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Back from first week, got a pass. I´m not allowed to post pics nor discuss anything about the job, but so far, i´m loving it.

Nuts, Nuts everywhere

Yes, there is an Egyptian Nile valley camo:

Just put on the exe file, accept everything until it is ok

No, no new film...so far, i think they are still about to go with a TV series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwlVCGXErHo I seem to remember the first one was not that violent, but this will be epic, either a win or fail.

Perhaps fiddling with the Dive or level bombing AI in the aircraft´s data ini could do, but this would change their attack profiles for every target, sea or land. If you are having an aircraft dedicated specifically to attack ships with dumb bombs, like Argentines in the Falklands, it would work flawlessly, however, any input could have its downsides

Being a Hipster is not just about the birth control glasses...wait a minute...hipster tanker? Oddball, is that you?

Hipsters don´t like Israel i guess. When ideas become fashion...

In my opinion, it will be the same it ever was, only more complex, and more stuff to learn about. OODA loop principles with newer technology, training, learning, thinking out of the box, empathy... whenever men are fighting, it will allways be the same.

Thanks a lot. Today it was October 12, National Party. Besides the usual parade, the "Escuadrilla" (Company in the Air Force) i´m being sent to was the one to fire the salvo during the "Homage to the Fallen", probably the most important event of the day. For once, mom seemed more proud than concerned, but yesterday´s casualty of another Air Force "defender" the same morning as i told the news creeped her out a bit. "Hi Dad, Mom, i´m back from the MoD office, i´m in, Air Force, Royal Guard" then Dad said "Hi Mac, congrats, you know, one of yours just got killed today, RIP". I still don´t know how to tell her when i do the Paratrooper course. About how we keep up on a low budget, and this is just my own opinion, we use to spend the money on stuff that works. There are many things i wish were better, but i guess that right now, the best way we can defend Spain is to make do with as little as we can need to keep our capabilities, both structurally and operationally. And people works really hard on that, from enlisted to flag officers. I´ve been quite lucky to get a vacant, with the current downsizing, there was one for every 28 candidates.

Los Mirage 2000 hubiesen quedado obsoletos en unos años. Peru pretende comprarnos Eurofighter de la primera tranche, Brasil va a retirar próximamente sus Mirage, que podrian haber sido para Argentina. Creo que la mejor opción hubiesen sido los Gripen, aunque dudo que puedan permitirselos cuando apenas pueden mantener operativa su flota actual con los recursos de que disponen. Si es por falta de fondos en general, o porque el gobierno Argentino no destine presupuesto a Defensa, no lo se, pero asi estan las cosas. Los JF-17 chinos podrian ser otra opción. Dassault ya ha demostrado que esta dispuesta a vender el Rafale mucho más barato para la exportación, que al propio Ejercito del Aire Francés, que podría haber pecado de proteccionista con este programa, pero creo que sigue saliendose del precio que Argentina esta dispuesta a pagar. A nosotros no nos viene mal. Nos quitamos de encima aparatos a los que no nos salen operativamente rentables (para que invertir personal y recursos en un Mirage pudiendo emplearlos en un Tifón) y sacamos algo de dinero. Lo curioso es que aun tras lo de YPF vendamos un sistema de armas entero a Argentina. Lo cierto es que recientemente, con las ultimas polémicas en torno a Gibraltar, la prensa sensacionalista británica se exaltaba con la venta. Si alguien se proponia devolverle a Argentina lo de YPF con un "troyano", y distraer la atención de los británicos hacia el Sur, ha jugado bien sus cartas. Si era su idea de apaciguar a los argentinos y que no nacionalicen mas empresas españolas, creo que lo ha hecho mal, por decirlo suavemente. Respecto a los propios aviones: Técnicamente, nunca tuvimos Exocet en versiones AM, aunque el Mando de Artilleria de Costa dispone de montajes portatiles, similares a los improvisados precisamente por Argentina en la Guerra de las Malvinas. Las células de los aviones han sido revisadas y actualizadas, las horas de vuelo no deberian ser un problema. No han dado ningun problema en este sentido. Los dispensadores de Chaff y bengalas ALE-40 se integraron antes de la decisión de adoptar el Hornet, alla por 1983, al poco de recibir el último lote de F1EE para el 462 Escuadron. Antes de ello, no se recurrió ni a Pods ni a instalar señuelos en el receptáculo del paracaidas de frenado. Respecto a los Matra Super530, los misiles fueron descartados tras poco tiempo de servicio, al igual que los Matra 530 de primera generación, considerandose de escasa capacidad. Se propuso integrar el AIM-7P, pero el EdA decidio dejarlo como un avion de ataque, dada la disponibilidad de F-18 y la inminente entrada en servicio del Tifón. El principal metodo de ataque del F1 era su sistema de navegación y tiro para bombas convencionales. Permitia el empleo de las armas en toda condicion meteorológica, contando con CCIP, y CCRP en varios modos, y podía actualizarse mediante datalink con FAC, para diferentes blancos. Antes de que el programa TLP se trasladara a Albacete, su última base, se consideró un sistema más fiable y preciso con mal tiempo que cualquier sistema de guiado excepto las JDAM, aunque más barato. Se integró el mismo sistema JDAM, con posterioridad al programa M, a unas pocas unidades, aunque no se llegaron a emplear, destinandose los fondos al programa Taurus. En resumidas cuentas, el programa es barato, y otorga una amenaza creible, aunque en un conflicto serian probablemente inferiores a cualquier fuerza aerea de la zona salvo que se complemente con un sistema mas moderno (o se desarrolle una doctrina operativa similar a la de la fuerza aérea india con los MiG-21), permiten a la FAA hacer tanto daño al adversario como para evitar que sea rentable amenazar su soberania. Prefiero tener Tifón y Hornets, pero creo que si necesitan disponer de una fuerza aérea creible, ahi tienen su base.

