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I know "our" Chinese were having a big celebration here, nice fireworks yesterday :) Happy New Year!

I think they are just pulling money from it. It's obviously easier to model a WW2 fighter than a more modern jet. Especially in cockpit department(no electronics whatsoever), but also in flight modeling, weapon system, well...everything. But yeah it makes no sense useability-wise

Aaaaaaaaaand which completely SF2NA release unrelated TK's sentence will we interpret as an imminent release THIS weekend?

Who says I am? You brought up justification of downloading of stuff with an out of reach pricetag... Since metal is my thing actually and I have friends from two failed metal bands, I can tell you, they didn't fail because of free downloading, actually they were giving away free singles as a way of promotion. Selling it would lead nowhere... Also a lot of it has to do with popularity of certain music in a certain environment too... I understand it's bad, but just because some kid downloads an MP3 format song of your band does not mean you guys are on the loss, if anything if he likes it, he will tell his friends same as you do when you hear a new and exciting band so once you pull out an album he(and his friends) is more likely to buy it than it would be the case had he never heard of you, also he may go to your concert and bring his friends... Sure you might be loosing some revenue by that but that's also practically the only way you can market yourself with no cost whatsoever...

That is a crime! Yup it's a tragedy that's why musicians are always so poor. When poor Beyonce came to have a baby in the hospital they threw her out and told her to have a baby in a barn...poor musicians so unbelievably poor, actors too, ever seen a rich hollywood actor or director? Me neither. I mean if they were getting any money we would probably know as they would then own villas, private jets, Ferrari's, penthouses on Manhattan, date supermodels and eat and drink stuff that costs more than government values our life. But hey since we don't know any musicians our actors having anything above it must be the freakin terrible piracy that takes it all away... "Priced way out of reach", interesting, we have a word in Eastern Europe for exactly that meaning we call it - "everything".

Also it seems TK was really genuinely interested in which plane we will fly last weekend... :D

The Mig-21 example was given to reflect how even very growth limited designs such as mig-21 can still show remarkable growth possibilities to re-enforce my theory that some older jets which are still far newer and more complex than "AK-47 of the skies" and with far greater growth possibilities could still do the job perfectly fine. Don't forget that F-35 itself is not a big plane either, it's F-16 sized and due to the stealthy shape, it's nose does not provide much room either still enough for the AN/APG-81 though... Sure, no external pods needed but for any meaningful load, external hard points needed very much....which means less stealth, more drag, etc. I highly doubt EOADS couldn't be integrated on F-22 or even some older machines either. The real question is, what kind of airspace denied not only for A-10's and AV-8's but also S-Hornets, Falcons and Eagles would be appropriate for the F-35? It's stealth is already downgraded from very low observability to just low observability, goodbye brother Raptor, hello brother Super Hornet, and on top of that it's internal loadout options are as I said quite low(4!) but hanging external ones means even less stealth. Can such a plane really be appropriate to be sent into airspace with multi-layered air defense and strong air opposition? I mean if for example picking off radars from like 50 miles away with HARMS with awacs supported Eagle escort is too risky how to hell is F-35 suppose to go there and drop say JDAMS on S-300 sam sites and fight Su-35's or God knows what? What? He will fire JASSM's from far away? Sure that's cool, but the list of JASSM platforms is quite long, B-1/2/52, F-15/16/18... On the other hand, maybe it will not go into fight against multi-layered air defense supported with excellent and well equipped enemy air-force, but what will it do then? Drop JDAM's on some camel-f**ers? Heck you can do that with T-6 Texan II, but then Lockheed wouldn't collect several hundreds of bilions of dollars from the defense budjet(s) Now sure I'm not an engineer, military strategist or anything like that, just a mere aircraft enthusiast so ofcourse I have apsolutely no idea how will it turn out in the end, but from the info that comes out, I really see nothing spectacular here(except development cost), it's uber cool in looks department, electronics is like it came out from a Star Trek episode, but aerodynamics department is kinda dissapointing as are the load options under max stealth conditions which are not impressive to start with which in turn gives some raising questions on it's mission purpose...

Maybe in the (our) evening? :)

Strange but chances are they found an image on the internet as license - free...

Hmmm interesting...then again we might be going crazy over the NA so we are seeing things :D

You can attach weapons and electronics to anything, heck the new MiG-21 upgrades can carry smart stand-off weapons which were in SF domain when the plane was made. What will the F-35 carry that Harrier or A-10 can not? Nothing. It's just faster and more manouverable, but not really a fighter, it's stealthy but not as much as F-22 and to be more usefull it will have to carry ordinance on external pylons meaning even less stealth, if it get's shot down, it's a security liability. There's nothing on this plane I see as significant advantage over the mix of the existing ones, it costs like birds milk, does everything a little bit, nothing really good. I mean don't get me wrong, I love that little plane it has some really cool looks, fancy capatiblities, V/STOL on the B version that looks like transformer, it's cool overall very cool, but I don't see any true essence in it. They should had built the F-23 as a brutal fighter-bomber that would make everybody in the solar system to piss their pants...

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Wow

What? Wait! Did he just...oh no he didn't...

Yup that's so true, my cat (Tom) has atleast 9 hrs to lay in my chair while I'm at work, but no, he goes there 15 minutes before I come home, waits for me and then pretends he is sleeping so I wouldn't move him away...

Ultra-awsome!

yup, me too

No I'm pretty sure paint.net and GIMP can do it too, you just need to find out how to edit the alpha channel. Also you can just paint over existing river tiles so you don't have to bother with alpha channel editing...

Yup I agree, no time for switchology here either, just a bit more bling... BTW how long has it been since the last update? Last one was like...last year...

Just did, still don't see how other Persian Gulf nations couldn't confront it just as good especially considering that they are there and have no need for AC carriers but do have apso-freakin-lutely top notch aviation that far surpasses by both numbers and often technology most of the European countries...

No, but frigates, corvettes, minesweepers, patrol boats and support wessels armed with CIWS, Harpoons, Exocets and other SSM-s and armament with even some naval aviation do indeed make a pretty good navy and that's just the Saudis, UAE also have some corvettes and other Exocet armed boats. Ok Qatar is a vee bit pathetic with only about a dozen exocet armed fast attack crafts, Kuwaiti is...well no need to mention... Bahrain is interesting with rather good navy for such a small country even has OHP frigate plus some corvettes all well armed with sams, SSM-s, support helos...nice stuff. The only thing Iran has on them are the subs...

Finally a time has come that an ordinary man can say to Stephen Hawking: "No s**t Sherlock!"

They all have navies...

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