Modern Graphics Showcase

[fairline]

It's called a Westland WAH-64 or Apache AH-Mk 1. In reality it was just assembed at Westland (is that now Agusta-Westland?) from sub-assemblies delivered by Boeing.

[curtsibling]

I hear there are over 2000 companies involved in the AH-64 manufacture.

Modular military machines are the rage these days!

[vodkakov]

@Communism:
Here're those Afghan National Army units you wanted. Sorry for the delay, but I've been rather busy lately.

[vodkakov]

Some Royal Navy ships and submarines (Type 42, Type 23 and Type 22 based on fairline's amazing AEGIS cruiser, not sure who did the original submarine).

[vodkakov]

Oops...

[curtsibling]

Blooming nice work!

[jim panse]

Originally posted by curtsibling
Blooming nice work!

I´d like to second that. This is a brilliant carrier

[Harry Tuttle]

That is a nice carrier. It has a lot of detail.

[typhoon]

Those ships are great. If the colours are fixed they will be even better.

[curtsibling]

Falklands scenario, anyone?

[typhoon]

THE 1000TH POST IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Arthedain]

Originally posted by curtsibling
Falklands scenario, anyone?

Alejandro (Academia) has made one.

[vodkakov]

Thanks guys.

All the Falklands scenarios I've played haven't shown the Harriers as good as they were - given the 0 number of Harrier casualties - and I'd love to see a realistic Falklands Scenario.

[Case]

Originally posted by vodkakov
All the Falklands scenarios I've played haven't shown the Harriers as good as they were - given the 0 number of Harrier casualties - and I'd love to see a realistic Falklands Scenario.

While the harriers performed extreamly well in air-to-air combat, it does need to be noted that the one sided result was largely caused by the Argentine aircraft operting at the extreame of their range and the British having better missiles. In addition, after the first few days of the air war the Argentines withdrew their fighters, with the result that most of the Harriers kills were achieved against bomber aircraft.

It should also be remembered that the Harriers took quite high casualties from ground fire, and suffered lots of operational losses from crashes.

All up, reducing the strength of Argentine fighters would be a better way of representing the Falklands War then making the Harriers more powerful.

[vodkakov]

Fair enough, but some changes should be made somewhere along the line. Regarding the crashes, it's quite understandable to crash in the South Atlantic in winter when you're trying to land on what the British government refers to as a 'through deck cruiser' in my opinion.

Didn't the Argentines also make use of the airfield(s) on the Falklands, as they weren't taken out of action? I think they did send some Vulcans to do it, but the results of the attack were very negligible (I think that only one or two bombs even hit the target).