It was the sound of the beating heart amplified by the power of 1.
that’s pretty much it. The ship was attacked and while they had great fire-fighting drills and process down, they didn’t realize before-hand that sea-water was used to fight fires at sea. I think it was the salt that messed up the rockets.
And when he reports via radio that they have the Prince with them, he pauses a moment after listing the rest of the party and then says, “…and, uh… Captain Wales of the Royal Navy.”
And upon hearing this fact, he is not ordered to proceed immediately to safety, but rather his plan to pursue armed terrorists is given the green light with only a “Be careful.”
Yeah, hard to keep suspension of disbelief alive there.
Not sure if this is a joke. Apaches proved themselves in combat and are still effective. Special Forces and SEALS use helicopters for insertion and extraction. They are vulnerable, as the Battle of Mogadishu showed, but they are definitely useful.
I originally read this as “Archers proved themselves in combat and are still effective.” and wondered if your join date was Oct 1415.
1 to the fourth power!
But the environment that Apaches have operated in is quite different than against Warsaw Pact forces. For the most part, Apaches in real life have been doing counter-insurgency, or counter-Taliban, or in Kosovo, etc., but facing only moderate anti-air threats, not Russian/Soviet anti-air systems, and no enemy fighter jets.
*Executive Orders *- saying that Taiwan had an arsenal of about 20 nuclear weapons - granted, in the Clancyverse, fiction is fiction, but this is by no means something that could be done secretly, or kept totally secret, without some diplomatic brouhaha or the Taiwanese or Chinese press finding out.
In another novel, some people panned the depiction of an A-10 buzzing a Russian warship at sea.
Interesting. Assuming that the latter explanation is correct, what is plutonium usually stored in to avoid fire. A special plastic?
In The Bear and the Dragon, Tom Clancy features an adult Chinese man (I think a Chinese army officer) using profanity/derogatory talk in Mandarin that is really rather childish, what you’d expect a kindergartener or elementary-school bully to be using, not a grown man.
Isn’t the plutonium in nuclear weapons coated with something nonreactive, to keep it from coming into contact with outside elements?
Apache archers firing from Apaches. Now you’re onto something.
Here’s an interesting question: What would happen to a Special Ops colonel who checked out a helicopter gunship and a C-130 tanker (crews and all) on his own authority to support a hazardous clandestine operation in South America (as in Clear and Present Danger)? :dubious:
In one interview with a serviceman, I believe it was said “He’d be crucified!”