Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Ukraine Matters" channel.

  1. During peacetime we switched to "efficient" manufacturing. That means expending the least amount of resources to get better margins, because the govt contracts are too small to make a profit on volume. We were all running on the smallest possible amount of trained personnel, machines, raw materials in inventory, etc. What happens when you try to increase production rates? You don't have the people to cover the shifts. You'll run out of the correct alloy of steel within a few days and your supplier won't deliver a batch until 2 months. Then when the shells are made, someone needs to melt the explosive and cast it inside the shell. Turns out, in peacetime there's only one factory that can do that. So we'll have to make the investment that needs decades to pay off, for a war that won't last a decade. There's some hubhub about ultrasonic explosives casting. Maybe if we reinvent the wheel we won't have to invest that much money.
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  2. They need barrier troops for their own barrier troops.
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  3. External fuel tanks means less pylons/payload capacity for weapons. Also, more wear and tear from the extra hours racked up covering the distance.
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  4.  @nooboftheyear7170  The US developed the GBU-28 bunker buster in three weeks, with two weeks between design approval and dropping it in combat.
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  5. ​ @blue_ish4499 the one that Russia would have to pay fines on for failing to deliver? And that the explosion conviniently let Russia off the hook?
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  6. What does that even mean? It's not like Russian air defense has a hundred Ukrainian fighters on their radar scope, snd they'll have the luxury to pick and choose the F-16s. Whatever comes across their screen, they shoot. Hence all the friendly fire downings.
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  7. The point is to fight where the enemy is weak. If a fighter keeps his hands up you start dealing blows to the body. The body shots will either weather down the opponent or force him to drop his hands. It's his choice. The point is meaningless, the objective is to fight effectively and if the opponent has a weak spot you keep hitting.
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  8. A dogfight is like throwing away a rifle in combat and using the bayonet. If you have the AMRAAM, just shoot it. There's no points for style, preserving the life of the pilot and the airframe is a big priority.
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  9. Hornets are mostly a Navy bird. The USMC Hornets were flown off Navy carriers, while the Harrier was meant to be much closer to the troops.
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  10. The F-117 aerodynamics require a more complex flight control software.
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  11. ​ @dmitrybatishchev2867  Was Canada at war, though?
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  12. Russia knows the talks begin as soon as they leave.
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  13. There are 30mm chain gun and 40mm automatic grenade launchers made to be anti-drone, shame none of these seem to be in service anywhere.
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  14. Because Sweden never manufactured enough Gripens while F-16s exist by the thousands.
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  15. Cope. Reminder that the Summer offensive of 2023 took more territory in less time and fewer losses than 9 months of Russian advances.
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  16.  @valleykilladude  WWI? You mean the one where the Russian army had mutinies and culminated in a revolt against the Tsar?
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  17. It's important to consider that the HIMARS is the United States Marine Corps organic long range fire support. Yes, the US Air Force and US Navy have long range missiles and aircraft, but the USMC wants the ability to call in long range fires without resorting to other branches of service. Their new force design slashed tanks and cut the number of barrel artillery. The software on the HIMARS was also updated to allow the vehicle to fire rockets from the deck of a moving amphibious assault ship at sea, meaning the ATAMCS can be launched from Marine Corps vessels and not let them be dependent on the US Navy firing Tomahawks at coastline defenses.
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  18. Yeah and Armenia has a treaty with Russia. Didn't seem to help at all.
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  19. Well, they're welding 1950s naval guns to battlefield tractors and pulling mortars with motor-ploughs.
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  20. Within context, stopped means the advacing force is neutralized and has to consolidate as they exhausted the means to move forward. Halted means it cannot move forward at the present but could still fight through and continue.
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  21. That's cap. After losing men and materiel, it will be easier to take it back because the defenses will be understrength. So no, Russia can't afford it because it's a sunk cost. While Ukraine doesn't want to lose men trying to recapture areas, Russia would be outright sending those understrength offensive forces to their death by forcing them to defend without a significant mobilization to replace them.
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  22. It's also important to remember that reported Russian artillery fires are reducing in intensity. Russian overmatches Ukraine in firepower on paper, but the threat of HIMARS forces ammunition drip feed as they can't pile all those shells together within reach of a missile and barrel wear is taking its toll.
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  23. Saab isn't competitive at all. There's a reason why they lost so many bids. The actual decision makers looking over the cost estimates are not convinced.
