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Yes I know this fact But the only AMX I know are : - AMX-10 family (P & RC) - AMX-13 light tank - AMX-30 MBT - AMX-32 and AMX-40 MBT prototypes - AMX-50 Heavy Battle Tant prototype As Armored Cars, France used or use : - Ferret - AML-90 - AML-60/7 & AML-60/12 - EBR-75 - EBR-90 - ERC-90 - VBC-90 - and finally VBLs which may be considered as such by some people. As far as I know, I never heard or read about an AMX-90 (meaning more or less "90 tons class tank")... otherwise the Army I'm in would have lied to me

An old one but still does the trick: Challenger 1 There's also Hawk's Challenger MK.3 here  Miles Teg, I do remember about two Challengers 1 et a Centurion, but no Chieftain, except maybe, unless errors, screens of an addon, currently being created by Kenji himself (hard-working on the T-62s), in the UKF forum  Are you talking about the AML-90 armored car (AutoMitrailleuse LégÄre, and 90 for the main gun calibre) ? Â

Was USA threatened by a hardened bunker ? Geez, what a threat !!  Well, you should monitor more, as you saw WMD that weren't there  I'm really speechless... ... before the fastest retreat in history But that's only a theory, as, unlike you, God whispers nothing to my ear  I would like to eat a Retreat Burger, with Gore sauce and Big Lies fries please Â

I was raised as catholic, without being really fond of, but I recognize the learning of morality, love, ... to be short wisdom. Having a scientific course, I recognized, with Biology, the miracle of life, how cells, genes, organs,... function, and with Physics the great known laws of the Universe, its immensity, its perfection, its mysteries,... My point is : how could a so perfect universe, in the mathematical and biological sense, exist just thanks to a stroke of luck and chaos ? Who, What wrote the rules ? This is why I believe of the possibility of a supreme force, something so great and infinite that any human mind could ever imagine, define and understand. Something as great and mysterious as the universe itself, if it's not the universe itself But surely not a supreme hominoid being looking like the puny humans and caring only for them... Moreover, how can any religion possess the ultimate truth ? Who can know ? After all, if one tells his religion is the Truth, then, all other religions become bullshit. If christians were right, it would mean that 2/3+ of the world people believe in bullshit. But all religions when followed with the heart of a scholar, and not the heart of a politician, seek wisdom, not supremacy. As I said before, Science must care of the HOW, it's a question about the Laws of the Universe Religion must care for the WHY, a quest without ending for Mankind enlightment, not power, and it's not like a Hitch-hyker guide, written by ignorant men, 2000-3000 years ago, believing an eclipse was a divine action... Wisdom seekers don't have to fight for their religion, they share their knowledge with others wisdom seekers I would authorize civilian gay marriages, as it concerns all citizens considered as equals each other. But nothing can force any religion to marry any kind of people (gay, human-ET, human-animal, plants,... minerals, whatever you want) if its contrary to their belief. It is as disrespectfull as those gainst gays whatevr the reasons. P.S. : you, who believed in a so perfect divine earth... homosexuality exists in the animal world... so all the animal world commited sin... then how could this earth be perfect ? Fighting homosexuality isn't wisdom, it's a question of fear, ignorance and stubbornness But I ask the question about children adoption. I have no answer at all only questions about parental models, risks, education,... For exemple, anti-adoption people often argue about the heterosexual couple, with the father and mother symbol as parental model. However, what about single mother (or father, pretty rare, but that's the case of my brother) raising alone their children, the father, dead, divorced or fleeing with another person ? Should these children be withdrawn from their mother and given to a full couple ? Things aren't so simple, black or white

