XB-70A

Oh yes, I use to hate them so much just like the Psy dogs. Controllers and Pseudogiant were such kind of jokes instead... I got a nice glitch in the Clear Sky's Swamp area were I was pursued by two of them and after having jumped over a tree trunk they started to circle around each others, just screaming and becoming invisible from time to time. I must admit, I laughed a bit while reading that... as the machine gunner killed me many times. So many times that I don't think I've done a single game without going to kill him and his friends from the guardhouse once with the good equipment (a good occasion to get some weapons to resell).

I would have really like it but I installed all of them in their original DVD platform and don't even have an account on Steam. The last time I had played was in Hard difficulty as it was with an Arsenal mod and I doubted that the starting bandits and military could be over armed. SoC will stay my favorite, even if it nearly traumatized me when I was 15 : in the map of the military camp you just have to go into the sewers, at this point I never was already killed, everything went so well. It was just so worrying with the beacon flashing then I met the Bloodsucker for the first time and it killed me in maybe one or just two hit, I nearly fall from my seat and didn't played it for about five years after

Hmmm...... Could not resist

To me : Fractal got my preference. It makes me concentrate on its central "jewel". I like the fact that if it absolutely "equal" and equilibrated externally it seems that it could not be possible without the disorder of which it is constituted inside.

Have tried already, but the problem being that it was not corresponding to the picture I used for model. Logically she got some clear to darker brown burns and none of my pitiful collection of pencil got this specific tint. So I had to tried with a mix of mustard and the clearest brown I had, which quickly "overflow".

Finally made something about space today but I'm hesitating between two "versions" : Tyuratam, 15 November 1988, 09 h 24 min 42 s local time. The Soviet orbiter "Buran" OK-1K1 is landing on the Cosmodrome runway 24 for the first and last time. This one got burns marks but I find them ugly and totally missed and dark cockpit windows. Or the one just before without them :

Hope you will share it here. --- Today's scratch : One MAN Tractor-Erector-Launcher truck of the 868th Tactical Missile Training Squadron of Davis-Monthan is firing one of its BGM-109G Gryphon cruise-missile, hopefully for training. I get the envy of making it after having discovered that one full TER is exposed at the airbase of Florennes in Belgium where some of these systems were deployed in the 80's. Now I would like to make a "Tochka"/"Scarab" or maybe something else...

Wow... more than 3 months without playing and coming here, a lot happen for sure! I just launch the game for 20 minutes tonight and looked at all the crew I left in orbit. I totally forgot my SSTO, the XC-73A Pallas, during its last demonstration flight in December and finally took the decision to end the trip... I will land it once I got enough time.

Today was a normal day... for the place I'm working. It's in a mall. Nothing special here, you can think "uh? and so?", but THAT mall is particular. Some of us working there call it "The Retards Mall". There is nearly not a day for every workers to don't get at least one idiot or to see something pretty fun. So I was just passing by the ice rink (yes, there is an ice rink. It's not working but there is an ice rink) and just heard a young girl, maybe around 10-12, holding to the railing and grunting to another in front of her. She got a strong accent and I wasn't able to understand anything except the word "S*CK" that she said at least three times to the other one while waving her left arm like in a rap video clip. There I heard a loud "HIIIIIIIIIIIiiii!!!!" from a younger girl that just couldn't stop on the ice and followed by a big "BANG!". She hit the barrier right between the gangsta-wannabe and her "friend" and surprise them so much that they fall on the ice too! I went to see if they were right (skaters also came immediately) and the youngest got nothing, she was just a bit shaken by the surprise or the fear. The funniest to me? When I left I just heard the gangsta saying the "s*ck" word again.

I like the concept to divide their empire into star systems. The more I'm reading, the more I feel like we are in the Battletech universe with its galactic maps and different factions.

A good idea, humans could be good slaves for them, making all their task. I just imagine an industrial microwave being like an hortator giving the rhythm to human having to rub their hands to give heat. Being pretty sure I'll not have any time to draw a bit today, I'm sharing the one of yesterday : 1991 : An M270 M.L.R.S of the U.S Army is firing its M26 rockets to the Iraqi lines during Operation Desert Storm.

Loving, it's a bit hard to tell... for PC I would think about S.T.A.L.K.E.R (all of them, even if CS always is spit away by the community), BF1942 really marked me with BFV and BF2 for the freedom of choices and movement. On the other platforms "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" on Gamecube was such a "boom" to me in 2002, the first time I saw such details and fluidity with a home console (now everybody could laugh at those) and "Metroid Prime". I found CoD4 Modern Warfare pretty good at the beginning but just like you the online community quickly disgusted me of its multiplayer.

