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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