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  24. The F-16 has a good track record, are you mad?
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  25. I've always wanted to watch Dollar Store D-Day.
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  26. Unless you have a way to deploy Ukrainian forces in the Kamchata peninsula, every move is telegraphed in this war.
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  27. It took months to build those lines. Whateverthey build next is a stabilization line, not a fortification.
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  28. The only issue is that the only country they could feasibly sell to was... Ukraine. Trying to sell to any other country would get the shipments and money transfers seized by either the West or Russia itself.
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  29.  @VilkatisJanis  But weapons shipments are monitored precisely to restrict the arming of warlords. Which is why when they do get large amounts of weapons, usually it's a country providing them. When both the West and Russia are monitoring Wagner shipments, it's incredibly difficult to move them.
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  30. The noise from the wind with the high speed flying would drown out the sounds. Tracking an IR beam would be better.
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  31. On the Russian side? They already recruited the dregs of society and issued them a hodgepodge of Soviet gear, Iranian imports and Aliexpress combat gear. Do they have half a million uniforms?
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  32. Ukies seem fast learners, and their SAM crews usually have college degrees.
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  33. ​ @peterlaurie1247  There's not enough operational Gripens and Saab can't manufacture them fast enough.
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  34. ​ @edpenny8460  Aviation grade servos are 500 bucks each, the engine was 9k alone.
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  35. If those routes also work as supply lines they have no reason to leave.
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  36. ​ @markbryant4641  Little cost? Elite VDV units have been rebuilt multiple times thanks to those "defensive" actions. Which are actually offensives but whatever.
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  37. He specifically said that Russia isn't following doctrine.
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  38. Bakhmut's strategic significance was contingent on Russia being able to push past Bakhmut. Since the taking of the town bled the Russian forces, it was a self-defeating goal.
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  39. T-90s die easy. Bust the tracks, crew abandons it, drone drops VOG through the hatch. Tanks are only hard to kill when the enemy is good and comitted to recovery. If the metal is left behind, it's easy to take out.
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  40. The A-10 requires direct line of sight to the enemy to be fully effective, where SAMs can hit them. So much like the Su-25, it would have to fire rockets into the air and back out of the fight.
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  41. Ukraine made a big deal of showcasing grenade-drop videos and Russian forces were baited into using their own drones for drops. Later Russian telegram pages were complaining that they lacked drones for artillery spotting since they were being taken away to be converted for grenade-holding. Oh and huge nostalgia flashback with Xena, I remember being a kid and watching every afternoon during summer holidays.
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  42.  @criminalscum6075  So just let Russia win?
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  43. lol lmao even
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  44. Russian propaganda is now saying father should volunteer to buy phones for their kids. They know the patriotism angle isn't doing well.
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  45. There's no WW2 levels of materiel, production and manpower.
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  46. The other way around. You are lending the US govt the money it needs now, then the US govt pays back with interest. The biggest holder of US debt is the US itself.
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  47. "Midjourney" AI, apparently
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  48. It wasn't just quantity. Allied equipment was flat out better in many aspects. Warfare existed prior to aircraft, and will continue to be conducted even when they're unavailable.
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  49. Russia spent billions in shipping fresh water and building a desalination plant. Let's hope that by 2023 they won't have to worry about that.
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  50. Leopold? Fortunately, Russians have not laid 5 minefields back to back in the skies. Can't drive in Ukraine without hitting one if you're grounded.
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  51. MANPADS are anti aircraft weapons with sub kilogram payload. They wouldn't even dent a tank's armor.
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  52. ​ @CyberBeep_kenshi  What a riddiculous claim. That was a brief, not exactly James Bond level of secrecy.
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  53.  @PaulM745  That's a cope. The F-35 was sold because most buyers already had F-16s. Buying Gripens would be a step sideways at best, a step backwards in the case of more advanced F-16s. The F-35 is the natural progression. The fact of the matter is that the Gripen was objectively analyzed by several countries that rejected it. Saab's marketing has been cashing checks their design and manufacturing can't cash. The ease to maintain is purely theoretical since one of the Gripen buyers was South Africa, which had to ground half the fleet to save on costs, and low sales mean that as time goes on you'll have less and less parts while the F-16 and F-35 will enjoy a large adoption base to have ease of access to parts. The US, especially the USMC, also has FARP operations with small crews. There's just been less opportunities to do that when the US has so many air bases and carriers to fly from.
