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[Rob322]

Leeuwarden Air Base is a current operating Royal Dutch Air Force base in the Friesland province of the Netherlands, located near the North Sea. It is located just outside the provincial capital of Leeuwarden and was initially constructed in 1938 for civilian uses. The invading Germans re-purposed it into a fighter base, flying BF-109's out of it for most of the war. In 1949, the Dutch turned into a military airfield of their own and by the late 1980's it was home to two fighter squadrons, No. 322 "Action, Not Words" Squadron and No. 323 Squadron, both flying 18 F-16A's (incidentally, the 322 squadron lived up to it's name as two of it's aircraft were the only allied planes to drop bombs on Serbian troops during the 1995 fall of Srebrenica).

Today only the 322nd remains at the base with 15 F-16's. It may be a candidate for the F-35 in the future. The Dutch have also stationed a 4 ship squadron of MQ-9 Reaper drones as of 2016.

As always, feedback is welcome. Ammo storage for this base is really guesswork on my part and I should note that the runways up to at least the early 1990's were shorter, with each one probably dropping one length category but since the base is still in operation I chose to add what exists now. Enjoy!

[Rob322]

Two more for now ...

Volkel Air Base: Volkel started out as a Luftwaffe base during the war. After an initial occupation by the RAF, the Dutch took over and have continued to operate here. In it's heyday, it had 3 squadrons, the 311th, 312th and 313th, flying F-104's and then F-16's. Volkel is also well known for housing American B-61 nuclear weapons that they made available to NATO allies under the controversial "nuclear sharing" policy. Today two F-16 squadrons remain and the F-35 is expected soon.

De Peel Air Base: De Peel was a diversionary air base constructed in 1954. It wasn't uncommon to find elements of other squadrons deployed here temporarily. The base and runways are still intact but these days it's the property of the Dutch Army who have various anti-aircraft batteries located here. Still, it seems the facilities from the Air Force days are essentially intact.

[Rob322]

Zwenthe Air Base started life as a civilian airfield in 1931 serving the nearby City of Enschede on the Dutch-German border. After the invasion of the Netherlands they converted the field into an airbase and after the war, the Royal Dutch Air Force took over, using it until 2007. Two squadrons were primarily based here, the 313th and 315th FIghter Bomber Squadrons, last equipped with F-16's.

[Rob322]

Gilze-Rijen AB: This is apparently the oldest airfield in the Netherlands, seeing the first flight around 1910 and the first military flight around 1913. During past years it was a major training base and then in the late 1960's became home to a fighter squadron of F-5's (later F-16's). The fighters left in 1995 and now it currently serves as home to the Dutch fleet of helicopters.

Eindhoven AB: A current NATO base that is also paired with a civilian airport. The cold war fighters are gone but now serves an important role in cargo units. The small facilities for fighters remain although I was frankly guessing at location of ammo and fuel.

[Rob322]

Woensdrecht AB: Woensdrecht AB is a long time training and transport air base that operates to this day In the 1980's NATO planned to base 48 Tomahawk GLCM's. The construction of the bunkers to house the TEL's was completed but the INF treaty stopped the deployment. I have included them for fun, including a notional marine security unit but if you'd rather delete them feel free.

Valkenburg NAB: A base of the Royal Dutch Navy from 1947-2006. The Dutch Navy flew P-3 patrols of the English Channel and North Sea from here. The plans are to replace this with housing and much of the airfield had to be guessed at.

[morphin]

Rob Do you have AB in ASIA region that are used by USA?

[morphin]

I have found in the import directory..

It seems that the items in the exporImport directory was last updated 2018 (and most are older). I suppose nobody is updating it anymore?

[Rob322]

They're updating it. They update Germany and Italy frequently enough but I've seen other updates happen here or there.

I don't have anything in Asia yet. I've done the US (SAC/TAC mostly plus other things) and am working on Europe. In fact plan to drop Belgium soon, very soon. [8D][:D]

[Rob322]

So here is Belgium ... 10 airbases, including the 5 operational bases during the late Cold War, a few reserve/dispersal fields (could've added 5-6 more), a transport base and a POMCUS site with associated airfield. Enjoy and next, on to France!

Beauvechain AB: Beauvechain AB is a current base flying the 1st Wing flying Helos. Between 1979-1996, the 1st Fighter Wing was here, flying 48 F-16's in two squadrons.

