broncepulido

Thanks for the new ideas, DBs and scenarios

Very good collective work here !!! About the issue: I remember some boardgames, as Flat Top or Pacific War with rules about percentual risk penalties because landing on damaged airports or the similar night take-off, but I not sure where are my rulebooks of both games.

Clearly a very good idea for me. I'm in doubt about if a completly destroyed airbase can be "repaired", I think it can, but I think it would generates victory conditions and code problems.

Reading my yesterday post I see the link to the Addu Atoll/RAF Gan issue is erroneous, this is the pretended link (My new Smartphone can be smart, but I doubt I'm at his level ): http://www.avalanchepress.com/AdduAtoll.php

I ever try to mention Harpoon in my little academic papers ...

Just discussing this with Brad on IRC... It should be possible to create a detectable yet not always visible airfield in the Installations annex by making it a type Fixed SAM. They are not visible until detected yet have all of the other capabilities and limitations of installations (such as runways of db designer specified number of size). Great ! It will provide a higher degree of uncertainity and replayability to the game !

Yes, now I remember the CV Mitchel and the F-15 Eagle carrier-capable issues...

I was thinking on read someting in the same sense about US attacks on Northvietnamese airbases and Northvietnamese repair capabilities, but I'm afraid to find selfpropaganda and comments about his capability to airlift figthers by helicopter to disperssion sites without runway

The secret base idea remembers me about the Addu Atoll or Gan airbase issue, as referenced in http://www.google.es/gwt/x?wsc=eb&wsi=...xJJLW1Qbq18XzCg as example. The possibility of a secret airbase is factible with the aletorial placement of an airbase modelled as an carrier with speed=0 (I'm sorry, that's my first post from my first smartphone, and it's a very hardwork to tip the keys on it)

I think landing in a damaged airbase can be allowed (with some low % penalty), but not take-off, i.e. if the plane don't fits in the remaining runway lenght.

The Kirchner widow is every day more disoriented and more pro-Chavez ... sad for the Argentinians, and sad for all of us ...

In the old Harpoon Classic/Gold Edition, mines/submarines at periscope depth were detectables visually, I don't know if this capability is present in HCE.

Impressive pictures, indeed ! The prominent white text "PROHIBIDO FUMAR" in the island means .... "No Smoking" Perhaps the next May 2011 I will talk with some servicepeople on board ...

The new SIGMA corvettes for Morocco, bigger than the entry 3036, SIGMA for Indonesia: http://www.meretmarine.com/article.cfm?id=115293

Thanks JRyan for enjoy the scenario and the very vivid report I'm in a new job with little spare time, but I'm alive ...

I'm ashamed of not known previously that story I like this part, remembers me other similar military stories: Not directly naval related, but military and militarism related, this other one-person very famous hoax, the Captain of Kopenick (now a Berlin borough), some four years earlier, and perhaps inspiration of the Dreadnought hoax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Voigt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captain_o...B6penick_(play)

This case remembers me about the Cuban General Ochoa case, and we must remember it's the usual dynamic of purges in the communist dictatorships. General Arnaldo Ochoa was a prominent Cuban military, from the early times of the "revolution". Later he was a war hero in the Cuban campaings in Africa. But when Fidel Castro think was a good time, he was judged and executed (and remember, Fidel Castro comes from a rich Cuban family, and her studies and modus operandi are those of a Lawyer, not those of a military man): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaldo_Ochoa

I think it's not a signal of internal changes of power in North Korea. It's an usual system: if something goes wrong in the talks , you can blame those military for it, and the Dear Leader reputation keeps untarnished. And also, the Dear Leader can send some military to previsibly non successful talks, and later, as "consequence" because the failure purge those military and ride out of them.

Where is the Global Warming-Warning ??!! Not in Germany, not in Spain, not in the States, a very cool winter everywhere, where it is ?

