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  1. kalvasflam
    I wonder if this will top all of the records, this is going to be the end of the Avengers for a while.
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    Well, I'm all happy at the thought of being so interconnected. I'm just waiting for the Cylons and/or Skynet to take advantage of this interconnectedness. If you look at the chart above, you start to think about where the critical points of vulnerabilities are, and then you start working on how to chop off those assets to throw the system into chaos. From both charts above, the biggest weakness appears to be the AWACS. So, may be the Russians and the Chinese have a good idea about using hypersonic AAMs to chop off support functions. No tankers means the strike package doesn't get the range it needs. No AWACS, fantastic, there goes command and control. The solution I'm sure someone will divine is going to be a distributed command system, like multiple drones handling info. Which will lead to people more interested in hacking those drones, and it'll keep going on and on.
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    Well, Blue Thunder was nothing more than a glorified Apache with skids, but no missiles. Airwolf on the other hand is modeled on the beautiful Dolphin, and can fly higher than a Mig-25. And oh, carry more frigging missiles than an Apache. Ah the good old days, where ammo was infinite, and there was always some damsel in distress.
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    Is it just me, or do I get the feeling that Mystique dies, JLaw is getting written out of the franchise?
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    In X3 , the phoenix was not an external entity that happens to borrow Jean's body, this one, it's not obvious. The only thing that we know for sure is that Grey is extremely powerful, how much of that is her, in AoA, vs a renter remains to be see.
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    Hey, I have a copy of that book. I hope they actually release a version of the 2202 book. Would be interesting, if nothing else but the mechanics portion. I'm sure they'll do two just to suck my wallet dry.
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    I really mean the movies with JLaw, DMcAvoy, and MFassbender (for some reason, when I say it that way, it reminds me of Bender from Futurama) Each of these movies are connected, but at the same time, they are self contained story. There is not as much an overarching theme as the MCU, where if you got dropped into the Infinity War, you would have no idea of the previous history. The First Class series you can kind of go in and at least be ok if you didn't see the prior movies.
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    Because I'm sure there will be moments when Mystique is not blue and they need to slap JLaw's pretty face on screen. It's kinda screwy, in a world where mutants are more "accepted" and "national heroes" that one still has to go around using her power of camouflage. Besides, JLaw is a draw, otherwise, they could hire any low paid actress off of the streets in Hollywood and cover her up in paint.
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    I honestly think there are two problems with these grand productions. One problem with all of these big screen production is that they tend to kill off the antagonist for the most part. So far, the only survivors on repeated showing have been Thanos, and Loki, I only look at guys with major roles, not the weirdo Hydra repeats that last a minutes on the screen in a subsequent movie. Oh, I suppose Jared Leto's Joker counts as well. But he hasn't had his second movie yet, nor the guys from Suicide squad. The second problem is that Hollywood still likes to make self contained movies because if it bombs, well, no sequel necessary. If you look at the First class series, these are all entirely self contained movies that if they failed, well, that's ok, and the stories are all centered around Mystique, Xavier, and Lensheer. Everyone else is just added on. Whereas the comics were more diverse, and the aforementioned characters were in support roles. Marvel succeeded I think in part because they figured out how to shoehorn in this Thanos arc sometime between Thor and the first Avenger movie, and then they were able to build on the success by laying out a plan for the long term. (mostly because of Disney bucks) You just don't see that for the X-men series. Fox never bothered to say there would be another five or six in the pipeline post the success of DoFP.
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    I wonder how many of those drones will be directly controlled by the support assets. They could put a station onto the E-3 or the KCs right? I wonder if there is some form of free space communications system when multiple autonomous drones are operating at once in the same region to deconflict flight paths or such. But you know, the funny thing is, there is plenty of places to test this sort of stuff to prove things out.
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    Oh poor JLaw, how horrible for her to be covered in make up so she can make millions. Wasn't she supposed to be done with the series after XMA? Yet here she is again, more money. She knows where her bread is getting buttered. Just put up with it like Craig has to put up with another Bond. Anyway, the movie doesn't look quite that bad. We'll have to see, they do tend to mangle the Phoenix movies.
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    So that it'll betray them on the first chance the drone gets? I know, I know, it's Judas, not Judah. But it's hilarious how they picked the name. And besides, the question is always going to be how connected are these drones. You can imagine that they get hacked while on the ground, and turn in mid flight somewhere.
