Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2026 11:18 pm
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Art & Image Thread
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Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2026 1:43 pm
Photo: the stern well dock (landing bay) of HMS Fearless (L10) during the liberation of Iceland, 1987.
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Posted: 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2026 9:45 pm
I'll admit, I always thought we needed a half dozen more Kidd class
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2026 12:50 am
The Ayatollah’s Gift to the USN… we needed something like a dozen of them…jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2026 9:45 pm I'll admit, I always thought we needed a half dozen more Kidd class
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2026 7:43 am
What could it carry, a small harrier with ASW mixMatt 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2026 2:19 pm
It would be a very expensive way to get a small Harrier capability.
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2026 1:55 am
The idea was to have 4-6 ASW helos (SH-2 and later, SH-60).
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2026 2:50 pm
Photo: A pair of Royal Air Force Phantoms on a burner-pass somewhere over liberated Texas, 1988.
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2026 1:04 pm
No Spey engined Phantoms were sent to Texas.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2026 1:44 pm
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2026 12:32 am
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…
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2026 2:15 am
If i find them, i will post them, thanks for the notice about the engines, never saw it myself.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2026 9:44 am
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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2026 11:19 am
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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2026 2:40 pm
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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2026 3:30 pm
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 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2026 2:40 pm 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2026 6:22 pm
Works for me.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2026 7:55 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2026 8:37 pm
Staging through their prewar base works.