Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "Sandboxx" channel.

  1. I like the idea of an aggressive AI in old platforms that we were going to scrap anyway. It’s a cheap and easy way to bulk up numbers with no risk to pilots.
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  2. I think you’re underestimating how much the public will like the idea of licenses to go hunting Chinese ships. Americans are far more mercenary than most people think.
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  3. My big problem with the analysis is assuming Chinese competence. Everyone thought Russia was going to just overrun Ukraine in weeks if now days. China has many of the same problems as Russia in terms of training, and they use many of the same systems. I don’t want to underestimate China, but I feel that over estimating China leaves the US paralyzed for no reason.
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  4.  @appa609  it isn’t, but it would be useful.
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  5. It is the first and greatest enemy of all militaries
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  6.  @luigimrlgaming9484  being inexperienced is being incompetent. Also, China is heavily dependent on trade through the area this war would be happening in, so their economy would quickly collapse
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  7.  @mikoi7472  purpose built loyal wingmen drones would be cheaper, more capable, and less detectable. Moreover, I’m talking about using planes that are either sitting in storage until they’re broken up or soon to be retired.
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  8. The thing about the Global Strike Egal is that it’s actually becoming more viable with the development of nanosats.
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  9.  @ThànhHoàngNgọc-w8r  1) why do you think merchant ships haven’t already done that because of Somali pirates? Ports don’t allow any of that except for warships. 2) a lot of military equipment isn’t that great. It’s not that hard to buy better equipment. Also, there are a lot of military equipment is adapted from civilian hardware.
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  10.  @zaco-km3su  1) you're assuming it will still be the same government ruling China. 2) who’s going to arrest Americans who committed no crimes on Chins’s behalf? 3) being a privateer is always at your own risk.
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  11.  @luigimrlgaming9484  it’s not about Taiwan’s economy. It’s that China is completely blocked in. Taiwan would undoubtedly get massive monetary support, while China would be completely cut off.
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  12. The US is traditionally a land power, even though more wars have started because of the ships than on the land, and our intuitional thinking reflects that.
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  13.  @BrapBrapDorito  I wonder how much maintenance and fuel they’ll need. They’d mostly be sitting around waiting to launched. I’m sure there will be some corrosion related maintenance, but that’s a lot less than flying related maintenance.
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  14.  @danno1-w9t  you don’t need a merchant ship. You need a power boats or even helicopters.
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  15.  @kyledabearsfan  Gungnir (Odin’s spear)
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  16.  @NoobNoobNews  I’m thinking more interception missions than infiltration missions.
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  17. Rapid Dragon can be rapidly deployed, and with another plane keeping track of a fleet, that won’t be a problem
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  18.  @reallyhappenings5597  You can buy a RIB for a lot less than $10m. They would be working independently and from small islands. Why would they want to disable the ships? Their goal would be to take the ship then sail the ship to the US where it and the goods will be auctioned by the government, and they would get a percentage of the profits
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  19. No, just 600 million Chinese people
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  20. Not really. In naval warfare, build strategy is the war strategy, and the US can’t just ramp up ship production. Moreover, there are a lot of boat builders with unutilized capacity and former/nonmilitary personnel who who could be used.
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  21.  @termitreter6545  compared to buying and maintaining hundreds of F-35s and training pilots?
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  22.  @Krystalmyth  I didn’t say to get rid of humans. I’m suggesting to turn old aircraft into as attack dogs we can set on an enemy force while the manned and specially built drones get into a better position to attack.
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  23. It’s a light tank.
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  24. The F-15 has the craziest stories: flying without a wing; making an air-to-air kill with a bomb; shooting down a satellite.
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  25.  @ThànhHoàngNgọc-w8r  doesn’t matter. The problem is still the same.
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  26.  @danno1-w9t  the South China Sea and South East Asia have hundreds of small islands all around the major trade routes
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  27.  @oatlord  I’m not talking about how to keep old planes flying. I’m talking about a way use old aircraft that would otherwise destroyed. It’s like fire ships in the age of sail.
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  28. It’s given orders and carries out the orders on it own. The manned fighter gives the orders.
