Comments by "Jan Witts" (@janwitts2688) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. We all remember the 1950s british government that did this and cancelled almost every aviation project.. generations of aerospace technology thrown away in just a few years..
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  2. They had also invaded south Georgia .. which is not even a territory that was ever held by spain
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  3. Yes but Ukraine is in an active war and military budgets peacetime have little relevence.... the main thing is that these weapons are to defend the usas own arse and interests which are large things... As such having Ukraine perform a draw down on russian military power will be extremely beneficial for the usa as it requires zero manpower loss whilst already almost destroying russian military capacity. .. thus ccp war can go ahead without undue distraction... It should take no more than 10 to 15 more weeks to put russia in a position where it cannot project power for 2 to 3 years and if the war goes on another 5 to 6 months then russia will probably be crippled for 5 to 10 years... so win win win... shareholders of the western armaments industry rejoice.
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  4. 2nd like. 1st comment for algorithmic integrity
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  5. Mig 23 were rarely flyable when they worked..
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  6. No.. it's always best to have a completely clear view of what's happening.. once firing starts modern systems soon become cluttered... and battles are often balanced on detail. .. Good point about the full moon...
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  7. The USN could have done with a few squadrons of swordfish fitted for night operations... would have been a surprise for the IJN
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  8. Probably.. as with f117... they will have a squadron with operational capacity very quickly.. but not announce this
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  9. I'm fairly sure that there are many ex service f16 pilots that would sign up as ukranian combat pilots.. why has usa obviously blocked this
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  10. I knew that a few were made... it's a pity that we didn't have some available Re mid atlantic .. might even have been able to reuse some.. would beat doing a hurricat job any day..
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  11. I remember this from the time... a very good idea.. now being revisited with computer controlled drones for loads and I suspect for use as single person casevac purposes allowing a unit to indicate the number of casualties and the correct number of loitering units moving in to take them directly to a suitable aid station or hospital.
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  12. The Biplane fighter.... and perhaps bomber... but not the TSR0 CR42 was quite good... but lacked endurance.... or capable pilots.... the handling characteristics of good biplanes should not be ignored and upto early 42 could only be rated as obsolescent not obsolete... as many suboptimum monoplane fighters were still in service at that point..
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  13. Turning a kamikaze glider into.. a kamikaze glider.. err.. grief.. Germany.. nuff said
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  14. I doubt anything but the simplest of generalisations can cover the complexities of the eastern Mediterranean area...
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  15. They could get some good money from collectors for a few t34 and sus. .. probably enough for a few more upgrades..
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  16. I think argentina was after that time.. maybe they think he was spanish.. I guess their next step would be to set up an antarctic base and goto war with Australia the usa etc... not sure what with...
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  17. Made with metal supplied by the usa .. The near total reliance on western high quality materials would have made any clearing out of ussr from Europe in 1945 46 a relatively simple matter..
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  18. Communists nuff said
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  19. I'd love to know what he knows about SA citizens with US heavy weaponry destroying a certain south philippino city a few years back....
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  20. The French had small prop aircraft with wire guided he or at missiles long before helecopters got in on the act seriously
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  21. Squadron personnel who are fitters etc are not flight crew... they are however combatants.. and are not refered to as non combatants ...
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  22. It's likely a perfectly good vehicle that would chew through chinese units with a good exchange rate... it has the quality of quantity
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  23. 2 or 3 hundred cavalry Bradley would be the most quickly adoptable and most effective aid that can be supplied..
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  24. With all those observation positions and a bomb bay ... this looks like an excelent coastal patrol aircraft ..
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  25. Yes much less embarrassing to say your crew sunk their own flagship by smoking in the magazine that lost in combat....
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  26. A bit like the albacore over the swordfish.. but they had issues with refraction on all that glass. ..
