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[MattBaker]

Even 1925 and they had fears about the new ones being "unreliable".:lol:

Unbelievable that 50 year old designs are used even though new models were made and equipped. Someone spent time and money on R&D, building, equipping, training and testing with new torpedos and in the end the submarine commander is like "No, we'll use the old ones. They're better."

 

[paddy2]

OH come on Geneva is so close to the border the fighters wing tip would still have been in France

 

[Athena]

Finally...after 2 long years using a 0.50 kb/s connection. :woohoo:

 

[Izack]

"Sure, taking a few seconds to be respectful toward someone about something they care about doesn't sound hard. But if you talk to hundreds of people every day and they all start expecting that same consideration, it could potentially add up to MINUTES wasted. And for WHAT?"

 

[jedidia]

So apparently the best time to invade Switzerland is off working hours:

It's not as absurd as it sounds if you consider what the Swiss airforce actually is.

It's an assembly of about 15 to 18 F18 in flying shape (the full flotilla was 36, of which I think two crashed, and the others were canibalised for parts to keep the other 18 flying. This was the state when I worked there, i.e. 2001 (swiss military service odyssey) and 2002 (pwnd by forced promotion). If anything, things have likely gotten worse since then.


We don't do pickets and stuff like that. We don't have the needed number of planes for an organised air surveilance. If things get serious, we are not capable of fielding a constant CAP with two planes.

So really, any time is a good time when you want to make an air raid on Switzerland. We're just relying on everyone around us to get adequately upset about any raiding force violating their airspace

 

[Urwumpe]

You know, the world is a dangerous place... everything could go wrong sometimes... you sure don't want to have the wrong guys come through our airspace... after all, what are some bars of chocolate for the promise of protection?

 

[Spacethingy]

 

[jedidia]

That looks like a revival of an old post-WW2 joke, which goes something like this:

Switzerland developed a new fighter plane in which Hitler was very interested. So he asked them to buy a squadron. The Swiss denied. Thereupon Hitler got very angry and threatened invasion. The Swiss replied grudgingly if he wanted one, two or all three of them.

As a side note, Switzerland did indeed develop fighter planes until the fifties. They gave it up after pretty much all of the prototypes of the first jet fighter had crashed into the Bodensee. After that they specialised on what they would become best at: Buying weapons systems from others (including the US), making them better, and selling them back to them.
There's funny annectotes about the tolerance "problems" of the Mirage engine as well as the perforation of the Hunters wings to solve the problem of fissures appearing after the swiss engine overhaul.

Still, the turbo-prop planes of Pilatus are still highly valued around the world as training planes. And, unfortunately, as improvised bombers in the service of third-world warlords

 

[Linguofreak]

It's an assembly of about 15 to 18 F18 in flying shape (the full flotilla was 36, of which I think two crashed, and the others were canibalised for parts to keep the other 18 flying.

Wikipedia lists the Swiss Air Force as having 32 F-18's, with no discussion of which are and aren't flyable.

 

[Izack]

It's not as absurd as it sounds if you consider what the Swiss airforce actually is.

It's an assembly of about 15 to 18 F18 in flying shape (the full flotilla was 36, of which I think two crashed, and the others were canibalised for parts to keep the other 18 flying. This was the state when I worked there, i.e. 2001 (swiss military service odyssey) and 2002 (pwnd by forced promotion). If anything, things have likely gotten worse since then.


We don't do pickets and stuff like that. We don't have the needed number of planes for an organised air surveilance. If things get serious, we are not capable of fielding a constant CAP with two planes.

So really, any time is a good time when you want to make an air raid on Switzerland. We're just relying on everyone around us to get adequately upset about any raiding force violating their airspace

That sounds very much like my own country's air force. Perhaps common these days?

 

[jedidia]

Wikipedia lists the Swiss Air Force as having 32 F-18's, with no discussion of which are and aren't flyable.

Yeah, it's not so widely known. It is also possible that they managed to get a few more flyable again after the US finished their business in Iraq (airforce-wise) and started shipping parts out again, but Switzerland is always at the end of the waiting list for those parts...

32 is it... Have we only bought 34, have I missed two crashes or have they retired 2 for good? I really think we did buy 36 back then. I still remember voting for it

 

[Artlav]

My laptop just fell of the table and snapped closed.
Upon opening, this is what saw:

root [ /home/artlav ]# Fooo!
bash: Fooo!: command not found

Huh?

 

[mojoey]

My laptop just fell of the table and snapped closed.
Upon opening, this is what saw:

root [ /home/artlav ]# Fooo!
bash: Fooo!: command not found

Huh?

You Fooobar'd your computer

 

[MattBaker]

32 is it... Have we only bought 34, have I missed two crashes or have they retired 2 for good? I really think we did buy 36 back then. I still remember voting for it

According to the Hornet's wiki page you bought 26 C and 8 D models so that 26 might be where you got the X6 from.

 

[Scav]

You Fooobar'd your computer

No. That was the sound his computer made as it fell.

 

[MattBaker]

Twins fascinated Nazi doctor Josef Mengele (known as the “Angel of Death”). According to one witness, he sewed together a set of twins named Guido and Ina, who were about 4 years old, from the back in an attempt to create Siamese twins.

Oh, so the creators of the Human Centipede were not that...well they were just as ed up as Mengele, that's...OK that's quite ed up.

 

[Urwumpe]

Oh, so the creators of the Human Centipede were not that...well they were just as ed up as Mengele, that's...OK that's quite ed up.

The best thing of Mengele is, that he is a) pushing up the daisies b) bereft of life, resting in peace c) His metabolic processes are history d) is an ex-nazi e) and scientifically pretty overrated for an underarchiever.

 

[mojoey]

No. That was the sound his computer made as it fell.

'Fly you Fooos!'

Now I'm imagining Mr. T playing Gandalf.

 

[Ghostrider]

Now I'm imagining Mr. T playing Gandalf.

I pity the fool who'd try to avail himself of the Dark Fire against a wielder of the Flame of Anor.

 

[MattBaker]

The best thing of Mengele is, that he is a) pushing up the daisies b) bereft of life, resting in peace c) His metabolic processes are history d) is an ex-nazi e) and scientifically pretty overrated for an underarchiever.

f) had a nice holiday in Brazil instead of Spandau

I might be doing this wrong.