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[SoAB]

Oh this mod sounds fun. Real fun.

 

[CivAnon]

Thanks SoAB! By the way, great work on your ACM update although I haven't been able to play it as often as I prefer.

 

[CivAnon]

...it sounds more sensationalist than informative...Overall, they just seem out of place.

Prompt Global Strike


Perhaps the aforementioned commodities (the X-51 Hypersonic Cruise Missile and the seclusive J-XX Stealth Fighter) are not as sensationalist as previously thought. Here is an official DoD news announcement concerning the program Prompt Global Strike which involves the X-51 Hypersonic Cruise Missile:



Global Strike Weapons (alternate version)


Aug 28, 2007
Key Elements Of Conventional Prompt Global Strike Demonstration

Boeing has been awarded an $8.9 million U.S. Air Force contract to study key elements of a conventional prompt global strike missile demonstration. The study, scheduled to be completed by June 2009, will help plan for a demonstration using a land-based Minotaur launch system and a payload delivery vehicle designed to carry and deliver various conventional payloads at global ranges in less than one hour of flight time. The contract is managed by the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base.

"With more than 50 years of experience supporting Air Force missile programs, our team looks forward to assisting the Air Force with this study. It will help refine requirements leading to a demonstration program and will provide system-level analysis of one of the key concepts considered viable for a prompt global strike weapon," said Peggy Morse, director of Boeing's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Systems.

The Air Force selected the Minotaur launch vehicle for a demonstration because of its near-term asset availability and low-cost profile.

Boeing has played a key role in missile development design, production and maintenance since the conceptualization of Minuteman I in 1958. In addition to the Guidance Replacement Program, Boeing performs guidance repair activities at its Guidance Repair Center in Heath, Ohio, and is an ICBM Prime team member.


I first read about this announcement here:
www.spacewar.com


More information pertaining to past, present, and future missile development can be absorbed here:

http://www.missilethreat.com/


Hypersonic Cruise Missile: America's New Global Strike Weapon!


The mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour. But is the Pentagon's bold program a critical new weapon for hitting elusive targets, or a good way to set off a nuclear war?



X-51 Hypersonic Cruise Missile (alternate version)


A tip sets the plan in motion — a whispered warning of a North Korean nuclear launch, or of a shipment of biotoxins bound for a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon. Word races through the American intelligence network until it reaches U.S. Strategic Command headquarters, the Pentagon and, eventually, the White House. In the Pacific, a nuclear-powered Ohio class submarine surfaces, ready for the president's command to launch.

When the order comes, the sub shoots a 65-ton Trident II ballistic missile into the sky. Within 2 minutes, the missile is traveling at more than 20,000 ft. per second. Up and over the oceans and out of the atmosphere it soars for thousands of miles. At the top of its parabola, hanging in space, the Trident's four warheads separate and begin their screaming descent down toward the planet. Traveling as fast as 13,000 mph, the warheads are filled with scored tungsten rods with twice the strength of steel. Just above the target, the warheads detonate, showering the area with thousands of rods-each one up to 12 times as destructive as a .50-caliber bullet. Anything within 3000 sq. ft. of this whirling, metallic storm is obliterated.

If Pentagon strategists get their way, there will be no place on the planet to hide from such an assault. The plan is part of a program — in slow development since the 1990s, and now quickly coalescing in military circles — called Prompt Global Strike. It will begin with modified Tridents. But eventually, Prompt Global Strike could encompass new generations of aircraft and armaments five times faster than anything in the current American arsenal. One candidate: the X-51 hypersonic cruise missile, which is designed to hit Mach 5 — roughly 3600 mph. The goal, according to the U.S. Strategic Command's deputy commander Lt. Gen. C. Robert Kehler, is "to strike virtually anywhere on the face of the Earth within 60 minutes."

The question is whether such an attack can be deployed without triggering World War III: Those tungsten-armed Tridents look, and fly, exactly like the deadliest weapons in the American nuclear arsenal.

QUICK HIT
The military is convinced that in the coming years it will need to act with this kind of speed against threats — terrorist leaders, smuggled nuclear or chemical arms — that emerge and disappear in a flash. There may be only hours, or minutes, to respond. "We know how to strike precisely. We know how to strike at long distances," says Kehler, whose office is in charge of the Defense Department's Global Strike mission. "What's different now is this sense of time."

Here is the Popular Mechanic website:
www.popularmechanics.com

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Here is a news announcement concering the J-XX 4th Next-Generation Stealth Fighter.


J-XX Stealth Fighter (alternate version)


China’s two major fighter aircraft manufacturers, Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) and Chengdu Aircraft Industry Co. (CAC), are both working on advanced 4th-generation fighter designs that could enter the PLAAF service as early as 2015. While Shenyang has been engaged in a brand new F/A-22-class stealth fighter design known as J-12, Chengdu has been focusing its development effort on an enlarged twin-engine, stealth version of its J-10 fighter possibly designated J-13. Both development projects are believed to have benefited from Russian aviation and weapon technologies.

