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

  1. If the logos were not IR reflective, they can't be seen at night. Ever seen non IR treated camouflage under night vision? Especially desert camouflage? You look like you're wearing a white pijama. The blobs of dye that are supposed to make you hard to see vanish, because the entire uniform reflects the same "color".
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  2. They turn in the vest because it was issued. If they ask to wear a personal item and buy their own, it's theirs.
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  3. ​ @battleburger  Not only did nearly every government representative discourage it (it's even technically illegal) the definition of mercenary requires him to be paid more than a regular soldier. Russia does offer lucrative mercenary contracts to foreigners. In Ukraine, foreigners sign a contract with the Ukrainian military and are treated as Ukrainians earning the same pay. Much like France has a foreign legion which is NOT a mercenary force.
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  4. No. It's extremely expensive to keep flying, the deception of sweeping billion dollar contracts to rebuild entire structural components to keep aging aircraft airworthy has fooled people into thinking we have anything to gain from upgrades or research. It was originally set to be retired in the 90s, we squeezed all the juice we could. Boneyard. Now.
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  5. They're being fired in pre-programmed mode. The missiles get close to the known position of the radar by themselves, which makes detection easier. The only limit on range are the fact that they have to shoot from relatively low altitude rather than a neat straight line supersonic flight at high altitude to boost the missile further.
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  6. I vent my frustrations online by dreaming up about Chinese spies and defectors to Havana under presidential orders 🤡
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  7. It's cheaper to clean a rifle at the end of the day than blast blanks for 8 hours x number of soldiers. Blanks will make the rifle dirty anyway.
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  8. What do you mean without casualty rates? It's one of the most shot down airframes in the conflict.
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  9. Drones have slight stealth shaping, and they can fly outside S-400 reach. The S-400 capabilities do not match the brochure.
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  10. Doesn't matter if they're easy to find. If his job requires a security clearance he can't risk losing it on a technicality.
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  11. I'm not a botanist, but aren't there perennial trees in Russia??
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  12. Trump said to take it. It was a good vaccine, the best vaccine.
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  13. The F-16 is absolutely configured for the role. Many nations have F-16s as their primary CAS delivery aircraft. Strike Eagle pilots dedicated themselves to learning the art of the gun run, and so far none of them has been taken out with a rifle. In fact, most of the bells and whistles in the A-10 that allow it to do CAS are straight up similar to the F-16.
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  14. You're not trying to brag about being working class to secure votes.
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  15. American planes only flew over North Vietnam because a defensive war in South Vietnam is fighting with the hands tied behind one's back. At some point logistics had to be targeted.
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  16. ​ @leogaskell3138  The enemy doesn't identify itself for your convinience. If something is unidentified it means there's no way to verify if it's friendly. Which is exactly what happens when you see the enemy.
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  17.  @tomlobos2871  I'm going to try to be brief. The A-10 was made to be a A-1 Skyraider replacement. Like Lionel Mandrake posted, it was originally meant for Vietnam. The A-7 was an excellent CAS aircraft but too fast to escort helicopters, and too fuel hungry to stay on station. The A-X program was even originally a turboprop engine aircraft because turbojets were inefficient at low speed, and halfway through the program the requirements were changed and turbofan engines allowed them to be reasonably fuel efficient at low speeds. In the Fulda Gap, the A-10 pilots would be estimated to be all dead or captured by two weeks. They were merely a delaying action, not expected to survive the onslaught. In a war against insurgents, the A-10 does fine. In a full scale war, you want the F-16. One pass, haul ass. There's no loiter time. You drop hate on target, turn back to base to bolt more under your wings and take off again. The Su-25 is forced to perform the "cowardly" role of firing unguided rockets from friendly territory and turning back. Their losses are proving exactly the opposite of what you think. They're easily shot down, and aircraft are complex enough that it's preferable to strip them of usable parts than trying to repair damaged aircraft. "Add A-10" so an airframe that's been flown beyond the original retirement timeline, has lack of parts because the company that made it went out of business two decades ago, and is even slower than the Su-25 is going to be an "addition"? I think it would be a subtraction. The A-10 as a bomb truck? It's extremely slow and thrust limited. It's not very survivable because a modern missile can slice it in half, negating all the fancy shmancy armor. When the nose is physically detached from the tail, it doesn't matter how much armor the pilot or the engines have. Fighter jets are survivable by kinetically outrunning the threat. You can't loiter in Ukraine. You arrive, fire rockets into the air, turn back or else you die. You have 30 seconds to get in and out or else a missile gets you.