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  54. Tanks have no room inside, and BMPs are known to be death traps. At least if the driver runs over a landmine, you get flung into a ditch. Most civilian vehicles are not that great in off roading.
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  55. This has been going on for 5 years.
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  56.  @Potatoshaneko  But Russia built defenses pretty much across the entire front. You know, Germany also built the Atlantic Wall because they knew that an Allied landing was coming. They didn't need a warning for that. And neither did the Russians.
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  57.  @Trener_Artem  Doesn't even seem formatted properly for an official document, and you can clearly see that it lacks a stamp. Anyone can sign a piece of paper. Faking a stamp at least takes time, and we know propagandists don't like to put too much effort into their job.
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  58. Spirit 03 was brought down in Iraq by MANPADS.
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  59. The FSB most likely has Kompromat on them. Ritter already spent a couple of years in prison due to his... improper behavior.
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  60. They don't want "war heroes" rising through the ranks.
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  61. I don't know the dates and names but there's a battle from the US-Mexico war where an American officer is tasked with recapturing a town but due to no experience with urban fighting they marched through the main street and got ambushed. They fell back and had to ask the local militia to assist them. They kept away from the streets, advanced through house to house fighting, and knocked holes into the adobe walls to create flanking paths. Those urban warfare skills will be very important to preserve lives.
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  62. They tried that in France. Ironically people like Gerard Depardieu got Russian citizenship to evade taxes. CEOs withheld their own salary temporarily to deny the French government tax Euros.
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  63. ​ @petehowett2854  is the world bank just repeating Russian data or have they done an audit of Russia's economy?
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  64. This is approaching cargo cult mentality. If both sides can deny air, they can fight without air superiority.
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  65. I thought the reinforcements are for the flanks, not to stand in the city centre.
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  66. ​ @tomfuelery2905  If they didn't fight at Bakhmut, cities behind it would be shelled and then fought for. War has a multitude of objectives, many unrelated and some even contradictory. Protecting civilian settlements not just for the sake of providing safety to the populace but also reducing internal displacement and the number of people without homes to return to may not be flashy. But focusing on flashy goals while giving up the rest of the country is not going to achieve long term success.
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  67.  @markbryant4641  Economical moves like losing so many modern tanks they need to bring back T-55s? Economical moves like wasting the lives of VDV as if they were prisoner battalions? They'll take the fortress. What good is a fortress after losing the men? A fortress without men is nothing. You can walk up to it and get inside. They'll win Avdiivka like they won Bakhmut - depleting their own armed forces and stalling out. They worked defensively? How? What was the defense when they walked into buildings and Ukrainians just detonated the demolition charges in the basements? They had to advance, walk into fire and explosives every inch of the way. That was amazing? They quickly took Bakhmut? They not only took MONTHS to take it, they also needed VDV to save them constantly. We're getting embarrassed? We have lost zero soldiers while Russia's army is becoming more and more like a third world force.
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  68.  @markbryant4641  That's a cope. From the start it was talked about how Bakhmut would fall, but leaving the city would threaten the Kupiansk–Svatove–Kreminna line so Bakhmut was chosen as the place to bleed Russia's forces. The extremely pro-Ukraine mass media is staffed by journalists who can't tell tanks apart from self-propelled artillery. The "disaster" wiped out significant Wagner forces and sent them into a rebellion. Things went wrong? No, things went very right. Wagner had to be wiped out in a city. Bakhmut was the best place for it. Survikin ground a lot of Russian meat. And you think the Russian men saw the enemy? Refurbishing 800 T-62 tanks over 3 years per the factory's own statements. That's lower than the loss rate. Before the invasion, Russians also claimed they'd build 100 Armatas per year. Before the invasion, the planet of pink ponies promised all the goodies they could dream of. The doorway to Ukraine. Has Russia walked through? "We" lol Russia has a plan? Throw meat at the grinder? Fire missiles at power plants and transformers? The entire population of addicts and elderly?
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  69. ​@joshuapawlak2649 Just like Russia had the tank advantage. Advantages can be squandered. One only needs to look at satellite pictures to notice Russia dumped its artillery advantage into empty fields. Russian artillery advantage exists to make up for how much ammo they need to spend to score a hit.
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  70. They couldn't counter the counter in Kharkiv. TZD.
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  71.  @noperoni08  But their good equipment has a problem - it's not enough. And so what they bring the good equipment? A Stugna and Javelin will blow a T-90M just as easy as a T-55. Ukraine was gearing up for the offensive. Russia was sending their elite infantry into ambushes at Vuhledar.
