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Not at first, I was told by a RAF ground crew (retired) I was at uni with him (had a limp from getting blown up in the Falklands, travelled out on Bravo November), that the RAF / Royal Navy F4's had SSU-30 gun pod, which was only loaded with less than half Ammo as firing caused the Tragetting system to lock up and need a reset. You could fire 2 or 3 Bursts touch the trigger let go, if you held it for longer it crash the targetting computer(!)...Intresting Guy, had cancer from the Chenobyl bang as he was the only nuclear qualified member on shift at Gibraltar when a Nimrod did an over fly...
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Just as the A-10 Thunderbolt II. A lean approach with a few number of 5th generation multirole machines costs much less in maintenance.
They are iconic, but they're objects... replaceable.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Point, the A-10 was a Jet power IL2 a flying tank... I'd like to see an F-35 stand up the punishment A-10 can!-
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In a scenario with highly controlled aerospace it is as good as done, the point is not to resist to a SAM hit but to avoid it altogether - SAM and MANPADS aren't bullets that can be "shrug off". One of those *will* mess up any plane.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The A-10 was designed to be hit and still flyable (something like loose half a wing, an Engine, the pilot sat in an Armoured bath tub!). There is or was a photo of one from Gulf 1, which had taken a MANPAD missle the blew the port engine and tail off , got the pilot home!
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So how did they celebrate when the Erdnagels were pensioned?
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Do you mean F-104? I was told the cheap way to get one was to buy a field on the Dutch / German boarder and wait!
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Also called the flying coffin.
I understand about a third of them crashed before being phased out.
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Now that was awesome.
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Where would they stop?!
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BACON[^]
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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BotD? How about BotF[^]?
Edit: Ooops. Wrong language. Better link...[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Doesn't fit between two slices of bread.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The Federation, the Ferengi, the Klingons and the Cardassians usually do when I'm done with them. Or I let the Borg do my dirty work and then blow them away with a full squadron of Warbirds.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Universal translator not working?
We are the Bacon. Resistance is futile
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So I'm working on this application that creates files according to some early 90's "standard"...
I'm not sure how many applications use this standard, but not a lot.
The only application I've tested with, that can read these files, already made a mess of the standard, as did a sample file I got.
So anyway, the standard has a list of companies and codes, which is a bad idea because companies quit and start and so you have a standard that's constantly moving.
It's only a very specific niche type of company, so it's not like it changes daily, but once every few years at the least.
Judging from the names still in the list and some rather big companies missing, I can only assume this list is changed rather infrequently and code 099 (unknown) is used in a lot of cases.
Now we want our company (with two locations) to be added to the list, so we sent out a mail requesting new codes.
And bam, we got an email back saying that they're now added...
But what about everyone else who uses this standard?
What about the software that has to interpret these values?
You can't just change the standard because Sander send you an email (if only! ).
This is not how a standard works!
How about we use a government issued number that every company in this business is legally required to have?
And then maybe look up that number in some public repository.
Perhaps a CoC number or a number that's specific to this industry (there are actually more than one to choose from)?
Of course it would require considerate effort of all parties involved to implement that now
I'm just very quietly hoping these values are completely ignored by all parties using this standard (we've seen that to be the case for some other mandatory fields as well)
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Welcome to your brand new, fantastic job!
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Been working on this for three months and every month I get a little sadder
Luckily this project is in it's final stage and we'll soon start a pilot with some customers.
The next project will not feature any standards except my own
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Sander Rossel wrote: will not feature any standards except my own
It's possible that we have met before:
Quote: Coworker: But that's a pattern!
Me: Nope, more like an antipattern.
Coworker: A convention?
Me: Nope.
Coworker: Then it's a standard! Right?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Blatant article placement!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I have no shame
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