Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds" channel.

  1. Modern RAF would destroy them.
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  2. If the Roman legion was armed with modern weapons who could tell.
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  3. Selling rip off watches might work in certain parts of the world but producing rip off aircraft does not mean they will work in open global warfare.
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  4. The US would crush China in open warfare. It would be a fight that is so one-sided that it would take the world by such surprise. The US naval fleet has the ability to project several hundred fighter jets into any battle front in the world. And could land in excess of 100,000 elite troops into any conflict in a very short period of time. The US Navy would cause such damage to Chinese coastal defense systems that land forces could easily penetrated into coastal regions with such depth that China could never dispel them. And from that landing the US could then project a second air war over the whole middle and southern region of China.
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  5. The f35 is a foundation aircraft designed to do the large scale grunt work of all the Branches of the US military and also to help international partners.
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  6. Apart from the fact it is cheaper to operate than an F18 and F16 and it is a general purpose stealth fighter. US has now produced 1000 F35 craft. The Rafale costs more than the F35 so I have no idea where you are getting your figures from?
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  7. That 20 accuracy rate only applies to specific small targets and not a wall of Roman troops moving. The accuracy rate would be much higher against such a wall of troops.
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  8. You think the US does not have Hypersonic missiles that they can fire back. How naive some people are.
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  9. Japan is building Japanese style naval ships.
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  10. Russian military is not weak but it is not committed to going in with the gloves off because it will look really bad for Russia if they do that. Even their closest allies would distance themself in that case. Russia has the firepower to flatten the place but are trapped due to their policy of war.
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  11. That 92% that people keep bringing up was not the actual effective rate that was applied. What it did was ensure that corporations applied their profits to investments. That rate is not needed today because corporations by their own culture invest large amount of their spare capital into their infrastructure. So the answer is YES not no.
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  12. Where the F15 would do the most damage is hitting the carriers before aircraft get to take off.
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  13. You mean weapons.
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  14. Missile supplies are very important.
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  15. The F35 is not that expensive when compared to other fighters. I think because the media says it cost 1.5 trillion to develop that people think that means it is more expensive. The whole program for the US including building a fleet of them, maintaining them and arming them for the next 50 years will cost that amount of money.
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  16. F35 is the most cutting edge general purpose fighter there is on the planet. There is just no getting around that fact.
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  17. First of all it is an assumption that the Modern Luftwaffe would engage with the WW2 RAF. Instead they would send out a few decoys to cause confusion. And would then target specific infrastructure. It would be devastating to the WW2 war efforts. So much so that after a few weeks it would ground the vast majority of the RAF. The tactics that the Modern Luftwaffe would use in dealing with the RAF would be attack from above at speed. The Modern Luftwaffe could do all of this only using a skeleton force saving the majority of the fleet for large targeted raids on infrastructure.
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  18. Apart from the fact it is the best general purpose fighter there is. There is nothing wrong with Rafale and is a good option for many militaries but let us be honest it is not in the same league as the F35.
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  19.  @GratitudeAboveAll  What would happen if Mongols were stupid enough to have 100,000 men on horse try to storm a heavily diversified position of Marines they would end up falling on top of the front of the hordes that would drop. They probably would end up crushing many to death and the panic that ordinance would then cause on the bottle neck would cause they pure chaos in their numbers.
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  20.  @gregcampwriter  Russian missiles are struggling in their own back yard. And you think they are going to work in a full intercontinental nuclear exchange? What we do know is that Russian nuclear arsenal is most based on 1970s warheads because in the 1980s the Russian economy was in free fall and could not build new systems. Russian military annual budget was about $60 billion for the last decade which was not enough for them to have upgraded their systems or even carried out extensive refits. The US probably has about 40% of its cold war nuclear warheads in an active state what is the figure for Russia?
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  21. US supplies are enormous in size and depth.
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  22.  @equalityforever302  Israel did not invade Palestine. What you call Palestinians is really arab transplants that were put in there by imperial power. Israelis' have lived in that region for several thousand years and on several occasions Arabs tried to ethnically cleanse them from the region.
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  23. You are talking as if modern engines would be hand crafted. They will be using robotic assembly lines that would work alongside humans. They will have whole factories of 3d printing over seen by a handful of engineers, technicians and craftsmen that will output complex parts simply that the enemy will not be able to do. Those plants will be all over the US and will have such high production outputs that the US will mass manufacture at a level that the opponents will not understand. No need for you to be working in your garage.
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  24. A whole battalion could easily stand in the open field against a horde of horse warriors.
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  25. It is part of an air force and plays a part in wider capabilities.
