Art & Image Thread

[Matt Wiser]

El Paso isn't that far from where the front lines were at Las Cruces: maybe 25 miles at the most. Ivan did have balls, though, putting heavy transports into a field well within strike range and not that far from the front lines. They were using two fields, it should be pointed out: El Paso IAP and Biggs AAF.

A Soviet vehicle that had a very low life expectancy at the front lines: the ZS-88: a PsyOps loudspeaker vehicle based on the BTR-80. GIs did like the pop music played, but opened fire when broadcasts from Moscow Martha or Havana Hussy were replayed.

[Wolfman]

Those were always worth killing if nothing else of a more valuable nature was available…

[Lordroel]

Photo: A Soviet MiG-23MLD pilot studies his map before a strike mission out of Soviet operated airfield somewhere in Soviet occupied Texas, 1986. The Soviet pilot is carrying a compact AKS-74U carbine. During World War III, VVS pilots often flew with these “Krinkovs” for a grim reason: if you went down over Free American territory, survival came down to what you had in your hands. More firepower meant better odds.

[Lordroel]

Photo: a Harrier GR3, of the Royal Air Force was shot down and crashed into the sea during the Battle of the Baltic exits ( 21st March 1987) and was later recovered by the Royal Danish Navy.

[Matt Wiser]

Baja War, Day two: a Marine M-1A1 from the First Tank Battalion engages Mexican forces during the push east along Mexico Highway 2:

[Matt Wiser]

OOC: found this on a Twilight:2000 group on Facebook.

IC: Erica not long after the dedication of Partisan Rock.

[Lordroel]

OOC: found this on a Twilight:2000 group on Facebook.

OOC: if this is AI made then i think it cannot be posted on AH.com, unless you want the bear to get involved, also mentioning Biden there is a bit tricky, Trump speaks of him a lot so he is current.

[Lordroel]

Photo: A Sea King of No 820 FAA coming in to land on Tiger-class cruiser, HMS Blake (C99) during here participation in the Liberation of Iceland.

[Lordroel]

Photo: Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes (R12) coming up the River Tamar for reactivation for service, 1985 before the outbreak of World War III. HMS Hermes would be lost in battle during the Battle of the Baltic exits (1987).

[Lordroel]

Photo: USS California (CGN-36) as part of the Ranger battle group showed the flag in WestPac, 1986.

[Lordroel]

Photo: US Marines in Florida enforcing a checkpoint, 1989, taken most likely during the buildup for the planned invasion of Cuba.

[Matt Wiser]

That would most likely be Key West. It was more of an armed camp than a town after Day One, and the buildup for the planned invasion only made it more so.

[Lordroel]

Photo: Three Des Moines Class Cruisers in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA in the 1980's before the outbreak of World War III in September 1985 Ships from Left to Right: Newport News (CA 148), Salem (CA 139), Des Moines (Ca 134).

[Matt Wiser]

Two saw service in the war, while the third contributed parts to keep the other two sisters in the fight.

[Lordroel]

Photo: taken by the crew of the electronic warfare Argentinian Boeing 707 aircraft registered VR-21 as they where flying over the South Atlantic on an recon mission as part of the Argentinian planned Second Falklands invasion, the 707 was intercepted by two F-4M “Phantom” fighter jets of the Royal Air Force, based in the Falkland Islands. Photo most likley taken several days before HMS Revenge (S27) fired a Polaris missile at Argentina's main naval base to prevent a second Falklands invasion, 1986.

Photo: taken after the interception by two F-4M “Phantom” fighter jets of the Royal Air Force, based in the Falkland Islands. Seen here is the Argentina Air Force, electronic warfare Boeing 707 aircraft registered VR-21 escorted by three Argentinian Mirage M-5Ps with this photo taken by the fourth Mirage M-5Ps returning back to base after having conducted a recon mission as part of the Argentinian planned Second Falklands invasion. Photo most likely taken several days before HMS Revenge (S27) fired a Polaris missile at Argentina's main naval base to prevent a second Falklands invasion, 1986.

[Lordroel]

I have seen this photo of a prototype S-47 Berkut fighter in 1997 flying in the Rump Soviet Union, but what happen to it after it, was it destroyed in 2010 ore are the Russians hidding it.

[Lordroel]

Photo: Old habits died hard after the Armistice, the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16) puts herself between the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and a FER Intelligence ship (AGI) during the carrier's deployment to Sea of Japan, 1990.

[jemhouston]

Still staying "friendly" since the turret isn't trained on the Russian

[Matt Wiser]

Iceland, 1986: the Soviet CHG Moskva in some bad weather during a deployment to protect a Murmansk-Havana convoy.

[Belushi TD]

Was she riding light? It appears that she's got a hell of a roll (30 degrees?) and at that roll, it looks like a chunk of her bottom would be out of the water on the far side.

Or do I not understand hydrodynamics with respect to ships roll?

Belushi TD