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What's so magical about that airbus that it costs that much to run? Call me Tapco, I want to fly a fighter!
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Tapco votes for Tibet via India in hopes of getting to fly a MiG-21 Bison some day. After that, I'd start mercilessly lobbying to put an AESA radar on it.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:53
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Well, since we're ever so slightly pissing into NATO's cereal, let's take Jack to sort things out and disappear in a puff of sulfuric smoke and unearthly laughter.
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Apr 1, 2017 06:12
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Apr 1, 2017 06:59
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Meanwhile, I understand some-to-none of the words in the armament section. I hope you folks buy farms slowly enough for me to learn the ropes by the time I have to bomb hostile watering holes or some poo poo.
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Apr 1, 2017 18:29
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Yeah, going in low in the riverbed would be good in avoiding radar, but that's almost ideal ground for MANPADS, unless they're clustered around the bridge. Can one Grippen laze the target for another? Can they self laze? For maximum fuckery, there's mountain to the south-southwest of the bridge... crest the top 1,3 miles away from the target, fire rockets/drop bombs, tear rear end out of there, hiding back behind the mountain from the MANPADS (assuming they don't inhabit the area around there).  Now this map might be too technical for some of you, but I produced it on the best napkin I could find. The red-blue are our paying mission routes. The black is a 600+ kilo run for the bombs. Follow the escort flight about half way, divert towards 1, go low, follow the river to 2, then go through the valley towards X, where you crest the mountain and have to options - either going by the river and then attacking the bridge (though it wouldn't give you a lot of time to acquire the target, and that river valley might be full angry alternative employers) or going over the mountain I mentioned in the begining of the missive. Sure, flying low might not be that easy and you'll upset a lot of civilians, but you do what you must to blow up bridges while supporting humanitarian efforts.
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Apr 1, 2017 20:14
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Look, we're not some Nigerian mercs providing bodies with AKs to guard Applebees in Baghdad, we're more like Xe airborne (only with less shooting at civvies). We need to show people that we're serious and we need our pilots to hone skills other than "loving Indian prostitutes bowlegged." That's why 6 Grippens is the way to go.
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Apr 2, 2017 05:18
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Can CMANO simulate a rogue Gripen pilot spotting a TLA MANPAD section and going GUNS GUNS GUNS while ranting something about dead corgies and bootleg dog food*? *Pilot is racist enough to not know the difference between Chinese and Tibetans.
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Apr 2, 2017 15:11
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Affordable mid market might mean Mercenaries and planes bombing technicals to dirt in Bumfuck, Africa. Those assholes would never expect a Gripen to paste anything that threatens our SK60s!
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Apr 2, 2017 16:34
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I support plan Bacarruda!
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Apr 3, 2017 08:40
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Yooper posted:
I dunno what that means, but I expect dead Asians and ruined infrastructure 
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Apr 3, 2017 22:01
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The video was fine, though a bit long because of the you didn't time compress "nothing happening now, but something MIGHT happen" sections, for example, the Savage flight approach to the bridge. Other than that, GG, DSM is the goon of the day, nothing but the best of fermented yak milk for our ace pilot! EDIT: Phantom IIs are beautiful, they actually have chaff that Mig-21bis don't (at least the Baloogan Wiki says they don't), and they can be flown in bomb truck configuration for 12 or more bombs, which is great and something I wanted to do ever since I saw it on Wargame.
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Apr 4, 2017 07:10
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Serpentis posted:Reserve Pilot Hellhammer would like to congratulate the lot of you on a job well done and a tidy profit; nicely done actives! J-8I is MiG-21's fat ugly sister, and this way an economical way of disposing of them? Hey, do pilots get paid any sum of all that money we made?
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Apr 4, 2017 10:22
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I think we should be pro-UN, pro-bombing poo poo to dust with our bombtrucks, avoiding contracts by literal criminals and terrorists.
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I vote Frogfoots and Phantoms. A2A poo poo is boring and will become even more boring once we become rich enough to fire Meteors (never?) and other BVR missiles that let AWACS operators feel like they're playing Red Alert. By the way, what could be considered to be off-brand Meteors and what planes could fly them? Would Su-27 be any more economical, loadout-wise? Edit: it's Tapco, not Capco 
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Apr 4, 2017 18:03
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Tapco votes for Plan Baccaruda as well as buying all of the Phantoms ever. Now excuse me, I have to figure out how to wire my MP3 player into the Phantom helmet to blast Paint it Black and Fortunate Son while I paste a Yemeni wedding with 12 GBUs. Speaking of Yemeni weddings, we should definitely get into the drone game.
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Apr 5, 2017 06:44
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I want to bomb and if I can do that as a WSO, so be it. Also, judging by goon response, 21st century logistics sim is more fun than even bombing juggalos.