Chievres AB: Currently the main airfield for SHAPE HQ and also attached to the 86th Airlift Wing out of Ramstein AFB in Germany. Prior to this, it was home to the now disbanded 7th Fighter Wing of the Belgian Air Force. It is a current base with a heavy US presence. It could clearly accommodate at least a couple squadrons of warplanes in an emergency, although ammo is guessed at.

Florennes AB: Home to the 2nd Fighter Wing with F-16's. During the end of the Cold War, it also served as a base for 48 GLCM's. I have gone ahead and added this (as well as a notional company of US Marines) so if your scenario is from before or after their deployment you'll want to remove them.

Jehonville AB: A reserve/dispersal airbase in the Ardennes. While it has no permanent units attached it can accommodate a squadron if need be. There is an immense ammo field to the northeast, just off the edge of the runway oddly. I chose not to include this as I'm assuming it's not really meant for the airfield.

Kleine-Brogel AB: An airbase on the Dutch border, it is home to the 10th Fighter Wing, flying F-16's and reputedly home to at least 20 B-61 nuclear weapons shared with the US.

Liege AB: A civilian airport, in the late 1980's it was home to the 3rd fighter wing, flying 36 Mirage V's and 22 recon versions. Also known as Bierset AB or Bierset-Liege AB.

St. Truiden AB: St. Truiden (or Sint-Truiden) AB is a former Belgian airbase, closing in the 1990's and transitioning to civilian use. In the late 1980's it was a training base flying 32 Alphajets of the 9th Fighter Wing in the training/attack role.

Ursel AB: A field in Western Belgium, it served as a dispersal airfield with minimal facilities. It can accommodate a few planes but is a small base.

Weelde AB: A reserve airbase, stores numerous retired aircraft such as older F-16's.

Zutendaal AB: A reserve airbase in the far east of Belgium, it also appears to be a former POMCUS site. According to Any Johnson's OOB, the US 1st Cavalry Division was supposed to draw it's equipment from here. Today it still serves in a similar roll.

Fun facts about Belgian Air Base. It was pretty common to let civilians use the airfields as well, mainly on the weekends (more frequently for the reserve airfields). I only mention this as it might make a battle involving Belgian airbases more interesting should you choose to include them.

[Rob322]

Moving on to France ...

Cazaux Air Base: Currently in existence, Cazaux is a major training command with 3 squadrons of Alphajets. Also home to No 150 Squadron of the SIngapore Air Force who trains here.

Cambrai Air Base: A large facility in Northern France that closed in 2012. Prior to that had been a fighter base, flying Mirage F-1's late in the Cold War.

Colmar Air Base: A frontline base near the Rhine, Colmar was built during the early Cold War to improve NATO's air defense capabilities. She cycled through several aircraft, from F-86's, Mirage III's/V's and then Mirage F-1's. The air force left in 2010 and it is now home to a Mechanized Infantry Unit, the "Régiment de marche du Tchad" (the ad-hoc regiment of Chad), a component of the French 2nd Armored Brigade.

[Rob322]

Strasbourg AB: Strasbourg was home to a recon wing for years, converting during the 1980's from the Mirage III to the F-1CR. In 1992 the base closed and is now the main airport for Strasbourg.

Reims AB: An old base dating back to the 1920's, it has an interesting story, including serving as Eisenhower's HQ in 1945. A fighter base with Mirage F-1's, it closed in 2012.

Luxeuil AB: An active base, seems to store a decent quantity of nukes. Currently home to a Mirage 2000 squadron.

Évreux-Fauville AB: This is a large base to the west of Paris and has served primarily for transports. When the USAF was here they had a couple of Transport Wings here and the French have continued that, with both transports but also electronic and recon squadrons based here.

Toul AB: Toul began as an American base. After France asked foreign NATO forces to leave their territory, the French Air Force took over and housed a wing of Jaguar attack planes (72 a/c in 4 squadrons).

[Rob322]

With this, I think I'm done with France. I think I'm going to look at some bases in the former East Germany next ...

Metz AB: A forward airbase near the French city of Metz, it had a long history, actually starting in WW1 when this was officially German territory. It's changed hands a few times but by the late 20th Century the base was being used by the French as a base for ELINT squadrons and command and control. There's room to accommodate at least a squadron or two of aircraft.

