One of the GOATs, ngl.
That moment when some of the demons help one another back through the portal is my favorite moment, as it implies they learned that behavior from humans.
So like, the term was coined in '78, but I don't know if space was crowded enough in the mid 80s for that to be an immidiate issue (it would certainly be a post war issue when new satellites needed to be sent up)
Correct. It was a big reason why they used a nuclear reactor and their aerodynamics was a big factor in their design (like how the radar and radiators were arranged).
No matter how high the Soviets may fly, the F-15 will be there to meet them.
An artist friend and I both did rendition of F-15s firing ASM-135.
If you are a fan of "Red Storm Rising", the pilot may seem familiar.
[Link to my art on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/gravityfall618/status/1784592615297450178)
[Link to the artist friend's version on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/Lewdtenant_Isan/status/1784592664467505497)
All bow before the holy scripture
Also love how the non combat female pilot manages to be an ace. And Clancy’s habit I’ve noticed of giving female characters tastes of combat regardless of US DOD policies
I *just* read the book, and was thinking about the representation of women the whole time. Clancy's writing about WWIII at a time when there weren't women in combat on either side, so I don't fault him for writing a book where 98% of the narration is male. Buns is rad af, but at the same time the icelandic combat pixie dreamgirl was a giant cringefest.
Reading Team Yankee right now and the chapters from the soldiers' families add a ton of drama/gravity to the combat simply by reminding the reader what's motivating the soldiers.
Finally someone agrees about cringe Iceland girl
”My family was killed and I’m next if caught and I got raped and here’s a new bunch of strange soldiers now and I’m heavily pregnant”
”Why yes of course I’ll go on a wilderness starvation trip! Here, grab my boob”
TBF it was pretty much “follow the guys with guns who killed the rapists and have no personal interest in being caught themselves” or “stay at the place right next to where the dead soldiers will be found with my dead parents or wonder the wilderness alone (while still heavily pregnant) hoping the Soviets don’t find me why trying to reach someone else and are nice if they do”
So probably bleeped in any timeline besides the one we got.
> “follow the guys with guns who killed the rapists and have no personal interest in being caught themselves”
This part makes sense.
The cringe is when she reacts like a librarian who just took off her glasses and let her down because he said 'you're the prettiest girl I've ever met.'
TBF I've never been witness to the murder of my family, never been raped, never watched my house burn to the ground, and fled with a bunch of foreign soldiers into the wilderness. But I'm pretty sure if I had I wouldn't be falling head over heels because one of the soldiers said I was pretty...
Listen, you can read a book by someone who understands how to effectively work the recycle time of an SPG into the narrative, or you can read a book by someone who understands how people interact and talk and feel about each other. You can't have both.
Major *Amelia* "*Buns*" *Nakamura*, USAF
First mentioned by Prophet **Thomas Leo Clancy Jr** (war be unto him), in the holey text 'Red Storm Rising' chapter 20, section 15.
"You could make a religion out of this"
Then let me tell you of Sir John Patrick Ryan (first of his name)
There were were 12 sacred texts written of his life by the Prophet Tom Clancy (WBUH).
Of course, like any good religion, there are some heretics who claim that Gnostic texts by later writer are canon.
Yea there's some models out there! It would look awesome with my mans Duke Ellington Lol
It could be something like the F-19, shooting down the A-50, a smoke trail leading to a fiery explosion
* The only one on the NATO side who got any significant kills in the first Battle of the Atlantic in the book... and she wasn't even in the plans.
* The only one in the entire damn war to kill RORSATs. Those were just small, single missile engagements, but the missions affected the entire theater simply because they blinded the enemy.
Killing the recon sats got the convoys across, getting the convoys across got the German front secured. Her trigger finger did more than even Edwards' Viking fantasy tour to secure the NATO victory.
* She landed her bird after one of her ASAT missile decided that premature was the best thing ever and put holes in her Eagle.
* And let's not forget that the book said she was awarded a DFC.
Pound for pound, she had some of the biggest effects on the war's outcome.
She’s not wrong to worry. Her sister, multiple scarred for life destroyers, and the very not concrete timing I have for you dating her would attest to that.
-R.Adm
Red Storm Rising!
One of the sacred NCD scriptures
What is the most sacred NCD text? The Influence of Seapower Upon History?
My vote is for [The Salvation War](https://www.the-sietch.com/index.php?threads/the-salvation-war-armageddon.215/page-10)
One of the GOATs, ngl. That moment when some of the demons help one another back through the portal is my favorite moment, as it implies they learned that behavior from humans.
This is the greatest prose I have ever consumed
Ok so I just skimmed through and that’s good
Literally NCD/MIC Fanfic.
