DATABASE: GEAR 1 Air Force Primary Aircraft (Fighters)

Operating in the Air Superiority Role, the Air Force (and Naval Aviation) fly the F35A (GEAR 1 Variant) Joint Strike Fighter.

Assigned to the Air Defense Forces and Air Reserves, the F-4D (F) and F-4E (F) fusion drive fighters cover the homeland from scattered fighter bases across GEAR 1.

More ASTRO examples...

You should try drawing camo instead of using images from the internet.

It makes it look godawful.

Those are awesome trucks... had to download them. I am sure they will find an excellent place at my game table. Good Job!

OK - Military themed stuff...

I don't subscribe to the JG way of doing figures. I'd rather do a pose and combine all the uniform variations in use over at GEAR 1. Of course, once I do that, I share the master so other folks can enjoy it too.

I've added one of my fictional technical pubs issued by the GEAR 1 armed forces concerning the NLOS (Non-Line of Sight) containerized vertical missile launcher "NETFIRES". Why this concept didn't take off in real life astounds me. I can imagine dropping a shipping container in the middle of Indian Country and watching all the baddies run around in circles as missiles come from "out of nowhere" and blow up their stuff.

And for some sh!ts and giggles... I drew the iconic A-Team van on a request after drawing the Ford Gran Torino from Starsky and Hutch. The van wouldn't be complete without the A-Team to go with it. (I blew out too many attempts at depicting all of BA's gold - had to simplify.)

One of the Astro variants designed for small industries, intermodal terminals and trucking yards was the Astra Yard Tow. Shorter than the standard Astro tractor, the Yard Tow can maneuver in tight spaces and is used to move equipment short distances within port terminals. They also spot container chassis pierside for container ship cranes and thence to dispatch where over the road tractors take over.

The Yard Tow is also built as a Hi-Railer, capable of driving on the road with a trailer, or with its small bogeys extended, it can move railway cars on small sidings where the cost of a heavy switcher is prohibitive.

One of GEAR 1's most successful private rail services companies, IGTCo./RAILPOOL, operates a small fleet of Hi-Railers which are contracted out to small industrial sidings and large ports alike, allowing businesses to move their freight without large overheads. The Hi-Railers can provide emergency power to reefer trailers or reefer railcars while being spotted, to protect the value of perishable cargoes.

I have included the RAILPOOL Class 70 PPS Railway Switcher. A PPS (Power, Pump & Service) switcher has an auxiliary generator and pumping equipment to help service passenger cars in railyards, provide temporary power, and spot consists of railcars in small yards and sidings where equipment service is limited. Class 70 PPS switchers with their microfusion powerplants have also been used to give emergency electricity to warehouses when municipal supply is disrupted, and RAILPOOL often donates PPS units to power affected residential neighborhoods during storms, as long as they can reach a siding and run cabling to the power grid.

MTSX - Military Transportation Service

A Federation Unified Command, the MTS handles all military movement of troops, equipment and supplies.

Some of the vehicles are not my own, but are loaded as cargo on my flatcars and rail equipment. The standard military locomotive is a 4,000 horsepower General Service-40. However, the MTSX also contracts the larger GS-70 7,000 horsepower loco, HHF-1 10,000 horsepower unit, and HHP-2 streamlined 10,000 horsepower unit, owned by mainline civilian railroads.