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very nice!! Great job!!

you mean "hovering" over the flight deck spot? what's the approach speed of the "glider" and what is the carrier's WOD? not possible to hover into the intended spot.

Wow!! Slit S-ing out of 3 SAM shots!!!!! Outstanding article and great story!

HAHAHAHA! hilarious. Not recommended for Carrier Qualification!!

awesome and far more relevant to current events than I can tell you. I'll be out of town for a week so won't be able to do much with this right now, but looking forward to some North Atlantic action! too bad the Norway terrain is broken, these would make a great combination.

groooaaaan Tanks for everything!!

for current info, not on open sources.

wow...................!!!! glaciers? Icebergs in the ocean? now that would be cool! (heh heh) have to warm up my mission editor......

modernized Tu-22M's as opposed to modernized and new production Tu-160's? also depends on the target. The Backfires are optimized for anti-carrier ops and regional strikes. The Tu-160 is optimized for a very different role. The range is the other key difference. The Blackjack can go where the Backfire can only dream of.... "there's a hell of a lot more Tu-22s either in storage" yea - obsolete ones..... good for AMRAAM's!! refueling is good question.

well, actually the aurora doesn't go away during daylight, so you could just let it run. It diminishes and is overshadowed by the daylight, of course, but its still there.

my daughter's fiancee is starting the T-6 shortly and hoping to go to T-38's. Needless to say, this caught her and Mom's attention this morning..... quite a rash of accidents lately with the E-9, Typhoon, and two T-38's. Definitely time for a safety standdown and reset.

Backfire is still a regional plane, not intercontinental. The Blackjack can reach just about anywhere and then launch a package of cruise missiles. The combination of modernized Backfires for regional use and Blackjacks for intercontinental is already a very potent force and one we watch closely.

I wish. I remember standing in a brief with Gen Horner after the Gulf War where he described his reasons for denying the USN permission to employ the Phoenix and why he kept the F-14's reserved for Fleet defense. (Of course, that meant that only F-15's would go "downtown".) He released the F-14's only after there were no more planes left in Iraq. the consistent theme has been the confirmed ID, which as you well know is pretty hard to get. Since no one still trusts electronic, it almost always comes down to someone going in and getting a VID.

and you know that it wasn't a mistake - how?

finally made the news http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353665,00.html I didn't realize it was two-seater.

I think the speculation fueling this can be taken in a couple of ways. First off, its hard to define just how much of this is driven by speculation, but also, the speculation is driven by the analysis of future shortages and the resulting higher prices. I'd say more, but USAFMTL didn't like it when I did before......

its posted someplace?

wow. We agree on something!

I like the New Crusader

take a look at the Tet '68 campaign. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=5389 there are some CAS in that one. are you changing the map to provide for south ruled by the north? I tried playing with that once so I could set up Badgers out of Cam Rahn Bay and could get single missions but not a campaign.

"Get someone to tell you about the ROE (Rules of Engagement) we operated under. There were many times when we (the aircrew) weren't sure who was making the rules - our side or theirs!" sadly, that did not and has not changed...... the set up going into the Gulf War was particularly hard, although essentially based on the same that you had in Vietnam.

it communicates pictures....

"Well, Mike, again I've rambled on...probably bored most folks silly. " no way!!!! its great reading these details and tactics. I knew only some of them from my time as a controller - quite a bit different going to the cockpit from a 2d radar scope. Outstanding insight and very much appreciated.

Congratulations on a great career and best wishes for the future!