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@keesvdb

3 жыл бұрын

what is your accent. its very suttle

@christopherhoffer6643

3 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on the Bell X-22 and the XTI-Trifan 600

@edwardfletcher7790

3 жыл бұрын

07:48 "De-accelerated" isn't a word. lol It's just decelerate. You make incredible videos, the GFX are fantastic ! Really glad such high quality is coming from an a Aussie KZreadr !

@acemax1124

2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this one ⭐

@4dbullshitpatroll6

2 жыл бұрын

Using a rocket to deploy 1200 marines in 45 min is the most retarded idea I've ever heard. The only advantage would not to have bases everywhere yet there are no bases nearby to get out to or get support from either. And what situationwould requore a 45 min response?

That's... that's a DropShip. I can't be the only one who sees this, right? That's a spheroid, infantry-carrying DropShip minus the interplanetary capability, thanks to the fact that it lacks a fusion torch. Scream in from orbit, land vertically on a thrust column, deploy your troops, provide a little fire support, then relocate to a safer landing zone to wait out the conflict. That's a DropShip.

@jtho8937

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, BattleTech. Haven't heard from it in a while.

@damonhicks7003

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking union class drop ship nice to know battle tech still remembered

@shaider1982

3 жыл бұрын

@@jtho8937 checkout the Blackpants Legion channel for cool battletech videos.

@kylecates7086

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. Yep. We got a big ship out there, Not a question really in my head. The space force is more interesting to me. Why?.

@terrybennett5321

2 жыл бұрын

What about “wasp” that thing that radiated that family in the USA ,

One of the most American things I have ever seen

@ben_bennie_nie

3 жыл бұрын

would be a great way to efficiently kill your troops

@kerbodynamicx472

3 жыл бұрын

More like the most Kerbal

@jwadaow

3 жыл бұрын

@@kerbodynamicx472 Green Americans

@Thexakatron

3 жыл бұрын

@@jwadaow yes

@cameronidk2

3 жыл бұрын

@@ben_bennie_nie good point .."troop killer" yours thier's don't matter reminds me of the scene in brave heart.. but it will kill theirs too...lol Space X though with Falcon 9 has proven not so dangerous

Imagine seeing a rocket but instead of exploding, it spits out hundreds of troopers o_O

@p_d_a_trfs6585

3 жыл бұрын

Well space x can actually make that possible 😳

@ckdigitaltheqof6th210

3 жыл бұрын

No explosition because no al-cheapo promise of a unstable canisters, the military almost has no limit to engineering luxury

@michaeldunne338

3 жыл бұрын

Would probably be similar to what the Belgian troops in 1940 felt, when suddenly confronted with German paratroops and glider landings

@kelvinh8327

3 жыл бұрын

Or spits out seamen...

@Anonnymouse53

3 жыл бұрын

Why not both Brother?

THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!

@dylanpepe6890

3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad I understand this reference

@iflycentral

3 жыл бұрын

Clearly some powerful archeotech.

@cowboyd5673

3 жыл бұрын

@Jon Smite that’s the Chile flag, not the Texas Flag.

@twogooddogs

3 жыл бұрын

“And they shall know no fear”

@THX-1138.

3 жыл бұрын

You carry the Emperor's will as your torch, with it destroy the shadows.

I've seen a lot of these 'we can get X number of troops anywhere in less than six hours' concepts, but I've never seen any way for those troops to get back out again or supply them while they're deployed.

@sabotabby3372

3 жыл бұрын

acceptable casualties

@FoundAndExplained

3 жыл бұрын

More rockets?

@paogene1288

3 жыл бұрын

Yes@@FoundAndExplained, more rockets.

@tariqahmad1371

3 жыл бұрын

@@FoundAndExplained project Orion?

@twistedyogert

3 жыл бұрын

A military SST (Supersonic Transport) would've been a better idea. Yes, it wouldn't have been as fast, but troops could be flown anywhere in under a day.

"What does borders mean?" Ace Combat Zero vibe there

@the7A7dude

3 жыл бұрын

Cringe

@docnathan3959

3 жыл бұрын

@@the7A7dude bruh

@sacopanchez151

2 жыл бұрын

@@the7A7dude wat

@weldonwin

2 жыл бұрын

"Hey buddy, still alive?"

Dang we were that close to having ODST's lol. Looks a lot like Elons Starhopper.

@josephsheranda

3 жыл бұрын

Came looking for the Halo comment. Was not disappointed.

