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Looks more like the pilot ordered a pizza, talk about new ways for "air delivery"!

False. That would have been the "[shopping] Mall Wart Fiasco". The person below me forgot more than once to extend the landing gear of a Perfectly Good Airplane during landing... and therefore has more than one unforced belly-landing on his record!

That question was phrased a bit odd, Fates, but if I read it correctly, then I must admit that yes, whilst I was a kid, I met David Hasselhoff at a concert of his, actually quite close to home! The concert was cut short though due to rain, but a second one was given in a closed arena some time after, and I think there is a picture of me inside K.I.T.T. somewheres... Oh, those were the days of innocence long gone now... :whistling: The person below me has been hit with a MUFP ( Momentarily Unidentified Flying Pie ) in the face at some point in his/her life.

Eh? You want to compare pirate radio stations with armed piracy that threatens other people's lives and goods? I mean, tuning into a pirate radio station is one thing... having the proverbial cutlass at your throat is something completely different!!!

Couldn't BB61 Iowa be reactivated again?

Heheh... 4 task groups of different nations and each with their ROEs... I wonder if kill-stealing of pirates will be considered piracy in itself?

VF-1S Valkyrie... or should I call it the PHX-HK2 Phoenix Hawk LAM? Or maybe Autobot Jetfire? Anyways, if that ever came out... ZOMG... But seems I'll have to settle for the YF-19, a sexy descendant of that venerable line, and I think it takes the cake in terms of all planes!!!

Stealing a line from Armageddon (merged with another one from another movie): "I've only got five words for you, macelena: The Truth is out there!"

Watching the first episode of Macross Zero, the third episode of Yukikaze, or simply the movie "Stealth" (Jessica Biel pwnz Kelly McGillis) makes me want to go airborne. Yes, it's rather Macross Zero rather than Top Gun which makes me want to climb into the F-14... I think "Top Gun" has gotten it's successor with "Stealth", and I must agree, Val Kilmer is more likeable than Tom Cruise, but if we're going for old-school cheese, I even prefer "The Final Countdown" over "Top Gun". Maybe I just watched "Top Gun" too much as a kid that I just can't stand it anymore...

Only tried BF42, not the others, and don't think there was a point, with all the mods (EoD for Vietnam-scenario, and Desert Combat for BF2...)

What are the specs? Armaments? Could be the ultimate vehicle to handle rush-hour traffic!

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-11-10-eu-...ion-off-somalia

As long as the problem remained an internal affairs thing within somali borders then the rest of the world has little justification to play a heavy hand in that scenario. But I don't doubt for one second that a very hard-handed lesson will make somali "bad guys" think ten times before committing acts of piracy on civilian merchant ships just passing along, minding their own business. And if they don't get the lesson after no pirate is left alive in a while, then they're welcome to commit suicide that way... Nothing like some on-the-job target practice for the navies and marine forces!

OMG it's Skydive in a new paintjob!

I hope all things naval get a chance to play with all sorts of toys (of the deadly kind) on these pirates... Yarrr!! Dispatch them with fire of cannonade and all other things unpleasant! Would be nice if the US would send in the Iowas to deal with them... Well, I just hope that at the end of this operation the navies will have been able to determine the best, most efficient (deadly) way to take out pirates travelling in small but fast launches... If these were the old days then it'd be a "short drop and a quick stop" for all pirates that'd survive...

Last post on this thread will belong to Leeroy Jenkins. "At least I got chicken..."

Yeah, of all the versions, the 4th looks most sexy!

False; stealing a line from the movie Resident Evil Apocalypse: "...please! My s**t is custom!". Never had to destroy a computer of mine, they die on me themselves on their own... The person below me agrees that "Hotshots 2" is the Bloodiest Movie Evar (with highest bodycount)

Bronson, Charles Bronson, played James Bond? Better correct it, the man's name is Brosnan, Pierce Brosnan.

To clear everybody's mind...

Not ugly... That plane just looks so... normal... Kinda like the bastard son of an F-15 with an F-22 with a pitch of Fulcrum (the tail between the engine exhausts), compared to the OP, which is completely different, the only thing that comes close to mind is the XF5U Flying Pancake... is different... Even your Shadowcat looks sexier than the PAK-FA...

His books were eye-openers to me, because, at least most I read, were blended fictions with grains of true facts... I think... RIP!

Nope, I break the record for getting a headache fastest that way... The person below me belongs to the "Mile-high club"...

Even this design presented here looks better than the PAK-FA which looks more like a twisted copy of the F-22... But I agree with allenjb, we need the MiG-37 Ferret, at least that plane looks sexier! (Though ATM for sexyness I think nothing beats GrinchWSLG's YF-19... combining Flanker-esque sexyness with F/A-37 Talon technology!)

I'm also of the oppinion that the original "Bond" Sean Connery is unbeatable, and second place goes to Tim Dalton. But Brosnan is a solid third, since most of his movies included the typical Bond franchise. IMHO I don't mind the Bond of the books being different from the Bond in the movie. I haven't read them all but Moore was the worst. IMHO Craig's flippant manner reminds me of Moore, so I don't like him that much, I prefer Dalton's dry style. Also, a Bond movie should include, of course the "My name is Bond, James Bond" line, the Martini shaken not stirred, Monneypenny's love, M's berating, and Q/R/(S?)'s gizmos, a super-villain with a BIG uber-evil machine/device that gets destroyed in the end, a combat-car that is built to destroy things rather than just weave through traffic and bring Bond from place A to B, oh, and last but not least, a watch with capabilities to leave us dazzled as to how it is possible (as if anything else in the movie was). Not all of Connery's movies covered all aspects in each movie, but they established these criteria. All of Brosnan's movies covered it too I think except Goldeneye (the car was worthless but at least the old Aston Martin made an appearance). The only reason why Casino Royale can be given some slack for only wrecking cars and not even being a movie that ends with the end - and at that it's the first of the Bond movies to have a continuation, giving true meaning to the end credits phrase "Bond will be back" or something like that - is that it's supposed to portray James Bond as a newbie. But James Bond must be the british gentleman macho with babes, watches and automobiles who will beat unlikely odds and destroy great villains, saving the world from peril. Anything else just isn't James Bond.