Gepard

Good remark. I will make new decals. No problem at all.

Recon over South England (revision of Battle of Britain terrain, still WIP, thatswhy some old tiles to see in screenshot.)

From Moscow ehm Kuznetsov with love.

Shipnames and tactical numbers are now made as decals. Position and size are not perfect, its just a try.

Bye bye, Boris!

Kuz is firing unguided rocket from depth-charge launcher (ASW weapon system) at enemy ships.

Kuz is firing Shipwreck missiles on Nimitz. (missile launch position is not correct. WIP) first missile salvo missed the target, was flying over the deck second salvo fired this time one hit. and sunk

The correct way, i think, would be to throw away the Sykes-Picot "bullsh..t". The Kurds should have an own state. Such a state should be formed by negotiations with Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. On short term the rulers of these nations lose some land, but on long term they get a stable situation, which is neccessary to get peace and prosperity.

WIP report. The Kuz sinking after bomb hits. Kashtan flak systems are firing with guns. Kashtan is firing with gun while VLS launcher is firing a SA-9-N missile.

From the stategic point of view the decision to leave Syria is correct. The USA are suffering from "strategic overstretch". They are engaged nearly all over the world. This is very expensive. The old prussian king Friedrich II (Frederic the Great) once said: "Who tries to defend all, defend nothing!". Because the forces are overstreched, what means, they are to weak on the deciding battlefields. If you are to weak, your losses increase, the war time increases, the costs climbing into the skies. To cure such a situation it is neccessary to concentrate on the deciding battlefields and to leave the non deciding battlefields, or to say it with General Guderian "Klotzen, nicht kleckern!". Syria is a non deciding battlefield for the USA. The IS forces are knocked down. There are no ressources in Syria, which are important for America, nor is there a need for Air Bases or Naval Stations in this area. The USA has better places for such installations. So it is a correct decision to retreat the US Forces from Syria. BUT. The withdrawal was made in the most stupid way. An efficient ally was abandoned, you can say betrayed. The withdrawal was overhasty, valuable equipment was left behind. Conclusion: Nice idea, but bad try. or That's not how you do it!

Over London.

Su-9 with GP-9 gunpod.

Dort unterm Eiffelturm werden wir stehen, über die Towerbridge werden wir gehen!

Pusk!

Utka, the plane was namend by the crews. Utka is the russian word for duck.

Heavy flak fire over south England. As a small finger exercise i started to rework my old Battle of Britain terrain. In the screenshot below you see the difference between the old and the new tileset.

It seems to be, that there is no english version, neighter subtitels nor synchronisation. Unfortunatly. Edit: There should be an english version of that movie. In 1965 the movie was shown in Edinburgh (Scotland). But in the internet no such version is to find.

Trumps decision was wrong. Never let an ally alone. It remembers me on spring 1990. An soviet officer said to me: "Who will trust Russia in future, if we now let you alone!" It was the first time, that i have heard the word "Russia" from a soviet military man. But the guy was right. You never abandon an ally. No way.

East german movie: "Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt" The book was school literature during GDR times. Was very good. It descriped the way of a young man from school to the battle fields, from enthusiastic war voluntary to disenchanted man. In the book the deciding battle was between germans and american troops, but the east german movie companie was not able to get Sherman tanks, so they changed it to a battle between germans and soviets.

Flugzeugwerft Dresden FWD-89 Milan

FW-187A Falke squadron is flying close escort mission during Battle of Britain. While an other Falke squadron is flying "freie Jagd" to sweep Spitfires away.