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I got it!! Our Army just published the list of admitted for service, and your humble servant got accepted in all six paratrooper and mountain battalions asked! Finally going for Airborne. I just have to go through the medicals and i´ll be back in the Army, and this time i´m fixed and on a freaking great unit. Can´t wait for "reboot camp"

Check the differences between Marines and Airborne examples, appreciate the latter a bit more. However, it is missing one example of each particular family of wich i can recall now: "Retreat? Hell, we just got here!" from Belleau Wood and the excellent, laconic-Spartan, "Nuts!" from Bastogne.

Just passed the Psychological, Medical and Fitness tests without issue, in one month it will be official and back to the job :D

Mephisto, no se puede pasar pirateria por el foro, si no tienes tarjeta, puedes usar cualquier cuenta bancaria PD. Para la mayoria del foro, el idioma es el ingles, pero puedes ir a la sección en español si no puedes hablarlo

Also take into account, we´ve got much more practice and situational awareness and much less stress and quirks in the game than real pilots would have got in real life. See how newbies keep posting for help because they can´t get to hit anything. Some of us have been here for twelve years, i´ve been seven. After thousands of Sparrow kills, and misses, you get to know how to do it pretty well...ingame.

Must have been collateral damage from the fappening, damn narcissistic celebs and pervy hackers

There is a big gap between going fascist and bending over with your pants down. Islamists think Democracy is our weak point to exploit, so another critical dimension of warfare is politics and law. They don´t really give much of a crap about discrimination, human rights violations and all the stuff we care about and use as an explanation for them to be so pissed at the western cultures, they want to rule the world, and have been this way since their foundation, pretty much like cultural borgs. On the contrary, democracy is our main strenght. Our weak point is demagogy. Respect everybody while taking shit from nobody.

Didn't single missions often generate soviet surface groups in Iceland? If put to effect that could replicate something like a PIRAZ group in the Tonkin gulf, an amphibious group evacuating Saigon and so on

Indeed those are cool, yet too conventional

Besides the vertical aspect, it depends on speed. If i'm faster, i break away, unload an run, if i'm slower and tighter turning, i break into him. If neither...stall it. Did so with unslatted Phantoms against faster going Floggers and it works if you can recover from the spin

Fulcrum's are the sexiest bad guy plane since the Me-109, and Novalogic's sim from the 90s was the aviation nerd's equivalent of fifty shades of grey. No Stary, that's not about skinning...planes

While it was the coolest grandpa in Jurassic Park, and outcooled John Wayne in Brannigan (sorry, mylord, it wasn't your best) i found him most memorable in the Great Escape. It was beyond awesome. Talk about Heath Ledger's Joker...

For once,something we can't complain about

I felt the guy was kind of an asshole, but i don't know how much of it was real or drama. Either way, the day i saw them customizing a perfectly good Thompson into some kind of tactical freak i almost wrote them a letter. With anthrax.

I never had the issue you are talking about the strike element breaking formation to engage radars, in fact sometimes they will keep flying straight with mig-17s flying among them guns ablaze.

69 years ago, aboard USS Missouri, in the bay of Tokyo, the mayor world clusterfuck ended. Mourning them, those who gave all, never will. RIP

Woops, awful fail on me

Suicide itself isn´t selfish, it´s a critical breaking point when people get overwhelmed mentally. I´m beyond sure that the awareness of it´s consecuences to relatives have kept a lot of people from killing themselves, but i don´t think you can blame those to whom it didn´t serve. It is an act of desperation and confusion. Had some close cases, and i guess everybody has, in my opinion they are deliberately underreported. It is plainly insane. I´m not digging into euthanasia nor anything, but it is anyways a tragedy for wich you can´t blame either the suicide or anybody else.

I've been reading about a British ww2 weapon known as the Boys AT Rifle. It looks like a Bren gun on steroids, chambered in a "necked up" 50bmg cartridge and used to counter the lightly armoured german tanks early in the war, and later to destroy fixed emplacements by the British and some USMC unit until replaced with Browning M2s. I was wondering if it could have been more useful if chambered in the 50 cal its cartridges derived from, and if not used as a predecessor to modern heavy sniper rifles, employed like the soviets did with their own all along the war as a support weapon.

Now that you mention that caliber issue, it seems i was inspired by a different kind of profile for the use of the gun. It could have been useful in 12.70mm against halftracks, autocannons, machinegun nests, et cetera, but there was a response to each threat. Indeed, while the Soviets experimented with PTRD/S guns as heavy sniper rifles, they considered them unsuited for precision shooting. I guess that if there was any scenario where a 50 BMG Boys rifle would have made a significant difference, if any, could have been Italy, where the rugged terrain made fighting was more static...much like Korea, where they were tried this way, but with milder weather and on the offensive for the Allies

I can´t discuss in any of the topics dealt with here with my limited knowledge, but i just checked the wikipedia AIM-4 page again. Apparently, the Falcon achieved 5 kills out of 54 missiles fired, so its Pk isn´t as bad on paper when compared to contemporary missiles. However, i don´t know if those 54 firings reported included missiles failing to leave the rails or left useless by the seeker going out of coolant. Apparently, the issues were adressed with the XAIM-4H, but it remains weird that no iniciative allowed for those improvements to be ready before deploying the weapon since, apparently, there were many concerns on their use. Again, complacency loss of focus by some commanders seemed to be an issue regarding this.

Woops, sorry, i just read they indeed were used that way in Korea

Too tight a grouping for a faceshot, perhaps just fragmentation being pellets made specifically?