Lexx_Luthor

Space combat would be even worse, on screen. The best attempt I suppose was the new Battlestar G. show. Same with stratospheric combat, SAC vs PVO, B-58s vs MiG-25s, all you would see is a dot, if you were lucky, a contrail, and maybe a BIG flash.

horse:: Horse, do you follow Col. Pat Lang, here ~> http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/ He talks alot about Saddam's old soldiers and officers, he knew them from the old days, and how they and ISIS are not meant to be together except for a very temporary alliance. Apparently, ISIS is now starting to round up these guys, but Pat's analysis is this will put ISIS at risk as, I take it, exposing themselves too quickly. Its a really interesting game of waiting for the right moment to strike first against a temporary partner, or so I gather.

Amazing, aussum I'm watching this several times now. Thanks

mmm particlesystem.ini Never thought about this before, thanks alot Nesh.

Meteor same way, but with the cf engines. I found a loooooong PPRuNe thread discussing one engine Meteor flying, and crashing, many ex-Meteor pilots here... l'>Meteor Accident Statistics Leg strength is a big item. A very unsafe design.

Rusty I forgot about that close-vs-far Sherman-vs-Tiger front-vs-rear thing, which was a HUGE part of Kelly's Heroes. Okay, that has to be one of the better tank-vs-tank movies.

Well, neither ISIS nor AQ decide headlines. News sources decide headlines. Apparently, AQ and ISIS in Syria are to opposing each other, both are hoping to attack lebanon I've read. There are some examples going on of... Shia vs shia Sunni vs ISIS Shia and Sunni talking outside Maliki.gov Turkey and Israel favoring some kind of independent Kurdistan. Kirkuk oil may be one good reason. Apaches in Bagdad airport, probably for airport defense. Lots of US-sians still there. Obama asking for 500million$ for anti~Assad rebels...haha maybe to match ISIS robbing that bank for 430million$ or whatever currency. More advisors. Can't send advisors without sending more advisors. Youths in surrounding systems protesting in favour of ISIS...this might be the thing to watch. Honestly, can't blame them the systems are so phoney. Pretty neat stuff all round. Like 1973, if we decide to ship, or intervene somehow, it'll start the next day. Recall the afghan setup with the northern alliance, very quiet until it got loud.

1973 Arab-Israel war, next day shipping man. Given that we *knew* exactly where alqaida isis, whatever, were basing themselves in Syria for the last few years, and we never bombed them, but publically(!) intended to bomb Syria.gov, we gain insight into the "slow" US response here.

Even jms said he was a bit, embarrassed perhaps, by the whitestar design.

nas not a ship Thinking about it, the largest manufactured moving objects were assemblages of Mantrid one-arm drone things that fly around. They eat whole stars, and poop out more manufactured one-arm drone things that fly around that then also assemble into larger things, and if too many are ordered to one spot in the heavens, it collapses. for real

streak, you could set visibility distance to near zero, so planes are invisible to AI, and use maybe 360 degree radar cones with defined ranges to simulate varying AI visual capability. Of course, you lose the modelling of radar then. But if you are doing mainly visual engagement simulation, it should work, don't need radar anyways. -- I've found, over the SF-1, that applying a non-standard waypoint behavior makes AI unresponsive to any fighter threat...say set a normal cruising waypoint as APPROACH for example. I forgot now which of the many non-standard behavior settings work best, but if you poke around, you should find one or two that can simulate, for example, some escort fighters refusing to respond to interceptors and so keeping their drop tanks until a "normal" waypoint, all while assuming other escorts in the mission take up the slack and are set to normal waypoints so the sleepy escorts and the bombers are not threatened.

Missing:, possibly the largest...? Zanak, t'>the pirate planet , which materialized around entire planets and mined them to rubble, inhabited or not. Good to see the Lexx, and the StarTrek doomsday machine there.

a cutlass .. mmm

uh wow, nasty. Thanks for the really good info ghostrider. I figure this will be a long thread until they find out what happened.

Interesting... "So, the rebels have field artillery now. They did not bring that into Iraq,..." Col. Pat Lang ~> l'>Iraq Diary - 26 June 2014

Amazing co-actor wife and marriage, for hollywood, I didn't know about that till tonight. Aussum.

retaliate Sorry. Merciless countermeasures .... !!! English excerpts here, apparently Korean language version is more "hysterical" or wild. ~ http://www.kforcegov.com/Services/IS/NightWatch/NightWatch_14000136.aspx No war. Relax. Play strikefighters.

