IMAGES OF COMPUTER WAR: Better than production values on the Military Channel
Pity the producers of the Military Channel's Futureweapons, the cable TV show devoted to the imagery of America's biggest weapons. Limited to the firing ranges of missile proving grounds, the best they can do is tape a variety of idiotic looking mannequins and jerry-rigged dugouts being shredded. The host, a shaven-headed ex-Navy SEAL, does his best to gin things up, often declaring they are the most exciting things he's ever seen.
But there's a limit to our credulity. The color of the desert isn't good, the skies are wan. Seen one dummy being blown apart by a fuel air bomb, seen 'em all, no need to see it three times in one week. In short, it just doesn't quite make it. Certainly not when compared with the computer wars one can fabricate using Lock On: Modern Air Combat, the most difficult, fractious and bulky air combat computer wargame, ever.
Lock On is not for sissies or even the sane with real lives to attend to.
Furnished without adequate documentation or even slightly helpful guides on how to play it, and designed in Russia with a love for early Nineties ex-Commie military hardware, it is a formidable surprise opponent for the unwitting purchaser of consumer electronics entertainments at BestBuy.
However, your friendly neighborhood GlobalSecurity.Org Senior Fellow has figured it out so you don't have to. It has been determined that Lock On furnishes neo-photo-realistic computer imagery of brigade-sized combat, if one knows where and how to point the digital camera.
Futureweapons needs a copy of Lock On for when those videotapes of MLRS and Alford Technologies limpet mine test-firings just won't do.
A Smerch rocket in descending ballistic flight over Sevastopol, set ablaze by barrage at twilight.
A familiar sight: Civilian vehicles burn on The Highway of Death.
Panoramic view of a stick of bombs obliterating civilian traffic on The Highway of Death. Almost artistic in its melancholy atmosphere.
The locals learned use of an open field as cover for light armor and machine-gun armed Toyota trucks was inadequate.
Sight-seeing in the brilliant blue over the Sea of Azov. No Highway of Death today.
Pity the producers of the Military Channel's Futureweapons, the cable TV show devoted to the imagery of America's biggest weapons. Limited to the firing ranges of missile proving grounds, the best they can do is tape a variety of idiotic looking mannequins and jerry-rigged dugouts being shredded. The host, a shaven-headed ex-Navy SEAL, does his best to gin things up, often declaring they are the most exciting things he's ever seen.
But there's a limit to our credulity. The color of the desert isn't good, the skies are wan. Seen one dummy being blown apart by a fuel air bomb, seen 'em all, no need to see it three times in one week. In short, it just doesn't quite make it. Certainly not when compared with the computer wars one can fabricate using Lock On: Modern Air Combat, the most difficult, fractious and bulky air combat computer wargame, ever.
Lock On is not for sissies or even the sane with real lives to attend to.
Furnished without adequate documentation or even slightly helpful guides on how to play it, and designed in Russia with a love for early Nineties ex-Commie military hardware, it is a formidable surprise opponent for the unwitting purchaser of consumer electronics entertainments at BestBuy.
However, your friendly neighborhood GlobalSecurity.Org Senior Fellow has figured it out so you don't have to. It has been determined that Lock On furnishes neo-photo-realistic computer imagery of brigade-sized combat, if one knows where and how to point the digital camera.
Futureweapons needs a copy of Lock On for when those videotapes of MLRS and Alford Technologies limpet mine test-firings just won't do.
A Smerch rocket in descending ballistic flight over Sevastopol, set ablaze by barrage at twilight.
A familiar sight: Civilian vehicles burn on The Highway of Death.
Panoramic view of a stick of bombs obliterating civilian traffic on The Highway of Death. Almost artistic in its melancholy atmosphere.
The locals learned use of an open field as cover for light armor and machine-gun armed Toyota trucks was inadequate.
Sight-seeing in the brilliant blue over the Sea of Azov. No Highway of Death today.
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