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Check the screenies in TMF WIP thread. They look beautiful.

It depends somewhat on what you're engaging. For example, I usually can't lock up Su-27's until they're about 60NM or so away in my F-14. In the MiG-31 it took me until about 20NM to lock up the Kfir C2. Against larger or older threat a/c, I can get them as far out as 150NM with the F-14 (go from 200NM to 100NM, hit select next target and acquire and it gets locked at max range). Unfortunately, I don't know what parameters change long-range lockability. But, my wingmen also engage at Rmax with their AIM-54's if I tell them to engage airborne targets or tell my #2 to engage my target.

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=6121 Complete Tomcat cockpit update. This will give you the older Kaisar model HUD (used in the F-14A and F-14B until the B got the newer HUD in 2003) but it'll have the reticle, altitude bars, range, etc.

Well, I've had the pleasure to fight both in it, and against it. Thoroughbred interceptor to be sure, but then, we all know that. Those 4 AA-9's are really useful: on my first flight me and my wingman got engaged with 8 Kfir C2's; I knocked one down at range with my AA-9 (the other 3 failed) and it turned into a gunfight as one of the remaining 7 Kfirs converted on me. I departed and recovered the aircraft twice in the process of this and ended up getting the guns kill after about three minutes of forcing him to overshoot and cross my nose. He turned into me and zzzzip! Bam! At about this time my wingman was jumped by all 6 remaining Kfirs and 2 F-16 Netz and had no-sh*t 8 missiles fired at him (showed in the AAR), the last one hit and he went down. I ran like hell and by some miracle heard Red Crown say "mission accomplished". Facing against the -31 in my F-14A (surprise, surprise) was cake. Recon mission that saw a combined 12 AIM-54's and 4 AIM-9's fired from me and my wing, and then on the way back to base, no more than 10 miles from home there's a flight of 4 Foxhounds. They didn't shoot their AA-9's for some reason and instead choose to get into the phonebooth. Wrong answer. We tore 'em to shreds with our Vulcan cannons. Great work, Veltro!

Felix natalis tibi!

Perfect guns shot on a Fishbed. Unfortunately, by the time I took the pic, there wasn't much of anything left...

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Fly on your way, like a Turkey, fly as high as the sun! On your wings, like a Turkey, fly, touch the sun!

Partially true, I mix it up. The person below me thinks "They Live" is a good movie.

Thanks TK! Seriously awesome sim with staying power, flexability and just the right balance between realism and fun.

Congratulations, Sid!

Wow, lookin NICE!

Impressive video. I saw something like that about 8 years ago with a few of my friends. The night sky lit up a bit bluish and we looked up; for a part of a second it looked almost like a firework. Saw that sucker just keep going and was half thinking "wow, its been a short life!" Ended up burning up completely as it traveled into the far horizon, but man, was that an eerie feeling!

FLOPS is FLoating point Operations Per Second. A teraFLOPS is One Trillion Floating-point Operations/Second. In other words, that sucker can calculate lots of stuff really friggin' fast. An ATI 4850 HD GPU can do 1 TeraFLOPS, a 4850X2 can do 2.4.

A typical Harness, that is to say suit of plate armor, averaged only 55lbs in weight. That weight was spread across the body, and the armor was articulated to move with, rather than against its wearer.

To the best of my knowledge, no contracts went through; it was only a feasability discussion. We still lack a proper defense from eels in hovercrafts.

Get your hovercraft en garde. If I can, I'll try to contact some whales with their natural SONAR and natural nuclear warheads; see if we can't blast these suckers back to the stone age.

Niiiiiiiiice.

Your typical two-hand sword (commonly referred to as Zweihander) weighed between 3 and 5 pounds.

Friggin' Bravo Zulu to the Indian Navy!

Well, actually, it probably will with a coax connector. I had an Atari VCS (2600) hooked up to a 52" hi-def TV in our detachment lounge and it worked fine.

HAH! That was awesome!

Great work, Klavs!

As Jedi Master said, there are "habitable zones" around stars. Depending on the size and intensity of the star, this region can grow or shrink, can be wider or thinner across. So, to be habitable, a planet must first fall into this zone. After that it comes to planetary make up, etc. Venus, Earth and Mars are within the Sun's habitable zone (as Jedi Master said) but only Earth has any life, at least overtly, because of the planet's atmosphere, hot liquid iron core which generates a magnetic field, and other factors as well (we don't have an acidic atmosphere, for example, like Venus). So, if they can calculate the class of the star, they can predict its habitable zone, and if these planets fall out of those zones, then there is likely no chance they are habitable. Wow, I actually remembered something from Astronomy!!!

Well now, hold on for a second, DW, you bring up a good point. If the whales already have natural sonar, then its only a matter of time before they get the bomb. Naturally. We'll have a full-scale crisis on our hands if those jerks keep backing the whales' rights! Or maybe, just maybe, a great new ally in the fight for secure hovercrafts...I must go and prepare an offering of kelp...