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Hahahaha! I always wondered what would happen if you tweaked the entries like that... I'm surprised no one commented on my 'backward firing' Sidewinder experiment from a few months ago.... FastCargo

A quick note to folks. If the new addon skin has a Textureset.ini file in it's directory, then you do not even have to edit the aircraft ini at all. The game engine will AUTOMATICALLY insert the Textureset.ini details the next time you run the sim. This part still applies though. FastCargo

Good points all... People sometimes forget that real weapons employment isn't 'point and shoot'...especially early models of the 'winder.... FastCargo

Actually those already exist...and are on airliners! Uses a directional laser to 'blind' the incoming MANPAD. Not quite the same as shooting it down...but good enough. Never thought I'd be flying a civilian aircraft with more sophisticated counter measures than the military aircraft I flew... FastCargo

Amen brother! FastCargo

Try this: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autom...p;showfile=5354 FastCargo

Nope. Look at my sig. Hey folks...lets steer this one back on topic. Cluster munitions employment. I personally like laying down a long stick of 30 CBUs with SFWs in all of them... Destruction for all my friends... FastCargo

Guys, I'm aware of the toliet situation...I've just been a little busy with the holidays, going back to work, the new kid...and this: I'm thinking of taking a break from this though...so expect some weapons in the semi near future. FastCargo

What Jug was talking about was major ground and air offensive campaigns. As in 1973 Yom Kipper War sized operations. As in dealing with a major air and IADS threat. Israel has had a lot of subconventional warfare (even the 2006 Lebanon War was mostly fought against irregular troops using guerilla tactics) but hasn't had a large conflict against regular troops in a long time (a good thing). Battle hardened? Sure, Israel has some of the best troops on the planet. I've met them, talked with them, flown with them. And don't talk to me about history and learning from it. Hey, what the hell do I know...I just flew nuclear bombers for a living... FastCargo

Tank, Use EOGB. FastCargo

And all of those happened before you were born Viggen. That doesn't count as recent experience. FastCargo

Alex, Welcome. Read the knowledge base. Do a search...someone asked the exact same question 2 weeks ago. Read and learn. FastCargo

Hey guys, got a short fuse on this one. I have a Dell XPS m170 laptop with a EIDE interface for the internal HD. The BIOS has a 137GB limitation (didn't know this at the time). WinXP SP2 however does not. I used imaging software to copy from my internal HD (120GB) to the new HD (250GB) (no problem...I've used this before to upgrade...works perfectly). Install the new HD. Everything works perfectly (as I expect). I start filling the drive with other stuff I have and eventually shut down after a total of about 170GB. Try to boot the drive today...won't boot. I yank the drive out and put it in the HD caddy. Everything looks intact...I run diagnostics and there appears to be no fragments, or bad sectors. Now here's the question. I can fix the 137GB limitation software-wise...that's not the issue. My question...assuming I pull everything off the new HD, reformat it with software to step around the 137GB limitation, and reinstall it...what's needed to do? Can I simply make it 'bootable'? Reinstall a basic version of the OS and then just copy all the stuff I pulled off it back onto it and be good to go? Or am I totally screwed? FastCargo

Hey guys, Just posted this to let you know why I was more or less offline for 2 days. It's been a nightmare trying to get the new drive to work. Finally realized that the 137GB BIOS limitation couldn't be overcome. I've been juggling 3 internal drives, 1 HD caddy, 2 external drives and 2 laptops to fix everything. The good news...I didn't lose anything! The boot error was simply what I thought it was...WinXP can write to more than 137GB, but the BIOS couldn't. So as soon as I installed all my new games, then shutdown, the BIOS couldn't boot it. And being that I didn't have 170GB free on any other drive I had...I had to split and juggle to copy all the data off the 250GB drive, then reformat the 250 GB with 2x 120+GB partitions, then install WinXP on the boot partition, THEN copy all the data back to the drive. Worked great...with only 8 hours til show for my FedEx trip! Still have to fix some minor broken shortcuts...but all the essentials work. Even things like Office, Steam, Windows, MSFS were unaffected. However, had a sweaty moment when 3ds Max reverted to unregistered mode and initially wouldn't re-register.... I'll probably find more errors...but from what I can tell, I'm back! Saturday, I'm finding a Best Buy and buying a 250GB external HD as a backup...damnit! FastCargo