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This godless Chinese commie ba$tard says not if we buy the show first. Hey, I mentioned Terri, and Curtis, even if I spelled his name wrong, but did forget Nina, and "you chopped my hand off, you bastard" Chase, but then after that, I figure it starts to get a bit silly, there are all these nameless red shirts, and so forth, after a while it's hard to keep track of them all. Bah, give Jack a nuke I say. He'd find better targets than some nameless LA suburb.

"You're a curse, Jack, everyone who gets involved with you dies." Well, factually, that's accurate... let's see, Terri, David, Tony, Michelle, Curtis, Edgar, oh wait, Kim is still alive.... where's the cougar

Reviews from press and players eh? Sorry, I never learned to read. It really is just a matter of opinion there. But the year or so in game was not too bad for me. Well, at least the first six to seven months.

Oh no, not another MMO. SWG was good when it started out, but the problem is they started using the EQ model on it. Expansions and so forth. I pretty much quit once Jump to Lightspeed came out. As someone else said earlier, jedi were never essential to the game. But SOE caved to all the rabid power gamers out there. As for KOTOR, I loved the original, the second one had a promising start, and ended in a gigantic abortion of a storyline. I am hoping they get the right people and do a good KOTOR 3, but not an MMO. The story would be difficult in that setting. And honestly Bioware should do the story.

What a pity, I kind of liked the FSW. I really hoped some country would put a production version of an FSW fighter into service.

As for the as UKAF is concerned, have all the Vulcans been withdrawn from service? In terms of a bomb truck, and in view of the current climate, it's not a bad idea to have a B-1 equivalent of some type. I don't think any current European air force has medium/heavy bombers any more, the best they have are all along the lines of Tornados... and... and I don't even know what else. I think when the USAF finally retires both the B-1 and the B-52, they'll sorely be missed. It's very nice talking about precision bombing and so forth. But at the end of the day, imagine the payload of a B-1 or B-52 when coupled with the new SBD. Probably enough to wipe out a good division of tanks. It seems that with no real enemy nowadays, evolution of military equipment has slowed significantly.

The last season of SG1 is not that great, I am really not the biggest fan of the ORI. I personally think that the series should've ended when RDA left. May be even a season before that. And I think to his discredit, RDA keeps trying to come back, and it's not doing SG1 any favors. There are still entertaining episode, but the end is definitely rushed. Take the series finales for example, it tries to tie up loose ends, but the way it happened made me think that they didn't do any justice to some of the long drawn out plot points. Unfortunately, SG-1 in the last two seasons have been kind of like Michael Jordan coming back to the Wizards, well, that certainly didn't help his career much. Atlantis is still fairly promising, although it seems to be no longer on the right track with the current season. (mind you, I've finished watching the entire season of SG-1 and SGA already), but it feels like SGA is starting to draw on a dry well, for example: replicators again... geez.

Bah, you just can't buy a navy. PRC is a long way from a world power in that are. They're a regional power, but that's about it.

Better than that, the F102 also had some built in rockets on that panel. It was quite neat the first time I saw it at WPAFB. I assume that's where you got the pictures.

ha ha, funny, fear the cute bunny, can you imagine the embarrassment of getting killed by that thing?

In either case, it would've been very convenient if Al Sadr died. And his replacements and so on. They might have been martyrs, but the funny thing about martyrs is that they're not around to shoot off their fat mouth. In terms of Fallujah, there is a lesson to be learned, it is an age old lesson, one that the US failed to apply. Mess with us, and die. It was a lesson applied by the most successful military leader in the world. And as long as he lived, the spaces he conquered was fairly well pacified. but then I'm going off base here, we're in the age of media where death and destruction is abhorent. I can imagine a Sherman, or a Patton alive today. That general would've been crucified by the press for any success they had. The US hasn't forgotten how to fight, but somewhere along the way, its leaders became spineless. Moving back to the discussion on the army; it is really best defined by its role. The US army has been really molded into an offensive force. What Rumsfeld tried to do was to bring it in line with his vision of the world, one where armor doesn't matter quite as much as special ops, and plain old ground pounders backed up by lots of sophisticated tech like UAVs, GPS guided munitions and so forth. I think there is a role for both, the trick is finding the right balance. Unfortunately, what's in Iraq right now isn't the right force. It really ought to be a bunch of special ops guys, and not the regular army who show too much presence, and give the media too much attention. All the infantry that's deployed there is a waste of time in my opinion. Remove them, and let keep special ops there, may be put a heavy brigade with good mobility up in Kurdish territory, and another in Kuwait, then call it a day.

