Retracting Head Ter Ter

How the heck do you "accidentally" strafe a golf course? And put 160 (presumably 20mm) rounds into a car at a golf course?

The mind boggles.

Too much Ace Combat on the pilot's free time?

Or Sake.

Anyway, I am sure the car got a lot less then 160 rounds. The pilot has to be a real marksman to pot 160 into a car sized target with an vulcan.

Well, when one clone gets old, they start brewing a new one. Should the new one acheive the same rank without accumulating the same experience? No.

Secondly, someone mentioned IQ's and cloning. Sorry, but you cannot replicate an IQ. That will have to come from actual input and experience.

*"Two Millia's for every boooooy..."

Well, if we use the theory that they have 1 rank from start to end since they were cloned with all the necessary knowledge for that rank, then the new one just gets the old rank and never advances.

For the second bit. Ahhhh the wonders of Overtechnology....

Wasn't Britai one of the very first clones off the line? After so much wafare, even a flag officer might get injured by exploding spaceship consoles (like in STar Trek).

Those 3 spy goons had their promotion due to a 1 in a billion freak occurence. Zentrans normally just stomp on the enemy with their 10 bajillion ships instead of spying on people.

The plane is supposed to be larger then the F-16. But the canopy seems be relatively larger compared to the fuselage when compared to an F-16. For the pilot to stretch his arms?

I heard it costs as much to build as the F-15J which is already bloody expensive. At that kind of costs, I would have thought it would be better to upgrade the F-15J, you know, slap on some FAST packs, add 3 more lasers to the head, that kinda thing.

What I see with the zentraedi is that the height depends on their rank, mostly, and with Max using the uniform to escape it was an officer's uniform so that may explain the size. smoething to think about

Which raises an interesting question...

Are zentradi bred for their rank, with higher-ranking positions filled with larger, more authoritative bodies?

Do they use the miclone system to adjust size with major promotions?

Do they just keep growing through their life and after the ages it takes to rise to a rank like Britai or Bodlozaa's you have amassed quite a large height?

Or was it a freakish coincidence that the highest-ranked warriors had the largest bodies?

I don't think Zentrans get promoted much.

They get cloned/created/programmed with a specific IQ and abilities in mind. So the grunt is designed with an IQ of 100 and won't ever become officer material. Junior officers get IQ 120 and never become starship captains etc etc.. Guys like Vritwhai were meant from the start to be fleet commanders.

So for some internal consistency, we should assume Max clubbed a Zentran admiral. But looking at the above drawing, even Vritwhai/Britai's uniform wouldn't fit on a VF-1. And in the TV series the uniform on Max's valk was pretty loose fitting.

I suppose.

Will someone explain to me the purpose of the extended stock? It serves no purpose, takes up more room, and requires mechanisms to extend it.

If you say for aesthetic reasons, I will need to kick you :-P

Better for clubbing Zentrans on the head with?

There doesn't seem to be many comments or articles on this fighter on the net.

And most people leave it out when discussing fighter vs fighter topics.

Anyone here has any comments on this bird?

Did the Japanese spend too long developing it and are they stuck with a relatively óld design?

thats the picture I remember seeing of the 55mm round.  I'm currious just how "accurate" it really is, or if its just "fan-fic"

It matches what is shown in Memory Perfect, so I'm inclined to say its legit.

having an understanding of balistics and trajectory... its a poor design to be fired in an atmosphere, let alone have a limited propellent capacity.

Just like the AMM missiles. Looks really unaerodynamic for use in an atmosphere.

Heck, even the VF 1 isn't very aerodynamic for atmospheric use.

I have a question, which is not necessarily limited to the VF-19/VF-22S. I was watching Modern Marvels on the history channel last night, and they were talking about Commercial jets....anyways, they said that the most powerful engine for a commercial jet was made for the Boeing 777, and each engine was capable of producing 90,000 lbs of thrust or 40909 kgs of thrust per engine. Now if I recall correctly, the VF-19S has an engine thrust of 78000 kgs of thrust per engine or 171600 lbs of thrust per engine and the VF-22S has something like 60000 kgs of thrust (or 132000 lbs). Even though the max power is only 60% of max while in atmosphere, I still think that the amount of power is insane...the reason being is that it seems that a valk would be able to power itself and accelerate while going straight up only on one engine because the power of the engine exceeds the weight of the plane. Given the empty weight of a VF-22S at 9000kg...add maybe a total weight of 30-35k kgs with fuel and full missle load...it just seems that the power of the engine is just too much...

Why do the later valks have so much power? Is it because that amount of thrust is needed to escape Earth's Gravity? Or is it some other reason? I would really like an explanation for this, so if anyone can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

Larry T.

You know, even with that kind of crazy power and low weight, 48 secs from brake release to orbit is still quite impossible.

Nothing ruins a plane faster than overheated wheels and brakes.

Yeah but it will be a special F-15 Rules Lawyer Streak Eagle variant with really bald and slippery rubber compound tyres that lock with minimal force?

For a legal international air record, clock starts at brake release.    (Of course, the YF-19 wouldn't legally be a plane according to their rules)

So can one cheat by having the plane smoke down the runway with the wheels locked at 200 kph and doing the brake release just before lift off? Or heck, just take off with the brakes still applied!

