Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Not A Pound For Air To Ground" channel.

  1. Literally the story in the lyrics for "World War Three" by Dos Gringos.
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  2. ​ @pyronuke4768  More accurately, the early missile seeker would need to have a consistent frame of reference for up/down and left/right as it signaled the inputs for the control surfaces. So it could not roll.
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  3. It's important to take into account that the cigarette is creating a signal equivalent to maybe a jet exhaust several miles away. The IR sensors were not sensitive enough to lock into anything warm, they locked onto the reflections of the sun in the water/treetops/clouds. The sun being the most powerful energy source in, well, the solar system. The thermal radiation from a warm body or even hot asphalt under the sun would not trigger the photosensitive elements. The wavelength is different. However sunlight features the wavelengths emitted by scorching hot objects.
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  4. First, the missile slows down as soon as the motor stops burning. The faster you go, the more drag. The nosecone of the Sidewinder had to resist supersonic drag heating on the outside and cryogenic cooling on the inside. Not exactly flimsy. Second, relative speed/closure rate. The aircraft is running away from the missile as the missile progressively gets slower. If you are in an open train car at 900 ft/s and someone shoots a 9mm bullet travelling at 1100 ft/s at you, the bullet hits you at 200 ft/s. Enough to break the skin but hardly fatal. Third, aircraft are even more flimsy than missiles! A round tube is a very solid shape all things considered. An aircraft is like a car, you can completely dent the body panels at parking speeds. Well, cars don't have to fly, so aircraft have to save even more weight. To the point hitting a bird can mangle a wing's skin and expose the spars underneath. A missile gliding on inertia and losing speed, an aircraft running away, and a tube acting like a spear versus a coke can of an aircraft... easy to believe.
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  5. Two million people died for China and the Soviets only for Vietnam to them grow closer to the US. Seems like the "good guys" sent people into a mass ritualistic sacrifice to appease the Marxist Blood God then gave up.
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  6. "It's exactly the same and I won't elaborate" "Fine, it's not the same, it's just similar okay?"
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  7. Computers we buy to keep at home aren't made to fly at supersonic speeds at low pressure and wide temperature swings, after returning to base multiple times without being fired (shock from the landing). Radar in cars doesn't have to pick up stuff at dozens of miles, burn through jamming, etc.
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  8. ​ @robertkalinic335  The Soviets took more casualties because Stalin purged competent leadership prior to the war.
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  9. The Phoenix has a good track record in Iran. There's no countermeasures from long range when Iraqi aviation is grounded from the suspicion that traitors or covert saboteurs are sticking timed explosives inside aircraft because nobody can see the F-14 Tomcat or the AIM-54 diving on its prey. Just one of the fighters in formation turning into a fireball with no warning.
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  10. I like how nobody is addressing the fact that NATO exists because the kind Union gobbled up Eastern Europe and wouldn't give it up, and how NATO wasn't even content with political defeat of Moscow - their objective would be actual gen0c1de. Even though NATO has former Soviet and Warsaw Pact peoples under its wing.
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  11.  @paladin0654  The vast majority of people wouldn't know that. I define fame like most people. The videogames, movies and aircraft modelling companies have a lot of E models.
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  12.  @Ksozey  We have a proven instance of it happening on a missile dud, and an allegation. Why would Sweden have production blueprints?
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  13. They confiscated grain in Ukraine to pay for imported Western machinery. When you throw millions of lives away it's not hard.
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  14. When aerial gunnery is harder than firing a missile within parameters kind of devalues your point. Putting a gun on a fighter does nothing when pilots aren't sufficiently trained to use it.
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  15.  @shannonkohl68  However, Phantom pilots were sufficiently trained to score over a hundred missile kills in Vietnam. There were like 6 gunpod kills and 5 kills with the E variant nose gun. Or the other way around. Missiles won.
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  16. Yet the F-8 scored a lot less kills.
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  17. ​ @andrewemery4272  Stop swallowing Soviet/Russian propaganda.
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  18. ​ @S300V  China is communist in name only.
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  19. If you finish a marathon are you also copying the ancient Greek soldier?
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  20. MiG-15 Fagot
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  21. The E variant is more famous.
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