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This is just a Dave Deitrich brainbug. If you do some digging for translations of official sources you'd find that the F & S versions were more optimized for cost than anything else. Hell when you look at the F & S and the A they have roughly the same amount of lifting surfaces (the wings on an F model 19 are much broader than the 19A even if they don't have the wingspan, and the lack of canards are made up for by the extended LERXs). Hell if you look at the line art for the VF-19A you'll see that same three vernier thrusters that supposedly replaced the canards on the VF-19F/S.

I have an Ubuntu Live CD I've been using to dig around on my HD without the virus screwing with things so I may delete the infected files through that. I'm still confused how a virus could kill a process running on a completely different OS though.

Anybody encounter something like this? AVG caught a virus buried in my cookies yesterday and promptly crashed trying to repair it. Does the same thing in safe mode. I've heard of that happening before (I assumed explorer.exe got infected). But here's where it gets weird: I grabbed a copy of Kapersky rescue disk with my wife's computer (which fortunately appears clean) and it's bombing out on the same file. The Kapersky rescue disk runs on a Linux kernel so it shouldn't be affected by an infected explorer.exe file, and a scan of the boot sector shows nothing. Right now I'm seriously thinking of a nuke and repave (I've been meaning to go to Vista x64 anyway) but even then I'm a little concerned about the integrity of any backups I make.

And the 787 still hasn't flown (I couldn't let David keep a near monopoly on this page).

I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.

Here's a picture of an F-4 Phantom carrying an SUU-23 gunpod, if anything it's mounted further back that what we see on any variable fighter. Granted an F-4 is not as maneuverable as a VF-25 or even a VF-1 but as has been pointed out, even at the stately (by Macross standards) muzzle velocity of a modern Vulcan cannon your Valkyrie would have to be pitching down impossibly fast. Without an EX-gear system a maneuver like that would make what Guld went through in M+ look like a gentle massage, and the centripetal forces would tear a VF apart before it would even be able to hit itself with its own shells.

For reference sake the muzzle velocity of a 20mm round fired by an M61A1 Vulcan cannon used in most modern American fighters is 1040 m/s. Given that the gunpods in most variable fighters are designed to defeat armor a lot tougher than modern standards I would imagine their muzzle velocity would be much higher. A VF would have to be spinning like a top to even come close to hitting it's own bullets.

Well remember we're not just talking about 10 meter tall people but the consumables needed to support them. Otech seems to allow for considerable recycling but you still need space to feed and clothe a crew, space that would be exponentially smaller for microns. That doesn't even get to the storage requirements to maintain the Supervision Army equivalent of a Reguld or Queadeluun-Rau. Maybe Macross City was built inside the walk in refrigerator.

Are you accounting for both leg's in your calculations? Because that and some sections in the torso would increase the amount of living space available considerably. That plus as Mr March pointed out you'd gain a good deal of space from stacking levels of the city on top of each other (It's possible that Macross City was built in the Zentradi sized sections of the ship, your average sized brownstone would fit easily in a deck designed for a 11m tall person). I don't have it out right now to check, but weren't there some shots in DYRL that showed sections of the city built on the ceiling?

Not absorbent so much as it re-radiates IR at a wavelength that will dissipate in the atmosphere by the time it gets to anything like a tactically useful range. Since M0 I've always assumed that SK had retconed things so that all variable fighters use some form of active stealth system, only differing in how capable the system is on each VF. It would explain why the VF-0 looks to incorporate passive stealth features (edge alignment, chine along the nose, few 90 degree angles) but later designs like the VF-1, VF-4 and VA-3 don't appear to incorporate much (it may have been found during testing of the VF-0 that the active stealth system alone was enough without any passive features). You could also explain later designs with passive stealth features (practically every VF since the VF-5000 to varying degrees) as better threat sensors being partially able to overcome an active stealth system, necessitating a return of passive stealth features to compensate.

M7 is certainly not without it's flaws, but it's definitely thoroughly entertaining, and as you've found out, one of the funniest Macross series.

