- The 'last battlefield' dynamic in Long War finally comes into focus (for those paying attention). ('An Explosive Glimpse of the Future of the Long War in Africa'): As the radical Islamic pulse continues to fail/peter out in the Middle East and North Africa, this is where it comes next.
- Dynamic War is a way to change the length of the mod by scaling the amount of missions per month and (to balance it out) scaling soldier xp, injury times and loot amount. The cost for items/research stays the same.
- Aug 28, 2015 OK, without 'Marathon', LW is already not so long, I think. Because the defaultgameconfig.ini is shipped with:; Dynamic War SW Option; SWMARATHON is the master coefficient (variable) governing mission density and frequency, resource acquisition, XP and some costs in Dynamic War.
In 1995, when Air Force Col. James Clark was based in Hungary as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission, he got a chance to play with a Gnat, a remotely piloted glider powered by a skimobile engine. Drone aircraft—or, as the Air Force prefers, unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs—were not unprecedented. In World War II, radio-controlled B-24s were sent on bombing missions over Germany. Remotely controlled aircraft carried still cameras over battlefields in Vietnam. The Israeli Army used drones for surveillance and as decoys over Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley in 1982. But the Gnat, developed by the San Diego defense contractor General Atomics, carried something new: video cameras.
Dynamic War: Default is 50% of Long War. Replaces Marathon. A tunable version of long war with a new alien strategic AI, scaled number of alien missions and adjusted economy. Unadjusted, this generates 50% of number of alien missions that standard Long War would, but this can be adjusted in the LongWar.ini file. More info on scaling. 10: Results Driven.
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“We were flying out of Taszár,” Clark recalls. “We had three or four over there, in kind of a base..The commander at Taszár could see movement from 60 miles away. It was so successful they just never came home.”
Soldiers had long coveted the ability to see over the next hill. Manned aircraft delivered that, from gas-filled balloons in the Civil War and from airplanes in the 20th century, but only until the pilot or his fuel was exhausted. Satellites provide an amazing panorama but they are expensive, few in number and not always overhead when needed. The Gnat gave commanders a 60-mile panorama from a platform that could stay airborne more or less permanently, with vehicles flown in 12-hour shifts. Renamed the Predator, it quickly became the U.S. military’s preferred surveillance tool.
It was a Predator mission that located Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2000, after Al Qaeda had been tied to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. But efforts to act on that intelligence were frustrated by the complexities of launching a raid and by concerns about the risks to U.S. troops and civilians. In exasperation, national security officials began asking: Why can’t we put a missile on a drone?
Initial testing of beefed-up, missile-equipped drones was completed in 2001, and soon after the September 11 attacks the first weaponized Predators, armed with Hellfire missiles and designated MQ-1L, were flying over Kabul and Kandahar. BIOS-0.136 G R U. The one pictured here was deployed in Afghanistan, where it became the first drone to fire Hellfires in combat. In all, it flew 261 sorties in Afghanistan, totaling more than 2,700 hours, before the Air Force donated it to the Air and Space Museum in 2003.
And yet the most important breakthrough was still to come. The original drones broadcast a view only to operators on the ground. As the United States continued to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, the drones’ cameras and sensors were linked to the global telecommunications system. Now a drone could be piloted—and its live feed viewed and its missiles aimed—from anywhere in the world. The pilots could be insulated from the risks of combat.
The U.S. military quickly mounted “caps,” or permanent observation platforms, over large areas. Using computers to analyze data feeding continuously from drones, military and spy agencies isolated and tracked targets night and day. Whole enemy networks could be mapped simply by following a target’s moves and contacts over time, tying together visual imagery with other kinds of intelligence—intercepted phone calls, e-mails, text messages and so on. Munitions could be fired at the time and place of a drone operator’s choosing.
“Drones are the most discriminating use of force that has ever been developed,” says Richard Pildes, a professor of constitutional law at New York University’s School of Law. “The key principles of the laws of war are necessity, distinction and proportionality in the use of force. Drone attacks and targeted killings serve these principles better than any use of force that can be imagined.”
While drones have triggered robust controversy, the technology can in principle greatly reduce the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths. Like any new weapon system, drones pose difficult questions. Members of Congress, human rights lawyers and counterterrorism officials have asked exactly how intelligence and military officials make targeting decisions, how such attacks affect the way civilian populations feel toward the United States and how these attacks comport with international law.
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“I think creating a legal structure, processes, with oversight checks on how we use unmanned weapons is going to be a challenge for me and for my successors for some time to come,” President Barack Obama has said.
Still, U.S. Air Force pilots training to fly drones outnumber those training to fly piloted aircraft.
“Right now, we think of drones as military tools,” says Mark Bowden, of the unmanned aircraft, “but we’re going to see them used in a broad variety of ways in the coming years.” Bowden is the author of ten books, including The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden, published last year, and Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War.
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Researchers and strength and conditioning professionals still debate over the efficacy of a dynamic warm up vs. .a static warm up. Research has noted the benefits of a dynamic style work out for potentiating jump performance. New research again examines dynamic and static warm ups for eliciting lower body explosiveness. Researchers in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, assessed 3 different warm up conditions; dynamic, static, and control group, and measured stationary vertical jump, and standing long jump. Researchers assessed 17 baseball players during the training season for collegiate level competitive baseball.
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The dynamic warm up conditions included; forward lunge with forearm to opposite instep, backward lunge with rotation, jackknife or inchworm, knee to chest, toe touch, straight leg march, straight leg march with skipping, lateral shuffle with countermovement, lateral leg swings, straight leg swings, hip rockers, reverse hip rockers, inverted hamstring, lunge fast, carioca short, carioca long, falling starts, backpedal with a turn, and backpedal with 2 lateral turns. The static warm up condition included; standing hamstring stretch to the right, left, and middle, standing quadriceps stretch on the right and left, calf stretch to the right and left, deep side lunge to the right and left, squatting butterfly stretch, straddle stretch to the right, left, and middle, sitting butterfly stretch, seated stretches to the right and left, torso twist to the right and left, performs stretch to the right and left, and laying quadriceps stretch to the right and left. Measurements were taken including; countermovement jumps for vertical jump height and long jump distance.
Researchers indicated that athletes in the dynamic warm up condition jumped significantly higher. The overall research results demonstrated that dynamic style warm ups increased both vertical jump height and long jump distance. It should also be noted that researchers asserted from these findings, athletes could gain almost 2 inches in their vertical jump by changing their warm up routine from a dynamic to a static warm up. Strength and conditioning professionals and athletes should examine altering their current warm up routines to add a dynamic style warm up before practice or competition to augment training and/or competition.