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  27. Honestly... my brain was identifying 3 different aircraft when I looked at that thumbnail ..... Really the mig 21 really just needed the cockpit moved up a bit with an all round canopy
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  28. Maybe the Argentine belongs to Britain and maybe chile as well... we need to ask the chinese.. they are good at map reading... oh hold on USA belonged to UK .. want that back as well.. and Germany and France... heck.. we still legally own calais.... holand.. etc etc... Or maybe we can just all spend more money on infrastructure and you know.. useful sht.. like curing cancer .. and suchlike
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  29. That wing does look kind of scoutship (traveller rpg) style..
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  30. 30th like for the algorithm
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  31. Lucky for the soviets getting a clean disengagement ...
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  32. I'd so rather serve in a mosquito
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  33. Ukraine has had years to prepare.. they could have put 100000 men into construction regiments and build bunkers and tunnels etc they should have had every bridge and many road sections pre set for demo..... airfields absolutely hardened with bunkers for personnel and weapon racks etc all ready to go..... literally thousands of hunter teams with supply stashes pre positioned and so on and so forth.... They could have had 100 000 regular army 100 000 immediate reserves.... 100 000 primary militia and secondary reserves and so on and so forth... Instead they posted drone footage and videos of arming ununiformed civilians and training 10 and 12 year old kids..... The arrogance of their politicians in the last few years has been severe... the have let down their people and only the bravery of the common citizen is making up in any way for their lethargy....
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  34. Fairly resilient to bombing... If you got 50 B10s with incendiaries and did a raid on a wooden german city at the time... in middle of summer... it would almost certainly have suffered a firestorm... most of the firefighting personnel were raised after bombing campaigns started.... so if you just turned up and blitzed them.. there would be minimum ability to deal with this..
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  35. Lol.. 70 million each and another 70 million for 15 years support...
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  36. They abandoned the ship whilst it was on fire.. so yes it's a total loss... The firat cruiser destroyed in open conflict since the falklands war... Reminds me of when blucher decided to disrespect that krupp gun battery... The area is basicly a basin so I expect this will not be the last large hull lost...
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  37. A slightly larger wing with better air brakes and also a hot-run option for remaining engine would have resolved the issues nicely
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  38. Looks like a good design.. yet again showing that if the war continued we would have been able to field more useful aircraft..
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  39. Hey.. give them a break.. flooding a magazine requires several seconds of work to turn the valve.. Russian military is not equipped to handle such complex operations...
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  40. Someday they will have an effective ornithopter. . Would be a very effective military asset... but at least 50 years away.. likely three times that
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  41. Yup he just admitted to breaking international law.. perhaps the UN will authorise deployment to remove argentina from the antarctic. .. too many countries making claims of scientific bases which have military uses only.. expunge the international criminals
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  42. Most of the carriers.. which included carden loyd rather than universal that were kept operable were converted into half track trucks for the eastern front alongside pz1 track units... the actual use of tanks was (except some latest cruiser) fairly negative and resulted in a lot of wasted work... I know some of these mobile arty pieces might have looked good but in reality the suspension broke and the shields were not as advertised armoured plate but mild steel... in deed many german track conversions to gun carriages used mild steel which was reported at the time (they billed for armour plate) as this plate was needed for half armoured carrier production... the 2pdr guns were the most useful prize along with light vehicles and small arms.... only a modest amount of all this was at Dunkirk however (in terms of heavy equipment) with much abandoned many miles away or in different areas altogether... quite unlike the lines of well maintained french tanks just handed over by some units not all of their army... radio equipment was also not properly sabotaged and this was useful... but really I woulf have to say the 2 pdr because of the ammo captured was the most useful for about 12 to 18 months of everything taken....
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  43. One could imagine a swordfish still finding some utility in 2021 ....
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  44. Probably fly from our carriers... almost no fixed wing aircraft available... fit with a brimstone launcher or something (can take the weight)... photo recon with a pod... target towing... deploying mines to close the straits of gib... anti pirate work.. (just add some sneb pods) etc...
