Air and Space Photos from Alternate Worlds.
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Here's one of the older (currently being retired) Aérospatiale AS.330L Pumas of the Icelandic Air Force. Since the 1970s, they served the RIAF well, alongside the newer, more modern Super Pumas (acquired by the RIAF and Coast Guard in the late 1980s and early 1990s). After the retirement of the Pumas in the early 2000s, most of the Air Force's and Coast Guard's remaining Super Pumas will also get retired and eventually replaced by AgustaWestland AW101 Merlins during the second decade of the 21st century.
OOC: Unbelievably, the profile I used was of this United Arabian Emirate's Puma. I like the grey, black and white shades, since it's close to my idea of what camo would Iceland use on its military aircraft (like the one already seen on the dimly coloured F-5 Tiger above).
OOC: Unbelievably, the profile I used was of this United Arabian Emirate's Puma. I like the grey, black and white shades, since it's close to my idea of what camo would Iceland use on its military aircraft (like the one already seen on the dimly coloured F-5 Tiger above).
A Mars Alliance Lucid class orbital station. The Lucid was one of the most important of early war Martian defences, holding 20 Aries class short range attack craft (SHRAC). 6 of these stations were built. Seen here with representations of the manned Aries , as well as a full flight on the stands and two vessel on standby on the catapults.
The Lucid's re-equiped latter in the war with the Aries II drone, and were latter supplemented in the defence role by the Astral and Labyrinths class stations.
Two stations were lost to hostile action during the war. After the war three of the remaining stations were de-commissioned and converted to civilian stations. The fourth was kept in reserve and eventually sold to Ganymede.
NothingNow
Banned
What about a triple tandem Arrow, like the F-15 STOL/MTD, or the later Flankers, with thrust vectoring? (maybe even with FSW and LERX of the Gods? It'd be an abomination, but damn could it climb.)
The Orenda Chippewa is equipped with 2D thrust vectoring, and I believe FSW and LEX equipped Arrows have appeared on a recent Arrow thread. Some designs have crashed when my computer died, and I only have two hands. F-16XL has entered the process for now.
KOOL!
Love it!!Do you have a forward view? if not can you make one when you get the time?
The Italians would actually go on to build and even test-launch (with only one of three stages operational) their own ballistic missile, 'Alfa', before canning the project.
Here's a Katangan FMA Pulqui II for Linkwerk's Objectivist Katanga TL.
The markings are OTL Katangan, since it doesn't seem like the rising Objectivist regime has made any changes to the national flag and other insignia. The plane is a modification of a formerly Spanish Pulqui II pallette, which I borrowed from this template I found online. I think it fits well - the Objectivist regime likes flashy, vaguely futuristic colours and shapes, so they'd probably love to show off with such a white-blue, silver-looking pallette (instead of drab jungle colours or purely Katangan orange).
The markings are OTL Katangan, since it doesn't seem like the rising Objectivist regime has made any changes to the national flag and other insignia. The plane is a modification of a formerly Spanish Pulqui II pallette, which I borrowed from this template I found online. I think it fits well - the Objectivist regime likes flashy, vaguely futuristic colours and shapes, so they'd probably love to show off with such a white-blue, silver-looking pallette (instead of drab jungle colours or purely Katangan orange).
Well, recently they've developed the Vega satellite launcher, so I guess not all of their missile-manufacturing know-how has disappeared.
Mathuen
Banned
An American Interstellar Spacecraft Circa 2178 C.E. These massive craft would sail across the stars using a laser a laser sail that was pushed forwards by massive solar arrays near Mercury. At their maximum velocity they could travel the stars at .65 C reaching star systems such as Alpha Centauri in less that 7 years. They could comfortably house hundreds outside of stasis for the duration of the trip and thousands more in stasis, releasing them in orbit of a world and awaking them to prepare them for descent. When approaching a designated star system these craft would turn around and fire matter-antimatter engines to decelerate and prepare for orbit. A well kept secret, these craft also housed weapons platforms, most notable a magnetic accelerator cannon that ran along the ship and came out of the ship's light shield. These craft could be lined up and rip apart other ships with their magnetic accelerators while also launching kinetic kill missiles and drones.