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  18.  @tomlobos2871  "UA needs numbers as well, any airframe that is available, modernised" - The A-10 is lacking in parts because the company that made it went out of business two decades ago. Half the fleet is still up for wing renewal under Boeing contract since 2019. "reasonable strike capabilities" - The A-10 is at most a battlefield interdiction aircraft, not a strike one. "airframe itself is second here" - But it's not. Airframe shapes capabilities. And the A-10 is hindered by its morphology. "we see that in use as a main asset on both sides" - With unnecessary losses. They don't use Su-25s because they're good, they use them because that's what they have. "if you're offered a western ground attacker, would you say no and prefer not having it?" - If the aircraft is even slower than the Su-25, they can keep it. Furthermore, the lack of spares and the fact that the USAF has divested from the A-10 really make it unable to survive the high op tempo.
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  19. No, it doesn't. Russia has lost the war. Ukraine still has to win.
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  20. It sounds like a large object falling. You really trying to identify weapons by the sound air makes when pushed out of the way?
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  21.  @Otyrr  Again, objects sound based on the speed of the air whistling past them. You can't identify objects like that. We have the video of the rocket failing. It's over. You were wrong.
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  22. Stop the "only the USA" crap. Sightings and conspiracies exist all over the world. You'd need to start looking in foreign languages to notice.
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  23. He exploited the simulation itself. It was a complete debacle. Basically the game started out of nowhere with the OpFor swarm attack in position to fire, while BluFor had the defenses shut down as they were locking into civilian aircraft and ships nearby. Basically a suckerpunch.
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  24. Tanks are still useful for direct firr support.
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  25. Russia's army is now using donkeys for transport. Putin will sign whatever.
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  26. If you want to bang about "horrors" you have to be factual. If you have to lie about nuclear war to make it sound scary, you lose credibility.
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  27. ​ @toneth353  There's limits to gun depression. Sometimes using the vehicle as a weapon is the only way. In Iraq they formed a defensive line with a large trench. The US gave the Iraqis ample chance to surrender then came in with armored bulldozers fitted with RPG cages and buried the enemy soldiers in the sand. It's not pretty, but trying to use guns and explosives to clear the trench would be just as violent and expose coalition troops to greater danger. So if the vehicle can be used to crush or bury an opponent who refuses to surrender, it will be.
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  28.  @toneth353  I watched the video and the interview. They spent the ammunition because there were more enemies in the area than expected. It's not sadism. Once over the trench, they cannot depress the gun. They only had one shot left and needed it in case they had to fire back at someone else. So tracks it is. I'd drop bomb on the wounded to score a hit on the two health soldiers carrying the stretcher. I don't care. If it were me having the country invaded, I have to continue to add numbers to my count, because the faster I get numbers the sooner they leave my land. Why should I show mercy and spare two fully combat capable soldiers? Next day they could kill my friends, or execute civilians like in Bucha. I'm dropping. The wounded guy doesn't deserve it? Life's unfair. Wear a cup. Bad timing. Should have stayed home.
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  29. A helicopter would beat this any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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  30. There could be explosives daisy-chained or the ambush location pre-sighted for mortar fire.
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  31. Crack open a book, there were reasons why they did that.
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  32. Thanks for the FUD, Ivan.
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  33. ​ @comradericefarmerhao2269  It wasn't a myth in Korea, and meat wave isn't human wave. Human wave is using mass to trade short term casualties for long term success, meat wave is overwhelming defenses with constant assaults.
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  34. It's like weathering the cold because the rest of your classmates said your jacket looked "gay". We mocked them so hard they stopped using them.
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  35.  @ericmcquisten  Yeah, because a Spitfire would be garbage in a modern dogfight too. Context matters. If something can't hold up its own except under exercise conditions, it's not worthwhile to pursue such capabilities. What do you mean low enough to get a lock? An AMRAAM would be fired from tens of miles out. The lock isn't the limiting factor, it's the motor of the missile. With speed and altitude, range of a high Pk missile shot against an A-10 is actually greater than against a fighter. You can't "avoid" an eye in the sky that can see you from 60 nautical miles away. Hugging the terrain does nothing when the radar is coming from above and Doppler filtering removes the ground clutter. Chaff is a tool of desperation because as it hits the air, it slows down and allows radar to instantly tell that it's chaff rather than a speeding aircraft. Tight turns don't matter when the missile simply knows you'll be at position x,y,z when you finish your turn, and head towards that position.
