Comments by "Geordiedog" (@geordiedog1749) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. I wonder what they did with my granddads motorbike. He put sand in the tank.
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  2. The days of the conventional soldier really are fast becoming a thing of the past.
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  3.  @thekinginyellow1744  That’s because it’s like the most badly represented bit of kit ever! Primary source info on them is really very positive. The ‘haters’ are generally just following a sheep or are Werhaboos spouting the usual cobblers. PIATs had lots of great advantages over rocket prop. kit. ‘King in Yellow’ is a great handle, by the way!:) I love that whole thing from the originals to TD season 1.
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  4. I actually knew about this one. Football War was what I knew it as. Still, great to see it in more detail. Any clues as to the type of 20mm? Hispano or Oerlikons ?
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  5. “And here’s the Blackburn Blackburn flying over Blackburn by Wing Cmdr Blackburn and Flight Sgt Schwartzfuer. It has a new paint which gives off very dark smoke if it catches fire”.
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  6. Is that a Danish Madsen MMG in the pic near the beginning anyone know? It’s not a Bren.
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  7. Hmmmmm ….. should have waited ‘til the end.
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  8.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Aye. Just compiling a wee list of them in my head. Incidentally, have you read ‘Quartered Safe Out Here’?
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  9.  @anthonywilson4873  I thought that it was going to be a vid that was going for views rather than being of decent content. But I’m pleased to be wrong.
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  10. Nice one, Ed. I also heard (on Armoured Carriers’ channel) that the Grumman Martlet/Wildcat sold to the FAA was widely sabotaged at source, too.
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  11. What do you think took down the helicopter?
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  12.  @吴-o8s  Ah! Oh....
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  13. Another great video. Cheers.
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  14. Boooooooom.......er..........rang
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  15. A totally new one on me. Great stuff Ed!
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  16.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  I’ll check it out. Defo. Keep up the good work btw:)
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  17. It’s never aliens.
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  18. Is t one of these supposed to be haunted - the one up in the NE? I know the curator tells a good tale of how a visitor once proudly pointed to the holes in the tail plane and shouted “I did that!”
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  19.  @gort8203  I see. The book I read was saying that the ‘sensible thing’ was to go with the Lancaster option as too many issues were outstanding with the ‘29’s and the possibility that it might not be ready in time was real. However, some US brass felt that it absolutely must be a US only show (despite all the non us allied boffins involved) and insisted they go with the B-29 option and basically crossed fingers (and toes) that I’d be ready.
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  20. I had a motorbike in that category once.
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  21. Gas was the big fear. It was the atom bomb of the day.
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  22.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Armoired Carriers is the place to go. Can’t recommend his channel high enough. Nearly as good as yours, Ed:)
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  23.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Good point. In this case shot down the most enemy aircraft.
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  24. Ah. Finally a plane I have actually heard of:)
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  25. If it’s a ‘No’ to the main question then what’s the new ‘oldest plane to get a kill’?
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  26. Never knew there was such a thing!
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  27.  @greggstrasser88  yeah. Just jump in and start blasting away. Nee botha. :)
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  28.  @Verminator4  I’ve heard it said that armour is now too vulnerable. This does seem to bear out what you’re saying.
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  29. Geodesic is hard to say when shitfaced. Just saying…..
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  30. P39?
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  31. Oh my Gawd!! What the actual fuck is that???? All of them?
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  32. Interesting if the Soviet Air Forces had adopted this type of approach rather than the ‘big heavy powerful’. I kinda T34 of the jets. Great vid. Again. Getting boring saying “great vid” every time . Why not do something shite for a change?:)
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  33. Nice work. Very interesting.
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  34. Funny old company, Fairey. They managed to make some absolutely woeful planes as well as some corkers. Like most companies really only Fairey had good planes by accident. Great vid…. again. Keep in up Sgt. :)
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  35.  @johnreep263  That’s a good point. One of my favourite planes ever is actually the Fulmar. Not sure why. Probably to do with Pedestal. Most likely it’s because Fulmars were long and slow and outdated but strangely effective when it came down to it. So I guess they remind me of myself:)
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  36.  @johnreep263  Wings used to fall off apparently! Otherwise I totally agree! Pretty kites!
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  37.  @johnreep263  Yeah, they aren’t ugly kites at all. Bit boxy, maybe but I like them. I think they were rushed into service. If you look at the death rates amongst test pilots for the time you get a feel for just how rushed things were.
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  38.  @thekinginyellow1744  I think it stems from some shit show on the History Channel (nuff said ) which slagged it off. Their ‘experts’ were just wheeled out and told to speak about something for 30 secs even if they hadn’t a clue and they were big headed enough to do just that. “Morons! Fucking morons everywhere!”
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  39.  @garwhittaker3743  Sure you can. Roll and brace the foot rests. Straighten (with gritted teeth) Actually easier to do lying down if the mechanism doesn’t reload the spring after firing.
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  40.  @mebsrea  oh I don’t know. Our ones seemed to jam a fair bit as well. But cheers for that. Very helpful:)
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  41.  @LukeBunyip  Promotion! Wonderful, thank you.
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  42. Ah ha. I was wondering if you were going to mention the Germany incident. Next time? Coolio:) Well done, once again. Cheers:)
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  43.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Ok so here’s a thought .... so sometimes war and killing harden and empty a person out do it becomes blasé to them - I’m sure you’ve personally come across this - so maybe AI might avoid this? ‘Clutching at straws’ or ‘onto something’?
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  44.  @Bravohalo  yes absolutely. But they also won’t play football with people heads after they killed them to zero their gun like a patient of mine told me his unit had done. I think I’m probably just clutching at straws really, though. It’s just so scary. The ‘Great Filter’ and all that stuff.......the technological singularity may happen in my lifetime, very likely in my kids, and after that no one knows what the fuck will happen (which is what ‘singularity means of course:) It’s not a Sci Fi anymore. Is this the answers the Fermi Paradox. (Gawd strewth! - I do sound very tin foil hat today:)
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  45.  @johnladuke6475  yeah, landing with your feet off the floor!:)
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  46. Well, I think he’s way more genuine that most.
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  47. Some quite notable historians argue that WW2 ran from the Franco Prussian war to the fall of the Berlin Wall (WW1 being circa 1776). This definition of WW2 includes all conflicts of the period (pretty much).
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  48. Was that you on the drums, then? :)
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  49.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  I actually envy you being able to read that for the first time. I only mention it as it’s often cited in historical books about Burma campaign. Japans heaviest defeat of the war.
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  50.  @MrSensible2  very true, alas.
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