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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3.  @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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  4. 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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  5.  @vinny7114 Who could argue with your ISR expertise and experience?
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. @ You did well. Cheers.
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  9. 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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  10. It’s just a matter of the F-35 being the first airframe built during the social media era.
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  11.  @ParZIVal19D  Awesome. That’ll be quite a privilege. I genuinely envy you.
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  12. 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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  13. Don was talking about the Swiss cheese model when talking about his near miss landing the Apache.
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  14. You’re ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  15. Yes. They have a philosophy of keeping actual game changing tech close to the vest. The rest can be hyped.
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  16. YOU’RE AI.EX SKYBORINGS!
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. He listed most of the factors that excuse incidents like this. What else do you want from him?
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  20.  @JuanAdam12 Hesgeth is an unqualified fool and the admin is leaking secrets to our enemies, particularly Russia, like a sieve.
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  21. 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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  22. The Su-57 has never been beaten in any context! Mainly cause it basically doesn’t exist.
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  23. Governments are people and most people are very, very unintelligent while also being filled of insecurities, pettiness, greed, paranoia, etc.
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  24. 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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  25.  @chitaegandalalake263  Maybe in bizarro world.
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 14:45 - what is that video?
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  31. ⁠​⁠ @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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  32. ⁠​⁠​⁠ @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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  33.  @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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  34. You just sliced this out of a video from a few weeks ago. Tricky boy.
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  35. “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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39.  @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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  40.  @glennchartrand5411 Interesting and useful info.
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  41.  @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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46.  @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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  47. @ “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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  48.  @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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  49. 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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  50. 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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