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Old news - There was an automated German weather station Kurt in Newfoundland which was discovered in 1977 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt "Fourteen stations were deployed in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions (Greenland, Bear Island, Spitsbergen, and Franz Josef Land) and five were placed around the Barents Sea. Two were intended for North America. One was deployed in 1943 by the German submarine U-537, but the submarine carrying the other, U-867, was sunk in September 1944 northwest of Bergen, Norway, by a British air attack."

I just fired up the scenario editor and none of the dedicated scout units from June –Sept 44 have radios both Allies and Axis. Some have binoculars and US scouts also have demo charges. Have you a screen shot of the scout's equipment panel and what month is it and which country's scouts are they? Yes green means they can communicate but it doesn't mean in the context of the game that the scouts have the direct to authority / skills to call fire strikes. As I mentioned just shuffle them round so the HQ units sit where the scouts were with LOS and proceed with raining death & destruction on your foes.

Are you sure the scouts have radios... If they have found a good position to spot a target, then shuffle them away and put in their place an HQ/FO (with a cover arc to remind them not to take pot shots giving themselves away) with the necessary authority/training/equipment to call in the strike.

Odd then don't you think that that pic you provided from a barely disguised Russian propaganda website as evidence of practices of terrorists in Syria is from a video circa 2014 when "Hamas Terrorists Fire Rockets from a Gazan School Use Children as Human Shields". Putinbot fail that one ;-)

I can't imagine it will be a top priority for Battlefront / Charles to implement / integrate. Usually such snazzy features are incorporated by Apple's own software, and big players like Adobe who have the time/ programming resources and inclination to do so. It'll be only intially relevant to Mac lap tops and a small proportion of early buyers, until they presumably release keyboards for imacs and desktop models that could feasibly have the touch bar gizmo and a potentially wider take up and adoption a few years down the line. Similar to Sierra have Siri voice control but again I don't see Battlefront programming their games to allow Mac CM game players issuing verbal commands to pixeltroopin.. :-)

https://southfront.org/ Interesting that Southfront that touts itself as : "a public analytical project maintained by an independent team of experts from the four corners of the Earth focusing on international relations issues and crises and working through a number of media platforms with a special emphasis on social networks. We focus on analysis and intelligence of the ongoing crises and the biggest stories from around the world. Happens to be based in Moscow > https://whois.domaintools.com/southfront.org Mmmmm.... Putin Bot central?

Well they are as Russia/Syria is defining anyone & everyone outside of government controlled enclaves as terrorists Millions of Syrian citizens in case you haven't noticed have vacated to milder climes as their lives had become untenable under Assad's government - Does Syria do postal voting? Why hasn't Russia taken in Syrian refugees if the country and its people mean so much to it? From astronaut to refugee: how the Syrian spaceman fell to Earth “When the protests started, they were nothing but peaceful, for months on end.” Faris says he and his wife joined in, marching in Damascus, and calling for peaceful reform. They were threatened by supporters of the Assad regime for doing so but did not stop. “These were my people, all of them are my people, our people,” he says. Faris and his wife discussed the protests directly with the leadership, calling on them to make gentle changes, but “they [the Assads] thought they were gods”. When the violence began, Faris watched as his former students were “brainwashed” into attacking their own people. “They were told if they did not attack they would be killed by the rebels.” Today, some of Faris’s best former students are military leaders, controlling airports and crucial government sites but most have left. “It is mainly just the Alawites who have stayed by Assad’s side,” Faris says. Soon after, Faris began planning his escape. “Four times, we were ready but I could see it wasn’t going to work. We considered many routes.” With three children and a wife to think about, he left nothing to chance. Eventually, they packed what they could in a car without arousing suspicion and drove over the Turkish border in August 2012. He became, and remains, the highest-ranking defector from the Assad regime. In his Istanbul office, the 64-year-old still has the medals he won from the Soviet Union: the Order of Lenin and Hero of the Soviet Union award, the highest of all honours. His former colleagues and friends in Russia have offered help. But he spits in disgust at the idea of claiming asylum there. “Putin is not the Soviet Union. These Russians, they are killers and criminals and supporters of murderers" Says it all really. and recently even the Syrian Alawites distance themselves from Assad

These ones? https://hoaxeye.com/2014/12/22/nazi-flags-in-ukraine/

I'll think of you all when on Thursday I put in a 9.00 till 5.30 day at The Norwich Beer Festival http://www.norwichcamra.org.uk/festival/fest2016.htm

You can in Time Machine options choose to exclude whatever you want in a mac like way... inc. Applications folder or individual apps CMBS - Patched and working - stilll needed serial but no. took and game working. So re. serial working on both Mac and PC versions of the game - mean I can now download Mac version of say CM Italy which I have a a PC serial and it'll now work?

