JediMaster

I have a Cougar and G940, and I mostly just use the G940 now. The centering issue in some games can be annoying, but overall I prefer it. Plus my Cougar is 6-7 yrs old now and the RCS pedals are over 15 yrs old!

Is it unnamed, or is it just SF2: Tomcat? I know TK said it would integrate with the previous SF2 titles, so that name would make sense.

You'd have to redesign it. There's no way anyone would approve an 8-engined plane today, and it's unnecessary. They've only talked of re-engining the Buffs since sometime after the thing enetered service, but it gains no ground. Besides, the thing shows up on radar like another radar dish mounted a foot away...you need those extra 4 engines just to power the ECM to keep it from being swatted by SAMs. I'd favor reopening the B-1B line with some changes here and there and I think it would make a pretty good low-cost B-3, albeit never as stealthy as a B-2, but you could make it better.

I really liked the first, can't wait for this one.

No, they're looking to finally replace the B-52s.

Oh, is that going to be located next to their aerospace center of mediocrity in Mobile, Alabama? I just love the superlatives that press releases can use.

If another country drops nukes first, then I'd say all bets are off. I can't imagine strategic nukes being used, though, because of how many civilians would be torched. Using them in the old WWIII/Central Europe way, with kt-yield weapons dropped on their forces, perhaps. However, in a conventional battle going south I don't see the US being the one to take that route first unless it was an invasion of our borders that we were failing to repel. A nuke on the rear lines (away from our soil but hitting reserves/logistics) to cut off their thrust then would be conceivable.

Oh yes, Looney Toons ballet.

Yes, if only because neither of them are willing to spend money on the military any more than yours is. No, the growth area is in south/east Asia when it comes to countries capable of having global effects. They as of yet are still little capable of operations away from their borders, but they're heading that way. You know, I was just thinking the reason countries like N Korea, Pakistan, and Iran all look to get nukes is because of what they saw happen to Russia in the last 20 years. Its military really did turn into a shell of its former self that was capable only of self defense. Yet, it is still a word player that is ignored at a country's own peril because of its large nuclear arsenal. With nukes you can hold a country hostage without even having the ability to attack it directly with conventional weapons. The reason the US is attacked anyway is we've shown an unwillingness to use them after WWII, so it's only what our conventional forces can do that is taken into consideration. After all, N Korea talks about nuking US forces that may attempt to fight it, but it makes no acknowledgement that we can nuke it back 10x over...because they know we really won't unless they're a LOT more powerful than they will be in any near future.

Harriers are a 40 yr old design, there's little more to be done in upgrades for them. You can give them a better radar and weapons, but things such as range, stealth, payload, speed...none of those can really be changed much.

What?? When the 3rd part ZIL-157 is HUNDREDS of times more accurate and can do the proper 50km/h over gravel roads and not the ridiculous 75km/h of the stock?!?! I say good day, sir!

My wife had flown up to RI the night of the 10th for a days-long training course at her company. I was at work (a crappy place I left only a few weeks later) and we had no internet or TV, so our news was all based on people calling in. The first plane was reported as an "oh wow, can't believe that", but as soon as the 2nd plane hit everything changed. I remember the rumors running around that morning after the reports that the Pentagon had been hit and 93 crashed in PA. I heard that both the Capitol bldg and the White House had been hit among other things. After the 2nd plane, I got on the phone to my wife in RI and we agreed she needed to come home. Her father, who was not yet retired as the head of EMT in Broward County, had called her and told her the airports would be shut down soon and there would be no flights back for who knows how long, so she convinced the people in her class who lived down the east coast to rent a car with her and drive back. They got the LAST car from the rental place. She told me she saw the smoke from the south end of the island as they drove thru NY. She had to take a train back from TN to FL since the guy who rented the car had to drive further west, and I was very anxious until she got home.

Which part of ballet has you driving your body head-first into the ground up to the torso?

Besides, is the Typhoon as capable in the ground attack role as even the Su-22, let alone the Gripen? The Typhoon is more impressive from some aspects, but I don't know if it's what Poland needs.

Not really, aging fighters cost more to run than newer ones as the number of things that break on flights go up. That's why the US retired the SR-71, EF-111, F-14, and F-117 when they were still very useful....they just cost more than we were getting from them.

A brand new TIR 4 is down to $100 I think. If that's too much, people who are upgrading to later models often sell their older ones, which should work just fine as there's no moving parts, and you might be able to pick up a used TIR 4 for a pittance.

I admit Sinead O'Connor's singing voice isn't too bad. Bjork was only big in the US in the 90s during the alternative music period, so I guess predates eraser's time (damn I feel old). Human Behavior and Big Time Sensuality were pretty big here, and in Tank Girl she contributed the Army of Me track. I miss alternative, it was an era when there was genuinely inventive stuff getting radio time. None of this over-engineered crap you get today or had from the hair bands in the 80s. Groups like Primus with their classics My Name is Mud and Wynona's Big Brown Beaver, who today is probably only really remembered as the group that wrote the South Park theme. At least that still gets broadcast weekly!

Well, let's be honest. How much damage can a helo take before it just falls out of the sky and then falls apart on impact? I don't think one could be beat up much more than those pics and stay intact/not burn up. Getting some holes and panels shot off is plenty as we all know the next step is total destruction.

Ok, so how exactly is this different from a manned aircraft that wanders around a little bit outside of its defined airspace? This just proves how like manned aviation UAVs are.

I got it for $15 and like it well enough. It's not over-the-top like Ace Combat, but it's...well, I'd say it's like a TW sim with everything on easy except the enemy AI. That's roughly what the flying is like. The game itself plays different, though, with highly scripted missions. For $8, you will easily get your money's worth.

I think that is the epitome of the "graphics vs content/gameplay" debate represented right there.

Who's up for making a "bomb Bjork's house" mission? We can have waves of Russian bombers trying to destroy it and only the F-14 Tomcat can stop them! Well, if you want to. You could just let them.

Let this be a warning to all those gamers who live in Point M*****F***** that they shouldn't try to go on XBL.