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Xarn posted:SDBs on Gripen are OP. They really are. So little risk compared to dropping paveways. TBH this is one reason I brought the SA-11's in. I'm working on the video now, editing and such. I should have it up in a few hours.
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May 7, 2017 14:38
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Xarn posted:SDBs on Gripen are OP. Yeah funny how modern munitions designed to avoid risk to the user work that way.
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May 7, 2017 14:46
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power crystals posted:So You Wanna Do A (War)Crime You sir are a god send, I am giddy with excitement after seeing those cluster napalm munitions and sea mines as well? Well that is just icing on the cake, hopefully we can pick up some of those aircraft and I can add a little more mixture to my plans.
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May 7, 2017 15:05
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The last time we saw anything launch out of Kuito, it was the Sultan's and they've left for greener pastures. As for the closer air base we hit, that had the ELINT/EWAR birds that Rohan/Silent Bob went after two missions ago now, so there's little to no apparent degradation of capability that the Dictator has suffered in terms of that damage. The air base that the Free State hit never had activity that we saw, though I don't think we have had good eyes (ELINT or otherwise) on that one's airspace. We should have had a ferry/move operation to Menongue/Cassamba (which ever we were going to use, we ended up using the latter) to clear the immediate area at least of threats. That SA-2 battery had, at the very least, detection of what was going in and out of the Cassamba air base, and that could have really hurt us in the form of 2 less AMXes or more. All in all, whether by luck or skill, that was an amazing mission. Good jobs all around.
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May 7, 2017 15:15
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Stago Lego posted:[*]Sa-11's seem capable of shooting without radar. Specifically, it can fire without a search radar. The launcher itself contains the fire control radar (this classifies it as a "TELAR" instead of a regular "TEL" for Transporter Erector Launcher And Radar). It just needs to find the target some other way first, as the FCR has a very narrow search radius, which if nothing else can be done by a dude with a pair of binoculars if you're patient enough. I believe the SA-11 that brought down MH17 did so without a search radar. Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Yeah funny how modern munitions designed to avoid risk to the user work that way. This is a large part of why I keep doing posts of older or weirder aircraft that might suit our needs. Everybody wants F-15Es, but how many people were interested in Romanian Fishbeds or Israeli Phantoms before I got here?  This stuff gives our air force character instead of just chucking standoff weapons at everything forever and hopefully gives Yooper a few more fun options for procurement rounds.
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May 7, 2017 15:20
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power crystals posted:This is a large part of why I keep doing posts of older or weirder aircraft that might suit our needs. Everybody wants F-15Es, but how many people were interested in Romanian Fishbeds or Israeli Phantoms before I got here? I will never not look for Phantoms first, though I came to the thread late because I thought it was a Strike Command LP.
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May 7, 2017 15:27
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Putting single Tauruses on runways seems like a waste of good Tauruses unless that runway absolutely needs to be shut down for the next hour but great effort overall.
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May 7, 2017 15:39
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power crystals posted:Specifically, it can fire without a search radar. The launcher itself contains the fire control radar (this classifies it as a "TELAR" instead of a regular "TEL" for Transporter Erector Launcher And Radar). It just needs to find the target some other way first, as the FCR has a very narrow search radius, which if nothing else can be done by a dude with a pair of binoculars if you're patient enough. I believe the SA-11 that brought down MH17 did so without a search radar. We'll probably need all those standoff weapons
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May 7, 2017 16:27
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Dreamsicle posted:We'll probably need all those standoff weapons Right, which is why I've been advocating that and also a cheaper second tier to do stuff like suppress armor. If we can throw a couple Vietnam-era relics at a mission for the price of one SDB carrier, that gives us more advanced weapons available where they're actually needed.
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May 7, 2017 16:44
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aphid_licker posted:Putting single Tauruses on runways seems like a waste of good Tauruses unless that runway absolutely needs to be shut down for the next hour but great effort overall. In my defense, that‘s exactly what I wanted to do, because I didn't know the Dictator had called his Flankers back to Luanda. I thought the Kfirs would be contested much more aggressively.
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May 7, 2017 16:45
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Destroying an entire company of T-72s has got to be bad for business. You wonder how many of those the Bulgarians brought in theatre? How many tanks does a ground focused PMC supposed to have?
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May 7, 2017 17:47
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sparkmaster posted:Destroying an entire company of T-72s has got to be bad for business. You wonder how many of those the Bulgarians brought in theatre? How many tanks does a ground focused PMC supposed to have? I'd imagine any number of them. It would really depend on what their clients need or afford.
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May 7, 2017 17:55
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Huge laffo at our airbase catching on fire over and over. Sounds like some of our ground elements might have visited the theater.
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May 7, 2017 18:09
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glynnenstein posted:Huge laffo at our airbase catching on fire over and over. Sounds like some of our ground elements might have visited the theater. That's me forgetting to remove the damage from a previous mission.
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May 7, 2017 18:22
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Well, drat, that ran like a drill. No casualties on our end, and everything on the target range got blowed up. I fully expect the Bulgarians to pull out at this point, and the Free State to ask if they can join us too.
