Gr.Viper

I'd bring a helicopter.

Aw, no Soviet-centered campaigns. My dad's only playing Reds

Localization? Excellent! Are there any good big mods for the current PC?

It just crossed my mind that Android devices are still pretty open, and unless TK locks stuff really hard, mods will find a way to seep in.

So, TK got his stuff to run under Linux?

Lock your cats and daughters!

Looks a tad like the old Mirage Factory pages... or maybe some other big modder team's hangar.

Just like two years ago (and like the US this year) we're having a massive wildfire surge http://www.rt.com/news/prime-time/wildfires-russia-greenpeace-predictions-113/ As the report says, so far the casualties were 8 dead out of 13 firefighters paradropped into a forest. NASA is busy taking pictures http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78305 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78515 And, man, does this smoke go places: Smoke lingering over much of British Columbia from Siberian wildfires has pushed ozone levels in parts of the province to never-before-seen numbers. Smoke from dozens of forest fires in Siberia has been responsible for spectacular red sunrises and sunsets on the northwest coat of the United States and Canada's British Columbia, MSNBC.com reported on Wednesday.

Or shame TK with user-made menus.

That's what killed the best pilots of the last century.

Or have someone else bomb the enemy airfields in advance. That worked too lately.

Is the Cyrano in the plain old M. IIIC operational as well with just the July patch?

f***, yeah!

Cockpit shot with the radar online and locked on, plz.

Mostly (at least here) they're inserted to combat small fires before they develop in the areas, which would take hours to reach using trucks and dozers. Also, if you're going to drive a bulldozer through a healthy forest, you might as well let it burn.

The problem with using aircraft in those areas is that they have to take off off the airfields covered with smoke veil, or grab water from rivers and lakes covered in steam or smoke. Oh, and I got the numbers wrong. 8 killed out of 13. Here's an article about smokejumpers http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/russian-smokejumpers/

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/u-s-f-16-crashes-into-sea-off-hokkaido The pilot is wet, but waiting to be rescued, so it qualifies as a good landing, I guess.

Yeah, but even on that junk these are supposed to work (It's a later model in the same family) TK even put them on the panel, but couldn't gather the .50c to code it, apparently. Now, to find just how high the Bears are, I have to watch the radar marker while banking and confirm the pitch by doing a barrel roll, hoping that the marker doesn't veer left of right.

I wonder, if the damned radar will be finally fixed.

YGBSM, another F-16 in the same area, presumably from the same base and on a similar route http://www.rt.com/news/f-16-crash-kuril-islands-814/ Another wet but rescued plot. Is there something in the air there?

There's pants-on-head retarded and there's Belorussian security service "...Katyaryna Skurat, 16, was detained by KGB officers yesterday..." "...the girl is suspected to have been the first to take photos of the “Swedish assault”..." That assault -> "The aircraft dropped 876 teddy bears with free-speech leaflets over the outskirts of Minsk and the town of Ivyanets in the Valozhyn district of the Minsk region." http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/7/20/55447/ http://belsat.eu/en/wiadomosci/a,9248,kgb-allegedly-arrests-16yearold-girl-for-implication-in-teddy-bear-stunt.html This s**t goes beyond Monty Python level of zany. I mean, they've already banned applauding the president at one point, because clapping hands became the symbol of protesters. The way things are going, next they'll just censor any mention of soft toys in the media.

Yep, pilot's found http://www.f-16.net/news_article4601.html

The Soviets didn't get the good Nazi scientists to volunteer, and reverse-engineered what rockets they got. The first Soviet rocket was a V2 clone. Then it was up to home-grown engineers. It's a bloody miracle that this period in space exploration had so few fatalities and saw many successes on the first try. Just think about it, the majority of those launches involved prototypes, or stuff that previously worked only on paper and slide rulers.

I like the "Oh, bummer!" look.

That game is a frigging masterpiece. It's not a combatsim, the gameplay is the one of a generic third-person shooter. But the writing... See, they took the best bits of Apocalypse Now and some pointers from The Heart of Darkness and mixed it up with a bit of interactivity. You don't know what's going on, and what you're really fighting for, but you have to make choices affecting lives, because the voice of an old bastard calls you on the radio. The choice of setting is brilliant: Dubai ravaged by sandstorms. Luxurious hotels lined with refugee shelters, water and bullets more valuable than abundant jewelry, a civil war in full swing, and this madness got a DJ. Oh, and the game really mocks modern "realistic" FPS with their ratings Teen and E for everyone - people don't die in clean funny ways here. There's a demo on Steam, but it's not much in story sense, which is a shame. The soundtrack is not too shabby either http://www.2kgames.com/specopstheline/musiccredits/