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  45. Good.... We can test out an arsenal of new weapons and help Ukraine at same time... Already learning a lot about russian weapon limitations and characteristics....
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  46. A period in history where usa propped up the pakistan terror state vs a democracy... thus helping chinese communists also attack a democracy... Yes usa really sucks
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  47. The us military wanted more skyraider for CAS but were told the line had closed and they would have to take the replacements... 60 plus years later
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  48. Could it have taken a merlin engine?
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  49. When I saw them adding light metal tube structures months ago (red effect channel) I assumed that they would use these to hold a tray that would then be filled with plastic armour (Re ww2)... which would have prvoided actual protection vs splinters and defeated at least one warhead through detonation ..
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  50. Reminds me of the siege of Rhodes. ..
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  51. No about 15 billion over the life of the (presumably) 1 squadron of aircraft 2 to 3 for the aircraft and initial ordnance and parts and the rest over the next 20 years roughly.... so at least 1 billion a year to start with to get the project rolling.. simulator training and support... frames being assembled.. techs and other support training.. which will take 5 to 8 years as they have no pool of skilled pilots and support for this level of equipment... their present budget doesn't even give them credible infantry capacity.. their navy has 2 little gunboats .. sister ships of 3 the philipines has from a hong kong clearance give away... so they would realisticy have to x3 their defence budget just to include this. .. which is completely lopsided as they would then need to buy awacs style assets and again.. no infrastructure exists so another 12 billion plus and 5 to 8 years before any available... then they would need refueling aircraft.. so etc etc... Basicly whichever government member came up with this idea was absolutely barking mad.... the best defence for Ireland is not to spend money on pricey toys that others will want to break.... And if they ever try and invite their EU mates like Germany to fly over.. well.. I don't see the RAF being happy with that sort of bs...
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  52. The first aviation laugh i have had for a while..
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  53. An absolutely lethal weapon.. basicly can wipe out most of a btg in a dozen or so shots..
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  54. Blooop!
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  55. Ah the Hampden ... any narrower a fuselage and you would need to employ only amputees as crew...
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  56. As soon as I saw that dustbin ventral turret I thought.. that's where germany got the idea from..
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  57. The buffalo was a decent aircraft when used in any cold conditions as it's only real problem was overheating.... As for the fins... the factory should have requested the construction of a small aluminium plant exclusively for aviation and also a supply of at least 50 engines every 2 years to give national security of production... the outlay would have been quite minimal for the return.... as for glue problems.. they most likely over relied on glue and not stitching... as we found in scotland even with high quality glues exposure will soon defeat tem without a secondary securment method if prolonged winter conditions are encountered .. also I suspect that aircraft shelters and maintenance were neglected and could have been easily provided for with no strategic penalty simply having wooden shelters and heated areas etc.... all easily predicted... a pity given the incredible efforts by the brave pilots..
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  58. Drones killing drones... that's where it's headed
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  59. I'm surprised they didn't set up shop in Argentina
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  60. I think usa was there once.. but we burnt them... don't here them complaining.. but we burnt their presidential home.. so they are perhaps used to it by now
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  61. @M. Brysch Well I'm Scottish .. so don't know about usa owning it all.. though nuking London. . Hmm has possibilities ... Would certainly have avoided the cold war... usa bending over for china.. no soviet weapons for vietnam korea etc.. so basicly peace on earth... could spend our money's on something useful like cancer research and suchlike ..
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  62. The solution for all parties is to liquidate argentina
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  63. Xwing
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  64. 60th like, 4th comment for algorithmic support
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  65. I'm fairly sure that Turkey have broken NATO rules several times..
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  66. Should have built more instead of the Roc..
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  67. Lol.. they knew what they were doing.. so many communists in Britain at that point..
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  68. Would have been better just building more skuas.... or just ordering some hurricanes
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  69. Stolen. Not nationalised
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  70. Bizarre.. these were obviously a very useful organic support asset... should have made more of these..
