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  1. Valkyrie Driver
    Yes I was aware he was doing something. Are you aware that I was kinda just being that dick that explains everything... My attempt at humor was poorly executed.
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    That sort of behavior isn't limited to European pilots. 1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 "Czar 52" Crash. Lt Col Arthur Holland pushed the aircraft beyond it's operational limits, while practicing for an Airshow. Also killed in the crash were Lt Col. Mark McGeehan, Col. Robert Wolff, and Lt Col. Ken Huston. Holland's personality and behavior were considered primary factors in the crash. Holland was the 92nd Bomb Wing StanEval Chief, McGeehan was the 325th Bomb Sqdn Commander, Wolff was the 92 Bomb Wing commander, and Huston was the 325th Bomb Sqdn operations officer. Holland initiated a steep angle bank at 250 feet AGL to avoid the Nuclear Weapons storage restricted Airspace, against recommendations, and the aircraft exceeded 90 degrees bank, and stalled, and quickly lost airspeed and altitude, before crashing to the ground killing all four crew on board. Just a notable example. Holland killed a big chunk of the base chain of command, with his idiotic stunt. This was the Wing Commander's final flight, his family was to meet him on the ramp as he disembarked the aircraft, as a send off for retirement. Yeah, douchebag behavior is everywhere. You can read the whole story here.
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    And specifically the dude wearing the shoulder pads and and almost (by that I mean vaguely) DYRL flight suit. sadly I can see HG pitching a fit and doing that.
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    Well, the intro riff from Holy Lonely light is very similar to the riff from Skin o' my teeth, it's just the one part, but almost identical in that one bit. As for the one song sounding like more than a feeling, it does, and I was just commenting, because I've been on a classic rock kick lately, and realized it sounded familiar. Not saying it's so familiar that it's a chord for chord rip off, just felt I had to share.
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    Ahahahaha, if by downhill you mean snowballed into an avalanche of awesomeness, then yes.
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    Maybe we'll see the rest of the destroids...?
  7. Valkyrie Driver
    More like if the YF-22 and YF-23 had an ugly baby that had an ugly baby with a SU-35...
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    Mother of God... You're right.
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    What source are you using for that? Just curious, as that's news to me.
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    This isn't stand related, or even Macross related, but Yeti, did your avatar just blink at me, or am I going insane? There! It did it again, and again... Please god tell me I'm not losing my mind...
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    Guardian, I'm not trying to be a dick, but you really need to proofread your crap. If you're gonna throw out that much word vomit, please make it a bit less painful to read. Again I'm not trying to be a dick, but I'm not going to lie, all those spelling errors and that grammatical chunkiness, has kept me from reading all the way through some of your posts. I can understand if English is not your first language, but it takes only a few minutes to catch some of those errors. As for the content of your last post, We've already hashed out that the AI's in the Ghost fighters used by Luca, are illegal and illicitly modified by LAI (and specific to the drones used by Luca). They are not considered representative of the Frontier's Ghost fleet. As for your comment about drone use, I'm not going to be drawn into that debate, but suffice to say Macross seems to have gone with the notion that Drones are uniquely suited to certain missions, that fall in the categories of Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous. That is how we aught to deploy drones as force multipliers, not the basis of the force. That's all I'm going to say on that matter, If you want to debate drones take it to the Aircraft thread in the Anime/TV section. Your comparison to gun control isn't quite apt. Gun Control is a domestic measure, and it's less about a misguided attempt to protect people than it is about fearing the object to be controlled. Gun control's scope is too small, and area of effect isn't large enough to make it an accurate comparison. Good attempt through. (Personally, my definition of gun control is putting two rounds through the same hole, consistently, but that's me...) The most direct comparisons are actual anti-arms proliferation treaties. Like the START treaties and SALT I and SALT II treaties. Also some of the UN arms proliferation initiatives that are intended to curb proxy wars, by restricting the supply of arms from certain parties. Meaning that those treaties are supposed to make situations like Vietnam and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan less likely, and to curb the spread of arms in those small tumultuous nations. Also to restrict secondary damage, from those weapons, such as having those weapons crop up in other warzones, like we saw in Central America in the 1980's, and then again in Afghanistan. Overall though I think you might be onto something, hinting at some pretty dark commentary.
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    Congrats. I hope you're as happy with yours as I am with mine (Favorite toy hands down...).
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    I never said it was perfect...
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    Ok, I'm not advocating that we just try to drop bombs on everything and call it a day. That's not what I'm saying. You apply the tactics that counter your enemy's strengths. Total war does still work, because the ultimate goal is to crush your enemy's will and ability to resist. I don't want to win hearts and minds, that's not going to work. It didn't work in Vietnam, it didn't work in Iraq, and it's not working in Afghanistan. I want the enemy's hearts and minds all over their walls. Find the enemy, kill the enemy, and deny them safe haven. If a population resists, make them regret it. We're talking about a region of the world that still remembers the Turks, Greeks, Huns, Mongols, and the damned Crusades. We go in playing with the kid gloves, and they see us as weak. Honestly this whole thing should have been special operations only. Limited air power and ground involvement, since it was all the high profile stuff that gave the enemy something to shoot at. Drones are not the answer either. A large professional military with leadership that is studied in the art of war, and completely unfettered by the court of public opinion. If the politicians could just write the damned checks and tell the military to get it done, we'd be in better shape. It's too late at night, and there's too much to say. All I've got is theory and training, I'll leave it to the guys who've been there and done it to describe.
