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a few more of us squids might get the place straightened out and flying right......

oddly enough, I've been playing with some single mission planning in that time frame. Carriers of course from both sides. Be glad to contribute some carrier stuff.

I've done the extra flight trick and changed some of the supporting flight to other aircraft to. works great. can you upload your campaign to the site?????

its anticipating global warming......

sorry. any reporter for any rag doesn't have any real understanding of what is, might, or is not going on in military contingency planning. Its either utter fabrication on his part in the firm understanding that no one is going to call him on it, or its a leak involving high treason. For the record - military contingency planning is always at the TS/compartmented level. So there is no way he or anyone else in the press would have any insight into such things. The other point to remember is that contingency planning is just that - "what if". It doesn't reflect actual intent to do anything or not do anything. Its just being prepared and thinking through the problems ahead of time. so even if there was or is any pentagon planning going on that may or may not involve tacnukes, it does not neccessarily reflect any actual intent to move forward. and no, I have no idea if any such a thing is going on. But I would surprised if someone, somewhere has not been tasked to give some thought to "what if". For Seymour Hersch to be pontificating about such stuff and fabricating his stories as he usually does is the height of journalistic irresponsibility and a complete lack of ethics and integrity. "not some tabloid hack who doesn't have to worry about credibility. " He has absolutely no credibility with me and never has had and the New Yorker is not a credible source. He is tabloid hack and the New Yorker is a tabloid.

ground objects folder in their own sub-folders

I think you are missing a tile set that is referenced in one of the cat files (desert, WOV or WOE). Whichever one you are loaded with, the Kosovo file is looking for another. I had that issue with several of the third party terrains and you can fix it be loading most any of the terrain file sets in the download section. As an example, I loaded several of the desert terrains, and the Kosovo one too, and had the same issue as well as missing vast desert areas. Loading any of the desert terrain sets filled in the desert and the water areas.

HA!!!

of course the new standard for tough questioning has been set - http://www.local10.com/news/14138122/detai...ia&psp=news "It's supposedly the white house wanting to use them," I don't buy it. someone's fabricating a story and the nutroots are falling for their own cannard. "and the joint cheifs rare opposed to it." imagine that.......! something along the lines of "YGTBSM!!!"

who wants to use tacnukes? sounds like a phony story to me. Arclights should be plenty. we'll see who leaves wimpering.....

not going to argue about those two! We were all harving a party when Rummy left!! I'm still stuck trying to fix some of his nonsense. what do you get to do with Karl?

just to clarify - the "really cool stuff" coming down the road refers to actual procurement programs (not flight sims), of which I cannot speak further at the present time. Some of it isn't even in actual programs yet.

we have some really cool stuff down the road....

to say the least..... my part in those as a controller was to monitor the ingress, call threats, count the survivors as they came off target, etc. now having said all of that; if you fly single missions in WOV, the game builds Alpha Strikes for you and you are just flying the one portion of it. So if you fly Mig-CAP, there is a strike you are flying Mig-CAP for, same for SEAD, strike, etc. So if you want to go fly an Alpha Strike, do the single missions and look at the other aircraft going in. I used to fly CTA all the time, if I can ever master the mission editor with this sim to get it to come out right, I'll package a few Alpha strikes from each perspective, including the opposition, and post them. Don't hold your breath.....

