JediMaster

Of course, that's one reason why they prefer suicide attacks so much..."dead men tell no tales." It's well known that terrorists tend to crack faster than true soldiers or spies, partly because of the brief training they get and partly because, well, if you think God is on your side nothing you could say can hurt His plan, can it?

Actually, while most nations couldn't do it, the US could. We just don't want to spend the $$ to do it. However, we'll burn up billions a month in Iraq for far less benefit than a massive space program would provide. So it's just about the will, really.

I don't think anyone will argue that the aerospace industry's pace of development took a massive slowdown after 1970. Only 66 years from first flight to the Moon landing, but in the almost 40 years since we've managed only to make an unreliable overexpensive "space truck", a space station that DOESN'T fall out of the sky, planes still don't go much over Mach 2 including the only SST retiring...

It's like the only thing still progressing at that rate is the increase in costs.

We need 2 things--a materials breakthru (to allow higher speeds and more protection), and a power/propulsion breakthru.

Anyone here ever see the Robot Chicken skit where the producers of 300 do a Revolutionary War film, called 1776? George Washington in cape, hat, and tight pants but bare-chested and muscular?

"THIS IS AMERICA!!"

It's like this...if you can't fly certain planes for idealogical reasons, it's your loss. Just like people who can't watch sci fi because it's not "real" enough for them, or dismiss NASCAR as "driving in circles." In every case, they're missing the point. However, that's THEIR problem, not yours.

Berating them for it is like trying to get people to see the contradictions in everything else they believe in...it's pointless. They have no "reason", they make the decision based on emotion, faith, upbringing, whatever.

So while the question is interesting perhaps in just seeing how many people are of one mind or the other (ie do more people have trouble flying "against" their side than those who don't), it's irrelevant because you're not going to change their minds.

Oh, and simulation isn't a zero-sum "all or nothing" either. Just because you demand good flight, weapon, and damage modeling but will settle for simplified avionics doesn't mean you should go play a Wii. It's not F4 on one side and Crimson Skies on the other with nothing inbetween. There ARE levels and some people find the middle ground quite satisfying.

That's when you have some setting on very easy or something. I forget which it is. Just go in to the difficulty and max everything out, it should stop. Then slowly back down one setting at a time until it reappears and you know which it is.

Complaining about MS' combat sims when they haven't released one in 6 yrs is kind of silly.

I saw some pre-release CFS 4 stuff that was never officially released and it looked good. I'm talking a lot better than Il-2, which came out the year before CFS3 but looked better. I think CFS3 made some good progress and CFS4 COULD have beat Il-2 in some areas if it had proceeded. Instead, MS canned it without a word (there was no official announcement of the game's development or its cancellation) and dedicated themselves to the air-truck sim that is MSFS.

They've talked about releasing a new combat sim for years now, whether WWII or jet, but so far nothing.

The F-22 may die to prevent threats to the F-35, in that backwards gov't logic. If they can't buy any more F-22s, they HAVE to finish the F-35!

As for a different EW suite, the integration would prevent that. What good is a plane that jams itself? Without access to the source code, any other jammer put in there would be nigh-on impossible to deconflict with the radar and REWR/sigint stuff.

The truth is the hardware isn't really that specialized anymore, it's all rather generic, and the software is the special part. By modifying it and locking people out from seeing it, you can ensure the capability of various models.

As for replacing 1/2 the F-15s, no way. There are like 700 F-15s, no way we're getting 350 F-22s when it looks like we'll barely get 200 now.

Jets without an infrastructure to support them (pilots, maintenance, fuel, ammo, etc) are useless.

People always say "humanity will evolve away from violence." What they fail to see is humanity evolved TOWARDS violence (see the beginning of 2001).

The non-violent elements keep getting exterminated by the violent ones.

The problem is that some Russians claimed the Cobra did indeed have tactical utility...to which numerous experts coughed into their hands and shouted "BS!"

War will only end when mankind as we know it ends. Whether by being wiped out totally or transformed into something almost unrecognizable to us (like Star Trek), those are the only 2 options.

Man has had a tribal mentality, an "us vs them" based on the flimsiest of differences when serious ones don't exist, since the dawn of time.

Saying "no more wars" is so completely naive and unrealistic that it's not even possible to take seriously. The number of wars may be reduced, but it will never stop.

