Frank Hipper wrote:Well, it will be nice, and appropriately monumental.
But glass and steel architecture doesn't do much for me, I had seen some other designs that would haven't been quite so greenhouse-ish.
Later yes, but in the early 50's they along with the RB-36's where basically immune. Soviet fighters could sometimes match their speed and altitudes but didn't have the fuel for an actual interception. A few areas like Moscow had enough defenses to keep them away, but for the most part the planes wandered at will until large numbers of SA-2's showed up. Then the U-2 took over which its self was pretty well protected against that system unless it stalled out. In recovering from a stall the plane could lose 20,000 feet of altitude, and that’s what got Powers, he had the poor luck to have a stall directly over an SA-2 site.
Well, that's nice, but I think it was meant for someplace else.
Sea Skimmer wrote:Later yes, but in the early 50's they along with the RB-36's where basically immune. Soviet fighters could sometimes match their speed and altitudes but didn't have the fuel for an actual interception. A few areas like Moscow had enough defenses to keep them away, but for the most part the planes wandered at will until large numbers of SA-2's showed up. Then the U-2 took over which its self was pretty well protected against that system unless it stalled out. In recovering from a stall the plane could lose 20,000 feet of altitude, and that’s what got Powers, he had the poor luck to have a stall directly over an SA-2 site.
Well, that's nice, but I think it was meant for someplace else.
ROFLMAO
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And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
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The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
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Frank Hipper wrote:Well, that's nice, but I think it was meant for someplace else.
What are you talking about?
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Frank Hipper wrote:
I caught you posting that here, instead of in Politics perhaps?
You really have too much free time if your making up fake posts to quote.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Frank Hipper wrote:
Like I would make up a fake post, and attribute it to you of all people!
Anyone with a postcount like yours is going to make a slip-up, from time to time.
Silence! No more of this prying!
*Moves hands towards crush dissident and nuke the evidence button*
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
You really have too much free time if your making up fake posts to quote.