Modern Unit Graphics

[CurtSibling]

I haven't made any units?

 

[vodot]

Oops, I thought I had seen your name reading through this and the other unit threads. Forgive me, I'm reading through all this incredible pixel-art en masse, years later, and getting people confused. You're the cities guy, and I saw some of your icons as well. I posted my compliment in the wrong thread.

 

[CurtSibling]

I'm not really any sort of units/city guy. I just make the odd scenario from time to time.

 

[techumseh]

I'm not really any sort of units/city guy. I just make the odd scenario from time to time.

They are odd, but quite fun!

 

[Patine]

@Tanelorn I seem to remember you put out an early Cold War Yugoslav Ikarus S-49 once, but I could be mistaking it for the IK-2 and IK-3 I know you did put out. Anyways, if you ever did release the S-49, the file (or collection) it's on doesn't have a name that immediately bespeaks of it. Thus, I was wondering there.

 

[Tanelorn]

Yes, it was both the IK2 and 3. I was thinking about making a Tito-Stalin split "informbiro" period yugo airforce set. Yugoslavia was an informal Nato ally between 1948 and 1956 or so.

 

[Patine]

Yes, it was both the IK2 and 3. I was thinking about making a Tito-Stalin split "informbiro" period yugo airforce set. Yugoslavia was an informal Nato ally between 1948 and 1956 or so.

Out of curiosity, and more for posterity than pressing need (at least at this point - you never know who may need what for future scenarios), would you be willing to take on such a set? No pressure, as usual - another "it would be nice" thing, really.

 

[Tanelorn]

Sure. I'll do it.

 

[Patine]

Sure. I'll do it.

Awesome!

 

[Tanelorn]

@Patine Yugo Ikarus S-49

Do you think it came with rear a window defroster?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus_S-49

 

[Patine]

@Tanelorn
[IMG]https://forums.civfanatics.com/attachments/tanelorn-ikarus-s49-png.522378/?temp_hash=9bacb92197bb1bb8fbac1e8db8a76bca[/IMG]
Do you think it came with rear a window defroster?
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus_S-49[/URL]

Thank-you, @Tanelorn. You're a gentleman and a scholar!

And I'm unsure about that. That was a transitional period in aeronautics, and a lot of unusual features were toyed with. I remember this from early development of my Korean War scenario.

 

[Tanelorn]

@Patine
Why does a Yugo have rear a window defroster?
To keep your hands warm as you push it.

 

[Tanelorn]

@Patine : There you are, the Yugoslavian airforce right after WW2. A strange mix of British, Soviet, German, US and domestic machines.

Hawker Hurricane Mk.IV= over 20 1944-1951
Supermarine Spitfire=18 Mk.Vc, 3 Mk. IX 1944-1954 ex RAF Balkan Air Force
Petlyakov Pe-2FT= over 150 1945-1954
Yakovlev Yak-3= 71 1944-1957 and Yakovlev Yak-9= 135 1945- 1957
Ilyushin Il-2M3 Sturmovik= 200 1944- 1955
Messerschmitt Bf-109G= 76 1947-1954 (ex-Bulgarian)
Ikarus S-49A= 45 1950-57 (with the Soviet Klimov M-105 engine)
de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB.Mk.VI=77 1951-1960
Republic F-47D-40-RE Thunderbolt= 150 1951-1961
S-49C =113 in service from 1952- 1960 (with the French a Hispano-Suiza 12Z-17 engine)

 

[Tanelorn]

And a repost of the rest:

The Tito-Stalin split coincided with the Korean war and Truman pumped military aid (seen in the previous post) to Yugoslavia, as they anticipated a Soviet invasion...
The Tito-Stalin split was also one of the reasons the Greek civil war eventualy ended.
This was continued by Eisenhower and included:
219 Republic F-84G Thunderjetfighter bombers 1953- 1974 (some ex-Greek)
43 Canadair CL-13 Mk.IV Sabre 1956-1974 (former RAF). 78 North American F-86E Sabre 1959-1974.
130 North American F-86D Sabre Dog 1959-1974 (ex-USAF)

 

[Patine]

And a repost of the rest:

These look awesome, as usual! What were they using (or left with) by the time the country started falling apart in 1990, out of curiosity?

 

[Tanelorn]

@Patine These guys mainly

Since Khrushchev got in power from 1955 onwards relations with the USSR improved dramatically and Tito switched back into the Soviet sphere in the early 1960’s, at the height of the Cold War...
45 Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21F-13 Fishbed C 1962-1980
36 MiG-21PFM Fishbed F 1967-1994
25 MiG-21M Fishbed J 1970- 1996
6 MiG-21MF Fishbed J 1975- 1996
100 MiG-21bis Fishbed L in 1977- (a small number, remain in service with the Serbian Air Force today).
plus several recce and trainer variants of the Mig-21
They also produced 132 homegrown Soko G-2A (N-60) Galeb1965- (some in reserve in Serbia?) and 103 Soko J-21 Jastreb 1968-1996 to replace their American jets.
These were followed by 27 Orao-1 1979-1997 and 50/58 Orao-2 from 1986 onwards (in service with Serbia) in cooperation with Romania and British engines.
In 1984 they started receiving 90 G-4 Super Galebs, still in Serbian service (about 20)
In 1987 they got 14+2 Mig-29, six were shot by Nato in 1999. They have been supplemented by four aircraft from Russia and two from Belarus a couple of years ago.
I should say that after the Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 Yugoslavia and Romania "teamed up" and their relations with the USSR deteriorated again, but it is complicated.

 

[Tanelorn]

Reworked pair of Convair F102 Delta Daggers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_F-102_Delta_Dagger

 

[Tanelorn]

Lockheed T-33 Silverstar
Greece 154 1951-2000
Yugoslavia 120 1953-1979/1984
Turkey 110 1951-1994

 

[Tanelorn]

Cessna T-37 Tweety Bird
Greece 25 T37C 1964-2002, 10 T37B (ex-Jordanian) 1988-2002
Turkey 50 to 65 T37C 1965-2000, 34 donated to Pakistan in 2015

 

[techumseh]

Tanelorn, you seem to have access to good info on the orders of battle of many airforces in the post war period. Do you have info on the airforces of various African countries around 2000? At the turn of the century there was a general war in central Africa, following the Rwandan genocide. Rwanda and Uganda invaded DR Congo and were opposed by Zimbabwe and Angola. I made a scenario of this, called "Congo!" (original, I know) at the time. Anyway, I just guessed at what equipment the various combatants might have used. Can you shed any light on this? I converted it for ToT, and would like to upgrade the units, etc. Thanks.