Beastttt

has anybody seen this yet it is a new body armor that is in development but should be availbe next year it would be a fully coverage as BDU's at about 6 lb's wt here are 2 links got this from the Hero games forums(rpg) http://www.break.com/movies/newarmor23.html http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_32/b3996068.htm

How about this Sergie Lebanon is bordered by the med to the west,syira to the north and most of the east jordan to the rest of the east and Israel to the south if Syria is invaded the US would IMHO go in from the med in the west(access to more US bases and shorter supply lines from the europe the eastern front the would simply play the anvil to the 7th fleet's hammer in the west what does this mean Hezbolla is surrounded no support from Syria or Iran unless they dig a tunnel so for their own survival they would come to syria's aid because Isreal would march north and turn over every rock to root them out with no fear of syria or Iran intervening Iran would have to go thru US held/supported Iraq first and for them to even have a chance would entail nukes with no US response because otherwise they would have to grind them selves up crossing Iraq and the US could trade space to the rivers to regroup and see how good Iranian engineers can build bridges under fire

what did I say to piss you off marvin was it the crack on the news coverage I was just responding to what I see in the news in wanting to have the story out first and of course they got it wrong again and it this case it was some writer making an asummtion on only the data he had in his data base

I don't see it as spin since the news networks had only seen a drone as a the only guided system that the terrorist had shown to date the news went with what they knew(seems they always jump the gun and get weapon systems wrong) can't tell you how many times I've seen the LA times call an F-16 picture an F-15 and other such mistakes also if it was a tv directed drone you would think Hesbolla could tell the difference between a freighter and a warship since the driver of the drone can see and identife his target a radar guided missle might be able to discriminate if the hardware and software are smart enough to do the job which the styx can't do I think now the Isralies will have their anti missle systems manned at all time s now and maybe mount a few 20mm-40mm manned weapons [ July 16, 2006, 10:04 AM: Message edited by: Beastttt ]

any word on what kind of plane? seems littoral ships are going to need more AA guns(.50-40mm)using manned mounts or did they get ahold of a silkworm

if they include IED's then hopefully they will model the various types then the US player can spend points on countermeasures cell phone det vs cell phone jammer simple rf vs rf jammer(with possible predetonation) command wired vs mk 1 eyeball/thermal imager emp vs electronic detonator

IIRC the 106 has a .50 cal spotting rifle attached the cyclic rate for a m2hb is 600 to 800 rpm so a trained gunner could squeeze off single shots to simulate a 106 in spotting mode

you could go on this model you just have to adjust HOW many points each side gets instead give the allied player 1000 pts and the Syrian/Asurbistan player 10,000

I got to say all the answers given were better than mine consider any counter battery unit will be able to see the signal coming from the wrong direction and act accordingly also figuring the attacker at 10,000' has already locked on to his target at 2000' and traveling around 500+mph how much target devation do think will happen in under 3 seconds(733.3'per second at 500mph)I would figure that the logic circuits would ignore any major jump in signal devation and remember the last location like a HARM

this just invites a quick home on jam attack from any arty

I think it is more that it denies China(stops communism) the US would rather see democracy spread than communism(far easier to deal with someone who's values are closer to your own) also it is a step closer to japan if china deicided it wanted to add japan to the fold or avenge the past(some people cannot get past or over what has happened in the past)

I see China as being too vulnerable to attack sby aircraft off the coast and from the southwest from Afganistan 4 688I's maybe add a seawolf or 2 and if they ever convert some of the older boomers to tomahawk platforms Nothing is going to cross the straits of Formosa and any coastal bases are going to get hurt bad add to that US carriers not in the straits But in the Pacific say 200 miles east fighting close to land were SAR will be most effective so unless the Chinese pull a surprise landing like in Red Storm Rising or Debt of Honor(both Tom Clancy books)with lots of onboard supplies that don't get destroyed before they can be offloaded and dispersed and getting a Pearl Harbor type blow(this time hitting the carriers and subs) I see no hope of them sustaining any kind of supply lines to hold what they might get [ February 02, 2006, 02:21 PM: Message edited by: Beastttt ]

An attack to restore the previous goverment is not something that is going to draw NATO,UN,or the EU to try and get the USA to lead a charge into Syria What would get them is a WMD attack by a crazed Syrian leader with a zelot army to follow him I see a more posible scenario where Syria shoots it's wad on Israel(they close down not going to shoot nukes with the USA so close)take a few frieghters w/VX gas into USA east coast ports and a few meduinm ranged missiles into Europe and the UK with NBC warheads the trying to stir up as much chaos as possible and maybe even getting some old enemies to go at each other(could add India and Pakistan to the mix) Now that a hornest nest has been wound up you should have a coalition that would go into Syria and just to not leave anybody out Russia though caught with it's armies out of place are making noise to head south to take control of everything(a reason to leave US heavy units to hold the line to the north) leaving light units to take on the Syrians Nato might send some light units to deal with Syria while the heavy stuff moves east to threaten the russian flank the way I see it the only way get others to go your way is to have them in the same boat as you and in this one everybody gets slapped around and Syria is more of a side show l that starts it all like Serbia in WW I

the easy counter would be to scan the building from the outside just to trip any boobytraps(yes I know you will not see anything but the IED might be set off prematurely getting the insurgents)

What where the troops grade(green,veteran,elite) I would figure most would be green and the engineers might be regulars or maybe veterans going up against regulars to crack

Ontos had 6x105 recoiless rifles it need to be reloaded from the outside rear for me give it a 75 he gun and mount a 2 rnd tow system you might be able to double it's ammo loadout and maybe 2 extra tow's to reload

that would be an air-fuel explosion c4 to burst the bottle and let the contents fill an area then a delay fuse to ignite the gassed area causing a lot of overpressure damage but little burn damage

having had Silent hunter 3 on my system(it has starforce) My burning functions where disabled and only by reinstalling the OS(Win XP)was I able to get it back customer service from both UBI and Starforce where both pretty much useless after a week of delete this reboot check that reboot delete this reboot they stopped any support I found out that this was common practice for them from others that had the same problem

so long as they stay away from Starforce BF will have my business SF has locked me out of my combo drive's burning functions and has completly locked me out of my cd/dvd drive(read only)

is it that you have a covered arc and the gun is pointing the wrong way it may be because the turn has not started yet for the turret to be facing the right direction

Game drive is a program that will make an image of the game on your hd but it takes up a lot of space(same as what is on the cd) I use it to lessen wear and tear on my game cd that need to be in the computer

I playtested modern naval battles long long ago and I still have the basic game and the 2 expansions it is a fun game but if you want good wwii surface ship action get fighting steel and then the patch from Naval warfare simulations http://www.navalwarfare.org/~content/index.html they have really added a lot to that game Fighting Steel would be a closer sim to CM it is a 2d/3d real time sim the naval warfare guys have added Italians,French and Russians plus later ships that apper after 1942 plus some of the converted 1920's BC's that where made in to CV's the game does not have subs or aircraft attacks in the game aircraft attacks are handled as an after action report I will be getting this new card game when it comes out