{"data":{"id":14315,"title":"Portfolio: 36th Fighter Squadron","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/14315-Portfolio-36th-Fighter-Squadron","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/14315","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/14315","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"id":2613,"name":"36th-Patch_v1.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/dy1xtle1gn7tnr\/source\/36th-Patch_v1.jpg","alt":"","size":775712,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-11-20T20:23:56+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2613","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2613\/similar"},{"id":2614,"name":"Current_03.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/22utw1v1ijo21r\/source\/Current_03.jpg","alt":"","size":121804,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-11-20T20:24:09+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2614","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2614\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"The 36th Fighter Squadron is the United Empire of Earth\u2019s premiere active-duty Gladius unit. First bloodied against the Tevarin, the 36th has seen action in every significant Human conflict in the past three hundred years.\n\nFallen Olympus\nThe 36th has its origin in one of the most embarrassing military disasters in Earth history. In 2571, the battle carrier UEES Olympus pursued a band of pirates and rebels home to their hiding place in the undeveloped Nul system. The carrier\u2019s complement vastly outmatched their foe, but the admiral in charge wanted in on the kill personally. He ordered the Olympus into a pass that was too close to the system\u2019s fifth planet, Ashana. The Olympus was caught in the planet\u2019s gravity, impacted on the world\u2019s surface and lost with only a few survivors.\n\nThose survivors included the carrier\u2019s Combat Air Patrol: four Stiletto interceptors, the immediate predecessor to the Gladius, belonging to the carrier\u2019s defensive complement, plus two others who managed a scrambled launch as the ship went down. Taking quick advantage of their unbelievable shift in fortune, the rebel forces rallied to eliminate the remaining ships and lifeboats. The battle that followed was spectacular: the six light fighters were able to hold off their attackers for almost an hour, scoring an astounding 37 confirmed space-to-space kills, including a pocket destroyer, with only their surviving energy weapons.\n\nAll six UEEN fighters were ultimately eliminated, as were all who escaped the initial crash, but the black box recorder belonging to Lt. JG Jasmine Tuttle was ultimately recovered by an enterprising pirate and sold to her family on Earth. Seeing an opportunity to cover the embarrassing and costly loss of the Olympus, Naval High Command\u2019s propaganda machine broadcast the recording and made martyrs of the fighter pilots. The result was a series of patriotic advertisements about doing your duty, a melodramatic government-sponsored holovid (Star Heroes) featuring an array of D-list actors as stereotypical fighter pilots and the establishment of the 36th Fighter Squadron in honor of the pilots who fought the last stand at Nul.\n\nTevarin Wars\nThe 36th Fighter Squadron formally came online on January 1st, 2579, equipped with the first production run of Gladius fighters. Fast and maneuverable but carrying a light weapons load, the Gladius was the UEEN\u2019s first choice for interception duties. Prior to the unit\u2019s establishment, patrol units were generally considered second-class citizens. Taking a back seat to better-equipped \u2018jack of all trades\u2019 units, these squadrons were generally assigned draftees and OCS pilots rather than academy graduates and volunteers. The first charge to the 36th was changing this standard, by grouping the best-of-the-best interceptor veterans to train the patrol elements of other squadrons.\n\nThat charge changed drastically with the start of the second Tevarin War in 2603. Within hours of the formal declaration of hostilities, the wing had received orders to the front. Quickly transitioning to an active combat role, 36 FS found itself dispersed among four escort carriers charged with providing cover for Messer\u2019s main battle force. Despite early Tevarin successes against Human capital ships, none of the warships assigned Gladius coverage from the 36th suffered a single torpedo strike during the full course of the seven year war.