That's government spending for you. Did you ever notice that a government program's success seems to always be measured in dollars spent rather than actual results?

@@sterlingtardie The expense is not necessarily because of the inherit nature of the government. The main reason for the outrageous hardware cost of the US aerospace programs is largely because of the subcontracting of the development/manufacturing employed by the private defense contractor. Countries that integrated defense industries with the state can often produce lower-priced military hardware.

@@mickeyg7219 G'day, Well, there is a bit of that in there..., the infamous $7,000 "Anti-Static Toilet-Seats" in Lockheed Orion Maritime Reconnaisance Aircraft were indeed a neccessary item ; but they were identical with the Black Plastic Crapper-Seats available in Hardware Shops..., Lampblack is used as pigment in Plastic and Lampblack is Carbon which is Electrically Conductive - and therefore the resulting black plastic is indeed also electrically conductive, thus "Anti-Static". I forget why the Pentagonal Haemorrhoids were paying $647 at per each for Claw-Hammers though. But, apart from the Scams..., it's actually stupidly expensive to cobble up a Death Machine with which to practice to defend oneself from WHATEVER one is being PAID to imagine - of which to feel deathly afraid, and frightened , next.... Defending oneself against Perpetually Paranoid FEARFULNESS (fearfoolness, fearfoolishnesses...?) is the guaranteed pathway to eternal Bankruptcy... If it was not for their International Debt, mostly held by Beijing Savings Banks, the entire Excited Status of Norte ArmedmeriKano could not collectively afford the price of a Pot in which to piss. It costs a BOMB, to build a way to reliably shoot the Foreskin off a Communist Sandfly at Intercontinental Ranges - QUICKERY !!! ; before the evil wicked Threat might perhaps possibly transgress yonder National Borders and bite the Generals & Admirals on their Bums, while they're busily pantsing their Painted Secretaries... Sieg..., HEIL...! ("Victory..., HURRRAAAH !!!"). "OuuuRaaahhh !" Suckling at the Teat of the Taxpayers..., it's a CAREER to those who fear themselves to be useless within the Productive EcoGnomie. Such is life, Have a good one..... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

@@WarblesOnALot Well, you're living up to your name at least!! ;)

Almost the sole exception was the Shinkansen, which came in ahead of schedule, under budget, and with a to-this-day flawless safety record

I was stationed at Dyess Air Force Base for 6 years. On numerous occasions I was treated to a front row seat to B-1s spooling up for takeoff. The rumble of a B-1 at full throttle less than 100 yards away is truly impressive. Even more impressive was witnessing this at night, in addition to the sound was the afterburners blazing like 4 giant butane torches. Pure awesomeness

And I can say from experience having one doing a racetrack overhead all night is a very very comforting feeling.

@@anthonyward8853 my favorite times to watch them take of were at dawn and dusk, when you can see the burners and its dark silhouette. It was amazing to hear and feel them take off while i was at Tinker, Vegas, or Guam.

It’s unfortunate that he did not cover the ability of the B-1, with its variable wings, to quickly get to an area where it is needed to support troops and then loiter in that area for a long time.

Hearing 2 come overhead following a tanker is a sound that is hard to miss! I have gotten some great shots of B-1b bombers hooked up to KC-135s over Wyoming.

"...in flew between the mountains...?" How does an adverb become a pronoun, Jake?

@@thomash8501 Pretty sure he meant "it flew"

@@thomash8501 Apparently, Jake served. You, Tommy?

@@thomash8501 He might have meant that in flew the B1 between the mountains but most likely it was a typo.

Lots of people type in comments on android phones and are victims of autocorrect

That is outrageously awesome! Literally sitting on your backup.

Why does the B1 have that tech/avionics, but not newer fighter jets?

@@BlyGuy I don’t think that it would so useful as if a fighter pilot would go unconscious when fighting maybe due to too many Gs I don’t think the computer would be able to make evasive maneuvers

​@@BlyGuycoz it costs a billion per units😂😂😂😂

@@MadLadMartyMcFly85 you have a link?

