Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Mirage vs. Sukhoi; February 10, 1995 – The Cenepa War" video.

Weeeell unless you come up against a British Harrier with Sidewinders that is 😉
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@Tom-uk2ow lol. Well the truth is that what little car industry we actually HAVE these days (and yeah the companies are all partly under foreign ownership these days but they're still British companies and the cars are built here by British people and British factories), is actually all either high-end luxury prestige stuff, like Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, Bentley or Aston-Martin, or tough dependable off-road stuff like Land-Rovers and Range-Rovers, so actually not bad at all- if you can afford them. I suppose there's always Vauxhall to make fun of lol, but they're actually pretty much American GM cars with a different badge. Man I miss Austin-Rover- now that was a LEGIT crappy genuinely all-British company lol
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@DerDop basically it gradually just went under, bit by bit, the money wasn't there any more than our empire was, and there was too much competition from abroad. Doesn't have to be a permanent state of affairs though! our military's about to be getting a huge boost in defence spending and BAE Systems has become a big deal in the defence industry, both of which are what made the Tempest and Taranis programs possible. The 21st century won't see the return of the British Empire sadly, but it WILL see the return of British military aviation
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@DerDop we'll see about that when our new Tempest fighter comes along won't we 😁
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@damicocu3860 It's being designed and built in Britain by mostly British people working for a mostly British company, it's as much an all-British jet as anything's gonna be these days
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@damicocu3860 meanwhile in Russia: COMMUNIST SPACE-BEARS WITH JETPACKS
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@geoh7777 Can't really speak to stuff like that. Just gotta hope for the best in the future
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@damicocu3860 It IS still primarily a British project mate, sure there's other companies involved too but it's definitely BAE in charge and the planes are almost entirely gonna be designed and built right here in England. Leonardo make bloody good helicopters, don't get me wrong, but they've never built or even ATTEMPTED to build an air-superiority next-generation jet fighter like this before, and Saab make good but small and cheap fighters like the Gripen, they've never done anything even LIKE Tempest, this is definitely a BAE-led project with them helping out
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@damicocu3860 and BOTH Leonardo AND British Aerospace were key contributors in both the F35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter and Eurofighter Typhoon multi-role fighter, so neither of those actually count do they
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@DerDop what, because I can accept the truth of our not being a superpower anymore while still being proud of my country nonetheless? AND thinking things look at least vaguely promising for the future too? 'Coz that's all it is. Here's hoping for my not being the only one then
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@damicocu3860 evidently you and I have very different ideas of what constitutes both the term "vast experience" and of what an air-superiority jet-fighter is
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@damicocu3860 and no-one's dismissing the achievements of Saab, quite the opposite! Those guys are awesome as are their planes, and wish we still had a stand-alone combat aircraft company like them here in Britain, frankly, they're something everyone in Sweden should be very proud of. As it is though, what we DO have here is BAE and Rolls-Royce, and they've not exactly been idle either; it's just that while they've actually plenty of experience, and at that experience in considerably more advanced and complex projects than anything Saab's done, it's rarely if ever been something done at home and with them "leading the pack" as you put it, whereas this is; this is definitely Britain's chance, it's "big break", if Tempest and Taranis work out then they're definitely gonna be the start of a new era in British-led aircraft projects
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@damicocu3860 well I'm glad we agree on that at least
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