Lexx_Luthor

Blue:: What changes do you think are coming after the survey they sent? Will the daily email require a subscription fee? I don't know. Not subbed up. I just visit the web page, which is fast, neat, and of course, at times funny. Typhoid is the soul to ask if subs offer more info, and offer a possible fee. Neither is advertised on the site...ah...as far as I saw anyway.

Thanks Gep, very interesting.

*thump* Nightwatch humour is BACK. ...concerning the Mystery Airstrikes against islamic militia in Libya. For the night of 26 August 2014:: Emphasis added. The last line, pure fact (non commentary), having no need of being stated, but added for a tad of cynical humour. A wea bit of humour is needed these days. I'm learning something.

Gepard:: Would you describe in detail that new doctrine? If I recall Tom Cooper's articles, at least one, or some, Syrian MiG-23 pilots briefly did very well in MiG-23.

Do you have McGill's book? Get it. One thing, not just the Labour.gov, but Rolls Royce was eager to sell to any buyer, sadly, because US was eager to push Britain out of the soon to grow post-war global aviation market. Also, McGill's Namsi book. Get both.

ordway, I read somewhere recently (where?) that they have a special squadron trained for this, flying close to intimidate. Not sure, but wouldn't be surprised. Wasn't there a pair of Hornets collided with each other while playing around a Russian or Chinese plane about a decade ago? Another one....I think there was a Russian badger -- or something -- buzzing a US navy ship and flew into the sea. I've forgotten everything about these two incidents. Dumb me.

mako, that's a good thought. The names of ye olde Royal Navy fighting ships, like AJAX love that name. Although there is the post-modern USNS Impeccable today, sounding like an old RN ship. The most inspiring names have to be the classical US NAVY submarines, named after sea life, best fitting diving ocean going vessels. We too once had amazing designs on our gold and silver coins, as did Mexico, and Europe in its true pan-European common currency of the 1900s. Germany became teutonically efficient at naming ships after men...Politicians and Admirals. Naming ships after men and picturing men on currency could be a sign of Empire decay, as the only thing men can do by themselves since Adam is decay. Its almost biblical lol.

Nice add thanks. Gracie and Sven Ole..Thorgrim, aussum 2sum

Wow... also, recent heart surgery, depression, cancelled show, running out of money from divorces, etc... on top of trying to kick drugs. What else? He had lots of issues going on. He also had so much going on that didn't require much money...cycling, long time fan of miniature war gaming, like us...!! Rusty I'm poasting this and I see "Robin Williams" in your poast. I never realized until now that I have always thought the name Robin Williams, just the name alone, looks written and sounds lighthearted good natured, credible and honest and this happens. I've read Robin was rather empathic or somethning, feeling pain of others. To me, best role EVER was Popeye!!!!

Good! I don't have sound on my computer, but any Hoover talk would be interesting by definition, so there. Looked him up: Escaped Germany with stolen Fw-190, flew chase for X-1 Chuck, had Hoover Nozzle and Hoover Ring named after him, etc... That reminded me of the Mansfield Bar required under big trucks after Jayne Mansfield got killed in a car running under a truck. Thanks. He looks great. hmmm...Trained dive bombing with F-86? If anybody could dive bomb with an XB-70 (NAA), it would be him.

wow, huge Popeye fan here, very sad this. A very interesting man for sure.

Thanks for reminding me. I have to get the DVD Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines Czhec out the link... I have Bleriot XI book pubbed out by Nat Air~n~Space Museum. Also, Taube Dove of War pubbed up by Historical Aviation Album. Two great mono~planes. They may be available at teh amazon, the books not the planes. If so, maybe do a review in the book thread.

EDIT ... Sorry, this was meant for your Bleriot thread. I must have seen "Startibart" and I went to town on that...too fast. ...moving to Bleriot. --- Thanks for reminding me. I have to get the DVD Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines Czhec out the link... I have Bleriot XI book pubbed out by Nat Air~n~Space Museum. Also, Taube Dove of War pubbed up by Historical Aviation Album. Two great mono~planes. They may be available at teh amazon, the books not the planes. If so, maybe do a review in the book thread.

Jedi, it turns out they (Moscow) used generic images/icons for all airliners....all swept wing 4 engine podded -- flying in that area at that time I suppose. Can't read it. For the full image, not just the rt cropped image, see here... The Aviation Herald ~> http://www.avherald.com/h?article=47770f9d&opt=0 scroll down a tad wea bit some

It also requires higher graphix settings, no matter the flightengine.ini. I figured there was some stuff in TK's code that the FE.ini didn't cover. This applies to the SF-1 however.

MB, that's the high speed rocket boosted stratospheric Su-25PMU of which Ukraine recieved several in the past with look-down shoot-down modified air-air Buk (not shown) based on the idea of the Iranian's widely successful air-air Hawk.