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  26. Missiles go in both directions. And then countries need to be 100% sure that their own missiles will actually work.
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  27.  @ATLMike94  What people do not understand about the 880m range is that they can actually fire further than 880m. That range is the considered accuracy range for an individual shooting on a single target not trying to hit a large line of Roman legion with simply no range attacks. There would be many romans dying at over 1000m and if the USMC has an elevated position that is only going to increase as a force multiplier.
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  28. @Clement Kong Japan has over 500 combat aircraft, 4 aircraft carriers and over 100 naval warships. It is called a defence force but so what. When it is combined with South Korea and Taiwan it will be a formidable force in the Asian theatre of war. They will have as many combat aircraft that China has and most importantly they will have a much higher reliability rate in their aircraft.
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  29. Because most of these reports are nonsense. Israel pays for everything it procures. The countries in question most certainly are doing Israel a favor by given them good designs and expertise. The US is not giving Israel 3 billion in aid the US is providing 3 billions worth of equipment that is paid for by Israel.
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  30.  @FredHandle1  The people of Israel will not be exiled again nor will they be enslaved.
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  31. It has not worked. The US still stands today with the largest high tech manufacturing industry in the world and the largest military force.
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  32.  @Mark-do5bh  It is common knowledge among people with an IQ that is average that hypersonic missiles do not exist. Hypersonic speeds can only be achieved with glide which the US did 60 years ago with their missiles.
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  33. Not at all. The Royal Navy was global and that was beyond the capabilities of the Luftwaffe. Instead they would have focused on British Key infrastructure.
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  34. @GreenEarth The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was made up of about 170,000 American troops, 40000 british troops, 1000 Australians and about 200 Polish troops. That means 80% of the troops involved were American and if they wanted to it could have been 100% of the troops being American. Only about 8% of US military power was used in Iraq.
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  35. Force multiplier. 40 marines firing on a mass of targets is going to have a much higher impact than one troop firing at one troop.
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  36.  @grumbeard  That is where modern radar, computer targeting, computer modelling and so on get layered into the weapons and attacks systems. The US has retrofitted a lot of old missiles with new targeting systems so even 1950s style missiles have lots of accuracy. The US can also integrate communications and targeting from the ground into air attacks. A simple drone can target everything in a battle space for an awesome scale missile strike.
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  37. We all know that some people are stupid and will believe every conspiracy theory they come in contact with.
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  38. In WW3 they will as the enemy will be defending their assets with airpower.
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  39.  @damonnoble8401  It is not just the training of the individual troop it is the culture and centuries it takes to make that development.
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  40. @Phil Kelly To answer your question yes it does. What China has been doing is getting commercial grade ships painting them in a naval color and then bolting on some features to make them look military like. It is nothing more than a puffed up chest. What they are trying to do is wing it until they are actually able to make the stuff for real.
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  41. They probably use missiles and lighter guns. And with modern control systems do not need as much crew utilities volume.
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  42.  @Julian-pw5mv  Romans did not use wide spread bows. They used it in a limited fashion. Marines would just move out of the range of bows and use a tactical retreat that would take into account the bows and weapons used by the Legion.
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  43.  @nervsouly  China and Russia do not have the ability to easily locate targets in the pacific ocean especially moving military targets.
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  44.  @MajorBorris  In WW3 the US would employ mass automation to create a new class of aircraft that can be outfitted at extremely high rates. Before WW2 the US was not making that many aircraft and if you had of put the idea of mass producing them for war it would have been rejected by the vast majority of people as they simply would not have understood how industry could be applied to it. In WW3 the US would have whole factories of 3d printing systems that would be used to produce complex components and each factory would be run by a handful of engineers, technicians and craftsmen. So what sort of aircraft would the US be producing they would probably be using something that is very similar to an F-16 that would use aspects of the F-35 to produce a low profile fighter but they would not need to have everything as a stealth aircraft.
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  45.  @Lazarus98849  The US has not outsourced all manufacturing. About 85% of what the US uses is from within the US. And in some specialist sectors such as CPU chips they come predominantly from the US.
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  46. US is not printing dollars for itself it is doing it to supply the world with Dollars.
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  47. The second largest is the US navy. China does not have 2000 fighter aircraft any more than it claims to have zero covid.
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  48. Mass production today would be using 3d printing, automation, computer design, computer controlled manufacturing and so on.
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  49. That is not even close to being true. Clearly if a country uses US aircraft against the like of UK, France or Israel or any other European country they would be very displeased but using the US fighter at that point would be the least of a countries worries.
