Comments by "mikepette" (@mikepette4422) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. The trick to the Bf-109 staying viable throughout the war was that the Bf 109 ABCD versions are nothing at all like the BF-109 FG and K versions. They are virtually completely different aircraft with just a general shape staying the same. But literally everything else is different I think you could say the same for the Spitfire to a similar extent
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  2. I can't even recall hearing about this fighter and I've been a pretty avid reader about WW1 and WW2 aircraft design thanks again for the video
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  3. the army tested the xp-47 J to ONLY 484 MPH ! wow thats still pretty crazy
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  4. The myriad post WW-II war naval jets are a really amazing aviation story. I'm fascinated by everything from the McDonnell Phantom up to but not including its bigger and more widely regarded grand child Phantom II. Those dozen or so designs were a huge struggle for the Navy because of the engine situation. You read about all the accidents and things like the Vought Cutlass being a horrible widow maker and one realizes Post War, the Navy had one of the hardest tasks incorporating the new jet technology into effective aircraft. The Fury series are very under appreciated part of that thanks for presenting it Ed.
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  5. If there was any doubt in anyone's mind that the Cold War wasn't a real war then incidents like this should dispel any of those doubts
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  6. You know if you ever get tired of bringing failed plane designs you could do worse than a video on the Hawker Hart family. A hugely important and successful 1920's design. I'd like to know more about it I am sure there's lots to talk about considering how many nations used at least 1 plane from that family.
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  7. Was perfect for home defence though
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  8. one of the big problems for these aircraft manufacturers was that the US wouldn't let certain of the better engines go for export so a lot of good designs were not so good once you took away the engines which made them good...usually a Pratt & Whitney type. Also a lot of these countries had no money to pay for the products as the great depression had wiped out the whole world's economy !
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  9. The name Corsair stands as a sign of quality.
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  10. Typical Anti-Western media was just as scummy back in the 80s as they are today. I remember this all very well and I was all on the side of the U.K.
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  11. I agree with him, the P-47 was the main reason the Luftwaffe was largely bled dry by D-Day
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  12. It still seems so insane to have left Czechoslovakia to its fate. War should have been made on Germany then and there, they would have sued for peace quickly and had their war plans set back years, as the Czech military falling into Hitler's lap was perfect for upping his war plans on Poland. I doubt he could have invaded in 1939 without all those Czech weapons like tanks and artillery. Shameful period in Europe's history could have been avoided. PS: You're one of the few non-German Youtubers that says Luftwaffe anywhere near correctly its a nice gold star for your channel I think ;)
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  13. Economics and industrial capacity were always an issues for Italian war efforts in all areas that it mattered. For planes much of the problems are that unlike other countries who could be blamed for NOT listening to pilots the Italian aircraft companies and Airforce brass listened to their pilots a little too much. Their pilots demanded open cockpits and many were skeptical of monoplanes to fault. Not sure who can be blamed for the lousy armament standard on early war Italian planes but that was a huge fault too. All in all old fashioned thinking was never pushed out of the way until the and of the war for Italy ie 1943. Italy had bad leaders in general and thats why they get so much flak it certainly wasn't that they weren't capable of making great designs but
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  14. Yes it will always be Burma to us
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  15. Yeah the Plane that epitomized the single engine attack platform for decades after the war
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  16. what always got me is WHY the insistence on no forward firing guns ? Just help those guys out a little
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  17. oh good god not the turret again...always the turret. no it's not a good idea stop it...get help.
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  18. Always loved the Boxcar its such a unique shape for a transport. Kind of reminds one of a P-38 but bigger in every way
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  19. This aircraft screams COIN I love its look
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  20. well this IS the interceptor so thats 1 down not sure a bomber was what they wanted when the B-70 was so cheap and easy to make
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  21. 2:40 GD The Fw looks amazing in this pic. One of the best pics of it I've ever seen. What a mean looking plane it just looks dangerous.
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  22. The problem is they Still want the Falkland's a place with zero ties to Argentina. They never had a sustainable settlement there and the brief time they did ( like 1830's or something ) it had to get rescued by the Royal Navy. Argentina deserves the shit they get for this kind expansionism and I'm not even a supporter of the UK really I just see a corrupt country that would acquire some islands in the middle of nowhere and do what ? Oil ? Not sure the world is even going that way anymore.
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  23. Well I can't say I have much sympathy for communists but I understand not wanting the UK in Ireland
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  24. yeaah but I guess we get the drift its not like Ed does this a lot unlike a certain other aircraft channel that shall go nameless *Cough Dark Skies Cough *
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  25. Those 40 mm were certainly nasty for ground targets like half tracks and trucks but were they really any good vs real tanks. The Stukaa with their 37mm BK3.7 cm pods were using tungsten ammo to do all that tank killing on the eastern front. But did the RAF give the good stuff to those Hurricane Squadrons so they could be even more effective ?
