Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

  1. Is Shakespeare running for office in 2024?
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  2. Remember when ATACMS shredded a base full of Ka-52s? It was last year so probably a little hazy. What did the billions of "briwns" (call them colored, why don't you?) think about that? This paper target can turn your air power to swiss cheese with the push of a button. What do they think about that?
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  3. I've seen enough footage of Russian soldiers being hit with artillery shells. One wouldn't kill hundreds of people.
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  4. ​ @rikk319  You skipped a step there. It started to refer to all sorts of conspiracies from "the Man". Ever seen the movie Crash? Ludacris's character is a representation of that archetype. He even claimed the size on bus windows were a conspiracy. So for a long time you'd spit out unhinged takes and end with "stay woke, my brothers/sisters". The right only "co-opted" it after the term was dragged through the mud by legitimately insane people and possibly foreign bots. Same with SJW. Unhinged people on tumblr used that term. After it became associated with the utter insanity of 2010-2014 tumblr everyone stopped using it and just said the right made it up. It was not what happened.
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  5. 1. We are TOLD the fatalities were over 500. 2. A fire will kill people just fine. Falling rocket, rocket fuel shatters and spreads everywhere, cars set on fire. Without a single blast, many can be killed by deflagration alone.
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  6. No, they didn't. It was brainrot for decades. Often pro-Russian brainrot.
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  7. North Vietnam attacked South Vietnam. Did any of you people open a history book? Did you think Saigon fell on its own?
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  8. No. He said that tanks can't help, it's WWI. Well, tanks were introduced to break the stalemate. In Kharkiv the Ukrainians showed that tank offensives breach through lines. Musk is oblivious about history and current happenings.
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  9.  @sonnyday6830  If you read the tweet, it was.
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  10. The NRO donated two space telescopes to NASA, which were meant for a cancelled spy program. There's also reason to believe the Hubble used a 2.4 meter main mirror because 2.4m mirrors had been manufactured before for spy satellites.
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  11. Bro it's still the 30th of March in GMT
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  12. And a lot of that information and education is based on conspiracy theory, a lot of it created or boosted by Moscow. Crack cocaine, HIV, etc.
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  13. Each bot needs to gain a following. Having a million bots with a follower each and the followers won't even repost the disinfo is worthless. Build a page to 50k follwers and half of them repost the outrage, it spreads.
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  14. Funny because Israel doesn't suppport Ukraine. All the "muh zog" people got smacked across the face by reality.
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  15. It was a fire.
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  16. Well in 2004 they had the Orange Revolution against Yanukovych and his election fraud. And in 2003 Russia started a territorial dispute in the Kerch strait.
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  17. Those platforms have a fighting chance. The A-10 is hopeless. The B-52 is in a unique position. It was meant to be replaced by it didn't pan out. The fall of the Soviet Union delayed the need for a suitable replacement. It's also large enough that upgrades have room inside the airframe. Nobody talks about retiring the B-52 because it's a non-issue. The A-10 being unable to fly into a contested environment makes it unfeasible. Air superiority cannot protect the A-10. The A-10 is vulnerable even after air defense systems are degraded, it doesn't get impunity. The operational cost of the A-10 is artificially hidden because billions have been spent to keep it able to fly. It's an extremely dated airframe that had entire chunks rebuilt as the structure physically wore out with use. Loiter time of drones and turboprops is comparable to A-10s if not greater. Getting low is a requirement from the 1960s. A-10 pilots ID'ing targets for themselves have made plenty of mistakes. There's a reason it's the ground controllers who give the call to start the attacks, not pilots. They need hand-holding from ground forces to pick off the right targets. When left alone, they easily target friendlies by mistake. Taliban fighters hit by F-16s probably don't hate to see them overhead because they either died or never saw what hit them. What's worse? Seeing a slow aircraft coming and giving you time to escape, or seeing your friends vaporized without you knowing any aircraft was even there? The latter seems like absolute terror. But that's just me. It wasn't retired because Congress asked for a new aircraft to replace it, while the USAF couldn't convince them that multiroles had already replaced it. It's simply Congress refusing to move on from the 1960s.
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  18. ​ @stevenobrien557  I mean, it is. If your point is that one guy is a liar, your girl has to be a paragon of truth. If they're both liars pick some other defining characteristic other than honesty.
