Comments by "Alan hat" (@alanhat5252) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

There's one detail you've missed out, the UK's nuclear submarines. There is always one at sea & hidden so there's some overlap with 2 at sea & hidden as the shifts change over. The thing with these boats is that they run radio-silent, they just listen on a pre-determined schedule, they're listening for coded instructions & they're listening for a specific phrase on BBC's World Service. I have no idea what instructions are available but I expect it would be a very limited set of options, maybe as little as "change to target set B" & "fire now". The interesting one is the BBC signal. It's just an 'all clear' but if it becomes absent the submarine is required to assume that Britain is lost & a full barrage from all tubes is launched in a retaliatory strike on targets determined before the boat sets out to sea. The target set might be several months out of date at the time of launch.
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@zen4men sad that you brought conspiracy theories into your final paragraph :-(
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@logangx9319 UK often has 2 subs at sea, when one is due to return its replacement goes out early, often weeks early, so a boat leaving is not a strong clue about the return of another.
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@gregtompson3432 I wonder if Liz Truss has read the brief on that topic yet?
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@blakebrown534 it only has to be hit hard enough to convince the engineers they need to spend a week checking it, and then do it again a week later
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@RyanMcBethProgramming there is a documentary on one of these bridges, I saw it a decade or so ago & can't remember title or broadcaster, sorry. The comment earlier is correct, it was untouchable till the advent of precision guidance & even then it took a lot of strikes because it's a lattice & many weapons went through the gaps.
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@William Tell no, they're fuelled at Devonport where they also conduct "deep maintenance", routine maintenance is conducted at Faslane.
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@logangx9319 here we are discussing the specific instance of a single nuclear strike with 2 weapons. Response from the UK would be nuclear, it would probably not be proportionate but it would be adequate. No assistance or "bail out" would be necessary in the response, however we would assume that the MAD doctrine still applies & that others would also respond in kind. Where assistance would be needed, in the scenario discussed, would be in humanitarian aid in the aftermath.
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@grahamfisher5436 it's just over one minute to allow for 'a minute's silence'.
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what do they do there that's so important? It's not home to the Royal Flight any more, Tony Blair sold that off & replaced it with an in-air refuelling tanker that's in general service. The aircraft the King was using to get up & down the country dealing with Her Majesty's funeral was hired in for the task, it was in eastern Europe the week before according to Flightradar.
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@wreython Defense spending is actually going up but, just like they did to Corbyn's 2017 election, the funding is misdirected.
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@robertprosser9741 the Sub's CO may well have authority but he doesn't have information because he's in radio silence & can't ask his superiors for routine updates.
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sounds like firing on the bridge every few days would be a good thing just to keep the Russians tied up there, the weapons don't even have to reach the bridge to be effective.
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@blacklion8208 as explained in the video, Crimea was in Russian control before the bridges were built
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@DVAmarkera it doesn't look like Google has made a good translation of your comment.
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@snakeybriskins6432 it doesn't matter who made them, we don't own Trident, we rent it so we don't have ultimate control.
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@harrier331 Trident has 3D maps & uses pattern matching to navigate, that's why it gets lost over sea. You remember the test firing near Florida a couple of years ago? It looped around & was aborted into the sea.
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@snakeybriskins6432 warheads aren't the problem, as you have been told by others, Trident is just a delivery system but it's owned by America & they have the last word.
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@schifflein9103 good question. You would think it's a religious ban on naming gods but then you think about it & you realize "God" isn't actually a name it's a reference or a placemarker for a name. Likely names are Yahweh, Allah or Jehovah but there's thousands of others (though most of them like having their names bandied about).
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@h2didenkov yes, a very few of them kept half the Russian forces busy for a very long time
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@AgiHammerthief no, Israel was driven back almost to it's borders despite massive military aid from USA & UK
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5:41 it's not a match, the 2 weapons are different shapes
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@Spartan-jg4bf the OP talks about submarine launched ballistic missiles, they're slower than ICBMs & can be intercepted.
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I have neither military nor rocketry experience but I still feel the need to offer my 2 penn'orth... There's a kink in both previous trails at the point where this one turns around which suggests to me guidance switching on (& the manoeuvre is too quick & precise to be fuel imbalance). From here several possibilities occur to me... 1) the previous missiles destroyed the target so this one looks for the next radar signature which is back at base. 2) sensors accidentally inverted during manufacture as suggested in comments. 3) hit a bird knocking the gyro off angle Whatever happened the "hoist by one's own petard" scenario is highly amusing given that this is the invading force. Against that, it seems that many of the Russians don't want any part of this because they're killing their own relatives.
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6:30 fy-ling-dales not fly-ing-dales. It's an American comms intercept hub with very limited UK intelligence access.
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and Greenham Common as the longest runway in Europe, Cessnas apparently land across the width of it.
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I don't think hitting 2 datacentres would achieve anything because they have distributed redundancy -- every service provided by a datacentre is replicated to several locations around the world, partly for data security but mostly for load distribution. When a datacentre goes down (& they do) it's load is picked up within a tenth of a second by a dozen other datacentres, users wouldn't notice anything, not even a keystroke missing.
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