Intrepid 3d Designs - Military and More

[EAS_Intrepid]

Intrepid 3d Designs - Military and More
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I will present some of the work I am doing in this thread.

"We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine..." never mind
Here's a grey one:

Russia: Project 946 "Poliarnij" - Fictional, based on the Project 935 "Borei"
In 2012, the last but two Russian Typhoon sub was decommissioned and dismantled at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, one of the largest submarine assembly yards. Only the submarine drydock of the General Electric Boat Division in Norfolk could be compared to it.
The Russian Naval Command has just been funded with another 40 Billion US-Dollar to provide a new possibility for nuclear deterrency, as the Typhoons and the old Delta-IV and Delta-III subs were not any longer a valuable tool for Russia's nuclear interests.
The yard in Severodvinsk then had the task to develop and to build a new submarine, that has at least the capability of the US-American Ohio class, that has just been refitted to the standard of the attack subs of the Virginia class.
Also the new Russian sub was needed to be as silent as the Virginia SSN and the highly efficient German 212 Alpha Class with the Hydrogen Reactor.
After the work began in late 2012, the Project was given the name Project 946 "Poliarnij" or short 946.
The SSBN (SS = Submarine; B = Ballistic Missiles; N = Nuclear powered) was, unlike the other Russian strike subs, not a "doomsday submarine". The military doctrine of the Cold War and the early 1990s let all sub designs to the one day the missiles were fired and the enemy destroyed in one nuclear blast. But the 946 was meant to be a versatile SSBN that could endure long term travels that are longer as the legendary Typhoon turns of three month and more and that has a long lifespan without many cost-ineffective refits.
The first sub then was laid on keel on November 1, 2015, one month before the last but one Typhoon was about the be scrapped.
Two years later, the first "Poliarnij" class submarine was commissioned and sent on its maiden voyage. The NATO gave the new class the codename Echo.

Images:
The orgininal Project 935 "Borei"


The new Project 946 "Poliarnij"


SSBN "Yuri Dolgoruky" merged


The "Yuri Dulgoruky" firing its missiles


A sister ship, the "Svyatoslav Olgovich", fires its missiles during the yearly Barent Sea excersize


Night shot of a missile start


A version of the Poliarnij is the Poliarnij-Hotel class Guided Missile Sub, meant for anti-carrier engagements and meant to replace the old Oscar II SSGNs
Here is the "Dimitry Konstantinowitsch" firing the SS-23 Shipwreck III missiles


Designated as Vepr class SSN, this sub is a direct derivate of the Poliarnij-Hotel and the old Alfa class attack sub. This is the "Vladimir Monomakh" on silent run.

 

[EAS_Intrepid]

[WIP]Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21 "Fishbed" Attack Fighter

Being into all te Russian Military stuff, here's is one of my personal favourite jetfighters:
The MiG-21 "Fishbed". Still a WIP. I am looking for some cool camouflage textures as basis for the final fighter textures.
Take a look on her:


I plan a few different version of her, including Soviet Air Force, East-German Air Force and others. (Different types of armament, too. I see if I can do a trainer version of it- the MiG-21UTI)

 

[Majestic]

Looking good mate, nice work on them.

 

[TM150]

Man I love them so good work someone have played Naval Armada a mod for STA 2?

 

[EAS_Intrepid]

No, never played Naval Armada... however, I also do models just for fun and not only for STA II. The ones I present here are mostly such models.




Here is the Soviet Interceptor variant of the MiG-21. It is in a typical silver paint scheme, as all USSR interceptors where. Most notable hint for a Soviet craft are obviuosly the red starts, lol


This interceptor is not armed, but carries a fuelpod. The MiG-21 is a very thirsty plane. The whole tank (fuelpod and wingtanks) could be emptied by the engine in less than half an hour. As soon as the whole MiG is ready I post a short history and technical specs.

 

[EAS_Intrepid]

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21 "Fishbed" Attack Fighter Non-fictional
In 1953 the Korean War began, in which North Korea overran South Korea and the US-American sector of the Korean Peninsula. Most helpful tool of this aggression was the highly agile Soviet MiG-15 "Fagot", that was superior to the US F-86 "Sabre" in technical specifications as climb rates and maximum velocity (the pilots of the "Sabre" however compensated with pure skill). Many F-86 Sabre of the newly founded United States Air Force were shot down by the MiG-15.
The USA reacted on that and built the F-4 "Phantom" as well as the F-100 "Super Sabre" and the A-4 "Skyhawk" attack fighters.
These aircrafts then superceded the MiG-15 and its follower MiG-17, so the Soviet Union ordered a new light-weight fighter that was faster, more agile and easy to be maintained.

What followed was the MiG-21, NATO-codename "Fishbed".
In 1955 the maiden-flight of the MiG-21 was done and a year later it was presented to the public on an airshow in Moscow.