Anyway, looking at the power to weight ratio of the YF-19 and assuming its got a cd of 0.000000001, it still doesn't seem possible for it to pull that 48 sec stunt unless Eden has a really really thin atmosphere which somehow doesn't seem realistic given its earth like gravity and other conditions. (well, that big ass white bird thingy shouldn't be able to fly too if it was earth). I just assume Isamu was talking out of his ass.

If you look at the TV series or DYRL, even the VF-1 series were pulling incredible gees when doing their combat acrobatics. But you could probably put it down to animation errors and creative licence.

48 secs to 60-65km from standstill is still nuts though.

I downloaded it from imesh and the jet blast at the start of the song REALLY ANNOYS ME!

The japanese and the instrumental version don't have the jet blast. Only the english one does.

I paid $90 usd for mine. Opened it up, didn't really like it and am selling it for 85 bux now.

For 12800 yen RRP you would think they should bother to panel line the damn feet!

The feet stick out like a sore thumb. It should have been Miria's butt that stuck out!

Mine was missing an instruction booklet too. Is there one?

I wished they had panel lined the Q-Rau's foot. The non detailed foot sticks out badly. I'm gonna have to go buy a gundam marker just for this.

Graham if Yamato done 1/60th destroids and Glaugs, which are in scale with the armorcast resin Battlemechs, id by at least 2 of each most of my friends in the battletech group would too and i can thing of about a couple of dozen other people that would do the same and i doubt we're the only ones so theyd probably sell like hot cakes to battletech players

Hybridchild

Yup, thats my point when I started this whole post.

Battletech players (and there are loads of em outside Japan) really love the

Glaug/Marauder and Tomahawk/Warhammer.

Now we just need Graham to convince Yamato. They might not be doing the Glaug since they can't recolour it and sell many batches, but having Battletech fans buy em would help offset the no-recolour factor.

GLLLAAAAAAAUGGG!!!!!!

LMAO!

btw has anyone ever seen one of the "plastic" cars made in russia during the late 70s-80s?  You thought the Yugo was bad :lol:

I have to question the reliability of this firearm.

Aren't the Russians known for creating reliable GI-proof weapons? I mean, I don't know of any Russian weapon that had troubles like the M16.

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Vifam7

A large part of the failures of the initial bunch of M16s were _not_ the rifles fault.

Due to whatever beaurecratic mess ups, the ammo used was not the ammo specified by the weapon designers. It was the ammo mismatch that caused the jamming.

What do you expect from a journalist?  As if they have much experience firing automatic weapons?  lol...

I know that fully auotmatic fire is not a good way of hitting a target myself, it was just the most visual demonstration I've yet seen of the point!

The british army used to drill that fact into its recruits.

Have 2 sets of 6 steel plates. Have 1 rifleman using a bolt action rifle vs 1 machine gunner on full auto. Rifleman always wins.

I'm sure the Russians would sell them to us if we offered cash.

BTW, what the heck is that pointy thing between the engines on the Flanker? It always bothered me. It it just for streamlining?

Its for holding the countermeasures and ECM. Probably helps with the streamlining too.

I don't understand why the Battletech 'Longbow'which so closely resembles the Macross Phalanx is still in use. It recently appeared in Mechwarrior mecenaries.

How come this one got through?

As a matter of fact, 200 rounds seems abit little. How much does a modern fighter jet's Vulcan cannon have anyway? I'm not a military freak, so I wouldn't know.

400 rounds, if I recall.

The 3 barrels on the GU-11's muzzle are pretty small relatively to the whole gunpod, just as a relative size of the bullet to the Gunpod.

The size of the muzzle is not indicative of the size of the shell being fired. The part that exits the muzzle is a small part of the bullet. Most of it is powder and casing, which is ejected.

Case in point, the A-10's 30 mm rounds are actually the size of a milk bottle before firing, which is, what, 60 mm?

Its indicative of the diameter of the shell being fired, just not indicative of the size of the cartridge.

The vulcans have a drum holding about 475 -575 rounds. Good for about 4-5 secs

Speaking of magazines, whats the deal with the VF-11's mag. Its curved and very long. How do you suppose it actually stores the rounds and moves them to the firing chamber?

It probably uses a helical magazine (like in the real life FN90) or the ammo is belted and the belt cramped into that area.

As for the 10 sec firing time being enough and the comparisions to WW2 fighters.

Well this is a valk, its gonna be outnumbered 10 to 1 at the least.

Anyway, a simple beam weapon would have sorted it out. But running out of ammo is a nice plot device to have anyway.

After all that griping about the price, I finally bought one for $90 usd.

Pondering if I should panel line it a bit more.

Ughhh, the Miria figure is the worst thing about the toy.

Ouch, if true then the valks sure have serious tactical drawbacks. IIRC, they had like 200/300? rounds only? Thats like 20 secs of firing?

With all that OT I guess they should have used beam weapons like on the Regaults. Its not as if the beams on the Regaults were weak too. In the show we see VFs getting blown apart from a single blast from the zentran pods.

Has there ever been any lineart showing external clips or magazines for the GU-11.

Were they even mentioned in any canon source?

Or is the GU-11 only reloadable back at base?