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  50.  @anglosaxon244  It is the US congress that decides if the US goes to war not the president.
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  51. If WW3 happens the US will build in excess of 100,000 fighter aircraft, 1000 carriers, millions of aircraft, hundreds of thousands of armoured vehicles. While it is true that a single fighter today has more firepower due to force multiplier effects of technology they still will need to be able to cover a wide theater of war.
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  52.  @denniskoppo4259  The US in WW2 had over 100 aircraft carriers in the pacific. When I say 1000 carriers that will be down to the fact that the US has made a 20 fold increase in production output since WW2. Based on Just population levels the US went from 140 million people in 1945 to 320 million today. Modern carriers will be used for helicopters and attack drones and also vertical take off aircraft. It will not all be used for fighter jets. Even C-130s can take off and land from an aircraft carrier. Right now the US has about 20 active aircraft carriers and several in storage. With a 4 year war there will be massive increases in production with automation being used to increase that output as well as an increased population. Right now the US produces 20 commercial scale ships every year and in a war that figure will go through the roof.
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  53. Good people do exist.
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  54. The US killed 1.5 million Vietcong and destroyed their Armies. 10000 aircraft was nothing to the US.
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  55. So you are saying the Egyptians learned by them getting the asses kicked then to bring in a big brother to also get its asses kicked. SO they learned not to mess with Israel.
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  56.  @grumbeard  Homeless people in the wester world tend to be mentally ill people. There is nothing new about any of this and it existed in pre WW2 as well.
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  57. By pure accident.
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  58. China does not make microchips or even complex circuit boards. Iphones are only assembled in China not actually manufactured.
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  59. What you are saying is the exact same sorts of things that were said before WW1 that the economies were to well integrated for anything to happen. Think about this the UK and Germany went to war because a in Austria was assassinated.
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  60. The reason why the US is not attacking Russia is because the west never attacks to begin with it always reacts. That is just part of the culture. Russia has several thousand nuclear weapons China at most has about 200 and that is simply not enough to engage in open nuclear exchange with the US. Nuch a weapons stockpile would have no impact on the US in a major war.
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  61.  @calvinblue894  Try and convince South Korea and Japan of that when the Chinese are making moves in the naval transport regions. Does China want revenge on Japan for WW2?
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  62. It was also the day that started the defeat of both the Japanese imperial empire and the Nazi's.
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  63.  @Emilechen  Flee? They have always lived on that Island.
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  64.  @Emilechen  The Taiwanese people have lived on that Island for centuries so are you saying nobody lived on the Island before 1949?
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  65. All because the US has allowed them to do that over the years. Germany then seen that as a means to not spend.
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  66.  @ML-po6vy  Japan has a navy that could easily challenge China.
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  67.  @tomkavulic7178  How do you know china has advanced anti-ship capabilities?
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  68.  @onetruekeeper  In years gone by Russia would have had the ability to take out Israel but not today.
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  69.  @porkypig2971  US won Vietnam. 47000 US troops died in Vietnam mostly by terrorist attacks and 1500000 vietcong died. So are you suggesting that the US wiped the floor with the communists in Vietnam ?
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  70.  @porkypig2971  Yes it does when the enemy has been defeated.
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  71.  @porkypig2971  It does when the enemy surrenders at the paris talks.
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  72.  @porkypig2971  Israel is the dominant force in the that region.
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  73. Turkish airforce would be a good defensive force but not be capable of dominating european air space.
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  74. Nope they will do nothing of the sort. Japanese philosophy today is to stay good to the US and source its oil from partners. Japan is not empire driven today.
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  75. Marnes have repelled tens of thousands of storming Chinese and North Korean troops who are also armed with guns.
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  76.  @Arsenic71  Those things all look great on paper but back in the real world where real aircraft and technology matters.
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  77. @Uhavenoright toask Just because the US passes a expenditure bill providing the Israeli state with military equipment does not mean it is free. It just means that they have cleared the sale of such equipment.
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  78. Nope. It is just a fantasy that certain people live in because they believe they can somehow deal with American power in the world.
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  79. Israel is a people with its own language that has existed in the middle east for several thousand years.
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  80. Not just that those low flying hypersonics would require extreme levels of energy just to maintain flight elevations. The main issue with high altitude missiles is that they stand out like a sore thumb.
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  81. The Modern Luftwaffe would not even need to target the Navy. They would just need to target specific infrastructure.
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  82. Look more closely and you may discover than there are many components with other countries stamps on them.
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  83. A single sub is not going to take out a battle group. And if WW3 begins the US will produce 1000 carriers.