Viper ... it looks the same to me, considering what's going on over there, they may have done a good job of handling this on the ground before trained western help arrived. None of my trusted sources discuss looting so far; I suppose its not security related, so I'm on my own here. However, my sources all comment on the complete un-reliability of the western media on security issues. Have you seen the full MH-17 Teddy Bear video and the single Evil-Seperatist-Teddy-Bear photo used in the western media? -- - Erik, no bank has reported any attempted use of MH-17 related credit cards -- ahem -- as far as I know. Also, the defense fund order *may* be disputed, forged, whatever. Not much on this at all, so I can't make an opinion pro or con...emotions set aside. If the cell phone claims are true, it would prove at least early looting, but then the first souls on the scene were either locals or lower ranking fighters having recently been shooting and getting shot at. Watch your emotions, politicians and media target that.

russo, its too late now. Obama's speech within hours of the crash, paraquoted from my truck radio: "I've asked our security folks to work closely with the Ukraine government." Seriously? If that was the case in the shadows as well, it reduces the possibility of a believable investigation, maybe from any side here. Its over. --- -- - New from Col. Pat Lang about US.gov in the fallback position "Russia creating the conditions" for the shootdown. ~> l'>Once again the USG is fabricating casus belli Also from the 22 July Nightwatch.... story line ... I teh nightwatch.

And ... its over. Nightwatch - For the night of 22 July 2014:: We bet everything on an "early bird gets worm" media rush disseminated within hours of the event. I heard it on radio as it happened. It may turn embarassing as we blew our wad taking instant advantage of 300 deaths. Col. Pat Lang put up a comparison by a guest between the MH17 Putin-Did-It media rush and the short lived, quickly dropped, Assad-Did-It media rush about Syria.gov using chemical weapons on peaceful moderate fluffy Syrian rebels (who have since defected to ISIS), here.... MH-17 = Ghouta Lexx's special comment: Everybody at The CombatAce search that link for... Nightsticker ...and read his comment, and Pat Lang's comment immediately below; a brief insight about crew leads afraid to NOT push the button.

Oh my, its alive 2. Vk, I think you can just make the modifications in your current Flightengine.ini. Look at the Add to FlightEngine text file text file, lol. Thanks Sup, and MK, for keeping it alive in sf2. I still only use sf1, and that rarely now. I maxed these effects with ATI 4500 video card + AMD Semper0n cpu, assuming tml'>"...weapons going off all over the place and these nuclear blasts,..." ie...lots of stuff going off on, or far beyond, the horizon. These effects could be vastly improved, I mean really ramped up now with more modern cards and cups...cpus sorry. I got to do this some day.

russo, I meant, as aircraft modder, you know what aircraft look like, and can identifiy them. But can you find them? Visually locating these large aircraft flying this high by eye scanning across a brain-numbing eye-confusing blank clear sky is another ball game, even if you have a (very) rough azimuth heads-up from some radar guy. Without contrails or sun glint reflections off wings, tail, or fuselage, its very difficult, and I'm sure ground pounders are not trained in this. I was self trained, as a hobbiest aircraft spotter years back. Another thing is atmospheric haze, especially summer haze, which makes high flying aircraft blend more into the sky colour. What's interesting is a broken sky....broken up by clouds notably...makes it much easier to eyeball the sky for high flying aircraft, I suppose because the clouds provide a kind of "map" your brain can navigate by.

russo...in most cases... does not include cases where SAM equipment is not working properly. Assuming this was that captured Buk we read about, and the crews not up to date on their training...ie...years since prior draft service. russo:: That's because you are an aircraft modder for TheSims. :) You should interview hundreds of fighter pilots who mis-identified -- at close range -- and shot down own-side aerial targets from 1916 to....mmm. In a reversal of that situation, Saburo mis-identified Dauntlesses as Wildcats, at close range, and he got shot up by the rear gunners, and lost an eye, which caused him later to mis-identify Hellcats for friendly fighters. We raise an interesting question with this: do medium range SAM operators leave their station to go outside and look up at their (real life) targets they are engaging while in an active combat area, especially if the only warplanes flying are the enemy? Visual ID also only works if the 30kft target is mostly directly above, with no overwhelming slant range, and only if there are no obscuring clouds or interfering sun. The first EVER comment on teh internets about the weather during this incident was from Karl Denninger here... 4'>MH 17 One Week In :: The sky was quite clear at the time of the incident from public footage of the impact itself. However, that does not preclude intervening clouds between target and launch site before the footage was taken. One comment made (at SST I believe) asked if any witnesses had seen contrails. Of course there was no response, since nobody knows what contrails are.

I turned TV off years ago. Try Col. Pat Lang's blog, also retired from Army intelligence. He runs ~> /'>Sic Semper Tyrannis. One of the commenters pointed out something interesting, that the BUK has some backup operating modes that don't apply full IFF.

Considering the sudden, panic re-routing and re-restricting of airspace proves these 300 babies were juggled over a fire pit. Ground combat = active volcano = fire pit ... it really does all tie together.

FC:: What costs more...increased fuel usage or a downed aircraft? I suppose its a calculated risk. One of the most popular lines out of Babyloin~5 was season-1 Susan in l'>Mind War :: "What do you do in your spare time, juggle babies over a fire pit? Oops, there goes another calculated risk." Tor:: Agreed. That's not how it worked yesterday. Today, the airlines stumble over themselves to re-rout the babies away from the fire pit as fast as they can, or cancel, or maybe hire boats.