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I do have an aviation museum in my home town, but most the stuff is prop planes and the few jets they have aren't in the game database.
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Apr 22, 2017 22:52
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Best pics I've got are the X-32 
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Apr 22, 2017 22:53
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Hmm its not got a whole lot but the Sunderland Air Museum has that rustic run down look to it. Will grab some photos either tomorrow or maybe Monday. How do we do this photo stuff Yooper just post in character in the thread, send them by PM or something else?
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Apr 22, 2017 22:54
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If only I lived in a country with an air museum, I'd go there and take pictures of literally anything.
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Apr 22, 2017 22:57
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i live near the Nation Air and Space museum i will pay a visit to their hanger and take pictures later this week
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So, it seems to me that at present we have an advantage we can leverage against the dictator: he needs the lithium shipments to get through. This means that if we start threatening those with our ground attack birds, we can force his air force to come out and play at a time and place of our choosing. It also gives us a way to use cluster bombs without as many humanitarian issues; if we're dropping them all along a stretch of highway, we know where they are for post-war cleanup, and they're much less likely to have civilians accidentally stumbling across them.
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The Sandman posted:So, it seems to me that at present we have an advantage we can leverage against the dictator: he needs the lithium shipments to get through. This means that if we start threatening those with our ground attack birds, we can force his air force to come out and play at a time and place of our choosing. 
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Apr 22, 2017 23:06
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I live 45 minutes away from Kennedy Space Center, what cost do you think Yooper would set a Saturn V at?
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Well, it's obvious where they are. Aside from being easier to clean up, it's easier for people to avoid the dangerous stretch of roadway and figure out workarounds while it's still unsafe. The problem with cluster munitions in general is that they're not possible to avoid because they're scattered indiscriminately and there's no way of knowing exactly where they are until people start blowing up. Think of it like the difference between a marked and unmarked minefield. Only more so.
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Yeah, unless we're prepared to buy the land and fence it off indefinitely, we shouldn't drop cluster ammunition anywhere. Even the use in Lhasa was questionable, but that airfield had to be shut down quickly and for a long term.
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Apr 22, 2017 23:26
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Sunderland museum visit will have to wait till Friday I thought it was free entry but it turns out that ain't so. Payday will be visit day.
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Added Space posted:Yeah, unless we're prepared to buy the land and fence it off indefinitely, we shouldn't drop cluster ammunition anywhere. Even the use in Lhasa was questionable, but that airfield had to be shut down quickly and for a long term. We're mercenaries. If we wanted to be ethical, we're in the wrong profession.
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Quinntan posted:We're mercenaries. If we wanted to be ethical, we're in the wrong profession. It's not so much ethical as pragmatic. Until we bribe some big-name politicians to bury any scandals we shouldn't get a reputation for indiscriminate killing of civilians. Added Space fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Apr 22, 2017 |
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Apr 22, 2017 23:33
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More pragmatically, cluster bombs/dumb bombs require planes to fly low to hit targets. 2000lb Laser guided ones can be dropped from 40k feet 
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Apr 22, 2017 23:34
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Yooper posted:There's precedence for mercenaries taking over African countries. Unfortunately it doesn't end terribly well for anyone involved. If I can think of an entertaining way for us to have a "friendly" government we could roll with that. But I'd rather go as we have been and let the nation building part play out in the background, if at all. Triple A posted:You mean doing what China already has been doing with Africa for the last 30 years? Yes, like turning it over to a friendly government, but with the company running part of or all of the military and law enforcement, letting it play out in the background of the story, collecting a cut for the services provided. Keep collecting rent. RA Rx fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Apr 22, 2017 |
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Apr 22, 2017 23:38
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I'd rather leave nationing to the nations and not get bogged down playing pig in a west african hellhole.
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Being paid to
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Apr 22, 2017 23:45
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Ah well. Something about fissile materials? Is the company really planning to build nukes~?
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Added Space posted:It's not so much ethical as pragmatic. Until we bribe some big-name politicians to bury any scandals we shouldn't get a reputation for indiscriminate killing of civilians. Man, I feel sorry as I write this out, but it's Africa and unfortunately the world doesn't care about bloodshed in Africa. The continent has suffered countless atrocities with nary a moment's consideration from the rest of the world. I mean, I literally just found out, while writing this post, that there's two civil wars in Sudan, and that there's civil war in South Sudan. We live in a media environment that cares more about the Kardashans than about genuine human misery and suffering in some of the most impoverished countries of the world. Sadly, I doubt that us dropping bombs randomly on an orphanage or something would get much attention. Wr wouldn't need to bury that story, because after all, there's celebrity gossip to blather on about.
