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Shroom Man 777 wrote:Goddamn! GEOMETRIC RATE!

I wonder just how 100% awesome SICKLE's security systems are. I mean, if an American submarine tapped into an underwater fiber optic cable and listened in on SICKLE communications, or whatever, what would they get? Is it truly 100% uncrackable?
FYI, fiber-optics are very difficult to tap on account of their nature (its a glass tube, more or less, that conduct light pulses) to begin with, but it can be done. I kinda doubt that SICKLE's 100 percent uncrackable given the fact that nothing is really 100% safe in the real world. Of course, we don't have access to hyper-Turing intelligences, either, so that isn't really guaranteed.
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Shroom Man 777 wrote:You, or Arty, must make a badass version of this Soviet SICKLE symbol. The planet Earth held in a sickle with a red star!
Based on that, I came up with the following (design also based on this):
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Bad-ASS!

Perhaps you could add some more, like in the article's actual description:
SICKLE's symbol is a blue Earth held within a golden sickle, flanked by gold laurel wreaths and wings, and topped by a red star.
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And I hath revised it accordingly:
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Oh man

Goddamn I love Soviet symbolism! It's so bad-ASS! You KNOW the communists are going to inherit the Earth!
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:o

Oh ho ho, that is so pretty. The idea for the insignia was based on this:

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Which is the Soviet MIlitary Space Forces badge 3rd class, but yours is much prettier, so we'll be using that. Awesome work, Malchus!
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YU-13 Wendigo

The YU-13 Wendigo is a supremely advanced, long range, hypersonic strategic strike/reconnaissance aircraft developed from alien technology by aerospace engineers working under CIA supervision as a black project. It is named after the Wendigo, a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquian people. The Wendigo is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans could transform, or which could possess humans.

A successor to the SR-71, the YU-13 is based on technologies discovered in a crashed flying disk retrieved by the US Army in July of 1947 in the Roswell region of New Mexico. In September of the same year President Truman ordered the Army to hand over the relic to the recently formed Central Intelligence Agency, which covertly established an entire division dedicated to the study of this and other alien artifacts.

For years the Company met with preciously little success in unraveling the secrets of the highly advanced alien craft, with the engineers working on Project MAJESTIC unable to tell and thus unsure whether certain sub-systems were even in working condition after the crash, much less able to tell what they were supposed to do, or how. This would not change until the microprocessor revolution of the early 1970s, which spawned more powerful computers able to compose at least certain models that shed some light on the strange technology of the ship.

Even with the enormous strides made by the rapidly innovating engineers of Silicon Valley however it wouldn't be until the late 1980s that a breakthrough in developing the alien script was first made, allowing at least some access to its core systems without fear of accidentally blowing up the damaged craft. This lead to the development of the first of several reverse-engineered technologies regarding piezoelectric effects, wave-mechanical tunneling and shape memory alloys.

In the late 1980s the efforts of Secretary-General Zhadanova to turn Russia into a bastion impregnable by Western bombers or reconnaissance aircraft were rapidly paying off. Interceptor missiles and the first of several increasingly more powerful generations of orbital lasers were entering service, effectively rendering USSR airspace too dangerous for American pilots to enter, as was proved by the shoot-down of several SR-71 Blackbirds in the 1985-1990 timeframe. CIA engineers believed that the technologies developed by Project MAJESTIC could be put to use on what was to be a next-generation espionage aircraft.

Unfortunately for the Company (but perhaps fortunate for the Soviets) it proved far more difficult to implement advanced technology determined to be at least two but more realistically four or more generations ahead of the modern day in the field, and the YU-13 did not see the light of day, much less its first test flight, until the dawn of the 21st century. The Wendigo entered active service with the CIA only in 2005, producing its first photographs of Graney-class submarines docked at the Soviet navy base of Avacha Bay, on the Kamchatka peninsula.

