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    I see from the scans posted later that you're right but... good grief, I didn't think "worse than 'Cyberpirates'" was possible! (for the record, I have mixed feelings about "Robotech" - on the one hand, it did get me into giant robot anime through the RPGs).
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    It wasn't "The Cyberpirates", was it? It was published under Eternity, not Antarctic but even when back when I bought anything vaguely anime-ish I recognised the art in that as being fantastically bad. http://robotechvisions.wikia.com/wiki/Robotech_II:_The_Sentinels:_Cyberpirates
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    The details are very hazy for me now, but at one point Thrawn does execute a crewmember for something to do with the tractor beam problem - something about the tractor beam operators supervisor not instructing the operator that Lukes trick was a possibility.
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    I've got it! Considering recent debates about other newly introduced aircraft, the Su-57 will from now on be assigned the NATO codename "Flamewar".
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    For those of you trying to find a NATO codename for the SU-57 that hasn't been taken, heres a handy list - and, no, I didn't know "Firebird" was assigned to the Chinese J-10!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_reporting_names_for_fighter_aircraft
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    Probably won't be "Foxfire", IIRC that was the codename allocated to either the MiG-25 or MiG-31 radar. Although the Russians have their own names for their equipment (one of the best known is "Akula" - "Shark" - what NATO called the "Typhoon" class SSBN; ironically enough, NATO assigned "Akula" as the codename to a completely different class of Russian submarine) I remember reading that some Russians used the NATO codename "Fulcrum" to refer to MiG-29s. "Fenestrator"...? Edit: Oh, and "Flipper" was a codename assigned to a prototype Russian fighter from the 50s I think...
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    While thats widely reported, and was indeed tactical policy due to the Hurricanes lesser performance, in practice things were very rarely that neat and orderly. Most contemporary accounts seem to indicate that Spitfires or Hurricanes engaged whatever they found first (or were engaged by whomever found them first).
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    A Macross forum and no-ones mentioned Sharon Apple yet? (granted, there are... questions that may be raised over the authenticity of her work, but OTOH, most manufactured bands don't have a heavily armed alien battleship to fight their corner for them... ).
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    So... a F-35B then? [1] [1] Yes, I know the nozzle was actually designed in the US before the YaK-41 etc...!
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    Allegedly, the Russians are working on a new V/STOL fighter. It will be interesting to see if some of the comments applied to, ahem, a certain other attempt at the same thing recently will be applied to it... (assuming the project is real).
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    Finally got to see this today. Well, the engines were always going to be wrong and the noses are the wrong colour but much to my amazement the Me109s have struts under the tailplanes! May also be the first war film I've ever seen which accurately reflects the difficultly of aiming over the Spitfires famously long nose. The RAF [1] even fly in the "Idiots Formation", more historically accurately known as a Vic. And a Blenheim gets a cameo! Bloody hell! Oh, and theres some stuff on a beach. I jest. "Dunkirk" is not exactly a conventional war film. The Germans are almost totally unseen (other than the Luftwaffe), their presence felt only by the effects they have on the cast, very few of which are ever addressed by name. The action is deliberately disjointed, with several interlocking threads gradually coming together. This isn't a film about heroic wartime derring-do, rather its about how a desperate attempt to get away from something can result in people doing things beyond the norm. Even the RAF plot strand, possibly the most conventionally war-comic of them all, is shown to result in tragic unintended consequences. Oh, and a word of warning - Christopher Nolan uses sound like a hammer most of the way through the film; you might want a paracetamol afterwards. And a cushion to hide under for when the first Stuka starts making its dive... Not sure "enjoyed" is the right word, but recommended. [1] Regards the comments about the ammunition counts - the pilot seemed to be firing only very short bursts at each target; the early 1940-era Spitfire carried enough ammunition for about thirteen seconds continuous firing so going by what I saw in the film its just remotely possible the ammo would have lasted (in real life, probably not; German bombers were fairly well protected for the most part and usually required a lot of machine gun rounds to go down). As for the gliding... all that burning seafront created good thermals?
