Fulda Gap

[Gierasimov]

Looks like we "discovered" too much and no more leaks on the subject. I was kind of hoping that volume of hidden teasers only increase in Q4 but now I think it will be revealed in 2025 and beyond video ...

 

[sirrah]

On 10/2/2024 at 8:32 PM, Gierasimov said:

Looks like we "discovered" too much and no more leaks on the subject. I was kind of hoping that volume of hidden teasers only increase in Q4 but now I think it will be revealed in 2025 and beyond video ...

 

No worries mate, I'm sure they're just waiting with more teasers, until they've finished adding Volkel Air Base 

[Pingodingo]

idk but pretty sure this is fulda since the german mig´s and the ground does not look like kola

[smoking_ace420]

If we could get 90s era planes and weapons, it would also make a great 90s Cold War goes hot alternate timeline where the USSR decides to roll over East Germany Tienanmen Square style.

[draconus]

10 hours ago, smoking_ace420 said:

the USSR decides to roll over East Germany Tienanmen Square style

What? They already were like at home there all over the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Soviet_Forces_in_Germany#/media/File:Схема_размещения_штаба_и_штабов_армий_ЗГВ_на_1991_год.png

[silverdevil]

13 hours ago, smoking_ace420 said:

If we could get 90s era planes and weapons, it would also make a great 90s Cold War goes hot alternate timeline where the USSR decides to roll over East Germany Tienanmen Square style.

i was stationed in wildflecken in m60 tanks. when we went to border, quite regularly, without a doubt i saw soviet armor on the other side. i think you meant roll over west germany. the fulda gap was purported to have the highest concentration of artillery anywhere in the world at that time.

[twistking]

Edited December 6, 2024 by twistking

[Bremspropeller]

Is the air hose (?) static or will it belong to the Barbie jet in the future?

[MAXsenna]

Last image i posted indeed seems to be the 1940s Marianas. Found this map of Guam Harbor from 1943 and it well looks like in the first image. In the decades after, the reef seems to have been filled up to make it usable for construction. The shape fits all well. The long thin extension on the left of the modern map follows to the end of the reef, maybe to mark the riff and avert running aground / mark the harbor entrance lane.

Hmmm... There are seaplane landing lanes there, so now we need some seaplanes.

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[corbu1]

Am 22.11.2024 um 16:42 schrieb Pingodingo:

idk but pretty sure this is fulda since the german mig´s and the ground does not look like kola

Very flat terrain….more likely East part or north east part of Germany I‘d guess

[YoYo]

Good find! We will probably see some announcement on 2025 & Beyond.

[corbu1]

vor 2 Stunden schrieb Schlingel mit Kringel:

 If the German Mig-29s are a hint, they were stationed first at Preschen (Cottbus, close to the Polish border) and later at Rostock-Laage (close to the coast). Both areas are dead flat for the most part with a few bumps here and there, so it could be either.

Yes, this is why I estimated east or northern east part of Germany. Also there were a picture around some time ago which estimated showed Berlin Schönefeld airport with some Mig29‘s.

Edited December 19, 2024 by corbu1

[Bremspropeller]

On 8/10/2024 at 8:16 AM, Gierasimov said:

New ones? From the CH-47 tailer:

 

Could the first one have been taken here? Above Dermin, looking towards Ratzeburg across the Küchensee (just north of Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein) - as stone's throw from the border (in the fmr West)...

See greater scale map - east of Hamburg, south of Lübeck...

 

[Tom Kazansky]

1 hour ago, Bremspropeller said:

Could the first one have been taken here? Above Dermin, looking towards Ratzeburg across the Küchensee (just north of Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein) - as stone's throw from the border (in the fmr West)...

The heading shown on the compass on the first cockpit picture supports your finding as well.

Edited December 21, 2024 by Tom Kazansky

[BomberEW]

I hope ED at least recreates the Cold War airfields for this map.  I can deal with modern Germany for ease of development, but in order to really capture the 1980s era, we have to have at least the airfields recreated.  Airfields like Bitburg, Spangdahlem, Hahn, Ramstein, Sembach, and Zweibrucken. For example, Ramsteim back then, was a major fighter base with F-4s.  Focusing on recreating those airfields to resemble how they appeared back then will make this map special.

[twistking]

On 12/26/2024 at 6:18 AM, BomberEW said:

I hope ED at least recreates the Cold War airfields for this map.  I can deal with modern Germany for ease of development, but in order to really capture the 1980s era, we have to have at least the airfields recreated.  Airfields like Bitburg, Spangdahlem, Hahn, Ramstein, Sembach, and Zweibrucken. For example, Ramsteim back then, was a major fighter base with F-4s.  Focusing on recreating those airfields to resemble how they appeared back then will make this map special.

I couldn't deal with a modern representation to be honest. Because of the German division only a historic map would make sense. We've already seen images of the inner German border, so i think we'll get a proper historic map anyway. I personally wouldn't care if it mixes elements from a few decades, but it should be pre 89, without any recognizable elements from later years.

[Bremspropeller]

https://www.mil-airfields.de/de/mendig.htm

Those two houses next to the fountain (Neptunbrunnen) gotta go, though.

Edited January 16 by Bremspropeller

[twistking]

3 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

https://www.mil-airfields.de/de/mendig.htm

[...]

Those two houses next to the fountain (Neptunbrunnen) gotta go, though.

 

The presence of Mendig more or less confirms the map area to include the Fulda AO. That's good news.

The houses on Neptunbrunnen are definitely weird. The area is a public square since the early seventies i believe (or whenever they built the tv tower). How can something like this end up in a trailer?

[Silver_Dragon]

The 2025 and Beyond confirm Berlin zone, that expand the AO to from Fulda to east germany

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[draconus]

6 hours ago, twistking said:

How can something like this end up in a trailer?

[bies]

10 minutes ago, Silver_Dragon said:

The 2025 and Beyond confirm Berlin zone, that expand the AO to from Fulda to east germany

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[Silver_Dragon]

Waiting to see if that expand to north german plains and baltic aproachs.

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[GrafRotz]

This expands at least to north of Hamburg (Ratzeburg seems to bee identified) and Koblenz, Rhine Area (Mendig Airfield was identified)

[Silver_Dragon]

This expands at least to north of Hamburg (Ratzeburg seems to bee identified) and Koblenz, Rhine Area (Mendig Airfield was identified)

Only miss the danube front

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[Bremspropeller]

I'm hoping it covers Germany entirely, as the most beautiful airfields (landscape-wise) are in the southern west and southwest. The airfields in southern Bavaria are also quite scenic. If that area is covered, some franch airbases in the Rhine valley should also make it (e.g. Colmar and Strasbourg, maybe even Metz and Nancy).

For the eastern dimension, I hope it at least covers the Oder river. That in turn also covers parts of Czechia and maybe northern Austria. The pics seen so far suggest that the map at least extends to the german coast of the Baltic Sea.

Really looking forward to the map reveal.

 

Edited January 18 by Bremspropeller