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Apr 5, 2017 13:27
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I vote for Phsawn's modified Bacarruda plan (Around the World with Mr. and Mrs. Paveway) I also vote that we should get Russians. Americans are U.S. Army rejects, so these guys Meanwhile, the Russians are cool. ***The Upsides Of Hiring Russian*** *More dudes *Taking people out of Russia is a humanitarian effort *Resourceful *Good at recruitment/conscription effort **120 Mosins that can be given out to new employees ***Do you get hard thinking about SF training Montangnards in Vietnam? That's basically what the Russians can do for us, but with more drinking *Already trained for harsh conditions (Siberia is 100% misery all year, the difference being that it's cold in winter and oxygen is replaced by mosquitoes in summer) *Mechanized infantry *Come in a combined arms package *Lets us toys with ideas like strapping an ATGM to a T-34 *Any tank is better than no tank *Already familiar with the equipment that the enemy uses, so can resupply in the field *Might be both Communists and Russian Orthodox, thus giving us a moral compass *Plausible deniability: would gay designer Swede mercs be using uncouth homophobic Russians? I think not! *Probably handy with wood working
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Apr 6, 2017 09:02
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A Chinese frigate is lost in a heroic effort to save two innocent civilian freight ships struck by TLA suicide boats!
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Apr 6, 2017 14:45
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Apr 6, 2017 20:09
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Jack's professional lobbying activities really make me wonder just what the gently caress would be going on if the votes had been for Jimmy instead. I might be the the outlyer here, but I'd advise against hiring hatchet murderer clowns
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Apr 7, 2017 17:27
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Let's vote on that! Let's not Phoenix Grognard Twilight LP will get a link dropped here, yeah?
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Apr 7, 2017 19:40
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That An-2 and Bryev bote can be used to drop paras or, failing that, exploding barrels! I call it the Syrian-Rhodesian approach.
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Apr 7, 2017 19:44
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Well, that's Baloogan's problem!  Phi230 posted:As the proprietor of our ground element I vote AN-2 for airborne insertion Can we make one into a gunship?
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Apr 7, 2017 20:36
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Phi230 posted:I mean there is historical precedent for it. IIRC some guys strapped rockets onto a cessna once Eric Prince of Blackwater fame is apparently bombing Libya with Emirate cropduster reincarnation of IL-2. 
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Apr 7, 2017 20:47
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Bacarruda posted:Ironically, if we sold off the Saab 105s and bought these, we'd have a more capable (and cheaper) ground attack aircraft. Endless screaming in the Cold War thread has convinced me that MANPADS and HMGs are everywhere, so bombing useless dirt is only ever safely conducted at 35,000 feet and Mach 1.5.
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Unfortunately, most of vulnerable (~10k pop) islands are in the Pacific and we don't even have a botte. Not even a flying botte.
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Yeah, I was wondering if the game makes getting shot down a literal death sentence (what is this, Rise of Flight LP?). Maybe we should diceroll them whike we wait for CMANO to implement that (and ground combat). Ground combat would be sweet, it somewhat dilutes the feeling of urgency when those Chinese Type-59 IIs (on book called them the worst thing ever inflicted on an army) are willing to sit in one spot for 6 hours until we fly back to bomb them. Anyone want to simulate that battle in winSPMBT? I'll vote NO on the Pact stuff, they seem real shoddy. I volunteer to fly any death trap I voted for, so I'm gonna be in one of those suicide phantoms.
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Apr 9, 2017 13:18
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8 Phantoms at 100% availability could poo poo out 12 GBUs of whatever size per plane and it would be awesome. Hell, we could give napalm to some of them, the airframes would probably fly faster with the knowledge that they're going to fry Charlie again.
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By the way, what part of Warlord China is fighting us anyways? edit: steampunk? Is the Big Coal hiring us to bomb win turbines and sun pannels?
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Man, standoff weapons almost feel like cheating. On the other hand, not getting shot at is great and Eight Airforce would have given an arm and a leg for some standoff capability.
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I'm full Entebbe on this. To put my money where my mouth is, I'm willing to accept any risky task: flying Frogfeet or Hawks, piloting the transport, dangling from the transport on a bungee cord and using a BB gun to suppress AAA...
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I vote for Surprise Motherfuckers! with Light Attackers Yes. More planes, more fun. if we had 8 Phantoms, we could blanket the place with Napalm
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Apr 11, 2017 15:20
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I have little doubt that everything will go wrong, but c'est la vien when you're a merc in an outfit where jet pilits are the most disposable of resources.
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Quinntan posted:I don't think we need Flankers. Maybe three more Gripens? I'd rather us bulk up the number of Phantoms we have to be honest and sell off the Frogfoots, Sk60s and Hawk 209s. None of them have IFR and the Frogfoot has already shown that it is short-legged, requiring us to use this shithole airfield. Always bet on sexy Gripens. Phantoms are fun too. How to Rafales stack up against our Grips? As a European, I'm a canards all day guy.
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Quinntan posted:I love the old things that have been upgraded to insane degrees, like the Greek Phantoms or Columbian Kfirs. The Kfirs are nuts. MiG-21-2000!
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Apr 13, 2017 13:03
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This thread is probably the only place I've ever seen people get excited about Tornadoes.
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rchandra posted:If my Pilotwings skills are any indication, I can't stay parallel to a runway if it's windy (can't land in level 8). Hopefully it'll be calm! Me, I'm just here to poo poo our ordinance
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Jimmy4400nav posted:Plus even the smallest ones can carry several hundred ground troops, which lets us create a mobile base for ourselves in the Phoenix Command offshoot! The Phoenix Commander stated that running 12 dudes and a secrert number of PLA is already melting his brain, so "hundreds of troops" can only mean support staff/uncountable redshirts that want to replace losses in a merc outfit with a high mortality rate.
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