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  71. Ukraine seriously needs more hunter killer teams... even a few hundred made up of less fit troops with rpgs and suchlike.. as we are seeing ssms and fuel convoys.. often without escort moving at speed on ukranian roads south to north.... even the armoured units would be easy to hold up or at least attrit ... and all vehicles abandoned but not captured need to be thoroughly destroyed.. burnt down engine bays... have seen a lot of potentially salvageable fuel vehicles also...
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  72. Vickers yeS
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  73. I was surprised that all t34 etc were not moved to the Atlantic wall forces later.. as for this operation the kv2 would not function well on malta (even if it could be deployed)... an attack on malta would have been obvious for a month beforehand at least and the limited access routes would be mined and guarded ..
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  74. That means the final version could take a typhoon engine
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  75. Should have let the V force finish the cold war.. at one point the entire soviet strategic bomber force was at one airfield... we could have wiped out every soviet target before the usaf even deployed... whilst maybe.. the soviets could have destroyed one target... maybe.. say Berlin or some such.. a price that would be cheap for the total victory over ussr china and NK all of whom would be similarly dealt with... throw in any cheaky blighters that wanted a go at the empire and bobs your peace dividend.... end of all wars... Britainia rules the skies and so forth... usa surrounded by Canadian SSNs (they wanted 10) Pakistan melted down by India.. And Afghanistan. ..who gives a (redacted) about that... peace on earth and no invasion of insurgents pretending to be needing their aces wiped... etc....
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  76. @Ed Nash's Military Matters I think that would have just been a frame hours issue as they did not appear dismantled in any way... maybe they were n their last hours and just held for eventualities... it's a pity Ukraine was not better prepared.. I know they are doing better than expected but many minor details like failure to have adequate mustering points or issue of kit for reserves dash militia is something that could have been easily handled... fieldworks seem to have been terribly neglected... not just those pitiful trenches and bunkers in the eastern area... but those aircraft servicable or not should have been in revetments to prevent anything but a direct hit from having any effect .. these works are very simple things for a first world country like Ukraine to manage... and even a few months .. let alone the many years they had.. would have been enough... we managed in between 3 and 9 months to fortify the worst of the uks vulnerabilities in ww2.. and there are many larger and less costly pieces of plant nowadays... anyhow thanks for the reply... hopefully they will pull some sections off those at least..
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  77. 'Who then marched their prisoners to the coast and were picked up by a destroyer' lol.. so the men were listed as what? Captured by a bomber? Despite the seriousness I find this hilarious
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  78. This explains why it has zero forward and down visibility. .. he should be looking up at his target..
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  79. Ww1 POTUS stated that he had sent 1000 aircraft.... his leading general went.. err.. we have nothing... British and french provided... this was the same in most other areas.. the US troops though well uniformed had very little correct issue for western front standard.. they played upon this to avoid most of the combat.. until POTUS demanded that he wanted 50000 dead so that he could have a seat at the victory table... US army and marines obliged by walking directly into enemy fire.... Kinda sick... Ww2 same again...
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  80. I thought that the wing failures had more to do with corrosion of the type of aluminium alloy used..
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  81. Not a problem at all... simply issue a division with them and no other mbt.. one parts pool etc..
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  82. If they had just kept making buffalo these could have been sent to russia
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  83. Chinese naval base coming to SA soon??
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  84. Pentagon are idiots
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  85. Well they did the film production team cover once and it worked in Iran. .. why not go for it again..
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  86. Were the bombs carried underwing ? I seem to remember a high wing aircraft with jackpoints allowing ease of loading access
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  87. I'm surprised he did not get charged under domestic terror legislation..
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  88. Why?? Do they think they are capable... Lololol. . 15 billion gbp minimum for this.......
