Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Ryan XV-5 Vertifan - American Jump Jet" video.

@msnpassjan2004 the government accountability office slammed the USAF for buying too many A-10s. Please stop listening to the people who told you that because they are/were liars who wanted to sell books.
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@mattbite so a person makes a video about ONE airplane and now he's too nationalistic? Shouldn't the people demanding other unrelated nations to be mentioned be the nationalists?
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In the beginning they were composed of Army personnel and followed Army doctrine. Instead of blaming the child, blame the parents.
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By that logic the USAF should try and have an infantry even better than the Army. When all's said and done you're paying taxes for two armies and two air forces. It's the end it's us pounding sand.
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But why be one sided? Why isn't the Army brass considered whiny for trying to cutthe UASF out of the business by establishing their own air forces?
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@korbindallis the Cheyenne was not killed by interservice rivalry, the case went to court and it was determined that the Cheyenne, A-10 and Harrier were not redundant.
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@msnpassjan2004 Unsuitable for carrier ops.
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@korbindallis Do you understand how that relates to the topic or am I going to have to explain that also?
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@korbindallis That doesn't make any sense. Both the agreements between chiefs of staff and the court case determine that there was no objection to an Army purchase of Cheyennes. How would have it worked for the Air Force? No, it wouldn't have done the job of the A-10 because they're extremely different airframes. The Cheyenne was rejected more likely due to Bell lobbying, especially since Lyndon Johnson had ties to them.
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@LuvBorderCollies The Army generals acted like children, the USAF gave their all to resolve their differences but Army kept pushing them away and trying to become self-reliant. Literally every historical detail shows the USAF bending over backwards to satisfy the Army, but somehow a few people who wrote a few books with a slanted narrative managed to make people believe the exact opposite happened.
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@northroad1 This is not true. Troops showed satisfaction with USAF CAS in the 20th century, the USAF investigation determined it was Army officers who refused to call in CAS more frequently because of their grand plans of replacing the Air Force with rotary wing aircraft.
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@northroad1 Andrew Krepinevich’s 1986 book “The Army and Vietnam” explains the internal conflict between the regular Army and the airmobile supremacists better than I could. Additionally, in 1966 the USAF Chief of Staff directed a study on CAS and found out that Army troops were satisfied with USAF CAS, but they were being excluded from the CAS role by the Army brass. Quote: "Meanwhile, U.S. Army advisors were working to develop ARVN airborne helicopter assault tactics, using equipment of two U.S. Army companies which had arrived in Vietnam in late 1961. Almost at once a problem arose over fixed wing/air-ground coordination. According to directives issued by the newly organized U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (USMACV), all helicopter operations into areas where enemy opposition was expected were required to have fixed-wing tactical air cover. U.S. Army corps advisors who controlled helicopter usage, however, tended to ignore the requirement. In April 1962, during a visit to South Vietnam, General LeMay learned that Army advisors were not calling for fixed-wing air support, that only about 10 percent of ARVN heliborne operations were accompanied by VNAF aircraft, and that the Air Support Operations center at Ton Son Nhut frequently were not informed of such operations. Concerned about this situation, LeMay subsequently obtained permission to assign air liaison officers (ALO’s) to all ARVN corps and division headquarters and USAF forward air controllers to augment VNAF liaison squadrons…," “The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia 1961-1973” (Office of Air Force History, 1977)
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So the Army conspires to make the USAF obsolete and even sacrifices lives by avoiding calling in CAS during the 20th century because they're obsessed with being independent, but it's the USAF's fault?
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@TheMrPeteChannel Hell the Army should have their own ships too. That simple.
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No, they didn't. Both court case and a meeting settled that issue and the Army was free to purchase the Cheyenne. It was only killed off after failing tests.
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