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  84. @Out There There is a lot of myths about WW2. Germany did not lose the war because of the cold or due to some magical Russian counter offensive. Germany was fighting the war on too many fronts and committed most of its resources to fighting the West. The troops that were in Russia simply did not have good resources to the point that they had no fuel and no air cover. If Germany had of focused on Russia alone it would have wiped the floor with them in about 12 months maximum.
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  85.  @Emilechen  You are living in a fantasy world if you think the people of Taiwan are going to not want help from Japan.
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  86.  @clementkong8133  The japanese military is in far better condition than the Chinese military and would wipe the floor with them in open warfare.
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  87.  @clementkong8133  Man power will not translate in modern warfare without the means of delivering that manpower. So having a large population does not mean it will translate to battlefield success. The US has the ability to produce a 40 million man professional force for a world war. And that means it will be an industrial backed troop numbers not just numbers on a page.
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  88.  @hockeyrobber  The US gave the Russians 400,000 vehicles, 25000 aircraft, 25000 tanks, 2 million tons of aid, machines for factories and the ability to produce arms in vast quantities.
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  89.  @ZebraEzel  Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are far more formidable as a military force than Russia and China are. Europe for example has an airforce that is far superior to that of Russia and the Asian trinity has an airforce superior to China.
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  90. OUt of the 200,000 that were killed the majority was by terrorist attacks. In the year 2004 there was over 70 terrorist attacks in Iraq with a near complete targeting civilians. That is not actually that surprising considering that the Ba'ath in Iraq killed hundreds of thousands of people before the 2003 invasion.
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  91. Israel has its own military and economy and buys stuff from America.
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  92. That makes no sense at all.
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  93. Now imagine what shape their nuclear warheads are in?
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  94. They are not stealing it they are being gifted it on purpose.
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  95. US spends Spends over a trillion a year on infrastructure. It has nothing to do with the US have the worlds large airforce and navy.
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  96. Iraq had a far larger air force and SAM system than Ukraine had. The Iraq military before the invasion stood at over 1 million men.
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  97. @Jeff Yang It will not come down to Biden as it is the US congress that makes the decision and Biden will do as they please.
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  98. @Maverick In a major war the US will build thousands of Carriers and produce a 40 million man force of professional service personnel.
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  99.  @Arsenic71  The US has more than 200 F-22's. Those are the numbers that are admitted to. It has been such an advanced fighter that it rarely gets used and nobody knows its true capabilities other than the air force.
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  100. China does not have the ability to take out such communications. Getting a rocket into space is a complex task never mind trying to take out a target that is somewhere in hundreds of millions of square kilometers. The Kessler Syndrome is a sort of tool within science fiction. Good luck trying to fill up trillions of volumes of kilometers of space.
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  101.  @Huppy1234567  The US if it wanted to could build out hundreds of thousands of F-4 standard aircraft but they probably would end up building something similar to an F-16 only it would be armed to the teeth with new fancy weapons and probably coated in something that would make its radar profile very low key (not completely stealth).
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  102. Accurate?
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  103.  @louisixlefourbe8075  All fighter aircraft have problems because they are pushing the boundaries of engineering physics.
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  104.  @dEcmircEd  The F35 is cheaper to run it is that simple.
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  105.  @williamdesbiens4544  They type of operations an F35 can perform means it can cost more due to the fact it can be carrying heavier loads.
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  106.  @levelazn  So how did those 5000 years of history help against the British Navy?
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  107. If major war was to break out the US within 4 years could have 10,000 F22 and 100,000 F35 in the sky. And a hundred carries to deploy in the war.
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  108.  @Prognox  China does not have enough weapons for full nuclear exchange and neither does Russia. Even the US with its trillions of spending probably has about 20 to 40% of its cold war weapons. The US is probably the only country with full nuclear exchange capabilities but in 20 years time they may not have that ability either. The weapons launch systems are complex and have thousands of miles of cable systems, switching systems and control systems. Most of those were not kept up in the last 35 years. Even the physical mechanisms in the warhead probably have seized up. I think everybody is basing their experience on 40 to 60 year old weapon systems. Would the fuel systems in the missiles even be active at this point with all the damp that would manifest in the systems.
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  109.  @deanstephens2876  Russian military budget has been increasing its military budget to $90 billion per year. ANd that is nowhere near enough to get their 50 year old systems up and running. Please tell me this is not hard to understand.
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  110.  @ernestoabunda9618  Not out of missiles simply cannot sustain same level of intensity due to falling numbers. It does not mean they have no missiles.
