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It was a lovely looking aircraft and a miracle aircraft given the time from design to roll out..

I wouldn’t be surprised if china holds off on invading Taiwan until the US gets good at producing semiconductors, the theory being that we’d be more likely to back Taiwan if we are partially dependent on them

It took a very long time for the allies to work out the things which an industrial power like Germany actually needed in order to continue the war that were also vulnerable to strategic bombing. They were oil, transport, and power stations which powered the grid. Of course these systems would have to be hit over and over again keep them "off line." But had the allies identified those targets earlier in the war, it would have cost the lives of fewer aircrew, and MAYBE enabled the bomber barons to keep their promise of shorting the war with lower human costs for the allies. Harris, the commander of RAF Bomber Command was right about things like ball bearings and V1 and V2 sites being "panacea targets," but he was wrong to conclude that anything but area bombing was futile and to claim that the RAF didn't have the techniques for hitting those three key pieces of infrastructure without leveling entire cities in the process.

China isn't going to take Taiwan unless Taiwan declares independence and they're probably waiting to reach chip manufacturing parity before making any moves.

Too small a payload, too short range, too communications dependent too expensive. Ukraine has shown if you don't have superior point air defence, can't deal with glide bombs and UAVs the air war is lost. Getting at the rear baseds is the key. F15EX, drone swarms and Rapid Dragon offer better options for exercising hard hitting air power and gaining air superiority.

That is pretty powerful statement. However your concept of what a 5th generation fighter is lacking. Just because you added some canard wings does not make it a current fighter

