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Why not? At slow speeds it's got those wings stuck way out there to catch more lift, single, centerline-mounted engine, just like the F-16... probably has a pretty similar roll rate. In fact, I think I'd rather have the MiG than the F-16 in a turning fight. Pretty much ALL of Mikoyan's jets are reknowned as superior turning fighters, and the MiG-23 has a lot of power behind it in the engine to quickly recover lost energy. (David, you're usually better at analyzing stuff like this than I am, wanna jump in here?) I'm not saying Falcon 4.0 isn't flawed somehow, but rather that in real life, a Flogger vs. Viper encounter at knife range would definately not be a walk in the park. But then, I'm nothing more than an armchair pilot... so my thesis could very easily sink

That is incorrect. Studio Nue had no involvement with Macross II. http://macross.anime.net/fallacies/index.html 397718[/snapback] My bad, meant Big West.

I could easily see a MiG-23 keeping up with an F-16. Early F-16s(A and B models) can only just barely clear Mach 2 in a dead sprint descending (with no loadout), and the heavier later models I believe are only good to about 1.9 mach, while the MiG-23 can punch up to something like Mach 2.3 in a similar configuration (Russian engines are known for their raw, unadulterated power... especially that Soyuz R-35-300) As a side note, I recently "found" a copy of Falcon 4.0 AF and I'm still learning to fly. I just recently got to where I can bring the plane back to the ground in one piece... I'm a long way from learning to use the radar or anything like that, much less flying into combat.

Arcade joypad is an oxymoron, unless you're playing on a Nintendo Super System cabinet. But I AM baffled as to how you can get any reasonable reaction time out of an analog flight stick. Arcade games tend to assume you have a digital joystick, and a rather tight one at that. But then, I'm baffled as to how anyone can think a gamepad is a better weapon than a joystick too. 396929[/snapback] I guess it just depends on the game?

Wow. I really liked this movie. I was pretty happy about that. At that point we already saw them get out pretty tight spaces within buildings that I didn't really want to see another similar sequence... they literally just cut to the chase. 397652[/snapback] I hadn't thought about it like that... I guess the object in question was such a high-point in the movie I figured "getting it" would justify more space on the movie reel. Ah well, as I said I still enjoyed it a lot!

To further add on to what JB0 said, Macross II is not considered part of the "canon" Macross universe because Shoji Kawamorii didn't write it. It was written by someone else and produced by Studio Nue. As another example, about half of the Gundam series out there are not part of the canon Gundam universe (only those featured in the "Universal Century" timeline are): Gundam X Gundam Wing Gundam SEED G Gundam G Savior and so on are all considered non-canon.

saw it this afternoon with the girlfriend. Most enjoyable! Not every movie has to be perfectly "down to earth" with stuff... I think a lot of people are forgetting to suspend their belief of the real world when they watch a film like this. Bonuses: -Hot chicks everywhere. Sometimes with guns. -Cool use of an armed (computer generated) Predator UAV drone -Tom Cruise doing high-level calculus on a window with a grease pencil while holding a casual conversation -Philip Seymour Hoffman as the calmest badguy to ever almost get thrown out of an airplane Question and spoiler.... . . . . . . Did anyone else think it was a giant cop-out that one moment, Ethan (Cruise) was swinging/jumping to the building to get the "rabbit's foot" and the next thing you know "hey I've got it, here I come" (so to speak)... that was the only scene that really drew my ire, and I still didn't mind it so much.

the short track answer to the question is this: If the UN Spacy MINDED pilots having unconventional hairstyles and colors, would Max Jenius have it? probably not.

I must be the only person happy enough with the regular DS that I really have no desire to get a lite version (mine's silver, btw... perfectly happy with it)

Yes, Langley has been IOCed, so they could go into action at any point.

... maybe you should write a letter...

