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    Heh, just noticed the nails stuck on top of the F-111s rudder, presumably to prevent, ahem, enemy action...
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    I suspect General Yeager is invoking the "Grumpy old guy" pass on that... "Damn kids! Get off my runway! In my day we didn't need any fancy heads-up display, we aimed with a nail hammered through the windscreen! And we didn't even have windscreens!". Also worth bearing in mind that article has a link to a news item about the "F-35 hitting another snag - because its too stealthy". If thats a headline meant to be taken seriously, then one could argue some bias is involved... ("SR-71 hits another snag - because its too fast... ").
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    It looks like its had a wing kit modification added. Maybe someone was going for the record for the most aerofoils possible?
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    Yes, not the cruise missile. The smaller, all white one behind it covered in wing surfaces. Sorry for not making that clearer.
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    Roughly centre above the F-105 fuselage, whats the weapon with seemingly all the fins?
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    Not that I know it'll do any good but I suspect the design brief for the YF-23 and F-35 were just a touch different...
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    BTW, if you want to know when the ISS is around you can sign up to an e-mail service from NASA which alerts you when its due overhead. Always fun to respond to people asking how you knew where and when to look with "Oh, I get e-mails from NASA... "
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    I'm not sure how big a SM-3 is off the top of my head but fitment into internal weapon bays would probably be an issue? The almost off-the-shelf solution, as has already been mentioned, would be the Meteor, unless you're thinking of several hundred kilometres range by "long range"...? BTW, grigolosi, forgot to say thanks for the F-16 engine test image/information.
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    http://defense-update.com/20160812_f35_thermal.html This is interesting; apparently the F-35s IR stealth features are pretty damn good. Compare the interior bay doors and exterior bay doors in the image in that article during a vertical landing; the exhaust as you would expect is white hot as is the inner door but the outer door surface is much cooler (grey), whilst in the in-flight image there appears to be little difference between the airframe and the actual exhaust plume (!). Note that these images were taken by a HD thermal-imaging camera, at short range (two - three miles at most) at an airshow during a pre-planned display. I recall seeing the B2 getting caught by a similar set-up a few years ago and I don't think anyones ever called that plane un-stealthy...
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    Thank you folks, I'm here all week. The USAF has "Base Entomology" squads? Is their motto "Is This Just Another Bug-hunt"...?!
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    Of course, if you are trying to take down a bloody great walking land vehicle with a handheld Surface-to-Air Missile, you might want to rethink your tactics and your life in the few moments remaining of it.
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    So did the F-22s missile detection system indicate a possible threat from "Stingers" then...?
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    Wow, one of the items in that trailer would have been real useful on Hoth...
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    I loathed Relena Peacecraft (shes for peace! I GET IT!) but I have to admit, that is an awesome figure.
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    I enjoyed it much more than I thought I was going to. It got ridiculous towards the end, but in a very good way.
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    Wait, theres an actual flying Hayabusa?!
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    IIRC, they had to make a choice between AMRAAM capability and enhanced air-to-ground capability, and as dropping bombs was what everyone was doing at the time...
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    Thanks, though I suspect its the time difference between me and the US that probably got me in before anyone else! I remember seeing "Tora Tora Tora!" and wondering where the heck they got the Zeroes from. Some time later, I was walking past the movie poster for "Pearl Harbour" which had a head-on shot of a Japanese aeroplane on the attack and thinking "Hmm, somethings off there... " which prompted me to look it up and thats when I learned about the "Zeroes in Disguise!". I have seen a real, non-flying, Zero at the Science Museum in Ueno, Tokyo. Apparently its an extremely rare two-seat conversion.
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    Guessing they're the disguised Texans that were used in "Tora Tora Tora!" and "Pearl Harbour"?
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    Thanks for the explanation. Was also wondering how they were going to hang Phoenixes on it...
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    Okay, why are the naval F-15s so fond of wingtip Sidewinder rails?
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    Simply not going to happen for at least twenty plus years. We're kind of committed to the F-35B and ski-jump equipped carriers at least for now (I suppose technically would be possible during a mid-life refit, but extremely unlikely I think). Edit: and, I suppose we could potentially buy more carriers - just need a find a goose that lays golden eggs first...!
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    Regards maintenance workers messing up occasionally, as it happens today I visited the "Mary Rose", a Tudor-era warship that sank in the 1500s, later recovered from the seabed in the 1980s and is now on display at Portsmouth Historic Naval Dockyard, England. Whilst reading some of the exhibit descriptions, it turned out that one of the many items that was recovered alongside the wreck was a tool dropped by a dockyard worker when working on the ship that eventually worked its way into the interior so its not exactly a new problem...
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    Honestly? I have no idea if thats significant or not.
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    I wonder... as its been confirmed that this is set in the "Prime" universe, and I think I read somewhere its set between the end of the original crew movies and TNG, if the "Discovery" is a co-operative venture between the Klingons and Star Fleet...?
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