Youtube comments of Mr Grinch (@mrgrinch837).

  1. I so hate this guy's voice. Send him to jail already!
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  2.  @mikeymike4520  not all jurisdictions have the same procedures. It all depends upon the state county or city jurisdictions but not all are the same. But if you have a cop who's a wife beater likely he will have this behavior especially towards women.
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  3. ​ @TheGravygun I'm pretty sure NATO does not have a treaty with russia. We have a defense agreement with countries located along the borders of Russia, that is not a treaty.
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  4. There are a lot of factors at fault , but if only Merit Garland had started the prosecution progress as soon as he was out of the White House the first time we wouldn't be here today.
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  5. Visit Ukraine, the worlds largest Russian cemetery.
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  6.  @LizMason-girvan  he really needs to be in prison
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  7. How can someone with this absolute absence of integrity not understand that he lied and he stole. You've been caught. Leave with any shred of dignity that you've got for yourself.
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  8.  @redemissarium  In the words of Mike Tyson, "Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face".
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  9. You know the great thing about Trump supporters, every time I listen to them talk I feel smarter by the minute.
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  10. Geez dude, it's a generic term for any APC, of which the bradley is. We called OH-58's "sky scooters" even though its clearly not a scooter. It's a nickname man. Chill.
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  11. I'll try not to get too technical here but it's likely you're talking only about the loaches. I flew Cobras for 9 years and although they were the most modern versions We had an air conditioning system in there that super cooled what you're breathing. The loaches were the ones that got low and slow enough that could actually see blood on the canopy from the mosquitoes that fed on the enemy soldiers. They could smell the food being cooked, the Cobras were generally high enough up that they're only reaction was from the intensity of their radio communications increased from the Loach pilots. But you can't smell anything outside of that aircraft unless it's like smoke. You can smell the rocket propellant and powder from the minigun or the 20 mm at a hover when you fired those weapons but you are not going to be able to smell people on the ground as you described, sorry.
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  12. I have to say, it's horrible what's happening to the Palestinians, but I have to remind you that Biden is the president of the United States, not the king of the world. It's up to the people of Israel to vote out their leader if they're not content that he is handling the combat issue morally. @groznier 
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  13. Unfortunately you can't teach compassion, you can only inspire it. Regardless of what extra "training" they may put this individual through, he'll still be himself.
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  14. Every time I hear a trump supporter talk I feel smarter.
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  15. You get to have a ringside seat as the boat approaches in iceberg. Get your popcorn early because we're going to go down! And there's nothing we can do about it.
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  16. I am a retired paratrooper / Cobra pilot. Was in for 20 years. We make up nicknames for everything! It's what we do. In Vietnam the helicopter utility 1 was what we called a huey. Rather than saying in hu1 they just said huey. As well in aviation we called an oh-58 Kiowa a sky scooter. It's truly not a scooter but we again make up nicknames for everything
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  17. The vast majority of the Russian "Troops" are untrained and not given an understanding of what to expect. Its amazing they're not on their knees crying.
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  18. Perhaps for Christmas maybe you can buy him a book on how economics works.
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  19.  @NOYB2025  why don't you tell us exactly what it was that Trump did for the average American. Not the average millionaire and billionaire but for working-class stiffs? The only thing he did was remove the tax debt from Millionaires and billionaires. I'm not a millionaire nor am I a billionaire therefore he did squat for me.
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  20. Every time I hear these imbeciles talk I feel smarter
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  21.  @blyatpotato9484  I'm really not sure I understand your comment, they actually are in Europeans backyards
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  22. It can't be said enough, trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded.
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  23.  @toddholmes9557  yeah todd, who wants somebody who's been improving the unemployment rate to get to get down below 5%. Who wants to support anybody who's brought inflation to a hold and bringing it down, who wants to support someone who's been improving the economy? A guy who is allowed the government to dictate drug prices for the elderly, brought programs forward to help in poverty. Yeah, you really want to get rid of that guy!
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  24.  @monas  No, I'm pretty sure christian values and nazi sympathizers and holocaust deniers don't go together. You remember "There are fine people.., on both sides". Famous words to choke by.
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  25. That would require the characteristic of self-reflection..., from Drump supporters?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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  26. Don't get your panties in a bunch, it's just a figure of speech.
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  27. Just because they didn't vote with this Jack O'Lantern doesn't mean they're traitors. In this country you are allowed to have your own opinion.
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  28. She should be banned from any future concerts.
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  29. You have to be sitting still when you fire a TOW. Also, its like a sniper where you are monitoring a kill zone hopefully near maximum range and when you do fire the gunner must keep the cross hairs on the target until impact, which depending on the range can take up to 22-25 seconds. It's not meant to shoot on the move.
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  30. I just had a long conversation today with an old friend who says he's a libertarian. He said he didn't want to vote for Kamala Harris because he didn't like her laugh. There's no way in at least 10 straight minutes of trying to get him to understand that he and others threw their vote away when they could have stopped this stupidity. He is not alone unfortunately. A comedian once said you can't fix stupid, truer words were never spoken.
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  31. Looking at Trump supporters, it's like Obi-Wan Kenobi said. The force has a strong influence over the weak-minded. In this case it's trumpism has a strong influence over the weak minded.
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  32. A major point of that operation into Russia is that now the Russian people know how bad it's gotten for this little "3-day" military operation. They can't ignore it when it's their homes and businesses being destroyed. At least the Ukrainian soldiers don't go out of their way to assassinate civilians. This was a messaging operation that appears to be working.
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  33. ​ @mikemyers7539 I'm sorry, but between Democrats and republicans, which one has been arrested and gone to jail more often? It sounds like you're the one who needs to be more honest with yourself.
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  34. A wise man once said and I take liberties with the quote, "trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded".
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  35.  @nikki5674  well if it wasn't for the Supreme Court stopping Colorado from keeping him off the rolls with that little rule about insurrectionist not being allowed to run for office this wouldn't have been a problem. The Supreme Court is the next group to have to go. And since President Biden can officially do anything he wants to he could actually fire the Republican elected judges. After all, the president can do anything he wants to.
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  36. Seriously, what is the point of asking Trump supporters anything? They don't know anything just like trump. They're a freaking blank slate when it comes to knowledge of the world beyond their front lip
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  37. T w e s j is just a troll. Don't engage.
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  38. Well, one of them was an actual submarine which is used for attacking vessels and inserting troops. The other was a troop and equipment carrier. Do not underestimate the values of these support vessels cuz without the refuel fleets that the United States has we couldn't operate off the shores of other countries. We could not transport our troops and fighters to other countries without that absolutely essential element of refuelers. All equipment is important whether it's armed or not.
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  39. Racism.., at FOX?? I'm shocked!!
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  40.  @philsalvatore3902  I flew Cobras for 9 years and I can tell you since the E model Apache has rolled off and all of the quirks have been fixed it is a superior aircraft and capability then the Marine Viper model cobra. The thing people do not seem to understand is that you can fit a whole lot more cobras underneath the ships maintenance deck then you can apache. Both are excellent machines, very very capable but if you can carry 40 Vipers or you can carry 20 Apaches makes a big difference. I'd rather have the 40. After going into Apaches from cobras I can tell you those machines are freakishly huge in comparison. Also the Vipers are a lot easier to work on.
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  41. The moral of the story is if you commit crimes keep a low profile. Trump didn't figure that out until it was too late.
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  42. Why ask these people questions..., They don't know anything! Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak minded.
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  43. Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded
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  44. Dude, we're not in a protection racket. They don't owe us. It is an organization of countries banded together to keep peace in Western europe. It keeps us from sending soldiers there to die. How is it possible an entire group of people is this idiotic? Are you people eating lead-based paint chips for snacks? Every time I hear trumpers talk I feel so much brighter. I feel like a freaking genius cuz just like Trump they don't know anything!
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  45. Hey, I was going to say that!!
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  46. Well this is a really informative video, it's showing completely different weapon systems and completely different airplanes. It's supposed to be on the Avenger cannon yet it's showing M-61 Vulcans as well as other Gatling gun type weapon systems. Whomever put it together they seriously need to do a better job.
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  47. In reality the Air Force wanted to abscond with the cobra. They felt that only the Air Force should have dedicated armed aircraft. The Army told them to go pound sand.
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  48. Yeah, what a great idea. Just turn our back on our allies! Really makes you quite the hero then doesn't it! Piece of crap.
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  49. Waste time with facts when they can make up all the lies in the world?
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  50. Isn't he going to prison soon? @DonatelloRogers 
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  51.  @blyatpotato9484  there are very few NATO countries that have nuclear weapons. They've been there from the start. Your reference in comparison to the Cuban Missile Crisis isn't even close in comparison, that was actual nuclear weapons on our doorstep. Since we've had nukes they have been in Europe this entire time not to include the submarine fleet, the air fleet as well as tactical nuclear weapons so what are you talking about? Nothing has changed except the brutal aggression of Russia into a sovereign country.
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  52.  @TrevorCrook-c1s  NATO is insurance. Besides, we knew Russia's military was working with second rate equipment and incompetence in their training, but it wasn't demonstrated until the walked into Ukraine. The proof is there.
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  53. For the rest of his life he should be in prison.
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  54.  @maureenmccall4381  I think the point is that there are people who irregardless of what comes out of their mouth will only vote for them because of the color of their skin.
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  55. We've been deployed all over the world in conflict. Where have you been?? Have you not heard of Syria, and Afghanistan?? We've got operations going on right now in Nigeria. Jesus Christ we need to send people back to school.
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  56. But then JD Vance takes over. You know, the couch lover.
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  57. Trying to understand a Trumper is like trying to teach a dead goldfish japanese. After a while you realize you're just talking to a dead fish.
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  58. You have the option to stop watching the video at any time.
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  59. Hillary got that part right. Matter of fact she was right about everything. She should have a huge Banner stating "I TOLD YOU SO!"
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  60.  @LeeHarris  in an open oh 6 cayuse flying Slow and Low to the ground you can smell cooking, especially fish smells. These guys are hovering just about the height of the lowest trees. I can smell people smoking weed in the cars in front of me in traffic
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  61.  @megypsy6411  Unfortunately he was fired because the video was released to the public. His department had already excused his behavior. They were okay with his power trip and felt no reason for disciplinary action. It was the growing calls for his firing that finally got him fired. Until police departments and city leadership that they're responsible to take the complaints of the public seriously, this will continue as the norm.
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  62. It's russia, their maintenance programs are non-existent. That's why they failed so badly in the first few hours. They don't maintain their equipment very well. Or at all.
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  63. If you have to lie to make your point then you don't have much of a point to make.
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  64.  @thief2801  I wouldn't brag, it took them 15 times just to elect the speaker of the house. What good is having power if you don't know what to do with it? It should be used to benefit the people of the country not themselves.
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  65.  @mikechanning8764  I don't know, when you sign into law and act that allows you to drive your car right through a crowd of and not face recriminations of any kind from law enforcement, you're not that far from hell.
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  66.  @AbdullahiOlownunow  tell that to the Russian people
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  67. Hell, Republicans don't need her help to look stupid. They're pretty good at doing that themselves.
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  68. I've never gotten my associates degree, but 10 minutes of listening to a Trump supporter and I feel like a freakin' genius!!
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  69. It has been public, the apathy of the American citizenry is the problem. Too many people just don't care. That's the true tragedy.
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  70. @@standupnow-bo3lr As an army dude, this was the dumbest controversy that the Air Force had. The Air Force brass does not want to do the close air support mission. They didn't want to support the army. They wanted their budget to reflect an inventory of high-speed Fighters and bombers, the last thing they wanted was something that flies low and slow. When the Cobra first came out in the 1960s they were attempting to take it because it was an armed aircraft and apparently that was their purview. The warthog was possibly going to be given to the Army in the 1980s but only without the gun. As a reconnaissance aircraft which is a ridiculous prospect. The Air Force hierarchy is really fickle when it comes to this aircraft, the pilots and maintenance Crews love it, but the brass is like if we can't have it nobody can even though we don't want it. Something really wrong with those people.
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  71. How about letting a woman and her doctor deciding it?
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  72. Hey, is advanced as the Firepower has become we still carry bayonets.
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  73. Fox News and trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded.
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  74. ​ @Tick421 the confidence that it's true is quite high. As far as Congress throwing her out, they need every vote they can get which is why it took them over 3 months to scrape Santos off their shoe.
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  75. It is astounding, they don't actually hear what they're saying! It was founded on evading religious persecution, that's why they said freedom to worship any God or not worship if that's your choice. They're not saying cram the Bible down everybody's throat, they said exactly the opposite. That's why they separated from England primarily for taxation without representation as well as religious persecution. These people need to go to school.
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  76. You're posing a rational situation to a cult. I tried, especially trying not to insult the person but try to make them understand the reality of the situation. Give them evidence that they could easily look up and they refused. You're wasting your breath. These people are so far gone down the hole you got to pump some like to them.
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  77. This is really needed journalism, but in fact just getting people on camera to answer these questions is enough to put their lives in danger. This video would likely be used at their trials.
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  78. While this video actually has some very very good information there's a number of things that you have to take into account when you're dealing with attack helicopters on the battlefield. Number one, videos of Russians flying helicopters are way too high. You make it very very easy for man pads to engage you. You need to skim the ground and make it as difficult as possible for the Seeker head to be able to discern the aircraft from warm trees and ground. Man pads are primarily designed for aircraft with a blue sky in the background. As long as you hug the ground you live that much longer. Additionally the aircraft will carry electronic counter measures, infrared Jammers as well as chaff and flare dispensers. Not as easy as it seems. As far as them being obsolete, if you're a grunt a attack helicopter is your best friend. You hear the enemy coming before you as you're in your positions you can spot out their locations and relay that to the forward controller who will then Vector in the attack helicopters to decimate the enemy. That's how it actually works in real life.
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  79. After an intelligent man was elected and re-elected who was black, the next guy out gave permission for them to crawl out from underneath whatever fungus covered rock they were hiding under.
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  80. Troll
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  81. ​@Kaatu-barada-niktoguys, it's a freaking helicopter in a war zone. Nothing is impervious. What are you expecting? It's called battle loss. Happens in every war.
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  82. Just to clear up a bit of misperception about why they didn't fire the TOW. I fired TOWs from Humvees, jeeps, and eventually cobra attack helicopters. The ground Vehicles you must be sitting still with the engine off so the vibration doesn't complicate the missile guidance system to track the missile. You then have to line up your target, hopefully at near maximum range. It's not something that you can even come close to shooting on the move, unless of course you're in a combat helicopter. The tow missile is very much like a sniper weapon, It's made to monitor kill zones. Waiting for something to stroll into your kill zone and then you zap it, it's a great device but it doesn't shoot while you're moving along a bumpy roadway., additionally for maximum range shots it will take up to 22 to 25 seconds that you have to hold the cross on the target for missile impact. If they sat still in order to get the TOW missile on the wire they would have been dead.
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  83. A stupid question, why is it Republicans just can't do their jobs for the positions that they were actually hired for, to represent their constituency to make their lives better and solve problems? I'm pretty sure Hunter Biden isn't causing the decline of the entire country yet this seems to be their only focus.
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  84. Very curious, what treasonous act are they guilty of? All they did was play the videos of a fool saying stupid things. If you admire him that seems to be your problem. As far as imprisonment goes, if you commit a crime and there's a buttload of proof to include statements that you make that actually incriminate you for those crimes don't you believe you should go to jail?
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  85.  @davidseva8394  you know there's a lot of good psychologists around in this country who have very very generous rates
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  86. Turkey controls access to the critical waterway that allows entry into the black sea. It's the combat zone where the Ukraine has been sinking their Naval vessels. The country of Turkey is in a strategic position but we don't hold them in high regard as far as an ally you can trust.
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  87. So, how many injections of bleach have you had today?
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  88. Seriously, are you allowed to go out by yourself?
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  89. Except that this is not a cultural norm, it's just plain racism. And I would hope that anyone sitting in the White House would understand and not try to inflame the situation when they're speaking to people from those other cultures. I suppose his probation officer can explain it to him.
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  90. It can be truly said that the circus is coming to town.
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  91. If he's with Ron DeSantis then he hasn't actually left anything. You just changed masters.
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  92. ​ @timkelly6985 we haven't had a coup in this country since the Civil war. You'll have to excuse them if they didn't know exactly how to react. No president has ever turned treasonous to this country before. Consider it the learning curve.
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  93.  @tylermcfadden2000  Church going social conservatives. Was that Jesus sitting on the left of the hate rally??
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  94. I suppose trying to get freedom of choice for American women is a bad thing, I suppose taking steps to stop drug interdiction in the United States is a bad thing, I suppose trying to put criminals in jail for crimes they actually committed is a bad thing, exactly what has she done that so wrong? And I don't mean your beliefs, something that can actually brought into a court of law. Not a giulianism. Better yet, why don't you tell me what Donald Trump in 4 years in power has actually done to help the average man. I don't mean the average millionaire or billionaire I mean everyday people. Name something, anything? You won't find it because he didn't do it. It's that simple. So when you're talking about pocs you really need to relook your definition of poc. As far as I can tell like everybody else there's only one POC and he's going to be going to prison soon. For crimes he actually have been convicted of.
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  95. You beat me to it!
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  96.  @viper100290  That's ridiculous. You gotta tank, you use a TOW.
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  97. Well, walk or not when an actual judge refers to you as a rapist that's not a good thing. You can worship him if you want I'd rather worship toenail fungus.
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  98. You can jam a drone, you can't Jam in apache. In addition the Apache carries 750 rounds of 30 mm ammo. You can plaster a lot of troops in a tree line with that. Not entirely easy to do that with a drone. As well as the hellfires and the 2.75-in folding fin Rockets it makes a tech helicopters a nightmare for ground troops. Can it be shot down, hell yeah that's why we have insurance.
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  99. ​ @valerieroberts8241 I'm pretty sure in this state of California we have the strongest economy in the country. We are the fifth largest economy in the world. I'm pretty sure that indicates that we do make a few good decisions.
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  100. I am just completely amazed of the callousness of putin. His people are dying by the thousands and he doesn't seem to give a rat's ass! One of the most depraved dictators in existence without a doubt.
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  101. This is the problem with the education system in the United States. If a person can't tell fact from fiction, they don't hold them back a grade, they elect him president. If one has to lie to make their point, they don't have much of a point to make.
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  102. No, you actually don't have to love Trump. That's like admiring crusty boogers in your nose.
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  103. So do Stinger gunners
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  104. It truly isn't possible for a human being to know less. Every time I listen to a trump supporter talk I start to feel smarter.
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  105.  @psychshell4644  it's not a question of training, it's a question of temperament. You can train the best baboon on the planet and you still have a baboon. If they don't have the temperament to do their Duty without allowing their emotions to get involved you're still looking at lawsuits. Departments need to do better background checks and have the ability to fire those guys who are just not up to standard. Behaviorally.
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  106. This interview was criminal, this Lackey didn't answer a single question. He just kept turning it around to biden. Astonished Tapper would allow this to happen.
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  107. They're a huge improvement to the russian built crap that's been shot down through the course of the war. LCD multi-function displays, the ability in the same mission to go from air to air to air to ground and back again in the same mission. Also the availability to use the most advanced weapon systems in existence and networking capabilities on parity with all of nato. Are you sure you know what the word antiquated means?
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  108.  @TrevorCrook-c1s  Ambushes and booby traps are a little different than stand up fighting.
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  109. Hopefully she won't shoot any of the electricians if they complain about their wages.
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  110. I always used a Pez dispenser as an example. At least a Pez dispenser when it's mouth opens you get candy out of it.
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  111.  @katecombest3602  Yeah, but what do the border patrol officers know about the border?? (sarcasm)
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  112.  @Slava22222  I apologize, I didn't read your comment fully, only skimmed the first parts. There's a lot of people who just love to argue nonsense. Again, my apologies. In answer to your question, I get the math while on active duty and you are correct. We had a company in Tustin California that wanted to upgrade our F model cobras to the Super Cobra standards at that time. The Department of Defense said instead of spending 3.7 million dollars to upgrade a single F model COBRA to the Super Cobra standards they decided to spend 12 million dollars on a single Apache. What can I say, I don't control the credit cards. The Pentagon is spend crazy. At the time this is before the D model came out, the Apache had a horrible operational Readiness rate compared to the cobras but the Marine Cobra is a completely different animal. As far as the payload, you can mix and match whatever type of Ordnance you want depending upon the enemy threat as well as the temperature because that has a great deal to do with how much ammo we could carry. Both Apaches and Vipers have more power available so they can lift virtually a full tank of gas and full ordinance, ours we have to decide on whether we wanted to fly longer or carry more firepower. At the time the Marine Super Cobra was far more Superior than hours. I can admit that. But if you want to compare bones to bones, a 20 mm 3 Barrel M-197 gun on the Cobras have a much tighter shot group or impact points at distant targets between 1500 to 1800 meters than the apache. When a 30 mm fires off the dispersal pattern of those rounds go every freaking where. Ours was more like a sniper in comparison. All the bullets are landing in pretty much the same zone. You don't have much dispersion. Ours could fire between 12 to 15 rounds per second which worked pretty well for us in a direct fire mode when supporting ground troops. The Apache gun does have better range though. It's just when they fire, they have the potential to get a lot of collateral damage.
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  113. Unfortunately we're going to be stuck with Marjorie Taylor green and all of her disciples for a while.
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  114. The actress did a great job
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  115. It's a great weapon, I've fired them for nearly 20 years, but you have to be sitting still to fire a TOW, mostly from a hide position very much like a sniper. Unless you're in a helicopter, it's not something that you can shoot on the move. In this case sitting still would have been suicide.
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  116. Actually it was because the Huey hog wasn't fast enough to stay with the chinooks, as well as they were terrible at maneuvering with that heavy ordinance on board. I flew the cobra, and the huey in flight school and there is a world of difference. Like going from driving a minivan to driving a Maserati. The Russians have the problem that you're addressing the Blackhawk can handle in as much as if you shoot down the Blackhawk fully armed as it is you've also lost that gunship and troop transport. Kill two birds with one stone. The ability for the cobras or Apaches to be flexible stick and move as it were makes it a highly destructive aircraft in that type of mission. Blackhawk is still too large and not nearly as maneuverable as an apache.
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  117. The real difference in this one as opposed to all the others mentioned is it's more of a comedy. I've seen it twice, it's a very fun movie to see.
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  118. Very well said
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  119. It's because of those icons of evil known as lawyers and one particular judge.
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  120. I was going to say almost that exact same thing! Generally I say if he put his hand on the Bible it would burst in the flames. That's why he had an asbestos glove at a swearing in ceremony.
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  121. ​ @falconquest2068 no, there's at least four of them.
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  122.  @simonmunizsr8891  perhaps you may explain what exactly she has done wrong and I mean exactly. I mean she hasn't actually asked anyone to inject themselves with disinfectant lately. If you can't come up with anything that she's done wrong then it's obvious that you're just a troll. You have a nice day.
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  123. Nope. Their idea is not actually to replace it, their idea is to get rid of it so they can take the funding that would have been used to field the A10 squadrons and use it for some other aircraft that they want like this lightning. The lightning even if everything worked on it still couldn't do as good a job as a warthog. It's all just a question of getting money to field their high-speed high altitude Jets. They have no desire to support ground troops. They want to do the Top Gun thing even though it would cause the death of army Grunts and marines. That's not a part of priorities.
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  124.  @expertpovsemvoprosam1667  And how many times have russians landed on the moon?? I forget. Oh yea, never. I think they sent a dog. It never came back.
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  125.  @annefox926  I'm sure Governor DeSantis will get right on fixing things as soon as he's finished rewriting history. You know to get rid of that whole slavery thing that happened.;-).
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  126.  @courtneybrubaker9738  Mickey Mouse sure as hell gave him a slap down. The mouse has brass knuckles.
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  127. Astounding there are people out there that actually believe this stuff. Tells you the quality of our schools that people can be taken in so easily by such insipidly stupid thoughts.
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  128. Actually if you look at the design of the gun it's got Springs and hydraulic buffers on it that largely removes much of the forces used when the gun is fired so you get a nice clear stable picture when it's fired. In other words, what you're saying is completely wrong.
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  129. You may not know it but Abrams Tanks have been stationed in Europe in been in engagements in Kosovo as well. It's only when mother nature turns it into a muddy mess then nobody's tanks are moving very well.
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  130. Just recently I attended a veterans breakfast where one of my fellow attendees basically came up with misinformation about the Biden Administration stopping arms shipments from reaching israel. I kept trying to explain to him the only thing the president held back was the big bombs because the Israelis were bombing population centers, and the Israelis got everything else on their wishlist but I still don't think he believed me. This man is a vet, he should know this was a ridiculous story that President Biden stopped the arms shipment, however he didn't mention anything about Congress holding up weapons shipments to Ukraine as well as Israel and Taiwan. As long as a Democrats name is in the mix, they will believe any insipidly stupid story. Fox News should be charged with treason.
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  131. These peoples brains are sugar frosted and flaked.
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  132. These jackalopes don't understand the concept of their actions forcing a religion on children, especially those of different faiths. All the care about are their feelings. The rest be damned. It makes the good "Merikans". And heaven forbid that they teach about our country's past revolving around the slave trade and inequality to people of color and women..., you know, history. Because everybody who matters in Merika are old white men and their sons.
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  133.  @Jagnyy55441  a lot of good that's going to do him in prison
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  134. Be afraid, be very afraid....
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  135. I always say trumpism has a strong influence over the weak minded.
