JediMaster

Setting[1].DeployValue=123.5

Setting[1].RetractValue=133.8

It's these two. Notice retract value is larger than deploy? That's backwards. Swap those 2 numbers.

Well, the difference is the F-35 is still in development, the Gripen is in service, plus there are already many other countries involved with the F-35.

That said, I don't think the Gripen would be a bad choice at all. They could certainly get hold of them faster. Wouldn't they be the first Gripens in NATO if they did?

I'd rather have Scaramanga's golden gun. A bunch of innocuous parts like a pen and a lighter that you reassemble into a gun!

On the other hand, MS got a powerful endorsement for Powerpoint--"Win Oscars and Nobel Prizes with MS Office Powerpoint!!"

Anyway, I think we can lay a lot of blame at Rumsfeld's feet. He was given carte blanche to remake the military on his...whim...and he didn't listen to anyone who disagreed with him one bit.

I thought the Japanese aircraft ATD-X or something was an own design with thrust vectoring and stealth similar to F-22 not actually an F-22. I don't think F-22 was release to Japan because of security risk, how Japan is only a spit away from China. I read somewhere China stole tech through Japan before.

 

If going by the logic of not selling weapons to past enemies then I'm for banning weapon sales to UK, Fance, Germany, Italy, Spain, Cananda..... not being sarcastic I just really don't wanna see these coutnries benefit from high tech us weapons hahahaha

 

Back to the SU-34 I don't think its practical, even if RAAF fit them with Western avionics there's the matters of spare wheels, tyres, pylons, external fuel tanks, wires and cables.. etc that needs to be bought from a different source than the curent fleet. Assuming that RAAF SU-34 uses western engines, thats where I see the main logistic problem.

 

Anyone know if integrating Western targetting systems with Russian flight control and navigation been tried anywhere?

Yes. Israel has done a substantial amount of work in this area, with MiG-21 upgrades and India's Su-30s being the most notable.

Longhorn was cancelled and work restarted because it became too large and unwieldy for the programmers to work on!

Did you install out of order? The proper order is FB, then AEP, than PF, then the patches to get you to 4.04m <-don't forget to get the patches with the "m" for merged. I don't recall how many you need, you have to start around 3.00m I think and then they're incremental.

That's all I can think of.

saw the original...at a "drive in"...now who here even remembers what that is?

I saw quite a few back in the day...but the last one by me closed mid-80s.

No doubt here. KOTOR2 was shaping up to be even better...and then you get to last 1/3 of the game.

33 was good, but I think Exodus Pt 2 takes the cake.

I think Starbuck is my favorite character just because she's so wildly unpredictable.

Least favorite was Cat.

There's also a hotfix for AGP card owners.

The problem is Congress can't keep its mouth shut. You can't tell the Japanese and Aussies you're giving them the full version because Congress will whine. If you tell Congress "Shh, keep it on the DL, but it's a downgraded export version", well...they'll blab in public in less time than you can say "blowhard" and then it's all over.

Heh, well the last 5 minutes of it anyway. I live on the mainland.

Of course, there are the unpleasant times as well. The road was shut down after 9/11 for over 6 months. Another time I hit a seagull in flight on the way to work. SMACK into my headlight...

That F2 looks like a simple evolution of the F1.

As for the 4000, of course that would be a heavy fighter. It would have had 2 of the same engine the 2000 had, just like the F-15 had 2 of the same engine the F-16 had. :)

Well, the F-2 is better than the F-16...but not THAT much. On the other hand, they've never built a stealth plane before...

You're thinking of the game, I was speaking of the series.

On the plus side, I work at the beach. That's the Atlantic Ocean on the right, Banana River on the left.

I started on my Atari 400 with B-1 Nuclear Bomber...circa 1983?? Then we got the Atari 800 and I got FS2 with its WWI combat side game.

First PC sim was Gunship in 1988, first jet was F-19 Stealth Fighter in 1989.

I've been flying at varying rates (a lot more in the 90s than recently) for 25 years now on my PCs. I average maybe 20 hrs/week on my PC, but not always flying. In fact some weeks I don't fly at all, but race or FPS or RTS or whatever instead.

So, make up a number and maybe it's correct. Just as good as any I'd make!

Could be. I'd have to see it again to figure it out, and I already dumped it off my DVR. When the DVDs come out I guess!

Forgetting the perhaps intractable problem of the canards deflecting for landing, I think the four trailing edge surfaces work pretty much standard for a delta--inboard are elevators/flaps, outboard are elevons, likely with droop for extra lift (ie operate as flaps with less deflection on landing).

The Gripen is relatively small and I think the elevons outboard would provide quite a bit of roll control. I haven't seen any evidence of differential movement in the canards for roll like most stabilators do nowadays...in fact, I think most canards on all planes are linked together and move as one.

It's got an Su-30-like cockpit.

However, building a plane shaped like that is one thing. Getting the performance and stealth of the F-22 is another.

Nope. Big gap in time, not sure if the B5 company is still around even.

Here's a good picture: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28....p;z=14&om=1

"Boundless incompetence"--what an ad slogan!