Pretty shivering, he remembers me a movie that marked me as a child, "The Visitor" from 1979 :

A French AMX-30 Au F1 155 mm self-propelled howitzer is firing back to the Serbian positions during the siege of Sarajevo. The tracks stil are so bad, one day I will find a good way to make them (and more important, enough time).

So here comes the last part of the topic : --- The outside collection As wrote before I was disappointed by the absence of any Soviet T-72 MBT in the exposed collection, but the surprise actually was present here and it was more than a simple T-72. The rest of the collection is constituted of different vehicle in different conditions, some very good and others rusting due to lack of time or funds, while the last are playing the role of monuments. M4A3(76)W Sherman medium tank with its 76 mm M1 upgrade of the U.S Army. That picture with me on unfortunately is the only one I have... GIAT AMX-30R Roland anti-aircraft tank equipped with a dual Euromissile Roland short-range surface to air missile. This vehicle was formally assigned to the 401e Régiment d'Artillerie (401st Artillery Regiment) of the French Army. (I would love it to crush and run over the Renault Kangoo utility van in front) GIAT AMX-30 Au F1, 155 mm self-propelled artillery vehicle. Studied in the 70's under a request of the French Army for a new self-propelled howitzer to replace the now archaic AMX-13 "155 AMF3", the AMX-30 155 mm SPG still is today one of the best vehicle of its category. The evolution of the conflicts unfortunately cancel its Au F3 modernization program of new numeric systems and longer gun for the development of the Camion Equipé d'un Système d'ARtillerie (Truck equipped with an artillery system) or CAESAR which received the last generation 155 mm/52 calibers (instead of 39) howitzer developed for the Au F3. This unit was deployed by the French Army under the United Nations in ex-Yugoslavia during the 90's. I was, alas, unable to know for which operation as the museum was already closed at this time. I was pretty interested before by the 85 units that France sold to Saddam Hussein in the 80's replace some of it SPGs destroyed by the Iranians but nearly nothing is know about them to this day, the archives being destroyed or lost (the same story happen for the modified Dassault Falcon 50 sold to them before the Super Etendard and able to lock and fire Exocet missiles)... : Some of the Iraqis units during one of the military parades on the Great Celebrations square of Bagdad with one of the Hands of Victory in the back. The AMX-13 collection : AMX-13VTT (Véhicule Transport de Troupes/Armoured Personnel Carrier). It makes me a strange feeling to see one of them for the first time as one of my grandfather was a Sherman and AMX-13VTT pilot during the Algerian conflict were he went for about 6 years. A part of his life he never talk about to us, just like a lot of our still living veterans... AMX-13 DCA 30 self propelled anti-aircraft gun equipped with a dual Hispano-Suiza HS 831.A (30 mm) and a retractable Doppler locking radar codenamed Œil Noir (Black Eye). DCA here means Defense Contre Avion (Anti-Aircraft Defense). Less than a 100 units were produced and only affected to some French Army artillery regiments. AMX-13 PDP (Poseur De Pont) Modèle 51, bridge-layer tank. AMX-13 Modèle 55 Dépannage (literally Fixing) recovery and towing version. It was replaced by the AMX-30 EGI between the 70-80's. AMX 13 obusier de 155 mm auto-mouvant Modèle F3 (also know as 155 F3), self propelled howitzer. Its limited range of about 20 km and the lack of any protection to its crew led to the AMX-30 Au F1 development program. AMX-13 Obusier de 105 mm automoteur Modèle 1950 (105 AU 50) self-propelled howitzer in its AMX 105B rotating turret variant. AMX-13VCI (Véhicule de Combat d'Infanterie/Infantry Fighting Vehicle) armoured personnel carrier. The VCI was the last VTT version, able to be equipped with a 20 mm cannon to engage its counterparts of the time. Some armies are still using them today. AMX-13 canon de 75 Modèle 1951 (75 mm gun, 1951 model) light tank of the Israel Defense Force in a perfect condition. The small tank proved its valor during the Six Days War in 1967, the result being that some nations are still using