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  136. The only thing you really need to keep in mind is that the Chinese weapons are cheap versions of the Russian weapons. They came out with a new attack helicopter and it isn't even at the level of the cobras I flew when I retired in 1997. They're not a threat. If they were, why have they not attacked taiwan.
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  137. He was in office for 4 years. Had the Congress and the senate. What exactly did he accomplish for the common folk. I'm not speaking about the billionaires in millionaires, I'm talking about you. Exactly what did he accomplish in those four years to help you? If you're like anyone with common sense you'll realize that he didn't do jack! Talk is cheap but in the eyes of a trump supporter it's gospel.
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  138.  @plisskan74  still illegal
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  139.  @psychshell4644  That seems to happen a great deal. Those cracks must be huge!
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  140. Biden could live for a thousand years and never come up with stuff this stupid to say. Late night monologues are built on Trump because he says the most idiotic things. Have you not noticed this? Not a whole lot of comedians are capping on Biden. Because he's a boring old guy who seems to know what he's doing. By the way, make sure you get your shot of Clorox before going to bed tonight.
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  141.  @limedickandrew6016  Their using the weaponry on the helicopters as a fast maneuvering (as opposed to a tank) firing platform. It hits the enemy from the flanks or an area they weren't expecting. Flying low makes it very difficult for shoulder fired IR missiles to lock on as they were designed to hit things contrasted in the clear blue sky. The terrain is confusing to the electronic sensors of the seeker head. Flares are used to also decoy any IR missiles fired at them. Additionally flying that low really helps to mask the sound. The human ear won't be as effective to figure out exactly where it's coming from until it's too late.
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  142. ​​ @missouri_arizona I suppose you could ask that of the Iraqi tankers, oh wait, no you can't because they're dead.
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  143.  @erics7226  I find it hard to understand how people can be this ignorant with so much history available. But everyday I live in the United States I find out that there's a lot of people out there who ain't rowing with both oars in the water.
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  144. Any dissent or protest in Russia about the war that they didn't even want to call a war would probably send you to prison. Little hard to protest the incredible losses if you don't want to lose your freedom.
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  145.  @mikeconey2164  I'm pretty sure he's just a troll. No one is this stupid by accident.
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  146. No, but you got to have admire their ejection seats. LOL!
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  147. It's still an embarrassment to out country
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  148. President Trump is the Jesse Owens of stupidity. Nobody else comes close!
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  149. The Marine was wondering where it would fly out of to perform combat operations in yemen. Just a reminder it can do in Flight refueling and fly almost 3,000 miles as well as being able to land in somebody's driveway. They're designed to land just about anywhere to include isolated roads. As long as the pilot has a piss bag and a bagged lunch he'll be able to get there and back successfully. It's possible some of the video footage was done in the Training Areas outside of Davis Monthan AFB in Arizona as well as Luke AFB. Big planet.
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  150.  @dwightwilson9629  didn't know that but I wouldn't doubt it.
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  151. And how many of those things got shot down so far in the Ukraine
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  152.  @paulroberts7429  in it's entirety or the amount sticking out of your teeth ?
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  153. Wow, even when you're standing up you're lying.
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  154. Well I was in flight school if you were lucky it would take you approximately 9 to 12 months to get through the flight program, depending upon the helicopter your chosen to fly and the weather. Learning to fly a helicopter is a lot harder than learning how to fly a fixed wing.
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  155.  @Foxtrot_UniformCharlieKilo  I don't think you realize it but the Air Force did not want the A-10 warthog. Only the pilots and crew chiefs and Armament Specialists love that airplane. The hierarchy of the United States Air Force is bigoted only for the higher flying high speed aircraft that allows them to get jobs with the aircraft manufacturers after they leave the military. The Air Force does not want to support the ground combat troops. They want to do the Top Gun thing and only the top gun thing. Marines and grunts are not in their calculations.
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  156. Actually all they're doing is playing videos from trump. How can you get angry with people that are pushing play? Maybe you should get angry with a moron who's making such obviously idiotic statements. Can't Blame A bird for flying.
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  157. You're correct. My big brother was enlisting for the chapparal system. Never got in.
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  158. But as long as he keeps telling them what they want to hear than none of that matters.
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  159. It is a strong belief that since Trump has hotels the last thing that he wants is to cut down on clientele that won't visit his properties so that is the major reason why he did not tell the American people how dangerous the coronavirus was. Money, greed, he is pure evil. Hundreds of thousands of people died possibly more because of his greed.
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  160. Well, when he goes to prison something will be going into it. And I'm not talking about the Salisbury steak.
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  161. Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded
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  162. ​​ @Kaatu-barada-nikto you are amazed at drones tracking down and slamming into tanks and armored personnel carriers moving at approximately 30 miles an hour down a bumpy road. Apaches go a tad bit faster than 30 miles an hour so good luck with that drone attack slick. You'll be out of signal range before you know it.
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  163. It would never use Sidewinders as the Air Force and navy controls the airspace. What the hell are they going to shoot down? No enemy fighter can get within 200 miles of the combat zone. They're only proving that yes we can mount a Sidewinder on their. They can also mount a tuna sandwich on the tail boom, it's not like they're actually going to eat the damn thing.
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  164. It's not just her, the entire Republican party has erased the word ethical from their vocabulary.
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  165. My farts demonstrate more intellect than anything that comes out of Trump's mouth.
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  166. Hard to argue with that one
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  167. Unless he's actually charged with an actual crime than to put your political opponents in jail would be an example of a dictator. Thus far only one person who's running for any elected office is saying put people in jail without an actual charge. That would be fat donald!
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  168.  @Deriv44  the guy looking at a two-dimensional screen is not the same as a pilot who can look in all different directions. You've got to be able to see the entire Battlefield to be able to make the best choices. Should somebody be firing at him from the right, a drone operator wouldn't know that until the hits finally came in his way, as a pilot he can at least see flashes down on the ground from automatic weapons fire. A drone operator will not have that ability. You got to be able to see the threats to be able to react to them.
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  169. What difference does the location make? They slaughtered these T-72s and T-80s in iraq. What makes you think other than the range, that you'll have a different outcome. The M1 and the Challenger both have composit chobam armor, it's revolutionary and even though they got hits from the Iraqis there were only approximately 4 to 6 losses whereas the russian-built tanks was in the hundreds. The Soviets build tanks for numbers to swarm the battlefield, they do not take into account survivability, or crew comfort. They just want a bullet launcher. The Western tanks are built to take hits and keep fighting, Iraq proved that. As far as the losses of the western tanks thus far, hey, it's a battlefield. That's going to happen. @WhiteRabbit. 
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  170.  @remrad4315  try not to make fun of me, this is a quote from you fearless leader. You know, suggesting people inject themselves with bleach. If somebody said that to you while you're sitting on a bus you would get up and move to another seat.
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  171. The only thing that I know of that has ever survived in Apache hit was in M1 Abrams tank in Iraq when a moronic lieutenant colonel fired two Hellfire missiles at a Abrams and the only damage was a ruptured hydraulic line and one of the crew members getting burned with the hydraulic fluid. The Abrams and the challengers are the toughest tanks on the planet.
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  172. The one major thing that Trump has that Kamala Harris does not have, a parole officer.
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  173. Yeah, that message is don't mess with our Infantry. Unfortunately the concepts the Air Force is looking forward to has nothing to do with supporting infantry and Marines on the ground. They want to go Top Gun all the way.
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  174. This has never been a question of politics and political influence. It's a question of "Did Trump LIE on the forms he submitted to banks and both the state of New York and I.R.S.". If he did then the judge ruled properly, it's fraud. This hearing is about the punishment for committing this level and amount of fraud. Crying about a trial that's not a trial is futile, or as the borg puts it "resistance if futile".
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  175.  @clivestainlesssteelwomble7665  Well from what I can see on the videos they're being targeted left and right through drones. I spent 10 years working as an anti-armor crew member with tow missiles. The primary job was a tank killer. The Ukrainians are doing a better job than we did and not using a $10,000 guided missile with small drones for a tiny fraction of that which is seemingly doing a better job when you count the saturation on the battlefield of these drones. Long live ukraine.
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  176. This was an excellent video, by far you have covered a lot of things that others have missed specifically terrain flying and electronic warfare countermeasures. The one huge advantage that gunships have over drones is that not only can we carry a lot of ordinance in comparison but we have a big ass gun. That big ass gun makes a big difference for those troops on the ground as immediate suppression can be brought about, immediately. In addition to being able to have two heads looking around for threats instead of just one controller is a big boost for efficiency as well. Yes, it risks the pilot but as a former Cobra pilot that's our job. We're there to support the Infantry. A drill sergeant once told me in basic training if you want to guarantee buy a toaster.
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  177. ​ @Moxie696 we have Senator Menendez who is going to jail for his crimes, that's one. As a matter of fact, that's about the only one. In this case that both citizen just doesn't cut the mustard.
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  178.  @RobertRobert-xu2yd  Wasn't there someone for abortion, then against abortion, then for abortion. He may have changed his mind again, I mean its been over 20 minutes.
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  179. Trump is an idiot.
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  180. I'm a retired Cobra pilot, the dod usually does come up with some decent plans but again, the budget is always something they have to work through. I lost out on an Apache transition centuries ago but it was the A model so I pretty much dodged a bullet. Got a friend who does fly the longbow has a maintenance test pilot in Rucker or whatever the hell they call it today. He has nothing but praise for the machine.
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  181. @kuhgar  it was a joke
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  182.  @SpeakerOfTruth444  he's been giving prosecutors all the evidence that they will ever need unfortunately with corrupt judges, it's making it a whole lot harder for the justice system to actually work.
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  183. He'll care once he reaches the prison shower and there's no secret service around. He said something about assaulting women was acceptable, I hope he has that same attitude after he drops the soap.
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  184.  @just-a-purple-ork  hey jerome, I'm not sure how much you know about what's called the Air Land Battle Doctrine. I spent 10 years as a paratrooper and 10 years as an attack helicopter pilot. As far as the battleship goes, airplanes is what technically took out the battleships which are stationed on obviously aircraft carriers. As far as the warthog flying in contested airspace, it does not. The Fix Wings assets are controlled by awac aircraft hundreds of miles from friendly troops. That's why the warthog doesn't do anything in that realm, it's job is to protect ground troops like I used to be. There is never, and I cannot emphasize this enough, never ever a chance that an enemy fighter can be anywhere close to our ground troops. That just can't happen with awacs coverage with hornets, raptors, strike eagles, Lightnings etc. The A-10 Warthog does not fly against enemy aircraft. As far as losses go we only lost four combat losses. Compared to the hundreds of sorties that were flown in Desert Storm 4 is a microscopic amount. The fact is that plane can take more damage than Can Be Imagined upon it and bring the pilot back alive. I flew cobras, those are obsolete now but Apaches have refined skills that even the A-10 doesn't have but you need both. The only real reason to pull the A-10 out of service is for the money that they can apply to other programs, but it leaves grunts like myself vulnerable. Everything in a combat zone is a risk, that's why we do the job. If you're afraid to go out there and be shot at then possibly you shouldn't volunteer.
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  185. Typically the little birds have folding rotors before they're put on board fix wing aircraft. However, in combat they can be operational inside of a half an hour after landing.
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  186.  @futte8024  I'm pretty sure the F-16 falcon came back with the reclining seat as well. They don't seem to have the canopy issues as the Draken, because it goes so fast. My understanding was that it was designed that way for G-Force tolerances. As far as the cockpit ejection goes there's a video on YouTube called Fighter Jet Ejection Seat Slow Mo – Rocket Sled Test At USAF that may be worth a look.
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  187. About time he dumped his "alternate facts" wife.
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  188. I suppose it never occurred to him to maybe vote for the person who isn't a liar.
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  189. It has been a leaning that way for a long time, trumpism just kidnapped it and supercharged it. He appeals to the dumbest of us.
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  190.  @sumdamwog3133  how many EX helicopter pilot which means I'm flying something that shouldn't be able to fly but it does. Go figure. We have a philosophy, if it ain't good on the ground it ain't going to be any better in the air. We have at any given time over 1,000 aircraft in the sky. I'm not pointing that Boeing is exceptional I'm just pointing that it's the house that's on fire that you seem to notice. Anything can go wrong at any time, that's why we have insurance, that's why they make sirens. My point is it's very very easy to point to Boeing as a measure of incompetence but with the sheer number of aircraft in the skies it's a matter of time before something falls out of it. Has Boeing made some mistakes, yeah they have. And if they're bright they will fix those problems but I have no fear of getting on board a aircraft built by boeing. I've done it in the past I'll do it in the future. Again, it's the house on fire that people tend to notice, but I guarantee you 10 dozen donuts that you'll still go into a house.
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  191. This was a pretty decent presentation although he made reference to an Airborne tow missile fired from helicopters. I was a ground infantryman as well as a attack helicopter pilot on cobras. They're the same missiles. There's no difference. As far as the Marines go, most recently they only use hellfires. Other than those two issues it's pretty good video.. very informative.
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  192. Pretty sure it wasn't the Biden people that attacked the capital and beat up the officers. Weird huh?
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  193. In the air it's generally flying with the nose lower than on the ground. At 5'7", I found it's still an annoyance when flying as back-seater who has to move his head left and right to see around the instrument panel cowling to get a good view of what's directly in front of him/her. Sometimes we'd give a little left or right pedal just to see what the gunner has..., a perfect view. Still, a fun machine to fly.
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  194. It can't track it when it's 5 ft off the trees over 5 MI away. They need to be flying a whole lot higher for that weapon system to be able to track and lock on. We generally don't give the enemy that much of a break.
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  195. They refurbished and repaired them and updated them as quickly as they could. They're better than the ones that were used in desert storm. Tactics have changed however.
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  196. As a black man I am to astonished at the ass kissing of Tim scott. It basically proves my point all along, the only people who vote for Donald Trump or greedy, racist, or gullible. Generally, It's a combination of 2 to 3 all together. But the one other thing they have in common is they don't care what happens to their fellow man or our country. These people should be massively ashamed of themselves and I don't know who Tim Scott's people are but I'm sure they are massively ashamed of him.
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  197. After just a few months in country the NVA stopped shooting at it. It's like a skunk, yes you can kill a skunk but you may pay a huge price for that effort. The bottom line was that if that snake ain't messing with you don't mess with it. Let it go. The last thing you want to do is get its attention.
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  198.  @milokhanh313  even today the United States Army has more pilots and aircraft than all the other services combined. It's the reason we have warrant officers in flying positions rather than lieutenants captains majors and colonels. That would bankrupt the department of defense. With a lot more aircraft out there, you're going to have a lot more crashes of that particular type of aircraft. That's just the nature of the odds when you have a lot more of a particular type of aircraft out there, it's just the nature of the numbers. We lost over 5,600 B-17 bombers in World War 2. Either way, I flew cobras for almost 10 years and I had a blast every single time I got in the cockpit.
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  199.  @beverlymahaley6234  no argument here
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  200. It's called The Electoral college, envisioned some 240 years ago when we didn't have the ability to ask every adult citizen who they wanted to vote for. He lost the popular vote both times, that should tell you enough.
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  201. Well after an intelligent man was elected and re-elected who was black, the next guy out gave permission for them to crawl out from underneath whatever fungus covered rock they were hiding under.
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  202.  @PavolFilek  With all those "soldiers" Russia still can't win. They have lost so many soldiers they're not even picking up the bodies anymore.
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  203. Trump supporters fall into three categories. The greedy, the racist, and the gullible. You cannot expect to get principles and ethics out of either of those categories.
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  204. Well, during the first election he had to vote of the greedy, the gullible and the racist. He's lost the appeal to the greedy because he lost so much money and the gullible, at least some of them are starting to smarten up. As far as the races go, there is zero hope for those clowns.
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  205. There was a time when character indignity as well as Integrity were words that made a difference in this country. I truly hope those attributes comes back to the political scene. Right now all the Republican Party can do is try to find ways to get around the actual rules and traditions that we used to run this country. But it cannot be done with the current leadership there, they're basically propagandists for lies. And lies have the stench of failure.
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  206. Except those don't exist except on tv.
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  207. aaah.., no.
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  208. You know why there is peace in europe? It's because of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO as it's commonly referred to. Donald J Trump is trying to remove that organization so he can deal with the dictator who's started a war with an ally. Question I put to you is how do you get peace when you're dealing with someone holding a knife to your throat? The answer is you can't. You should really learn a little bit more about how the world really works.
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  209. ​ @dreamshakejunya that's what the Sith Lords do. Either you're with us or you're agin' us.
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  210. You probably haven't been paying attention. One drone, one explosion. One apache, dozens of explosions. Any questions?
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  211. ​​ @bravoA-su8xm actually the older M1's were fitted with a newer armor before they left the United States. You are wrong.
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  212.  @pieface8032  Yeah, I'm sure when he reached the ground they served him tea and cookies.
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  213.  @JoseyBerdugo  hitler, I mean Putin promised they wouldn't be participating in a war out of the country. He was wrong. Also they have very very minimal training
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  214. Yeah, lower unemployment, a burgeoning economy, the respect of other countries who under a different Administration we lost. Who wants that kind of a mess?
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  215. Well, is it they're slowing down to land troops it gives you the ability to shoot down both the gunship and the lift aircraft at exactly the same time. Two pieces of crap with one shot, what a bargain!
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  216.  @Phil-tl8vp  A prosecuting attorney is suppose to go after crooks. There's absolutely nothing wrong in stating that. Gotham City Attorney Dent said he was going after the Joker. Is that a bad thing? Trumps no different, except he uses more makeup than the Joker.
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  217. Irregardless to the point you made the machine is still one of the most lethal tanks ever designed. Only 9 Abrams were lost in all of the Iraq War while the Russians tanks were destroyed by the boatloads. There was never an accurate account, except that if you're going to be in battle and you have to be in a tank, this one is the one to be in.
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  218. You must be Nostradamus. What are the upcoming Lotto numbers?
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  219. ​ @Always_Thinking  She moved to Florida and wants nothing to do with that business.
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  220. ​ @michaelmartinez9622 it's like they say, you should play to your strengths. Donald Trump's strength is being exceptionally stupid. And greedy.
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  221. That is seriously a tough list to make. He has had so many abysmally stupid things through the years that to narrow it down to the top 50 would be an effort.
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  222.  @gaHuJIa_Macmep  for the United States is the uniform code of military justice, also for the military it's the law of land Warfare and for the world it's the Geneva Convention. Glad you asked.
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  223. It's called digging a hole for yourself. There's no shame in shutting up.
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  224.  @juansanchez6042  366 million, that's one hell of a jaywalking ticket
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  225.  @reggveg  Or he's a troll
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  226.  @mannyrodriguez5453  you have a great point there until it's you that's getting shot by the police for jaywalking. Then you change your tune. The police's job is not to assault citizens, obviously there are people wearing uniforms who should not be wearing uniforms and there is the fault. When you show that you do not have the temperament for the job you should not be carrying a gun and be protected by your chief. Your job is to serve and protect the public not assault and abuse them.
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  227.  @mannyrodriguez5453  the police also are supposed to follow the law. When they break their own rules flagrantly especially when the citizens they're supposed to be there to protect get injured or killed, you're supposed to fire them. If they can't do the job then you find someone who can do it within the rules. Expecting the public to let lunatics run roughshod over the laws is not law.
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  228. They have a goal of 2% of their gross national product. The money doesn't come to us but Trump supporters are kind of stupid and don't seem to understand that.
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  229. There was a time when all politicians to include Republicans used to spin a negative outcome, nowadays they just outright lie. Integrity means absolutely nothing in the Republican Party.
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  230. The USS Boxer proved the adage, there's never enough time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over. (Unknown US Army soldier)
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  231. I'm truly ashamed of the rebooblican party for not strongly supporting our allies, the bravest people on earth, the Ukrainian people.
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  232. You know they have medications that will clear that right up
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  233. ​ @nekko5778 you keep saying that, don't you have anything else to say?
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  234.  @nekko5778  it shows no imagination, no originality.
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  235.  @stpfs9281  whatever floats your boat son
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  236.  @STB-jh7od  and one of these days I'm going to learn how to read. But it won't be today
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  237. You may not understand this but seeing is that we have business and Affairs all over the world, we are globalists. Virtually everything you buy comes from Asia or Europe or South America. In fact we get goods from all over the planet cuz they're cheap and you don't want to pay any more than you absolutely have to for anything. Little hard to cut those strings don't you get that? The term globalist is used to confuse morons. Not saying you're a moron but you do seem to be very confused.
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  238.  @tms372  and yet you won't give a single example of anything that Mr Biden said that makes no sense. You have a good day sir.
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  239. That's pretty much why they want a dictator as a leader, so they no longer have to make choices, they no longer have to educate themselves, they no longer in their world struggle to compete with others. This is generally called sheep.
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  240. Nope, no they don't.
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  241.  @Scotty2hotty-xc6gi  she said she was going to donate a great deal of it to women's abuse issues. Don't know how much but I don't believe it's going to be all of it. Her life has been wrecked financially turn off the timer for I'd be having a great time that 83 million dollars can provide
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  242. The Russian Air Force up against a F-16 is like your Hunters out there trying to hunt a polar bear with a slingshot.
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  243. The apache would operate from a battle position somewhere between 2 to 5 miles from the enemy. I'm pretty sure as well as these FPV's are, they're not going to try flying 5 miles for an aircraft not likely visible to the naked eye (it's why their painted green), hovering inside of a tree line. While moving they're speed is generally over 80 knots again skimming the tree tops. The point of that is that the helicopter is not seen, not heard, especially when there is gun fire and tank engines going on. He doesn't get in close enough for you to see or hear him/her. That would be a fair fight. We don't do that. We come up to you close as you please and somebody comes up behind you and hits you in the neck with a baseball bat. Just ask the Iraqi's. An AH-64 gets you within weapons range and unloads a missile designed to fry you from 5 miles away in about 4 to 6 seconds. You'll never see it coming. Drones are completely ineffective against this type of operation.
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  244. I've worked firing tow missiles for over 20 years. I cannot imagine what it's like to try to keep a laser spot on a moving and maneuvering airplane. That I got to see to believe.
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  245.  @Jamie-uk2zh  Good
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  246. Ask people in the Electoral college. They selected this imbecile while the majority of Americans did not.
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  247. Pretty sure he's trying not to overload their brains. Watch them, they can barely understand his question. They can't handle more than one subject at a time, it causes them to riot and storm government buildings.
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  248. Always have a safety strap.
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  249.  @truthbtold8697  why don't you tell the world exactly how the Trump Administration helped the American public. I don't mean the Millionaires and billionaires, I don't mean how they help themselves, I'm asking you what programs has the Trump and Republican Administration Advanced that actually helped the average american? Don't worry, I'll wait.
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  250.  @slartybarfastb3648  You're absolutely right. We don't fight far. Overwhelming numbers and advanced weapons are the way to win. That way you get to see your family again. We are Borg, resistance is futile.
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  251.  @maksimer6612  wtf??
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  252.  @tigerboy60  not for the people they've been blowing up lately
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  253. You clearly haven't been paying attention
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  254. I'm a retired cobra pilot and if you look at all those surface to air engagements you may not know this but the US army trains us to hug the ground. We don't fly in the nose bleed sections. Those shoulder fired weapons require the gunner to sight in on an aircraft flying against a nice blue background or sky as some people call it. We fly so low our biggest threat is getting a speeding ticket from a local cop. We skim the tree tops, and not only that, we have sensors that detect missile launches and have an Infra Red jammer as well as automatic flare and chaff dispensers. so you see, if you're an imbecile flying 400 feet through the sky your life expectancy ain't worth "jack" jack. That's the lesson I took from those videos. The Russians are piss poor pilots.
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  255. The sicker we are the harder we fall
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  256. When the Russians had standardized paint schemes they used to put a red star on the side of the cowling. We found that if you shot between the legs of that star you would take out the engine oil pump and it comes down right after that. Twin engines or not. After that notification came down they stopped painting the stars on the side of the cowling. Don't know if one has to do with the other but you got to wonder.
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  257. In reality at maximum range of 3,750 M it covers at distance in under 26 seconds. If you fire at maximum range the thing is 6 inches wide The Flash is almost instantaneous and unnoticeable. They're not going to see it being fired at them and even by some miracle they did actually see it fired it will be too late. It's basically a very high tech sniper. The biggest advantage that has over javelins is the range. I believe it's got at least one third further reach than a javelin does. We've hit targets that looked so small they were hard to actually identify. ​ @gandalfgreyhame3425 
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  258. ​ @Justin-dy2ib so did the Wright flyer
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  259.  @Justin-dy2ib  just to let you know I was Airborne infantry for almost 10 full years and then went to flight school. That's my photograph that you see flying a huey in flight school. After that I wanted to cobras and flew those for almost 10 years. I went to the Apache transition, and I got to tell you it's one of the safest aircraft we had in the inventory. We take aircraft incidents extremely seriously. I'm not sure where you're getting this whole idea about the aircraft disintegrating and flight but that just doesn't happen. I think that you should probably find reference material someplace else. Additionally, the United States Army has more aircraft than the Air Force Navy and Marine Corps combined. Do we have incidences that occur, of course we do. It's just a factor of pure numbers but what you guys are laying here are just ridiculous. As far as the attack series, anytime we had an aircraft with major upgrades we change the designation. I went from flying the AH-1S through the AH-1F model Cobra all the way to the ECAS model in Korea. They look the same but they sure as hell ain't the same machine. Therefore they change the designator for that aircraft. This from a retired attack helicopter pilot. I realize that you guys are only listening to stuff you see online but there's a lot of bad information out there. Boeing has had a couple of spectacular incidents so now everything that they built is garbage? What in the world! Boeing presently has hundreds of thousands of aircraft in the skies and they don't fall out of the sky every minute of the day. They had a couple of incidences, that doesn't mean the company only puts out crap. The Apache is one of the toughest aircraft I have ever seen up close and actually sat in. I hate to say it but it out did my aircraft by a mile. It's tough to shoot down, not impossible but it is absolutely survivable. It's comparable to the Russian tanks as opposed to the Western tanks. They just don't blow up when you look at them the wrong way. So, in closing you guys are listening to some horrible information and just kind of spreading it around.
