Topic: Something I noticed about "First Contact".........

[Stormbringer]

dammit! Now I've got to watch that movie again. Thanks!

[Wolfsglen]

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as i seem to remember all those uneconicall gas guzzling fat and bouncy machines bailed all u europeans twice out of destruction. IE WW1 WW2 . lol  might be a little unreliable but be glad they are there. cause it takes less to break those chic new fancy toys. and its easy to  fix a clunker than sports car. as i said  LMAO  

Yes which is why you had to license the british gas-guzzling rolls-royce merlin engine to turn the P-51 Mustang into its useful legendary status instead of the utterly mediocre ground-attack "A36 Apache" that it was beforehand. Americas finest WW2 warplane was average at best without us europeans bailing its ass out Which is why we had to take sherman tanks and upgrade their armour and gun so it stood a chance of surviving the battlefield, the british "Sherman Firefly" being the most useful variant made and subsequently copied with the  "Jumbo" variants made by the US.

And most WW1 Planes flown by US Aces were british or french (SPADS/Sopwith etc)...as were the tanks, which we somehow managed to make even MORE uneconomical than you guys for some reason but were considerably better than the US stuff of the time  

Hell even the M1 these days (called the greatest tank in the world) has a german gun and british armour, so we are just as bad lol. Bailed out who?

 (Playing Devils Advocate)  

[Praxis]

You know, the Defiant's scale was actually correct.

I have never seen a Star Trek game that has a Cube scaled correctly.

Cube's are 3 x 3 x 3 kilometers, or 27 CUBIC KILOMETERS!  They're GIGANTIC.

The Enterprise-E is 700 meters long.  A cube is about 4 times longer, and of course WAY WAY wider and taller.

The Defiant is a puny 100 meters long.  The cube is a good 30 times longer, and probably a good 300 times taller.

[111wallace111]

 

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 Eurofighter is good, probably the best.... But I'll take a Strike Eagle anyday, performance you CAN rely on...

I think the Terrain Following Radar system of the Torado was something pretty special though. I light that plane better than the F-15... I never liked the Idea of a "multi-role" airplane.  Good at lots of things but not really designed for a specific function. To much Lets take this really good Air sup. Fighter and make it a ground attack plane makes for either a lot of money being thrown at the problem or an ineffective tool... In the Case of the Strike eagle it was how much money could they give to McDonald-Douglas.....

The days of the century series of fighters was much better......
Each plane filled a specific roll and did it very well....
The mighty F-4  Phantom 2 great plane that it was ended all that.

It turns out that The U.S. let Better and cheaper fighters like the F-5 and the F-8 die to satisfy the need for a cadalac when they really needed a quick little dues coup.


Just my opinion.