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    I have the Assault Kingdom RX-93 and Sazabi. Considering the size, they're not half bad - quite posable and reasonably well detailed. I'd say the Sazabi is the better figure, though (for some reason the RX-93 is one of those figures they never quite seem to be able to get "right" - I also have the Robot Spirits one, and its "okay" but not "great").
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    Well, at least it is a picture of a F-16. You're lucky they didn't use an image of a 747...
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    There is no doubt that as a programme, the F-35 has taken too long and cost too much. However, it is also not unique in this regard - they made a movie about the development of the Bradley IFV and they were saying similar things about the AH-64 after it went into production. I do think that calls for production to somehow be stopped are simply unrealistic; there are too many nations and other factors involved now, leaving asides the fact that alternatives are going to be a bit thin on the ground (restarting F-22 production would probably take years at best; virtually every other alternative on offer is unlikely to be as stealthy as the F-35, and the only other position seems to be "PAK-FA is better than everything so nyah nyah nyah!", which is unlikely to be a suitable option... ). The main difference I feel with the F-35 compared to other, previous programs is that its basically been the first fighter to be developed during the Internet age. And we all know what a wonderland of reason, balance and rationality the Internet is... Whether or not the F-35 will prove itself as a fighter remains to be seen...
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    I'm in the UK, they have to pass Her Royal Majs' Customs & Excise first. Regards Gundam 0083, I think it may have been the first UC anime I ever saw. Awesome design and visuals (and music), but yeah, characters were not exactly... look, the opposing leads main traits are "Fear of carrots" and "Keeps going on and on about The Battle of Solomon, even though he wasn't actually there"...
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    In other, more important news, my "Turn-A Gundam" DVDs arrived yesterday.
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    Are there any flying (original) Typhoons anywhere? I've never heard of one... it was a useful aircraft, but its never been a loved one much. Obviously didn't help that its early days were plagued by bugs (of the "I say, old chap, is that your entire rear fuselage thats just detached from your aircraft? Bit of a sticky wicket, what?" kind... ).
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    I guess Tim from "Spaced" finally got over "The Phastom Menance" then, huh?
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    Fair points, though its also worth pointing out nearly thirty years separate the design of the two aircraft; they were both born into entirely different worlds to each other. How much would the F-16 have cost if it had to have had stealth applied from the start? (theres another argument that stealth is somehow not a requirement for modern aircraft and that they can do without it; the counter to that is that that may turn out to be the case, but if so quite a lot of nations seem to have drunk the same stealth cola as everyone else... ).
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    Dale Brown came up with that one a while back... Also, as the resident F-35 contrarian I'd like to point out that the F-16 started out as a lightweight, affordable fighter with minimal avionics. Then they started hanging boxes all over it... Heres something a bit different; a Tiffy in special colours to mark the 75th Anniversary of The Battle of Britain:
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    "A test pilot today has condemned the new generation of fighter planes as being too unmaneuverable to dogfight with biplanes... " I saw "The Imitation Game" the other day. Continuing the misuse of aircraft in war films, it has a single-seat Me-109 escorting German bombers over London during The Blitz. At night. Of course, not the only slight liberty taken with that films historical story. Now the second film I've seen about Bletchley Park that doesn't actually feature Bletchley Park (another country house stands in instead). As I once heard one of the tour guides remark "To movie people, the real Bletchley Park doesn't look like Bletchley Park [1]... ". [1] To be fair to Hollywood, the real building has long been noted for its... interesting approach to architecture.
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    Wait, was that the Borg?!
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    If one were being generous, Voyager has been on its way for quite a while, though I admit the wording there is a bit... no escape clause.
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    Farewell, Sir Christopher. We won't see your like again anytime soon...
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    You had a Beeb, didn't you?
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    Sorry, are we talking Amstrad owners here?
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    ZX Spectrum. That is all.
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    I was a Sega kid, particularly the Mega Drive (European name for Genesis). I've often admired Nintendo stuff but until I got a Wii the closest I'd been to any of their stuff was a Game and Watch and then my brothers GameBoy (original model).
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    No mention of "Dads Army" in that list of remakes? The show is almost like a religion over here, so you can imagine the reaction most people havewhen they hear someone actually tried to remake it...
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    Yes, first time I saw "Tora! Tora! Tora!" I thought that they were the real thing, only found out later about the replicas.
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    ...I should have added "before you've researched anything more potent than motion scanners"...
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    Clearly never done a Terror Mission at night with Chryssalids...
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    I don't recall that, but I remember seeing the poster which featured one of those bombers and thinking "Hmm, something about that plane doesn't look right." Later found out that was because it was a disguised different aircraft, authentic Japanese torpedo bombers from that era being just a touch difficult to find...
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    The MiG-31 had a six-barrel 23mm gatling, which did have a very high rate of fire (up to 10,000 rounds a minute!) They also tried the Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30 on the MiG-27, which had a reputation for shaking the aircraft to bits from the recoil force!
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    I don't know what they were like on the Yamato, but theres at least one report from a Royal Navy experimental fit of other large naval guns that rivets would shear off from the force of the recoil. Incidentally, the Japanese designed an anti-aircraft round to fire from those things!
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    Thanks! "Top Gun", from memory is a bit odd - IIRC, the same footage is used for the guns firing of both the MiG-28s and the F-14s, and neither has the gun in the right place - however, I don't have the movie to hand to check that. I recall its depicted as a gatling gun in both cases, and although the Russians did have gatling guns on some aircraft, its more likely it would have been using the twin-barrel 23mmm or single barrel 30mm... Another thing about the F-35; when its depicted, its also almost always the "B" variant - which seems to be a trend in US productions in general actually; when military stuff is going down ("military" in this context being Alien Invasion/Giant Robots Attack/GODZILLA!), the Marines always seem to be the only branch of the US armed forces in existence... One film that did get gun locations right was "Independence Day", with its heavy featuring of the F-18; but thats strange in its own right as the F-18s gun location is a bit weird (centre-mounted on the nose) so you would think if they were going to get anything wrong...
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