Shore Leave

I expect that this will go up at AJJE Games over the next couple of days, so I had better advertise it now. Covert-81 combines three of the areas at I have a great interest in- RPing, espionage and the Cold War, in the form of a play-by-post RPG. The year is 1981. Détente is in ruins after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. With the SS-20 missile deployment in the Western USSR and the planned NATO counter-deployments, a new, seemingly hard-line US president and a rapidly arming USSR, it seems that nuclear war is closer than ever. Behind the summits and the rhetoric, shadowy operations are going on. Two black-ops organisations, one on each side of the East-Wes…

What do you think are the best navy-based TV shows?

Has the forum considered developing a presence on Facebook?

From what I have so far come to understand about this missile, it was superior to the Tomahawk in speed and, in later variants, range. I know it was abandoned for use in the role of nuclear deterent by the Polaris BM, but why weren't the plans dusted off when time came to made a cruise missile that can either sink a ship at 2,000 or more miles out at supersonic speed or hit inland targets, nuclear ordnance optional.

Here is my first 1/2400 micronaut, Bunker Hill (Tico) first in class with Mk41 VLS. Be gentle.

Since this subject always seems to get pulses racing, I thought I would throw out a hypothetical for your consideration. This is sort of a "Second War Between the States" scenario, Midway fashion. What USN air wing would fare better when pitted against the other ? Air Wing A: the typical 1980s era air wing, with two squadrons each of F-14 Tomcats and F/A-18 Hornets, another of A-6E Intruders, and a handful of KA-6D tankers (four was usual, iirc). or Air Wing B: the early 21st century air wing, with say, a squadron of F/A-18E, one of F/A-18F, and a couple of F/A-18C. Suppose the support aircraft (E-2C, EA-6B, helos, etc) and the ship platforms (CVN,…

Tonnage Totals as of October 1, 1944 Brains: 405,965 CV32: 398,074 TonyE: 178,080 War Total: 982,119 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: September 4, 1939 (morning) Location: Mediterranean, somewhere northwest of Tunisia Weather: Sunny, clear, calm seas U-boats: 3 x VIIB (1939) Enemy force encountered: Very large British task force (including six battleships and numerous destroyer escorts) Results: CV32: Tonnage: 42,263, Renown: 1930 Sunk: 1 x Nelson BB, 1 x C class DD, 2 x Tribal DD, 1 x V&W DD TonyE: Tonnage: Nil, Renown: Nil Sunk: Nil Brains: Tonnage: Nil, Renown: Nil Sunk: Nil F…

This article was too good to miss posting here. From Chicago Sun-Times Policy on Iran nukes seems to be off-target April 16, 2006 BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Happy Easter. Happy Passover. But, if you're like the president of Iran and believe in the coming of the "Twelfth Imam," your happy holiday may be just around the corner, too. President Ahmadinejad, who is said to consider himself the designated deputy of the "hidden Imam," held a press conference this week -- against a backdrop of doves fluttering round an atom and accompanied by dancers in orange decontamination suits doing choreographed uranium-brandishing. It looked like that Bollywood finale …

I'm kinda surprised - especially given our European members and the American success thus far - that no one has mentioned the World Cup. In any event, in recognition of Sunday's UK vs Germany game, I thought I would bring up ...

The Matrix Game Holiday sale runs through Jan 9, grab your copy(ies) now Larry Bond's Harpoon - Ultimate Edition - Game - Matrix Games

I stole all these pictures. Please don't tell the police. Big ones: Varyagstern.jpg lookingaftSBside.jpg mainarmamentSB.jpg masts.jpg radar.jpg topdome.jpg abitrusty.jpg V1-02.jpg V2-01.jpg V2-02.jpg V2-03.jpg V2-04.jpg V2-05.jpg V2-06.jpg alldressedup.jpg

HarpoonPages invites you to participate in the 12th Annual Pooner Vote. Congratulations again to the 2007 Pooner Ralf Koelbach. To vote and view the past winners, visit http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php. !!!Please note that you can vote for anyone who hasn't previously won, even if they aren't listed as having been voted for yet this year!!! If you have any difficulties voting, send an e-mail to pooner@harpoonpages.com with your name, e-mail address, and your vote for Pooner and I will enter them manually. Please post this message on any forum/list/newsgroup where Harpoon players reside so that we can bring in as many votes and ku…

Can get this for £2.39 from Play.com. Worth the money?

Picked up Angles Of Attack, An A-6 Intruder Pilot's War by Peter Hunt last night through inter-library loan. It apparently details the authors view of Desert Storm operating off of USS Ranger in the Persian Gulf. I'm trying to gleen some loadout and strike tactics gouge from the book so taking some geek-notes on my bookmark. Anyone else read this?

After years of being jealous of all of you who have read Sixth Battle my mail order used copy finally arrived yesterday. I didn't even notice until today! Anyway, though I'd let you all know that in case I go missing for the next day or two while I read it

Please insert your views, rants, etc here. RANGERS VS. THRASHERS Rangers win, 4-0 Game 1: Rangers 4, Thrashers 3 Game 2: Rangers 2, Thrashers 1 Game 3: Rangers 7, Thrashers 0 Game 4: Rangers 4, Thrashers 2 In the words of former Rangers color-man John Davidson "OH BABY!" Rangers haven't made the payoff in a decade 1st Rangers playoff sweep since they SMOKED the NY Islanders in the first round of the 1994 Playoffs!

Here a few pics of the French Navy missile tracking ship FS Monge which was in port here this week ...

I gave a presentation similar to this to a coworker earlier this week and recorded another go at it last night for 'fun'. I suggest switching to the higher quality 720p so that you can actually see the screen text. This dips very lightly into Assembly programming and looking at high level language conversion into the opcodes and assembly instructions that the x86 processor understands. Part 1 Part 2 Warning: May put you to sleep!

Our hosting provider is doing infrastructure upgrades (from spinning disks to SSD as well as ancient AMD to somewhat less ancient Intel Xeon machines) on February 28 into the 29th so there may be more downtime than usual but hopefully a faster forum on the other side of the upgrades!

Brad, in your stash of military systems references, do you have any info or opinion on the performance of the Russian (NATO Designation) AT-8 Songster ATGM which is carried by the T-80 and even referenced to have been carried by the T-64. This is a through-the-barrel ATGM similiar in theory to the dismally failed Shillelagh ATGM found on the US M-60A2 Tank. Thanks