Oberst_Klink
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All you get from the UK is one USAF F-15, F-16 and F-4 squadron. From the RAF one squadron of Jaguars and AV-8B. No Tornado's or F-111. The game states that a larger war has broken out in Europe and naval action is taking place around the GIUK gap. Norway, has F-16 and F-105's.
I thought that the time period for this scenario was after 1975 or so and that by then
the F-105's would have long been retired from the scene. F-100's went bye-bye in
1972 followed by the F-105's sometime thereafter.
Most likely F-5 are meant, not F-105.
The Royal Norwegian Air Force received 108 Freedom Fighters: 16 RF-5A, 78 F-5A and 14 F-5B. The first 64 were received as military aid. They were in use by several squadrons, the first and last being 336 Squadron receiving the first aircraft in February 1966 (formal handing-over ceremony a month later), and deactivating in August 2000. Three aircraft were kept flying until 2007, serving with Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace for tests in the "Eye of the Tiger"-programme, developing a new seeker head for Naval Strike Missile and Joint Strike Missile. The aircraft received under military aid were handed off to Greece and Turkey. Of the aircraft bought by the Norwegian government, nine were used in exchange with U.S. authorities for submarines of the Kobben class.[92] In October 2011 five F-5A single seaters were given to aircraft maintenance schools around the country; including Skedsmo, Sola, Bodø and Bardufoss high schools, and the Royal Norwegian Air Force's training center at Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik. The aircraft were disassembled at Moss Airport, Rygge before delivery to the schools. Of the ten remaining Norwegian F-5s, eight F-5B two-seaters were still for sale as of 2011, six of whom were stored in Norway and two in the United States. The two aircraft in the United States had been approved for sale to the American businessman Ross Perot Jr. in 2008, but the deal was blocked by the US government.[93] Three survivors are exhibited at the Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection, two at Norsk Luftfartsmuseum in Bodø and one at Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola, near Stavanger.
See - http://www.the-northrop-f-5-enthusiast-page.info/AirForces/NorwayUnits.html
Klink, Oberst
< Message edited by Oberst_Klink -- 1/1/2018 3:21:54 PM >
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