RE: ok

I would agree with a lot of the choices here, especially Saving Private Ryan, Cross of Iron, Das Boot and Memphis Belle. I would also add in Enemy at the Gates and (perhaps slightly controversially) Top Gun – crap story, but some really wonderful flying sequences.

RE: I will not leave

>>”Remember compliments you receive… forget the insults!”
>
>
>Good song Sunscreen

Although, IIRC, the next line is “If you manage this, please tell me how” 😉

RE: Please leave him alone UK press!

>You can’t fail to notice on the news and papers that it is
>reported that England manager Sven Goran Eriksson is having
>an affair with that lovely Unrika Johnsson :7

Who says the manager never scores? 😉

RE: Airborne T-80 Main Battle Tank

Great picture! Now, the question is: did it hit what it was aiming at? 😉

RE: next quiz

The format of the last one was pretty much on the money: nice spread of topics that mean that specialists won’t automatically score high, and non-specialists won’t feel left out.

RE: next quiz

Oh go on, you know you want to…

RE: Axis of What?

Ah, good old Satire Wire 🙂 Our Aussie colleagues on this forum may be interested in the following story from the same source:

http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/australia.shtml

RE: Military Quiz – No.3

>Too easy I see, ok. Good luck with these!
>
>1. Name and describe any two submarines that shared the name
>Nautilus.

Captain Nemo’s submarine in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, and the worlds first nuclear powered submarine

>2. What was the world’s first turbine driven warship and
>when was it launched?

The first turbine powered vessel was the Turbina in 1894, but she was a yacht rather than a warship, so I’m going to say HMS Dreadnought

>3. The decisive battle of the 17th century English civil war
>was fought when?

Assuming you are refering to Marston Moor, then it wsa 1644

>4. When did design work begin on the B-52?

1946

>5. What was the English translation insect nickname of one
>of the world’s first guided surface-to-air missiles
>developed by the Germans in WW2?

Butterfly (the Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling)

>6. MIM-23 HAWK is an American SAM, what does the ‘HAWK’
>stand for?

Homing All the Way Killer

>7. The Avro Lancaster B.Mk I (special) was designed for what
>role?

Grand Slam delivery

>8. Name three modern Russian naval SAM systems and their
>ranges.

SA-N-6 ‘Grumble'(S-300F/FM) – 90km
SA-N-7 ‘Gadfly’ (M-22) – 25km
SA-N-9 ‘Gauntlet’ (Kinzhal) – 15km

>9. The original MiG-29 heavy fighter design as part of the
>Soviet PFI programme of 1972 had what kind of wing area?

?

>10. What was special about the submarine the USS Albacore?

First US submarine with a teardrop hull form (modelled on the Albacore Tuna)

>11. What was the Japanese repeated call sign that indicated
>complete surprise during the raid on Pearl harbour and what
>did the word mean in English?

Tora! Tora! Tora! I presume it means something like ‘Victory!’

>12. Name 5 different Hawker biplanes of the inter-war
>period.

Hart, Demon, Osprey, Hind, Hector

>13. What missile is also dubbed the HARPOONski?

Kh-35 Uran (aka SS-N-25 ‘Switchblade’/AS-20 ‘Kayak’)

>14. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was injured during the
>Russo-Japanese war at the battle of Tsushima. What kind of
>injury did he receive?

Pass. Lost an eye?

>15. In what years did the failed Mongol invasions of Japan
>occur?

1274

>16. Napoleon abdicated from his throne twice after decisive
>defeats and was banished to where after each occasion?

St Helena

>17. The typical Roman infantry sword was called what?

Pilum

>18. The first British SSN was called what name?

Dreadnought

>19. In the film Top Gun, what aircraft were used to depict
>‘Mig-28s’?

F-5/T-38s

>20. What was special about the engine of the WW2 Japanese
>Ki-61 fighter?

It was the first use of a liquid cooled, inline engine in a Japanese fighter.