That's a good point, a regional war is far more likely to escalate into something big and go nuclear as these smaller powers gets nukes. Control might be lacking, and there might be a willingness to use these weapons. The whole reason places like Iran and Pakistan are even considered a threat on nukes is due to likelihood of terrorism. Both China and the US has too much to lose going at it. That way nobody is a winner, the one likely area of conflict "Spately Islands" is likely going to be worked out into some type of energy sharing deal unless there is a gigantic energy crisis all of a sudden. Taiwan, is really a non-issue, it'll go back to China eventually, it may be a million years, but it won't matter. The big question on the military development is the width and depth of those development. It will continue to expand intoo space in the next century for sure. But in terms of in atmosphere aircrafts, it'll be two fronts, stealth and sensor platforms, as well as integration and expansion of unmanned vehicles into all the services.

That is true, the military budget is really directed toward operational needs now. I can foresee when Iraq and Afghanistan is over, there will likely be a lot of replenishment of warstock and equipment. I wonder when the next generation MBT will be developed; the M1s aren't going to be the king forever.

Interesting, I wonder if the Raver angle will tie into anything. I was hoping the batty was dead, but oh well. I hope they do well with this turn of events.

The GA depiction of Globalhawk is actually pretty accurate, all it does now is loiter, and take pictures, kind of like an airline. Of course, that's what the predator used to be like to until somebody in the CIA thought about the brilliant idea of taping on a pair of Hellfires.

Look.... UAV funnies http://aviationweek.typepad.com/ares/2007/...cartoon_co.html I think I like the GA cartoon a bit better. It accurately depicts the Globalhawk as is. And hell, who doesn't like those priceless commercials.

Going off topic once again, for China to successfully attack Taiwan, they need to hold the straits long enough to land lots of ground pounders. It really depends on whether or not they can achieve air superiority, otherwise, it becomes a blood bath for whatever phibs they have. China does have a sufficiently large air force, so, if they get in enough numbers, they can probably overwhelm Taiwan. But this is fantasy talk, there is no way China would risk a shooting war that would essentially throw all those years of progress down the drain. The same would be true for NK, I mean, why would China stick up for a nobody? There is not much in the way of profit, no goal is advanced by acutally siding with Korea militarily. Back on topic. For UCAVs, if they can make each one at the cost of 1/10th of an F-16, then they start becoming economical. Because then, they essentially become disposable units. Otherwise, it's a lot of money to maintain them, and then you don't even have a man in the loop. The Predator itself is not a bad start, but early models were still a bit too expensive. And they don't deliver much ordinance. The one that I like the most in economic terms is the Minion, assuming if that ever comes to fruition. Then that would truly be an interesting UCAV.

Amen, to even think about having US Army and Marines taking on the Chinese army is folly. The lift capability to get the troops there is non-existent, and China doesn't have enough blue water capability to sealift its armies. The US Army has been, and will be a force that is geared to destroying other armies, it is not a fit force to occupy territory. UCAV development will be interesting though, but I'm not sure if its enough savings to really justify taking out the man in the loop. I just can't believe a UCAV vs a manned aircraft that the former will ever be able to take on the latter in a dogfight unless the UCAV is totally autonomous. I still don't see how several UCAVs can work as well as say an F-15 loaded with SDB.

Ah but did you know Chloe is truly famous. See Chloe.... http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/sto...mp;channel=comm There is no DoD or DoHS project named Tony, or Michelle, Bucchanan, or even Jack Yeah, you can just imagine a nerdy looking girl squinting at a computer screen and going: "oh my God, a missile, take that, take that, and that, and that, and that..."

No... Death to Audrey, no one abandons 24 and lives. Oh, this reminds me, I really don't like Milo and Nadia, not even remotely close to Tony and Michelle.

I wonder if the A350 will be transported the same way when the time comes... would the dimensions be right?

Crap, why can't those things fly to Moffet field. How annoying.

Oh no, there goes the poor evil Republican... nooooooooooo.... now we have to rely on the evil Democrat to be a good foil on 24. Although it's kind of interesting, things looks like they're coming to a rapid conclusion for the muslim terrorist. I wonder who the mole is... hey... that drone looks like a mini global-hawk.

The Airbus problems are major only on the surface. If anyone doubts that France and Germany aren't going to bail out that company, they're deluded. They can't afford to let Airbus go down, this Power8 thing, if that has to go in order to get some French and Germany politicians elected, well, hey, France is already a socialist country anyway.

I think I've also see a similar pic except that they also squeezed in an AMRAAM in there. http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-SDB.html The things are supposed to cost about $70K to $90K a pop.