Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1.  @owen368  I'll take your advice on the coffee.
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  2. It's in the post. Just keep your eye out for a very, very large van.😊
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  3. Well you know how it is. You are having an amorous evening with your lady love. No. No. A real one. Honest. And you decide to spice it up a bit. So you use that butt plug from the draw in the bedside cabinet for that added spice. But in your excited fumbling you just happen accidentally to select the 6 pounder anti tank shell you just happen to keep in the same draw. It could happen to anyone. Just think. If it had been a high explosive round he could have really finished with a bang. And then, stood outside the Pearly Gates, you would have heard St. Peter say 'you did what?'
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  4. One of the reasons the Netherlands my have not been rushing to build up its military is because of its stance on neutrality. They were neutral in WW1 and they were not planning to change that position if and when war broke out. With that in mind they would have been reluctant to give others, especially Germany, the impression that they were readying for war. Also everyone, including Germany, thought that there would be several more years before war broke out.
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  5.  @jonathanklein383  The British SE5A could do 138 MPH
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  6.  @neoclassic09  I'd pay to watch that
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  7.  @grahvis  SE5A could catch it with all its engines.
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  8.  @mirthenary  the SE5A had a top speed of 138 MPH so yes it could catch it.
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  9. An interesting 'what if.' I seem to remember that the US Navy wanted the F-18 as cost saving exercise because the F-14 was so expensive. To sweeten the deal they added other capabilities which then pushed the price up to the point where it cost more that the F-14. Makes the F-15N look like a better choice.
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  10. So the Merlin was used by the British, Russia, lend lease spitfires, Americans, Spain on ex-German aircraft and the Italians. Just need Japan and we have the full set.
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  11. start with a monoplane and end with a biplane. Or jets.
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  12. I think Putin will claim it was all just an exercise and backdown. If he thought to use this to get a dialogue with the west about NATO not getting closer to the Russian border then that has failed. Before this happened there was not a majority in Ukraine for joining NATO but there is now. And all the weapons and equipment Ukraine wanted has not only been sent but NATO troops have been sent to provide the much needed training. If this was to test NATO's resolve in helping Ukraine then he has his answer. The problem for Putin is how much has this cost Russia. Russia is reliant on the sale of gas, oil and arms exports. Many arms deals have been cancelled and he has just shown those countries in Europe who buy the oil and gas how venerable they are. All that expense of the new pipeline is now wasted. And the only country he can sell to is China. Definitely a buyers market for China.
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  13. Well, it's been awhile since anyone went balloon busting. Though the balloons were usually at a much lower altitude and were much better defended. And the USAF pilot who shot this one down has to get another 35 to beat the Belgian ace Willy Coppens.
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  14.  @johnp8131  We're showing our age John
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  15.  @DraigBlackCat  Thanks. Some interesting thoughts
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  16. The USAF did fly tactical bombers in the ground support role in Vietnam. They flew the Martin B-57 Canberra, as did the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). I did read the that Canberra of the RAAF was so noted for its accuracy that US Forward Air Controllers preferred to use them if they were available. There is the possibility the the US Army and Airforce missed out on a much better solution in the form of the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne. A helicopter with the potential speed and firepower to have taken on the role of both the A-10 and the AH- 64 Apache. I believe one of the reasons the AH=56 was not accepted, besides it's speed making it too fast for the army airforce agreement, was its cost. But compared to the cost of both the AH-65 and the A-10 combined it was possibly a much better solution. And it would have meant it would have been under the control of the US Army rather than the US Airforce and would therefore have been under the armies budget.
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  17.  @derrickstorm6976  Actually the first 'shed' was probably a converted cow shed which was being used to store stuff in, sounds familiar. Some man on seeing the frame the family used for weaving clothe which was being stored there realised he could make improvements to it and suddenly invented the weaving industry. That was one thousand years ago.
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  18.  @direktorpresident  True. But it was the fact that they had to tack across the wind like they were in a sailing ship which struck me as being the most interesting.
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  19. The upward firing guns on the Me-110 could be just as dangerous to the Germans. The last sight for more then one German was the blazing wreck of his victim plunging down on top of them.
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  20.  @thekinginyellow1744  A;; part of the learning curve
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  21.  @daviddowney9331  Incentive to stay with the jet
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  22.  @babboon5764  Imagine ejecting right in front of the air intakes.
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  23. The Bristol F2 was originally to be a bomber but when they realised it was built like a fighter, with the pilot also being provided with a machinegun, it became what must have been the first ever fighter bomber. Interestingly both the pilot and machine gunner of the F2 would be credited with same kills regardless as to who had actually shot the enemy aircraft down. This may have been because at some point both may have shot the same aircraft.
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