What does /k/ think of the Longsword? >50mm auto-cannons

>>31194868
>110 mm BRRRRRRT

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bumping with longsword pics I've got

>>31194868
>those tiny-ass control surfaces
>no rudder control
>3 different guns
>nuclear missile
fantasy/10

>>31194868
What the fuck are these pics from?
obviously HALO something but...what?

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>>31195067

some 3d render artist did it for some fan made Halo CGI film called Halo: Humanity

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>>31194868

Never understood why the longsword was so fucking big

>>31195031
Not to mention it looks like it has all the aeodynamics of a brick dipped in mud.

>>31195192
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale

>>31195218
Ah fuck, rabbit hole

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What does /k/ think of the VF-4 Lightning III?
>two thermonuclear turbine engines
>two dorsal rocket engines
>two ramjets
>two beam cannons
>twelve semi recessed missiles

>>31194868

>Space brrrrt that looks like a B-2

Ehh, I can dig it

>>31194868
Whoever comes up with the specifications for weapons in Halo is a fucking moron.

>110 rotory guns

>>31194868
Halo is shit.
>bio engineered super soldier with strength augmenting power armor
>lol can only carry 5 mags for pistol

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>>31194868
110 rotary gets me every time

>>31198084
That's the point of halo. To not have logic.
>Super solider in heavy armor
>Dies by car driving at 20 mph

>>31195192
One, bigger is better; two, it has 110mm gattling cannon; three, tactical nuke bay

Iirc, the interior crew compartment is more like a small airliner than a compact pilot's cockpit

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>>31198084
got to give the xenos a chance

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best star fighter coming through

>>31195031
>>31195197
I guess the B2 doesn't exist then? Flying wings are now fantasy?

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>>31198211
Not even close anon.

>>31198266
Gross

>>31198211
Best sci fi space battles ever.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nwkYaxkDO3c
And because the guy who made the montage just through in his favorite music, have some BSG soundtrack:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-tUbTU0jIA

>>31198084
>anything done to balance the gameplay is canon
You're the worst type of asshole.

>>31198238
not those anons, but look at all those DRAG surfaces! I more realistic design would be a flying-wing of some sort with a very rounded, gradual design. And likely only fire missiles or maybe a focuses energy weapons (laser) or some sort

>>31195347
>year 2184
>achieving orbit with square exterior missile pods

shiggela diggela

>>31198044
>science fiction
>fiction
>in the fictional year 2552

only fags try to pin halo as hard sci-fi.

>>31198467
Balanced gameplay is stupid.

>>31198596
There aren't really that many hard sci fi video games, sadly.

>>31198467
Stfu and get lost

>>31198467
Where does he even keep ammo? Most Spartans have no mag pouches.

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>>31198584
Probably launched from a spacecarrier desu.
Old VF's like the VF-4 couldn't achieve orbit without a dedicated booster unit.

Why the fuck would a space fighter have even one gun, let alone 3? Guns on even today's aircraft have become mostly obsolete

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>>31199603
because most things try to avoid being as boring as real life

>>31195347
Like an f14 tomcat but better and space.

I'm glad they even drew it in the f14 style

It may just be my preference for older weapons/military armaments, but I really like the Sabre.
>2 30mm ASW/AC cannons
>Dumb fire & homing Medusa missiles
>Really cool ground to space launch sequence

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>>31199673
Forgot pic.

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>>31199667
Well, in-universe its a variant on the VF-1 platform, which itself was based on the Tomcat, so there's a lineage there.

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>>31198957
>>31195347
nice job kid, let me show you how we did in my day

No love for Macross/Robotech?

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>>31199766
The Valkyrie will always have a place in my heart.

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>>31199907
read the thread famalam.

>>31195009

is this from an ad or live action thing?

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>>31199603
Sweet fucking gun runs?

>>31199907
bruh, like right above you.

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>>31194868

What does /k/ think of the Thunderhawk?

>~ 16 inch naval gun
>2 lascannons
>8 heavy bolters
>30 SPESS MAHRENS or 15 Terminators
>Its a Box

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>>31199911

>>31195192
Cause it also fucking flies in space

Why does real life have to be boring as fuck
>your something machine detects something something or the other some miles away
>press a button or two and pray for the best
>something something beyond LOS disappears
>engagement ends, you're awarded a medal

>>31199990
>16 inch naval gun
>not superior fucking Destroyer weapon the Turbolaser

Thunderhawk a shit anyway, stormbird better

>>31195218
Despite its silliness Halo is fairly accurate military sci-fi on the future of warfare (from the UNSC side).

The Longsword itself is so large because it's designed to launch into orbit.

