Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. What about the two crew that did manage to successfully bail out but allegedly got shot at by the Mig's, were their bodies recovered and if so was there evidence of Soviet cannon-shells?
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  2. Weeeell unless you come up against a British Harrier with Sidewinders that is 😉
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  3. Anybody getting a "Terminator 3 - Rise Of The Machines" vibe haha
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  4. The forces down there haven't changed in decades, what the hell are you talking about? There's a permanent garrison and airbase there, and a couple of warships rotating deployments, that're there to stop any future invasion attempts and defend the islanders sure, but they're also there, rather more importantly, to defend the local oil reserves and fishing grounds and big chunk of Antarctica which we get as a bonus FOR owning the Falklands, as well as it being a good place to train our troops of course; and our permanent forces down there haven't changed significantly in some time, and when they have it certainly won't have been solely because of anything Argentina said or did that particular day
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  5. Well remember they weren't actually that obsolete by 1940 standards, as he says they actually did surprisingly well against supposedly more modern aircraft and were certainly more than a match in the right hands for anything the Russians had at the time
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  6.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  actually the Blackburn Beverley was pretty good as my late Father (Senior Aircraftman and cargo-shifter, 84 squadron, back in the late 50's and early 60's) would've pointed out; they definitely seem to have produced more misses than hits as a company though 😊
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  7.  @Boric78  hell yes to the navy and surely the navy getting the most strengthening is a GOOD thing, we are a bloody island at the end of the day lol, plus it looks like helping our allies with keeping China from invading Taiwan and/or taking over the South China Sea is gonna be a far more immediate problem right now anyway, can't do that with tanks. As for the RAF the Tempest and Taranis projects are definitely still happening, albeit slowly, as is the getting of F35's to fly off the Navy's new carriers, so hardly just "vapourware"
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  8.  @Tom-uk2ow  lol. Well the truth is that what little car industry we actually HAVE these days (and yeah the companies are all partly under foreign ownership these days but they're still British companies and the cars are built here by British people and British factories), is actually all either high-end luxury prestige stuff, like Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, Bentley or Aston-Martin, or tough dependable off-road stuff like Land-Rovers and Range-Rovers, so actually not bad at all- if you can afford them. I suppose there's always Vauxhall to make fun of lol, but they're actually pretty much American GM cars with a different badge. Man I miss Austin-Rover- now that was a LEGIT crappy genuinely all-British company lol
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  9.  @DerDop  basically it gradually just went under, bit by bit, the money wasn't there any more than our empire was, and there was too much competition from abroad. Doesn't have to be a permanent state of affairs though! our military's about to be getting a huge boost in defence spending and BAE Systems has become a big deal in the defence industry, both of which are what made the Tempest and Taranis programs possible. The 21st century won't see the return of the British Empire sadly, but it WILL see the return of British military aviation
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  10.  @73North265  and their air-force is worse. If they suddenly wanted to, the four RAF Typhoons stationed on the Falklands could quite literally gain actual air-superiority over Argentina, ALL of Argentina, BY THEMSELVES lol, and there wouldn't be a damn thing Argentina could do about it, the only reason they'd have to go home is running out of fuel lol- seriously I'm not even kidding about that, Argentina have NOTHING in flying condition that would be any kind of match for a modern jet-fighter. It's actually kinda sad, it's debatable whether Argentina even actually counts as HAVING an air-force these days, which is a pretty big come-down to say the least considering how much damage their pilots did to our ships in the war. Think at last count they had maybe three or four 40-year-old A4 Skyhawks still airworthy and that's about it. Then again, still better than no planes at all I guess
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  11. Any word on what kind of engine it's gonna have? There's been talk of "an upgraded engine" and a supposed top speed of 60mph on the road (damn impressive if so given the weight involved), but not much has been given in the way of specifics there
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  12. The D-XXI (D-21) was pretty good-looking too
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  13. Is a bit odd isn't it, especially seeing as it's basically just the same hull with a new turret and engine put in