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  19. Because it was never made to or meant to. Sure, MiG-29s were never made to fire HARMs either so an adapter was built, but the employment is suboptimal and at least the MiG-29 has the performance. The faster you go, the more range the HARM gets. The A-10 is a slow aircraft. It's actually sillier to bolt HARMs to an A-10. It's an exercise in futility.
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  20. Due to emissivity differences flying a thermal camera drone over a minefield after a hot day will make them glow. Much faster than a roomba.
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  21. They did the flour cannon.
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  22. That's minimizing the weight of the term. It's associated with conspiracy theory. For example Soviet disinfo started the conspiracy that HIV had been created by the US as a bioweapon. It was called Operation INFEKTION and reasonably successful. So you'd say stuff like "AIDS was created to keep us down, stay woke my brothers". Leftist and black nationalist conspiracy theory were what drove "woke" into the lexicon.
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  23. Electronic warfare is basically jamming.
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  24. But 2000 years ago Greek philosophers already knew it was round.
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  25. ​ @trenaceandblackmetal5621  We're talking about different generations. Gen X and below was raised in a more cynical era and thus distrusted those raised during the height of the conflict. For example the Duck and Cover drill was KNOWN to save lives as it was developed withthe help of testimony from Nagasaki/Hiroshima. But for decades people have been saying Duck and Cover was a government lie to fool people into thinking they could win an exchange. America bad.
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  26. A SEAD campaign would require even more F-16 deliveries (with HTS pods and AGM-88s of a more modern variant) and SEAD doesn't eliminate MANPADS or manually aimed autocannons.
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  27. ​ @augen8819  The Inquisition was around after the Caliphate was forced out of Iberia.
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  28. There were WMDs. US servicemen found them, and suffered neurological damage as a result. The US military lied about finding them fearing that Al Qaeda would start a treasure hunt for weapons caches. The free press latered uncovered the lie and exposed the veterans who had their health issues covered up.
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  29. The problem is, then the A-10 becomes redundant and a F-16 can drop the bomb. If an IR missile is fired at an A-10, there's nothing a SEAD F-16 can do to save it.
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  30.  @jimfarmer7811  That makes no sense, because the A-10s mission profile makes it vulnerable to IR and electro-optical tracking. Defenses could essentially hide themselves from suppression and wait for the A-10s. The fact is that multi-airframe missions are a mess. Look up Package Q. F-4Gs and F-15Cs supposed to protect strike F-16s had to turn back and leave. The F-16s went in alone. Different engines, different payloads, different fuel tanks, different speeds. The complexity of the mission just scales exponentially. You don't have infinite F-16s or infinite A-10s. Sending pilots in A-10s is suicide. The F-16s would multitask. You can provide support and switch to suppression once a contact appears.
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  31.  @jimfarmer7811  Do you think ATGMs teams will just stand by while infantry and IFVs take out the anti-tank missileer crews? Every weapon in warfare has its counter. The best option is operating where there's no enemy radar presence at all. Second best is destroying the radar. Third best is suppressing it. If you know there are radar contacts in the area, SEAD cover will lob HARM missiles which are automatically programmed to pitch up and use their rocket burn to gain altitude. As they tip over, the seeker is on. At the moment of firing, SEAD flight will announce a "Magnum!" call on radio. SAM operators will both see the HARM in flight and hear the radio call, prompting them to shut down the emitter. If they're skilled. If they're not, they'll just hear a large bang outside and the radar goes offline. This gives a minute or two of radar suppression. When the radar turns back on, SEAD flight will again fire another HARM and announce the firing on radio to make sure he is heard. Another minute or two of radar suppression. Just like that, the SEAD flight gave the aircraft doing the attack run 2-4 minutes to take care of the job. "You have to use combined arms to win a war." "You need to use the A-10s as ground support" - That's like saying you have to use M60s or else it's not combined arms. You have infantry, IFVs, artillery, air support and Abrams, but because there's no M60s it's not combined arms. "The A-10s can orbit" - They can't. Aircraft don't orbit in Ukraine. They fly in, drop payload, fly back out. The clock is ticking and you have SECONDS to make it out alive. Those who don't... we have the video of them either ejecting or losing their lives. The footage is widely distributed and you're denying it. "They would sweep in with fire and forget weapons" - They can't. The fire and forget weapons require line of sight, which means flying above the horizon to scout and acquire targets. They would sweep in, spend several minutes using the pod to look for enemies, and then not get to launch or return because a missile brought them down. They would need to spent time over the enemy to look for their positions on a 8 inch screen. It is suicide. I'd rather give them the weapons that put them in the least risk.
