Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "Sandboxx" channel.

  1. YOU’RE ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  2. We’re always prepared for WWIII. That’s why we spend as much as the rest of the world combined on our military each year. Most of this has been in the works for decades. Deterrence is always cheaper.
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  3. The F-15EX is the most badass platform of any type to ever fly (imo anyway). Thanks to our international partners like Qatar, SA and others for making it possible (by footing 90% of the bill).
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  4. YOU’RE ALEX HOLLINGS!!!
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  5. You’re Alex Hollings! If the F-117 wasn’t operating, it’d be a waste of an incredibly useful platform.
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  6. The F-14s and F-15s are hot rods. Combined w/advanced radars + missiles for strong BVR capes and it’s not even mildly surprising that they could intercept the SR-71 with current generation radar and BVR ordinance. The fact they could barely get kills with HABUs throwing the game. The F22 having more power than the SR71 seems crazier. But, yes, I know the SR71 gets much of its speed from the ramjet at high speed.
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  7. Good primary source information. Thanks for that.
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  8. The EX’s radar is so powerful, it can hit a lot of aircraft and other targets from beyond stand off range even without LO aircraft designating targets for it.
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  9. I wish we had one for Musk.
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  10. Yeah. Its tonnage is weak, it has zero experience and totally inept commanders and sailors and it doesn’t have any aircraft carriers that can actually go months or years without refueling like ours. So, it can’t project force . It can only defend its coast.
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  11.  @adam68756  Says the guy who claims the US is lagging behind China in 5th gen fighters 🤦‍♂️ despite the fact that there are more F-35s in existence than every other model of LO plane in existence combined including previous US models.
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  12. @adam J20 & J35 = bigger radar cross section, less powerful jets, less advanced avionics, less powerful & advanced radar, less advanced RAM. Who’ll help you? Winnie the Pooh?
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  13. Did just Iran?
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  14. As we’ve seen from the dated ATACMS with inertial navigation systems, which preform much better than the GPS reliant GMLRS, being dated is often a good thing.
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  15. I’d like to know what the cost of an all new NGAD vs setting up production again from scratch for our latest, already complete F-22 design. We’ve already blown through billions just exploring NGAD.
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  16.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  We can afford both, but not when only the middle class pays taxes.
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  17.  @deansmits006 Some of it is hindsight, but Iraq should have been avoided without hindsight. But even if we pretended, that too was only in hindsight, they should have realized nearly 15 years ago it was time to bail.
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  18.  @rustyshaklferd1897 Do you really think presidents are screening employees? Not that he even worked for an American agency or biz to begin with…
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  19. Love that a plane that first flew in 1954 is not only still flying (the B52), but carrying some of our most advanced tech/weaponry.
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  20. We learned it’s more like a gen 4.25 fighter.
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  21.  @AdamBrusselback Who needs these pesky facts or context?!
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  22. That’s what she said.
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  23. You must be one of those people who blame anything from local muggings and your favorite “sports” bar going t*ts up to military procurement delays and “movies these day” on the sitting president when you don’t like him.
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  24. They don’t know jack about most of the topics they talk about. Their reporting on the war in Ukraine, for example, is beyond atrocious.
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  25.  @MayomiBravo  Great aircraft. The fact that it’s a carrier means if we’d got the Super Tomcat it’d likely be the baddest boy ever.
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  26. @adam68756 My god. If you believe that you truly have drunk the Kool Aid. Makes total sense that planes with vastly inferior engines and designed off stolen IP would be better. Pointless to debate w/the likes of you.
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  27. VIP context for understanding the PLA: Being a soldier is viewed with total contempt by Chinese society (the US equivalent of being a janitor at McDonald’s there) and their soldiers are almost exclusively rural peasants who joined because it was their only option to survive. Food and shelter is their pay. The communists are afraid to have hundreds-of-thousands of well trained soldiers. They view it as a threat to themselves. The reason the vast bulk of the Chinese military is made up of only the truly desperate is because in China, joining the army is basically unthinkable for not just the individual male but for the entire multi-generational family unit. This is due to the financial ramifications of not having your only son you invested every penny you had into maximizing their education to give the greatest possible competitive edge in the workplace. So, the individuals who have actually gotten educations and scored well in educational testing, would never be allowed by their family to join the army as it would mean no financial return on a huge investment (a good education is extremely expensive in China).
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  28. There’s a great Nat Geo 4-part one hour documentary that goes into depth about the Belgian incidents and how the government/military took it seriously and exerted a lot of effort investigsting it snd were totally transparent (basically, the opposite of how the US Gov, DoD and media operate). The doc features really, really heavy hitting government officials, an NY Times writer who has dedicated her life to researching and advancing attitudes toward UAPs and many other amazing contributors. Highly recommend it.
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  29. And the whole reason we didn’t develop one was because we know half of their so-called hyper sonic missiles were just ballistic missiles and because there’s no massive advantage to a hypersonic missile it’s just a bragging, right.
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  30. I find the valuable members of many communities are like Stanton. They want to encourage the next generation. When I got into racing cars as a clueless kid, I had many big names seemingly give me inexplicable amounts of time and help and it means a lot. Later in life I’ve tried to do the same for excited kids. BTW, Bob Lazar’s testimony shows why we’re still pursuing other engine tech. I doubt we’ve made much progress on reverse engineering AG tech.
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  31.  @dextermorgan1 Yeah, with all the chaos going on. Markets down, inflation way up, NOAA scrapped, Trump trying to align America with Russia instead of Europe…totally deranged to be concerned.
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  32.  @ogdocvato  There’s more to my consideration than air-to-air combat speculation, which would be a yawn inducing convo. But I think you’re a bit delusional if you think two raptors could obliterate 10 EXs considering they don’t even carry enough munitions to do that.
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  33. But they drive a lot of mopeds.
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  34. ⁠ @SandboxxApp Another important term to know is “Chabuduo.” It roughly translates to “good enough.” Sometimes it just results in incomprehensible directions. Sometimes a bridge collapse. But it is all pervasive.
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  35. Great detail. Seems like an obvious mistake that wouldn’t have happened had they incorporated an aero specialist in the mission planning.
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  36. Have you seen their bricks? Bricks used in actual large buildings. They’re literally filled with loose dirt and chalk?
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  37.  @jonathanryan9946  I was referring to reality. Not a video game. You know nothing about air-to-air combat if you think they’d barely need one missile per F-15 to knock them out of the sky.
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  38. It makes more sense to load the B21 with long range air-to-air missiles and pair it with highly maneuverable fighter drones than develop the NGAD.
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  39. You must be the ever first person to use that logistics line in a comments section! I’m a simple man. I see an original comment and I click.
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  40. The pilots really weren’t in anything more than minor danger.
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  41.  @slugface322  We have to be realistic about these things, especially WISH POWER!
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  42. I thought it was flower power with Hippie Hollings.
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  43. You can get 6th generation! In the Navy! You’ll have a loyal wingman! In the Navy! You’ll have a stealth fighter! In the Navy!
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  44.  @onebridge7231  How can a diesel powered carrier be a global asset? Use your brain. They don’t even have electro magnetic launching capability.
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  45.  @MichaelJordan-t1j  Which countries and comments are these? This sounds like some Wumao nonsense.
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  46. You should start an aviation version called Air News. Boom! Welcome to the future.
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  47.  @jaket2k927  Believe it or not, common sense doesn’t always apply to how these agencies operate. They’re still “boys with toys” and they love cool names and cool looking toys. There’s a lot of testosterone/alpha energy in the DoD too. While silly looking vehicles would be a better cover, it’s rare they go that route. I am not saying this story is true, but covert agencies do often use black aircraft.
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  48. $.75b used to be a huge deal. Now it’s a small program. Anyway, you can be certain, just like with 🇷🇺, 🇨🇳’s weapons are nowhere near their claims and the HGV missile’s range isn’t nearly 1,200 miles.
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  49. 2 meters? That’s possible. I used to bulls eye womp rats with my T16 and they’re less than two meters.
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  50. First Lightning. Kind of a badass name
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  51. Of what? There are countless aging billionaires w/bizarre agendas. But I’m suddenly jelly of this one? IDK, maybe cause he’s running around high on ketamine doing everything he can to support our enemies.
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  52.  @lomis99  Close enough. 40% of global defense spending in 2023 was the US and that wasn’t even close to our biggest year as a share of global spending.
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  53. @hedwigugla8836 Uh, first, you must not be paying attention. They did participate in the defense and downed multiple missiles and drones. Second, I never said these old F-16s were a good platform. Third, only one who needs to cope are Zetas on day 1,000 of their 3-day war as their own country gets invaded.
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  54. @hedwigugla8836 Cope with Russia’s inability to defend their own territory despite inheriting the world’s biggest stockpile?
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  55. They produced them from scratch. They didn’t intercept and modify them.
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  56. Instead of producing both NGAD + F/A-XX, we’d be better served investing in significantly bolstering the number of ADS systems we have and interceptor production volume, including much cheaper SAM variants for drones, rockets, etc.
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  57. Is that a Snickers in your pocket there or were you just happy to be in …*THE NAVY!* you can put your mind at ease!
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  58. Besides the corruption part (the revolving door that helps each side keep prices ridiculously highly), we’ve long had this habit of always going for platinum or at least gold plated systems . BTW, it’s ridiculous that an AIM-9 still costs a half million each.
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  59. Drone development anyway.
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  60.  @nickyjfish  Of course it could. But would agencies like DARPA be spending billions on developing airships?
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  61. And we need them to help reduce hours on already over taxed airframes such as the F22 and less relevantly, the F15 (which is the opposite of stealth). The entire F117 fleet should still be operating.
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  62. Tittle?
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  63. The Russians made crazy claims about the S-400, which has performed poorly and they actually really invested heavily in that and have gotten to refine it through actual use. Meanwhile, the Su-57 didn’t get 5% as much investment as the F-35, their pilots suck and Russia has done basically no real world combat with the Su-57. Their claimed specs are probably double real world reality. The Russian jet is trying to be a 3rd/4th gen hot rod with a slight use of LO while the F-35 truly is LO with an amazing sensor suite.
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  64. I wonder if HOLLINGS loves CHALLAH bread as much as me!
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  65.  @laowantongchau  Imagination like the PRC’s imaginary GDP claiming that it was nearing the US GDP, which has been proven a bald faced lie. It’s nowhere near. Speaking of fantasizing: Ukraine had convinced them war isn’t quite as easy as dictators thought and they’ll never capture Taiwan.
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  66. You’re Alex Hollings!
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  67. I’m always skeptical off how well sanctions can actually be enforced on stuff like parts with the exception of parts that are only purchased by a few dozen companies. Anything purchased by hundreds let alone thousands of entities would seem impossible to police without massively restrictive controls on even domestic sales.
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  68. Im pretty sure it was this type of manta ray that got Steve Irwin.
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  69. This is also the classified version of a halo product. Even if it’s a loss, its eventual unveiling will continue to grow Lockheed’s legend…not to mention expertise.
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  70.  @rtyrsson Even the F-111 did the A-10’s better than the A-10 despite never being intended for the role.
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  71. Your EVs are awful and most of your space missions are unproven. It’s weird how they often use animation renderings for space missions that the US did in the 1960s.
