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I thought NATO was supposed to be comprised of allied countries. Seems like a few combatant countries snuck in there too. Countries like France want to reap the benefits, but dont want to put forth the effort for it. Seems like NATO is a waiste of time these days.

You would think that X-Plane they were in would have at least some chaff or flares.lol Maybe a cloaking device.lol Was a pretty cool movie though, leaves plenty more for Xman3

Ok CowboyTodd, you gotta give us more info than that bud. What is this Hornet 4.0 and is it a rehashed Hornet Korea or a totally new sim? How about realism, can we expect something along the lines of Janes F18? What about Campaign, Flight models, Damage models, Multiplayer, Mission builder, yadda yadda. More Intel please

hmmm, Could be Chief. Good call.

HooYaa Sailor!

Thats the view from the Co-Pilot seat of the S3-B. The windshield wipers gave it away. LOL

Yeah those poor airborne guys got dropped right in the middle of a mud pit, poor guys.

Keep in mind that to be awarded the CMH you have to be recommended for it by commanding officers. Anytime a CMH is being recommended there is an investigation to see if the person actually deserves to get the CMH. We don't know the whole story yet, but perhaps she fought off Iraqi troops during the ambush, or gathered some kind of intel while being a POW, etc. I can tell you having been through SERE training myself and knowing what its like to be a POW (although in training, but very realalistic). It is hell on you mentally and physically. I couldn't imagine the pain she must have been in with the injuries she had and especially being a female not knowing whether you were going to be raped or sexually assaulted in some way. From what I have seen this girl is tiny physically and the fact that she was still alive when rescued is amazing in itself. She may not have been in a "Combat" unit, but she sure as hell performed as though she was and for that she is a Hero IMO. When your a POW your only goal is to stay alive by any means possible while still providing resistance to your captors, she did that. Does she deserve the CMH? I don't know, it depends on what the investigation of the events turns up and if it turns out she fought of the attack as well as surviving being a beat up POW then YES give her the CMH. My only fear is that the other male troops in that unit gave thier lives trying to protect those females in that unit, which is something they teach in SERE school and a reason commanders hesitate about women in combat. Men naturally take on a protective stance when women are involved, and I'm willing to guess that she is alive today because those guys tried to protect her in some way. I'm not against women in the military, but I'm just being realistic.

OMG that hilarious!

well if any of you are old enough to remember the Berlin wall comming down and how big that was, this ranks up there IMO.

Dude! check it out. Iraqi citizens chased a group of Al Jazeerah reporters across the border into Kuwait because of the lies they have been telling on TV. How cool is that. lol

Yeah I thought it was pretty funny when he said Americans were commiting suicide at the city limits of Baghdad. The American troops were two blocks away and when the reporter told the American Commander what the Info Officer said the Commander replied: " Well, I think we need to go across the street and introduce ourselves." LOL

well it is going to turn into a different kind of war now. Civil unrest. Now that there is no government the transition period will be dangerous. troops will turn from fighting a war to being peace keepers like in Bosnia and Somalia. I worry about the small groups of suicide bombers, many of which are not even Iraqi but Alcada or taliban who filtered in from Syria and Iran to take pot shots at our troops.

Yeah but Terminator the whole problem is that the F18 would require A/G radar and a significant avionics upgrade from the SU33. Its not just the carrier ops, but actually adding A/G avionics to LOMAC for a Hornet.

I posted this on another thread but later saw this one so here it goes. My experience with Helo sims comes mostly from LongBow2 and a little EECH. Will the realism of this Helo sim compare to either of those two? What types of missions can be flown and what types of Helo platforms can be used? IE- troop transport/SAR with a Blackhawk or maybe scouting with a Kiowa, or will this just be attack only with Commanches? What type of campign is being planned? Dynamic, force on force dynamic, scripted? and if so will the campaign be flyable online in coop. EECH has a awsome campaign but because of the instability online it is difficult to get running. Obviously realism will be scalable as most sims are now days, will Fair strike be for the rookies as well as scale up to the hardcore crowd? What kind of environment is planned? Will we have weather, wind, realistic terrain with trees, buildings, roads with traffic, etc etc? IMO- I would be very happy with a sim with the realism and immersion of LongBow2 but with updated graphics, Will FairStrike compare to this at all? Thanks

Wow, this just popped up on the radar from nowhere, glad to see another Helo sim in the works. A few questions I have and hopefully they haven't been covered yet: 1) What kind of campaign will be planned? Dynamic, Static predesigned missions, etc? 2) What types of Helos and missions will be available ie Attack, Support, Recon, etc? (will it just be Commanches etc or will we have something along the lines of Blackhawks, etc for those of us who want to fly troops around, etc) 3) Multiplayer, will multiplayer options be planned and if so will we be able to fly the campaign online with our buddies either head to head or coop? Thanks and good luck

Bold statement there, do you have confirmation of this and from who?

We plan on being there

me at work

Ranger, I was hyped up on SFP1 before release because I was under the misconception that it was a COMBAT FLIGHT SIM. It turned into nothing more than a testbed for Photoshop and 3DMax. You look through the forums at simhq about SF and see how many posts you get from people actually FLYING SF. Nothing but thread after thread of modding news and "How toos" of data editing. I do all my flying online so as of right now No I'm not happy with SF and it offers me nothing. It will be interesting to see what it turns into in another year or so, but right now there isnt enough there to keep me interested in it. Some of us arent into mods and editing, we just want to fly combat. :)

Interesting that you use the term "Hackers" because thats exactly what I dont want to see happen. If you want 50 aircraft flyable then you have to settle for "arcade avionics and flight models" no thanks! I think they have just enough flyable aircraft in there now to still keep them realistic. Addons? sure would be cool, but I want them comming from the developers not Jo Shmo using 3dMax and no comprehension of realism. Last thing i want is a squadron of blimps attacking my airbase :roll: I like the way the IL2 guys approach addons. Build it, send it in to oleg, if it's good enough then Oleg puts it in a patch. Seems fair to me and a way to keep things honest. I would accept any addon Matt and his crew wanted to do whether it be a UK aircraft, US, Russian, etc. It would be nice if they were to add a Multirole plane and added A/G radar for all the guys whining about it. lol

Well I'm sure this rumor will make its way to Matt soon enough and we will hear something about it in a journal entry or something. Personally I would trade a DC for a Hornet anyday as I feel dynamic campaigns are over rated (unlees its like EECH which was awsome), but none the less I think a hornet in Lock-On is highly unlikely right now.

For those of us who dont have the talent or time to "mod" SF I think it's one of those sims you put on the backburner for about 6 months to a year and then see what happens. IMO the days of sims like F15, LB2,F18,F4 are gone. LOMAC might be the last of the true "Hardcore" sims and it may even fall short when comparing to older generation sims like I mentioned above. Like Fates I think SF can be considered a "Hardcore" sim, afterall it's much better than any arcadish Novalogic game, but it's problems hold it back right now. Maybe one day multiplayer will work without a hitch and we will have a viet nam campaign (in the works I believe) and carriers in which to launch and recover from.

lol

No Multiplayer= already dead for me. Im not interested in a CFS type game with addons out the wazoo or painting planes, I just want to fly in combat online. Just my preference