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  111.  @brianlong2334  Germany had Both Russia and the UK Penned in. Its problem was that it was operating on too many fronts. They were trying to hold the Netherlands, France, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Mediterranean, North Africa and was in a major invasion of Russia which had penned in. The biggest tactical error Germany made was to invade France. That then involved the UK and then the US. Once the UK was involved in meant automatically that Canada and Australia were called into play. As were the likes of India.
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  112. Good luck trying that in naval warfare.
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  113. @Joseph Daigo Peto When used is a whole system sonor is very powerful.
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  114.  @hallo84  Who is going to use the nuclear war. It cannot be China has they do not have enough nuclear warheads for full exchange.
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  115. +jaxative jax It would be better not to target the British Navy nor the RAF with the modern Luftwaffe. It would make far more sense to target British infrasture and bring the country to its knees.
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  116. Submarines have to work as part of a battle group to be of use. The idea of a single Sub being able to take out multiple battleships is nonsense.
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  117. No he is not. He is making mistakes.
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  118. NATO was not involved in Iraq. The coalition as it was known was based on US troops and then open support from some countries. At no real point did the invasion involve NATO or other countries. America could do it alone but wanted it to be seen that other countries supported them.
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  119. @Pacific Carpophagous Japan has about 500 combat aircraft that can be used as a defence force. And they are far superior to anything China has in training and technology. Chinese industry excels at making cheap plastic junk from Western designs. Once war starts nobody will be ordering that cheap junk and good luck to China trying to keep that 700 million working people happy.
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  120. The US has developed systems that can be retrofitted to older equipment. It also has weapons platforms that produce very strange forces. The US has a missile system platform that allows small fishing boats to launch missiles. It also has missile programs that can be applied to commercial aircraft and so on. Every high output manufacturing process in the US can be integrated into a wartime program.
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  121. Biden is giving full support to Japan just like Trump did.
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  122. US does not need smaller or destroyers for its intended naval strategy in the future. US carrier groups are the future.
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  123. It will use drones but will work alongside traditionally manned flight systems but it will also be controlled by ground troops that will use them to target enemies.
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  124.  @henryneubert7798  Hey you must lay of those mind altering drugs.
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  125.  @genericscout5408  Population to work? The US has a stable population with lots of young people unlike other countries.
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  126. Modern automation and engineering would be used including auto industry to make aircraft, missiles and other weapons platforms. Modern companies like Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Texas instruments and so on would be producing the control systems for modern weapons. A simple controller chip such as Texas Instruments msp platform would be used for guidance controls.
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  127.  @Gemz0001  The US is actually paying an economic price in allowing its currency to be used to create stable economies around the world. There is no such thing as a free lunch. It is not a weapon the US does it so as to ensure that global chaos does not cause another major world war. The main reason the US dollar gets used is due to its ability to scale because the US economy has thousands of trillions of asset values to keep its economy always afloat. Investors seek out this stability with a purpose.
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  128.  @Gemz0001  US Navy alone is worth about $70 trillion as an asset. US total agriculture as an asset is worth $80 trillion. US industrial assets are worth about $300 trillion. Saudi Arabia cannot exist without US weapons and US protection. They know that, US knows that and the Iranians know that. BRICS is not even a real thing and is a fantasy.
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  129.  @JoeyBeez  US can use laser to target income missiles and then use nuclear weapons blasts to fill the airspace at a thermal level to take down any income missiles that can all be done at sea and there would be no radioactive affect's on ground. But who knows what secret weapons programs have been developed with those trillions of dollars spent over the years as the US perfected all this stuff over 40 years ago. It was one of the reasons the Russians understand that they could not engage on a nuclear level with the US.
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  130.  @nothuman3083  You think the US does not mine? What planet are you living on. The US has massive scale mining operations.
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  131. SO you do not think the US can use lasers to target incoming ballistic missiles? An enemy may get one sneak attack of limited value but the moment that happens it will never be allowed again and the retaliation would be immense.
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  132. Nukes have been way over rated in the modern world. In ocean orientated warfare nuclear weapons would be useless if you do not where they are.
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  133. The US at present has about 100 semiconductor plants. There would be no short of chips for US military. Now the world on the other hand may have a shortage of commercial chips. The US has the world's highest production capacity for chips.
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  134. You are over estimating the power of nuclear warheads. While they are powerful their missile platforms are not that accurate and very few exist that are capable of intercontinental travel.
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  135.  @AeneasGemini  what if he is Russian living in another part of the world?
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  136.  @Mark-do5bh  The deterrent is only a public face it does not inform anybody of true capabilities of the systems or even what is kept secret in bunkers. Think of how advanced stinger and javelin missiles are now imagine what sorts of crazy Manhattan type projects there are.
