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On 12/3/2018 at 5:09 PM, MigBuster said:

 

The F-18L - another unloved Light Weight Fighter devoid of orders (Northrop Grumman)

Silly question; Is that a "real" F-18L prototype or actually is a f-17?

On 16/12/2021 at 11:19 PM, macelena said:

People were debating wether it would be F-35s for both the Navy and Air Force, or Typhoons to replace all Hornets.

I think they are still doing it. I've read some really ludicrous ideas (like buying 25 F-35 for the Navy and 25 for the Air Force), but knowing the neverending budget problems for spanish armed forces, I guess whatever choice will be far from ideal.

I never understood why it took almost 40 years for the outer underwing pylons to be used in the F-15.

On 25/5/2018 at 6:08 PM, daddyairplanes said:

well, that should be sufficient if the Kuznetsov passes through the Baltic.

rather suprised the bear hasnt figured out to play with the valve control gas flow to Europe rather than play with the sabre tho

They've probably thought about that already and decided it would be bad for business. I mean, just imagine european countries get bored of that game and decide to buy gas somewhere else.

As I see it, this kind ob bombload wolud require to have bases in the chinese coast to make possible fliying to Japan with a minimal amount of fuel.

Yep, seen it and enjoyed it, quite realistic and daunting. Kenneth Brannah held a great deal of the movie together with his portrayal of a Naval Commander who is tasked with getting the soldiers evacuated from the beaches whilst under constant air attack.

 

The only small criticism I can make is appearance of the fake Me-109 which is infact a Spanish HA-1112 Buchon, but nevertheless I thought it was good enough to add to my movie collection whenever it becomes available on DVD.

 

I would give it 4 stars out of five.       

Actually, I think the fake WWII ships were more obvious than the buchon (reminded me of Pearl Harbor). that aside, I enjoyed the movie.

I liked the movie. And, of course, it kicks once more the corpse of the already veeeery dead expanded universe. Only thing I really disliked is "someone" (you'll see who when you see the movie) is just too tall compared to his older (non GCI) self.

I think P-47 Thunderbolt could fly at 13000 m (roughly 43000 ft)

So , anyone else played F/A-18 Korea? It was quite fun for me, and the instructions book alone was worth the money you paid for that game.

This doesn't matter because Disney decided to ignore the expanded universe.

George Lucas had already decided to ignore not only the EU, but the old movies too, so no big deal.

Jack Ryan's universe lacks a coherent timeline, so don't bother with trying to guess when this or that happenned.

¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Spolier alert.!!!!!!!!!!

"Patriot games" begins with Ryan saving the prince and princess of Wales (Charles and Diana, although their names were never mentioned in the book) and their newly born first son, and ends with Jack Jr being born the following year. This means the book had to start in 1982 and end in 1983.

But, Ryan's next adventure (Red rabbit, his first mission with CIA) ends with Alí Agca's attack against Pope John Paul II, somethins that actualli happenned in 1981.

"The summ of all fears" ends between the end of Dessert Storm and the fall of the USSR, that means 1991. At the end of the book Jack Ryan leaves the CIA.

"Debt of honor" happens 3-3,5 years later, so it should be in mid-late 1994, but the story ends 11 months before next presidential ellection, according to president Durling (so this should happen at least in late 1995, early 1996).

Ryan then becomes president and stays in office for 5 years, so Rainbow six ends 1 month or so before he leaves the White House (Sidney olimpic games) ¿can "The bear and the dragon" take place in such sort time span? I seriously doubt it (I guess Tom Clancy decided to retroactively keep Jack away from a second period to save him from being in office in September 11th 2001).

Also, Ryan becomes president 10 years after the terrorist attack he suffered in "Patriot games", according to some politician. Even if it means "roughly 10 years" (most likely 12 years), Jack jr. would be 12 when Jack Sr. becomes president, 17 when he leaves, and 19-20 when Jack Sr. decides to run for the ellection again. Yet, in the book where this happens, Jack Jr. is actually 23. I guess that's what happens when you set the events of your books in a near future. Things sometimes change in a very unexpected way and the world where those events were supposed to happen no longer exists by the time they should happen.

Of course, if you forget the timeline they are great books.

