JediMaster

I'm currently replaying an old FPS, Contract JACK, having replayed the other 2 in the series NOLF1 and NOLF2.

Games on my HD now:

Contract JACK

Company of Heroes

Race 07

Armed Assault

All TW sims

LOMAC

F4: AF

rfactor

ET:Quake Wars

UT3

Sins of a Solar Empire

Rise of Nations

SW: Empire at War

SW: Jedi Academy

STALKER

LEGO Indiana Jones (time waster)

Dangerous Waters

GTL

GTR2

Il-2:46

X3

FS2

EECH/AH

Games I've recently finished:

Tron 2

FEAR + both addons

Bioshock

Crysis

Deus Ex

GRAW 2

R6 Vegas

Doom 3

Serious Sam 2

HL2 Ep1/2/Portal (Orange Box)

Tomb Raider: Anniversary

Thief 2

Getting ready to replay:

MOH: Pacific Assault

Quake 4

Prey

SW: Republic Commando

Coming soon:

STALKER: Clear Sky

Crysis Warhead

Project Origin

Storm of War

Black Shark

GTR Evolution

I thought those were the guys from The Abyss.

The Terminator teaser (not really a trailer) was nice, but the movie was great.

It was not "the best movie ever" or whatever ridiculous hyperbole many like to use, but I think it's definitely very impressive. My one complaint was they made the film too long by cramming too much into it. The Joker could've taken the entire film for himself and it really wouldn't have suffered. The other storylines were fine, but felt rushed.

I have it on Bluray. Absolutely stunning cinematography.

I have the utmost enthusiasm for this mission.

The problem is it requires the enemy fighter to be VERY close to you (basically guns-only range), and if you're in that position you've already failed. If the enemy is NOT that close, it's a great way to set yourself up to be nailed by a heater.

Well, generally speaking a turbofan is better under Mach 1 and a turbojet is better over Mach 1.

Weird that they only did it themselves for WAPJ, and that WoF and IAPR didn't get them. I love mine, have them all!

I'll add a few others missing:

Layne Staley - Alice in Chains (RIP)

Kurt Cobain - Nirvana (RIP)

Don Henley - Eagles

David Gilmour - Pink Floyd

Roger Daltrey - The Who

Rivers Cuomo - Weezer

David Lee Roth - Van Halen

Bono - U2

Brian Wilson and Mike Love - Beach Boys

Scott Weiland - STP/Velvet Revolver

Dennis DeYoung - Styx

Billy Corgan - Smashing Pumpkins

Some A-4s and F-4s had that extended nose gear for better AOA off the deck, but not all.

I was thinking specifically of the wooden decks with JATO as well. An occasional use might not be a problem, but any regular use I think would be tempting fate. A concrete runway is a different matter.

Would JATO have been safe to use on those carriers?

...the edit button??

I always thought that a serious oversight in a game called "Pacific Fighters". They couldn't premap those controls??

Some stadium do indeed have ear-bleeding acoustics. I remember when I saw Paul McCartney at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami in 1990 (who knows what it's called now, they keep changing it, it'll always be JRS to me)...when he started "Can't Buy Me Love" the roar drowned out the (admittedly very loud) music and the concrete balcony started bouncing. All I could think was, "is it supposed to do that??"

Yes, they'll hold the bodies for 2 years just to use as leverage. What's really sad is this because they believe THEY are the ones in the right. I guess they needn't concern themselves with doing anything wrong, they're justified in ANY action they take.

I will see it the afternoon of the 19th. Just rewatched BB a couple of weeks ago, hadn't seen it in about a year. Can't wait.

Didnt say there werent other freedom hating scumbags; always plenty of 'em it seems. But to me, the taliban rank right up at the top...

 

Interestingly enough, even Obama stated today that Afghanistan is one war we must win. Wonder how deeply commited he'd really be?

Who knows? A campaign promise and $4 won't even buy a gallon of gas. However, if all the troops now in Iraq were in Afghanistan instead, things would be going very differently there, that is certain.

Those planes were designed to be maintained by a conscript army with inadequate (by Western standards) training and short supplies of spares. They succeeded in doing things most Western planes would've collapsed doing.

I'd much rather belly land a Russian jet than a Western one, that's certain!

...because Iran's AF is mmm-mmm-good?

What I don't know is the fuel storage capacity of those smaller carriers. Props and jets use different fuel, plus props use the more volatile of the 2 (which is one reason the USN wanted to go all-jet on carriers ASAP), and that makes extended ops more difficult.

I remember in the 90s a pair of F-15s shot down a Blackhawk or two in Iraq in the no-fly zone due to a breakdown in comms with AWACS. They asked, AWACS said "clear", it wasn't.

However, the other thing to remember is with each passing year the commercial air traffic just goes up. The odds of accidentally shooting down another airliner (after both the USSR and US did it in the span of what, 10 yrs?) would certainly give the higher-ups pause.

Of course, the F-22 can probably sneak up on the 6 of another fighter and get a look before engaging, but that's about it.

IIRC, there were some F-15s that carried 120s during Desert Storm, but none were fired. It was sort of an OPEVAL for them before the IOC was reached.

Of course, the biggest thing used then that wasn't yet operational were the J-STARS.

I saw ESB at a 3 screen theater in Miami. I remember standing in line for 2 hours. I also remember someone had a radio they were listening to and "Funkytown" and "Cars" played.

LOL, is it a helicopter that never learned to hover??

I don't think the AI do that in any sim. The "cobra" is a "post-stall" maneuver and pretty much all AI routines say "avoid the stall". Only LOMAC has it, but it's a scripted event that only the player does.

Other than the "hundreds" of militants I've seen no figures for the numbers of friendlies involved. Likely we won't know as that would be covered by OPSEC I would think.