The Chinese aviation industry began the preliminary research for China’s 4th generation fighter programme in the mid-1990s. In 1998 the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) reported that an advanced F-22-class twin-engine stealth fighter known as J-12 was under development at SAC. Later in 2003 an Internet source photo revealed a fighter mockup for wind tunnel test which may be linked to the J-12 project. As more details of the fighter began to emerge, it was understood that the fighter will also be fitted with an internal weapon bay and possibly active phased array radar.

Considering China’s records in combat aircraft development, a project like the J-12 may prove challenging. It will involves technology advancement in a number of fields including materials, high-performance aviation engine, electronics, flight control software, and stealth technologies. A project of this scale will also require huge amount of investment and considerable knowledge of complex project and manufacturing management. While China may be able to benefit from some “off-the-shelf” dual-use technologies available in the commercial market, it will almost definitely seek assistance from its traditional military technology suppliers such as Russia and Israel. However, none of these two countries possess the experience of developing an advance fighter of this class.

Russian Sukhoi Company (JSC), which has developed close ties with Shenyang over the licensed co-production of its Su-27SK fighter as J-11, has been reportedly working with Shenyang in developing the next-generation fighter technology and sub-systems. Although Russia has yet been able to develop an operational stealth fighter, the J-12 project may benefit from its technologies in two particular areas: thrust vectoring engine and stealth design. China may also seek potential partners from Russia, Israel and Europe to co-develop avionics and weapon suites for its 4th-generation fighter aircraft.

Following the successful development of the J-10 fighter, Chengdu and its subordinated 611 Aircraft Design Institute began to work on an enlarged twin-engine version of the J-10 to compete with SAC J-12 project for the PLAAF’s 4th generation fighter programme. The new fighter, which was reportedly designated J-13, inherited the J-10’s canard delta design and resembles the Russian Mikoyan MiG MFI (Project 1.44) fifth-generation fighter demonstrator in many aspects. The J-13 design is less radical in terms of design and technology compared to the Shenyang J-12, and therefore may stand a better chance of becoming successful.

It was reported that Russian MAPO-MIG has been working with Chengdu since the late 1990s to develop a new generation fighter based on the J-10 design. The J-13 may be powered by two improved AL-41 turbofan engines with thrust-vectoring nozzles and possibly supersonic cruise capability too, giving a maximum take-off weight of 20t. If this is proven to be true, the J-13 will be a high-performance heavyweight fighter superior to the European EF-2000 Typhoon and French Rafale, though it may not be as capable as the F-22 Raptor.


This information can be viewed here:
www.sinodefence.com

Of course this may all just be propaganda.

 

[Ariakhan]

Hi!, my name is Ariakhan and I've been visiting this site and its forums for a while now but never really felt the need to join until I ran across this thread. As a result, here I am.

First off, thank you CivAnon / Kieran for prompting me to join this vibrant and brilliant community through your compelling work!

Those cartoony Leaderheads are refreshing and unique! The Leadership Evolution concept is cool as well. Would you mind giving a little more details on the leader evolution idea? Also, can please satisfy my curosity with another scenario concept just as intriguing?

I especially like the detailed information you provided about Russia. That Overview is amazing! I now feel as though I know more about Russia than I previously thought I could. The other periods of Russia's history were thorough also but will there be some kind of table of content or index we will be able to access to quickly navigate the World Guide? I believe by offering an index of links for each page of information will permit quicker navigation of the WG by the players who wish to focus on a specific section of a nations history. Also, I find it strange that no modern information was provided about Russia's history considering that this is a modern scenario.

Your screenshots are certainly doing a wonderful job promoting this mod and keeping me enthralled! I prefer your latest tech image of Global Strike Weapons as opposed to the previous one. I've been looking at it on and off since you posted it a while ago! The Chinese Stealth image is just as amazing!

Anyway, excellent work! I can't wait unil these projects see completion. I want to play as Iran or one of the African nations. I believe these will be very challenging positions.

 

[Ariakhan]

CivAnon, is this thread still active? I've not seen any new post in over a month. Please don't let these projects fall into limbo. Myself and others are seriously interested in this mod.

 

[CivAnon]

Happy New Year!!!

 

[CivAnon]

All questions pertaining to the delayed development of these projects will be forthcoming in the days following the election of the new US president. I personally believe that both of these heroic men will bring competence to the US presidency.

@ Ariakhan and the Community - Thank you for your patience!