them 50 years later. Another Au F1 155 mm SPG in its standard French Army camouflage. GIAT AMX-30C2 Main Battle Tank prototype. This model was studied by incorporating a 105 mm rifled gun instead of the original 105 smooth bore. When the AMX-30 was conceived the great fashion of that time was about the tube fired AT missiles and much more the new HEAT shells which need a smooth tube to be fired from as the rotation of the rifled one was cancelling the correct plasma creation of the last ones at the impact (on the other hand the lack of rotation were making them, the AP and other HE round pretty imprecise at long range). They were so powerful that most of the European nations just stop to care about the shielding of their tanks as even 30 cm of metal could not stop a 105 mm HEAT round. In such a situation the different engineers decided to place just enough armor on their vehicles to stop 20-30 mm shots and no more, the Arrow had just defeated the Armor. Not for long as the reactive armor appears around ten years later and again ranked the guns and their famous HEAT to an equal place. The result was the launch of different modernization programs all around the world to adapt some new rifled tubes to the platforms to let them fire some new APFSDS shots with their kinetic energy penetrator . But the biggest problem now was the fact that those vehicle were much more a kind of tank destroyer as a HEAT hit would have destroyed them immediately and a standard 105 or 120/125mm AP rounds would have make their turrets flew away. The AMX-30 paid the price of it just like its German counterpart, the Leopard 1. The C2 actually arrived too late as the Leclerc MBT already was in development at this time. Just like the B2 on which it was based the C2 was equipped with a co-axial 20 mm cannon to engage the light vehicles and infantry instead of using HE 105 mm rounds, according more place in the turret for additional HEAT rounds. Here it is!!! But no, it's not just a simple T-72 like the other, it's an Asad Babil, the Lion of Babylon! This local modification and upgrade of the T-72 by the Iraqis was launched during the Iran-Iraq war as Hussein complained to the USSR about its T-72s losses against the Iranian Chieftains and other MBTs. Its demand of new T-72s but equipped like the one of the Red Army with a modern electronic being refused the Iraqis engineers developed an hybrid based on a standard T-72. A new laminated armor and grills to counter the 105 HEAT rounds were added while different Europeans and Chinese systems were installed to replace the main gun sights and communications systems. Night and thermal vision were also added. In a local standard logic the Lions were nearly totally attributed to the Republican Guards regiments... while most of the other fighting armoured regiments were equipped with standard T-72, T-62 and different T-54/55 from everywhere. The worst probably being that the Asad Babil were deployed in the desert as some kind of self propelled artillery to use their 125 mm HE rounds... being easily targeted from the sky. The only exception of this terrible mistake probably was their use by the 3rd Armored Division Salah al-Din (Saladin) as a front fist during the Koweit invasion of 1990. Then most of the Division's Lions were destroyed during Desert Storm. Our size on the last picture is a good way to distinguish how squat the T-72 family is. The poor three guys inside must had to live a torture after staying here more than an hour... This one is a trophy of the Division Daguet, captured during their operation aside the Coalition in 1991. Back to the past with this Chrysler M4A4 Sherman medium tank nicknamed Corse (Corsica) of the Free French Army. I wasn't able to find where it was affected, alas. United Defense Industries M109A1 155 mm self-propelled howitzer. We are pretty far from the Paladin last generation GIAT AMX-30 EGI (Engin Blindé du Génie) Armoured recovery vehicle of the French Army. Cadillac M5A1 Stuart light tank of the U.S Army. Already the time to leave... here is the museum main entrance, each nations from the left to right : The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdoms, the European Union, the United States of America, Israel, Canada, the Russian Federation.