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  260.  @Justin-dy2ib  enlisted in May 1977 retired April 1997. As mentioned Airborne infantry in Vicenza Italy and the 82nd Airborne with a short stint in the 40th ID National Guard in Inglewood california. I went to flight school in 86 they put me in huey's, demanded cobras finally got cobras had to stay in Fort Rucker for another 6 weeks. Station in Hawaii South Korea Fort Hood texas, and Fort Polk louisiana. That place is a piece of s***. I retired with 20 years in service as a chief warrant officer 2. Also the electronic warfare officer/threat officer and tactical operations officer and the piss guy. My slot for the 64 was canceled due to budget cuts with the Department of Defense when Clinton took office. The a model had a lot of problems I got friends who fly the longbow and some are transitioning to the E model. Haven't been in the aircraft since 1997. As well as recent history maybe less than 2 years ago had a good friend named Carpenter who also worked at Redstone as a agent for foreign sales of apaches. He never mentioned anything about the tail rotor shredding. Fact he only had great things to say about them.
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  261. I watched the entire video and there are a number of serious discrepancies. First off, when the Army asked for a dedicated attack helicopter there were three contenders. The Cobra was not even one of them. Bell helicopter built the cobra in something like 9 months and had it flying in a year. By 1967 it was in Vietnam. As far as the true competition there were three helicopters up for purchase. The cheyenne, the Apache and the Blackhawk which is seen as a photograph of the S-67 seen at 6 minutes and 32 seconds. There are very very few photographs of this machine and it seems to have disappeared from history so I credit you guys with being able to dig the references on this helicopter up. The bottom line is through research and development the Apache is the only one that survived the culling process. The Cobra was meant as a stop gap until the winning design would have been chosen in approximately 8 to 10 years. The cobras service in the army wound up up lasting 33 years. That's a pretty impressive stop gap. It evolved through the decades and became what the Marines have today, they're viper. Which in my opinion is the most reliable and deadly Battlefield aircraft because it's much simpler in design than the apache. Much easier to maintain. And this is coming from an X cobra pilot. Ultimately the AH-64 won a contract that was started in the mid 1960's and the Army took the first orders in 1984, about 20 years later. Just a "taad" longer than the 8-10 years promised.
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  262. What's that you say? Republicans lied? I'm shocked!
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  263.  @serzh1950  You're hilarious, keep that sense of humor going!
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  264.  @zachb1706  Russians fly hundreds of feet above the ground making them prime targets for MANPADS, we don't do that. We fly so low we're followed by cops trying to write us tickets for speeding, as well as we have IR jammers and chaff and flare dispensers. But just terrain flying is enough to defeat manpads. If they can't lock onto you they can't kill you. Too bad the Russians don't seem to know this, so you can put your spanner back in the tool box. WE AIN'T THE RUSSIANS.
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  265. Are they really considered obsolete if they've all been destroyed?
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  266. No that's not true at all. They had to pay Dominion $787 million, they're going to be paying smartmatic over 1 billion. Get your facts straight my friend.
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  267. What exactly has CNN lied about, and give me examples that can actually be looked up not what you "believe" they lied about.
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  268. I've only seen Neil Cavuto call Trump lies lies. The rest of Fox News is the cheering section for the gop. May I remind people out there that new services are not supposed to be supporting candidates, there's supposed to be there to report impartially the news. If they can't do that then they're not news, they're propaganda.
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  269. Supporting him very badly.
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  270. Isn't that the job of the vice president to take over the president's duties if he became incapacitated for any reason? Well, Biden isn't able to do the debate, so the vice president is supposed to step up. She has done so, what happened to the fat Orange dude?
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  271. Actually the specific debate asks for a debate between the GOP and the Democratic candidate for president. There's no name attached to it. Besides, I'm pretty sure Trump doesn't get to decide who's on our team. This isn't caddyshack.
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  272. That's amazing, how do you say that with a straight face?
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  273. Where are these examples, I haven't seen one. Besides, CNN and MSNBC as well as most news sources actually play the tape of the actual politician saying the thing that will actually hang them later. It's not lying to play a tape of someone saying "she turned black!" It's not lying, it's playing a tape. That's just racism on its face and shows a huge amount of ignorance that you guys are trying to soft pedal back. You can't! He said it, we heard it. Perhaps you could wish upon a star that we can turn back time. Otherwise you people are ridiculous."
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  274. I think he's just afraid of people who turned black. He thinks it's contagious.
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  275. Sir, you are correct, attack air can't do it alone. At least not as efficiently. I flew cobras from 87 to 97. We coordinate our strikes with infantry. Although we can go further out, that's generally not the primary mission. We're working in direct support of the guys on the ground. They can hear where the enemy is better than we can so rather than them giving away their position they would call in artillery and attack helicopters, give us the grid and sit back and eat popcorn and watch the show. A radio is the most powerful weapon on the battlefield.
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  276.  @shirleyjackson3893  Unfortunately she doesn't make the policy. These decisions are done by studio execs. She's obviously been told how far these guys can go when they twist the truth. This is no a news show, it's a political show and they have different rules on the conduct of their guests.
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  277.  @kimocoloma4123  He's been on since. If you have to lie to make a point then you really don't have a point to make.
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  278.  @kevinclark8549  You seem like an angry person by your comments. Perhaps you could try a mint tea, it does wonders for soothing the mind.
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  279.  @kevinclark8549  you know why Trump didn't testify at his own trial, because if he lied he'd be found guilty of perjury, and if he had told the truth they'd send them to leavenworth. It would be a no win situation for a criminal.
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  280. Holy crap, do they hate him!
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  281. The Press can call him crazy and nuts all they want to, it won't make a difference. All of his followers love their disdain for him. Besides, the big issue with the Press making a declaration like that is you have to have a doctor's note believe it or not for them to say that otherwise it's called defamation and slander. There are laws against that kind of thing.
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  282.  @daverkate  is a black man I can tell you there are no actual laws against racism. It's a no-no, but you cannot be arrested for being a racist. In this country we have freedom of speech. Even I would admit that a racist has the right to say whatever they want to whether I like it or not is not important.
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  283.  @daverkate  There are no laws on the books for being racist. In this country you have freedom of speech. I as a black man don't particularly like racist, but they have a right to be able to say anything they want too. You can't be arrested for it.
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  284. I'm a retired army pilot. We joke that a helicopter can any maneuver.., once. In other words, it will crash immediately after words. In reality, the ability to do acrobatic maneuvers largely depends on the type of rotor system. Hueys and cobras used a "semi-rigid" rotor. Trying a loop like that I can only imagine what it looks like to see the ground hurtling towards the cockpit windows just before the crash would be something to see. A fully articulating rotor system and bearingless hubs are suitable for specific maneuvers and aircraft designs, but you cannot do acrobatic maneuvers in all helicopters. Airwolf is just a TV show.
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  285. Taiwan has the equivalent of super cobras.
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  286. So do we, what's your point?? You can't win a nuclear war. To think that's possible is idiotic. Just look at the effects of Chernobyl.
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  287. So, where's that wonderful healthcare plan the Republican party has been trying to dig out of their ass since 2016? Seems like a lot of talk and absolutely zero substance unless you want to talk about giving Millionaires and billionaires tax breaks then they're right at the top of the list. But I asked you, what exactly has the Republican Party done to help the average American citizen? And I imagine you're never going to answer this because you're either kind of stupid or you're just a troll. ​ @joep2060 
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  288. ​ @NEbluefire my my, how times have changed
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  289. ​ @myself1525 because he lost.
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  290. ​ @kennychad2821 also incarcerate those who actually did commit crimes for the Big Orange Jesus. They don't need to be removed from office only, they need to serve time for their violation to their oath, the constitution and generally being dicks!
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  291. ​ @flybywire5866 does eating lead based paint chips is not necessarily a good snack food.
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  292. ​ @Jiggyjiggy123 well, if you can't take the heat you should actually get out of the kitchen.
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  293.  @DebbieBowers-oc6jh  well that makes no sense
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  294. I had excellent scores in biology as I was growing up and I do not understand in the lease how people can walk around with so much excrement filling their large, small intestines and stomach. In other words they're full of s#%t. Ordinarily when you're so packed with feces most organisms would just die. Yet these Republicans keep on crawling around spreading it to every corner of their world. It's something that scientists should really consider looking into.
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  295. Damn, you must be a rotor head too?
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  296.  @fatbobdanny  Cobra pilot myself, almost 10 years. Before that I was a paratrooper. When I went to my very first Aviation unit after Flight School I asked the crew chiefs if there was anything I could do to help them out. They said "yeah sir, you could say the hell out of our way". Works for me.
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  297. Except for those burning in Ukrainian Farmer's fields. Those are hot hot hot!
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  298.  @TrevorCrook-c1s  Ukraine, without a navy has sank more Russian boats than anybody ever. Not sure where you get your news, the Russians are terrified to enter the black sea. Everything out there visits the bottom of the sea.
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  299.  @TrevorCrook-c1s  obviously all you wish to do is argue ridiculous points. I don't want to bring my IQ that low and I didn't realize you were mentally deficient. You're absolutely welcome to entertain your own opinions, I have no time for stupidity. You have a good day
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  300. The Ukrainian military. When it absolutely positively has to be delivered on schedule, or the next shipment is free!
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  301. If the wrong clip was played he should have pointed it out immediately while it was playing. I used to have a great deal of respect for this guy, now he just seems like the rest of the Fox News propagandists.
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  302. He did not do a good job on the economy, we raised the national dead by 8 trillion dollars. That's not a plus.
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  303. Putin should by all means go to hell.
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  304. You can pretty much thank James Comey for that. Piece of crap.
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  305.  @robertmorgan2219  the Republican party as it stands today has no ethics at all. They don't care about their constituents, all they care about is money, power and being reelected. They would run over a puppy in a heartbeat if they thought it would get them another term in office.
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  306. You're really not paying attention to what's going on right now. Voter rolls are swelling since she announced she's running. Young people especially are jumping at the opportunity especially Young women. Trump will lose, there is zero doubt about that. He is so so screwed.
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  307.  @catherinewilliams3850  well, his supporters don't seem to mind the smell. I guess that makes them exceptional.
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  308. I'm from California. The first time I've ever heard of her was when she had the confederate symbol removed from the S. Carolina flag. I had enormous respect for her after that. This stuff she's speaking with makes me want to vomit. She's sunk soooo freaking low.
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  309.  @Newsboydeposit  It was a joke
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  310.  @philsalvatore3902  just Ball parking the ratio in numbers between Apaches and cobras. I've been on board troop carriers and I've seen how tight the spaces are below decks when you're putting these machines so tightly together. I have also sat inside an Apache in a transition to the AH-64 course and in comparison to cobra's, those things are freaking huge! The destructive capability is pretty much equal, the Viper cannot absorb as much damage by far as an Apache but again when you have more attack airframes you're a more formidable fighting force to the enemy.
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  311.  @philsalvatore3902  I've used tow missiles since I was infantry off of jeeps and Humvees and then it's the same tow missiles used on a cobra. The Apaches use Hellfire and they can designate targets with their own laser systems as well as using other ground laser identifiers or Glids, or they can use a drone. This is referred to as lock on after launch missions (LOL). I've never found out if the Marines used their own laser identifiers in their telescopic sight units, just like Apaches I'm sure that their sighting systems have lasers built in. But the Hellfire is extremely accurate and has to have a laser identifier. My guess would be it's better to use a drone rather than bringing the helicopter in closer but the range on a Hellfire is somewhere between 4 and a half to 5 miles. You don't have to get close. As far as them being exposed to enemy fire, it's no more dangerous than eating a peanut butter sandwich without something to drink close by. There's a risk in everything you do, that's why you get the big bucks.
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  312.  @philsalvatore3902 Sorry to be so wordy, just to add as far as a tactical perspective, I flew Cobras for 5 years out of Wheeler Field in Hawaii, and I live in California and have gone by Camp Pendleton tons of times and when I see Marine cobras flying up and down the coastline one thing that I do note is that they fly a whole lot higher than we do overwater. That makes him a great target as the lower we fly the harder it is for heat-seeking missiles to lock onto us. I don't know if they do that over ground but the tactics are the ground guys call us in and tell us generally where the bad guys are. We use maps or nowadays GPS systems to find their location and we sneak in low level, extremely low level pick them up through the 13th power telescopic sight unit. Once sighted the gunner select a particular weapon and then wreaks havoc. Our weapons range is so far away that you're never going to hear us, you're never going to see us. All that you know is that things around you are blowing up. A cobra hovering in bushes or a tree line from 2.6 Mi away is virtually impossible to see. But there is the odd grunt out there that may have you in Rifle Range but that's why we have the 20 mm autocannon slaved to the helmet sight system. All you have to do is look at a person, pull the trigger the gun automatically swivels in his or her direction and it starts unloading at 15 rounds per second. It's primarily a self-defense weapon and generally the pilot will control it while the gunner is targeting the enemy in the distance. Again all you have to do is look at your target and pull the trigger it can turn a human into a red mist out to 1500 yds. Keep in mind, we fly in packs of 3 to 5 cobras, if you start shooting at one of us the other two to four will take you out. If there's a grunt out there, my advice is don't shoot at cobras, or apaches. Or so the Viet Cong figured out 2 months after the Cobra was introduced into Vietnam. The bad guy stopped shooting at them because they knew their weapons gave out a muzzle flash signature which would attract attention from the snakes. They quickly realized that these things will shoot back, they'll shoot back a lot. Again, we travel in packs. If we don't know where you are then that's the best survival tool you have. Don't attract attention!
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  313.  @williamzk9083  Russian Doctrine and Western Doctrine are very very different when it comes to attack helicopters. Our Attack Helicopters will be working close to the forward line of troops (flot). It's actually the Infantry who requests support and gives targeting information to include ground laser identifiers. We don't generally fly beyond our friendly lines, we can engage targets out to up to 5 Mi away from their Direction and instructions. Therefore, our forward arming and refueling points will have to be within at least 30 Mi of the flot in order to refuel and rearm. Also they're called jump farps because we can set them up and break them down in a matter of about 20 minutes. Any kind of clearing would work. In a Cobra we can cover 1 mi in about 20 seconds. It would take less than 15 minutes to go 30 mi. To be back any further away would hinder the ability for us to support the ground troops. I have no understanding of why the Russians have to fly from as far away as they do. Apparently they're not very good. We in the United States Army and I suspect the Marine Corps is well we don't do that. If it's a question of deep attack strikes, we use the fix wings for that. Attack helicopters in the Army stay with the army. We don't go out on our own.
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  314. @blacklight4720  you don't have to read it you know, it's a free country. Go have a cookie and watch tv.
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  315.  @philsalvatore3902  I'm sorry, I just noticed your question. I can't answer that question definitively as I was Army and we have a equipment used in a particular way that you actually pointed out already. I know they have a tendency to fly with the Yankee model Huey's and it's likely that they have enhanced magnifications with the sighting systems but that's a big ask. It's likely they use general support from the Marines who on the battlefield who can see and hear because of their proximity to the enemy and point out where the enemy is by the noise of their vehicles or becoming engaged engaged in a firefight they can call for immediate suppressing fire by using M-203's to mark targets with smoke rounds as well as ground laser identifiers or GLIDS if they have them available.
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  316.  @philsalvatore3902  again apologies, I just noticed these questions you had. In regards to the Cobra over the Apache with the Marine corps, the Marines have a great deal more experience and operating the cobras then the apaches. That is to say the software, all of the hardware in an Apache is a maintenance nightmare. Where is the newer versions of the cobras ie, the Vipers are very similar in type and they have experience in keeping them flying and again, there's a lot more of them you can put below the decks than apaches. They're just too damn big. They have really the same operational envelope so one is as good as the other. The only true difference is in Apache can take hits and still keep flying where is a Viper if it gets hit it's coming out of the sky like Mike Tyson punching a nun in the gut. She's going down!
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  317.  @jgr7487  in reality, the Cobra was only meant as an immediate stop Gap measure. It was designed in 6 months and the first one was flying 3 months later. It was never meant to be flying for 33 years and in the case of the Marine Corps more than that. There were three prototypes put out, the cheyenne, the blackhawk ( a gunship version, not the uh 60 that most people are used to) and the apache.
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  318. @blacklight4720  a lot to unpack here. I'll answer as much as I can. I was electronic warfare tactical operations officer so my job dealt specifically with the aircraft defensive systems such as chaff flare dispensers infrared Jammers and radar jammers. That is very in-depth but I can tell you this, along with all the electronic warfare equipment and flying low to the ground there is virtually no chance that a man pad will take out a helicopter. In the ukraine, all the Russians are flying in the nosebleed section. We don't do that. We skimmed the treetops. Missiles are not designed to go after aircraft that low to the ground. The avionics are becoming more advanced Through The Years along with microprocessors the weight of the components are lighter and lighter. The Apache and the Marine Cobras have twin engines, they have no power problems whatsoever. In actuality we had an engine that put out 1800 shaft horsepower but the transmission couldn't take that much power so it's been d-rated to 1180 to 1250 shaft horsepower. That way you don't destroy the transmission, the Apache as well as the Marine cobras don't have that problem so they can carry all the ordinance as long as they have hardpoints and full load of fuel, we have to tailor our fuel load and our weapons load depending upon the temperature of the day. The Apache has been outfitted with a wing tank so it could get better range but ordinarily we don't go much further than about 40 miles forward of our operating base. We travel at 2 me a minute so we can cover 40 miles and 20 minutes.
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  319. @blacklight4720 list of part 2, the reason why they needed that Wing tank was to go on extended missions such as taking out the Iraqi early warning radars. That is an extremely rare example. Ordinarily a wing tank would be used to Ferry the aircraft from one place to another. It's not generally used in most Mission profiles. All hard points are used to carry weapons when you go into battle. My opinion, the Marine cobras and that includes the super cobras as well as the Vipers are the absolute best attack helicopters under the sun. The only thing the Apaches have is the Apache can take hits and still keep flying. None of the cobras are able to take hits and not crash. The profile is made to engage targets out to 2 to 4 MI away. When you're hovering in the tree lines from 2 mi away you're pretty much invisible. With a tow missile I could hit a 4 by 4 ft box moving 2.3 Mi away. The Hellfire has a lot greater range than that. The Rockets along with the targeting systems has range up to approximately 3.5 MI. The only issue they may have is some loan Rifleman who can spot them hovering 20 yd away. That's why we use the flex gun. It can aim and put out bullets in less than a second. Beauty of it is all you have to do is look at The Rifleman pull the trigger the gun automatically turns and starts firing and you turn him into red mist. But as survivability goes it is the best flying but a drill sergeant once told me you want a guarantee buy a toaster. The pnvs / Tad systems have problems as far as picking out trees and such while flying so while I was in Ah-64 Pilots were using night vision goggles to get into the target area and then they switch to the thermal systems on board their aircraft. And this ANVIS6'S were the best night vision goggles we had at that time. I retired in 97 so I'm sure things have changed since then but as far as the avionics go again, the communications and navigation systems have only been enhanced since I left. As to avionics failures, while stationed at Fort Polk and Fort Hood we had 64 in the hangers next door. Cobras flew a lot more because the aircraft was a lot easier to work on whereas the a model 64's were a computerized nightmare. Most of the problems have been fixed they filled it the Delta model and the Echo model is even better. I hope that answers your questions.
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  320. @blacklight4720  oh yeah, if you're going to be in a crash the Apache is the best aircraft to do that with. Cobras are not designed to take hits, they're not designed to slam into the ground and Pilots walk away. Again, if you want to guarantee, buy a toaster .
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  321.  @Slava22222  I posted additional information a few moments ago that didn't seem to post. Crap that was a lot of stuff. Us principally about avionics. It was an Electronics Warfare/ threat officer. My responsibilities dealt primarily with infrared and radar jamming systems as well as chaff and flare dispensers. When you look at these Russian helicopters being blown out of the sky the reason is because of their flying too freaking high. We skim the Treetops and in addition to the electronic defense systems it's virtually impossible to bring a helicopter down by a man pad. Those missiles were not designed to hit helicopters skimming the ground, there's way too much interference with a surrounding trees and such that makes it virtually impossible to bring down. Russians don't know how to fly. Anyway, I retired in 1997 and the electronics were getting much more sophisticated so we are borg, resistance is futile. I can only imagine in the 27 years that I have been retired all of the electronics have been improved. As far as super cobras compared to vipers honestly, they're just upgrades. The aircraft will perform pretty much the same. As far as range goes both are carrying a considerable amount of fuel and the only time you put the wing tanks on the Apaches is for deployment. Except for the attack of the early warning radar systems in iraq, there is no need to carry the wing tanks. The cobras I flew operated about 40 to 50 Mi forward of our operating base. We cover 2 me a minute. It would take us roughly 20 to 25 minutes to get out to where the shooting is. Once we get there we generally have about 40 minutes available on station. The newer Apaches and Vipers are better as they can carry more fuel as well as nearly full ordinance if not completely topping out. They're a good buy. I'm not sure of anything more that I can answer for you. And again I apologize I thought you were just some guy who's screwing around again. I got a lot of that. Anything else you want to know just ask.
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  322. @philsalvatore3902  I'm not advocating that one is better than the other, I'm just stating that the Apache is designed to take hits and still keep flying. I flew the S, F and ECAS model cobras. I loved every second of it but if you got so much as a bird strike you're coming out of the air. The true advantage of the Cobra over the Apache is the aircraft has a smaller profile and much much harder to see in the distance. If it's harder to see it's harder to shoot. With the fact that it is so slim you can store more below the deck.
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  323.  @Foxtrot_UniformCharlieKilo  I have never heard of the controversy between the Cheyenne and the Air Force helping to cancel it until one or two other videos came out exposing it. The Cobra came out because we realized that the Huey hog (a fully armed uh-1h) could not stay with the Chinooks in vietnam. They needed Firepower that was able to stay with the faster helicopters. There were four aircraft prototypes proposed one was the cobra, one was the Cheyenne one was the Apache and one was called the blackhawk, a very different aircraft than the lift aircraft. The Cobra was essentially designed in about 6 or 7 months and was actually bought up by the military in less than a year from the time they put it on the drafting table. When it was found the Cobra was going to be heavily armed the Air Force wanted to be in charge of it and that's where they lost their fight. The A-10 came about because a fixed-wing asset had more range and greater speed to be able to do close air support. That type of aircraft was always needed. Even the people who helped design the Stuka dive bomber from Germany helped to design the A-10 Warthog. Attack Helicopters can do the same job they just can't carry as much armament but they are much more accurate than the A-10. There are pluses and minuses on all sides so you just got to your fights.
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  324. It's an effort to cover up his hair loss. There's a photo of him walking to Air Force One where that comb over just looks absolutely ridiculous when the wind caught it. People are going to be talking about this guy for decades to come, and not in a good way.
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  325. Don't forget rapist.
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  326. It's not the planes, it's the pilots. It takes clearly months to train a pilot to be adequate to be a warfighter in the skies. They've got the planes, they've got to get the humans in the cockpit.
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  327. Not sure where you got that information, but in 1977 when I joined the army and started firing the things they ran $3000 a missile. When I left they were over $13,000. Why would you shoot them into the sky? That's ridiculous.
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  328. A tank crew may have 30 rounds at 8am, by noon they're down to 10. The longer you fight the more ammunition you use. @anthonyloveanthonylove2159 
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  329. Putin lover!! @anthonyloveanthonylove2159 
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  330. Well my friend, it just comes down to three things. Greed, racism, and gullibility. Winning combinations all around.
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  331. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's already lost the Asian vote.
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  332. The network wants to have an opposing view, unfortunately virtually all Republican guest who get on their an do exactly what was pointed out by Conway, they lie incessantly.
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  333.  @mimiisrofl  Took you long enough to get to the "whataboutism". His answers were irrational from a person who has a conscience. The fact that you're not getting the points made which are glaringly obvious to most would indicate you haven't got much of a concept of this as well. Please, no need to reply. I already know what you're going to say. Enjoy your day sir.
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  334.  @Bubbles1215-vc8me  their brains have not only been washed but they've been dry cleaned
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  335.  @michaelbglovier1116  I spoke to a fellow veteran, he was the Vietnam era so I have a lot respect for their era. I could not make this man understand that Trump is not allowed to take top secret documents home with him. He's military, he should know that. I kept trying to get him to just look at what the presidential records act says and he basically refused to do it. That level of indoctrination has got to be impressive. He listens to Fox News all the time yet he doesn't know what Trump has been charged with. That's not a news program, that's propaganda and unfortunately it's extremely effective.
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  336.  @rosalynjeffery9510  to coin of phrase from obi-wan, trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded.
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  337.  @hui975  you think just showing up at a press meeting shows bravery. He lies constantly, what did you expect that people would charge the stage? He has Secret Service protection around him 24/7, what bravery did he exhibit. He showed up and when he did so he just lied. Blatantly and insulted people. Where is The Bravery in that? I said 20 years in the United States Army and put my life on the line every damn year I was in, I've met Brave people. He ain't one of them.