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    So, Is it just me, or does the song basara is singing in M7 episode 30 sound a lot like "More than a feeling?" by Boston?
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    Well that's just damn maddeningly inconsistent...
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    Yes, the tactics are changing, and that's fine, we need to be able to adapt. You don't succeed on the battlefield by simply responding to threats. The A-10 is getting old, but it's still a flyable aircraft, and adjusting to the tactics means not emphasizing something that's less effective, but just because it's not the emphasis, doesn't mean you get rid of it. Look at the B-52, it's been limited from it's original capacity, The world has changed and we no longer face the threat of a Nuclear Superpower with weapons aimed at our major cities. We scaled back and de-emphasized the role of a long range strategic nuclear bomber, we've even de-emphasized it's role as a long range conventional bomber. It's not flying nearly as many sorties as it was, because why do we need a bomber that can carry that much precision ordnance, when it can't expend it in a single mission. We'll just use the B-1 and B-2, and fighters to carry out those missions. Just because the threat that birthed it no longer exists, it has adapted well to the role we assigned it, but it's no longer fitting the tactics we need to employ, so we'll use more capable aircraft with those tactics, but when we need those A-10's or B-52's we still have them. If we just built our forces around current tactics, we wouldn't put any emphasis on air to air combat ability because no air force has really challenged us since Vietnam (there was some air combat in the Gulf War, but not on the scale we saw in wars previously). That's all I'm getting at. The F-35 might become the frontline strike fighter, but it's not going to completely replace the need for aircraft like the F-16 and A-10, because it can't carry the load the A-10 does, or do it's mission perfectly (181 rounds in the gun, that can't compete with the A-10), nor is it capable of beating an F-16 in air combat, so while it could beat anything the F-16 can outperform, anything that outperforms the F-16 will eat the F-35, so past that magical day 1, you're going to need F-16's to kill enemy fighters, and you're going to need A-10's to support the ground advance, after the F-22's and F-35's have taken out the ground based air defenses. In this current conflict, the ability for the taliban to get their hands on MANPADS more advance than the SA-14 is very difficult, in fact Most of the MANPADS we see in the hands of insurgents around the world are mostly old SA-7s. Dangerous yes, to helos and maybe the A-10, a low altitude pass by an F-16 or F-15E is likely going to present a harder target, as they are typically higher speed passes than the A-10. But I'm an advocate of total war, and that military action should be swift and brutal, and kill a lot of the enemy's people. All you get when you hamstring your military by telling them that they can't hit a military target because of potential collateral damage is a protracted conflict like we see now. We've been at this for fourteen years, and there is no satisfactory end in sight (we'll be back in Iraq and Afghanistan to clean up our mess again within 10 years), and we'll likely have seen another terrorist attack on US soil by then. That's my prediction. By the way, SchizophrenicMC, none of this is directed specifically at you, I'm just damn tired of hearing that war changes. For all the ‘4th Generation of War’ intellectuals running around today saying that the nature of war has fundamentally changed, the tactics are wholly new, etc., I must respectfully say, ‘Not really’: Alexander the Great would not be in the least bit perplexed by the enemy that we face right now in Iraq, and our leaders going into this fight do their troops a disservice by not studying — studying, vice just reading — the men who have gone before us. We have been fighting on this planet for 5,000 years and we should take advantage of their experience. ‘Winging it’ and filling body bags as we sort out what works reminds us of the moral dictates and the cost of competence in our profession. James Mattis, General (Ret), USMC
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    Ah ok. I think it might safe to assume it's a weapon of similar use to the L/60 bofors and it's usually never run through it's magazine in one go as an aerial gun system. The two guns on the 19 might be linked in a staggered fire pattern, since I think we only ever see the one side fire. It looks like in plus when Isamu uses the weapon he's strafing a target, which means he's trying to hit more than one target.
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    I want a VF-4, any VF-4. Unfortunately, at arcadia's prices I'd probably never get it...
  20. Valkyrie Driver
    Worse than 120 rounds per minute? You can pull a trigger faster than that. 2 shots a second seems really slow to me, even for a high damage output weapon like that.
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    I didn't think about it, but I just assumed that the F-35 was going to be tested, if not already, with multiple ejector racks (MERs). It would be incredibly stupid if it could not use MERs, as that would severely restric it's combat capacity, and then there would be no way the F-35 could compete with the A-10. At that point I'd be all for cranking the F-105 line back up, I mean the F-105 could carry 14,000lbs of ordnance and it could do 1000 knots on the deck. You don't need stealth when you can get in under radar, and deliver your load, and be gone before they realize you hit them. F-35 can't do that.
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    So we're talking a rate of fire like an L40 bofors compared to say a GAU-22/A?
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    So how does this translate into rate of fire, power consumption, and damage output compared to laser or particle accelerator weapons?
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    This is most likely, Whatever new valks are in Macross Delta. Also repaints, I can see the M30 pink VF-19 happening, which I admit I'll probably get. I'd like to see some low vis valks too. V1.5 Cannon Fodder VF-171's might also happen. I'd like to see a Cannon Fodder VF-25F, so I can build my own SMS Frontier Skull Squadron (The lead team, and then 3 more Four finger flights, each led by a VF-25F).
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    Saw a VF-19 plastered to a video of a discovery channel documentary on youtube. The subject was the future of air power. Picture was not in the documentary as far as I can tell...
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