NOOOOooooo... how could I have been stupid enough to make it ?! I'm tapping the descriptions on memory since the beginning, it will teach me... I actually had a stop at it, looking at its thin caterpillar and desert camo then didn't know why I identified it as a Matilda with its 2-pounder turret... so dumb. The worst being that there is a sign just in front with its name on it, but I didn't read it (super logic of course). I never played it for now (even if I would like to) but to know there is this infantry tank is interesting me more. Anyway thank you for the mistake flash, I'm correcting it now.

Still some pictures to share, here is the before last room of the museum. --- The International Room MANTAK Merkava I (Chariot) Main Battle Tank. What a beautiful beast. It was the first time I was seeing one of them as I was totally ignoring at this time that we got one in France. That monster is impressive to see in real, just like the Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter it got some kind of aggressive and affraying shape, just like if it was studied for the psychologic war... conceived on the lessons of the October 73 War (a.k.a the Yom Kippur War or the Ramadan War). While their Centurion and Super Sherman were rushing to the Egyptians and Syrians positions the Israelis lost a lot of them due to the Arabs tanks buried under and behind the dunes, just having their main gun overflowing the sand. The Merkava was brilliantly studied to be use in the same way as a mobile anti-tank/infantry gun or to rush to their enemy position while providing additional protection to its crew by placing the main engine in front instead of the back. The whole block then acted as a supplement armor while the crew can quickly evacuate from behind without exposing themselve over the turret. I took a picture of the small panel dedicated to the General Israel Tal who participated to its development with an English and Hebrew translation. I don't know if the model exposed beside the Merkava is its own as it holds an I.M.I Galil assault rifle which only enter in service during the 70's. DAF YP-408 6x8 Armoured Personal Carrier. That one was used by the Royal Netherland Army during their intervention with the others NATO or Europeans nations in ex-Yugoslavia. Alas I don't have any pictures of it without me in the turret (yep, I'm the idiot trying to shot down a small de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth from a "Tintin" comic). Detroit Arsenal M26A1 Pershing heavy tank. A legend of the Korean War where it distinguished himself while it arrived too late in the Second World War to really show its performances. Cadillac M41A2 Walker Bulldog light tank. If the previous was well know in Korea the M41 distinguished itself during the Vietnam conflict as a regular light tank of the South-Vietnamese troop and some U.S sections. While it was a pretty well conceived vehicle in the 50's, it already was outdated in the 60-70's. Its protection was ineffective against any projectiles of more than 12.7-14.5 mm and its main 76 mm gun was unable to penetrate the T-54/55 MBT of the Northern troops. But its main default probably was its propulsion by a gasoline engine. Any shot well placed in the engine compartment was enough to transform it into a deadly torch in seconds. But the ARVN and the U.S found many ways to operate it at its best in the jungle or the destroyed cities where its small size became an advantage while its 500 hp engine gave it enough power to be used as a hit-and-run gun. It also was well know for the mess its powerful exhaust tubes were making, spewing out flames and fumes. Detroit Arsenal M47 Patton "Danne Marie" medium tank. Second member of the famous Patton medium tanks family. Chrysler M48A1 Patton main battle tank with its so distinctive 90 mm gun muzzle brake. Another legend of the Vietnamese conflict. Detroit Arsenal M60A2 Patton main battle tank. With its 105 mm gun this last member of the Patton family had a particular aura. What a beautiful beast ! Here it was, my favorite of all and the reason why we went here at the beginning, the monstrous Royal Ordnance Factory FV 214 Conqueror Mk.I Heavy Tank. It was the first time I was seeing one for real and the sensation of smallness I got in front of it was impressive... just like if I was about to be rush by it. It was the perfect way to understand why the "Brits" deployed it in West Germany to use it as a mobile anti-tank gun system. Just like its others coeval of the time like the monstrous M-103 or the IS-3 its mechanic robustness was bad at the best and shabby at the worst with the poor Rolls-Royce Meteor having to propulse the 64 tons with its 810 hp. Way more than what it was conceived for during the WW2 while its transmission was most of the time unable to hold out for more than a 1000 km. But still the fact is that it gives an impression of monstrosity and invulnerability. I placed the picture of my dad and I to compare the size of it (while I'm making 1 m 95/76.7 in). Resting next to the Conqueror was one of the legendary Royal Ordnance Factory Centurion Mk. 3 main battle tank with its 84 mm Ordnance QF 20 pounder. Leyland Motors FV 4201 Chieftain Mk.9 main battle tank. This beautiful piece was affected to the 4th Infantry Brigade of the British Army of the Rhine during their 1976-93 affectation to West Berlin where the picture was taken during their 17 June 1983 parade on the "Straße des 17. June" Berlin street. With its L11A5 120 mm main gun it proved to be one of the best battle tanks (if not The best) when it entered into service in the mid-60's. Its deployment by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Iraqis soviet battle tank quickly proved how well its main gun was conceived while its armor was able to stop most of the Iraqis rounds in its frontal section at the common distance of engagement. Its Leyland L60 six-cylinders two-strokes main engine alas was its "Achilles' heel" being a little weak with its 750 hp while the vehicle mass was of 55 tons in fight condition. But its biggest problem was the terrible David Brown TN12 transmission which use to brake pretty easily with a rookie pilot. But it stays an interesting and beautiful piece of engineering for its time while the Iranians clearly proved that it could be an excellent fighting vehicle if it was used logically. Bofor AB Stridsvagn 103B main battle tank of the Swedish Army (Armén). While being turretless the museum insisted on the fact that it was designated as a main battle tank and not a tank destroyer. The most impressive thing, to me, is its main gun elevation not being regulated by cylinders/pistons but by its hydropneumatic suspension! Sorry about this terrible picture but it was my only one, alas Engesa EE-9 Cascavel (Rattlesnake) armoured reconnaissance car of the Brazilian Army with its 90 mm EC90 turret gun. Eidgenössische Panzer 61 main battle tank of the Swiss Armed Forces with its 105 mm L7 gun from the Centurion. Cadillac M114 Command and Reconnaissance Carrier. Conceived as a better substitute to the legendary M113 armoured personnel carrier, the M114 never was able to surpass its ancestor which became a legend in Vietnam and quickly was abandoned by the U.S Army in the 70's while the M113 was modernized and adapted to the futur conflicts. Global view of the room. My only shot of their Leopard 1 main battle tank, the worst being that I didn't take any pictures of the Leopard 2 MBT next to it I swear I don't have anything against the Germans. To win The Peace. It is necessary to show its strength to not have to use it. That sign is the one telling you goodbye at the main exit. The next and least post will be about their external (but still interesting) collection.

