Comments by "Matthew Eagles" (@mattheweagles5123) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. Creative but weird design? Check. French? Check. From the 1930's? Check. Another mad aircraft bingo win!
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  2. It is a sad state of affairs that the best media coverage of the war in Burma is a YouTuber who mostly covers obscure aircraft of the 1930's. An excellent video, please do keep us updated with the latest news from over there.
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  3. That's the first combat success for the ASRAAM. Also the Phantom that shot down the Jag did have a kill marking painted on it. That didn't last long.
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  4. There is a fine example of the Javelin at the Jet Age museum near Gloucester which is a great museum for aviation fans, and Gloster aircraft enthusiasts in particular.
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  5. The late 60's, where even the aircraft had moustaches.
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  6. Not getting more Gripen would make logistics, inventory holdings, training and weapons management more complex and costly so you'll need to have some impressive savings to offset. Or it's another senior officer who has seen a unit price and not considered the cost of integrating a new platform.
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  7. Congratulations! How about the ME262? Looks good, fast and exciting jet technology. Just don't mention the reliability and the huge expense of replacing engines every other flight.
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  8. These planes keep getting weirder, do keep it up!
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  9. The 30's seemed to be a time of such rapid aircraft development that cutting edge to obsolete was months and there was a lot of design dead ends. Cracking video as ever.
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  10. I have heard that there is a regular military exercise about this time of the year, but the sheer scale seems very extravagant. I'd guess it's an attempt to see how the world reacts, and possibly to try and get some concessions. But who, outside of the Kremlin, really knows?
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  11. The Russian explanation that there was an ammunition fire and the ship was evacuated makes them sound neglectful and incompetent. "We allowed a fire to start and failed to control it until it spread to the magazine." I'd rather admit to getting missiled.
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  12. Who has "Nuclear apocalypse'" on their 2022 bingo card?
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  13. The Helendale facility is proper James Bond villain's lair stuff. The equipment under test is fitted to a test rig underground. Then is raised up to the surface on a pole for RCS testing, before being lowered back to the lair. I was told this was to quickly hide what is being tested from observers and passing satellites. A lot of effort wasted if someone is going to film stuff on their phone and then bang it on tiktok.
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  14. I popped into my local army surplus store and the shelves were pretty bare. Ukrainians, Europeans and a few Brits had been scooping up winter combat gear, boots, Bergens etc. for their journey out to the war zone. The owner had also donated all of the helmets, body armour and first aid kit he had. So from one small town there are quite a few volunteers on route.
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  15. I remember seeing a highly classified Pentagon briefing about this in the early 1980's. Or was it Blockbuster and not the Pentagon?
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  16. From the stories I've heard Indian military aircraft procurement and management hasn't changed much. Brilliant engineers struggling against internal rivalries and haphazard management.
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  17. In Hearts of Iron 4, the WW2 game this XP-0 is a fighter you can develop as the Nationalists. I hadn't realised that they actually flew a prototype or two.
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  18. He fought for his country despite some of his countrymen viewing him as as much an enemy as the Nazis.
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  19. And a slab of beer for the ground crew that checked your seat as well.
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  20. Despite being fearful of airfields Klagenfurt eventually had one named after him.
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  21. Taking the strain out of misidentifying targets by letting a computer misidentify them for you.
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  22. It was the first pointy jet that an old friend of mine flew. A magnificent beast.
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  23. Good luck in your new career as a hermit in the Scottish Highlands!
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  24. Another almost aircraft, keep them coming!
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  25. I heard that Russian tanks were designed with a more "agricultural" principle than German ones, so technically they should be simpler to maintain. But it's still an investment in tooling etc. to make new parts. Cannibalising other tanks would be the most common method I think
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  26.  @angrydoggy9170  to be fair the Russians don't seem to treat their own soldiers very well either.
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  27. French aircraft of the 1930's were just some of the weirdest things.
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  28. That's the problem with bargain price light aircraft, they are best when the opposition only have them or no aircraft at all.
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  29. @moblinmajorgeneral  perhaps not knowledge that the Elbonian Minister would have in 1945, but a good point.
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  30.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  they are surprisingly big aircraft those reapers so if the Russian actually bodychecked it like the footage suggests it'll need a bit of panel beating to sort out.
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  31. My son said it looks like an airborne Squidward
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  32. It'll be designed with NATO standard interfaces, like 1760. Does require a fair amount of work and replacing a lot of the aircraft avionics to make it work. A longer term project than Ukraine needs right now. I think the Indians are working on something similar, fitting NATO weapons to their Soviet designed platforms.
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  33. Excellent video as ever. And I'm not going to even try and pronounce any of those Finnish names.
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  34.  @alwayscensored6871  The US is complaining about military build ups in Russia to distract from a heavily publicised protest in Canada? Wah?
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  35. Provided that the opposition don't have much in the way of air defence or air force.
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  36. I was told that the first flight of the E28 wasn't actually 5th May but 8th April at Brockworth. This was designated as a ground run but the test pilot wanted to find out the take off characteristics and stability so he got the aircraft airborne for a few hundred meters.
