Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

  1. "US spends too much on military" >US 3,5% GDP >Poland 5% GDP And if anything, Poland is the only sane NATO member right now. So you better double those F-35 acquisitions, dear americans, those are some rookie numbers right now 😅
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  2. Ryan, idk if you'd see this comment or if it's old news, but here(Belarus) we have two news appearing overnight: 1)civilian trains from Murmansk and SPB going to Minsk and Smolensk were made to wait between 4 and 6 hours while something else was passing by ie huge amount of cargo going from the north to south; 2)Crimean bridge being shut down for civilians "for repairs". Even though repairs were supposedly going on for months and usage of both bridges was limited. Meaning that likely once again, the goal is to prevent civilians from filming it and bridge likely was brought into "sufficient enough" condition to be used with caution. Or maybe it's just repairs and I'm paranoid¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Tldr seems like Russia is moving serious quantities of materiel to the northern border of Ukraine and Crimea today.
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  3. ​ @danielullfig6933  Ukraine is winning the whole time it's on the map. Aren't you tired of moving goalposts?
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  4. "We got stuck in Panama for a missing M60." Of course you did, it belong in a museum!
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  5. Sadly necessary as unlike on Chieftain's own channel or on Tank Museum one, viewers might not know the context. So he has to explain the whole context(that the person with the question knew) before finally saying yes. There's also a part about "cope cages" that he left out. They're ridiculed not because they're slat armor(T-14 on parade in 2015 had slat armor too, but that one was sleek and symmetrical), but because HOW poorly they're assembled. Basically local commanders tasked with assembling them on tight budget and schedule broke all the rules of making it despite being provided with clear instructions by their own defense industry 😅
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  6. What you forget to mention is that poles started cracking Enigma long before german navy had decided to adopt it and before it had gone through several major redesigns. So not only polish efforts aren't connected to the actual design germans used for majority of the war, but the reason poles broke the commercial Enigma was far less noble, they wanted to use it for industrial espionage.
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  7. ​ @samholdsworth420  on Leclerc and Type 10 they are... but Ukraine won't get those. And technically speaking they don't need those. Type 10 is deaigned for mountainous terrain and has very light armor while Leclerc is maintenance heavy and requires to be near french industry.
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  8.  @RobinTheBot  original commenter already mentioned ERA in their question. But now explain to outsider what ERA is and why it exists? Yeah, that's what Nick did, duh.
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  9.  @cd8086  it's not crappy. Morozov, the guy who helped design T-34 and was chief mind behind T-64, never intended tanks of his layout to be used in 2024. He designed a tank that existed in an era when gun stabilisation was rare, laser rangefinder even rarer, thermals were nonexistent, GPS was sci-fi and precision weapons were in their infancy. Swedes faced the same design requirements and created Strv103. However unlike russians they just didn't slap ERA and thermals to it and call it Strv203 and pretend that it's the best tank in the world. T-64 was bleeding edge in 1960's, T-72 was great in 1970's, we're in 2024 ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ It's a fault of neither designer, nor the vehicle.
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  10. After 2020 a lot of people got more proactive in learning and using our language in everyday life, but too many have left since then. It feels like everyone I knew or worked with is either leaving or thinking about it:(
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  11. ​ @Snugggg  several month ago russians dropped glide bombs on Belgorod. The wings failed to deploy so instead of gliding into Ukranian territory, it just dropped in the middle of russian city. Allegedly nobody was hurt by several bombs falling in the middle of the day. We also don't know, who was a dumbass who decided that drop off point should be over your own heavily populated city.
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  12. ​ @slavsquatsuperstar  that was Hostomel, no? Or have they tried to repeat that bs in Bakhmut at some point too?😅
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  13. ​ @enudretheinsult Afganistan where soviets killed 2 million civilians, left 30 million mines and pullled out so hard that their empire fell apart? That Afghanistan, comrade?
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  14. ​ @strajko2117  so... LazerPig fought serbian fanboyism of russian tanks with their own weapons, you say?
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  15. On the other hand for many creators it makes them feel obligated to produce content and it puts both their consciousness and reputation on the line if they stop. Even if their main job needs more focus at the moment, there are no news and they mentioned that they're doing it as a hobby. That's a very big reason for many people to fear starting to use it. And Patreon isn't helping with smoothing corners in that, being a subscription service that profits from people forgetting to cancel even if they're warned of upcoming hiatus or being late to cancel and all that.
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  16.  @chillinlee  it is true, but we're not NATO analytics, enjoying full access to those. We're working with scraps, trying to find out what's going on and how much worse situation can become in near future.
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  17.  @RZ-nr7il  whom "our", care to specify?
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  18.  @libertycosworth8675  Russia will never give up authoritarism. Some other country by other name with capital in Saint Petersburg or Volgograd or Novosibirsk or Habarovsk or any other city except Moscow can, but it won't be Russia, it won't be called Russia, it won't pursue russian imperialism and it won't even talk to and about Moscow and Kremlin. Russia can't exist without nationalism, imperialism, authoritarian rule and nostalgic propaganda that calls to monarchists and socialists alike(which combined with rampant nationalism makes tankies... well, you know the word😅). Because that's "russian culture". It's not a culture of Rus or of russian people, it's a system that keeps all of them down.
