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    "Quiet" does seem sometimes to be almost an "Easy" mode option, which suits me as my stealth approaches always go horribly wrong and wind up in things exploding. "D-Dog" can still have his uses, and Quiet can be hurt, which was something of a surprise to me in a mid-game mission the other day... D-Horse is sitting in a pasture remembering the glory days when he used to chase tanks with his bestest pal Snake...
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    Why? We know from internet forums that SU-27 is superior to all other aircraft in world today, and the MiG-31 can beat aircraft from the future and is completely unable to be shot down due to its speed. The PAK-FA will be used in case Unicron appears.
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    From reading about the process of translation, one answer could be: translation, at least good translation, isn't easy. It would also be an additional cost; even in Japan anime is a slightly niche market (in the same way that, even though you can find science-fiction all over the damn place, its still considered a bit of a niche market in the West - even "Game of Thrones", possibly the hottest T.V. drama around at the moment cannot escape the "spotty nerds in the basement" association so beloved of media critics; you can tell by how hard they try to deny that a show that they like but which happens to have dragons, undead and magic in it is fantasy... ). Traditionally, though this seems to be changing a bit recently, Japanese companies have always been a bit cool towards marketing anime in the West. There can be other issues; Macross is a particularly famous example of an international licencing minefield (other sources claim that the only reason we got "Macross Plus" is because it had so much obvious appeal overseas that the various parties involved finally banged some heads together). Gundam, arguably the biggest (at least in terms of recognition) and most famous anime of all in Japan, didn't do very well in the West asides from "Wing" and I think "Destiny". Speaking as someone whos been an anime fan nearly as long you have, and can remember a time in the UK when the total amount of anime available (on VHS, no less!) could be counted without running out of fingers, the current situation actually seems to me to be almost magical. I saw someone at work the other day wearing an "Attack on Titan" Survey Corps jacket...
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    Going by the size of the aircraft, might they be SU-24 "Fencers"? I thought the -9X had been declared operational on the F-22 recently, or was that just cleared for service in the USAF generally?
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    I think the original plan (from memory) was that at least some of them were going to be rebuilds but it turned out to be easier to just make new ones. I do wonder what they're going to do if they have to rebuild the "Z" again, though - Cobra ZZ? Z+? Refined Cobra Z?
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    For those of you wondering what a would be like, you may be interested in "Rick and Morty" on Adult Swim.
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    Wow. Just... wow. Moffat has always enjoyed playing with Who lore but this latest episode... Wow. And I take it back. The second best "Doctor Who" figure ever made is waiting to be manufactured, something just got bumped to the head of the queue...
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    It can be worth trying places like department stores and "ordinary" toy shops like "Kiddyland" in Harajuku; the impression I've always had with the large Akihabara shops is that they have a high turnover of items, whereas more "mainstream" shops sometimes have stuff sit around a while. Theres also a toy store near Ueno station that I can never remember the name of (ah - Yamashiroya); you can't miss it if you stand on the walkway above the streets; its a bit up from the Marui (OIOI) City department store and has what looks like a cartoony starship Enterprise for a logo.
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    I think I was still kind of getting over the surprise of that pre-credits revelation... Also, there is the best "Doctor Who" figure ever made waiting to be manufactured now.
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    Probably. Once its in service. Funding it to start with, though... Last I heard, both us Europeans and the Japanese had been looking at concepts.
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    Now the irony here is that the whole point of the F-15 was to try and get away from concepts like "The Missileer"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_F6D_Missileer
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    Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, held suitably enough on Battle of Britain day. A large flypast of Hurricanes and Spitfires is taking place over London (not quite enough to be the famous "last fifty Spitfires", but close) and a couple of Bristol Blenheims (whose role is oft overlooked) will also take part. Per ardua ad astra... Edit: While I think of it, I must have been one of a fairly select few who once saw a F-14 Tomcat perform at Dunkeswell [1] back during one of the D-Day anniversaries. [1] Yes, the natural response here is "Where?!".
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    Well, look who has finally stopped by to congratulate Her Maj on becoming Britains longest reigning monarch... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-34227249
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    I think its the angles. From slightly above, they give a "muscular" appearance. From the sides, though,... its like F-16 remoras...
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    Funny aside... there was at least one scheme to equip a Hawker Hurricane with a jettisonable upper biplane wing, though that was more as an aid for take-off and to carry additional fuel than agility...
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    Oh, wow.
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    Heh, I saw a poster a little like that in a shop in Akihabara once, except it had most, if not all, the Gundam characters up to that time on it. I started pointing them out to the friend I was with and going "Dead, dead, dead, catatonic, dead... "
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    As I understand it, Sprey has something of a... reputation. He probably had a point once, and some of those points were adopted and became the F-16 but as you say, hes probably rather out of touch these days (leaving aside the fact that military procurement - at least the big ticket items that get all the publicity - is rather borked [1], which is why the USAFs new bomber programme is being managed the way it is). Fighter aircraft have always been on the cutting edge of technology, and the most successful ones have almost always been the ones that made the best use of the technology available at the time; now I know that MiG-17s in 'Nam are going to be bought up at this point but using Spreys own arguments, they should have been using MiG-3s instead of -17s,right? [1] I'm currently reading a book about the development of battleships, all the way back to the 1860s and... lets just say the more things change...
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    https://www.defensie.nl/onderwerpen/f-35-en-f-16-oefenen-samen/inhoud/blog-gevechtsvlieger You'll perhaps see why I didn't post a link... However, a translation is available in this thread on another forum: http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=27850
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    It appears that the next U.S. bomber programme is a bit further ahead than everyone thought: http://www.defensenews.com/story/breaking-news/2015/09/02/new-air-force-bomber-testing-stealth-wind-test/71572050/ In other stealth news, some Dutch F-16 pilots recently flew with F-35s and were impressed with its situational awareness abilities. Their opinions on its looks, gun-port flap, cost, manufacturer, whether or not the B ruined the whole programme or if they'd have been better off ditching the -16s for A-10s go unrecorded...
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    Q.R. codes on a fighter aircraft, we truly are living in the future...
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    Okay, thanks for the information on A-10 load-carrying.
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    Its perhaps a little early to be making that sort of judgement...
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    Following a horrific crash involving a Hawker Hunter at an air show in Shoreham, England, vintage jets will be limited to flypasts for the forseeable future in the UK (no acrobatics). Thats a real shame, as theres a real grace about the old jets, but given the circumstances fully understandable - the jet crashed onto a nearby road after failing to pull out of a loop; incredibly the pilot has survived with critical injuries but at least eleven other people, and probably more, were killed in the resulting fireball: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34044383
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    I would frankly be amazed if any A-10, anywhere, has ever carried 15,000lbs of bombs even as an experiment. "Max payloads" tend to be a bit of a thought exercise anyway; yes, the air-frame might be able to do it but the drag and increased fuel consumption alone might mean you'd be lucky to make it off the end of the runway - and thats if you're in an aircraft with much more available thrust than an A-10... Valkyrie Driver, some of the points you're making have been probably debated ever since someone first thought of throwing hand grenades out of balloons - at least a few of them remind me of the similar arguments about "strategic bombing" during World War II, and the jurys still out on that one... Edit: Oh, and being mischievous - the F-105 had an internal bomb bay too, and didn't they lose something like half the total production run to one cause or another...?
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