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  72. They're old and vulnerable to defenses. Most of the damage they dealt was to less competent Iraqi army units who prefered to run away over fighting. The Iraqi Republican Guard was better equipped and loyal to Saddam so they shot down a handful of A-10s. The US stopped sending them in missions against those units. Against Russia, even if the front line is full of demoralized mobiks, behind them there's motivated army units willing to fire missiles at airplanes. Ukraine already has a Warthog anyway - it's called Su-25 Frogfoot.
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  73. ​ @thomasgerber1472  So two insurgencies, a fight against Georgia where they had no strategic depth to bleed the Russians like Ukraine and they had a few thousand combat infantry deployed in the GWOT, and a war where FSB/PMCs/spec ops learned to fight while many in the regular army remained clueless. Veterans of the Donbass war at the start of the invasion were driving around in cars and shouting at the Russian army that their columns were easily shelled by Grads and they had to disperse and hide.
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  74. Views count for money (youtube sells ad space) which means a bad count could be treated as fraud. Likes only count for engagement so there's less scrutiny.
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  75. I read somewhere the naval mount is 1.5 tons total.
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  76. Even soldiers use the public audience to pressure higher ups. Complaints to the proper chain of command would get ignored.
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  77. The Sherman was quite good.
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  78. What choice does he have?
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  79. In the 1986 Miami FBI shootout a bank robber received a fatal wound. He was shot through the arm and into the ribcage, the bullet stopping before the heart. But because the bullet did not have the energy to pierce the heart, he continued in the fight and shooting back at the officers. It's like that. An enemy can remain dangerous even after it has been defeated due to the time lag it takes for reality to come crashing down.
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  80. ​ @Alie01  several countries train for F-16 highway operation. The F-16 is as common as a Ford in the military aviation world, the Gripen was made in lower numbers and the C/D variants are not compatible with E/F variants.
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  81. You can't use a springboard with no legs. We all saw that Bakhmut was the equivalent of chainsawing one's legs off.
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  82. He might have been unimportant, but it set the pattern. Pro-war Russians are being slowly but surely having their names crossed from a list. In their own homeland, where they should be safe. How would that feel? To know there's nowhere to run or hide.
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  83. The MIC was also bigger and had a lot more spending allocated to it back in the Eisenhower days.
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  84. Okay, but the deficit is like you collect 1.4 trillion and spend 1.5 trillion, your deficit is 100 billion. Now imagine you are at war, and spend 80 billion in deficit by February. The rest of the year is going to cost you even more. You're blowing through the budget quick.
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  85. I checked the facts. Russians are lying. As usual.
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  86. I'd rather pay in money than in blood.
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  87. Most Europeans have no idea what's going on in America outside of Xitter and nightly news. Most Americans also have garbage opinions about Europe.
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  88. Same as it ever was. Almost as if trenches existed for a reason.
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  89. You clicked.
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  90. All trained by Steven Seagal
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  91. If Russia had the numbers they wouldn't be pulling T-55s out of storage. Stop falling for the "RUSSIA STRONK" meme.
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  92. A-10s are a death trap, you know this.
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  93. China and India have warned them not to.
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  94. Russia uses metric. A ton is 1000 kg.
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  95. It's also a result of the musical chairs. As command is changed from person to person or even restructured we see the differences in patterns.
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  96. DPR forces are being rebuilt with mobilized Russian men. They took tremendous losses.
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  97. Russians do combined arms. It's all captured by drone footage. Typically the lead vehicle hits a land mine, then they get hammered by artillery. FPV drones pick off armored vehicles. IFVs and APCs start dumping troops, panick, sometimes run over their own men. These are the real deal offensives, not just meatwaves. They get hammered just the same.
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  98. Is it?
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  99. They were made for Vietnam before SA-2s were donated by the USSR. 14.5mm AA and sporadic 23mm presence. Designers cannot look into the future and changing an aircraft after it is built is nearly impossible. So the A-10 was made for a war that mo longer existed. It was given a new role - sacrificing itself. It was known that A-10 pilots in West Germany would be shot down in a couple of weeks, enough time for US reinforcements to cross the Atlantic by ship.
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  100. In the Pacific, not Europe.
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  101.  @andrabook8758  I mean, there's the drone video of the oral bonding exercise...
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