My brother was USAF Security Forces, he was assigned to guard duty of the B-1's in England during operation "Dessert Fox" in late 90's.

One of the B-1's best features is it does not need a long runway It can operate from small private airports if necessary

@@jamesricker3997 thanks to the plane's "swing-wing" design. 👍

My dad retired at Dyess AFB, home to the B1s. I was in the marine reserves a few years later on the same base. Almost 18 years I lived in Abilene, heard these things all the time, my unit was maybe a couple hundred yards from the runway. They are loud, but F111s and B52s are worse

@@jamesricker3997 saw the Vandenberg B-1s at Van Nuys... what a show!

Mine too.

Totally agree awesome plane

Saw it two years ago at Ellsworth Air Force Base. I agree absolutely beautiful.

The look has grown on me over the years

Check out tu-160. It'll be your new lover:)

I once heard a guy describe it as "take Marilyn Monroe and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and put them together" Truly the sleekest and most sinister looking aircraft (considering it's purpose) ever built. My favorite as well.

Russians had one in the same period that was superior in some areas, TU-160. Nice looking aircraft as well, Futuristic looking for the time period like the B-1 Lancer.

If it is getting at it and going, the sonic Boom! BOOM!!! is very VERY Impressive!

@@ShaneMcGrath. The Tu 160 was (and for the most part still is) pretty much superior to the B-1 in most areas actually. And they still have it. As a matter of fact, they're currently modernizing their entire Tu 160 fleet and are having new ones built. It is a completely insane aircraft that only the madness of the cold war could have produced.

Seen it in action. Scared the shit out me 🤣

I cant be sure but i think this is the new plane on GTA...

@@callumwright7459 just looking at pics they seem so similar to me but im not an airplane guy by any means! Il keep that in mind while im trying to be smart to my friends lol Happy Holidays!

SPR101st, when/where did work on them? I only ask because my brother guarded them in the late 90's while stationed in England.

@@skyden24195 Ellsworth from 2011-2017

@@Spartan101st cool. What was your position, if you don't mind sharing that info?

definitely an improvement on the V1 and V2, assuming that mass murder is the goal

Most planes are from what I experienced

Just means that the photo's, you've been looking at, are too small. ;-)

Just means that the photo's, you've been looking at, are too small. ;-)

It's probably bc it looks exactly like a fighter jet, which is usually much much smaller

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Nice haircut Eugene

that's a good one - might end up as a sideprojects though

@@amicloud_yt that would be fine with me , im happy to read you like the idea ;-)

With; we call them cluster bombs.

@@jasoncarr9375 Nice

"This is where the fun begins..."

‘Full-size’ school buses or ‘mini-buses’?

Don't try spinning, it may not be a good trick in this aircraft lol

Thanks to him for his service.

My granfathers brother flew the b 58. Failed on take off and he died. Thing was dangerous.

He still made the episode.

In your opinion, do you think the USAF should've gone and built the BOneR?

@@tytoalbasoren9457Funny

Which costs more per flight hour ... than the b1.

Better than taking the bus I suppose....

@@mgabrysSF hey, don't like the sentiment, talk to the BUFF drivers, it's their joke after all.

@@procatprocat9647 possibly, but I think the point is that the BUFF drivers know their mount has been threatened before, and yet it's still out there kicking ass and taking names nearly 60 years after the last one came off the assembly line

@@andrewreynolds9371 possibly, but I think the point is that the BUS drivers know their mount has been threatened, and yet they're still out there kicking ass and taking names nearly 190 years after the first one came off the assembly line. Just look at Thomas and Bertie (Bulgy also has an opinion I'm sure).

Same for me, except in the four corners area of southwest Colorado. A high speed terrain following flight and went right over us.

@@tomas2810 holy smokes

I use to live at the end of the runway near their base in south Dakota. they were as common as birds. Lots of "planes" use to take off after dark, that were not very plane like. I think that whole air base could be taken out now by a bunch of cheap consimer type chinese drones that are sold on amazon.