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  338.  @hui975  and yet after his insults and me being black I would know what a racial insult is, he just stood there and lied and made things up. Yeah, this guy's a real winner! Or I should say whiner.
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  339.  @opendagates8642  trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded.
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  340. I completely agree, he did it to himself. And I know he will not testify cuz you are exactly correct, he is so screwed so we're just going to have to watch this s#it show until its ultimate conclusion, this big fat piece of garbage thrown in a prison cell without Secret Service protection.
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  341.  @nattanapathongkam1172  His behind is quite articulate and "Truthful".
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  342.  @nattanapathongkam1172  So what you're saying is he wasn't actually arrested, he didn't go through a trial, he wasn't found guilty by a jury of his peers, that part is laughable, and he isn't being sentenced on November 8th? All of that is quite simply all of our imaginations? Son, you need to get out more.
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  343.  @nattanapathongkam1172  I guess the judge, all those jurors who voted him guilty we're all just a figment of our imaginations. All that time he spent sitting in court, sleeping. That didn't actually happen. You must be right, but of course they are also right when they said Trump has got a great constituency who is under educated. Every time you guys hit the reply can you prove that every single time.
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  344. It's not the job of the Apache to fly fast and high. It's the ability to fly low and slow. It's not a lift aircraft it's an attack helicopter. Different missions different flight profiles. You may as well compared to a learjet.
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  345. I think he's trying to order an Uber
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  346. And yet all these so-called Christians seem to fall for this crap. Strange don't you think?
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  347. Until this moron is able to denounce hatred he will always be in the Trump camp, no matter what Master he wants to serve now. DeSantis is equally as horrific As Trump is so all he did was just change dog collars.
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  348. Well there was no war because Trump gave Vladimir Putin oral sex in front of the entire planet in Helsinki. He liked that.
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  349. ​ @gretchengraef3012 because afterwards the Republicans can make up any story or cherry pick items out of his testimony rather than letting the full context be understood. Their review of his testimony would be Frontline news on fox.
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  350. You do realize they don't fly alone right? Even if you do manage to shoot one the other Apache will turn you into Red Mist before you can say Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers?
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  351. The sneaky little devils!
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  352. Trump supporters fall into three distinct categories. The first one is greed. If you are a money-grubbing piece of crap and want to make as much cash as you can to the detriment of your fellow Americans then you can consider yourself greedy. Racist, no need to elaborate there, and the third is gullible. If you believe everything that comes out of this man's mouth the word gullible should be tattooed on your forehead. Greedy, racist or gullible. Or likely a combination of all three.
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  353.  @monas  I have no idea what you're talking about
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  354.  @monas  when Trump stated that there are fine people on both sides referring to Nazis there should have been Universal condemnation. There was none. So, you can sit there and believe all you want that conservatives are far from the far right but recent history has proven that to be a false statement. Either you're for the Nazi party or you're against it but silence proves absolutely nothing but acquiescence. They should be ashamed of themselves
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  355.  @monas  I get it, you believe there are good nazis. Wonderful for you, it however detests people who have consciences. I'll give you a tip here, if somebody says they're a good Nazis you say know there aren't in you're a sick sick person. The most successful movie franchise in the history of Cinema Star Wars picked the bad guys who are dressed as, say it with me nazis! Stormtroopers are there soldiers, not the boy scouts. Nazis are universally hailed as the most evil force on earth. So, you are saying something about context there are no good Nazis anybody who says other than that is just patently bereft of any level of conscience. I'm going to repeat this if you didn't get it, there are no good nazis.
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  356. I'm sure they are prosecutors that through the decades have dreamed of this much evidence that has got to be brought in with a dump truck.
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  357. perhaps you didn't know that one of the 20 or so different warheads carried with the 2.75" hydra rockets are white phosphorus (WP) which burns at a meager 5,000F with a bursting radius of greater than 20' per warhead. The apache can carry 38 of those puppies. So if you want to be roasted in the trench or out of it, it's always good to have a choice. Did I mention it burns at 5,000 degrees, covers greater than 20 meters and each apache can carry 38 rockets. Just wanted to paint the picture clearly enough.
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  358. One has to ask themselves, in the history of Ariel combat with Russian Fighters and Western fighters of all types, whose planes have been shot out of the sky routinely? I'm pretty sure those were the Russian build ones. If history is any insight this will be bad for the russians. The last victory of a russian-built plane over a western fighter was during vietnam. That was a long time ago.
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  359. The other guy is pretty much his caddy.
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  360. I said it earlier and I'll say it again, Trump is going to prison! Hahaha! @SipLeila 
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  361. A drill sergeant once told me, you want to guarantee, buy a toaster. It's a combat zone dude, things get blown up. Haven't you seen star wars?
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  362. Hey, don't pick on the man. He thinks outside of the box like all those so-called brilliant doctors standing around who've been in the medical field for decades, none of them suggested we inject people with bleach. Donald Trump is the only one in that group of geniuses that came up with the idea of the Clorox approach. Take that fauci! For those of you who don't understand sarcasm this was it.
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  363. If that was about my response, I was being sarcastic. The mans the king of morons. Doesn't come out well in print. @donnacrawford6758 
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  364. There was a time in this country's past that other countries admired us. But today all we can bring up is Howdy Doody and doody doody as the nomination for the Republican party. Their worse than embarrassing, one of them is a felon, the other should be a felon. If you have to lie to make your point then you don't have a point to make, the problem with these two are they never actually make a point all they do is insult people. Not a whole lot of people can pay their bills off their insults. Perhaps their time should better be spent recognizing problems that people face in this country and come up with actual solutions instead of actual lies.
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  365. I guess it was the babysitters day off.
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  366. He got elected by the hate vote. He got elected by the greed vote. He got elected by the gullibility vote. There's nothing stronger than the emotions of the disenchanted. Inwardly they would have to know this guy's full of it but intellectuality. What they were working with when they pull the lever or checked the block. It was purely hatred and fear. Obi-Wan Kenobi Wan said the force has a strong influence over the weak-minded. The Trump supporter is a perfect example of that. Tell them what they want to know and they will do whatever they can for you. Whether it's true or not doesn't matter.
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  367. I met a fellow veteran who is also a trump supporter. He didn't seem to know anything about all of the boxes of top secret and classified documents that were stolen from the white house. He is an avid follower of Fox News and for that reason his head is so deeply buried in the sand you got to pump sunlight to him. Myself and another Air Force vet tried diligently to get him to understand what the presidential records act actually says and he refused to even acknowledge it. This is a true cult in every sense of the word, this idiot can do absolutely no wrong in their eyes. No crime is too great, no offense is too horrible. They will follow this Toady to the ends of the Earth.
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  368. You may not be aware of it but neither Trump nor Vance has actually made any political policy statements. They just insult the other side. How in the world do people get fed off their insults, how do they pay their bills on insults. Why not try to recognize problems and try to come up with a solution instead of blaming everyone else?​ @chasevaughn1804 
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  369. The Republican party has no ethics, so no matter how bad she gets all they're going to do is scratch the itch instead of trying to find out what's causing it. They're all weak.
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  370. ​ @intotheaether9022 except for the very good acting, the well-written dialogue and the fact that it's really fun to see.
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  371. It's a great example of how to get the largest collection of stupid people in one place at one time.
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  372. I just get the highlights from the commentators on the news afterwards. I don't want to hear this imbecile speak.
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  373. That my friend is the perfect example of how our school systems fail. Most of those people who are in his support group are either greedy, racists, or the most gullible people on earth. Most likely a combination of all three. The fact that they don't seem to know how the government works or they just simply block it out of their memory is astonishing. We need to pay teachers more. We need to get classes on Civics and put the principles of Ethics in that class. And use the Trump example as why we fail.
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  374. You truly depends on how you fly them, the Russians are flying way way too high. They should be scraping the treetops and communicating with troops on the ground. And that's a pivotal issue, we do not overfly the forward troops, we are there big brother looking over their shoulder. And when the bully sticks his head out they let us know where he is and we will handle it from there but we do what's called combined arms combat which means even the helicopters don't fight alone
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  375. A very important point I just wish to make here. When a new service job is to report the good and the bad that is going on especially with presidential candidates they're considered news services. When they only report the good and never report the bad then they're considered propaganda. I have to misfortunate of speaking in depth with a trump supporter not too long ago, he didn't even know what the charges were against him for the four felonies, the four major felonies that he has been charged with. If Fox News is so great how come they haven't reported what the man was actually charged with cuz this guy would defend Trump to his dying breath and he didn't have a clue. That's called propaganda people. If they can't come up and say negative aspects of that actually occurred then they are propaganda. MSNBC and CNN are constantly reporting missteps of the democrats. Something to think about.
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  376. He'll likely win a trip to either a state or federal facility with bad food for the rest of his life.
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  377. It hasn't stopped him so far, but Johnny Law sure as hell is!
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  378. It's a lumbering bull when you need a cheetah. A bowl is great at charging and gouging with horns while a cheetah is fast and maneuverable that will come up to you and wrap its fangs around your throat before you know what happened. It doesn't turn tightly enough nor does it have the ability to fly at high speeds low level to the ground using trees and heels to mask its motions. It's just a lumbering bull. A good hit in the right spot and it comes down.
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  379. Geez, with all the proof through the recent "dark times", republican voters are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. They've proven that they'll fall for any ridiculous lie if it's spewed by the great pumpkin and his ass-kissers at fox. They truly are that stupid!!
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  380. You asked why so many Trump supporters seem to be so easily swayed by these lies. I think ob1kenobi said it best, the force has a strong influence over the weak-minded.
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  381.  @rob6345  Simple. Hate.
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  382. I've seen this before. In research and development they fired off these weapons just to see if it would actually work. In reality, the Air Force and navy Fighters along with awacs aircraft will ensure it absolutely no enemy Fighters will be anywhere Within 100 miles of an apache. There's never any possibility that enemy aircraft will get anywhere near army or Marine Corps troops. There's absolutely no reason on Earth for it to carry air-to-air weapons. That would be a complete waste of weight.
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  383. I can understand your question and I can only reply Obi-Wan said it best, the force has a strong influence over the weak-minded. Trump supporters fall into three categories. The greedy, the gullible and the racist. Sometimes it's a combination of those three. At this point though the greedy realizes that re-electing this jackass is not in their benefits so he's lost out on the big money donors. The racists will always follow this type of person as far as the gullible, ya got me there. Then again, they're flat earthers everywhere and I'm sure in the United Kingdom as well so stupidity is not solely an American trait. There's lots of dumb to go around.
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  384. Not only the tankers have to master the technology, but also so do the maintainers. Its a maintenance army that follows the tankers into the breech. @JasonFraker-ew1nm 
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  385. Unfortunately it takes time to be trained to operate the newer western tanks. The Abrams is probably the most complicated tank in the world. Training takes time. @VajrahahaShunyata 
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  386. ​ @stew4267 according to Wikipedia a total of 23 M1A1's were damaged or destroyed during the war in Iraq. Of the nine Abrams that were destroyed seven were destroyed by Friendly Fire and two or intentionally destroyed to prevent capture by the Iraqi army. Now, compare that to losses on the araki's side which were all russian-built tanks it's not even a question. If you have to be inside of a tank during combat, the Abrams is the one you want to be inside.
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  387. ​ @VajrahahaShunyata when a Russian tank gets hit, typically there are no organic matter to be found inside. Look crew would be vaporized instantly. On the good side they probably didn't feel a thing as they died so quickly.
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  388. You have apparently no understanding of physics when dealing with immediate explosive forces on the human body. The conflagration of flames after their tanks magazines ignited would flash raised the temperature thousands of degrees in a hundredths of a second. No organic matter can survive those temperatures as well as the shockwaves of exploding 120 and 125mm shells detonating. As well as it's an "ENCLOSED TANK" which doesn't allow anyone outside to see the crew's last fraction of a second of existence. You're witness statements are impossible to even see to verify. No living tissue, not even skeletal fragments would remain. Nothing but metal remains.  @VajrahahaShunyata 
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  389. Can you imagine if America's dumbest videos did a special on Donald trump? They'd have to put in a part 3 and part 4 just to fill in most of the stuff.
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  390. Why?
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  391. Or it's possible that those missiles do not work as well as promised.
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  392. I guarantee you people in his administration has told him he needs to stop talking. His lawyers have told them that, for God's sake enough of them have left his ass because he just won't listen. He's not only digging himself into a hole, he's using a bulldozer to make the hole. This guy is so so boned!
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  393. @slhkslhk2998 good people with good families, good careers have flushed it all down the toilet because they did with this imbecile told them to. They illegally stormed the capital, they cause death, they embarrassed the country on the world stage all because of this worthless piece of crap. They're sitting in prison cells right now and I'm sure they're kicking themselves wondering what were they thinking. The force has a strong influence over the weak-minded.
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  394. I keep thinking why are these people soooo freakin' gullible to believe this crap. Then you see them interviewed and realize they've probably been eating a steady diet of lead-based paint chips for snacks over lunch. Each time I listen to the incoherent ravings of these poor gullible saps doing an interview it leave me feeling like a genius!
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  395. Unfortunately it's all about the money. The amount of funding for A10 squadrons can easily fit in the back pocket of the f-35s so the Air Force wants to siphon off all that money to promote their high-speed high flying aircraft which will have nothing whatsoever to do with supporting Army and Marine ground troops. A lightning, if everything worked on it correctly still wouldn't be an equal to a warthog.
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  396. Yeah, they are worried. Shows they still have some level of common sense.
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  397. Jesus, do you have anything else you can cut and paste? Oh yeah, Trump is going to prison hahaha! @SipLeila 
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  398.  @monas  oh, I was referring to the reaction from your Republican party after your dear leader who again stated that there's good people on both sides are referring to nazis who marched in Charlottesville and that poor woman Heather Heyer being murdered by one said nazi. There was absolutely zero blowback from the Republicans. They seem to have forgotten that we fought the Nazis in World War ii. And I do believe conservatives are primarily republicans. And if you cannot condemn nazism, you've got a serious problem of morality. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. So nah nah nah nah nah nah.
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  399.  @monas  and yet they vote for someone who doesn't condemn Nazism. He believes they're fine people. Their silence on the matter is acquiescence. Either you condemn Nazism or you don't.
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  400.  @monas  it's funny, Trump just said Kamala Harris hates the jews. I suppose he doesn't realize she's married to one. The guys are freaking idiot.
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  401. Hell, I get the same feeling whenever my sister drives me anywhere.
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  402. I remind you of the philosophy of lemmings and a cliff.
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  403. Because there's nothing else for him to run on. He's not bright enough to actually pick a subject and go for that. He's just an imbecile.
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  404. I'm repeating myself here but the TOW is like a sniper weapon that can reach out almost 2.3 miles (at least the once I fired), in a hiding position you must remain still, on jeeps and humvees we turn off the engine because the vibration could cause the loss of the missile while being tracked to the target. Unless you're shooting them from a helicopter, you've got to be sitting absolutely still from the time it's launched until impact. In this case that would have been suicide. I hope that clears it up for you.
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  405. Around the world people in the United States was considered smart. Yet we have morons to defend this idiot constantly in disregard of all of the proof of all of the crimes this man has perpetuated. He is indeed a one-man crime wave. And the fact that people grovel at his feet is just an embarrassment to our country
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  406. If your candidate has to have his own probation officer to clear his calendars for him then you guys have a serious problem. I guess Hannibal Lecter wasn't available. Oh, my bad. Hannibal Lecter is not a real person. Don't tell that to trump, it might ruin his day pretty much like that debate did.
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  407. You can ask Saddam Hussein how many tanks there people captured. Oh, wait, no you can't because he's dead like a lot of the Iraqi tankers. How many did they capture?? I think the number is 0
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  408. Hey, don't knock it. They were easy to get to for your horses when the rush hour wasn't bad.
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  409. These weapons are being replaced in the US Stocks by brand new ones. Therefore the defense industry and people who are hired to build these weapons are getting paid, that's kind of good for the economy. We also get brand new weapons as I mentioned before. What in the world are you complaining about?
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  410. Except most American held agricultural systems cannot afford to live on what the immigrants ultimately get. May as well be working at McDonald's.
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  411. 1) the difference in having close air support from a helicopter as opposed to fixed wing is like having your appendix out with a scalpel or a chain saw. Additionally and something most people don't seem to know, Manpads don't work against a helicopter flying at treetop levels as I was trained to do and that has an missile detection system, an IR jammer and an automatic flare dispenser. 2) AC-130's are not sent in when there's the possibility of Manpads from the enemy arsenal. 3) A-10's are designed to take a hit from a shoulder fired missile and still fly. That's why it has two engines as well as the reason the engines are built on pods away from the fuselage and kicks out flares during the attack run. They're not retiring the hog for a very long time. There is risk with anything we do, like eating a peanut butter sandwich without something to drink close by. As well as drones can only attack one target during their mission while all the aircraft you mentioned can stay above the battlefield engaging threats to ground troops for hours. We talk directly to the guys on the ground and they can inform us as to where the dug in forces are that we can neatly remove with a couple of hydra rockets using white phosphorus (my personal favorite) rockets. We kill tanks, we shoot ground troops. We're freakin menaces to enemy soldiers as well as making them piss their pants because we can do all this from 2-4 miles away. They can't see us, they can't hear us. And while extremely effective, drones just can't do that.
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  412. Those were never built slick, try to keep up.
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  413.  @_google_user_  your exact words were still "think they should use the RAH 64 comanche". That would portend that the choice is there. As far as attacks on sophisticated anti-aircraft radar systems I'm a retired attack helicopter pilot, that's not a part of our mission. We cover the Infantry and the armor. Those anti-aircraft systems would be so far ahead of us we have to get refueled just to get to them. Additionally, we don't really show up on ground-based radars. But I guarantee you the Air Force and navy has a system to wipe those things off the face of the earth. There's no need for helicopters to get involved . We'd be like a kindergartener getting involved in a Street brawl. Attack Helicopters are not involved in that type of thing
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  414.  @_google_user_  if it helps you to know, we have a strategy on how we fight battles. The first thing in would be the Air Force Jammers and bombers. They take out the radar systems and the command control and Communications element, the c3. We didn't send in low-level strike fighters to take out the airstrips to keep them from flying away. Just like Desert Storm then we start bombing the living crap out of them for a week and a half maybe 2 weeks until they've been degraded to a significant amount. And then finally after that that's when the ground troops come in, and that includes the attack helicopters. By the time the ground element moves all defensive radar systems will be wiped out. The Army and Marines basically show up for cleanup. Bottom line, we don't need to evade radar because they won't be in existence at that point. It's quite the party if you've got an invite.
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  415. Worst part is they voted for this jackass based on his lying. Although I have to think quite a few of them knew he was lying to their faces they just didn't care. Speaks volumes.
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  416. One of the huge advantages of a gas turbine engine is it will climb a hill as fast as it runs along flat ground. The thing just doesn't slow down cuz it has power to spare.
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  417. And you based on what exactly, for the most part all the Western Fighters have been wiping the skies from Russian aircraft over the last 30 years. The last Russian aircraft that had a victory over the Western aircrafts has been vietnam. How long ago was that? Oh about 50 years. They've got a lot of catching up to do.
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  418. ​ @the_gold_canopy there is no nice way to kill people.
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  419. Dude, you're just embarrassing yourself.
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  420. Only Trump can turn a courtroom into the gas chamber.
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  421.  @muckle8  Yeah, infant soldiers, the Ukrainians secret weapon. They'll attack the Russians with shape charged pacifiers.
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  422.  @muckle8  You're funny! Keep that sense of humor.
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  423.  @muckle8  whatever you're smoking you should recommend it to the medical community. People under stress need something to help them get through their anxieties. Good for you.
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  424.  @muckle8  ain't that the truth!
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  425. This chicken bites back
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  426. Nothing in the sky is more survivable. Is almost guaranteed to bring the pilots back alive. I think that's one hell of an asset.
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  427. We always have 100% air dominance. We are Borg, resistance is futile.
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  428. How is it Trump supporters are just not bright?? Is there something in the water?? Definitely low I.Q.
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  429. Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak minded.
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  430. Funny, the Russians have a lot of coaxial rotor helicopters which have been blown out of the sky.
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  431.  @Agnus78  I was not only a cobra pilot but a training officer in four different combat divisions. Air-to-air is nothing we actually trained for. Ever. When I started flying in Hawaii I noticed the Stinger crews, in their humvees. And I started to seriously think they actually don't have a job. Well technically they have a job but it's not something that they'll actually get a chance to do in a combat situation. We are very good at shooting planes out of the sky. Doing that job for 10 years not a single training scenario has come up with enemy aircraft. We always have air superiority, or in the words of a stinger platoon sergeant if it flies it dies. I'm almost certain he wasn't talking about us.
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  432.  @ivanproskura3139  A fleet of robotic drones is now changing the definition of a fleet. As a matter of fact, the drones Ukraine has been using has changed a lot of what we would consider warfare definitions.
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  433. ​ markphillips898 wow, so much hatred.
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  434. ​ @spdaltid look at her face, she's got to be a transgendered man. Therefore she has balls.
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  435.  @ginnymurray1869  It kind of takes about a year to learn how to fly and fight with these things, so yeah, not likely he's going to just hop in one and go fighting. Thats' ridiculous.
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  436. Have no fear young lad, Russia will stop russia.
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  437.  @cocoa_alpaca  Trump's son Eric said early on in the first campaign they get a lot of their money from russia. Might be one of the reasons why he refused to show his taxes. If he had nothing to hide he should have done so like every other presidential candidate. This is the reason why he basically gave oral sex to Vladimir Putin in front of the entire world on tv. The guy is such a weak pathetic waste of 400 lb of flesh. 213 lb my ass.
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  438. Well unfortunately when you have uneducated people listening to the internet rumors and podcasters who have their own agenda what would you expect. We have gotten to the point where we can't decide on how to make Kool-Aid even if the directions are on the package. We are screwed. We are so so screwed.
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  439. When you see an M1 abrams, just think of the movie the Terminator
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  440. Hey, if you got the firepower.
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  441. Add today's count they've lost 80 of these helicopters, 42% of the entire fleet. At one point they actually have to get close enough to engage the enemy and if they're not built strong enough to take hits and still keep flying it's not that good a helicopter. The ukrainians have taken out 42% of those helicopters of all those that have been built while during Desert Storm we lost 16 Apache in the air and four on the ground due to a mortar strike. Who's 16 represent 2% of the 189 Apaches the US Army owns. 2% to 42%, numbers don't lie.
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  442.  @zxwolf96  Number one, a heat seeker would destroy an engine located on a pod "away" from the aircrafts body. Number two, the fuel tanks are self sealing, and in the case of an engine detonation, really not likely to blow the aircraft up.
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  443.  @SniperFallen06  It really depends on the circumstances of the crash. Speed, aircraft type, impact attitude, obstacles, landing (or crashing) area. Both can be catastrophic.
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  444.  @atmosrepair  The transmission on "ALL" helicopters are designed to disconnect from the engine and allow the aircraft to enter an autorotative decent. They don't drop like a rock unless the transmission is compromised, which I've never heard of that happening after 10 years of flying hueys and cobras.
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  445.  @atmosrepair  I appreciate that man. People don't realize that manpads are designed to go after a hot source in a blue sky. Not one that's flowing through treetops or 5 to 8 ft off the ground. In addition we have flair and chaff dispensers and infrared jammers as well as a radar jammer and radar warning receivers which not only till you you're being tracked but the direction and distance to the radar by a voice, usually female. The aircraft are outfitted to survive, what the Russians are doing I have no idea. They fly in the nosebleed section. It's not surprising they've been blown out of the sky left and right.
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  446. ​​@captaincabbage-ny9luRussian Artillery is not very accurate. They can get it in the neighborhood but they can't find the street. Unless you're talking about shooting up civilian houses and apartments then they're first-rate. In answer to your question about how effective they are, they fired the guns and then Himars will send them a welcome package.
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  447. Something never really outlined in any of these discussions is the fact that the ah-64 Apache not only has redundancy systems built into it but also has infrared jammers, air-cooled exhaust systems, chaff and flare dispensers, radar and missile warning receivers, radar jammers, and the ability to fly so low you got to worry about getting speeding tickets rather than getting shot down. No Apache has been successfully engaged against man pads because man pads were never meant to fire on helicopters flying off the treetops. They were designed to go after higher flying aircraft like Russians do. We don't fly and fight like the Russians so, you cannot compare any other Attack Helicopters to the performance of the Russian army. They fly so high they get nose bleeds, that's not the way we do it. The motto of the Apaches is "Come on shoot at us, I dare you!"
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  448.  @ledzepandhabs  The Ukrainians finished it off with a drone strike. You should really stop drinking heavily, even your lies are idiotic.
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  449.  @jonA9411  They carry more missiles, but they really need to find cover to reload. There's no speed loader for these things.
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  450. He went through six bankruptcies. He's a idiot. You don't celebrate people who are horrible at business, he may have been able to recover in many respects but the people who depended on him were screwed and are no longer in the same position. They lost their money, they lost their savings. They had families too so I wouldn't be throwing a parade for Donald Trump, the greatest loser in the country. He did horrible things and other people paid the price.
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  451. She just showed pictures of top secret documents in a bathroom and on a stage. What more do you need, bolt cutters on your balls?
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  452. Seriously, a man wanted to drop a thermonuclear device into a hurricane. Can you imagine how far the radiation would be spread with Winds of up to 120 miles an hour? The guys too stupid to be a buffoon.
