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United States Navy F16-N from Naval Fighyter Weapons School at N.A.S. Miramar

Very Unusual pattern on this F-16. that was at some point used as an adversary fighter. It Is BuNo Number 163269. Painted with Navy titles on port fuselage, Marines titles on starboard. Circa 1985

A fictional Australian aircraft carrier based on the Forrestal,
this is a Livery file and does NOT require modifying the main DCS folder.

It is a basic livery for the Forrestal, brightening lots of the deck markings, changing the Island to gray, and adding some Canadian touches to the Default Heatblur USS Forrestal.

In an alternate world under a lease agreement with the US Navy, Canada would once again have an aircraft carrier. With a strained budget, a single Forrestal-Class aircraft carrier was chosen. Not long after, the vessel was commissioned into the Canadian Armed Forces as HMCS Forrestal (CV-59).

Operation Longsword is inspired by the events of the 1983 evacuation of the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

The player will fly CAP in his F-14A Tomcat off the coast of Lebanon and ensure that the evacuation helicopters get in and out of Lebanon safely.
The mission provides an own AWACS, callsign Wizard who will provide all mission relevant data to the player.
Mission uses a lot of randomizations, so the experience will be different when flying the mission a second, third or even fourth time.

For a better immersion of the set time frame, the mission uses Heatblur's Forrestal carrier.

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 (VMFA-314) is a United States Marine Corps F-35C Lightning II squadron. The squadron, known as the "Black Knights", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California and falls under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 11 (MAG-11) and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3d MAW), but deploys with the US Navy's Carrier Air Wing Nine (NG).

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth R01. Due to some inaccuracies pointed out to me, I have completely redone all three liveries and updated them to a new standard, and added in three new bonus liveries depicting them later in their lives.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Prince of Wales R03.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Duke of Edinburgh R02.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth R01.