Well, they can get a lot more "face time" with F-15s since they fly them... no excuse for them not to know them inside and out. Tomcats are a slightly different story (although if Hasegawa can put out umpteen million "Black Knights" boxings of the Tomcat, you'd think the Namco guys would've been right there next to them doing similar research... kinda surprises me that a BK scheme never showed up in any of the Ace Combat games.)

To my knowledge there was just the one season. I don't think it did so hot in Japan.

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for example?

I have no intention of buying them. Why? a) I've already got bootleg DVDs of the THX originals, which I never watch anyway and b) I've got the special edition DVDs, which look much nicer, and they're all I watch anymore anyway. the church of HSF (Han Shoots First) is easily first on my list of fanboys to make fun of... I've never seen so many people get sand in their vaginas over such a stupid little detail.

Watch it. It's posts like this that will come back to bite you in the ass.

God, I feel gayer for just LOOKING at those pics... I don't know why I keep torturing myself hoping these new FF games will be good, the FF Franchise died after FFVI. I make exceptions for FF-Tactics and FFXI because by their very nature they're a lot different. Excuse me while I go rape 100 women just to reaffirm my manhood now.

kinda hard to argue with the Razgriz paintscheme.. it certainly kicked ass

Super Tomcat 21! 396203[/snapback] a little late to THAT party, I'm afraid. The sad thing is that even if the thing had gone to production and the Super Hornet was the one that never made it past the wooden mockup phase, you'd be hearing the same gripes, just change the people doing the whining.

"Mango" did say that any time the "fight's on!" call was given and the Raptor was still BVR, it won almost every time. It wasn't until the aircraft were in sight of one another that the Super Hornet began to bite back.

I guess I never really had an issue with this mission... I do know that I kept my finger on the afterburner for most of the time. quick, decisive kills, never stray far from the choppers. That's the technique I followed for the most part (as I remember. It's been a little while since I've played)

Most of them already do.

Furthermore, the other two "superweapons" had a safe-zone. In AC4, you simply flew below a certain altitude and Stonehenge couldn't touch you, whereas the missiles from the Scinfaxi/Hrimfaxi subs were low-alt detonators, so you just had to fly above them. They weren't really obstacles so much as an element of the story... the excalibur REALLY made you work to stay alive. My last-second strike came just as I was about to cross the return line, I was expecting it though. It came after narrowly avoiding the previous strike, which I only just barely survived (97% damage)

It was a VFA-11 Red Rippers F/A-18F flown by a former tomcat crew who were in VF-11 and transitioned. The aggressors(VFC-12) have F/A-18Cs. BTW I hear some raptor pilots are pissed the gun camera footage was released. 395876[/snapback] That's no lie. On another site that David and I frequent, a Raptor driver went as far as to have the thread cited as a "security concern" in order to get thread shut down by the moderators. He's not too happy it showed up and the rest of the board hasn't stopped laughing at him since. Meanwhile the Navy is having a field day distributing those photos (a guy I know in VFA-103 who claims there is much more where that came from) I'm gonna go on a limb and speculate here, it's just an opinion and personal observation. The reason "Waco" was so quick to try and get that picture yanked is because right now the USAF is banking on the F-22A's "invincible" image being untarnished so they can continue to push for more airframes, and any sign of weakness is immediately pounced upon by the "have-nots". Don't get me wrong, I like the F-22 (and yes it is more than capable of performing a cobra/culbit). It's a great and capable fighter to replace the USAF's aging F-15 fleet (if the Tomcat community had to deal with change, can the Eagle community be far behind?)... but just like every other jet out there, it isn't perfect. VFA-11 and VFA-103 have both proved that in spades in red vs. blue training. I also think that the USAF is in a bit of a "what do we do now?" mindframe. They've got this ultra-expensive new toy, which they "claim" is for "kicking down the door" for advance operations during a conflict. The problem is they desperately need to prove this capability sometime soon in something other than a simulated conflict. Lots of people on capitol hill are looking around and scratching their heads trying to figure out which side of the fence is the best one to be on in this issue.