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VF-33 "Starfighters" livery for HeatBlur F-14B Tomcat, BuNo 160395

VF-33 "Starfighters livery for HeatBlur F-14B Tomcat, BuNo 156428

FICTIONAL SKIN OF THE VF-33 HORNET.
TO INSTALL, EXTRACT FOLDER AND ADD TO :
\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World 2.5.0\CoreMods\aircraft\FA-18C\Liveries\FA-18C_hornet

In late March 1986, VF-33 was aboard USS America (CV-66) when she crossed Gaddafi's "Line of Death" into the Gulf of Sidra. Libyan SA-5 surface-to-air missiles were unsuccessfully fired at Tomcats from the Starfighters' sister squadron (VF-102) beginning a battle designated as Operation Prairie Fire by the US military. A pair of VF-33's F-14s engaged in a dogfight with Libyan MiG-25 "Foxbats" and outmaneuvered them, and while they had met rules of engagement and acquired Sidewinder tone, they failed to receive authorization to fire in time and the MiGs slipped away. By the end of the battle, Libya had lost a corvette, a fast attack craft, and multiple SAM sites along with a second corvette and missile boat being heavily damaged. No damage or casualties were reported by the US Navy. This F-14, a Block 75 designated TARBOX 210, was flown during the engagement

VF-33 was originally known as the Tarsiers, then the Astronauts for a short time, then Tarsiers again, and the squadron ended its life as the Starfighters. They flew a diverse range of aircraft, from the F4U Corsair to the F-14A Tomcat. The squadron was disestablished in 1993
Prior to the F-14 and during the Vietnam War, their aircraft was the F-4 Phantom, and their 1972 scheme is probably my favorite ever applied to the F-4.
For the VSN F-4, install to the F-4B folder

VF-33 1991 post Desert Storm:
AB200 - The CAG bird; this livery was made upon the arrival of the new CO just after Desert Storm. This livery was kept all the way up until retirement in 1993.
AB203 - 'Christine'. This aircraft was the first F-14 to pass 5,000 flight hours. In 1991 it went to TOPGUN, and experienced an inflight emergency due to the ECS. It spent the whole weekend being fixed up, with the maintainers painting the name 'Christine' on the nose. It turned out to be a morale booster and it was retained for a few weeks.
AB207 - I painted this with a lot more weathering on it, to represent an old and tired jet.
AB211 - This aircraft had the longest relationship with USS America.

Includes custom roughmets, unique TF30s, and my velocity vector mod in cockpit.

The four  liveries are larger than the 300MB lim it, and you'll need to download from my google drive here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D9xMWneELt7Lo1RiAb0zryM1imVyda6X?usp=sharing