Modern Commer Replacement

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Where is Zarse.  We need a renewed sense of direction here  

[mgmark]

Arhh, you need a Amphicar

Make it more than one and then Club Arnage truly can beat the rip-off ferry companies...............  

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[Steve Pyro]

This is definately more my cup of tea !!


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[mgmark]

This is definately more my cup of tea !!

Certainly would have sorted out everyone's aquaplaning problems shortly after the start at Le Mans a couple of years ago !

[Andy Zarse]

Where is Zarse.  We need a renewed sense of direction here  

Zarse is here. Sorry gents but I've been working, I do do some work on occasions.

But don't look to me for a sense of direction. I lost the point of this thread ago!! And I suspect all the other contributors did too.

Mark, can you not call in some sort of air stike to destroy it? I would suggest a flight of Tornado GRs fitted with the new TIALD guided C-RAM munitions (C-RAM = Commer Removing Airborn Missile).

I know how you flyboys like your acronyms!

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[I lost the point of this thread ago!!

Hmm..........sounds like the end of thread to me.  

[mgmark]

Mark, can you not call in some sort of air stike to destroy it?

Andy, whatever the original point of the thread, it has become a rather delightful free-flowing illustration of loosely-connected insane ideas, seemingly backed up by real things that some idiot has actually built...... In terms of AI strikes using the new C-RAM, unfortunately, the Tornado is not a suitable launch platfrom and Eurofighter 2000 is well, not yet here in 2003, so we have renamed it Typhoon in the hope that people won't notice the delay.   Moreover, the latest Defence White Paper has decided that we need lots of smart munitions, so that need less people to operate them (shades of Blue Streak and Sandys in the '50s).   Recent tests of C-RAM have indicated that the CEP is insufficently accurate, Vmax will not touch the Commer in a tail-chase and the IR signature is totally unreadable.   All in all then a GMFU, so we'll fall back on the BBMF to launch the Lanc with a Grand Slam instead - chocks away.......  

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F***ing ace Mark...still laughing

[Steve Pyro]

Could it be air launched from an Aero Car ?

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No no no, the ideal launch vehicle has to be the..........Commer itself  

[mgmark]

Could it be air launched from an Aero Car ?

HHmmmm tricky one that - with a kerb weight of an Aero Car at, say, 1500lbs and the weight of a single Grand Slam at 22,000lbs filled with RDX, it might struggle to move an inch even revving the nuts off a  twin-turbo V8.   Size could also be an bit of a show-stopper (piccy below).................  

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[BigH]

Please stop it, pleeease.
I'll do anything, just stop it...
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Anything H ?  Ok  

[mgmark]

Please stop it, pleeease.
I'll do anything, just stop it...

Big H - I'm sorry - it's just too much fun when compared with the mind-numbing prospect of work today......

No no no, the ideal launch vehicle has to be the..........Commer itself  

Aaahhh - but then you get into the problems of equipment compatibility with British aerospace engineering..................


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[Andy Zarse]

Sorry, I wasn't trying to destroy the thread in reality. Indeed, such things are indestructable. A bit like the Commer itself.

Last year we were driving down the N138, through what is known as the  Falaise Pocket. Looking in the rear mirror, I am sure I could see ghostly Typhoons (original WW2 ones) chasing us, firing misslies and cannons at the Commer. This spiritual "L'Encirque" had no effect of course and we were able to escape the killing fields.

Blue Streak, wasn't that Steve on his 40th birthday? I didn't know he was pals with the Duncan-Sandys.

Actually, I was just attempting to send the thread off on a new tangent! It seems to have worked.