Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

  1. Name everything a military can do wrong in warfare, that will cause them to lose the war. Russia: "We tried all of those things."
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  2. Russia: sucks at logistics Russia: sends 263 different types of combat vehicles to Ukraine.... (obviously I made up that number, but my point being that Russia has way too many types of everything, such that even if they had good logistics, they'd still struggle to maintain and supply so many different types of vehicles and weapon systems).
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  3. old fabric covered airplanes are mostly full of empty space. putting holes in the fabric alone does NOTHING to damage the airplane in a meaningful way. The fabric is not structural, and the planes can fly without the fabric on the fuselage and certain other structures at all. You have to directly hit a pilot, engine, or critical structure like a wing spar to bring one down. it's not rocket science, but most people still can't figure it out. This also proved an advantage at times with the Hurricane, which still used a fabric covered fuselage from the Hawker Fury biplane
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  4. Ukraine has held everything they've gained overall and are continuing to gain more.
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  5.  @BaronBytes  the soldiers Russia sent to Ukraine in Feb 2022 were largely untrained as well. The average "professional" russian soldier has only 2-4yrs experience. Russia has no proper training structure to their military.
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  6. A Destroyer can meet you requirements at teh end, just not on Land (which I know was implied but not strictly specified). But Destroyers are even more expensive too.
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  7. tires burn hot if you can get them to burn. and if you get a hot enough fire going, you can light certain metal parts on fire too.
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  8. Even after WW2 artillery was still called "King of Battle", and infantry "Queen of Battle".
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  9. British had been attacking Axis ships with Swordfish for the ENTIRE war up to this point.
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  10.  @selfdo  "POKE SLOW, but in a way, that was its advantage...kinda hard for interceptors that went 4x as fast to target! " slow is a MAJOR disadvantage and makes them sitting ducks for interceptor aircraft. It is the space-frame and canvas construction that saved them. " Being also a lot of wood and canvas, it was found to not be all that observable to the ship-borne radars of the time" it also has lot of metal in the airframe, engine, weapons, torpedo, etc. that is easily detected by radar.
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  11.  @SonsOfLorgar  which proves my point and validates my analysis that the Russians, even back in February, were largely inadequately trained. If they had been properly trained, they'd have fought better like the Scandinavians. I had a total of 8months training over a 2yr period prior to my first year-long combat deployment to Iraq, and my unit fought in the fiercest period of that conflict in the hottest locations and we came away with multiple unit awards and achieved unmatched success on the battlefield. We did it again on my second deployment as well. Generals and Admirals alike were amazed by how good we did because no other unit was matching our success. We were highly motivated, very skilled and intelligent, and adapted and developed new tactics daily. We were always 1-3 steps ahead of our enemies and other units. Duration of training alone isn't what matters. It also matters the intelligence and discipline of your recruits before they enter service, the skills and knowledge they already possess when they enter service, and the quality of the training they receive (that's a whole debate that can last for days as to what is and is not good/useful training). But Whatever training the "professional" Russians had, it was less and worse than I got in 7 months prior to my first combat deployment. There are other factors that affect it too such as experienced NCOs, long term retention of professional soldiers (we had guys with combat experience from Panama, Bosnia, Grenada, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan in my unit alone on my first deployment).
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  12. Logistics Failure to establish a measure of air superiority Failure to master combined arms failure to emphasize artillery and volume of firepower Failure to learn and adapt
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  13. even the M1 Abrams has regions without sloped armor.
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  14. if russia fought with platoon level command, they'd loose control. can't have lesser soldiers and officers thinking for themselves without supervision by politically appointed commanders.
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  15. fire can damage or obscure view ports and optics, potentially blinding a vehicle for a time.
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  16. Most T-80s in Ukraine have been destroyed T-80s are better protected (harder to kill) than T-90s yet people still speak of the T-90 as some mythical beast, a silver bullet war winning technology
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  17. 0:09 "Has nothing to do with logistics" 3:22 "has everything to do with logistics" Logistics wins wars Russians sucked at logistics more than Germans (look at Ukraine for proof of that), thus the Germans did better against Russians.
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  18. if he didn't underestimate tehe US, he wouldn't have been a moron and declared war on the US.
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