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This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "howard" (Oct 20th 2008, 2:09pm)
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
I don't think I really want to see helicopters in the game yet. Can we perhaps leave this off until the mid 1940s?
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Originally posted by howard
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
I don't think I really want to see helicopters in the game yet. Can we perhaps leave this off until the mid 1940s?
R-4 in RTL combat search and rescue use 1944, CBI. I submit that the Cochinbambas Earthquake as described would provoke Peru to seek this solution, as its operational experience, is that hundreds and hundreds of lives could have been saved, if some kind of helicopters had been available.
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
I don't think I really want to see helicopters in the game yet. Can we perhaps leave this off until the mid 1940s?
R-4 in RTL combat search and rescue use 1944, CBI. I submit that the Cochinbambas Earthquake as described would provoke Peru to seek this solution, as its operational experience, is that hundreds and hundreds of lives could have been saved, if some kind of helicopters had been available.
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Oh, and since the United States could do it in 1944, you think the Peruvians have the right to do it in 1937 or so? Suddenly there's this earthquake and Peruvians everywhere throw up their hands and say "ZOMG WE NEEDZ HELICOPTARZ NAOW!!!1!1!!" The immediacy of requesting helicopters upon introducing the "trapped in the canyon" storyline tells me the storyline was only intended to cite as a reason to develop new helicopters.
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If Russia or the US or Italy or Britain made this proposal, then I wouldn't terribly care, because they have more flux in their budgets to support such a project. Peru beating the Great Powers to a helicopter? Puh-lease.
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((Sorry if I sound bitter and sarcastic at the moment, but I'm trying to invest a great deal of time into working my countries into new technologies over several years, and even taking wrong turns, and suddenly using Storyline Fiat to create a foresighted technology... that annoys me a great deal.))
This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "howard" (Oct 21st 2008, 1:54am)
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Originally posted by Red Admiral
Peru offers $100,000 for a helicopter. Thats the same as Italy's RL budget spent on radar development over 5 years. Maybe Peru is the world's largest untapped source of gold?
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Brockpaine" (Oct 21st 2008, 1:55am)
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
And in spite of all that effort, one AC-35 was made, with a second being produced in the 1960s, it says. Can you tell me why there was only one made? If only one was built, it clearly didn't make a brilliant return of investment except in the research field.
I stated my reasons for not wanting a huge number of helicopters in the game at this time. In 1939, I will accept the first flight of a Sikorsky R-4 helicopter under the three-year rule, for deployment in 1941, again under the three-year rule. If there are any other designs out there, I'll also not complain about the three-year rule being applied; and ahistorical countries like Nordmark, the SAE, and Atlantis have at least kept close enough to the mark that I really wouldn't raise a fuss.
And don't talk down to me and 'slam stuff in my face'. If you want to lay out a case, you can do so without sounding stuck up about it. I made a tirade in annoyance and irritability, for which I apologize; I've been in something of a stiff-necked mood today and should have waited to edit before I posted. I'm going to ghost off for a few hours to settle down before making any further comments.
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Originally posted by thesmilingassassin
I have no problems with people developing helicopters, I do however have a problem with instant developement of helicopters....
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