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Your country fought and survived and won as you are still here, remember the hardship, rejoice in the victory and take note of the lessons learned; imperialism fails in the end no matte rwho the bully country may be, their feet are all made of clay (bible reference)

Very sad news, may God rest their souls.

We will remember them

It certainly makes it easier to know when you have something locked with eo or lgb's weapons. The default key for select ground target is E, press this and cycle through the targets then whichever target is contained within the red box is the target that the EO or Laser seeker will attempt to track. Without that red box there is no way to move the seekers field of view as seen on the cockpit display, find the target you want and lock it, so I treat easy visual targeting and cycling the E key as a fudge that at least gives the impression of selecting a target from the others. I guess the weapons would work without those little red boxes but then how would you know exactly what you are locked onto if for example you don't have a tv display in the cockpit, or even with the tv display, can you tell which is the exact target from just looking at that? If so turn the visual targeting back to hard and just use the E key and monitor any changes on the tv display as it moves through different ground targets.

Happy Birthday Jimmy, many happy returns of the day!

I had a similar problem, have always used hard on all gameplay settings apart from visual cueing and hud, in the end I had a look at the designator pod ini's and found that they appeared to be configured as jamming pods rather than designators, I think this came about from using the wrong weapon editor because when I deleted the editor I was using for everything and downloaded the right ones for each of my installs of sf gold, wov, woe and woi respectively, re did the weapon editor .dat dance, hey presto, they are now configured as designator pods again and work in game as such.

Congratulations and Best of Luck Jimmy dude!! It's not easy doing any degree but aeronautical stuff must be insanely math and physics based, kudos to you to have the brainpower to do it!

Happy Birthday Gentlemen and many returns of the day!! Now get loaded, now!!!! :drinks_drunk:

I am trying not to put too much feelings into this topic, rather to offer the facts as I have been told from my family, but Gepard has quite comprehensively described the timeline of events as I understand them, to quote him "- The exact date i havent found, but Stalin cutted off South Ossetia from Russian Federation and included it into Georgian Socialist Republic. -1942 german forces reached the caucasus region and tried to start an anti russian revolution. They had only minor success, but Stalin banned hundret thousends of people to sibiria." What I can add is that Stalin did not stop at banishing the Osettians who where unhappy at their land being given as his gift to his native Georgia, but filled up the empty spaces with Georgians, so began a long process of Georgification of the region as this guaranteed the Soviet power over the unhappy people that wanted independence, after the break up of the U.S.S.R things have changed, now Russian thought rules Russia, not big red ideas from Germany, Lithuania or Georgia.

My thanks and prayers to you and your family too! We seem to have a similar view on this region/situation, most of all it is an ethnic conflict although to say that the ethnic Russian part was installed by Stalin conflicts with my knowledge that it was in fact, the Georgian ethnic part that was instead encouraged by Stalin.

I hope her Chinese was as good as their Greek Aye London is guaranteed to pull out some crappy lazer display and a load of fireworks from China and as for portraying our History smolly creayola will they have fun with that! Can you imagine what the modern era will look like, the multicultural fairy land that dosent even exist then a speech by Cameron or Brown, meeeh we need a kick up the backside in this country before it's too late :pioneer:

Right before I offend anyone, my cards on the table, I have family involved in this region. Now as far as I have knowledge and correct me if I am mistaken but the region of Osettia was not considered part of Georgia untill Stalin, a Georgian, rose to power in the former USSR. I think sometimes we are too quick to jump on the bandwagon of what Russia says/does now equals in some way what the former USSR said/did, this is ignorant of the fact that Lenin was a Lithuanian and Stalin was Georgian and they both pushed agendas that have very little to do with Russia today, Stalin pushed for Georgia to have control of Osettia, currently Russia is promoting the opposite of this situation and it has much more to do with language and culture than with politics, the people who live in Osettia do not nor have they ever felt part of Georgia despite Stalin's big ideas. Anyways, piece said, peace out. Hope this ends soon before more innocent civvies are blown a new ar$5 hole.

Everything and then some mostly but if any one gets the most airtime for me it will be the Sea Harrier in comrpnt's sfp1 Falklands mod, Wrench's Haf F-4 in WoI (my personal favourite at the mo) and the MF A-7 also in WoI. As far as WoV is concerned A-Team's AC-47 Spooky is a dream to fly over CA Stary's Green Hell (just downloaded v2 with fixes) but F-111 fly my boat too as do most RAF birds especially the hypothetical Brit Tomcats I wish RL provided enough free time for me to get into modding properly myself but the credit crunch is hitting us poor graduates very hard (cue violin) So alls I can say is a very big, huge THANK YOU to all those creative genii who make these amazing mods for the greater enjoyment of all of us Wooooot!!!

Ahhh I wanted to watch that too but am at work then, will try to sneak my mini tv in, excellent to hear we have tv stars at CA :fans:

Looks fantastic! Can't say I had much success with making a Greece and Cyprus terrain (yet) due to severe constraints of time, very nice to see that someone else is working on one though

Congratulations!!! I don't even want to know who (or what) "Cheeze - whizz" is though

Anti gay my a%$e, typical U.K. mentality of bending over to our own self created problems in the hope they go gentle on us. Some U.K. members may remember 1997 to 98 when they canceled Christmas in Birmingham in case it "offends the ethnic community" and called it "Winterval" instead And Mr T Rules!! He would win in a fight against the Terminator or the Predator, but not against the man with no name.

Beautiful to see that there are still men proud to serve the country, may the Lord watch over them all and return them safe to their country.

