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I rely on Air-launched ASAT weapons.
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Wow.. it's a game new year and I didn't notice it...
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Cayman dudes get celebrating the fact that they pulled through those elections - in their corrupt asshole manner - but suddenly Karic kills them.

Hwoops.

The Crimson Star Republic special agents would've done it personally but why dirty your hands when a crime lord with a grudge is always there? ;) Not to mention a hefty bonus for Karic - allowing him to hide in the CSR for almost half a year :)
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When you say "the government of the Caymans", who precisely did you have in mind? President and VP? The entire leading Cabinent (Save perhaps lesser posts)? Important legislative and party figures?
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I thought it was about the President and some Party figures, since they are the elected. But then, it doesn't really matter which part of the Cayman government was offed - it will create a lot of chaos any way one looks at it :D
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And...Stas makes one hell of a comeback. 8) :D

And so does Karic. :twisted:

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Man, Karic rocks. I wonder what he's up to.
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DarthShady wrote:And...Stas makes one hell of a comeback. 8) :D

And so does Karic. :twisted:
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Fingolfin, dude, how much does the DSP-1 weigh and where do you want it to go?

P.S.

If Karic is up, the Ana will be, too :D
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PeZook wrote:Fingolfin, dude, how much does the DSP-1 weigh and where do you want it to go?

P.S.

If Karic is up, the Ana will be, too :D
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Cool. We can easily launch it with an 11K59, it's in the same capability range as the Delta II.

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By the way folks, Miratia is developing an extremely large rocket artillery/air defense platform that's pretty much a land-going battleship, designed to defend larger areas of Miratian territory from air and ground attack. This is necessary because of the fact that I have fewer than 15,000 soldiers trying to manage an area the size of Quebec.

Now, I realize that may strain credulity with some of you but well... I need it. :P
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Ryan Thunder wrote:By the way folks, Miratia is developing an extremely large rocket artillery/air defense platform that's pretty much a land-going battleship, designed to defend larger areas of Miratian territory from air and ground attack. This is necessary because of the fact that I have fewer than 15,000 soldiers trying to manage an area the size of Quebec.

Now, I realize that may strain credulity with some of you but well... I need it. :P
ER... might I recommend you ... instead use an extensive bunker system instead? That big juicy target is just ripe for suborbital nuke bombardment.
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Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:
Ryan Thunder wrote:By the way folks, Miratia is developing an extremely large rocket artillery/air defense platform that's pretty much a land-going battleship, designed to defend larger areas of Miratian territory from air and ground attack. This is necessary because of the fact that I have fewer than 15,000 soldiers trying to manage an area the size of Quebec.

Now, I realize that may strain credulity with some of you but well... I need it. :P
ER... might I recommend you ... use an extensive bunker system instead?
But that's so boringly typical. :P

It's more relocateable than mobile, anyways. It would sit in place for years at a time and probably never be much more vulnerable than a shallow bunker. Built-in radar, point-defense, intermediate range anti-aircraft, anti-tank, and anti-personnel missiles, mine-deploying missiles, etc. With extended radar support, it could engage targets the instant they cross the border from the other end of the country.

Oh, and yes, it will be able to engage multiple targets simultaneously.

Of course, I suppose that might be better invested in a smaller MRL platform for the missiles rather than a land battleship.

Oh, are cluster bombs illegal by any international law here?
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Ryan Thunder wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:
Ryan Thunder wrote:By the way folks, Miratia is developing an extremely large rocket artillery/air defense platform that's pretty much a land-going battleship, designed to defend larger areas of Miratian territory from air and ground attack. This is necessary because of the fact that I have fewer than 15,000 soldiers trying to manage an area the size of Quebec.

Now, I realize that may strain credulity with some of you but well... I need it. :P
ER... might I recommend you ... use an extensive bunker system instead?
But that's so boringly typical. :P

It's more relocateable than mobile, anyways. It would sit in place for years at a time and probably never be much more vulnerable than a shallow bunker. Built-in radar, point-defense, intermediate range anti-aircraft, anti-tank, and anti-personnel missiles, mine-deploying missiles, etc. With extended radar support, it could engage targets the instant they cross the border.

Oh, are cluster bombs illegal by any international law here?
You don't build bunkers shallow, you build them deep and hidden. Plus, such a large monstrosity is going to be huge. You can only traverse flat ground and not rocky ground or else you might topple over.

For one thing you are putting way too many eggs in a single basket, and if an enemy were smart enough and pinpointed the location of the said "land battleship", all he really needs to do is saturate you with lots of SRBM or IRBMs, of which I operate lots of Iskanders for the job of doing such things. Mind you, the SS-25-Iskander allows for course corrections via datalink and has evasive algorithms. If all else fails, there's always the option of a proximity fused nuke. Granted these Land Battleships of yours are going to be bloody expensive to build, the destruction of one will leave a huge hole in your defence.