@micfail2

2 жыл бұрын

That's because all of elon's ideas are just old recycled ideas that he takes credit for. For example, NASA developed and tested the first viable reusable rocket in 1994 but they abandoned the project because they determined it wasn't cost effective and had grave safety concerns. Elan doesn't care that his rockets keep being destroyed by problems NASA solved in the 1960s or that they are not cost effective because he has the government propping up SpaceX and his Fanboys shouting down anybody who criticizes SpaceX for destroying multibillion-dollar government satellites because they didn't bother reading how NASA solved fuel pump freezing issues.

@jonasp4161

2 жыл бұрын

This is the comment I was searching for

@nonegone7170

2 жыл бұрын

@@micfail2 Ah i see you have worked for years in the aerospace sector... 🤡

@AnthemAnimation

2 жыл бұрын

@@micfail2 damn bro not a single thing you said was even close to factual, pretty impressive honestly

I was toying around with this idea in collage for a dark future storyline. Only my planes had the rocket crashing into ground and troops and armor flooding out. I recently reused the idea for a rpg setting. I scraped the armor and made them humanoid drone troops that where controlled in a base. Always fun to see it was actually something that was considered. I even had a concept of making it a earthquake weapon where troops would attack during the chaos.

It's really the "Starship Troopers" 😲！😆

@weldonwin

2 жыл бұрын

*(Klendathu Drop Intensifies)*

@jpotter2086

2 жыл бұрын

Closer to a Battletech dropship ... this plan wasn't to drop troops individually from orbit .... unless you're referring to the #$%^&ed up movie adaptations, then nevermind :D

@weldonwin

2 жыл бұрын

@@jpotter2086 The first movie was good fun, the second and third were trash, the forth and fifth were batshit insane. Regardless, Basil Pouldoris' Klendathu Drop theme, is probably one of the best sci-fi military marches ever and is perfect "Dropship Thunder" music

@jpotter2086

2 жыл бұрын

@@weldonwin I wasn't commenting on the quality of the movies, but on the differences in how troops were deployed in the novel vs the movies. As the novel had no soundtrack or score, the movies win that aspect by default :P

How would this deal w/ anti-aircraft, anti-ballistic or anti-satellite weapons? I can’t imagine a near peer opponent just waiting for this to land on their territory.

@vornamenachname2625

2 жыл бұрын

This is no issue. It would be more resistent than a cargo plain carring troops. The issue is that space travel is very expensive.

@caav56

2 жыл бұрын

By launching several Ames aerospace fighters to clear out the landing area before.

@spartanonxy

2 жыл бұрын

Triple A and SAMs would be the real threat. Anti-ballistics were generally to small to knock this out without a perfect hit and anti-satellite were rare and still are to this day and generally are to difficult to deploy. Yes there were some anti-ballistic weapons and even anti-satellite ones that would be viable but why use the more expensive option when a good SAM could do the job?

@insanegamer7597

2 жыл бұрын

@@vornamenachname2625 and what about air strike

@nathanisjesuschrist1175

10 ай бұрын

just send alot. Ad victorium

I remember coming across a book in my school library back in the 70's that showed all of these concepts. Some of them included holding on to the external tanks to use them as shelters/storage or what-have-ya. There was even an idea of using them as building blocks for a space station (an idea I've noticed that's been revisited more than once). I also remember a major component was the use of an Aerospike engine. For those who don't know, an Aerospike engine is kind of an inside-out engine with the bell on the inside (forming a spike) and the flame on the outside. This design allowed the engine to be efficient at all altitudes (one of the reasons for rocket staging is the need to change the bell shape as the rocket goes up). If memory serves, they would let a small amount of fuel drip out of the bottom to form the "spike" part of the engine (no idea how that was supposed to work). Another stupid tid-bit is the fact that this design is the rocket supposedly used for Disneyland's "Flight to the Moon" and "Mission to Mars" rides. You could see it when they tell you your spacecraft is ready. Though the latter show mentions "we've just dropped our booster" which this rocket design doesn't have (they show the staging of a Saturn V from the 2nd stage). You can find old movies of both of these rides (I rode them in Walt Disney World) on KZread if you want.

@Setebos

3 жыл бұрын

I believe you're thinking of Frontiers of Space by Philip Bono and Kenneth Gatland (1969 New York: Macmillan).

@stevenpilling3773

3 жыл бұрын

I had that book. God knows how I lost it!

@Phrancis5

3 жыл бұрын

If you're GenX, you might remember those Usborne "Book of the Future" series, which showed this exact concept. I still have that book. pareldesign.blogspot.com/2008/04/usborne-book-of-future-was-what-really.html

@koharumi1

3 жыл бұрын

Aerospike rocket work by the thrust on the outside like a ring around the spike.

