Julhelm

You should go navy. Always go navy.

The other proposals from Lockheed, Northrop and Boeing all used 3 radar arrays with an IRST. GD's had 2 arrays in the LERX and an IRST in the nose. Amazingly GD scored 3rd place ahead of Boeing which had a much better design. Also Lockheed won with a design that was literally unflyable.

Yes, but none of those would work because of weight and structural reasons which is why GD had to compromise with the vertical tail. If the concept had won, the single tail is what would have been flown. It's almost as if you people think I don't research my models or something.

Yeah it does, which is one of the reasons GD lost.

Believe it or not, that single tail was part of General Dynamics offical submission to the ATF program. So what you have there is 100% real design.

Fuck platform exclusive titles.

They've never released any of the earlier Ace Combats on PC so I haven't played them. Hopefully the next one will be on PC. I still think the first HAWX is a far better title than HAWX2 or AC:AH.

It's worth noticing that they ripped that scene from the final battle in Tom Clancy's HAWX 2 where you have to fly an F-22 through a narrow tunnel blowing out blast doors with your gun and then intercepting a series of ICBM's while the russian villain uses an orbiting particle beam cannon to thwart you by firing beams in front of your plane that you have to avoid. Yes, I completed that game too.

Yeah, I play it from time to time.

I bought it and completed it. And I enjoyed it, too. I think with these games you have to take them for what they are: Call of Duty with planes. But Crimson Skies was better.

I have a 3d model of the Convair model 44 Tomcat contender if you want to finish it.

AAA titles cost so much they can no longer afford to take any risks. Besides, the studio making this is around 30 mins away from where I live.

It looks like it could be fun. Personally I don't care too much about accuracy as long as I get entertained.

I use 3pointshader to see specular and normal maps in the viewport.

Ground map is the default radar setting in the B-52s.

You can use the ground mapping radar to radar bomb using a watermark and developing charts for drop ranges at known speeds and altitudes.

Column5 wrote that flight model back for I think Wings over Israel and it's set for hard mode. It might be subsequent patches have broken it.

The Principe de Asturias is essentially a Sea Control Ship outfitted with a skijump for Harrier ops. I've seen proposals for fitting the SCS design with a single catapult and arrester gear. Keep in mind the idea behind the Sea Control Ship was always a throwback to the escort carriers of WW2 - a cheap unit that could sail with NATO resupply convoys and provide air cover against soviet threats. Using an Essex carrier kind of runs counter to that concept.

Don't worry, your government is going to support Al Quaida and Al Nusra with weapons and air strikes, like they did in Libya. Maybe we should just call them Allied Quaida from now on?

But the point is all of the Patriot act, warrantless wiretapping, warrantless electronic spying on citizens, secret CIA renditions and drone assassinations couldn't stop actual terrorists like those two brothers in Boston. Who had been to Chechnya and back. They only seem to stop terrorist plots that are conveniently timed to coincide with internal politics, and where the only evidence of their actual existence is because the government says they exist. Supposedly all these extraordinary government powers are in place because Al Quaida and islamists are a huge threat to our freedom and democracy, but then we give them support in the form of weapons supplies and advisors so they can topple secular regimes in Libya and now Syria and impose sharia rule there. If the terrorists are such a huge threat to western democracy that we need to become police states, why is McCain in Syria posing with them for photos and Hollande in France calling for military action to support them?

Time of war? Seriously?

http://http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/military-told-not-to-read-obama-scandal-news/

So the same people who complain about gun control and socialized healthcare as horrible attacks on civil rights and liberties are totally fine with the same government having a warrantless surveillance capability, the likes of which the STASI could only have dreamt of, because terrorism. Right.

Yeah, except for the cases where the hunter is a bad shot and you have a wounded animal that bleeds to death in agony. Or when you have a fox that is hunted for hours by men on horses with dogs. What is sport hunting if not wanton acts of cruelty and violence against unsuspecting animals? What difference does it really make if the animal is a pet or not, as far as the animal is concerned? Killing for fun is killing for fun and killing for fun is morally reprehensible regardless of whether you're a 'hunter' or just a lowlife drunken thug.

Unfortunately animals still have no value to most humans and are at best viewed as simple property by the law. It is still after all a perfectly acceptable pastime to take a shotgun and blow ducks out of the sky for fun.