Pakistan will only do something if they feel the consequences for NOT acting against terrorists are worse than those for acting against them. A threat of all-out war with India may do that. It may not, especially if the goal of funding these attacks is simply to provoke such a war so they can bash some Indian heads for their own delight.

I think the current US policy is working pretty well...just go ahead and attack these terrorists in Pakistan whenever and wherever you find them, and maybe just deny you're doing it. Besides, it's not like Pakistan could declare war on the US for it anyway. The worst that could happen is they decide to expel the US and become unfriendly, and then we just keep doing what we're doing from Afghan bases anyway.

With both the F-22 and F-35, and for that matter any 5th-gen aircraft (due to the definition), the avionics are closely integrated with the airframe. You can't pop out the radar and EW suite and leave the rest to be filled out by someone else later. It's pretty much an all-or-nothing deal.

Then you have the material covering the surfaces, then you have the powerful engines...

Honestly the only changes that can be made without making pretty much a totally new airplane is in the software.

I'm still waiting for "Wings Across America" where you can fly the Paul or Linda McCartney.

I remember those SwordQuest games! I don't remember how many of them I had, but it was at least the first one.

So should I open the notebook and remove the HDD`s is so easy like on desktop PC`s?? never did this on a laptop.

 

I asked my girlfirend if she had done something with the notebook and she answered she runs "fast NTFS format" she had no idea what this was. So is it still possible to recover the data? wich program can I use?

 

@Flogger23 is there a free tool to use? will looks tomorrow for a good adapter

Did she actually say she ran "fast NTFS format" on her hard drive???? One, I didn't think it would let you do that unless it was a secondary drive. Two, if that's what happened, you do indeed need drive recovery software because that erased the HD.

The problem is Pakistan isn't really that different from Afghanistan. The idea of everyone within its borders being united is totally alien to them. The tribal mentality is far too strong. That makes it hard for a central gov't to do anything when you risk 1/3 of the country rebelling every time you try and take a stand on something. So instead they just sit there and do little while making bold pronouncements.

I never thought Pakistan a serious ally anyway. They simply figured it was easier to go along with us than not to, they never truly believed that eliminating the terrorists was the right thing to do. "Well, we don't want to get bombed, so we'll sort of go along with their idea."

Honestly, I don't see why we don't push them harder to do things. If the gov't should fall, well, it can hardly become any worse there, can it? It's already the top central location for terrorist training, it can't go anywhere but down on that list.

The problem is the F-22 line is going to be shutting down soon. If the USAF doesn't buy more fast, there won't be any available for Israel or Japan or anyone to buy later. The F-35 isn't supposed to be advanced in some ways as the F-22, which is because the F-35 was designed to be exportable and the F-22 wasn't. However, the whole issue with sensors/avionics/integration for the F-35 is making some people nervous that we're giving out too good of a plane. Frankly I think it's dumb because the plane is only being offered to allies anyway, but paranoia is a genetic trait for some of these people.

Well, I got it this weekend, but I've not had time to do more than watch some of the training videos.

Honestly, did Wags record those in his bathroom?

I thought I saw a bit about the Camaro driving on a TV show once, can't recall when or where though. My guess is those cars don't get too much mileage on them!

Yeah, I read that this morning, but Dave beat me to the posting here...I got sidetracked.

I can't imagine the pain that would cause. I guess it was a sniper bullet because I wouldn't think a regular AK bullet would cause damage like that. Almost a superhuman feat.

I don't recall seeing this plane anywhere else yet. Another TK sim first? Or did someone already make it for MSFS?

Ok, I changed it for you, but you can edit your own posts just as easily!

I'm sorry, Jug, I'm afraid I can't do that. You know I have the utmost enthusiasm for the mission.

Wait...Jug...stop... I'm afraid...

I can count the number of times I've shot down a jet as a bomber gunner in sims over the past 20 yrs on one hand. They had considerably fewer engagements under far tenser and more difficult circumstances. A very impressive feat no matter how armed or dangerous the 262s were.

Nice to see Damon Slye has returned to the WWI flight world, although I'm not sold on this particular idea. Sims like Thirdwire's offer you the option to just "start near the action" as well, but also let you start on the ground and get up there to the battle if you choose. Choice is good.