Comments by "Orbital_Inclination" (@Orbital_Inclination) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

  1. Also Raptors can't fulfill the ground attack role of the F-15E
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  2. ​ @MarkHarrison733 not really, the UK ended the Battle of Britain with more aircraft than it started with. The Germans failed in their objective, and the UK succeeded in theirs, so it was an allied win
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  3. F-35 was never intended to replace F-15
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  4. Iraq had an air force and a broader IADS, but it was dealt with before it had a chance to react
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  5. Really? The Ukraine war is showing exactly how useful heavy bombers with large missile payloads can be.
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  6. You're thinking of the wrong war. Gulf War 1 was a legitimate response to the invasion of Kuwait
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  7. ​ @MarkHarrison733 on which side?
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  8. This was defence against Argentine aggression
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  9. Argentina have never had a single legitimate claim on the Falklands. We can't return them to Argentina, as they were never theirs in the first place
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  10. The UK designed a significant part of the Tornado and Typhoon. We even designed most of the rear fuselage of the F-35.
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  11. Why would we ally with the people who went on to run the concentration camp system?
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  12.  @MarkHarrison733  so how does he know the briefing habits of the Luftwaffe?
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  13.  @MarkHarrison733  how did he manage that?
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  14. Depends what you want to use it for
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  15. Still a war, the deathtoll is irrelevant
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  16. And common sense. In todays money, it is estimated each aircraft would have cost £240m
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  17. ​ @TomFynn maybe we give Wales to the Argentinians instead, in exchange for them dropping their claim on the Falklands 😂
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  18. The square-cube law disagrees
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  19. Take your weird anti-semitic vibes elsewhere.
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  20.  @rogerjohnson6676  no, it was not. This is simply not true.
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  21. The F-35B is more capable than the Harrier in nearly every single measurable way. How exactly is it inferior?
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  22. ​ @timwilkinsongs you just read too much into a choice of words and got triggered, so woke of you.
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  23. Mainly because it's so basic that there's not much that can go wrong with it, unlike more sophisticated modern aircraft
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  24. Wrong war. You're thinking of the 2nd Gulf War
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  25. It would have been a disaster. It was estimated that the 50 the RAF were planning on ordering would have cost around £240 million in todays money. What international customer would ever have spent that much on a single airframe?
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  26. Only for the Red Arrows
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  27. And financial reality. It was becoming an absolute drain on the MOD budget, and would have cost an estimated £240m per unit in todays money
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  28. It wasn't the entire armed forces of any of those 18 nations by a long shot.
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  29. The Falklands wasn't colonised. It had no indigenous people to colonise in the first place 😂
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  30. Both main parties have done damage. Let's not forget that the Tories were responsible for the massive cuts to the armed forces, and SDSR 2010, in recent years
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  31. Rent free, eh?
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  32. ..because that other nation invaded Kuwait
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  33. The Black Buck raids were meant as a strategic show of force. As a result of them, Argentina was so scared of a mainland strike that they repositioned fighter squadrons. That hardly sounds like wasted effort.
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  34. Don't confuse USAAF (which existed in WWII) with USAF
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  35. It's irrelevant if the Belgrano was retreating or not, it was still a valid military target
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  36. I think you'll find that lots of women served in support roles during the conflict, some in WAC units attached to the 8th Air Force. They all played a part in the combined effort.
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  37. USAAF (US Army Air Forces) definitely fought the Luftwaffe
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  38.  @bulldog1066jpd  Gulf War 1 (the topic of this vid) was a response to the invasion of Kuwait, and not instigated by either Bush Jr or Blair. It's not cold hearted to point out you are referring to a different conflict, just factual.
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  39. No-one claimed it did. This clip is about USAAF, not USAF
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  40. A sad yet unavoidable part of any conflict
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  41. Pointless in the context of the Nazi war effort
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  42. Those industries destroyed themselves with dreadful inefficiency and a total lack of economic sustainability
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  43. It doesn't matter what direction the Belgrano was sailing, it was still a valid military target.
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  44. And yet Russia is using its heavy bombers every single day in the Ukraine conflict
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  45. And in this case, rightly so. It was a financial nightmare of a programme, sucking money from other defence capabilites with no promise of delivering on the obscenely long list of tasks it was being asked to carry out
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  46. Wrong war. Gulf War 1 was nothing to do with WMDs. At least do a basic fact check before you chip in.
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  47. You mean not blowing a ridiculous amount of money on an overhyped aircraft? £240 mil per airframe in todays money (twice as much as a Typhoon, for example)
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  48. Wrong tense. Try 'were' rather than 'are'.
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  49. Wrong war, you're thinking of the 2nd Gulf War in 2003. This video is about the first in 1991, in response to the invasion of Kuwait
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  50. They serve different purposes. The F-15 and F-16 are multirole workhorses. Aircraft like the F-22/35, A-10 etc are more specialised for certain threats or roles.
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