billybob2002 I guess, whichever the country, there's always many corpses in everybody's cupboard As a matter of fact, in France too, some criminals were prosecuted very lately. I'm thinking about Maurice Papon, prefect at Bordeaux (my town) for the Vichy government during WW2, for having collaborated with the nazi regime, helping them zealously in deporting french jews. Long story, not the place to talk about it. Just to tell that he was cought up with History. In France, the first law of the Human rights tells that all men and women are equals. So any mouvement, party, association preaching racial superiority, racism, violence... and so on are illegal. Otherwise, freedom of speech is protected by the Law. As conclusion, Freedom of speech is one of the greatest inventions of Humanity, a precious gift protected and cherished by Americans, as well as Europeans and others, a gift many people in the world, sadly, don't have. We can have many disagreements, and fight hard for our opinions, but in the end, we stay united against those who would like to terrorize us and to shut our mouths up (except of course, morons of any side ). Sophion-Black, when some claimed to draw their gun when hearing the world "Culture", others draw theirs when they hear the word "Science"... Miles Teg This is the kind of person I always listen carefully, with a lot of pleasure, as they really bring us a worthy message. Currently, I'm thinking about Malek Chebel, a secular scholar and pious muslim, whose texts about Islam, its History, its "Grandeur" are really passionnating. I would give my life for such men Akira First, I thought it was a good idea, as it is more respectfull about the variety of religions. However, after a bit of thinking, I think it brings a problem : you'll have to possess each exemple of sacred book. And for unbelivers, what could you do ? Did the use of the bible started with the first wave of colonization ? As they were all protestants, or christians later, the problem didn't exist. Currently, many faiths exist in the USA. In order to respect all beliefs, maybe the Bible should be replaced by a more secular but also very important, sacred-like text as your Constitution ?

... and a tiring over-sized ego, large enough to disgust anybody but your pleasure slaves and the ones who like to lick your boot. I wish I was an indian, in order to kill your cowboys ...

I guess tolerance is alive and well in France... Â It's about fighting any racist crime, not only ones concerning french victim citizens of jewish religion. And we haven't yet lynch or hang anybody yet. Arrogant, I could add that we react faster than you should have 41 years ago.... In France, we are so intolerant, that we shouldn't have authorized "White Supremacist" mouvements like (with some extracts of their site) : - Ku Klux Klan : "Welcome to the Ku Klux Klan! Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America! A Message of Love NOT Hate!" - National Vanguard : "The new science of race", "Stop White Genocide", "A future for white children", "They don't deserve our help, no more help for Israel",... to have freely a site on Internet, thank to a sanctified freedom of any speech (on the other side, I can tell tell them all the good I think about them) Â With Goggle, anybody can without any efforts find the E-adress of those mouvements' sites, I refuse to give... ------------------- Well, Walker, billybob2002 is right, Darwinism is a theory, not a fact. A theory built from observed facts and fossiles. But Creationism would never be a theory, as it is not based on facts (or baised ones) but on beliefs. In Science, first you have to gather facts and then you built a theory. With zelots, first you have a dogma, than you look for facts, even if you have to biase them, in order to fuel your dogma. It's like the Quram quantifying lightspeed and so on... Creationism, it's not related to Science. Believing it as a theory is as stupid as secular people considering science as if it was a monolithic faith. Science is the domain of doubts. Religion is the domain of beliefs.

It is rather funny how Science is defined by McDonald's hamburger's logic.  Scientic theories relies on facts. From those facts, theories are built in order to explain HOW things happen, not why. Religions purpose were and won't never be able to explain HOW things work. It not their job. However, they can ask themselves "WHY". This is called Faith. Scientists never tried to explain WHY, only HOW. Now, when zealots, living by books written by barbarian beings believing Earth was the center of the universe, a small hollow sphere surrounding the planet, and in bushes-in-fires talking with a loud voice, want to demonstrate HOW and WHY,... that make's me laugh fairly loudly  After all, if those buddies want to to create a cultural Ancient Age, that's their right  For all others who would like to flee this new era of ignorance, France, the great archenemy will welcome you warmly  'Religious bullying' at US academy What's next ? A yellow star on their jacket ? Reserves in desert like the Indians ? Much more ?  I'm glad to hear about tolerance in the USA... Â

