He-111 with JDAM next…
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what about Predreadnoughts IJN ikoma doesnt count shes armored cruiser/battle cruiser
HMS victorys 16 inch guns firing
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lol
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are the famous wingtip Drop tanks for the F-104s planned?
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Spoiler
Nah, we need pre-Ironclad.
The real HMS Victory
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or start with Ironclads for Coastal battles
You all are making me wonder what modern sailing warships would look like.
… and what could prompt them into existing…
a lack of other fuels and/or more Wind on the sea could make that happen
there are currently concepts trying to exploit different physical phenomenons like the Magnus effect being tested
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Guys does anyone know what block of the P-51D was operated by the Indonesian air force? I’m tryna build a subtree thingy but I can’t find anything about it
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iirc that’s not a Block number but rather a Manufacturer number
Autonomous barges with VLS systems with deployable rotors to harness the Magnus effect and anti-drone defenses sounds like a great way to potentially save costs on coastal defense
Yeah but you know how there’s the D-20, D-25, D-30 etc… I’d like to know which version was used as I barely found anything on internet about Indonesian ones
For the BR mostly since P-51Ds go from 4.0 to 5.0 based on variants
For example I found that one of the P-51Ds of Indonesia had serial F-338… But serial infos I found on internet look very different from that format so what does it mean?
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I love how goofy disguising aircraft as other things can turn out. Nothing will ever beat that time that that india tried to disguise some helicopters as elephants though. (What i would do to have this in game, if only it was armed).
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Who are they trying to fool lol
Technically it is possible Russia has the su33 at 13.0 and a su22m3 (I don’t not recommend getting the su22 squad vehicle) at 11.0 so 3 nations already have two squad vehicles Germany,Russia,Great Britain right now USA just has one(only counting airplanes only)
Not to make a text wall (sorry mods!), but for your consideration:
2038–2040
• Russian collapse fragments the crude/URALS export chain and breaks Rosatom-linked fuel services. Uranium conversion and enrichment markets tighten; HALEU pilot lines stall.
• U.S. authoritarian pivot triggers secondary sanctions sprawl. Reinsurers price war risk across the Gulf/Indian Ocean at unpayable levels for non-state shipping.
• China courts the EU; Brussels pushes “strategic autonomy,” raising compliance hurdles for U.S.-aligned energy trades and naval port access.
2040–2042
• U.S.–Iran gray-zone war hits Kharg Island and Abadan; Hormuz becomes intermittently mined. UAE hedges; bunkering thins.
• U.S. pressure inside Iraq destabilizes Basra loadings; pipeline sabotage constrains southern Iraqi exports.
• India–Pakistan limited war spreads to the Arabian Sea and Thar air corridors; Karachi refining and Gwadar export reliability collapse.
• DPRK breaks with Moscow; missile tests force Japanese and Korean insurers to pull back in the Sea of Japan and Yellow Sea, fragmenting Northeast Asia product flows.
• War-risk reinsurers exit the Red Sea after Houthi-long-range strikes; Bab el-Mandeb becomes episodically impassable.
• Result: crude exists, but seaborne movement through Hormuz/Bab el-Mandeb/Malacca oscillates. Naval JP-5/MGO availability becomes location- and flag-dependent.
2042–2044
• Coordinated refinery cyber campaign (wiper + OT pivot) hits Jamnagar, Jubail/Yanbu, PADD 3 control systems, and several ASEAN product hubs. Outcome is a refining bottleneck for middle distillates, not just crude scarcity.
• Canada flirts with EU-associated status; U.S. retaliates with tariff and port-state controls, chilling cross-border energy and parts trade. U.S.–Canada naval cooperation degrades; Arctic LNG and fuel depots face political risk.
• HALEU supply crunch hardens: Russian services off-market; Western enrichment conversion backlogs extend to naval programs. Surface-ship SMR pilots are paused; cores reserved for carriers and SSNs/SSBNs only.
• EU opens limited naval nuclear door but caps deployments to home waters; budget and vendor bottlenecks delay any scale.
2044–2046
• A single high-profile SMR incident ashore (grid-tied) drives a political moratorium on “new naval reactors outside strategic classes” in multiple democracies.
• Synthetic-fuel expansion stalls: electrolyzer metals face export controls; power prices spike under grid stress and gas scarcity; CO₂ pipeline siting lawsuits idle e-fuel plants. Aviation captures the little synfuel available.
• War-risk insurance withdrawals become structural; only state fleets and shadow carriers sail contested lanes. Civil bunkering networks hollow out in the Gulf, Red Sea, and eastern Indian Ocean.
• Logistics math breaks for diesel navies. Procurement pivots to wind-assist and battery-heavy hybrids for auxiliaries and patrol forces.
2046–2049
• Fleets bifurcate: a small nuclear blue-water core vs. a broad periphery of wind-dominant hybrids.
• Rigid-wing sails, Flettner rotors, and kite systems are standardized across oilers, MCM vessels, OPVs, and corvettes.
• Pure-sail hulls appear for sanctions evasion, privateering, and littoral sovereignty patrols where fuel is unobtainable or politically denied.
• Missile magazines shrink; lighter multi-role weapons and containerized VLS dominate. Passive sensors, UAV swarms, and optical fire control become defaults to live within power budgets.
• Ports retool for low-power maneuver: electric tug fleets, sail-friendly berths, and prepositioned depots replace underway replenishment in contested seas.
Regional naval outcomes:
Gulf/Arabian Sea
• Wind-dominant escorts and MCM craft proliferate. Nuclear or synfuel-capable groups guard only short, decisive operations. Hormuz intermittency forces sail-assisted convoy doctrine; mines and cheap ASCMs punish anything that must burn fuel to sprint.
Red Sea/Western Indian Ocean
• Periodic closures make sail logistics unavoidable for regional players. Pirate–privateer ecosystems re-emerge with modern drones and commercial SATCOM. State navies field wind-hybrid OPVs with 57–76 mm guns, light ASCMs, and UAV bays.
Western Pacific
• Japan and Australia keep limited nuclear cores with U.S. help; everyone else leans into sail-assist for patrol and EEZ enforcement. Malacca risk pushes China to overland pipelines and rail; PLAN concentrates fuel on a few high-end groups while building wind-hybrid auxiliaries for presence missions.
North Atlantic/Arctic
• U.S.–Canada rupture fractures fuel basing; Greenland/Iceland ports ration military bunkers. Arctic patrols convert to rotor-sail hybrids; nuclear icebreakers gain outsized leverage. EU navies field sail-assist logistics to maintain tempo inside the GIUK gap.
Doctrine and armament deltas:
• Sensors: intermittent AESA, heavy ESM/IR bias, mast-top optronics, burst-only emissions for missile shots.
• Weapons: containerized light ASCMs, NLOS rockets, 57–76 mm guided shells, 324 mm torpedoes, low-draw decoys. Limited laser CIWS where battery banks allow; otherwise gun CIWS.
• Air: electric VTOL and fixed-wing UAVs for ISR/targeting; crewed aviation hoards synfuel for critical sorties only.
• Survivability: low RCS/IR shaping, rig protection or retractable masts, emergency electric drives for egress, expansive decoy suites.
• Logistics: prepositioned stocks, sail convoys with a few nuclear guardians, regional depot warfare as a campaign center of gravity.
i see two right here
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“TLDR, F-300 to F-310 are P-51K-15-NT, F-311 to F-323 are P-51D-20-NT, F-324 to F-340 are P-51D-25-NT”
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Thanks, that confirms what I found just minutes ago
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