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  72. @hedwigugla8836 Hahaha, talk about an energy grid. How’s that fire in Poltarsky? How’s your biggest refinery, Omsk, doing? Oh yeah, shut down. How’s your cratering economy? Cope. And I’m from the US. My electricity is just fine. Cope.
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  73. You must be crazy to trust your basic senses!
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  74. The CCP kidnapped her and Alex Hollings helped cover it up. HE’S ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  75.  @petergerdes1094  I thought they couldn’t because it melts the RAM.
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  76.  @THE-X-Force NO, WE’RE ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  77. This is how it is on almost every channel on YouTube.
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  78. Material sciences are almost always 99% of the challenge/limiting factor. The rest is a comparative breeze. There are so many exotic materials (many that have been around for 75+ years) I can’t believe aren’t in more products. I think it’s because so many people aren’t aware they exist. Particularly the ones that aren’t super expensive to produce.
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  79. So, does the US get permission to fly over allied countries for missions like this? I know sometimes we have and haven’t, but generally?
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  80. @ Equal in setting up a production line. It didn’t include R&D. Common sense tells us producing an aircraft whose design is 100% complete + compatible w/existing ordnance would be a few billion cheaper at least. Not to mention faster. It also doesn’t include the cost of learning how to fly the new aircraft, training née maintainers, etc. and a thousand other little things that add up.
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  81.  @killingyouwithlogic5808  I mean they told Israel and the US exactly when they’d launch and where from. So, it’s not that stupid. However, the fact that they’re so afraid and the fact that half their missiles didn’t work really do show how weak they are compared to functional countries.
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  82.  @uku4171  That’s true. It’s even managed not to get caught in the nets.
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  83.  @PinataBroken  They probably are and we just don’t know it. A barge though could never keep pace with a slow boy, carrier, etc.
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  84. Piotr the Pole.
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  85.  @140theguy Well, I know you’ve pulled that directly out of your…my imagination is my source since they don’t carry 8 missiles. I’d like to see a source saying they routinely take “16” F-15s since I doubt any but the largest ever red flag exercises have 15 F-15s of any type flying in them. If even that many.
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  86. lol, everyone knew the F-16s would be used as an air defense tool.
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  87. That was the whole point. The man thought if they’re purposely showing it off to the Soviets, why can’t we see it. He wouldn’t have done it, had they not intentionally scheduled the show to let the Soviets see it.
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  88. Hot potato!
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  89.  @Turbulent-galaxy Let us know when China catches up with engine power + efficiency American jet engines have literally had since the ‘80s. By the time they finally do, the US will be using far more advanced engines again. I don’t even say this to belittle China. They didn’t start trying to build engines until after 2000. It takes a long time to build up the institutional knowledge and infrastructure. Even Europe isn’t building anything as advanced either.
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  90. Contrary to what sandboxx said, F22 has does off-boresight aiming now. So, it is upgradable.
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  91. Well, it depends. Are we talking MMA or multi-role fighters? Anyone who’s shot a gun, can imagine how difficult it’d be to ever hit another aircraft in a modern dogfight. I’d rather have extra range or missiles.
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  92. We also pay massive prices for junk like the Switchblade LM/drones, which are outperformed and out ranged by $800 FPVs made in small Ukrainian shops. What a joke.
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  93. The media reports on the invasion of Ukraine in the same way. It thrives on negativity and is plagued by lack of perspective or context.
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  94.  @THE-X-Force  I’M MACHETE HOLLINGS AND…THIS IS MACHETE POWER
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  95. It’s usually the customer (I.E., the military changing the goal posts). Not “corpos.”
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  96.  @CptJistuce I know, right? Thank god for the Foxbat hype. I think it serves a good lesson though. Produce your airplanes to beat a foe with triple the capabilities you imagine it could possibly possess and you’ll have a dominant platform for decades and at least an excellent platform for 50+ years.
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  97. One of the things the government did say about the helicopter was that it had sound reducing rotors.
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  98. I’d rather have small guide missiles with smart/matrix fragmentation. Do you know how hard it’d be to shoot an agile drone with normal cannons?
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  99. He’s also an example of someone who loves to call himself “an award winning journalist.”
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  100. Of course, ideally you do both. Keep producing and developing planes like the F22 while developing the new thing. If we hadn’t spent nearly a trillion dollars on MRAPS (which we have been PAYING to destroy and dispose of for years now) and trying to nation building in countries any halfway educated person could have told you would never work, we could have a few thousand F-22s in the air.
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  101. So, basically this post was just about the quality of cafeteria food and convos at NORAD.
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  102.  @Chris-g5r6f Not a Dutch/Norwegian naval project? Either way, this was an obvious idea that should’ve been begun 30-40 years ago. Just like it WAS obvious that commercial drones were going to revolutionize warfare 15+ years before Russia invaded Ukraine.
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  103. @siamesestormstrooper Examples: 1. Vietnam War (broke the gold standard) 2. Afghanistan (cost enough to put every single American through college and graduate school for free) 3. The drug war (lol) 4. The war on terror Yep, the only threat to us is ourselves. The PRC couldn’t cross the Taiwans strait without sinking most of their armor.
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  104. I’d also like to thank him for constantly reminding us that he won an obscure journalism award!
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  105. And Alex is definitely doing his job to put them on the map. He’s basically made this video 10 times already. I don’t mind that though. They need every edge they can get.
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  106.  @thomas_jay Why do you think he flipped 180 degree so quickly? Golden kompromat.
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  107. “You’re free to go. Move along.”
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  108.  @luvitluvitbaby  the one taking off the ramp was 1 : 18 scale toy at most. Have you seen real drones taking off from an aircraft carrier? They don’t look like that. I almost expected to see a hamster waving from the cockpit.
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  109. Not really, but had the Grand Old Putin party allowed proper volumes of our old arms to Ukraine before and during this war, it’d be over and they’d be pretty quiet right now w/Russia defeated and China deterred by seeing how hard it actually is to take over a country that doesn’t want you there.
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  110. The J20 looks like it ripped it off the YF23 more than it ripped off the F22. Personally, I like the F22’s looks a lot more.
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  111. If they went down this route, we could get a lot more B-21s and then ultimately get an NGAD a little later.
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  112. A “Ferrari version” is a terrible way for them to describe their intention/idea since the 6th gens aren’t about speed or agility, but tech features like loyal wingmen, better stealth, EWS, “family of systems” / “sensor fusion.”
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  113. I’d if prefer it if they called them Disloyal Airborne Berserkers.
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  114. That’s what they used according to Ward Carrol’s Navy sources.
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  115. “Pretty much.”
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  116. Modularity is now starting to really work, especially when they’re realistic in expectations. It didn’t before.
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  117.  @Legion-xq8eo Yup. Politicians and War Thunder fan boys have been the sole barrier to getting rid of the worthless A-10 for more than a decade now.
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  118. I live an hour south of Vandenberg AFB and the SpaceX launches still rock the shit out of my house.
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  119.  @SodiumEx  The real question is are you an actual person rather than a paid troll. And if so, how gullible are you?
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  120.  @MattyJ55046  Is your question would forget to incorporate an aero expert if they were designing such a mission today?
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  121. It’s frustrating how many forget / never knew operational costs are the most VIP cost factor + whether or not it can assume and eliminate the roles of and need for other platforms.
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  122.  @Iamabot4708  Anyone who’s been studying Sino geopolitics, economics and tech for decades like myself. How about you?
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  123. Amazing you said it perfectly and the first response was some troll. Kind of the perfect summation of social media.
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  124.  @uku4171  It is a traditionally Jewish bread and appears braided. It’s sweeter and puffier. It is very similar to brioche. I’m assuming you’ve had that.
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  125.  @Johnappbeees22  Have you ever met your clone? I have. What a jerk!
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  126.  kijesticproductions7640  “They don’t need a blue water navy though. They just need to be able to defend their shores.” Not if they want to truly project world power or reap the full benefit of their road and belt initiative. America is so powerful because we can guarantee security and more importantly, safe commercial shipping across the globe. That allows it to extract massive trade, political, military, etc. concessions. Moreover, a carrier that is required to refuel at port makes an easy target. Nothing is as simple as many might think at first glance.
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  127. This is Space Laser Power….and I’m Alex Jones!
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  128.  @ogdocvato  Yeah I guess you’ve never seen that maneuvering, EWS, flares, etc. from even less advanced aircraft have long been capable of defeating multiple missiles or the fact that it’s highly routine for one of the missiles coming off the rack to have a failure or not achieve a strong lock. But OK. They’ll have a 100% hit rate on the F-15 and all enemy aircraft. Once again you’re confusing reality with video games and Lockheed marketing in which every system works 100% perfectly in real world conditions. You’re also also assuming each F-15 is going to fight each F-22 one-on-one rather than multi-ship formations, which gives them a lot more flexibility, variety of ways to saturate the F-22 and ability to mask each other’s presence. That and the fact that the F-15 can carry anything they can and many things they can’t.
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  129.  @tinto278  I have seen odd circular contrails that are segmented as if the jet was rapidly going on off on off. Not sure if this is what the contrail would look like. I highly doubt it was any top secret pulse detonation engine.
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  130.  @AJNpa80 It’s true. He also went to Teegeeack and beat the Overlord Xenu in an arm wrestling match.
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  131. He is far from the only one or even earliest sources to be talking about how this was a telegraphed “retaliation” done knowing it wouldn’t provoke counter strikes. Their problem is that they made it a little too obvious.
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  132.  @verdebusterAP  Wish he had listed those benefits in this video.
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  133. It’s also a case of putting tons unnecessary complexity for a small amount of extra bells and whistles that aren’t needed much of the time. And in terms of things like one-way drones they’re making models that perform worse than off the shelf tech for 50-100x the price. 🤦‍♂️
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  134. @ I know what you mean, but it’s an idiotic assertion. He tends to cheerlead a lot for all the us defense contractors.
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  135. USAF, MRCG, etc. pilots still come up training on non-combat aircraft and F-22s used for training would still be hugely expensive. If they have the funding for that, they’d just keep them in service. No, besides some very specialized red flag exercises and test beds for advanced tech, they will definitely not be training planes.
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  136. Yes, it was a pretty spotted look at the weaponized laser space.
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  137. NO, I’M ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  138.  @THE-X-Force never explain your jokes to people who can’t understand humor! ps - lol, he thought you were trying to steal ALEX HOLLINGS’ FAME!
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  139.  @db84drteg There was political pressure that came from the public. Obviously not the 24/7 💩 fest we have now. There were also still a lot of dumb politicians, ego fueled generals, admirals as well as pay for play, etc., etc. Everyone is just looking back with rose tinted glasses.
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  140. It’s already been flying for years.
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  141. Was going to say the same thing.
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  142. The A-10 ISN’T an effective platform which is why everyone in the military has wanted it gone for years. You’re confusing YouTube shorts with reality.
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  143. We KNOW for a fact they’ve used alien disinfo to cover for programs, but IMO, there are just too many stories from people (many non-credible, but thousands and thousands of credible people too) with stories ranging the gambit from seeing to touching craft that we certainly non-human. There are thousands of servicemen who’ve come forward with stories that don’t just don’t line up with testing prototype aircraft. We usually don’t test one-off alien looking ships overseas.
