Hearted Youtube comments on Ed Nash's Military Matters (@EdNashsMilitaryMatters) channel.

  1. They should make a movie about that jet!
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  2. If Iron Eagle 3 taught us anything its that a spitfire pilot can take out a jet by firing a grenade launcher out of the cockpit :)
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  3. "Tanks are dead" (every 5 years, ever since 1918)
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  4. I flew the OV-10 from 1978-83. On one occasion our squadron weapons officer got permission to arrange a test encounter with an F-5 flown by the Agressor Squadron serving our theater. The intent was to determine what, if any methods could be employed by the OV-10 to counter an attacking fighter jet. When it was over he announced that there was no effective defense. In the words of the Aggressor pilot, "When you manuever you're going so slow you don't actually move across the field of view enough to get out of my pipper (gunsight). It's like straffing (shooting a stationary target on the ground) in a crosswind."
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  5. holy shit never have i EVER seen footage of a modern air gun kill, in such outstanding quality nonetheless, and i have seen A LOT of combat footage from multiple wars this channel is a goddamn treasure
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  6. I came home in one piece. I shed no tears over leaving my weapon behind.
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  7. Me163 by miles. Amazing what that little prop on the nose could push out ROFL - Great video 🙂
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  8. Having lived in Vietnam for 3 months I highly recommend going to The War Relics Museum in HCM City. But it is not for the faint hearted, it is very in your face and it will haunt you.
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  9. YE-8: "The Eurofighter consortium never told you what happened to your father" Typhoon "They told me enough! They told me you out manoeuvred him" YE-8: "No, I am your father..." Typhoon: "Nooooo!!!!'' YE-8 "Search your canards. You know it to be true".
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  10. If Soviets copied the F-20 it would've been called Mig 28
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  11. When was a kid in Gibraltar in the sixties the Spanish had a habit of doing breaching Gibraltar airspace with their Me109, and H111 aircraft. The RAF sent up Hawker Hunters, but had to keep the under carriage down , and air brakes open.
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  12. Good video, but I got a couple of corrections to make, I'm Venezuelan and I live in Barquisimeto (were the air combat took place) 1. Chávez wanted himself as leader of the country, he did NOT want Caldera and the coup had nothing to do with him. 2. The f16 took of without air to air misiles, it just had gun ammo. The airport had been under attach for a while, and the plane took off out of a cratered runway. The bronco tried to stay out of the way of the f16 by flying over the residencial areas making sure if he was shot down the plane would kill as many civilians as posible. The bronco was dead as soon as the F16 took yo the skies, the only reason the air battle lasted was by using residential building as a shield.
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  13. Imagine being named Tank, but designing some of the best planes.
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  14. My grandpas first plane was a torpedo bomber the B5N "Kate" and then flew A6M5 Zero. His favorite was the F-86 and F-4 before he retired in the late 70s so he got to fly the newer jet fighters before retirement. He lived through the entire Golden age of aviation.
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  15. Propeller driven aircraft. It's a bit like fashion. If you wait long enough it will come back into vogue.
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  16. Favorite comment. "But hey it's the Finns, they managed to make the Brewster Buffalo look good..."
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  17. Sparsely populated?! I'll have you know that Montana has dozens of people and we're offended!😂
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  18. Finally evolution? Shackleton anyone?
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  19. I worked on this very program for a year, until just before it was canceled. Very well done video. An interesting sidebar you didn't mention was the B-2 was in the design process at the same time. Engineers, like myself, were hired into the F-20 program, like a holding pen. We were vetted while working working on the F20, and those that passed muster were moved over to the B2. I didn't make it; I had changed address too many times. That shows the level of secrecy on the B2 program.
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  20. Do you know Ed, one of the things I like about you and in particular about the series that you produce is that you present it in a manner that is that of the common man, easy to understand yet complex enough to inform and entertain.
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  21. Forget modern heat seeking missiles. There's test footage of first gen Sidewinders being tested on Hellcat drones.
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  22. In a way the Jeune Ecole had a point. Fast moving "fleas" loaded with explosives were indeed the bane of the battleship. What they missed was that the "flea" should fly instead of swim...
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  23. The CW-21 was never officially named the Demon by Curtiss-Wright. It turns out that the import documents listed it as demonstrator, in order to show it was to generate sales. This got abbreviated to Demon, and somehow it became thought that was it's official name.
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  24. The Comanche was a really good design, had excellent speed and maneuverability, decent range, good weaponry, and could do everything the Kiowa could do, but better. When the Army cancelled the program (a mistake, in my opinion), Bell/Sikorsky were left with a fully developed design for a new scout/attack helicopter. They just had to wait for the right time to market it again. And as for development lag, the development was all done decades ago, so just slap some stub wings on it, fill it with modern avionics, and you have...again...a really good scout/attack helicopter design. The armed forces would be foolish to pass on it, particularly given they've now retired the Kiowa fleet and everything else they've got is 40+ years old. Sikorsky have their new Raider and Defiant coaxial designs up and flying now, so it makes sense for Bell to bring this back to the forefront. Hope it does well for them this time.
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  25. Small arms as recommended by their special advisor, Ian Mcollum🤣👍🏻
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  26. I have been an Airplane nerd for over 45 years and you have shown me how little I still know Ed. You have found a niche in an very crowded YouTube category. That is very impressive when you stop and think about it. :)
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  27. I'm from myanmar and every single words from this video are the true situation in Myanmar. thanks for the video and I'm really appreciate your effort.