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  89. Irish defence budget Budget€780 million (FY2020
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  90. So what... USA blows up Afghanistan... sponsors mass murder... supports child rap ist police.... equips an army that existed only in the deranged imagination of the pentagon top staff with billions in weapons.. which are lost. Whilst philippines is attacked by usa armed Saudi is is murderers... Fuusa
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  91. Really.. how close together were those losses.. it was obviously a fuel spill over hot elements so a basic inspection should have caught this within a few weeks..
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  92. @iffracem This was, I believe, an extension of british companies
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  93. @memofromessex It was never about money.. there was plenty of money for the RN RAF space etc...the government was basicly a communist mouthpiece .. 100s of millions were wasted on.worthless infrastructure projects..
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  94. @luvr381 Britain had plenty of money.. they just kept wasting it in ill conceived and ill executed.public works projects (rail freight infrastructure, and terrible housing developments plus other communist stuff).. they forced companies to amalgamate and straight up defrauded companies with pointless development contracts, only to cancel the projects.. you might not be aware of this but one example is when vickers weybridge facility made a really good anti tank missile in the late 50s.. the government refused to buy it and kept writing letters telling others not to order it or acknowledge it's existence as the government wanted to close the site (a privately owned company) and did not want them encouraged.. the missile went on to be sold to others.. the usa bought a licence and the british army ended up having to ask for them... many of these forced mergers and closures were complete misuse of power against what were private companies.. to top this off in the 70s the government then nationalised many of the sectors, which was outright theft of private assets for which they never paid the correct compensation, not that that would justify the seizure of private property anyway... in fact all the government managed to achieve was to destroy britains competitive ability.. stifle most good products that were ready for sale and weaken the nations position.. meanwhile buying 100s of canberra aircraft because the communist agent in the air ministry demanded that all pilots train regularly, landing with one engine switched off (not fethered, shut down completely) resulting in 100s upon 100s of crew casualties... this has nothing to do with money and everything to do with willful destruction of the nations ability to defend itself and function..
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  95. @Ushio01 British government sold its share in that so the money likely goes the the USA investors..
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  96. @dtrain1634 Was more expensive to give away
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  97. Europe would become a major superpower and the usa would be a natural enemy
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  98. There is no Myanmar .. the UN doesn't recognise the leadership and therefore the change they made to the name..
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  99. The USA supply the philippines with next to nothing... just because they refused to become a state for their flag... and betray them is so very many ways... yet they have the resources to pour a trillion into this shit heap..
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  100. 1943... another suicide aircraft .... should have just been used as chinese trainers to up hours ..
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  101. Sea king plus radar plus phoenix
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  102. Berlin airlift?
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  103. Yes you are
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  104. The fortress was rubbish .. would never consider it in the top two
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  105. Oh no... not that terrible canopy
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  106. Not the worst what if ever... a bit like those buffalo that overheated.. but were really good in cold climates.. if we had known I'm sure the usa and Britain would have been happy to ship every one of them to the USSR right off..
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  107. I think France realised that the German plan for a federal Europe would destroy France as an sovereign state....
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  108. He is about to explore internal politics by 'other means'
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  109. Burma.. illegally called Myanmar as not recognised by UN due the regime that changed it being unrecognised.. Bit late now.. what are they going to do.. most of the Christians have already been genocided
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  110. Rather obsolescent but it's what we have.. Unfortunately we don't have much depth of stocks... But better giving them something... Maybe some nukes.. after all russia armed the other side
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  111. Should have concentrated on a dobby 2 bis
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  112. If Russia had just developed this heavy wing aircraft further they would have been able to do strategic night bombing of Germany in ww2...
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  113. Burma
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  114. Lesson.. paint fuselage black and attack at night
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  115. The problem with high utilisation of wood was burning.. Italy suffered badly due to this and mosquito crew were very keen to bail out as soon as any fire was noted..
