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    I believe the in-show excuse was that the rotor-system was disconnected prior to supersonic flight (despite what the footage shows, I guess they weren't paying the pilots that much to try it... ). Yes, I know, but at least they tried...
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    Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thunderca - I mean, Thunderbolt is loose!
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    And the winner of the LRSB selection is... Northrop-Grumman! http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/2015/10/27/northrop-grumman-wins-usaf-bomber-contract/74661394/ No details of the design yet, but its speculated to be based on the B-2... unless of course, NGs real plan is to secretly revive the YF-23 via the backdoor...
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    Modern attack helicopters are typically designed to be armoured against 12.7mm rounds and "tolerant" of 23mm rounds (or the equivalent), but there really is no such thing as proof. Airwolf took and survived hits which in reality should have obliterated it. 30mm is a big ol' round and to put that into perspective, a couple of 30mm hits was considered by the Luftwaffe to be enough to down a B-17 bomber, arguably one of the strongest airframes ever built. I've seen some concept designs for jet/helicopter hybrids - one of which actually slightly resembles the "Switchblade" from "M.A.S.K"! - but I don't know if any of them are supposed to be supersonic. Edit: Oh, while I think of it, whilst Airwolf did indeed carry "guided" missiles, its arsenal included "Copperhead" rounds, which was actually a laser-guided artillery round... One thing that they did get sort of accurate was the use of "Sunburst" flares to decoy missiles, though real flares probably aren't the 100% effective they were in the show!
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    Some TIE fighters did get shields, according to stuff that is currently being swept away into a broom cupboard somewhere, but I think the real answer is "not well". I vaguely recall it being mentioned here and there that TIE fighters are a bit twitchy in atmosphere (and at least one book mentions - pre-"Phantom Menace" - that shields don't work well in atmospheres, either, so maybe everything is twitchy in an atmosphere. Possibly also explains why the vaguely aerodynamic snowspeeders have what appear to be flaps or airbrakes at any rate... ).
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    Of course, in another galaxy far, far away, I hear they are still using F-16s, F-15s, F-5s, MiG-21s, B-52s...
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    Lockheed-Martin have flown the F-16V, which I understand is for Taiwan (and also, obviously, for all the current F-16 users looking to upgrade at some point, and y'know, possibly just in case the entire internet turns out to be right about one of Lockheed-Martins other little aircraft projects... ). It has an AESA radar and electronics upgrades.
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    Hah, hes even got different coloured shirts! I like this one more than the others they've done - the sculpts were pretty good but the faces seemed off somehow. This one is much better.
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    Thats it. I found that kind of funny.
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    I wasn't sure what to think for the first few seconds, but it just got better and better as it went on. I really love the chunkiness to the dogfight scenes, the way hits seem to have a real impact on stuff. Anyone else notice the Imperial standard-issue vertical floor-with-slots-in in the opening shots?
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    Theres a UK Channel that was broadcasting various "classic" serials over the past few months and "The Daleks" came up several times. Yeah, they spent a lot of time in that cave...
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    Wha...? Like everyone else, I hated the Turn-A when I first saw it, so I can understand the initial reaction. It wasn't until I saw the actual show that I realised so many of the seemingly bizarre designs made sense in the context of the series that I grew to love it; with the RX-93 and the Mark II, its one of my favourite Gundam designs.
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    <cough> Turn-A <cough>
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    Yeah, its nice that the stories have room to breathe. Theres always the worry that the extra room means more padding (Oh, look! Another corridor! Lets run down it!), but if I had one slight quibble with the relaunch its that sometimes there was just never any time to pause for a bit in the story. Edit: Dynaman, thats a neat observation. Hadn't really considered that before.
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    This Doctor, he will ROCK YOU LIKE HURRICANE! Ahem.
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    I thought Konami had patched the Quiet mission bug? At least in the UK I was getting a message on start-up saying that bthey had.
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    If all else fails, just shoot everything. I like a stealth game that lets you do that.
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    Careful if you get the truck - hang on, I'm British! I mean, lorry - in the line of their fire, as they can shred it pretty quickly. Also, er, don't put mines on the road thinking that'll be a good way to stop the tanks and then watch in horror as the the armoured stuff drives past them but the lorry doesn't...
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    Not sure how accurate this might be (and given the site I have suspicions), but a possible look at the real Black Helicopters: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/book-reveals-new-details-about-stealth-black-hawks-used-1734205517
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    One aviation book I've read described the finish on a MiG-29 (this would have been written around the early 90s, when the West had just got its first close-up look at the type) as "good enough". Of course, the argument always goes that this means they can be put back together with rocks, take off from a BBC quarry [1] and still be flying when "Fury Road" is a documentary and not just a movie... [1] If you're wondering what this looks like, watch any British science-fiction drama from the 70s.
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    "Quiet" does seem sometimes to be almost an "Easy" mode option, which suits me as my stealth approaches always go horribly wrong and wind up in things exploding. "D-Dog" can still have his uses, and Quiet can be hurt, which was something of a surprise to me in a mid-game mission the other day... D-Horse is sitting in a pasture remembering the glory days when he used to chase tanks with his bestest pal Snake...
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    Why? We know from internet forums that SU-27 is superior to all other aircraft in world today, and the MiG-31 can beat aircraft from the future and is completely unable to be shot down due to its speed. The PAK-FA will be used in case Unicron appears.
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    From reading about the process of translation, one answer could be: translation, at least good translation, isn't easy. It would also be an additional cost; even in Japan anime is a slightly niche market (in the same way that, even though you can find science-fiction all over the damn place, its still considered a bit of a niche market in the West - even "Game of Thrones", possibly the hottest T.V. drama around at the moment cannot escape the "spotty nerds in the basement" association so beloved of media critics; you can tell by how hard they try to deny that a show that they like but which happens to have dragons, undead and magic in it is fantasy... ). Traditionally, though this seems to be changing a bit recently, Japanese companies have always been a bit cool towards marketing anime in the West. There can be other issues; Macross is a particularly famous example of an international licencing minefield (other sources claim that the only reason we got "Macross Plus" is because it had so much obvious appeal overseas that the various parties involved finally banged some heads together). Gundam, arguably the biggest (at least in terms of recognition) and most famous anime of all in Japan, didn't do very well in the West asides from "Wing" and I think "Destiny". Speaking as someone whos been an anime fan nearly as long you have, and can remember a time in the UK when the total amount of anime available (on VHS, no less!) could be counted without running out of fingers, the current situation actually seems to me to be almost magical. I saw someone at work the other day wearing an "Attack on Titan" Survey Corps jacket...
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    Going by the size of the aircraft, might they be SU-24 "Fencers"? I thought the -9X had been declared operational on the F-22 recently, or was that just cleared for service in the USAF generally?
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    I think the original plan (from memory) was that at least some of them were going to be rebuilds but it turned out to be easier to just make new ones. I do wonder what they're going to do if they have to rebuild the "Z" again, though - Cobra ZZ? Z+? Refined Cobra Z?
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