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Mako's right. From what I've been hearing, the Iranian general public don't hate the US as much as the Theocracy there would have us believe. Remember, the images we see of the Iranian people foaming at the mouth about the 'evil US' is carefully vetted by the state media machine to make it seem like there's 100% nationalist fervour. I think it would be a big mistake to blur the line between the people and the theocratic dicks who oppress them. These aren't North Koreans with a personality cult. The Ayatollahs have had a bit of a crisis in trying to stem (and failing pretty consistently) the Iranian youth's taste for Western trends, clothing, technology, freedom of speech, etc. Give the Ayatollahs and the government a bloody nose (I'm talking the kind you get when you try to catch a brick with your face!), you'll start seeing popular resistance to theocratic rule as we did in the Arab Spring and that's half the fighting done for you there. You go all shock and awe in Iran and civilians die, it'll end horribly and you won't be facing just Iran in the ME. This goes especially for Israel. They have no friends in the region and if they act unilaterally, a lot of organisations (state sponsored and others) will want a piece of the revenge pie. It'll be bloody for years. And remember, it's further away than the site in Operation Opera, so the chance of success is lower. Besides, if Iran is dumb (and it would be an act of EPIC STUPIDITY!!) enough to attack can of nuclear powered kick ass like a USN carrier in what the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the rest of the world recognises as a free transit zone for shipping, not only will they get their arses comprehensively handed to them by superior US firepower, they'll attract a flood of condemnation and sanctions and it'll probably deliver a free kick to the US to take out that damned nuclear reactor site...

Alls I know was that he was putting out flares like a MF...

When you're 85...

Absolutely beautiful Torno!!! Ace, loving the FAB and FAA Mirages too!

Cheers guys! Damn... I've been coming here for 8 years. NOW I feel old!

Yeah... the last time I tried that with a buddy, we copied the entire WOV folder... and it still screwed up. Every single file should have been identical...

If you head over to the A-Team Skunkworks, you'll find at least 2 of those aircraft there. Have to join up to download though, same as here.

Go Reagan! This kind of thing really makes me want to put a bullet in the people that pull this sh*t against animals. Are they really that cheap that they won't drive the extra mile or two to go to Animal Welfare or the SPCA?? Bastards.

It's a fun, arcadey game, but the lack of dedicated servers, I think, is a real handicap.

For the love of all that is holy, please tell me you're going to release these outstanding aircraft! :good:

It's official. F-35 Wins Japan Fighter Competition

Well, you might be right, but this time around the US isn't trying to f*ck Japan like they did with the F-2, so I doubt it. Right now, there's nothing like the US/Japan trade deficit like there was in the late 80s/early 90s and it's an internal program anyways. I think they've learned their lessons about compromise in joint ventures. Although, with 10+ years of economic stagnation and now the Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi disaster, I'm surprised Japan's tackling it at all. You add into that equation that they aren't allowed to export military products and that's only going to make it that much harder for them to trim the costs associated with this.

Sidestepping the "Who has a bigger wang" argument between the F-35 and F-22 for the moment, the JASDF F-4EJs are primarily tasked with anti-shipping and ground attack/CAS. It's OCA/DCA roles are only secondary. The F-35 can fit the role, but so does the Mitsubishi F-2. I'm interested to see how AGM-84s will fit into the weapons bays on the F-35, or how they plan on it being stealthy if they have to start loading the wings. If they have to, then what's the point? A few F-35 customers are currently pondering that. They could have reopened the F-2 production line (it was only closed in September) at minimal cost and F-2s rolling off the line immediately, rather than in about 8 or 9 years. And anyways, these arguments about the F-35 being inferior or superior to 4/4.5 gen aircraft is a moot point. The ATD-X will be up and flying in a couple of years and the JASDF will have a 5th gen platform in service by the end of the decade.

Bah! Cloaking Galaxy-X with AEGIS gear all the way baby! Looking forward to the introduction of the Romulans and Cardassians later on.

Come on people, we can do better than racist insults, borderline or otherwise.

When I heard this, I swear to the almighty Buddha, my first two thoughts about this were exactly what Whiteknight and Crazyhorse said.

May be a possible announcement on which way the Japanese will go in the next week or so. Maybe. No clear signal yet from Japan on F-35 selection. I'm interested to see how this affects the development of the ATD-X.

That's something we need in the Wings Over series: The Concorde.

Interestingly, I came across this earlier this morning without trying for it: What if Moddlers: F-104 with F-16 parts Personally, I hate the F-104. Short legged with a thirsty, yet powerful engine, 'multirole' with tiny load carrying capacity, short range air to air capability, loooooooong fuselage with stubby wings and a T-tail(that's the deal breaker for me: the aesthetics!). I mean, for me, there's nothing endearing about this aircraft. But the lancer style mods make it look much more endearing. It looks to be much more useful and the link to the F-104 modded with F-16 components looks pretty awesome, the same goes for the images Blackbird's been posting.

Doesn't mean they don't have high end EW and integrated air defence systems.

Something not considered by this though: What about the number of virtual lives saved?

You read that too, huh? My first reaction was "Yep, I'm fecked..." but then I thought about it another way. I've single handedly won WWII, WWIII, Vietnam, like, 19 times easy... I think a little bit of genocide on the way can be overlooked. And that's not taking into consideration the future wars won against the Kilrathi, the Shivans, the Combine, hordes and hordes of Zombies and Infected... and the countless lives saved from that!

Awww no... he was awesome. Always reminded me of my Pop.

Just curious, but with all these Mirage mods out lately, no one's doing an ATLAS Cheetah by chance, are they??

Exactly what it sounds like. It's the part of the missile's flight that you see when you fire that uses the burner to accelerate before going into it's homing or ballistic phase, or with some missiles, it's cruise phase if it has a sustainer motor. It depends on the missile since they use different methods of propulsion and fuel (solid, sometimes liquid, air breathing like the MDBA Meteor). But for game purposes, most AAMs usually have an acceleration phase which uses the burner followed by a homing phase which doesn't.