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  137. If China cannot generate its own gas and oil those lines will become targets for the US. If you think China can stand toe to toe with the US you are going to be in for a surprise.
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  138.  @downundergarage6968  The US military budget is increasing and US firepower is also increasing.
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  139.  @downundergarage6968  US government spends almost $3 trillion a year on the welfare state and you are here complaining about the military budget which is the only thing that keeps America and the world safe. What were you saying about priorities again?
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  140.  @elmermatthew6796  How on earth do you propose that China pass their navy through China and Russia? You need to stop and think before you actually speak.
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  141.  @elmermatthew6796  China do not need Russia to sail the seas so what on earth are you talking about.
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  142. The US does not give any figures on their stockpiles but we can be sure that they are extremely deep.
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  143.  @sambojinbojin-sam6550  The only reason that Europe exists today is because the US military protects it.
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  144.  @koshersalaami  Half the Chinese economy is exposed to property debts. The US thought it was bad at 1% in 2008.
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  145.  @junyuanma4243  It is called a multiple front war. It means China then has to divide its troops to attack different places.
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  146. China produce top dancers best money all round.
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  147. Japan can source its oil from the US if need be or Australia or the middle east. Neither China nor Russia has he ability to blockade Japanese oil.
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  148. CHina does not control the worlds production. China is an outsourced factor location that specialises in plastic junk for cheap western brands.
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  149. The moment those small unmanned warships engage with the US carrier fleet that whole regions of the ocean will become a shooting gallery in other words there is no hiding. A US carrier group can project a radius of force of 1600 kilometers which equates to about 8 million square kilometers. And in a 200 kilo radius the US will know everything that is present down to the size of a bird. If a major world war 3 happens the US will amass a professional force of about 40 million men, about 1000 carriers and 100,000 combat aircraft, the ability to produce 10 million military vehicles a year and several million missiles.
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  150.  @Chilam.  Just make things up as you go along. Tell us why did the Iraq government not look after those 400,000 children considering the children did not live in the US?
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  151. In a major war the US will be able to produce millions of missiles, hundreds of thousands of combat aircraft. The US has even created weapons platforms that can be used on commercial ships. The US has the ability to process millions of tons of ore and in a period of war it will be producing ten times that amount for weapons.
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  152. The US super duper missile flies at over mach 20 yet everybody is boasting about hyper sonic. If the US could develop the SR71 60 years ago we can only imagine where it is at today.
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  153. Here is the thing the US is not buying Chinese goods. What they are doing is using factory products from China that then get a stamp of a western brand and it tends to be cheap junk. So for every penny of production the US then charges dollars per product. China is much weaker than people realize.
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  154. It is not even old Israeli technology it is US technology that has been leaked on purpose.
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  155.  @dlbates2112  They may take out Ukraine later on but so far there has been a lot of staggering around, farting, vomiting and looking drunk. Maybe when the boyfriend decides he is not with the girlfriend anymore that the thug can then go and target her but you never know that boyfriend may just be waiting in ambush.
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  156.  @timberwolf1575  At first they would have no clue but if it happens enough times they probably would learn. Marines would probably also use tactics including recon and ambushes to confuse the horde and have it running all over the place. Marines have a philosophy of small wars which would give it a massive upper hand over the hordes.
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  157.  @thelefttechcat  You cannot use that for an excuse when we all know it is weapons that are being transported. They routinely turn down food from Israel.
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  158. The US is the only reason that the world is not Nazi or USSR or that the Chinese have not invaded India. The Rafale is a good craft but is not in the same league as the F-35 which is cutting edge warfare. Saying that the US is not reliable is a joke at best.
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  159. I suspect the Japanese Navy will actually defeat China and could also park a couple of their naval assets and blockade Chinese oil imports via the middle east.
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  160. Top class female dancers cost lots of money especially when they taking off their clothing and partaking in the cocaine parties.
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  161. You are full of crap vargas.
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  162.  @wageslave387  That is a pure myth.
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  163.  @niksonrex88  It would have to be an accident.
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  164. The Pentagon allows movies to use low level US weapons in their productions. They are given specific information so that they can replicate them for the movies. 70 years of spending 1 trillion per year on military development produces extraordinary results.
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  165.  @johnwattdotca  That makes no sense can you explain?
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  166. A tackle retreat could easily happen with a few hundred meters of a gap. It simply would not be a contest.
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  167. @Jack Huaertrl Does China have enough warheads for full exchange?
