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Old 2012-07-27, 10:37   Link #34
DoomRavager
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Originally Posted by encia View Post
At EP04's time period, all on-the-field Japanese TSF handles like the Fubuki unit.

What's the point of training yet another pilot with yet another Japanese TSF doctrine?

Might as well bring in an actual Japanese TSF pilot.

Did Japanese runout of male Japanese TSF pilots?

One of the reasons for Yuuyu's inclusion in Project Prominence is

Again, what's the point of training yet another pilot with yet another Japanese TSF doctrine?

In EP02, Japan has to use the naval bombardment after the BETA overrun the Command post/Arashiysma Supply Base and Kyoto. They are very effective... at failing...

How could you say "the Japanese Models have already proven just as effective, if not more effective, than the American Models" when anime haven't shown this?
Part of why they sent Yuuya over was for political/symbolic reasons (Japanese-American, it looks good symbolically even if it's dumb/meaningless in a practical sense and average humans are kinda big on appearances over substance), on top of the fact that his superiors at Nevada wanted him out of the way after he went and socked a teammate and an opportunity presented itself. They decided he had sufficient credentials based on his combat record, apparently nobody bothered to check his compatibility with outdated foreign designs.

And there's far more examples of TSF deployment outside of the anime whereby the Japanese TSFs get the job done just fine, but that's getting into game event description territory. I don't think I have to dwell on how inane and narrow-viewed it is to accuse the Japanese designs in general of being good at failing from the loss of Kyoto alone, the holes in reasoning speak for themselves. With that said, Japanese TSFs do generally work just fine as long as the pilot is competent, the main issue is they're just falling well behind other countries in terms of how up to date the technology used in their construction is, which is the primary cause of the performance gap, not their design philosophy. And no, not all Japanese on-the-field TSFs handle like the Fubuki, just the ones that were developed domestically by Japan i.e. the Type-94 Shiranui et al. The F-4J Gekishin and F-15J Kagerou, being licensed manufactured American TSFs, don't.

And why shove naval guns on a bigass land crawler when you have masses of perfectly good standard land-based artillery to use?

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