Comments by "Zach B" (@zachb1706) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

  1. That’s only just started to get fielding in the US, and uses a new standard of ammunition
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  2. Yet. China has just undergone the fastest military build up in the and improved their capabilities massively just in the past decade. By 2040-2050 they could have the capability to invade Australia and that’s what AUKUS is set up to counter.
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  3. Highly available and effective MANPADS throw a spanner in that role though, hence why in Ukraine they have had a muted role
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  4. China is.
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  5. Autoloaders are great
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  6. That’s what APS is for
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  7. Reminds me of when the US build 2500 bombers because they believed the Soviets were building up to 800, they actually only had 30 and were not building any more
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  8. The vast majority are dead now but of course their children live on.
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  9. We are screwed if we go with China. A totalitarian regime that hates all the values we hold dear
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  10. EMPs mainly affect large transmission wires and things connected to them. Small electronics are uneffected. This is because the EMF experienced in a circuit is proportional to the length of the circuit perpendicular to the electromagnetic fields produced by the EMP
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  11. The AbramsX shows how outdated the current M1A2 is. Hopefully a lot of these improvements make it until the M1A3
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  12. They might pair with unmanned drones
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  13. That's the cost over the next 3 decades, which is equal to the cost of the stage 3 tax cuts for only this decade. So we have the money.
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  14. And the 25 million Australians would just sit around and do nothing
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  15. The US could absolutely pay for both though. Pay for healthcare and then double the military budget with the savings.
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  16. The Abrams tanks being used by Ukraine are 40 years old, absolutely nothing like this tank
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  17. New tank. It’s a concept for the upcoming M1A3
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  18. The US is many magnitudes better than China
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  19. Of course they have a plan for conscription. Every nation does, and every major conflict will involve it
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  20. They have completely different missions
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  21. Mandatory conscription doesn’t give you the skilled people you need to maintain modern equipment
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  22. Autoloaders are reliable enough these days, and are much faster and more reliable than any human loader
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  23. What?
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  24. You can't really compare to pre WW2, very few countries had a military like we have today - fully armed and training around the clock.
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  25.  @lukephilpot5660  AUKUS subs will not be around until ~2040-50. It takes a lot of time to build something like this, so you need to think ahead.
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  26. Because they aren’t needed.
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  27. So they’re quickly trying to rebuild their nuclear deterrent because they’ve let their capabilities decline over the past few decades
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