C'mon, Bob, that sound rather pathetic and childish Your government did absolutly the same thing in Africa and all over the world, as France, fighting hard for their "truth", in order to win polls, and some of these diplomats having economical threaths and helps in their case... Germany has no veto power and decided to choose to talk with the same voice as France, and Russia was too happy to see someone else ready to use the veto power (like UK being too happy about the French and Dutch NO for the EU constitution, no risk anymore to be viewed as the european black duck, what I call hypocrisy, which is an old human habit, not just a British one). Rather funny to read an american found of Fox News trying to teach me about Europe (as If I tried to give lessons about US and inter-states relationships)

Before telling Blair is a lone victim with lots of friends and chirac his archenemy, I read something in a french newspaper puzzling me. That's why I'd like to have data about others articles, neither british nor french. During the negociations, chirac accepted not to oppose anymore to a CAP renegociation after 2013 (remember this 2002-2013 plan was accepted by everybody, UK included). On this other side, it was time to discuss about this rebate, which used to help UK to sort out a hard economical situation, a situation, it isn't anymore. Nevertheless, still refusing to renegociate the rebate, Blair would have loose support from Netherlands and Sweden, some of the heaviest contributors of the EU budget. Without trying to say, Chirac was right  , things about this summit seem pretty unclear to me. Edit : Today is the 190th birthday of the victory of Waterloo, where Wellington was saved just in time by Blücher and his prussian troops

Isn't it true for any people ? Until they create collateral damages to neighbours while caring only for themselves, selfishally. Anyway, I prefer friends ready to tell me honestly I'm making a mistake than boot-licking friends telling me I'm the greatest Â

From only what is told in this article, I dare concluding that this poll could have a far different result with Frenchs if more explicit questions had been asked and not general blurry ones. Instead of "Do you have any "sympathy" for Americans ?" and "Do you believe the United States to be a reliable ally", you should ask : - Do you have any "sympathy" for American people ?  Whole ? Part ? Explain (open question) - Do you have any "sympathy" for the Bush Administration ? - Do you believe the Bush Administration to be a reliable ally ? I believe, maybe naively, that the results could be fairly differents. As USA divided into two camps, for and against the war, France is not only composed of 90% of live-dreaming red commies waiting for the revolution The will to wage war in Iraq is the main french reason of antipathy towards the US. We told you it would be a bloody mess, in human and political terms, that they were no links (yet) between AQ and Saddam. All we were told was "f.ck off white flagged froggies".... And Get rid of the Democracy and Liberty argument, when you prefer to look away from Cuba (no more under USSR's protection) , North Korea and many many others dictatorial governments. I'd like to recall that France didn't make any fuss about Afghanistan and war against the Talibans. On the contrary, TBA refused to involve, at the beginning of the conflict, France, as if TBA and its neo-con allies already despised us... Actually, currently, the US SF and others troops involved in firefights in Afghanistan seem pretty happy to be supported by french SEM or Mirage 2000D using precisely LGBs  For myself I despise as much half of the US people made of warmongers and other Freedom crusaders as the french people's part believing in hard leftist or rightist ideologies. Maybe we should give power the the hard-leftists, in order that the Frenchs recieving a harsh lesson, seeing them break everything while telling it was not their fault. A hard strike in full face is often a better lesson than being told thousand times nice whispers (hoping they won't make the wrong conclusions of the lesson)  Maybe do we think too much about that... ?  Vive le France and le USA

