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Happy Easter ARC

The only stores I remember were little blue practice bombs...6 I think on the middle wing pylons. They used to park right outside my hangar when VMAT-203 was visiting Yuma. Tanks yes, but no sidewinders, mavericks or full size bombs

That's interesting. I forgot all about the Turkey based Weasels. Magnum mainly talks about Bharain and Saudi based Phantom crews.

The Polish MiG-29 I have been working on calls for those colors as well. btw looking good. Any problem areas?

The book Magnum! made no mention of them that I remember... the craziest I recall is 4x HARMS, or maybe a glancing reference to Mav capability.

I'm presuming it was in flight too. Well here's what it looks like tonight. It has some problems because I had to make some guesses for decals on the port side and also the Hobby Boss kit doesn't include a decal for the pilot's and plane captain's names. Also, previous handling of the big Red Devil decals on the side of the fuselage left many terrible holes in the red area, but I made a convincing mix that I used to touch it up through airbrush and brush. For reference it was Testors 1 part gloss white, one part gloss red and one part gloss orange. Unfortunately, under the tape of the canopy i

Hi, I'm making this Fury and I would like to know if this aircraft's configuration can suggest whether or not the soot around the gun ports happened during a ground trial or a flight. Also, can anyone tell if the nose gear is in the extended position? I guess I'll add that I'm inclined to present this aircraft one way if these photos represent a plane during overhall or extensive maintenance, or another way if it can be determined to be an aircraft just back from a sortie.

Right. Information bad.

sorry, my brain's been working overtime.... have.to.type.more. have.to.type.more. But seriously there's a point in there about criticizing political leadership in war... yes we've seen the bad, but we've also seen the bad from military leadership and that's what I meant to emphasize...

While Vietnam is an excellent example of politics being overbearing on good sense, the Korean war is a actually a prime example of when politicians should have done a lot more sooner. The politicians should have stepped in October 1950 when MacArthur was letting UN troops move ahead of the best defensive line because China warned it would attack if UN troops went too far north. If the Sec of State had his way, MacArthur would have dug defensive positions in the narrowest part of the peninsula and let the South Koreans finish the North off alone. Political leadership wasn't as strong as it shou

Not not only not just a civil because they aren't conducting a revolution, it's also not just a civil war because outside countries have high military interest in how this war ends. The powers are driving the various sides in the civil war through hidden and blatant means. Calling it a civil war at this point diminishes the role of outside parties and the role of ISIS in Iraq, yet labeling it as another part of the War on Terror ignores the the giant geo-political shift this war's end will eventually bring about. We don't have a name for it because we in the West are being slow to decide what

How so? The White House allowed Westy to run the war in the South, which is what counted, about any way he pleased. You couldn't have done between 1964 and 1971 what Nixon did in 1972 because Linebacker addressed the shift of the Communist forces from decentralized insurgents to a centralized conventional force. Conventional invasion of the North was out of the picture by 1964. I guess if you could have addressed the insurgency with a competent general other than Westmoreland, then it's possible you could have pacified the South and restored the legitimacy of the Southern government. Before

Well, I'm very willing to break ties with some countries to handle ISIS. I would throw every other entity out of the skies with some generous F-22 use and that would be that. Only my trusted friends would be allowed to use that airspace, and may God help you if you challenge me. But I would only do that if I got every other nation that has been attacked since 9/11 on board. This brings in the actual worries about fighting ISIS with force: the European countries I would like to include are the same countries that were afraid that WW3 would be fought on their territory and thus they are a litt

Interesting to bring up the Viet Cong... I think about the ideological reasons that the PRC and USSR wanted to see them succeed and then I wonder who is ideologically interested in seeing ISIS succeed. I differentiate ISIS from other groups because they are competing for their 'market share' of support... terror politics is funny because many terror groups are actually political parties trying to set themselves apart from other parties by blowing up their enemies. It's a race to see who is more determined and who has the better strategy for hitting us. The line between being at war and not be

Do you have any video of it working?

If it were up to me, I'd send you 6 more Vipers to fight ISIS with :) I think from a cost/benefit perspective it still seems like using half-measures to keep ISIS at a distance is deemed cheaper than total war. Naturally this has me wondering how much damage must they do before we decide that half-measures are more expensive than war.

I am also happy that Danny's sister escaped the worst of it, but I'm sorry she was there and has to deal with being involved in a terrorist attack as a victim. The point I don't think many people are getting is that Brussels was hit because it is the capital of the EU, not because it was next in line from France. The attack was planned as a response to the EU article France chose to respond to the Paris Attacks with, rather than NATO. With the capture of the Paris Attacks facilitator, the time table of the Brussels attack was accelerated. The airport is an obvious target and we have come to

In that case I'm reminded of the old H&MS squadrons the Marines had.... Headquarters and Maintenance Sq.

My nation battles with amnesia hardcore... most of them couldn't remember from 2001 what put them in Iraq by 2003. So yes, memories are extremely important. I welcome an international effort to handle ISIS and its breeding grounds. It's not fair that one nation heads these efforts because all the other countries will just look at the result and say, "hey you guys weren't there for the people, look at all the millionaires that came out of it!" And Smedley Butler will be rolling in his grave. It's important that all countries affected by this terrorism work together, with troops and funding. If

Is Tim Horton's (by Burger King) part of the Dark Side? Sorry Tim Horton's is all I know about Canadian coffee :)

The Prowlers Broncos painted on the icon have me leaning to reconnaissance, but the lack of a fixed-wing (V) designator has me scratching my head.

I love it. Knowing this was from 1992 makes me wonder how the Warsaw Pact pilots felt once the curtain came down and they found out what they were really up against.

BOOM! ~~~ there it went edit I thought TX was there