It doesn't have to be completely obsolete It just has to be obsolete enough, that the price of upgrading it and the price of keeping it running are more than the price of buying a new VF-1 and maintaining that. Given what a maintenance hog the VF-0 was shown to be it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the UN Spacy just decided they cost too much to fly. There's plenty of real world examples of aircraft that weren't completely obsolete but were nonetheless retired because the price of keeping them flying was more than buying a new aircraft outright (The F-117 and F-14 come immediately to mind).

IIRC that picture (including the US Army on the leg) is actually taken from one of the reconstruction episodes of Macross (obviously it went into Robotech too).

Remember that the 0s in the show were shown to be real hangar queens, probably due to the fact that, as test beds, no two planes were exactly alike. It only would have gotten worse as keeping the supply of specialized spares for such a small number of fighters (if they even shared many standardized parts between any two mecha) would have become a bigger and bigger pain in the ass. I wouldn't be surprised if it was cheaper to buy a brand new VF-1 and get the huge supply and maintenance chain behind it than pay for even a year of lifecycle costs on a VF-0 even with upgrades.

I always wondered how Dornier or IAI would be spelled in Cyrillic and if they're the source of the V.

While the UN Spacy uses a variation on the US tri-service designation system (or the system currently used by the JASDF which itself is a variation on the US system) there's no reason to believe the Anti-UN uses the same system. Given the heavy former Warsaw Pact influences on the AUN it's more likely the the SV is a manufacturer designation (like MiG for Mikoyan-Gurevich or Tu for Tupolev) than any type of tri-service designation.

Short answer: No. PAL and NTSC are actually at different resolutions and different frame rates (25 fps for PAL 30 for NTSC). Your only bet is if you have a HDTV and a good upconverting player you might be able to get away with it, AFAIK the ATSC standard (what HDTVs use) has been adopted worldwide so an upconverting player would convert an NTSC signal to that the same as a PAL one. Your mileage may vary though.

Well the Octos is a submersible mecha so I wouldn't be surprised if the Auerstädt launched them as well, and there's no reason it couldn't have surfaced and launched the Mi-8s. However both the Mig-29As in the first episode and the weird canard equipped Mig-29s from the last episode are land based fighters with pretty short legs and no in flight refueling capability (Mig-29A has none, and I couldn't see a re-fueling probe on the canard variant), so they would have had to launch from a nearby base. The question then becomes how the heck the Anti-UN hid an airbase and attached submarine pen so effectively that they were able to launch a surprise attack on two CVBGs.

Since it's an Anti-UN mech with a strong Russian heritage we could always give it a NATO like reporting name ala Flanker or Fishbed. Since it's a jet powered variable fighter it would need a name that starts with V containing two syllables. Victor? To the dictionary!

The most widely held theory is that VFs use a deck and catapult system to save reaction mass when launching in space. the fighters get a bit of "free" acceleration from the deck catapults. Of course the actual reason is that it looks cool.

Oh Knight26 you're such a tease when it comes to OPSEC. Come on make with the juicy stuff! What are it's front and side aspect RCS in square meters? If possible please provide detailed info on chemical composition of and the construction techniques for, any RAM used in it's structure. My "freind" Yuri want's to know, yeah that's it!

I like what I've seen of the model but I'd love a scan of that lineart if someone has it.

Are we filling time before the thread is locked? And yes that happens to me all the time.

I think it's pretty clear that the Turbine part of a TNT doesn't refer to the configuration of the Fusion reactor, but the fact that said fusion reactor is part of a jet turbine. Said turbine is powered by a thermonuclear fusion reaction rather than a chemical one like modern jet engines. Having said that, I do believe a Tokamak style reactor is the most likely candidate for the heart of a TNT, it's straightforward, it gives off a steady amount of energy (unlike other likely methods like laser initiated fusion) and it's strongly implied by the official material (the toroid structure in the TNT cutaway diagrams I mentioned earlier).