Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. I like how self serving this comment is. Nothing mentioning about the complicity of western oil companies and it's employees in helping corruption to flourish.
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  2.  @Redrally  You mean the British embassies cannot even issue temporary passports? That doesn't sound right.
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  3. And people in the west are complaining about how China is exploiting Africa.
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  4. Vietnam, Laos and Mynamar invade China LOL. And Malaysia is not really a close ally to US. But then that can be easily ratified by US just bribing whoever is in power anyway. Not that China can't do the same.
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  5.  @raconteur5195  Then why deliberately showed this kind of content when everyone is doing the same thing anyway.
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  6.  @susutag  That's literally a falsehood.
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  7.  @spatsky  A single modern heavy torpedo can cut a destroyer in half when it explode just below the keel. A hit at the right place would severely cripple a carrier and might even sink it if damage control was not well done. In any case, getting hit by a heavy torpedo is most likely a mission kill and reduce the carrier's capability maybe even to the point when it is vulnerable to other threats. Anti-ship ballistic missiles are still an unknown because it is still very very hard to hit a relatively small moving target on the sea and there are ABM defenses on the destroyers and cruisers. Submarines are still the number one threat to any fleet in the world simply because of how difficult it is to detect and they have the best chances to penetrate a carrier group's defenses.
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  8. I don't really see this as a problem for China. If anything, China is very good at tackling infrastructure challenges. They will just spend more time and money to reinforce their grid to meet the demands. This is laughably trivial for China to resolve. This video is a projection because in America, this problem would be a complete disaster because there is no way the US government today cannot resolve huge infrastructure problems.
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  9. Tiltrotors, like helicopters sound good on paper but is actually much worse right now. Tiltrotors are far more complex and more accident prone. That translate to even higher operational and upfront costs, to the point even wealthy passengers might balk at the price. They will never be big enough to really ferry enough passenger per trip to really benefit from the economies of scale like jetliner, metros, trains and buses. On top of that, no city will allow tiltrotors to operate just from rooftops of garages because they are insanely noisy. Helicopters are bad enough, tiltrotors are likely to be even worse. Having multiple tiltrotors landing and taking off regularly in the middle of the city - which is already noisy - will push local residents or workers insane. A few things have to happen before helicopters or tiltrotors can become regular passenger liners. Costs have to go down, helicopter already achieve that for premium market, this is impossible right now for tiltrotors. Decrease complexity and increase reliability - this bring us directly into costs too as complexity increase maintenance and reliability decrease it. Costs have to go down to at least just 10 times the mass transit by per passenger per mile for the premium market and only about 2 - 3 times to have a chance to penetrate the masses. Most upper middle class people are willing to pay 2 - 3 times more to use a regular service to save time and headaches of driving and public transport and that's when you have a possible chance to make the business viable. Lastly, technology has to improve to the point where the noise level is comparable to a loud bus before such transport is even possible to operate in city centers. I don't see helicopters ever meeting these challenges, much less tiltrotors in the near future.
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