Dave

Imal, come here. Take your F-14 and test this Hawk on it. May Allah be with you....... Sorry that is not the kind of conversation I would of wanted to have as a fighter pilot. LOL

I don't think he means us Typhoid. Good points John.

Does anyone here have a hidden talent? Mine for example is cooking. My mom was chef for a time and my dad is still a master BBQer. So I learned everything I could from them, as my wife can attest to. When we are stationed together I do all the cooking and BBQing. I have won several awards for my beercan chicken and brisket. What can any of you do? How did you get started? Has any of you turned your talents into your job?

*RANT ON* And that ladies and gentleman sums it up. It has nothing to do with what our opposition has or has not. We don't care to be honest, we care defeating that threat. That is what I do for a living now working C2 for AWACS. My job is to deny the enemy use of the air. Will there be dogfights in the future? Sure, but you know what, that is not about what we do. It’s about killing them before that happens using the technology we have. Too many of you still think its like Korea or Vietnam. But it isn’t, and as I said its about who can swat them out of the sky first and the team with the better training and toys wins. Other countries do have great toys, but lack the training programs at the great lengths the USAF, USN, USA and USMC go to train their pilots. I am sorry if I am touting how great the US military air arms are but we ARE that damn good. We train to fly, fight and win. Period. Everyday my AWACS go up to train. I can't tell you how many training sorties we fly a day as well as training / air controlling with other units in the US who are training too. The amount is staggering. It’s easy to read a few articles and thus you are now an "expert" but people like FC and I do it for a living. We know the reality of it that no article or internet forum or arm chair pilot will ever know. Some of you who fly WOE/SF/WOV have talked about wanting modern scenarios to fly in. Well take Desert Storm for example, if we do a mod like that like it was, guess what, people would complain by the lack of opposition or difficulty. It will start out intense but by the 2 week of the campaign, there was little to no opposition to the air campaign. And don't blah blah blah me to death about how inept Saddam’s forces were, it was until after, was that realized. At the time Baghdad was one of the most heavily defended cities in the world and he had the 4th largest air force in the world. We estimated that the first night we were going to lose at least 2 or 3 dozen aircraft. But training, planning and execution turned those figures into nothing but cow poo poo. That folks is total air dominance. That is how to fly an air war. *RANT OFF*

I thought you did origami?

Never said it couldn't be shot down. Any of them can be. The F-15 has never lost in A2A combat doesn't mean it can't be shot down one day either. Its the guy who see the other first who will win. Very true.

However, the bad guys will never get that close to a F-22 to even use it. It will kill you dead and you will never knew what it was that killed you. Its stealth technology and passive detection systems will make the bad guys a target long before anyone know the F-22's are in the area. You have to see it to kill it and you can't see it.

Moo, the sound your mother makes Alex......I love that skit in SNL.......

This is also a LGB called the Pave Storm in the weps pack.

I use the CH Products GUI and I do not have any problems like that. Is your Direct X up to date?

Since we are the topic of Live Earth..... What are you doing to stay "Green" if anything? Do you have any energy saving tips we can all use? One thing though, this topic is not to discuss whether you think global warming etc is real or not etc etc etc, keep the politics of pollution out of it. My family recycles everything we can. Also we switched out all the light bulbs in the house for the energy efficient ones. Kind of more expensive but they do last longer. Also we keep the AC running at 78 degrees, that may sound warmer than most but we run celling fans all over the house and you can run those for pennies a day. I never knew that until a couple years ago. A ceiling fan in conjunction with an AC set to 78 has the same affect as one set to 70 to 72. My bills went down on the average of $31.56 a month by doing that.

No price, when it gets out of hand we squash it, but in my eyes, the pub is for anything. Its up to us mods, admins and founders to say when enough is enough. All the others who run this site agree. I think we can have a good conversation here at CA without it going nuts and I will have more leeway than some other sites. It all depends on the crowd and not the subject.

Hey ez, we got plenty of F-4's if you are looking for the Rhino....

I am command and control in the AF, there is no such thing as sleep.

I got a better idea... watch this.....

Finishing it up now. About another hour or 2 at the most. Notice anything?

CHOO CHOO!

I suggest a PM to him.

I picked it up with the hopes the patch would help it, it didn't. Paid $38.95 at the BX will part with it for 30 bux and I will pay the shipping. Price is negotiable.

Yes Fast Cargo already said it once, talk about the plane.

Many thanks sir!

Just remember the 17th flew D models. No laser pods, had to be illuminated from the ground. If you want laser pods, then use the F-111F with the 48th TFW.

Um it does.......

I have everyone of the 48th and 27 TFW's done. All squadrons.....

Um dude you are killing yourself for work I already did....