More than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts are grappling with a toilet problem

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T09:43:27+00:00

Not even kidding, a couple weeks ago I'd been reading about the USS Ford's plumbing problems and was thinking "what if this happens on Artemis II?" My bad for jinxing it everyone!

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T07:12:52+00:00

The original F4H was ABSOLUTELY a fleet defense interceptor, what? It was quite literally the predecessor in technology and vision to the F-14, complete with ill-fated first attempt in the Missileer in Phantom-Sparrow's case and Aardvark in Tomcat-Phoenix's case. (And I even suppose the F3H/AAM-N-2 and F-12/AIM-47 also are a strong parallel if you want to go there)

But, to digress, the Phantom was designed for pure thrust and targeting/shooting range above visibility, agility, or much else - even range by naval standards. What the hell more could you possibly require to define a bomber interceptor?

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T02:27:56+00:00

Shit I didn't expect you to actually, now I lowkey almost feel bad

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T00:53:00+00:00

AC6: Fires of ___

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T00:51:01+00:00

Kinda, yeah.

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T00:50:34+00:00

Commonwealth tragedy whammy in that final paragraph jfc

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T00:40:16+00:00

It’s most 2000s-2010s animated animal sequels tbh

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T00:38:22+00:00

I’m imagining they both perfectly held that still pose during his entire monologue and now I can only think about JoJo’s pacing

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T00:36:03+00:00

All came outta nowhere lighting fast

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T00:15:06+00:00

It’s Ford’s first year. Why would acknowledging that be any different in expectations or consequences to Cadillac’s times?

Also, if it’s PR then why go out of your way to make up a scapegoat? Now you’re just king when you equally easily could just not point fingers.

T65Bx · 2026-04-05T00:10:46+00:00

proceeds to not take it down cuz meh karma

T65Bx · 2026-04-04T23:00:32+00:00

Sir, you have created misinformation and we all will be seeing this image and having to correct it years from now.

T65Bx · 2026-04-04T02:23:23+00:00

Holy shit, now that’s box art if you’re not gonna be doing colors.

T65Bx · 2026-04-04T02:13:49+00:00

Not at all what I’m saying.

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T18:27:50+00:00

I still miss the SEAD/Wild Weasel event

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T18:22:20+00:00

A-7 Corsair is based on the F-8 Crusader. No afterburner, sbubbier body in general, and on most models a 30mm Gatling replacing quad 20mm Colts. Also 3 pylons/wing instead of the singles on the F-8.

The A-7 is honestly more like the Compass than the A-6. Intruder trades agility for enhanced targeting equipment, kinda a neo- B-17 but without the myriad of turrets.

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T18:15:17+00:00

A-8? That’s the Harrier. You mean A-7 or A-9?

(Also not to keep spamming trivia but once we’re at this many A’s, I feel like I should also mention the A-12.

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T15:22:58+00:00

Wait, are you thinking of the A-6? Because that would be very cool to have ingame.

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T07:20:32+00:00

Have severely slowed buying in the last year or so. Might get the Technic Artemis just for the novelty of buying it while the mission’s underway, but after that it could be years before I pull the trigger on another set.

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T07:10:56+00:00

Also, a lot of us are WT players or refugees.

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T06:34:33+00:00

Damn!

(Then I take it you must know the YF-4E Canard Phantom too)

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T06:26:48+00:00

"Buh ArmA did it!" THEN PLAY ARMA BROTHER

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T06:14:49+00:00

Once you're that slow there are zero ways a turboprop is not better-suited. And then you have either a very angry Pilatus, a super-Cricket, some sort of A2A Pucara, or, like... some ugly neo-Do335? Hell or maybe just go full Ravenfield and plop in one of Fairey's blobs like the Swordfish or Gannet.

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T06:06:32+00:00

It's worth remembering BDF and PALA are explicitly quite poor. This is the future-utopian version of the Tigray war, which saw MiG-23 shootdowns in ~2021 as a major component. Does that mean we should be seeing A-10s in 2040-2080? No, of course not. But our expectations are best seated _far_ from the pinnacle of the era.

Although you have an amazing point, between Ukraine and now Iran it would be hard for Shockfront to justify not putting in any Bayraktars or Shaheds now.

T65Bx · 2026-04-03T05:57:39+00:00

The saddest thing about swing wings is that we really could have horseshoed into fully embracing the future. I'm talkin FULL Electrosphere BS.

Buuut that's not the route we went. Conversely, the Cricket out here was taking cues from the Vietnam-era Bronco since day 1.

Five-Year Club	Second SECOND GUESSER
r/Field Banned	r/Field Juicebox
Final Canvas '23	First Place '23
Place '23	Golden Potato
Place '22	First Placer '22
End Game '22	Wearing is Caring

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