July 11, 201411 yr To update the Indian Kolkata-class DDG, just now delivered to Indian Navy, basically: - Replace 100mm gun with a 76mm Oto SuperRapid. - Replace 2xKhastan with 4xAKM-630. - Add towed sonar array (ATAS?) - Replace quintuple 533mm TT by 2x4 533mm ASW TT with SET-65M. http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/indian-navy/51822-kolkata-class-destroyers-update-30.html http://www.freewebs.com/jeffhead/aegisvesselsoftheworld/kolkata.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata-class_destroyer
July 11, 201411 yr An USAF F-4E Phantom II to add to the INTL F-4E, to replace the generic F-4E in many scenarios. USAF F-4E Phantom II was employed 1967-1991 (I think it's not in the DB because it was frozen originally circa 1992, with the USAF F-4E retired). From November 1968 used in Vietnam. From July 1969 deployed in Europe. From 1985 to ANG units. From 1987 to Reserve units. 993 planes build for USAF and 394 for export. Leading edge slats appliqued to the F-4E fleet from 9/72 to 4/76, to 304 planes and to new build planes, installed in all USAF F-4E survivors less Thunderbirds F-4Es. Some weapons (I think we can use current loadouts from the F-4E INTL and the Israelis F-4Es): AIM-9B AIM-9E from 1967 ¿AIM-9H? AIM-9J from summer 1972, later AIM-9P/N, AIM-9P at least from 1984. Later AIM-9L/M AIM-7E, later AIM-7E2(at least from 2/72), AIM-7E3 SUU-23/A at least from October 1967 ALQ-87 at least from 11/1967? AGM-12B/C/E Bullpup AGM-45A/B Shrike AGM-65A/B Maverick AGM-68A Walleye from 8/67 GBU-8 HOBOS from 1969(with Mk84) GBU-9 HOBOS(with M118 used in Vietnam) GBU-10 Nukes: 1xB28/B43 3xB57/B61 Perhaps later I will sharp a few more the idea ...
July 11, 201411 yr Perhaps to add a F-5E Agressor variant for USAF, to be employed in emergency cases (I don't know if they are or were combat capables).
July 13, 201411 yr Some historical notes about the US Aggressors F-5E/F, probably not combat-capables, but ... USAF Aggressor F-5E/F employed 1975-1990: 70 aircraft?. USMC Aggressor F-5E/F employed 1989+ (replacing the previous F-21A Kfir). USN Aggressor F-5E/F employed 1975+. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/f5_30.html http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/f5_29.html http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/f5_28.html
July 16, 201411 yr Indian Kamorta-class or Type 28 (or I don't find she in the DB!): First ship commission scheduled for August 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Kamorta
July 18, 201411 yr Some changes with data more clear now on the ship entry 2828 Queen Elizabeth/CVF class: Delete 2xcatapults (now only Skyjump) Speed quoted as a reasonable 27+ knots on German Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen-Elizabeth-Klasse_(Flugzeugtr%C3%A4ger) As weapons only (delete 3xSea RAM mounts): 4xPhalanx (Mk15 Blk 1B? - 1999). 4x30mm DS-30M. Sensors (delete Radar 1045 Sampson): Navigation radar. Radar 1046 S1850M. Radar 997 Artisan 3D (SS, HF/3D, probably range=108, PD=65%). http://www.baesystems.com/enhancedarticle/BAES_164913/artisan-3d-medium-range-radar-type-997;baeSessionId=56JvTJtMvvJJyfKzqphDp7G149n0QGzrkGHWZKwCpnk4TQMmpPmj!1112959185?_afrLoop=618121274525000&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=utm#%40%3F_afrWindowId%3Dutm%26_afrLoop%3D618121274525000%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3Dhgk18hvw_4 http://www.gizmag.com/royal-navy-radar-tennis/26577/ Radar 997 Artisan 3D is also employed in HMS Ocean, Albion-class and Type 23 frigates. More details and comments on this Mer et Marine article (in French): http://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/hms-queen-elizabeth-le-nouveau-fleuron-de-la-royal-navy Two points in the Mer et Marine article: - French naval engineers worked in the ill-fated project CVF derivative PA2 for the French Navy, and now say CVF is structurally weaker than Charles de Gaulle. - The last Royal Navy idea is to use only 10xF-35B on Queen Elizabeth, rest helicopters, as conclusión, a big and expensive and too manned target to delivery almost the same capabilities than a smaller LPH.
July 20, 201411 yr List of Spruance-class destroyers equipped with RAM missiles, those of the ship entry 3304 Imp Spruance (1997), at this moment in the DB they are only reflected six ship names: http://www.destroyers.org/shipsstore/profiles/Spruance%20with%20RAM.htm USS Elliot (DD-967) USS Oldendorf (DD-972) USS John Young (DD-973) USS Briscoe (DD-977) USS Nicholson (DD-982) USS Cushing (DD-985) USS O’Bannon (DD-987) USS Thorn (DD-988) USS Fife (DD-991) USS Fletcher (DD-992)
July 21, 201411 yr Some historical notes about the US Aggressors F-5E/F, probably not combat-capables, but ... USAF Aggressor F-5E/F employed 1975-1990: 70 aircraft?. USMC Aggressor F-5E/F employed 1989+ (replacing the previous F-21A Kfir). USN Aggressor F-5E/F employed 1975+. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/f5_30.html http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/f5_29.html http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/f5_28.html Confirmed in two different Facebook chats with 3rd TFW veterans and Bert of Detail&Scale Publications: the USAF F-5E were combat capable and combat ready (the F-5E Tiger II will share the same AIM-9P3 Sidewinders with the Wing F-4E/G Phantoms). https://www.facebook.com/groups/23655207146/10152619907832147/?notif_t=group_comment_reply https://www.facebook.com/milavnarc/posts/819717948073498?comment_id=819764261402200&offset=0&total_comments=16¬if_t=feed_comment_reply
July 23, 201411 yr WARNING !!! Aircraft entries 10469 Yak-38 and 11592 Yak-38M are rated as with "Propulsion: Jet, CVL cpbl", if that is not changed to "Propulsion: VTOL & Helicopter", they can't be loaded building a scenario on the Kiev-class and derivatives CVH (ship entries 2147, 3325, 2148, 2263), rated correctly as with only a VTOL runway. And if I changed it on my DB and make a scenario, the scenario very probably will crash when playing in a not-modified on that sense DB.