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  116. 1949 lol... maybe some swordfish instead
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  117. Cheaper to have anti drone drones.. the benefit will not only be lower initial cost but also removal of block obsolescence
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  118. Err almost right .. but forgetting depth of reserve... for example. . Germany could have started a basic modernisation and rehabilitation programme for those made to an agreed spec. .. a small number of ukranian regular and a group of reservists could have been fully trained on supporting this spec.. then in 3 to 5 months time these units would have entered the ukranian deep reserve in the west of their country and back stopping odessa.. freeing up other units to rotate forward.... over 8 to 9 months several full brigades could be formed with these and other casting off equipment. .. for example the earlier strikers and perhaps those gun strikers etc etc... Someone should have sat down with the various countries militaries and worked this out .... with a view to 12 months from now having Ukraine heavily tooled up in the reserve department and able to conduct whatever operations it needs to... ie .. if there are time limitations then it is essential to start the ball rolling on the longest constraint first... ie critical path analysis 101
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  119. Sir enemy aircraft approaching... 3 minutes later.. still approaching... later still.. yup still closing... grief this is terrible.. it looks almost Russian in its crudeness
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  120. Like bismark this ships crew must have chosen to sink her to deny the ukranians the glory.... the crew are thus heroes of the russian federation and many folk songs will be sung about them and their ships glorious career....😎
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  121. Because they were communists and America was robbing Britain of IP.. so they thought .. fk it
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  122. No it has zero staging ability as a port or anything else.. they just wanted another location.. plus all of Antarctica bases plus anything else they fancied plus chile plus plus.. to satisfy their germanic gestapo origins.. which.. sadly .. is not a joke
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  123. USA overpressure yet again.... USA hates SAAB wonder what rules they broke this time... already been caught many times..
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  124. Hold on a minute... The government if the uk has imprisoned british citizens who fought isx2 .... there's every likelyhood that anyone trying to do anything will end up in a prison cell the moment a politician sniffs his of her own frt gas.... just saying.... uk is basicly one huge psycho ward so doing what's right... is often met with abuse sooner or later..
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  125. Who counts as an ace when the pilot and gunner shoos down large numbers of enemy aircraft? Anyone
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  126. The forward engine faring does look sort of tucano ish...
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  127. Worst failings.. I'm guessing fuel reserves were one of these
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  128. I am 100 percent convinced that somewhere out there.. a modelmaker saw this and immediately ordered 2 hurricane models.... bless
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  129. If they had built more skua instead of roc Blackburn would be remembered more favourably..
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  130. They had lots of nazi help from their large population of post ww2 individuals...
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  131. XFU those were the days
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  132. Both countries soon to be part of greater Brazil
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  133. Introduce a 'just in time' logistics methodology and any airforce will dissolve in short order
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  134. With that wing it actually looks like a built up glider.... Picture of carrier post war was a bit out of place... Actually had some forces we could have rushed from across the gulf... but point is valid as our commanders in theatre were a bit thick... mostly.... Destroying the Italian naval presence should have been a higher priority.... Very interesting video....
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  135. Not at all.. a lot more profitable to sell easily shot down prop bombers than make nimble jet attack aircraft..
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  136. Lol they were actually said to have hoped that some hampdens would collide into german aircraft ...
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  137. I remember a pyramid parachute like this it was very small
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  138. Burma.. Myanmar is not recognised by the UN end of..
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  139. Some weird comments on here.... increasing your military budget by several percent after being invaded (crimea) is a normal response to times of danger... vast sums have been spent on equipment but there's no point handing it out at the last minute.... simple engineering projects are actually highly beneficial for the economy and result in lower costs per unit.. less unemployment and channel low level resources into actual defences... simply pre rigging your bridges and such for demo is a basic task and basic weapons cost peanuts compared to actual peanuts... perhaps you chaps should do some research... Ukraine is an industrialised modern world country... not some banana Republic. ... given 3 or 4 years any such country can massively improve its lot....
