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09-03-2009, 12:28 PM | #281 |
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Just finished watching the episode on Veoh.com (couldn't find the full episode on Youtube). Colonel Brekhov calls the guy wearing the white ushanka Stormavik. I wonder why they went to all that trouble making him so different from the comic book version?
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09-03-2009, 12:37 PM | #282 |
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Same with Daina, why make her so different as well?
And why Wong? Why would they make a chinease cowboy??
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09-03-2009, 12:50 PM | #283 |
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09-04-2009, 05:12 AM | #284 |
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More October Guard:
Horror-Show, Gorkij & Bolshoj Medved Design Notes:
To read their full filecards, click on the Filecard Project link in my signature. Thanks for looking, and if you like (or don't like) what you see, let me know by posting your thoughts in this thread. |
09-04-2009, 11:05 AM | #285 |
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It's just really weird that they rejected Big Bear initially, but he got a figure before Horror-Show.
Nice looking bunch. Horror-Show is lacking in girth though. He's supposed to be this big bear of a man.
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09-04-2009, 12:56 PM | #286 |
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Rather than have somebody else's characters appear in a GI Joe comic, they just asked (forced?) DeFalco and Trimpe to create something similar to Pravda Patrol, but not so similar that they'd be violating copyright. Which is weird, when you think about it, since Hasbro was asking Pravda Patrol's creators to make almost-but-not-quite copies of Pravda Patrol, so that Hasbro wouldn't have to pay Pravda Patrol's creators any licensing fees. I guess at the time, DeFalco and Trimpe valued Marvel's working relationship with Hasbro more than the possibility of getting paid by Hasbro for the use of Pravda Patrol. Still doesn't answer the question of why Big Bear was made into an action figure before any of the original Oktober Guard, though. Did DeFalco and Trimpe's copyright lapse by then, and Hasbro was free to use the character as they saw fit for their toyline? Or did Hasbro actually buy the rights to the character from them? Quote:
Interesting thing about the RPG-7, I think it's a weapon that could only have been developed by the USSR. It's cheap (you can allegedly get one for as cheap as $200 in the Turkish arms black market, and rocket-propelled grenades can be had for $40 a pop), easily maintained, simple to operate, but above all, it's effective at what it does. According to a 2004 article published in the now-defunct Exile, a Moscow-based alternative newspaper (I know, not exactly a reliable source), half of all the casualties absorbed by Americans and their allies in the occupation of Iraq up to that point were in attacks inolving the use of the RPG-7. It's no surprise that it's still the preferred anti-armor weapon of armies-on-limited-budgets and insurgents everywhere, even with a design that's been basically unchanged for half a century. So why do I say that it could only have come from the USSR? Unlike privately-owned Western arms developers, the Soviet Army's weapons bureau wasn't concerned about making a design that they could monetarily profit from and build a business around. They weren't concerned about engineering "planned obsolescence" into it so that they could get new design contracts from the government every couple of years or so ("upgrades" to the RPG-7 generally consist of external add-ons and changes to the warhead and propellant, not to the the basic structure of the weapon itself). They weren't planning to use it as an overengineered quasi-test bed for emergent but unproven technologies, either. What it was, was a product that only served one purpose at the lowest cost and with minimal user training requirements, and it was that singular and unfettered vision in design that has kept it relevant all these years. Last edited by zuludelta; 09-04-2009 at 01:58 PM.. |
09-04-2009, 03:11 PM | #287 |
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Probably the same reasons the AK is still in fairly heavy use today.
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09-04-2009, 03:57 PM | #288 |
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Gun freaks love debating the pros and cons of both designs, but I think the proof of Kalashnikov's superior design can be seen with how enduring his assault rifle concept is. The current SOCOM assault rifle favourites, the HK 416 and the FN SCAR, while externally similar to the M-16, are actually more similar internally to the AK-47, both use a short-stroke gas piston to harness the power of projectile gases instead of the M-16's messy direct-impingement system. And don't even get me started on the M72 LAW vs. RPG-7 debate. I think the M72 LAW exemplified Western weapons design excess... here was a weapon that you threw away after one shot! Sure, integrating the launcher into the rocket cut down on weight for the individual weapon, but it increased logistics requirements for any operation requiring more than single shot anti-armor capability (an average 18 year old kid could easily hand-carry an RPG-7 launcher whilst lugging three rocket-propelled grenades in a knapsack... three M72 LAWs on the other hand, would be inconveniently bulky, since each piece would be a meter-long combination launcher and munition). And when armour technology surpassed the M72 warhead's destructive capability, they had to ditch the whole thing (and gave away a whole mess of unused M72s to American allies to make room for the new M136/AT-4), because the launcher and the munition were functionally intertwined and considered obsolete by the guys in the Pentagon. With the RPG-7, however, all the Soviets had to do was improve on the warhead, but they didn't have to throw away their inventory of RPG-7 launchers because they would still be compatible with whatever new rocket propelled grenade the weapons bureau would develop to counter the new reactive armour NATO was slapping onto their tanks. Last edited by zuludelta; 09-04-2009 at 04:15 PM.. |
09-05-2009, 01:35 AM | #289 |
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That's funny. I was just watching a History Channel doc on the M16 today. Talked alot about its design and how initally it seemed superior to the M-14...until they started jamming. No cleaning kits supplied-genius! Now they're talking about the replacement-XM-8 vs. H & k 416 ( I believe that's what Duke initially uses in ROC). Showed the 416 being immersed in sand, mud, and water, then being fired after it was removed. No problems with jamming. IIRC, one of the Delta snipers KIA in Mogadishu used an M-14 and was teased about it, but he swore by it.
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09-05-2009, 02:00 AM | #290 |
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The XM8 is out of the running as the replacement for the M16 and M4 (although the XM8 is really just a dressed up H&K G36K). Right now, the leading candidates for the Army's new assault rifle is down to the HK416 and the FN SCAR. Both are similarly superior to the M4 and M16 in "out of the box" accuracy & reliability tests and cost about the same, I guess who gets the contract depends on which company bribes more generals
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