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The Iraq invasion shows the following: a well executed military operation against a nearly helpless opponent but with no plan, afterthought and clear aims; look at what has happened and is happening now. Now remember the operations in afganistan (with Osama somehow making his escape from even the tightest circles) as well as earlier investigations on events that transpired during the last 6 years. There is a pattern formed from all this for the U.S. government capability and agenda.

According to what I have read, corroded hydrogen peroxide containement in one torpedo caused the initial explosion that triggered the disaster. The ship then crashed head first to the bottom and that is when the entire magazine in the torpedo room blew up. A norwegian monitoring station detected about 4 richter earthquake from that! Under the circumstances, it is really amazing that there is anything left from the sub, a proof of its solid construction. The shockwave from the blast pulverized everyone in the front compartments, the only survivors were behind the nuclear reactor where the thick shielding dampened the force of the blast.

Every once in a while I check this thread to find out gathered information about the situation in Iraq. It looks like the purpose of the coalition forces has failed completely (exploiting Iraqi oil). Now everyone is abandoning Iraq to the current situation and a weak political leadership is left to face the massive issues. Is some help going in to Iraq for the reconstruction? Is Iraqi oil going to be available anytime soon to the market? Is there an alternative to the US for cheap oil in the coming years? I am asking those in light of the potential oil crisis (Peak oil) that may start after 2010. Even if the date is incorrect, it is only a matter of time with current growth and consumption untill this becomes a problem.

Those are priceless ! Just read the story with dilithium mineral and mr Bolognese http://419eater.com/html/user_subs/godfather/godfather.htm

They are making a sequel?!!! We 'll see if they learned anything.

There is an old thread about this somewhere here. With the new patches they have fixed all the serious bugs and somehow improved the horrible preformance. It looks like my prediction in that old thread is true; by the time we get OPF2 the next decade, soldner will be enjoyable

Are you all playing with realistic torpedo aiming?

Notice the acceleration! Soon they will need anti G suits to drive those things.

Why are they doing that, didnt the last one sell well? Greedy bastards

Ok I did a quick search on the UV, this is very interesting. Apparently it is only fond in later models. I didnt find anything on possible sources on helicopters so Ill take a wild guess and assume it concerns fixed wing aircraft as well where uv light could possibly come through the nozzles from inside the fan, or even the burning fuel, I am not sure. I dont know if this would apply strictly to helicopters, correct me if I am wrong. Anyway, lasers seem to be all the latest joy in the field. I wonder if more powerful devices with an all around FOV are incorporated into fighters, this would make dogfighting and those fancy russian missiles obsolete.

IR missiles can detect UV radiation? There is a differential between the helicopter and the environment in UV? I have never heard of that, are you sure it is not two different IR frequencies? If you are correct could you provide some info, I am curious about that.

Enforcing new rules will not solve this problem: you will need to relax them instead and allow threads of more varied content in the OFFTOPIC forum. There is only so much you can hear or say about war, history, politics, technology, war, disasters and war; most people eventually get bored and run out of ideas.

How effective are those? I though they were a last ditch attempt anyway. Until they install missile tracking radar like in the Typhoon, spoofing will be difficult and missiles dangerous. The statistics in Desert Storm and Chechnya prove it: almost half of the helicopters killed were from IR portables.

They have a number of helicopters and vehicles with long-range cannon but the visibility is horrible. Joint ops managed this quite well with no performance issues, why cant anyone else do this in their games?

They couldnt have chosen a better actor for the role, he looks like a cut and paste of the hero in the original. I am afraid it will end up as bad as AvsP. And dont forget.. IBTL