That’s exactly what i was thinking…seriously…who else has the ten thousand boat theory? Notice it said small attack boats, not simply speed boats…very different.

All those houseboat based threats better watch out!!! :diablo: Seriuosly, it the USN and all they have for a target is a houseboat????

Is that pic after a ferry flight from the US? still has US insignia….

I think this whole scenario is a bit naive when it comes to northern Europe. You can’t seriously expect that WP would leave their northern borders more or less without defence. Eventhough Sweden and Finland were neutral that doesn’t mean they would act plain stupid. If WP makes a push through central Europe, they would be next in line. So maybe they would hop in on Nato side, maybe they would wait – but the major issue for a Soviet strategian here would be that you don’t know for sure!

Therefore, Soviet would need to deploy nearly the same amount of fighters in that area as well to secure their borders. Since SweAF was the worlds 4th largest airforce just 10-15 years earlier that would be a considerable amount of fighters…

regards,
Cliff

Tried to say this earlier… no one was listening 🙁 suprise

I am a little uneasy joining this thread, I know where it is heading, but as I am working on research concerning the Swedish Flygvapnet I dont think we can discount Swedish cooperation with NATO, especially if the Soviets are messing with Norway or the Baltic. Please refer to these articles for more information…

‘The Uneasy Imbrication of Nation-State and NATO. The Case of Sweden’ by Ola Tunander and ‘Sveriges relationer till NATO’ by the same author.

So we can probably include seven squadrons of Viggens, fighter and ground attack, in this equation.

No i was referring to the TSR-2 (Not sure how you dont see the resemblence)… but it does resemble the Arrow as well…

What about the F-110, they built thousands of them.

Doesnt really count if you are going to call them F-4’s!!!