Alliance Short Range Enforcement Vessel

POSTED BY: Rex
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 01:32
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REX

Friday, November 18, 2005 3:28 AM

Does any one out in the verse have a pic, jpeg, or even a drawing of a Alliance Short Range Enforcement Vessel. i know it is from the tv epsoide " message".

KWICKO

Friday, November 18, 2005 6:05 AM

No help with a pic, but you can also catch a glimpse of one of them taking off (Harrier JumpJet-style, vertically) in the "Serenity" 2-hour pilot (not the movie) on the DVD set. It's when they're in port at Persephone, headed back to the ship; you see it rising behind some Blue Sun shipping containers, if memory serves.

The reason those craft stuck out so much to me is because they're heavily based on the Grumman A6-E Intruder that the US Navy relied heavily on in Viet Nam. The entire front portion of the craft is pure Intruder, but they've changed other parts of it for the show (twin tails, different wings, VTOL capability, etc.).

Check out the Intruder at:

[url] http://www.danshistory.com/a6.html]

Also, the "ambulance" that the crew built for their big hospital heist was made out of a Russian MiL Mi-24 "Hind" (NATO code name) attack helicopter. :)

[url] http://www.heliport.de/helifiles/hind.html[/url]

Sorry, I used to be a freak for warplanes and model building as a kid, and some of that just sticks with you...

Mike

Grrrrr. Arrrgghh.

REX

Saturday, November 19, 2005 11:33 PM

Thank you for your responce, and I will keep looking and you are so right on the ref.

KWICKO

Monday, November 21, 2005 2:00 PM

I looked around on Google Images under several different search criteria, but couldn't find anything helpful. I watched "The Message" again last night, and slowed it down to frame-by-frame whenever it showed the Alliance craft... after some closer looks, I'd have to say I was nuts for mentioning the A6 Intruder. The ship in the pilot episode that you see in the background might be Intruder-based, but the Short-Range craft in The Message looks more and more to be based on a Russian MiG-29 or Sukhoi Su-27 - at least the forward part of the fuselage and the wing root area.

It *would* make a pretty cool model, I have to say.

Mike

Grrrrr. Arrrgghh.

GEEKMAFIA

Monday, November 21, 2005 5:36 PM

I may be able to halp you through the wonder of still-flying.net

[Edit: linking to it didn't work so here's the adress of where you find the first of the pictures (the space flight one second from bottom three in from the right.): http://still-flying.net/images/themessage/index.php?page=8 the others are on the next couple of pages.]

Hope it helped (and sorry for screwing it up).

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Liu koushui de biaozi he houzi de ben erzi.

REX

Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:32 AM

I found one on the waves on the black site under ships line thanks for all the help.it looks like a few different planes slaped together with some weird looking back tail.