Comments by "Gort" (@gort8203) on "" video.

  1. The B-2 did not enter service in the 1980s. The prototype first flew in July 1989, the first production aircraft was delivered to Whiteman AFB in December 1993, and it did not reach IOC until January 1997.
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  2.  @Gravel1331  Always glad to meet someone else who cares about accurate information.
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  3. You should write that as a comic book and maybe Hollywood will buy it as a screenplay.
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  4. A 747 cruise missile carrier didn't make much sense back in the Carter years and makes less sense now. The concept was to deter or fight a nuclear war, and there were even problems in that venue, such as putting too many eggs in one basket. Concentrating rather than dispersing the deterrent force makes it vulnerable to counterforce attack, plus loss of a single plane means loss of much more striking power than loss of a smaller conventional bomber. Such a plane is also not as useful and flexible in conventional operations the way actual bombers are. Cruise missile are not the infantryman's best friend. Expensive cruise missile are for deep strike on heavily defended high value targets, and much less expensive PGMs are dropped from USAF bombers on enemy forces engaged with friendly infantry. The B-21 is smaller than the B-2 because you don't need to carry as many tons of modern munitions. The 747 was not the way to go then and still is not now.
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  5. I do not advocate this concept proposed by this video, but they would not be civilian airliners or even look like them. There have long been plenty of military planes that are based on what started as civilian airline or business transport. Countries don't scramble fighters or launch SAMs based on what they think an intruding aircraft looks like.
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  6. You are right. Reciting numbers fills up the space in the video and sounds authoritative even when the narrator has no clue if they mean anything. It seems the purpose of most YouTube videos is to draw in and entertain the uniformed. Clicking of likes and positive comments is the metric rather than the knowledge imparted.
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  7. AN ICBM was actually launched from a C-5. Like the 747 cruise missile carrier, air launch of ICBMs was another wistful proposal that was correctly not pursued.
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  8.  @HailAzathoth  Of course I watched the video. Do you have a point, or do you just want to express an emotion you can't properly articulate? I see a lot of that in YouTube comments.
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  9.  @HailAzathoth  You seem to not understand that I DISAGREE with the key points of the video. Apparently you find them compelling and enlightening, whereas I do not. I'm not one of those people who believes something I see on YouTube just because a "content provider" made a snappy sounding video.
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