If they won't make a sequel to TIE Fighter/X-Wing (or a space trading game) with these graphics.... I will be more than offended... phh

Why sequel? Just put this graphics in the original games. The story was good enough for me, at least.

I'm wondering which CV can be seen beyond with its central island, Essex, Midway or Forrestal-class ?

With a central island, I gess it should be an Essex class, or perhaps an Iwo Jima or Tarawa class Amphibious assault ship.

That's important to note...the CF-105 would be a large fighter, similar in size and weight to the F-22, F-15, EF2000, etc.

 

EF2000 is not a large fighter. Its size/weight is similar to that of the F-16/F-35/Rafale.

Good luck man!

Yes, up to a certain point, the main "marketing mistake" of Georges Lucas is to have delayed so much between 1982 and 1998 the first trilogy :

All fans imagined things about the rest of the trilogy and logically, when the new trilogy was released, everybody was shouting treason on some points, which were somtimes justified, sometimes not

People imagined things that actually never came, yes, but some things in the new movies didn't match with what we knew (not imagined) from the first three (like Leia knowing her mother). Then there's the problems of the new movies being far worse than the original three.

I think there are some firefighting missions in "Take on Helicopters"

I'm still waiting for a special edition (old story with modern graphics and sound, like Monkey Island 1&2), but I'm afraid I'll be waiting uselesly for a looooong time. Of course I might think of buying these two just to see the full detail death star (I had to blow it to pieces using the lowest setting, because that was all my old computer coul afford).

 

How many countries that have gained their independance from another state have ever asked to return?

One that I know of :Dominican Republic, in the middle 19th century (deffinitely not the best time to come back to Spain)

Btw many people here asked about what the queen will do, but the really important thing is What will James Bond do? I mean, in Skyfall we finally learned he's scottish, so...

The Super Hornet is too big for that vessel. Look at what happened with the Kuznetsov and the Su-33...Russia is still kicking itself for not getting the MiG-29s from the beginning.

 

So the Super Hornet might've been a good idea IF they'd designed the carrier to be even bigger...like THAT idea would've flown.

How much bigger (and heavier) is the super Hornet compared to the Phantom? I ask because Midway class carriers (also about 65000 Ton) carried Phantoms, and I think the Su-33 is bigger than the Super Hornet (and bigger than the Tomcat too). I think a CTOL carrier with catapults and Hornets might actually be cheaper than the carrier as it is now with F-35 (the way things are going, a Star destroyers with TIE fighters might actually be cheaper than any carrier with F-35)

This is only sport, played by gentlemen (allegedly).

Actually, that's Rugby. Remember the old saying: "Rugby is a barbarian's game played by gentlemen, while football -soccer, if you are from USA- is a gentlemen's game played by barbarians" (or something like that).

Iran is sending Revolutionary Guards ground units to reinforce the Sunni Maliki government of Iraq. We are very seriously contemplating airstrikes. When did you ever think that U.S. airpower would be flying CAS for Iranian ground troops. This is fucking surreal.

Has politics ever stopped being surreal?

What a shame. The referee looks either retarded or something, but we should have scored another goal before the first Dutch one. From then onwards, the referee and demoralization screwed us well. The Dutch physical condition is awesome, they were everywhere, rough play, but an outstanding game by them

Things like that happen when players are chosen because they're someone's friends instead of choosing the ones who played better along the season.

I mean, 7 players from a team that made an awful season and won absolutly nothing? Seriously?

would those people complain about reenactors wearing japanese uniforms? I doubt it, and yet, the japanese didn't behave better than the nazis in WWII (And we could say almost the same red army and others).

I've a very bad feeling about this sort of reboot.

Abrams butchered Star Trek. He'll maul Star wars.

 

And the worse isn't even the cast of the new films or Disney's acquisition. It's the annoucement that all the Expended Universe is hereby forgotten.

George Lucas already killed the Expanded Universe (or, more propperly, it never existed for him, except when the time came to get money from it). Actually, some things from the EU were difficult to fit in the movies universe (And  I'm talking about movies already existing when the EU novels were written). To make things worse: Some things from the second trilogy go against what we saw in the first one. So, nothing new here.