THE THREAD!!!

[perkinh]

Yea Navy!!

Kind of makes you hurt though to see the poor Westies take it on the chin again.

I love college football, and Army-Navy is one of my favorites. It is amazing how hard you will try, just to sing second.

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: Gabede

Yea Navy!!

Kind of makes you hurt though to see the poor Westies take it on the chin again.

I love college football, and Army-Navy is one of my favorites. It is amazing how hard you will try, just to sing second.

No other football game can come close to this one, Gabede. They play for tradition and honor against detested opponents for whom they will very willingly give their own life to save tomorrow. This game matters, and the young man who has been the QB for Army the last 4 years was not ashamed to remind us all of that. I would be proud to follow him into battle. [8D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Turn up

Turn to Steve.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Grollub

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Grollub

Saturday evening tithe.

The carton mountain is slowly receding. There's some problems moving to a slightly smaller place. Having storage problems.

No place to put the møøse? [X(][:'(]

As I said, they've migrated to the North Pole during winter. They'll come back to graze during summer.

In other words you'll find a place to stow him later. [:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Grollub

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Grollub

PC up and running. Go me! [:D]

... now if I just can find why the sound isn't working ...

Did you check if it's plugged in? [:'(]

Fixed. Noted that I only had half the RAM I should have, so I unscrewed a side plate and had a check inside. It seems that the move was a little bumpy, as one of the RAM modules had shaken a little loose. Same thing with the sound card.

Ah! That's happened to me once or twice.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Historiker



I guess less than ten years.
They were modernized to NATO-standards quite expensively, but the Luftwaffe has the policy not to have more than 3 major warplanes.
So once the Typhoon was introduced, it was Typhoon, Tornado, F-4 and Mig-29. As there were propably 200 F-4 and only ~22 Mig-29, the Migs were sold for 1 € apiece to Poland. [:@]

But arnt the 29s like 3 generations newer than the latest Phantom mod? [&:]

Sure. The F-4 Phantom is a 3rd Ggneration jet and the Mig-29 a 4th generation that had its avionics modernized to western standards while having a the superior agility of a sovied 4th Generation fighter.

But then, again: The descision was made not to have too many different types of planes to streamline training, maintenance, replacement parts... With only 24 Migs available and roughly 250 F-4 Phantoms, there wasn't really a choice.

So the next question is why did they sell it at fire sale prices? [:)]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Grollub

[:D]

Watch out, or I'll send my kamikaze moose after you. Mixed high and low altitudes. [:'(]

As long as we don't talk about zombie moose!

I read Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy in the US within a week. Entertaining books [;)]

How is it back in Deutchland?

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Or the worlds worst AAR (tm)

Hey, I resemble that remark.

The zombie or the kamikaze bit?

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Cost of Spitfires set to plummet?

Didnt they find a squadron's worth in Burma somewhere recently?

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: fodder

ORIGINAL: Grollub

ORIGINAL: Historiker



As long as we don't talk about zombie moose!

Zombie moose vs. Kamikaze moose. This is starting to sound like something out of Monty Python. Or the worlds worst AAR (tm) [:D]

Zombie or Kamikaze, it doesn't matter. NOTHING get past our picket Giraffes!

Does he even lift? [8|]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: sprior

Cost of Spitfires set to plummet?

Doubtful. Even if they are there they've built houses on top of them. They are also in Birmingham, not somewhere accessible, developed and safe like the Burmese jungle. If they were buried in 1950 then they would be late mark stuff like Mk21 Spitfires which are (comparatively) less valuable.

Besides that, there are only a handful of companies around who could handle the work (if you've got a spare 7 million to spend) and they don't have that much spare capacity. Maybe the chap just wants his flowerbeds turning over? [:D]

Wanna open up a side business? [;)]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Grollub

Leaving now for a Field Training Exercise recce north of the polar circle. Well, it can't be any colder or more snow up there, can it?

Laters, friends.

Awwww, Per is going to visit his møøse. How cute. [:'(]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Don't eat Rudolph.

Too late. I've had MREs before. If its not Rudolph, its certainly one of his cousins.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Wow. Quite the change in weather around these here parts. We'll drop 30 degrees F today and get ~10-12" of the white stuff. Winds gusting to 40 MPH tonight will make for some "interesting" road vis and wind chill (-20 to -30F).

NoDak is getting it worse than we are. Someone got a line on whether Shanilec is still thawed?

Did you close the car window, dumbass? [:'(]

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo




But arnt the 29s like 3 generations newer than the latest Phantom mod? [&:]

Sure. The F-4 Phantom is a 3rd Ggneration jet and the Mig-29 a 4th generation that had its avionics modernized to western standards while having a the superior agility of a sovied 4th Generation fighter.

But then, again: The descision was made not to have too many different types of planes to streamline training, maintenance, replacement parts... With only 24 Migs available and roughly 250 F-4 Phantoms, there wasn't really a choice.

So the next question is why did they sell it at fire sale prices? [:)]

Export policies:
When the Bundeswehr retires materiel, it is done in this order:
- sell to ally
- sell to close friend (comparable to the US "Non-NATO Ally")
- give for free to ally
- sell for scrap

So they were given to Poland because nobody wanted to pay millions and it was seen as a measure to improve relations with Poland.
Finland getting Leopard 2 for 8.000 Euro apiece is another example.

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Grollub

[:D]

Watch out, or I'll send my kamikaze moose after you. Mixed high and low altitudes. [:'(]

As long as we don't talk about zombie moose!

I read Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy in the US within a week. Entertaining books [;)]

How is it back in Deutchland?

cold! [:@]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Historiker
Finland getting Leopard 2 for 8.000 Euro apiece is another example.

You guys are so nice its sickening. [:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Historiker



As long as we don't talk about zombie moose!

I read Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy in the US within a week. Entertaining books [;)]

How is it back in Deutchland?

cold! [:@]

Its 21C here....

[Onime No Kyo]

Oh dear.

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Historiker
Finland getting Leopard 2 for 8.000 Euro apiece is another example.

You guys are so nice its sickening. [:D]

Nice?
Fucking stupid! Payed for with my money! Fucking arseholes!