Ready for landings

[Joe C-P]

Comrades, the Sovietsky Soyuz is all at sea:



The Soviet Navy experimented in the 1980s with carrying a company of Soviet Naval Infantry aboard the Soyuz. The raft is being used by the Naval Infantry to help load their armor onto a Gus type ACV for an assault certain to scare the decadent Westerners into mass surrrender!



Naturally, this is a historical retrospective, not an actual particular airgroup carried by this magnificent triumph of Communist maritime engineering. Another aircraft is being prepped for loading at this time.
I do need those reference photos of the floatplane An-2 - you may email them to me. And I should be able to load up any other aircraft that are ready to be deployed aboard.

Closeups will follow. I had great fun with this project, and will celebrate with a glass of good Russian vodka.  Or two. Or more!  :dum:        :zzz:

Up the Revolution!

Commissar Iosef R    

[F-32]

Beautiful..............er, I mean, well done Comrad  

[Nick]

Was this on the occasion of the invasion of the New Malden Islands in 1985?
Operation Flashpoint I thnk it was called, comrade...

Nick B)  

[Ollie]

Good show Comrade!

Now, get out to see and bug those imperialists!!

 B)    

[Swamphen]

A toast, Comrades, a toast to Commissar Iosif!


Swamphenaroff

[Bryan H.]

Magnificent ship Comrade Commissar Iosef!  You'll soon be honored with Order of Lenin or Red Hero of the Soviet Union!!    Up the Revolution!  The Imperialists are surely quaking in their boots.

 and Socialist Salutions, Bryanov

PS: The Stoli and will be delivered to you new dacha.  

[Aircav]

One of those aircraft looks like it got British roundels on it  
Great model        

[The Rat]

[homer]Hmmmmmm, carriers![/homer]

Very, very nice!  :ar:  

[The Rat]

One of those aircraft looks like it got British roundels on it

SHHHH! Is for training of brave Soviet pilots to be recognizing markings of aircraft operated by forces employed in the oppression of the proletariat by filthy imperialist monopoly-capitalist exploiters of the working classes.

You talk, you go to gulag.    

[Captain Canada]

Comrade.....very great !

I will dispatch An-2 Colt on Float immediatley

 

[Joe C-P]

One of those aircraft looks like it got British roundels on it  

The planes aboard (except the captured F-14 - the larger version is still in the shop) are based on actual models built and displayed around this site by our fellow Socialist workers. On that MiG-29 the markings are exactly as were on the original - they're actually a roundel with the Soviet star overlaid.

I have started on the "Vikingski" and believe I have found my solution for the Colt.

How goes the MiG-25K? It is eagerly anticipated here at our rodina!
Also, someone was reported to be preparing a helicopter?

Many thanks for all the compliments.    I am having much fun replicating your efforts in minuature; almost as much fun as chasing my little babushka through the snow into my private sauna!  

Iosef R

[Vlad Rezun (aka Viktor Suvarov)]

First and Foremost, I assume I am presona non grata given my background below :>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Suvorov
http://www.videofact.com/english/defectors...rs_12_2_en.html

Ok Ok as you may have guessed I am not realy MAJ Rezun.  I am a first time unregestered poster.  Adopting the appropriate tone is going to be difficult, but what the hell.

In his book, INSIDE THE SOVIET ARMY, the defector Rezun points out the relationships between the Military, the Party, and the KGB.  He also points out how the Soviet military is diffrently organized than the western militaries into five rather than three components:

Strategic Rockets
National Air Defense, consisting of AAA and heavy fighters
The Air forces
Land Forces
Naval Forces

To the imperialists, it appears the Soveit union has three airforces, that of the National Air Defense, that of the Air forces, and that of naval avation.

The Air forces consist of fighters that can operate form somewhat unprepared fields, MiG 23-7, Su-17-22, ect. in additonn to the Long Range airforces and the Military transport avation.

The Air defense forces consist of interceptor aircraft, antiaircraft missile and guns, and some antimissile units around MOCKBA (Moskva Moscow). The aircraft tof the national air defense forces are heavy fighters that must have long concrete runways to operate from: the medium range Su-15, the long range Tu-128, and the high speed high altitude but short ranged Mig-25 (How the traitor Belenko managed not to run out of gas is a mystery).  Truly was an excelent and brave pilot, but a lousy commrade.

http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/11...1227_pilot.html

Ok I cna live with a navalzed Su-15.  It is of resonable size, with enough spoilers and brakes and a hook it seems possible to navalize it, yes.  But a navalized MiG-25? surely the commrade who proposed it must watch is vodka intake.  The MiG-25 is a poor aircraft untill one gets it up to high speed and high altitudes.  it requires a long takeoff run and a high takeoff speed, something I am sure our catapults can not do.  It also is a devil to land.  Has a high landing speed.  Not sure if anvalization is possible (someone mentioned a MiG-25K in this or another post).

Must say I like the idea of having a sizable naval infantry contingient aboard, even possibly hold a Gus or Aist in a dock while underway, but sadly the Zubirs are too large and useless in all seas except those close to Mother Russia (Black, Baltic, Japan).  Though the Russians in the "real world" have extenisve missile armament on their "Heavy Aircraft carying crusers"

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/k...tsov/index.html

http://www.thatcherthunders.org/ttmilintel.htm
DISCLAIMER: This westerner is clearly a madman, a racist and an anti semite.  Nonetheless, if a commerade can disregard this westerner's ramblings, one can find truly excelent nuggets of information on the equipment used by our motherland (pics and videos are excelent) as well as links Originally found this at
www.g2mil.com in 2004.

[Joe C-P]

Comrade!

First, getting into the proper spirit here only takes a bit of the proper spirit - vodka (good Russian vodka, not fancy French or weak US. Polish will also do). Then watch one of our great leaders speeches, especially the mighty Castro, and you'll fit right in!

If the Kremlin says we will have a navalized MiG-25, then we will give them one! Do you doubt the technical superiority of our Socialist brethren?

As for that website, it is clearly a cleverly disguised piece of Western propaganda, as we have no need nor desire to rule the West. They do not make good vodka! Why would we want to go someplace where we must drink such swill as beer or wine or champagne or whiskey?

And for a fellow who's so afraid of the Communists, he certainly must surf many such sites to have gathered such an impressive array of weaponry images. Besides, it would be far easier for China to destroy the US economy by withholding goods shipments and withdrawing their investments in the US government securities.

Commissar Iosef R

[Guest]

How Much did the basic carrier model cost?  Scale? Where did you get it?

[Joe C-P]

How Much did the basic carrier model cost?  Scale? Where did you get it?

The model is a Testors/Italeri Kuznetsov or Varyag - they're all the same inside the box. The aircraft come from a variety of sources, primarily Skywave plastic and metal aircraft sets. The Gus ACV is from the Dragon Soviet Air Cushion Vehicles set.