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We'll bust out the blankets and C-rations nevertheless! Hope it blows over quick like!

Wish weddings here were like that! Sadly, it's just bridezillas and flaky grooms... What's Schwarma? Looks a bit like Yiros. Take it easy dude!

Personally, I'm thinking this is all Boeing. They gets the absolute sh*ts (pardon my french) when they lose a contract, even if it's outright, and use all their influence to pressure the decision makers into coming down on the Boeing side. They're notorious for having done so here in Oz in both the Civilian and Military markets, they've done it in South Korea, they got a bad rep from their solicitations to the Singapore government and it's officials and with the KC-X program, their contender was comprehensively defeated by the Northrop/Grumman/Airbus contender. I will give them this though, Boeing puts up a good fight...

For me, it came about when hanging around with a couple of buds who got me into gaming with them in HS. It started with making Civ 2 scenarios and new units in '97, then I stopped when I moved away to play Ice Hockey. When I came back in 99, they were heavily into Co-oping and campaigning and RTS games, so we went to town making maps, campaigns, (with new voice, video, ships, etc) mods for Freespace 2 and Red Alert, Red Alert 2, all stuff we played amongst friends, mostly co-op mods. Then My buddy and I got into StarFleet Command and around the same time, scored a copy of 3dsm and we began making starships, campaigns, etc for a few of his mates (and a couple of linebackers buddies of ours who were fearsome when using Gorn/Kzinti resp!). I came across the SF series purely by chance when I went to re-hire LOMAC and, funnily enough, came across CA when looking for mods for it, but all I could find was this SF crap. : Eventually I put 2 and 2 together and picked up a copy. It was the first game I'd played since SFC 1/2 where I could get into the nuts and bolts and tinker about with just about everything. It's a shame that more games don't allow you to do that as, for me, that's part of the fun. Compared to the WOx series, modding stuff like Zero Hour or San Andreas is like trying to squeeze blood from a stone...

I'll pay the doomsday nutjobs one, but not the BBT one. I've seen enough big bangs with near misses that have given me a healthy respect for them.

Isn't the test going to be active for something like, a year? I heard something about the atoms being smashed 22000 times per second and that this will take place over a year...

Don't forget the cult of personality that he's fostered since Pop's Death in '94. This is a society geared around a figure who's the focas of every level all the way down to the family. When Kim Il Sung died, people were literally freaking out! This is the way North Korean society has been for 50 years. With things being as fragile as they are, North Korean leadership isn't gonna want to go through that again! It could literally break them... Now for the rest of us, watching the communist regime break apart isn't necessarily going to be a bad thing, but for the Koreans, it's gonna suck mightily.

There's nothing stopping you from making your own versions of the weapons that are more resistant to spoofing. When it comes to the Eastern Bloc weapons, particularly the more modern ones, I've always felt they were a little under performing. I'm not going to argue with the authors of the weapons packs because I know they're trying to create the realism from the data they have at hand, but I find it a little frustrating when my R-77s get spoofed immediately, but my AMRAAMs almost never miss. I like my enemies to have teeth, no matter who they are. Also, with the older missiles, don't forget that their tracking hardware was pretty rudimentary. Half the time it was luck that early model Aim-9s hit their target and this was especially true for early generation Soviet AAMs. My advice, play around with the weapons editor and see what you come up with.

I accidentally broke my LOMAC disc... :cray:

Ooh! Very Nice! Been looking forward to this one too!

There's a follow up of sorts for this story... Here: Speaking of doubles, wasn't Al-Gaddafi reported to employ their use?

You're just beggin' for them big discs to come down and ruin your July 4th bbq! :yes:

Come to my country and say that! We're into our seventh year of drought, my city's main source of water is on it's deathbed (stoopid Queenslanders and Ruddling! ) and summers over the past four years have been more intense than at any point in the past 20yrs. That said, our issues here are only a little to do with climate change and more to do with farmers and local governments p*ssing already scarce water supplies. [Rant off]

Aren't they still using Pratt & Whitney JT3Ds? They've been around since the dawn of the 707 and DC-8, yeah? Aren't they particularly thirsty and, compared with something like today's Rolls-Royce Trent, particularly underpowered? Why was the B-52 re-engine program given the kibosh? Why do I sound like a 6yr old kid asking lots of questions?

Damn... heh, nice spot WK!

Don't worry dude. Statistically speaking, you have more of a chance to choke to death on a lettuce leaf and that's more likely than being involved in a plane accident (1 in 26000 with chance favouring your survival.).

I can't remember if I read it on the TW forums or from the A-Team forums, but anything under 8.1 should work, I think.

This is going to sound noobish, but what exactly are the inherent differences between pre-WOI games and WOI. I don't think I've noticed since my taste in aircraft is from about 1985 onwards and I don't think I've ever had a problem importing them from the older games in the TW series. Is it just older series aircraft (ie WWII-Vietnam) that are affected? I just thought it was a difference in coding to introduce things like higher-def graphics and other updates to the Wings Over engine.

Successive Governments in Japan have been keen to develop their own advanced aircraft as the F-2 debacle still leaves sour memories and they just about have all the pieces necessary to develop there own. Plus, Japanese industry has been keen about the investment (as well as capitalising on former PMs Yoshiro Mori and Junichiro Koizumi's comments expressing the idea of developing Japanese independence in R&D after personally dealing with the F-2 program), but the governments haven't had the courage to take on the development costs during the current economic and politically turbulent times. It's understandable, but it's a shame as Japanese industry would make one hell of an aircraft!

Heh... just like Elvis is the movie "Bubba Ho Tep".

This makes for interesting reading... What do you guys think?

Zif she took a call in class!

Blender has the .lod export functions then?

I was driving a 2D '95 Toyota Soarer Coupe until Feb but after I blew the head gasket, then it was like opening Pandora's box of mechanical faults and electrical issues that still haven't resolved. This one is almost identical except mine was a British racing green. Makes me sad to think about it! :cray:

Just about everything is dude. Have a butcher's through the download section to see what's available.