Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "" video.

  1. Bugsmashers are for use against opponents without an air force. Cute toy aeroplane but it still requires horrendously dangerous CSAR because it has meat in the seat. See "Bat 21" for what happens to manned missions gone wrong and their rescuers taking heavy losses, then remember that era is now ancient but MANPADS etc are a far greater threat than they were then. The same format could operate remote-manned in distant locales far less expensively at no risk to those flying it. The aircraft is essentially a sensor platform with weapons (like a drone) and is too small/light to mount an ejection seat, in impressively bad oversight but bodies are worst enemy trade bait than live aircrew. Comparison to drones like Preds misses the mark because not all aircraft are the same. I get that this channel is about EXCITING STUFF but this isn't exciting or innovative, it's just buying an odd duck to get around other services horning in on the missions (which greatly affects funding). Operating at low level with no ejection seat WILL cost lives so the mission had better be worth the blood price. That problem was solved with the highly successful OV-10 Bronco which does (in civilian hands) much more, can take off and land on primitive surfaces and often did, and had the fastest ejection seat in the Air Force thanks to the canopy breaker on top of each seat. When one had an engine failure on takeoff (at that height recovery wasn't an option) those fast seats saved a USAF Bronco crew out of Sembach AB (RIP, it was a very cool duty station) one of whom got but a single swing when his chute deployed. Both lived but had they been in a contemporary O-2 they'd have been paste.
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