FD AU 5

As with the Primary Trainer and Flying Boat Challenges, here's a series of alternate and bonus drawings of my entry.

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The mid-trim performance variant of the Sentinel, the RS was first release for the 2022 model year and starts at the equivalent of $54,499 USD.

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The Colonial Motors Corporation factory rally team is currently participating in the North American Rally Association (NARA) championship. They drive modified Sentinel sedans in the Open 4WD category.

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An alternate version of the Fire Marshal's mobile investigation unit with slide-outs and various bits retracted for transport.

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Before settling on the Antarctic rescue truck, I drew a Type C ambulance converted from a sprinter van. I only managed to complete the side view before scrapping the concept.

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Projects:
Panelbucket - Aircraft Avionics and Instrument Panels in 15px=1cm: http://shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=10389
Clyde's Eagles - Cessna Aircraft since 1945: http://shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic. ... 7&p=204669
Im Schatten des Adlers - An Alternate History Timeline: http://shipbucket.com/wiki/index.php/Ca ... des_Adlers

The Lockheed Martin C-27J Spartan (in this AU, the C-27J and G.222 before it is not an Italian aircraft but instead US built and designed) in RAF service. The RAF procured the C-27J in the late 1990s/early 2000s to replace its previous de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo aircraft in the tactical airlift role, and a small number in the long range overland SAR role in Northwestern Canada. Aircraft are based in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in the tactical airlift role (with forward deployed units in Germany, Malaya, and Oman) and in the SAR role in Canada only.

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Currently working on:
- AU Royal Navy
- Various FD scale aircraft

Canada, Canadair Sabre Mk. 8 (F-86K)
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UK, Canadair Sabre Mk. 8/F.5 (F-86K)
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West Germany, Convair/MBB F-106A(G) Delta Dart
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New England, FFVS-Sikorsky P-37A Mohican
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Sweden, FFVS J 22 (Camouflage)
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USA, Lockheed AU-26A Starspot (USAFE)
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USA, Lockheed FV-7C Starstreak (USAFE)
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Australia, General Dynamics F-16C Block 40 (Have Glass V)
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Wherever our Party and our army went, the people welcomed us with open arms, and we were able to take advantage of the time of the day, and we can still see the vibrant life and development of all things in front of our eyes. Twenty years later, has this place become our burial place?
In any case, the strength of the battle was 800,000 to 600,000, and the advantage is mine!

Was going to enter this into the current challenge but decided against it.

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In 1963, the Air Force put forward the idea of developing a highly manoeuvrable light fighter aircraft for evacuation and short-distance take-off in case of destruction of airports under the condition of nuclear war, to meet the needs of the people's war and to carry out aerial guerrilla warfare. This idea was strongly supported by Vice Commander Lin, and a meeting was held by the Ministry of Aviation Industry in the middle of 1964, and the task of light fighter development was given to Nanchang 320 Factory, and the project was codenamed "J-12" in March, the overall programme was confirmed to enter into the development of prototype in May, and the design was completed at the end of the next year, and the trial production was begun. In May 1966, the prototype completed its first flight. In response to the many problems that appeared in the test flight, the Ministry of Aviation Industry organised all the related units to carry out technical research in the form of a general battle, and concentrated on solving the problems under the circumstance of weak technical force and insufficient design experience. After more than one year's improvement, the aircraft passed the acceptance and finalisation at the end of 1967, and started mass production.

The J-12 adopts the nose intake layout, the overall shape is similar to the MiG 21, but it adopts the lower monoplane layout, and the aircraft design adopts the area rate, which effectively reduces the high-speed flight resistance. The newly developed automatic flaps on the leading edge of the swept-back wing effectively improve the manoeuvrability of the aircraft. In order to improve the take-off and landing performance to meet the requirement of short take-off and landing, the aircraft adopts backward slit flaps and installs self-developed blowing flaps, which can shorten the take-off and landing distance by 30% when using blowing flaps. The aircraft adopts the integral single-piece windscreen, which effectively improves the forward vision. J-12 boldly adopts many new structures, techniques and materials, and the weight factor of the aircraft structure is greatly reduced compared with that of J-6 and even the newly introduced J-7, which further improves the performance. Due to the small size of J12, in order to increase the fuel to improve the retention time and combat radius, the wing structure fuel tanks are adopted.
In order to increase the fuel capacity and combat radius, the wing structure fuel tank was adopted, and the space inside the fuselage was excavated as much as possible, so that an internal fuel capacity of 1500kg was obtained. The aircraft is powered by a Turbojet 6C engine with 32 kN of thrust and 40 kN of added thrust. A radar rangefinder was mounted in the nose intake cone, which was interconnected with the sights and had no all-weather capability. Two 30-1 guns, each with 80 rounds of ammunition, are mounted on both wing roots. The wing fuselage has three mounting points for fuel tanks, rockets and bombs.

