JediMaster

This is how the world ends...not with a bang, but with a...stiffy?

Yup, just as the F/A-18E/F is an "improved" F/A-18C/D.

Funny to put it that way, since the YF-17 was called the Cobra and it turned into the Hornet. As for the rear-firing missiles, I thought it was planned for the Su-34, which was more like an F-15E and not that agile. It has that rear radar and it's supposed to allow a shot at an opponent more agile than you that's on your six. Won't help against a BVR shot of course.

The problem is the new Falcon board 360s changed the CPU to 65nm, but left the GPU 90nm. The dreaded RROD is caused by the GPU heating and warping the board so that the solder breaks and the connections fail. Old boards had not even a heatsink on it. The new ones I think finally have a heatsink, but I don't believe there's an internal fan blowing air on it. That's what it should have, like modern CPUs and GPUs for PCs have. MS cut corners stupidly on the cooling issue and they're paying for it now.

Of all the SF titles I've had, FC has been the least problematic. You may have a different experience, of course.

You never played the original Ghost Recon?

There are some really ugly planes that never made it into service. I'm reading a pretty good book right now called Cold War Prototypes, has things like Convair's B-60 (an all-jet version of the B-36) and other really ugly ones. I'll do some research and see what else I can find.

I just don't see enough games on the PS3 yet for me to even consider it. Of course, I would have a 360 already if it weren't for the hardware problems.

In Without Remorse, it's John Kelly nee Clark that is the guy who goes in and sees the POWs getting moved but is unable to inform them in time to halt the raid.

Yup, there was so much fodder being aired during the 1st Gulf War I just watched with the sound turned off.

Looks like the one at NASM in DC.

I actually saw one old-time producer complaining the internet has made things WORSE for them, other than ease of ordering stuff online helping. Basically, it's super-cheap to start your own site and make your own with low production values and the bigger-budgeted ones aren't making as much! Poor guys...

LOL!

No word on what a 1.13 would cover if made, but I doubt it would be that comprehensive.

I always thought that was the idea of college anyway? You've had 18 years to teach them, now they get 4 to figure out how to do things and learn to be themselves without being totally off the leash but still largely autonomous?

Shouldn't his grades be the yardstick? If he gets good grades, what does it matter how he spends his time? Of course, when I met my wife she was 22 and her parents still treated her like she was a teenager with curfews and crap (even though she'd been running her own business for 5 yrs and going to college). Sometimes the parents need a kick to let go.

Mine is not.

I had a 1/72 Bone and an 1/72 B-52D and those things took up way too much room as it was!

Don't make me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry.

There's more to a nuke sub than a working reactor. Sound suppression is very important and that's not the kind of knowledge that's going to be easily available. You figure it out by trial and error.

The Su-24 is the same age as the F-111. Long out of production, it will be replaced by the Su-34. No one is buying Fencers anymore.

The technical issues largely resolved now, it's quite simply the world's most overpriced F-16 upgrade. I don't know how it will fare against the (projected) performance of the F-35, but other than the stealth aspect which is obviously lesser I don't know how close it will be. The Japanese basically got far less than they paid for, or paid for far more than they actually got, depending on how you look at it.

Interesting. At my wing the cmdr is an O-7 with the larger squadrons headed by O-6s and the smaller O-5s, with only the smallest O-4s. Seeing as this wing has a nuclear tasking, I thought it would be important enough for an O-7.

From what RB said, I think it's the guy's girlfriend that's the problem. He wants to join, she's flipping out, he's asking if there's something he should do that will help assuage her concerns. My guess is he's afraid of losing her if she joins. Given the higher-than-average divorce rate in the armed services, he's not wrong in that. With the number of people today who can't make a marriage work, having one person deployed for long periods and possibly in a combat zone is only going to make that worse. I also agree he should not join if he's concerned about this, but I don't necessarily think he's cowardly. We're only getting RB's take of the situation, the guy didn't post himself. If you take physics in college BTW you can get into the USN's nuke engineering stuff for subs and carriers. That's about as "safe" as you can get nowadays. Just have to worry about non-combat accidents for the most part. Of course, if you're joining to get the money for college, that path is obviously out. I never joined for 2 simple reasons--1, I hate travel. Short distances, maybe go across the country for a week a year, but that's it. 2, I have a problem with authority.

Yeah, some of the names they ignored as being unflattering at best. The Fulcrum one, however, is actually rather complimentary when you think about it, and Flanker works just fine. I still don't know who in NATO came up with "frogfoot." Why not just frog? I guess it's like "fishbed"...what is THAT supposed to be anyway??