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

  1. 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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  2. I could do better with an RC plane and a sparklers.
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  3. 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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  4. 90% of the F14 kills are from Iranian pilots.
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  5. Yes.
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  6. 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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  7. Half is generous.
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  8.  @startingbark0356  No, improvements like that come from having or truly understanding all of the existing tech.
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  9.  @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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. F15A: 100+ kills and zero losses.
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15.  @Saerkal  HOLLINGS HOLLINGS’ ALEX ALEX is one of my favorite series.
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  16.  @Statueshop297  𝖺𝖼𝖼𝗈𝗋𝖽𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗈 𝗆𝗒 𝗇𝗈𝗍𝖾𝗌… You’re Axel Maulings!
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  17.  @nommchompsky  Norm Chumpsky.
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  18. Probably why Cappy made the point of their main utility being for other threats.
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22.  @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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  23.  @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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  24.  @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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  25.  @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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  26.  @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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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34.  @ramonpunsalang3397 But we have a monopoly on manifest destiny and orange demagogues!
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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. @ 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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  38. That is impressively brainy stuff.
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  39.  @MrHvleeuwen Take the wheel, Jeebus!
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  40.  @Voitan Gazpacho a la George.
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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43.  @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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  44.  @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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  45.  @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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  46.  @perhaps_not_  lol
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  47.  @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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  48.  @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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  49.  @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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  50.  @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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