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Not so much sperg as just noting that "multirole" doesn't actually mean anything, and that Tox didn't really put any requirements in the title. If it's just an aesthetic KSP Kreations thread, then my observation probably doesn't matter, but if Tox meant it as a serious "build the best performing KSP bird" competition, then it does.

Example: Croatia needs a fighter that can take off with a couple of Sidewinders to intercept aircraft in their airspace. Those fighters also need to be a good value, which means they need to be able to perform ground attack and other more pedestrian missions involving carrying lots of payload but not doing air-to-air stuff. This has some implications for the vehicle. Certainly, Croatia could buy Rafales or something truly "multi-role", but it could also get away with J-7s. J-7s can carry Sidewinders, and you can stick four rocket pods on them and a couple of spare fuel tanks and hose down whatever tonka trucks used by the local rebels that the UN Coalition has asked you to dust. France needs a carrier-capable fighter aircraft that can dogfight with Su-27s and win, while simultaneously carrying four tactical nuclear weapons and thirty-seven external tanks for intercontinental range because FRANCE EST FORTE!!!! So it's very, very important what sort of country RoK is.

What sort of country is the RoK and what sort of missions does it need a fighter for? A nation like Croatia has very different "multi-role fighter" requirements than one like the UK or France.

This thread is for posting current events stories regarding space exploration achievements. To start off, NASA just about confirms liquid water on Mars.

We all well know that the future MBT paradigm is to have huge nuclear-powered antigravity vehicles with iridium and heterodiamond armor, gravity shielding, and armed with 90cm ion cannons and multiple weapon emplacements:

Add it in subsequent posts.

SU-100, looks like.

Dude, Don, you and I need to get together and shoot my .32 cal Remington 51. You'd shit yourself with joy, really.

I believe it was briefly mounted to OH-6 Cayuse helicopters for testing prior to the type's introduction in Vietnam. According to some secondary sources, the weapon was the least reliable of the high rate-of-fire types demonstrated to the US Army.

We simply don't know yet. What the Remington reps said at SHOT was encouraging but unfortunately it's Remington and they have not had a good time of product releases lately. Am I rooting for it? Hell yes.

The Hughes Heligun is the most awesome aircraft cannon development of our time. What's that, you've never heard of it? Well... The Hughes Heligun looking characteristically fly. Here's the Forgotten Weapons article, accompanied by a PDF telling you just about all you'd ever want to know about the Heligun. Check this out:

I've heard those suppressed weapons are hella useful in urban combat because it's difficult to tell where someone is when they're in a city and they are shooting a suppressed weapon.

Tell them that smoking is white privilege, because minorities probably picked tobacco at some point in history.

Halestorm is my current Most Hated Band. Seriously, this band is awful. But we'll get into that. First, does anybody remember Hinder? I do. I hate them, too. Let's listen to a couple of their songs. Pay close attention to the raspy vocals, the melodies, and the lyrics: We can tell that Austin Winkler (what an unfortunate name...) is someone who enjoys the coarser things in life. Does anyone even entertain the idea that his songs are not autobiographical? He is addicted to sex, drugs, and rock and roll, that's for sure. Maybe there's another side to him, though? Well, that song managed to be creepy (and still awful), but it was at least a ballad this time. Also, the faces he makes in that video are hilarious, seriously: Overall, though, it's sort of more Three Doors Down prole-rock bullshit, but this time the lead singer has a raspy voice because he smokes a carton before every show. Now, Halestorm: Oh, it's Hinder with a female lead vocalist. Actually, by my estimation, it doesn't even rise that high. See, so far as I can tell, Halestorm hasn't released any ballads. In fact, all of their songs appear to be derivative of "Get Stoned". So they are a copy of literally one song from a one-hit-wonder pop-rock band, with a genderbent lead. Better, they're not even a copy of that band's greatest hit: But the funniest part of all this, to me, is Lizzy Hale herself (oh, yeah, so "Halestorm" is like "The Beatles" except replace the pun with narcissism). First, consider the persona she's chosen (or perhaps was born into, judging by her FAS-esque facial structure): A coked-up bar slut who services the local biker gang. This explains why they have no Hinder-esque regret-filled ballads (well, that I know of anyway); after all, coked-up sluts don't feel regret - that's why coke was invented. This persona is a natural consequence of genderbending Austin Winkler, as the characteristics that seem deep or rough on a man tend to seem slutty on a woman. What's amazing about all this, though, is how packaged it all is. Lizzy Hale in the video below seems almost shrink-wrapped, for how bland and boring they've made what should have been an excitingly disgusting barfly character: She doesn't even seem to be giving it any effort. Yeah, OK, let's shoot the video, I have to go get my nails done. Oh, and the music is garbage. But since you've sat through three of their videos, you don't need me to tell you that.

Your thoughts echo mine, Don.

I think that is a very different statement, and one that may well be true. From a cultural perspective, our current nation may owe more of its characteristics to the Civil War than to the rebellion itself, yes.

It looks like they are wearing tres tacticool FAST helmets, as well.

AviationWeek on the Zero-sen.

Have at. Duplicating in the repository, too.

That's a dramatic way to put it, I guess.

The dox repository has been massively updated.

Surely VE Day and VJ Day heralded the end of far worse nations.

And that just made me listen to Grace Under Pressure all the way through.

If it were true that they were the same species, something very weird would have to be going on, certainly. I mean, look at the skulls: