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Post conversion Essex for the F-8?


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On 7/12/2021 at 2:49 PM, Callsign said:

Is a post conversion Essex planned to accompany the F-8?

How about the Shangri-La CVA-38?

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On 10/9/2021 at 8:11 PM, TWC_SLAG said:

How about the Shangri-La CVA-38?

 

Carrier operations on the deck of WW2 Essex Class CV-38 - USS Shangri-La in year 1962, somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea.

(Make sure you selected 1080P since video has great quality for 1962, year of Cuban missile crisis, way before Vietnam.)

 

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On 11/11/2021 at 1:47 PM, bies said:

 

Carrier operations on the deck of WW2 Essex Class CV-38 - USS Shangri-La in year 1962, somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea.

(Make sure you selected 1080P since video has great quality for 1962, year of Cuban missile crisis, way before Vietnam.)

 

That was an awesome video.  Would love to operate the A-4E from that.  As well as the F-8J, when we get it.  Even the A-7E could be made able to operate from it. (The A-7A&B operated from some Essex-class carriers.)

I would suggest two versions of the angled-deck, steam catapult Essex-class ships of the 60's and 70's.  There were only seven of them. 

First group:  Intrepid CVA-11, Ticonderoga CVA-14, and Hancock CVA-19.  These 3 had the starboard deck-edge elevator farther aft. 

Second group:  Lexington CVA-16, Bon Homme Richard CVA-31, Oriskany CVA-34 & Shangri-La CVA-38.  These 4 had the starboard deck-edge elevator more forward, close to the island.

(There were more Essex-class ships that had angled flight decks, but they did not have steam catapults and heavier arresting gear for jets.  They were called CVS for anti-submarine by the 1960's.)

I think those were the major differences.  So, two models in DCS should be sufficient with different hull numbers and names on the stern.

And then AI versions of the KA-3B Skywarrior and A-4E with 2-300gal external tanks and a centerline buddy refueling store to serve as tankers.  And an AI version of the E-1A Tracer (AEW in place of the E-2D) and the SH-2 Seasprite helicopter.

Maybe a Farragut or Leahy-class guided missile destroyer and a FRAM modified Gearing or Sumner-class destroyer as escorts.

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