The YU-13 Wendigo looks only very remotely like ordinary aerospacecraft. It is a gaunt black contraption, with an approximate length of 22 meters longer than most fighters. Despite being an aircraft the Wendigo looks emaciated, as if its pitch-black surfaces have been pulled tautly over its frame. Short, thin wings that protrude at seemingly aerodynamically infeasible angles from the airframe. Midnight black when parked on the ground, its color seems to darken further when it is in flight, turning into little more than an inklike blotch against the night sky, so dark eyes and sensors alike seem to somehow just slide off it, as if it isn't really there. The YU-13 is powered by four hybrid turboscramjet/rocket, but lacks traditional control surfaces – instead the Wendigo's skin smoothly changes shape depending on the direction its pilot directs it in, and despite its human engines the craft as a whole appears capable of limited non-Newtonian motion.
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All I can say is 'The Wendigo' is the coolest name ever. How many of these uber alien stealth craft have they managed to build?
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Badass! I always love superplanes and fighterporn, so this makes the grade. Raptor Xs, Yukikazes, Firefoxes, and TOP GUN Maverick Renegades. I like this thinggy's quantum skin and non-Newtonian flight capabilities, and its black 'emaciated' form. It makes me think that it's a sleek, somewhat vaguely Gigerian, thing that looks pretty much unlike anything that a remotely realistic aircraft would look like.

Pray tell, do you have any visual inspirations for the Wendigo?
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AZR-1 "Creepy" Aeroscraft Gunship

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AZR-1 "Creepy" is derived from a military patrol & transport airship

Point of origin: Western European Union

Ever since the late 1980s the militaries of the world have been faced with a dichotomy in their mission profile: on the one hand, the armies of the great powers were supposed to be able to hold off their rivals; on the other, the world saw a rapid increase in the number of low-intensity conflicts. Guerillas, freedom fighters and terrorist groups recognized that they could never compete conventionally with the armed forces of superpowers and therefore began to resort increasingly more on asymmetrical warfare, forcing armed forces to engage increasingly more often in counter-insurgency, anti-subversion, and peacekeeping operations. Brushfire wars and skirmishes in Libya, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Central Africa and South-America required a different approach to settle to the satisfaction of the West (and, for that matter, the East), giving rise to new weapons systems designed not to fight the Third World War, but to combat the emerging threats of the next century.

One of these weapons is the European AZR-1 'Creepy' aeroscraft gunship, a heavily-armed ground-attack airship that as a combination of very old and radically new technologies is believed by some to herald an entirely new approach to warmachine design. The basic airframe of the AZR-1 is manufactured by the Swedish Vanger Consortium, and ConEurope Technology International is responsible for the conversion into a gunship and for maintenance support. "Creepy" is a variant of the military airlift & patrol zeppelin manufactured by the Vanger Consortium.

The AZR-1 "Creepy" gunship is armed with a 27mm Mauser BK-27 revolver autocannon, a 40mm Oto Melara cannon, a 105 mm electrothermal howitzer, four Paladin CIWS systems and two missile packs carrying a total load of sixteen Brimstone anti-tank guided missiles. The aeroscraft gunship has all-weather capabilities, vertical takeoff and landing and extended range along with the ability to loiter in-theater for long periods. 70% of the AZR-1's aerodynamic lift comes from helium, the remaining 30% is derived from its innovative “wing” shape.

The Eurocorps uses the AZR-1 gunships for reconnaissance, close air support, air interdiction, and force protection. It conducts ground surveillance to develop an understanding of the enemy situation and to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces. Close air support roles include supporting ground troops, escorting convoys, and flying urban operations. Air interdiction missions are conducted against planned targets and targets of opportunity. Force protection missions include defending air bases and other facilities. In the first decade of the 21st century "Creepy" has performed satisfactorily in several low-intensity conflict areas, as it is able to engage and suppress enemy positions with overwhelming firepower for prolonged periods of time, owing to its ability to stay in-theatre far longer than traditional fighter-bombers.

One variant of the AZR-1 exists: entering service in 2011 the YAZR/AL-1A "Azrael" has its projectile weapons replaced with two 1MW heavy laser cannons, turning the gunship into what is termed an 'Airborne Laser Aeroscraft' (ALA). The YAZR/AL-1A is a multi-purpose weapons platform for use against lightly armored ground targets, as well as against hostile fighter aircraft, tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, or even low-earth-orbit satellites. The ALA is nicknamed 'Azrael', after the Archangel of Death who severs the soul from the body in Islamic and Judeo-Christian extrabiblical tradition and folklore.

The "ZR" designation of the combat aeroscraft series is derived from an old army designation for rigid (R) airships (Z) that had not been used since a series of ill-fated experiments with aerial carriers in the late-1920s.
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Nice. Super stratellites! Though I wonder about the alphanumeric designation, where did it come from? Sounds almost like something from the US Army-Navy system, and I thought the 'Creepy' was an evolution of the 'Spooky' CAS birds used by the USA.