>>31199990
The gun being on top of it is so stupid for a orbital gunship. Needs to be belly-mounted

>>31198135
>tactical nuke bay
You do realize tactical nukes are tiny, right?

>>31198555
I think it's intended for space combat, where none of that matters.

>>31201130
>there are clouds in space

>>31195192
because its a space ship.

>>31199673
It's actually far better than the long word at being a space superiority fighter. The longsword seems more like a bomb truck for long range missions than for dogfighting or even intercepting.

>>31199603
That's what they said in Vietnam.

>>31201432
The sad thing is I don't even know if this is ironic anymore

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>>31195031
>>31195197
>aerodynamics
>important on a space fighter/bomber/interceptor
Anyways, superior space-superiority fighter coming by.

>>31199667
>VF-4 = F-14
>Longsword = B-2
>Viper Mk II = F-16
>K-wing = A-10

So what sci fi craft is the F-15?

>>31201864
>The F-4's biggest weakness, as it was initially designed, was its lack of an internal cannon. For a brief period, doctrine held that turning combat would be impossible at supersonic speeds and little effort was made to teach pilots air combat maneuvering. In reality, engagements quickly became subsonic, as pilots would slow down in an effort to get behind their adversaries. Furthermore, the relatively new heat-seeking and radar-guided missiles at the time were frequently reported as unreliable and pilots had to use multiple shots (also known as ripple-firing), just to hit one enemy fighter. To compound the problem, rules of engagement in Vietnam precluded long-range missile attacks in most instances, as visual identification was normally required. Many pilots found themselves on the tail of an enemy aircraft but too close to fire short-range Falcons or Sidewinders. Although by 1965 USAF F-4Cs began carrying SUU-16 external gunpods containing a 20 mm (.79 in) M61A1 Vulcan Gatling cannon, USAF cockpits were not equipped with lead-computing gunsights until the introduction of the SUU-23, virtually assuring a miss in a maneuvering fight. Some Marine Corps aircraft carried two pods for strafing. In addition to the loss of performance due to drag, combat showed the externally mounted cannon to be inaccurate unless frequently boresighted, yet far more cost-effective than missiles. The lack of a cannon was finally addressed by adding an internally mounted 20 mm (.79 in) M61A1 Vulcan on the F-4E.[46]

Sounds relevant to me.

>>31203898
Starfury?

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>>31203898
>So what sci fi craft is the F-15?

the book version of Yukikaze.

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>>31202326
the earlier artwork of the Sabres looked way better than the final product.

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>>31204195
i still hate how tiny the Sabre and Broadsword are compared to the Longsword.

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>>31204186
the anime version of Yukikaze was something else entirely, but the mass produced Slyphids behind it definitely had a F-15/F-22 vibe.

>>31198467
Don't even bother dude, those fucktards think that you can play a spartan 100% like in the books with no problem.

>>31198584
>greater than 1:1 T:W ratio, no matter if in Atmosphere or Space.
>can just keep on going up slowly until in a vacuum.
>vacuum doesn't care about square

>>31203898
longsword is more of a B1 Lancer

America won the military encounters but failed to win hearts and minds, and correctly audit what the south was spending their aid on.

Unlike the almost identical Malaysian emergency conflict.

If you don't know about it /k/omandos you should look it up. it has:

RHODESIAN SAS, BRITAIN, ANZACS, BUTCHERED SLRS, no "IT AIN'T ME" and the best it is LOTTSA DEAD COMMIES LADS

FUCK me i'm drunk, wrong fucking thread.

CTRL C & CTRL V

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>>31195218
I want my time back

>>31198238
>I guess the B2 doesn't exist then? Flying wings are now fantasy?
Different anon here:
Compare the B2 with that, look carefully at how smooth the B2 is and then realize it's a subsonic aircraft. So since the Longsword is absolutely supersonic you need compare actual supersonic aircraft to it and how neatly they conform to area rule. Oh, what's that? You didn't know about area rule?

Look up the Sears-Haack body for starters, but basically it's a long, cylindrical body that comes to a sharp point at either end. Every single high speed aircraft conforms to area rule and tries to emulate a Sears-Haack body from nose to tail. Without that there would be absurd wave drag which would likely just tear the aircraft into tiny pieces the moment it hit a tenth of a bar of air pressure. (remember, these things fly in atmospheres) Surface drag is another major factor, the Longsword is full of dumb sci-fi doodads that give it an absurd surface to area ratio and every single one of those little bits and pieces would encounter a lot of friction, heat up, and likely cause a failure.

Like most everything else in Halo it's cheap sci-fi without any real science.

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Post more sweet spess planes.