Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. The B36 was indeed insanely cool. I love how strange the XC-99 looks. The ‘40s-‘60s were such an entertaining time in aviation designs. Wonder if we’ll ever see something like it again.
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  2. Trillions for the EU/US in under two years factoring lost trade, efficiency, paying for items like low orbit sat coms, etc. The craziest part is the US was making money off this war: A. Replacing Russian NG + oil in the Euro market B. Prior to the Munich speech, record orders/profits for US defense contractors via orders primarily from 🇪🇺 (for themselves + Kyiv) and C. The real world price tag on our aid to Ukraine is under $50b considering as the vast majority of the arms given were surplus stock that was retired or going to be and was/would costing us billions to dispose of (DPICM, M113s, MRAPS, HMMWVs, M50 based engineering vehicles, etc.).
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  3. It’s ironic that YouRube is the only place to get hard news these days. Even with how much they censor, only YT, podcasts and specialist publications cover this type of stuff.
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  4. Ed Nash for US aviation procurement tsar! Never mind his “odd” accent. I love how short the service life of so many aircraft were during the 50s - early 70s.
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  5. Beyond being a great aircraft, the Gripen’s by far the most practical option in terms of logistic/ops for 🇵🇭 / any state w/out experienced maintainers, non-ideal infrastructure and especially if they’re in range of Chinese stand off range cruise missiles and want (should be in this case) want to use roads as runways for dispersal of aircraft. As usual, the US will likely muscle Saab and Sweden out of finally getting the overdue and purchases it deserves so well. The main obstacle for any country right now in building up an air force is that there is literally a years long cue for fast jet pilot training. The West and especially the US since it has so many customers is at literally around 10% of the necessary capacity for meeting pilot training demands. Even our own Air Force is 1,000+ pilots short of where they want it to be.
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  6. Yup, it’ll be the F-16, but the Gripen makes so much more sense in terms of their needs (can land almost anywhere, huge tolerance to FOD which is the exact opposite of the F-16, can be rearmed and refueled by a crew of 4 conscripts with ordinary hand tools and so on and so). The dispersion aspect is especially important. That and I’m sure they don’t have any existing military runways that are in pristine condition, which is what the F-16 requires.
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  7. As an analyst who works for consulting firms, I am comfortable saying we tend to know a lot more about our area or areas of focus than journalists who tend to only be partly focused on a particular country or conflict. If one needs proof of this, simply look at how inaccurate, behind-the-curve the media’s reporting on Ukraine has been. It’s why ISW has become basically the de facto journal of record on the war. Ukraine: The Latest, a group of Telegraph journalists who do nothing but cover the war and have a daily podcast of about 45-90 minutes is the only mainstream reporting on the war doing a good job.
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  8. And even when you get a proper MRF, it’s going to be a long wait to get any pilots trained, especially if it’s a US aircraft. The cue for fast jet pilot training is quite literally years long right now. With so many aircraft customers and our own military wanting another 1,000 pilots, the US’ pilot training program is at only at about 10% of the necessary capacity for meeting training demands. Europe has a backlog too. Not as bad though.
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  9. YouRube really doesn’t like comments about this topic. They delete almost everything.
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  10. It was actually Santa Barbara. Not San Francisco: In 1916, the company relocated to Santa Barbara, CA, the same year Santa Barbara resident Jack Northrop (aged 20) took his first job in aviation working as a draftsman for Loughead Aircraft.
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  11. Fantastic video. Thank you.
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  12. Yup. As usual, group based internet meme opinions are almost always comically uninformed, devoid of context or nuance, etc. and therefore just useless.
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  13. Ed Nash, you beautiful man. I’d like to think this in-depth content is a response to my irritating pleas for more under-covered conflicts. Ed is so humble he’s never even mentioned his book once.
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  14. He was good, but more of a genius than Kelly Johnson? Not even close. Johnson figured how to fix a major aero riddle in the industry while still in college (his professor couldn’t even grasp his solution) that senior Lockheed engineers had failed to. He personally brought the solution to the CEO who instantly hired him and put him on the job. Then he just went on producing one revolutionary design after another for decades.
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  15. They’ve given up on Taiwan after seeing what happened to little Vladi who had a task 100x easier. So, they’re setting their sights on something more feasible.
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  16. BTW, “healthy survival and development…” is some interesting wording. I could see the PRC doing it just to get some actual real experience for its utterly amateur soldiers and officers.
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  17. This election should serve as an example to Western countries what will happen if they continue to let Russian and PRC disinfo goes unchecked. - Sincerely, a US citizen living in the end days.
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  18. When my neighbor died, I just walked in and said “This is mine. He willed everything to me.” When they asked for proof I just said “nine-dash line.”
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  19. Yes, Boeing and Lockheed’s virtual monopoly on commercial and military aircraft in the US is not good for the country and it’s not even optimal for them. I’d say there’s a glimmer of hope as some new companies are finally gaining real traction in the Pentagon’s procurement ecosystem for the first time in decades.
