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MariusRoi wrote:Tell you what Ryan, come up with a prototype ABL that I can stick on a Hustler, and Alaska will buy into it. In Spades.

Uh, OK, just a quick question; these Hustlers are similar to the B-58 Hustler, right?

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:

Shinn Langley Soryu wrote:Why waste large amounts of money on bizarre and impractical gadgets like submersible carriers when you can make large amounts of money doing third-world militaries a service by converting some of their old tanks into brand-spanking new APCs and CEVs? Now, I'm pretty damn sure I wasn't the only one who had that idea...

BTW, go pick up your Type 212A subs.

Consider them picked up.

Also, what's the current ETA on that package of Formidables, F100s, PzH 2000s, and LAV-25s? Concerning those last two items, I think I may need to do some more license-buying in order to help fulfill future orders...

Shinn Langley Soryu wrote:

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:

Shinn Langley Soryu wrote:Why waste large amounts of money on bizarre and impractical gadgets like submersible carriers when you can make large amounts of money doing third-world militaries a service by converting some of their old tanks into brand-spanking new APCs and CEVs? Now, I'm pretty damn sure I wasn't the only one who had that idea...

BTW, go pick up your Type 212A subs.

Consider them picked up.

Also, what's the current ETA on that package of Formidables, F100s, PzH 2000s, and LAV-25s? Concerning those last two items, I think I may need to do some more license-buying in order to help fulfill future orders...

You ordered them last year? I guess everything ought to be ready by end of this game year, with the Formidables come out by now.

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:

Shinn Langley Soryu wrote:

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:BTW, go pick up your Type 212A subs.

Consider them picked up.

Also, what's the current ETA on that package of Formidables, F100s, PzH 2000s, and LAV-25s? Concerning those last two items, I think I may need to do some more license-buying in order to help fulfill future orders...

You ordered them last year? I guess everything ought to be ready by end of this game year, with the Formidables come out by now.

Well, I only ordered two F100s and relatively tiny numbers of LAV-25s and PzH 2000s (60 and 32, respectively). Mind explaining why those items are going to take until the end of the year to finally finish?

Also, while I'm at it, just how much would licenses to build my own Mowag Piranhas and PzH 2000s cost, anyway?

Shinn Langley Soryu wrote:Well, I only ordered two F100s and relatively tiny numbers of LAV-25s and PzH 2000s (60 and 32, respectively). Mind explaining why those items are going to take until the end of the year to finally finish?

Also, while I'm at it, just how much would licenses to build my own Mowag Piranhas and PzH 2000s cost, anyway?

Wait.. I'm confused. Bah...

Ok, technically all of them can be built at once, so you could technically take the whole lot back now.

If you want license sure.. just put down a reasonable number like.. I guess 400,000 per MOWAG and maybe 800,000 for the PHz 2000? I'm not sure about the prices, but they are defintely around the ball park of 5million or less.

Lonestar wrote: Right here, in fact.

Well, forgive me for missing that when it was buried in a smallish post right in the middle of Shep's bombed nuclear reactor dickery

Anyway, I could just say we stuck better cameras on the thing, just to one up you guys. Just like space agencies today are one-upping one another with finer and finer resolutions

EDIT: And unlike the MSA, FASTA shares all its lunar piccies with the world! HAH!

On Ryan's airmobile artillery idea: it's at least feasible

Take note, though, that you will have to compromise on something. A towed 105mm howitzer weighs something in the vicinity of 2 tonnes. The M119 howitzer is air transportable by a UH-60 helicopter with a basic load of ammunition, but it obviously can't fire from the helicopter. So you have to fit the gun, the traverse mechanism, ammunition, breechlock and kickback dampening systems within four tonnes or so if you want to use a helicopter like the Blackhawk, or use a very heavy platform like the CH-47. Or use a lighter gun.

Karmic Knight wrote:

Beowulf wrote:Livorno. It's on the coast (naturally). And it's AFSR now.

Where along the coast, nearer you or me?

Also, ASFR - Autonomous Frequesuan Socialist Republic?

Dunno. Probably best to assume smack in the middle. And I think that's what the acronym expands to.

New USB Standard boys!

Lonestar wrote:New USB Standard boys!