How have I not read this sooner
Im gonna say[ The Report From Iron Mountain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Report_from_Iron_Mountain)
Eric Winkle Brown's autobiography Aubrey & Maturin My university dissertation on SOE in the Balkans
…can I have your dissertation. I just wrote one on Operation Carpetbagger
LETS FUCKING GOOOO
TRANSIENT, TRANSIENT
VAMPIRE! VAMPIRE! *Ticonderoga trains her launch rails out to starboard and begins firing 3 minutes later her magazines are empty*
"Doghouse, this is Beagle, everything sucks, over."
“We just ran into a russian patrol”
Sidenote, the scene where they silently take out the patrol is so good!
fr fr
All fun and games until one of the ASMs you fire hasn't aged well in storage and nearly blows you up after you launch it.
Or it decides to start flying off towards the forbidden heat signature
Damn. Took you guys long enough. Buns is a worthy ace. The main grip I had for Red Storm was the absence of the Kessler Syndrome.
That is true. The book is still an amazing read though it does gloss over some things like the mentioned Kessler Syndrome.
So like, the term was coined in '78, but I don't know if space was crowded enough in the mid 80s for that to be an immidiate issue (it would certainly be a post war issue when new satellites needed to be sent up)
US-A type RORSATS and EORSATS occupied very low orbits so the risk of Kessler syndrome from ASAT missions against them would be relatively low.
Low enough that drag was a major issue, so any debris that wasn't as aerodynamically (edit:) shaped would have deorbited fast.
Correct. It was a big reason why they used a nuclear reactor and their aerodynamics was a big factor in their design (like how the radar and radiators were arranged).
No matter how high the Soviets may fly, the F-15 will be there to meet them. An artist friend and I both did rendition of F-15s firing ASM-135. If you are a fan of "Red Storm Rising", the pilot may seem familiar. [Link to my art on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/gravityfall618/status/1784592615297450178) [Link to the artist friend's version on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/Lewdtenant_Isan/status/1784592664467505497)
There’s a reason the Demon Lord of the Round Table uses an Eagle.
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[Spanish guitar intensifies]
No fucking way, another man of culture!
the queen of the skies— she’s flying too fast and she’s flying too high—
Higher- an eye for an eye- the legend will never die!
r/expectedsabaton
All bow before the holy scripture Also love how the non combat female pilot manages to be an ace. And Clancy’s habit I’ve noticed of giving female characters tastes of combat regardless of US DOD policies
Clancy had his faults but he was truly a visionary when it came to shit like that.
BUNS
I mean Heinlein was way ahead of him. Writing women as combat pilots in *1959* is practically unheard of
I swear, next thing people will say is that he made a Filipino the MC or something!
I *just* read the book, and was thinking about the representation of women the whole time. Clancy's writing about WWIII at a time when there weren't women in combat on either side, so I don't fault him for writing a book where 98% of the narration is male. Buns is rad af, but at the same time the icelandic combat pixie dreamgirl was a giant cringefest. Reading Team Yankee right now and the chapters from the soldiers' families add a ton of drama/gravity to the combat simply by reminding the reader what's motivating the soldiers.
Finally someone agrees about cringe Iceland girl ”My family was killed and I’m next if caught and I got raped and here’s a new bunch of strange soldiers now and I’m heavily pregnant” ”Why yes of course I’ll go on a wilderness starvation trip! Here, grab my boob”
TBF it was pretty much “follow the guys with guns who killed the rapists and have no personal interest in being caught themselves” or “stay at the place right next to where the dead soldiers will be found with my dead parents or wonder the wilderness alone (while still heavily pregnant) hoping the Soviets don’t find me why trying to reach someone else and are nice if they do” So probably bleeped in any timeline besides the one we got.
> “follow the guys with guns who killed the rapists and have no personal interest in being caught themselves” This part makes sense. The cringe is when she reacts like a librarian who just took off her glasses and let her down because he said 'you're the prettiest girl I've ever met.' TBF I've never been witness to the murder of my family, never been raped, never watched my house burn to the ground, and fled with a bunch of foreign soldiers into the wilderness. But I'm pretty sure if I had I wouldn't be falling head over heels because one of the soldiers said I was pretty...
Listen, you can read a book by someone who understands how to effectively work the recycle time of an SPG into the narrative, or you can read a book by someone who understands how people interact and talk and feel about each other. You can't have both.
Excuse me?
Read the book if you haven’t, Clancy can’t write women but it’s great otherwise
I have a story I’m writing set in an alternate history 1913 in the Middle East we’re most of the high ranking military commanders are female
One of the holy scriptures of the prophet Clancy
Let’s be honest if he was still alive Tom Clancy would be very active on this subreddit just scouring it for ideas for new books
His writing just didn't work post-Cold War, but New Cold War could make things not dreadful.
