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I love these! Yet another example of a design so good at what it does that a suitable replacement stull can't be found. Just like the Herc...

That's it! You're banned buddy Just kidding. Sucks about your ADSL situation, but we hope it sorts itself out for you soon! Your .ini work is some good stuff and I'm sure it'll get snapped up in a second!

Umm... they make their own parts. They've done so for years. There's a huge aerospace factory park that was originally built by Bell pre-revolution that over the years has sort of become on of the cornerstones to Iran's military industiral base, plus they recieved all sorts of knowledge and support from the Soviets (at the time) and the PRC. I mean, they can't reproduce the whole aircraft + systems. But apparantly something like 80% can be reproduced or substituted with other parts. If they couldn't, they wouldn't have been without Tommies or Phantoms for more than a decade...

Haha, wow dude, you're really showing your age there, huh? I think the last time someone uttered that was... what? 1975 maybe...? Wasn't that the sales pitch back '75?

He's just like Ann Coulter, no matter how many times you run her down, she just keeps getting back up...

Mark Thomson that rat bastard! Who's up for some mob justice??

Don't forget that weight restrictions still apply so you may want to change the load limit entry. Looks like this: LoadLimit=2600

Whoa... Just chill baby! It'll get done when it gets done.

We're predicting about 30 years at least for the Raptor here at ASPI, 40 for the Eurofighter...

I meant for the model Server's producing. F-35's gonna be the first modern aircraft built without a hud, but I'm intrigued as to how this can be integrated into the game. Because if it can... Think of all the HMD mods to existing aircraft that'll suddenly be in production! Hogwash! This statement's been given a lot of press in the media but it's unfounded. The UAV related technologies are evolving, as is the infrastructure necessary to to support it, but it'll remain in the realm of battlefield support for a long time yet! Plus, there are many characteristics, such as intuition, that can't be artifically reproduced. We'll see this century end with manned military aircraft , no question, but UAVs will be much more dominant than they currently are.

No, he has. But it was something like a year ago...

All aircraft in SFs with a few exceptions can be used in all three games. Again, same thing applies to some aircraft from WoE. about 98% of all aircraft are interchangable. If its not, it should say so in the aircraft's read me.

Wrench, are you looking at releasing any of those? I especially dig your EC-49. Is that a propper mod or just using the EC-130 rotodome?

EmlD, if you don't wanna make a Mirage 2000, why not have a go at a Mirage 2000D/N?

This: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/wor...ussia/su-47.htm Also goes by S-37 and subsequently gets confused with the Su-37 Super Flanker

Don't forget that bloody awesome Su-47! The prime reason why I'm learning 3dsm is to get that plane into SFP series! I was hoping someone would have beaten me to it by now though...

If you're gonna be knife fighting in a phonebooth, it won't be the pilot in the flanker worrying... So since this jalopy's gonna have no hud, what are your options for SFP? Is it possible to integrate the hud with the mouse freelook system?

All the tomcats were in Ace Combat Zero, only Cipher never flew anything else save for the Eagle and the Morgan. Which is a shame because I liked the option of chosing your wing's aircraft.

Yeah, apparantly its a D&D thing. I don't play it but I know some guys who do (before you ask, yes they do get out. They're both married ) and they busted a gut at it. It goes something along the lines of when you're nerding it up and you're being attacked by, i dunno... those little frodo people or something, any one player can save on the next turn while everyone else continues. So the King nerdy moderator dude will say something like "Lord Dufus of geekville saves, everyone else takes damge." I just want to state for the regimental record that I don't like fantasy stuff like this and my g/f tried making watch the first film and I fell asleep because I was bored s***less! People are still like "You gotta watch it man, it's awesome!!" For the last time: NO... I... DON'T!!