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  144. Let’s also remember, that reporting on UFOs has been so taboo that basically any reporter trying to ferret this stuff out would be committing career suicide. So, you’ve never had the best people in our best field for finding out secrets trying to dig up the truth.
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  145. Yeah, since the F-35 only has a payload big enough for like a fly. But…this was fit into the F-35 first.
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  146. 100%. And, just like with most technology, continually upgrading and refining the latest generation of PROVEN aircraft would likely have nearly the same capabilities as your newest cutting edge platform AND a thousand more available. And even if a competitor was about to debut something way more advanced, only a handful of them isn’t going to do anything. Also, even the ancient gen 4 F15 has shown with the F15EX has shown, you discover an old platform with new tech can provide capabilities never dreamed of before.
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  147. I think the future will end up being swarms of extremely small drones packed with explosives, but big enough to have the fuel and weight to fly quickly. More economical and likely more effective.
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  148. Whatever the F/A-XX ends up being it should have the range to be able to deploy from Japan. That would eliminate the vulnerability and limitations that comes with depending on carriers. Since BVR is king, it need not have the maneuverability of an F18 or even just that of F35 for that matter or the ability to take off from a carrier.
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  149.  @piotrd.4850 The F-15EX is about the greatest thing ever built. It’s basically a B-52 with 5x the speed, 25x the agility and even more wild, not that much less payload capacity. Its also get that sexy new beast of a radar.
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  150. You’d think he could just blur out that part and reupload. If he was meeting fair usage standards, they can make copyright claims until they’re blue in the face and it won’t get taken down if you simply challenge their claim, which then means a human reviews it to verify you have followed fair usage.
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  151. Cause they are hobby store RC airplanes.
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  152. I used to laugh at UFO and alien topics, but after doing tons of research and reading and depending on people with incredibly impressive resumes, it’s pretty clear we have tech from unknown civilizations. This includes anti-gravity engines and the fuel to run them. There are also numerous patents based on the tech described by these whistleblowers.
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  153. They already know that. That’s why they have Gephards and other systems and wouldn’t waste a PAC on a drone or crappy missile.
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  154.  @ApocolypseZombie The video explains it’ll just be different blocks of the B-21, not an actually new platform.
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  155. A stitch in time saves nine. BTW, I’m assuming our littoral ship program ended up being a big success.
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  156. lol…have you seen the S-400’s terrible performance in the Ukraine war? Sounds like you’re a bitter, tankie.
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  157. Many had.
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  158. I’d also add that we’re in a very transitional period. We’re still not sure exactly why the skies of tomorrow are going to look like or the optimal approach. Since every time we’ve given a “near peer” the benefit of the doubt and assumed their aircraft would be as or more capable than they claimed and every time they haven’t been half as good, I’d prefer a long but careful gestation period before we produce our NGAD than rushing forward and inevitably having about 10 different blocks in the first 10 years of production and frequent delays due to realizing we need or want to add something else.
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  159.  @thamiordragonheart8682  What do you define as design? We know what we used to produce the F-22 and the tooling used for the updated blocks exist and are in active use.
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  160.  @hellothere1656  How did they bypass anything if they were all wiped out?
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  161. I’m Alex Hollings & I Stare Blankly in The Shower!
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  162. God, the F22 looks so sexy.
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  163.  @CptJistuce  Your second point is what I’ve always believed. Any of the now abandoned new helicopter gens or the even the abandoned ones are much better suited to the role since an A-10 can’t operate in an area with MANPADS let alone SAMS either. I mean they can, but currently the US has zero tolerance for putting their aircraft in the slightest danger.
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  164.  @cubed0724 lol, if that’s so why is China and even Europe still unable to build jet engines that come anywhere close to engines we’ve been producing since the ‘90s?
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  165. The F-15 is one of the most celebrated planes ever, but it’s so good that I agree it’s still underrated. The F-15EX is the greatest war machine on earth.
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  166. They need to make cuts in other area. There are plenty of questionable projects in terms of need and cost + lots of way to become more financially efficient. They could also take the unprecedented step of having a few trusted partners involved in its development to spread the cost. We wouldn’t necessarily need to share any of the technical data prior to service, just guarantee they’d be able to buy as many as they wanted. But I don’t mind the idea of a modified B-21 paired with AI wingmen and 5th gen fighters basically, collectively filling the NGAD role.
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  167.  @Matt.Willoughby  I think it’s the logical conclusion. There are thousands of sightings from credible witnesses. If there were just a few dozen credible sightings, I’d chalk it off as just some remarkably rare natural phenomenon, but there are just way too many sightings. So, clearly something is out there and their tech is so much more advanced than ours it’s impossible for us to bring one down. So, it’s more believable than say a U.S. having a SAP with tech that advanced or time traveling humans or maybe not as being able to traverse distances of thousands of light years requires technology so mind boggling that things we thought were impossible might be. Personally though, I think time travel is impossible. It seems like some sort of natural law that no technology could overcome.
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  168. Russia can’t even manage to stop shooting down their own planes. I’m not going to sweat the F-35 readiness rates too much.
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  169. GLSDBs are $40,000 each. ATACMS a million each. I’ll stick with the GLSDBs.
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  170.  @jj-eg5up  Assuming that’s a joke, but in case it’s not. We’re already sending Abrams. 90% of what we have and/or are sending is stuff America mothballed or was going to mothball soon. Cracks me up when Americans think we’ve given that more than .00001% of any of our stockpiles (besides 155mm and a single type of HIMARS missile the M31).
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  171.  @spiffyracc  The Kerch bridge is already in rage of weapons Ukraine has. Its heavy railroad platform still isn’t in use. So, it’s not that critical yet. The GLSDB they’re getting will put it in easy reach. So, it’s nothing something to be overly worried about. If they feel it needs to be done NOW, NOW, they could undertake a highly risky mission with JDAMs and the MiG-29, but more likely they’ll use other measures available to them including Crimean partisans.
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  172. I mean basically, all the annihilation was done by air with a bit of by land based chain gun. So, there wasn’t really anything special forces about this other than the fact they were there. But, had it been just infantry against infantry, it would have been a great story as they likely would have won despite being outnumbered 10 to 1.
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  173. Thanks. I was working 18 hour days for five years straight to get it done. It was five years before any additional designers were put on the team. The LWP was my idea too.
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  174.  @emmettturner9452  Olly Alexa?
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  175.  @emmettturner9452  😂
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  176.  @navret1707  Am too.
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  177.  @DrGooseDuckman  Goose is back and now he’s a doctor in addition to an F-14 RIO! Take that, I C E…M A N! 😬
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  178. A stealth face.
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  179.  @LackofFaithify  Wrong. 99% of outsourced naval construction is in South Korea, Germany and the Netherlands. And you can be sure they’ll build and replace what we need.
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  180.  @andrewyork3869  One additional mitigating factor is that China has been incredibly slow in building and making their carriers work too. So, they’re not exactly pumping them out like fake Gucci wallets. Their first and recently commissioned carrier was an incomplete but 50% done carrier bought from Russia.
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  181.  @GTFO_0  Yeah, the U.S. military has zero experience. My mistake.
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  182.  @GTFO_0  Not sure you realize what the U.S. Navy does all across the globe and how constant, global use of your Navy builds up experience. Pressing the launch button isn’t the hard part. If you want a list of all U.S. naval engagements simply go to Wikipedia, it’s literally in the TOC. And it’s a lot longer than China’s, unless you consider ramming Vietnamese and Filipino fishing vessels experience.
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  183. No. Your head is just spinning.
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  184. Only thing that’s really changed recently is 🇺🇸 ramping production way up of & trying to add cheaper missiles w/the 🇺🇦 war showed our models for shell/missile consumption were way off (though I’m not so sure that far off since we fight in a very different way and we’re not going to be in a war where we use much artillery).
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  185. Then you’re not doing much research on channels/sources. Justin Bronk, while not having a channel, has many interviews and long, long white papers that are 100X more applicable and real world relevant. But, yeah, Alex is better than about 95% of YT channels in the same area, but then again that’s a low bar.
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  186.  @tuestyhere  You literally made a fool of yourself. GDP and PPP (purchasing power parity) have nothing to do with one another. Its great PPP doesn’t change the fact the PRC lies about its GDP figures.
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  187. I want to thank you for your thanks.
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  188.  @boris001000 The abacus was invented by Moses. They just stole one of his prototypes.
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  189.  @bobbyr8071 Your logic is less than stellar.
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  190.  @140theguy  So, you’re going to sacrifice the F-22’s stealth to give each two more missiles and therefore subject the two aircraft to between 24 and 46 missiles? Very intelligent.
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  191. For all the people saying the F-22 would be more deadly and crush the F-15 in air-to-air combat? Duh. My argument is not on which is currently the best plane, but the F-15’s history and what it’s accomplished combined with the awesomeness of its final iteration. The F-35 is more capable than an F-14, but I’ll never think it’s a more “badass” plane than the F-14.
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  192.  @140theguy  BTW, I listened to that radio / cockpit recording. It was wild.
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  193.  @asterixdogmatix1073  I was literally about to reply “OK, I’ve got earned you enough kopecks for the day.” lol. So, yeah, you’re dead on.
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  194.  @knowsmebyname I really want to see the bottom of the world. I’ll need to bring gravity boots to walk upside down.
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  195. @ You bots never seem to need to wait to proclaim your stuff generation 8 and amazing. And it’s all “copium.” BTW, we know our technical designs were stolen. Chinese nationals pled guilty to it.
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  196.  @Introspection-01  The CCP has its citizens celebrating a test flight of a prototype like they’ve just been to the moon. Meanwhile, we have 6th gen plane in production and we’ve had a whole collection of various 6th gen fighters flying for years (AKA development, where it seems like this hilarious lightweight bomber that requires three engines has only just flown in recent months and the PRC knows it’s got nothing to worry about in terms of protecting secrets because it’s got nothing new and it’s why it flies in public).
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  197. That’s Uncle America’s Sandboxx to you now by executive order!. From the Gulf of America to the Straits of America, all your name are belong to us!
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  198. There’s tons of interesting analysis you could be doing of the Ukrainian theatre. But you’re no Justin Bronk I guess.
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  199. @ lol, the Chinese couldn’t even successfully make true 5th gen aircraft despite having all our design documentation. Go watch Millennium 7 if you want Eastern propaganda.
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  200. He is far from the only one or even earlier ones to be talking about how this was a telegraphed “retaliation” done knowing it wouldn’t provoke counter strikes. Their problem is that they made it a little too obvious.
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  201. Experts predicted Kyiv in 3 days and these same experts, out of caution + maximizing budgets, plan assuming all 🇨🇳 platforms + manpower have 10/10 performance. Anyone who knows the smallest bit about Chinese societal attitudes about the idea of one-child law son joining the PLA (hint: a father caught in relations with his blood sister would face NOTHING versus a son joining the PLA after multiple gens and branches of the family investing all its $ on the most expensive edu possible). This isn’t even getting into rampant corruption, lack of institutional experience and about 500 other serious issues.
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  202. I loved the F-15EX more before he even started talking about. It’s a competition! The F-15EX really is an incredible aircraft and incredibly versatile.
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  203.  @BencerCourt123  The Shahed isn’t 1 : 18 scale. And Western analysts never mocked the Shahed, unless you consider random internet users “analysts.” The point is that this “carrier” is an absolute joke and wouldn’t last an hour if they actually launched an attack from it.
