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  1. As an American military history buff, I would have loved to sit down all alone with your grandpa and a flask of warm Sake, then just listened to his stories from 'the other side' of the war. That would be fascinating to me! BTW, I spent quite a bit of time in Japan and actually do have an affinity for warm Sake.
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  2. Excellent! There was difference in armament of A and C version. Version A used 20mm ShVAK gun and C used MG-151 gun. Also I find strange that A used German reflex sights, REVIC - 12D and REVI - 16B (depending on availability) while C used reflex sight from de Havilland Mosquito. Information source for this is Serbian military forum and people discussing things there are related to industry and designs so I think it could be trusted. Ikarus IK-2 and IK-3 would be interesting videos as well Hawker Hurricane with Daimler Benz DB 601, which also was Yugoslav design born from desperation.
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  3. I love the F-111. But it's not without irony that it was delivered so incredibly late that Australia had to rent a bunch of F4 Phantom IIs to fill the role until they finally arrived. And when they did it was at 4 times the anticipated per unit price. And even then, it wasn't until the F model that it finally met the performance GD claimed in their initial proposal.
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  4. Hopefully I can see the one nearby at the RNZAF Museum restored sooner than later. I've been following the progress for years since I worked there in 2009. The Subritzky family near Auckland also has a Vickers Vincent restored which is VERY similar to the Vildebeest
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  5. Translated as "37mm Rocket Launcher for Ground Troops"
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  6. Ahm, wow. I´ve extensively researched about the War in Vietnam over the past 3 1/2 decades and especially the air war and COIN aircraft. I´ve never ever stumbled about this particular aircraft or even it´s designation. Thank you for doing this, Ed.
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  7. In 1974 I was a firefighter loading air tankers with fire retardant in Fresno California which included a Super Privateer along with B17s, F7Fs, PBY Catalinas and S2s. I appreciate knowing more about the PB4Y-2.
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  8. Ed, the Canberras are still at the Davis Monthan AFB boneyard. About 12 years ago, NASA went there and pulled 63-13295 out of mothballs and resurrected her to active flight status, joining two of her sisters. They are all designated as WB-57's now. All three conduct weather experiments for NASA, flying through hurricanes and typhoons and taking measurements.
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  9. Bring back the Osorio
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  10. 9 out of 10 people who insert artillery shells up their butt suffer from explosive diarrhea...
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  11. Looks like a p38 after too many roast dinners
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  12. I'm too old, fat and unfit to even think about going over there and taking up arms on behalf of the Ukrainian people, and my bank account is usually one more transaction from hitting the red, but there is one tiny thing I can do. My hobby is building scale plastic model aircraft. I am now selling all my Zvezda model kits, a Russian company, and using that money to but kits from ICM, a Ukrainian company. It's not much, but if my purchasing ICM kits helps put money into the Ukraine economy I'm happy to do it.
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  13. Ed, I’ve been an avid aviation nerd for 40+ years, especially interested in piston engines aircraft and I always thought I knew quite a bit. However I always look forward to your videos as you almost always teach me something I either didn’t know, or give an angle I hadn’t considered. Your work is well researched, your supporting images not something that are often seen but I especially like presentation style: it’s like chatting with your best, well informed, funny mate. Keep it up please.
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  14. Ed, as air crew on the TBM-3E Avenger "Doris Mae" CAF Capital Wing, thanks so much for researching this. What if the Avenger was not the backbone of the Marine/Navy Torpedo/bomber fleet? Who knows? As our Maintenance Officer says, "She's fat and slow, but we love her so." The TBM's line's are not beautiful, unless you love her, but she: delivered iron on target, handles like a dream, hauled the mail, flew eight hour missions, and oh yeh could land on Jeep carriers. Impressive piece of metal that she is.
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  15. New Zealand has a similar population as Ireland and our aging fighter jets were retired back in the early 2000's and never replaced. The previous government who were voted out ordered F 16's as a replacement but the newly elected government canceled that order. Our fighter pilots were world class and were gladly snapped up by the Australians, Brits and Americans. The debate still rages on to this day of reinstating our air combat wing, cost and which aircraft to replace. Our neighbors Australia are retiring their F 18's and spending billions on new F 35's.