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  168.  @Jmump9  No it does not. building commercial vessels painting them and then calling them naval ships is not going to do anything. The US can do the exact same thing and they have a weapons platform that allows them to turn commercial ships into missile launch systems. And in doing that the US can make a far larger volume of ships with weapons available than China can.
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  169.  @owenb8636  China has converted commercial ships into naval ships by painting them. Might look impressive on paper but in real kinetic war it will have little impact. A US carrier group can control 2 million square kilometers of battle space with strike capabilities. That means places like the south China sea will become a shooting gallery.
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  170. The romans could never close the distance with the numbers they have. Also it would be a force multiplier going up against 4000 to 5000 roman troops. It would be much more difficult to actually not hit the target.
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  171.  @纱雾親吖  Nuclear warheads are complex and require lots of heavy industry and instrumentation engineering. China has heavy industry but does not have the fine engineering detail for instrumentation so they have to use a brute force approach which is not as efficient. The guidance systems alone for the missile systems are complex and require large scale complex manufacturing. SO the estimation of a few hundred warheads is being generous. Models on display do not mean they are active or capable especially if they have wooden frames.
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  172. China does not have the military power to control Asia.
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  173. The real power of space lasers is not to actually shot down the missiles but to target them with accurate data for defence. When that is layered with detailed radar systems those missiles will have nowhere to hide. It is also a myth that hypersonic missiles exist. Maybe the US has them in secret but who knows.
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  174.  @ExarchGaming  I do not think chaff systems will trick laser guided systems that easily. I also suspect the US has instrumentation that can differentiate atmosphere distrubance especially at high altitude where radiation anomalies are more present.
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  175.  @ExarchGaming  Lasers are more than likely not used to have an energy effect on a missile but are part of the targeting system. I would like to hear how you would actually get chaff to disguise a moving missile. You clearly cannot mean it would be used on a stationary missile. I know videos make people think that these things are easy when they are very complicate.
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  176. How did it fail to stop men on horsebacks with bows and arrows.
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  177.  @billybill6604  Every fighter jet has problems and for anybody to think that is not the case does not realize that such craft are pushing the boundaries of engineering. The F35 is a fast moving stealth fighter with a network war capabilities beyond anything else out there. It is not a fighter for every military and requires those that operate the craft to have the ability to do so. The Rafale is more in line with the F16 and F18 and cannot be compared to the F-35.
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  178.  @RealSugam  China is going to struggle in a naval invasion of Taiwan.
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  179. The US if it chooses to could pull the plug on indian industry. All that india is doing is trying to keep it friendly with Russia so as to not make an enemy of them. The west is not really pushing them that hard to be honest because india does not have a lot of trade with Russia.
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  180. The Chinese air force is growing larger than the US air force inside people's heads on a daily basis. Soon it will be so large that heads will crack open.
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  181.  @MICHAEL-yd3yj  China will need hundreds of millions of troops to invade the US.
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  182.  @ExarchGaming  High altitude missiles stand out like a sore thumb. The issue with these glide hypersonics is distances. They are not really effectively over short distances never mind continental distances. Any missile that is launched in the east or west coast will stand out.
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  183. Producing commercial grade ships, painting them and then calling naval ships is not going to count. The US has weapons platforms that they can easily fit on to commercial ships and the US systems will for those ships will outperform the Chinese professional navy.
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  184. In such a world war the US would produce a force of about 40 million and several hundred thousand combat aircraft.
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  185. They have weapons that are very dangerous but that does not mean they can win a war or nuclear exchange with them.
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  186. US right now is starting form a stronger position than it did in the years before WW2. The US has far more firepower today and a much longer reach.
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  187.  @robertkeaney9905  The US advantage in WW2 was that its industrial power was far greater than Germany and Japan. And the US could form 16 million personnel. Today the US could form 40 million personnel and its current non war productive industrial output is 20 times that of WW2 and in WW3 it would be at least 80 times greater. The Germans had the advantage of being entrenched in Europe as holding a defensive position was easier than attack formations. The US was engaged in two theaters of war in WW2 and today it could perform in 5 theaters of war. If you think the Germans underestimated US productive industrial capabilities you will find that all adversaries underestimate it today. Most bad actors out there think that the US is powerful because it has a large military.
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  188.  @robertkeaney9905  Intel produces the majority of its chips in the US. The chips apple use are RISC based processors in its smart devices but those are not that complicated as the US was producing RISC based in the 1970s. In terms of resources the US has every natural resource it needs to be independent. When the US puts its mind to the task it will find solutions in very short periods of time. Right now 85% of US trade is internal and the largest trade partners are Canada and Mexico. China is not even a critical supplier. Right now the US is the worlds largest manufacturer and that would be a surprise to most people.