\n\nAgainst the Vanduul\nWith combat success under their belts, the squadron never resumed their training role. Since the rise in Vanduul attacks, the 36th has found itself cycling through assignments on the frontier regularly. It was a 36 FS Gladius element commander, Captain Jordan \u201cToothpick\u201d Hamton, who first developed the three-fighter \u2018carry and leap\u2019 technique for countering the more muscular Vanduul Scythe, and it was a 36 FS replacement pilot who first noticed the slight infrared scanner irregularity that allowed UEE pilots to target early Scythes hidden in asteroid fields.\n\nWhile high-powered Hornets can steam roll through Scythe squadrons today, this was not the case in the early days of the conflict. For roughly the first decade of Vanduul raids, destroying or disabling a Scythe took both extreme maneuvering and a high degree of communication among wingmen. The first was a specialty of the Gladius\u2019 design, and the second something well ingrained in the highly trained men and women of the 36th.\nThe squadron\u2019s most celebrated (known) action against the Vanduul took place relatively recently, on August 3, 2940. A force of twelve Gladius fighters was ordered to provide close escort for a civilian Hull C transport ferrying survivors from a recent Vanduul strike. During the course of the planned escort run, the group improbably wandered into the largely undefended rear of a Vanduul supply fleet. By managing fire control through the Hull C and operating as a cohesive unit, the lightly armed force of Gladius was able to quickly eliminate nine fully laden Mule transports and their light escort screen. The incident, coming on the heels of several disastrous Vanduul raids, was played up heavily in the media.\n\nThe Future\nElements of the 36th Fighter Squadron are presently forward deployed aboard the UEES Sebek. Little information is available about their current missions against the Vanduul, although the consistency with which 36th FS pilots appear in weekly casualty lists indicates that battle is joined frequently. The wing has also been essential in anti-piracy operations, with a number of these operations better known. (An oft-reproduced photo shows the nose of a Gladius bearing the patch of the 36th and two dozen Drake Cutlass outlines.)\n\nDespite the military\u2019s highly-publicized \u201cBattle Ready\u201d campaign to revitalize older spaceframes, observers are unanimous in believing that the ship has less than a decade of active service remaining. The final Gladius \u2018service pack\u2019 was issued eight months ago, improving weapons systems and control surfaces, and no additional upgrades have been contracted. With the Gladius being increasingly assigned to reserve wings, guard units and home defense squadrons, the era of these acrobatic light fighters serving as the tip of the sword is coming to an end.\n\nHigh-level scuttlebutt suggests that the 36th may be one of the first elite units to transition to the F8A Lightning heavy fighter. It\u2019s a prospect the squadron\u2019s pilots aren\u2019t exactly happy about: after generations of proving that a great deal can be accomplished with the simplicity of a light fighter, few are eager to adopt the most complex piece of military equipment in Human history","de_DE":"Die 36th Fighter Squadron ist die erste aktive Gladius-Einheit des Vereinigten Imperiums der Erde. Der 36. wurde zum ersten Mal gegen die Tevarin gerichtet und hat in den letzten dreihundert Jahren in jedem bedeutenden menschlichen Konflikt gehandelt.\n\nGefallener Olymp\nDer 36. hat seinen Ursprung in einer der peinlichsten Milit\u00e4rkatastrophen der Erdgeschichte. Im Jahr 2571 verfolgte der Kampfschiff UEES Olympus eine Gruppe von Piraten und Rebellen, die ihr Versteck im unerschlossenen Nul-System fanden. Die Besatzung des Tr\u00e4gers \u00fcbertraf ihren Gegner bei weitem, aber der verantwortliche Admiral wollte pers\u00f6nlich bei der T\u00f6tung dabei sein. Er befahl den Olymp in einen Pass, der zu nah am f\u00fcnften Planeten des Systems, Ashana, lag. Der Olympus wurde in der Schwerkraft des Planeten gefangen, traf auf die Oberfl\u00e4che der Welt und verlor mit nur wenigen \u00dcberlebenden.