Mont-de-Marsan AB: A base in the SW of France. Currently flies two squadrons of Rafale and one of Mirage 2000 in Escarde de Chasse 30. Prior to this it was home to a couple Mirage IV nuclear bomber squadrons.

I found the French bases interesting. There was a good deal of uniformity. For example many front line bases had 2400m runways and their penchant for dispersing their planes in "kidney" shaped dispersal groupings (with 2-5 per airfield) was visually interesting and made for smooth creating. Indeed some bases were so similar one could almost serve as a template for another. I'm curious and excited for what I might find east of the Iron Curtain.

[Rob322]

Okay, I was wrong, I wasn't done with France, two more.

Centres de Détection et de Contrôle: This collection of radars and bunkers serve as the Air Defense system for France. The bunkers at Lyon - Mont Verdun AB also serve as a nuclear retreat command post. I've simply guessed at both security and structures as very scant information is available, as you'd expect.

Tours Val de Loire: One of the radar sites in the above group is located at this airfield, a joint civil/military airport. Still, I discovered it holds 40-60 Alphajets and Mirages and so couldn't pass it up.

[Gunner98]

Hay guys - does anyone have an AD laydown for Soviet/Russian Far East air defences? SAMs & Radars somewhere post 1985 but before they were dismantled with the fall of the USSR.

There is a lot of raw data here: http://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/11oapvo.htm but I suspect that someone might have done some work on this already.

Thanks

[Rob322]

Greetings Comrades, so I have added numerous bases for the decadent, capitalist west over the past year but now it is time for the bases that will serve in the vanguard for the defense of the People's revolution! [:D]

My first installment consists of two airbases of the Luftstreitkräfte der Nationalen Volksarmee (LSK), which translates to Air Forces of the National People's Army for East Germany. These two bases are also associated as both were under JG-1 or Jagdfliegergeschwader 1 "Fritz Schmenkel". JG-1 was the oldest continuously flying fighter wing of the LSK, serving from 1952 to right after unification and flying MIG-21's. JG-1 was part of the 1st Air Defense Division headquartered at Cottbus.

Holzdorf Airbase: Holzdorf is a bit of a rarity, it was not a former Luftwaffe base but instead built from scratch during the 1970's. Initially the LSK planned to build it as a reserve base but decided during construction to make it an active duty fighter base. This change and other issues delayed it's opening until 1980. When it opened, it was quite modern, including numerous hardened aircraft shelters for it's aircraft. After reunification, the German military kept the base, perhaps as it was still quite new, and ultimately handed it over to the Bundeswehr.

Alteno Airfield: Alteno by contrast was a long standing base, being built in the 1930's and basing fighters (BF-109's and then FW-190's) during WW2. After the war, it served as a reserve field, only gaining a paved runway in the early 1970's. It became associated with JG-1 at some point, serving as a "decentralization airfield" (wartime dispersal) and could probably accommodate at most one squadron (16-18 A/C) of Mig-21's here.

Sources:
1. http://home.snafu.de/veith/jg1.htm
2. http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/germy-e ... _orbat.htm
3. https://www.mil-airfields.de/germany/na ... bases.html
4. https://www.forgottenairfields.com/glob ... urope.html

It was common to name units after socialist heroes and here is a small bio copied from the links above.

Fritz Schmenkel
* February 14th, 1916
†February 22nd, 1944
Fritz Schmenkel, a German anti-fascist, was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1938 and sentenced by a court martial in 1940 to eighteen months in prison. In November 1941, Gefreite Schmenkel (1st Artillery Regiment of the 186th Infantry Division, 4th Army Group Center) ran over to the Soviet partisans in Vyazma and took part in the Belarusian partisan movement (Association "Death to Fascism", Chief of Staff Pyotr Filippov) in Smolensk region took part in the fight against Hitler's Germany. While attempting to parachute behind the lines, he fell into German captivity in the winter of 1943/44, was sentenced to death by a court martial in Minsk on February 15, 1944 and shot. Fritz Schmenkel was posthumously honored as "Hero of the Soviet Union" on October 6, 1964.

