Comments by "Retrosicotte" (@Retrosicotte) on "Combat Arms Channel" channel.

  1. I'm glad for you reminding that Argentina was a eper opponent back then. They had solid jets, good missiles, trained pilots, a friggin airccraft carrier and submarines too. They even used the same destroyer as the UK did. The UK beating them off the islands was basically considered impossible by the world, even the US told them they couldn't do it. The Brits went anyway and proved the entire world wrong.
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  2. "Is that all at once?" Yes. That's why the UK military is special in Europe. There's other nations with comparable sizes of military (France, Poland) but no-one else outside the UK on the continent can support so many different angles, simultaneously, and regularly practices half a dozen major things going on at once to do so with a powerful logistics fleet.
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  3. In terms of experience the Ukrainians will easily be top right now yeah, followed by the US and UK (scale and length), and after that into others like France through Mali. (Smaller numbers, similar length)
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  4.  @davidanger8681  Aye, 2Rep is about a thousand guys. The UK's multiangled deployment focus lets them put up to 6,500 guys anywhere at any given time, while supporting deployments in many other places from land, air and sea at the same time. Simply impossible without that logistics fleet size.
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  5. You really ought to look up Bad Lads Army on youtube. They took a bunch of minor criminals in the UK and gave them 1950s British Army training under the watch of real veterans. It's absolutely hilarious sometimes.
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  6. To be specific, Thales UK made all them, not Thales overall.
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  7. "I wonder how many people they can fit on that thing." 6 troops carried on a Wildcat. They're designed to be very fast, nimble and dropping teams into specific places. The Merlin is the one handles the big offloads, it carries 26.
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  8. In that time, yes.
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  9. British Army uses a Britishised version of the Swiss HG 85 grenade called the L109A1
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  10. The takedown is legit. Taught in police too. Just looks silly because the instructor is so huge. It takes the knife out of the line of your body, traps the arm out of reach of a knife-hand swap, and controls it to the ground. Even if it's silly on HIM for her, she still needs to learn the takedown.
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  11. Thats an old British Army one! Corporals from the 90s used to shout it a lot in the Paras.
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  12.  @MrBanaanipommi  The meeting announcing who is will be due soon. Thats why we only hear of a few.
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  13. The first craft you mention is an LCVP Mk5, standard Royal Navy infantry and light cargo/vehicle landing ship for a few squads each.
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  14. The stories are important and somber. But damn the animation style feels incredibly cringy and almost disrespectful in how "safe" and cartoonish it is.
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  15.  @ziepex7009  It makes perfect sense. The measure of a country's combat experience is numerics (how many saw combat, what % of the overall force) and time (how long that combat lasted/how much of it was intense). In that regard the Ukrainians are out in front by an absolute mile of everyone else, the US and UK follow it up due to both number and time, and France would come behind that as while they did the time, they did so in much lower numbers of their overall force.
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  16. Fun to play but I kept asking myself "Why don't they just bomb the oil rig? It's right beside the US and has no defences..."
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  17.  @roberthipolito1351  "And if you look into it, it's basically only the US & France who actively patrol the entire globe" That is objectively incorrect.
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  18. Old MW2 felt like a war movie. MW2 reboot felt like a war movie with no war in it. Not a single "big battle" in the entire story. No wars. No conventional battlefields. Just 100% small scale whatevers for a story in which nothing actually happens.
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