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A shame these kinds of planes didn't suceed. They're one of the coolest bombers I know of (And capable of supersonic speed!)

Well, the SR-71 was just as fast and smaller (with smaller radar return I assume)

and even the SR-71 showed that it wasn't immune to SAMs.

So it made military sense not to go ahead with a fleet of these.

They should have made it into an SST. Would have kicked Concorde's arse right out of the air.

It appeared in Macross as well. It was a model in Hikaru's room. You see it in one scene.

The downward folding wings on the XB-70 makes it the COOLEST looking wing in my book. Way cooler then swing wings (forward or back).

And the way they stacked six jets in a row for that millenium falcon/hot rod effect.

And its like a late 1950's design!!!! Even today, building something like that again would be a major bitch.

Did any of you buy the Dragonwings F-18C?

The damn air-brake refuses to stay in its retracted position. It keeps popping out. Did you guys have to file the bugger down to get it to stay?

Me waiting for the F-15E....

I'd have to do a bit of searching for exact numbers, but one of my best books says "roughly" 50/50 for all Mk80-series bombs. And that is part of the "General Purpose" designation. Those with 65% explosive are "demolition" bombs, and aren't nearly as common. (They also tend to be larger--3,000lbs+)

Hmmm I think you are right and I got my explosive/casing weight ratio of bombs mixed up with BB shells.

I am Bulrog and I have many many powers!

Poor Butters. He gets all the crap now that Kenny doesnt die anymore.

So now we know that Jews can't be either Paladins or Ninjas...

MSN-04 SAZABI.

I don't normally buy Gundam Kits and dont have a single PG but if they did a Sazabi I would buy it. Kaempfer and Rick Dom I would consider.

Yup, nothing like carpet-bombing for using up old bombs. The most common loads for Hornets and Intruders in Desert Storm were Mk.82 LDGP bombs. And dumb bombs can be pretty accurate, that comes down to pilot skill. (and a good pipper with CCIP can help a lot too!)

Quick bomb review:

Mk.82 is the 500lb,

Mk.83 is the 1,000lb,

Mk.84 is the 2,000lb.

And to stave off a question: weight is total weight, not weight of the explosive. Assume around 50/50 explosive/casing. (Shrapnel from the casing might actually do more damage than the explosion itself)

50/50? I always thought the explosives take up much less then half the weight of the egg.

I nearly burst my guts laughing when they parodied the anime style Japanese song with half baked Engrish lyrics....

Protect my balls lets fighting love!!! ROFL!!!

The ugliest bits of these transformers arent just the front (tho the front is butt ass fugly). Have you seen the back? All the fugly messes of wheels and door handles and what not just lumped into a big ass hump or junk at the back.

Dangit my office ring file can become a transformer if I just painted robot hands on the inside cover and a crab on the outside cover....

The complaining around here can be sickning. You do all this complaining and you know you will all buy it 

Right on APU,

I wasn't around back then but when the pics for the first 1/48, the Hikaru 1A came out, did anyone here bitch about the sculpt? probably the price, but anything else?

Must have hairstyle with floppy fringe or die in first mission.

I said it and I'll say it again.

Paint a brick with a bus on one side and a 2D robot painting on the other and voila! Instant TF.

I always thought the Yellow heat shield looked really good on Roy though. The color coordination made sense but the cool factor of the black heatshield can't be ignored.

You can't say that a yellow heatshield is any more colour co-ordinated then a black shield since the tail fins have the white skull on black background too.

Max could probably do it in a VF-11 or even a VF-1!

20g in 2 years is _not_ that bad considering he can liquidate it and have a good chance of getting all 20g or more back.

Heck, even if they were not assets, people spend more on other entertainment forms like flashy cars, drinks, partying etc etc.

Everything is relative.

Just keep receipts and buy insurance eh?

Thats what I thought they could do, use the same stuff as the gun door on the pylon mountings points.

The second article did claim that the pylons on the 22 can be jettisoned though.

For all we know, they figured out a way to seal the attachment points but its classified stuff so they aren't honking it to the public just yet.

Anyone/anywhere I can get some more info/pics on the gun cover for the F-22 or F/A-22 or whatever they call it now?

Is the cover destroyed once the pilot decide to shoot?

I know powered doors for each little attachment point would have to be built to very very fine tolerances but I was asking if it was technically impossible or just very hard to do. Maybe they aren't doing it since it might add $5-10m to the already porky price tag?

Jettison the *pylons*?? That'd be a neat trick. Also--the F-22 requires special "stealth" covers over the attachment points when pylons aren't attached. I'd presume the -35 would need something similar. Simply removing the pylons won't restore the stealthiness, you'd need to cover up the holes, etc. Hard to do mid-flight.

Is it that hard or are there some pretty formidable obstacles to overcome if the aircraft was designed with stealth covers which are hinged/springed loaded like the fuel tank inner flaps on a automobile?

Both were made after Macross so of course they will look more similar then the original Tomahawk. Just like some parts of the VF-0 looks more like the 19 then the 1.

what??? Yamato is going bankrupt?

They broke the molds???

Harmony Gold bought up Yamato?!?!?

Proto-Cultural Signature???

Something that represents any sign of OT?

This guy has got talent, he should try working for a big company. The stuff he is selling is real cheap for the amount of effort needed. Poor guy. Sure is hard to turn a profit.

It needs panel lining on the feet.

I can live without the die cast although the toy _is_ very light.

What if BW had sold the M+ licence to HG eh? Then Toynami can get around to ripping off the Yamato/Bandai molds for their MPC YF-19.

The wing is Japanese built. Some fancy composite curing process which they gave to the US in exchange for the rest of the US tech found on the plane. Plane is about 60 Nippon, 40% USA.

I can't find details on the web about just what exactly this fancy curing process does though.

I still think they should have made it more like the 16XL. Would have been neat.