Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Sandboxx" channel.

  1. towed decoys were used in 1991, meaning they existed in the 1980s.
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  2.  @jukeseyable Wright flyer to the X-15, SR-71, and the Moon in far less than 1 century....
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  3. it's called the MQ-20 Avenger.....look it up
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  4. Censorship or not, the CCP is suffering the same sort of corruption as Russia.
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  5. 5th gen at best
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  6.  @9HighFlyer9  The SR-71 had stealth features built into it's airframe, such as the leading edges, and some materials used. I don't count paint as I've never heard of paint alone reducing RCS in any meaningful fashion. When you play with radar, and notice some things don't send back as strong a signal as others, it didn't take a genius for people to start experimenting. The first official paper written on radar stealth was actually by a Russian scientist, but was ignored in Russia, but the US didn't ignore his work.
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  7.  @edmundscycles1  a flying wing will always reduce the RCS over a radiational layout. But it doesn't count as the first aircraft with intentional/deliberate stealth features designed into it.
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  8.  @lucasreiss1390  But if attacked by a 5th gen, you would Not defend yourself with 4th gen becasue it would be a slaughter, you'd Have to send your 5th gen to deal with it. Not every fight will be in your favor, and you still have to fight anyways. Or you can surrender.
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  9.  @lucasreiss1390  Absolutely, I totally agree. stack the deck in your favor as best you can, and try to limit the risk to high value assets, especially limited numbers or long lead times to replace such as F-22, Carriers, DDG-1000... But sometimes you don't get the luxury of making that choice and then you just have to fight with what you have in the quantities you have and try to use smarts to make it work anyways.
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  10. low level AAA. Flak hits targets are FAR higher altitudes.
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  11. yup, and it's been around for a long time already
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  12. NATO maintained a parts pipeline for Mig29 when almost no one in NATO was flying them. F-16 parts is the easy task.
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  13.  @dammy  and after launch, the target moved, missile misses. size <-> mass Size and mass matter 100%, it's called Physics. China's current glide missile test missed a preplanned fixed target by miles. good luck hitting a moving target that doesn't want you to know where it is. Hypersonic speeds cannot be maintained all the way to target due to air densities. you have to fly at high altitudes to achieve such speeds. this means that by the time you impact the target, the speed has bled off.
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  14. Interceptor missiles can lead their target same as an air to air missile maneuvers in relation to their evasive target. Missiles are not simply flying to a predetermined intercept point, they are actively adjusting to remain on intercept as best they can.
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  15. exactly. The enigma, and cracking the japanese code in WW2 was kept a secret until the 1970s. Many cold war missions and such weren't declassified until a few years ago, and even then a lot is still classified. And then there is newer stuff, some of which i've come into contact with, that remains unavailable to the public. Aircraft like the SR-71 and F-117 were used in active service before being announced to the public. Heck the US Orca submarine has been public knowledge for years and yet almost no one is aware of it.
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  16. Russia has never once denied airspace access to US or NATO forces using air defense (not in Vietnam, not in Iraq, not in Syria, not in Ukraine, not over Russia itself, etc.). And if Russia can't deny airspace, and can't operate their own jets in that airspace, they don't have air dominance nor supremacy.
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  17. lets not forget the failed intercept of the Ukrainian missiles against the Moskva.
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  18. and the F-100
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  19.  @Pastor_Rich  the F-100 was also the Fast FAC of Vietnam.
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  20. why? the single seat hangs back with fly by wire control and autopilot to minimize teh pilot workload, while he designates targets for the drones with his own normal targeting controls. Instead of assigning his own ordnance, he assigns a loyal wingman's ordnance to teh target and the drone executes the strike on command.