Does this mean that the WEU forces have craploads of zeppelin dirigible transports? What's the cargo capacity of these big blimps? If they can carry everything from missiles and cannons, to frickin' lasers, how many armored vehicles can they haul in the aiir? And what's their dimensions? As big as the Hindenburg? Even HUEGER? I'd imagine that they'd have to hover friggin high, like in the stratosphere, to avoid enemy fire from SAMs or MANPADs since they're friggin HUEG and the enemy won't even know what's hitting them when it's RAINING EXPLOSIONS!
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Shroom Man 777 wrote:Though I wonder about the alphanumeric designation, where did it come from? Sounds almost like something from the US Army-Navy system, and I thought the 'Creepy' was an evolution of the 'Spooky' CAS birds used by the USA.
It is the Army-Navy system, actually. I can't be arsed to devise my own designation system, and NATO is still around (and has its own space station and everything), so it's probably just NATO-standard coding in CSW.
Does this mean that the WEU forces have craploads of zeppelin dirigible transports?
Don't know if it's a "crapload", but they've certainly got some of 'em.
What's the cargo capacity of these big blimps? If they can carry everything from missiles and cannons, to frickin' lasers, how many armored vehicles can they haul in the aiir? And what's their dimensions? As big as the Hindenburg?
Not that big. And since I originally devised the AZR-1 for a game back on The Other Board I actually have all those stats you ask for: dimensions of the AZR-1 are 64 m x 34 m. Maximum payload: 200 tonnes. Top speed: 220 km/h. Flight ceiling: 12,000 ft. Range: 4,800 km. Engines: 4x heavy turboprops & 6x downward-pointing turbofans.

And whilst we're at it: As far as electronics are concerned the AZR-1 "Creepy" is fitted with a Synthetic Aperture Radar for long-range target detection and identification and 4x 2D I band search radars for the CIWS, chaff and flare dispensers, an integrated battle management system, an inertial navigation system, GPS & Galileo global satellite navigation systems, laser designators, and FLIR systems.
I'd imagine that they'd have to hover friggin high, like in the stratosphere, to avoid enemy fire from SAMs or MANPADs since they're friggin HUEG and the enemy won't even know what's hitting them when it's RAINING EXPLOSIONS!
And you'd be wrong, because that's what the four Paladin CIWS are for. I'd also point out MANPADs are typically designed to engage low-flying threats like helicopters, not aircraft a few kilometres up -- the FIM-92 Stinger for example has an effective range of 4,800 meters. That's not going to do much good against a gunship.
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Ah, I see. But it still operates and shoots at people from quite higher than modern real-life American gunships, right? From watching Transformers, I'd think they'd have to come in relatively close to give air support against Skorponoks and stuff.
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Would the Creepy enter into active theaters only after air superiority has been established, or could it move in, albeit under escort by something like the Azrael (though the fact that it's used in low-intensity conflicts does beg the question of what could threaten it in the air)?
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Air superiority is pretty much required for dedicated gunships to operate safely; in that respect "Creepy" is no different. Of course since it's an airship which derives most of its lift from independent helium cells "Creepy" is much less vulnerable to RPG and MANPAD fire. Even if a missile were to get through the destruction of one or even several engines or the loss of one or two helium cells won't be enough to bring the AZR-1 down, and depending on the extent of the damage might not even mission-kill it. Even so you wouldn't want to use this thing against the Soviets in a WW3 scenario, but it's ideal for LIC.
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Hmm. Thinking along the lines of 'that's cool but a gingantomous flying target'

You'd zepplins would be better used for stand off and support roles (like the automated refueller in STEALTH) than direct combat.
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Mang, like the man said, it's used in low-intensity conflicts like Iraq and Afghanishroom where the enemies live in caves and are not armed with competent SAM systems or something like that. Against well-armed nations with real militaries, gunships like the AC-130 and gun-blimps would only come into play AFTER fighters have attained air superiority and suppressed enemy air defenses (SEAD). Against insurgencies, the Spookies and Creepies blow them away from the sky with impunity.

Either way, Skorponok gets his shit ruined.
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Yeah but it'd expect in CSW everyone's got a shitload of cheaply imported soviet MiGs that pop up at any time and ruin shit.

Anytime anyone loses one of those zepplins there must be absolute hell to pay.
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Those zeps can probably haul quite a few missiles, turning them into flying aerial SAM sites in the sky. It'll probably take more than a cheap MiG to take it down. Maybe a moderately-priced one.