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  29. Sandbox News and Real Engineering now have a shared character. Just remember the hypersonic truck
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  30. If the performance of the S-400 in the Invasion of Ukraine is an indication, we wouldn’t even need stealth aircraft to destroy them.
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  31. The PLAN has a limited range and be very busy fighting the USN.
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  32. China made the classic mistake: never get into money/innvention contest with the US.
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  33.  @michaelrobison2020  no, the US was far behind until the Great White Fleet. The Barbary wars were fought because the US didn’t have the naval forces to protect American ships from Barbary pirates. The Constitution class were super frigates, but a few over powered frigates doesn’t make a country a naval power. Even up to the Civil War, the fleet was focused on costal defense and still outdated compared to British and French ships. The US is a land power than ran out of land to conquer, so we learned how to fly and swim to our enemies.
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  34.  @bryanbowling1857  traditionally means in the past, and in the past the US wasn’t bicoastal. However, in the present, the US is definitely an air power.
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  35.  @bryanbowling1857  if you understand what the word “traditional” means, then act like it because you’re talking ab out the present when I’m talking about the past. The US didn’t have territory on the west coast until 1848, and rest of the century was spent taking control of what was between the Mississippi and the west coast. It wasn’t until the Great White Fleet in the early 1900s that the US was really able to protect naval power in a meaningful way. How many admirals can people name before the 20th century? Sure the US has a long history of merchant ships interacting with other countries, but that’s not naval power.
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  36. The joy of this is its too advanced for them to copy.
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  37.  @HelicopterMaster475  read your comment; you didn’t say anything about safety. There are plenty of aircraft the president ride because they’re not right for the job. Why doesn’t the president ride in a semi truck?
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  38. These are all military planes, which are already fair game in war. Also, if a war breaks out, civilian planes shouldn’t be flying anywhere near the conflict zone.
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  39. The Chinese aren’t dumb enough to start a nuclear exchange to get one ship.
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  40. Because it’s too small
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  41. The marines really want to become space marines
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  42. We have our own lasers.
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  43. This isn’t secret technology. Any country with enough resources build an equivalent. It’s better to have point to point delivery because of how orbits work.
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  44. The point is for privateers to raid Chinese shipping.
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  45. You don’t understand at all. The goal is to take commercial ships, not warships.
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  46. You’re research on fission reactors is a bit lacking. One of the designs for the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) was a molten salt reactor. Molten salt reactors have a negative relationship between temperature and criticality. The same is true of fast breeder reactors. Oakridge and Idaho National labs have both done numerous tests where the operators of reactors have literally done nothing and the reactors have shut themselves off.
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  47. There aren’t enough starlink satellites in the right orbit to provide coverage to Taiwan
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  48. The F-117 is a ground attack plane and should have been labeled as such.
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  49.  @CliffordChang-v8c  I just said it wasn’t a fighter. It’s a ground attack aircraft like the A-10; although, they’re built at the exact opposite ends of how to build planes.
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  50. This isn’t privatization. This is licensing people to take enemy ships.
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  51. Motorcycle, motor vehicle
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  52. That’s a funny joke
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  53. Ports won’t let them in if they do that.
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  54.  @bobfg3130  and they have to get on and off of the ships while out of port.
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  55. The price for cargo is lower along with manned missions. Test launches fail. Operational rockets have had more failures.
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  56. You’re basically describing the SLAM
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  57. These cargo planes can land on unimproved airfields and the AC-130 on carriers. Both were talked about in the video
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  58. When close, within 20 miles (32k), to the shore, it was common for ships to fire on tanks.
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  59. Congress doesn’t have to declare war for to issue letters of marque. You don’t take ships with merchant ships. You take them with speedboats and maybe helicopters
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  60. The F-22 is more maneuverable than the F-15, and if the only way to detect it is with sound, the thing is damn near unkillable.
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  61. The hind has a lot of titanium armor. It’s part of why it has a reputation as being nearly indestructible.
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  62. Or you can just carry more payload.
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  63. SpaceX are planning on relaunching Superheavy boosters multiple times a day.
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  64.  @artoriastheabysswalker3356  every time the US military has met a conventional military since the end of WW2 the US obliterated the other military. Ironically, it’s the very attitude you’re expressing as to why that happens. The US consistently over estimates the enemy and builds on a military to fight exaggerated enemy.