\n\nZu den \u00dcberlebenden geh\u00f6rte die Kampfpatrouille der Fluggesellschaft: vier Stiletto-Abfangj\u00e4ger, der unmittelbare Vorg\u00e4nger der Gladius, der zur Verteidigungsbesatzung der Fluggesellschaft geh\u00f6rt, sowie zwei weitere, die einen verschl\u00fcsselten Start durchf\u00fchrten, als das Schiff unterging. Die Rebellen nutzten schnell ihre unglaubliche Verm\u00f6gensverschiebung und versammelten sich, um die verbleibenden Schiffe und Rettungsboote zu eliminieren. Die anschlie\u00dfende Schlacht war spektakul\u00e4r: Die sechs leichten K\u00e4mpfer konnten ihre Angreifer fast eine Stunde lang aufhalten und erzielten erstaunliche 37 best\u00e4tigte Raum-zu-Raum-Kills, darunter einen Taschenzerst\u00f6rer, nur mit ihren \u00fcberlebenden Energiewaffen.\n\nAlle sechs UEEN-K\u00e4mpfer wurden schlie\u00dflich eliminiert, ebenso wie alle, die dem ersten Absturz entkamen, aber der Blackbox-Rekorder von Lt. JG Jasmine Tuttle wurde schlie\u00dflich von einem unternehmungslustigen Piraten geborgen und an ihre Familie auf der Erde verkauft. Als sie eine Gelegenheit sah, den peinlichen und kostspieligen Verlust des Olymp zu decken, \u00fcbertrug die Propagandamaschine des Oberkommandos der Marine die Aufnahme und machte die Piloten zu M\u00e4rtyrern. Das Ergebnis war eine Reihe von patriotischen Werbespots \u00fcber die Erf\u00fcllung Ihrer Pflicht, ein melodramatischer, von der Regierung gesponserter Holovid (Star Heroes) mit einer Reihe von D-Listenschauspielern als stereotype Kampfflieger und die Gr\u00fcndung der 36th Fighter Squadron zu Ehren der Piloten, die die letzte Position in Nul bestritten.\n\nTevarin-Kriege\nDie 36. Jagdstaffel kam am 1. Januar 2579 offiziell online, ausgestattet mit der ersten Serie von Gladius-Kampfjets. Schnell und wendig, aber mit einer leichten Waffenladung, war die Gladius die erste Wahl der UEEN f\u00fcr Abfangarbeiten. Vor der Gr\u00fcndung der Einheit galten Streifeneinheiten im Allgemeinen als B\u00fcrger zweiter Klasse. Diese Geschwader, die sich in den Hintergrund treten und besser ausgestattete \"Jack of all trades\"-Einheiten w\u00e4hlen, wurden in der Regel Wehrpflichtige und OCS-Piloten zugewiesen und nicht Akademiker und Freiwillige. Die erste Ladung zum 36. war die \u00c4nderung dieses Standards, indem sie die besten Abfangj\u00e4ger-Veteranen gruppierte, um die Patrouillenelemente anderer Staffeln zu trainieren.\n\nMit Beginn des zweiten Tevarin-Krieges im Jahr 2603 \u00e4nderte sich diese Anklage drastisch. Innerhalb weniger Stunden nach der offiziellen Erkl\u00e4rung der Feindseligkeiten hatte der Fl\u00fcgel Befehle an die Front erhalten. Die 36 FS, die schnell in eine aktive Kampfrolle \u00fcbergingen, verteilten sich auf vier Eskortetr\u00e4ger, die f\u00fcr die Deckung der Hauptkampftruppe von Messer zust\u00e4ndig waren. Trotz fr\u00fcher Tevarin-Erfolge gegen Humankapitaltanker erlitt keines der Kriegsschiffe, die Gladius Abdeckung aus dem 36. Jahrhundert zugewiesen wurden, einen einzigen Torpedoangriff w\u00e4hrend des gesamten Verlaufs des siebenj\u00e4hrigen Krieges.\n\nGegen die Vandule\nDa die Staffel \u00fcber erfolgreiche K\u00e4mpfe verf\u00fcgte, nahm sie ihre Trainingsfunktion nie wieder auf. Seit dem Anstieg der Vanduul-Angriffe radelt der 36. regelm\u00e4\u00dfig durch Eins\u00e4tze an der Grenze. Es war ein 36 FS Gladius Element Commander, Captain Jordan \"Toothpick\" Hamton, der zuerst die Drei-K\u00e4mpfer \"Carry and Leap\"-Technik entwickelte, um dem muskul\u00f6seren Vanduul Scythe zu begegnen, und es war ein 36 FS Ersatzpilot, der zuerst die leichte Unregelm\u00e4\u00dfigkeit des Infrarot-Scanners bemerkte, die es den UEE-Piloten erm\u00f6glichte, fr\u00fche Sensen, die in Asteroidenfeldern versteckt waren, zu erfassen.\n\nW\u00e4hrend leistungsstarke Hornissen heute durch die Scythe-Staffeln dampfen k\u00f6nnen, war dies in den ersten Tagen des Konflikts nicht der Fall. Ungef\u00e4hr das erste Jahrzehnt lang, in dem Vanduul eine Sense \u00fcberfallen hat, hat das Zerst\u00f6ren oder Deaktivieren einer Sense sowohl extreme Man\u00f6ver als auch ein hohes Ma\u00df an Kommunikation unter den Fl\u00fcgelm\u00e4nnern erfordert. Die erste war eine Spezialit\u00e4t des Gladius-Designs, die zweite etwas, das in den hochqualifizierten M\u00e4nnern und Frauen des 36. Jahrhunderts gut verwurzelt war.\nDie ber\u00fchmteste (bekannte) Aktion der Staffel gegen die Vanduul fand erst k\u00fcrzlich, am 3. August 2940 statt. Eine Truppe von zw\u00f6lf Gladius-K\u00e4mpfern wurde angewiesen, eine enge Eskorte f\u00fcr einen zivilen Hull-C-Transport zu leisten, der \u00dcberlebende aus einem k\u00fcrzlichen Vanduul-Schlag bef\u00f6rdert. Im Laufe des geplanten Eskortenlaufs wanderte die Gruppe unwahrscheinlich in das weitgehend unverteidigte Heck einer Vanduul-Versorgungsflotte. Durch die Steuerung der Feuerleitung durch den Rumpf C und die Funktion als koh\u00e4sive Einheit war die leicht bewaffnete Truppe von Gladius in der Lage, neun voll beladene Maultiertransporte und ihren leichten Begleitschutz schnell zu eliminieren. Der Vorfall, der nach mehreren katastrophalen Vanduul-\u00dcberf\u00e4llen auftrat, wurde in den Medien heftig verschlimmert.