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    Sukhoi has a proclivity for that... this is the Su-25 Grach we all know and love: THIS is the Su-25T: And as a single-seater: Su-27: Su-30 Fugly-beautiful two-seaters... It's just how they do over at Sukhoi
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    It has exactly the same profile as a Su-30-series cockpit, so it's a 50/50 considering how good some photoshop users are.
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    Sort of depends I guess... Going by Sukhoi's previous naming conventions: if it's a 2-seat trainer/fighter variant of the 57 it'll be the 57UB, if it's a multirole/strike variant or major avionics upgrade it'll be the Su-60
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    You're correct, but I was simply referring to the over-use of the scissors maneuver As long as we're being told a war-story, not an Idol-group commercial merely SET in a war-story there is potential. I mean, break-dancing in a Battroid even had potential, and they just simply wasted it in Delta
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    During the process of building it, he constantly referenced the "Proto-Sabers" that predated the Lightsaber we all know and love: eventually we'll figure out a fusion-reactor that one can safely wear as a backpack, or on a belt... and then miniaturize that even further to something the size of a MagLite/Lightsaber hilt... but until then it's Hacksmith FTW! oh, and DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!
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    That bears-out, having played DCS, Warthunder, and IL-2's various offerings online against real humans: Dogfights seem to end up one of two ways if they go on long enough: Scissors of some description [usually on the deck] or Turn-rate fights [also usually on the deck]. Both these scenarios typically end with someone panicking and pulling into the vertical, in a desperate attempt to change the geometry of the fight, which just means they are setting themselves up in front of the other guy's gunsight... Many Combat-sim pilots do [and more should] know better, but that's almost always how it goes if it devolves into "goin' in for guns" on the other guy because you're Winchester. So yea, unfortunately the writers are well within reason to use that excuse, in my experience.
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    **It's not merchandise... YET!
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    That is Dark&Twisted AF and I love it!!
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    Truly, You're 1-in-a-million @Shizuka the Cat... good luck with all the "work" Viking Funeral FTW, but if your kid(s) do end up loving Macross, maybe just take one or two Valks with you...
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    Hasegawa makes their Macross kits just like their aircraft kits, where Bandai's are like their Gundam kits. This is not a knock against Bandai, it's just how the different Macross lines evolved considering each companies' bread-and-butter. Hasegawa's plastic is less soft and finicky than Bandai's [certain products used for modelling will eat/degrade Bandai's plastic, and I've never run into such an issue with Hasegawa's plastic]. There's no added complication of inner frames/transformation-gimmicks involved, making them easier and cheaper to build, and no concerns about gaps/sagging related to said gimmicks. They also tend to have better [finer, crisper] small details. The plastic used is probably a contributing factor. I say "tend to" because Bandai isn't bad, and they're getting better, but they're not on Hase's level. And they don't cost as much as a Wave kit does... the Hasegawa Macross line is quite comparable $-wise to other Hasegawa kits in the same scale/size, and look not-one-bit out of place next to a real-world fighter. The real draw is for anyone who is used to building "Regular aircraft kits" as there's no surprises. Add to the consideration Hasegawa's usual Cartograph-quality waterslide decals [even when/if they're not actually printed by Cartograph] vs Bandai's maddening insistence on stickers/having a comic-book-esque dot-matrix printing effect to the waterslides they do make, and the Hasegawa kits are straight winners... except the 1/72 VF-1 series' leg-droop, which tbh, is rather easily compensated for. and like @MechTech said: accessories!
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    Maybe it's supposed to be from the time Unit 01 ate the Angel....
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    Now I want that scene in Star Wars!
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    I would view them more as a Campaign-Badge or Mission-Badge than a Kill-Marking [though Wedge does get credit for a half-Deathstar] I'll note all the RAF Bomber command Lancasters with a bomb-scoreboard... JB663's 100th mission was recorded as 4th November 1944, a raid on Ladbergen - Dormund-Ems Canal, with Flying Officer F E Day in command - his one and only sortie in JB663! The following morning a huge bomb was painted on the aircraft's nose, next to the 99 bombs already there, put there in five neat, slanting rows of 20 and one of 19. Above the impressive scoreboard with wings outstretchede was an eagle, looking much the same as the RAF eagle, above were the words, 'King of the Air'. In all she flew 111 operational sorties, and statistics compiled on this particular aircraft note that it flew 985 hours, covered 150,000 miles and carried 600 ton of bombs and incendiaries to targets in Germany and France. Its final trip was a seven-hour sortie to a synthetic oil plant at Brux in Western Czechoslovakia. ... however given the accuracy statistics [see Summary of the Butt Report below], these are mission-badges, not actual "We hit something" confirmations: TL;DR Wedge is completely within the bounds of reason to have 2 Deathstars painted on his bird.
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    Damned right!
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    The Virtual Festival of Aerobatic Teams is streaming this weekend. Day1:
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    THIS x1000
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    Even I can't be all Doom and Gloom about EVERYTHING... someone else is going to have to take up the curmudgeon's crown on this one... until it's a POS too, then you'll get to meet the real me about it! That's all I want, I'll fast-forward through the rest of it if I have to
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    They just need to figure out how to not let the fuel tanks lose pressure in the tanks to the point where it [apparently] didn't flow properly. "engine rich exhaust" Considering how far they've come in this short time that's a trivial hurdle.
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    Truth. We'll be lucky if 1/3 are any good/decent... and I'm really hoping Rogue Squadron is one of them.
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    I'm cautiously optimistic about this... they better not F it up!
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    SpaceX Rocket: explodes Elon Musk:
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    Because Japan's insatiable lust for mecha will kill us all [and many more wallets!]
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    Welcome!
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    funniest thing I've read all day!
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