@DonVigaDeFierro

3 жыл бұрын

Ok, I seriously, absolutely, positively, urgently need that god damn book...

all of the emperors subjects commenting of the drop pods nearly brings a tear to my eye.

Let’s just wait for his channel to become huge

@captainpoptarts

3 жыл бұрын

I just realized he's only at like 67 k. The quality is that of a channel at 1 million imo. Let's get him to 69 k first lol

@thomgt4

3 жыл бұрын

I just bumped into this channel, I like it and subscribed

@FoundAndExplained

3 жыл бұрын

hehe 69k! i'm waiting for it!

@captainpoptarts

3 жыл бұрын

@@FoundAndExplained I've converted 2/ 1.7 k lol

@alexceltic4629

3 жыл бұрын

I reckon before 2022 this channel will have around 5 million subscribers 👍

Just imagine, we were this close to having real life space marines

XCOM: Skyranger takes about 2-6 hours to transport 6 troops anywhere in the world. IRL: 1200 guys anywhere you want in 45 minutes or less! Warhammer 40k wasn't even a thing yet and they were _already_ planning to Deep Strike troops. Reality is just stranger than fiction isn't it?

@MrSomebodyStrange

Жыл бұрын

Starship Troopers was a thing though. It's fun to imagine a whole batallion of marines in flak jackets armed with M14 rifles disembarking from a dropship

@DonVigaDeFierro

Жыл бұрын

Nah, GeeDubs just like to take! Take! TAKE!!

Transport version of a ballistic missile, I didn't have that in my vocabulary.

@caav56

3 жыл бұрын

If there was a passenger version of it (I mean, there were in projects, but smaller ones), I think those could be called "ballistic liners".

@xxportalxx.

3 жыл бұрын

Well, that's how we went to the moon, repurposed icbm tech

@Musikur

3 жыл бұрын

@@xxportalxx. Not technically true, the Saturn V/Apollo was built from the ground up as a civil project. But you are correct in that Mercury, Gemini and Soyuz were all ballistic Missiles originally

@xxportalxx.

3 жыл бұрын

@@Musikur eh, close enough, besides they may have built it from the ground up to be civilian, but where did the research, experience, and personal come from?

"We're dropping into Hell troopers, time to grow a pair!"

@Cmonster-hr6tq

2 жыл бұрын

Hey gunny gonna tell us her name?

I remember having a book on space travel as a kid in the 70s that had that illustration , it also included the X20 Dyna - soar project and an early concept Hyperloop, though it was huge compared to modern designs with multiple decks for passengers & cargo. In fact, a lot of those colour illustrations look familiar.

@Setebos

3 жыл бұрын

I believe you're thinking of Frontiers of Space by Philip Bono and Kenneth Gatland (1969 New York: Macmillan).

@thedamnedatheist

3 жыл бұрын

@@Setebos thank you, that does look like it.

@Phrancis5

3 жыл бұрын

If you're GenX, you might remember those Usborne "Book of the Future" series, which showed this exact concept. I still have that book and yes, some of those concepts like the hyperloop were resurrected. pareldesign.blogspot.com/2008/04/usborne-book-of-future-was-what-really.html

@firohot5476

3 жыл бұрын

So musk is just copying cold war era ideas 🤭🤭

@Mr.Robert1

2 жыл бұрын

Now that you mention it I had that book and I know exactly what you're talkin about what Memories

Well space marine drop pods are a thing. ALL HAIL THE MAN EMPEROR OF MANKIND!!!!

@vb1564

3 жыл бұрын

*AVE IMPERATOR, GLORIA IN EXCELSIS TERRA!*

@imperialzealot2939

3 жыл бұрын

I just hope the age of strife is not close... any way, better start a tecnobarbarian gang and to hording STCs.

@kerbodynamicx472

3 жыл бұрын

#1 rule of warfare: do not let your troops enter the battlefield like they just got out of a car crash

@tariqahmad1371

3 жыл бұрын

@@kerbodynamicx472 you got that from Isaac Arthur didn’t you

@kerbodynamicx472

3 жыл бұрын

@@tariqahmad1371 you’re a man of culture as well

Nice video... but you show it flying sideways and backwards. At about 7:44, you show it bellyflopping like the SpaceX Starship; in reality it would drop down tail first with an angle of attack of about 45 degree. At 7:49 you show it gliding nose-first; it would actually glide tail first. Note the control surfaces on the wings.

@FoundAndExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Yes correct! Sorry!

