Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "" video.

@ArtemKo___ the US aircraft also have bomb drop calculators, it's still unguided as it's still subject to bad drops, wind drift or the target moving away
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@kek207 You can't launch the ARM from 60km if your enemy has his radar turned off and is only going to turn it on once you're at high Pk range. ARMs are great enhancers of SEAD. They have to be part of an entire gameplan and can't do the job on their own.
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@Ronnie-kun how is it grasping for straws? If S-400s can get overwhelmed or bypassed by getting through their reaction time, how would they fare against glide bombs, cruise missiles and ARMs?
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@bernhardjordan9200 Iraq had both Soviet and Western anti air defenses. The USAF systematically destroyed their network.
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@miriamweller812 Okay. If the S-400 is a layer, and it can get taken out, that allows the other layers to be peeled away.
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This is just rejecting reality and replacing it with one's own. The excuse of differing doctrines doesn't make up for the fact that air power greatly enhances the ground war but since neither side can use it properly, they are forced into a slugfest that just leads to more casualties.
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@kek207 You misunderstand SEAD. You can be locked. Early warning radar feeds your position to ground crews. They're cold to avoid detection. When you're basically at point blank range (for a missile) they turn on, lock and fire. You'll be within the high Pk radius, possibly the No Escape Zone. The shot that brought down the Nighthawk was fired from 8 miles away. You have seconds to react, you can't turn around and get into position to launch the ARM. Look into the 1991 SEAD/DEAD operation that started Desert Storm. Cruise missiles. Decoys. Stealth. Jamming. ARMs. You can't just take a leisure stroll with an ARM under your wing and think you'll only face the inexperienced radar operators.
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@pauljs75 You can provide CAS in an area covered by portable weapons. It's a little dicey, but even aircraft like the A-10 were expected to use their Mavericks against SHORAD, and other more capable aircraft can fly outside or above threat range. There's also a lot more than just "heavy bombers". Strike aircraft and multirole aircraft performing strike/interdiction missions still have to get in and get out safely.
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@phunkracy Russia claims to have destroyed more aircraft than Ukraine had.
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@MarkoLomovic Suppression probably allowed a lot to be done. One damaged system seems little, but considering how much payload was dropped on target by letting the strike aircraft through it was probably worth it.
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@MarkoLomovic Then that's not SEAD, that's DEAD. Taking out a layer should not require attrition. Losses are expected, no plan ever survives contact with the enemy, etc etc etc but SEAD/DEAD is explicitly a method of avoiding attrition. Taking out a layer is worth it because you'll suffer the attrition during regular strike missions. We've had asymmetric warfare of SAMs vs Air since Vietnam. SAMs deny space, and SEAD/DEAD threat temporarily denies SAMs. If SAMs ensure survival by shutting off their radars, SEAD is doing its job by letting strike packages destroy whatever the SAM was protecting. We've seen those forces collide since Vietnam.
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@BoleDaPole The Taliban operated as an insurgency force. They were nearly wiped out, but more people can always be recruited. The weak Kabul government could not exert control over the tribal regions in Afghanistan. Meanwhile a direct war with Russia with nukes off the table would be comparatively easy. There's chains of command, supplies, etc.
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A "massacre" that claimed less than 20 lives a year, and half the casualties were from people accidently touching unexploded ordnance.
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The separatists ignored the Minsk agreements. When Zelensky tried to talk directly to their handlers (Russia) they said it wasn't their problem. A last minute interception? That's why they staged exercises in Belarus for a few weeks?
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@phunkracy And Western aircraft also have those ballistic computers.
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@phunkracy Military classification is meaningless. The massive room sized computers from the 1950s were used for ballistic calculations, you have more power in your laptop today. People use phone apps to get the ballistic calculations for long range rifle shooting.
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"Permanent"
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lol
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