July 23, 201411 yr Don't mind on it, was a confussion in my own DB because Yak-38 is listed in Russia and the newer Yak-38M in USSR , the value "Propulsion" apparently only affects the simulated engine sounds (I see the Harriers are also with "Propulsion: Jet, CVL cpbl").
August 4, 201411 yr About the ship entry 2111 Osa II (205U): This Osa entry and many others are ever confuse. This entry, because some systems (SA-N-5, ESM) and the Russian ship names (aside the boats generically named OS2xx) match more with the Soviet/Russian variant 205 Modified depicted here: http://russian-ships.info/eng/warfareboats/project_205.htm My idea is this entry should change his "Country" from "INTL" to "Russia" and the name/variant changed to "205M/205 Mod", as: - It is currently another entry (3354) for the Soviet/Russian Osa II (205U) without SAM and with the same SS-N-2b (P-15U). - Is ESM equipped, the export variant not were equipped with ESM (also showed in the russian-ships.info entry, only the Soviet/Russian variants are equipped with ESM: radio direction finder ARP-58SV). - The names match Soviet boats only (probably boats modified to 205 Mod). - The boats are equipped with SA-N-5 mount aft, only the Soviet/Russian boats were equipped this way (1x4 launcher MTU-4 SAM system «Strela-3M», sometimes called on Western sources SA-N-5, but more strictly on the DB SA-N-8 Gremlin quad aft, with SA-14 Gremlin (Strela-3)(1974+)). As depicted on the russian-ships.info page, with the basic change of SS-N-2b (P-15U/T) for SS-N-2C (P-15M), the "Country" changed to "Russia", and SA-N-5 mount replaced by SA-N-8 mount aft, we get directly the correct Soviet/Russian Project 205M/205 Mod (Osa II Mod), and as were modified between 1971 and 1976, and the Strela-3 was in service from 1974, we can think this Osa II variant was in service from 1974. Probly these boats were also equipped with First Generation Decoys (On some ships (R-6) added 2 decoy RL UB-16-57UM) Text about the Soviet/Russian 205M/205 Mod variant on the aforementioned page (sometimes a confuse text, incoherences, translation and line composition issues): Project 205M: 1 unit R-161 in 1968. ?/255 tons, anti-ship missiles P-15M «Termit» istead of P-15U, radar complex «Graviy» (Fire control «Korall», radar 4Ts53 «Garpun», «Gals») istead of «Rangout» radar, fire control system MR-104 «Rys`» removed. Radar «Gals» removed Project 205mod: 19 units in 1971-76 - R-81, 84, 163, 178, 255 (6 units) Primorskiy Shipyard and R-87, 185, 189, 196 Vladivostokskiy Shipyard, R-175. anti-ship missiles P-15M «Termit» istead of P-15U On some ships added 1x4 launcher MTU-4 SAM system «Strela-3M» (on R-84 - 1x2 launcher) On some ships added 1x1 12,7 mm DShKM On some ships (R-6) added 2 decoy RL UB-16-57UM
August 9, 201411 yr Modifications to entry 3053 Zumwalt (DDG-1000): - 2x57mm guns replaced by 2x30mm Mk6 guns. - Radar SPY-2 VSR, S-band (L?-band) radar (currently designated SPY-4 VSR) deleted because cost (but it will be installed on CVN-78 Gerald Ford). Modifications to entry 3269 Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78): - Add SPY-4 VSR, three-faced S-band radar (entry 43535, previously designated SPY-2 VSR). Note: SPY-3 MFR is the three-faced X-band radar component, installed in both Zumwalt and Ford, as here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford-class_aircraft_carrier#Sensors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer#Dual-band_radar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SPY-3 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/systems/vsr.htm And as stated here, the SPY-3 is smaller, more precise and with shorter range than SPY-4: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/systems/dbr-specs.htm
August 27, 201411 yr The ASX-1 TISEO primitive air-to-air Electro-Optical target identification system on F-4E (employed experimentally in Vietnam in 1972, on series 84 late F-4E series planes from 1983) is only some 13-20 nm, as stated here: http://books.google.es/books?id=4DqU1ckzg9cC&pg=PT57&dq=tiseo+phantom&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nNL9U5z1NKGh0QWO9oH4BQ&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=tiseo%20phantom&f=false (this is mostly a note for ulterior research).
September 2, 201411 yr The last update of the HCDB added a bunch of Ukrainian units. Fortuitous?? In any event, you can expect new scenarios and a new DB soon.
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