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  32. But the windows were not shattered, so it wasn't a blast. It was burning rocket fuel from those DIY rockets.
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  33. The AMRAAM D variant gets to close to the Phoenix range it wouldn't have mattered anyway.
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  34. The Su-57 has a negtive KD - the only shootdown was a friendly S-70 drone.
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  35. Ghost of Kiev was a rumor that spread online after Russia claimed to have destroyed the entire Ukrainian air force on the ground and a MiG-29 in Ukrainian camo was seen flying over the capital. A gamer from another country (I think India?) made a video in DCS as a tribute which made a lot of boomers think it was real. The Ukrainian Air Force said it wasn't real. The HIMARS strike was reported by Russian sources themselves. It was a New Year's Eve gathering in a building that was meant to serve as sleeping quarters also being used to store ammunition. The building was leveled so most people inside didn't come out unscathed. Bakhmut is both the city and the general area. When you hear about Ukrainian advances in Bakhmut they're talking about the flanks. Journalists aren't very knowledgeable about the military. But you also should acquire some media literacy. Many people heard of Putin visiting Kherson and got confused. Because Kherson is also the name of the district, though Ukraine controls the city.
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  36. I woke up and chose violence today so I'll offer the countering opinion. While Stingers are out of production, the obvious direction for next gen manpads involves true imaging seekers. Instead of a heat source, the missile "sees" an aircraft and can be programmed to slam the fuselage rather than the tail. Even gen 2 Strelas had a control algorithm that gave it a last second jink to impact ahead of the heat source, because it was understood the small warhead was a problem and a slightly higher chance of direct impact was helpful. If an enemy has the ability to attack airfields, you'll have trouble operating A-10s as they'll need fighters to cover them.
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  37. To me the "waves" is almost like zombie/horde mode in videogames. You clear "waves" and wait for the next, repeat. Evetually you will be overwhelmed and lose.
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  38. Some doctor in Boston in the late 1700s did a better job than modern labs and billions in funding lol
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  39. Now do that to a fleet of thousands of armored vehicles. Anyone can do a one-off of anything. It gets exponentially harder to mass produce.
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  40. Honestly it looks like a basement and it is intended to look like a basement. The black plastic is because in the movies the bad guys love to lay plastic everywhere so they can kill/torture and then just roll up the sheets to make the clean up easy. They could easily go to a clinic or dentist's office if they wanted to make it look medical, they wanted it to look "evil" and "criminal".
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  41. So the Ukrainians were Nazis now they're Marxists?
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  42. Credibility is relative. Credible people have lied or been wrong, that's why they were believed. People self-sabotage all the time. People will find a new purpose and seek pointless pursuits with their entire being, at the cost of everything else.
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  43. Sounds like what Ritter said early in the war. 5 hits without kill is insane, it would have to somehow miss every vital component.
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  44.  @Ayvengo21  There's footage of a tank hit in the barrel by a Javelin. The crew abandoned it and was rescued by another tank. It's not a one shot one kill, but the tank was "killed" just the same. I seriously doubt that after 4 hits there's no system, be it fuel or hydraulic lines, engine, drivetrain, crew, sighting, etc. that wasn't hit.
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  45.  @skipperg4436  You'd need to know when the missile is launched.
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  46.  @knifedance2402  Anti-tank weapons that are infantry portable were somewhat common decades ago, and non-so-portable anti tank weapons were highly common soon after the tank was deployed. The tank has always faced danger from infantry, it was known even in WW2 that tanks alone against infantry were picked off. Tanks are still extremely important. The survivability onion is more important than ever. Don't be seen, the infantry with AT weapons won't see you until it's too late. Don't be hit. If hit, make sure your crew survives so that you can pull them out of the hull and stick them back into another one.
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  47. Cope.
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  48. Are they being interfered with? Surely. Can INS be interfered with? No.
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  49. False. The USAF acquired over 700 of them and the GAO actually slammed the Air Force for purchasing so many without justifying why that excessive amount was acquired. Reformers invented the fairytale that the USAF never wanted the A-10 which is historical revisionism.
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  50. OSINT aggregates that information. For long periods of time Russia is on the offensive which means they take the most losses.
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