Steer and fly back toward base as far as possible away from rebel position before ejection I suppose. Fuel loss looks large, but don't know what it should look like. Flame near the end might require ejection over rebels. If this is today or recent, we'll have to look for news of this huh?

My fave was Beast of War, odd story, but interesting tank movie, they are so rare. What I want to see is a British-German made North Africa tank movie.

They will retailate with a counter movie. Wouldn't be any worse than hollywood I suppose. Interesting take on the interview assassination thing, recall Massoud blown up by taliban posing as interviewers.

streak, you need Earl McGill's Namsi raid book, his squadron was up at bat afterwards on the runway when they cancelled day missions. Also, Xiaoming Zhang's Red Wings Yalu book, about Chinese not Soviet, which I found didn't focus on kill scores (thankfully), but more on the psyco aspect, like Stalin and Mao never really trusted each other, typical of the authoritarian type, but still interesting view from the other side of the river. I gather the Chinese did VERY well considering they had only about 2 years to go from putt-putt around in a handful of Ki-43s to flying against F-86s. They had the enthusiasm, aggressiveness, and good yet short training, but sorely lacked decades of institutional air war culture that the other air forces in Korea had developed. Air war is a psyco, and a cultural thing, which is forgotten in the focus on shell size. toryu, I disagree. SE-5 and SPAD pilots knew about energy, and knew how to use it. AVG pilots knew, well, that is, after they ignored Chenault's advice in their first combat and found they had to convert their turns into dives to escape death from A5M4. The old time pilots knew all this stuff, decades before the 1960s. Yes it was forgotten for a few years in the 1950s perhaps. The first time I saw "ooda loop" I thought it was some deprecated FORTRAN 66 statement.

Tor:: Increasing separation is a basic fighting tactic -- think "smart" F-4 vs MiG-17 -- and is what Me-262 should have tried to do with their speed advantage, hence the attempts at psycho spray in case some 262 pilots fell for it, and turned hard, and threw away their separation and acceleration. I-16 pilots loved head on, I suppose mainly they were personally protected by that cyclone, and otherwise didn't have the performance (post 22 June) to get tail on as often as they would have liked. Germans had alot of free range hunting duty available, while the Soviet pilots were like, escort and protect, or get arrested. Forced to close protect bombers, a core VVS escort tactic was to turn and fire across the path of Luft fighters trying to attack bombers, for distraction and/or fear purpose, although the occasional hit was certainly enjoyed; another example of psycho air warfare.

Yes, not all pilots knew, but interestingly, notice that the psycho spray was useful no matter the shell size, P-47s and 0.50s with tracers that escaping Me-262 pilots can see and then panic into turning, or giant 37mm the Soviets used since they knew Bf-109 pilots feared that shell.

Tor:: The Star of Africa. Spraying at long range has some use for the better pilots, in that fire can change behavior in an enemy. Tricking newbie Me-262 pilots into turning instead of jetting away, VVS P-39 pilots starting head on engagements firing the heavy cannon far out of range to scare Luft pilots into turning too early. Air combat, like any man~vs~man combat I suppose, is not just mechanical, but also a psyco thing. The better pilots figured out psyco air warfare. Also comes to mind, the downing of yalu honcho Harold Fischer, zipping low over a Chinese base while an invisible (not silver) MiG comes down and fluffs him. Han Decai (sp?) is generally credited, although Russians dispute this. Decai was brand new, out of training, his first kill, but no deflection shot needed. As usual, an unseen kill, no legendary F-86 agility for miles around, cos legendary Fischer wasn't being agile, nor watchful. They met up in China sometime in the 1990s.

Gep:: We were creative, we were. Gep, +, etc, about collision, I'm looking at F3D2 Skyknight. Neither US nor Russian sources give a Skyknight kill in combat, they agree although the Russian sources don't explicitly state this like US sources....except one odd loss where it looks like a Skynight and MiG-15 collided with a vertical vector component, at night, busting out the Skynight canopy and I suppose the 2 crew.