Skull Leader

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.

*edit* double post (how did that happen???)

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.

I don't really understand why everyone is so surprised at this. In terms of the Valkyries, just about EVERY initial release had some sort of problems, some were fixed, others were not.

Wrong. It's not part of canon Macross continuity at all. period. At best it exists as a separate AC (I'll borrow the term from Gundam fandom for a bit) timeline that goes from DYRL, to the numerous Super CD and PC98 games and then on to Macross II... even that is pushing it. (along those lines it's like people ASSUMING that just because one of Silvie Gina's grandmothers was meltrandi that it MUST'VE been Milia 639... there isn't any connection other than what fans are trying to bring to the table.)

This site, for all it's enormity for the english-speaking Macross fan, is but a mere drop in the bucket. Not only could Yamato do perfectly fine without us, we're LUCKY they notice us at all.

You really need to check your facts before you say things like this.

Je ne parle pas français...

I learned that quite some time back. For the longest time I assumed ALL radar-guided air-to-air missiles performed the same way. I later learned otherwise.

The thing you have to remember about the phoenix missile is, it was designed to flight a non-existent threat (wave after wave of Soviet bear bombers during the ass-end of the nuclear scare... it turns out that they had far fewer Bear bombers than we thought they did). what it was NOT designed to do was fight the much smaller "fast-mover" community. While the AIM-54 has a speed of well over Mach 3, it has a turning radius like a SR-71 Blackbird flying at top speed (which isn't really much of a turning radius at all). Which basically means it's easy to dodge. Even the slightest turn could defeat the shooting solution if it was timed right. Even your most basic fighter jets today could fumble an AIM-54 without too much effort (if they knew it was coming) So in reality it's only good against two kinds of targets: Those that are slow and turn ponderously (heavy duty prop-driven bombers), or Super Sonic targets that can't really turn (other fighter jets in a high speed run, or Jet bombers which turn like your average chevrolet)

Ah, so they CAN be released sans-radar lock. It's a shame that we had such an expensive weapon system that was so finnicky (to those who have no idea what I'm talking about, read back a page or two, when a pilot would "fire" a phoenix missile, it would just as often drop off the rack and NOT fire as it would actually go), we only fired one in anger, and we can't even confirm if it destroyed it's target or not! Still, it was never designed to be an anti-fighter missile, so I guess it's to be expected.