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  21.  @dabo5078  "So your research universities suck. " yes "Which means they wouldn't be producing any competent engineers, So how in the world your engineers be better than Chinese ones?" because skill and competence is also a result of self determination and individual responsibility. Americans rise to the occasion and overcome. they can recognize when something is corrupted and still learn what they need to regardless. You don't need a degree to become a great engineer. Many famous inventors are self taught, especially in teh US. Colleges don't produce high caliber engineers on the day of graduation. Great engineers are formed through years of practice, experience, intuition, etc. almost none of those things are taught/learned in college, but rather on teh job and at home in teh pursuit of personal projects and goals. "". Largest computers in the world" 30 years ago? " nope, literally right this very moment the top computer in the World is a US design/built, and many more on the top 500 list as well. And the top 3 should all soon be US designed and built. Cope harder. " And no there are no American hypersonic missiles that can hit targets, they barely even have a wokring missile(more like a unguided rocket) that goes hypersonic in atmosphere. " cope harder. chinese missile test missed a known stationary target by 25miles. US just tested a new missile a few weeks ago. US has been doing hypersonic research since the 1960s. How many manned hypersonic aircraft have the CCP built? ""no reusable US rocket ever used Russian engines" oh is that so? " yes, that is so. CCP must really be censoring your internet over there. "Tell elon musk that he does not need to invest any money in new engine development anymore... He should have not panick invested after the sanctions against Russia aftera all." WTF are you talking about? this is nonsense gibberish "well if we opened up more the many fundamental inventions of human civilizations are made by China. " like what? some math, black powder, silk? The best you can do is point to pre-CCP accomplishments from ancient history? Have to go into the ancient past and rest on laurels becasue you have nothing to point to currently? "Even if you cut off CPC achievements in this decade, they turned a country that could barley clobber together bolt action rifles in the 1940s into a nuclear power with ballistic missiles, jet aircraft, submarines, etc. in mere 20 years in the 1960s." You bought the Subs, carrier, and jets from Russia and then copied them. And not very good copies either. You know why CCP grew so fast? Cheap labor and exports, while implementing American Capitalism. Communism had china on teh brink of destruction, and only capitalism saved it. Now it is returning to Communism. But a lot of the CCP "growth" was faked too. tons of massive ghost cities, cheap construction leading to crumbling infrastructure, china cant even feed its own population without imports. Much of china is still a 3rd world country and live in abject poverty. you have concentration camps and ethnic genocide, china is the single most racist nation in teh modern world (just look how they treat africans). China has cheated, stolen, lied their way to where they are, and now it is all crumbling and Xi purges and consolidates power. Bad leadership ruins everything. "Only to get deported because of his skin color."" that is a lie, you actually beleive not only the CCP propaganda, but western propaganda. You clearly have no ability to discern truth from lies. What was this man's name exactly so I can inform you what really happened? "Even if you cut off CPC achievements in this decade," what achievements? you list none, becasue there are none. Nothing CCP does benefits mankind, only the CCP. "They started to dominate the integrated circuit board market for 20+ years ago. Their shipping industries' and industrial production of rare earth materials, concrete, and steel started dominating in the 90s and 2000s and continue to dominate this very moment." how so? China makes cheap chips, yes, but not the CPU, GPU, etc. Circuit Boards are easy, and in teh US people produce ICs and Circuit Boards in their homes for fun that are as high quality as china makes. Just becasue china mass produces low tech items and raw material doesn't make them a great nation. It just means they are good at cheap labor. But many companies are leaving china due to corruption, cost, low quality work, and more.
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  22.  @dabo5078  "Hmm why build a F35 aggressor squadron around the J20 color scheme than?" you really don't understand the how or why of aggressor squadrons do you? "Once again no such thing as US hypersonic missiles exist currently in physical form. " believe what you will. I can't make you agree or beleive. but ignorance makes an opponent easier to defeat in teh end as well, so it's better they be ignorant of the truth.
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  23.  @hphp31416  "Near peer now looks like nation that is capable of inflicting loses upon US armed forces while defending itself" I'm going to have to disagree. Any nation is capable of inflicting casualties on the US. Name a war where the US hasn't lost people and equipment. I'd agree with you if you were a bit more discriminating in your criteria. Perhaps something like, a nation capable of sinking US warships in combat, or ability to shoot down 100+ US airplanes in a war, etc. The closest near peer is China, and not becasue the yare any good, they simply have enough numbers to cause problems. But other nations like France, UK, Israel, South Korea, etc. could be troublesome in a very brief conflict due to their higher levels of tech and training, but they lack numbers to really be a challenge. Thankfully most such nations are allies of the US.
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  24.  @ftboomer1  nobody forced finland to do anything they didn't want to do.
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  25. 8:00 russian defenses have not matured much since then. S400 getting destroyed regularly by Ukraine, even without F-16.
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  26.  @Pathfinder1932-t5d  exactly. until we have an F-22 replacement, retiring the F-22 would be ridiculously irresponsible.
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  27. One accident in a fighter jet kills one person. One accident in an osprey kills tens of people.
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  28. Russia is also relying upon Su-27 family of aircraft for SEAD, and they suck at it.
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  29.  @patclark2186  F-105 was the "Thud", F-100 was the "Hun" Hun is short for Hundred. Thud is from the character "Chief Thunderthud" from the Howdy Doody television series.
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  30.  @Jerryberry172  wrong. They first flew F-100, then the F-105, then the F-4, then the F-16, and now the F-35
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  31. the J-20 is probably still more archaic than a 1991 Desert Storm F-16 in terms of datalink and other electronic capabilities in the cockpit. Compare that to an F-35s capabilities that all pilots describe as being as transformative as the smartphone was to society.
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  32.  @9HighFlyer9  Stealth coatings are not mere paint.
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  33.  @9HighFlyer9  There is always common ground between any two people, just have to be willing to find it ;)
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  34.  @scottabshire21  pure luck? like how all dogfighting was prior to radar?
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  35.  @adamb8317  not really. In war you are securing objectives or covering friendlies. the enemy is doing the same. Thus aircraft are bound to be flying over teh same "targets" at teh same time. Just as in WW1 and WW2, they will find each other. And as they close on each other, they CAN detect each other on radar and with IR sensors. They will absolutely find and engage each other in a peer conflict if everyone is using only stealth.