Something I personally think should have been planned for with the F-22 was the ammount of foreign interest in buying them. Several nations are currently seeking permission to acquire FMS permits for the Raptor, most notably Taiwan and Japan, but are almost certain to get rejected for various reasons. (There's talk here in Australia about it, but it's a total crock... Don't get me started ) I believe an export model with slightly different export systems and construction methods would still have been a vast improvement over current inventories but also allowing the US to retain sensitive technologies. This was done with the F-15 early on with its service (see Japan and Saudi Arabia) and I think this would have allowed foreign military sales to friendly nations while simultaneously allowing something closer to the original 738(?) production units to be build. This would have created an economy of scale resulting in cheaper parts, training, units and construction methods. This makes much more sense than producing aircraft on an "as needed" basis. But like I said, this is said with hindsight. I believe something vaguely similar to this is happening with JSF but it's not working out as either the rules seem to keep changing, or they're open to interpretation, hence developing partners getting screwed (Like Oz, Turkey, pick a European nation, also Israel was booted out completely at one stage). Either the terms drawn up during the Clinton administration were too broad or ambiguous, or the Bush administration is looking to change the rules again, I'm not too sure. That's me done, just let me wipe the rabid foam from my chin...

Don't forget the disastrous British White Paper from 1954 ('56?) stating that manned aircraft were on the way out and missiles were the way of the future. This led to a whole host of project cancellations, most notably TSR2 and fleet carrier CVA1 (carriers were also thought to be far too vulnerable, and not particularly useful. ) Wow... how wrong do you have to be?(Canadians went through similar motions with a similar white paper. This formed most of the initiative to scrap the CF-105 Arrow) I do have to say though, it bugs me when people constantly compare the F-22 and the Su-37. Yeah, granted, they're two of the meanest kids on the block, but they both stem from different generations from which different design philosophies were employed. Also, their intended roles are far different. The F-22 is more of a strategic asset with its integrated technologies (sensors, AESA, datalinks -all next gen stuff) to create a wealth of situational knowledge not only for the pilots, but for all other assets employed in a particular area of operations. Changing operational strategy was reflected heavily in the approach to designing it where as this wasn't the case for the Super Flanker (or Terminator, I'm sticking with Super Flanker because Terminator sounds too wanky for me ) The design approach of the Su-37 was to make sure that the title of "World's most kickass air superiority fighter" would be retained within the Flanker family, but less emphasis was placed on situational awareness and information sharing. This continued on the Soviet philosophy of a lack of force multiplication, or quantity over quality. In combat, the Su-35 and 37 aren't able to share the ammounts of information that other 4th and 5th gen fighters can, such as Rafaele, Eurofighter and F-22 and so on and as a result are lagging behind these aircraft as only now are serious programs developed towards developing said capabilities. Although this gap is closing, the end result will be an aircraft, a very very capable aircraft mind you, using a lot of technology in either a bolt-on format or requiring sunstantial refitting (Look at the latest F-15K/SG variants). I don't think you'll see this with the Russian 5th gen fighters as the leassons should have been learned by then.

FAB were considering the Su-35 (along with Rafale and Eurofighter and the Mirage 2K) for 12-24 units, with an outside possibility of up to 60 units But with the recent acquisition of 12 second hand Mirage 2Ks and funds being somewhat scarce, it may not happen. If the FAB does eventually get flankers, personally, I reckon they'd pick up an Su-30 variant. But then again, I don't know a whole lot other than Flankers in FAB colours would look kickass! And Ghost, forget what i asked about the canards. I must have been looking at some old specs because where they're cranked is specifically where they'd need the lift for a carrier launch. I think I've still got the old specs :blush2:

I'm down, and I vote Lets me vent my latent nerdiness here...

Or K-Fed. Anything to do with K-fed. No matter how bummed out I get. If I've had my butt kicked at Hockey, a fight with my G/F, been my boss's punching bag for the day, whatever, I always turn to K-fed. Knowing I'm not him and that I can't sing to save my life YET am still a better rapper, that ALWAYS lifts my spirits

Actually you USAF types have been pretty good in the past. The bloody RAAF mechanics from Amberley didn't last week! They did a bloody runner! It's just not cricket I tell you... And I concede on the Guinness. It's a top drop, but then again, so is coopers...