Comments by "VisibilityFoggy" (@VisibilityFoggy) on "Red Storm Rising if it Happened Today - US vs Russia Scenario" video.

@russianpower4252 The U.S. wouldn't. Russia isn't going to invade the United States. And if they invade Europe, NATO Article V gets activated and the entire alliance fights Russia. As for China, you're going to see the U.S. having friends in India, Japan, S. Korea and Vietnam protecting themselves from becoming the next subjugated state by the CCP. The U.S. could easily win a two-front conflict with NATO supporting one side and regional Asian partners supporting the other. We tend to think that these "evil boogeymen" from other parts of the world are a lot more powerful than they actually are.
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@usokitsuki History is your friend here. Japan knows what it did to China a century ago, and the CCP uses old grudges to keep up propaganda support for the "revolution" and other domestic nonsense to keep the populace believing the world is out to get them. Japan knows that China would love nothing more than to subjugate them and send all of their military-age males to concentration camps in mainland China for "re-education" so it could install a friendly, subordinate government there. World War III will see the U.S. and Japan fighting on the same side, and if that's not a scary combination for China, I don't know what is.
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@gustavocarmo2500 As long as you don't live in Venezuela. Maduro would probably conscript people to go fight for China or Iran, or something equally as dumb.
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@kiwitelevision Just an FYI... "Combat Approved" is produced by RT, which is owned by the Russian government. It exists to hype up public support for their weapons exports. Some of them are interesting, but take those videos with a grain of salt.
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No air-to-air weapons were ever fitted to the F-117's internal bays. And if the U.S. paid the billions required to modify the bays, they would still be useless because the plane was not fitted with a radar or avionics to make them work. The pilot who spoke was speaking of a theoretical conflict and a theoretical capability that was discussed but never implemented. It would have been a secondary mission, anyway. The idea would have been to have the F-117 go in and deliver a strike package, then pick off a couple targets of opportunity on the way home (they could never get into any type of maneuvering fight with a full bomb load). I wish that pilot never phrased this discussion the way he did, because it was misinterpreted by a great many people. He should have been more clear that this was not something the plane was actually capable of accomplishing – but, theoretically, could be with significant modifications or a new variant (which was, indeed, discussed). I believe they even batted around the idea of a carrier-borne variant of the F-117 at one point.
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The F-117 was never fitted with a fire control/targeting radar or any air-to-air missiles. The only mention of attacking Soviet AEW aircraft was made by a former pilot who said on a podcast that there were theoretical plans to have the F-117 take out some heavies when returning from delivering their strike packages. This capability never came to reality. There was no tech on board to support anything other than a self-defense IR missile (which at the time was terrible) and even in the case where they'd want to fit an AIM-9, it couldn't be carried in internal bays and placing it on the exterior would ruin the plane's stealth characteristics. They would've had to redesign the internal bays to support (at the time) an AIM-7 or AIM-54. The F-117 is a first-gen stealth plane. One of the reasons the F-35 took forever to develop was, essentially, to solve the multi-mission question that the F-117 couldn't because the tech just didn't exist yet.
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Depends on what a definition of "war" is. The U.S. (and, frankly, every other power in the world) is bad at running occupations because there is really no good way to run an occupation. They are, however, exceptionally adept at "war," if you define it as removing a hostile government or taking out their ability to mount any type of military offensive.
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The nice thing is that they like living with Russian gas, but they can afford to live without it if they have to. Most of these states are exceedingly small and exceedingly wealthy and/or members of the EU which would open up methods to import energy.
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Russia always expected it would. But there were enough wise people in the room to prevent them from doing so when push came to shove. Now, the CCP is a whole other animal. The Han racial supremacy aspect makes it even scarier, placing them much closer to the 1930s Germans than the world would like to acknowledge.
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