JediMaster

Only works if you're pointing it at their eyes, though! Which predisposes having a good idea of their location already...

No, that's pure joy. You should see her when she's upset. It's like Medusa on a bad hair day.

The AM DB5 was in Casino Royale too, if you remember. He won it gambling the one guy in the Bahamas.

Just a word of warning that MP still isn't perfect. The 1.2.3 update to DCS world is supposed to address it, so you may want to wait for that before subjecting yourself to possible frustration. Many are still flying A-10C 1.1.1 in MP, ditto BS2 standalone, until DCS World's MP is fixed.

Let's just hope they can pull it off. Redoing a 10 yr old game is one thing, but one from that far back will by necessity have to be very different.

If Il-2:1946 is the one you have, the latest official/semi-official patch is 4.11.1m. It adds new planes, maps, and fixes over the earlier patch levels.

The F-15E (in variants for other countries) is actually in production. The SE is available to begin should a customer order it, but to date I don't believe they've gotten any serious bites because it will make the F-15 cost more than just going with the standard. If they're going to spend more, they probably will want something newer.

Sorry, F-22 doesn't cut it: Believe me, I wish it did.

I'd have to say aside from a slight age discrepancy, the first pic is me aside from having a HOTAS on the table instead of a lone stick. The lone stick is there as well, for things like Arma2 that I don't use the HOTAS for.

I think there are also no radars that can track at their max detection range, either. You can get a glimpse, but you need better signal strength to track. Anyway, I should think your rule should be 2x further. After all, for my radar to see a target 100 miles out, the radar waves travel 200 miles, out and back, at sufficient strength (1/4 broadcast power) for me to resolve it. Ergo someone 200 miles away would see my radar waves just as strongly. Should the antenna on their end be larger than mine, they should see me even farther than 2x away as the dish can collect fainter energy. Maybe they'll be able to see it at less than the 1/4 broadcast power my dish needs to see.

I think part of it is to make the villain a bit unbalanced mentally, helping to explain why they would do such heinous acts...they're literally screwed up in the head. Of course, Liam Neeson in the first film wasn't. He was instead perfectly level and rational, which did make him a very fierce villain because he believed in what he was doing because he believed it would help a greater number than it would hurt. Sort of like a doctor opting to amputate an infected limb...better to live without a limb than die with it.

Uh...I'm tired of the older planes at this point. Once it's been 30 years, my interest wanes. That said, I'm not sure which ones being built now are favorites. I both like and dislike to varying degrees all the newer planes starting with Gripen (oldest of the "next gen") to Rafale and Typhoon to Super Hornet and F-35 to Su-27SMT and J-10 and whatever. I guess the F-35 for the promise of what it will be able to do more than anything else.

No, I don't go for angsty teenage films. You know it's the film, too, because she did a great job in X Men First Class but in THG she seemed to spend most of her time staring at stuff with no expression on her face. What was she thinking? Who knows, it wasn't on her face and she had no dialogue in those parts! Just long bouts of silence inherited I presume from the Twilight series that made NOT talking or emoting into apparently the latest trend. TDKR had its good moments, but I will agree that I don't think it was good as TDK and I think I might even place BB ahead of it, hard to say. Still only seen TDKR twice, seen the others a few times each now. Prometheus I liked fine. Don't think it was best of the year, but it was still good enough I bought it. Liked the Avengers. Best Marvel film since Iron Man 1 (haven't seen the new Spiderman yet, but I hear it's nothing better than the last one) and I have high hopes for IM3 after 2 let me down a bit. Skyfall was quite good, even if sometimes I felt like I wasn't watching a Bond film but rather another film that had Bond in a cameo that lasted all film...if that makes sense. I liked it more than Quantum of Solace, but QoS did feel like a Bond film...a lesser one, that's all. Then there's The Hobbit #1, which I thought very good but incomplete without the rest. There's still a bunch of films I've not seen from this year that got some good reviews: Ted, Looper, Dredd, Spiderman, Bourne Legacy, Snow White, Total Recall, Taken 2, Ice Age 4... Then there are those I saw that are not in contention like John Carter, MIB3, Battleship, Madagascar 3, The Lorax, Brave, etc that were bad or good but not "best." I guess in the end it's a 3 way tie between Hobbit, Skyfall, and Avengers. All are very good in different ways.

They're running out of mono-color flags for these exercises. Which country will host Mauve Flag? Off White Flag?

And of course deception jamming isn't modeled by sims. Instead, the WWII/Vietnam-era brute force noise jamming method is used which is only accurate for older planes. Planes that have been in service since the 70s even use deception jamming. I'm tired of sim makers insisting on making some parts of their sim "realistic" as far as missile performance or plane performance and then just leaving out things like IFF or deception jamming because "it's classified." Sure, the actual methods are, but you can make educated guesses and implement them just fine. Leaving it totally out is UNrealistic as only damaged/malfunctioning planes would be missing these things.

I'm going to say that CH's stuff is the closest in overall look to the G940. For the same price ($300 or so) you could get a stick, throttle, and pedals. The Warthog costs a lot more and doesn't have pedals, so you'd still need to buy a USB pedal set separately increasing the total cost more. Neither of them have FFB either, so that's not a factor.

2012 was my worst year since 2001. 2013 had better improve!

If you use the quick reply, yes. If you click "more reply options" you get the full reply format which lets you add attachments at the bottom. Just FYI for future reference.

That picture is fairly accurate, but it was no Tomcat. It's an F-111-type, plain and simple. I have a book somewhere with an artist's render of the MiG-29 from the early 80s, based on the dodgy satellite photos made public at the time. The nose was fairly accurate, but the aft section looked more like the MiG-25.

Of course, to date the last time the US fought superior numbers of anything was during certain periods in Vietnam. I'm hard pressed to imagine a scenario in which the US would enter hostile territory that has that large of a defense. Our so-called "leaders" only approve of attacks against largely inferior forces, so that they can "sell" the idea with minimal casualties.

I've got it updated but have yet to try it out.

You can attach pics to the forum here. If you mean you don't have a digital camera or one in your cellphone, that's different!

DCS World itself is free if you want to just fly the Su-25T offline. It's a bit improved over the one in the final Flaming Cliffs 1 patch, and the terrain and such certainly is. It costs you nothing but the time to DL and install it, so if you have the HD space go ahead and try it. It won't conflict with LOMAC or BS1.

Just like around here, there are a lot of retired military living in Tampa. I didn't know he'd been living there, but it doesn't surprise me.

It's an exercise with a foreign power. There's no doubt they were holding their top capabilities in check along with a generally more relaxed attitude compared with what they'd do in the US during Red Flag for example. End result--they got surprised and took losses they weren't expecting. While this taught the Eagle drivers to pay more attention, it also telegraphed how India might do things in a real major air conflict. In other words, the same trick rarely works twice, and those 21 pilots could find themselves taken down earlier in a real shooting war because their enemy would know they could do this.