Comments by "MM2" (@MM22966) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. Can never tell if the Brits were tweaking noses by re-naming all their "colonial" planes with names with Revolutionary War/War of 1812 significance. Washington, Boston, Hudson, Baltimore...
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  2. Like half of all pre-war/early war aircraft, it looks like a thing Miyazaki would love.
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  3. Now let us all thank Nash for making a prescient "Who the F%ck is Prigozhin " video. Topical!
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  4. Thank you for the update, Ed. I had seen some combat footage that suggested things were not going well for the government the last couple of months, but I had no real feel for the situation, players, or the odds. Your point about "no Star Wars endings" is well taken. Question: are these groups socialist/communist aligned like the Kurdish YPG? I saw those red flags and did not not know what to make of them.
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  5. I wonder if Salcedo was the inspiration for Tom Clancy's character Felix Cortez, the former Cuban intel officer who worked for the "Escobedo Cartel" in the book Clear and Present Danger.
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  6. Lots of open questions: ARE they getting AMRAAM with it? How much and what kind of air-to-ground munitions? What kind of jammer support? How much more antiradiation missiles? (because to effective, they will have to a lot of Wild Weasel missions to roll back Russian ADA systems)
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  7. It's funny to think of an aircraft of that era being "European". It's not exactly a Tornado or Typhoon, but a Brit-built fuselage, a French engine, with a Swiss gun, for a Belgian order....
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  8. It's like a Superfortress and a Marauder had a baby together! Thanks for finding this, Nash!
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  9. 4. Corruption.
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  10. You know what this reminds me of? Popular Mechanics/Science artwork of future planes from this period. It has this unbelievable air to it, but its lines are sleek while sort of being...vague? Like it was the 1930's/40's idea of a super-aircraft that came to life from a artist's rendition rather than concrete plans/blueprints.
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  11. I feel the same way about late-WW2 prop fighters as I do about suits of Renaissance armor: Tech that peaked just as it went redundant.
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  12. I had never heard of this bird, and the political background adds a lot. For example, I NEVER understood why the UK sold examples of Rolls-Royce jet engines to the USSR...but by showing the nuance of the political climate between the US-UK at the time, it makes slightly more sense. Slightly.
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  13. Everybody's faces when they realize the C-130 will still be flying in the 2100's...
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  14. Jesus christ....At this point I fully expect a "Old Dog" stealthed battlefortress version to eventually pop up as well...
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  15. But are the they going to conscript the people shooting at them?
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  16. No, when they designed it, it was expressly designed for a conventional, WW3-style fight in Europe, a modern-day Sturmovik. That is why they built it with a 30mm tank-opener. What would have happened when it was forced to fight in the VERY heavy AAA/SAM environment the Soviets had built is another story. It IS a brilliant asymmetric/counter-insurgency attack aircraft, or if it operates in a benign air defense environment (which has been all of them for the last forty years for the USA). If we have to tangle with the Russians or Chinese, they better have all the ADA beaten down before they try using the 'Hog, just as Nash said. An aircraft you can't use because it is likely to be shot down is not very useful. Same goes for the Specters/Reapers/Predators. That's why the AF wants to dump it for more F35. On the other hand, it is a BRILLIANT low-level CAS for low-level wars, which is the more likely fight. Which is why Congress wants to hang on to it. And because it is awesome.
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  17. The ripples in the stainless steel along the side even sort of look like a wagon's canvas stretched over its bows.
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  18. Perun (whatta trooper stepping up!) made a lengthy two-part "what's next" strategic/economic analysis on his channel that is highly worth watching. One BIG point that struck me (and that Nash echoes in his own way) is that the Western Alliance needs to start planning out Lend-Lease for Ukraine NOW, and how it is going to be maintained over what is likely to be a multi-year conflict, and not a slo-mo frozen conflict like it was 2016-2022, but a big conventional war. Maintained the way a jogger needs to beat a sprinter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ptG1IxZ08
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  19. "....Not taking reference book statistics at face value" That right there is the real value of this channel. Nash really finds out, he doesn't just quote Wiki entries.
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  20. Boy, there's a story the Egyptians don't tell their grand-kids....