Cluster bombs aren't banned. No one, except for a few saner countries, will sign it.
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So Miratia is building Bolos now? Err, hokay... Do you perchance need any Hellbores developed? ;)

PS: Wasn't Japanistan developing a similar sort of outrageous ubertank, before Skimmer dropped out?

PPS: As a whole though, I agree with Fingolfin. This idea sounds ridiculously impractical...
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SiegeTank wrote:So Miratia is building Bolos now? Err, hokay... Do you perchance need any Hellbores developed? ;)

PS: Wasn't Japanistan developing a similar sort of outrageous ubertank, before Skimmer dropped out?

PPS: As a whole though, I agree with Fingolfin. This idea sounds ridiculously impractical...
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That "land battleship" idea is horrible. For a small country, the idea should be to scatter and conceal lots of highly mobile, autonomous advanced air defence platforms all over the place. Right now, it's one nuke explosion over it to fry its radar and your entire defence grid goes down :D

And no, Skimmer wasn't building an insane Bolo. His were 100+ tonne highly survivable urban assault tanks.

@ Wilkens (on the lunar landers):

Actually, Coyote isn't building lunar landers, he's building 112 tonne translunar shuttles. We'll probably move with something like that for space infrastructure:

Step 1: Automatic unmanned landers

Step 2: Small short-duration, low-capacity landers like the american LEM

Step 3: Large, long endurance landers (like the Altair or LK-700)

Step 4: Orbital space station

Step 5: Semi-permanent lunar habitats (perhaps several linked landers)

Step 6: Permanent outpost

Step 7: Industry!

The eagles would ferry passengers and cargo from the outpost/habitat to the space station, saving us costs on lifting the spaceship's superstructure to orbit every single time
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PeZook wrote:That "land battleship" idea is horrible. For a small country, the idea should be to scatter and conceal lots of highly mobile, autonomous advanced air defence platforms all over the place. Right now, it's one nuke explosion over it to fry its radar and your entire defence grid goes down :D

And no, Skimmer wasn't building an insane Bolo. His were 100+ tonne highly survivable urban assault tanks.

@ Wilkens (on the lunar landers):

Actually, Coyote isn't building lunar landers, he's building 112 tonne translunar shuttles. We'll probably move with something like that for space infrastructure:

Step 1: Automatic unmanned landers

Step 2: Small short-duration, low-capacity landers like the american LEM

Step 3: Large, long endurance landers (like the Altair or LK-700)

Step 4: Orbital space station

Step 5: Semi-permanent lunar habitats (perhaps several linked landers)

Step 6: Permanent outpost

Step 7: Industry!

The eagles would ferry passengers and cargo from the outpost/habitat to the space station, saving us costs on lifting the spaceship's superstructure to orbit every single time
That will take well over 30-40 years. Especially the last two bits.
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PeZook wrote:That "land battleship" idea is horrible. For a small country, the idea should be to scatter and conceal lots of highly mobile, autonomous advanced air defence platforms all over the place. Right now, it's one nuke explosion over it to fry its radar and your entire defence grid goes down :D

And no, Skimmer wasn't building an insane Bolo. His were 100+ tonne highly survivable urban assault tanks.

@ Wilkens (on the lunar landers):

Actually, Coyote isn't building lunar landers, he's building 112 tonne translunar shuttles. We'll probably move with something like that for space infrastructure:

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Step 2: Small short-duration, low-capacity landers like the american LEM

Step 3: Large, long endurance landers (like the Altair or LK-700)

Step 4: Orbital space station

Step 5: Semi-permanent lunar habitats (perhaps several linked landers)

Step 6: Permanent outpost

Step 7: Industry!

Step 8: ???

Step 9: Profit!

The eagles would ferry passengers and cargo from the outpost/habitat to the space station, saving us costs on lifting the spaceship's superstructure to orbit every single time
Corrected that.

Also, I have a question about the flights, is there a reason you put the Communist and the Hypercapitalist in the same flight team?
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Karmic Knight wrote:Corrected that.

Also, I have a question about the flights, is there a reason you put the Communist and the Hypercapitalist in the same flight team?
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Well I haven't really announced it, so I'm going to pretend I was researching submersible helicopter assault carriers instead. Does anybody want to set up a deal building them?
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Ryan Thunder wrote:Well I haven't really announced it, so I'm going to pretend I was researching submersible helicopter assault carriers instead. Does anybody want to set up a deal building them?
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You might want to search for a thread on submersible carriers. I hope you are in the HAB.
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Ryan Thunder wrote:Well I haven't really announced it, so I'm going to pretend I was researching submersible helicopter assault carriers instead. Does anybody want to set up a deal building them?

Why not just go all out and get Nuclear Powered Hydrofoil Battleships?
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