Of course, because they actually stay true to the literary text, unlike Troy.

A lot of press recently regarding the F-22. Is it in danger of being cancelled, or is the USAF just trying to secure more funding?

JANE’S DEFENCE WEEKLY – JUNE 02, 2004

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Dawn rises for Raptor

Lockheed Martin and US Air Force (USAF) officials say they are working at a resolute pace to achieve the service’s long-sought goal of having the F/A-22 Raptor multirole stealth fighter – the USAF’s first new fighter design in about 25 years – ready for combat by the end of 2005.

Debates continue in some military and political circles over the Raptor’s relevance and worth versus its price tag. However, Lockheed Martin officials say that developmental hurdles have been overcome and that a number of tasks are in progress to deliver the aircraft in time to meet the USAF’s schedule…..

“The programme is healthy, it’s solid and it’s moving forth with all the right vital signs,” said Ralph Heath, Lockheed Martin’s executive vice president and F/A-22 general manager.

USAF officials say, for example, that a single Raptor aircraft has been able to destroy multiple adversaries in mock engagements during operational trials. “We had five F-15 Eagles against one Raptor” in one exercise, Secretary of the Air Force James Roche said on 14 May. “The engagement was over in three minutes. None of the F-15s even saw the Raptor.”

aren’t there usually warning klaxons to tell all of an impending launch?

Oh But, Janes dont alway have the latest news. The U.S. Department of Defence website have posted the contract of a year.

http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/2003/c04302003_ct292-03.html

If it’s a year different than the published article year, then they’ll mention it. At any rate, it’s impossible to determine what the final price of the F-22 will be at the moment, because the project’s not completed yet, and it will depend on whether Congress allocates more/slashes the F-22 budget.

That’s hard to assign a number to.

Are really Apache’s or any other combat helicopters a priority to Taiwan when China can’t even transport 1/200s of it’s Army over the strait?

That is changing- they’ve doubled/tripled the number of LST(H)s over the past few years..

Anyways,here is the cover of the “SWOTL” game CD.

Wow, you really liked that game, didn’t you?

Well, there was that old graphical adventure, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis that had the whole Nazi-atlantis theme.

And, not to mention all those movies depicting Hitler’s fascination with the occult..