Bristol Siddeley Engines back into Bristol Aircraft as a stepping stone to the early creation of the British Aircraft Corporation. Bristol's reward for a further merger involving English Electric, Hunting Aviation and Vickers-Armstrong was a production contract for 150 licence-built G.91's as the Bristol Bullfinch FGA.1 and Bullfinch FR.2. This order rejuvenated the entire G.91 programme leading to orders from Belgium, Holland, Greece, Spain and Turkey requiring Fiat Aviazone to expand their production facility at Piedmont and grant a licence production arrangement to the Flugzeug-Union Süd consortium consisting of Messerschmitt, Heinkel and Dornier. In return for the licence agreement with Bristol Aircraft, Fiat Aviazone were able to negotiate a comprehensive licence manufacturing agreement for the Orpheus engine for all non-British users of the G.91. Entering RAF service in April 1961 the Bullfinch served with several front-line squadrons in RAF Germany and also with three squadrons of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force before finally being retired in 1988.

De Havilland Vampire F.8 - No.500 (County of Kent) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1956 The Vampire F.8 was developed to a 1949 Air Ministry requirement for an interceptor fighter for the home defence squadrons of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and was based on the airframe of the Vampire FB.5 but with the more powerful Goblin 35 engine of the Vampire T.11 trainer. The Vampire F.8 entered service with No.500 (County of Kent) Squadron in 1951 and served with eight auxiliary squadrons until the sudden disbandment of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in March 1957.

Mikoyan MiG-41SM - 678 Squadron, Syrian Air Force, 2018 Following the second wave of strikes against suspected Syrian chemical weapons plants and storage facilities in late April 2018, Vladimir Putin (President of the Russian Federation) ordered the immediate transfer of 6 MiG-41's to the Syrian Air Force. Arriving at Abu-al-Duhur airbase on April 30th the aircraft were hastily given Syrian Air Force markings but were allegedly flown by Soviet pilots on attack missions in support of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government forces against targets in the A'zaz area north of Aleppo in May 2018. This move prompted President Trump to specifically authorise the deployment of F-22A Raptors to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey later in the same month.

Southern Voodoo

View File [Fictional] Dhimari RF-101C Voodoo McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo for Strike Fighters 1 This is a very simple mod of ErikGen's superb RF-101C to give a fictional RF-101C in service with the 20th Recon Flight of the Dhimari Air Force. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the RF-101Cdh folder into your Aircraft folder. That's it! Any existing RF-101C's you may have are completely unaffected by this mod. CREDITS Thanks to ErikGen for giving the Voodoo to the SF community. It's 'Hall of Fame' stuff! Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim. And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 1 - 16/04/18 Submitter Spinners Submitted 04/16/2018 Category F-101 Voodoo  

McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo - 20th Recon Flight, Dhimari Air Force, 1970

I.Ae. 30 Ñancú - Grupo 4 de Caza, Fuerza Aérea Argentina, 1952 Hornet F.1 standing in unfortunately. Perhaps one day we'll see the real Ñancú in Strike Fighters! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.Ae._30_Ñancú

The de Havilland Hornet masquerading as the I.Ae. 30 Ñancú

Hawker Hunter FGA.9 - No.1417 Flight, RAF Strike Command, Belize, 1970

Hawker Hunter FGA.9 - No.1435 Flight, RAF South Atlantic Command, 1971