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RAN Sea Harrier (fictional) MOD

This mod adds the Royal Australian Navy's Sea Harrier to Sea Power.

The British Aerospace RAN Sea Harrier is a naval short take-off and vertical take-off and landing jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft operated by 805 Squadron of the Royal Australian Navy onboard HMAS Australia (former HMS Invincible) bought from the UK in 1982.

In 1981 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Secretary of State for Defence, John Nott, decided extensive cuts to the Royal Navy's surface fleet, including the sale of the new aircraft carrier HMS Invincible to Australia. In February 1982, the Australian government agreed to buy Invincible for £175 million as a replacement, under the name HMAS Australia, for the Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Melbourne (R21).

But in the meantime, on 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland/Malvinas Islands and the deal with Australia was cancelled.
But, what if the Australians has bought HMS Invincible earlier? What if the Argentine junta had postponed the invasion by a few months?

The RAN would have been able to operate the HMS Invincible as HMAS Australia and would probably have bought Sea Harriers, as a replacement for the aging A-4s, after the decommissioning of HMAS Melbourne.

This mods features the RAN Sea Harrier (the equivalent of the RN Sea Harrier FRS1 equipped with the Blue Fox radar).
It comes with two liveries:

-High Viz livery (circa 1982), inspired by the livery of the RAN's A-4s onboard HMAS Melbourne.
-Low Viz livery (circa 1987) armed with Sea Eagle air-to-surface missiles.

Notes:

Note to modders:
Please feel free to add the RAN Sea Harrier onboard your Australian carriers. Just give me credit for the mod;)
The 1982 RAN Sea Harrier is called: ran_seaharrier
The 1987 RAN Sea Harrier is called: ran_seaharrier2

If you publish a scenario using this mod, do not forget to indicate in your description, that in order it works, the players need to subscribe to this mod first ;).

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Important (about mods and mods use):
This mod has been tested and is running perfectly on my computer (i7-11800H @ 2.30 Ghz - 16 GB RAM - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050) with no other mod enabled. However, since they are as many computer configurations than computer users, it's unfortunately impossible to guarantee it will work on yours.
Be aware that by installing mods for Sea Power, you are modifying your game experience from the original intended product which is (at the time of publication of this mod) still in EARLY ACCESS. Therefore, later game updates/patches may cause this mod to be deprecated. Although it is very unlikely, the presence of other enabled mods might cause conflicts, and the more enable mods on your computer, the greater the chance of conflict. So, to sum it up, USE MODS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
If you wish to clean uninstal this mod make sure to follow these steps: 1) Uncheck this mod in the mod manager. 2) Click on Accept. 3) Unsubscribe. Then make sure the mod's file is no longer in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\1286220 folder.