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  16. I met a Naval aviator who flew the Mauler. He was surprised I knew what the airplane was and shared many stories. He said it was a maintenance headache. He also flew the Fury, the Skyray (his favorite airplane), and the Demon (said it was underpowered for a jet fighter).
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  17. Messerschmitt: Hey, I'm designing successful aircraft again! German Government: Great, for whom? Messerschmitt: The enemies of Israel. Government: sighs Willie, we talked about this...
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  18. As a Burmese currently living in the country, here is my opinion When the news started spreading, everyone else is exciting but me on the other hand felt something isn't right. If the internal coup successfully happened, we would see some information blackout like cutting off the internet and phone lines but it didn't happened that night. I even predicted it would end up like Prigozhin's attempt coup. "Nothing ever happens" That said , it is funny that people from resistance prefer Min Aung Hlaing to stay on power until the very end over other generals taking over since he is the most incompetent military leader in Burma history. Just like Napoleon said, never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake. On the opposite side, pro military people wants Vice-Senior General Soe Win to be the leader and we're kinda worry about him since unlike MAH, he seems competent and dangerously quiet.
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  19. I heard you assist Gun Jesus. I subbed, St. Edward.
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  20. Thanks for finding these long forgotten chapters in history, Ed. I can't believe I've never hear of this.
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  21. I actually got to know a Whirlwind pilot when I was a boy and when he was an older man. Iain Dunlop flew with 263 Sqn, starting on Hurricanes, then the Whirlwind, then Tempests and Typhoons. Think he might have flown the Spitfire also and I am not sure now if he was in 263 the whole time. After the war he became an airline pilot and ended up flying Boeing 747s for Aer Lingus (being one of the first Aer Lingus pilots to do so) and settled in Ireland - he sang in my Dad's choir when I was a kid and that was how I met him. My Dad told me he was in the RAF and when I met him I bombarded the poor man with questions. He seemed reluctant at first as I think he did not like to tell war stories. But when he realised I knew what a Whirlwind was and how the Peregrine let it down he was amazed and opened right up about the planes. He said the Whirlwind packed a hell of a punch with the nose armament but that the engines were not reliable at all and the pilots felt insecure in them in case they got into trouble over enemy territory. He also said that the hydraulics were a problem. He said that he never worried about dogfighting as the Whirlwinds usually had good escorts with them. He was a lovely man and I was sorry to hear he passed away in 2003.
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  22. Ed once more you got me. I knew nothing about this particular aircraft. It is nice to see the Baltic states desire to free and independent of the 🐻. Thank you!!
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  23. I thought I kept myself up to date, since obscure little south American little wars is a special interest for me. Never heard of this one. Thanks!
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  24. Dear Ed Nash Excellent video ,I would also like to add some additional information. You did mention that it was used as a courier for vips across the channel during the phoney war, and it used by Churchill quite a few times especially during the battle of France. I watched the tv series ,and later read “Churchill’s bodyguard” a few years back ,and his bodyguard ,Walter Henry thompson recounted a few near misses that Churchill had during his political career. One flight involved flying near the dunkirk beaches while he was heading to southern France , Churchill was offered fighter escort ,but he rejected it as they were needed for fighting over dunkirk. On another flight , the flamingo had to take evasive action after a German Henkel he111 was spotted harassing fishing trawlers nearby, luckily the Henkel didn’t spot the flamingo. Walter Thompson said that “the German pilot had no idea how close he was to getting a iron cross 1st class”
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  25. You know Ed' that if you start the Messerschmitt road, you need to step by on Me 209 stop.
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  26. "Vietnam Hoooo" Ed you got me with that one.;-)
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  27. If you look at the size of the prototype mock up wings and the flying version, you will notice them to be shorter on the production model. This was due to the fact the plane would enter an oscillating momentum between engine/structure of the plane that would destroy it. Story goes that they asked a professor at the Zurich polytechnikum how to cure and he told them to remove 1m of each wing to cure the problem. It worked.