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  204. If we just gave up the charade & started basing aircraft in 🇹🇼, we wouldn’t need to worry about vast combat ranges or adding endless new ER missile types + even more tankers to our already vast refueling fleet.
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  205.  @vinny7114 Who could argue with your ISR expertise and experience?
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  206. Ward Carroll has an amazing deep dive into the F-15EX with an F-15 pilot. Not sure you deserve it though with after recycling the simple man click comment. 😉
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  207. I can relate to his comment on foresight in traffic to avoid situations all together. If you’re observant you’ll see cars have “body language.” For example, you can tell which cars might suddenly change lanes without warning or are not paying attention.
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  208. @ You did well. Cheers.
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  209. Ever heard of mechanical computers? They were insanely good. It seems like the only thing casual aviation fans know about pre-80s engineers is that they used slide rules.
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  210. It’s just a matter of the F-35 being the first airframe built during the social media era.
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  211.  @ParZIVal19D  Awesome. That’ll be quite a privilege. I genuinely envy you.
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  212. That’s not his area. He rarely does non-air power stories. There are good sources that talk about those platforms.
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  213. Don was talking about the Swiss cheese model when talking about his near miss landing the Apache.
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  214. You’re ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  215. Yes. They have a philosophy of keeping actual game changing tech close to the vest. The rest can be hyped.
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  216. YOU’RE AI.EX SKYBORINGS!
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  217. If Ukraine is actually allowed to target planes, ADS, etc. across the border, then yes. Right now, Silly Sullivan and Scurdy Cat Scholz won’t allow it because of some nonsensical fear of escalation.
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  218. Hellfire was used according to Ward Carrol’s Navy sources. 4 were fired. 3 boats (vessel is too generous) taken out.
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  219. He listed most of the factors that excuse incidents like this. What else do you want from him?
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  220.  @JuanAdam12 Hesgeth is an unqualified fool and the admin is leaking secrets to our enemies, particularly Russia, like a sieve.
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  221. Personally, I hope they share as little information as possible and ensure that they are careful about allowing anyone who has family or roots in the PRC without extensive vetting. I don’t want China to even learn of ideas let alone anything actually being made, unless it’s intentional misinformation (we’ll be including a chainlink anchor in block 4!).
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  222. The Su-57 has never been beaten in any context! Mainly cause it basically doesn’t exist.
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  223. Governments are people and most people are very, very unintelligent while also being filled of insecurities, pettiness, greed, paranoia, etc.
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  224. 200 pound feet of thrust from a 3” pipe is pretty mind boggling. Anyway, I’d rather not know about this stuff (as fun as it is) because you know it will ensure enemies try to start developing the same or stealing it.
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  225.  @chitaegandalalake263  Maybe in bizarro world.
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  226. The Arabs lost five wars against Israel before they had any serious support from the US and they’re still whining about it. So, now they go after civilians.
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  227. The aircraft carrier will be deemed obsolete the second one (maybe it’ll take two) are blown out of the water. We’ll probably see smaller, more mobile carriers that carry just 1-3 jets or RA.
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  228. Yup. What do you think all the reptilians are? They’re alien repo men trying to get inside the SkunkWorks’ facilities.
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  229. Unless the first poster has an actual comment, it doesn’t count. That’s not just my opinion either. It was enshrined in law by a new executive order. Cromulently enshrined + bigly enforced.
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  230. 14:45 - what is that video?
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  231. ⁠​⁠ @DriveByShouting Inflation rates have always been higher under GOP admins. You may not like Biden (I for example hate woke), but the inflation has nothing to do wi/Biden. Moreover, the data shows that the economy suffers under GOP admins as opposed to the myth they’re good for business. The data (1953-2020) proves Dem presidents are better for the economy. Most starkly, 10 of 11 US recessions during the last 70 years began under GOP presidents. Meanwhile, Dem admins produced better results in every VIP variable: 1. 10 eof 11 recessions began under Republican presidents 2. Job creation: D 2.59% vs R 1.17% 3. Real GDP growth: D 4.33% vs R 2.54% 4. S&P 500 Returns: D 8.35% vs R 2.7% 5. Inflation rate: D 2.89% vs R 3.44% 6. Unemployment rates: D 5.64% vs R 6.01% 7. Unemployment Rate Change: D -0.83% pp vs R 1.09 pp 8. Budget deficits relative to economy size averaged lower during Dem WH Admins: D 2.09% vs R 2.78% 7. 10 of 11 recessions began under Republican presidents
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  232. ⁠​⁠​⁠ @buckeyesfan4700 As stated above, MAGA doesn’t care about facts in all categories. 70 years of data prove RP admins lose to DP admins in every economic KPI there is: 1. 10 of 11 recessions began under Republican presidents 2. Job creation: D 2.59% vs R 1.17% 3. Real GDP growth: D 4.33% vs R 2.54% 4. S&P 500 Returns: D 8.35% vs R 2.7% 5. Inflation rate: D 2.89% vs R 3.44% 6. Unemployment rates: D 5.64% vs R 6.01% 7. Unemployment Rate Change: D -0.83% pp vs R 1.09 pp 8. Budget deficits relative to economy size averaged lower during Dem WH Admins: D 2.09% vs R 2.78%
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  233.  @svgeier 200% isn’t much. Sounds like doubling production to me… And, they’ve also said they can expand production far beyond that in reality.
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  234. You just sliced this out of a video from a few weeks ago. Tricky boy.
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  235. “A Ferrari version” is a terrible way for them to describe the upgraded F-35 proposal since the 6th gen isn’t about greater speed and agility, but more advanced sensors, stealth, networking including UCAVs, more range, etc.
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  236. Logistics = always 🇺🇸’s secret / most powerful weapon (OK, not so secret to anyone w/a clue) Enhancing it while building air power + savings. Well, that’s…buzzword time: SYNERGY, BABY!
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  237. RE: Copyright strike. If your video met fair usage standards, you should appeal the copyright strike. They can make copyright claims until they’re blue in the face and it won’t get taken down if you simply challenge their claim, which then means a human reviews it to verify you have followed fair usage.
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  238. YOU’RE ALEX HOLLINGS! …And this is good news. Let’s just build some more of them and delay the NGAD until they’re exactly sure what they’re going to.
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  239.  @Nerfgunsandpancakes  I know. Putting together another production line would cost billions. But messing up NGAD by deciding too early and then changing specs over and over will cost even more in unnecessary wasted $.
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  240.  @glennchartrand5411 Interesting and useful info.
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  241.  @Chris-g5r6f  Duh. Aircraft are the most obvious application for miniaturized nuclear reactors. But, seriously, I don’t think most big inventions were obvious at the time. Maybe most innovations, but those were usually the results of advancing material sciences.
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  242. It probably didn’t help that people like Dick Cheney and a number of officials and politicians had major beef with Northrop.
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  243. Exploration is great, but you can’t waste money on every idea. This is likely a great example of money being flushed down the proverbial toilet.
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  244. He has an episode about it. They’ve been working on it for decades and it’s probably already being used in some classified applications.
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  245. The MiG-25 and the fields full of brand new, never driven Chinese EVs would disagree. The comments sections full of Chinese sponsored comments and paid likes show hard the PRC is trying to cover up their weakness.
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  246.  @jwawrzon The new guy can make up any rules he wants according to SCOTUS. He may just begin deporting anyone whose looks he doesn’t trust. I doubt that, but with a Russian asset being selected as the Director of National Intelligence, you can be sure your serving family members will be in much more danger in any conflict. A vassal of China and close ally of Iran and NK, you can be sure all our secrets will be getting passed along to them.
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  247. @ “Thank you for service” is a line that was invented for propaganda and many vets and current servicemen view it as such + cringe. Anyway, most people do not sign up for the military to provide service but because it gives them purpose, financial and educational benefits and for many the thrill of warfare.
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  248.  @Wised1000 I hear the B-52s are actually insanely expensive to operate (I know they were insanely expensive to procure at the time). How is it more economical to keep a fast yet ancient de facto cargo plane flying than simply designing and building a new one seeing as it’s a pretty simple platform? Whatever the answer, I will always be routing for the B-52 to stay in service forever.
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  249. Demand skyrocketed because suddenly when they knew it was possible, every agency and their mother suddenly wanted to be spying endlessly everywhere across the globe + at home.
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  250. The government has been releasing breadcrumbs for years to get the public accustomed to the reality of alien craft in case irrefutable evidence ever leaked to the public.
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  251. This painting was a deterrence message to China. The message: If you try to grab one of our satellites, you won’t succeed and we’ll have evidence to boot.
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  252. “These are not the Chinese spies you’re rooking for. We’re free to go.” “Move arong. Move arong.”
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  253.  @Xenomorphine Agility...lThe stand off ranges of our newest missiles are beginning to reach the combat radius of the F-18 alone. Pair that w/the B21’s ability to fly unmanned, the insane evo and number of available ISR + targeting sensors and sources + the fact we have fast and agile for unlikely scenarios where it’s needed means agility is a nice plus rather than necessity and mostly the hobby horse of people who are concerned about our aircraft seeming totally “badass” and whimsical head-to-head arguments.
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  254. @ The B-21 has come in UNDER budget. Get your basic facts right please.
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  255. 😘 00
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  256. But, yeah, let’s give Putzin everything he wants.
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  257. I think he missed the fact that the article even claimed the Russians were the ones pulling the dead from debris IN Ukraine. So, I guess Ukraine is now allowing Russians to conduct search and rescue in their own country now. 😂
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  258.  @elijahtiemens5532 But Ukraine doesn’t try to make them look like miniature stealth fighter jets.
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  259.  @honkhonk8009  Their government is the exact opposite of competent. I am confounded as to where you got that impression. Source: myself, as someone who does strat-intel reports.
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  260.  @honkhonk8009  Yup, we’re a mess. I’d actually prefer Chinese governance to be competent. It’d be a better world for all of us.
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  261. Project Venom aka Project Self-Extinction
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  262. Since it usually takes years to work out the kinks in new systems and learn best how to use them, I’m not sure how well this would work out in actual practice. Yes, it could work if it’s really just constant evolution of one platform it’d likely work. We’ll see how that works out.
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  263. You’re pretty fry for a white gry.
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  264. I’m sure Elmo will be selling to Russia and China shortly.
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  265. Doubt it since we know dudes in sandals living in caves are no longer our quarry. Sensitive Iranian, NK, Russian and Chinese facilities and systems are.
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  266.  @yuglesstube  You clearly haven’t been paying attention. Despite what Surovikin built for that gaggle of fools, Russia has barely hung on and wouldn’t have been able to fortify at leisure had Ukraine been given decent armament BEFORE the war. They were still waiting when summer began for most of the promised deliveries and didn’t get the most crucial items (ATACMS) until October and even then all of 21. And just 21 wreaked havoc on their air bases. Had they had that earlier Russia wouldn’t have been able to build amazingly good passive fortifications paired with well placed trenches for conducting cross-fire and tactical retreats. Equally important, Russian Ka-52s would have been pushed out of CAS range. You’re confusing submission through fear with resolve. Russians did as much damage to themselves as Ukraine did with up to 60% of their casualties resulting from friendly fire, friendly mines, accidents and murders due to alcohol and an assortment of other insanity. They’ve taken a massive advantage in almost everything besides precision artillery and turned it into barely getting past the borders of the territory they controlled pre-Feb 2022. Ludicrous? Yeah. Ludicrous how they’ve lost 65% of their Soviet stockpile to a country that began with less tanks than Russia has captured, most of their Black Sea fleet, most of their good pilots, etc., etc.