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  65.  @Inlinesk8rr  being prepared doesn’t. However, over estimating the enemy’s ability can leave you not taking actions that would otherwise shorten the war because you believe they will end disaster.
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  66.  @wariyoshidirector  China is a poor country with some rich coastal cities. Corruption is just as endemic in China as Russia. Moreover, China uses a lot of Russian equipment, either built or copied
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  67.  @Strykenine  as you say, the US is basically an island nation, but the US had to consolidate the continent first. When British are more likely to try invading by Canada than sailing from Great Britain.
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  68.  @Brandonthesnifferofall  do you understand the difference between now and the past because I’m talking about how the past still affects the US military?
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  69.  @shorewall  the expeditionary force sent to hunt down Poncho Villa, and that’s exactly my point. Our wars were mostly on land until fairly recently.
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  70. @Kitty Cat yes, the was no manifest destiny. The US started expanding with overseas colonies.
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  71.  @davidtuttle7556  you make it sound like the US was laying out the money for vast armadas of ships. The first real ships the USN got were the Constitution class frigates. They were great frigates able to fight anything but a cutdown ship of the line. The problem is that’s nothing compared to the real sea powers of the time. The USN for most of its history has been focused on protecting American shores, not projecting power, like a true sea power. Also, it wasn’t until the 1900s that the Navy actually provided transportation for the Army. Before that the Army had to provide their own transport ships.
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  72.  @Call-Me-Ryan-Thx  what are you responding to?
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  73.  @ph11p3540  the great naval power that disbanded the Continental Navy after the Revolution, and didn’t reestablish a navy for 20 years. Most of our wars have been Indian wars. While many tribes had canoes, there wasn’t what I would call naval warfare. The main reason the nation vs nation/empire warfare involves the navy is because that’s how we interact with the world outside of mainland of North America, not because we think of the navy first and foremost when thinking about warfare.
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  74. Gaijin is pronounced guy-jin
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  75. Privateers are independent companies who are licensed to take enemy ships as prizes. They’re more like bounty hunters
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  76.  @morrisse0_0  the “free world”, like France who just convicted the opposition party’s leader to stop her from running in 2027? Germany, who tried banning and arresting the leaders of an opposition party? Romania, where they annulled and election because the government didn’t like the results. The UK and Ireland where you get arrested for memes? Canada where the government freezes your bank accounts for protesting their tyranny?
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  77.  @Graphictruth  Privateers aren’t irregulars. They’re private citizens licensed to take foreign ships. Moreover, you don’t need a destroyer to take a merchant ship. Somali pirates take them with wood dinghies
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  78.  @YSKWatch  I addressed that in a reply to someone else, but ports won’t allow civilian ships in port with weapons, not even handguns.
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  79.  @YSKWatch  1) that doesn’t even in theory protect bulk freighters or tankers. 2) in practice it wouldn’t work on container ships either because you wouldn’t be able to unstack them.
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  80. Our main anti-ship missiles are air-to-surface, not surface-to-surface
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  81. Space elevators are never going to happen. Now orbital rings we can do that with technology we have and has many times more throughput.
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  82. I’m sure we can get a few countries, like the Philippines, could be convinced
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  83. In the book, they’re American
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  84. Because they need at least one gun for close in fighting.
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  85.  @Sceptre1-1  it won’t be casualties. Those are the numbers of people who will starve from cutting themselves off from trade.
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  86. Most likely a couple of helicopters.
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  87. It’s great that you aren’t in charge of procurement. Your criteria is only looks.
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  88.  @HelicopterMaster475  1) you didn’t say anything about safety 2) you clearly didn’t watch the video, which goes through the safety record of the V-22
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  89.  @flynlion-p9i  and?
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  90.  @flynlion-p9i  and again, that’s relevant how?
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  91. It’s not specifically tasked. It’s to what ever countries are considered enemies
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  92. It is. Alex just says it wrong
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  93. The Coast Guard is an actual Coast Guard. The Chinese Coast Guard is an offensive force disguised as a Coast Guard
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  94.  @classifiedveteran9879  spacecraft already have radiators.
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