its not just that, sometimes you need a sledgehammer (A-6) and that gold plated nail hammer you have isnt going to cut it.

yes, having fewer models reduces maintainance woes, but the days we used purpose built aircraft increased our ability to do the mission and do it right.

it looks like they are following a similar pattern, procuring navalized variants of the SU series fighters to fulfil their roles.

interesting, question then is do we start arming the system when traversing the straight or leave them off and hope to god the Iranian’s get their aim right and miss on purpose.

Tyler, maybe you can answer me this one, but why didnt the phalanx system engage the rockets? do they routinley leave them turned off in transit like this, or did the Skipper forceably shut them down to avoid any incident.

personal opinion, but 1500 yards is too damn close to allow. im not saying we need to fire back,…

to a point, the series has been getting weirder and weirder as time has gone on.

i kinda wanted to replace one button in my mustang with something that made machine gun sounds, paint it red and elave the other black so i could vent some stress.

sadly this now consitutes a terrorist threat or some such bullshit

utterly brilliant way to reveal the falcon

given the age, i feel the “tantrum” as you put it is pretty justified.

this isnt “i didnt get the toy i wanted” its “someone tricked the shit out of me then added insult to injury.

and nowhere does it say that such carried on for more than that day

*The prequels get WAAAAY too much hate. It’s patently absurd to hate on their minor faults when they do so much well, like the manuevering of Palpatine, the coolness of Qui-Gon or RotS Obi-Wan, the amazingly shot space battles.*

ill give you a half point on the space battle scenes, while pointing out that they lacked…

on number one, i think this is a bit of foreshadowing here, given that the only other time he removes it in my memory is when he kills Han, so he only removes it for family... hint hint.

on 4, honestly i think it improves his character rather than detracts from it. he is an unsure, emotionally wrecked young adult in…

glad i wasnt the only one

depends on if its live action or pure animation, they did a live action movie mix one time and it bombed. mostly because the animation was immature and it just overall sucked.

but a strong Gundam film.... would be a delight for the fan’s but still probably bomb. unless the series still its insane popularity there…

while im not saying you re wrong on that, i cant cant logically figure out how thats possible because Star Wars was fucking everywhere.

power of the brand for damn sure

but that would have been ignoring the economics of those 100 years. efficiency didnt become a big deal until the 70’s with the oil crisis, prior to that no one gave a shit. so why bother making hyper fuel efficient vehicles without any sort of demand for them?

really the efficiency push should be narrowed down to the…

except, he’s still wrong in his implication.

the only car i could think of off the top of my head that gets 21 MPG is the Viper, which has more HP than the Ford dozen of times over.
unless he means trucks, which weigh 6-8 times as much as the Model T, and trade their economy for a theoretical utilitarian function.

the…

goes with what ive been saying for years now, that the Japanese companies have gotten far too conservative in their approaches. as a result they are being rapidly left in the dust, surviving on brand loyalty built over two decades rather than being at the front of the pack like they used to, ESPECIALLY when it comes…

rather a silly attitude to have going in, i cant think of any factory program save Mazda that was successful their first year out (and i could be wrong there too).

hell look at Ford, the GT40 program was a dismal failure its first several years, but when they finally got it right boy did they get it right.

its in one of the first few scenes of the first order either back on board the star destroyer or on their base planet, i cant remember which because i was too hypnotized by the rest of the film.

nope these are in the film!!!! spotted at least one but i cant remember exactly where.

going to go see it again at some point

what part of ITS TO EXPENSIVE did i not make clear?

they were modernized in the late 80’s, technology has jumped light years since then, both in what could be put into them and what the enemy can bring to bear against them. its easier, and cheaper just to build new warships to fill that role than it is to bring ships…