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  28. The new rifle looks like an ACR
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  29. My dad's book, Soviet Air Force Fighters PT.1, by William Green and Gordon Swanborough, has a picture of the IS-4 in it. It was supposed to use a Klimov M-120 inline engine, but that engine was not prototyped; a Mikulin AM-37 was substituted, and in the summer of 1941 it DID fly. But neither the test results nor the aircraft's fate is known, thanks to the upheaval of the German invasion.
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  30. Great video Ed, As a little follow up to the Peruvian NA-50. Having a Peruvian partner, I lived in and visited Lima many times. Las Palmas has a small Museum, can confirm the plane is still there, as of a August this year. Don't think it's flying but looks in restored condition, although it was outside in the forecourt. (given Lima has almost no rain and is very dry, probably not problem). I should have taken a photo!! But I really didn't know anything about it. My partner's nephew is in the air force, which is why we were there, I'll get him to send some pics.
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  31. Top notch history right there! Thanks for taking part in this collab! :D
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  32. The image of the group of people holding the banner is in New York ffs🤣 you’d miss the old Fouga Magisters😢 good video mate. The dream would be the Eurofighter, but as you said way out of our budget
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  33. Thank you, Ed, for covering our war. Your analysis is spot on. You are absolutely correct that Kherson offensive was needed to draw in russian reserves. I was considering it even before the southern offensive begun. You see, the successful attack requires superior numbers,firepower and an element of surprise. Ukraine was announcing the southern offensive for months, even president was talking about it and he never talked about any military orders before. I mean when he said something along the lines of: "The military was ordered to liberate the South", I raised an eyebrow. To me that was suspicious and I thought it was either gross incompetence or part of some sort of plan to bamboozle russians in order to attack somewhere else. Turns out it was the latter. Russians were preparing, and expecting the attack in the South. Once counteroffensive there begun, they threw their reserves in. But when it comes to North, nobody was even considering the possibility of attack there, much less announcing anything. There was literally no info about it prior to first liberated towns. Which is the correct way to do an offence.
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  34. Awesome video! A little correction on the armaments: For the Dutch the 2 x 7.9mm FN and 2 x 13.2mm FN was chosen. These can also been seen present on the Mockup of the D.23. But Fokker also looked at the export market, so other weaponry was also proposed. On a blueprint with French Hispano-Suiza engines, we can see an armament of one 20mm Hispano 404 firing through the nose, and four 7.9? Maybe 7.5mm machineguns in the wings (Two MG's per wing)
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  35. Hey Ed Nash - I love how when I'm watching your videos and a big ol' question pops up in my head, it's almost always the answered in the very next thing you say. Good job man!
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  36. Congrats Ed! One of my best friends is a Karen refugee, from Eastern Myanmar. He was briefly involved with the Karen insurgents, but was forced to flee to Thailand in late 2003, then lived for 3 years in a refugee camp only a couple of miles from the border. But that didn't stop the Tatmadaw from occasionally just lobbing some mortars across the border at the camp. Luckily he came to Australia in 2007, made a great life for himself and his family here, but I know, he just wants to go home. that's all he wants.
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  37. Morgan and Smith were indeed flying for the RN that day in '82, and the aircraft were RN Sea Harrier FRS1s. The FA2 SHAR was a later developement. The Phantom had been on QRA, hence the full load of live Winders and Sparrows, and there was a chain of errors that ended up with the crew not realising they could fire a live shot. Sadly, the Incident Report was quickly withdrawn and the event omitted from subsequent flight safety publications, despite the obvious human factors lessons that would have been far more use if they'd been widely disseminated. The US C-130: the 'pilot's' (drunken) piloting skills are reflected in his being 90 degrees off course for home when the aircraft crashed near Alderney. As an ex-RAF Herc guy I remember the discussion on this and the received opinion was that he just lost control. A claim that it was shot down was dismissed by the Lightnings' armourer who confirmed they both returned with both missiles. A subsequent claim that the fatal missile was fired from a Hunter is even less likely as the Hunter didn't carry missiles. Shows deterrence works! Nice episode.