\n\nDie Zukunft\nElemente der 36. Jagdgeschwader sind derzeit an Bord der UEES Sebek im Einsatz. Es liegen nur wenige Informationen \u00fcber ihre aktuellen Missionen gegen die Vanduul vor, obwohl die \u00dcbereinstimmung, mit der die Piloten der 36. FS in den w\u00f6chentlichen Verlustlisten erscheinen, darauf hindeutet, dass der Kampf h\u00e4ufig ausgetragen wird. Der Fl\u00fcgel war auch bei der Bek\u00e4mpfung von Piraterie unerl\u00e4sslich, wobei eine Reihe dieser Operationen besser bekannt ist. (Ein oft reproduziertes Foto zeigt die Nase einer Gladius mit dem Aufn\u00e4her der 36. und zwei Dutzend Drake Cutlass Konturen.)\n\nTrotz der hochpublizierten \"Battle Ready\"-Kampagne des Milit\u00e4rs zur Revitalisierung \u00e4lterer Raumfahrtger\u00e4te sind sich die Beobachter einig, dass das Schiff noch weniger als ein Jahrzehnt aktiven Dienst hat. Das letzte Gladius'Service Pack' wurde vor acht Monaten herausgegeben und verbessert Waffensysteme und Kontrollfl\u00e4chen, und es wurden keine zus\u00e4tzlichen Upgrades vereinbart. Mit der zunehmenden Zuordnung der Gladius zu Reservefl\u00fcgeln, Wacheinheiten und Heimatschutzgeschwadern geht die \u00c4ra dieser akrobatischen Lichtk\u00e4mpfer als Schwertspitze zu Ende.\n\nHigh-Level-Scutt schl\u00e4gt vor, dass die 36. eine der ersten Eliteeinheiten sein k\u00f6nnte, die auf den schweren J\u00e4ger F8A Lightning umsteigen. Es ist eine Aussicht, \u00fcber die sich die Piloten der Staffel nicht gerade freuen: Nach Generationen, die bewiesen haben, dass mit der Einfachheit eines leichten Kampfflugzeugs viel erreicht werden kann, sind nur wenige begierig darauf, das komplexeste milit\u00e4rische Ger\u00e4t der Menschheitsgeschichte einzusetzen.","zh_CN":"The 36th Fighter Squadron is the United Empire of Earth\u2019s premiere active-duty Gladius unit. First bloodied against the Tevarin, the 36th has seen action in every significant Human conflict in the past three hundred years.\n\nFallen Olympus\nThe 36th has its origin in one of the most embarrassing military disasters in Earth history. In 2571, the battle carrier UEES Olympus pursued a band of pirates and rebels home to their hiding place in the undeveloped Nul system. The carrier\u2019s complement vastly outmatched their foe, but the admiral in charge wanted in on the kill personally. He ordered the Olympus into a pass that was too close to the system\u2019s fifth planet, Ashana. The Olympus was caught in the planet\u2019s gravity, impacted on the world\u2019s surface and lost with only a few survivors.\n\nThose survivors included the carrier\u2019s Combat Air Patrol: four Stiletto interceptors, the immediate predecessor to the Gladius, belonging to the carrier\u2019s defensive complement, plus two others who managed a scrambled launch as the ship went down. Taking quick advantage of their unbelievable shift in fortune, the rebel forces rallied to eliminate the remaining ships and lifeboats. The battle that followed was spectacular: the six light fighters were able to hold off their attackers for almost an hour, scoring an astounding 37 confirmed space-to-space kills, including a pocket destroyer, with only their surviving energy weapons.\n\nAll six UEEN fighters were ultimately eliminated, as were all who escaped the initial crash, but the black box recorder belonging to Lt. JG Jasmine Tuttle was ultimately recovered by an enterprising pirate and sold to her family on Earth. Seeing an opportunity to cover the embarrassing and costly loss of the Olympus, Naval High Command\u2019s propaganda machine broadcast the recording and made martyrs of the fighter pilots. The result was a series of patriotic advertisements about doing your duty, a melodramatic government-sponsored holovid (Star Heroes) featuring an array of D-list actors as stereotypical fighter pilots and the establishment of the 36th Fighter Squadron in honor of the pilots who fought the last stand at Nul.