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  453. You truly cannot forget all those Americans who voted for these putzes. They along with Fox News carry conspiracy theories which have done nothing but confused people, separate families, and have put imbeciles in jails for assaulting police officers at the Capitol on camera! You have one man who is not even borderline crazy, he's full born crazy versus a former prosecutor who has put tons of bad people in jail, and has conducted cross-examinations against government judges and officials for ethics issues and she's ripping them apart like a piranha enema. Yet, there are millions of people in this country who would choose full born crazy over competence and intelligence. Immortal words from that great comedian Jeff Foxworthy who once said and it still stands this day, "You can't fix stupid".
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  454. To all those Trumpers out there I have only two comments, the first is if you have to lie to make your point then you don't have much of a point to make. The second comment is Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak minded. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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  455. And the fact that they're falling out of the sky in Ukraine like flies is also not a surprise. They suck.
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  456. He wasn't infantry, he's getting a number of things wrong. Sorry.
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  457.  @plushieevie5699  from the photograph of Me In Flight School at the controls of a uh-1 huey, that's army. Before that I was a paratrooper for 6 years and after that I served with the 3rd battalion 160th mechanized Infantry of the California Army National Guard where I worked as a tow crew member on both jeeps and armored personnel carriers or m113 APC tow missile tracks. He's trying to describe "fire and maneuver", and he's getting it wrong. You have one vehicle sits down for the base of fire to accurately use suppressive fire on the enemy position while the second element rapidly moves forward to the next cover or concealment and you LeapFrog from their repeatedly until you get closer to the Target to either Dismount or they're dead. Just look up fire and maneuver, we shoot move and communicate rapidly in the army. This guy was Navy. All you have to do is look it up.
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  458.  @plushieevie5699  I'm retired Airborne Infantry 3 1/2 years in the 3rd Battalion 160th mechanized infantry in Inglewood California, and spent the last 10 years as a attack helicopter pilot and that is my photograph flying a uh-1 huey in Flight school. He's trying to describe something called fire maneuver. You can look it up, he's really screwing it up the definition. Again look up infantry fire and maneuver, it's not that difficult to concept although he doesn't seem to grasp the specifics. That's my proof. Read it.
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  459. Well, according to their operations in the Ukrainian War they seem to be sucking. Quite a few of these things have been shot down so they've actually pulled them away from the attack Mission and given them purely defensive missions to try to keep the Carnage down on the Russian North Korean side. In other words, if they go forward of their friendly troops they have a tendency to get blown out of the sky. Doesn't say much for them.
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  460. The best way for migrants to get back at the bigots who are constantly using them as scapegoats is to just go home and leave us to our own fate to starve to death. Those people are tough enough, they can make it just about anywhere, is the American people the same? Hell no! We would be extinct in a month.
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  461. You probably mean the Air Force, not the army.
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  462. Let me see, how many indictments for felonies does Biden have? The answer would be zero. This is a point of advice I give to you perhaps maybe you could pass it on to your Fearless leader. If you don't want to go to jail, don't commit crimes and leave evidence all over the front yard. Or in this case the bathroom.
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  463. Fox is the only major news network that has been taken to court and sued successfully for supporting election lies by Dominion for $787 million dollars and will soon have to deal with the lawsuit by Smartmatic for 1.2 billion with a "B". Not entirely sure where they stand on credibility as that's a stench that will never wash away. These fools on the 5 and whatever other circus act they have are only embarrassing themselves. Good luck for their next Pulitzer Prize for excellence in reporting in the future.
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  464. Trying to argue logic, reason and fact with a trump supporter is like trying to teach a dead goldfish Japanese. It's kind of a waste of time.
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  465. That is absolutely the truth. Thank you!
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  466. I keep saying that, as well as the electronic warfare with the IR jammers, flare and chaff dispensers and and missile warning systems as well as the most important point that WE AIN'T THE RUSSIANS! Those guys fly in the stratosphere. We fly so low cops keep trying to write us speeding tickets.
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  467. Crockett is definitely a rockstar, but as long as Rebooblican's do nothing but lie and venues like Fox only shows their point of view it will have virtually no effect. They lie, their supporters believe them. No matter how many facts come out showing that, these zombie drones don't care. That's the true shame of this country.
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  468. While the education system in this country does have problems, the biggest problem is right-wing media and Trump lying right to their faces constantly. They never once looked up to see which way the wind is really blowing. This is called brainwashing, well in their case more like brain rinsing off.
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  469. I really just hate his voice
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  470. And yet "people" still vote for him.
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  471. Trump is the absolute greatest tool for Biden to win the next election. All he has to do is keep talking.
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  472. The simple fact that no two pregnancies are the same, there are complications that occur women to woman, as well as her life's decisions and choices for the future makes a arbitrary date a ridiculous concept. It should be up to her and what challenges she faces. You can't just stick a date on a pregnancy and say well that's it and go for it. That's moronic. If a doctor told a nut job Trump supporter that we can't do anything about the lumps you feel inside of your testicles, likely is cancer but we can't do anything about it for another 3 weeks I'm pretty sure they would be freaking the hell out!
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  473.  @toddwells9289  what is the difference between a uterus in california, and a uterus in alabama. The answer, there is no difference. A woman is a woman regardless of what state she happens to be in and the government does not have the right to dictate how she lives her life. The way things are right now they have to literally Escape their state in order to live their life as they choose. That is astoundingly awful.
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  474. Will it didn't take long for nut jobs to start crawling out of the woodwork
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  475.  @linussandell831  nope, it's for ground targets only. People keep assuming it does air to air, that's not the case. The us as well as Western Doctrine is we would have a awacs aircraft up and as long as those things are in the air there's not a chance enemy aircraft will get within 100 nautical miles of this thing. There are instances where it says it has fired stingers, that's a research and development thing. It does not do air-to-air combat. That's going to be left up to the Air Force and navy.
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  476. The big difference between American tanks and Russian tanks is on the American tanks the turret is still attached. LOL!
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  477. You're right, look at the mess Joseph Biden has caused. Unemployment's down to 3%, inflation has been stopped cold in its tracks, medication costs are coming down for people to actually be able to afford to take care of themselves, started a program to remove childhood poverty. Yeah, what a dick! Where is the programs Trump installed was to allow Millionaires and billionaires to keep more of their money. Such a hero. You should put them on your shoulders and carry him around the block, he only weighs 213 pounds at the time of his arrest. I'm sure you can handle that!
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  478. Not only will he not make it home but he's going to miss "Borderlands" tonight. And he already paid for the tickets.
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  479. For the last 20 minutes or so I've been looking for some rationale, something in his history his bio as to why he's wearing what appears to be Navy flight wings. Nothing in his bio shows that he was actually a pilot and as a retired army pilot I'll be happy to let people know I flew Huey's and cobras for the Army for 10 years. I wear my wings on my hat with pride. Look into my bio and you'll find that connection. I've been trying to find what it was he did in maybe Aviation and can find no reference. It shows he worked in supply, he was attached to combat engineers for some reason but it doesn't say anything about him being in aviator. My question is, why is this guy wearing military wings? We used to call it stolen honor, can someone find out what this coward did to earn those wings? I'd like to know. Maybe I'm wrong, but if he truly was an aviator he should have actually had it in his bio. It appears to be omitted.
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  480. Well, according to Tish James, that Asylum is about to be foreclosed on.
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  481. It's already been on video where two evangelicals asked him something very similar about his favorite passage from the bible. He couldn't answer the question he just stammered and lied. He can never commit to a specific action, he's generally all over the place. Trying to nail him down to any particular point is like trying to nail Jello to the wall. He just sneezes his way out of it. Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded so that has to be taken into account as well.
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  482. The windows are made out of plexiglass. There is a transparent ballistic shield between the front and back seats so if there's an explosion that goes off in one cockpit it won't take out the flight crew in the other cockpit. Other than that, you get close enough with a BB gun you can shoot through the plexiglass.
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  483. Two words, "Supreme Court".
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  484. That's not up to the president, in our government you must be charged with an actual legitimate crime, have evidence presented in a court of law and have a jury of your peers depending upon the state select whether or not you go in. That's the way a democracy works, not like this moron Trump screaming send everybody to jail he doesn't like. That's called a dictatorship. We don't have that, at least unless Harris wins.
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  485. ​ @unknownsample4801 yeah, the GOP is pretty Craven
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  486. Imagine how difficult it would be to have a ground troop communicate with someone sitting in a bunker hundreds of miles away to guide them on a Target. It would just take a great deal more time and they already have the air frames to do it.
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  487. I'm not sure you know this or not, but what you're talking about does not exist. The reaper drones as well the Predator before it was really great at hitting targets with a missile at range is greater than 6 mi, the ammo for a gun like this weighs a freaking ton. A drone that can carry and fire something like that does not exist.
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  488.  @pelmanism1084  That gun is clearly about 1/5 of the weight of the whole airplane. No drone is going to be able to handle that kind of load plus the amount of weight of the ammunition. As a matter of fact they keep the spent casings internally in the plane to be able to maintain the center of gravity. Bullets have weight. The reaper is good but it only carries eight Hellfire missiles. Those things weigh 110 lb each. That's 880 lbs that mostly under the most ideal conditions the reaper is able to carry. There's not a chance that it can carry a significant load of 30 mm ammo.
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  489.  @dascoop6018  another bad thing about having a drone with a close air support mission is a human can tell when he's been fired at from a different direction. The Drone operator is looking at a screen that doesn't show him bullets coming up from the right or left. It doesn't show a missile launched in the direction it's coming in to take evasive action. I'll be the first to admit that drones are spectacular machines but they are seriously not the answer here. There is no machine built that can do the job of the A-10 warthog.
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  490.  @Teirandash  just a correction, the reaper can only carry eight and that's under ideal conditions. Not 10. Other than that, spot on!
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  491.  @mattuw82  that's not true at all. That's not even close to being true. Combination between the warthog, apaches, cobras, gazelles, and little birds. They decimated the tanks. The aardvarks were used for Sam suppression in the form of electronic warfare Birds as well as tactical bombers. They did not go for tanks in the desert. Their targets work strategic for example airfields and radar systems. I love that plane but that's not one of the jobs it had.
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  492.  @Under-Kaoz  nope
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  493.  @N7-WAR-HOUND  and yet they keep getting blown up. Strange that don't you think ?
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  494.  @mattuw82  as you seem to be a greater fan of the aardvark than i, I should let you know I'm not entirely sure where you got your information or how accurate it is but the F-111 is made to drop pretty sizable bombs. It goes after buildings it goes after aircraft on runways, very big targets that are hard to move but easy to see. We have things called attack aircraft aircraft, like the hornet, the a-10, the apache, the jaguar, the list goes on and on that are made to attack troops on the front line. Wherever you read this, it is incredibly wrong. The vast majority of the targets were killed either by the A-10 or helicopters. I used to be a docent who gave tours at March Air Reserve Base museum. We've got one sitting there and I proudly extol the virtues of that miraculous machine but I guarantee you it was not a tank killer. It's too damn big for that and it only bombs for big targets, I should say bigger than tanks. I'm sure it can kill tanks but it's not the primary aircraft to do so.
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  495.  @kmav23  and yet it does
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  496.  @williamwchuang  and again, just say the obvious you need a gun for close air support, drones do not carry guns. That's like trying to fight a fire without a fire hose.
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  497.  @NeoIsrafil  not to mention there's a lag of up to three to five seconds from control input until the aircraft actually makes attitude changes. If they can see that it's being shot at on their screens it may be far too late to try to maneuver it away from danger
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  498.  @jessISaRicePrincess  it wouldn't equate to the loads carried by the a-10s for both the gun and the missiles and bombs as well as the pilots ability to see and avoid being hit and being able to respond immediately to threats around him. No drone has that capacity. None come close.
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  499. Yeah, even from your couch there aren't any phase plasma rifles in the 20 watt range or death beams to be fitted on a drone. The GAU 8A is about 1/5th the weight of the plane. To make it smaller would reduce the caliber of the bullets. Few, if any bullets today are high explosive (HE), High explosive incendiary (HEI) or armor piercing (AP) when you get below 20mm. In fact I can't think of one example that would enable it to defeat armor. The A-10 is the only plane of this caliber to do this job. Even the Russian SU-24 Frogfoot can't take the damage a warthog can. Anyone who thinks "just make a drone do it", really doesn't understand the limitations of aircraft weaponry, aerial sensors, targeting systems and ground to air threats that a close air support platform requirements.  @Starwarman1 
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  500.  @charlysantamaria8646  that may be the case but eventually kids learn there's no such thing as the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. And if I've just burst somebody's bubble I'm sorry about that.
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  501.  @billanderson839  I bought gas at the MCAS Yuma. It's simple, you put in your card, select the grade of gasoline, put the nozzle in the tank and squeeze the fill lever. At the end you are given a receipt if you should want one. Is that a hard thing for you to do?
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  502. They voted for a convicted felon! I doubt that they would have voted for a black guy or girl who was a convicted felon.
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  503.  @tomseverson5700  except that the one who is black and female just happens to be competent. Extremely competent and oh by the way, not a convicted felon. That should add a couple of points on to the scoreboard.
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  504. I really hate to let the cat out of the bag as you're so enthusiastic about him, he's going to prison. He's going to prison because he committed crimes, because they have proof he committed crimes, they have recordings of him on the phone's committing crimes. You see, that's what criminals do, they commit crimes.
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  505. From the Russian soldiers point of view they were winning. This is what happens when you have an uninformed populist, this is what happens when you denigrate and remove the free press. You have a bunch of people who walk themselves to the slaughter. I don't know what the casualty rate is of these particular individuals but it's probably pretty high.
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  506.  @death_parade  You should probably look at the video again.
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  507. Your statement alone shows such a level of ignorance it is astounding. If science is so bad how is it you're able to sit at a device with a keyboard read and respond to comments, understanding that it was scientists who designed that device that you are using in such an ignorant manner. This is an example of an oxymoron. No pun intended.
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  508. Begins with canceled with only two prototypes built. You guys need to keep up. This is just embarrassing.
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  509. The Abrams has yet to even enter the fight and you hear all of these detractors. In Desert Storm one of those things took two hits from an apache's Hellfire rounds. A Hellfire weighs 110 lb and travels at .6 the speed of sound. Even if the Warhead didn't go off the kinetic force would completely disable it, as found out in Syria and Lebanon through the IDF combat operations with TOW missiles at half the weight and a lot slower. It would be like stomping on a cockroach and looking at it giving you the finger. The only injury was one crew member got chemical burns from a ruptured hydraulic line but if you know anything about anti-armor warfare, it is inconceivable to survive a hit from a hellfire. That just doesn't happen, until now. @NIGHTMERUL 
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  510.  @bettymarshall2702  Yeah, the one without the probation officer.
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  511.  @ellebee6712  And suggesting we inject ourselves with disinfectant is a Christmas greeting??
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  512.  @alexy8520  She was a prosecutor and attorney general in the most populous state in the United States who's job it was to put evil people away. How do you think that's not great? What's truly wrong with people in this country. If Jesus came back and walked on water people would complain that he's getting the water dirty.
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  513.  @Rikard_A  Better yet, TRUMP 20-24, and time served for early release for good behaviour.
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  514. The lend Lease Act was in place during World War ii. You might want to update your anger and frustration.
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  515. As worthy for higher office as she is it would make no difference as many of the constituents of Texas or so blinded by their own hatred of anything different. They fail to see the stupidity standing or sitting in a wheelchair, that's right in front of their faces.
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  516.  @grorme2554  By a book definition that's exactly what they are.
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  517.  @grorme2554  probably not but I get it.
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  518. Well that's the thing, most of them really don't care.
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  519. Putin is so terrible at supplying his soldiers it's likely that they would eat the horses.
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  520. I take your point in many of the aspects that you speak of but mine is of a former attack helicopter pilot. The advantage that the Apaches have over the A10 and other fixed Wing assets is that we can hover and monitor the battlefield and hit targets from about 5 MI away. That's a huge asset Builder when you know that you could see the bad guys through thermal imagery better than the guys on the ground who's a thousand meters from them. I think both attack helicopters and the A-10 work well together but each can do a significant job on their own.
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  521. When the United States gets involved with armed conflict, there is no such thing as overkill.
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  522. Both of them are the kings of embarrassments.
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  523. ​ @patkennedy2620 being president of the United States is one of the most difficult jobs to do. You have to be borderline brilliant to do it well. Neither Trump nor Vance has the acumen to do this job. Both of them are about as a sharp as a bowling ball. They just lie and insult people constantly. If you have to lie to make your point then you really don't have much of a point to make.
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  524.  @ByeByeDEI  why didn't you actually say what it is that she is the vice president has done wrong? Just put it into words if you have that ability. Otherwise you just sound like a troll.
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  525.  @ByeByeDEI  Yes, of course she's going to lose. Why would you want to hire someone who's been a lawyer, a prosecuting attorney, a district attorney, an attorney general of one of the largest states in the country who is responsible for taking some of the worst criminal offenders off of the streets. She only served as, a senator, and a vice president. Why would anybody want that in a leadership role when we could have a narcissistic rapist 6 times claiming bankruptcy who insults veterans and Prisoners of War, lead in Insurrection which was responsible for the assault and battery of hundreds of police officers and the deaths of six people as well as the imprisonment of almost 400 people under federal charges of assaulting said police officers, and responsible now for their criminal convictions and records that keeps them from having any kind of a meaningful job and has destroyed their families, and has nothing to stand for except giving tax breaks to Millionaires and billionaires, and oh by the way lies like other people just drink water. Oh, did I forget about the four indictments and the one conviction of 36 felony charges. As well as more or less responsible for more than a million needless American deaths during the covid crisis, and who told simpletons to inject themselves with disinfectant. A guy who cheated on all three wives, the last one while she was pregnant, felt the absolute entitlement to walk into the changing rooms of minors at a beauty contest because he felt the pageant, rambles on and on about complete nonsense at his speeches and for some weird reason seems to love neo-nazis in a way Adolf Hitler would be proud. Yeah, one would have to admit that's a real winner if you truly don't mind the United States being further embarrassed on the world stage, and I do mean the world stage when they actually laughed at him during his United Nations speech early on in his administration. Unless of course Hannibal Lecter is available. Yeah, she hasn't got a shot against such a charismatic soul.
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  526.  @ByeByeDEI  Harris will likely lose. After all she was just an attorney responsible for putting hundreds of the most dangerous people in prison, as well as a senator and a vice president. Where as Trump is well let's just keep it simple. He is a convicted felon who, bankrupted four different casinos, and has claimed bankruptcy at least six times. If the justice department worked as it should he will spend time in those prisons. There's an entire laundry list of attributes, some of which are embracing neo-nazis and white supremacists as well as cheating on all three wives. Yeah, he's a real winner.
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  527.  @ByeByeDEI  currently there's better than 500 citizens who have been arrested and charged with assaulting the capital. These men and a few women have had their lives turned around because of a liar. They can't hold jobs, they can't have relationships, and again they're in jail. Thanks to a liar named Donald J trump.
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  528. Try being a cop now when you know a good 5th of the population is a nutjob with a lot of guns. That bullet proof vest needs a guarantee that it will stop all bullets fired from an automatic weapon or your money is cheerfully refunded.
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  529. He said that we should inject ourselves with bleach. That never stops being funny
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  530. With the exception of Airborne radars, Attack Helicopters skimming the ground is very very hard to see. The ability to hit targets miles away while you're hovering in the Treetops makes you near invisible to the naked eye. But you can rain down destruction on people who have no idea where you are. For those odd individuals with tactical Radars the second you turn them on the electronic warfare system will identify exactly where you are so good luck with that one slick.
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  531. Let you see, it's not the Democrats that are being indicted, it's not the Democrats that have a buttload of proof, it's not the Democrats who have recordings of them trying to coerce election officials to change the votes. That's solely a republican thing.
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  532. They fall into three categories, racists, greedy, gullible.
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  533. Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded
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  534. No aircraft is truly Invincible however if histories an example of the possible trends, there have been only five f-16s shot down. All were due to Sam batteries. Not a single air-to-air loss. Can that be said for the Russian planes? I've seen parachutes coming out of the sky. They've been rushing.
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  535. How is it possible that so many people are gullible enough to follow these clowns by the nose every moment of the day? Just like Drump, you know when a republican is lying because their lips are moving.
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  536. You seem to have forgotten that these 20,000 people were requested at the behest of the city in order to bring their employment shortfalls up to standard. But then again, what do facts have to do with a good lie? Surprising though, I thought Trump would have a meeting with his probation officer by now.
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  537. They got at least 80 drone factories, I'm pretty sure they're going to be okay
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  538. I'd like to point out at 7 Minutes 37 seconds as you see the under view of the aircraft you'll notice the oblong darkened painted area beneath the cockpit. This is done to cause confusion during a dog fight to make it confusing if the airplane is turning towards you or away from you cuz it looks like a canopy when seen from below. The Canadians did this first and apparently the Americans followed afterwards.
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  539. @@patc3650 Well, doing absolutely nothing doesn't seem to help.
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  540. What is wrong with you??? That's what it is designed to do years ago and their capabilities are being improved to this day.
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  541. He's the living incarnate of Montgomery J. Burns from The Simpsons.
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  542. The problem with that idea is that in order to drop off the Infantry you need to slow down hover and land which makes you a great Target so not only do they blow up the lift aircraft but they also blow up the gunship. That's why we have Blackhawks and Apaches so that you don't expose both elements to the same amount of Firepower at the same time. In Apache has the ability to take out targets from 5 Mi away so they don't actually have to be anywhere close to the bad guys. That way you don't lose both platforms at the exact same moment. Not a good trade-off.
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  543. Because Putin's like a 6 year old throwing a tantrum screaming "I want it I want it I want it!!" If another kid has exactly the same thing they possess, rationality has nothing to do with it. It's pure emotion.
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  544. It was a great deal more into that bill then there was just border access. There was money to be dealt with with communities that were overwhelmed, there was extra security measures that were put in place, there was the stipulation that people could be repatriated to their own country immediately. It's just these people don't know anything so it's pretty much like asking a 5 year old how to do brain surgery. Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded.
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  545. Seems to be quite something to blame an aircraft for causing a friendly fire incident. I would have thought it would be the guy whose fingers on the trigger. Friendly fire issues have always been a staple of combat operations, that's where training and coordination comes in. It's no more fault of the warthog for engaging friendly troops than it is for water to be wet.
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  546.  @aquilesca5tr0  warthog Pilots work in what's called a kill box. If you learn anything being in the military, the one important thing to learn is never be in a Kill box. 3 to 400 Mi an hour at 100 ft above the ground does not give you ample time to make split-second decisions on what is what, friendly fire incidents or what we endure in the military and will be until Wars end. But they fought the airplane for those fatalities, it's a machine, it does not make decisions. It's the guy who's controlling the airplane who does that. Whether he was in a warthog, a hornet, a harrier, in the same situation those people would still be dead. You can't blame the plane for that, that's idiotic.
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  547.  @aquilesca5tr0  well if you could see by the photograph on my account, I was a pilot. What would you use a Ouija board? As a matter of fact, I flew Cobras for 9 years. We have a 13 power telescopic site, we also have two crew members in the aircraft. One to fly and keep from getting shot down and the other two identify friend or foe. That's why that aircraft works as well as it does in the Apache does the same. And A-10 doesn't have that ability so the pilot does the best he absolutely can. As a 20-year veteran, 10 years as a paratrooper 10 years as an attack helicopter pilot I can tell you for a fact my friend there is no better aircraft for close air support with massive Firepower than the warthog. Nothing else comes close.
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  548. The absolute real reason that the Air Force wants to get rid of the A10 is because it's already paid for it. It's cheap, easy to fix, it doesn't require much in the way of upgrades so the amount of money compared to other airframes is much much smaller and these Colonels and Generals who make these decisions want to get advisory jobs for those companies that make the high-tech aircraft that are not supporting ground troops. There is not a chance that an F-35 can do the same things that a warthog can do. As a former grunt and army pilot, there is nothing that can replace this airplane when you talk about the dispersal of bullets from that cannon. If I have bad guys in front of me, that's what I want behind me. That gun is terrifying. It will make the bad guys think twice, they won't even need to think twice. Once they witness the volume of fire that that thing can put out they will turn tail and run. Just its presence over the battlefield in Afghanistan stopped enemy aggression in its tracks. Absolutely nobody wanted to tangle with a warthog, and these morons want to get rid of it! These people are looking into their own self-interest. Nothing they have can replace the warthog. Problem is they just don't care about us grunts.
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  549.  @aquilesca5tr0  technically and to be more accurate it is the cheapest combat aircraft in the United States Air Force. They have years of spare parts to go through besides the 1/3 of the squadrons that have already been shut down. It cost us, the US citizens virtually nothing. Where in the hell do you get opinion that it's expensive? What in God's name are you smoking?
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  550. Well, he's as far away from the smartest man in the world and he's still an idiot. What kind of a moron steals top secret government documents and leaves them in a bathroom? This guy takes the award for stupidity in the United States of America.
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  551. You mean those Museum pieces that have not been maintained in decades?
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  552. 3 days is the amount of time that Putin said it will take to completely take Ukraine's capital kiev.
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  553. Yes, they're terrified.
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  554. It's called teamwork, and it's not just the us.
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  555.  @miloradowicz  you mean like the Russians did when they blew up a damn and flooded an entire farm and township question mark something like that. As a matter of fact the ukrainians have himars and storm shadows. They can pretty much destroy anything they want to. So why haven't they?
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  556. Easy my man, we got nukes too and he knows it.
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  557. ​ @williamvuiller5121 yeah, just because he tried to overthrow the government, sent a riotous mob to storm the capital, almost got his vice president killed, install hundreds of top secret documents for an unknown reason he's a real treasure to the American people, a true sweetheart! He's just misunderstood.
