broncepulido

Perhaps because his existence the F-22 has lost his strike tasks?

Ok, it's clear, thanks Brad!

AC-130J Ghostrider (32 planes to be converted from MC-130J Commando II), perhaps employing the 55711 armed tanker loadout.

Some Arleigh Burke variant with SM-3 for Missile Defence tasks.

AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire for LCS (only to keep it on record, I think the mount is not yet defined): http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/raytheons-griffin-mini-missiles-07182/

Mk60 mounts (2x8 missiles?, port and starboard?) for BGM-176B missiles on Cyclone boats, IOC March 2014: http://article.wn.com/view/2014/03/25/US_Navy_achieves_initial_operating_capability_on_Patrol_Coas_9/

A lot of details about U-2, A-12, YF-12, Groom Lake and other very black programs: http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/index.html

Not very important, but some F7U Cutlass variants.

Some Tu-95 Bear early variants: Tu-95 Bear-A (Nuclear strike variant is Tu-95A, 1956-1966?), in service from 4/1956, later with conventional bombs, up to 45x250 Kg bombs, and from 1500 to 9000 Kg types, max bomb load 12000 Kg. Free-fall nuclear bombs: "RDS-37/Ivan 3sd"? of 3 Mt (fission, employed from1956), from early 1960s "I-427?" of 20 Mt (fussion). Nuke mission ended in mid-1960s. Converted in Tu-95U trainers in mid-1980s. 6xAM-23 guns in three turrets. NK-12 engines. Cruise speed 388-405, Max speed 480. Stated ranges: 6533 nm. 73230 Kg fuel. RBP-4 Rubidiy-MM or Rubin-1D search/navigation/bombing radar, PRS-1 tail radar, SPS-2 DECM, SPO-2 RWR. 31 built. Tu-95M Bear-A (Nuclear strike variant is Tu-95MA, 1957?-1967?), in service from 1957?, later with conventional bombs, up to 45x250 Kg bombs, and from 1500 to 9000 Kg types, max bomb load 12000 Kg. Free-fall nuclear bombs: "RDS-37/Ivan 3sd"? of 3 Mt (fission, employed from1956), from early 1960s "I-427?" of 20 Mt (fussion). Nuke mission ended in mid-1960s. Converted in Tu-95U trainers in mid-1980s. 6xAM-23 guns in three turrets. NK-12M engines. Cruise speed 388-405, Max speed 488. Stated ranges: 7484 nm with a 5955 Kg bomb, 9044 nm max. 85054 Kg fuel. RBP-4 Rubidiy-MM or Rubin-1D search/navigation/bombing radar, PRS-1 tail radar, SPS-2 DECM, SPO-2 RWR. 19 built. Tu-95MR Bear-E (maritime recce variant, 1965-1987?), in service from January 1965. Converted in Tu-95U trainers in late-1980s and employed to early-1990s. 6xAM-23 guns in three turrets. NK-12M engines. Cruise speed 405, Max speed 491. Stated ranges: 7084 nm. 85054 Kg fuel. Rubin-1D search/navigation radar, PRS-1 tail radar, SPS-2 DECM, SPO-2 RWR. Adds Rhomb-4 ESM. Adds in-flight refuelling IFR. Adds 3xinterchangable camera packs. 4 built (one without IFR). Tu-95K Bear-B (missile strike variant,1960-1968?), in service from September 1960. 28 converted in Tu-95KD from near 1962. Those not equipped with IFR converted in Tu-95KU (some 5 planes?) in the mid-1960s. 1xKh-20M/AS-3 Kangaroo land or ship target air-to-surface missile (Kh-20M is the series variant designation), or 10708 Kg weight. 6xAM-23 guns in three turrets. NK-12M engines. Cruise speed 378, Max speed 464. Stated ranges: 6749/6209 nm 3423 radius. 72995 Kg fuel. Crown Drum/YaD long range search/attack radar replaces Rubin-1D. PRS-1 tail radar, SPS-2 DECM, SPO-2 RWR. 47 built. Tu-95KD Bear-B (missile strike variant with IFR, 1962-1968?), in service from 1962. All converted in Tu-95KM from end-1960s. 1xKh-20M/AS-3 Kangaroo land or ship target air-to-surface missile (Kh-20M is the series variant designation), or 10708 Kg weight. 6xAM-23 guns in three turrets. NK-12M engines. Cruise speed 378, Max speed 464. Stated ranges: 6749/6209 nm 3423 radius. 72995 Kg fuel. Crown Drum/YaD long range search/attack radar replaces Rubin-1D. PRS-1 tail radar, SPS-2 DECM, SPO-2 RWR. Adds in-flight refuelling IFR. 28 converted from Tu-95K and 23 more new build. Tu-95KM Bear-C (missile strike variant with IFR and ESM, 1967?-1982?), in service from late 1960s (first converted 1966). 65 converted later in Tu-95K-22 Bear-G from near 1981 (that must include some 14 straight conversions from Tu-95K adding IFR). 1xKh-20M/AS-3 Kangaroo land or ship target air-to-surface missile (Kh-20M is the series variant designation), or 10708 Kg weight. 6xAM-23 guns in three turrets. Improved NK-12MV engines. Cruise speed 378, Max speed 464. Stated ranges: 6749/6209 nm 4454-3423 nm radius. 72995 Kg fuel. Crown Drum/YaD long range search/attack radar replaces Rubin-1D. PRS-4 tail radar replaces PRS-1 in most. SPS-3 DECM, SPO-3 RWR. Adds Rhomb-4 ESM. Has in-flight refuelling IFR. Some 71 converted from Tu-25K and Tu-25KD. The last variant, added only for clarification: Tu-95K-22 Bear-G (missile strike variant with IFR and ESM, 1983?-1999?), in official service from 1987 (first converted 1975, rest in early 1980s). Only 23 Tu-95K-22 extant in 1992, in 1999 only employed for maritime patrol from Magadan and Anadyr. 1/3xKh-22/AS-4 land or ship target air-to-surface missile, including active radar (Kh-22M, 1974), passive radar (Kh-22MP, 1981) and intertial (Kh-22MPSI, 1974) guidance variants. 2xAM-23 guns in two turrets. Improved NK-12MV engines. Cruise speed 378, Max speed 464. Stated ranges:. 81670 Kg fuel. Down Beat/PNA-B long range search/attack radar replaces Crown Drum/YaD. SPS-153 Reseda replaces tail turret. SPS-3? DECM, 3PS-M1 RWR. Has Rhomb-4 ESM? and Kurs ESM capable of manage the anti-radar Kh-22MP (1982) missile. Has in-flight refuelling IFR. 65 converted from Tu-25K and Tu-25KM (that must include some 14 straight conversions from Tu-95K adding IFR). The data are mostly from two books: Tupolev Tu-95, by Sergey Moroz, 1999 Archiv-Press, Kiev, Ukraine (in Russian). and Tupolev Tu-95/-142 Bear - Russia's Intercontinental-Range Heavy Bomber, By Yefim Gordon and Vladimir Rigmant, edited by Jay Miller, Aerofax-Midland 1997.

