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Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: Corsair on October 18, 2002, 09:24:58 am: A 5 second .mpeg of a missile launch...just thought it was cool. D/l from the link, although I'm not sure about its reliability as it is on my geocities server.

Download here! (http://www.geocities.com/corsair1118/tomahawk.mpeg)
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: Redfang on October 18, 2002, 10:01:07 am: *Nukes Geocities*

Edit: It's nice...
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: Stealth on October 18, 2002, 10:23:15 am: yeah, send it to me and i'll host it
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: Sandwich on October 18, 2002, 11:07:42 am: Just copy-paste it into a new window - works fine.
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: Stealth on October 18, 2002, 11:47:04 am: awesome
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 18, 2002, 02:13:42 pm: Small note - that missile was designed, built and paid for with the express purpose of killing people. It's not all that cool.
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: heretic on October 18, 2002, 02:18:26 pm: oh please. :rolleyes:
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 18, 2002, 02:25:07 pm: Quote
Originally posted by heretic
oh please. :rolleyes:

Yeah, I know, I need to grow up a bit and admit that new and interesting ways of blowing people up are funny as hell. Sorry, I just had a moment of feeling that people were losing perspective a bit. I hate it when that happens. Still, if starts to get to you, you can always put me on you ignore list, that seems to work quite well.
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: Galemp on October 18, 2002, 06:32:19 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Small note - that missile was designed, built and paid for with the express purpose of killing people. It's not all that cool.

So was the Orion, and the Myrmidon, and the Hercules, and the Prometheus, and the Harbinger...
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 18, 2002, 06:37:15 pm: A good point, and well made. However, there is a difference between the fantasy of computer games and the real thing. When that missile falls on your house, then try making comparisons.
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: LtNarol on October 18, 2002, 09:37:22 pm: Cruise missiles have a purpose and they serve them well: precission strikes. If you think war can always be avoided, you're naive; if you think weapons like the Tomahawk are bad, you're ignorant. When you need to remove a military installation on the outskirts of a city, would you rather turn the clock back 50 years and drop indiscriminant iron bombs (probably levelling more of the city than the base) or use a missile that can hit its target 9 times out of 10 (and eliminate the base with minimal collateral casaulties)?

EDIT: stupid spelling error
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: Knight Templar on October 18, 2002, 10:19:44 pm: Quote
When you need to remove a military installation on the outskirts of a city, would you rather turn the clock back 50 years and drop indiscrimant iron bombs (probably levelling more of the city than the base) or use a missile that can hit its target 9 times out of 10 (and eliminate the base with minimal collateral casaulties)?

aww hell, now you're telling me i have to choose? :p
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: NeoHunter on October 18, 2002, 10:59:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar

aww hell, now you're telling me i have to choose? :p

I guess so...:D
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: CP5670 on October 19, 2002, 01:30:47 am: Quote
Small note - that missile was designed, built and paid for with the express purpose of killing people. It's not all that cool.

That is one of the things that makes it is so great... :D
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 19, 2002, 10:26:25 am: Quote
Originally posted by LtNarol
Cruise missiles have a purpose and they serve them well: precission strikes.

Like the ones the US rained down on the Afghans back in the day? Or were they an earlier, non-precision verision?

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If you think war can always be avoided, you're naive; if you think weapons like the Tomahawk are bad, you're ignorant.

War may well be unavoidable, but however fantastically wonderful a piece of kit the Tomahwak and its buddies may be there's no need to encourage it or (dub it 'cool').

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When you need to remove a military installation on the outskirts of a city, would you rather turn the clock back 50 years and drop indiscriminant iron bombs (probably levelling more of the city than the base) or use a missile that can hit its target 9 times out of 10 (and eliminate the base with minimal collateral casaulties?

Well, assuming the base hasn't been stuffed full of civvies, then let's go launching us some Kingpins. However, I'm confident that a single SAS operative armed with nothing more than a toothpick and Kit Kat wrapper could level the place in about twelve seconds, thus saving time and money and making us Brits look good :nod:
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: LtNarol on October 19, 2002, 10:37:18 am: Well if your SAS operatives are so impressive, why aren't they over in Iraq taking out weapons factories with nothing more than toothpicks and Kit Kat wrappers? Special Forces may be good at what they do, but its not practical to use them for anything and everything; cruise missiles, despite being millions apeice, are more cost effective.
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: CP5670 on October 19, 2002, 11:17:26 am: Quote
War may well be unavoidable, but however fantastically wonderful a piece of kit the Tomahwak and its buddies may be there's no need to encourage it or (dub it 'cool').

In that case, you could say the same about anything else; why call anything "cool?" :p :D (and the hydrogen bomb is even much "cooler" ;7)
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Post by: Galemp on October 19, 2002, 12:22:06 pm: Sorry, I was compelled to post this...

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"The American bombs killed no military personnel during the campaign. This bomb here," said one reporter, as she pointed to a crater nearby, "it destroyed only a Mosque full of orphans, a family of adorable kittens, and one police officer who was just one day away from retirement." I was sickened as I looked upon the twisted wreckage of what must have been one of their religious iron sculptures, which had at one time held the shape of a large anti-aircraft gun pointing skyward. "It is, uh, symbolic," said one man nearby. "It symbolized the shooting of our prayers at Allah."
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: heretic on October 19, 2002, 01:57:43 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer

Yeah, I know, I need to grow up a bit and admit that new and interesting ways of blowing people up are funny as hell. Sorry, I just had a moment of feeling that people were losing perspective a bit. I hate it when that happens. Still, if starts to get to you, you can always put me on you ignore list, that seems to work quite well.

I'd love for you to come to the rift.
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 19, 2002, 03:58:21 pm: I wouldn't - I've heard rumours (mostly about you and your mates taking the piss out of people who've somehow managed to annoy you in some way), so frankly I'm not going within five miles of it :nod:

Also, I'm going to assume that this will be my last post in this thread (to be honest, I don't know why it's not been locked already), so let me just say it's been fun and I'd love to do it again some time.

And you never know heretic, post a Rift link and I may click it out of morbid curiosity - I always wondered just what it was you did to people in there... might be fun :)
Title: Cool RL Navy Missile Launch
Post by: CP5670 on October 19, 2002, 03:59:48 pm: I went in there once, but it was a tad too wacky even for me... :D