What, again?

*throws his Shroompod at the wall*

I just bought the damn thing!!!

Also, San Dorado screws its allies by giving them M16A1s with 20 round magazines! *gasp*

PeZook wrote:
What, again?

*throws his Shroompod at the wall*

I just bought the damn thing!!!

Did someone else introduce a new standard? Because a search with "USB" and "STGOD" had turned up "no suitable matches found"

PeZook wrote:Also, San Dorado screws its allies by giving them M16A1s with 20 round magazines! *gasp*

Well technically they should be using the FAMAS (the service rifle of the SDA), but I couldn't quickly find an appropriate picture with that rifle .

BTW: I want to buy myself a small fleet (10-12) of strategic reconeissance aircraft.

The obvious choice is a modern version of the T-4 right now, but perhaps somebody can make me a better offer?

PeZook wrote:BTW: I want to buy myself a small fleet (10-12) of strategic reconeissance aircraft.

The obvious choice is a modern version of the T-4 right now, but perhaps somebody can make me a better offer?

I'm rocking the Dominion Hawk if you're interested.

Well, there's that Rapier something, if anyone produces that. I'm also working on a stealth recon-bomber plane but it would be a long time before it rises.

PeZook wrote:The obvious choice is a modern version of the T-4 right now, but perhaps somebody can make me a better offer?

Buy the Spectre! It's a modern version of the SR-71. You know you want it...

Lonestar wrote:

PeZook wrote:
What, again?

*throws his Shroompod at the wall*

I just bought the damn thing!!!

Did someone else introduce a new standard? Because a search with "USB" and "STGOD" had turned up "no suitable matches found"

I should get around to post another Icarus line of microprocessors and motherboards to support the new standard.

PeZook wrote:BTW: I want to buy myself a small fleet (10-12) of strategic reconeissance aircraft.

The obvious choice is a modern version of the T-4 right now, but perhaps somebody can make me a better offer?

The T-4 can perform a role as a bomber ye know...

Stas Bush wrote:Well, there's that Rapier something, if anyone produces that. I'm also working on a stealth recon-bomber plane but it would be a long time before it rises.

Hush! Don't reveal too much of our stuff!

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote: The T-4 can perform a role as a bomber ye know...

I know, but with a piddly little payload. That's not what I want them for, anyway.

How does the Spectre compare to the SR-71?

As for the Hawks, well, it's not really the proper niche We have our own series of UAVs for local needs.

PeZook wrote:BTW: I want to buy myself a small fleet (10-12) of strategic reconeissance aircraft.

The obvious choice is a modern version of the T-4 right now, but perhaps somebody can make me a better offer?

The other obvious choice is a R-1 Habu. It'd have to be backconverted from the F-12D, but it would benefit from all the improvements done to the F-12. And it's supported by a company that's made more than 4 of them!

PeZook wrote:

As for the Hawks, well, it's not really the proper niche We have our own series of UAVs for local needs.

What? The Global Hawk is a U-2 Replacement that can stay aloft for 30 hrs. It's hardly "niche" or "Local needs".

Lonestar wrote: What? The Global Hawk is a U-2 Replacement that can stay aloft for 30 hrs. It's hardly "niche" or "Local needs".

And it still doesn't fly at Mach 3+ higher than 30 kilometers, which is what I'm currently looking for.

PeZook wrote:How does the Spectre compare to the SR-71?

Ryan and I never really discussed the specifics of the craft, but I've been treating it as an SR-71 with better onboard computers, all-modern avionics and sensors, some fancy composites to reduce weight and consequently a minor increase in its top speed, and an internal fuselage bay capable of holding three AA missiles.

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Wilkens, you can launch DSP-2 if you want, aimed at Venus.

DSP-2 launched and away...now with nifty pictures.

CmdrWilkens wrote:

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Wilkens, you can launch DSP-2 if you want, aimed at Venus.

DSP-2 launched and away...now with nifty pictures.

Excelllent! Now to find pics of Venus taken with the last probe..

PeZook wrote:
And it still doesn't fly at Mach 3+ higher than 30 kilometers, which is what I'm currently looking for.

What's your requirement for that? Planning on violating people's airspace(located far away from you)?