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  558.  @RobertRobert-xu2yd  Whom are you speaking of?
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  559.  @RobertRobert-xu2yd  oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't realize you were delusional. I'm going to let you go now cuz I think you need your medication. You have a nice day
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  560.  @CK-iw5bn  she's on the ticket with biden. That means that she is authorized to use the funds that they had as far as the primary goes all she needed was an abundance of supporters in the DNC to take the nomination. There's nothing illegal about this, quit crying.
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  561. Main Street Media has not died. These two people are debating facts or what they think of as facts. This doesn't mean mainstream media has died just because for some weird reason you don't want to look at it. You have a choice, you can either look at it and take knowledge that this is what they're debating or you can just change the channel. It shouldn't be that difficult for you. Good to have freedom of choices in it, not exactly what the Republican party is pushing. Freedom of choice, what a concept. Talk about something that's close to dying.
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  562. He doesn't care, it's his thought processes to bulldoze his way through the interview to try to take control of it to keep the reporter asking questions from asking the questions. If he knew what he was talking about he would stop vsing the whole thing and just answer the simple questions. He either doesn't know it or he doesn't want to tell. I'm still confounded as to how gullible supporters of this guy actually is. Everything that he says can be quickly fact-checked through independent sources. He is profoundly one of the most impressive Liars on the planet.
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  563. I seriously doubt that Trump supporters or anything like me, I am neither greedy, bigoted nor gullible.
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  564. Better to put it in a scrap yard.
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  565.  @SipLeila  have you tried that Clorox injection yet? You should rush to give it a try.
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  566.  @bgorg1  Pretty sure they did. That's why his fat ass was convicted on all 34 counts, so not really sure what you've been watching, but it's likely a good idea to change the channel.
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  567. He absolutely did.
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  568. The whole point of this report was that there are regular civilians, outside of law enforcement who are working to uncover the identities of these people. Weren't you listening?
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  569. On the day when he actually did escort those people, the capital was barred from visitors. That's why it stood out of what he was doing, reconnaissance for the insurrectionist traders.
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  570. @roberthaynes488  no they can't, their votes will mean the deaths of possibly hundreds of people in the next few years that didn't have to die
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  571. People are under the misunderstanding that this is a News show. It's not. It's a political show with a different format than a news show. A news show Jennings would have been kicked off for blatant lies, that's not what this show is for. It's specifically allows the guests to do real time fact check which is what George did. I believe the moderator Casey Hunt jumped in because he was getting too aggressive. Truth of the matter is that they want different points of view, unfortunately rebooblicans are so deep in the cult that they have no choice but to lie. It's expected. But if you don't have a rebooblican on the show every cult member will rightly complain about it. This is the world we live in.
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  572. ​ @Kaatu-barada-nikto one drone can take out one target. And attack helicopter can take out dozens. They're not quite equitable.
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  573.  @DomoGenisis976  if the defense budget allows it. Remember, we couldn't afford enough F-15 eagles which is how we got the F-16 falcon. It's cheaper, quite a bargain.
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  574. I passed through there maybe 3 years ago. I'll have to check it out. Would have been there again this spring but it was ungodly hot between there and California. I do the trips on a motorcycle, so the air conditioning is lacking. Maybe next year
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  575. Maybe they missed
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  576. Well, this guy kind of proves your point. Can't argue with that.
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  577. Not with this Supreme Court dictating who is and is not a king.
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  578. That says more about the Electoral college, the popular vote did not vote for him. It's a flawed system that we have to work on.
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  579. You may think that, but there are others who've personally never been touched by crime, especially computer fraud who just like to see an action movie. It's been that way since well before Arnold Schwartzenneger (probably misspelled that)And also some people just like to see in action movie. I know I do. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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  580.  @just-a-purple-ork  be serious part of again the airland battle doctrine which if you haven't read it you might want to, I already brought up the point of awac aircraft. Intelligence of the battle of space which can exceed up to 400 miles allowing stealthy aircraft to intercept conventional Fighters is a game changer. There is seriously no need to insult me, I'm just letting you know what are capabilities are. Not saying that the warthog is built cheaply, it's built like a freaking tank with maximum redundancies. It's a very hard aircraft to take out of the sky. Those few aircraft which were seriously engaged by anti-aircraft fire as mentioned before we only lost four. As far as Chinese go, used to go with a girl who is a very high-ranking us officer in china. Her best advice to me was never buy a chinese-made car. There are multiple reasons why the Chinese are of no significant threat, most of it is they have no Blue Water Navy and they're surrounded by ocean. Without the ability to move your resources thousands of miles as we do with aerial refueling, you're just not a potential threat. I'm going to bring up this point because I spent 10 years operating as a paratrooper using TOW Weapons Systems mostly, after that I went to flight school graduated and operated as a tactical operations electronic warfare officer with Army Aviation units. The photograph of me is of me flying a huey in flight school so I kind of know what I'm talking about.
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  581.  @H0kieJoe  at the cost of the lives of Army and Marine Corps soldiers on the ground who need Superior firepower. Must be one hell of a toy the sacrifice those lives.
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  582.  @fnhatic6694  drones are great at surveillance and Reapers especially at killing vehicles, but they don't do squat with killing troops. Under the best conditions they only carry eight Hellfire missiles, so unless they're all going to bundle together and stand there and smile it really won't do much in taking out a bunch of enemy soldiers. Besides, if you spend something like $100,000 with a Hellfire just to kill one guy that's not entirely cost-effective. An A-10 is not an air superiority aircraft, it was never meant to be. It's job is to protect the infantrymen or Marines on the ground. You need to have coverage to take on enemy soldiers that are attacking your friendly soldiers and a Reaper ain't going to be able to do squat about that. Unless like I said, they have to stand together and smile. Ya Gunna need a big freaking gun that spits out a lot of bullets in a very short amount of time.
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  583.  @jgw9990  That's an interesting assessment you have their but, one, the A-10s not an air superiority fighter. It was never built for that job, that's the job for all the F-series aircraft. F-16 f-18s F-35 f-22s. The A10 is only designed to take out grown targets that are threatening to our ground troops. 2, unlike the Sukhoi 25 which the engines are mounted closely together, the warthogs engines are on pylons that are quite separate from the fuselage. It's designed that way so that in case of a manpads, which are heat seeking missiles being fired at it and hit, the plane will continue to fly. Both engines need to be taken out in order to bring the aircraft down. And number 3, I doubt we would ever even attack China. Our aims are to defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack. We have no desire to enter Chinese airspace. But even if we were to attack China, it's likely going to be done by submarines with cruise missiles. That is by far the most efficient way. We don't actually have to set foot on Chinese soil but again, our goals are to defend Taiwan. Just like the first desert storm, we didn't have to go into Iraq. Just push them out of Kuwait. Oh, and one other thing. You mentioned the Chinese defenses for air attack. Iraq had the top of the line service to are missile systems built all over baghdad. We got in there pretty much like we had our own key. Didn't lose a single fighter during the most intense anti-aircraft barrages defending just a small City compared to an entire coastline. That scenario does not bode well for China.
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  584. It's real simple, in order to end this idiotic nightmare just vote blue! You don't need Neil deGrasse Tyson coming on the air to tell you what the problem is, the problem is Republicans and Donald J trump. Get these jackasses out of office so that our country can be much more efficient and prosperous for the population, not just for the super rich. It's as simple as falling off a log. As long as you have Republicans in charge of any office, we stand a better chance at failing. The examples are far and numerous.
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  585. Countries do buy helicopters from other countries. It's not that unusual.
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  586. Those who cater to donaldjtrump are those who are greedy enough, gullible enough or racist enough that they'll just completely ignore all facts and history on what this man and his organization has done. You asked why people vote for this piece of garbage, the answer is simple. They have zero ethics and zero integrity.
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  587. These russian-built tanks are just so tiny inside. The Western tanks especially the M1 Abrams is more like a Cadillac in comparison to a Volkswagen Beetle.
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  588.  @expertpovsemvoprosam1667  I'm pretty sure I never said anything about who won the space race. Without a doubt the Russians got a satellite in orbit. And the dog's name was Laika and it died after the fourth orbit of earth. It never reached the moon. Reportedly she died a painful death within hours from overheating and panic. Not even the reprieve of tranquilizers was given to the animal. She suffered a horrible death.
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  589.  @expertpovsemvoprosam1667  number one, it's not an actual race. The eventuality is that with progressing technology things will be achieved and at this point in our lifetime the Pinnacle was to put a human being on that satellite and bring them back alive. If you wish to compare it to a sports analogy you can say the United States won the super bowl. I'm sure Yuri Gagarin was praised all over Russia but Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins were praised around the planet. You do remember the line one small step for man one giant leap for mankind, Russia is included in that mankind part. Well, they're less kind than they were a few years ago but they're still included. Didn't see Russia saying anything positive about the world when they put a man in orbit. But again, it's not a race.
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  590.  @futte8024  I would agree that Russians have some of the best injection systems known to man. It's an excellent Escape system, almost like they've expected to use it.., a lot.
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  591.  @futte8024  is a former military pilot even though I flew a helicopters, I was what's called a Aviation life support officer as well. They touch on things such as ejection seats and it was notable some years back that the Russian ejection seats were the best in the world. We've only acquired about a half dozen newer aircraft since that review came out but I think it still stands today. Ejecting from a fighter especially at high speed is risky in itself an injuries are not uncommon but supposedly the Russians are so well designed that even from ground level you have "safe" or injury-free ejections.
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  592.  @expertpovsemvoprosam1667  sure
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  593. The people that put up Trump signs on their lawns are people who are not able to understand a rational thought. They are a cult, and there ain't no coming back from that through persuasion and dialogue. They're just going to have to learn it on their own with their own failures.
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  594. And yet it's the Republicans who are wearing the handcuffs and getting indicted.
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  595.  @johnlocke4298  and of course you have proof of that, what am I saying of course you do. You're not just some moron spouting nonsense are you?
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  596. Man, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't
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  597. Must be all that bleach they've been injecting
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  598. Yeah, you should work on that!
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  599. She kept offering him that off-ramp and he is too stupid to take it. Nothing changes with this imbecile.
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  600. Are you just not paying attention? HE STOLE TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS AND REFUSED TO GIVE THEM BACK! What kind of psychopath does something that reckless? We don't even know exactly what he stole or what he did with it and you want to put this moron back into office again? Are you tired of living on this planet? The stuff that we held in the military can eradicate all life on this planet, wake the hell up!
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  601. I LOVE HER!!
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  602. Well, if you missed any of it to paraphrase there are top secret documents on a stage at a resort, and she mentioned which killed me, in the shi@#er. They're not supposed to be there, but I shouldn't have to tell an intelligent person that. Right?
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  603. Come on, don't exaggerate. We're talking three maybe four countries at the most!
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  604. It's buying Munitions and weapons from us suppliers so yeah, it's being spent in the US on us Builders manufacturers and such. People in the US are getting paid to do that work. They've had to hire more people for more shifts to turn out more bombs, more aircraft more everything. Dude, get with the program, Jesus christ. The level of stupidity in this country is astounding.
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  605. If I could give this more than one thumbs up I would
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  606. I heard/read that. Its gotten worse for him, he's starting to loose it.
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  607.  @CarolCraig-r5z  it's not likely As Trump never admits to making a mistake. Not only that, had he dropped JD Vance from the ticket it would be a greater disgrace than even Trump would be able to stand. He's stuck with him.
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  608. Well, I'm a black man and I support her 10 billion percent. I have no idea what's wrong with these so-called men
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  609. The election system work fine, that's been reported even from the Department of Homeland Security David Krebs was his name. It's just you can't fight stupid. People will vote against their own interests because somebody tells them what they want to hear. Either they're too greedy, too gullible or to racists or a combination of all.
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  610.  @dyong888  the United States military uses thermal imagers in addition to night enhanced systems. Drones will show up remarkably well in the dark. Also, those birds fly at over 150 miles an hour. Yeah, try to keep up with them.
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  611. I keep hearing the question and answering as a former tow Gunner, section leader. The tow cannot be fired on the Move unless it is on a helicopter. There is too much ground rattling that would disturb the ability to track the missile to a hit. You must be sitting absolutely still and in most cases the engine must be off. It is not a fire and forget weapon, it's a fire and weapon. You've got to be sitting absolutely still and track the missile all the way to the Target hopefully at its maximum range of about 2.3 mi. In this case, had the Bradley crew taking time to lock onto the tank and try to put a missile on The Wire they have to sit still for at least a good 5 seconds. And at that range they probably be dead meat.
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  612. It's called the greedy, the gullible, and the racist. A winning combination if ever a nation was ended by itself.
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  613. You don't remember the Russian aircraft's track record in Iraq do you? Pretty much anytime the f-16s flown by any Air Force in the world against russian-built fighters, the russian-built fighters have been disassembled in the sky. There is zero track record showing any victory of a russian-built plane over a western built plane since the Vietnam war. Something to consider.
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  614. ​​ @johnsilver9338 they installed and fired air-to-air missiles only to prove it could be done. There is no requirement, and I repeat that absolutely no requirement for Attack Helicopters to go out with air-to-air missiles. That's handled by the guys flying the jets. Our defensive strategy puts awacs aircraft in the sky and no enemy aircraft are going to get within 200 miles of the combat zone. Carrying Sidewinders on a helicopter in a movie might work out but in reality it's a ridiculous idea. It's not a part of the basic load it was just installed to prove it can be done.
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  615. ​ @johnsilver9338 it doesn't matter, they won't live long enough to fire the damn things.
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  616.  @johnsilver9338  john, think this through. There is no rationale in today's military and I thought this through a long time ago as to why we even have stingers because wherever we are, and I do mean the Army we have always would have the protection of the Air Force with us. Do you honestly think that those f-16s those Raptors those Lightnings are going to let miggs anywhere near us know the answer is no they would not. Again, I flew cobras. They rigged them on their from the manufacturer to show yes it can be done but there is no solid reason on God's green earth to put air-to-air missiles on a helicopter, that's retarded.
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  617.  @johnsilver9338  also, heilfires don't shoot down airplanes, they're meant for ground targets.
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  618.  @johnsilver9338  dude, even watching way way too many movies. Top Gun was a movie, Firebirds was a movie, and extremely stupid one. Yeah, makes all the sense in the world. Use a $20,000 missile to shoot down of $400 drone.
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  619.  @johnsilver9338  if you have enough time to put a guidance laser on a drone you could have done the same damn thing with a 30 mm that is attached to your helmet site system. Why the hell would you use a missile to shoot down a drone when you have a gun that will work much much faster? Are you eating lead-based paint chips for snacks. Well stop it
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  620.  @johnsilver9338  Again, I'm a retired attack helicopter pilot and tactical operations officer. WE DON'T DO THAT. We do not carry air to air because we don't need to. That's why we have fighters. AWAC's coverage insures the air is out for up to 200 miles. Nothing not on our side lives. Period. So no, we don't carry air to air. Even for a movie, which was in the movie Firebirds, we laughed at the thought. Anything in the skies are the jurisdiction of the air force and navy. We only kill ground targets engaged or threatening our ground forces in a mission called Close Air Support. and scouting operations. There will be no enemy helicopters, you're thinking of movies, not real life. For the life of me I couldn't understand why we had stinger teams, they have no mission.
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  621. The reason he hid the more dangerous aspects of covid-19 merely because he's in the hotel industry. He did not want people to stay at home, he wanted them to travel and stay especially at his hotels. It was money over people. Those deaths are on his hands. Nothing will change that throughout history. He is a greedy fat slob and he is going to go to prison.
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  622. ​ @sumdamwog3133 Boeing puts a lot of aircraft in the sky and satellites in space. Do you think everybody has a 100% success rate?
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  623. And yet the Ukrainians just attack 15 kilometers into russia and taken more than 100 prisoners. Life is strange to see how they're loosing.
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  624. I don't know, it's almost like you're hinting that Mr Trump is somehow a racist. That Couldn't be! He said they were good people on both sides! I'm sure there's some good Nazis out there, after all they had a little bad PR during the World War II but I'm sure they've stepped up and donated their spare time to Charities, read books to school children, help find homes for the homeless etc etc.
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  625. I'm sorry, has Biden suggested we inject ourselves with a substance that can kill us? That level of stupid you just can't buy.
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  626. Yeah, Johnny Law doesn't care about the rhetoric at all. They have so much proof that they had to bring it to court in dump trucks. They have him recorded trying to pressure election officials to sway at their way. It doesn't matter how many people show up at his rallies, that has no effect whatsoever on the law. Bottom line is this idiot is screwed! Hahahahaha!!
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  627. Just what is she getting at??
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  628. I'm pretty sure the biggest problem with that is the radioactive particles that are going to be spread over thousands of miles with wind speeds of up to 150 miles an hour. Can you say chernobyl? I knew you could..
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  629. Well maybe you should turn on your closed caption mode on your TV and you could read what he's saying. Then again, your Trump supporter you're probably not that fast a reader.
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  630. In reality their are more Russian who've died there than in Russia. @Garikuss 
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  631. ​ @rhondah1587 they removed him largely for ethics violation. The Republican party has an extreme tolerance for people with bad ethics. These people couldn't agree on how to make kool-aid.
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  632. Face of people, as long as she has the support of the orange Hitler she's not going anywhere.
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  633. I agree, disappoints me everyday
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  634. At the ripe old age of 17 I joined the Army and left Southern California for the first time in my life and was sent to Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. It was July 2nd, and it was the first time I found out it rained in the summer. That freaked me out as I called through the barracks to all "It's raining!" They thought this guys nuts! Growing up in Los Angeles I'd never seen rain unless it was in the winter months. Even as a straight A student I didn't know about different climates and weather patterns around the country and the world. As bright as you think you are at 17, I found you don't know squat about the world, or much else as it turned out. It's really not fair to judge a person for jokes that they made when most American teens are ignorant of things outside of the daily view, and for those who continue "race bashing", they must be pretty small in their own self-idolization. She apologized as many would have done in her position. Jesus people, let it go.
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  635. Of course that would probably produce second degree rectal Burns of both before you finally get them all out of your colon. Then again that might be a thing. You never know, people do all kinds of stupid stuff like voting for Donald J Trump. I can't really understand anything dumber than that but hey, I'm only 63. I haven't lived long enough to see anything stupider.
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  636. You mean the Network that has been sued for $757 million by Dominion software for lying and in on the hook with smartmatic for another billion dollars? Integrity is not Fox's middle name.
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  637. Well, someone ate a turd sandwich this morning
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  638. I have always been astonished that people vote for this idiot. He shows he has absolutely no class and no intellect whatsoever. If you wanted somebody to spew insults they should have elected Don Rickles. At least he was actually a smart guy.
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  639. The trick about surviving in a combat environment in a gunship is we fly so low the greatest danger to us is getting speeding tickets from cops.
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  640.  @jamestavella1398  Wow, you have a calendar! Good for you
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  641. Because they're in a cult. My aunt was a member of the Jim Jones congregation and didn't make it to the mass suicide in guyana, but a lot of other people did. It's really a shame when your mind melts to the reality that you have given up your life to a so called charismatic leader Ala Adolf Hitler. 4 years in the white house he did Jack for these people and they still grovel at his feet. He made rich people richer and poor people poorer. I feel sorry for Trump supporters. One day they're going to come off this idiotic high they have.
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  642. They can't remember what they had for breakfast. They're not that bright, Trump appeals more to the uneducated then he does to mainstream america. These people are proof.
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  643.  @cnwil4594  seriously, I blame the internet. All of that information people feed on only what they want to believe. It reinforces stupidity.
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  644.  @cnwil4594  frankly I'm amazed they didn't get lost in the birth canal.
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  645.  @LyricsQuest  the us-mexican Border is just short of 2000 miles, 1/3 of it is either River or two large reservoirs. I'd like to see somebody actually build a wall on a river or a reservoir. The concept is idiotic because they make these things called ladders and shovels.
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  646. Man pads only work if you're flying about a hundred feet off the ground. The Russians have a try that yet besides, we have these things called flares, shaft dispensers and infrared and radar jammers on our aircraft. They work pretty freaking well. You don't have to worry about getting hit with a missile if the missile can't lock on to you in the first place. That's what all that flying so low that you get a speeding ticket from the cops comes into play. Russians fly too high for some odd reason and that's how they get blown out of the sky. Those man pads were never designed to hit something flying with them 5 to 10 ft of the tree tops.
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  647.  @wyskass861  I'm pretty sure Army ground ships are issued bayonets still. Talk about old tech.
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  648.  @adammaher6962  actually the Russian havoc and Hokum do have ejection seats. The rotors detach a fraction of a second before the seat comes through the canopy. That is the one thing the Russians are known for, building quality ejection seats. Makes you wonder why doesn't it?
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  649.  @adammaher6962  I'm pretty sure the Ukrainian bullets are doing that already.
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  650.  @xxZerosumxx  with the size of the Earth are you saying the only place at A10 can land is on troops? Why on Earth would that ever happen? Maybe if those troops are standing on the runways, that could be a problem. Chances are they see an A-10 coming in for a landing they might want to move.
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  651.  @adammaher6962  because we're trained to auto rotate the helicopter.
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  652. If a news agency can report the good and the bad about a candidate that is what's called impartiality. If they will only report only the good things and absolutely none of the bad then that's a propaganda channel. You should learn the difference.
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  653. Fox, you mean the ones who are sue for $787 million for lying about Dominion voting machines, and soon-to-be sued for a believe it's 1.2 billion dollars to smartmatic for the same thing. I'm sorry but for Fox news, Integrity is not their middle name.
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  654. If any news service would be considered nonimpartial it would be Fox news. A new service is supposed to report the good and the bad of any candidate. CNN and MSNBC do that constantly. When President Biden makes a mistake you hear about it on legitimate news stations. When Trump makes a mistake, for example getting out of bed in the morning, or breaking several laws you don't hear about it. I spoke to a trump supporter he didn't even know what Trump was charged with. He's a fox viewer. Why hasn't Fox told there viewers what their hero has been charged with? Because they're not impartial, that's the answer to that question. Integrity is not the middle name of Fox News. Any news station that has been sued for $787 million because of they lied as well as an upcoming lawsuit for 1.2 billion dollars from smartmatic. Fox News is the gift that just keeps on giving. They lie, they got caught at it. Live with it. Either listen to their crap or change the station and be informed.
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  655. Rogan puts on conspiracy theories. Integrity is not his middle name. I used to like him as a comedian now I can't stand to listen to this sap.
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  656. Actually, I believe Trump was saying that we need to rake the mountains. Get all those leaves up. He is such a moron!
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  657.  @JRTrilling  many of the people, many of the tribes in Syria are focused on a single event, Freedom from the Assad regime. And we are surrounded by Millions upon millions of Homer Simpsons and Peter Griffin's, who haven't the slightest idea on how the country actually works. They believe in the most ludicrous conspiracy theories. And their vote also counts so in other words, we're screwed.
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  658.  @mikecoleman5288  I have always had reverence for the Vietnam guys. I got in in 1977 and when you see somebody with a combat patch you kind of bow as they walk past you.
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  659. It really depends on which helicopter you're referring to. I flew Cobras for almost 10 years, and I got to tell you the difference between close air support from a attack helicopter and close air support from an A-10 is like having your appendix out, you can use a scalpel or you can use a chainsaw. Either way, that puppies coming out. The advantage of the attack helicopters is each company has seven of them, six of them flying. Three companies gives you 18 Birds available 24 hours a day. We relieve each helicopter on station once they start to run low on fuel so the bottom line is, if you have a tacked birds out there they will never be far away. The A10 as far as I know has a 4-Hour loiter time if you're not counting aerial refueling but it might take them a little bit longer to engage whilst in Apache can actually be monitoring the battlefield and give warning too the grunts that they have bad guys close by. Both are spectacular platforms, and even though I flew attack helicopters I love the A10 as well. But you don't want to get rid of one over the other, they work great as a team. One has advantages that the other does not but you put them together and you have pure carnage.
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  660. The thing is, the A10 is not an aircraft that's supposed to be competing with high-speed fixed wing aircraft. It has its own very very important mission. It's there to support those Grunts and marines that are on the ground. It is not a fighter, it is an attack airplane. The closest thing you got to compared with is in Apache which when you compare those two quite simply the Apache is more accurate and can take a longer look at the Target Zone before coming in and obliterating targets.
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  661.  @thegrimreefer3185  I beg to differ young man, I flew the F model cobra for over 4 years, and they kicked ass in desert storm. The Apache had maintenance issues as a high-tech aircraft would but the Army and Marine cobras as well as the British gazelles and Linksys wiped the map of Iraqi forces. They obviously didn't do the job alone, this is what we call teamwork. But to assume that our Attack Helicopters didn't do a good job is an absolute misunderstanding of how the tactics of that war went. The simple fact that in ancient helicopter like the ah-1f Cobra had more kills than an Apache is a question that the Department of Defense does not wish to answer. But they work in a different environment than the A-10 warthogs. Army Attack Helicopters are extremely close when it comes to close air support.
