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Wolfman wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 2:56 pm Probably as a stopping point for SAC bombers and tankers…

So could the British then operate from there, with help from SAC.

Wolfman wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 12:08 am Diego Garcia is a British possession, might I remind you…

And in OTL used by the Americans during the Gulf War, so i can see it also being used here as well, to keep the Soviets operating out of Yemen and Ethiopia in check and to keep the Suez Canal open.

Poohbah wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2024 6:47 pm
After SAC or a CVW pays a courtesy call, the locals tell the Soviets "your basing rights have just been revoked."

Diego Garcia would be a good place to operate from.

Also would Egypt tolerate the Red Sea being held hostage by the Soviets.

James1978 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 9:40 pm
Asmara in Ethiopia is another possibility.

Would the Americans striking them consider war on Yemen and Ethiopia.

Haven't thought about that: the war in the peripheries hasn't gotten much attention. But they would try to monitor-if not stop-tanker convoys using the Red Sea shipping lanes. Because I posted on my forum a photo of a Oman Fighter intercepting a Soviet ASW plane, and the only location that plane co...

Did the Soviets during the war operate from Al Anad Air Base in Yemen and was it attacked by British and Americans during the war.

Wolfman wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 4:12 pm You mean prologue, right? An epilogue would be after the end…

Thanks, will change it.

Found this jewel, the original scrip for 1984 movie: https://soma.sbcc.edu/users/davega/FILMPRO_275_PRODUCTION_II/FILMPRO_275_04_Pre_Production_Reference/Filmpro_275_Script_Examples/Film_Scripts/RedDawn1984.pdf Some interesting prologue with parts not shown in movie prologue: - El Salvador Militaril...

First and only time i can say i am on Team Iran.

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:34 am Either Hermosillo or Chihuahua City ABs. A North Korean Commercial firm came in postwar and built those two bases, and several others, for the FARM (Revolutionary Air Force of Mexico).

I assume many are dummy shelters, like what the Serbs did during the Kosovo War of OTL.

Photo: a declassified picture of a United States Air Force strike against a Revolutionary Air Force of Mexico (FARM) airfield, Baja War, 2010.

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 4:05 am Standard regimental structure: three squadrons plus a command flight to make 40 aircraft per regiment.

Does this also include the regiment's reconnaissance squadron of 10 Tu-16RM (Badger-D) aircraft, if we use Kennedy vs. Badger as source material.

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 2:33 am They got MiG-29s and Su-22Ms as the war progressed in 1986. And yes, new regiments were formed to go to North America.

And a Tu-16 Badger Regiment of 40 planes, that means two squadrons ore 3 squadrons.

So working on a Cuban Air Force list 1985 over at my forum, did the Soviets supply other fighters before the outbreak of the war ore did the Cuban Revolutionary Air And Air Defense Force (1985) start with OTL numbers.

Can we consider the Fall of the Rump USSR as the Third Russian Civil War.

Also nice to see the AH.com thread going the route what did the Racoons do in Red Dawn.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2024 3:53 pm I seem to have returned to quite a bit of stuff being posted! I was only gone for four days, guys!

For some, 4 days are 3 days to many.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 5:26 pm Have found the section of the carriers fact file on the Indian Navy.

So the Riga was not sold to India, thus this mean Russia with the threat of the Rump USSR oparated two Admiral Kuznetsov class aircraft carriers ,the Kuznetsov and Riga.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 4:54 pm I’ll dig out the carriers fact file. It should help a bit with this.

Thanks, that will help a lot.

So two question i have. Wolfman on AT.com comment that the North Koreans invaded Guam in 1985 and being defeated that same year by the United States. My second question, what ever happen to the Former Soviet carrier Riga, Wolfman told me the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is in service with the ...

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:28 am I believe so: she was mothballed and going to be sold for scrap, but the balloon went up... E-1Bs, S-2Es, and A-4s.

But the transfered the A-4G to New Zeeland in OTL, unless they are different versions.