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Look at how long we've been using nuclear power. Then look at the number of major nuclear plant problems. There are only three that I can think of offhand, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima, and they're the ones everybody has heard of and knows. As far as I am aware all of them were preve...

Chernobyl was ... a massive failure, yes. It was a full-meltdown of the reactors, caused by a combination of factors, and was, so far as I know, entirely preventable. Look at how long we've been using nuclear power. Then look at the number of major nuclear plant problems. There are only three that I...

Grayhome wrote:Oh, I thought she might be the navigator we have yet to meet.

Navigator? I think you mean Farseer.

http://www.atfx.org/photos/f14a.jpg One engine out - merry-go-round. :mrgreen: Where do you get that? The F-14 can fly/land with one engine. It's a very stable craft. The F-14 has even flown and landed safely with an asymmetrical wing-sweep even on an aircraft carrier during emergencies.[28] Two tr...

GeoModder wrote:

ed_montague wrote:Of course, please don't distract yourself too much from Page 100. Your fans are waiting with palpitating hearts.

Pitches! Tar!!

He must be hung by his own entrails.

Fetch the disemboweling knives!

TrashMan wrote:

javcs wrote: Except for the guys who actually fly the A-10, anyways.

And the troops on the ground. And anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together.

I was speaking only in reference to the Air Force.

Now now, consider this: The Chair Force won't want to spend any more money on new A-10s then they have to, therefore it's in the best interests of even their procurement policies to go about it the rational way. EDIT: Two wrongs make a right. Exactly, which they think is to replace the A-10 with UA...

Ok, but still it would be a new plane. Actually no since they've already done it before. Prototype 2-seater for night/adverse weather, only 1 made but still, it's already been done. And as being heavier than the former one it would need new engines with military rating. I´d guess that alone would m...

According to Wikipedia, they didn't stop it, just reduced the requirements a bit. So it can't meet the requirements and it screwed the other versions, obviously instead of dropping it we should just reduce the requirements. Unfortunately, the answer is probably yes. Remember, the F-35 is intended t...

The Harrier is a V/STOL, too, technically, but they almost never use the vertical takeoff capability, as far as I know. The vertical landing ability on the other hand... True. Vertical take off on a fixed-wing aircraft is almost always going to be unnecessary, and a bitch to include. Vertical landi...

I'm not entirely sure the F-35 has a 'niche' anymore, I mean, from what I can tell, the design requirements tried to make it a one-platform fits all needs kind of thing, and that just kill the whole 'niche' deal. The Harrier is a V/STOL, too, technically, but they almost never use the vertical takeo...

And speaking of close air support: I recall reading about the US Army, and their determination to keep A10's (one of my favorite aircraft) in their close air support role, while the Air Force keeps wanting to upgrade those big slow old aircraft to something that matches the rest of their force. Yep...

well, that is interesting, give the size differences. i thought it would be been smaller :/ but i guess if you have interia dampers and class i shields you need a big ships ( got to keep those high ranker officer protect and in comfort :) ) . I really like the lifting body type hull, but retains th...

I did say that you don't use stations for defending the system against attacking fleets - that's what actual ships are for. Stations are, however, a rather important part of one's infrastructure, both military and civilian, that provide functions that nothing else can. Therefore, they will exist, an...

Point to make: people imagine stations in star systems as some kind of immobile object... The fact of the matter is, if you want to protect a planet, you need the thrust of a starship to react to targets incoming with starship manoeuvrability, otherwise they will just go around your defences, or st...

junk: two problems with rail launched missiles/torpedoes #1 shielding electronics from the rather intense EM radiation, not impossible but damn tricky. #2 assuming a rather powerful railgun launch, at 10km/s it takes a 30g acceleration about 33 seconds to achieve the same velocity, and given that l...

Karst45 wrote:Sound like we will see Talon (and/or Spiral) pretty soon!

should be interresting from what Arioch hinted!

Seems likely.
Also, seems like he's definitely being transferred off of Tempest, but to where?

boris: I am quite certain what you are referring to is ALLIED military forces, this situation is more like a US army major slapped around a uppity ensign from the Tanzanian navy on a US ship, in US territorial water that just happens to be the senior Tanzanian on the scene, i think the worst the ma...

Mr Bojangles wrote:A new ****! What a pleasant surprise!

GYAH!!!
NO!!!


THAt's a topic you don't mention. EVER. You'll jinx things.

He's trolling her. ... I think. Wait ... we know that what he's doing is stupid, but how much has he actually learned about the Loroi? Very little, is my read, which means ... he doesn't have much of a clue about things, and so he's reverting to his wiseass ways in an attempt to get a reaction. This...