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    Okay, Argentinas Skyhawks got the F-16 radar. Other countries, including Brazil, Australia and Singapore all had their own upgrade programmes that differed from Argentinas in various details.
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    I don't have the time to check the costs now, but there were a couple of countries - Brazil and Argentina, I think? - that upgraded their A4s with some F-16 avionics, including the APG-66 radar. That might give you a baseline to work from. This was several years ago though, possibly back in the 90s.
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    Few guesses; for one thing the A-4 which is the lowest cost plane on that chart was probably a lot simpler, even given that jets were kind of the New Big Ticket Thing back then. Economy of scale is another. They only made 57 F-117s, and although they made a lot of F-15s, they've only made 225 F-15Es (and theres significant changes between a F-15C and E, it wasn't just a case of strapping more bomb shackles on). The F-111 and F-14 were arguably among the most technically sophisticated aircraft of their day, and thus costly. The A-6E was a developed variant of an earlier model, and therefore some of the cost had already been "sunk" (compare to the F-111, which is listed as a single model when there were several different variants). The F-22, well, they only made 187 compared to the originally planned several hundreds; its cost would probably be less overall (though still probably upper tier) if that had happened. By most accounts the F-18E was essentially a new aircraft, and in that context accounting for inflation its cost isn't that that much higher than the F-15. Avionics almost certainly makes a difference; the A-10 is one of the lowest cost aircraft on that chart but also the most basic avionics-wise (in its original form). This is all supposition and "gut" feeling just from looking at that chart though.
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    MAGIC PLAY IS DANCING, again! A world of smartphones and drones and the sisters still aren't using masks...
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    David! That must be a F-22, we all know the F-35 can't climb/turn/dive/fly!
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    Regards the Ace Combat 7 trailer, thats not the one I saw but you can what is likely the Su-57 at about 25 and 40 seconds in.
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    Theres a 30 second "Ace Combat 7" trailer doing the rounds on some gaming sites and its blink-and-you'll-miss-it but I think I saw a Su-57 in there at one point.
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    For British retro computing fans, there was a lot of love for that era of the hobby - I did a double take when I found out who played the author of the "Bandersnatch" book and just why he looked so familiar... (show creator Charlie Brooker is a big videogame fan and worked for second-hand British videogame/electronics retailer "CEX").
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    Ah thanks, Sildani, that makes more sense.
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    How can you have a "Passive Active" warning system? Doesn't one contradict the other?
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    Runway closed again after another suspected drone sighting. This time of year, its probably going to turn out to be Venus...
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    The runway reopened this morning, disruption is expected to take until at least tomorrow to clear. Unless its changed since I last checked, the perpetrator remains at large. The maximum penalty under current UK law for this sort of act is up to 5 years in prison, there may well be a rethink about the penalties. As far as government conspiracies go - a UK politician in parliament was explaining how guard dogs barking scares away drones from prisons, does that sound like someone who could engineer such a plan to you?
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    In what is likely to be a watershed moment for civil aviation, a drone has caused travel chaos at Londons Gatwick airport from late evening yesterday well into today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46640033
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    I will point out that every episode of "Zeta" promised that "YOU WILL SEE THE TEARS OF TIME!". Its just taken a while for Mobile SUIT technology to catch up.
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    Ah, please ignore, misread someone making the same point I was.
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    On that note, "Turn around when possible": https://www.adsadvance.co.uk/f-35-makes-milestone-reverse-landing-on-hms-queen-elizabeth.html Try doing that with "cats and traps"!
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    Reportedly Japan is going to work on converting the Izumo-class "destroyers" to be F-35B capable, and possibly buy up to a hundred F-35As and Bs (in addition to the 42 already ordered): https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-Relations/Japan-to-order-100-more-F-35-fighters-from-US
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    Fast, big radar, lots of missiles... so a Typhoon then?
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    Decepticon rub-signs?
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    Hmm, maybe they had it right with all those shiny aluminum finishes in the 50s after all...
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    Super-hyper-sonic vehicles? Then someone makes a Hyper-super-hypersonic vehicle? Gentlemen! We must not have a Hypersuperhypersuperhypersuperhypersonic gap!
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    I saw it the other week, and although arguably its a bit workmanlike its by no means as bad as some reviews have made it. I felt it got better as it went on, and of course it helps that its been gifted with a ready-made soundtrack of awesome. The timeline is definitely mixed up, but the recreation of Live Aid is astonishing, and I watched that the first time! (on TV). Edit: And, oh, while the guy playing Freddie is good I think they cloned Brian May!
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    Point. I should have specified "Tekkaman Blade", by the way.
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    Something that seems to have got a little overlooked, couple of days after the landings on HMS Her Maj, a USMC F-35B was lost. Pilot ejected safely, problem traced to a faulty fuel line component which are being/have been replaced fleet-wide where required: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/09/28/an-f-35b-has-crashed-near-marine-corps-air-station-beaufort/
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    Outside choice for that blurred image - Tekkaman?
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