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  28. I was in the USAF and stationed at MacDill AFB in Florida when we got the call to look over this new aircraft the Air Force will buy. There was a Lt standing out there holding this massive cannon shell and behind him was the A-10. I was actually speechless, most of us younger guys were. I remember thinking this is a bomber not a fighter. It was high and the engines, which I worked on at the time, was up there in the clouds. Simple, rugged and solid. Now there was a benefit to the engine of the A-10. It was the same, if memory serves, as the S-3 Viking. That engine had a lawn sprinkler system that the Navy wanted to spray water on the blades to fight corrosion but low altitude flights. I remember the LT saying that the sprinkler would also be useful to spray water to keep the gun exhaust from fouling the engine. The engines were spread apart to lessen damage from SA7 heat seeking missiles. And the two huge fins served a heat shields as well.
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  29. Guess he never figured out that AP is referring to “Armor” Penetration
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  30. The F-11A ne F11F-1 was last aircraft I flew in the training command prior to getting my Navy wings. To this day, I consider it the nicest flying plane I haver ever flown. Its only fault was that it was underpowered. It would almost fly itself in parade formation and was stable as a rock in the landing pattern. It would have been eye watering with the J-79 motor.
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  31. Alexander S. Yakovlev was a rather sub-par aerodynamics engineer but first rate Apparatchik. He used his connections within the Communist party to win the favor of the party elites. He was the proverbial yes man. Mr. Polikarpov due to his faith and independent streak gave his opinion without fear of reprisal. Ed this was a really good mini documentary. Thank you so much.
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  32. I have to ay Ed that you are becoming the "forgotten weapons" of aviation. Great job Ed I learn sp much from you.
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  33. Captain Baker inadvertently saved over 7000 lives, I imagine a man of his calibre will rest easy with that statistic.
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  34. As a self confessed aircraft nerd, I can honestly say, I have never heard of this plane. Thanks again Ed.
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  35. I flew the Cessna O-2 in combat, and cooling of the rear engine on a "suck and blow" airplane was still an issue in the 1970s. Performance gains are also minimal. We got single-engine performance with twice the fuel use, in effect. And the O-2 would not hold level flight on one engine, so the hoped-for safety factor wasn't there, either. It's another one of those great ideas that turn out to be less than stellar.
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  36. A blast from the past! As a young engineer, I was assigned to the structural modifications the F-16B to turn it into the F-16/79. I designed the titanium fairing that extended aft of the existing fuselage, the engine mount modifications, some cockpit structural mods, and the 440 lbs of depleted Uranium ballast needed on the station 88 bulkhead needed for balance. It was an exciting opportunity and I still have my F-16/79 team member plaque.
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  37. Odd how most people these days say Blackburn always seemed to make real dogs of aircraft, but they made the Buccaneer, which was one of, if not the, best planes in it's class for decades!
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  38. Another great video Ed. Alan Moorhead, the British war correspondent, reported that many of the German trucks captured after D-Day were actually British Morris "Commercials" abandoned at Dunkirk. Bizarrely, Morris Motors actually boasted about this fact in one of their brochures printed after the war - saying it showed how reliable they were!
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  39. As a 96 year old, this brought back memories of working at SEBROs (Short Brothers) factory, in Cambridge, Seven large hangers, now defunct, and built over, repairing Stirlings. in 1943/4. These badly damaged ones, were brought in on ," Queen Mary" vehicles, but "flyable" ones, flown in to our other base, at Bourn Airfield.
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  40. And of course, let's not forget that Captain Bigglesworth began his flying career in the F.E2
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  41. "Wow boss, your son is pretty good at drawing airplanes. He's what, five now?" "No no, those are the blueprints I want you to work from. The big square tail will save you having to fool around with a protractor."
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  42. Suit 1: “We need a new scout chopper design.” Suit 2: “Let’s just use the Comanche.” Suit 1: “We did it! Let’s head home.”
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  43. Ed and Rex are the best aviation utubers around. Lively narrative and always interesting aircraft discussed. Top job. Bravo.
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  44. A mate of mine's dad was a mechanic with one of the Wellesley squadrons in the Middle East. He told me that some of the Italian aircraft were fitted with Bristol engines and prior to the war breaking out they'd fly them to the RAF field for servicing so both sides got to become quite good friends swapping nights in messes etc. On the first raid on the Italian airfield it was thought not cricket to blow up chaps they knew, so they came in at low level and targeted parked aircraft and the runway itself rather than buildings to minimise loss of life.
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  45. The 'warthog with syphilis' comment caused coke to shoot from my nose, I can't tell if these tears are from pain or laughter now
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  46. My grandfather was the copilot on Cost of Living on 5 May '67. Thanks for putting this video together and paying tribute to these unique and special aircraft.
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  47. If you're interested in a Bf-109 for the fighter, might I suggest the Avia S-199 variant? A Bf-109 with the engines and propeller from an He-111. Lots of torque, narrow-track landing gear, poor engine responsiveness, and the parts are just different enough from the stock 109 or 111 that replacement parts are hard to come by. The infant Israeli air force managed to acquire 25 of them, but weren't able to get more than 5 flight ready at any given time.
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  48. The Myrsky II restoration project is getting on well. At the moment they are, among other things, working on putting the skin on the airplane (aluminium on the front part of the fuselage and plywood on the rear and the wings, which are still not attached), so it's really starting to look like an airplane. Considering the starting point was a mangled steel frame, it really is a huge undertaking of manual craft and skill, as basically every single structural part has to be hand made.
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  49. Talk topic: Assassin drones Talk: Pls don't do it Thanks for coming to my Ed Talk
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  50. The huge size of the Jug is clearly demonstrated with the picture with the ground crew doing something with the wheels. I knew the 47 was big, but that picture looked like the crew was doing something on a bomber's wheel! It must have been one hell of a plane to fly.
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