With some possible future changes in the Game Engine I think it will be more playable only with guns. I enjoy the game as is, but I know it can be improved. Meanwhile, I'm researching and compilating data for future DataBases ...

I think El Baradei habitually acts as if he was an Iranian agent. My improbable candidate as Egyptian president is a not full-time politician, Dr. Zahi Hawass , a man of character respected worldwide.

The same with the movies when they are focused in special effects (but they are good movies produced all the years). About getting no-so-young, in my new job yesterday one of my new young coworkers (perhaps 29 years old) says me yesterday about not remember what film: "It's an old movie, it was filmed on 2005"

Very interesting document, thanks. Some highlights: Page 28, 79, 94: about relatives maneouvrabilities. Page 115: fly-off costs, F-16IN is half price than Typhoon. Also, the maximum g-forces a F-35 can support is 7 g (5 g with external loads, as reference in my personal notes is stated the F-4E Phantom as 7,3 g clean, and 5,5 g loaded, and the F-5E Tiger is 7,33 g), and the F-22 can support 9 g, as MiG-29, Su-27 and variants, and almost if not all F-16 variants (Curiously F-15 only 8 g, and the latest variants of MiG-23, from the MiG-23ML, 8,5 g).

File Name: LCS goes to War. Battle off Vietnam 2015. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 29 Jan 2011 File Category: WestPac LCS goes to War. Battle off Vietnam 2015 (Hypothetical scenario): This scenario is inspired in the current (January 2011) discussions about the Littoral Control Ship, her future, her future missions and her future fate. In a surprising decission with the absurd allegation of budgetary eficiency, on November 2010 the US Navy decides to purchase a great number of LCS, when yet are not resolved a myriad of issues relatives to the ship design, concept and tasks. The US Navy will purchase ten ships of each one of the concurrent designs (added to the previous four), and not declare a winner neither select only one design for series shipbuilding. In particular this scenario is motived when in some blog someone asked a few days ago: "How a group of LCS can stand before a Chinese Sovrenmenny ?". We must remember the LCS is not defined clearly as a single class of warships. With a group of specific but not clearly defined missions, tasks, and the correspondent modular mission packages, (with limited weapons of not very long range and of limited punch), limited protection and limited structural resistance, limited number of crew members (operational fatigue of a reduced crew is a limitating factor of military operations) and emphasis on speed, LCS should be placed only in very concrete niches on the naval operations (basically sea control in areas with limited menaces, littoral ASW, special operations support and minehunting). But many people fears, in a crisis situation, LCS will be used as an ordinary warship in usual combat missions as an ordinary light frigate/corvette, perhaps as the vulnerable British battlecruisers in the Battle of Jutland, and the outcome will be the same, an Admiral saying: "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today", a lot of servicepeople died in vain, and one more loss for the interests of the United States. That is one of the Harpoon strong points, we can imagine and simulate easily what will happen in the future, evaluate it, and after future modifications in the configurations of the LCS applied on the database, we can evaluate it again and every time the LCS design changes. Historical background (Hypothetical): The near future, summer 2015. A constant succession of new challenges in a fast changing world. At the other extreme of the world Argentina has seized the Falklands/Malvinas Islands on August 2011, and the failure of the reduced British forces sent without air support to recover the islands has motivated a great lack of credibility on the Western military capacities. In Europe, the Islamic Supremacy groups are forcing the European Union governments to be aside of the global issues. Europe is not already a player. Only very reduced US forces are keeping a credible operational readiness in the Western countries. China sees on it an opportunity to expose clearly and affirm what is his strategic influence zone, the countries from which he needs to import raw strategic materials and other resources, and the external markets that considers as of his exclusive property for import and export of manufactured goods, and in those China will not tolerate the intromission of powers strange to Asian countries. His strategic influence zone is very similar in extension and configuration to the previous Japanese Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and it will motivate the same type of troubles in the Pacific Ocean. And remember, the intelligence estimates ever can be erroneous ... Enrique Mas, January 2011 Click here to download this file