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  14. Bit worrying to me how outnumbered the RAF Typhoons on the Falklands are suddenly gonna be. While one-on-one I've every confidence they're more than a match for these "Thunders", it's suddenly gonna be 14 to 4, and there's no guarantee the Argies will stop at those 14. How difficult and expensive would sending more Typhoons down there be though
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  15. As always I approve the use of Brian Blessed in this video very much haha
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  16.  @Charlesputnam-bn9zy  well yeah, but it could be argued the I-16 for all it's successes was, by that point, if anything MORE obsolete than the Buffalo or D-XXI were, and all three were DEFINITELY completely obsolete compared to a Messerschmitt Bf-109E, but with, yes a good enough pilot at the controls all three could still win the day in theory nonetheless
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  17. 148 of arguably the best Western MBT (best armour, best gun, newest and most advanced) is still a hell of a lot better than no tanks at all, and it's pretty unlikely those 148 are ever gonna be fighting on their own anyway, it's surely kinda a moot point if that's 148 Challenger 3's backed up by about a THOUSAND Abrams M1A2's
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  18.  @HiringHamblin  oh mine too haha, I don't even think a real Argentine attack is likely anyway, I just don't think we should take any chances and that we should send at least a few more aircraft down there just in case, especially if there's any chance of Chinese involvement in any future struggle, as a deterrent if nothing else. Nothing too extravagant but maybe add enough planes and pilots to make it a full-strength permanent squadron
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  19.  @papalegba6759  yeah suuuuuure, think we can all see where your allegiances lie now lol
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  20.  @minianimejesus8792  in what significant way?
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  21. In my opinion, given our history there, Britain and Britain's armed forces in particular should not just be doing something about this but actually leading the charge, not to conquer or colonise Burma but to liberate it, to free it, to re-establish democracy there and to protect it's population. Just like with Hong Kong not a chance of it though. No oil-money in it for our government lol
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  22. Anyone here ever seen the Clint Eastwood movie "Heartbreak Ridge"? 'Coz the battle shown at the end of that is meant to be part of the Grenada Conflict 🙂
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  23.  @DerDop  we'll see about that when our new Tempest fighter comes along won't we 😁
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  24. As an interesting aside to this little legend, the four modern Eurofighter Typhoon jets that guard the Falklands are apparently nicknamed after those "Glads", carrying on the tradition 🙂
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  25. Ever heard the expression "quality over quantity"
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  26.  @vonfragesq7145  guess so
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  27.  @Foxtrottangoabc  yeah and how long do you think Turkey's tanks would actually last in a fight against a modern opponent lol, no matter how many of them there are? Sure there's only gonna be 148 of these Challenger 3's, but they're gonna be a match for the very latest and most powerful tanks out there, AND supported by the rest of NATO anyway in any war realistically involving them, so how many tanks Britain itself individually has isn't actually that big a deal
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  28. Well does help if you have a truly superb pilot at the controls of course
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  29.  @nor0845  well yeah, against something like a Soviet Mig-21 sure, but against something at close range like that and moving at a comparative snail's pace they shouldn't have any trouble I'd have thought, expect that's what the Lightning pilot just would immediately do in that situation. And yep haha well spotted, I see we have similar taste in books
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  30.  @alganhar1  ok fair enough, and I actually do realise it's a complicated and difficult conversion process, but THAT complicated and difficult? SIX YEARS to even just do a single production model OF one of them and actually give it to the troops so they can try it out, even though they already DO have a complete working prototype one to show the press, right here in 2021 ready to go? Still seems a mite long to me that, especially considering the original proposal for this thing was way back in 2005. Isn't as if I'm expecting any miracles here, I'm not expecting all 148 in one go, I'm just saying a lot can happen in those six years, six years that we won't have a single one of these things fully really ready for combat, despite their practically having announced them as such back here in 2021! And what's with the only ten-year expected service-life after it DOES enter service, you don't think THAT'S a little odd? (Considering the previous models served well over twice that and are STILL considered a capable MBT even now)?