Professor Bronk is only partially correct. Late cold war systems like the Moskito ASW (Anti Shelter Weapon) submunition, intended for deployment from proto-SCALP (APACHE) cruise missiles could put a serious perforation in not just a TAB-V NATO shelter but the Eastern European shelters which often had roofs over 4ft thick. You start going to the Yugoslav level (22ft thick) and/or using modern PAV2/C40 and UHPC with microfibers and you are talking considerably more than 4 million per barn to build and also significant (as in more than 2 years, which I figure is that outlier for WWIII, given the insanity of Biden and Co's push for extinction of humanity). There just are not enough companies who can deal with the mix and (high temp steam) air bubble removal needed for self-filling concretes with steel matrices to be pourable at an efficient rate. It should also be noted that just because present submunition systems are dumb, that doesn't prevent future ones from not being so and if you have particularly a ballistic weapon MIRV'ing out a smart GNSS or DSMAC capable, high speed, submunition at upwards of Mach 7, the mini-missile is going behave like the PAW system in the CBU-107 (chunks of rebar, designed to turn ramps into impassible obstacles). Only with the speed of an APFSDS dart. Which is to say: through and through on the roof and the aircraft inside and likely several feet of the floor underneath the jet. Speed tape will not fix that. We looked at this approach in the 'Counter Airfield Missle' or CAM program (AXE, CADM, BOSS), in the 1980s, using either Pershings or lifed out Minutemen II upper stages, with very heavy (18,000lb) warheads and it worked great. 'There but for the ballistic missile trajectory, rising out of Europe, within sight of Mother Russia'. Today, with guidance, a single missile could hole 4-5 HAS, minimum. As the Indian SAAW or Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon has shown it can do, as an in-service weapon, from ~60nm out. People need to realize that we do not live in the 'one for one' era anymore. This is not the 1980s, with Ronnie Rayguns giving chapter and verse on the Evil Empire as the family hovered around the cook fire, listening and nodding, on NPR via radio. There are also other, single point vulnerabilities which can be taken out, by direct hits, which will not be as readily defended. Namely BOQ, Munitions Igloos and Underground fuel bunkerage. Remember folks, these jets burn, _per mission_, more fuel than you put in your car in 3-4 years. The size of the fuel tank farms or underground bunkerage is _cavernous_ and yet must be replenished, roughly every third day, of continuous operations. With only four primary Polish fighter bases at Poznan, Lask, Minsk-Mazowiecki and Malbork, operating with a 1-in-3 defense penetration rate, on an assumed 50 DPI HAS farm kill need, you're talking about 600 discrete missile strikes, just to destroy the primary, hardened, air defense fields in Poland. However, if you multi-warhead the missile on a divide-by-two, smart warhead, basis, that's only 300 discrete missiles to penetrate the BDM screen. If you then restack the priority targets around pilot quarters/briefing, munitions and fuel, with 5 missiles for each and a X3 multiplier for each as active, 'lethal decoy', penaids. You are now talking about 45 missiles. At 10 million each, that's the equivalent of say 450 million / 80 = 5.6 or half a squadron of Su-34/35. Can you kill an airbase at the cost of half a squadron of Su-35s? If not, then you need to seriously reevaluate your 'costs too much to use missiles' argument. Because, without gas or pilots, or munitions, those manned jets can do _nothing_ while the Russians use glide bombs or Kh-69 to kill absolutely everything else. Including tactical targets like Tank Divisions, preparing to move into Ukraine. Which is THE ONLY reason that Russia would attack any NATO country _because of the Trident and M51 SLBM threat_. It never fails to amaze how the bullies, who think they can stir everyone up with a noble paladin message, fail to realize that, when the Russians say: "Stay in your own sphere of influence NATO!" what they automatically mean is "So that we can get around to you, later..." That is simply not true. It hasn't been true since 1956 and Blue Danube on the Victor/Valiant and it won't BE TRUE because just one real nuke (170KT or above), getting through the S-400/500/550 screen, effectively ends Moscow as the single-COG major conurbation of Russia. They don't have a backup New York, Hamburg, Marseilles or Birmingham whose technocratic functionaries we could fall back on to keep things organized with the lights on. Neither Novo Sibirsk nor St. Petersburg are even close. With that critical vulnerability, Russia doesn't want war with The West, and the more you spend money like fools, arming up to fight a non-threat, the more like idiots you will look when, busted flat broke, you have to stop you rearmament program because the Russians ARE NOT COOPERATING by walking into the buzz saw of major war in Europe. Russia learned its lesson with the USSR. Do not become a prison warden over unhappy convicts in a mental hospital. It runs you bankrupt. But they also learned a lesson when they trusted Ribbentrop to hold to the non-aggression pact, in 1941. They will _never allow_ a power mad alliance to be on their border, within a couple hundred miles of their strategic landbased, ICBM deterrent, _ever_. Where the Jews may have lost six million in WWII's sausage grinder, the Russians lost SIXTY MILLION. At least. When they say Never Again, you had damn well better take them at their word. It is the west who are pushing humanity towards EOC/ELE, global annihilation. That's not to say you can ever trust the Russians. But we picked a Very Worst Possible Fight to go charging into, dick in hard. And pretending we can return to a Cold War condition of endless military spending based on uncovered debt of over 100 trillion dollars is beneath contempt because the Chinese and Russians are 'Out Capitalisming' us with the vastly better BRICS/GBDC approach to making money off of simple exports and consumer goods dominance, fulfilling the planet's real needs.

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Really good content. Thank you.

This is the air museum near my house and I somehow missed you being there…damn

It is being prepositioned in Indo Pacific.

Chinese aggression but US haves 300 military bases surrounding China, what a double standard.

There is a command and control center west of Beijing where Xi's and his staff plots on taking Miyakojima and Luzon island to flank Taiwan.

Raider?

As we have seen in the Ukraine, it's industrial capacity that wins wars. The USA has destroyed its own industrial capacity over the last 40 years - while China has become the world's only industrial Superpower. Even Russia can beat NATO in terms of weapons output.

A colossal waste of money while millions of Americans live in poverty and homelessness. And all in a vain attempt to keep China from being a united country. Criminal insanity.

Dh-98 mosquito but american i guess

Let's ask the aviation pros of KZfaq what the appropriate air fleet of NATO is... Free media is great.

Nah.ah…ah..ah…!!!!

Phat Phantoooom!

The US is Tony Harding and China is Nancy Kerrigan. Millions dead just since 9-11 thanks to American bombs according to the Costs of War Project out of Brown University.