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  36.  @TorToroPorco  Just becasue you lack the expertise, knowledge, comprehension, and /or experience to understand and anticipate such matters, does not mean no one else can. you literally have no idea the backgrounds of the people in these comments and so cannot make such a statement. Some of us have tons of relevant experience and Can make informed analysis of such things as a result.
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  37. the US detected and tracked the Chinese glide missile test no problem.
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  38. neither the Mig 1.44 nor Su-47 were stealth fighters
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  39.  @generationkilled  Flak in WW2 was longer ranged than short range low altitude AAA. Flak is specific to exploding shells at higher altitudes. Flak is an Allied term, not a german one. Allies shortened the German term and used it to describe a very specific type of aintiaircraft weapon.
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  40. and consider that even though 13% of fighters are already 5th gen, consider how many of those are not US or Chinese design.
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  41.  @haakonsteinsvaag  because aircraft that never flew are pure speculation. The Super Tomcat is probably the last speculative in that category however. But the A-12 Dorrito for example is ridiculously speculative.
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  42.  @wisenber  Defeating China involves numerous battles in these scenarios. pay attention next time.
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  43.  @richardparker1338  "There are over 800 in total on the globe." that is counting Embassies and other administrative locations. It actually have more like 20-30 combat capable bases around the globe. But the US is a Superpower, China is not. "Until 2011 China was not wasting its money on war weapons." remind me which year china built nukes, J-11, J-20, JF-17, etc...... "Even if China said, ok, Taiwan can become independent, do you really think the US would back off?" US is backed off right now. it all depends upon how beligerent CCP is "What would happen is that the US would build a huge military base on Taiwan and continue to provoke China, one way or another." but the US is not doing that, and has no intention to do so. You're just making crap up to argue. "Unless the US stops escalating against China, and the two nations enter a discourse on how to live together without war, there is only one outcome. " US hasn't escalated. It was teh CCP that leaked a report stating intent to invade Tawain by 2027. "China will never let itself be defeated, nor will it allow itself to be collonised." Mongols did it, Japan did it, US did it. China has a long history of being defeated and colonized. China has a long history of being numerous fragmented nations as well. "All sovereign countries in SE Asia are against this belligerence by the US. Including Taiwan. Just ask them." except that Tawain is a US Ally and buying weapons and asking for help if CCP invades. Vietnam is now a US ally, as is all of ASEAN, as is South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, etc. China has been hostile to Philippines and other ASEAN nations and claims their territory. "China has explicitly stated that it wants a peaceful reunion. " an usurper always says that, but the fact is the CCP failed to completely overthrow the Republic of China in its coup. "Not a single Taiwanese wants a war." same for the US, but we will fight China as required just the same. "There are two million Taiwanese working on the mainland with huge investments." same for the US and other nations. But companies are decoupling from china and leaving too. Many vendors I work with are moving out, and we even ask them if they have facilities outside of china now too. China has become bad for business. Just look at the drop in outgoing shipping from China of late. "Those white American supremacist clowns in Washington should all go the Ukraine and fight on the front for six months. Maybe they wouldn't be so keen on wars after that." the white supremacist lie is communist propaganda. China is the single most racist nation on earth right now, just look at how they treat Africans, how they murder Tibetans, Uyghurs, and others. US fought in Afghanistan and Iraq for years, we know full well what war entails, US are professional warfighters, unlike most other nations who use amateur soldiers. We send those who WANT to fight, who are WILLING to fight. We don't like fighting without good cause though. So don't give us a reason. Many US politicians are combat vets or ex-military themselves. many US citizens have already gone to Ukraine to fight in the foreign Legion. Maybe CCP shouldn't pick fights when their people get trounced even by Indian army soldiers with rocks and sticks.
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  44. you underestimate the power of modern software to manage this stuff.
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  45.  @elta6241  US wasn't facing a peer adversary in vietnam, their losses were entirely a training and doctrine failure, nothing more. And the US scored favorably over vietnam. There was nothing equal about it.
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  46.  @SCP-POOL  Every aircraft has it's mission. Do you also ask why we don't arm the U-2? As the RQ-4 is just the U-2 replacement. the U-2 and RQ-4 fly very high, and adding weight is undesirable. The MQ-9 and MQ-20 are not outdated. The Byraktar TB-2 is a discount MQ-1 Predator, but it still works. Every aircraft has its mission. the MQ-9 has its uses and at those missions it is not obsolete.
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  47. The F-8 Crusader was essentially an older F-16. Similar landing gear and single engine. It's possible.
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  48. the US DOD is pushing to get NGAD operational immediately, so it's going to be seen by teh public very soon anyways.
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  49. US and most European nations have practiced road runways since WW2. The Harrier jump jets were designed for this sort of thing as well.
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  50.  @phoenixrising4573  You love you're logical fallacies. you're STG44 views have no relevance here. "The Buran was also not a copy of the US shuttle, it was actually an improvement that was abandoned because shuttles on that scale sucks" The Buran was absolutely a copy. they made some changes, but they were not all improvements. The Aerodynamics and dimensions were basically identical. The Buran also moved the engines onto the Energia, making them nonreusable, which was the point of the US shuttle.
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