Mr T rules, i thought there are more than one of him for Snickers? Don't have much time to watch tv these days. Oh yeh but anyone else heard that they are changing back to Marathon though!!!!!!!!! I'm soooooo looking forward to that, also Opal Fruits are coming back instead of Starburst, but only in asda

Now thats what I call Progressive Islam

Emperor, I fully agree with the right to defensive actions (even with any weapons to hand including chainsaws and flamethrowers) within your own home, what I disagree is that because we know there are criminals with weapons and that we know the state, government, judges etc are ineffective in enforcing the law, that this means the final solution is to carry these with us everytime we leave the house and enter what is not our personal space but a shared social space. If the criminal in the street thinks you may have a knife or a gun also and he desperately hungers after your ipod, believe me he will play by the rules of the jungle too! He wont stick with his current weapon, rather he will use the black market and get a bigger better weapon than you could as a legal individual, unless you think we should all be allowed to drive around in Humvees with assault rifles and body armour? Where would it all end? Surely the better kind of fear to put the criminal under is the fear that the police will almost certainly detect them, detain them and that the courts will punish them to the maximum stated in law, this is a kind of fear that I would dearly love to see facing the criminals. Of course, there is the argument that the state(s) can go bad i.e. Former Yugoslavia then we would need to defend ourselves against them, well this is the only time when it would be permissible in my opinion to bring my weapons out of storage and into the conflict, but you will find that this is the mentality in Switzerland and Sweden and many places with a high rate of weapon ownership verses usage. People in these countries generally don't wish to use their weapons unless their is a crisis of invasion, civil war etc or of course an invasion of your home. The difference is that these examples of Western European liberal states is that the populace generally do not have an obsession with carrying weapons on the street, indeed street crime is lower in the Switzerland and the Nordic countries and I will look for the statistic source tomorrow, we studied this during a sociology module at uni. What we need to do in our countries is to ask ourselves why are we so different, why is it we have a street crime problem? I think it is more to do with enforcing the law than arming ourselves, to that end we need a better police force, a better political and judicial state of affairs... not a better blade/gun/grenade/nuke in our pocket.

Congratulations indeed!!! I bet you wont be able to sleep though, must be an exhilarating feeling for you both. Excellent choice of name, I would say that though as I am an Owen too! (well a Lloyd Owen actually lol)

Sanity at last!! Thats what im saying, there will always be the thought of "is my weapon enough", "am I outnumbered"... I don't want to live in a country that has that paranoia! Its bad enough living in parts of cities here that feel like that! Been there and got the t shirt and it's not worth the paranoid delusions, itchy trigger fingers and fast guns/knives are fine for John Wayne movies or Tarantino films but aint that a large part of the problem with Afghanistan, Iraq and so many other places though, the constant fear of the other guys weapons leading to more and more intimidation and aggression. The U.S.A. has a lot of good things to show the world, you can't walk around tooled up everywhere in the States you know, it's actually quite illegal to have a weapon on your person in public without good cause in most of the States. Also, if they don't trust the government, who will protect them against W.M.D.?? hmmmm quick Grey lets go W$$$mart for our ICBMs before the cranks get them first!!

Well yes, thats going from one extreme to another isn't it, from a stuation where everyone has weapons and the state fails to to protect us but we individualy protect ourselves, to a state of having no means of self protection at all but again no state to protect us. So what is the problem with having a state where bearing arms is just not possible for the vast majority of people, criminals and law abiding citisens alike because the state actualey does function to detect and prosecute (in most places with already existing laws) what I am suggesting is that we actively try to achieve what our (most of Western Europe) laws aim to do, this means empowering police not tying their hands behind their backs like for instance in the U.K. we had a particular community of muslims complain against police dogs infringing their rights as muslims and guess what the police suggested?? That dogs wear booties so as not to directly contaminate the purity of their muslim floor surfaces :rapage: I'm just fed up with people undermining the attempts to make society safer by making the police smarter, more accountable, equipped, trained and crucially free to act. Whats the point of having a police force at all if its all up to the individual to sort out their problems, then they are nothing more than a waste of tax money.

@Tailspin - We obviously disagree on a number of points, mostly concerning the rights of one individual being more important than the the rights of the many individuals, that is something that as interesting as it is, neither of us will likely yield on that one and no need either in a democratic forum. About the abuse of power and the need to stop it well, I don't think i do contradict myself, as I pointed out previously, i am not sitting on the outer fringe of either left or right, I am a free individual, free to choose what I think when i think, and this I do based on new information and new ways of processing that information this is why I am extremely cautious against dogmatism or ideology in my thinking - The circumstances of the 1990's policing of the U.K. where different and there is nothing wrong in my thinking for having different solutions to problems, you don't treat illness with the same old drugs because they illnesses adapt just as fast as the solution, this is true of social diseases too. Well it is shocking that police would confiscate the property of poor little old drug dealers! How dare they! I wonder if its a crime to steal stolen property from a junky? If its a end user, who otherwise is law abiding person then that is an abuse but for dealers and thieves, I don't pity their loss of property at all. Carrying large amounts of money should in my opinion be perfectly legal and fine unless it is not yours of course! I can understand why a police officer would ask questions of a person with a huge amount of cash though! As would a bank if you tried to cash in an enormous sum of money pretty likely they would have procedures to source it, again here I can understand the argument of presumption of innocence but I insist that this is only really valid in an ideological state, not a pragmatic one... e.g. Certain international banking centers are a haven for drug barons and other criminals just because of their stance on non disclosure and obtrusion of investigations into the sources of huge deposits, I understand why you would admire their ideological stance but I don't, in fact I think it despicable that some banks even would even attempt to obfuscate enquiries into nazi gold deposits on just such ideological grounds that deposits should be assumed legitimate unless proven otherwise despite the fact that proof likely would only be forthcoming through those particular enquiries.