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Julhelm, as I mentioned, I am rather busy. I simply replied and volunteered because no one else had at the time. If NeverEnough has the time and the inclination, then please, by all means assign it to him.

Nils, I can take it, but it will not be ready for several weeks, because of: 1) my work schedule 2) I have other projects that need to gotten out of the way, first

The pilot probably ate him first. And World War Z begins.....

TK simply forgot to add in the animation...the animation where the formerly live pilot shuffles out of the cockpit, starts repeating "brains! brains! brains!" and tries to devour his ground crew. Yes, the pilot has joined the ranks of the walking dead,

It's possible, but it is really meant for Windows Vista and above, as many of the new features require DirectX 10 (effects, terrain, bumpmapped models).

The rate that they fall would obviously be 1 G's worth of acceleration over the vertical distance. Keep in mind that low drag anti-ship bombs dropped from high altitude during WWII would often achieve a terminal velocity approaching Mach 1.

Shush your mouth! Utter his name twice more, and he'll appear like Betelgeuse, and then we'll really be in trouble.

Working on deck flood-lighting for the CV-illumination project. So far, we have this:

This thing looks as if it should be rechristened as an "Ironclad-ram" instead of a DDG. http://gcaptain.com/ddg-1000-bath-iron-works-zumwalt/ USS Dunderberg, circa 1865:

A friend once brought a a black powder "mini-cannon" to work. It resembled the one pictured below. It was not meant to fire a projectile, as it was intended for starting events, such as yacht races. Well, having access to a machine shop at work, we could not leave well enough alone, so we bored it out to enable one to shove a needle-bearing from a 662 wheel bearing down the muzzle. For those of you not familiar with what I'm talking about, imagine a hardened-steel cylinder about .025 in diameter, and about .75 inches long. That was our intended projectile. Our first test firing was disappointing, we so upped the charge in 50% increments, until it could penetrate the side-paneling of an old GMC bus! The building that we shooting this thing off in was pretty much empty, so my maniac of a friend decided to liven things up a bit by shooting at the mobile-home that substituted for a foreman's office. It too, was empty at the time, and sat some 100+ feet from where we were shooting. The report from the now double-charged cannon sounded as loud inside the garage, as a 12-gauge shot-gun with magnum loads. It was in fact, so damned loud, that everyone who was on the property came running in to see what had happened. My friend walked over to the intended target, saw no damage, and decided to call it quits on our experiment. An hour or so later, our shift-foreman strolled into my work area, and in his Irish brogue proclaimed "There's a F@3&ing hole in the office. You wouldn't know anything about that, would you lad?" :

I could use one of these: http://www.wimp.com/cannonfiring/

Erik, there are literally dozens of accounts of dud torpedoes literally bouncing off the hullsides of tramp steamers during WWII. Our own experience in the Pacific during the war verifies this. So what happens when a torp strikes the hardened side of a sub's pressure hull? The nosecone either fragments, or telescopes into the torp's body. Crazyhorse, I can't vouch for a Mark 48, but the Mark 14's used during WWII usually sported a mechanical contact exploder, that essentially consisted of a threaded propeller mounted in a housing inside the torp's nose, which in turn spun a threaded rod tipped with a fulminate of mercury cartridge into the warhead as the fish ran through the water. The propeller's pitch and the detonator rod's thread count usually guaranteed that this would occur after approximately 450 yards. Then, all that was then needed to detonate the warhead (in theory), was a sharp blow of no more than 25 lbs of force, which forced a firing pin into the detonator cap. Of course, the early versions of that fish were equipped with troublesome Mark VI magnetic exploder (which many skippers deactivated), and later models (post war, iirc) used a semi-programmable (electronically fired) contact exploder.

That hole was not caused by a torpedo. A torpedo impact does not leave a neat hole, ala a sabot round. Water pressure from the warhead exploding against the hull would create what amounts to a huge "split" along the welded seam lines, radiating both vertically and horizontally.. I've seen the results of torpedo detonations on wrecks that I've dove on. That bow section appears to have suffered from both an internal explosion, and an implosion from water pressure. Update: There's a good image of what torpedo damage looks like, at the following link: http://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/maru/shinkoku/shink_hole.html#axzz2i5znAqVB

Ah yes, the Aim-4, otherwise known as the $386,000 turn signal.

Clem, as in the San CLEMente monster, Nessie's cousin from California. This giant Oarfish may be the species responsible for sightings of the monster over the years: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-18foot-oar-fish-found-catalina-island-20131015,0,5192122.story Here's an article on the "monster" http://laist.com/2009/01/11/weird_los_angeles_7.php

Will ya stop with the negative waves already?

Those are all from packages that you've probably downloaded in the past, some from individual sound packs, some from all-inclusive addons (such as KAW, for example). "LargeShellHit" and "ShellWaterHit" are two that I created. LargeShellHit.wav ShellWaterHit.wav

So, did the file meet your expectations? : )

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Blind man's bluff is excellent, though keep in mind that it covers everything from the end of WWII to the early 1990s (and not just the Scorpion). I also recommend "The Silent War", by John Craven. He was part of the team that plotted the Scorpion's probable wreck site based on data from the Atlantic SOSUS network. He also pinpointed the most likely spots where the "missing" nuke off Palomares, Spain might be found (in 1966), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pi%C3%B1a_Craven

I can upload it to you when I get home from work tonight (which will be after 11 PM Eastern Time).

Talk about overcoming adversity. This video should be mandatory viewing in schools everywhere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiLDMBDPCEY

Julhelm, any chance of porting that game to Android?

Red Storm Rising was mostly written by Larry Bond. Pick up a copy of "Red Phoenix" or "Vortex"and you'll immediately recognize the writing style as being the same as in Red Storm Rising. I believe that Tom Clancy did most of the research regarding the order of battle of NATO and Warsaw Pact air and ground forces, though (this is speculation on my part). Here's a little write-up on Larry Bond: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Bond

Really? http://www.theroot.com/views/black-tea-partiers-speak