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  267. If 🇺🇸 triangle aircraft suddenly split apart into more craft + come back together and range from tiny to enormous in size, then maybe. The issue w/your anti-gravity engine point is assuming progress in reverse engineering.
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  268. I was going to say the same, but it deserves to be endlessly hyped. If only to try and save us $. Oh no! I just know all that $ saved will go to other toys! 😭😢 😂😂
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  269. You’re Alex Hollings & This is Ayatollah Power!
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  270. It’s hilarious often people need to be reminded of this this extremely simple point or has to be explained to be people who never knew of this in the first place.
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  271.  @hopper131 Canada is compromised by China to a pathetic level. I’m not pointing fingers either. We’ve got big problems here too.
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  272. The M500 is yet more proof missiles like the JASSM-ER is either way overpriced and/or way overbuilt and more advanced than is needed for 90% of its likely missions.
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  273. If we’re trying to get bang for our buck, we should also be investing in + sourcing systems from 🇺🇦 Beyond the obvious like drones, their SPH / Caesar equivalent (2S22 Bohdana) for nearly a third the price and items like 155mm once the war is over (yeah, that could be a while).
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  274. 🇨🇦 is already so owned and penetrated by China that there’s no hope they’ll ever keep Chinese intelligence out of their sensitive information. Anyway, it’s infuriating how easily we let 🇨🇳 get away w/stealing trillions in sensitive IP.
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  275. You’re Alex Hollings!
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  276. Unless it’s using stolen IP, I doubt China will be able to pull off anything impressive in the engine department. They better keep a close eye on PWC since they’ve sold classified tech to China before.
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  277. lol@so many claiming that the submersible drone that washed up on Scripps beach is a Manta Ray submersible.
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  278. Wrong, yo can communicate with extremely long wires and tin cups.
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  279.  @Kenny-yl9pc Considering how happy most were about the war when it first began, uh, yeah…no sympathy.
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  280. Plain old Google satellite shots have caught lots of stuff they’re trying to hide. Well, the army told me the axiom “if it works it’s stupid.”
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  281. Actually, nothing says you’re not a car guy more than using VTEC as a reference.
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  282.  @joserene-t5z Check out this tiny sunshade! You’ll never guess where the fuel door button is on the F-47. But really Doug would be doing old stealth aircraft like the F-117.
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  283.  @bigemugamer Exactly, look at Trump’s excitement to surrender to Russia for absolutely no reason. Oh wait, that’s probably cause Putin probably promised to give him $ and said nice things about him.
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  284. @ Except the US didn’t lose a single battle and their enemies lost men at literally 50:1 or worse ratios. Unlike Russia though, we weren’t willing to absolutely decimate civilian populations. Just a reminder, almost all the civilians deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan were due to terrorists attacks.
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  285.  @raul835  They weren’t defeated. They didn’t lose a single battle in either war. They got sick of wasting $. Meanwhile, Russia DID leave Afghanistan due to casualties.
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  286. I’m so nauseatingly jealous of the EX pilots.
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  287. @ indeed
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  288. I’m sure the M16 was pointed at his head with media all around (not). …I don’t doubt the other bits, but their efforts were for naught since a magazine chartered a Cessna that somehow got into the airspace that allowed them to photograph all the angles. Unless the pics are edited (or craft is altered) to mislead the PLA, I’d rather have no idea what these look like than allowing them to see it, UNLESS they know the PLA has obtained all the technical details already (which is very possible). It’s fun to see it, but I prefer a massive technical advantage than pretty pictures.
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  289.  @RamblingRodeo Making high quality ballpoint pen tips is actually a lot trickier than one might think. However, yeah they’re garbage on average at high tolerance manufacturing.
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  290. Even if they don’t have the necessary aircraft to develop good stealth busting radars, they’ll just steal ours when we finish designing it.
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  291. The F-16 is not at all one of the best platforms for the jobs it’s needed and the environment it’s operating in, especially with the armament and radars we’re going to give it. Is it still a solid platform though for their needs though? Yes. Of course. BTW, Tullia: what an absolute beast.
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  292. There’s nowhere on earth where the US Navy is “weeks away from a friendly port.” 🤦‍♂️ And think about where this war would be taking place. You’re talking about a maximum of hours to the closer friendly ports.
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  293. Duh-Doy!
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  294.  @mephisto2812 I’ve seen this shill. The US agreed to allow Chinese police to operate in the U.S. to fight corruption, but then had to cancel the program when it turned out 🇨🇳 was only interested in “fox hunts” (a term for hunting dissidents).
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  295. “...and SU-57s combined.” So, that adds all of two to the total. BTW, f the budget, besides mutual disarmament, extremely dominant air superiority is critical in era with a bellicose nuclear armed China, Russia, North Korea, etc.
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  296. You’re about five years late to this story, which has been covered on about 5,000 channels.
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  297. I’d say mandatory deep vets on any 🇨🇳-American esp. if they still have family in 🇨🇳. But the scientist who made the breakthrough on CRAM for our stealth jets is a Chinese-American woman who made the development with no government funding. I’d say Canada should too, but they’re already owned by China and so penetrated they’re a lost cause.
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  298. Aerospace Reporter of The Year. lol. I love your channel, but as someone who has worked on submissions to awards like these and other speciality professions, I can say they’re almost all BS.
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  299. We need to keep hours down on the F22. The F117 should be exploited as much as possible.
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  300. We’ve got 100k+ other capable missiles and GBs. WTC, 🇺🇦’s shown that a) most of these weapons can be produced for far less b) they need more robust anti-EW capability c) most importantly, huge stockpiles of simple, dirt cheap weapons (many of which can do 3-4 other jobs) can do more for 95% less money than most of our missiles and drones except for the most challenging environments and hardened targets.
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  301. Wrong. All that matters is what you call the aircraft. Not what it can do.
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  302. Bob Lazar announcing a new element which was used to fuel recovered alien craft 30 years before science later discovered that new element did exist convinced me he was telling the truth.
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  303. The development of the drones aka CCAs will be more difficult than the manned aircraft component of the NGAD itself.
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  304. I’d be slow rolling any decisions on our next gen series until we get a clearer picture of what will really be feasible and focus on drones in the mean time as much as it pains me to say. Anyway, we need a global treaty where everyone agrees just not to use AI, which is going to destroy 75% of jobs. We’ll just exclude drones from that treaty lol
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  305. Those comments are literally all from automated Kremlin bots.
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  306. A kill web...I love the DoD and the names they come up.
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  307. US could. Israel will.
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  308.  @Evan_Bell  When we realized they carried the same number, we added two to the capacity. So, it’s now 16. 💥 ’Murica! ‘Murica! ‘Murica!
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  309. @ I was joking. Hence the ‘Murica and the farcical idea that we tweaked ours to hold more after “realizing” that our own missile with a UK flag on it had the same # of warheads.
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  310.  @Evan_Bell  As hilarious as your sarcasm detector?..
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  311.  @Evan_Bell  Stop liking your own comments, unless you’re going to claim someone is clicking on + liking your comments within 10 seconds of posting. 🤦‍♂️ It’s rather pathetic.
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  312. The C5 looked like it was taking a sh*t when that ICBM came out the back. 💩
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  313. The stolen data = more reason to take 🇨🇳’s jets seriously rather than less. As horrible as this was/is, we were compromised 100x worse w/the Manhattan Project. Russia was given quite literally 100% of the design documents w/in five years of the bomb’s first successful test.
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  314. I know you’re kidding, but that’s what make it so hilarious. It’s already being made in large numbers and with applications like this, it’ll become “dirt cheap” by cruise missile standards.
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  315. Exactly. It would have been far cheaper than the F35 and it WAS cheaper than the F14. They have produced a couple hundred, but they were supposed to produce nearly a thousand.
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  316. That’s what happens you try to become the first to reveal the truth without verification. Nothing wrong that as long as you do just what you did.
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  317. This is actually bad news. It means our enemies could easily do the same thing without having to do the hard work we’ve already done.
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  318. China just trolled the US into finally showing some of what they’ve got, which I find very funny. They got sick of PRC bots squawking about that absurd tri-engine “sixth gen fighter.”
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  319. Pfffhh! Mach 24 is what my tricycle does. I love how old school and low tech this all is. Boeing 707s, VLF, etc.
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  320. Me good. Alex Hollings bad.
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  321. Before long, this dude is going to start putting watermarks with his name on the video and subliminal messages that say “Alex Hollings!”
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  322. We don’t get healthcare, but we do get scary levels of military power. Too bad the GOP wants to help our enemies rather than crush them.
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  323.  @Ezekiel903  Lighter than air aircraft predate airplanes. During WWI, Germany had a lighter than air bomber that was the size of 38 story building. So, how hard would it be to make a lighter than air aircraft in the ‘60s or ‘70s. We also had perfectly triangular aircraft flying in the 30s and 40s. Look up Jack Northrop’s early delta wing aircraft. Probably a lot of people thought those things were alien ships.
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  324. Dullsy Gabbard will make sure it works thinking in Russian too. Then Mandarin as well since they’re a Chinese vassal.
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  325.  @txoilfield So, basically, they crashed a MiG-31 into a lake, then fixed it and got it to fly again. What an amazing achievement!
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  326. Yeah, I have zero worries about non-nuclear threats to the US mainland. The ability to cost efficiently project power to the Pacific is literally the only pressing challenge.
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  327. I love how 90% of ads in military, history geopolitical related videos = Ground News, War Thunder and of course, VPNs.
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  328.  @BillDoughzer69 Many wear panties.
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  329. To be fair, Alex made it clear these were clearly warranted. However, I don’t think he should have even teased the subject in that manner before getting around to it.
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  330.  @elmaxidelsur  You’re aware that R uses unmarked vans, cars, motorcycles and donkeys all day, right? Or that they only targeted military objects, right. Take your misinfo elsewhere.
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  331. More stealth doesn’t seem sufficient for sixth gen aircraft. I think it should probably require stealth + at least either adaptive cycle engines or the ability to control UAS. An unmanned mode too maybe.
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  332. Alex Hollings is air superiority! It’s why pilots call going Mach 2 “Holling ass.” Anyway…let’s start building F-22s again with the latest tech, including AI wingmen. It’d likely save 30%+ and we’d know it’d work.
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  333. lol. Also, it’s totally bull shit that it’d cost the same amount to build up the F-22 production line from scratch versus designing an all new next gen fighter, then set that production line up from scratch, train all new maintainers, etc., etc.
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  334. I’m Alex Hollings & I Stare Blankly in The Shower!
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  335. All the time. It’s a dumb idea that the military tries to spend money badly. You can get something at a good value and still give kickbacks and other types of corruption.
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  336. Just like w/the Foxbat, 🇺🇸 is undoubtedly creating yet more overly capable weaponry in response to hilariously BS capability claims from 🇨🇳. They lie about EVERYTHING that impacts their image. China’s naval tonnage is weak, it has zero experience w/totally inept commanders and sailors. Moreover, it doesn’t have any aircraft carriers that can actually go years w/out refueling like ours. So, it can’t project force . It can only defend its coast.
