Art & Image Thread

[Wolfman]

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OOC: should now be fixed.

Yep, it is!

[Lordroel]

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

[Matt Wiser]

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.

[jemhouston]

I'll admit, I always thought we needed a half dozen more Kidd class

[Wolfman]

I'll admit, I always thought we needed a half dozen more Kidd class

The Ayatollah’s Gift to the USN… we needed something like a dozen of them…

[Lordroel]

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

[Bernard Woolley]

It would be a very expensive way to get a small Harrier capability.

[Matt Wiser]

The idea was to have 4-6 ASW helos (SH-2 and later, SH-60).

[Lordroel]

Photo: A pair of Royal Air Force Phantoms on a burner-pass somewhere over liberated Texas, 1988.

[Wolfman]

No Spey engined Phantoms were sent to Texas.

[Lordroel]

No Spey engined Phantoms were sent to Texas.

OOC:Okay, then i remove it.

[Wolfman]

No Spey engined Phantoms were sent to Texas.

OOC:Okay, then i remove it.

If there’s a similar shot of F-4J(UK) aircraft, then substitute that and it would work as a shot of the 74 Sqn aircraft that flew with the 335th TFS around the time of Operation BOLO II…

[Lordroel]

If there’s a similar shot of F-4J(UK) aircraft, then substitute that and it would work as a shot of the 74 Sqn aircraft that flew with the 335th TFS around the time of Operation BOLO II…

If i find them, i will post them, thanks for the notice about the engines, never saw it myself.

[Lordroel]

Photo: Leahy class guided missile cruiser USS Richmond K. Turner (CG-20) during combat operations in the mid-Atlantic with two accompanying Perry class frigates, 1987.

[Lordroel]

Photo: A 48th Tactical Fighter Wing F-111F aircraft undergoes a preflight check prior to a strike targets somewhere in the Soviet Union, at RAF Lakenheath, 1989.

[Wolfman]

Lordroel, that’s a nice one, but current canon has the 48th TFW be recalled to the US to fight in the Eastern Theater along the Mississippi River and following those forces during PRAIRIE FIRE until the end of the war, getting at least partially shot out of F-111s, with Grumman A-6E(TRAM) Intruders being issued in an attempt to make good the losses.

[Lordroel]

Lordroel, that’s a nice one, but current canon has the 48th TFW be recalled to the US to fight in the Eastern Theater along the Mississippi River and following those forces during PRAIRIE FIRE until the end of the war, getting at least partially shot out of F-111s, with Grumman A-6E(TRAM) Intruders being issued in an attempt to make good the losses.

I know we had this discussions before, but you mentioned they are only based there when needed and also it is mentioned in the universe that F-111s did strike the Soviet Union, could it be it is just a strike mission with them landing, using the RAF base for this operation.

[Wolfman]

Works for me.

[Lordroel]

Works for me.

Could it be like a Shuttle bombing like what the Americans/British did in WW II.

[Wolfman]

Staging through their prewar base works.