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Yeah but they fail to mention Rhapsody...

Happy Birthday!!!

Nope not really but I'll hoist a glass anyways! Btw, I didn't quite get the video - was that one drone being piloted by one and the other controlled the camera, or is it one drone per pilot station?

Where you got hit by the... incest scandal of Josef Fritzl! Scandal, scandal everywhere! There are almost more scandals than sandals!!!

Maybe in stockings?

A cruise down there in a submarine should be peaceful enough...

False, I never had lice, especially lice begging for attention. The person below me is also old enough to prefer skipping Xmas and all its stress, and go directly to the New-Years-Eve party!!!

Why do you say that? As long as it's long and hard on the outside - she probably prefers it that way - she wouldn't want to give birth to a cyborg I bet...

I thought the F-35 wasn't going to go forward... not the smartest way to go with it - since Queen Elizabeth is going to be a large carrier class, they should try to make a navalized Typhoon - would create even more Euro-jobs... And the problem with retiring these before the successors are available is that England won't even be able to offer the Falklands to the Argentinians for sale - since they'll probably be able to take them with their military for free (well, provided there aren't any accidents and nobody wants to play a hero that is)...

One more reason to be surprised as to why no ready answers were given. Heck, call it an "awareness-test" or whatever - answers should have been delivered promptly (and I'm betting the military tracks civilian flights just as well or better than the civilian ATC)... Makes those who's task it is to defend the country by being always vigilant look like they're sleeping on the job when they give a "I don't know" answer to such an apparently simply answerable question... UNLESS, it really wasn't what everybody is lead to believe it was, and hoped that someone came with the right kind of smokescreen (pun intended) that everybody could swallow without choking on it... *gets tinfoilhat out of the closet*

What I was implying was that the contrails are at position X in the map, it should really be just a question of checking the flight path data from radar screens/plotters - I mean, I admit I don't work in the "air industry" but I guess that ATC has some sort of machinery that keeps track of flights - well, at least civilian ones so it would just be a question of going to the back logs and checking: What plane went through that place at that time - simple as that. Or don't they have that?

If this really was just contrails from a commercial plane on a scheduled flight then this must be the biggest fail of the FAA and the U.S. military for not being able to say so right away - and given the high-tech nature of the U.S. I'm not convinced they didn't know or would be able to say right away what it was if it was just a harmless civilian plane (I bet the USAF watches civilian planes carefully ever after the 9-11 attacks). I say baloney!!! It was something else.

If the GAU-8 has the force to slow the forward momentum of the 'hog in flight during an extended firing run, I wonder how fast a Beetle could go with the GAU-8 mounted facing backwards and firing away?

Do they also read "I voted (party xyz) so don't blame me it's not my fault!" too? I remember seeing such stickers but in Germany...

Happy B-days!!!

Finally someone came up with a good use for the iPod... J/k, I also own one and I'm glad someone else is taking his out to the front lines... Stay safe out there!!!

So what they're doing is giving the U.S. money for hardware that possibly the U.S. military - either openly or covertly - will be using in the war against Iran (since the saudis don't have enough people to make use of their own stuff)? Talk about a forward deployment of military hardware, now that they're pulling out of the "hot zones" of the area (Iraq)... AND with a financial benefit for the U.S. in the mean time!!! That's what I call a smart move from the U.S.!

My guess is they want to do something similar story-wise to Stealth, or something... Maybe they'll throw in planes being not controlled by AI but overtaken by h4xx0r terrorists or something with the piloted fighters saving the day again... Meh, no matter what, as long as it displays only newly-shot aerial footage, I'm 100% in favor!

'Top Gun 2' in development, with star Tom Cruise reportedly set to return Supposedly a new movie portraying the end of the fighter-pilot era to be replaced by either RPVs or AI-controlled aircraft... who knows...

Well, let's just hope they fix it soon, would be a shame to kill innocents and let the bad guys get away just because of some faulty code... Couldn't they just patch it up or hasn't enough time passed for the corrections to be ready to be implemented?

Well, kudos for having their own air footage and not stolen from other films. Don't know if the smoke trail is a must with the phantoms but at least the one that was damaged should have had smoke trailing for the effect... Also, good that they show their bombing isn't 100% accurate and I loved the part where the iraqi twisted his shirt and then put it to dry on the barb wire... A fail from whoever posted the video though, those weren't cluster bombs AFAIK, what I saw was carpet bombing...

I didn't know the russians were so willing to share info, much less on something of this nature...

I've said it before, I'll say it again... The TRUTH is out there!!! :ph34r:

I thought standard sniper ammo these days was .50 cal or 12.7mm... [cue monty python]And now for something completely different...[/cue monty python] 1000th Post!!! Yeeehaw!!!

PORTUGUESE CORPORATION: You buy two calfs. They're healthy and will produce alot of milk. Unfortunately, the cost of the equipment to milk the cows is so expensive you have to mortgage your house, for which you're still paying till the end of your life, just so you can buy the equipment. The equipment arrives and you milk the now cows, but then the next problem arrives - you want to sell the milk. Nobody buys the milk because it is available, imported, at a third of the price in the supermarket. When the banks threaten to evict you because you can't pay the mortgage, you and other cow farmers protest to the government that national produce isn't consumed internally, although national production of milk is near self-sufficient. The E.U. directives though prohibit self-consumption, rather wanting to pay for farmers to not produce milk so it can (forcibly) be acquired from Germany, France, and other E.U. countries. But the portuguese agricultural ministry takes too long to fill out the papers so when it finally moves a bit the compensation offer from the E.U. has already withdrawn. The bank evicts you from your house, the gypsies steal your cows and having too much pride to end your life a beggar, you throw yourself onto some railroad tracks, ending your misery - thus "your" cows outlive you.