well............. I'd say that its definitely a joint effort. Or in the case of most of the dems - a "joint" effort..... The Republican Congress was beat into submission by a very astute and manipulative Democrat President - anyone remember the government "shut-down" and who won that political-budget dustup? Clinton did - hands down. The President in fact submits the budget. Of course, he doesn't do that in a vacuum as he will address those issues that he knows will and will not sell in Congress. At the end of the day, the President has a lot a more to do with the budget than one might think. But Congress is the one that passes it after adding and deleting those items (pork) near and dear to each representative and senator, and then sustaining that budget against veto threats and actual veto's. Clinton was a master at that political game - Bush (both) is not by any stretch of the imagination. Looking back in the years of defense appropriations and hardware acquisitions - there is a distinct downturn in military procurement that occured under Clinton's watch. It is always referred to charitably in DoD graphs as an "acquisition holiday" where we essentially bought almost no new equipment during most of Clinton's regime, and at the same time drastically cut force levels. That absolutely cannot be denied. Did the Republican controlled Congress share part of that blame? absolutely but with the caveat referred to above - they got their @$$ handed to them in their confrontation with the President over defense and other budget items. Only at the end of his regime when it was clear that the gutted military procurement was going to be a key item in the Presidential race did any slight increase occur, but not sufficient to address most of the critical shortfalls in force structure. When Bush came into office they started a defense review in order to most effectively target any increases in capability. That was the right answer although many of us were rather impatient to see some faster relief. What Bush and Rumsfeld wanted to do was make sure that as they rebuilt our atrophied military capabilities, they bought the right kinds of stuff for the future and not just add obsolete equipment to an ancient force structure to fight in the Fulda Gap. Right answer, right approach but a slow and for us on the line, a fustrating process. But again, the correct approach. Even if, however, they had just turned the spending spree on, it takes time to rebuild force structure. One does not add divisions, ships and combat airwings overnight. It takes years to rebuild force structure, as it turns out, years we did not have. In a manner of a few months, the war was again brought to our shores in attacks that had been planned for years. With respect to the NORAD air defense structure available on 9/11 - we had been absolutely gutted through the Clinton Decade and had a miniscule shell of an air sovereignty capability. We had no pretensions of being able to field an actual air defense of North America posture with the handful of Air National Guard squadrons available in the CONUS, two alert aircraft in all of Canada, and two USAF fighters to cover all of Alaska. Our sum total was 20 fighters to cover all of North America and in the complete absense of information available to us, because of the Gorelick memo that barred the sharing of intelligence data between agencies, of any potential threat. When the attacks came, we in NORAD had no warning and for several precious minutes no understanding of what was actually happening. We were completely dependent upon getting the phone call from the FAA that they had a hijack and when they did call us - 6 minutes prior to the first impact - they had no idea of where the hijacked aircraft were or where they were going. So we had none of the information we needed to make an intercept in time nor did anyone have any idea that this hijacking was not going to end as all of the previous ones had - with public negotiations on the tarmac and the eventual release of hostages. It was a horrendous change of environment. Our posture today is drastically different. We are far better prepared for the unexpected and have a much greater alert capabilty and airborne posture available to us, ground based SAM capabilities, and updated ROE and communications. We are no longer dependent upon the call from the FAA, we hear as soon as the FAA hears of any problem and posture to meet any potential escalation. We still have a long way to go to meet the entire range of potential air and cruise missile threats to our homelands. But we are substantially better protected today than we were on 9/11. So the self-rightous who throw rocks at our 9/11 posture can go pound sand. rant off.

I just turn up my 8-track.....

I have noticed that in a merged install, as noted by TK, you will get the objects at the time they were available to the Soviets, not the NVA. So if you want to do a realistic Vietnam campaign you should keep one install of just WOV. Other than that issue, merge, merge, merge and add......

has anyone got the bombsight install to work correctly? For some reason I cannot.

have been working on it. Had to learn the oddities of the Mission Editor and WOV/E combinations first. Have been building some missions and trying to add them in bit by bit to get a tactically realisistic and challenging mission. Not so easy with this combination. Controlled time of arrival is a particularly thorny issue to solve and get right.

Glad to see you will vote for the representative and senator, then, who will vote a much bigger budget for homeland defense. (hint: it's not any of the DemocRATS.)

not quite. We'd nuke the island into a deep reef and sail on through..... (SARCASM ALERT!!!!)

I noticed that on a couple of missions too. Also enjoyed taking out the landlocked OSA boat.....

that is supposedly what blew up in the Russian Oscar a few years ago. The Iranians even made the claim to have developed them (using some pirated film clips dumped on the dumb reporters who were too stupid to recognize the con....)

if you DON'T know, you can't get your fighters there. And even if you DO know, you can't get your fighters there, in position, and able to lock onto the many targets, unless the fighters were already on station and in the right place and already know where to look.

not very many of those positioned around the continent. Tough to sail an Aegis ship into the interior....... its an issue of deployed systems and coverage, both weapons and surveillance against a low RCS and low altitude high speed target. deterrence remains our primary defense. That works against semi-rational players like Russia with something to loose. Against Insane Jihadists hiding in caves...........