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  20. I live in Santa Barbara where the Lockheed brothers flew their first plane. They’d even let people take a ride for $. All these planes took off from the SB marina.
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  21. Thank you for this additional context. Very helpful and interesting.
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  22. And thank you, Mr. Eubank, for doing Texas values right.
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  23. Glory and victory to Nay Myo Zin! And thanks to Ed Nash being one of the very few to be covering this at all in the West. Stop deleting all my comments YouTube!
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  24. Thanks for your sharing your perspective.
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  25. It doesn’t surprise me the Japanese basically lost no Dash-8’s. They tend not to do anything half ass. So, no “could have” about it. It was.
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  26.  @patricknorton5788  By the time the B-52 retires, the last pilots to have flown them will be the age of the first pilot’s great grand children and even possibly their great great children. Simply amazing. And the F-15 in EX guise is still good enough to dominate a war.
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  27.  @UJLite  No doubt, they’re heavily involved in Burma. It is possible they could have had a hand in this if they want to get rid of Min because his incompetence will cost the Tatmadaw power. Something they wouldn’t like.
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  28. Like Perun? Mainstream journalism, on the Ukraine war for example, is absolutely worthless. It’s why individual sources are becoming so dominant.
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  29. Yeah. It’s pretty cool and ironic that most of the fastest airplanes to ever fly came out between roughly 50-70 years ago.
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  30. Like a pirate ship barrel?
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  31. I’m assuming it’s that and YT’s automated review system has lost its mind.
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  32. The new bot line is “Well! Well! We still have 20% of Ukraine!” and they conveniently ignore that 85% of that 20% was already occupied before the 2022 invasion.
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  33. I hope liberals are strapping up now since we’re about to elect a madman king.
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  34. It would be a waste of time and resources to incorporate this plane. They’ll also likely not add the Mirages to their Air Force until after the war and even then only if they get at least 20+ if at all.
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  35. Bigger? Sure. Stronger? Maybe. Better? Hell no. The Soviet military was always an utter mess. There are countless reasons, but having political commissars in every single unit, department, etc. who could countermand actual experts was enough alone to guarantee it was a mess.
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  36. This could be of long term use (as in making up a component of its Air Force after the war) and then only if it’s the “entire” remaining number of the small amount they have left. In the short term, it’d just be a logistical headache. RE: the Olympics, it’s ironic that Russia may be one of the few political bodies more sleazy than the IOC.
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  37.  @josephahner3031 And the A-10 sucked in almost every way, including its primary purpose, which was to kill tanks. It also resulted in lots of blue on blue deaths. While I, like others loved the sound and troops loved to see it, it was and is sh*t at its job.
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  38. Are you kidding? He isn’t remaining mute on Myanmar. His channel is about the Ukraine war. He isn’t a news organization nor is he a reporter. Basically, this sounds like Kremlin shill talk.
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  39. Another fantastic video. Hope you continue providing us updates on the smaller conflicts. Your Myanmar reports have been great as well as greatly appreciated.
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  40.  @JoshuaC923 Yeah, except my comment was based on a group internet me. Sure, OP’s comment was formatted in the style of a meme, but amusingly so.
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  41. Karen Buddhists seem far from enlightenment. Didn’t know Buddha was big on turncoating.
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  42.  @DogefromBroa The fact that the the most accurate, insightful and in-depth, reporting on a subject as important as China is done by a pair of YouTubers (an American and South African) who lived in China for 14 years shows either how badly the mainstream media is failing us. There’s no reason why these huge outlets shouldn’t have people like this working for them.
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  43. The cost should be judged on what it’s protecting rather than the cost of what it’s hitting.
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  44. I badly want to fly a BV40. It looks ridiculously fun.
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  45. Not to mention the A-10s have proven almost completely useless at doing its job of taking out enemy armor while racking up many blue on blue kills. Sure, I love the plane and its famous brrrrrrrr, but if we’re just going to keep it around for own entertainment, it should focus on air shows.
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  46. They’re a regional force. Not a national entity. It’s also important to note that they’re not controlled by China and had a major political split with the CCP decades ago. This is a case of which bad guys are less bad or what’s better in terms of weakening the junta for the other powers trying to take them down.
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  47. The Wa are no tinpot republic. 😉 Or they are, but in the most lucrative sense. The Romans only wished the rich tin mines of Britain had brought similar stability.
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  48. Even if you included aircraft 🇺🇦 would never be given, like the F-35, The Gripen is far and away the best platform for 🇺🇦. So, if 🇸🇪 was actually going to provide more than just 10-12 Gripens, it’s a real shame if they paused the plan against Ukrainian wishes.
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  49. 25 hours? You weren’t kidding about a short shelf life. Makes an F1 engine look like a Honda Civic in terms of service life.
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  50. PS - I am Ukraine’s biggest supporter, but the odds of this jet is flying in Ukraine within the next 12 months is near zero. I’d put the time frame more along the lines of 16-24 months and only then if civilian contractors are made available (or, more unlikely, active military maintainers).
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