Well, today it was confirmed, Air Force, Security&Defence, Royal Guard. Have orders to report for training Monday 21st. I've been told training is going to be harder than other stations of my speciality, but honestly i can´t wait. As a sad note, a would-be air force security mate died today after tripping off a cliff while on patrol guarding a Radar Station in the mountains, a few kilometers away from here. I hope i can live up to him and all others.

I just read your message in the Spanish Forum, as it seems translated by Google, i imagine that it will be better if i provide any feedback here, in English. Can´t promise as tomorrow i´m meant to recieve orders to join the real Spanish Air force in a few days, but i´ll do what i can.

Good guy Ravenclaw!!

a f*#%@ton of cash? DCS guys do that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJZtRt5INA0 Hey, i´m good with a SEALs flick per year. This one is gonna kick ass.

For the expansion pack, you would need SF2E and SF2V, i think. However, even if you don´t want to buy all what it takes for it to work, that´s what i think you get from other TW stuff if you have money to spend on it: SF2V gives you carriers plus a lot of USN aircraft. That being said, SF2V is my favourite title and with the SF2NA features, you can get single missions from carriers with little editing SF2E gives you, beside the other campaign of this war, a flyable F-4E (75) for the 57th FIS out of Keflavik. Along with two RAF Phantom squadrons as a reinforcement. Along with a lot of USAF and RAF aircraft from the era. RAF harriers use to deploy from the tricky to operate and name airstrip in the northwest corner of the island in single missions. As of useful DLCs: F-4N is my personal favourite. You get to play with an ass-kicking underdog, easier to land on carriers than Tomcats, and another model for variety in the fighter arena. The model has been fixed and looks superb. F-4Ks would make up the aforementioned RAF reinforcement. Along with French Crusaders, they deploy from USN carriers, but the latter is lacking performance in many areas for the Northern Sabre campaign, could be way too challenging. Also especially useful is the mission editor, either as a DLC stand-alone or from Expansion2. Specially if you want to strike something other than the soviet battlegroup in single missions. Preferably as part of EXP2, since it can be installed now without having SF2E and includes a hell lot of features, including the Lightning variants.

Stealth is the way to go, but not as an invincible tool. Like the armour versus gun race. In the end, i think it will all be up to networked, integrated systems, both within the own aircraft and the different platforms, and the way they work together. It is not such a new trend but the same situation with new technologies. A Mirage 3 is not inherently better than a MiG-21, and the MiG-29 could take on an F-15 in a dogfight anytima, however, what made the Israelis win in 1967 and 1982, and the F-15 to dominate in 1991, was teamwork and trickery.

ouch! it loops into this page again

Just to make a poll, how many of you can see your RSR book from where you are right now? I looked at my 9 and there it was

Wow, never liked the guy, but i think this deserves a re-read of Red Storm Rising and a SF2 reenacment. RIP Btw, they should dedicate him the upcoming "Jack Ryan"

While as a foreigner i´m neutral to your politics, Stolen Valor comes to mind.

The Egyptians had another such scramble not too long ago. In the Middle East, with the proliferation of UAVs, i guess nodoby is going to discard an small, slow and weird radar signature as a possible intruder anymore.

Using you as a human shield in a motorbike so a guy in a SUV with his familiy stops to get beaten by you and dozens of buddy freaks. Effing great idea, you earned a Darwin award