RT 'News' bank accounts in UK being closed http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37677020

I concur with MikeyD - looking at it in photoshop it looks more like the shadowed sides of a brick / tile on the ground behind the soldier.

The Arab Spring was treated much like the 1982 Hama Massacre - so the regime had experience of being heavy handed trying to keep lid on their hold of power. Odd that the article in covering most of the aspects fails to mention it.

Garmin GPSMAP 64 in Su-24 Fencer (?) in a jerry-rigged wooden cradle with rubber band though they'll have a problem using the bottom 4 interface buttons; Mark, Menu Quit & Enter. Still it looks like it either switched off or the battery's gone flat, as I doubt Russian cockpits have a cigarette lighter fitting for a power adaptor.... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-GPSMAP-64st-Handheld-Navigator/dp/B00ICKY93Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476045833&sr=8-1&keywords=garmin+gps+64st

Depends if it's a type emplaced below ground (difficult to do if ground is frozen when laid) or a type laid above ground (more easily spotted). Fuses and mines may fail to detonate if moisture enters mechanisms. Effectiveness in snow - problem activating fuses in soft snow / soft ground (thaw) conditions without a firm base and even if activated the snow can dampen resulting explosion

Worked for me no problem

"because 130 mile standoff" Kilometers? These deployments will be prodded, poked, observed and analysed, and countermeasures devised (if they haven't already) > https://www.rt.com/news/361800-russia-syria-usa-aistrikes/ Heck this was going on over 50 years ago http://thespacereview.com/article/3066/1

"Robert Stinnett, however, offered a revisionist account of USN cryptanalysis in Day of Deceit, a book published in 1999 after seventeen years of archival research. .... Stinnett, who conducted extensive research in several branches of the National Archives, found no reliable evidence "that establishes how much of the 5-Num text could be deciphered, translated, and read by naval cryptographers."35 Stinnett largely relied upon the same cryptologic sources as previous authors, but decided that Japanese traffic was largely readable prior to the Pearl Harbor attack." Decoding Pearl Harbor: USN Cryptanalysis and the Challenge of JN-25B in 1941 http://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol12/nm_12_1_17to37.pdf

"Japanese naval code 5-Num was recovered in 1940" JN-25 is the name given by codebreakers to the chief, and most secure, command and control communications scheme used by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II (it was the 25th Japanese Navy system identified). Introduced in 1939 to replace Blue, it was an enciphered code, producing five-numeral groups for transmission. New code books and/or new superenciphering books were introduced from time to time, each new version requiring a more or less fresh cryptanalytic attack. In particular, JN-25 was significantly changed on 1 December 1940, and again on 4 December 1941, just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was the 1941 edition (JN-25b) that was sufficiently broken by late May 1942 to provide the critical forewarning of the Japanese attack on Midway. Are you thinking of JN-39? This was a naval code used by merchant ships (commonly known as the "maru code"), broken in May 1940. 28 May 1941, when the whale factory Nisshin Maru II visited San Francisco, U.S. Customs Service Agent George Muller and Commander R. P. McCullough of the U.S. Navy's 12th Naval District (responsible for the area) boarded her and seized her codebooks, without informing Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Copies were made, in a clumsy way, and the originals returned. The Japanese quickly realized JN-39 was compromised, and replaced it with JN-40.

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The Electronic Warfare setting for that scenario sounds like it was dialled up a notch too high ;-) Hopefully it was the screen or motherboard rather than the internal HD that went kaput.

I'd guess Artillery fire took out the M-18 Hellcat ;-) http://histomil.com/viewtopic.php?t=9427&start=230

"STORITE portable. This model: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E8OWYOY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1" If that's gone wonky and won't mount and can't be fixed then time for new back up solution - I recommend a Lacie https://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Thunderbolt-2-Desktop-Drive-9000492U/dp/B00O1Q94RE/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1475667365&sr=8-5&keywords=Lacie+thunderbolt Hope your original drive can be used as a back up to the back up! What went worng to scrap the iMac? Coincedently Apple just released this: If you can‘t back up or restore your Mac using Time Machine

So the external is a portable HD purely drawing power via the USB cable. What make & kind is it? When I said try a different cable I meant another USB cable just in case the one you're using is fubar - but if there's another connection type capable of linking between the two you can try that. Firewire (?) > http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MD464ZM/A/thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapter And yes if you've got the old iMac's Hard drive the Dock would do the job - it would be slow but it should work.

A quick google turns this up > http://battlefront.mojohelpdesk.com/help/article/128510