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  1. Richard Bong

    Price? Pathfinder - Veteran - LTI Package

    You can gift a game package, so I don't see why not.
  2. Richard Bong

    They fixed the Vanguard?

    Yes they did say it was a place holder. For what, nobody really knows and nobody official has said. Lots of speculation in the community. My personal guess is the current system will end up staying, because it is one less mechanic to have to come up with
  3. Richard Bong

    They fixed the Vanguard?

    There is no indication that even CIG knows the answer to this. Everything is speculation.
  4. Richard Bong

    They fixed the Vanguard?

    Scanning radars tend to be kept in standby mode until a target is believed to be in the area, or switched on and off in very limited on bursts. This has been the case since the late 60's. In fact the F-14 was equipped with a TV Camera for finding targets without lighting itself up because of...
  5. Richard Bong

    They fixed the Vanguard?

    There is a problem with that concept. If emissions are how you are drawing attention they don't need to turn on their active systems on and become targetable in order to track you.
  6. Richard Bong

    Death of a Bebop

    I watched the live version first. I didn't come in with any preconceptions. I watched the anime version second. If you come at it cold, it feels, even with the longer episode length, you are missing things without the anime version to fall back on as reference. Comparatively the live...
  7. Richard Bong

    They fixed the Vanguard?

    Tacit rainbow is an interesting concept, and is the basis for my comments on drones filling the WW and jamming role instead of the F35. The idea of transmitting false signatures is still anti-stealth, because you are transmitting. You are attempting to be seen. Granted seen as something else...
  8. Richard Bong

    They fixed the Vanguard?

    One of the reasons the F-117 was retired was due to not having adequate threat warning receivers. So it wouldn't work in the WW role. (One of the other reasons was that while it was extremely stealthy against high frequency targeting radar, it wasn't very stealthy against low frequency systems...
  9. Richard Bong

    They fixed the Vanguard?

    Just carrying HARM missiles is not Wild Weasel. That is the "Iron Hand" part of the SEAD mission. The NGJ may work on the F35 but that hasn't been confirmed. In more recent conflicts the standoff nature of most ordinance has lessened the importance of the WW mission. In many cases instead of...
  10. Richard Bong

    They fixed the Vanguard?

    SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense) consists of 4 roles. Intelligence, which locates probable Air Defense facilities and equipment. Wild Weasel, which acts as a target to get the Air Defenses to use their Radars so they can be attacked and destroyed using anti-radiation missiles. Iron Hand...
  11. Richard Bong

    They fixed the Vanguard?

    That is the same way I read the marketing material. I started with a Sentinel with a Warden BUK, but when they put the stealth components on it, I swapped. (Thanks to @Blind Owl the Sentinel BUK has LTI.)
  12. Richard Bong

    Star Citizen breaks $100M raised for 2022

    View: https://youtu.be/jTmXHvGZiSY
  13. Richard Bong

    2022 Letter from the Chairman

    Surprise, surprise. Once again a stated deadline is missed. Reason given? None.
  14. Richard Bong

    2022 Letter from the Chairman

    According to an inebriated Erin Roberts at an Asian Bar Citizen, supposedly, at least 2 more years.
  15. Richard Bong

    Happy New Year

    Happy Gnu Year.
  16. Richard Bong

    Excess Store Credit Problem

    The idea is to start with more gear than the standard starting UEC gets you. Would I recommend dropping lots? No. If there is a particular firearm, armor, loadout, etc. you want to start with without having to grind without to start, that is the reason. 2K to 20K isn't likely enough. 30K, you...
  17. Richard Bong

    Excess Store Credit Problem

    They are given as additional aUEC currently each time there is a wipe.
  18. Richard Bong

    Ship naming - "my name is..."

    Mainframe and not Hexadecimal and Megabyte? View: https://youtu.be/u1pc6teZGnw
  19. Richard Bong

    I ended up not buying the RSI Galaxy

    The difference is the Bomber, and the Vanguards (Warden and Hoplite) were modeled without the bays being seperate pieces. The Vanguards had the bays seperated from the frame during the rework, and the Retaliator was supposed to have that done during the Gold Standard pass. I doubt the Galaxy...
  20. Richard Bong

    I ended up not buying the RSI Galaxy

    The Retaliator Bomber has the Torpedo Bays as stock. The Base has no modules included. The price difference is the price of the Torpedo Bays. The loaner for the Base is the Bomber, which is why you may be confused. The base is still in concept.
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