Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "Curious Droid" channel.

@bodybag22 Gaining air superiority is the most important part of any opening moves in warfare today. Air to air combat and its cousin suppression of air defenses are always going to be relevant. Lose the air, and you lose high ground and you lose the war. Stop talking about things you do not understand.
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@DesertStateInEU This is the stupidest, most insidious and most toxic capitalist-indoctrinated take on transportation in Europe ever.
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Everyone missed the point in this comment thread. It's really simple, if the US drop its aggressive stance to want to contain China and to preserve its hegemony at any costs, there will never be a need for the USN to test if it can defend against a hypersonic missile. The ball is really in the court of America to stop being a douchebag to China and keep poking the dragon. China simply does not want the west to dictate how they should run their country and how they want to do their foreign policy. No one wants anyone else to do that to them anyway. As long as America backs off from trying to turn the west against China, they have absolutely no beef with America. The US government is the one that fires the first shot in trying to contain China and label it as a threat to the world (which most people in the world will disagree) and engaging in economic warfare against them. So all I see is China trying to protect itself and not end up like so many countries being f**ked up America.
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@lordgarion514 You could say the same thing with flying too. The sheer amount of infrastructure that goes into making flying possible is not incomparable to building dedicated HS rails across multiple cities. We simply lack the will and combined with the stranglehold of automobile industry made any large scale public transport project that compete with cars and trucks impossible.
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@DesertStateInEU Except nothing you said even make sense unless you make all the incorrect assumptions. Assumptions that were spoon fed to you through decades of indoctrination. You are wrong about public transportation, you are wrong about cars, you are wrong about how Europe even works. All the points you made are regurgitate bullshit from some right wing think tanks.
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The fact that all Chang'e missions were successful and they also brought back soil from the far side of the moon should really shut people up about doubting China's scientific capability and engineering prowess. Keep in mind that the Chang'e missions were more than just landers. CNSA also put into orbit lunar relay satellites so they can transmit data in real time from the far side of the moon, and planning to build a lunar satellite constellation like a lunar Beidou.
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@xeigen2 That's the thing. What F-35 can do, especially in the sensor fusion, distributed sensor, datalinking part are not going to be ignored by other countries or companies developing their own fighters. Even the latest F-18s are going to get AESA and datalink, and a lot of upgrade, so much so it is nearly a completely new aircraft. Of course, there is indeed only so much you can do with an old airframe so they will never be as good as F-35 which is designed from ground up to use these technologies and tactics. I am pretty sure all the new 5+ gen fighters will try reach F-35 capability and all the last gen 4.5+ fighters will incorporate as much of these lessons as possible. Look up the Saab Gripen, it is a fighter that is built with gen 5 software and hardware capability with a more modest and cheaper gen 4.5+ airframe. The software, situational awareness, detection all that are all generation defining features and it is F-35 which first effectively incorporate them all together into a single jet.
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You wanna bet against that? Are you absolutely sure the Chinese did not find a way to increase their missiles accuracy on moving targets?
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@XKS99 It's not about whether you can intercept it or not, it's whether you have enough interceptors. China can put downrange hundreds, if not thousands of missiles at you so it doesn't matter how good your air defenses are. And China now has over 30% of the world's manufacturing capacity while the collective west can't even make enough shells for a little war. We are not talking about a few missiles, or a dozen being made each month by China. If China is threatened by the US and it has to go into war economy, expect thousands of hypersonic missiles to be churned out per month. How many VLSs do the USN have? This is why the US provoking China and trying to contain China is so stupid.
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The concept itself is simple. It's basically radio waves bouncing back until you detect a certain frequency and then you trigger. The more fascinating part is coming up with the idea in the first place and believing that it was possible to do it.
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Haha this is going to ruffle the petticoats of the fans of A-10 and Apaches. I guess LH has the last laugh today considering they have the F-35 contract of which quite a bit of the technologies developed for the Cheyenne ended up in.
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@creamwobbly You want a people who can't navigate a 2D plane without crashing regularly to navigate a 3D space?
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The NASA chief basically backstabbed the engineers in front of the nation and God. This screams internal political struggle. If you worked on the tanks, you must know something.
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There is already a replacement. It's called Tiangong.
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At this point, the sidewinder is a Ship of Thesus. How much of the original missile is left in the newest iteration? You might as well as call it a new missile.
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Colonel Dani is a combat genius. Like what CD said, it took a combat genius figuring out everything that could be done and everything falling into place to shoot down one stealth plane. To all intents and purposes, the loss of one F-117 compared to the thousands of successful sorties is basically a success story. How many Colonel Danis, even with all the training you can give to every officer, can you ever hope to replicate that one in a lifetime shot on a regular basis to the point it actually will pose a threat? Yea, no way it's going to happen. Stealth works and it works with frightening efficient. That's why everyone is moving towards stealth.
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A-10 lovers are not going to like this video.
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UA wants to operate 15 SST? The lousiest airline wants to make up their shittiness by using fancy toys.
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The fact that most dynos cannot handle this amount of power for too long before they overheat reminds me when Vegeta destroyed the punch measuring machine in DBZ.
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Brexit will ensure that China will come knocking on British doors and take it all away. If UK keeps on this trajectory politically, they will become the economic colony of China.
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