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Not in one go, though - over about 6 years of increasingly difficult-to-survive warfare. 75% was the overall casualty rate for the conflict as a whole.

I might be misunderstanding your reply here, but in the long term it was unsustainable. Theres a reason we don't fight wars that way anymore (or at least, try very hard not to... ). All the combatant nations were pretty much exhausted by the end of the war, and the UK was trying to get the US involved much of the way through the war.

<pedant> Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country <pedant>

Yep, thats the one - thanks Graham. I remembered it a few hours after posting! The ships computer was called something else though...

Of course, "High" and "rairity" are such relative terms. After all, 30% of a million is still about 300,000 men...

Gunbuster features realtivistic effects and various "hard" SF concepts, but is perhaps not exactly "realistic" overall... If you like reading, Peter F. Hamilitons "Nights Dawn" trilogy (series starts with the "Reality Dysfunction") manages to mix Star Wars style wild space dogfights with "realistic" technology.

Uwe Boll to direct!

Okay, thank you!

Wait until you hear about the forthcoming Vicar of Dibley remake, and to explain that one I'm going to need a comfortable chair, a pot of tea, several bars of chocolate and about three whole days.

I believe he did some of the concept work for the large spacecraft in the show - I forget the ships name just at the moment. I don't know if the actual design used was close to Kawamoris original, though.

Okay, yes, but what a three minutes.

One question: whats the music you used in that clip?

In the UK, the Hunter is usually regarded as one of the prettiest jet aircraft of all time. And she sings, too!

Doesn't matter - it was so bloody fast all you'd see would be a pretty streak of silver anyway.

While we're on the subject of "Life on Mars": http://bigdumbobject.co.uk/archives/001758.html (er, note the series doesn't actually look like this - this is a teaser trailer done in the style of a popular UK 70s childrens show. I hope thats obvious... )

"Life on Mars" was first broadcast in the UK last year. It is excellent, although it relies quite heavily on UK cop show culture from the 70s ("Get your trousers on, son. You're nicked!"). The US version might be in trouble if they take the "hey, wasn't Starsky & Hutch fun back then? Lets do that!" route. A new series of Life on Mars, UK version, starts broadcasting next week in the UK.

The Germans were actually working on a Euro-delta/canard of their own back in the 80s - that wouldn't have had a tail at all! And as for the Typhoon being ugly - you just cross the pond and come and say that. Come and 'ave a go if you think you're 'ard enough!

Answer: not many, if the bombs weigh 12,000lbs each and are dropped by 617 and 9 squadron. (although there were a lot of previous attempts... )

Er... that jury. I'm going by comments made on another forum, but as has been pointed out, probably the most likely explanation is that the Chinse used the Lavi as a basis to build an aircraft within their capabilities. Perhaps a similar comparison could be made with the F-16 and Japanese F-2, which is based on the F-16 but is quite a different beast in detail. For one thing, it costs a heckuva lot more.

Let me get this straight. You... make... sure... Lego... bricks... fit... together. Must be nice work if you can get it. (just kidding...! )

The jurys still somewhat out on this one, though one thing I would like explained is the air intake - there are little struts that appear to connect the forward part of the intake to the fuselage? Or they just reinfrocement? Or some sort of aerials?

Waits for the "but its just a Lavi with a red star stuck on it!!" posts.

"Sailor" Malan vs Werner Molders would be a good one, if you can prove that actually happened. Also, it would be pretty much "RAF guy turns into Luftwaffe guy, riddles his legs with bullets"...

I think hes known for working for some no-name hack director... whats his name, one of those guys thats not very well known... Miyasomething-or-other... (okay, have I rubbed it in enough now...? )

I'm not sure what the official name is, but techno-thriller authors have been caught out before. Brown refers in one of his books to "VF-23 Wildcats" (Northrup chose "Black Widow II" for the YF-23, which of course never entered service); Tom Clancy has used the Dark Star drone, which was cancelled, and mentions Lockheed calling the "Raptor" unofficially the "Lightning II" - some time before that name was chosen for the F-35. Of course, all authors are at the mercy of USAF chossing different names to those a company thinks best, "unofficial" names, or budget cuts (and maybe, someday, the Royal Navy will have a carrier of its very own to play with too... )