All Comments on 'Dan and the Bottle Ch. 21'

Thank you for another great chapter. It's good to see you back.

I am really enjoying this story , please don't just leave it hanging

I'm not about to 'leave it hanging'.... though I've still got a few chapters to go. I'm already at work on the next one in fact, but I'm finding I need to do a bit more research. I made a mistake in this one, in fact, a remark about a Desert Eagle revolver.... DE makes automatics. (I could have sworn they made both... I recall hearing that they were going to introduce a line of wheelguns, and must have extrapolated from there) I'm also trying to set up coming chapters with references in current ones, and sometimes it's hard to keep track of them all at once. Bear with me, guys... I'm doing the best that I can.

I am really enjoying this story please write more so many story lines to follow. Thank You and keep writing...

And I LOVED the incident when the big cargo plane stuck out its cargo ramp like a tongue and threatened to eat the F18...hilarious!

Don't worry too much about the mistakes, Dan, It is, after all, a work of fiction, which gives you literary license to throw in something that may or may not actually exist: case in point being the electric rifles (750 kilowatt battery small enough to carry, indeed!). It's still a great story, and I, for one, eagerly await chapter 22.

One thing does bother me a little, though, if the U.S. military was devastated so bad, who has been maintaining the GPS satellites? They would be highly inaccurate if not totally dead after 200 years without constant maintenance of their orbits and software updates...

I do tend to take a bit of license with facts, and basic physics, from time to time, but it's only in the interest of building a decent story line. Chapter 22 is in the works, might be a bit longer than previous chapters, and I've got a fair amount I still want to add to this. a few questions will be answered, and a few new ones will pop up in their place.

You need some serious study of military equipment. Your battle ops are fine and dependent on training and situations; you can't expect them to be fully accurate from a military standpoint.

Your reliance and belief in the M2 Browning is way off. It's an anti-vehicle weapon, generally armor piercing. It's rate of fire is SLOW for a full auto weapon and not that good against people. It's better for those in fortified emplacements, APCs, Bradleys, Deuce and a halfs, etc. They are NOT mounted on helicopters. The airframe cannot handle the recoil and it will shake the airframe apart. They were tried in Viet Nam with bad results.

Speaking of helicopters - there are NO radars on helicopters. Radar is 'active' - it sends out a signal and reads the return. That makes it vulnerable for detection and direction finding (DF).

Speaking of DF - you seriously need to pick up an OPSEC manual (available in pdf on line). In the early 80's, the old Soviet Union could DF a radio signal in 9 seconds if the detection unit was on the move. If they were stationary, they could DF a signal in 3 seconds. There is no reason to assume technology in this area has deteriorated since then. Satellite coms is generally secure - NOTHING else is. Even the electronic signature of vehicles and generators can be detected and DF'd. With all of these guerrilla ops going on, you can bet DF would be non-stop. Even CB radios can be detected over several miles with the right equipment. Realistically, the cave would have been detected and destroyed in less than 6 months after they destroyed the first Chinese camp. That would have alerted them to the presence and all weapons brought to bear.

Deploying the F-117 during the day, and against troops? Why? Nothing about them for troops or dogfights.

Armament

2 × internal weapons bays with one hardpoint each (total of two weapons) equipped to carry:

Bombs:

GBU-10 Paveway II laser-guided bomb with 2,000lb Mk84 blast/fragmentation or BLU-109 or BLU-116 Penetrator warhead

GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb with 500lb Mk82 blast/fragmentation warhead

GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided bomb with 2,000lb Mk84 blast-fragmentation or BLU-109 or BLU-116 Penetrator warhead

GBU-31 JDAM INS/GPS guided munition with 2,000lb Mk84 blast-frag or BLU-109 Penetrator warhead

B61 nuclear bomb[88]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk

Nothing there to engage ground troops.

Warthogs? Nothing for engaging ground troops, either (other than the 30mm cannon with depleted uranium bullets - a bit of overkill there). They are for killing tanks - they can be used for fortified emplacements using rockets. Not dropping bombs (even cluster bombs).

Deuce and a halfs and Hummers for pulling heavy equipment? Nope. You need a semi rig with low boy trailers that pull apart for loading and off loading. Deuces and Hummers are not powerful enough, have the weight capacity or the equipment required for hauling such trailers.

Man pack minigun? Only in movies and cartoons. Assuming a man could handle the weight, the recoil and barrel rise, he COULD NOT handle the heat off of the barrels. He would have cooked forearms and stomach areas. He could only carry enough ammo for about 20 seconds of shooting (depending on how far down the weapon was tuned. A minigun using 7.62mm ammo CAN fire at 6,000 rounds per minute. Generally, they are tuned down to around 3,000 rounds per minute... I've never heard of a mini in 5.56mm... and there IS a difference between 5.56 and .223; not in the bullet itself but in the casing. You can fire .223 in an M-16 but cannot fire 5.56 in a .223).

The "M-16 with a tube under it" is an M-203.

Remember, everything these people have access to, the enemy also can access; satellites included. Think they wouldn't spot all this new land under cultivation? Road improvements? Vehicle traffic? Their own versions of AWAC would pick up the flights and flight training.

Just a little research would have made this story perfect. It's still worth finishing and reading, but just keep in mind, much of it requires a face palm to keep reading. Also, at this point, the sex is just distracting.

-Old Retired Army

Yeah, I know, there are some inaccuracies, but remember too.... this is a work of fiction. The machine cannon, for example, based, basically, on an M2 on steroids. Improbable? Most definitely. Impossible? Maybe, maybe not.... and just as that has been upsized, I think a minigun could also be downsized, and these folks had over 150 years to do the R&D. Like I said, it's fiction, so I have a little fun with it. I checked out the various weapon loads used on the f-117 on one of the aircraft/warplane websites, don't really recall which one, but I read that the Stealth can carry a minigun on one of the hardpoints inside the fuselage. Never knew how accurate it was, but decided to just go with it. As for using the A10 against troops, hell, the troops were just in the way, mostly, when the 'Hogs were tearing up the camps and clearing minefields and whatnot.... not to mention scaring the hell out of the ChiComs.

I realize the M2 Browning was originally designed as an anti-tank weapon, though by the start of WW2, tank armor had advanced to the point that a .50 cal was basically useless against one... however, the Ma Deuce has been used for decades as an anti personnel weapon, mostly to protect encampments. My dad told me that when he was in Viet Nam, he and his squadmates weren't really comfortable at a new firebase until the .50s were set up... and they hated relying on the M60s, because they just weren't reliable enough. I know several collectors who don't trust ANY machine gun that wasn't invented by John Moses Browning, and to be honest, I can't say as I blame them.

As for the sex being 'distracting'.... you DO realize this is an erotic website, right?