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Somewhere in South Ossetia:


Where are they? :censored:, pull up!




Another A-10 lost... But it's easier than I thougt, the tutorials are great.
 
No, it is no MiG-29. It is a F-15, as you can see by the shape of the airbrake and the SIDEWINDERS under the wing.

Didn't the Luftwaffe inherit some 29's from the DDR and modify them for interoperability with NATO? And wouldn't that include the capability to use Sidewinders, et al (because I assume Russian ordnance would be in short supply)?

Not saying that's a MiG, just that it doesn't strike me that the presence of Sidewinders would completely rule the possibility out.
 
Didn't the Luftwaffe inherit some 29's from the DDR and modify them for interoperability with NATO? And wouldn't that include the capability to use Sidewinders, et al (because I assume Russian ordnance would be in short supply)?

No, they only received different radio gear. The German MiGs used the best AAMs that the Soviets had to offer back then, the AA-11 Archer/R-73... what was the reason for Germany to leave the ASRAAM program, because the ASRAAM lacked the thrust vector control, that Germany then wanted to keep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-73_(missile)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS-T


Now the Eurofighters use Iris-T missiles with TVC. Much better for short ranges than any Sidewinder except the AIM-9X, the latest Sidewinder version has a longer range with TVC.

It would have been a major change to make the MiG-29A use Sidewinders, the electronics would have needed a complete replacement.
 
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Mostly by the same author, too. Stevcast and his son are in the process of converting a huge number of ships from Celestia to Orbiter.

I kinda wondered about that, although I figure Stevcast probably made the right arrangements for using another persons work.

The add-ons seem like good quality, but Ive often thought that a sort of "Star Trek Orbiter" project would be nice, sort of like the rag-tag fleet project.
 
I kinda wondered about that, although I figure Stevcast probably made the right arrangements for using another persons work.

The add-ons seem like good quality, but Ive often thought that a sort of "Star Trek Orbiter" project would be nice, sort of like the rag-tag fleet project.

Would get into legal troubles, if we do that too professional. But you could always improve VegaTrek ;)
 
Do you know that feel when you can't remember why you're in a room the second you stepped into it ?
In fact, that's the guy playing The Sims, controlling you, canceling your action.
 
Got an "argument" with some alcoholized rebel morons with 2 dogs accusing me to be from "bloody middle-class" because I wore a white shirt, clean jeans, and trek shoes, as I was loading my grocery in the underground parking lot of the local supermarket. Cool, I'm fighting every month to keep my bank account afloat.

They asked me money, which I didn't had, then goods, but there was no way I was going to give them stuff under threat. Would have them asked kindly, things would have been different.

As I loaded my goods in my car trunk, the worst moron of the "gang" told me I had a nice car. "Yeah, it's 18 years old, I answered, and I hold it from my deceased granpa. Happy with that ?" - "That's cool man, that's cool, he said, mine is from 1995, I wish I had such a car !". - "Fool, I answered, it's not older, that's exactly the same, 18 years old too !".

At that point I was really pissed off and would have fought if needed. The guy was thinking I had no chance, but I had a hand on a rusted cutter I use to keep in the trunk. A good thing that the girl of the gang asked him to calm down, because if he dared to touch me he would have had a bad surprise and learned that you should never rely on what you think you see. :dry:

Stupid alcoholized moron. He could get decent clothes if he stopped to buy and drink that much beer only a week or two, France gives money to people that are unemployed or have other difficulties for that. :dry:
 
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Another technical term in Russian, that sounds exactly like the German one..."Drossel" (throttle)
 
Do you know that feel when you can't remember why you're in a room the second you stepped into it ?
In fact, that's the guy playing The Sims, controlling you, canceling your action.


So I'm not the only one that felt the mouse cursor on my shoulder :shifty:
 
Another technical term in Russian, that sounds exactly like the German one..."Drossel" (throttle)

Probably because it was borrowed from German.

Interesting, though: I'd never thought of "throttle" as an old enough word (though it's obvious in hindsight) to have undergone the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Germanic_sound_shift"]second Germanic consonant shift[/ame], but it's very clearly visible in the pair "Throttle" <-> "Drossel".
 
Probably because it was borrowed from German.

Interesting, though: I'd never thought of "throttle" as an old enough word (though it's obvious in hindsight) to have undergone the second Germanic consonant shift, but it's very clearly visible in the pair "Throttle" <-> "Drossel".

Yes, that is pretty fascinating, especially if you look what it meant in the past: The throat of an animal.

And interestingly, English also has all the other old words in the German language as equivalents: to throttle also means "erdrosseln", to choke somebody.

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Now to something completely different: The agility team of my mother has become state champions yesterday.
 
Type matching in LUA is like doing a freaking jigsaw puzzle! C++ closeminded insistance might be annoying in some cases, but once you search through your entire code to find the one type mismatch that causes your bug, you're really, really glad for it... :facts:
 
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