[Rob322]

So let's do a little more! I got inspired by this amazing website (http://www.ww2.dk/new/newindex.htm) posted by Gunner98, thanks again) and so here is the 6th Kurilskaya Air Defence Division, a component of the 11th independent Red Banner Air Defence Army (which covered much of the Soviet Far East), which was responsible for the air defenses for Sakhalin Island as well as the environs of Petropavlovsk. Some of the airbases this unit had components at are already in the game and are not in the ZIP file (I note below if the file is in stock). The division components and bases circa 1990 are as follows:

41st Fighter Aviation Regiment: This regiment was assigned to Burevestnik Airbase on Iturup Island in the Kuriles. The base exists in the game already. It flew a wide variety of aircraft, the last model being MIG-23's beginning in 1979 until it's disbandment in 1994.

528th Fighter Aviation Regiment: Based at Smirnykh Airbase in the middle of Sakhalin Island. This based closed in the 1990's and was not included in the game, so it's below in the Zip file. Details are sparse and the remains of the base have weathered over nearly 30 years so this is an estimate. They were also flying MIG-23ML's from 1981-1994 and YAK-28P's well before that.

777th Fighter Aviation Regiment: This regiment is notorious for having one of it's aircraft shoot down KAL007 in 1983. Based at Sokol-Dolinsk Airbase (included in the game) this regiment was flying a variety aircraft with significant overlap. It had the SU-15 from 1970-1985, the MIG-23ML from 1983-1986 and the MIG-31 from 1985-1997, when the regiment disbanded.

865th order of Labour Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment: This regiment is based at Yelizovo Airbase (also in the game) just NW of Petropavlovsk and still exists today. It flew SU-15's from 1974 to 1985 when they traded up to MIG-31 interceptors, which the unit still flies today.

328th independent Transport Aviation Squadron: No data exists about this squadron aside from it being based out of Sokol-Dolinsk). I include it here for scenario designers who might want to add transports to a Far East battle.

191st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade: A large SAM unit guarding Petropavlovsk, it was equipped with a variety of weapons, including SA-2's, -3's, -5's and the SA-10 beginning in 1989. That's when I built this unit out for, as the next year the SA-2's began to decommission, followed by the SA-3's in 1994 and SA-5's in 1998.

140th Red Banner Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment: This regiment was based in the central portion of Sakhalin Island from 1960-1992.

752nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment: Another SA-2 regiment on Sakhalin Island, standing up in 1960, in 1993, it disbanded it's four SA-2 battalions and replaced them with two SA-10 battalions. The regiment disbanded completely in 1998.

891st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment: The third SAM regiment on Sakhalin, it had three SAM battalions on the northern part of the island equipped with SA-2's from 1960-1992.

To make matters more complex, in 1990, the 6th Division absorbed elements of the 72nd Air Defense Corps and was renamed as such, but reverted back to it's original name in 1994.

There's plenty more out there and I've found little about independent radars but I thought this was a good place to start. As always, feedback is welcome!

[Gunner98]

Thank you Rob

This is great stuff. The Ftr Regts match up exactly to my Northern Fury research. I've got both the 41st & 528th IAPs flying Mig-23 MLs (very few MLDs in the east). While both the 777th and 865th are flying MiG-31s, the 777th has the 'M/SM' or 'B' version. My campaign has a lot more of them then there were historically.

The SAM locations are great, thank you. Will take anything you have as I build out Pacific Fury. [8D]

[Rob322]

You're welcome, happy to help! [8D]

Any chance you need anything around Vladivostok?

[Rob322]

Okay, I looked at the "Radio-Technical" regiments that were associated with the 6th Air Defense Division. I've placed radars at each location (4 of 5 regiments have coordinates for each bttn/company) but I have no info on equipment. So, I looked at the Kola 1985 file that came with Command and noticed that most sites consisted of a "Spoon Rest" and a "Thin Skin" radar. That seemed good enough so I more or less copied it. If anyone has anything more precise please share and I'll make amendments. Here are the regiments:

1. 38th Radio-Technical Regiment: A radar regiment covering northern and central Sakhalin Island.
2. 39th Radio-Technical Regiment: This regiment covers southern Sakhalin. It also is the one regiment with no coordinates for it's radar sites so I tried to make some educated guesses.
3. 60th Radio-Technical Regiment: This regiment covers the port of Petropavlovsk and the southern to central part of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
4. 124th Radio-Technical Regiment: This covers central to northern Kamchatka.
5. 125th Radio-Technical Regiment: This regiment is scattered up and down the Kurile Island Chain.

[Gunner98]

Any chance you need anything around Vladivostok?

There is a lot around Vladivostok! That would be great, thanks.