Yes me too. It was like Star Wars. So loud I could scream and barely hear myself.

I had a Lancaster fly over my house at 200ft. Beat that! Lol

They are loud from Hawley too.

Everyone loves the A10. It's all over the internet and Congress stepped in to force the airforce to keep it when they wanted to ditch it

There's talk about replacing or augmenting the AC-130 with the B-1,essentially turning it into a enlarged version of the Warthog.

A10 the aircraft with the highest number of friendly fire kills. It’s trash

Is there a classy restaurant in the wings over the Rockies

@@sfctapia4529 Not classy per se. But a neat little place to get lunch. The museum is awesome.

I actually worked on that aircraft, in the hanger that it is now a display. Being an "A" model, I did learn how to load and unload the rotary launcher with inert ALCM's on that aircraft. Also, the F-16A that I worked on there was SN78001 and the last time I had seen it, it was perched on a pedestal at Langley AFB.

Hey! I live near there! I actually went there once and saw it, I don’t remember much but I remember going there.

She's an absolute stunner and my favourite bomber of all time. I saw them at an airshow when a was a lad in England years ago and I was hooked right away.

Or Seawolf fast attack sub, that would be neato skeeto too.

I think the nautilus would be better as it was the first of its kind.

@@veteranironoutdoors8320 or the Convair NB-36H.

@@walkingcontradiction223 I was thinking this too.

sure seems to look that way. lol

You wish, he just comes in every day and read what's been written.. at this point i highly dubt he has any shits to give given he makes 1K per narration .. they write.. , he reads... hence why it's getting stale and repetetive.

Thats why the watch the Business Blaze son! Though side projects and a couple other channels are slightly showcasing our coke infused wonder boy

Or a jojo reference "speed and powa da"

If Top Gear/GT crew designed a bomber? B-1

It’s really not that big compared to most of the heavies in the usaf

It ain’t that small either. 45m long isn’t that much smaller than a BUFF, and a 57,000 Kg bomb load is a considerable payload, especially at supersonic speeds.

I saw one at the Pima Air Museum in Arizona. It definitely strikes an impressive profile

@@YTG145 yet it carries a greater payload than the b52

@@Oldsoldiersays yes I know this I work on it lol you should see the external pylons were adding to it

Ah! So the pork works two ways....

With 5,000 vendors making parts you bet they all got paid.

Touch-and-go drills are some of the most fun things to watch from the B-1. They’re so big but they just float back up every time! It’s fantastic to watch!!

@@darkowl5795 It seems hard to make them descend and land. They just WANT to fly!

from the many videos I've seen of them in flight, to me, a B-1 moves like a large F-14.

@@skyden24195 Probably more like a big F-111.....

@@raptor1672 I can see that.

I would guess are Grandfathers worked together. My grandad was SMSgt Crabtree and spent most of his career at Edwards AFB.

@@stacyelliott6758 my grandfather did a stint there so your right they probably ran into each other once

what about the nose canards?

How the- why does it say 3 days ago when this was just posted

@@pablohermoso4530 there’s another comment that says 2 WEEKS ago.

3 days ago? Nope. We don't have that clearance

Going to EDC Las Vegas is on my bucket list... hard to get there from Virginia though

@@brkbtjunkie When you do, make sure to camp. It's worth it. 2020 would've been my 7th year at the fest, 3rd year in camp :(

Biographic* But I'd love to see ALL his follies in one big video. Would be a long one too

Did Simon do the x-20 already ? Speaking of a (McNamara ) cancellation

One of the dumbest smart men who ever lived, with an ego to match.

He nearly destroyed every institution he led. Ford Motor Company, the Defense Department and the World Bank. None of them completely recovered.

@@benn454 he also sent mentally disabled people to fight in vietnam. you can see how he was thinking though. disabled people = financial cost to the economy. send em to vietnam. voila. shot & cremated on their 1st day. who says eugenics was not still popular then in the usa?

