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hell a stock USAF and NATO Viper skin would probably make him a lot of cash. after all, how many of us bought his F-4 skinpacks even though we have Sundowners skins, let alone templates? (yes i'm guilty my own self of that ..)

Dave you really are a simple creature. nukes alone wont kill the smurfs. you needs boots on the ground to eradicate the blue threat. Division is wheels up, less than 18 hours out... sorry macelena for hijacking your thread. maybe we can drop off the survivors in Austin. they sing until we get Exp3........

of course. but looking for fix wing ASW as well.

well the afterburning engine would have wrecked the SLUFs range, and the USAF (who developed the F) preferred to retire the type and get more Falcons. interestingly, the USAF kept the SLUFs home while the Navy postoned the retirement of the last two squadrons to deploy on the Kennedy in 90-91! they had to call back alot of personnel that had already left and scramble to find the manuals that had been gotten rid of.... as to the Harrier merchies 5 seems like a good number. but more likely than even distributing parts is having the worst two as hangar queens to keep the other 3 flying. I'm the big problem i have at the moment is that several good candidate planes for AEW and ASW aren't here at CA. also possible is to have the RNs SHAR training squadron meet up with the carrier before they leave land based air coverage on the US side. good after around 78 anyhow...

That is not the end of the world. THIS..... is the end of the world.

Stratos they made such a thing. its called a Crusader! toryu, macelena was right i was trying to abreviate air defense. also weren't the SCB125 Essex's given a metal flight deck when they gained angled decks? i know that the Dedalo got a metal area for the Spanish Harriers to land on and that was an Independence class at that. all concerned, if your universe has unlimited funds, and if IRL you havent pissed off DAT and gotten blocked from the site (Dirty Harry was right, the difference between 5 and 6 DLs is IMPORTANT) run free. when i go to alter history i aim for minimal changes to the RL timeline, little something learned from all the alt history books i like. Ticonderoga and the FD Roosevelt would fit the bill for this best i think (even though we don't have the Rosie in game). Rosie was decommissioned in 77 and scrapped in 78 IRL, while Tico sat in storage til the 90's. Rosie also did trials on her last cruise integrating the AV-8A into CV ops, so that would again be a natural as she was set up, but the Admirals reallllllly didnt want to keep her because they felt a refurb would threaten the Nimitzes. Finally here's another wrinkle to consider...... there were studies on parking a few Harriers on each merchie in order to spread out the force and still provide some close in protection. off to do some thinking...

Good luck!

@Crazyhorse: i agree but the point of my exercise was extending the life of the Essex or the Franklin D Roosevelt in the late Ford and Carter years when funds were much tighter. the Navy actually hurried up and got the FDR to the scrapyard in less than a year of her decomissioning due to fears that Carter might want to refurb her rather than pay for a new Nimitz. @Toryu: appreciate the info on the A-4M. i'm wanting closer in AD capability as well as anti sub capability( which drives me nuts as most of the older antisub AC are at that other site!). idea from yesterday would be to have raid warning from a sub or Iceland. IRL one would hope Sentry and Fighter assets would be spread around and not centered at Keflavik for the kill shot. also IRL the RDF would be more suitable to bolster Iceland than a MAU as they could get there quicker (18 hours worldwide as they used to tell us at Bragg). prefer the RSR reality? well theres still the USS Narwhal and some USAF LT out in the boonies to give warning.

real life and change in priorities. still a low level interest but school and the family are competing with ANG SLUFs and a F-4S pack similar to my N pack.

but i just backed up last year..................(31Dec13 heh heh heh)

update the 80's plan for the Soviet Union....... being 2013 instead of Sears catalogs we'll drop WalMart catalogs.

some were some weren't. more were later in the naval Phantoms life, which coincidentally is my area of interest. even more interesting is many had it cut off at the line for the rudder so only halfway down the rwr....

Hooterland skins for all WW2 A/C!!!!

would have snapped the landing gears by the RL design. perhaps cocas can look up what the gear looked like for the GD entry for the Naval Air Combat Fighter competition.

i just had a flashback to Ardennes, every weekday from 0630 until 0745...........

sadly, i hear this in mooses voice..........

very nice. trying to make an F-4S for the same service, but the f-4j_5 keeps coming out too dark every attempt. of course it is a very side project inspired by Spinners...

i just increased the size of the decal slightly something to the tune of xx.5 instead of xx.3. dont remember having that issue on the N tho

of course, like the Phantom with the USAF, the Hun found its niche as a mud mover even though it got one kill (unofficially) and would have gotten many more than the Thud i think in Germany had that cooked off.

leave the windows Geary. part of the Phantoms magic was all the evolutionary rather than revoloutionary change. McAir had studies in for single seaters, but most of the changes were minor so they would keep rolling off the assembly lines. i think as is would be perfect for a what if single seater

ah an old classic

EXP3, like dry land, is a myth.

No A-37s. Oscar Dueces maybe, but more likely Reserves. BTW, F-106 msee one two week deployment in 75, operation cold fire i think.

X-37. Been in orbit twice now. Bout the only complete info out there tho is that it exists, launch and recovery times.