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  38. Never heard of it before watching your video. Thank you! Dassault => Pronounce "dasso". Usualy in french the last consonnant is mute, but wiht proper nouns it can be tricky.
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  39. The "Ki" prefix to Japanese Army aircraft designation is a syllable, not two discrete letters. It should be pronounced "Kee". It's the first syllable of the Japanese word for "airframe" which is "Kitai".
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  40. Last time a chap was this early, Belgium was still insisting on its neutrality.
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  41. I wonder if any German pilots learned to start every dogfight with a big friendly wave to the observer.
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  42. And at the end the TAC received THREE (!) aircrafts for these various roles: A7 Corsair II, light/medium attack A10 Thunderbolt II for AT/CAS F111 for long range attack. Pratically the antitesys of McNamara's ideas!
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  43. Love the channel Ed, and have been enjoying it for ages. Have you ever heard of the Australian aircraft that were used in Vietnam, which used chemical sensors to track the north Vietnamese armies by sniffing out the camp toilets? It's a very interesting story, and I'd love to see your take on it
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  44. Great video - my dad was involved in their introduction to squadron service, and in some ways my favourite V-Bomber. Just one point - the Healey government ? You mean the Wilson government, of which Denis Healey was minister of Defence 😉
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  45. Thanks for an enjoyable video about a deservedly obscure aircraft. Note that this is not the only example of use of barter payment for military aircraft. In the 1950s, my country Brazil bought Meteor fighters from the UK and paid in cotton. I'm sure other examples can be found. Keep up the good work.
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  46. 0:14 Never trust anything in the Daily Mail
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  47. Thank you Ed for this interesting update. And though I agree that the Indonesian Navy needs upgrading. I think this deal is bad for them. 1) I do not see the big advance in capabilities between the FREMM ships and the Sigma-based, Martadinata-class. The only one I can see is the 15-30 VLS with Aster AA missiles (which both the Italian and French versions have - so I assume the Indonesian version will also). Other then the VLS tubes and maybe sensors - I see no other, major advantage. In anti-submarine, anti-ship, aircraft deployed (assuming they go with a one hangar version), main and secondary guns, speed and range (more or less)...the two ships are broadly similar. And with the modular nature of the Sigma-ships? I doubt that the Aster VLS tubes could not have been integrated into new Martadinata's. The Brits bought them for their Type 45's. So obviously Eurosam (the French/Italian manufacturer of the Aster) will install the weapons in ships the French/Italians did not build. 2) It is almost certain that all six ships (and the refurbishing of the two old ones) will be built entirely in Italy. Whereas the Martadinata's were going to largely be built in Indonesia. Thus, many Indonesian jobs will be lost. 3) these FREMM frigates appear to cost at least twice as much as the Martadinata's. And I do not see a military superiority to justify the massive increase in cost. 4) and finally, what the bloody heck are they doing buying two, OLD, Maestrale-class frigates? As you probably know better than I - refurbishing military equipment invariably ends up costing HUGE amounts of money. And these things ware already 40 years old. How could two, brand new Martadinata's - build largely in Indonesia? Possibly be worse than 2, refurbished 40+ year old frigates - with all the work to be done in Italy? I smell corruption here...i.e. 'kickbacks'. Because this deal - unless I am missing something (and I very well could be) - seems like a bad one for Indonesia over the previous deal they had for 4 more Sigma-based, Martadinata's.
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  48. Informative, eye opening, long overdue and well Spoken points. And from a Brit.
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  49. This channel talks about so many good topics regarding military affairs, it needs the proper reconnaissance for all its videos. I will admit I am one of those who were sucked in by the Forgotten Aircraft series, and it is still my favorite, but I really like the current events coverage as well. It helps understand a lot of issues we rarely hear about. Keep up the great work, we'll keep watching!
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  50. Hi Ed. Yes indeed . I could never understand why the Air Ministry seemed to ignore these very advanced and l believe very cost effective aircraft. Val Martin's death was completely unnecessary but this tragedy gave Mr.Baker the incentive to carry on with life saving work. And the MB5 ....what an aircraft ! Look forward to that !
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