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    Time for a pet peeve about the "Civilisation VI" introduction; as its only been released this morning (and I haven't even played it myself yet), and I know how super-sensitive spoilers can be, just as a precaution aircraft nerdiness follows behind spoiler tags:
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    Hello, Sailor! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37725327
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    Y'know, it says something about the AV-98s design that it still holds up pretty well today. I mean, it was the 90s, it doesn't even have any day-glo on it...
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    A previous poster wondered if A-10s would still have been in service if the A-7F had gone ahead; I took the opportunity to make an allusion to a certain other aircraft which has also been compared to the A-10 recently...
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    A-7F still wouldn't have been chosen over the A-10 because as we know it didn't have a big enough gun, 3,000 rounds of ammunition, actually had avionics and was far, far too fast. If it also had RCS reduction features than that would have been the absolutely final nail in the coffin.
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    Thats not bird cr*p, its "white dielectric material"...
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    Oh, it definitely is, its one of my all-time favourite game tracks... Be interesting to know if they licenced it....
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    Ah, the same air-to-air missiles they used in "Blue Thunder", the ones that can take out the whole floor of a tower block by themselves... ...wait a minute, in that second clip, is that music from an "Ace Combat" game?!! Spanish guitar?!!!!:
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    How does that hair work?!!
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    Supposedly its to honour the Doolittle "raiders" who attacked Tokyo.
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    Batarang? Ooh, yes, that would be good...
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    Introducing the B-21 Boring McLameName: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/americas-next-stealth-bomber-will-officially-be-named-r-1786797266 B-21 "Raider". Place your bets on what the crews will actually call it now...
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    PLASMA STEALTH CONFIRMED! Also, OMG, F-22 makes rainbows, stealth is useless, must buy more A-10s!
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    Considering what it took to make the YF-17 into the F/A-18 in the first place, I suspect the end result would be about the same...
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    According to Wikipedia, although they initially offered it they later pulled out due to changing requirements; apparently they would now need a clean sheet design to meet the new programme goals.
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    David, thanks for ID' ing that bom... missil... thing? Boeing have revealed their TX contender, immediately voted "Most Likely To Star As Enemy Aircraft In An 'Iron Eagle' Reboot": http://www.boeing.com/features/2016/09/tx-rollout-09-16.page
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    I guess Meteors best bet is that its more-or-less an "off-the-shelf" solution, possibly more so if they get that Japanese AESA seeker head thats been mooted. I'm not sure off the top of my head how it compares to a Raytehon offering, which I presume would be a variant of AMRAAM?
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    Its the principle of the the thing, not the quality of the thing.
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    This Confuses Gamlin, thanks for the explanation. Sorry, David, I saw "CG" in your reply but my brain read it as "Computer Generated" and not "Centre of Gravity" (yes, should have guessed from context)... Meteor would obviously be an option for a long range missile requirement, and I'm sure some of the F-35 partner nations want to integrate it but might suffer from "not invented here" syndrome.
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    Well, apparently I'm being personally trolled by the entire anime industry, because Nozomi have announced that they're releasing "Turn-A Gundam" on Blu-Ray in 2017. Guess who bought the DVDs a few months back because this was never going to happen? Dammit, Bandai, you... let someone else do the work.
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    Sorry, David, slightly baffled, what do you mean "first to empty their weapons"? Why is that an issue?
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    No idea if this linked image is genuine, but if it is, I think thats the weirdest missile loadout I've ever seen on a F-14... http://www.aviationspectator.com/files/images/F-14-Tomcat-180.jpg
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    I'll have to add it to the never ending list of "stuff I really must watch". Though to me, "Madoka" should always be preceded by "Ayakawa"...
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    Never knew that about "Black Jack" being unfinished, thanks for that. I watch the odd modern anime - "Psycho Pass" was a recent very enjoyable experience (er, as a viewer, the characters probably don't feel quite the same way), but I got into anime by reading about it rather than watching it, and all those series I never got to watch back then are the ones that still hold my attention now, and its only been relatively recently that I've got the chance to see some of them - "Harlock", "Galaxy Express", "VOTOMs", yes, even "Gundam" (the original) and "Macross" - wonder whatever happened to that last one...?
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    Although I've never been exactly a Tezuka fanboy, although obviously acknowledging his contribution to the medium, I did fall in love with "Black Jack" - just from reading about the concept in the long-defunct "Anime UK" magazine (same way I got into "Gundam", as it happens). It would be a long time because I actually got to read any of the stories - one Viz issue from the 90s I think was the first time I encountered the actual manga, and then it would near-literally be another twenty years before I actually got to read anymore, thanks to the wonderful Vertical Inc collections, of which I now have the complete set.
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