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May 7, 2017 18:42
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 Right now it needs another 30 minutes to process. But it'll be live shortly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNeWgQIIL-8 Spoilers Below   An exceptional mission that saw the Dictators forces pushed back on multiple fronts. On top of that we have four new Kfir's to add to our arsenal. Huambo and Luena airfields are now hosed right up. No way around it. Between our cruise missiles and the Free State hammering them those locations are unusable for the near future. Luckily for us though Benguela airfield is operational. Von Hoffs advancing armor caught the Government troops off guard and seized the airfield before they could detonate the under-track charges. So where does this leave us? In the few days since the mission Angola is a different place.  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WpTsgN4ZjD93Kh3EyjavoHjLJQA&usp=sharing Our forces are now engaged on the ground in Eastern Angola. The infrastructure is terrible and both sides are in contact but lack the oomph to punch through. The main battle line is the highway travelling from East to West. Whoever can control that can shuttle goods and equipment across the country with ease. In the North the dictator attacked the Free State and launched raids with his remaining air assets. In addition his SA-11's are now denser than ever. The Free State is holding on by a thread, if Delvanios can punch up to the DRC border than the Free States troops will have no access to the Free State capital. The DRC is ambivalent about this and has made mild gestures about not traversing but they're not picking sides. It's still up in the air how this is all going to shake out. The Dictator is on the ropes, but our troops are worn out, the advanced has stalled on prepared positions, and the SA-11's are now thick as can be. We'll be paying dearly for each mile further. The Dictators forces in this part of the country are ethnically different from the other parts so the resistance is getting stiffer. Have no doubts Hired Goons. It's going to get bloody from this point on. More intel. And a decision. Two days ago we received a case. In the case was $1 million in low grade, untraceable, diamonds. A message sat on top. Now Hired Goons is when we decide if we always go to the highest bidder or if we finish the job.  If we stay the rewards will be great. But so will the losses. We can leave now and abandon Angola to her fate. Our payout will be $200,000,000 in diamonds. What'll it be Hired Goons? Finished the job or visit Napoleons grave? Hats off to Davin Valkri, and everyone else who submitted a mission, for the excellent plan.
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May 7, 2017 18:42
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Loel posted:
No! Just no! Edit: As for the choice, I say we stay! Gotta finish the job. 
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May 7, 2017 18:44
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Why in god's would we trust him? Stay
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May 7, 2017 18:44
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We're already getting 90 mil per mission from the lithium mines, plus whatever we get in mission payouts. Those diamonds aren't worth screwing over our reputation. Edit: Can we send someone out there to grab the diamonds, then just refuse to leave Angola? We already hosed up the dictator's air force and ground elements, what's he going to do? LostCosmonaut fucked around with this message at 18:49 on May 7, 2017 |
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May 7, 2017 18:45
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Dear Delvanos, lol no Signed Hayard goones Bitching out on a job makes future employers leery.
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May 7, 2017 18:46
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No We have a reputation to maintain, Delvanios can go gently caress himself. This is for Silent Bob.
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May 7, 2017 18:49
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Stay and finish the fight. We were kindly asked to leave by the Indians, so our contract was complete. Leaving now would only ruin our reputation, such as it is.
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May 7, 2017 18:48
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Can we mail back a photo of us just flipping him off? Maybe erect a sculpture of such out of GBU-24s and a Meteor? No.
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May 7, 2017 18:48
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Tell him no, and that deBeers sends its regards.
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May 7, 2017 18:49
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No. I mean, you know, it's pretty clearly a terrible option.
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May 7, 2017 18:51
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Ok so can we order a few extra sets of NBC gear and some cases of antidote to the most common nerve agents? Also, of course we'll tell him to go gently caress himself, BUT can we try and figure out a way to take his money anyways?
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May 7, 2017 18:51
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I'm tempted to suggest we swap out a bomb's warhead with those diamonds and drop it somewhere Delvanios will find it with the word NO painted on the bomb. But that sadly isn't feasible. Give the diamond money to Silent Bob's family, if he has one. Otherwise I suggest we donate the diamonds to some charity, perhaps in the Dictator's name. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 19:02 on May 7, 2017 |
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May 7, 2017 18:53
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We are mercenaries, but we don't cut and run at the first whiff of another offer. FINISH HIM
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May 7, 2017 18:56
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Delvianos: No.
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May 7, 2017 19:02
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Sadly his message wasn't nearly bombastic enough for us to do that to it.
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May 7, 2017 19:03
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Promise to do so upon him giving us half the money upfront. Make it look like we are packing up and leaving, only to rebase to Benguela
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May 7, 2017 19:05
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Somebody title our next mission Operation Not Enough Zeros
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May 7, 2017 19:04
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Sadly his message wasn't nearly bombastic enough for us to do that to it. Not at all, unfortunately.
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May 7, 2017 19:05
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Now is the time we should totally send him flowers and a card.
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May 7, 2017 19:07
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Night10194 posted:Now is the time we should totally send him flowers and a card. I get this reference. And we should.
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May 7, 2017 19:09
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Night10194 posted:Now is the time we should totally send him flowers and a card. Agreed.
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May 7, 2017 19:13
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Neophyte posted:Somebody title our next mission Operation Not Enough Zeros Stay We haven't even cluster bombed anyone yet!
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I'm tempted to suggest we swap out a bomb's warhead with those diamonds and drop it somewhere Delvanios will find it with the word NO painted on the bomb. But that sadly isn't feasible. We use the money to lay groundwork financing for the new Angolan airforce under Rohan's supervision. And I vote Stay.
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Even if I considered us to be bribable, I dont trust him to hold his end of the bargain. He stomps his marshals with elephants, if we left we'd find an empty box and a twitter full of him declaring victory.
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