re: #54 Romantic Heretic

My reactions to Top Gun?

“That isn’t a Mig. It’s an F5 Tiger painted black with a Russian star. And fighters are designated with odd numbers. That’s a gun shot! If you’re firing a heat seeker why does the exterior shot show a Sparrow dropping away? How can you fire the same missile twice?”

But I do that with most war movies. I like Band of Brothers because I wasn’t constantly going, “Wrong!” I wish I knew where they got Churchill tanks from though.

I have to be careful of that. I love to nitpick technical accuracy. A MiG-28? Huh? I learn to just smile inwardly and go along.

Most of the tanks in BoB were heavily modified (vismoded, as we called it when dealing with American equipment made to like like Russian equipment) from other existing modern vehicles. There are a few collectors in GB trying to salvage and restore other, hard to find tanks like the A34 Comet.