The USS Terror that could hold up to 900 mines would truly be a dream come true for me! 😍😍😍
I can just imagine the instant ammo detonations
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All cool, but the US had their Dreams Come True Event Vehicle last year, so it will be a different Nation this time, most likely.
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I could see the AC-130 being a DCT vehicle, but not the B-1B or the F-15 ACTIVE
The F-15 ACTIVE doesn’t even meet the requirements to be added to the game in the first place
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It’s funny that the only remaining British built battleship is the Japanese Mikasa.
yea… built by vickers…
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Just dont see how they are gonna fit 2 more event vehicles if DCT starts early november bc it would finish around mid to late
and what are those the requirements?
Being able to use weapons (or at least armament being planned) is one of those requirements
that automatically checks it off
How?
They stripped the capabilities to use weapons and the F-15 ACTIVE was a research plane, not planned to enter service
the picture i used, is 1 probably the early variant cuz of the 2D thrust vectors, and 2 has GBU’s (atleast that is what it looks like), AIM-9Ls and AIM-7s
I’m pretty sure the picture that you posted isn’t a real photograph. The F-15 on there has the tail number 71-291, while the real STOL/ACTIVEs tail number is 71-290.
This is the F-15B with the tail number 71-291.
From what I have read online (including these forums), the STOL/ACTIVEs radar and gun was removed to install the canards and everything else that would allow it to be armed was removed in the demilitarization process.
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well who ever made this did a great job making it look real. anyways, if its combat ability was stripped away, than it was originally supposed to have weapons, which would’ve still checked off the requirements
In order to install the canards they had to remove the gun and the radar.
In order to be used by NASA for research, they had to completely demilitarize it.
Obviously I can’t tell whether it would be possible to install any kinds of weapons after it was used for research, but the gun and radar definitely couldn’t be installed again.
Unless you can prove that it could be armed again, you’d have to find images of it after the 2D nozzles were installed, but before it was demilitarized for research purposes.
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DCT is ww2 era
I suspect that image may have been altered by Mcdonnell (as both 71-290 and 71-291 were held by Mcdonnell) as part of a proposal or mockup for the original F-15 STOL project (before ACTIVE which used the 3D nozzles)
here is photos of 71-290 before it was obtained by NASA and made into the ACTIVE upgraded version
from here
https://shipbucket.com/references/Squadron%20Signal%20books/epdf.pub_f-15-eagle-in-action.pdf
see while it was sitll numbered AF71290 without the NASA logo seen below on the same plane but with the 3D vectoring nozzles
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Judging by the fact that the F-15B 71-291 looks like this:
And this Reddit post has a whole album of the 291 in different liveries for different purposes over the time of its life:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WarplanePorn/comments/196izoy/f15b_710291_the_most_diverse_eagle_ever_built/
I’m pretty sure that the picture of the 291 with 2D nozzles and canards is either highly edited or a very high quality mock-up drawn by a talented artist.
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