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  19. ​ @56NeilWatson  love how this is the first and only info you're feeling obligated to include on that incident. Not the fact that the man in question was a saudi doctor of 50+, who left his country decades prior and whom saudi government wanted to prosecute for rape. Allegedly™. That's not important part of the context?
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  20.  @smartlucker4011  the fact that I can't even see the guy you're answering to already tells me a lot about probable contents of his comments:D Is his profile from 2014, 2020 or 2022 batch?
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  21. ​ @dakotareid1566 or probably because M270 overshadowed HIMARS beforehand?
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  22.  @RZ-nr7il  which one specifically, comrade?
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  23. They're also getting AMX-10's(wheeled assault gun, but good one), if I heard right, so now Ukraine can possibly decide to split off BTR-4(which is IFV, not APC despite the name) and mix them with AMX-10's fire support to get enhanced mobile divisions, while Bradley's will likely go to enhance heavy(ie most modern) tank battalions to replace or at least support current BMPs that support those tanks.
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  24.  @РайанКупер-э4о  apparently we have very different view on meaning of the word success :D
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  25. ​ @shadician  "His videos have massive reach" And who's the guy we talk about?
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  26. I would suggest RAF raids on Berlin during the peak of Battle of Britain as better example. Germans were a month, maybe two away from completely breaking RAF's spine, but after the raid they recalled some forces back for interception to keep an image as well as switched to bombing even more indiscriminately thus lowering the strain on airfields and factories. This was one of the factors why they couldn't win in Battle of Britain and probably the day Germany consciously chose to lose the WWII ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
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  27. /Looks at title/ No. But most people complained that it wasn't even entertaining:(
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  28.  @youngmike8645  S-400 is 1)reserved for Moscow, sales to Saudi Arabia or other wealthy clients and for parades; 2)is a further development of S-300. Remember all the jokes russians made about ukranian air defenses... that use primarily S-300? Well, not extrapolate same jokes on Russia itself. They use mostly the same equipment, but Russia keeps saying that ukranian one is trash. Which is true. Because russian is equally outdated trash which was fine in 1980's, but hasn't been neither updated, nor even maintained since then. So yeah, all Russia says about Ukraine is true... if you take it as testimony about Russia itself:D
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  29. Wait, hold on, what?
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  30. Same S-300 Russia blamed on incident in Poland and hundreds other "failures"? The one that S-400 is based upon? Why does it sound as another excuse in "it'll work just fine, we promise, it's the fault of arabs/koreans/afghans/armenians/chinese/[InsertAllyOfTheDayFoolishlyTrustingRussianEquipmentAndIntentions]"?
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  31. ^3 month old bot account, lol
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  32. Ryan, idk if you'd see this comment or if it's old news, but here(Belarus) we have two news appearing overnight: 1)civilian trains from Murmansk and SPB going to Minsk and Smolensk were made to wait between 4 and 6 hours while something else was passing by ie huge amount of cargo going from the north to south; 2)Crimean bridge being shut down for civilians "for repairs". Even though repairs were supposedly going on for months and usage of both bridges was limited. Meaning that likely once again, the goal is to prevent civilians from filming it and bridge likely was brought into "sufficient enough" condition to be used with caution. Or maybe it's just repairs and I'm paranoid¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Tldr seems like Russia is moving serious quantities of materiel to the northern border of Ukraine and Crimea today.
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  33. Tbh not sure how to feel about you quitting your job to do this full time. On one hand it was a good job, on the other - 1)you clearly are invested into this and couldn't split yourself in two to get time for it; 2)you're responsible adult so you know what you're doing and have backup plan; 3)I feel like 2020's will only get worse so you won't be left without topic to cover😅
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  34. As a person, who was born in USSR, but grew up in the 90's, I was led to believe(by combination of various sources, including russian ones that claimed that Germany never had a chance in two way war to begin with) that WWII was won on 25th of August 1940. Because that's when after raid on Berlin, Luftwaffe changed their strategic goals and lost a chance to win Battle of Britain and grind RAF to dust. With that they lost a chance to get separate peace with UK and the Commonwealth and thus any attack on USSR was a suicide. Which they did. Basically it was a day Third Reich's command catched a mass aneurysm and decided to lose the war by their own choice. As the old saying goes, it was easy for Germany to win WWII, just follow 3 easy steps: don't take part in WWII, don't start WWII and don't be Germany during WWII \/(-_-)\/ It's a question that has many right and wrong answers, just like when WWII started(/cough/ in 1937 with the start of Second Sino-Japanese War /cough/). Great video. Hopefully in time it'll get subtitles in different languages so that one could show it to people that don't know English.
