CommanderJB, on 26 Aug 2008, 10:33, said:
Dr. Strangelove, on 26 Aug 2008, 16:28, said:
I suppose this is somewhat pointless given that it's now part of the thread, but can I point out how utterly asinine that is? You use a cruise missile for an intelligence operation to trail an attack helicopter close enough for a missile with a warhead with only a few dozen metre blast radius to take it down accidentally. Never mind the fact that the missile travels about three to five times as fast, has no appreciable sensor suite other than a TV camera and a GPS unit, a range of only a couple of hundred kilometres that wouldn't take it too far beyond the coast, and certainly not to Ukraine if your launch platform is anywhere near the rest of your naval assets in Italy. As to the recovery operations - this is next to Moscow! For god's sakes, you can't say you have Resistance there, and you're sure as heck not going to fly a CIA team all the way across occupied Europe to there and have a snowball's chance in hell of not getting shot down within the first hundred Ks.
Well just how plausible is buiding cold fusion reactors in the middle of a warzone, when such technology isn't even physically possible? Or firing patriot missies at infantry ten yards away? Or nuclear weapons of 0.00001 kilotons when the explosion created by the minimum possible supercritcal mass is far larger? CnC is supremely ridiculously asinine, but noone cares, because it's a game.