sparkomatic

Uh...China stole the W-88 plans from Los Alamos (the most advanced American designed nuclear re-entry vehicle and one of our most closely guarded secrets, period)...during the Clinton Era of let's be friends with China...so while there is some merit to your point, not selling to Japan due to its proximity to China gives me pause. So what if we sell them the F-22...the French had superior planes, tanks, and artillery to the Germans in every way (the Germans said so) and how did that go? Tactics are a factor also, and no one trains like the Americans.Not saying that others arent super cool and professional, because they are! But even if the JASDF built a 100 F-22J under license, they would pose no credible threat to us...not to mention this is a new age, the Global Economy is most likely the biggest reason China hasnt stepped across the Taiwan Straight yet, they certainly do not fear us because we out number them. So what about the Patriot? It is a far bigger threat to us than an F-22J and how many people did we hawk it off to? What about that we are selling Turkey the newest AWACS and are buying less than zero for ourselves? And yes Turkey is in NATO, neat, hey what happened in 2003, boys?Hey, what happened a few weeks ago? Oops, we bombed a country that you are occupying...so Turkey is on the side of Turkey, period. And we just sold them 4 state of the art AWACS.Much to do about nothing, really...besides we need to off set the cost of the F-22 and foreign sales helps...heck foreign sales are practically all that is keeping the F-35 afloat at some points. But back to the topic... Hey, lets ask Jedi Master who has been building some of the US-launched rocket motors lately? They dont say Morton-Thiokol any more...we even buy Russian equipment these days

that is painful to watch...no wonder he suffered serious injuries

I like the Hind series, very nice! I am a bit miffed that Nigeria somehow was accidentally omitted...

OFP ? as in the FPS-game? I had no idea there was such a mod...man I have been missing out

this is fun! I like the Drakken

Man, I know you too well...

Yeah, EAW was OK...but it was WAY too rock/paper/scissors and Gal-Civ was much better for me... Of course I still have to install that BF2142 mod, but that is not by LA any way

Well she was asking about the characters as they showed up, and being the über-geek that I am...yeah you are right...but its true that things we like always sound silly to other people So you spent Friday night in front of a computer pretending to fly a 1960's aircraft...

wait..."Kesselbrut"...dang it! last time I hire a ninja from a website...that is NOT what I...heh heh...move along...

As much as I liked the idea of Rummy taking over, and a welcome step it was from Cohen...yeah, he was no McNamara but I think he tried to be. Speaking of, I used to hate McNamara, blamed him for a lot of things...then a dude had a film about the guy...I never knew such a thing was out there...OK, so McNamara was handed a flaming/steaming pile of rabid dog poop by Johnson...and McNamara never blamed either Kennedy nor Johnson, but when you start looking at things, a lot of what went wrong was politics misguided But that was then...

sad...I used an "advanced" copy of Longhorn a few years ago in Thailand...man it was screaming fast...knew it would not last...it was a developmental copy / mule whatever, you know before MS dumps all the crap in it and dumbs it down so Granny can check her email... I mean, really MS can make awesome stuff, so why dont they really make a Win-X for gamers / people who know what they are doing and then make a Win - Y for everYbodY else?

Wait...Bering Strait anti-shipping single missions do not work for me in WOE either... unless you go "Red Side" then they work fine, other wise I get the IP off the chart and it can not be drug back on chart...the other waypoints can be moved, but not the IP in this instance Also, same thing for the Okinawa map... Works in Red Air; ie, Soviet but not for a "friendly" type airplane So GoCal is it working for you? I even tried a desert (from SFP1) terrain and the game just switched it to a recon mission over land rather than off the chart

speculating...does that mean that the new patching standard will finally put static aircraft in WOE/WOV ?

needless to say it curbed my enthusiasm to speak in Thai around her, but she took at as a learning experience, she is patient that way

Still admire the Wolf Pack in the background though, always a crowd pleaser

"Thunderbolts to..." it doesnt matter, with Thunderbolt in the title Major Lee probably already has read it twice...

awesome...now my wife will want to go to the range with me

only if you are buying...and I was not insulting his moniker, just wondering what the translation is, I mean, if it is "bi - girl" then it would answer my question if any girls like flight sims but if it is "big AL" well I should probably turn off those Internet flowers And as far as WhineHQ goes, I logged more than a modicum of time at that web site...back before SFP1 was patched...unless they killed the weak and ungrateful, doubtful that it has changed much...and you are very correct, there is here and C5 and that French website with all of the cool stuff that I like to randomly download it is like a box of chocolates. Oh, and since I see so many old names from WhineHQ either here or at C5's and knowing you all have busy lives, it allows the idea to linger that it has not improved much back there

I think its cricket...that baseball like game that is nothing at all like baseball...you know, throw the ball on the ground, run between two sticks, back and forth...wear a white sweater...

- "the time invested has gone up geometrically" Uh...would that be a "rhombus" or trapezoid?

How about that, an all-Nordic Gripen? Man, bet it plays ride of the Valkyries

so that's whats wrong with it... why didnt they release LONGHORN instead?

- feels more like 1,000...

so did we resolve if SNOOPY in YAP actually does mark the target because I have run another set of CAS and the little liar doesnt in regular 3Wire games

didnt CC3 have Grace Park in it?