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  31.  @brucematthews6417  well there's also HMS Trincomalee up in Hartlepool
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  32.  @damicocu3860  meanwhile in Russia: COMMUNIST SPACE-BEARS WITH JETPACKS
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  33.  @damicocu3860  It's being designed and built in Britain by mostly British people working for a mostly British company, it's as much an all-British jet as anything's gonna be these days
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  34. They could always try making their own planes from scratch? Probably wouldn't be very good, but it'd be interesting to see what the Irish came up with 🙂
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  35. "Who needs enemies with friends like these..."
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  36.  @johngreen-sk4yk  no argument there, all we can do is hope the recent increase in defense spending continues and that it isn't just a prelude to more cuts
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  37. That being so it's actually impressive they're still as intact as they are
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  38.  @Farweasel  not anymore, the only thing ludicrous about the new Queen Elizabeth Class? We went to the huge effort and expense of not only building them, and not just one of them but two, but also getting the tremendously pricey F35B Lightning II to fly from them; aaaand then chose to use straight decks and ski-ramps rather than angled decks and catapults, for whatever pennies that would save, and ON a massive full-size fleet carrier that then goes on a round-the-world voyage, so the whole bloody world sees it and how penny-pinching we are. Oh yeah and we then get the planes for them piecemeal and agonisingly slowly (and those we do get are operated by the RAF not the FAA and so spend most of their time operating from land-bases); so these new carriers, the pride of the Royal Navy mind you, basically become a pair of huge 70,000-ton helicopter-carriers that occasionally are visited by F35's, THAT'S the truly ludicrous thing
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  39. Yes it looks like a 1930's transitional aircraft, so what, that's what it IS?
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  40. Well it was also a German company that helped fix the L85/SA80 rifle series, but whether you love them or hate them no-one would ever claim they're no longer British guns because of that
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  41.  @oldesertguy9616  I had indeed meant Heartbreak Ridge hahaha, thanks for pointing that out lol
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  42.  @tonyblack1964  well that's fair enough but frankly I'm glad they WEREN'T given free reign, (A) because the military just doesn't tend to work that way usually haha, (B) because national pride does matter to the country as a whole even if it doesn't to individuals, and (C) because I just generally consider the Challenger series superior- the armour IS far stronger after all, hence more survivable surely, and they're relatively reliable & easy to maintain, and a Challenger 1 scored the longest range tank-on-tank kill in history. In any event though, let's agree to disagree shall we, and my thanks and wholehearted respect for all your service 🙂 love the Chieftain too incidentally, great tank in it's own right, dodgy engine or not
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  43. You have good taste in movies haha
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  44.  @whalesong999  the notable exception being the Blackburn Beverley, the Hercules's forebear, ugly sure but they could lift anything. They did actually score a win with that one
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  45. @KISHANTH JEYAMOORTHY fully agreed, and as I've said before elsewhere, so long as we're part of NATO the number of tanks we individually have ourselves is surely kinda moot anyway, so long as we at least HAVE tanks to CONTRIBUTE at least
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  46.  @athelwulfgalland  well the Caudron C-714 wasn't actually that bad as an aircraft, it just was never cut out to be a full-on combat fighter, it just wasn't fast enough, tough enough or well-armed enough; oh the Poles made surprisingly good use of them in the Battle Of France of course but that was frankly only because there was nothing better available for them to fly at the time, and their successes were far more a testament to their skill, determination and experience as pilots than to the quality of the aircraft, a French Spitfire it was not lol. That said, just as a general-purpose light aircraft it was actually a perfectly good design though, bet they'd have made perfectly good reconnaissance or liaison or training aircraft or something instead, so it's actually a real shame that they're almost forgotten now
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  47. Trust me if she'd had a bad enough political situation on her hands at that time, she'd have been wanting Britain to go in there ourselves instead, just to repeat the patriotic rabble-rousing Labour-eclipsing effect of the Falklands War on her popularity
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  48. Couldn't it just as easily have just used it's SRAAM's?
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  49. Yes, there was another choice, make her a damn museum on dry land, HMS Victory ring a bell?!
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  50.  @hellstromcarbunkle8857  on paper
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