Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  I was starting to think you didn't love us anymore
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  2.  @stevesullivan9752  Keeping them is one thing. Getting into them is quite another. On the upside I could still fit into the same shoes.
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  3.  @notreallydavid  No problem. I tend to just write my thoughts down and then edit them afterwards. But sometimes I miss something. And thanks P.S. I just noticed I had written after instead of afterward. So I changed it before I get another correction.👍
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  4. I always thought the Halifax did not get the attention it deserved. It was doing much of the heavy lifting before the Lancaster even turned up.
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  5. There was a case of a British Spitfire pilot with his squadron in France at the end of the Battle of France who brought another pilot, French I believe, back with him to England.
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  6.  @FirstDagger  Still early technology
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  7. This is true. And they should be kept away from drawing boards at all costs.
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  8. The French pulling out of a project became a theme. They pulled out of being involved in the Eurofighter because the other countries refused to delay it so as the French could build and sell their aircraft.
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  9. Right kit, right place but wrong time.
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  10.  @DraftySatyr  True but it could be quite drafty. The most dangerous job in the world at that time was that of the man that had to wash the windows.
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  11.  @terraflow__bryanburdo4547  They're French so nothing British.
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  12.  @AudieHolland  It took me awhile to realise them and the Me-109 had their engines the wrong way up.
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  13. Deja View. That feeling you've watched this before
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  14. Judging by some of the videos I've seen I'd say very much so. Some of the tracks left in the mud it looks like they are some 12 to 18 inches deep, 30 to 45 cm. It does look like quite a few trucks and APCs bottomed out in it. One thing I do find odd is this has caught the Russians out as this is well known to them. Remember all the film footage from WW2 of the Germans trying to move through it. The only thing I can think of is this was not part of the decision to invade. So now they are paying for it. Hope that helps
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  15.  @angrydoggy9170  Da. Good for a year or 10,000 miles. Oh. Sorry. Mistranslation Good for a year if you don't move the truck and then just 10 miles.
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  16.  @angrydoggy9170  thanks for adding that. There are reports that the tyres a cheap ones bought from China. Probably bought from Alibaba with 3000 five Star reviews
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  17.  @robertl6196  Just in case they had to fight them.
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  18.  @johngreen-sk4yk  Interesting phraseology. I don't want to worry you but that's the sort of phrasing you get from crazy dictators.
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  19. It is somewhat ironic that the US ended up buying Soviet technology, the Yakovlev Yak-141, so they could make the F-35 The US and UK should have gotten together on this. Hawker Siddeley and British Aerospace had put forward plans for a supersonic VSTOL and STOVL aircraft which could have been excellent for the job but the finance was not there. Whereas the two countries working together could have shared the cost.
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  20. In the spring of 43 the Germans believing that they were on the way to winning the war cancelled many military projects. Especially those which were for the defence of Germany. Amongst those projects cancelled was the Enzian. It was a smaller pilotless version of the Me-163 but was a radioguided ground launched anti-aircraft missile with a 500 kg, 1,100 lb, warhead. You can imagine what that would do if one or two of those had exploded in formation of USAAF B-17s. If it had gone into production then maybe the XB-28 would have been looked at again.
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  21. I get the feeling Ukraine would say all of them.
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  22. Something of a nod towards the North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco. Looks good.
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  23. Surely all them civilians are already fighting. For the other side.
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  24.  @anthroderick5383  That would have been the time when I read about it as well.
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  25. All things considered you may have to add some sort of designation to distinguish between the various aircraft given that sobriquet.
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  26. It was a very difficult time for both jets and carriers. I did read that back in the 50s one USN admiral had so much trouble with the latest jets landing on his carrier that he sent them all back to their shore base.
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  27. I had heard of the Salamander but because it never saw active service little was written about it.
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  28.  @dovidell  Over time it has absorbed many words from around the world. I once got the better of someone trying to show off while we were discussing something. He said 'well the French have a word' for that to which I replied 'just the one?'
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  29.  @andrewbranch4918  Not always your fault.
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  30.  @sterlingarcher8924  No you were entitled to buy the tie
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  31. I have also come across a reference to the cages being used to deal with RPGs after Russian loses in Grozny. It looks like a secondary us is to add material to break up the outline in the hope the anti tank missile teams will not recognise them at tanks. I have not seen figures for other missiles but the kill rate for the NLAW is 90%. I should imagine other missiles such as the Javelin will be something similar. So cage or no cage they are going to get that tank. You can see why the Russian tank crews would sooner hide out in the woods.
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  32. I may have missed something but I thought the parasol wing had been around for sometime. As for Gloster their next aircraft was a jet. Bypassed the piston engined monoplane entirely. Just shows how warfare speeds up technology.
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  33.  @markfrench8892  So there is a place called Billings in Montana. That explains it. I wondered why Montana was being billed for everything
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  34.  @hobbyhermit66  They moved. Said they didn't like being talked about.
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  35.  @johnladuke6475  All they need now is computers and electricity
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  36. Some very interesting aircraft here. Looking at the R-42 I could F-82 in it but my first thought was of the P-38 Lightning. Sitting the cockpit between the two fuselages with four 303s and four 20 mm would have been something of a surprise for the Germans.
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  37. My money is on the T-7. They need something to dodge them ATGMs
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  38. The Iraq Iran War, when Iraq was the good guys. Oh, how things changed. When the Iraqis invaded Iran they headed straight for the oil fields and once captured Saddam basically told the Iranians that's it. We got what we want. You can stop fighting now. For some reason the Iranians decided otherwise.
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  39. I also thought the Empire was about to Strike Back.
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  40. As wooden aircraft go I don't think the Mosquito has anything to worry about.
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  41. I have read about these two ships but that was some time ago and no more that a paragraph I seem to remember. The mention of the paddle wheels is what reminded me of them. As an idea for a future video or two what about remote controlled vehicles of WW2
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  42. I forgot to mention that there was talk, not sure if it was French or British, of a tunnel being dug under the English Channel for the French to invade Britain. Considering how long the real one took to dig you have to conclude that the war would have been over long before the tunnel was completed.
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  43. Someone did fall off. His nickname was stumpy
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  44.  @johnladuke6475  judging by some of the cookie list he'd either give up or forget what he was there for.
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  45. Definitely a success story.
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  46. Looks quite a useful fighter. You have to wonder what it would have been like in combat.
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  47. Someone's been watching Fireball XL5. Well you're not 'Fooling' me. Anyway, great fun Ed. Thanks
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  48.  @IvorMektin1701  it wasn't a case of Britain not adapting more a case of different tactics. Over Britain the RAF were intercepting the Luftwaffe at much higher altitudes than the Soviets were. As the P-39 was no good at that hight it was of no use.
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  49. Always had a soft spot for Swedish postwar aircraft. Especially the Saab 35 Draken. Interestingly you can now buy the Draken. I'm going to need a much bigger piggy bank for that one. The British BAC/English Electric Lightning was also capable of intercepting the SR-71. Even, on one occasion, passing above the Blackbird.
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  50. I do know about the Welkin but it was a fairly brief mention which lacked your details.
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