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I'm sorry to say this but now you're just being purely [developmentally delayed]ed, there's significant difference between 20 questions and modern military identification software. It works by comparing images in the database to what it sees, once it finds a near-perfect match it registers it as identified and decides what to do then. This kind of identification is used in cameras as well, albeit with more margin for deviance. In the matter the details in order to identify the class of the ship it compares with high-precision, like a fingerprint reader, if it is a match then it is identified, if it isn't then it keeps looking until one is found. It is not as much comparable to watching birds as coin slots, using high-speed identification to separate a coin from a small, round piece of scrap metal.

You seem to confuse it with an active one, which just registers heat signatures, this one is passive, it registers the whole area and compares what it finds to the database not only by temperature and size but also by shape. We're talking more advanced than "that heat is one meter wide, it's a jet engine", it is more comparable to a combination of facial recognition and a fingerprint scanner.

"The target selection technology provides NSM with a capacity for independent detection, recognition, and discrimination of targets at sea or on the coast. This is possible by the combination of an imaging infrared (IIR) seeker and an onboard target database." I see you can read... Impressive. :rolleyes: The Norwegian version of the article goes into a little more detail, stating that it does not only seek out and identify heat sources but instead is constantly generating an image of a wide and identifies multiple targets at the same time then decides which to attack and which it can't attack. That used together with their communication means that the missiles themselves "plan" an approach so they don't all go after the same ship.

I see that the price was grossly underestimated by comparing it to other missiles of similar weight and size, I think 100,000 each would be a more correct price as most of the price is obviously due to the fact that it's a weapon, though Kongsberg Gruppen would agree that arguing about how much over production cost that I should pay is not a wise thing to do with enemy ships heading for Norway. That means 880 missiles will be purchased. If I run out of missiles before all the ships are sunk, then I've just got to hope I didn't rearm the naval forts for nothing.

To develop, yes, but computer chips are cheap to produce.

Retech, that thing is perhaps as much as 5-10 times as large as the JSM with four times the weight, the JSM is a small missile for fighters and weapon platforms. It has a long range because it quite literally has a mind of its own with advanced friend-and-foe software.

Wouldn't lady luck be better? It's one of the many common names of Miss Fortuna and it rhymes better.

We had a thread but it got moved so just post it here.

Res, you're sending your forces into a naval grinder that I just put back into top state. Norway spends $88,000,000 on Joint Strike Missiles (I can't find a price anywhere, but I think $4,000 each would more than cover the production costs), purchasing 22,000 of them, these are launched to take out the British ships as they approach Norway (not all at once obviously, he doesn't have that many ships). It also uses another $100,000,000 purchasing NASAMS IIs (No price here either, $400,000 each should be enough), a total of 500 vehicles. These are deployed to take out any approaching British aircrafts. God bless Kongsberg Gruppen. Ooh, I got an epic idea, missiles with AAM measures, missiles that launch flechettes to take out AM guns and missiles. Because what's could possibly be better than a missile that shoots back at the countermeasures. Also, EMP flechettes, flechettes that aim for the bridge of ships and down the turrets of tanks and APCs then release an EMP once inside.

Because he expected a crude war game such as it always becomes when Dusty's playing. What he wanted was less development, more slaughter. Also that HUD thing of yours already exists in some form, the visor of the pilot of an F-35 is actually a screen that allows the pilot to look around the plane by moving his head, so when he looks down he sees what's beneath the plane instead of the floor of the cockpit, and I am sure it must show altitude, angle, velocity, etc. as well. As Resistance has resigned as prime minister of Great Britain, Norway lifts its embargo and sends its condolences to the British people. Trol, Res was the only one that was not taking the game seriously, although Retech may have appeared not to have done so as his sole influence in this game was merely to mock Res' behavior.

I am Norway, Res is UK, Lynx is Canada, Rob is US, Icu is Japan, Grim is Italy, Paul is Russia, Rocco is Argentina and Trol is Saudi Arabia.

