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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