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  26. yeah you said basically what I was thinking
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  27. And just imagine not wasting their time with this and putting that effort into bettering the Macchi C 202
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  28. the CR 42 is my second fav biplane fighter.
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  29. This is why I hate the news. I've not even heard anything about Mozambique.
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  30. This is the point I was trying to make for many years in the comment sections and discussions about the big battles on the eastern front in WW 2. YEs the Russians won but at what cost ? It was millions of dead because thats just the way the russian leadership has always thought of its soldiers. As expendable resources like a hand grenade or a rifle magazine. And YES it is that callous. Do you really think the US or Britain would have waged war which lead to 8 million dead soldiers ? No they would have stopped long long before that. This is why the use of the atomic bomb was justified against Japan. They were projecting 1 million dead US servicemen for the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands and millions of dead Japanese civilians. HAd Germany inflicted those kinds of casualties against the Brits and US in 1943-44 there would have been an armistice. But the USSR was more concerned about winning and revenge than their own troops. They were just people after all and Putin is a product of the old USSR so you know he just doesn't care.
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  31. Always cool to see the any of the numerous cold war episodes and it was great to hear about the Super Mystere's a jet I've always kind of liked
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  32. This was one of the best so far. The A-26/B-26 is an amazing aircraft. for something built in the 1940's its very advanced. kind of like a mini B-29 in the level of technological sophistication. No wonder it was so deadly at gfround attack. I recall as a kid seeing an A-26 1/72 Airfix kit in the store and thinking oh boy I need to build this one. Well it was one of those that I never did get and I regretted it ever since.
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  33. Ok the SU-25 is "similar" to the YA-9 but its not THAT similar and what's more to the point is the YA-9 was just far more conventional looking. For me mounting the engines way back and away from the fuselage was a great idea they are very far away from each other so if damage from a missle strike hits 1 engine its no where near the second engine. The point of the A-10 was multiple redundancies. I just dont see that in the very conventional YA-9. So you might say that the reason the SU-25 looks like the YA-9 is because its a rather unoriginal design
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  34. I also had the airfix kit it came in that clear plastic case that so many of their 1/72 kits were in basically as cheap as you can package something. A Cardboard tag with colour picture of the plane and the clear plastic case showing you all the parts dangling below it LOL always made me laugh at how minimal Airfix was but it was actually a great idea as you could hang the all Airfix kits from rotating tree and it wouldn't take up much store space.
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  35. great plane pick ! hmmm maybe you should have started with the P-35 as it was actually a very important export plane.
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  36. but its not all wasted technology. the things they learned would get put to use in future jet designs
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  37. Love the Sterling, Its one of my favs because it was the first big 4 engine model kit I got and I was amazed at how well Airfix did with the details. They were back in my day my last choice because most kits had bad detailing. But not the Short Sterling wow it took up my whole desk it was awesome. And as time went on I started reading how important the plane was early in the war and my respect grew. Glad you've brought us this one today.
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  38. Very interesting looking plane especially for Blackburn. Even beefier now and yet lighter which shows how ungainly the Firebrand III had become.
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  39. Just one look at it and I can say there no way it had very good radar masking capabilities. This was no Stealth fighter.
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  40. was just reading up on this plane this morning.
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  41. made that mistake once. never again
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  42. seems he really messed up what a rock star of a pilot
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  43. Had they hung on to all the P-47 Thunderbolts... now THERE was a ground attack monster.
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  44. The most useful must have been all the artillery those were quite a lot of guns even if many were spiked I'm guessing they still scooped up a lot...especially those 6 inch howitzers ! yikes a great find for any army
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  45. maybe more like a 60's Psychedelic Band
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  46. The world: Its a coup Myanmar Military: Nuh uh ! the World: YES IT IS ! Myanmar Military: Nah..... well maybe So the Kachin situation looks better than in the cities ? Why ? Because they have weapons ! This is why you DON'T GIVE UP YOUR WEAPONS ! You cannot ever trust government ever..
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  47. Considering that in modern terms anything around 500 airframes is a success by major companies. I'd say the 449 planes by a small manufacturer is a pretty good production number so they really got their moneys worth at Folland went ahead and made this plane on their on dime.
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  48. YES I was thinking the same. The Condor Legion started with a few Bf-109 A's and then the B's and C's cleaned up. The Luftwaffe took the Bf-109 D's to Poland and that was superior to Poland's air force. But I wanna see some stuff on the actual development I know there's a lot going on between 1936 and 1940
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  49. yeah the US and Russians also had high crash rates at this time as well. Things just had to be tried and most of the problems lay with Jet technology just not being fully matured. All things considered it only took 7 or 8 years to fix most issues around the world. Get that engine power rates up and a lot of deadly designs would have been much better.
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  50. do you WAAAANT to come back to my place ? Bouncy Bouncy !
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