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6 hours ago, MiGCap1 said:

The F-84F  Thunderstreak would be an ideal fighter-bomber for the early cold war era as it was flown by many NATO air forces then. 

The thunder jet would be great for Korea 

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4 hours ago, MiGCap1 said:

We habe no Korea map, but get one soon for Cold War Germany.

So the F-84F would be the better option IMO.

The last operator in Europe would be the Hellenic Air Force, just a bit out of the way, but perhaps not out of the question.

Most Thunderstreak operators retired their last examples in the 70s, but the Greeks buck that trend and retire them in '91.

I'm also assuming these are RF-84F Thunderflashes and not the fighter-bomber Thunderstreak. I'd certainly be game to run low altitude fast recon missions in the 80s with one, but my question would be this:

This is the Cold War gone hot scenario. How many Euro operators would be willing and able to take Thunderstreaks out of storage to plug holes in operational capacities? Basically, how man EuroStreaks got scrapped the moment they got pulled from service and how many got put into storage? That's what would be curious to find.

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Reformers hate him! This one weird trick found by a bush pilot will make gunfighter obsessed old farts angry at your multi-role carrier deck line up!

Posted
10 hours ago, MiGCap1 said:

We have  no Korea map, but get one soon for Cold War Germany.

So the F-84F would be the better option IMO.

 

I'd like both- I don't care which we get first. 

6 hours ago, MiG21bisFishbedL said:

The last operator in Europe would be the Hellenic Air Force, just a bit out of the way, but perhaps not out of the question.

Most Thunderstreak operators retired their last examples in the 70s, but the Greeks buck that trend and retire them in '91.

I'm also assuming these are RF-84F Thunderflashes and not the fighter-bomber Thunderstreak. I'd certainly be game to run low altitude fast recon missions in the 80s with one, but my question would be this:

This is the Cold War gone hot scenario. How many Euro operators would be willing and able to take Thunderstreaks out of storage to plug holes in operational capacities? Basically, how man EuroStreaks got scrapped the moment they got pulled from service and how many got put into storage? That's what would be curious to find.

The F-84F would be great for the F-100, MiG-17, 

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