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Tupolev Tu-128 Fiddler-B - 921st Fighter Regiment, Vietnamese People's Air Force, 1972 Towards the end of 1972, the North Vietnamese air defences had almost exhausted their supply of surface-to-air missiles. Soviet intelligence agents duly reported this back to the Kremlin along with their secret report that President Richard Nixon was about to launch Operation Linebacker II - a planned massive bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong scheduled for late December 1972 in an attempt to drive North Vietnam back to the negotiating table. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev informed North Vietnam leader Ton Duc Thang of this plan but Thang confessed that apart from a shortage of missiles the North Vietnamese Air Defence Network was already severely degraded by electronic countermeasures and other suppression measures and that the proposed US plan would almost certainly work. Reluctantly, on November 30th, 1972, Brezhnev agreed to the transfer of more surface-to-air missiles to North Vietnam and also to the emergency transfer of 30 Tu-128 'Fiddler' interceptors in an attempt to counter the B-52's. With no hope of training North Vietnam personnel to fly and maintain this large, sophisticated interceptor Brezhnev agreed to send Soviet air and ground crews but naturally insisted that all Tu-128's flew in North Vietnamese colours. Arriving at the newly refurbished Thanh Hoá Air Base on December 8th, 1972 the aircraft flew just one mission on December 19th when four Tu-128's were effectively out-ranged and shot down by US Navy F-4J's firing AIM-7E-2 missiles forcing Brezhnev to reconsider and eventually withdraw the Tu-128's.

Fiddler

Hunters always look nice.

Westland Wyvern S.Mk.50 - 860 Squadron, Koninklijke Marine, 1957

IDF Meteor

@ Sundowner - I know where you're going... Tipsy

Syrian CL-13 Sabres Using Strahi's new SAAF skin.

Soviet Kingcobra

Nice skin!

View File Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 'RCAF' Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 'RCAF' for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a very simple mod of the stock Third Wire Meteor F.8 to create a fictional export version in service with the Royal Canadian Air Force with markings for 421 Sqd (natural metal finish) and 420 Sqd (Camo). INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the Meteor8_RCAF folder into your main Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the Meteor8_RCAF folder into your main Decals folder. That's it! CREDITS Thanks to everyone in the Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 1 - 27/08/16 Submitter Spinners Submitted 08/27/2016 Category What If Hangar

Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 - 421 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1954

421 Squadron, RCAF

It's those shark-mouthed Vampires that won it for you!

Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8's - 420 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1952

Central Front Canadians

Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 - 420 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1953

Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8's - 420 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1952

Blue Angels, 1966

Vought F-8E Crusader - 'Blue Angels', United States Navy, 1966

It couldn't have been worse than the F-100F (and that's not a criticism of the F-100F).

Vought F-8F Crusader - 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, United States Air Force, 1966

"When you're out of F-8's, you're of of fighter-bombers" (Thanks Geary)