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Like Iron Eagle and the F-16B that can fire 3 wingtip sidewinders... I mean, I knew the Israeli F-16s were different, but...

That snap of the raptor climbing is a great shot! Nice work!

Sweet Corsair!

To the best of my knowledge, the only variant that doesn't use the 2 extra inner wing pylons is the Su-27. Every other variant of the Flanker family (the Su-30 series,33,34,35,35BM/37) uses 12 hardpoints - 2x wingtip, 6x wing, 2x intake and 2x fuselage.

Some US cinemas also added THIS little tidbit before the film too. Lucky bastards! :yes:

Hey! That was the Captain of the TCS Midway from Wing Commander 5!!

Bloody hell gents and lady, 25 posts in and no one's mentioned Trent Reznor?? I'm ashamed of you all!

Still... you gotta admit... it'd be a great scenario for WOI.

You reckon it's in the realm of possibility for the JASDF to rename themselves the "Imperial Japanese Air Force" sometime in the future...?

If given a chance, and if he think's he's got support, I reckon he'll go for it. But right now, he's just sabre rattling. Iran's tricky though. They'll make it coslty for anyone taking action against them. Real costly...

S'all good baby!

Awwww... crap. I jumped the gun. I misread what Jug had said, thinking he was implying the US could do that, but it's better not to. Sheeeeet! When he said: "Those who kid themselves by thinking the US would never do that (taking Chavez out) are doing just that, kidding themselves." I thought it sounded too Tom Clancy meets 1984. I honestly don't think the US would just start taking on resource rich countries in the future because it was desperate for energy resources; and I wasn't trying to link Iraq with that statement. I was only talking about the Jug's context of the US taking out Chavez if the US was desperate for oil/resources/whatever, Chavez in particular because he makes a big deal about the US being the "great evil".

Not meaning to sound anti or anything, but I'm willing to bet good money that if you asked that question in Pueto Rico, The Virgin Islands, Columbia, Nicaragua, etc, they'd have something different to say about that. And that's not mentioning Native Americans or Hawaiians (remember, Hawaii was annexed in 1893). Not saying the US is imperialist now, its just that every nation has awkward or embarrassing periods in their history. If you're being serious (I mean, in a RL context), for one thing, The US or any hostile US government would never get away with it. Skipping the constitutional safeguards for the moment, the Media would be on the government's back is a massive way. More people would resist against your government - there would be some serious social anarchy as you would effectively be taking the same action against a nation that, historically speaking, your nation has traditionally strived fought against. You would become conquerors, taking what you want, when you want, by hostile force, to hell with the consequences. Not by political pressure (force?) or negotiating/dealing with other parties. I mean, look at the heat the US has taken over Iraq. If similar circumstances were to occur again, the resistance would be much more intense. OK, you have the might and there would be some who'd have the political will, but undertaking that kind of behaviour would see the EU taking action unprecedented action (possibly even force) against the US, burning it's bridges in the process. South American nations, despite their differences and their distaste for Hugo, would be polarised against any action taken against a South American state (although what exactly they could do against a hostile US is debatable) as it would be rightfully seen as a grab for resources. This would produce a ripple effect around the world as resource rich nations would suddenly fear themselves as potential targets, particularly if they've had anything but the best relations with the US. Imagine what effect this would have on the oil producing nations of the Middle East and then what effect that would have on global tensions and markets! This would then see nations Russia and especially China become more inclined to guard there interests more actively, in China's case, I don't think it would be impossible to see them strike first if they felt threatened, especially if they felt that they could get away with it (ie, with little or not recourse). And the worst thing to come out of this would be that every single faction who has a real or perceived grievance against the US would come out of the woodwork trying to establish themselves as political players, some filling power vacuums in politically weaker nations (think what would happen in Pakistan). Then there's the devastation fighting intensely on multiple fronts would reek on the US economy. Again, look at the effect the Iraq invasion had on global oil prices Now, I'm not anti US, I don't agree with everything that the US does, but I much prefer having a US that leads the world believing in seeking peaceful solutions and (relative) equity for all (except for gingers, you just know they're up to no good! ) than some fundamentalist bastard running my nation by theocratic decree! ...well, technically, I'd prefer a resilient, strong, unbureaucratic UN that wasn't susceptible to being undermined by it's member nations, but yeah... that's gonna happen! That said... the above scenario would make an awesome game!! :yes:

Only if he does it like John Wayne, pilgrim... :yes:

Yeah, I didn't exactly know phrase that, my bad! So it is them? I'd heard they were still alive earlier this year. That really sucks...

The Lebanese people or the Israeli people aren't the problem, it's anyone and any organisation who puts themselves first and to hell with any civilian that gets caught in between. The two bodies who were returned, were they the two Israeli soldiers who were kidnapped before the 2006 war?

I did wonder why they put the campbell's soup logo on the plane...

Here are some snaps of the Saeqeh I've posted here... You're right though. Getting snaps of it is pretty difficult.

I know I (and a few others) have posted a few photos of those aircraft on here a couple of time, but they're probably the same snaps that you've seen. If you do a search for Azarakhsh or Saeqeh, you'll definitely come up with something here. I got some from an Iranian Mil-tech forum, but I don't remember what it was called. Sorry...

I'm digging those PLAAF ones! :yes:

Was that the simpsons Wrench? "That was the Zombie Flanders?" There are three criteria that almost all Zombie films use to define a Zombie in a Zombie movie: 1. The dead re-animate. 2. The dead violently consumer the living. 3. ONLY removing/destroying the brain results in the re-animated corpse's 'death' in so far as it is no longer able to stay re-animated. Technically, there’s a fourth: 4. Most serious Zed films never use the word ‘Zombie’. It’s usually living dead or undead or something like that. Shaun of the Dead even made a joke specifically about this when Shaun’s looking through the mail slot in the door and Ed’s asking it they’re still out there. With 28 Days/Weeks, the Infected aren’t dead, they don’t consume the living (although they sometimes infect others, they mostly kill) and they can die from more than just headshots. In the DVD commentary, Danny Boyle speaks about how they’re not Zombies in the classical, Romero sense (for one thing, they’re not dead, just infected), but this was his take on how he would do a Zombie film today. In another interview he spoke about how the slow, ambling Zombie just wasn’t as scary to him or for movie audiences these days, so he wanted to amp it up a bit… IMHO think he and Zack Snyder (DoD 2k4) took Zombie films in a great new direction that, unfortunately, Romero (and others) didn't take. Which is why I think his last two films bombed... Now if someone could just make a good Zombie FPS...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24007997-401,00.html I mean, what can I say about the company that pathetic doesn't cover??

That's the curse of the Ace Combat series. Beginning with No. 5, the acting is just getting cheesier and cheesier to the point where your pre-flight briefings are presented by an awful TV presenter. I mean listen to the briefing for the first mission in Ace Combat 6. Your country's just been invaded, there's a general state of panic and confusion and you get briefed by a presenter from the 'How to' network! It's bad! :yes:

Sleep is for the weak! (says the guy who is about to crash himself because of this stupid cold! )

Hey, anything that chases you down and shrugs off gunfire like nothing's happened is entertaining in my book! That's why I loved Dawn of the Dead (2004)! It took a great genre and 'freshened' it up. Has anyone come across the 'Zombie Survival Guide' by Max Brooks? It's good reading. He wrote a follow up called 'World War Z' which is a bunch of personal accounts from survivors of a fictional, global undead apocalypse. Apparently Brad Pitt's production company has picked up the rights for it and J. Michael Strazinski (Spiderman and Babylon 5 fame) has been linked to the screenplay...