Another scenario concept, Ariakhan, featured in these projects are Simulated Terrorist Attacks via the Improvements and Wonders tad. The checkable box entitled Can Explode or Meltdown has been renamed Subject to Terrorist Attack and can be used as motivation or obligation to remove World Leaders that sponsor terrorist orginizations if one of your City Structures are destroyed by terrorism. You can decide by using Espionage to track Terrorist in your own nation or that of other countries.

Edit: For some reason I can't get the game to trigger the Meltdown function. I wanted to show the community a screenshot of the dialogue that is used but for now I'll just have to to post what the script says so far... (this is subject to change)


#MELTDOWN
#map_center 0
#advisor Domestic Sad
#xs 440
#text
Advisor - I have terrible news sir!!! The $IMPROVEMENT0 in $CITY0 have been attacked by Terrorists! Thousands lay dead or dying, and $CITY0's $IMPROVEMENT0 production has been severely crippled!!!
#itemlist
Leader - Concentrate all Imaging resources on the City.

Leader - Ensure the saftey of the remaining citizens and mobilize our Emergency Response Services! Take us to full Military Alert! We will find those responsible and bring them to justice but the saftey of our citizens come first!



Barack Obama John McCain


So, which of the great men will the American people elect...? We will know shortly... Also expect a What If scenario....

Also, thank you again for your patience!

REMEMBER TO VOTE (If you haven't already)

 

[CivAnon]

Does anyone remember this screenshot...?



Need I say more..?

Congratulations to Senator Barack Obama for his acquisition of the highest office in the land. Also, we must salute Senator John McCain and the American people for their participation in this historic event.

 

[CivAnon]

I am posting these screenies just to show Tejahn that I was able to recover about 92% of the files and documents and will be sending them to him soon. Although some of the information contained within is incomplete I am still grateful to obtain what I have acquired because it points me back in the right direction concerning sources. However, I wasn't able to account for Japan, France, Egypt, and a couple more so far but I am re-working these countries back into the mods and compensating for their loss info by going through all my internal and external HDDs (I know you asked me to do this weeks ago). If I am still unable to locate their data I will have to go through the painstaking task of re-entering their info bit-by-bit.

I hope this alleviates your doubts Tejahn and thanks for the support and patience you've been giving my friend.

(Beta) Ukraine Development Folder (Beta) Ukraine Ground Forces

 

[CivAnon]

Woe!!! This is a great party!!!

Okay everyone, this update is to commemorate the inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as well as their respective families and so forth. I really thought Tejahn - the original starter of this thread - would have posted an aspect or feature update of the forthcoming modpack by this time to mark this historic event but nonetheless I now take up the mantle.

Scenario Feature: Insects as Weapons of War.




In a certain future mankind will almost perfect the art of using some of natures most abundant organisms - insects - as war weapons. This gives mankind the most diverse group of animals on the earth to use as weapons. With over a million described species—more than half of all known living organisms—with estimates of undescribed species as high as 30 million, thus potentially representing over 90% of the differing life forms on the planet. This is a concept I planned to implement into the mod @ its conception after reading the book Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood. Coincidently, I came across this Inscect Mod by Supa and became very determined to find a way to insert this idea into the overall W2K7 - ID@ES project. We are really going to need the community input as to how we should proceed with implementing this process.

New Weapon: Hydro-Gen Bomb


Although the information pertaining to this WMD is still highly classified please note that this is obviously not the device we know today but rather a exotically advance futuristic weapon literally meaning its namesake, Water-Generating Bomb. It retains all the awful aspects of a standard nuclear device but also through unknown means floods the target area with rushing flash floods accompanied by the traditional fallout, explosiveness, and destructive capacity of standard nukes.

Edit: Forgot to remove the start menu from the screenshot above so here is the image again in full view:



Both screenshots are from a satellite view of the earth obviously. Can anyone count the number of these devices that have been used in the above screenie and against what nations. By doing so you can ascertain which countries will be locked in the ongoing war. The imaging instruments on the satellite seem to have captured undeniable photo proof of an unknown spacecraft observing the wars being waged on the fragile planet below. However, I cannot confirm if extra-terrestrials will play a part in this mod but - perhaps.

This is how my desktop looked before the detonation of these weapons during a testing phase of my Civ game:


This is how it looked afterwards:


As you can see my Windows Vista OS has been completed destroyed. Shattered glass litter the Desktop Background while the Start Menu is cracked and the edges of opened windows are broken. But on a more optimistic note the following screenshots below are eye candy previews of the icon folder files that are a feature of the overall mod as well.



For those of you interested, here are two other books of interest helping to advance the mod:


Okay. Things are back to normal as far as my desktop (after a couple nuclear winters). Thanks for taking time to read this, although I am somewhat rushing b/c I have to get back inside to the party and even though development is proceeding slower @ this point I just want to reassure everyone anticipating this project that it is very much still in development. Later...

 

[againsttheflow]

Rhodie made a mosquito and other stuff that may prove useful available in the database if you haven't spotted them already.