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  337.  @peter-radiantpipes2800  I’m in Montecito Did you hear that launch that was at exactly at 2AM on Saturday morning? It’s the first one that rattled my windows. I want to travel up there and watch one in person soon. The next one is supposed to be on Nov. 7th. Are you aware if they ever have booster landings there too?
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  338. I think it’s crazy that we allow those to be displayed in public. It allows any spy to just come in and perfectly measure everything.
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  339.  @SodiumEx  🤦‍♂️ So does he. The difference is that he is. Beyond the fact that he’s helping Putin destroy hospitals and schools in Ukraine, dude was part of the CCP campaign to white wash the Uighur g-cide. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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  340. @ Cute rhetorical device. Stop liking your own comments. That 1 like just sticks out like a sore thumb.
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  341.  @robertnewhart3547  I hear rage is all the rage at the moment though.
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  342.  @zaco-km3su The F-35 has tons of demand + upgrades will be demand for upgrades, but I think what you meant is that unlike the F-15, which was born an expensive hot rod, the F35 was made to be affordable (by stealth standards) and the opposite of a hot rod just like the F-18. In which case I agree.
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  343.  @bluemarlin8138 I think what he meant was that turning the F-35 into a hot rod let alone a Ferrari will never see big demand since that is the opposite of the F-15’s entire purpose (which is to be an affordable stealth fighter with incredible sensor and “family of systems” tech) and not to be an F-22. And that the F-15 was born a Ferrari (expensive with extreme speed and agility).
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  344. I’m assuming we’ve vastly increased the B2’s sensor suite over the decades. So, it’s definitely not operating on 80s tech anymore.
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  345. It shows how much the MIC has brainwashed people when someone says “this experimental program only cost $65 million!” like it’s some amazing deal.
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  346. None of the upgrades they’re talking about are speed and agility related though. It’s why calling it a Ferrari version is so stupid. 6th gen won’t be faster or agile. Their purpose will be around UCAVs + better stealth, range, sensors, etc.
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  347. The only issue with Hazard Lee’s quote is that he hasn’t ever been to war.
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  348. Odd about the trust issue. The military is one of the few institutions I haven’t seen corrupted by the party of trickle down economics yet (though it will very soon). Must be due to IDP eroding trust from those on both end of the spectrums (e.g., those silly recruitment ads and brainless college kids somehow confusing the military with US foreign policy decisions.
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  349.  @jamesjross  I wish there had been tittles.
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  350. No, but I could because I’M ALEX HOLLINGS & I’M A NEXT GENERATION FIGHTER!
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  351. Settle down, fanboy. He didn’t say he was a problem. He was explaining why people who do have a problem with Musk this project is a good idea.
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  352. I could do better with an RC plane and a sparklers.
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  353. Let’s also not forget that the US rebuilt Russia’s entire nuclear arms infrastructure for free in the hopes of avoiding a nuclear accident or loose nukes.
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  354. 90% of the F14 kills are from Iranian pilots.
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  355. Yes.
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  356. F-22 has off-boresight targeting now w/the AIM-9X. Why doesn’t the F-22 use the F-35’s newer RAM? Or do they? As awesome as the F22 is, the F-35’s ability to make other jets so much better, makes it the best ever in terms of impact.b
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  357. Half is generous.
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  358.  @startingbark0356  No, improvements like that come from having or truly understanding all of the existing tech.
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  359.  @startingbark0356  America literally landed and took off with fully loaded C130s from aircraft carriers. Meaning, if it fit the mission profile, any F-model plane could easily be accommodated for carrier use.
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  360. Boo hoo! I paid YouRube $ so they wouldn’t show me their ads! Too bad he’s not getting a cut of that. It’s like literally 2 cents.
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  361. From a lot of research into people with credible backgrounds (as in people almost exclusively with PhDs or worked in government departments you’d expect to handle this stuff), a good number of these ships were actually excavated. A number of sources says much of the R&D has been privatized. Maybe it’s all BS, but it’d be a lot of very intelligent people making up a lot of BS for often no fame, no money and a whole lot of blowback.
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  362. F15A: 100+ kills and zero losses.
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  363. Special Access secrets often don’t reach the president. BTW, the “Flying Dorito” is obviously responsible for many UFO sightings. Wish you had been more specific about how these prototypes helped future platforms.
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  364. 95% of the world is absolutely clueless about aspects of war such as this, including most of the journalists too unfortunately. The amount of sloppy, totally inaccurate reporting I’ve seen on this war, including in legacy media’s most prestigious outlets, is absolutely stunning. Well, not stunning for me. Once I began working in geopolitics, I began noticing just how clueless publications were on everything from Sino-related matters to, surprise surprise, Central and Eastern European politics (but then again they never seemed to know or care the slightest bit let alone about complicated areas like the Baltics). I have just stopped trusting anything that isn’t from individual sources who are dedicated to single subjects.
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  365.  @Saerkal  HOLLINGS HOLLINGS’ ALEX ALEX is one of my favorite series.
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  366.  @Statueshop297  𝖺𝖼𝖼𝗈𝗋𝖽𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗈 𝗆𝗒 𝗇𝗈𝗍𝖾𝗌… You’re Axel Maulings!
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  367.  @nommchompsky  Norm Chumpsky.
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  368. Probably why Cappy made the point of their main utility being for other threats.
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  369. The existing SDVs look mighty claustrophobic. Anyway, so many holes in this idea: what are they going to think when the plane at the edge of their air space / international waters suddenly disappeared? Let’s be honest, a small submarine big enough to travel hundreds or thousands of miles and hold a full unit + equipment and crew would be much more realistic.
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  370. It’s too bad both the current president and the incoming one are too cowardly to provide Ukraine this type of coverage. And don’t talk about escalation. R isn’t going to dare attack us because of us downing a missile.
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  371. Like w/the Foxbat, 🇺🇸 is undoubtedly creating more overly capable tech in response to ludicrous capability claims from 🇨🇳. They lie about EVERYTHING that impacts their image w/missile range being the least of it.
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  372.  @andrewyork3869  All our aircraft carriers are nuclear powered. Many of the other vessels in the carrier group don’t really need to be nuclear powered as they can rotate in and out.
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  373.  @kdrapertrucker  Yep. No electro magnetic rail (one of the arguments I made against taking their carriers seriously beyond local defense). And, unless they steal or are given the plans, China can’t engineer anything themselves.
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  374.  @sjsomething4936  Pretty confident the absolute decimation of Russia and then its economy in Ukraine, which shares a land border instead of an open stretch of sea like Taiwan, has ensured Xi won’t try it. Xi is inherently cautious person. Also, people get so wrapped up in counts, that they forget how long and costly it is to put all the non-sexy stuff in place to actually allow all those assets to actually coordinate and work as cohesive whole let alone the human expertise. China would fall apart immediately in a real shooting war.
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  375.  @andrewyork3869  True, but I’m sure if the need arose we could quickly (within 6 months) fast track an alternative power plant. It’d likely be much slower though. Not to mention need supply ports obviously.
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  376.  @LackofFaithify  The response of a man who doesn’t have facts to back him up. You really think China is/was building the West’s naval vessels?
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  377.  @andrewyork3869  China is one huge, corrupt joke. It’s literally scary how toxic the entire country is from the use of gutter oil to painting mountains green. Their landmark dam that was initially supposed to last a thousand year was then revised to 100, then 50, then 25, then you get the idea. If it’s rebuilt this year, it WILL collapse imminently. They literally killed thousands diverting water to unprotected towns just to save face.
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  378. Deterrence is cheaper than war. Another thing American voters will never understand. They did once upon a time when our education system wasn’t absolute trash and social media wasn’t melting kids’ brains.
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  379. You realize that’s not an original line, right? Or do you say “holy shit, that’s poweful!” when anyone quotes a famous axiom? A better and more seldomly broached point he made was that while deeply imperfect, our system was inarguably superior to almost all other countries, but Americans have been convinced it’s completely broken and voted to tear it apart.
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  380. Because of freedoms. lol, we throw people in jail for life for leaking unconstitutional surveillance, but we won’t shoot down spy drones?
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  381. Su-34 and Su-35 are pretty sexy IMO. The blackjacks are pretty cool too. Anyway, it’s funny to look at articles talking about 76 Su-57s on order with them slated to start arriving in 2020. To date, only serial production model has ever been produced.
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  382. The PRC was so much freer and meritocratic in the early 2000s than it is now, that it’s possible their stealth designs would be even worse if begun now even with all their stolen data.
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  383. Like F1, which has transitioned to using mostly digital sims for development and testing, ASI is using that to make dev faster and more economical. In F1 there are even rules limiting their hours spent using CFD to prevent the cars from becoming too fast and secondarily to keep the bigger teams from gaining too much of an advantage.
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  384.  @ramonpunsalang3397 But we have a monopoly on manifest destiny and orange demagogues!
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  385. If CCAs are anywhere near $30m a unit they’re nowhere near to being a realistic option, unless that’s for the first couple ones and they get down to about $5m each.
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  386. It is inevitable, but frightening because it puts so much power in the hands of governments and a few corporations who are the only ones who could ever afford it.
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  387. @ Yeah, maybe that or the fact that China subsidizes them so heavily manufacturers are literally throwing new ones in fields just to get the unit subsidy. Educate yourself.
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  388. That is impressively brainy stuff.
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  389.  @MrHvleeuwen Take the wheel, Jeebus!
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  390.  @Voitan Gazpacho a la George.
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  391. VIP context for understanding the PLA/PLAN/PLAAF: Being a soldier is viewed contempt by Chinese society (the US equivalent of being a janitor at McDonald’s there) and their soldiers are almost exclusively rural peasants who joined because it was their only option to survive. Food and shelter is their pay. The communists are afraid to have hundreds-of-thousands of well trained soldiers. They view it as a threat to themselves. The reason the vast bulk of the Chinese military is made up of only the truly desperate is because in China, joining the army is basically unthinkable for not just the individual male but for the entire multi-generational family unit. This is due to the financial ramifications of not having your only son you invested every penny you had into maximizing their education to give the greatest possible competitive edge in the workplace. So, the individuals who have actually gotten educations and scored well in educational testing, would never be allowed by their family to join the army as it would mean no financial return on a huge investment (a good education is extremely expensive in China).
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  392. Thinking we’d be just fighting terrorists forever and so wouldn’t need the F-22s in numbers was flabbergastingly short sighted.
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  393.  @bradcraig5111  It’s you who are clueless. They may seem to pay a lot of taxes, including as a share, but when you look at the actual amount of taxes paid by the wealthiest individuals compared to their net wealth, they pay nothing. Yes, people who make $500,000 a year pay a lot of taxes, but people who make $5,000,000 - $500,000m+ a year pay essentially nothing. Don’t believe me. Believe the billionaires who admit as much or look how much our glorious orange leader was paying on those tax returns he fought so hard to suppress.
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  394.  @pawpawstew  I do, but just like my messages to my reps, senators + the White House to remove restrictions on Ukraine & provide more support, they aren’t heeding my commands.
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  395.  @pawpawstew  We also need capital gains of many types to be taxed as normal income. That’s one of the biggest problems.
