Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Not What You Think" channel.

  1. For the Falklands war, the UK turned two container commercial ships into escort aircraft carriers for its Harriers jump jets. In theory, F-35B can follow Harrier jump jet's example.
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  2.  @ramal5708  The cost per hour to fly the F35 is less than a f15. how is the F35 expensive? F15-Ex 88 million F35 - 77 million Cost per hour to fly: Air Force Numbers: F-15C $22,489 F15D $21,745 F15e $17,408 F22 $40,385 F35A $16,952 So the F35 is cheaper to buy, and cost less per hour to fly. Link and source for above per hour numbers: Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Management and Comptroller: Year 2020 From comptroller_defense_gov/Financial-Management/Reports/rates2020/ Replace _ characters into . character for the web link.
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  3.  @checker297  >I believe carriers will become extremely useless as missile denial systems become more prevalent. F-35A's longer-range (1407 km combat radius with internal weapons and internal fuel tank) has reduced the need for USN's aircraft carriers due to following 1. F-35A can execute strikes at entire Iran from Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and UAE. 2. F-35A can execute strikes deep into European majority Russian population centers from Poland, Baltics, and Romania. 2. F-35A can execute strikes deep into Venezuela from Puerto Rico, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat.
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  4.  @ramal5708  False, F-35A Block 3F Lot 14's per unit cost is under $79 million USD.
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  5. Against drones, the army needs something like Israel's Iron Beam.
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  6.  @whiskeyyy5746  Turkish Leopards are obsolete 2A4 variants. Leopard 2A7+ has an Israeli Trophy active defense system. 17 German Army tanks will be fitted with the Trophy system with integration planned to be completed in 2023. US Army's M1A2 SEP V3 has an Israeli Trophy active defense system and they are manufactured in higher numbers when compared to the Russians. The advanced system needs matured chip fabrication and a deep learning/GpGPU/FPGA software industry. US companies AMD and Intel have the world's ranked 1 and 2 FPGA companies. Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel dominate mass iGPU technologies.
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  7.  @flyingbusa3407  Russia's Ukraine adventure resembles Saddam's Iraq military.
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  8.  @Eureka092  The US has more than 164,000 trucks and 125,000 Humvees (being replaced by Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, or JLTV). The US has Humvees nearly for each Russian soldier in Ukraine.
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  9. Ukraine should have kept a reduced 165 nukes. The middle ground is better than the extremes at both ends. Budapest Memoriam is a failure.
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  10. The US has a "super-soldier" program.
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  11.  @Literaltile  Anti-drone involves lasers that fire cheap destructive energy beams.
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  12.  @DontAttme  "Battleships" can return as multiple high-powered laser weapon platforms. Need large mobile power generation to power multiple laser weapons. In terms of displacement, several cutting-edge so-called destroyers are in WW2 era medium cruiser level displacement. Missile guided/air warfare destroyers(with yesteryear's cruiser level displacement), SSBN, SSGN, and aircraft carriers have largely replaced battleships and battlecruisers.
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  13.  @checker297  Large battleships and battlecruisers lack submarine stealth. Modern submarines are effectively stealthy missile-guided platforms.
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  14.  @serge4746  When the US exits the Budapest Memorandum, then it's is a compete failure along with all other US security assurances (weaker than NATO Article V level) with other countries and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. There's a high chance the US will exit the Budapest Memorandum under the GOP-controlled US presidency and congress.
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  15.  @missouriresole4726  Nope. South Korea previously flirted with the idea of developing nuclear weapons in the 1970s, when it ran a secret program. But when the United States found out, it issued an ultimatum. Seoul could carry on, or have the US defend it, with the full force of its existing nuclear arsenal. It picked US support, and to this day tens of thousands of US troops remain stationed on the Korean peninsula. US allies like Australia doesn't have NATO Article V level defense agreement with the US. Australia was tesring nukes in 1950s along with the UK partner. Similar setup for Taiwan and Japan. Budapest Memorandum's US security assurance offer and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty membership are not unique. The issue is US's GOP isolationist movement e.g. Trump's allowing US allies to have independent nukes and the US exit from related defense obligations. The problem is when US exits, other countries wouldn't have the R&D time to replace US nuclear security arrangements.
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  16. "F-35 'Lightning' now OK to fly in lightning storms" - 2015/04/16/Air-Force-says-the-Lightning-should-now-have-no-problems-in-lightning
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  17. The range argument between F-35A vs F-35B is flawed since F-35B's airbase is mobile.
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  18.  @qiyuxuan9437  Canberra-class has 27,500 tons.
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  19.  @LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial  Israeli Iron Beam counter drones. Israeli Trophy active defense system counter Javelins. These systems are developed by Rafael, funded by the MoD, and extensively underwritten by the United States. Unlike the Russians, the US has the economic and chip fabrication power to implement them in useful numbers.
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  20.  @gae_wead_dad_6914  US Army is doing both sides of the argument.
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