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  36.  @ericmcquisten  And the A-10 is a Vietnam era aircraft built for an age that doesn't exist. Holding up fine in exercises meant to give the A-10 a chance isn't a good indicator. Create an exercise where the fighter has freedom to engage the A-10 in any condition it wants. Some missiles are heat seeking indeed. But the AMRAAM is there. Modern heat seekers do not work like Vietnam era seekers. The AIM-9X can see the actual aircraft with a thermal camera, it won't be fooled by the ground. Look down shoot down has existed for decades. Low flying does not protect aircraft anymore. How would the A-10 pilot know the bearing of the missile? He'd get a RWR warning a few seconds before impact. Missiles don't make use of turning radius as if they had pure pursuit control logic. They simply measure your movement and predict where you'll be. If you turn right, the missile simply calculates where your turn will put you, and flies straight for impact. I'm not talking about drones. Fighter aircraft have their own radars. Every fighter is an eye on the sky, sweeping for easy pickings. Aircraft have radar. Radar isn't just a ground technology. Yes, air to air missiles use Doppler filtering. Sophistication? Your cellphone is more sophisticated than the Apollo era computers. Missiles are crammed full of sophistication. Why do you still believe it's the 1960s?
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  37. If one person went to prison it was a war crime. Or are you saying he's innocent?
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  38. ​ @estoy3300  Did you specifically go to a broadcast show and tell you weed smoking stories to look cool to the younger voters so you can get elected to the highest office in the country? Your youtube comment would get a pass. Hardly anyone will read it and you're not seeking glory. You're confusing inconsequential small talk and political campaigning.
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  39. You can't just land it. The thing has the world's most powerful blowtorch sticking out the back and a fan that really shouldn't ingest hot air or debris. A small stretch of highway is flat, reasonably smooth and won't have a lot of debris beyond little bolts that fell off cars and empty cans tossed out of windows. In the middle of a wooded area or rough terrain? Not worth the risk.
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  40. ​ @SebastianHaban  the M193, M855, M855A1, Mk 262 and Mk 318 ammunition for 5.56 and some European M80 ammunition for 7.62 deform on impact. Yet those are used and not considered war crimes.
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  41. You're not a pilot, you're a Glavset agent.
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  42.  @joshuaalistair3193  So you're indeed a traitor. MacGregor claimed that Ukraine was finished March 2022. Why do you claim his skills now in 2023 are somehow more reliable than in 73 Easting. There were scientists working for America in the Manhattan Project who later fed the secrets to the Soviet Union. You think you can't become an agent for a foreign power AFTER you've served your country?
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  43. Video was recorded at night but uploaded at 9 AM.
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  44. ​ @Sacto43  I saw it. Some dude confirming things he knows nothing about, then deleted the post. Happens in Ukraine too, during the Kharkiv offensive some Brosint accounts "confirmed" the Ukrainians were assaulting Donetsk airport and Lysychansk.
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  45. ​ @zaidtayeh4888  Jackson Hinkle's Russian girlfriend pulls his strings. Dude's compromised.
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  46. Precision bombing with drones? Does this pilot have millions of dollars burning a hole in his pocket? A drone is fine when fighting an unprepared or less capable foe.
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  47. Honestly, back in 2016 the dems pushed reps to Russia. Refusing to acknowledge that Hillary was unpopular and blaming the election on Russia made the "deplorables" feel like Russia couldn't be that bad if the Clintons hate them. Ever seen that meme of the libertarians and communists playing tug of war and then monopoly man grabs the rope on the communist side and a nazi grabs on the libertarian side? It's like that. Politics makes for strange bedfellows.
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  48. Russia violates airspace all the time. It's a probing of defenses, even Portugal has had to intercept Tupolev bombers.
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  49. The blank firing adapter has a steel rod that goes into the barrel. If you attempt to fire a live round it will get your attention.
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  50. Telemetry could be trying to phone home but have no line of sight to any receiver or repeater. That can also happen when you're not at high altitude.
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