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  1. Sildani
    I still have all mine. Always regretted not getting the evil black triangle bomber and two of the small fighters that fit into it. Loved the spring-motorized features and the magnetics.
  2. Sildani
    What happens when China has enough ​of Taiwan/Vietnam/Japan and starts shooting? They have some very capable aircraft like the J-10, possibly J-20, the various SU-27/30 copies, and a reasonable ADF setup. They're also on the other side of the world. Let's assume they attack, roll over the ROC, make an amphib landing from Manchuria to the west coast of Japan, or at least launch many missiles and drop many bombs on Nippon. Let's also assume no one's nuked anyone yet. Ten hours have elapsed. What do we do, with what, and would the 35, in all its incarnations, make any of that easier?
  3. Sildani
    The B has the gun AND STOVL? I must have missed that.
  4. Sildani
    Where we are today... that we know of. 😉
  5. Sildani
    On the 1X++, looks like the wings are wider (greater chord) than standard too. Also, look at the exhausts/feet. Different shape.
  6. Sildani
    If it's a VF-11, I'm okay with that.
  7. Sildani
    Looking good. It it harder to dissipate heat in space than in atmosphere?
  8. Sildani
    Um... why is he eating a dead leaf? CF-30? If it has the fold quartz built in, that'd make it the most expensive CF yet. Consider the uprated engines, beam cannon, missile bank, fold quartz and so on. That would be a very large Emigration Fleet or wealthy planet to afford that. It wouldn't surprise me to see the CF Valkyrie be a tweaked 25.
  9. Sildani
    I think I actually saw one CW05,in Herzogenaurauch Germany. Small white guy, thought he was a 1LT until I saw the open boxes on his bars. He just walked past me. And a rainbow followed him.
  10. Sildani
    So this is all they're doing, aside from the other VF-0s? Wow. Just how few people work for Arcadia I wonder?
  11. Sildani
    That fourth one, is it sponsored by 3M?
  12. Sildani
    Lovely pics Saburo. I was hearing the music from Firefox as I looked at them though. I need help...
  13. Sildani
    So at the risk of derailing the thread: what keeps you there? You came for the anime/culture/something, presumably, and now that you've had your fill of it, why are you still there, putting up with everything?
  14. Sildani
    And they probably don't use oil or hydraulic fluid either.
  15. Sildani
    Anyone else like those two stormtroopers in the back row who look like they're whispering to each other?c
  16. Sildani
    Well obviously, that's what the pilot needed the ATM for. His FAST packs were dry!
  17. Sildani
    It does come with that part.
  18. Sildani
    Nope. I think Bandai puts each Valkyrie through a cost/benefit analysis, and designs each one to a budget. As soon as it gets close to that budget, they stop and do the rest as cheaply as they can to come in under that budget. They then produce as many as they think will sell, no more, and that's that. They take their profit from that batch and leave the table. I'm pretty sure they do it that way because 1) Macross isn't the most popular anime out there, 2) They know they're the only game in town for the Macross fan, 3) they looked at Yamato, say how many of their Valkyries were shelf-warmers, and said to themselves: "Nope. Not that. Not us." Finally, I could be wrong, but it seems like Bandai sells every Gundam they ever make, in whatever iteration they make it in. How many times has the RX-78 been redesigned and re-released? How many Unicorn Rainbow Sparkle Unobtainium HX!! have been made? How many of you guys have bought them all? 😉
  19. Sildani
    Same here. Manly tears though.
  20. Sildani
    A CF 171 Renewal, made with the same plastic used by every other damn 171, along with a voucher that says everyone who sends in their broken V1's gets a free Renewal and Bandai's deepest apologies.
  21. Sildani
    Because we, who have no security clearances, no stick time in any current fighter, no aerodynamic education, and no current military/DoD/Lockheed employment, have picked up bits and bobs from the Internet which taken as a whole may well add up to less than the true capabilities of the aircraft? If any of you do, please say so. I honestly don't know who may have the Truth. One thing is beyond question: no matter its abilities, even if it does everything it says it will on the tin, this is grossly late and too expensive by half. Worthy airplanes like the TSR.2 where killed for less than half of this crapola. Sir Camm had yet to see an airplane like this, which may have length, width, and height imperfectly conceived but which has absolutely NAILED the political dimension.
  22. Sildani
    Respect. Massive respect. I wish his family all my condolences.
  23. Sildani
    Me as well. Lovely thing!
  24. Sildani
    I was wondering that myself. Even so, if you think a Merlin engine is tough to keep maintained, that'd be nothing compared to the 24 cylinder Napier Sabre in the Tiffie. I have no doubt each part would have to be fabricated on the spot.
  25. Sildani
    And that's exactly why I collect them.
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