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  21. 1:42 Let us savor the irony of the USS Independence saying goodbye to Subic so the Philippines can be more...independent from the United States.
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  22. I had to look up the Fashoda Incident, which I did not know of. It is interesting how it intertwined with so many other matters that were much more well-known at the time. (Briefly, for others: the French and British tried to claim the Upper Nile at the same time for purposes of securing communication across their other African colonial possessions. The French were forced to back down - in no small part because, as Nash pointed out, they simply did not have a navy capable of playing games with the RN. It happened in 1898)
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  23. I HAD heard about this, but I thought it was a one-off. I didn't know they had done 30 missions with nearly no losses. That is a very good record for something that approaches wunderwaffe levels of "holy crap, they built that??!"
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  24. It's all about who you know & who you gulaged!
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  25. Greatest political decision-chain process since the Avro Arrow. Zing!
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  26. Career slightly interrupted by trip to death camp. Not something on most North American aviation pioneer resumes.
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  27. 1:40 PINKO COMMIES!!! I KNEW IT!!!! I mean, it was always suspicious, with how much the Brits liked to dress up in red so often....
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  28. Look, if its wings aren't bent in the middle, it ain't a Corsair! Or a Stuka. It's not a Stuka either.
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  29. So if I went to Baltimore, and asked a kid on the street what the best medium bomber of WW2 was, he'd say "A Baltimore!", and not "Gimme your wallet!"?
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  30. Those two events were more than 140 years apart. Seems like a poor analogy.
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  31. "Master has given Dobi an engine!!! Dobi is a real plane!!!" Edit: I see someone beat me to it....
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  32. Then you get something like the Tomcat, and they are even more confused.
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  33. Wow. This the kind of story I come here to see!
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  34. I think this was...not your best, but certainly your cutest documentary, Nash. Not the flashiest plane, but a neat little story tied up with a bow and a bit of modern footage that warms the hearts of aviation enthusiasts.
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  35. Never heard of it! I was thinking it was going to be another one-off prototype that never went anywhere and then Nash just keeps rolling with the service history of an absolute unit of a transport! That shot at 10:36 of it absolutely DWARFING a squadron of B-29's was hilarious!
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  36. Aircraft to make Miyazaki-sensei's heart go a'flutter.
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  37. Let's not forget the advantages of the "F16 effect" and dropping costs/operational flexibility/maintenance commonality/etc if EVERYBODY in NATO is using the damn thing. Is the F35 the Sherman tank of the 21st century?
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  38. Lockheed-Martin's discretionary & hospitality budget is the greatest SAM system ever devised - it shoots down aircraft BEFORE they fly!
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  39. LOL!!! So true!!! And Raytheon, and McBoeing, Gruman, BAE, etc, etc
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  40. Kind of looks like a F-102 and an A-4 had a baby.
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  41. Nash, do you have any feel how the Indians view the whole thing? It is their back yard, and they play as a world power, but I have never heard a peep one way or another (in English media) about where they stand.
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  42. There was a long list of shoot downs from the early 50's to about 1958. Mostly Soviet/East-bloc fighters shooting other people's spy planes, airliners, etc. It only slowed down after Gary Powers & the U2 went down.
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  43.  @bholdr----0  Cheese Peak?! Look, I know the Brits like giving stuff odd names, but that's taking things too far!
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  44. It was discussed adding a heavy tailgun at one point, but nothing on this scale.
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  45. What an absolute bunch of sweethearts.
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  46. The origin of "sabotage" involved using wooden shoes to destroy machinery. This being SE Asia, I can well believe somebody tossed their flipflop into a turbine along with a satchel charge.
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  47. "The Filipino Ministry of Defense will now be accepting bribes...I mean BIDS from all leading aerospace firms wishing to sell their aircraft."
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  48. 5:50 The way Nash paused, I was half-expecting him to say "four-thousand five hundred pounds...of WOOD!"
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  49. What gets me about this period is these guys were making state-of-the-art technology...in a garage, in their spare time. That hasn't happened since...what? Bill Gates and Windows?
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  50. Who knew the Rambo movie showcased the lighter side of the Burmese military?
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