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    Doctor Who Christmas Special 2017 trailer behind spoiler screen, not sure how caught up other territories are and theres a fairly big spoiler for the end of the current series right away...
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    Its been widely reported that this is the first woman to play the Doctor, though - by a technicality - thats not strictly true, as British living national treasure Joanna Lumley appeared on screen as the Doctor in a rapid-fire regeneration sequence in the for-charity BBC TV skit "The Curse of Fatal Death" (written by some guy called Moffat, wonder whatever happened to him?). In terms of series canon, though, that puts the first female Doctors status right up there with Peter Cushing or that time several Doctors met the cast of "EastEnders"... I wish the new Doctor every success in the role. Shes familiar to UK TV viewers as having had a major role in the hit crime drama "Broadchurch"; US fans might recognise her from the role she had in the film "Attack the Block" (where she appeared with some guy whos like a Storm Trooper or something?).
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    Remember I said this last time? Holy. Cow. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to need a bigger, holier cow.
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    You clearly haven't seen the UK news the past couple of days, where we've been calling their carrier a second-hand car and they've been calling ours a "convenient target"... Seafires broke a lot, unfortunately. Tejas is an interesting choice but unless F-35Bs are shown to be unable to catch a paper glider I suspect we'll be sticking with them...
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    Never knew there would be a navalised Gripen NG variant. However, if as stated its CATOBAR due to various messy decisions a few years ago (its a long story), then no HMS Liz Two wouldn't be able to deploy them.
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    In answer to the "What else do we fly from HMS Her Maj" replies 1) as far as I'm aware, theres no naval Gripens and we can't use Rafales because shes not a CATOBAR carrier and 2) Didn't we sell all the Harriers to you lot anyway? Can we have some back please? Elsewhere in the UK, someone finally got Galland his "squadron of Spitfires" [1] (sort of): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-40426747/luftwaffe-ace-flies-in-spitfire [1] I will not be the first to point out that this is one of the most mis-interpreted wartime quotes ever.
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    I say it again, chaps, please get the F-35 to work otherwise we're going to have to hire her out as the worlds biggest pedalo or something... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40402153
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    Meanwhile, mines also on the '35... https://www.defensetech.org/2017/06/23/mig-35-russia-4-gen-light-fighter-combat/
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    Regards last nights penultimate episode of the season: Holy. Cow.
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    For the record, the current software for the F-35 limits it to just over 7Gs, 9Gs will be the next release. I also recall similar comments made about the Eurofighter Typhoon vs the Rafale, when the Typhoon had also had less of its flight envelope cleared compared to the Rafale...
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    F-35A at Paris airshow, where that ultimate arbiter of combat aircraft effectiveness the online airshow video has definitely determined, ending all possible arguments and stopping any further discussion that the F-35 is the ultimate air combat machine past, present or future/more useless than a Brewster Buffalo thats already been shot down/sexier than a PaK-FA wearing a bikini/uglier than something found at the bottom of the ocean/what actually launched the proton torpedoes that destroyed the Death Star:
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    So, having seen that MiG-29, the F-35 probably doesn't seem quite so lumpy anymore right?
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    Look, however you feel about the F-35, could you please just make sure it works in the end? We're starting to run out of potential substitutes over here... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/29/last-sea-vixen-plane-foxy-lady-performs-emergency-landing/
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    Dobber, interesting you picked up the tight formation, because thats another historical accuracy (though it could just have been done for filming purposes); the RAF called it a "Vic" and the Luftwaffe - who from their Spanish experience learnt that such formations were too inflexible for modern air combat - called it the "Idiot rotte" ("idiots formation/group") ; it took quite a while for the RAF to realise the Luftwaffes looser, four-plane formations were superior (so much so, its still used today). Also, the soldiers comment about "Where are the bloody air force!" is sadly accurate; the RAF were there, but often were fighting above visual contact from the ground and were limited by having to get across the Channel first which ate into their fuel supply (the same problem the Luftwaffe fighters had, in reverse, during the Battle of Britain). It often gave the mistaken impression to the troops on the ground that there were no friendly fighters at all engaged.
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