It's not like no one needs oil or fish, so I still have customers. And Britain does not produce anything Norway requires... actually I don't think I've ever read Made in Great Britain/United Kingdom/England anywhere, so I am certain that it won't even affect domestic products.

Archi, my order is actually a mere 200 planes, I plan on using a group of elites, not an army of mediocre pilots. Population 5 628 198,13 Taxation $118 418 695 599,53 Export $138 029 195 172,41 Other $32 378 235 865,39 GDP $288 826 126 637,33 Budget $28 882 612 663,73 Saved 2 $1 166 890 131,00 Saved 3 $26 821 062 384,28 Saved 4 $27 490 886 533,00 Saved 5 $28 178 158 696,33 Research on advance torpedoes: 3/5 75,000,000,000/125,000,000,000. Norway begins research on self-propelled smart-flechettes; small projectiles for use against aircraft, personell and lightly armoured vehicles: 1/3 1,000,000,000/3,000,000,000. The flechettes will take such short time because they're essentially small missiles without warheads, instead relying on damaging the enemy vehicles and disabling them rather than blowing them up.

Actually, no, in this case it was actually the ideal that won over the players. I started the economical war, people understood why I was doing it and joined me because they saw it as something that had to be done, Res responded with military force and so did our side to this response. Which reminds me that Res should be running out of oil since the largest oil nations are all player controlled and he cannot cut a deal with them to replace the one he had with Norway without their leaders' consent.

Retech was China-Germany-France-Spain... although he was just messing around so I guess Archi did it more because he was getting annoyed at Res' "superior"" behaviour. Also you'll have a hard time shooting down a million missiles even if they're huge cruisers bee-lining for your AAs.

Israel isn't even a partner, Norway has actually invested in the development, Israel is getting before all the rest of the world that haven't helped just because it's Israel. The US expects its own ~3,000 planes by 2025.

It's physically possible to both hide and fire them all at the same time. China is full of empty cities built just in order to keep the workers working and the money flowing, if he placed one missile in every house or apartment and used a radio-activated trigger, he could fire millions of missiles at the same time from something that looked like... China being China...

Because units can only be trained instantaneously in massive numbers after full-scale production is started. Everyone knows that the F-16 can be produced in the thousands in one year... I don't think production time really is that important of a factor here.

At maximum 436 jets are going to be delivered before mine then, and that is if I'm last in line among the lvl 3 partners, which is unlikely because I'm the developer of the only anti-sea missile it can carry. The reason for this lowered number is that Canada is a player which has as of yet not stated any interest in the jets and the largest external purchase is overruled by an embargo.

If Rob was to say so, the only ones to ever be built could be ones ordered for 10 cent each by the self-declared Arch-duke of Antarctica. By which I mean, Rob decides who gets to buy them, when they will be made and if they will have a ridiculous price.

Rocco, just because there aren't any factories specifically designed to produce F-35s doesn't mean they can't be made, after all the US has already made several of them.

Population 5 490 925,00 Taxation $115 530 434 731,25 Export $134 662 629 436,50 Other $31 588 522 795,50 GDP $281 781 586 963,25 Budget $28 178 158 696,33 Saved 2 $26 166 890 131,00 Saved 3 $26 821 062 384,28 Saved 4 $27 490 886 533,00 Norway continues researching improved torpedoes. 2/5 50,000,000,000/125,000,000,000. Norway begins the training of 500 pilots to train them into elites, they will continue to train even after being put into active duty which is estimated to happen in 2016. Archi, it is up to you if it is possible to buy F-35s before full-scale production begins.

That would be a short war, because obviously the entire French side will join the Canadian government's.

No, none of that made sense, it's as if you took the situation, looked at it in a mirror then sketched what you could remember in a hurry, that's nearly the opposite of what the situation is, but it's also as inaccurate as a blindfolded ten-year-old with a Gatling.