Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Insane Engineering of the F-117 Nighthawk" video.

  1. ​ @milosdenkovic1984  You can't unbomb Belgrade.
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  2. Correction. Two attempts was doctrine. Then the radar had to be shut down and relocated. They knew there was no SEAD in the air so they broke doctrine and attempted a third lock.
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  3. He changed his story multiple times. The fact is that the S-125 was in a site location presumed empty so planners put an egress route there. The F-117 basically nearly entered the S-125 minimum engagement distance. Point blank shot. There were no fancy tactics or trickery involved. Just physics. Stealth works with the inverse square law. Take out the distance, stealth aircraft become detectable.
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  4. That's not feasible as winds push water back under the aircraft, which is moving fast enough to not leave an empty column under itselfm. Plus weather radar spectrum is terrible for accuracy.
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  5. Peasants don't have radars.
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  6. The bomb bay explanation makes no sense. It would have to be stuck open as the aircraft was on egress route. The fact is that stealth works through inverse square law, so if you reduce distance stealth stops working. The F-117 almost flew into the S-125 minimum engagement distance. It was a near point blank shot. Physics itself mandates that a stealth aircraft is detectable at extremely short ranges.
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  7. Do not google "Slobodan Milosevic at the ICTY"
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  8. That was Serbia.
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  9. ​ @Crabman_87  The F-15 has split throttles. You can set different power levels, in afterburner too.
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  10. Light aircraft aren't carrying 2000lbs bombs.
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  11. North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. North Korea invaded South Korea.
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  12. The cost goes to the pockets of the workers building them, who then use their money to stimulate the economy. We all rise out of poverty as a result. Donations don't end poverty - economic growth does. Give a man a fish...
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  13. Military acquisitions require a lot of legalese stipulations in regards to materials, sources/suppliers, testing standards, etc. For example magnets in one F-35 part were found to come from China, and the mamufacturer has to change suppliers. So you can't just go down to the store and get some bushings. You have to pay for a factory to custom make you bushings that obey the standards (which often involve inspecting 100% of units, rather than using a statistical model to make entire batches pass QC).
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  14. They weren't paying it when Milosevic tapped out. When you get your arm taken and twisted to the point you scream for it to stop, you can't chant victory.
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  15. Raptors have never been exported. Australia didn't spend a red cent on Raptors.
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  16. WMDs were found. Journalists uncovered it in 2014, locations of WMDs were kept secret because of fears that Al Qaeda would try to recover them.
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