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  662.  @thegrimreefer3185  you honestly cannot compare the operational time frame between a-10s and helicopters, they're completely different animals. It's like comparing a trout to a starfish. I can tell you and I was going to give a briefing but I couldn't get the data through Three Corps at Fort Hood Texas that the cobras, the gazelles and the little birds actually had more kills than the Apache specifically for the reason you mentioned, they're a mess to keep flying and the weather was playing Havoc with them as well as the a model Apache still had a lot of bugs in the system. They require computers and software to fly, ours didn't. Unfortunately because I believe of politics I was not able to give that briefing. The American public would really not want to know that a 12 million dollar helicopter at that time was outdone by a 3.7 million helicopter. But the main difference is between the warthog and attack helicopters is we have a shitload more Attack Helicopters than the Air Force does of warthogs. We operate with company and Battalion sized elements of the Army. We live sleep eat and breathe with army because we are the army. The A-10s are generally attached in a Zone whereas we go directly to the platoon in combat. We use the same radios with the same Cipher systems, so coordination with us is a lot faster. There are times when we actually do get on the ground and we talked game plan with the grunts or the marines. This means we have much tighter coordination than the Air Force does and I'm not knocking warthogs, I'm a huge fan. I frequently tell people the difference between having close air support from a warthog and close air support from Attack Helicopters is like having your appendix out with a scalpel or with a chainsaw. Either way that puppies coming out. As far as survivability goes in general because we come in hovering very low and we engage at targets very far away they never actually know we're there. A cobra is only 3 ft wide, we can hit targets out as far as 4 1/2 mi. There's not a chance that they would see us or hear us with a sound suppressive rotor blades we fly with. Things around them just start blowing up. As a habit we don't generally go forward of our troops, we don't have to, they're the ones calling for fire. As far as being taken out by a missile, that generally doesn't happen because of the electronic warfare defensive equipment as well as the ability to fly so low to the ground that we can't be picked up by heat-seeking missile systems. They're designed to go after hot playing engines against a blue sky, not a helicopter hovering in a tree line four miles away. Fixed-wing or rotary Wing is i flying in a hazardous zone so anybody could get a lucky shot off, it's just that if we get shot down we can be picked up in minutes instead of waiting for helicopters to come and get us and since there are 6 operable cobras per company, I'm pretty sure unless we owe them money are fellow attack birds are not going to be sitting by while we were captured. The last thing that you're going to want to do is go after a downed attack helicopter cuz again, there's five more of them out there. Either that or we're close enough to our friendlies that will be having lunch with the grunts telling War stories. I can just tell you this, by airframe with the tactics that we use in the defensive systems on board it's a lot harder to shoot down a helicopter than an A-10 flying hundreds of feet in the sky. Bottom line, if you can be seen, you can be killed. I give all the credit in the world. Those guys are really hanging their asses out in the wind, us, we're slithering around like a snake in the grass. Very hard to see, very hard to shoot at. As well if you are close enough to fire at us with our helmet targeting system all we have to do is look in your general direction and pull a trigger and bullets are headed your way special delivery. The Viet Cong noted after 3 months in Vietnam they stopped shooting at cobras.
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  663.  @andrewreynolds4949  it's hard to say about the survival rate of the Valor as we haven't actually bought them yet.
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  664.  @andrewreynolds4949  I'm sure someone said the same thing about the osprey
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  665.  Dogglegg  I was flying cobras in Hawaii when that came out, we were all excited for the first 24 hours until it came out that the only way the Air Force would give it to the Army is without the gun. In other words another reconnaissance aircraft. We didn't want it without the gun. The Air Force is really weird when it comes to trying to transition an aircraft to another service. We would have loved to have flown that thing, they were even looking at the short take off performance is wheeler Army Airfield was not the longest runway in the world.
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  666.  Dogglegg  We got a lot of people from the other services into Army Aviation just to fly. The Army doesn't care if you have a degree from any university, they just want to know can you pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time. If so, you two can fly an Apache.
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  667. Ratings and polls don't matter in Iota seeing is that this is a legal issue and he is going to go to prison. Good! He can have all the best ratings in the world, his ass will be on the line for a couple of cartons of cigarettes. He'll be terrified of having to go to that shower and the Secret Service are not going to be there to cover his inflated ass! I'm loving this! Hahaha! Trump supporters, the perfect example of the gullible.
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  668. A very long time ago I really liked Maria Bartiromo. She's just turned into another maga nutjob.
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  669. And unfortunately stupid votes
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  670. Well, we're waiting..
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  671. To be sure the ex-soldier is stating some valid facts but when you look at the entire context of the battlefield, I've seen m1s up close and I've been on Russian tanks. There is zero comparison, it's like Arnold Schwarzenegger walk through that police station. Only thing was he did take hits. Given enough Firepower yes, an Abrams can be destroyed. Nothing is impervious but things are some of the toughest tanks in existence. Compared to the russian-built tanks, they're designed for numbers and being able to put out around efficiently. They are not built with survivability in mind for the crew. Generally speaking a good hit to mean the death of everyone inside. That's generally not the case for the Western built tanks.. As far as the captured vehicles, anytime you have Close Quarters combat between them armored vehicles there's going to be losses whether due to landmines or Advanced tactics or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, there's not a chance that in this circumstance in M1 would not be disabled or destroyed, that's a misnomer. Only difference between the M1 and the Russian armor is that the m1's turret is still attached and likely the crew would have survived. Not a Jack in the box.
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  672. Wrong question. More accurately the real question is does he know what he'll be dying for??
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  673.  @TotallyNotElPresidente  morally it's a necessity.
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  674. The Blue Thunder shot down in F-16 over Los Angeles.
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  675. Truthfully it wasn't rigged, it was the Electoral College that chose this bonehead. I don't understand in this day and age why we just don't get rid of it cuz this jackass lost the popular election both times.
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  676. I'm an american, retired Cobra pilot and I can tell you for a fact that I don't love it. As a matter of fact the ukrainians don't seem to love it, that's why they keep blowing them out of the sky. If they were so good why are they littering the landscape in ukraine?
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  677. Yeah, like riot at the capital. He can't have too many of those! Like a leader who's been convicted of rape. Like a leader who's being admired by the Ku Klux Klan, the proud boys, in other racist groups. Yeah, this guy's a true winner. Hopefully he'll be meeting up and having seminars in the next prison he goes to.
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  678. It would appear Republican voters are just not that bright. They don't see the dangers ahead, even when it's staring them right in the eye.
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  679.  @rindaswick5422  unfortunately their motivation is pure power and control. Thinking of the constituencies well-being doesn't really factor into that as the Republicans have done everything they could to kill any healthcare, any child care, any jobs program that came down the pike. The only thing that they were interested in is making sure Millionaires and billionaires keep giving them money.
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  680. Sarah is cute but incredibly delusional.
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  681. So if I understand your meaning Mr mullen, you're saying that a judge shouldn't judge people? Is that what you're getting at because I'm pretty sure that's their job. @Wichitan 
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  682. He let a bunch of millionaires and billionaires walk tax free. @slimshady6359 
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  683. You may not realize it but the Russians have been getting their ass kicked with these things so badly that they pulled them away from active attack engagements and they're now only used for the defense of the Russian troops. They don't want to keep sending them out any further than the Russian soldiers because they keep getting shot down so how badass can it be?
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  684. They complain about the bullet dispersion of the a-10, it's not a sniper weapon! It's there to take out people on the ground, and it does that extremely well. It is a nightmare for the enemies, even give some of our people some Sleepless nights.
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  685. This is how broken our education system is. A guy fails tests because he not bright enough, they don't hold him back a grade, they make him president.
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  686. ​ @atishayritulpatwa I respect the ukrainians but because they don't have air assets like helicopters they are steadily losing ground to the russians. I flew a cobra for almost 10 years and even that ancient machine could Target a 4X4 ft box moving 2.3 MI away, and we carried four tow missiles. I want to see a drone do that. With a good helicopter Fleet you can move your soldiers around the battlefield rapidly with gunship support. We have proven that surprise is as great an ally as any. Unfortunately the ukrainians are fighting this battle almost like World War I and World War ii. We are far beyond that capability today.
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  687. ​ @chrissmith7669 additionally they have extreme engagement ranges. All we need are the troops in contact to point out where they are, either by map coordinates or discrete laser targeting. We will get the job done.
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  688. ​ @Riley77777 because they found out the hind is a big-ass target.
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  689. They've been getting training in the US and other NATO countries. One problem at a time.
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  690. These rebooblicans' are just nutjobs!
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  691. If only their constituents would simply ask the question, what have you done for us? How does him trying to tie the president to his sons forced errors help their lives at all? That is it doesn't. They've done everything under the sun to try to tie those two issues together and they can't find the string to do it. Why don't they just get off their asses and do the jobs they were voted to do? If the constituents would simply ask them to do their jobs instead of going out for all of these ridiculous political stunts then we would get so much accomplished in this country. @garyszewc3339 
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  692. Money doesn't lie @sasapopadic384 
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  693.  @CC-cp5uf  just like most, they get all their information from conspiracy theory websites. Pretty much shows the decline of the American intellect.
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  694. More shootings, more killings, the fact that the capital was ransacked by Vandals oh, you have a strange idea about how good things are going. There are hundreds of people who have been committed to prison and have felony records for federal offenses. These people will never be able to get a job as even a dog capture, all because they were lied to by this fat piece of crap. What is wrong with you? Their lives are over now. How do you consider that a good thing? What in hell is wrong with you?
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  695. it's actually 787 million for Dominion and 1.2 billion for Smartmatic in the near future so almost 2 Billion.
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  696. As well the engine they were showing that they were working on was likely from a marine Cobra like the one sitting directly behind them with the words Marines painted on the side.
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  697. I flew Army Cobras for almost 10 years. We don't fly like the Russians do a much much better Target whereas we scrape the ground as we go along. Tactics and pilot skills make a huge difference.
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  698. ​ @Fullovjoy  of course your comments were made three years ago however do you still have that same attitude since Fox News has already been successfully sued by dominion for 7.87 million dollars and pretty soon smartmatic is coming out with their lawsuit of over a billion dollars. Face it, Fox News lies to the viewers. There is no question about it, if you've been watching Fox News you've been watching propaganda because if they were telling the truth they would not have lost the lawsuit. The best way to describe Fox News viewers is the word "Suckers!!"
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  699. Trump supporters fall into three basic groups, those greedy enough, those gullible enough and those who are racist enough to completely ignore any facts that don't cater to their second agenda
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  700. It says it all when you hear the statement maybe we should eject ourselves with bleach. At that point you realize this guy is retarded.
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  701. He's trying to order an Uber.
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  702.  @machomacho1704  That's why he's ordering an Uber.
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  703. You gotta love where he's standing amongst the swat team offering suggestions. That scene was hysterical. Gotta see this movie again!
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  704. I wonder what Melania is doing today?
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  705. This guy's not just a nut job, he's a super nut job. His brain is sugar frosted and flaked.
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  706. ​ @AD-gi9zg why people in this country can't seem to understand that hugely simple fact is beyond me. The degree of slavishness, corruption and greed of the Republican party is beyond measurable terms. They are on their way to destroying democracy.
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  707. ​ @plutodestroyer12 inflation has been going down for over a year now. But I guess it depends on which news you want to listen to, the ones who actually tell the truth or the ones who are being sued for lying to the American people. The choice is yours.
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  708. ​ @plutodestroyer12 if one has to lie to make their point then they really don't have any point to make. That sentiment of two sides to every situation means nothing anymore if people are constantly making things up.
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  709.  @plutodestroyer12  you obviously just want to fight irregardless of fact so I'm going to say in closing inflation has lowered. Interest rates are not controlled by the president and the rent is controlled by landlords. I'm not very young matter of fact I'm 64, retired army. What you like to do is bring up points that the man has no direct control over. That's like blaming the bus driver when the bus gets a flat. Nice one
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  710.  @carlhunter3844  Many lawyers do.
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  711. I'm pretty sure in this country we have freedom of speech, and for these commentators to get up there and says she shouldn't say anything at all. Astoundingly hypocritical. If they're not voting for Drump then nothing they say should matter. Their opinions are not their own. She's a woman and has a right to say whatever she wants, until the Supreme Court takes that away too.
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  712. Very well reasoned, what happened to the rest of this group?
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  713. Donald Drump is 77. Do the math.
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  714.  @ultrajd  one of the primary designs of the western tanks is the survival of the crew is a priority. Not like the Jack in the Box version of the Russian tanks. Anything can be killed if you hit it in the right place.
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  715. He doesn't really care, not sure if you noticed it or not but he tells quite a few fibs. Liar liar pants on fire time
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  716. Dammit! Now we have to clean all those gun barrels. Damn you Russia!!
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  717.  @Eggychonk  after about 100 hours your hands and feet control the aircraft without you really thinking about it. Pretty much like driving a car, you don't think about everything that you do behind the wheel, it just happens. Like using the force.
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  718. I graduated with 185 hours in UH-1H's. By far the most labor intensive activity is learning to hover. Forward and lateral flight is pretty simple and fun. It's when you slow to a hover and try to maintain that profile, that's when your blood pressure soars. It's something that your brain has to learn to do. We called it finding the hover button. If you never find it you're not going to progress through to any other flight training tasks and you will wash out. The saying goes, if you can't learn to hover you may as well go fixed wing. @Tosslehoffe 
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  719. On Military maps are based on the meter system. The maps used by ground troops are generated through the universal transverse mercator grid system. All based on the metric system.
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  720. I'm sure the producers of this video thought they were doing a good job but there are a lot of mistakes in here. To numerous to go into just right now.
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  721. It's resistant to 23 mm rounds, pretty much like your watch is water resistant, not waterproof. The only thing this means is that it is designed to be able to be strafed and likely will stay in the air. It isn't going to continue fighting it will have to leave the combat zone and make an emergency landing. There has been a case during Desert Storm in the very first engagement when the team of ate Apaches went across the desert and fired up some early warning radars. One of the Apaches had 23 mm hole through the rotor disc. Depends on where you hit the thing, you could either scratch the paint or put a bullet through the Pilot's neck. Either way they're calling the insurance company.
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  722.  @marko61900  that's probably one of the reasons they have two engines. They can still fly on one.
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  723. Jesus, republicans, if they ain't cheating they ain't trying!
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  724. Sears and Roebuck revolving credit account. 12% annual interest rate. In reality, the amount of money from the European countries outmatch what the US donates. Out Department of Defense budget is less than 5% of what we spend annually on our military. What we donate are the main weapons. And as that goes, out factories have 3 shifts going 24/7. Less than 5% of our military budget has been crushing the Russian military, and we haven't actually fired a single shot. That's cost effective. This is also called business. American business. So, what are your complaints exactly?
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  725. In Vietnam many were shot down, however typically they would hit a rice paddy, the skids would break off and they would roll to a stop with little to no injuries to the air crew.
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  726. I'm going to go out on limb and just say it's pretty much just greed. A couple of firms with bird flu doesn't cause an entire industry to raise their prices.
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  727.  @aquilesca5tr0  Actually, that was a mistake in the video. Flying cobras we could best get about 150 knots straight and level, while apaches' can easily exceed 180 knots. The biggest limitation is the rotors. The more rotors you have the faster the aircraft can go. And you're right, speed is nice but not necessary for an efficient gunship platform. Our attacks were done primarily hovering in a "battle position" 5 feet off the tree tops. We covered about 2 miles per minute to reach our friendlies and they point out were the bad guys are and we just make them "go away". But flying fast isn't necessarily needed to effect the mission. But, just to confirm, the apache with 4 blades was faster than a cobra with 2. Now a marine cobra may have that distinction, but it wasn't mentioned in the video.
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  728. You know, after the first 2 to 3,000 rounds fired they should have realized that these bullet things aren't working. This may be why they're losing in the ukraine. They're just not that bright.
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  729. The flight weapons simulators work wonders. That's one of the excellent training tools that the Ukrainian Pilots have had to work with. The realism is better than any video gaming system you will ever Lay Your Eyes on. They will be ready. And they're going to be mad.
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  730.  @pindapoy1596  I'm only talking about historical perspective. The F-16 has only had five losses in combat and all were due to Sam batteries. Not a single one to air-to-air combat. On the other hand every single one is gone up against has lost. In the United States fighter inventory the only place that it's even done better than the F-16 is the F-15 Eagle. It has 104 kills and zero losses. No Russian built fighter has survived combat with a western fighter since the Vietnam war. That's not my perspective that's freaking fact. You don't like it tough.
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  731. Bought and paid for by who?
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  732. They really don't. Cobra's and Apaches do not carry passengers, cobras and Apaches are smaller in profile, cobras and Apaches have helmet controlled Flex guns which can put fire out in any direction 110° left and right of the nose in a matter of a second, both Cobra and Apaches can flow through Treetops in a stealthy Manner and make very tight turns. This thing has about as much in common as Wesley Snipes has to an albino.
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  733.  @chadhaire1711  you know he's lost over a half a million soldiers of this far? The counting is still going on. It's gotten so bad in the Russian military that in many occasions they don't even try to collect the bodies.
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  734. Fox News has flushed their credibility down the toilet a long time ago.
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  735. I'd like to point out at 7 Minutes 37 seconds as you see the under view of the aircraft you'll notice the oblong darkened painted area beneath the cockpit. This is done to cause confusion during a dog fight to make it confusing if the airplane is turning towards you or away from you cuz it looks like a canopy when seen from below. The Canadians did this first and apparently the Americans followed afterwards.
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  736. His purge idea is another idiotic unthought of concept. I'm pretty sure the cops are outnumbered about 260,000 to 1.
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  737.  @antimediaman9354  A liar is two words, not one.
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  738.  @ShannonSchofield-uh5qn  I don't get what the problem with that is. They've elected him to go after criminals. That's his job. He did that, even though he never actually said that. I remember reporters asking the questions, he never definitively answered. Laticia James said she was going after him. It's her job to prosecute criminals. I guess unless their name sounds like "Drump".
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  739.  @ShannonSchofield-uh5qn  Facts only work when people listen to them. They are the poorly educated after all.
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  740.  @antimediaman9354  And again, it's not illegal or unethical to call out criminal behavior. It doesn't warrant a mistrial or anything of the kind. It's their jobs to go after criminals for committing criminal behavior. That's what makes them criminals. People need to go back to preschool.
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  741.  @reyvaz2951  Trump supporters are undereducated. And that's a fact Jack! These people prove it every time they hit the reply button. No sense in trying to be logical with them, that gene has never entered their DNA strands.
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  742.  @pamelafeeney8086  Unfortunately this is a political show format, not a news show. They'd have tighter constraints about allowing people to spew lies.
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  743.  @antimediaman9354  I seriously don't debate with the mentally disabled. You have a nice day sir
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  744. Well, you seem to have a problem with gay people.
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  745. Well as long as you run for Republican nobody in the GOP is going to stop you unless of course you're black. That part is not allowed.
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  746. I was a paratrooper in Ft. Bragg in 1985. While sitting on the edge of a dropzone when 5 or 6 passed us on a muddy road from the NC Guard. One of them ran through a rather large hole and we saw it go "Airborne", which was our job. The thing landed so smoothly you'd have thought it was part aircraft. I tried to change my MOS from 11H but they promoted me to E-5. I eventually went aviation but those were some amazing machines, I was truly impressed. It's a terminator. Anything that goes against them dies. @whya2ndaccount 
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  747. Very good video, very nicely done.
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  748. Astounding that the majority of the Republican Party have just turned into these insipidus toadies. Have they no mirrors that they can look at themselves and be ashamed?
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  749. Whatever happened to those truckers who was supposed to ride and boycott at the southern border? You know, all five of them? @ninalong6710 
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  750.  @kellyyoung6137  I actually love stating the obvious, Biden has got zero charges against him whilst Trump has 91 felony charges against him. Not sure what you're smoking but you should probably put it down and open a window.
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  751.  @nicolehanson8431  I'd really rather not.
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  752. Really, is that a fact?
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  753. The irony with the assassination plots on Hitler. The British were within Striking Distance to kill him and at the last moment they decided not to because Hitler's bumbling interference in the war would likely have caused the war to end sooner than to leave it in the hands of the German generals. Trump's not that far off the Hitler track.
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  754. The fact that him and his ilk are going to prison is not a leftist thing. He broke the law, they have proof he broke the law, they have recordings of him breaking the law. Is the law supposed to just ignore that? Here's a tip, if you don't want your leader to be arrested don't elect a criminal as president.
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  755. There's a lot of people out there that voting public, by mail, or other methods. It takes a while to count up unfortunately. You can either get it fast or you can get it right. This is not one of those instances where is never enough time to do it right but there's always trying to do it over.
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  756. Saw your McLaren vide. Was that at Polk AAF? Brings back old nightmares.
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  757. Unfortunately she ran almost unopposed and they have to give a recall from her District in order to get her out. She has to violate ethics rules which is impossible since the Republican party has no ethics. Does the name George Santos ring a bell? The bottom line is once they're in, they're freaking in like a tick between your butt cheeks, hard to get it out.
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  758. ​ @GirlLearningTheWorld her constituents have to vote her out by the next election unless they call for a special election which may not take place in her state. And since klan mom basically ran virtually unopposed it's not likely.
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  759. ​ @BIGGLOUPR I fear you may be right but that would pretty much mean the end of democracy As We Know it.
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  760. Unfortunately he doesn't have the power to do that. The only thing he can do is influence what committees that she sits on. She has to be in violation of Ethics rules which would be the easiest way, unfortunately the Republican party has no ethics so there you go. Like trying to swim up a waterfall. This is a mess of Their Own making and there is no real solution other than her being voted out by the people who put her in office. Fat chance!
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  761. It takes close to a year for an army helicopter pilot to graduate flight school. It's a helicopter, not a forklift. It's a little more complicated than a fixed-wing airplane.
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  762. It's a millimeter wave radar system which is designed to scan the battlefield in a half a second and get the locations and descriptions of up to 25 different targets instantaneously and prioritize the most dangerous 8 to the aircraft. It can then fire off Hellfire missiles and hit each of those targets.
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  763. ​ @xaina222 drones are great for one operator to take out one tank or one man at a time, Attack Helicopters takes out whole groups at one time with not only an explosive in the missile but explosives in the rockets and all the Damned 20 mm you can pump out. One drone operator does not equal the Firepower and destructive capability of just one attack helicopter, if flown properly.
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  764. Dude, don't hold back. Tell her how you really feel!
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  765. The potential for a main rotor strike is so good, that's one of the reasons why they turn about as fast as a b-52. They're not very maneuverable especially at slow speeds you have to be especially careful or just avoid the maneuvers entirely.
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  766. Will as soon as he is convicted of one of 91 felony crimes I'm sure he'll be moving to either a state or federal facility for at least 4 years. That'll get him out of New York
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  767. ​ @KenBugbee I'm pretty sure he got to billion dollars from the Saudis for his presidency.
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  768. ​ @DimitriosChannel doesn't work that way, he's got to Pony up more than that amount just to have the bond on file so that after the appeals fail the money goes directly to the people it's supposed to go to. He has no choice. Is this a great country or what?
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  769. ​ @RichardQuaid trust me, they haven't forgotten about him.
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  770. ​ @Mrs.Huckleberry yeah, much like Santa Claus that doesn't exist either.
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  771. ​ @BrooklynBeTheBoro it will be a great example of bad people getting caught doing awful things.
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  772. ​ @unitedwestand5205 and even they have to pay $787 million dollars to Dominion for their lies
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  773. ​ @XBLHAX his father Fred Trump was the one who actually made the money by Wheeling dealing and cheating. He passed it over to Donald who has been losing the money ever since. The city of New York doesn't owe him squat
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  774. ​ @clayc8115 Gotta Love that!
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  775. ​ @RobinGriffith-e1c oh yeah, they found out that Informer for the FBI lied. He has been arrested. Arrested for making up everything so yeah, what about Biden
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  776. ​ Not_A_Dumb_Leftist you must be one of the others who didn't realize that Fox News has been sued for 787 million dollars 4, oh what's the crime, oh yeah lying! That's a lot of money to show what everybody else already knew
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  777. ​ @jonathanp1884 don't go light, it's the poor and stupid.
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  778. ​ @DynoGreen313 what a pity, the tears are streaming down my face for him
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  779. ​ @jonathanp1884 he can only appeal after he puts up that amount of money plus interest in a bond. Nobody's quite sure if he even has that much money left.
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  780. ​ @rl5579 they're not taking cash, Trump has to put up a bond for that amount Plus interest.
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  781. ​ @davidnealy6459 watch any of the broadcast other than Fox News and they'll tell you straight out. For some odd reason Judge Jeanine Pirro can't figure it out. Must have been some kind of judge!
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  782. ​ @davidnealy6459 no legal scholar has said that, just the clowns on the lying Fox News channel. Apparently 787 billion dollars worth of slander wasn't enough for these people. They're still lying to the stupid.
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  783. ​ @SB-qg9mt but he still winning! Hahaha!!
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  784. ​ @OhGee718 I'm pretty sure he's not going to be able to get that decrepit plane did california, let alone 12,000 Mi over the ocean
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  785. ​ @jerroldrieger5345 I have a bridge I want to sell you, come back later we'll talk.
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  786. There's no rule at all about changing the representative for the party. None at all. So no, and answer your question they don't have to renegotiate. It was supposed to be the GOP representative for president against the Democratic representative for president. That would be Mrs Harris.
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  787.  @pburns3469  it's for the candidates of the party. It's quite simple, the fat man who's convicted of crimes is afraid to go in front of the prosecutor. It doesn't matter what channel he's on, hell he could be in the middle of the Gobi desert he's still chicken
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  788. It was a complete accident as the Iraqi's were in a huge circle in a defensive position with their tank guns pointed out and we drove through their perimeter defenses by a stoke of luck. The M-1's were shooting as fast as they could, the chain guns from the bradleys were shooting the rear of the vehicles at a faster rate the the tanks where their armor is thinnest. And because many of the Iraqi equipment was already in firing positions when the abrams and bradleys (accidentally) drove into this reinforced battalion, all their guns were facing the wrong way. They needed to start the tanks and back them out of their fighting positions and only then could they turn their barrels. The appearance of the US armor was a complete surprise to the Iraqis as it was to the Americans.
