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Certainly, but statistically improbable. (BTW I guess you hint at the incident in Belgium many years ago, when a pilotless Russian jet crashed on a lone villa with a young guy at home who was killed - I'm not sure it was a Mig though, thought it was a Sukhoi. maybe Ross knows more about it.)

I must say I find the hypothesis that the Sentinel just went astray due to a malfunction and landed unscathed in the hands of Iranian officials not quite convincing. Just open Google Earth and have a look at the mountanious region between Afghanistan and Iran where it is supposed to have come down. They sure needed much more time to find Steve Fossets plane or the missing F-22 in Alaska. I do not believe they just stumbled on it. They must have at least known approximately where it would come down. Unless it simply self-landed in Tehran of course. (So programmer typed the wrong GPS coordinates, can happen :=)

So, we already have the right photo of Megyn Kelly, but still no photo of the captured RQ-170. :D The latter is strange: if you have such a prize, I would guess you brag about it?

We'll never now if they show anything whether it is the original or the Chinese copy. :D

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/05/us-military-sources-iran-has-missing-us-drone/

Original link: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/dti/2011/12/01/DT_12_01_2011_p34-390579.xml&headline=Libya%20Reveals%20NATO%20Readiness%20Highs%20And%20Lows&channel=defense

Interesting analysis of air campaign: http://bit.ly/vdCfi5

Somehow the rest of us seem not really serious about our hobby :=)

Second that! hello Mizzy! As JEFX sais, DCS:A-10C is also fantastic. I would say not only as a sim, but also as a game. But then again I'm also all for FC3! Let it come!

Well, this is a delivery of the original outstanding order. So the UK will train with an F-35B ... to train for the F-35C. :=) For similar out-of-the-box thinking you can always make an inquiry with the UK MoD, which has a long tradition in Monty Pythonizing defense projects, such as building multimillion pounds maritime survaillance planes for the puropose of scrapping them, or fielding seaborne fighters without a carrier or was it the other way around, I lost track of it :=)

I have the impression the M1 Abrams manages to take me out consistently from more than 3 km.

"from my experience, the community who fly FC3 seem to be around the same age as the MW2 community" Where did you get that wisdom, specially since FC3 isn't available yet, so I'm not sure there is a community flying it, let alone that you would have enjoyed any experience with it? To give you a guesstimate about that FC3 community: I personally belong to the FC2 community, and I am aged 51. :D But then again some of my friends do play MW2 also!

Insane! Whoooohooohh! The Chinook is top, so is the pilot!

I really find Su-25T has still its place in the Ed series, so I would welcome FC3 very much. I'm a single player and more of a misison builder guy, but I constantly swap from FC2 to DCS A-10C tot DCS-BS(2), and try to make very similar missions in each game. Fun!

I now realize I was shooting from quite far (3 km), if it persists I'll make a track. While I was trying to record a track now I shot anything dead center, so I couldn't reproduce the error :=)

Am I the only one with the impression the gun now overshoots the target you are aiming at with the schkval? Didn't have that with BS1.

same here! BS2 is a blast!

Now we fully understand why they made a two-seat version! Instead of the missing Russian infantrymen, hopefully the next HOTfix is a model of this girl!

F-16 service life extended to cope with F-35 delays: http://bit.ly/uVQuUm I still hope they can start training on F-35 at Eglin, would bring the future at little closer by!

tragic! RIP

In FC1, you could exactly manage the appearance of the diamond. If you marked something as a target, it would automatically get the diamond, if not,there was no diamond. In FC2, the diamond appears whenever your wingman "sees" it with his Eagle eyes. Anyway the thing doesn't belong on the HUD, it is pure phantasy. In the A-10A, you could take it for a laser spot by a JTAC on the ground picked up by the pave penny sensor. But in the Russian planes, there should not be such a thing.

I must say that I still find flying the Su-25T in Lockon FC2 as challenging and dynamic as the DCS sims. The only thing that I cannot quite give a meaning to is the diamond that appears over target once detected by a wingman. In Multiplayer I don't think it is a problem, but in Single player you cannot get rid of it. What is worse, it often marks targets you're not interested in, eg a remote AAA while you are focussing on a tank column. And while I do not need DCS realism and Lockon is fine with me, I cannot imagine what reality is represented by this target diamond. Where the hell does it come from? Can I get rid of it somehow?

That must be one of the best Tornado pics ever! It made it to my desktop right away!

This was the article I was referring at: http://www.gizmag.com/f-35-helmet-display-bae/20216/ I have the impression work continues on the VSI helmet which will offer all the new functionalities of the F-35, like the full virtual view "through the aircraft".

Maybe they just mean it is not fully functional, but why then do they need the interim helmet from BAe systems?