  13. kalvasflam
    Looks like they are still keeping things under control with a limited engagement, let's hope this ends it. It wasn't that clear to me if this happened during the Indian air strikes, or if the Pakistanis ambushed an Indian air patrol. My sense is the latter. The papers aren't laying out a good timeline of the incidents at this point. Anyway, hopping from one military subject to the next: https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/avalon/2019/02/27/boeing-unveils-loyal-wingman-drone/ I like this, it looks like soon we will have Lil' Drakens flying along side full Drakens. It'll also be hilarious if this thing can be scaled down, and fitted inside the 747 carrier that the USAF had in mind back in the 70s. I wonder though, if the idea of the loyal wingman is to protect logistical and support assets, how would they do that, would they act as some type of ECM platform, or would it be something else?
  14. kalvasflam
    Does anyone know what time it is? That's right. It's time to shoot, hit, stab, kill, maim Yuki again. Remember in each Yamato series, we must have at least one instance of such, the more the series advance along, the more Yuki must be abused so that we can traumatize Kodai and turn him into an emo kid, and make him scream "YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKIIIIIIIIII" This is like a running theme in SBY. If Yuki is not imperiled, something is wrong, like that episode of South Park when Kenny lived, and Cartman is left wondering what's wrong. Although it could be that Yuki is immortal, and they need to come up with a series that's titled SBY: The end of Yuki Mori. But perhaps I misunderstand the situation, somehow, Kodai might be secretly happy that Yuki i imperiled all the time, it gives him the excuse to act the way he does. Oh by the way, Kodai, you talked to Zordar again now, sure it was through Miru, but same difference, so please shot him on sight, and don't waste more time trying to reason with him
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    Offer a high enough price, I'm sure they'll sell it to whomever. Just look at the Varyag... excuse me Liaoning. But with Hollywood magic, you can get Mav back in the cockpit of a F-14 for the finale. Ideally one loaded with 6xAIM-54 which he can ripple off in a fractional itano circus kind of way before engaging in a lot of gratuitous ACM, and using the Tomcat's often forgotten M61 in spectacular fashion.
  16. kalvasflam
    Another trailer out So, exciting... Looks like we're setting thing back on track with Dessler getting back in charge. Yuki is about to die/get knocked around again. She is just like Kenny in South Park. And they are going to unleash that ark of destruction thing. Neat
  17. kalvasflam
    COBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
  18. kalvasflam
    That's true, and there is always the danger of the mothership coming under attack. The practical question becomes what is the best advantage conferred by the mothership. One would assume it has something to do with operational range, and the fact that it is mobile. But if you have to start considering the degree of logistical support for the carried aircraft and defensive capabilities, suddenly you need something a lot larger and a lot more robust than a converted 747...
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    Amen, now, that's a defense project I can get behind. Except, now it can be more realistic, we don't need pilots, we have drones. It would be cool. In fact, I have an even better alternative here. Use the A380, it has a larger carrying capacity, and this needs to be a European project to save the line before it is permanently killed. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/airbus-to-axe-a380-programme-after-emirates-order-re-455756/ In fact, they don't even have to wait for a process, someone could use their discretionary budget, to buy the two A380 from Dr Peters on the cheap, then retrofit and test.
  20. kalvasflam
    Do you remember when the Lightnings went out of service? How about the Phantoms? The RAF has better tech for sure, but its is a farcry from the late 80s in terms of mass and just overall readiness. I think if the Falklands happened today, the RN and RAF will not be in any better shape than it was in 1982. But then, the same can be said about most of the western armed forces. These Tornadoes are the attack versions I believe, the air defense variants has been phased out for a while, is that right?
  21. kalvasflam
    Just because anyone can be Batman, it doesn't not mean anyone should Batman. Although this is a good point, Keaton was a decent enough Batman. But I doubt John Goodman would've been a good Batman.
  22. kalvasflam
    Nice, WPAFB, shame, they didn't have the YF-23 when I was there. But it was an amazing collection.
  23. kalvasflam
    Ok, having finally watched the subs. This set was better than the earlier stuff. The explanation was still lacking in some of the battle scenes, but passable enough. The flow seems a little disjointed in some cases, for example, just cutting straight into the Gamilas attack, or cutting away right after the Andromeda squadrons hit Gatlantis with the WMGs. Then you just see the Andy by itself blasting crap away, with no idea how it even got there, or where the ship was, or how all the other Andies got blown away. Wished there were actually more actions sequences there that connect to each other. The pacing actually feels a little rushed now, and it wouldn't have happened if we didn't have so much crap like the blue tunnel of love that led to nowhere, or the extended getting to Telezart arc, because no one gave two shits about baldy in command of the fleet and his little clone, or the ground forces commander, all of whom died and nobody cared. If they can pull off the conclusion with the right pacing (which should be possible), then 2202 would be at least passable in terms of story telling even with all the inflated military action and exponential increase in fire power.
  24. kalvasflam
    well, for all that work, that cookie better be damned delicious.
  25. kalvasflam
    Lame... seriously... kinda lame.
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