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Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2026 9:05 pm One of several designs to satisfy the need for more air-capable escorts: a Flight Deck Spruance, proposed by Bath Iron Works in Maine. The need for more AEGIS cruisers was felt to be a higher priority.

What could it carry, a small harrier with ASW mix

is it just me ore every time i want to visit the board here i have to click the, i am not a bot box, anybody else have that also.

This would be the Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean in 2005 using a Orbat i created once for the Orange Twilight: the Netherlands during the Twilight War and beyond timeline i created. Updated for 2005. Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean in 2005 The Commander Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean (...

Good update Bernard but we do not need to be worried that something is wrong with you, like your wife (if you have one) saying you need to get out in the sun a bit more.

Photo: the stern well dock (landing bay) of HMS Fearless (L10) during the liberation of Iceland, 1987.

Wolfman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2026 10:56 pm
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OOC: should now be fixed.

Photo: The decommissioned Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) who served during the last two years of World War III, viewed through the periscope of Canada-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine, HMCS Alberta (SSN 108), sinks into the Pacific Ocean during Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2026...

So will we have to wait 21 years until we reach chapter 800 going by your 21 year progress to advance 35 days into the war. Please no. I'd be five years into retirement by then :shock: If he keeps up posting 10 chapters per year, while at the same time not getting a burnout ore becoming this versio...

So will we have to wait 21 years until we reach chapter 800 going by your 21 year progress to advance 35 days into the war.

Aside from helping Poland by inserting SpecOps forces, I wonder if NATO would give serious consideration to pushing into East Germany and Czechoslovakia. If the Warsaw Pact forces are seen to be digging in and assuming a defensive posture it'd be worth carefully considering. Assume the old free pol...

Photo: HMS Hermes (R12) during a convoy mission, photo was taken in 1986 before she was damaged by Soviet ‘Backfire’ bombers and sunk by a Soviet submarine while limping back to a British port. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/HMS_Hermes_%28R12%29_underway_on_16_March_1982_%286350...

Wolfman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2026 3:26 pm Why would an Atlantic Fleet Tomcat be in the Indian Ocean, unless it’s during CVW-8’s Odyssey to get back home after Nimitz was damaged…

Is it now better.

Photo: a SR-71 and a F-14 flying in formation over the Atlantic Ocean during an 11.5-hour Silkworm Mission from Royal Air Force Mildenhall to the Soviet Union and back.

Good update and a happy 400th.

Jotun wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 5:03 am
6. Frigate Squadron, Wilhelmshaven: 4 FF, class 123 Deutschland [2]

Deutschland (F215), 1994
Schleswig-Holstein (F216), 1995

I can picture in my head the Soviet/Warsaw propaganda with these two names.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2026 6:02 pm For most non-USians, it would probably be a case of "who?".

Think that is what i was saying, but you explain it 100 % better.

Wolfman wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2026 4:16 pm Senator Lindsey Graham has died. How do we want our characters to react to this?

without a war in Iran and Ukraine and with no trump, i think he is just a regular republican, unless he is very anti-regime Mexican who want the US to finally finish the regime in Mexico City off.

Photo: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Modified Design Round Table-class landing ship logistics RFA Sir Galahad (L3005) entering the water for the first time upon it's launching at Swan Hunter, Wallsend, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, 1986. RFA Sir Galahad (L3005) saw service in the L...

Question was the FAA also by the rules during the war.

Photo: in responds to the United States Air Force ASM-135 ASAT program who would later be used successfully to shoot down Soviet satellite during World War III, the Soviet designed their own ASAT program using 79M6 Kontakt anti-satellite missiles fired by a modified MiG-31D satellite killer, here a ...