Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds" channel.

  1. There is an old saying in project management: shoving more men to rescue a late project will make it even later. Russia can not win this war. For Russia's sake, stop Putin and stop the destruction of Russia's future.
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  2. Putin isn't mobilizing his people. He is committing indirect genocide on minority communities in Russia.
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  3. Russians: "We have many tanks" USA: "Those are great for target practice!"
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  4. The world is aware that Russia would use a stalemate only to rebuild its military and then try again. That is why I believe that the West will get their act together and seriously support Ukraine. The West will learn to be more afraid of Russia staying as it is, than of Russia losing this war. Also, Ukraine will more and more target strategic targets inside Russia, like the railway that was destroyed yesterday. That will do very serious damage to Russia.
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  5. Consider the SU-57 project scrapped. Russia's next war plane will be an update of the MiG-3.
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  6. Ukrainian soldiers made up about 40% of the army that pushed back the Germans. That is what Russia forgot. By itself, it would not have defeated the Germans. (The Soviet Union was larger than Russia is today, it included e.g. Ukraine and Belarus)
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  7. F15 aint that hard on the eyes either...
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  8. Democracies tend to under-promise and over-deliver on their military specs. Dictatorships tend to over-promise and under-deliver. Considering the lessons in warfare Russia is getting from Ukraine, China would do well to limit the use of its armies to parades ONLY.
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  9. On paper, the SU-57 is a good plane. But, if it really is so good, why isn't Russia demonstrating it now in Ukraine? Afraid the Ukrainians will shoot the prototype down, eh?
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  10. Around 9:00 you make the point that US artillery is optimized for being air-transportable. I thought the same thing when you compared the composition of their infantry (with a large emphasis on tanks).
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  11. Supercarriers are great for projecting power against weaker opponents, like a high school bully that uses his stronger muscles against the other kids. As long as the super powers do not attack each other, supercarriers will remain. Once WW3 starts, they will be sunk as soon as fighting starts. In many exercises, submarines sank carriers with impunity.
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  12. During the liberation of Crimea, Russian-held airports in Crimea will not play a role of any significance. There will be a large number of unfortunate smoking accidents shortly before it starts...
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  13. You think anti-radiation technology is sitting still? I bet that in the modern theater of war, anything that switches on a radar is toast. As in the invasion of Iraq, all SAM sites will be plotted beforehand and will have a brief visit from a cruise missile, this time no doubt the ground-skimming stealth variant.
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  14. They tried that in 2014 and 2015. They will NOT try that again.
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  15. You are wrong. Putin said he would stop after taking Crimea and Donetsk. He didn't. Putin has proven that he can not be trusted. And also, Putin NEVER has said he would stop at Odessa. That is wishful thinking. Putin has said that he would stop when all of Ukraine has been forcefully incorporated into Russia, and the Ukrainian identity destroyed.
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  16. ​ @donaldclifford5763  The way he describes it, the radar is used to steer the bomb to the target, but only in telling the bombs the coordinates of the ship. The bombs still need GPS to find out where they are in relation to the ship coordinates.
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  17. That leaves some 60 nations that do. That are a lot of very capable ships. Each of these ships can launch cruise missiles that can easily take out a carrier, especially when launched in concert. In naval warfare, the bigger they are, the easier to hit. But in the high violence spectrum, the submarine rules supreme--if they are silent or smart enough to avoid detection.
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  18. ​ @lexburen5932  One of its directors has been running the country for decades. The name may have changed, but that is all.
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  19. ​   No, they did not. Yamato and its accompanying heavy squadron caught an american squadron of light ships by surprise, destroyed a single light escort carrier (Gambier Bay, of 7.800T and 860 men), and was then driven off, later to be sunk by carrier airplanes. Musashi made no casualties at all, and was destroyed by submarines and carrier airplanes. So, in return for this enormous investment, and a huge strategic surprise that should have cost the americans the liberation of the Philippines, Japan only got a single escort carrier. They did not hinder the american plans at all. They were the proverbial white elephants. Awesome to look at, unfit for actual use.
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  20.  @Ebelon  You have missed the point. Since WW2, the US has never entered in a war in the highest violence spectrum against a more-or-less equal opponent. In an unequal fight, carriers are great. But if the US were to attack, say, the Netherlands, 4 of those beautiful carriers would be sunk as soon as they get in range (we have 4 submarines capable of destroying carriers).
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  21. It is because Obama expected there never again would be a war needing a dedicated air superiority fighter, but rather bomb and missile trucks that can also hold their own in air-to-air battle. I.e. the F35. Much more versatile than the F22. And there has been nothing to prove Obama wrong, except perhaps the growing Chinese army. But design efforts for the 6th-gen fighter are proceeding as planned.
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  22. Because those 500-800 thousand Ukraine recruited in the first weeks of the war were then trained for 6 months, even though many had extensive military experience fighting in Donbas.
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  23. Norway and Denmark are part of NATO, so this scenario is a bit unlikely...
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  24.  @midnattsol6207  Why not the 2015 peace talks? Those were very effective!
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  25. "May God Bless the Russian and Keep him -- very far away"
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  26. Not a draft. More like gang pressing.
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  27. Excellent point. Nowadays, the plane doing the shooting need not be the plane doing the illumination or identification.
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  28. Absolutely. Putin says it will only be 300 thousand, but in reality it will be much more. Mainly from ethnic minorities that the "real" Russians won't miss.
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  29. Offensive power has outstripped defensive power since before WW2. CIWS is excellent in killing a few threats, but they are easy to overwhelm with large numbers, and that will remain to be the case. Until we learn to generate force field shields. So, my bet is on large numbers of small, cheap offensive drones instead of the huge, expensive sitting ducks.
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  30. It would also need to launch a few attacks at Sevastopol and Kerch harbour facilities, but they have already demonstrated that will be no problem. Hunting season for Russian ships near Crimea will also be re-opened. And they will need to open a front pressuring the Russians and making the cost for keeping Crimea too high.
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  31.  @MrCastodian  They didn't have precision weapons in those days. Russia will withdraw before Sevastopol is besieged.
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  32. As Russia is still being run by the KGB, not much has changed since 1988.
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  33. We are barely scratching the surface of what is possible with modern processors. But the breakthrough technology here is communications and radar technology not (so much) processing. The bombs are still relatively dumb: they just fly to where they are told using GPS coordinates.
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  34. No, it will not. It will give Ukraine the weapons & other support it needs to defeat the Russians. Putin wants to send in 1 million troops? That would achieve parity with what Ukraine already has in the field, and Ukraine has 20 million more men who could potentially be mobilized and are very motivated to fight. There is no way Putin can win this war. All he does is destroy Russia's future for a generation or more.
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  35. The army that pushed back the Germans was 40% Ukrainian. Russia forgot that, very foolishly. They could have not done it without the Ukrainians. Now they are learning what it means to fight against Ukraine instead of with Ukraine.
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  36. In spite of what Putin would have us believe, Russia is no longer a super power.
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