J-12A: During the development of J-12, the idea of mounting a solid rocket engine on the belly of the aircraft to take off at a short distance by using the launcher was put forward. During the project demonstration, the young technicians of 320 factory put forward a bold idea, which was to interconnect the aircraft with the launcher and the fire-control radar of surface-to-air missiles, to use the same guidance method as that of surface-to-air missiles to steer the aircraft, and to turn to artificial flight after the aircraft came into contact with the target, to make use of the launcher to take off from the site with good adaptability, to make use of the fire-control radar to steer the aircraft with high automation degree, high steering precision, and high interception efficiency. This proposal was highly appreciated by Vice Commander Lin at the model meeting, and then entered into formal development.320 Factory, together with the Second Research Institute of the Ministry of Aerospace Industry, carried out collaborative research and drew reference from the introduction of the Soviet S-75 missile system, designed the aircraft's auto-pilot and remote-control device, and improved the guidance radar on the basis of the Red Flag No.2 guidance radar, and a radar could guide up to 8 aircrafts at the same time to intercept the target by remote-control. The solid rocket booster of J-12A comes from the Red Flag 2 missile, which is improved for the use of the aircraft by adjusting the angle of the nozzle, and the booster is fixed on the belly mount, which is disposed of after a one-time use in the air. The launcher was improved from the Soviet-made 542 missile launcher introduced by the Navy in the early years, with a fixed elevation angle for launching after erection and a transverse crosslink with the radar to aim at the target heading.
Due to technical difficulties, until the end of 1968 to test the first prototype, after a large number of test flights to improve the 1969 completion of the final type began to equip the troops Trial.

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Wherever our Party and our army went, the people welcomed us with open arms, and we were able to take advantage of the time of the day, and we can still see the vibrant life and development of all things in front of our eyes. Twenty years later, has this place become our burial place?
In any case, the strength of the battle was 800,000 to 600,000, and the advantage is mine!

Here's a few vehicles I made specifically for the Alt-WW2 AU.

Starting off with German vehicles.

E-50 Coeelion is simply the E-50 with the Panther Coelion turret with 3,7cm AA guns.
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The E-50 Falke is an AA tank with twin 5,5cm guns.
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The Jagdpanzer auf E-50 is a tank destroyer with a rear-mounted 88mm L71 gun on the E-50 chassis.
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Not really meant for the AU, but just for fun, is the E-50M, an E-50 with rear transmission which reduces the height of the hull.
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The Jagdpanzer auf E-75 is a heavy tank destroyer using the E-75 chassis for a rear-mounted 12,8cm gun.
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The Sturmgeschütz auf E-100 comes in two flavours, a mid-mounted 15cm gun (considered by some as the more realistic version), and a rear-mounted 17cm gun (ie the WoT version)
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For Hungary there's the very much fake, bur nonetheless cool 44M Tas Rohamlöveg tank destroyer with a lon 75mm anti-tank gun.
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For Italy I made up a Panther-based hull with the Italian torsion-bar design from the P43ter with an enlarged turret to better handle the long 90mm gun.
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The Ho-To is a tank destroyer variant of the Type 4 Chi-To.
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Despite being somewhat real, though the exact details regarding their appearance is somewhat unclear, I'll post them here for certain, and that being the Chi-Ri based tank destroyers armed with a 10,5cm gun, the Ho-Ri. Irl there were designs for a rear-mounted version, and a mid-mounted version. The real mockup features heavily sloped armor, but the drawings made of both show the same front as the Chi-Ri, still including the 3,7cm gun in the front.
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This one is also technically real, though with some modifications. There were two designs for the 20TP KSUST, the difference being the engine, and its size. In my AU the KSUST 2 design also has the modified turret mounting the Wz.24 75mm AA gun instead of the 1897 75mm field gun.
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Based on a real design, though not in appearance is the last hurrah of the Polish cruiser tanks, the 25TP. It has the same 1924 75mm AA gun as the KSUST 2, but on a much more modern hull with thicker armor and better mobility.
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The US Army did test the 90mm gun on the M6 irl, same with the T20-series, and in both cases it was found that though they did indeed fit, and work without overstressing the vehicles and/or the suspensions, the fit was a little too snug, hence the rejection of the 90mm gun on said tanks. I decided to make a version of the M6 using the T25 turret in place of the M6s' turret to better accomodate the 90mm gun. This is done to keep the M6 tank more relevant into the mid-late 40s while the M25 (as a stop-gap medium tank,) the M26 medium tank and the M32 heavy tank enters service taking over the most pressing front-line needs from the earlier tanks.
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Though based on the WoT idea of a casemated TD based on the T25 chassis, it does make some sense, at least in my AU where there would be plenty of M25 chassis to convert into a TD using the long 90mm gun to create a TF that could take out all but the most heavily armored tanks, such as the E-75 and E-100. I don't quite see how I'm gonna make a turreted TD with either the long 90 or 105mm gun, that is both light and mobile enough, hence the casemated design.
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The T-43-85 basically replaces the T-34 as the tank of choice of the Soviet army, being supplemented by the more advanced T-44 tank. The T-43 did have a 76mm gun irl, but the 85mm gun would go along well with making the T-43 more worthwhile since its turret can better handle that gun.
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A little concept based on Israel getting the Mirage F1 & Tunisia getting MiG-17s

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Worklist:
- Solkriet - My Personal AU: http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewto ... 14&t=10834
- America the Divided - Joint-Project between Minepagen and I http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewto ... =14&t=9855
- Occasionally the Random pop-ups of my Abyssinia or Hong Kong AUs

"The word Br*t?sh is a horrible term I never want to hear from you again, We do not tolerate that dehumanization".

Little something I had kicking around, might pale in comparison to some of the other recent submissions, but there you go.
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An M1A3-ish concept with a low profile turret and a lightweight 120mm. As for lore, watch SPACE: Above and Beyond.

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