Stratos

The Marcfighters version?

View File F104M from Cocas and Co The F104M by CAF team, 3d work by Cocas, skins by Nyghtfall, other ini work by Coupi, testing by Stratos, Coupi, Wrench, Nyghtfall. Some small whatif background: The Lockheed F104M was a 1960s company-funded proposal for an improved air superiority Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. It was intended for both the USAF and the export market and was in direct competition with the Northrop F-5E Tiger II, Dassault Mirage F1 and the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Lockheed hoped to capitalize on its F-104 production experience through commonality of parts and systems, and minimize expenses by reusing tooling, jigs and existing factory facilities. Borrowing heavily from the F-104 design the new type featured a new high-mounted, increased span wing and low-mounted, enlarged tailplanes. Both features were incorporated to improve flight handling characteristics and short-field performance. The F104M was heavily focused for the USAF, trying to sell it as a improved dogfighter variant of the F104 interceptor. Seeing how the F104 small payload and relatively low agility can be a problem If dogfight capability ever arise, the USAF decided to try several prototypes. They liked the plane so much that several squadrons were equipped with the plane that formed part of the USAF until mid 70's. Included: One plane with several skins and variations. Submitter Stratos Submitted 08/05/2018 Category What If Hangar  

Even without the ramp will be a nice addition, both in Soviet/Russian and Chinese forms.

Formosa Strait combat...

And now, what I hunt with this one?

Beautiful, ussually some historical background adds a lot of screens.

On my reply I was talking about the heli carried infantry squad, like the YAP ones. I have been using the infantry squads for COIN since a long time.

Pretty interesting...

Do we have an infantry squad? I would be happy simply deploying them, but one option is to have them as an animation, you activate the animation, they dissapear (at the same time you deploy a weapon that make appear the squad on the ground). For recovery using same animation will "load" those guys in.

Do they come with a infantry squad to be deployed?

Do the leaves fall in autumn in Sarajevo? Mandatory pic.

Looks pretty cool, I like the background story as well. Good job!

USN Fast Interceptor: And their USMC Strike counterpart... And of course their USAF cousins:

My salutes!

Translation: "I need to make some corrections so it works properly for everyone"

Not exactly the same plane, but quite similar yes.

So the Phantom was more less imposed to the USAF, and IIRC there were a big part of the USAF generals that argueb to have a pure air superiority fighter, like the P-51 and the F-86. But they made any plan, prototype, planning or something before the Phantom took the lead?

The Lancer looks quite interesting as a F-104 upgrade. Wish we had one for SF2!

Can we now focus on targeting a ship at 59km please?

I really enjoy this posts, and your knowledge together with the desire/hability to share it, so I can learn more about aviation. Wondering how the F104 should have evolved If the F4 was never produced.