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googynoober (commission)
© Naomi Novik (original world setting)
Third commission for googynoober
Another '900 years setting for dragons warfare in Temeraire world.
Other arts include:
Soviet Dragon in WW2 kooskia.deviantart.com/art/Sov…
British Dragon in WW2 kooskia.deviantart.com/art/Bri…
Despite the fact that a number of nations were forced to use dragons again during the WW2, western military powers were convinced that the golden years for dragons in warfare were ended and that modern technology prevailed on the battlefield.
During the Korean War, has having done by multiple nations in the previous world conflict, dragons were still used for second-frontline operations including transport and carrying of personals.
It was a great surprise for the UN Military Command to start watching in the second phase of the war a number of unexpected dragons offensive actions: under direct development of Kim Il Sung, North Korean forces adapted light-weight dragons for an unique frontline use.
Small light-weight dragons and their captains were hardly trained in guerrilla warfare tactics during the cold months during the counter-offensive lead by the Chinese Volunteer Army, and as the seasons grown warmer a number of violent raids were carried into the UN and American airfields in South Korea.
Light-Weight dragons and their crew were trained to remain deeply inside enemy territory, carrying on nightly fast raids into enemy airfields in cooperations with old but effective Polikarpov Po-2 aircrafts.
American defenses went mad trying to track back the Polikarpovs because such slow aircrafts could not be targeted by faster and modern aircrafts and radar had low tracks of them.
Likewise, Korean light-weight dragons were trained to infiltrate: damage a single aircraft (aiming at the technical equipment and the nose of the plane) and quickly retreat in the nearby hills, alternating their attacks with the Polikarpovs raids.
Reactions of the defenses were frustrated by the speed of the attacks and only when the American forces realized that the only way to counter dragons in such operations, was deploying other dragons for night patrols, that the losses of planes and the stress suffered by pilots and ground staff, began to decrease.
Comments and opinions are extremely welcome ^^
©
googynoober (commission)© Naomi Novik (original world setting)
Third commission for
googynooberAnother '900 years setting for dragons warfare in Temeraire world.
Other arts include:
Soviet Dragon in WW2 kooskia.deviantart.com/art/Sov…
British Dragon in WW2 kooskia.deviantart.com/art/Bri…
Despite the fact that a number of nations were forced to use dragons again during the WW2, western military powers were convinced that the golden years for dragons in warfare were ended and that modern technology prevailed on the battlefield.
During the Korean War, has having done by multiple nations in the previous world conflict, dragons were still used for second-frontline operations including transport and carrying of personals.
It was a great surprise for the UN Military Command to start watching in the second phase of the war a number of unexpected dragons offensive actions: under direct development of Kim Il Sung, North Korean forces adapted light-weight dragons for an unique frontline use.
Small light-weight dragons and their captains were hardly trained in guerrilla warfare tactics during the cold months during the counter-offensive lead by the Chinese Volunteer Army, and as the seasons grown warmer a number of violent raids were carried into the UN and American airfields in South Korea.
Light-Weight dragons and their crew were trained to remain deeply inside enemy territory, carrying on nightly fast raids into enemy airfields in cooperations with old but effective Polikarpov Po-2 aircrafts.
American defenses went mad trying to track back the Polikarpovs because such slow aircrafts could not be targeted by faster and modern aircrafts and radar had low tracks of them.
Likewise, Korean light-weight dragons were trained to infiltrate: damage a single aircraft (aiming at the technical equipment and the nose of the plane) and quickly retreat in the nearby hills, alternating their attacks with the Polikarpovs raids.
Reactions of the defenses were frustrated by the speed of the attacks and only when the American forces realized that the only way to counter dragons in such operations, was deploying other dragons for night patrols, that the losses of planes and the stress suffered by pilots and ground staff, began to decrease.
Comments and opinions are extremely welcome ^^
Category All / Fantasy
Species Western Dragon
Size 800 x 520px
File Size 141.3 kB
Well... dragons for sure not xD
But the tactic of using biplanes for night raids come directly from old-WW2 soviet style school.
(if I recall correctly one raid on a F-86 Sabres airfield was particularly successful, but the best strike was against a large depot oil, while when a US F-94 (advanced jet at the time) tried to intercept a Po-2, the biplane just was flying so slow that the american fighter crashed while attempting to slow-down to catch it up (maneuver kill)).
And MAY be expected to surface again for a future-possible-let's-hope-not conflict with north korea.
But the tactic of using biplanes for night raids come directly from old-WW2 soviet style school.
(if I recall correctly one raid on a F-86 Sabres airfield was particularly successful, but the best strike was against a large depot oil, while when a US F-94 (advanced jet at the time) tried to intercept a Po-2, the biplane just was flying so slow that the american fighter crashed while attempting to slow-down to catch it up (maneuver kill)).
And MAY be expected to surface again for a future-possible-let's-hope-not conflict with north korea.
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