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  140. Oks you goof balls.. Firstly it's 300 .. one of you even git that wrong.. Secondly there are plenty of parts.. thirdly most chinese formations have sod all armour other than some apcs fourthly so what the chinese have (BTW more than 6000) better tanks.. Vietnam has newer tanks for that.. it's chewing through the lesser formations that these will do.. fifthly china can only employ (at most) one 5th of its strength vs vietnam.. the rest are needed elsewhere so in your scenario 6000 /5 = 1200 which woud take on the newer vietnamese units but lah 3 to 1 numbers required.. Basicly you guys know dick all about warfare.. go read Wikipedia or something
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  141. I apreciate that.. but unless china deploys at least a third of their main mbts then it would be at a disadvantage due to distance terrain etc... you cannot air drop an MBT. . And even naval transfer would cause significant force depletion.. you need to have enough attacking force to count for depletion with distance and then still have 3 times the power so 60x3x3 so they would need 540 ish top line tanks just to counter this.... and that's assuming they have x9 infantry etc..Yes china is in a strong paper position.. no china cannot fight 9 to 15 different countries (possibly including russia) at the same time
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  142. Nah to you 2... The chinese aren't countering... they are the agressor.. agressors do not counter they overcome... for.. oh. About 5000 years armies have held that an attacker needs better logistics and x3 force on the battlefield to win... Obviously the x button on your calculator is as elusive as an education with yourself..
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  143. That miles m20 has a nice looking canopy...
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  144. Assadists salute is just sad.. Not sure what the jihad against the west is about.. there is only one God.. I'm fairly sure that the actual Jews and actual Christians can confirm this..
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  145. One can speculate??? What about? The fact that a basicly communist government was dismantling the empires defences and handing our secrets to russia and the usa was and is recorded history..
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  146. Available??? If USA actually wanted to it could supply 100 abrams a month forever.. they are just one step behind Germany in red tape
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  147. Mk3s I think
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  148. Used to just roll 500lb bombs out the back by the dozen
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  149. Not unless the USA wants to go it alone next world war...
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  150. The hurricane was a fine fighter bomber and should have been adopted for the faa pre war.. as the faa was under the rafs control the raf is responsible for this failing and should have been subject to actual discipline (a few dozen senior officers used to form a fighter squadron would have done it)....
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  151. More likely sabotage
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  152. Burma
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  153. AkA how to ruin your older destroyers
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  154. ASROC.. sorted... The money wasted on this nonsence was considered a complete disaster by America and would have been better spent on more required upgrades and readiness programmes.. a gearing with an asroc.. 2 x triple lwaswtts is as good as you need for a general vessel..
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  155. A money sponge.... a total waste and not worthy of deployment... could have had 50 b2s... 200 f22s 200 f15s and upgraded the entire f16 fleet ... and still had loads of cash left..
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  156. The problem was the air ministries constant demands to keep overall wingspan down to fits it current infrastructure. The obviousness of fitting 4 engines (like hmm I don't know condor duh) was right there and the wingspan limits should have been adjusted to allow this extra section per side...
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  157. A head case in charge of a basket case
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  158. I have never seen more than 4 dragunov rifles in one place.. impressive..
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  159. Err.. American supplied bombs and missiles... a bit long in the tooth....
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  160. Considering that petrol engines were utterly rubbish in that era and steam was thoroughly understood (comparatively) I can see the idea having merit
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  161. The munitions will cost an absolute minimum of 8000usd per shot... possibly twice that... the frigate quality fcs is silly money. ..
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  162. Particularly effective because Japan didn't have the escorts to protect even its troop vessels and tankers from subs let alone other effort.... Britain in 39 40 absolutely spewed small escort vessels and sweep rigged ships from its ports to reduce vulnerability as much as possible.. the reason we built so little (against capacity) during the war was because we fought an all aspect war with massive numbers of personnel equipping these assets instead of flashy larger vessels.. BTW the air campaign against Germans turned every part into a front line and tied down 100s of thousands of troops and workers plus copious ordnance that would have only gone to war effort elsewhere so for that alone it was justified..
