Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Covert Cabal" channel.

  1. You can bet your boots that Taiwan has an air defense system that is concealed and could be used against naval targets as well. It is also likely that they have more discreet short take off run ways that can enable them to get air assets into play. If China throws the kitchen sink at Taiwan it will come out on top but the use of resources would be extreme.
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  2. I do not think the US has been sending Ukraine aircraft but what they have been sending is probably drones, missiles, MANPADS, radar systems, targeting systems and so on. Who is to say that a consignment of food is not a consignment of targeting systems. Maybe mobile phones are really GPS systems, Radio systems, timing mechanisms and so on.
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  3. The US do not use warplanes on their own. They are part of a wider force infrastructure. When the US goes up against air defence systems they will be using signal jamming and decoy systems. The US could send in a series of cheap missiles that makes it appear like several squadrons are attacking. They can also fly stealth aircraft in that mix so that they cannot tell what is real and what is not. I suspect that Ukraine has learned how to do this.
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  4. The US does not use its ships in the same way Russia does. The US would not dare be seen using a ship that heavily armed in that capacity. The US navy operates in groups meaning that they do not send one ship to do a task it would be a battle group. There military is so large that they can afford groups to do the roles that other countries use with one ship. The US Marine Corp budget is as big as the whole of the Russia defence budget. The US marine Corp has an airforce that is larger than the Russian air force.
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  5.  @johnm7267  So if that is the case then why have they not unified and why is there not a culture in Taiwan of wanting to join with China?
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  6.  @greghall4836  Syria is not a comparable to going up against air defence systems spread out across a country. When the US invaded Iraq in the first Gulf war in 1990 there was hundreds and thousands of anti air batteries spread out across the region. That means an attacking force must have the inventory of parts, fitters, technicians and manufacturing industries to keep a force supplied for months on end. The US has hundreds of thousands of missiles in various classes.
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  7. Their hypersonic systems are nothing more than a vanity weapon. With accuracy and advanced targeting such systems are not going to be that effective in large scale warfare. They may get through an air defence system but what are they going to hit.
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  8. Either Russian inventory is not as deep as presented or they are holding it back. I suspect they are holding it back on purpose because they have larger plans but those plans now maybe going out the window as things start to crumble.
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  9. Yeah yeah yeah. Of course they do not use them apart from when they are captured or destroyed.
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  10. The US approach is a mixed approach and the reason they can do that is due to the scale of the US military. The USMC budget is almost as big as the Russian defence budget.
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  11. I am sorry but a ship packing some larger guns and more missiles is not going to take out a US carrier which has an attack range of 2000 miles. A sneak sub might be able to do damage but carrier groups have an immense defence system. Any such attack would be suicide.
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  12.  @johnm7267  Lots of countries have ferry systems to other countries. Some countries even have bridges built connecting them.
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  13.  @molotov66699  Tell that to the tires that broke up with a little bit of mud and snow.
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  14.  @BroadHobbyProjects  There was large German culture living in the US with many regions in the US having German spoken as a main language. Most Chinese who live in the west are not supporters of the CCP. It is the reason why they all fled China in the first place and want to get their relatives out of China who still live there. Any Chinese person who lives in the west knows that their relatives who live in Mainland China are in danger. Pre WW2 Germany had thousands of Agents in the US who were targeting organisations such as universities and had direct agents in the those organisations. Even media outlets in the US were in favor of Hitler but the moment the war started those organisations and universities pretended they were not involved. We will find out soon enough how strong the CCP really is if they are willing to actually invade Taiwan.
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  15. US assets are worth thousands of trillions of dollars. There is nation on earth that can buy that out.
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  16. They maybe able to take smaller Islands as a staging ground but it will not give them any more projection in the region as they will still be screened.
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  17. The US navy is so large that it can afford to have so many different classes of ship. The US Military is designed to operate as groups. The US coast guard has more military grade vessels than many countries navy have.
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  18.  @jhill4874  Aviation is modern warfare. It is like saying armies have too much dependency on guns and should use more swords. Remember US naval aviation is layered with other systems. It is not a case of one thing and nothing else. The scale is so large and powerful that most people do not actually understand its implications. I once saw Putin talk about it and it went over most people's heads. Putin understands who is number one and he will work in his own interests.