Absolutely. I got it on one of my MiG-21 model box, can not remember which one precisely but I re-found the picture yesterday on a blog (in black and white). So impossible to not make it but I made the color on memory. The 1/48 was so great that I could not try to not make it

Yes, with full honesty I found it good. I'm personnaly uncapable to draw portrait of peoples, with a model in front of me like with a picture. It's impossible to explain but the result always is disappointing or much more close from a satirical portrait than a correct one, and that from the beginning. When I was between 8-10 I used to make some short stories with one girl at the school between the class hours. It was about two young women travelling around the world with one idiot and the other too serious, she was drawing them and outside scenery (like jungle, cities or the sea) while I was taking care of the vehicles and objects. I remember one story where the idiot received a luggage (falling from the compartment over her) directly on the head during turbulences or when she was ejected from a Jeep while the other was driving crazily in the jungle. Otherwise I'm in a hospital since Friday and start to feel like rotting on the place... Just make this one yesterday's afternoon : The Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG-21SMT "Fishbed-K" 57-Blue flying over an Afghan village during a SEAD flight (totally missed the cockpit windows).

Today I realized I had never drawn any launcher or rocket while being on the KSP forum. So I tried with an Ariane 44L... disastrous, really. Another try with Zenit, my favorite, was piteous. So I came back to the military once again and took my time with a pretty legendary system : One Minsk Automobile Plant MAZ-543 "Uragan" rising its R-17 "Elbrus" (SS-1C "Scud-B"). (I still haven't find a way to make some good tires)

After these Vets' of the WWII the next step is... --- The Post-War French tanks and vehicles collection One GIAT AMX Leclerc main battle tank, this one being named Duroc (probably in the name the general Géraud Duroc). Like the T-72 years before the French engineer opted for a 3-crew tank equipped with an automatic loader for its 120 mm rounds. Hopefully this one proved to be more reliable than its Soviet counterpart once on the theater. It arrived alas to late to be tested during Desert Storm and was firstly deployed along the UN forces in ex-Yugoslavia. The GIAT AMX-40 MBT prototype, with another AMX-30 and a GIAT AMX-10P amphibious infantry fighting vehicle further. The GIAT AMX-30 EBD. The sign in front says "It is unique in the world". This particular variant was actually deployed during the Operation Daguet (Desert Shield/Storm) in 1991 as an armored minesweeper vehicle to neutralise the Iraqi mines and controlled from about 2000 m with the control box visible on the third picture. The rolling mines jumper actually was from East-German origin! Atelier de Construction d'Issy-les-Moulineaux AMX-13 T75, equipped with four SS.11 anti-tank missiles to completed its tiny and limited 75 mm main gun (actually a modernization of the famous 7.5 cm Kampfwagenkanone 42 L/70 from the Panther). This variant was pretty well employed by the I.D.F during the Six-Days War. Sorry for these bad exposed shots... The monstrous Atelier de Construction d'Issy-les-Moulineaux AMX-50 heavy tank. This gigantic machine was a part of these famous heavy tanks conceived in the 50's like the U.S M-103, the British Conqueror or the Soviet T-10. The size and mass were the only solution with the technology of the time to fix a 120/122 mm anti-tank gun on a "moveable" (if we can say that...) and protected platform. The ARL-44 heavy tank prototype. Conceived during the 2nd World War it was not completed before 1949 and was already outdated at this time. Sorry for such a bad shot of it, it is my only one. My second favorite piece of the museum. The impressive Aérospatiale AMX-30 Pluton (Pluto, Roman god of the Hells), short range nuclear ballistic missile Tractor-Erector-Launcher. Based on the main battle tank platform the Pluton was a part of what was called in France the "Final Warning" before the deployment of the main French nuclear force by the Redoutable-classe SSBNs, the S3 IRBMs and the air-carried bombs or missiles from the Air Force and the Navy. The most worrying fact about this 10 to 25 kt tactical weapon is that its range did not exceed more than 120 km at the best, which means that I case of deployment and launch, the target would have been located in an Allied State, most likely the West-Germany at this time. One Cadillac 75 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 Scott. This one was deployed by the French Army during the Indochina War. Roebling LVT-4 Alligator, this Landing Vehicle Tracked is another veteran of the Indochina Campaign of 1946-54.

