Fubar512

It's an aircraft.

Skyviper, you are correct in one respect. You are looking at a heavy rain storm approaching from the vessel's port side. I happen to know that this boat is tied up at its slip in a small marina. Notice the diagonal line near the center of the display ? That's the land and docks in that marina, and in the surrounding area. The target at 8 o'clock traces back from a thin line and then gets "thicker" as it goes along. The antenna sweeps every 3-4 seconds. To make a line like that at that distance (given the sweep interval) requires a bit of headway. Hint: It's not another vessel.

Witnessed two eclipses a long time ago (in March of 1970 and July of 1972). Both were partial eclipses in my area, and in the latter event, I set up a telescope on a street corner with a sun projection screen so passers-by could get a safe look. What I remember being cool about the 1972 event, was seeing literally thousands of projected images of the eclipse caused by the sun shining through the tree leaves in the area.

The answers to those questions can be found here: http://combatace.com/forum/268-thirdwire-strike-fighters-2-series-knowledge-base/ Admittedly, it may take a bit of searching, but trust me, the answers are there. Now, do you have other SF2-series titles already installed? If you do, then you'll find that SF2:NA has merged with them. What that means, is that you now have access to the IcelandNA terrain, and the SF2NA ground objects (ships), from inside the other titles. That makes things rather easy, when it comes to modding.

Hey Kevin, Here's a late Higgens boat, with a 37 and a 20 mm on the foredeck, the standard 2X twin 50s, a 40 mm on the fantail, an additional 20 mm just forward of that, four torps on lightweight racks, 2 (MK7?) depth charges, and 5" rocket racks, port & starboard!

Uh, no way. The fore deck on the Elco and Higgens boats were not reinforced for that sort of weight, and field mods were limited to lighter weapons, such as 20 mm or the even lighter (weight) 37 mm scrounged from a P-39 For example, the Oerlikon 20 mm weighed about 400 lbs fully loaded on a fixed tripod mount, and just over 600 lbs when mounted on a reinforced pedestal. A single Bofors L60 40mm weighed in at just a hair over 1000 lbs on its pedestal mount, which is why it was limited to being mounted near the fantail, where the flatter sections of a PT's running bottom would still provide enough dynamic lift to allow the boat to achieve planing speed in a reasonable amount of time, and not adversely affect its top speed. It also required a crew of four to man it. So that being said, a twin 40 mm mount would probably push 2,200 lbs (or more, as the powered quad 40 mounts on BBs and CAs weighed in at over 25,000 lbs!), and would undoubtedly effect the boat's ability to plane off. Also, due to the sharp entry on either Elco or Higgens hulls, even a single 40 mm mount would probably cause what's referred to as "bow steer". That's where either hull's sharp entry would catch on a wave, and cause the bow to dart to either side. I have some experience with bow steer. I once ran a 55-foot sports fisherman, that displaced just over 40 tons, or about half the weight of a loaded PT boat. The owner had replaced its original, bow mounted 15 foot RIB, with a 17 foot Boston Whaler, and just that additional 500 lbs on the fore deck was enough to burn out the auto-pilot's steering motor. In fact, the boat ran so much better with no weight on the bow, that I made him remove the dingy completely when we were running out of our home port. Here's an image of the '109, showing it's stern mounted 20 mm Oerlikon on a reinforced pedestal. Note the additional deck reinforcement beneath the pedestal itself. Now, an interesting weapon, was the Elco "Thunderbolt", which featured quad Oerlikons, with either dual or even quad .50 cals on either side. Talk about a shit storm!