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  19. That may be all true but it does not mean they will not attempt to do it and cause the deaths of billions of people. The current leadership of the CCP is based on support for an invasion of Taiwan. So we will find out if they are really made of stern stuff. China is just about to have a major economic crash as their banking system is about to fail and this may be the flash point that gets them into gear.
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  20.  @lachlanwatkins3164  Shooting down satellites is extremely complex and China is nowhere near as successful at this as they have made people believe. Bringing down a object the size of a bus in tens of trillions of cubic kilometers is extremely complex especially when it is moving at 30000 Kph.
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  21.  @Ahoooooooo  So are you saying the Chinese navy will be vunerable to drones?
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  22. And uS subs.
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  23. Are you certain that N. Korea will back China though?
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  24.  @piotrd.4850  The same thing could be said for Russia and China though.
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  25. Over the last 50 years the US government has spent trillions on weapons development while Russia has not. It perfectly acceptable that the US just swarmed the air defence system of Syria like they did with Iraq. Syria has no level of weapons technology it has several imported weapon systems that are no where near US levels.
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  26.  @anastas11ace80  Did you really ask that question? Now since you have asked the question I will answer it for you. US attack aircraft have a range of about 2000 miles. US aircraft carriers do have surface to air missiles, gun systems and anti submarine systems in place. You then have to factor that US carriers are part of groups and are not isolated. They are part of an attack system that is extremely formidable. The fact they have an effect attack range of 2000 miles means they do not have to be in an exchange to cause massive damage and their primary role is to take out countries.
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  27. Not just chip technology but advanced mechanic systems as well which are just as complicated.
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  28.  @DanHym  The US would not have Mig parts other countries in the region might have.
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  29.  @gabbyprincip1575  The US killed 2.5 million Vietcong in Vietnam and never lost a major battle of any type. The facts run counter to all the opinions that people.
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  30. We will need to wait to see if this is the case. It looks like it but people need to exercise caution.
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  31.  @IpSyCo  I am not sure europe could deal with Russia at all.
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  32. The US has a completely different set of capabilities when it comes to its navy.
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  33. That will never work.
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  34.  @Mashineish  Because US carrier groups have an effective war range of about 3 million square miles. Such Russian ships are not going to be allowed to get within an attack range. One ship is not going to be able to cut through a layer of several ships to get to one carrier ship that will be attacking from the get go. US also uses surface to air missile systems in volume to overwhelm opposition on top of the group directly attacking.
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  35. If Iran was stupid enough to attempt this it would probably cost them far more than any previous act they were involved in. If Iran then thought it could some how engage in some sort of global response this then would give the US the pretense to invade.
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  36. Sorry but it is worse than the US systems.
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  37.  @gumelini1  In times of global disasters it may be the only thing delivering mail.
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  38. The only factor people seem to be underestimating is the size of the Chinese force that could attempt an invasion.
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  39.  @racelkatyusha403  Tanks without adequate aircover is sitting ducks.
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  40. EMP is nonsense. You are watching too many movies and video games.
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  41. Most democrats are strong on China.
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  42. That is not even close to being true.
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  43. A missile is a special weapon and in modern war has to be used in a very specific and accurate way. The fact that Russia is firing them without accuracy is a sign that their military technology is not that good over all.
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  44. If America decided to invade Iraq it would be over in 3 days.
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  45. But how are they going to sneak up on a battle group in a non stealth ship? Especially when those battle groups have an attack range of about 2000 miles.
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  46. You mean they cannot afford to build their navy like other countries.
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  47. You are watching too many movies. Cyber can cause problems but with the flick of a few hard switches they can make their networks internal with no external inputs at all. Most of the control systems are hard switch systems. Youtube might not work for the average person but powerline's and water will.
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  48. You are joking?
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  49.  @Crugroth  Tunneling was used in WW1 and it was routine enough that both German and British tunnellers would run into one other and have shootouts or that one side would accidently run into another's tunnel and then perform a clandestine infiltration of their system. In medieval times they used to tunnel under defensive walls around cities to try and break in. A tunnel system under an ocean that needs to be 100 miles long is a lot more complex.
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  50.  @ferrous3262  The US killed over 2.5 million Vietcong and clearly won the Vietnam war and got the Vietcong to surrender only for the US to pull an afghanistan. The US is very unpredictable which many countries should heed and be aware that they could just come and squash them like a bug if they get out of hand.
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