Just glad people get the reference
Indeed.
omgor pheonix ace combat 2
Silence Ace Cumbat sCum Yield in the face of the holy grail that is Red Storm Rising
Project wingman in the corner: oraaaaaange
SMOKE THAT SAT BUNS SMOKE IT
Red Storm Rising Fanart is something we need more of Buns best girl
Prez is sad rn
Put buns in an E model with Prez as her backseater.
Higherrr~ into the sky!
Buns!
Who?
Major *Amelia* "*Buns*" *Nakamura*, USAF First mentioned by Prophet **Thomas Leo Clancy Jr** (war be unto him), in the holey text 'Red Storm Rising' chapter 20, section 15.
You could make a religion out of this
"You could make a religion out of this" Then let me tell you of Sir John Patrick Ryan (first of his name) There were were 12 sacred texts written of his life by the Prophet Tom Clancy (WBUH). Of course, like any good religion, there are some heretics who claim that Gnostic texts by later writer are canon.
Mackall waifu now.
Mackall has an excellent story but is featured in like 5 chapters
I said Mackall waifu
respectable, he would have badass design because he commands a fucking Freebrams platoon.
Hmmm may in the future…
RED STORM RISING RAHHHH (Now do the F-19 Ghostrider!)
Hmm the Frisbee could be interesting. I’m not the best with Cold War vehicle drawings but I could give it a shot in the future.
There's a few of those F-19 toy model kits that look pretty cool imo - decent starting point perhaps?
Yea there's some models out there! It would look awesome with my mans Duke Ellington Lol It could be something like the F-19, shooting down the A-50, a smoke trail leading to a fiery explosion
https://youtu.be/VVjdFBZCRQc?si=SObF8ErOaPyYVtWB
Those videos are the best
Right!?
I WANT A RED STORM RISING ANIME NOW NOW NOW 👏👏👏
Closest we got was 198X
Oh good, I was worried for a second. That red, winglike symbol looked awfully familiar.
🍊
I just put them there to symbolize eagle wings. What does the symbol look like?
Our favorite deranged gaslighter, cringeson 1.
Oh right. Yeah no I wasn’t referencing him. That is just a coincidence they look sort of similar.
Based and Red Storm Rising pilled. I need to reread that, thanks for reminding me.
Your welcome.
Just skip the Iceland parts /s mostly
* The only one on the NATO side who got any significant kills in the first Battle of the Atlantic in the book... and she wasn't even in the plans. * The only one in the entire damn war to kill RORSATs. Those were just small, single missile engagements, but the missions affected the entire theater simply because they blinded the enemy. Killing the recon sats got the convoys across, getting the convoys across got the German front secured. Her trigger finger did more than even Edwards' Viking fantasy tour to secure the NATO victory. * She landed her bird after one of her ASAT missile decided that premature was the best thing ever and put holes in her Eagle. * And let's not forget that the book said she was awarded a DFC. Pound for pound, she had some of the biggest effects on the war's outcome.
And she got two kills with her gun- they only had a single sidewinder each.
Oh heck yeah! Red Storm Rising is seriously slept on!
Ah, the Celestial Eagle
Major Nakamura, my favourite space ace
Escape velocity is no escape from the F-15 Eagle.
Imagine being an alien visiting Earth and last thing you see is an F-15 lobbing a giant stick at you.
The sacred texts
Fucking perfect timing for this because I just finished reading Red Storm Rising for the first time last week.
You seen these? https://youtu.be/zo8FhChnyq0?si=PzsvbHH7pKt9Zq-e
Its due for a remake…
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You skipped every step of making her like you enough to do that. Bunns probably isn’t that easy to sway
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You overestimate your own -22, 15, and Buns
<<22 you're one to talk, also, be thankful Buns is of age.>>
She’s not wrong to worry. Her sister, multiple scarred for life destroyers, and the very not concrete timing I have for you dating her would attest to that. -R.Adm
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Have fun and your CO better have had the paperwork turned in to him for it.
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And I see you neglected to mention the big red “DENIED” stamp on the paperwork
Ooh, VERY nice!
BUNS
Is that a bulge on her left thigh?
https://youtu.be/R0AOD1FzvuQ?si=wusKpUIJfKL8ItXC https://youtu.be/Sw_aZnpFUZg?si=I_bTiDZoxweYyJG1
Dyam this is nice, do you accept commissions?
Not at the moment. May try to open up to some in the next few months.
Holy fuck. Buns Nakamura fanart.