To add a loadout with 2xAS.20 (1961) for at least the German Marineflieger F-104G Starfighters (employed before the introduction of AS.34 Kormoran 1 on 1977 in Italian and German F-104G).

F-104S and F-104ASA variants are equipped with intercept loadouts with 4xSparrow/Aspide and 2xAIM-9 SideWinder, it should be in reverse 2xSparrow/Aspide and 4xAIM-9 Sidewinder. Affected loadouts are: 57160 on entry 11153 F-104S/CI Starfighter (1970-1987?), it should be 2xAIM-7E2 (1969) + 4xAIM-9F (1969). 55975 on entry 10400 F-104ASA (1988-1997) and entry 11155 F-104ASA-M Starfighter (1998-2004), it should be 2xAspide AAM (1988) + 4xAIM-9L (1978).

A web site about the French Presidential planes (Air Force One-like), including profiles and historical considerations: http://cotam0001.com/histoire-des-avions-presidentiels-francais.html

Gerhard Neumann F-104 Starfighter Museum: http://www.f-104.de/ And this related site of some model planes showed in the Museum: http://acroairwolf.beepworld.de/plastikmodellejets.htm

More confussion about radius and range, I think: the ranges in F-105 and F-100 are apparently very undertimated (as example F-100F Wild Weasel, with two loadouts with a range of 280 and 215 nm, it will be imposible to reach as example Da Nang, in the center of Vietnam, from the historical base of the Wild Weasel forcé in Korat AB, Thailand, at 359 nm distance). Also, the nuclear 55357 loadout (with 1xMk7 Thor nuke) of the French F-100D Super Sabre should be implemented in other NATO Super Sabres, or at least in the USAF variant. And in the othe F-100 Super Sabre variants loadout ranges are also apparently halved.

A very interesting site full of rigorous data discovered (or re-discovered??) yesterday, with data and some WWII updated Standard Aircraft Characteristics charts: as example B-17G: http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/B-17/B-17G_Standard_Aircraft_Characteristics.pdf of the site: http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org

Same with loadout 56383 (recon with 1380 nm range, recon cameras, 1x600 USG DT, 2x370 USG DT, DECM Gen 1, RF-4 Phantom?).

Loadout 55387 (patrol with 3820 nm range, 2x250 ImpG fuel tank, DATA=5) is not employed by any plane (pretended for Canberra?).

With only a scarce 12 downloads, if you search for "NATO Baltic Air Policing" in Google Search, as today the scenario and the Harpgamer site is positioned in the 29 place: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=NATO+BALTIC+AIR+POLICING&rlz=#hl=en&q=NATO+BALTIC+AIR+POLICING&safe=off&start=20 http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?/files/file/846-nato-baltic-air-policing-in-action-late-may-2014-alternate-history-scenario/

A very detailed site full of specifications about the supersonic airliner Tu-144 Charger: http://www.tu144sst.com/techspecs/performance.html

This scenario inspiration, idea and design was started on 3 April 2014. The current and changing events from that date to his first upload on 7 April 2014 have prevented me to publish it before!.