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  396.  @perhaps_not_  lol
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  397.  @bradcraig5111  Not sure why YouTube deleted my reply about taxes, but you show yourself to be ignorant. Billionaires and hundred millionaires pay multiple magnitudes less per year of their earnings than the middle class. Yes, if you’re on an actual payroll and making $300,00-$1,000,000+, you’re paying dearly, but the vast majority of the wealth is going to people far wealthier and none are on a payroll.
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  398.  @lordgarion514  Inflation. Ukraine’s arms have come from stockpiles that were retired and costing us huge $ to dispose of or near retirement arms that were never going to be used.
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  399.  @Goldenself  Shipping? Yes, our labor is more expensive, but our stuff is far better and most of that money goes directly back into our economy and employs hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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  400.  @daeclipse03  OK, the B21 Raider, Rapid Dragon, etc. have not been in development for “decades,” but they did begin development long before this war or the tension w/the PRC really heated up. So, the point stands. The things he described are not a response to any one development or event. Though, of course, Rapid Dragon and the B21 are focused on projecting power over long distances and therefore the PRC, which they began worrying more than a decade ago. And much of the tech that’s foundational to these programs HAVE roots going back decades.
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  401.  @suokkos  No. Deterrence is also much cheaper economically too. The fact that you aren’t aware of that shows just how poor a job POTUS has done explaining the reasons for providing aid to Ukraine. They also haven’t explained that we haven’t spent a dime on equipping them since 90% of what they’ve been given are retired or retiring decades-old arms that were paid for in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Many of which were costing us millions of dollars to scrap like DPICM, HMWWVs, MRAPs, etc. Those big $ signs people see = being spent on 🇺🇸 companies with 🇺🇸 employees building new equipment for the 🇺🇸 military. The only new arms going to 🇺🇦 in any quantity are mostly just shells and some of their GMLRS. And even if we pretended those dollar figures we saw was $ being spent on them it’d still only account for literally .002% of GDP.
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  402. YOU’RE ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  403. You mean TWO SU57s. There have been serial production SU57s.
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  404.  @suny1265 lol, how can the SU57 shoot down anything when it basically doesn’t exist? Besides, you don’t even have any living pilots experienced enough to combat the most green USAF, Naval, MC, etc. aviator.
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  405. But this could be done much more cheaply. OTH, if it’s very successful, it means our enemies could now have a much more affordable and technically feasible way of creating active stealth UAVs to use against us.
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  406. Golden shower and golden dome for the golden dummy.
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  407. They’ve fixed their top management problems. They’ve gotten rid of all the scummy, greedy former McDonnell Douglas and GE executives.
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  408. Anyone who knows anything about DEWs/lasers know that beyond downing tiny drones and doing some blinding of low orbit satellites, they’re not capable of much yet.
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  409. US officials only “didn’t see it that way” after Ukraine went in without their permission and Russia did nothing. Biden’s support has been pathetic. Now, we’ll have a guy likely to help Russia.
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  410. The Greeks won’t give anything. They act like they’re actually about to go to war with Turkey at any moment.
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  411. He doesn’t know anything about subs. That’s the problem.
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  412. @ It’s not a defense. It’s an exposure of an agenda and a disingenuous line of debate. Bottom line, the PRC’s notorious for smoke and mirrors. I’ll believe when I see it in action.
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  413.  @narmortein537  Are you referring to China’s toxic garlic?
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  414. @Sandboxx gives the PRC lots of credit. Go to Millennium 7 if you want a PRC shill.
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  415. @ I see you are well fed by the notoriously impartial Chinese state media. Media literally written by the CCP. 🤣 🤣
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  416. @ lol, that’s your retort? copy and paste this: “China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.”
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  417. @ Cool story, bro!
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  418. Nah, you can drink 10 feet of water in about 15 seconds regardless of the area size that depth covers.
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  419. You’re Alex Hollings! It’ll be a few years before they even have 30 let alone 80+ and sadly, the US will never give the Ukraine the AIM-120D. I doubt they’ll get the AIM-9X either.
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  420. F-16s aren’t cheap to build.
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  421. Russia and China has drawn us into the pointless HGV race. This is mostly a chest puffing contest.
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  422. The inevitable future of endless numbers drones of all types, size and purpose is terrifying.
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  423. The flying sub would need to be stealth. A larger yet still small submarine sounds a lot more realistic. Why not just land with a seaplane or parachute in and then use scuba DPVs for the rest of the journey? Using on a kodiak at night from about 50 miles sounds more practical.
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  424. This topic is a dead horse.
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  425. Only corruption can prevent their success.
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  426. He agrees with you. He was addressing the agendas of those who’d dare even claim it.
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  427. I believe the F15 EX actually has the most powerful radar in the world with APG-82. BTW, can we still call the F35 an acquisition boondoggle considering it essentially turned out to cost less than many past platforms? The real question though isn’t unit purchase cost, it’s how much each unit will cost when you included life maintenance and operation cost. I know the F14, for example, was supposed to be an absolute maintenance nightmare.
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  428. Just like all the streaming channels, it can all be covered with a +: Gen 5+! BTW, CRANE is the most DARPA acronym ever.
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  429. I’d love to drive around with that massive radar tower in my truck. That’d be hilarious.
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  430. Just call it what it is, straight up IP theft and copying. Anyway, it makes sense both are to air-to-air oriented since they mostly anticipate needing their LO aircraft for operations against American aircraft.
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  431. YOU’RE ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  432. Yeah, we always knew they were never going to adopt this idea. The Lancer has basically been on the edge of being retired before it even hit service. It’s a sexy plane though.
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  433. What’s the name? Skyborg, sir. Defunded!
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  434. That’s his intro every time. He just wants everyone to remember his name. 😂
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  435.  @afriendofafriend5766 Serious people care. It’s just a little tip off on how well someone knows their stuff.
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  436.  @eugenemurray2708  Who does?
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  437. The Israelis had true drones way before the MQ1 Predator.
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  438. Old? The B-52 meets that criterion. The F-117 is quite young. But yeah, they look incredible.
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  439.  @140theguy  You’re right. Looking up more armament diagrams, I see the layout you’re talking about and it tilts the odds further, but I still see zero chance based on what we’ve seen in real world engagements that two F-22s are taking out 10 F-15EXs, especially since they’ll lose that stealth when they open their bays considering the F-15EXs will be carrying a lot more missiles, especially long range ones while also having a more powerful radar, at least for the moment and the fact that countermeasures are guaranteed to ensure that the F-22s are not achieving anywhere near a 1:1 missile to kill ratio.
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  440.  @TheThetruthmaster1  Both have a big enough cross section that it makes little to no difference. They have both have a very large RCS. If $ no was no object, both could have their RCS reduced by a large factor simply using RAM and a few other details. Boeing did produce a Silent Eagle version which had all internal payloads + RAM and other RCS reducing features which drastically improved its RCS. South Korea was considering purchasing it, but eventually didn’t.
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  441.  @140theguy  I think that further supports the argument that, while the F-22 is undoubtedly the most lethal and survivable plane ever made by a large margin not to mention the coolest looking, expecting just two to be able to defeat 10 F-15EXs working in tandem is unrealistic. I agree though that if each F-15s waited their turn to go one-on-one with the F-22, there’s a realistic chance they might be able to pull it off if they were willing to risk their own aircraft. If not willing to risk losing their own aircraft, I think the odds are exceedingly slim even in that type of scenario.
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  442.  @rogerbiggerstaff3293  lol, I never said it was. But the fact is the thing that he claimed happened in a red flag exercise didn’t.
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  443.  @JoshWalker1  It still wasn’t close to earning an LO badge. However, it’d likely improve its survivability a good bit in A2A and against IADS.
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  444. If it is all reliant on GPS, it may prove ineffective against any near peers. The GLSDB proved a massive failure. If not and the unit cost comes way down, it’ll be great.
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  445. Bob Lazar announcing a new element which was used to fuel recovered alien craft 30 years before science later discovered that new element did exist convinced me he was telling the truth.
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  446. C-RAM, but I’m not talking about close in anti-air guns.
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  447. @hedwigugla8836 Go kiss the feet of your emperor while he rides around in yachts and you don’t even have an indoor toilet, your dams collapse, your crime spins out of control, your inability to stop terrorists, etc.. 😂 Owned!
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  448. DEW (direct energy weapons) need to weigh tens-of-thousands of pounds to be able to knock down more than just a flimsy drone. So, it’s not going to be realistic within our lifetimes.
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  449. I’ve served. Many love to exaggerate. This last one was no different than a workplace accident in a factory, cargo facility, etc. Also, these guys are serving in an extremely low danger zone. However, they are working long hours.
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  450. @ Pipe down, Ali.
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  451. Or basically any mission during WWII, which were 100x more dangerous than either.
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  452. The West LA VA center isn’t in danger of burning down. It’s surrounded by massive firebreaks including one of the world’s biggest highways.
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  453. There has to be a missile failure for them to be able to recover one intact enough to identify this many unique components, right?
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  454. He flew an entire state for 25+ years?
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  455. The Russians likely have been given all of our existing tech. They’ll begin selling F-35s next week.
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  456.  @calvinblue894 lol, Chinese bots trying to brag about a prototype that flew and showed absolutely nothing besides it being a flying wing which have been around since oh just the 1930s.
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  457.  @toddrklein3188 Are you paid or just clueless? With Trump in office we’re leaking national security secrets to Russia. How long before it reaches China? They’ve even suspended all offensive and defensive cyber security operations re: Russia.
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  458. @ lol, I am not referring to the PRC’s “sixth gen” demonstrator. Rather the F-35. And we do have technology. Besides already having a sixth generation aircraft (by its own label + the definition the PRC has set) AND we’ve had a minimum of three different 6th gen fighters prototypes flying for years. The only thing the PRC did was release a fuzzy video of an aircraft that seems nowhere near production.
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  459.  @Shadowboost Satellites could be shot down decades ago and people who say satellites can fully replace high altitude spycraft don’t know what they’re talking about. I am not saying such a plane exists, but if it doesn’t, you’ve lost an important tool, especially when you’re trying to figure out if and where they’re moving nuclear TELs.
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  460.  @nickc8773 How does the F-35 misdirect anything?
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  461.  @nedkelly9688 The prohibitive operating costs of the SR71 did not center on fuel costs.
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  462. Just as importantly, the more platforms using them the greater their production volume, which will reduce the unit cost.
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  463. Superman?
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  464.  @heathb4319 I generally agree with your statement, but there wouldn’t likely be any ATC both looking at low frequency radars and focused on this ping. It’s not as if they notified ATC up and down the seaboard let alone right when it happened.
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  465. @ Well, more the age your emoji shows + 👦.
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  466. I doubt the PRC has figured out the material sciences needed for the true LO composites to be anywhere close to the F-35 or F-22. But, yeah, they’re doing better on ensuring they still have engineers. Our future generations all think they’ll be “influencers.”
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  467.  @authoritariangentleman7570 lol. Exactly.
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  468. I’d say Formula 1 is the true standard of competitive cheating / loophole finding. They have both engineers and lawyers looking through the rules to find both loopholes and legal language mistakes so they can violate the spirit, but not letter of the law.
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  469. A medical insurance program beat them to the punch by 40 years, but agreed, it’s a great acronym. You know the lunkheads in procurement will forget about any manufacturing platform if it doesn’t have a badass name.