I can't imagine having flown that run. The Vulcan's pilot and copilot seats are _very_ cramped.

Not sure if you've seen but he's done it 👌

@@user-yy2tq8bf6d yes a short while after I suggested it. Thank you 😊

The ultimate development of the love child of Vulcan and victor

much respect for Spitfire

Yes, amazing jet. The new engines for the B52 will give it a range of over 12,000 miles which means it will be able to reach any point on Earth.

Unlikely the B1 costs less per flight hour and has less hours on its airframe it also isn't ugly as sin

It would be head-scratching if that ever happened, considering a B-1 costs less to maintain per flight hour than a B-52 and is much less vulnerable to anti-air defences.

All thanks to Major Kong.

Did you mean psychological?

yeup, their song, "Loveshack" will never be forgotten.

@@HBC423 yes, sorry

@@HBC423 Those scenes made 'When Johnny. Comes Marching Home Again' a pseudo-anthem.

I think he already did that one

There's a video of one flying so low that it tears the antenna off of a house. No terrain following radar back then, that was all pilots who were both insane, and insanely skilled.

You mean the Russian rip-off of the 40 year old american x-29, as it's more accurately known?

@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 lets not talk about rip-offs shall we ? Or else, the X-29 is a rip-off of a german plane

@@lucastekkan it's not a rip-off, the nazi scientists that designed it also designed the X-29. They can't rip off their own design. Think before you talk shit.

I live by a small airport and one flew over my house the other day I don’t even know how low, he didn’t land and ended up flying to I guess another airport but I thought a plane crashed in my backyard the sound was incredible and the fact my entire house was shaking..

Ed Ki you mean.. variable geometry wings 😈😍

or the plane that kept flaming out on approach.. lol

Seconded. It has an interesting history starting with it's inception as a stand in for the F-111 (which, um, just no) which the navy refused. There's also the requirement to being able to fire the AIM-54 Phoenix missile (I believe a lot of the aircraft is designed around this capability).

Please cover the Robotech variant. 😉

@@christalbot210 while the Phoenix was intended to be used on multiple aircraft, only the F-14 ever actually used it

michael howell Yep, that’s usually reserved for serial or spree killers..

you can see why he used the name gary instead of francis. being called franny at school must have been hell!

Everyone goes down in history with their full name.

@@IrishMike22 there is always one

Powers died in helicopter crash I believe in Los Angeles in the early 1980s if I remember right

Outstanding

Great idea! It was indeed mega engineering and also changed Australia into a more multi nation population mix

Yep, the difference between rolling on the runway and flying is just that it retracts its landing-gear. Very hard to see amid the ground-clutter.

That was the main aspect of the A-to-B transition I expected to be covered with all the mention of the stealth programs. The reason it is slower is because of the reconfigured air intakes without movable ramps, but decreased radar cross-section.

Yes, vastly more stealthy than a B-52. Not as stealthy as a B-2 but much faster and cheaper to operate and carries more missiles. A real workhorse.

Lol. Stealthy? Only because at mach 1.2 it outruns all the noise it makes... 🤣

@@tehbonehead I have heard its RCS is lower than F16C and MiG 21, and B1 is so much bigger than those planes

the first vehicle to UNofficially break the sound barrier was the Budweiser rocket car

@@alexander1485 its a contentious one. the ground radar used to check the bud car was not calibrated or tested for such ground speeds. just look at the gaff the SSC Tuatara made with their 331mph claim. they used GPS data but selected the wrong units and got 331mph (real speed was 225mph). it is highly probable that the bud car made over 700mph but not guaranteed. the bud car was an awesome show car and nothing should be taken away from the runs that it made. by contrast the thrust SSC car had to make 2 runs of over mach 1, within the hour to qualify as a record. they had already previously run faster but failed in the turnaround time limit so were discounted.

@@alexander1485 It's ironic that americans invented the GPS system, but can't seem to use it properly when it matters !

@@procatprocat9647 Not as accurate as Galileo anyway. 😉

I second this. Fastest cruise ship ever!