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  789. He's done nothing for the average American. What was his signature accomplishment. Oh yeah, tax cuts for the super rich. How is that better than Biden who's constantly been trying to make lives of average american better. What exactly has trump done in that realm???? I can't explain the polling. Obviously theres' a lot of people out there who aren't paying attention, but this wanna be dictator will be in prison before too long. As for his support, when they see him day after day defending himself in court on unquestionable charges of corruption, only his ardent zombies will be backing this loser. @n0tk0sher 
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  790.  @MH-il1lk  I suppose you can always stay with Fox news, after all they've only been successfully sued for $787 million dollars. Then again there is smartmatic that's going in for over a billion dollars because, and let me put this delicately, they lie..., a whole lot. Otherwise they would not have lost the lawsuit because there's evidence that they lied. If you want to listen to propaganda knock yourself out but you're going to be really sore really surprised when your hero in Chief goes to prison.
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  791.  @whitney9844  if it lets you sleep well at night to believe in fairy tales, I got one about three bears and this girl who broke and entered their home that you love.
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  792. That's not illegal defense they're going for though.
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  793. Man, they must really hate Moskowitz! This guy is truly on his game
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  794.  @ikzy_the_crusade  Nope, as an army retiree, following an unlawful order is the same thing. There's no separation from the guilt, according to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Law of Land Warfare as well as the Geneva Convention. You participate in a war crime, you better have a good lawyer in the family.
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  795.  @monkeynews8311  It really doesn't make a difference. If you participated in a war crime, you better have a great lawyer in the family because you're going down too.
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  796.  @kaba_me  Yeah, he's never gonna be seen again.
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  797.  @gaHuJIa_Macmep  yeah, I get that a lot too.
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  798. When I was in basic training a drill sergeant screamed at all of us, "If you want to guarantee, buy a toaster!" Mighty fine words that still live truthful today.
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  799. You should really consider putting down the crack pipe and going to bed.
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  800. @AlexanderKA-i4w  again, it wasn't the people that they were able to smell it was the fact that they were cooking food. Fish especially gives off a strong odor when cooked as well as the smoke and oils used and these loaches are flying right on the tops of the trees.
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  801. Yeah, kind of like the Iraqi Army. Oh, wait. No they didn't. They kind of all got killed. It's what the United States Army called in Open Range shooting contest. We won, they lost.
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  802. The GOP
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  803. Don't suppose you heard the chanting that Jews will not replace us from that fun Nazi party that he stated are good people. Yeah, Republicans are truly good people them in the white supremacists. Oh yeah and we can't forget the conspiracy theorists. Yeah, you guys are wonderful, Disneyland should have a park opened just for you people.
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  804. Didn't this genius want you to inject yourself with disinfectant? He said he had a good brain however he threatened the university he went to if they released his transcripts. If he's so brilliant why is he hiding to this day the transcripts of his school accolades?
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  805. The difference between a news agency and a propaganda channel is if in this case a president says something wrong it will be reported on the news agency, if the president did something really bad and they don't report it, that's a propaganda agency not a news agency. NBC covers plenty of mistakes between the Biden and Harris presidency, you don't see one negative word ever said of the dear leader. That's the example of a propaganda outlet. Fox will never win an award ever again for news coverage. They're not thought of as a legitimate news agency any longer. As long as they keep information from the public like you people, they are simply a arm of the Trump Reich.
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  806. Well this sucked!
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  807. My only comment for you sir is that Trump is going to prison! Hahaha!
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  808. Seems like you were born yesterday.
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  809. He's just sooooo creepy. And that says a lot coming from me!
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  810.  @josephheselberger4356  Pretty sure Biden didn't call him a genius. Fairly sure he called him a murderer. Not like the Orange Buffoon who calls him Daddy.
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  811. Actually, I went to the Apache qualification course in Fort Rucker from flying cobras in hawaii. You have zero idea what you're talking about. When I looked at the dash 10 for that Apache that sucker could pull the Earth off its axis so as well it was the first aircraft that fired the first shots in desert storm. Nine Apaches went out nine Apaches came back. Where you're getting your information I have no idea but you really don't know what you're talking about. Have a cookie and sit down.
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  812. It actually uses three different techniques. The black hole infrared suppression system, infrared flares in the dispenser and low level flying makes it very difficult for a heat-seeking missile to lock on. All three make it very very tough to take it out with a shoulder fired Sam.
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  813. The advantage of the TOW over the javelin is range. You don't want them to get within the same neighborhood as you.
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  814. I am truly sick that people put this idiot in charge again knowing the incompetency he had proven the first time. As a comedian once said, about the American people you can't fix stupid.
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  815. It's kind of the problem, he wouldn't pay his taxes nor his workers. @winsomecohall2250 
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  816. There are so many Catholic priest jokes out there about children David, seriously you should really be thinking about your reply.
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  817.  @kathyaronson-o8c  He's a troll
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  818.  @psychshell4644  and yet so many of these lunatics get through the screening process. That would indicate that their system does not work.
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  819.  @psychshell4644  well, if that was used in the case of this person's firing then it showed it obviously failed.
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  820.  @mannyrodriguez5453  well isn't that special, you get a cookie
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  821.  @herbandgin3437  I think that they're rationale was that they'll talk to the cop, make sure he doesn't do it again which is an easier tactic than firing the moron and hiring somebody who isn't psychotic. This is where lawsuits come from.
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  822.  @moedark4390  truly you're not paying attention to the issue. If you can't figure it out I'm guessing you're too stupid to try to understand so I'm just going to let it go. There's no hope for some people.
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  823. Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded
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  824. Still astounding to hear congresswoman Victoria Sparks still proclaiming about January 6th being peaceful protesters. People freaking died how many people die during a peaceful demonstration!? I never would have imagined delusion would actually be contagious. What is wrong with these people? They shouldn't be in congress, they should be in a hospital where people would monitor them to make sure they get fed and walked twice a day.
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  825. Wow, the Supreme Court did not throw Nixon's case out, he was pardoned after he resigned in disgrace. The only thing the Supreme Court had to do with it was to make him give up the tapes. Trump is guilty on all counts, and on the state of Georgia counts he cannot be pardoned for it. He is going to prison like The Fat Bastard he is.
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  826. Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak minded.
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  827. I was gonna give the information about YGBSM, you beat me to it.
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  828. @ I flew attack helicopters for 10 years. We get to hide behind the brush, the trees, get lost in the foliage below the radar. I could not imagine being at altitude and staring down at a missile launcher with the phrase "Go ahead punk, make my day!" On their lips. Didn't got to have balls so big they need a wheelbarrow just to get around.
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  829.  @CMB21497  You are correct sir. The sagger did the same work as the TOW but the operator had to fly the missile too the target and whereas the TOW missile gunner just keeps the crosshairs on the target and the computer does the rest. At the time the range was similar at 3,000 meters, today I'm not sure if the sagger is still used.
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  830. I'm astonished, the man has brought this economy back from the brink. Jobs have been flowing into this country. Covid is down, with all the problems that we have Biden and his influence has brought us out of the darkness. Exactly what problems does he actually have? I've yet to hear anybody say anything other than the fact that he's old. Yeah, the Earth is 4.6 billion years old are you going to walk away from it? What exactly are Biden's detractors?
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  831. ​ @chrissmith7669 Amen brother
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  832. Pretty much like somebody who would steal hundreds of documents and leave them in a bathroom or on a stage at a third-rate so-called country club and refuses a federal subpoena after 18 months to give them back! These people need to be brought to Justice, and they found guilty put in prison after they have their trial!​ @luvmyshihtzus7327 
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  833. ​ user-vf4pu8qp9d wow, apparently you didn't see his State of the Union address. You should look at it, it's on youtube.
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  834. ​ @Debbie_V_Morgan I'm fairly sure that Biden doesn't think he's running against Abraham Lincoln. When Trump says that stuff that's just freakin hysterical!
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  835. Rambo is a fictitious character played by an actor named Sylvester Stallone and after his accolades for Donald J Trump he isn't one of my favorite actors any longer. I'll never go and see one of his movies again.
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  836. You can only vote once, other than that it's called voter fraud. Something that seems to be only a republican thing to do.
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  837. The bottom line is after January 6th, the Republican Party cannot be trusted, ever. There a group of the highest paid Liars you're ever going to see.
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  838. Well, that's a lie.
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  839.  @Vic47  You don't have to watch it you know.
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  840. YES YOU WILL WIN!!
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  841. It's mind over matter. If Putin doesn't mind, his soldiers don't matter.
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  842. Actually I believe the fastest military aircraft in the world is the Lockheed SR-71 blackbird. I think it's a tad faster than this piece of crap.
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  843. As well the more rotors the aircraft has the faster generally it can travel.
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  844.  @tms372  he lost the popular vote, therefore the American people didn't elect him, he was chosen by the Electoral College which in itself should be abolished. Primarily because the leadership should be voted on by the majority of the people and he has twice lost the majority otherwise known as the popular vote and only one time did he win the electoral college vote
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  845. Russia has the 2nd most powerful army in the Ukraine.
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  846. You know, the best thing that you can do to stop him from reporting stuff like this is next time don't elect a criminal as the President of the United States!!
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  847. She should buy Fox News and fire EVERYBODY!!
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  848. The mi24 is a big bloated target. It is not maneuverable and quite easy to take out of the sky with a 30 mm cannon that all you have to do is look at it and pull the trigger and you see chunks of it flying into the woods.
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  849.  @bodymaker16  The point I'm making that you may have missed is helicopter battles against each other are pretty much even. The first one seen is generally the first one killed. I mention the AH-64 would come out on top because a turreted automatic cannon allows you to get rounds on target much faster than one you have to aim with the helicopter. The KA-52's gun while impressive it's got more similarity to a fixed wing airplane. Only it has variable elevation while the Apache turret can turn 80 degrees left and right as well as increase and decrease pitch. It's aligned with the pilot and gunners helmet so all they have to do is look at the target, pull a trigger and bullets begin flying. The slew rate is remarkably fast, you can almost hit a baseball with it. From siting to firing you're talking less than 1/2 second. That's a huge advantage over the KA-50. But hey, if you like that you may as well stick to fix wings because in most respects it is.
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  850. This is David kicking the Giants ass! Long live Ukraine!!
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  851. We're not taking Greenland or Panama or any other place. Trump says ridiculous stuff to decoy conversations from his irrational ideas that he doesn't want people to pay attention to. He's an idiot, but unfortunately he's great at making you look here and not there.
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  852. I really don't think that the Republican legislature believes any of the crap that they're spewing out, they just have to show that they support the lies. At the end of the day they have to go home and look at themselves in the mirror. Of course I suppose all those bribes shoved into their pockets helps. They have no shame.
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  853.  @thief2801  I can't argue with you there
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  854.  @trevortrevortsr2  good to know man. Thanks
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  855. Number one, you should really use your spell check. You really don't know much about army aviation, as well as many others in this chain keep basing their "assumptions" on Russian helicopters blown from the sky. A point of information..., WE AIN'T THE RUSSIANS! I'm a retired cobra pilot and can tell you the reason they keep getting shot down is they're flying around 400 feet off the ground. We hug the ground to keep the "big bad" manpads from getting a lock on. An IF, the got a lock on we have a missile warning sensor system that's tied to automatic flare dispensers as well as an IR jammer. WE AIN'T THE RUSSIANS who are apparently piss poor pilots and the proof of that is that they keep loosing their helicopters in fairly large numbers. Again, you should really use your spell check more.
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  856. People are making all these comments about how inadequate the F-16 is and they don't seem to realize that there has not been a single Mig victory over any Western fighter since the Vietnam war. Every single time Russian made Fighters have gone up against Western aircraft they've lost every single time. As far as the F-16 goes there have been five combat losses, two and Yugoslavia and three in Desert Storm and all done by ground Battery Service to air systems. Not one big has ever shot down an f-16. Never came close.
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  857.  @CoercedJab  I believe that name is "alive"
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  858. If he actually pulled up enough courage to stand on the same stage with her during a debate he'd have to double his depends diapers to collect all the urine and feces that will be coming out of him.
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  859. It's a political discussion show, not a news show. Theres a difference.
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  860.  @williamzk9083  Attack Helicopters are not used for such deep strike missions, although there are exceptions the vast majority of the time they are used to support ground infantry troops and armor. In that role I guarantee you they're going to run out of bullets pretty quickly if the fighting is that intense that's why they don't go further away than they have to for their own FAARP's or forward area arming and refueling points. Does no good to fly 70 miles and be gone so long that by the time they finally get back to the battle the people they're supposed to be supporting are dead. We don't do much further away than 20 to 25 miles. Bottom line kind of staying out of artillery range. It was an Army tactical operations officer and Cobra pilot and the only time I have ever heard of an attack helicopter being used in what's considered a deep strike mission was the nine Apaches that went into remove the early warning radar systems in the Kuwaiti desert. There is no reason for us to use maximum range when that will also give us the maximum time away from the battle. In this case, the range is not a factor, what is a factor is ammo load and the ability to stay with the ground troops.
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  861.  @187Rajah  I can tell, you're a very sad and pathetic individual. Or just a Bot.
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  862. He's not speaking to you, he's speaking to his supporters. That's white trying to use logic, reason and history to a trump supporter is like trying to teach Japanese to a dead goldfish. It's a complete waste of effort.
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  863. You may not realize it but there's around 20 different warheads used with the hydra rocket to include white phosphorus (WP) which has a incenerating temperature of better than 5,000 degrees fahrenheit and has a range of close to 5 kilometers. A pair of those hitting a ship is gonna need more than a paint job, and there aren't enough fire extinguishers on earth to put those fires out. It can carry 38 of those rockets. Also, the Apache also has a 30mm, but the difference is the AH-64's gun is on a turret wich traverses 110 degrees left and right rather quickly allowing you instant, and I do mean "Instant" targeting of the enemy by looking at them, much much faster than trying to point the aircraft at the target. So, you were saying?
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  864. Trump will be in jail soon enough.
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  865. The eagle has 104 are kills and zero losses. At this point in time only the Raptor under simulated conditions can actually defeat the eagle. In essence, for any other airplane other than the Raptor and maybe the lightning to go up against an eagle is a suicide run. 104 kills zero losses. You can put that Chinese crap out there but all that means is that you're going to have the bodies of Chinese Pilots strewn across the countryside. And that's a fact jack!
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  866. They are well aware of the protocols in a knew exactly what happened, this is just their way of lying to the weak-minded who follow them. They must give them a daily dose of something that will make them angry.
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  867. Playing devil's advocate, the reporter and cameraman are actually blocking her route of travel. A respectful distance for anyone walking on a public street should have been given.
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  868. He's obviously got his prescription renewed for stupid pills.
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  869. The thing most people don't realize about those shoot-downs in Ukraine is that most western attack helicopter Pilots are trained to skim the terrain. We generally don't fly at nosebleed altitudes. Keeping the aircraft low makes it virtually impossible for heat-seeking missiles to lock onto it. They're not designed for that. It adding in the infrared Jammers as well as a radar jammer makes it very very difficult to engage Western helicopters. It's a tactics and equipment issue. Russian Pilots just fly too freaking high.
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  870. The main reason why the Russian helicopters have been shot down is because they fly too freaking high. We never went above 10 to 15 ft above tree level or the highest obstacle. Frequently when we're going into battle positions we're floating in in the belly of the aircraft can actually be scraping the tops of the trees. Keep it low and you're harder to see your harder to hear and you're much harder to kill.
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  871. I flew Cobras for just under 10 years and was sent to the ah-64 course. The biggest difference between the two is the Apache had better range, better weapons load, better armor, and night systems were better for attack. What we had over them was the maintenance on our aircraft were far easier, we were smaller therefore much harder to see, and we looked a whole lot cooler. You can take beauty or the beast. Either way, flying these things at Treetop Heights makes them difficult to see, harder to hear and virtually impossible to hit.
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  872.  @nickduplaga507  that's exactly what it's designed to do.
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  873.  @SpinoDude88  I can't attest to the KA-52 but the Apache has cooled exhaust, infra-red jammer, chaff and flare dispensers, radar and rocket warning sensors as well as they fly at tree top level. It's a domain that MANPADS' were never designed for, so as long as you're not flying through the stratosphere with all your electronic counter measures turned off, I think you'll be okay.
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  874. @rondoofnightmare775 As well as drones give off heat. Apache's can see heat. So much for that theory.
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  875.  @verdebusterAP  You know there are no Apache's in Ukraine right?
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  876.  @verdebusterAP  I'm specifically pointing out that people on these sites don't seem to understand the countermeasures that Western helicopters use as well as the flight profiles that we use to keep from getting shot down. I watch videos of Russian helicopters being blown out of the sky and being a former Cobra pilot for the life of me I'm wondering why on God's green earth are they flying so high. They seem to be making it really easy, but the loss rate due to manpads is much much lower if they exist at all with the electronic countermeasures and flight profiles used for Western combat operations. I have not heard of an Apache being shot out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile. Russians just fly too high and their crashes are spectacular.
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  877. It's already confirmed, the Trumps have no shame. @snooganslestat2030 
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  878. Obi-Wan Kenobi once said the force is strong in the weak-minded. Ergo, Trump supporters.
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  879. Don't you just love video, especially when it comes up at trials!
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  880. ​ @jasonwebster8027 because the last thing they want is for Hunter Biden to talk in public under oath
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  881. Because the so-called Republican leadership are cowards who refused to tell the truth. They don't want to lose their job, they don't want to be voted out so in order for them to remain prosperous they have to allow the country to be torn apart. Their cowardice will go down in history as legendary.
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  882. Trumpism has a strong influence over the weak-minded
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  883.  @lawrencetierce8244  I think you mean get your head out of the sand not sane. Unless you're talking about Trump then yeah you are talking about sanity.
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  884. Most of the armor is designed to keep the aircraft flying. Generally, depending upon where it takes a hit it's likely not going to be able to fire because of all of the black boxes that are not armored which will not allow the weapons to be used. But it is an incredibly durable machine that is designed to take hits and still keep flying.
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  885. Many may not remember this but when Drump first spoke at the United Nations assembly, he made a lie so stupid saying his administration has done more than any other. That actually caused the actual world body to laughed at him. He's a spectacular embarrassment.
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  886. They don't pay Indian tribes for the naming rights to the aircraft period if you believe that you're an idiot. ​ @TSUNAMICali 
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  887.  @fwalker3761  if you answer them what crimes their clueless leader has been charged with they really have no idea. They obviously don't have any of the facts of what he has been charged with otherwise they'd shut up. Their imbeciles. American made.
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  888.  @corey6129  the fact is that their fearless leader wanted to use the Border issue as a talking point that needed to be fixed however he didn't want them to know that he made his side refuse to accept the deal. In other words, he lies. Both sides not do that. Only one side uses ethics in the philosophy of doing what's good for the country instead of what's doing good for their side. Only one side consistently the truth while the other side makes up conspiracy theories. It is not a both sides issue, it is clearly a one-sided issue. Facts and Truth are not debatable. If you have to lie to make your point then you don't have much of a point to make.
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  889. No, they don't. But speaking as a 54 year old black man, they're idiots. This shouldn't even be a question. It's like the difference of would you like to eat steak or would you like to eat sandpaper. They're obviously uninformed black men.
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  890. ​ @truthbtold8697 yeah and all the progress that this country has made over the last three and a half years must be a huge coincidence.
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  891. These men apparently have never heard of the Central Park 5. 5 men who were wrongly accused of rape and assault and were put in prison. After they were found to be innocent through DNA testing Trump still put out a press release asking for the death penalty to be re-established. It is astounding how little people in this country remember of history.
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  892.  @truthbtold8697  I never said it was a perfect world but why don't you try to tell me in 4 years while the Republicans had all three elements of government what did they actually do for the common folk? And I don't mean tax breaks for Millionaires and billionaires. What did they do in the case of education, commerce, jobs, the answer is absolutely nothing. So if you wish to only eat the yellow m&m's, you have at it. I prefer all of them.
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  893. You must have trouble having to master the effort of remembering to Breathe In and Out in repetition don't you?
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  894.  @davidstern7847  sounds fantastic, why is it they have a GDP less than that of the state of Texas then? I'm in California, the state with the fourth largest economy on the planet. That also dwarfs Russia. With all that magical might they still can't conquer the Ukraine. Tell Putin I'm giving him the finger right now.
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  895. Visit ukraine, I'm sure they could give you enough parts that you can assemble your own, you may have to scrape off some of the carbon scoring from when they were blown out of the sky but other than that, there's tons of parts laying in the farmer's fields that make it pretty easy for you to build one. Not sure if it's going to fly any better.
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  896. The ka-52 has a coax 30 mm cannon. In other words, you got to aim that whole helicopter at the Target to be able to hit it where is the Apache can shoot 80° left or right of the nose instantaneously. I'm pretty sure that's a bit more lethal when you can get the rounds On Target while it's on your left or your right.
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  897. Don't bother, the guys at troll. He's just trying to get a reaction out of people ​ @dagored4077 
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  898.  @blyatpotato9484  yes and we put in a military embargo on President Kennedy and made them take them out. What has that got to do with the price of peanuts in China? Few NATO countries have nukes. As well you don't need to put nuclear missiles on their border, we have these things called submarines and airplanes, hell we can send it by FedEx if we wanted to so you are an allergy of this comparison is incredibly flawed.
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  899.  @HighlanderNorth1  I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were retarded. My mistake.
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  900.  @HighlanderNorth1  I'm really sorry, my bad. I didn't realize you were retarded.
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  901.  @HighlanderNorth1  I'm very sorry, I didn't realize you were an imbecile.
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  902.  @HighlanderNorth1  I actually spent 20 years in the United States army, two and a half years of that in the southern European task force in Vicenza Italy in an Airborne battalion. I've never heard of a non-aggression pact and I'm pretty sure they would have probably included that in our newsletter each morning. Not sure where you got this stuff from but you should close the door to that. It makes you look like an imbecile.
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  903. Hard to sing Silent Night with Radioactive air. Humans would not survive a nuclear war.
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  904. Not only am I an ex-pilot but I'm also an ex grunt. There is nothing that anybody has that can rival with this machine will do. Not only will it Wipe Out the bad guys but it also scares the crap out of them as well. That's psychological Terror that that gun brings and even the sounds of the engines bring gets the bad guys running or hiding in any hole they can find. The machine is not perfect but there you've got nothing that will do the job better.
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  905. Please, don't give him a defense he can run with.
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  906.  @SouthPoleAntarctica  Actually, the two teams of apaches were led to the release point because of the superior sat nav systems. Then both teams of apaches worked their way to their targets by flying low and slow down dry riverbeds until targets were acquired. The MH-53's are so loud and noisy they would have given away the surprise.
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  907. Although he didn't go into specifics I believe that's what he was referring to.
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  908.  @kurtwicklund8901  No other vehicle has the range and the Firepower and the ability to stay low without being detected. No airplane can do that and you can't do it with drones. Tomahawks aren't stealthy, you need something that can basically be invisible to radar in the human ear right up until until the Carnage begins.
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  909. @ToxicallyMasculinelol  Depending upon your flight profile radars are almost useless against low-flying helicopters. Radars require line of sight to pick up a target, using nap of the Earth (noe) flight profiles they were able to get within 5 MI of the radar and communication systems. When they were able to get a lock on with hellfires they began initiating the attacks on the two different sites at the exact same moment. In flight School in Fort Rucker Alabama we were trained to skim the Treetops at 70 to 80 knots at night with night vision goggles. It was extremely risky because even with night vision goggles it's a very risky flight mode but this is what we're trying to do. Many of the Russian kills in the Ukraine they're flying somewhere in the neighborhood of about 100 ft above the ground. Their flight skills compared to the United States and other Western countries are pretty poor. It's one of the reasons why I personally wondered why we try to buy the Comanche because we basically don't show up on ground-based radar unless we want to. Airborne radar is a completely different issue, we show up like a flare on AWAC'S radars.
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  910. The ukrainians have an absolute Sovereign right to defend their territories their families their children their husbands their uncles brothers sisters mothers. Are you saying that it's okay for a demonic dictator to just go in and Slaughter a bunch of innocent people? Because that seems to be the side you're on. You really need to think about morality and how it applies to preserving life. Putin doesn't.
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  911.  @ericzaiz8358  The attack that killed the brits was because the British column wandered into the warthogs kill box. First rule of killboxes, if you want to live, stay the hell out of the kill boxes. I don't know why they ignored the phase lines that limit ground advancement into a kill box, but knowing the A-10's were there I'd have made absolutely sure I knew where I was. When in doubt, stop!
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  912. The Ukrainian War would indicate otherwise
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  913. They have their biggest weaknesses in the chips to make the software work. The embargos are cutting into their ability to replace them all, not to mention that they've pulled men from those manufacturing jobs. They're screwed.
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  914.  @tigerboy60  all Marine Corps aircraft have two engines with the exception of the F-35 lightning with one in the MH-53 Super Sea Stallion with three.
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  915.  @3LegsIn  I should point out "all marine helicopters have had twin engines", with the notable exception of the MH-53 Sea Stallion line which carries 3 engines. For the cobra line they started out with the AH-1J Marine SeaCobra. They've never had the Army single engine version. Probably has something to do with being afraid of water.
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  916.  @tigerboy60  they retired the line finally in 1999. 32 years in service and it was considered just a stop Gap aircraft until the more advanced aircraft could be designed and fielded.
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