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

What would be the purpose of reducing a population to ash?
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Before it happened, Iraq was predicted to be Bush Sr's Vietnam and people expected a drawn out boondoggle. Now with 20/20 hindsight everyone says the outcome was obvious. The issue isn't the technological divide. It's that US tech was designed specifically to cope with the technological advantages the Soviets had. Those who purchased Soviet equipment picked scissors, so the US made the deliberate choice to pick rock.
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The targets were lightly defended because of the grueling task of eliminating defenses. Desert Storm is the prime example of being so good you make hard things look easy. It was not only required of the Coalition to use cruise missiles extensively, but also stealth aircraft and low flying helicopters to take out radars and silence command posts. Then came the drones to be used as bait and get the defenses that had the radars turned off to starm beaming the decoys thinking they were aircraft. Then the EW coverage which allowed aircraft to step in and continue peeling away the layers of defense by degrading the accuracy of the radar returns. Even after the radar SAMs were suppressed, AAA wasn't. Harriers had trouble with heat seeking SAMs. Low flying Tornados were vulnerable to airfield defenses when they attempted low lever runway bombing. Most aircraft were given a 12,000 ft safety level they were not meant to fly under due to existing Iraq defenses. One of the exceptions were A-10 for a certain period and Fast FAC F-16s, which suppressed AAA by diving on it and dropping unguided bombs or cluster munitions. All of this was extremely hard. It was a challenging operation. But it was conducted so well the enemy had no option but to run. And you type on a keyboard how easy it was. Because you don't see the work required.
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@SergeantAradir The major difference is that you need multiple additions to that "light infantry" in "some foxholes". You want a good analogue, you'll need bunkers too, AT mines, pre-sighted artillery, ATGMs, ambush sites with shoulder fired rocket launchers and AT guns ready to take out vehicles as they roll in, plus the enemy having tanks and IFVs of their own. There's no ground radar to detect tanks like aircraft are detected, so I guess the enemy has forward observers and drones to provide early warning and correction to artillery. Your enemy has an entire spectrum of weapons dedicated solely to swat aircraft out of the air. And you want to compare this to just light infantry and foxholes. If you plan your tank advance poorly, you won't roll in with ease. You'll need to do everything in your power to fight every one of those individual weapons before the tanks can even roll in. You have to kill observers. Take out drones. Find the ambushes. Evade the mine fields. Use your artillery/cruise missiles to take out the artillery. You need a well oiled machine to "roll in with ease" through those defenses. Russian attacks missed. What else is new? They got the Aliexpress version of Desert Storm. Do you think that if the US was blue team and Ukraine red team, that moving defenses around would have made the US say "aw shucks" and give up? No, they'd continue with SEAD. The Iraqis started defensive moves after the initial attacks blew their defenses apart. To the point that most US aircraft were not allowed to fly under 10k-12k feet due to the threat their defenses still posed. Even when SAMs were suppressed, AAA wasn't. It has to be suppressed "manually".
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@SergeantAradir You said it was easy, so now you've conceded and admitted it was hard. "Precision bombardment" I just said that AAA had to be suppressed with dumb bombs, pilots had to dive and put the CCIP pipper on them and dodge the tracers.
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@SergeantAradir Unrelated but there's a funny article about how everyone who Muhammad Ali defeated was a bum/was on a losing streak. Why am I reminded of that article? Because being on top has a cost, training hard has a cost, good planning has a cost. When you step into a ring and knock someone unconscious with one punch, everyone in the audience says it was easy. Had the US not overprepared for that fight, it would have been seen as an upset. Look at Russia, they got half the world saying they are bums because they prepared for the wrong operation. Even though they inch forward and Ukraine suffers unsustainable casualties. The US could have won in Iraq through superiority alone, and still come out as the laughing stock of the world.
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Someone tell the Israelis.
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@bruceparr1678 There's Russian S-400s covering Syria.
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@bruceparr1678 Russia has already had to apologize twice to Israel in this conflict lmao. Okay, so politics beats S-400. Good to know.
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Nobody's scared of Russia, they're scared of nukes. If we could impose a moratorium on the physics of nuclear fission, you'd see the Iraq 1991 playbook be used that very night. Stealth and cruise missiles. SEAD and EW. Once defenses are depleted or suppressed to a satisfactory level, start targeting command and control, supply lines, move ahead to factories and power plants.
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@morrgash The "absolute edge of technology" was simply tech developed to fight Soviet equipment. Can't fault a country for picking rock after seeing everyone pick scissors. I also like the "advanced technology" argument as if everyone was using the absolute best. Not really. You had a ton of decades old gear in service then.
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@morrgash The usual "monkey model" cope. Well, the Soviet/Russian best doesn't seem to work that well in Russian hands either, does it? Speaking of advanced tech, the Iraqis had French missile defenses working alongside Soviet built ones. Curious how manning Western equipment still didn't help.
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Civilian casualties are overstated and most times were genuine mistakes. Nobody talks about the crimes against humanity comitted by the losing side, and the ones prevented thanks to their defeat.
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NATO air intervention decided the Kosovo war.
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@cristitanase6130 Drones not being allowed near frontlines when they're providing targets for artillery is a hilarious concept. Just the other say video was released of a drone providing targeting information to hit... an anti-drone antenna. The drone doesn't drop the payload, it looks from a distance and the artillerymen finish the job. The footage actually showed the shells missing by about 10-15 meters but the point is that drones being used against anti-drone technology just shows how the problem just requires workarounds and smart usage.
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@cristitanase6130 Special pleading. Despite the losses, they caused disproportionate damage well worth the purchase price. They served well. Cheap rocket from the 60s cost a lot. In fact, the Strelas and Stingers are being used despite how much they cost against cheaper drones because a drone is worth a lot more in terms of damage it can cause vs purchase price. Like I said, drones using the off-nadir angle can sight the anti-drone tech and have it destroyed with another weapon. Powerful jammers make themselves easy to detect due to their emissions. Have a drone sight it from outside jammer range and plop it with artillery.
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@cristitanase6130 Luck shots? Stugna-P footage comes out every day. Drone bomb drops almost every day. Artillery pretty much every day too. It's not lucky when it's done at an astonishing consistent rate. Just a few days ago, an entire command post was rained on by artillery. A day after or something, and it's a grouping of BM-21 Grad, fuel trucks, ammo trucks and crane loader getting hit by artillery. That's not luck. That's the US telling Ukraine where to hit, and they hit it. Slow is good. Doppler shift makes aircraft easy to detect due to their speed. The first hit probably disabled it, the second is probably just to permanently trash it or try and get the crew inside. Ammo dumps are still going up. One got hit in Donetsk like two days ago. There's still drone hits. The footage is available and constantly being updated so it's not recycled. Luck luck luck. It's all cope. Please, the Lugansk and Donetsk republics need men, how about you go and just brag about how you're not getting hit, because Ukraine only can produce casualties when they get lucky?
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@cristitanase6130 The cheap artillery is starting to become a death sentence. I said it was a drone-assisted artillery hit. Learn to read.
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