USAFE/RAFG hardened aircraft shelters incorrect

[Northstar98]

üüHi everyone,

There's a couple of threads on the incorrect hardened shelters at Luftwaffe airbases, so here's one concentrating on the shelters at USAFE and RAFG airbases.

This principally concerns Ramstein AB, Spangdahlem AB and Hahn AB, as well as RAF Gütersloh. These airbases currently have a modified generation one shelter, with an external siding door. An example can be found in this first post of this thread, but you can see that this same type of shelter is also present at the following airbases:

Ramstein AB: 

However, this kind of shelter is only present at Bitburg AB IRL. The smaller kind of shelter that's actually present at these airbases is the original TAB-VEE shelter, which is broadly similar to the mod. generation one shelter (they do have the same external dimensions and configuration) but has clamshell doors internal to the shelter.

Here's one such example (at Spangdahlem):

Here's an example at Ramstein:

Here's a drawing of one with an F-15 for scale, measurements are metric:

 

Apart from Gütersloh, the other type of shelter found at all these airbases is the generation 3 shelter, suitable for aircraft like A-10. While Ugra have done a decent attempt at recreating it, it's the wrong shape. The real thing is elliptical, Ugra's version is semi-circular, making quite a bit taller than the real thing.

Compared to:

This example is at RAF Upper Heyford, so it may be a gen. 2 shelter which is a little larger than the 3, but the overall shape and configuration is pretty similar with gen. 3.

Here are some drawings of a gen. 3 shelter, sourced from this website:

 

The airbase where the current mod. gen. 1 shelter is the most incorrect is RAF Gütersloh, which IRL has a shelter that looks like this:

Though note, only RAF Bruggen and Laarbuch has the extra enclosed space, seen on the left of this image:

Gütersloh and Wildenrath instead, look like this (Gütersloh):

Wildenrath:

 

The OP of this thread has already done a pretty good job of modelling this type of shelter.