Comments by "VisibilityFoggy" (@VisibilityFoggy) on "Mark Felton Productions" channel.

  1. Ehh, we've mistakenly flown a couple F-35s into the ocean in recent months. It happens in aviation. Nothing to be ashamed of. ;)
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  2. The Ma Deuce is used all over the U.S. military to this day, including, gunwale-mounted variants on destroyers. It's the gun that probably will never die because, frankly, there's nothing that can be made better or worse of it lol.
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  3. The Marines might literally mount a revolution if you tried to take the Ma Deuce away lol.
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  4.  @interestedobserver587  Your hostility is actually pretty strange.
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  5. Given their upgrades with Elta radars and avionics, I'd bet they're used as aggressors.
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  6. The parallels to Putin in 2023 are... developing quickly.
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  7.  @executivesteps  Americans already "learn" Metric. Drinks are often measured in liters/ml, medication is dispensed in milligrams, a meter is effectively a yard, etc. Speed is really just getting used to the "feel" of a certain number – 100km/h for 63mph, for example. I would say the one hangup would be with temperature, since there is no logical way to convert the two.
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  8. There is also a Pan-NATO E-3 registered in Luxembourg that is available to NATO member states. It has been airborne over the Ukraine border pretty much 24/7 as of late. The RAF could also use the F-35 as a pinch-hit AWACS if need be, or the Merlin HM2 variants that have been built.
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  9.  @samiam619  Perhaps teaching topics like this, which link past and present via an interesting and relevant event, is what would improve those school history classes.
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  10.  @ari_a2764  The Russian language was codified into law as the language to be studied and utilized in all Soviet schools in 1938. It was made optional in 1958, when languages of "national significance," as codified in a separate 1922 law which designated multiple de jure languages depending on territory, were allowed to be taught and studied. So, essentially, the USSR did not designate Russian as its official language, but it outlawed the study of all the others for some time and largely discouraged their study in later years, hoping they would ultimately die out. - Sincerely, an American who just put you in your place.
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  11. Did the Spanish ship then bring it to America to deliver it to the guy who won the Pepsi contest?
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  12. Great video! My grandfather was on the USS Savannah when it was struck by the Fritz-X. He made it to Malta, where apparently it was a great place to rest and recover for a bit, and then he was re-assigned to the Pacific theater on the USS Wisconsin.
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  13. Yeah, renaming those old Fishbeds "Lancers" (the B-1B would like to have a word) doesn't seem to have done the trick. The munitions carriage was upgraded to support French and Israeli equipment, but that airframe is what it is. I'm stunned India and China still have a few of these in service as well.
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  14. I must admit, I rarely use cash anywhere in the world, but whenever I visit a new country for the first time, I do take out one large banknote from an ATM machine so I can make a couple of routine purchases and come home with a few souvenirs in the form of "exotic" money from lands far away from the United States. It produces a much better memory, and can more easily be saved through time, than any tee shirt or drinking glass.
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  15. Another good reason for we Americans to support the UK aerospace industry. The world can't simply choose to buy US or Russian equipment. We need close, trusted allies to be self-sufficient and powerful in their own right so we can challenge each other to be better. I've always loved the Vulcan... so ultra-modern and advanced for its time. Fortunately it only dropped bombs in the Falklands rather than what it was designed to actually do.
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  16. There are a few more layers to this. First, the air complement of the QE could be surged. The F-35s offer both ISR as well as air defense capability, bonus in stealth form. There is also the USAF F-15 fleet Lakenheath, which would obviously defend its base, but would also be networked into the larger air defense picture through Link 16. Not to mention, since Article V would have been invoked at this point, these Russian jets would have to get through multiple intercept attempts by every NATO member state along the way. The Tu-160 is a platform largely equivalent to the B-1B. It has a massive radar cross section and would easily find itself in the no-escape-zone of modern air-to-air missiles like the Meteor and AMRAAM-D. The Blackjack's role in modern conflict will be conducting airstrikes and providing air support once air superiority has already been achieved and a no-fly-zone imposed. All this said, I think stealthy strategic bombers are still of use, especially when they can also serve in roles such as a low-observable comms node, ISR platform, maybe even AWACS. That's all planned for the B-21 project. It might be worth it for the RAF to jump back into the bomber game... there's been some talk of Australia buying them.
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  17. If Ukraine does this after they re-take Crimea, I'm flying there to see it!
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