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  35. @CL-ie5fz  whom "we"? No, seriously, whom? "We", "our country". You've posted all over the comments of this video. But who and where are you from? And why do I feel like the answer isn't US?
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  36. Ryan is a professional with good points... but I still recall the Iphone "advertisement campaign" ran by police in Minsk in 2020:(
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  37. I love the telegram watermark "slovakian bear" that covers half the screen. P.S.: yes, slovakian. Yes, it's written "slovenian" on the screen. Now go check how Slovakia is called in native language and how Slovenia is called in native language. No, I just accept it.
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  38.  @defnotthekgb8362  then why did the guy mention AfD part, but didn't mention the rest of the context? It's as if he has some personal agenda and doesn't care about the event...
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  39. It would have taken only 30k$ for Russia to install Drozd APS on a single tank, 10k$ per crewmember for a chance to survive old ATGMs and to screen other vehicles too. A price of a used car or something like new Lada, a drop compared to price of tank itself. Soviets used them on bloody T-55's because upgrading marines to T-72's seemed too expensive! So I'm not sure that OP's "just a few thousand per tank" work in context of Russia even if those screens were suitable:D
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  40. Russian news using ArmA 3... is it the third or fourth time now? And that's just on my memory...
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  41. The question in thumbnail makes me think that we should really split ATGM classification into light/handheld and heavy/mounted ones. I mean, yeah, it is and Stuhna is also better. But only in same manner as 17-pounder/BS-3/Pak43 is better then 6-pounder/ZiS-2 ie higher range and bigger payload for which you pay with weight of the system and mobility. Javelin was so effective in Ukraine because it, Stuhna and NLAW were working together, covering all ranges and targets. TOW-2 would be occupying the same spot as Stuhna in that trinity. So it won't change much... except ukranians being far less conservationist with the ammo reserves at longer ranges.
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  42. @deus_vult8111  and yet for some reason I'm applying for Greencard instead of praising CCP... с чего бы это, а?
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  43. As a person, who was born in USSR, but grew up in the 90's, I was led to believe(by combination of various sources, including russian ones that claimed that Germany never had a chance in two way war to begin with) that WWII was won on 25th of August 1940. Because that's when after raid on Berlin, Luftwaffe changed their strategic goals and lost a chance to win Battle of Britain and grind RAF to dust. With that they lost a chance to get separate peace with UK and the Commonwealth and thus any attack on USSR was a suicide. Which they did. Basically it was a day Third Reich's command catched a mass aneurysm and decided to lose the war by their own choice. As the old saying goes, it was easy for Germany to win WWII, just follow 3 easy steps: don't take part in WWII, don't start WWII and don't be Germany during WWII \/(-_-)\/ It's a question that has many right and wrong answers, just like when WWII started(/cough/ in 1937 with the start of Second Sino-Japanese War /cough/). Great video. Hopefully in time it'll get subtitles in different languages so that one could show it to people that don't know English.
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  44. ​ @viktorreiter8811  the problem is that VDV troops themselves were apparently quite skilled and well trained... in THEIR jobs. But their commanding officers were not so skilled in reading the literal label on the troops. "Yeah, let's drop paratroopers on top of defensive position that has vehicles and is expecting attack. What can go wrong?" And then they did it several times in a row. Until finally heavier russian armor came and allowed whatever remained of VDV troops to claim small victory for a short amount of time. Their air assault in the south was even worse disaster. I guess nobody told russian high command that despite both being thrown out of a plane, paratroopers and bombs aren't used in the same way 😅 P.S.: thanks to them Russia now can't have their paratroopers acting as mobile "firefighters" on the defensive, appearing in short order to plug holes, slow down the breakthroughs and allow a more coordinated fall backs.
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  45.  @javierspilere8257  maybe that's why the claims "just as good" from people, who don't invest in actual training are so laughable? No? Still going to think that laws of physics are different in Russia?
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  46. Who benefits more from posting so easily disproven material that makes redditors feel a sense of superiority and thus not ask further questions?
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  47. Then leave Ukraine, it's that simple. Oh, wait, that's not what you've meant? Your colonialism is good colonialism? ​ @NateJGardner 
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  48.  @NateJGardner  aren't you tired of claiming that russian and chinese colonialism is good? Не устал от того, что тебя нaxep посылают?
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  49. Can Ukraine disable russian LORAN clone called Chayka? Is it worth it? How can russian military be prevented from using commercial civilian GPS navigation too? P.S.: if someone mentions GLONASS they probably have enough braincells to go check number of satellites in it compared to GPS system. And stop mentioning jokes as answers again.
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  50. ​ @stephengrinkley9889 sounded crazy enough to do a full loop into being believable, had to look it up. Well, it's true on technicality as indeed HIMARS is used as a launcher, but it's likely a pneumatic piston in the tube just throwing those into the crowd. And I'm not sure that having a face full of candy is safe either 😅 Plus it reeks of russian military equipment fetishism towards younger generation, even if far more innocent :(
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