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  37.  @duanabsa9993  as a gesture of goodwill Spain can give Melilla and Ceuta back to Morocco first perhaps?
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  38. The rebels have pulled off some audacious raids on airbases in the past.
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  39. Was the damage on the first pass enough to bring down the drone, or was that second pass/impact the one that did the damage?
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  40. They are pretty accurate, and with the right warhead, low collateral as well.
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  41. Don't lose or break the kit issued to you is aggressively drilled into soldiers still and I've heard plenty of stories of soldiers being billed for equipment lost in fighting. It would go against many soldiers instincts to trash their equipment.
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  42. It looks like a wing warehouse rather than an aircraft. I suppose that more wings means more lift. If you ignore the weight and drag that they add, which might just be what the designer did.
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  43. A fine aircraft for the mid 30's
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  44. Probably why they angled the cannons down, if you dive it may not stop.
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  45. Settled in 1766 and while not continuously occupied it has been British ever since, regardless of what squatters might have been there from time to time.
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  46. 3D printed guns, both good and evil at the same time.
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  47.  @Joannes808  not necessarily something known in 1945 as they only started testing the new build S-92 in 46/47.
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  48.  @alexandruraresdatcu  Amazon making sure that they deliver within 24 hours by sending some packages at 700 mph.
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  49. Fiercely independent, murky origins and a keen interest in tourism and tin mining? They are the Cornish of south east Asia then.
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  50. Did the Germans or Italians have a LST or similar that could transport and land these behemoths? They'd have been a nightmare if landed, but could they have been landed?
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  51. Definitely a design from a pilot and not a maintainer. That's a lot of complex engineering in there.
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  52.  @tomsmith2209  I'm pretty sure that Protector does, or will soon, use Brimstone.
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  53.  @echodelta2172  and 80 years on the same attitudes that Brigadier General McGee faced seem to be alive and well. I'm sure it was better in any country that didn't practice segregation, codify prejudice into law and celebrate slavery. Also where they were citizens, not "the blacks". So most places outside of the US and South Africa.
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  54.  @trevorhart545  I thought that the Thai-tanic rarely left dock due to it's high running costs. Integrating F-35 will make that much worse.
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  55. Would some of the towable 105s be a better gift than the AS90?
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  56. An excellent video, really interesting. Also a thumbs up for the Python reference.
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  57. It was shot at and couldn't be used by the Russians afterwards. That's the same effect as a kill.
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  58. Did an air gunner sleep with the designer's wife?
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  59. Are there any imported trainers/mercenaries involved, or is this going to be self taught locals doing the commando stuff?
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  60. There are loads of spooky stories in the inventory of the unit dit spinner. I'm sure that the combination of memories of unloading injured and dead crew from bombers and a few of the missing aircraft mysteries combined to make this tale.
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  61. Mine is
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  62.  @shauny2285  Martin Baker's designs took years as well, it does depend on priorities. There has been lots of consolidation in the aircraft industries as well, so you won't get lots of smaller companies trying out innovative ideas.
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  63.  @allangibson2408  not many of the top performers in 1940 were competitive in 1942, without extensive upgrades at least.
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  64. Didn't one of those chase Tom Selleck in Runaway?
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  65.  @bob_the_bomb4508  it's in the eye of the beholder
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  66. This is what happens when you call the Royal Engineers in. Their motto is "I don't know what the problem is, but the solution is explosives".
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  67. The Wellesley looks like two fighters glued together with bomber wings slapped on. I think HMS Iron Duke was a better way of commemorating Arthur.
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  68. It looks like it's suffering from subsidence
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  69. Suitably inspired I dropped in to the The Jet Age museum at Gloucester and can thoroughly recommend it. As well as the Gamecock they have a selection of early jet aircraft.
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  70. There is no French word for Aerodynamic.
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  71. It looks like all of the spare parts at the back of the workshop got assembled into an aircraft as a bet. And I love it.
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  72. As far as missiles mounted on the top of an aircraft goes I'm aware of a "shoulder" fit, but never a spine position
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  73.  @petesheppard1709  you'd get a mildly singed canopy I'd imagine
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  74. How does that top speed compare to the aircraft it was hunting? German bombers must have been approaching that speed.
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  75. What was the thinking about stopping manned fighter development? It can't have been unmanned, so was all air defence supposed to be SAM based?
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  76. To be fair most aircraft of that type have weird looks. The Gannet is strangely bulbus as well.
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  77. Would this aircraft be easier to maintain in remote and austere conditions than the more sophisticated drone?
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  78. "No sir, just a little porridge"
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  79. He's Dunning Krugering military aviation now is he?
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  80. It reminds me somewhat of the Fiat G55. The front end at least.
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  81. Another one I hadn't realised existed!
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  82. That seems suicidal even without fighter escorts.
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  83. I'm not convinced that the cost of making them slightly viable and the logistics chain required to keep them that way is worth it really. Unless they are useful as unmanned drones or decoys.