Surely France put the veto again  What's nice with guys like Sophion-Black and his ideology, is that, when going around the world, even an arrogant French looks like a nice pal to the people of the rest of the world (excluding fat elites  ) Most support to TBA's Iraq policy comes from governments hoping to catch crumbs and to be in love with the big brute of the schoolyard, not from the people of those countries. Even Great Britain. However, while half of the US people, in power, has the wisdom the gun blessed by the cross, as well as the cross blessed by the gun...  , the other half has the wisdom of heart and intelligence  During D-Day, there were also Polish, and French, in the Resistance in order to prepare the ground (who gave so many data about German disposal ? Satellites, Echelon ?), as well as Commando Kieffer at Ouistreham

[ - Ironical Mod ON - ] Yes please, invade us in order to get us rid of Chirac, an unpopular dictator (more than 80% in the last presidential elections) with WMD in hands, and bring back the true and peaceful american-like democracy  The rest of the world is so irresponsible and so ungrateful. Also, thank you for not having fired upon Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun, when they got realesed  [ - Ironical Mod OFF - ] Otherwise, I greet warmly my other american friends, more representative of this great nation and its ideals Â

Well, first of all, nice shot, not an easy one From memory, the SLAP ammunition, APDS type, is used against unarmord and light armored vehicles. But nothing forbids you to use them against a man. When shooting the video, did you used SLAP or M33 ammo ? As it is the ammo name, on the left upper part of the screen : M33 Ball 12.7x99mm 10/5 6 clips for .50 ammo within 10 equipment slots ? Aren't they too small. In reality, one single Barret clip is nearly as big as two M16 clips Why not both ? Increase dirdamage value enough to damage lightly more efficiently light vehicles for the SLAP ammo, for exemple. Moreover, you could create all the ammo type and associated clips being used by the rifle : ball, API, APEI, SLAP,... With that, an ammo box (even using BIS default ammo box) containing all kinds of ammo clips. The sniper would be able to choose the best adapted ammo for his mission. SLAP ammo clips should be scarsely available, or everybody would choose only this kind of ammo.

Topic: 3rd, Jul. 1863, Civil War Mission Mission Depot : 3rd Jul. 1863 (version: 1.5 Updated) by MilitiaSniper

This is the pic I was looking for You can ask Sanctuary himself, maybe he could be interested.

I don't know if somebody made the suggestion inside the 60+ pages of the topic. If so, you are free to stab me to death  It is not anymore necessary to modify the O.pbo file. Sanctuary created a single pbo modifying the pistol animations. currently modern, they should be modified according to the 19th century. Pistol Animations V1.1 - Sanctuary Direct download Default pistol animations Sanctuary pistol animations, inside Res/Addons folder Execution platoon, shoot me at my command, but spare my face... (Joachim Murat)

Thank you Triglav and Civil War Mod for all the work done. Really impressive, one of my must-have mod I really felt scared and unsecure the first time I saw Union's infantrymen charging and stabbing to death with their bayonets a Confederate solider who hadn't the time to defend himself with his own weapon As hand-to hand is particulary deadly, when fighting bayonet-armed enemies running towards me, I now use to... RUN AWAY... Thank you pickett for your campaign. Pretty well done, imaginative missions. I was currently playing the 4th mission before being blown apart by a cannon Here is a question I also ask inside Napoleonic mod's topic, as your mod is the basis for this mod. As particular anims can be implememted with a single .pbo, like ORCS's animation pbo, specific animations could be made for the flag bearer, officers, drummer and buggler. If special anims could be created for a secondary weapon, in the case of sabre, could it be possible to have, for example, a slashing blow when standing and a piercing blow when "crounching" ? Or two "rates of fire", one slash (faster and less damaging) and one piercing blow (need more time to prepare but being more damaging) with different animations ? Actually I fear it being rather impossible