But then again, mang, this is modern warfare. A single weapons system is not supposed to do everything by itself and act on its own, a single weapons system is just a tiny piece of some huge-ass network-centric combined arms apparatus and the led zeppelin's going to be fighting together with actual-factual airplanes, space satellites, ground troops, AWACS birds, UCAVs, helos, tanks, and whatever. So, yeah, the zeppelin's going to be bringing its buddies along with it wherever it goes. :P
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Booted Vulture wrote:Yeah but it'd expect in CSW everyone's got a shitload of cheaply imported soviet MiGs that pop up at any time and ruin shit.
Your expectations are wrong. Even if Zhadanova hadn't imposed very tight export restrictions during the eighties, something Kiralova has continued, there is really no such thing as a 'cheap MiG' in CSW.

... as an aside, what the hell happened to the USSR aircraft thread?
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Err.. it's on page 2 of the forum?

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We have a page 2? We have a page 2! Man, I hadn't even noticed... :)
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INTEGRAL TEMPEST experimental powered exoskeleton

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SHADOW TEMPEST BLACK wrote:And then I saw them. Two of them, that is. Silver-black suit, all a million segmented links of cybernetic armor. Sleek and muscular, perhaps mistaken for eight-foot superhumans. Of course, no armor existed like that outside of perhaps Japan.

The nearest suit took a confident step forward and raking the area in front of him with a wrist-mounted machine gun. Lennox gave a slight gasp as a round caught him in the calf – I caught him before he took a rather spectacular dive. Together, we dived into the flaming wreckage of the offices.
The INTEGRAL TEMPEST powered military exoskeleton is an experimental set of top-secret high-tech personal armor developed initially by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Strategic Projects Office (DARPA-SPO, more commonly known under its code-name "Paragon"). The suit was used by several special forces units, and saw limited action on both sides of the Secret War. Despite proving itself a serious force multiplier for infantry forces the INTEGRAL TEMPEST suit was phased out in favour of more conventional technologies after the Secret War, the reorganized DoD citing excessive cost of each individual unit as the principal reason for the decision not to move forward with serialized production. Despite this decision, a number of suits are rumoured to have been retained for use by trusted elite units.

Itself a spin-off of SHADOW TEMPEST research, INTEGRAL TEMPEST is a much smaller powered armour (or "biomechatronic exoskeleton" in DARPA terminology), essentially a wearable robot armour comparable in terms of capabilities to third generation CRATER suits manufactured by Mitsubishi Group, although TEMPEST technology has not matured to the point that Japanese combat armour technology has and was generally considered less reliable. INTEGRAL TEMPEST was fashioned of microalloyed titanium reinforced with carbon nanotube braces. External armour was a ceramic-polyethylene composite capable of stopping rifle rounds and grenade splinters with relative ease. The armour had a second role as a heat sink, suppressing the heat signature of the suit in action.

Operators of the INTEGRAL TEMPEST suit were required to wear a specially designed bodyglove nanomusclesuit. The suit is fitted with sensors and interfaces with the armour's electronic systems, translating the user's movements into commands for the suit's hydraulics, and the subsequent movement of the suit back into tactile feedback for the exoskeleton pilot. This method of interfacing allowed its user to pilot the suit, move faster and hit harder without requiring a direct neural implant of the type Soviet cyborgs use with their armour. The INTEGRAL TEMPEST helmet features an integrated HUD, which displays tactical information as well as data on suit status and the health of the pilot. Onboard radio and computer boost the tactical and strategic awareness of the user. The suit is fitted with a rudimentary but efficient Pilot Health System which monitors the pilot and can administer morphine. Unlike larger Soviet and Japanese armours the INTEGRAL TEMPEST is conventionally powered, drawing energy from nanowire fuel cells (versus respectively radioactive thermoelectric generators for the Soviets, and synthetic plutonium for the Japanese).

The INTEGRAL TEMPEST suit is fitted with an integral wrist-mounted 5.7x28mm personal defence system, but due to its largely modular nature it can carry a wide range of weapons systems with no or relatively little modification. Most pilots tended to make good use of the exoskeleton's massively enhanced strengthts: INTEGRAL TEMPEST suits can carry large-bore sniper rifles, autocannons or heavy machineguns that would ordinarily take several ordinary men to properly service.
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Can't be... INTEGRAL TEMPEST?!

Cool stuff Siege. Though where does the Heat Sink actually send the heat? IR suppression isn't exactly easy without clarketech.
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To be honest I'm probably mucking up my science there -- I envisioned them as something like thermal protection system on the Space Shuttle. So technically they wouldn't be absorbing so much as they would be radiating. Thermal shroud is probably a better description.
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