It is much more close of the success than the failure to me. Edit : I've just finished to one of today for my part. Two Soviet Mil M-24D "Hind-D" patrolling between the Afghan mountains.

Of course. Or I could try to keep just one picture of each model and place all the others of it in a spoiler?

It was a really nice one indeed, the collection being pretty various and "accessible", I mean nothing to separate us from the exposed vehicle, we could even touch them at any moment. I would like to see one V2 as well, one V1 replica was one a launching ramp in one of the Normandy museum I went years ago but it doesn't have the same aura as a ballistic missile. Now the next room is dedicated the small... --- Allied 1939-45 collection Vulcan Foundry Infantry Tank Matilda Mark II. It's impossible to me to know which variant it was precisely as it had a Mediterranean camo'. A15 Cruiser Tank Crusader III, AA Mark II with its twin turret mounted 20 mm Oerlikon cannons. Vickers-Armstrongs Infantry Tank Valentine Mk II from the Northern Africa campaign. The famous British Daimler Dingo Scout Car. One Leyland A34 Cruiser Tank Comet Mark I commanded by Dwight D. Eisenhower. I know it's stupid to take such kind of pictures... Vauxhall A22 Infantry Tank Churchill Mark IV with a portrait picture of Charles de Gaulle. It seems like it was hit by a 8.8 cm round which has no problems to pierce its frontal armor. It's even more impressive as that is the front machine gun emplacement which got an additional layer of armor... the round may have been fired from a pretty close position. SU-100 Soviet Tank Destroyer with additional portraits of Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in the back. Just like with the rest of the Red Army armored vehicle the lack of comfort and the ridiculous living volume in that Destroyer is impressive. Clement Voroshilov KV-1 Heavy Tank exposed with a broken track in a Stalingrad scenery. One Morozov Design Bureau T-34/76, the famous Tank of the Victory. I don't have any other pictures of this room, alas...

I used to make a terrible and weird dream (more a nightmare) for almost two years and nearly every night when I was 17-18... It always started while I'm flying a Cessna Centurion aircraft in a thunderstorm, the engine go down and I have to land on a road. Once I touch and start to break I am hitting someone on the side with the wing. I got judged and forbid to fly anymore. Some time after while I am drinking at a bar terrace a man wearing dark glasses stop by me, said he know me and that he had a solution to my problem if I could fly with some others persons for some special reasons in conflict areas. I say "yes" and then start to fly on an Antonov An-12 in Africa to deliver weapons to some groups, drugs or mercenaries and this for years. Then one day we have to extract the leader of a country in revolt, the guy embark onboard while we got shot by others in the destroyed terminal, we aligned and started the take-off roll. We keep on accelerating while still being fired at, we climbed slowly then after some seconds a MANPAD missile is hitting us, breaking the left wings. We then hit the ground with a part of the aircraft exploding while the front part and the cockpit are burning. I'm dying with all the other in the cockpit fire and then I wake-up every times at this precise instant... always wet and covered of transpiration. Then since the end years ago it never happened to me to make it again. I'm actually nearly never make any dreams or I maybe I can't remember them. The last weird was like two months ago where I was actually a passenger (not really a passenger, much more some kind of witness with a first person view) on the rear bench in a Ford Gran Torino with Starsky driving and Huch firing his Colt Python to another car...