File Name: NATO Baltic Air Policing in action, late May 2014. Alternate history scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 07 Apr 2014 File Category: GIUK NATO Baltic Air Policing in action, late May 2014. Alternate history scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB-130818 1980-2015 era Platform Database. Image source Wikipedia: Description: Su-27SM3 at the Celebration of the 100th anniversary of Russian Air Force. Date 12 August 2012, 16:48:23 Source http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/464 Author Vitaly V. Kuzmin. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/Baltic-States-NATO side or from the Red/Belarus-Russia side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red/Belarus-Russia side if you've interest on it, but I think the victory conditions are very difficult to get for an AI-controlled Red side. Years after the demise of Soviet Union, when since March 2004 the three Baltic States Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia joined NATO, the 24/7 task to police the airspace of the Baltic States (without own effective Air Forces) was conducted on three or later four-month rotation from Lithuania's First Air Base in Siauliai Airport (a little famous Soviet base because was home of the Tu-126 Moss AWACS), from 2011 called Ronald Reagan International Airport. Usual deployments consist of only four fighter aircraft and support personnel. As a reflect of the started 21 March 2014 Ukrainian Crises the NATO Baltic Air Policy detachment in the Ronald Reagan International Airport was reinforced with a greater number of fighters. But from the other side of the border the President of Russia Vladimir Putin was working for years in a plan to recover the Russian Empire and later Soviet territories, to reinstitute the greatness of Russia, and to guarantee his passage on the History as saviour of the Rodina. Some months before the Crimean and Ukrainian crises, from 8 December 2013 begun the deployment of updated Su-27SM3 Russian fighters in the Belarusian 61st Fighter Air Base at Baranovichi, with all the pilots deployed qualified as Pilot First Class, and later apparently to form a full Flanker regiment to be based at Lida 206th Assault Air Base from 2015 (the Su-27 was previously retired from Belarusian service in December 2012).. Also, deployment of advanced Iskander surface-to-surface missiles and a battery of the very impressive S-400 Triumf/SA-21 SAM in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad between Lithuania and Poland (Formerly Konigsberg in East Prussia. What better excuse to request a land bridge from Russia, nobody remember the very near Danzig Corridor and the 1939 German Ultimatum to Poland?) can give some ideas about future events. More clear even from 7 April 2014, when after only a day of occupation by Russian affine forces was proclaimed the Donetsk People's Republic, previously to the general Russian invasion of Ukraine on 10 May 2014 (date hypothetical on writing this text). At last the Putin's plans were disclosed in late May 2014, when the Belarusian forces, acting as a Russian proxy to avoid a global conflict, and exploiting the numerous minor crises spread in the World (North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, China, India-Pakistan, Middle East, Sahel, ...) and the lack of momentum of the Obama Administration. As response to the limited war started by Belarus with only a little support from the Russian forces based at Kaliningrad, NATO transferred the forces based in the Baltic States to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, but expelled them from NATO!, to avoid a generalized conflict. In consequence, the Baltic States stand alone for the few first days of war, waiting for help only if they keep fighting to survive, and his cause is later supported by the Western Powers, after a political and strategic change. Renamed places are: AGa Amari AB, EEEI, Estonia. ZHb, Saint Petersburg, Russia. ZTa Minsk Machulishchy AB, UMLI, Belarus. ZUa Hrodna/Grodno IA, UMMG, Belarus. ZVa Pruzhany AB, UMNV, Belarus. ZWa Luninets AB, BY-9934, Belarus. ZXa Lida AB, UMDD, Belarus. Notes: Belarussian Su-25 are represented by Ukrainian Su-25. The two MPQ-64 Sentinel radars of the LTAFADB are represented by Giraffe 75 radars. Enrique Mas, April 7, 2014. Click here to download this file

An article in the Russian Wikipedia with not equivalence on other languages: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81)#.D0.A0.D0.B0.D0.BA.D0.B5.D1.82.D0.B0_9.D0.9C96 In short: SA-N-6a Grumble (1984),S-300F Fort (export Rif), missile 5V55RM,land equivalent S-300P 5V55R, speed 2597, range 40,5/2,7. SA-N-6b Grumble (1990), S-300FM Fort-M (export Rif-M), missile 48N6,land equivalent S-300PMU-1 48N6, speed 3888, range 81/2,7 (but effective maximum range limited to 93 Km/50,2 nm because guidance issues). SA-N-6c/SA-N-20 Gargoyle (1997?), Favorit?, missile 48N6E2 Favorit,land equivalent S-300PMU-2 48N6E2 Favorit, speed 4082, range 108/2,7. All systems capables of firing on a máximum of 6 targets, with a total of 12 missiles in flight. SA-N-6c/SA-N-20 Gargoyle is employed only in the Peter the Great cruiser, but magazine capacity because size issues is limited to 1x46 missiles (Favorit) and 1x48 missiles (Fort-M), not 2x48 missiles (Fort or Fort-M) as in the other BCGN with previous and smaller missiles.

Thanks Tony!

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