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  84. How did the Italians take part in the Spanish civil war and leave with the impression that biplanes were the way forward? Surely the BF109s and I16s chewed through the biplanes they ran into.
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  85. That the third jet got an image on FLIR and RADAR but couldn't lock might make it tricky. Also might give some clues about these things.
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  86. Excellent work as usual
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  87. A VTOL that can't lift itself up is a bit of an issue
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  88. Trying to use complex equipment that you are not familiar with, especially if it's been maintained by someone equally unfamiliar, is probably more or a liability than an help. However if the Ukrainian war chest is big enough perhaps hiring specific people from the many PMCs could fill this gap. Are there PMCs already working out there?
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  89.  @AndreasMarx  I hadn't heard of these before, thanks for the info
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  90.  @matthewwadwell6100  apparently the Marinefährprahm Type A1 was supposed to do the job of off loading the K1s and 2s. You learn new things every day!
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  91. Perhaps not enjoying not being the centre of attention.
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  92. Creative, but lethal.
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  93. Somebody really couldn't get the air cushion idea out of their head could they? And yes I can see how a light transport where range and capacity are swapped for a huge airbag would be a tough sell.
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  94. Eh?
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  95.  @neiloflongbeck5705  although Vickers follow up, also using the same geodesic frame, was the Wellington so I think that at least unofficially there was a nod to the Duke.
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  96.  @neiloflongbeck5705  so it was a coincidence that the name Wellesley, not an English town like the other bombers, was also that of a famous military commander and prime minister? Also it's not Sir for a Duke, sir is for knights and Baronets
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  97. Which country doesn't offer export credit guarantees with those sorts of orders?
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  98.  @GARDENER42  there is a ton of paperwork and wide range of tests to complete successfully before you get the final sign off. I've not been paying close attention recently so am very much out of the loop.
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  99. Maintaining the theme of communism in the Caribbean, Havana Club 7 year old is nice.
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  100. A rear gun on a jet seems to show a lack of confidence in those engines
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  101. This could have been great for aircraft carrier landings. Although that range would have been a bit of an issue.
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  102.  @wbertie2604  that would only be fair
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  103. And there I was thinking that three wings was already a bit too silly looking, someone had to dial the wings up to 11 (or indeed 4).
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  104. Is it a revolt against Putin, or for Putin?
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  105. I had a quick look at the HE111 and Wikipedia gives the speed as 270 mph. It must have been painful to try and catch a bomber with only a 30mph advantage.
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  106. More unusual?
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  107. A brilliant aircraft if only it could have been finished while there was a war on. Was there no domestic engine makers who could have license built something?
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  108. They can do some damage if you hoover them into your air intake
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  109. Is a visual system like Wescam going to be good enough, on its own, to locate and target drones? I've seen similar systems like Obsidian that use RADAR to locate and provide targeting data.
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  110. If it has not already happened then someone is trying to fit air to air weapons to a drone right now.
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  111.  @grahambaker6664  good info. Many thanks
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  112. @Aqua Fyre I saw a Predator several years ago, about the size of a Cessna single prop light aircraft, and I think that the MQ9 is bigger. Given how much damage a bird strike can do that Russian jet will need a bit of TLC.
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  113. Keeping it weird!
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  114. As the Ukrainians get Challenger 2s the Russians get antiques.
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  115.  @tonyromano6220 England
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  116. The poop bubble and it's many knock on effects
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  117. A heavily armed kite, with a sofa. Absolutely brilliant. Also Pemberton Billing owned a newspaper that was filled with crazy conspiracy theories but successfully won a libel action by simply lying really well. Strange times.
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  118. Long past it's sell by date and of really limited use. I'm amazed it has hung around so long.
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  119. I assume that the helicopter must have been pretty low and slow, but good shooting nevertheless.
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  120. Insert penetration pun here.
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  121. Pencil me in for one
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  122. It's a pretty remote secure site. There shouldn't be passersby and in theory everyone there should be trained to not spaff information on the internet.
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  123. It's amazing that they made a profit given just how much cocaine was used in the brain storming sessions where they came up with these ideas.
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  124.  @danielstickney2400  well that's even worse.
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  125. I have heard of British made weapons being integrated onto Indian AF aircraft. That requires a fair amount of changing the avionics to get sensor and messaging integration. If you have a preprogrammed weapon that just needs a launch signal that is a bit easier but still a substantial amount of work.
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  126.  @obsidianjane4413  does someone make a 1760 adaptor plug, or is something being ad hoc'd locally do you think?
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  127. Is he ratcheting up the odds, or just going for it?
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  128. It looks like a baby 747 shortly after hatching from it's egg
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  129. The Russian military seem to be so much worse at this than many imagined.
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  130. Bernard Manning circa 1975
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  131. Is it fundamentally very different from a landmine? They make operator free "decisions" to attack and with limited parameters (heavy enough?). They also continue to cause danger long after the conflict, at least these grenade bots won't be lurking for years after everyone else has gone home.
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