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  163. Lol... could easily see a swordfish being able to fit this role... but I guess people just don't like things that work well..
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  164. The 'irish' potato famine effected scotland as well.. with many migrating to north America.. south Pacific etc..
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  165. Swordfish laughs
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  166. The main thing is to cut weight down... I would like to see a titanium hull and running system.. this would save about 12 percent of those components weight and also increase strength considerably....
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  167. @William Nixon I'd like all the above and don't see a problem with paying an extra few million for special alloys... any country that can afford litoral combat ships and other rubbish can manage to fund 30 million usd tanks... and they can recover the alloy in 50 years time when they get scrapped..
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  168. @William Nixon Given that combat aircraft are pushing 250 musd all in.. 30 for a cutting edge tank is quite low.. Indeed even more may be required... tank production is a slow thing and will take a decade plus to provide for even basic needs ... training (or just using robots) is desirable as high level skills within the us industrial complex are beneficial... plenty of titanium available as most is used for paint so there's never really been a shortage... I have a couple of engineering degrees and don't see any issues... we are looking at something which won't field till at least 2030s so plenty of time to get issues ironed out... maybe even a titanium box for the crew and a bolt on automated turret.. who knows .. but preferable to just trying to modify m1 hulls which will eventually become block obsolescent...
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  169. @HazmatGamer Exactly... usa can sell off upgraded older abrams for generations whilst building up a force of absolute top tier mbts...
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  170. Zumwalt nuff said
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  171. Burma.. Myanmar is not recognised by the UN as the UN does not recognise the authority of the individuals that tried to change it
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  172. The philippines could have used this...
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  173. Makes you wonder what would have been the impact if the Dutch had crash built several hundred of a larger order
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  174. My recomendation. .. Assist Japan build up as a regional power. Supply Philippines with modern equipment to allow it to be capable of respectable local defence.... Reinforce Korea..... Develop a meaningful relationship with Malaysia and enhance its self defence capacity and willingness to cooperate in actions... Support Vietnam !!!!!!!! Forget aus and NZ they are weak and woke... not really capable for at least 20 years. .. and even then too far away.... They tell china to f off...
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  175. I wonder if these would have been any good in 1979 iranian hostage crisis.. especially an enhanced military version..
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  176. More important is how fast they can go before loss of control is experienced
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  177. The operation was utterly insane.. there was no reason to insist on leaving most rifles and LMGs..
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  178. More aircraft made and forced on 'allies' to rape the British aircraft industry.....
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  179. It's strange how jihadists feel the need to wear balaclavas
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  180. Ireland is in the EU... I'm thinking that a germano frenchy ally with air combat assets is not desirable.. Unless we have a whack down policy the moment they cross a line
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  181. MBT law or HLAW ... not exactly light.. but I see where they are going... the night sight is excellent... supposed to be discarded.. but could just reuse..... perhaps britain has some sort of death wish.... absolutely ridiculous... Ukraine recently made a suggestion that one of its brigades could destroy the entire Hungarian military (this is a direct threat against a nato member)... I will point out that ukraine has a very strange deployment pattern if this is not a real threat... What next.. more support for ukranians ethnicly clensing russian ukranians..
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  182. Didn't some of his men say they would rap ethe guy in red square....
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  183. Grief
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  184. If you removed the condenser and put the weight saved into increasing endurance to 20 plus minutes, then this would have made an excellent training aircraft for naval aviators.
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  185. Ukraine grabs its popcorn
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  186. Have a great new year
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  187. Can someone give a damage assessment on those mig 29s pictured... as I cannot make out from blurry pics and freezing the picture on my phones not too good.. Thanks
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  188. Unlike many other projects.. I have high confidence that this will be brought into service properly and have significant effect.
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  189. Bren carrier and carden loyd track units were reused in German trucks for the eastern front.. along with pz1 track units..
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  190. Myanmar doesn't exist.. the UN refuses to accept the name change by an unrecognised state...
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