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  189.  @robertkeaney9905  The vast majority of silicon is from the US.
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  190.  @MarkIsTiredAlways  I have won nothing other than letting people know what is happening. That is all.
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  191.  @rosomak8244  When it comes to value and critical supply the US is the world's largest manufacturer. Making more plastic junk to be sold in Western branded products does not make an economy a larger manufacturer. Nor does assembling a product where the parts are made in other countries and then have a large brand western logo on them. When it comes to chemical processing, main processor chip manufacturing, structural grade aluminium, carbon composites, instruments, controller systems, Engineered plastics and a host of other value manufacturing the US is years ahead of everybody else. Manufacturing 100 million low grade screws that just about work does not really count.
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  192. In WW3 the US will produce hundreds of thousand of combat aircraft, 1000 carriers, tens of millions of vehicles per year and a force of about 40 million men. That is the true scale of the US industrial economy.
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  193. What has surprised me is that Russia still has not taken the gloves off and is trying to fight some sort of world police precision war based on Shock and Awe. They have seen their precision war fail and their normal strategy then is to go all out and destroy places.
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  194.  @genericscout5408  Hypersonics would be useless against carrier groups because they would have to be launched within the carrier groups combat range and that range is much further than the missiles range. So that means any attacking force using glide hypersonic missiles would have to deeply penetrate carrier groups battle space. Submarines are the same they are not a long range attack platform.
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  195. Romans are not trained to move like that. Then they would have to fight at close range if the USMC decide to let them get that close.
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  196.  @DanielBrown-sn9op  So you do not think the Star Wars project that was using lasers to target high altitude missiles does not work?
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  197. That is what happens when a country spends 1 trillion per year for the last 70 years on weapons' developments. They can even develop aircraft that they just decide not to fly. The US has millions of missiles in its reserves.
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  198. @Hussain Saad The coalition that helped America with Iraq was not help in the form of troops it was help in the form of public declarations. Nothing else.
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  199.  @Emilechen  Scotland is part of the UK. I know that is hard for people to understand. It is part of a culture where people speak the same language watch the same tv shows and know one other.
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  200.  @keepwalking6041  You are talking as if the USSR was equal to the US. The USSR was trying to conquer the world and the US stood up to them.
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  201.  @AdhocHoopla  But are they thinking like that? They may never get another opportunity to take out Taiway like it is today. Joe Biden is a once in a century president.
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  202. In WW3 the US would be creating a new class of aircraft that would probably be based on something like an F-16 but have certain aspects that are similar to the F-35. It would not be a completely stealth but would posses a low radar profile that would be very difficult to track and give the element of surprise for attacks of a mass scale.
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  203.  @MohammedAli-ur9cl  The US won the war in Vietnam and then just decided to get out of there. The comparison is not even a good one to be honest. The US killed over 2.5 million combatants in Vietnam and lost about 20,000 to 50,000 men.
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  204.  @spxdel8520  It is not just that they are Marines they are using modern weapons. Small forts have held out before against thousands of troops. 300 Spartans held out a continental sized army long enough that back up forces could do the rest.
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  205.  @spxdel8520  So what you are saying is that a potential force of 3000 withstood an onslaught of hundreds of thousands of troops. I do not think you really countered my point with that. Try again.
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  206. Not even the same. Somalia was a disaster that unfolded. It was not properly acted upon and the US did not want to appear to be attacking Somalians.
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  207. America has a much more sophisticated system than Iron Dome. It has laser satellites that can be used to accurately predict high altitude incoming missiles and track them to micron scale accuracy. The US more than likely has developed nuclear warheads that can be used in high altitudes to take down incoming missiles and they can take down anything within a mile blast.
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  208. Apart from supplying mass numbers of weapons systems and their navy will be accidentally entering Chinese waters hoping for a incident that will give them an excuse. The US military is just itching to send out a message and is hoping for the right opportunity to be given. In WW3 the US will be able to mass a military force of about 40 million and will produce hundreds of thousands of fighter jets and millions of missiles and 10 million military vehicles per year. The US is the only country in the world right now that can put in 500 fighter jets and over 100,000 elite military troops anywhere in the world in a very short period of time. The US can land 3000 special operations troops anywhere in the world in 24 hours with a full air support system.
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  209. If you really believe that China has 2000 fighter aircraft then you would also believe they had 5000 covid cases while other places had hundreds of thousands with a fraction of the Chinese population.
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