\n\nTevarin Wars\nThe 36th Fighter Squadron formally came online on January 1st, 2579, equipped with the first production run of Gladius fighters. Fast and maneuverable but carrying a light weapons load, the Gladius was the UEEN\u2019s first choice for interception duties. Prior to the unit\u2019s establishment, patrol units were generally considered second-class citizens. Taking a back seat to better-equipped \u2018jack of all trades\u2019 units, these squadrons were generally assigned draftees and OCS pilots rather than academy graduates and volunteers. The first charge to the 36th was changing this standard, by grouping the best-of-the-best interceptor veterans to train the patrol elements of other squadrons.\n\nThat charge changed drastically with the start of the second Tevarin War in 2603. Within hours of the formal declaration of hostilities, the wing had received orders to the front. Quickly transitioning to an active combat role, 36 FS found itself dispersed among four escort carriers charged with providing cover for Messer\u2019s main battle force. Despite early Tevarin successes against Human capital ships, none of the warships assigned Gladius coverage from the 36th suffered a single torpedo strike during the full course of the seven year war.\n\nAgainst the Vanduul\nWith combat success under their belts, the squadron never resumed their training role. Since the rise in Vanduul attacks, the 36th has found itself cycling through assignments on the frontier regularly. It was a 36 FS Gladius element commander, Captain Jordan \u201cToothpick\u201d Hamton, who first developed the three-fighter \u2018carry and leap\u2019 technique for countering the more muscular Vanduul Scythe, and it was a 36 FS replacement pilot who first noticed the slight infrared scanner irregularity that allowed UEE pilots to target early Scythes hidden in asteroid fields.\n\nWhile high-powered Hornets can steam roll through Scythe squadrons today, this was not the case in the early days of the conflict. For roughly the first decade of Vanduul raids, destroying or disabling a Scythe took both extreme maneuvering and a high degree of communication among wingmen. The first was a specialty of the Gladius\u2019 design, and the second something well ingrained in the highly trained men and women of the 36th.\nThe squadron\u2019s most celebrated (known) action against the Vanduul took place relatively recently, on August 3, 2940. A force of twelve Gladius fighters was ordered to provide close escort for a civilian Hull C transport ferrying survivors from a recent Vanduul strike. During the course of the planned escort run, the group improbably wandered into the largely undefended rear of a Vanduul supply fleet. By managing fire control through the Hull C and operating as a cohesive unit, the lightly armed force of Gladius was able to quickly eliminate nine fully laden Mule transports and their light escort screen. The incident, coming on the heels of several disastrous Vanduul raids, was played up heavily in the media.\n\nThe Future\nElements of the 36th Fighter Squadron are presently forward deployed aboard the UEES Sebek. Little information is available about their current missions against the Vanduul, although the consistency with which 36th FS pilots appear in weekly casualty lists indicates that battle is joined frequently. The wing has also been essential in anti-piracy operations, with a number of these operations better known. (An oft-reproduced photo shows the nose of a Gladius bearing the patch of the 36th and two dozen Drake Cutlass outlines.)\n\nDespite the military\u2019s highly-publicized \u201cBattle Ready\u201d campaign to revitalize older spaceframes, observers are unanimous in believing that the ship has less than a decade of active service remaining. The final Gladius \u2018service pack\u2019 was issued eight months ago, improving weapons systems and control surfaces, and no additional upgrades have been contracted. With the Gladius being increasingly assigned to reserve wings, guard units and home defense squadrons, the era of these acrobatic light fighters serving as the tip of the sword is coming to an end.\n\nHigh-level scuttlebutt suggests that the 36th may be one of the first elite units to transition to the F8A Lightning heavy fighter. It\u2019s a prospect the squadron\u2019s pilots aren\u2019t exactly happy about: after generations of proving that a great deal can be accomplished with the simplicity of a light fighter, few are eager to adopt the most complex piece of military equipment in Human history"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":63,"created_at":"2014-11-20T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"11 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-09 04:27:41","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":14314,"next_id":14316}}