Concept of the MiG-21 was a light-weight fighter for daylight and good weather conditions (same as the first F-16 prototype, by the way). It had four weapon stations, two on each wing, a board cannon and a holder for a fuelpod under the main body.
New was the bow of the aircraft, as a conus was used to improve the aerodynamic capabilities of the fighter. Former MiG-fighters had no conus. The air streamed through a larger "hole" into the shaft of the engine. Now, the air streamed faster into the shaft and also the airplane had a more aerodynamic shape, that enabled it to faster velocities and a more agile dogfight style. The MiG-21 was meant to be an interceptor, but evolved to a multi-role combat aircraft, for interception, other air-to-air assignments and ground attack.
Again, it proved itself as superior to US aircrafts as the early versions of F-4 "Phantom" and the F-100 "Super Sabre" series. This time MiG-pilots fought against the USA in Vietnam, where the USA suffered the lack of a board cannon. So the US-fighters were not able to intercept the MiG-21 in close air combat. (The USA learned from that mistake and since then, all US fighters, including high-altitude interceptors as the F-15, have a board cannon.)

The Soviet Union itself used the fighter in its Air Border Defense Force. Supported by large radar antennas the MiG-21s of the Air Border Defense Force controlled the long borders of the Soviet union in Siberia and on the Pacific Ocean, near Alaska. More then one time both superpowers tested each others air defenses and provoced air combat maneuvers, but there was
never fired a shot.
Then the MiG-21 was superceded by the Su-17 and later by the MiG-25 high altitude penetrator/interceptor.

The MiG-21 "Fishbed" became a well known fighter in the skies of East European countries. East-Germany, Poland, the CSSR and many others flew the MiG-21. More then 8,000 MiGs of this series were built, most of them belonging to the MiG-21F variant. Other variants are advanced versions including night-interceptors, STOL (short landing and take-off) variants, trainers and high-altitude interceptors (MiG-21E-166).

Today, a number of MiG-21 fighters is still in use by smaller air forces. Also many examples of this top-of-the-line fighter of the 60s and 70s are still flown by hobby-jetpilots and sky artist teams and also a large number if MiGs can be seen in museums and exibitions, especially in East-Europe and Germany.

Chine developed a derivate of the MiG-21, the J-7. It was not an export success like the original MiG-21 but China made some money with it.

Images:
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(2) (3) (4)

(1) A Rainy Day: MiG-21bis (all conditions interceptor) starts from an airfield
(2) Perspective of a MiG-21 take-off
(3) A MiG-21 on the taxiway.
(4) Dawn Of A New Age: One of the last MiG-21s of the USSR waits for the dawn, the USSR however, breakes apart

Technical Specificaions (all versions):
Role:
Interceptor; Attack Fighter; Trainer

Wingspan:
23 ft. 6 in.

Length:
51 ft. 9 in.

Height:
15 ft. 9 in.

Weight:
18,080 lbs. max.

Engines:
1x Tumansky R-11F-300 with 12,675 lbst with afterburner

Maximum speed:
1,300 mph (with engaged afterburner)

Cruising speed:
550 mph

Range of Operations:
MiG-21; 400 miles
MiG-21 bis; 600 nautical miles

Fuel (without fuelpod):
MiG-21; 2277 kg
MiG-21bis; 2368 kg

Crew:
One Pilot; Trainer: One Pilot, one flight teacher/advisor

Armament:
4 weapon stations
Missiles; AA-8 Aphid medium range, AA-2 Atoll short range
Bombs; FAB-250 unguided, FAB-500 unguided
Rocket Pods

Nations flying the MiG-21 (all version without Chinese derivate J-7)
Afghanistann, Algeria, Angola, Azerbiajan, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Burma, Cambodia, Congo, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Gunea, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Laos, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nigeria, North Korea, North Yemen, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Yemen, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbebwe.

Drop Tanks:
I found this quite interesting, how far a MiG-21bis can fly with such a drop tank (aka, which range such a drop tank adds to the wingtanks)

391kg of fuel for 51nm additional range
631kg of fuel for 80nm additional range
391kg of fuel for 50nm additional range

I suspect that the range also depends on the use of the afterburner or the overall engine thrust.

