Jabba The Hunt Posted June 25, 2003 Author Posted June 25, 2003 So building a mech would probably cost you, at the very least, the production of 20 tanks, now the question is could 20 enemy tanks destroy the mech?
Nute Gunray Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 Twenty enemy tanks can't destroy a single US tank, so the point is moot
Cmdr. Cracken Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 That answer would probably be no, 20 mechs couldn't take out a skilled mech pilot and his machine.
Jabba The Hunt Posted June 27, 2003 Author Posted June 27, 2003 nute, that depends who your fighting, in WWII you had the worst tanks of almost all the nations involved
Kylilin Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 yet we still managed to kick all that ass...imagine that...
Jabba The Hunt Posted June 28, 2003 Author Posted June 28, 2003 no what actually happened is that we had the technology but not enough resources to build everything we needed, you lot then came along and stole all our idea, e.g. the Corsair *cough* spitfire *cough*.
Nute Gunray Posted June 28, 2003 Posted June 28, 2003 Quote Originally posted by Jabba The Hunt nute, that depends who your fighting, in WWII you had the worst tanks of almost all the nations involved Quantity not quality round, my boy, quantity not quality. The Germans should have walked all over that one. Everyone knows the Sherman tank sucked. Your Corsair/Spitfire "claim" astounds me. There are virtually no similarities between the pair of aircraft. The Corsair was originally conceived in 1938 (Spitfire in 1936). The Corsair was designed as a carrier based fighter with the biggest engine money could buy. The Spitfire was based on a pre-existing seaplane design. Checking Corsair and Spitfire sites, I see no cross mentioning of their histories. American and British fighter development was very independent of each other and the stealing didn't start until everyone figured out the jet engine was a good idea (which the US completely and totally stole from everyone (British, German, Soviet, Martian, Creatures from Beyond Saturn, whatever)). Hell, the two planes don't even look alike. If you wanted to say the US stole a British fighter, at least pick a land-based bomber interceptor or something. And by US tanks winning a 20 to 1 battle, I mean now. The US hasn't lost a tank to enemy action in like 30 years. Our guns shoot further huzzah.
Kylilin Posted June 28, 2003 Posted June 28, 2003 One of our greatest strengths as Americans is that we can steal anyones idea, then make it a billion times better than it was.
Jem Posted June 28, 2003 Posted June 28, 2003 One Sherman managed to rid itself of 3 Tigers in "Kelly`s Heroes"... but that was only a movie
Nute Gunray Posted June 28, 2003 Posted June 28, 2003 Quote Originally posted by Kylilin One of our greatest strengths as Americans is that we can steal anyones idea, then make it a billion times better than it was. The Nazis used rockets to blow up a few thousand people, if that many. We took rockets, strapped on warheads so powerful no one wants to think about them going off, got bored with that, and decided to ride them to the moon instead. go america.
Jabba The Hunt Posted June 29, 2003 Author Posted June 29, 2003 Quote Originally posted by Kylilin One of our greatest strengths as Americans is that we can steal anyones idea, then make it a billion times better than it was. You don't make this stolen technology any better, you just have the money and resources to mass produce them, usually leading the majority of the worlds population to believe that you invented the technology in question. anyway I'm going away tommorrow morning so I need someone else to defend british interests in this dicussion, if i can't get online.
Admiral Odin Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 Oh, we definetly make them better. Look at the Harrier. Originally a brit plane. The marines took, and improved to fit our standards.
Nitro Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 I'm honestly surprised the US doesn't own any Tornados.
Nute Gunray Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 I really like the Tornado. It's one of my favorite non-American or non-Soviet modern fighters. I guess the US just likes to use home-grown aircraft (its not like the US aerospace industry is lacking anyhow) and the A-10 isn't exactly crap either. Quote You don't make this stolen technology any better, you just have the money and resources to mass produce them, usually leading the majority of the worlds population to believe that you invented the technology in question. We also have the money to iron out all the bugs and, gasp, make it better. And the US does invent more technology than any other country. For example, sometimes the British claim to have invented the computer, however this is incorrect as the first electrical digital computer ENIAC was built by the US at the University of Pennsylvania in 1945. Just because the Germans invented the rocket motor doesn't mean teh US invented a NEW rocket motor to strap onto all our rockets. We DO invent things. You just have a silly definition of invention.
Rogue15 Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 that's not really inventing though. that's modifying.
Nitro Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 Actually, it's reverse engineering... You find out how it works, then build one all your own, based on the same principles. Hardly modification...
Nute Gunray Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 The V2's motors and the Shuttle's Solid Rocket Booster's motors work on the same principle, but aren't teh same thing. We had to invent the SRB.
Redwing Posted July 2, 2003 Posted July 2, 2003 Quote Originally posted by Nute Gunray The Nazis used rockets to blow up a few thousand people, if that many. We took rockets, strapped on warheads so powerful no one wants to think about them going off, got bored with that, and decided to ride them to the moon instead. go america. Never heard that fact stated so amusingly before. go nute.
Zargon Posted July 3, 2003 Posted July 3, 2003 we invented GPS, we gave GP S to everyone, too bad our GPS is better......all the GPS blockers we sold to people arent sophisticated enough to block our GPS, only we can oh yeah, and according to GPS, that damned Greenwich Line you suckers out in the ground is off by 60 ft
Gold leader Posted July 7, 2003 Posted July 7, 2003 I think the Brits will wait with redrawing that line till Galileo is up and running...so they can check whether it's really 60 ft
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