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2005-07-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Steve 2005-07-26 08:25|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ok, I'll say it.

All your base are belong to us!

Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-26 09:20|| 2005-07-26 09:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The Manas airbase contributes 5% of Kyrgyzstan's GDP. It's about the only source of high paying, non-graft jobs in the country. Who wants to bet that that it's payroll is filled with the sons and daughters of Kyrgyz officials, and PhDs are happy to work as electricians and cooks on the base.

Posted by ed 2005-07-26 09:51|| 2005-07-26 09:51|| Front Page Top

#3 After my chastisement of yestesday Ima forced to rethink things. We could build thousands of Hindenburg or larger size zepplins, but use extralite-helium instead of hydrogen for lift. Power them with thousands of solar cells and fly them above SAM altitude or use prescribed skylanes prescribed by treaty. Once over the area of interest they could land and safely unload thousands of tons of supplies, if the landing area was not safe they could drop thousand of tiny...

Suddenly Hatifield the Talking Dawg walked up to his colleague: "You were gonna type drop thousands of tiny robots with chainsaws weren't ya? That's not nice."

So our story ends inconclusively with thousands of Zepplins circling a hostile LZ.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-26 09:52|| 2005-07-26 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 All right, someone help Me out here. Are there not enough air bases in Afghanistan? Why would we need staging bases in the other countries over there?

I can understand keeping ground detachments in places where the locals want help. But why air bases?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-07-26 09:56|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-07-26 09:56|| Front Page Top

#5 w/ cavitating nose cones..zzzoooommmm!

Posted by Baron von dawg 2005-07-26 09:59|| 2005-07-26 09:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Ship,

You are truly a visionary ahead of our time. A misunderstood genius, and I feel your ambivalence. Fear me, for I am the Walrus.

Posted by ed 2005-07-26 10:07|| 2005-07-26 10:07|| Front Page Top

#7 The Kyrgyz government wants more money. This is also a hint to the Chinese about what a bigger bribe could buy them.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-07-26 10:23|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-07-26 10:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Way cool Ed! Only thing missing from those craft is a 75 foot carbo/alumino/fullerino Needle for Zep-to-Zep combat. No AI will work for these big babdx, you need a pilot and an angry fighting crew, grapling and boarding/repelling tactics will be to be rediscovered. I have an idea that will make use of thousands of inexpensive....

Suddenly Hatfield the talking goldie sez: "Were you going to type "thousands of inexpensive robots armed with single edged razors?" That would be mean.

And the age of the Fighter Zep ends before it can begin.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-26 11:29|| 2005-07-26 11:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Ship, they would also need an on-board speaker system to play "Whole Lotta Love" once in the assault position - psy ops ya know.

Posted by Jugum Thraigum4200 aka Jarhead 2005-07-26 17:54|| 2005-07-26 17:54|| Front Page Top

#10 That goes without saying Jarhead, that's in the Pre-deployed Airship Package.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-26 18:30|| 2005-07-26 18:30|| Front Page Top