Steven

I can't seem to get my TA-O to refuel my DDG. Can someone walk me through it? Thanks.

Or perhaps just spend the time looking for new material? I've got that too: There is more chance of my going twelve rounds with Nikolai Valulev than all three of these vessels returning to service. I'd pay to see that fight! Probably much better than the Ortiz and Mayweather scrapping.

I will admit that the French have got it right. A smart bomb is only as smart as the operators intel, especially when targets are in heavily populated areas.

Thank you Alex. I'll take 'The F35' for a thousand please.

Bet China wouldn't be passing out party hats if Taiwan parked an air wing or two of F35's in the driveway either. Guess they should be more grateful to the US and a little less of a threat to the region.

I'm having quite the time putting into place an IADS system into a scenerio. What I'm not understanding in the advanced manual is placing a central command on one side (friendly) and then putting up another side (neutral) for the SAM batallions and having all of them linked together through data links. Can anyone simply explain how this is done? If a site is labeled as friendly how am I going to be able to attack it? And the real big question is how do I have two sides communicate with eachother through data links that have differnet postures?

Would the Navy consider filling the void with a washed up hole snipe with a RE3R re-entry code?

Made a scenerio with a ton of SAM's, surface and sub-surface units, airborne and ready aircraft at nearby enemy bases. Just met the objectives with no losses. Can the enemy aircraft, ships and SAM's be made more aggressive? Does the difficulty settings change this?

Little curious here. I've noticed in a scenerio that I've designed that on one ship in particular it seems to have a small fuel load. Once going to flank, the fuel time drops to barely 48 hrs. Is this a fuel load issue that the designer can change or has the geniuses here figured out how to make ships less effeciant than others. Thanks again to all whose reply.

Probably didn't before. I'll try it again. Thanks again as always Tony and Gunny.

I've been trying to upload a scenerio for the community yet I get an error message stating that the file isn't allowed. Can someone tell me specifically how to put a scenerio up onto the site. Thanks. And for those who lost friends and family 10 years ago today and for those brave sailors, soldiers and Marines who have gave their lives so we can have our freedom, may God bless you and your family. You are not alone.

Thanks a bunch Gunny. Much appreciated.

Anyone see any S Korean Naval units in the HUD3 1.6.1 DB? I've been looking for days and haven't found a one.

Great news! Would have liked her in SF Bay area better but still only a car drive away.

Should have taken a lesson or two frow the Gulf War. Air strikes didn't win that war either.

How about finding the technology to see these 'marble' sized aircraft on our radar? Cant shoot what you cant find...

Can you model that into HCE/HCUE for us TonyE? The towed array, not the towed LCS.

This ROC/PRC strife started before the Korean conflict so it seems that each side is holding onto its ideals for awhile. Cant blame Taiwan but such an indirect threat to China will surely be read as a direct threat by China. I think China is just waiting for one slip by Taiwan and that 90 mile strait isnt going to offer much protection. ROC needs to rethink its strategy for the sake of its people. This could be over quickly unlike the Libyan civil war.

By my calculations the F35 is coming up on 150 million apiece. My God this is 3 times the cost of the F/A 18 which is combat tested. The F22 although has a shorter combat history and limited air to ground capability seems to be as stealthy as you can get at 350 million. Seems to me that we could have saved some coin if we started with those existing airframes and mashed them together. And with the high design and maintenance costs assosiated with stealth aircraft 150 million sounds like an afterthought for a stealth aircraft. Anyone know why we built so many of these?

OK. This has been going on since mid March. Is Libya just one big hole in the ground now or does someone have an update?

I'm actually partial to the F15SE (better quallity, war tested) but the T50 is easily comparible. Both are expected to cost around US $100M, the F15SE is just a touch faster, the T50 acceleration is a little better and both possibly have he same weight/thrust ratio. Could be another reality show. Could the South Koreans call it "The Decision"?

According to globalsecurity.org Iran may have as many as 20 missile craft that can carry the Noor or the Chinese equivilant C802. These missile craft have a top speed of 37 knots which is capable of overtaking any US surface ship. The US have destroyed 2 of those missile craft before (Iran/Iraq war?) so we can defeat their systems. But I'm wondering if they have had any RADAR upgrades or an AWACS that could detect the fleet any better than they could in the 80's? Anyone one else think the US will project a heavier fleet presence in the Med? More strike aircraft/bombers in Italy perhaps?

What are the purcussions for the Chinese economy if an economic blockade by their own hand would occur? Seems to me more Chinese products are sold outside China and any blockade by the Chinese would be fatal to their own economic ventures now that China has become a growth economy. Rice cakes would be a delicacy and rival escargot and caviar. My advice for both countries is dont bite the hand that feeds you.

Somebody within the DoD must be kicking themselves for letting the US ASW platforms slide under the radar. No SSN's or SSBN's, get the P8's up in the fleet sooner than later, put more diesels in the waterwith AIP technology, cut the carriers down from 11 to 10, cut the F35 program out unless they can get that thing operational and in the fleet in 18 months and dare I say share the cuts with the USAF? How about cutting the B52 fleet say by 100 aircraft? I know everyone is screaming at me now. Just my version of improving our ASW.

Wow. Really? So much for quality assurance. Seen a lot of this basic engineering snafu's in '90 when we went to Campbell Shipyard. The ship was worse off after the overhaul. Wouldn't think of this though on a new design.