JediMaster

Another day older and deeper in debt...

As mentioned, it hasn't aired here yet but count me in as among the wary. I thought the Eccleston -> Tennant shift was positive, but the guy behind the scenes didn't change. Now we have basically a total reboot and those usually don't end up well when what came before was so good. For Kevin, FWIW I heard Primeval was done.

I've also had moderate battle damage result in later engine failure. Whether due to fuel shortage or some other problem that worsened over time. However, most of the time when I'm hit it's time to eject before an unseen fire blows me up (that has happened several times)!

No, can't say I am! I have that classic pub 4-volume set on the me-262, but that's it for that plane! I'm more a "survey" kind of guy as opposed to "study."

Well, it's STILL not confirmed, just more likely than before...I guess.

FC2 is built on the updated DCS version, though, so I'm not sure how much that applies.

Ah yes, the inevitable deluge on this day.

We need a CSAR mission!!

We have an old verion here: http://forum.combatace.com/files/file/2995-mod-man-50012-flaming-cliffs-enabled/ There are however newer versions out there that may work better, yet this is an older mod itself so there shouldn't be too many issues.

Maybe the 60 was there on some sort of exchange visit?

It fortunately sounds like it wasn't a TO/landing incident but rather an "everyone out because we can't land/make it back" incident, which implies better conditions for survival.

There was talk of the B-1R armed with dozens of AIM-120s!

I believe you need to use Modman. Most LOMAC mods do.

I'm just struggling to get my G940 HOTAS mapped for it properly. Ironically, it would've been very easy with my old Cougar because of the difference in how things are mapped.

I bought it at release and am almost burned out on it at this point! Especially as I was playing L4D1 until the day before, and while things were added it's not like it's a different game. Right now I'm waiting for the DLC campaign to come out.

Frankly, yes, the West can't win this one. If we expect the "hearts and minds" campaign to work, it has to be done by other cultures closer to theirs than ours is. That means more than half-hearted work by Iran and Pakistan and the Afghani tribes. It also means a fundamental shift in mentality for them. Why is it that a Moslem will see an attack against another Moslem, even one living half a world away in a totally different culture, to be "an attack against your brother" or "all Islam"? You don't see any of the other religions thinking that way to the extent of sacrificing themselves in suicide gestures. Sure you'll see financial support and so on, but the difference in Islamic thinking puzzles me. For 8 years Iran and Iraq fought and you didn't hear a peep out of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc. As soon as a non-Islamic country gets involved, though, it's "the Crusades all over again!" and the wackjobs incite the weak-minded to fight against the oppressors. I mean, all these countries willing to fight Israel over Palestine, but not one willing to let them resettle in their own country? "We will give money, weapons, even fight and die to get your land back! But, no, we don't want you living next door to us, UGH."

Well, the UK would've been out of it, hard to say what would've happened then. Germany might have gone it alone or kept going with Italy. If it did go alone, my guess is Italy would've bought a US design instead as well, or whatever Germany made, as their own indigenous industry was already hard pressed to make something on their own at that point and AFAIK Italy has never bought a Dassault.

Well, with advanced weapons systems any platform can be deadly. I guess the main thing is survivability in case of combat damage in this case, looking less robust than competing designs.

No plan ever used against a nation-state (like Japan, Germany, etc) will ever work against an insurgency/terrorist group like the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. At no point will these insurgencies ever believe they've been conquered, there's no "marching on the Al-Qaeda capital". Japanese and German soldiers stopped fighting when they heard their leaders surrendered and were ordered to stop fighting. No Taliban or Al-Qaeda leader will surrender or offer cease-fire, so you can kill all of them you want but the ones that are left will keep fighting and recruiting new fighters and taking over as leaders. They have religious fanaticism behind them which gives each fighter a personal stake in their battle that no amount of killing their comrades-in-arms will overcome. The ONLY way to "win" is to make them want to stop fighting. Assuming that what worked against one culture will work against another is the very reason we were so screwed in the Iraq invasion in the first place, assuming they'll be dancing in the streets and peace will reign by the end of 2003. Personally, I think giving money to them is NOT the way to change their minds, but the problem is they're so insular I just can't imagine what will. You convince 5 of them to change heart, the others all assume they've been coerced or "possessed" or whatever and ignore them. The left thinks making nice will make them want to stop, but it won't because they'll assume it's all lies and won't trust it. The right thinks more killing will make them want to stop, but it won't because that just reaffirms their belief that they must fight on and they'll recruit more and more.

If by "piracy" you mean "buying illegal DVDs for cheap", no, that's not a big problem in the US. Here it's all about the internet downloading.

Yeah, ED went and made a liar out of me without my knowledge!!

SFP1 <- original release 2002 WOV WOE WOI First Eagles <-- all built on same engine as SFP1 SF2 <-updated DX10/Vista/Win7 compatible version of SFP1 SF2:V <-updated WOV SF2:E SF2:I FE2 <- all built on SF2 engine, current standard

I've got it installed, but I still have to configure my G940 for it so I've not clicked "fly" once yet!

The F-15 2-seater was just a trainer at the time, but as events shook out the Beagle came along 15 years later anyway. There's no reason it couldn't have arrived sooner had the UK asked. The F-14 was the most likely because the Phoenix would've helped immeasurably, but there's no way to know if they'd have chosen it.