It did a credible job at Coral Sea. Too many condemn the aircraft after Midway and the results of Waldron, Lindsay and Massey's squadrons. Those units were shot to pieces by the Zero CAP even with Wildcat support which Lindsay & Massey had. No torpedo/dive bomber design could have survived the effectiveness of the Zero and it's powerful armament. I criticize the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo more than anything.

Thanks, very concise and informative.

20:15 as a former airman, you NEVER cut away safety procedures, you modify them. Safety is a balancing act between efficiency and security and cutting security for efficiency is a fool's bargain.

In London, there is the Air Museum that has Me-109's, Stuka's, Dornier bomber and a Me-262 as Weil as a B17, P51, P47 and a lot of other aircraft.

This guy knows nothing since he has never served in the US military!!! We gave Israel the "patriot" missile defense system back in 1992. Israel reworked the patriot into the Iron Dome. So a few Months ago Iran fired 500 missiles of different type at Israel. Israel and the USA intercepted 98% of the missiles that were fired. If the missile was tracked to hit an area with a low density of people then that missile was not targeted. If China fires at the USA first it will not matter, the US can defeat most every missile thats fired at it. China and Russia cannot do that so they are screwed.

The globe is gearing up for WWIII, if you've studied history you can just see it coming?!

I always wondered why the designers and and mechanics in WW1 never tried to put some lightweight machine guns on the wings outside of the prop arc. I always assumed it was bc the wings were thought to be too weak to handle the weight and recoil forces. I know some pilots placed Lewis machine guns on the top wing above the fuselage on a mount where it could be rotated down to be reloaded

"Distributed in Time and Space" _hums the doctor who theme_

Echelon - esh-a-lon, not elk-a-lon

Does the United States have a "helicopter problem"?

"Britain also played a big role in developing this aircraft" - lol. Without the EAP, a private venture of British Aerospace, there would have been no EF bandwagon for the Germans to jump on and, as always, claim credit for. Thank God we've parted ways on FCAS! The German cert. authority is completely irrational and I thank God daily that they'll soon be out of my hair at work! Good luck with the French (I say as the harmony-wheels are already wobbling on that program).

I think when you said the PLA would not be the first one to fire the shot you clearly show that you actually do not understand Chinese policy regarding Taiwan. China sees Taiwan as a province and if Taiwanese president declared independent there will be war and there is no guarantee that China won't fire the first shot. That is the doctrine of PLA regarding Taiwan. You can forget the doctrine you put up here about PLA not firing the first shot that may be true in other wars with China but not with Taiwan . I would not worry about an air war between China and US because the US know how to pick an opponent, when was US picking an opponent like the Russia or China in a war, that will be my first question before I think about going to a war. It is easy to pick on countries like Iraq, Vietnam or Afghanistan.

At the beginning, Germany had the best fighter formations in loose 2 or 4 plane formations whereas the RAF tight V formations, line astern or “tail end Charlie’s” lost the RAF too many fighters. Eventually, the RAF copied the German tactics which helped a lot. The RAF set pilots on “tours of operations” so they lasted longer while German pilots were run into the ground.

i dont see a scenario where the us wins this !

The dispersion model of USAF versus the actual dispersion model of the swedes is totally different.

Full scale invasion was Operation Barbarossa with millions of troops. Can we get narratives out of the videos, please?

Wanna reload your guns? Thats a paddling..

US' everyone problem.

china has more industrial capacity than ALL G7 put together, AND china’s war time resource suppliers share land boarder with china that is immune to attack. the war is lost before it begins. before ww2, german logistic and industrial analysis of russia vs germany showed they would go no further than moscow and then german army would lose because there was not enough industrial capacity to support a victory. same thing is happening in ukraine. same thing will happen in taiwan. IF US gets directly involved, what makes you think china wouldn’t strike new york with conventional weapon? you saw how much stock market crashed after 9/11, what happens to american saving if 10, 20, 30 9/11 happens EVERY day? taiwan simply isn’t worth it. by the way, japan had about 1/3 of industrial capacity as US and arguably had a much better navy at the beginning of ww2, but you saw how well that turned out for japan

Tank crews: Where did all our 75mm rounds go? Airmen: Oh we just need to borrow a couple

Don't be an aggressive authoritarian, and the F-35 won't be an issue.