Thanks for all, those units get improved step by step, each time. Also thanks to Triglav and Civil War mod for their work which gives a stout basis for old warfare (within OFP limits, each day pushed further). The first time I saw the cannon's animations and hear the drums, I was really set off-balanced  I only regret the dissappearance of the austrian milicians, actually available in the first addons of Napoleonic Mod. Currently, it's pretty hard to play skirmishes during Aspern-Essling battle in 1809. I'm pretty impatient to discover the new cavalry units, especially when seing on pics the Imperial Guard's Grenadier horseman and the Colbert's Red Lancers from the 2nd Chevaux Legers. Will they have their horse too ? Will Philcommando's horses be improved ? As horsemen used to carry/use sabre, carbine and pistol, I thought about something, without knowing if it was already written, thought about or even if it's possible. No without civil War mod through. With OFP engine, 1.75+ patched, each soldier can carry and used 3 kinds of weapons : rifle/sub/MG, heavy weapon and pistol. Couldn't it be possible in the future to create special animations that would allow each soldier to use rifle/lance as primary weapon, sabre as secondary weapons and pistol as hand weapon ? Or rifle/lance as primary weapon, pistol as secondary weapons and sabre as hand weapon ? I'll ask this question, too, inside CW Mod's topic. This way, officers would be able to use pistol and sabre, cavalrymen sabre, rifle, even pistol, and infantry would be able to use their small sabre. A server with players as squad leaders using old warfare regulations is missing  Anyway, thanks again  A small bonus :

The programm looks good (Bullet Camera, Sniper Slow, M82A1 Shock/Dust Effect,...), but the videos made me wondering... What is the initspeed of your AP 12.7x99mm ammunition ? 1800 ? 2000 ? At 1800m, your bullet's flight time is equal or less than 1 second, when in reality, a 12.7mm M33 Ball, fired from a M82 with an initial velocity of 854 m/s, would need more than two seconds (2.1 seconds without velocity loss)

RESCO is the french CSAR mission and belongs to the Armée de l'Air (French Air Force). Like the US mission, it is about rescuing aircraft pilots, hidden inside enemy territory, after a long preparation time, intelligence needed and a lot a air support. IMEX belongs to the French Army Aviation (ALAT : Aviation de l'Armée de Terre). During a heliborne operation, a few kilometers behind the the major action is a chopper with an IMEX team from the PRB platoon inside. If an attack or transport helicopter is either shot down or crashed itself, the IMEX chopper goes on the site and extract immediately the survivors, destroy wreck and secret documents,... The operation must be done in 10 minutes maximum.

You forgot to tell that some of the old generations habe directly known the second world war, and they surely understand better the preciousness of peace and cooperation that puny youngsters bred before the TV set, MTV, real TV (Big Brother,...) and fed with coke and hamburger, usually thinking that Peace is a state of fact which absolutly no effort to preserve. About some old generation people who worked hard to create a better and safer place, I'd like to tell a story about Simone Veil. She is one of the few survivors of the nazi extermination camp. She understood well that national pride, rude competition, and viewing neighbour countries as potential enemies only drive people, sooner or later to war (WW2 being a consequence of a faulty peace after WW1). Just after the WW2, germans were still hated as criminals and arch-enemies by French and other European people. On the other side, some others wanted to create new relationship in order to prevent any futher conflict in Europe. So, Mme Simone Veil went in many congress in order to promote peaceful and friendly relationship with Germany. One day, during a meeting, a man stood up, angry : "But haven't you ever heard about german extermination camps ?" The story do not tell what was her own answer, but knowing her traumatic experience, I have no difficulty to imagine that this man felt ridiculous after her answer

Whatever how good is any text, whatever the utopia some men dreamed off, it still men who apply for others' or their own sake them. The US Constitution is one of the best legal democratic text written in Mankind history, it never prevented the TBA from waging war in Irak. Nor real peaceful wisdom in sacred books like the Bible or the Quram prevented men to kill or blast themselves with others for their supposed "true and pure" faith. Politic people aren't perfect, not really a hot new. But who elected them and let them "have fun with power" ? Who believe in old told stories of "Big night before singing following days" ? We, electors, have the politics we deserved to, from our action to our own lazyness. Always moaning, and Frenches are good in that, is truly meaningless.

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