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  470. That pilot better have had a very, very convincing reason or he might not he doing much more flying outside an MCT.
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  471. It’ll be more the huge change in philosophy like drones mated to fighters and much better networking that will be the biggest difference rather than being much more mechanically or computationally advanced IMO.
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  472. China is not even more corrupt than Russia. It’s exponentially so. I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s true.
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  473.  @vhostovich  It should be 40 minutes.
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  474. This is the easy stuff. There are much more insidious disinformation campaigns actual experts are reporting on. Like how Russia often targets local, small scale, etc. publications for the elderly, US Vets, evangelical Christians, etc.
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  475. 1:58 - Love the F15, but that EX presentation /reveal ever. Looked like it was in a 1970s high school gymnasium.
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  476.  @Laotzu.Goldbug That’s what she said.
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  477. This is a video that simply shares the conclusion of literally about 1,000 different experts and others have put to paper, video, etc. months ago. Kind of pointless.
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  478. It’s not even a great idea on paper. You can launch drones from actually survivable platforms like Ukraine’s SeaBaby, which now launches drones.
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  479.  @oskar6661 I really want to see MMA fights where they come out John Wick style or at least a new division: Mixed Martial Artillery.
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  480.  @Wilett614 Ukraine has seen just how effective the Bushmaster is. It’s why they won’t more Abrams. They want more Bradleys.
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  481.  @yu6387t3d I’d like to see an answer to this question too. A CIWS is, after all, mounted on a moving, unstable platform. It may just be a matter of how compact the system controlling the gun is. After all, ship and land based CIWS have zero space restrictions and can use targeting from massive and insanely expensive radars + computers.
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  482. The modern armor barely protects against modern AT weaponry. Active defenses are much more useful.
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  483. I’m Alex Hollings & Turn That Frown Upside Down!
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  484. 🇨🇳 is dominated by the “chabuduo” mindset, which roughly translates to “good enough.” Sometimes it just results in incomprehensible directions. Sometimes a bridge collapse. But it is all pervasive.
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  485. You forgot an important fact. The SR72 will be an un-emued aircraft. Kiwiland’s answer, the Bob Semple, is manned OTH.
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  486. And you know they’ll be immediately tested and a full proving regime.
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  487. Even standing alone, no way does China rapidly defeat Taiwan.
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  488. I’m Alex Hollings and here’s my sword!
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  489. I’M ALEX HOLLINGS! NOT YOU! BTW, they just had to use the term “disruptive.” It’s lost all meaning at this point.
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  490. Let’s just ditch the charade and base aircraft in 🇹🇼. Then we don’t need to spend hundreds-of-billions more on added combat ranges, air tankers, super ER missiles.
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  491. The carrier groups should simply tow platforms with hundreds of VLS cells. The launchers are incredibly simple. It’s just a matter of space. These Andruil drone interceptors are an improvement but still too expensive for the fairly simple job it needs to do.
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  492. Under investment in defense by allies is a part of it, but we’ve intentionally set conditions to make it difficult for allies to assert mil force w/out direct cooperation to give ourselves maximum influence.
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  493. That’s like comparing the first LANTIRN pod and the F-35.
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  494. People keep believing everything China tells us… Just like they did with all of Russia’s junk.
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  495. Northrop wishes they could match Boeing’s ability to stay on time and on budget!
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  496. “The Replicator Initiative.” Dude should avoid using names that sound like the cheesy Transformer franchise.
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  497. The 50 cent army is out in force trying to cover up for their crumbling economy via the YouTube comment section. Sad.
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  498. The answer was the cool stickers they put on for each air wing.
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  499. Seems wasteful not to build more than just one and basically throw away all that development work and possible future learnings.
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  500.  @sumiterxeroslargosiuscrosi7819 BS, YOU’RE ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  501.  @sumiterxeroslargosiuscrosi7819  OMG, I’m a Hollings groupie and I so agree! He’s so cool. He even agreed to allow my daughter to give him a BJ! What a guy!
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  502. And a lot of wasted $. Chinese technology is all hot air, their pilots are awful and their commanders are a joke. Their satellite ISR is absolute junk too.
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  503. $20k per recruit? They should’ve just added a $10k savings bonus for any signee. Common sense goes a long way and these HS events are a good example of this: it’ll produce 100x more recruitments.
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  504. I love how our enemies are always lying about their capabilities which just result in us having that much superior tech.
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  505. But they’re not dependent on China. Tesla cannot operate without Chinese lithium. I also doubt most of them take personal calls and are naive enough to be fooled by Putin.
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  506.  @loadingnewads  More like the US defense industry always used the vaporware from the Soviet Union and now the PRC to get funding to produce tech that is 100x better. And now the PRC is a crumbling pyramid scheme just like the USSR was before it collapsed.
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  507. Constantly screaming “I’m Alex Hollings” is really paying off.
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  508.  @ludwigfeuerbach  Yes, people misidentify something they think they saw all the time. But it’s easier to fool someone with a lie than about what they’ve seen. It’s all about context though. If someone sees something at 50,000 feet in the air or during a foggy night in which clouds can reflect light sources in bizarre ways that fool your sense of scale, direction, shape, etc., that’s an unreliable sighting. If something is hovering a couple hundred feet above you in broad daylight, I’ll trust my senses over someone coming up with a 100 reasons I couldn’t have seen what I thought I saw.
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  509. You know it’s a corporate sponsored episode when the creator has a replica of the actual rocket/missile on their wall.
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  510. Survivable. Survivable. Survivable. A whole lot more survivable. Back into the game and survivable. Survivable.
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  511.  @user-ep1ks2pq5r  CW Lemoine and Alex Hollings are in love with themselves.
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  512.  @chrisyoung9653  What’s your point? Either you’re saying we didn’t plan and we were alright or you’re criticizing the US for not having been ready for WWII when it broke out. The latter is no point at all. If it’s the former, we’re in a very different place from then. The country can’t shift and scale industrialization quickly like it did back then because we have no major industrial base currently and even though we were able to back, the delay cost millions of lives.
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  513.  @samo4003  lol. OK. Like Russia, this man is apparently not a “learning organization.”
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  514. The F16 is my favorite platform, but most of these comments seems to miss the entire point of the video.
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  515.  @NYRNJD1987  I didn’t see anyone challenging each other to a fist fight.
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  516.  @oot007  It won’t happen because other countries couldn’t afford to produce a plane with those capabilities. And if you think China could afford it or could design it you know nothing about China.
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  517.  @kinematics7092  What’s the point of comparing any plane in parameters they’ll never fly in?
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  518. BTW, that happened nearly a year ago. So, this didn’t “just” happen. This is extremely old news.
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  519. Nothing he’s done has been his vision. He wasn’t even at Tesla when it was founded. And he’s piggybacked on trillions of dollars of US funded research and development. What he has done was make, by far, the most economical space cargo service by setting lofty goals and putting tons of investment capital behind it. He’s a terrible person, but you can’t argue with the results.
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  520.  @MrGrandure Classic. 😂
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  521. Stand back from, Skyborg! You want to go, meat bag?
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  522. Why are they launching a literal RC 1 : 18 scale fighter jet. Anyway, you don’t need to sink a ship to make it a useless hulk, which 1 missile could do.
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  523. As a Gravy vet, I agree. You’re welcome for my servings.
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  524. Something about the V-280 looks very futuristic when it’s not in camo green.
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  525. You’re Alex Hollings!
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  526. B2 and F22 for me.
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  527. I mean, the B2’s design was hardly changed from the first prototype built way back in the ‘40s.
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  528. The Chinese “stealth” fighters are junk.
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  529.  @THE-X-Force  I broke the dam. [clears throat] Ehrrmm, what I meant to say is I’M ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  530. Odd. The F22 seems like a very iterative design / appearance succeeding planes like the F16 and F15. However, I agree that seeing these aircraft next to an old Ford Ranger is wild.
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  531. I’d rather these capabilities be kept completely secret. Seems like a waste of the element of surprise. And now China will be trying extra hard to steal these design files.
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  532. Qatar and Saudi Arabia created the monster that is the EX, not the Air Force. If it wasn’t for them spending billions to continue developing the F-15, the EX doesn’t exist today.
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  533. That’s what he said.
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  534. Musk isn’t right about much. He is good at producing children though and stirring the pot.
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  535. It’s not that hard to contact him if you apply some basic common sense. It’s probably a barrier he’d like to keep up to prevent crazies from contacting him.
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  536.  @Achilles75 If he hasn’t replied by the end of day and and this post is further down, I’ll give you a tip to make it easy to find since you can’t post emails in replies.
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  537.  @Achilles75  As in his contact. Not standing out. And no worries.
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  538.  @Achilles75  I let you know how. Not seeing it in replies. Click your notifications if it’s not showing up here. Reply should pop up there.
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  539.  @ShuRugal  That guy’s habitually crossing the line!
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  540. It’s no surprise that Hermeus seems to be run by a bunch of gear heads.
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  541. How can you cordon off international airspace?
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  542. lol, not sure anyone noticed, but the article he read claims the Russians themselves were the ones pulling bodies from the debris as if Russia and not Ukraine would be performing search and rescue in Western Ukraine.
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  543. You can especially can’t build everything we need when we’ve got maniacs sabotaging alienating allies who are huge arms buyers and often split R&D costs + sabotaging our economy because they have no idea what they’re doing and are transparently corrupt.
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  544. If it weren’t for their glide bombs, Russia would have been driven out of Ukraine long ago. So, these kits were a good example of a “game changer” worthy of the title.
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  545. You should be talking more about this disgraceful hold up on aid to Ukraine and how if Russia wins it’ll not just cause a refugee crisis from Ukraine, but famine and refugee crises at a whim wherever they want in Africa and the ME because they’ll control half the world’s grain and already control 85% of its fertilizer. Or that this will cause nuclear proliferation because small to medium sized countries will assume the U.S. and NATO won’t fulfill their security agreements. And hostile countries will too because they’ll assume we’re too timid to oppose nuclear armed countries. Or the fact that many of the arms were giving are retired and are costing us millions and millions to scrap. This topic is just fun what coulda been stuff.
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  546. I’m Alex Hollings AND I LOVE my voice! Mustard or someone did an episode on all these same aircraft + a few additional ones in a single episode.
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  547. Calling Dugin “a thinker” is a bit of an exaggeration.
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  548.  @jtjames79  Anime armies FTW!
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  549. Nothing compared to what I could do.
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  550. Lockheed’s monopoly is a huge problem. It means there is nearly zero innovation in R&D or manufacturing efficiencies and processes. I also don’t think the generals and politicians trying to figure this out are smart enough / have the vision to see the best way forward.
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  551. Most of Russia’s spy satellites are well past their maximum usable lifespan. They also have incredibly poor resolutions, no synthetic aperture satellites currently, etc. Even crazier, almost all their satellite launch attempts since 2010 have failed.
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  552. They wouldn’t even know what to do and probably mutually agree to go back to BVR for the fight.
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  553. Unless the pics are edited (or craft is altered) to mislead the PLA, I’d rather have no idea what these look like than allowing them to see, UNLESS they know the PLA has obtained all the technical details already (which is very possible).
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  554. We’ve let China troll us into revealing all our new stealth aircraft.
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