 

[EAS_Intrepid]

Early jetfighters - an introduction

During World War II, German engineers worked on different technologies, that where highly advanced for their time and could have helped Nazi-Germany to win the war, if the military pressure on the "Wehrmacht" (Nazi-German Army) by the Soviet and the Allied Forces hadn't been that high as it was.
Two technologies where 1) the rocket engine/early cruise missiles (the V-program) and 2) the jet engine (the Messerschmidt Me-262 jet fighter).
The war was near its end in early 1945. The Red Army conquered large parts of East-Prussia and the Baltic states, the US Army together with the Royal British Army and the Air Forces of all anti-Hitler pact members ruled the sky over the battlefields. But in the labs in Peenemuende (North-East Germany) the scientists of Hitler's (for god's sake) failed "3rd Reich" continued their work on these technologies, while the engine scientists where more in the Messerschimdt manufactures in Middle-Germany, where the artillery of the Soviet forces was not yet able to strike upon.
The Me-262 failed before as attack plane for combat air patrol and air-to-ground-support.
Hitler denied the pure interceptor/fighter role of the Messerschmidt jetfighter (the first jetcraft ever to be "mass"-produced) and thus the Me-262 was useless for the German Air Force. The last larger use of Me-262 fighters was during the Ardennen-offensive in late 1944 to hold the US back. There the Me-262 could only succeed in psychologic warfare, as the use was quite demoralizing for the US ground troops. But real damage was not reached by the Me-262.

The war was just over and the victor powers met in Potsdam for the day-after status of the defeated Germany. The Soviets discovered a large concentration and work camp in a Middle German mountain complex. There, V-2 cruise missiles and parts of jet engines were produced.
The USA however detected a manufactur of Messerschmidt, that had not been completly annihilated by the massive US bombing campaign over Germany. There, two full Me-262 fighters and a half one as well as several scientist came into US custody.
The parts and fighters where brought to Huntsville and later to a base in Nevada, later known as Edwards AFB.

The Soviets also discovered the jet engine technology and scientist working in the tech. Those scientists were then brought to a prison camp near Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) and then to a place that was later named Star City near Moscow. They were relocated a second time to a top secret base in Siberia.
From the work of the German scientists, two aircrafts that influenced fighter design forever emerged: the US-American F-86 "Sabre" and the Soviet MiG-15 "Fagot"!

North American Aviation F-86 "Sabre" Air Superiority Fighter non fictional
The Sabre was probalby one of the first real air superiority fighters of the USA, following the most successful P-51D "Mustang" and maybe the F-4U "Corsair" or the P-38 "Lightning". It is the direct outcome of the work of the German scientists and the first US jetcraft for battlefield use, the F-80 "Scorpion".
When the F-80 was then used in Korea, it proved totally useless against the superior MiG-15. But it was a milestone in the fighter development.

The mesh:
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(1) My personal F-86 ;-)
(2) F-86 Sabre with a "fire wingart", idea by Majestic!

Thanks to Hellkite for providing some more info!

Images:
(1) (2) (3) (4)

(1) Sabre Duo in the sky over Korea
(2) Again the CAP over Korea
(3) During the flight exercises it began to rain, and so the two Sabres return to base
(4) Three Sabres doing close-combat exercise (dogfights)

 

[Bennybcn]

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[Syf]

Sorry about that EA. I got my eye on your thread to make sure it is not hyjacked again.

Nice work there. I think I see some of my basic textures there. If I'm right, it's a nice use of them.

 

[EAS_Intrepid]

Sorry about that EA. I got my eye on your thread to make sure it is not hyjacked again.

Nice work there. I think I see some of my basic textures there. If I'm right, it's a nice use of them.

Hm, any highjackers will be fired upon at once. I mean, we have enough firepower here...

Glad that you like my work with your textures. Those gave a good impression of the materials used for the planes.

Upcoming are the MiG-15 as well as the Il-76 "Candid" heavy airlifter.

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15 "Fagot" Interceptor non-fictiona

The MiG-15 was one of the two main jetfighters from the Korean War (F-86 "Sabre" and MiG-15 "Fagot"). It was also one of the very first jetfighters with aerofoils with backwards moved wingtips. The MiG-15 "Fagot" was a little superior to the Sabre in terms of climbig and turn rates as in velocity, but the Sabre pilots were better trained and knew their jetfighters betters. Thus they were superior to the MiG-Pilots.

The MiG-15 was the basis of a series of aircrafts including the Soviet Block standard interceptors as the MiG-17 (same in appearence, though a bit longer and much improved), MiG-19 (similar design, but with two engines) and finally the MiG-21 (as above).

Images:


A size comparison between MiG-15 "Fagot" and MiG-21 "Fishbed"


Preparations: Soviet Navy Typhoon class SSBN; Project Акула

Though I restart with modelling of SciFi models on Monday or Wednesday, I will already commence work on this lady.
She is one of the Soviet vessels that don't have a real counterpart in the western hemisphere. (Remember that the Ohio SSBNs of the US Navy were counterparted by the Delta IV class SSBNs.)

The Typhoon was, much like the Mike class SSN, one of the efforts to modernize the Soviet Navy in the early 80s. The Delta-III missile subs were not any longer up to date to the American Ohio SSBNs and the hunterkillers of the Los Angeles 688 subs.



FAS.org: The Typhoon class SSBN