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To add to that , there is also currently both a chaotic civil war and an active vengeance campaign going on in Asia right this very moment. I'm not sure anything you guys would do would even be a blip on the radar.
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Added Space posted:It's not so much ethical as pragmatic. Until we bribe some big-name politicians to bury any scandals we shouldn't get a reputation for indiscriminate killing of civilians. Mr Crustacean posted:More pragmatically, cluster bombs/dumb bombs require planes to fly low to hit targets. 2000lb Laser guided ones can be dropped from 40k feet I'd also like to add, from an OOC standpoint, that I've occasionally seen some bugs in deploying cluster munitions in other scenarios (including the air training tutorial!) where they simply...don't do any damage, even to targets that they can theoretically hit. It's better all around if we avoid their use if at all possible. We may be mercenaries, but as fighter pilots, we inherit the traditions of the knights of yore. (I'm serious, Gen. Billy Mitchell made that comparison). We should therefore hold ourselves to high standards.
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Davin Valkri posted:We may be mercenaries, but as fighter pilots, we inherit the traditions of the knights of yore. (I'm serious, Gen. Billy Mitchell made that comparison). We should therefore hold ourselves to high standards. 
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I just want to point out that the noble, honorable commander guy in the beginning of Strike Commander managed to back the wrong side in a civil war, almost not get paid, couldn't stop his soldiers shooting down a jet they weren't paid to shoot down (which got his squadron retaliated against), then proceeded to declare his noble intention to help a dictator unite South America (solely because the guy's enemies had tried to kill him a couple times) and didn't bat an eyelash at being offered a suspiciously huge payout for an easy mission. I imagine he was also surprised when he was betrayed and killed by said dictator. Hold yourself to a high standard for pragmatic and business reasons, but don't be a stupid bastard like Commander Stern. E: Also if we're going to be Strike: The Commandering we really need a sassy accountant.
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Apr 23, 2017 00:32
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Are there cluster offsets like there are carbon offsets? Can we spend an equivalent amount of money as we paid for our cluster bombs to have somebody with an air force promise not to drop that many cluster bombs?
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Night10194 posted:E: Also if we're going to be Strike: The Commandering we really need a sassy accountant. We have Herbert Kornfeld.  His articles are here, and quite hilarious. http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/keep-your-loving-poo poo-off-my-desk-16508
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one who loved those articles.
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Yooper posted:We have Herbert Kornfeld. Thank christ, this is perfect.
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Davin Valkri posted:We may be mercenaries, but as fighter pilots, we inherit the traditions of the knights of yore. (I'm serious, Gen. Billy Mitchell made that comparison). We should therefore hold ourselves to high standards. The knights of yore were a bunch of inbred thugs in plate armor. Now I don't have a problem in abstaining from cluster munitions in a human vs. human conflict. But I hope that when the time comes, in the Bering Strait, when it comes down to cluster bombing a harbor to save the whales, you'll all make the right choice. You guys make such a big deal about Rohan like she's a crazy person just cause she's a little disgruntled from the whole China affair. You know that I would level every tuna cannery in the world to save one dolphin, right? And I'm probably not even the most depraved pilot hanging around here.
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Cathode Raymond posted:The knights of yore were a bunch of inbred thugs in plate armor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IUxK_0WLbg Gotta nuke somethin'!.
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Wanna see what one of our AShMs does to a whale
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I don't know about you guys but my reason to join was to fly this aerocynamic Delilah. Its canard wings and meteor rockets. Its clear curving cockpit cover, the whirling of dials and needles. And the uniform! The illustrious uniform of the Hayard Gunnes. The click of the heels in salute, the flare of the jacket, the wide, long-skirted hang of it, and oh, the low shiny peak of the cap. For the danger, and the glory of death. To set forth in a silver lance too joust with the forces of darkness. To die for one's country. A young and dashing life gone up in flames. Blonde maidens weeping.
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Apr 23, 2017 01:28
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Herbert Kornfield is my spirit animal.
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Apr 23, 2017 01:29
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 Launch time! Here we go! Time to meet these bastards in the air.
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Apr 23, 2017 02:29
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I just watched the last episode Black Mirror, can we get us some of those bees???
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Apr 23, 2017 02:36
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@AwesomeLeader69's first listed follower has a Pepe avatar. Classic. Can't wait to see his tweets when we bomb his palace.
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Cathode Raymond posted:@AwesomeLeader69's first listed follower has a Pepe avatar. Classic. 
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Not going to lie, we definitely picked the right side, if only to see these amazing tweets and Reddit threads while maintaining a smug sense of moral superiority.
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Yooper, did you plan the dictator's personality before or after we chose a side? 
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Yooper posted:
Gentlemen, Operation First Impressions is a go! Here is your briefing. We are wheels up in 30 minutes. 
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