Not sure how deploying a few battalions of Marines anywhere would make aircraft or naval fire support obsolete. It would just be a pretty shocking deployment that allowed small swathes of territory to be seized very quickly. Not sure how you’d resupply that many if they had to be deployed by rockets without sending another one, though. Still, really intriguing.

@FusionAero

3 жыл бұрын

True that the Marines would have to travel light, without armor or artillery. Space-based kinetic energy weapons AKA "Rods from God" would at least give then the ability to call for air against targets requiring indirect fire.

@MachineMan-mj4gj

2 жыл бұрын

@@FusionAero Gee, if only there was some kind of Force that deployed and operated from Space...

On the surface this sounds like an amazing capability but my question is; Once these 1200 Marines land anywhere in the world in 45 minutes, how are they going to be supported once they get there?

@FoundAndExplained

3 жыл бұрын

more rockets

@caav56

3 жыл бұрын

AMES space fighters (from HORZIONS newsletter May/June 2012). A 1963 project of winged re-entry vehicle with optional capability of working as a fightercraft. Launch a few of them slightly before the ICARUS and let them clear up the landing site for it.

@1968gadgetyo

3 жыл бұрын

Terminator armor. Armed with Storm Bolters.

@MachineMan-mj4gj

2 жыл бұрын

Thunderhawks, duh.

@republicempire446

Жыл бұрын

They can get support from naval and air support. It will be addition to combined arms warfare.

This is probably one of the best videos so far. It helps that the vehicle is a very interesting concept, but the artwork you found and the Renders, just make this so entertaining to watch. Also, some one screwed the time line again. The future is in the past.

This is better than the documentaries on television i grew up on.

@dishmanw

3 жыл бұрын

Better than today's Discovery Channel and History Channel.

Missile interception systems would quickly disassemble the rocket.

@michaeldunne338

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure about ICBMs or intermediate range ballistic systems, but a single stage to orbit kind of vehicle, conveying large payloads that has to actually land? Yes, suspect there could be vulnerabilities to anti ballistic missiles ...

@XMysticHerox

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldunne338 Don´t even need fancy anti ICBM stuff since this thing actually has to slow down to land rather than dropping from orbit at extreme speed. Regular anti air would wreck it.

He's getting more like mustard with every episode. Excellent.

The xenomorphs wouldn’t stand a chance when 1200 Colonial Marines and synthetics land.

Ima be honest this sounds like what starship is trying to do aswell, I bet the military will commission some starship dropships if it works out

@poppaluke9991

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same thing. SpaceX is just getting warmed up with the little stuff and I can definitely see them getting to this. Virgin doesn't have anything in development that could do this and I think Blue is way behind in R&D if they even wanted to go this route. That only leaves Boeing that might have something but so far they can't seem to get off of the ground and the 1 time that they did their computer programming was so messed up that they would have missed the sun if they tried to hit it!

@martianmudskipper5427

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it was released that the Air Force/Space Force is looking into buying some Starships

@HarrisonAdAstra

2 жыл бұрын

If starship can complete its capabilities of reaching 150 tones to orbit and the average person is 80 kilograms then it could carry over 1,100 people if all thoese people had luggage that was also 80 kilograms. So it could potentially carry 2,000 people at once if everyone had luggage that weighed 2 kilograms.

Elon Musk is gonna get a lot of calls from the Pentagon Monday morning. With the new Cold War budget they can afford a lot of new toys

@kingkea3451

3 жыл бұрын

New cold war budget? (Am from NZ, not America, so a little out of the loop)

@Peizxcv

3 жыл бұрын

@@kingkea3451 The US is increase spending on everything to fight China and this includes $1 trillion to new nukes, a couple trillions in infrastructure, an extra $150 billion on R&D so you can bet the new Space Force will get some decent budget to splurge

@kingkea3451

3 жыл бұрын

@@Peizxcv That's a lot of money!

@noahwail2444

3 жыл бұрын

@@kingkea3451 Yes, no wonder they can´t afford healthcare...

@freddarau

3 жыл бұрын

@@kingkea3451 that's incorrect information the USA current military budget is 700 billon USD

*CallofDuty:Infinite warfare flashbacks*

@tomtim3547

3 жыл бұрын

Which one? Black Ops or msg4

@snakmm6403

3 жыл бұрын

Call of duty infinite warfare

@Muhammad_Rishad_Baldemar

3 жыл бұрын

And advanced warfare also has this, but drop pods version

8:45 Jet looks like a B70 Valkyrie.

@Yeaggghurte

3 жыл бұрын

Confirmed Xb-70

It seems Space X took a lot of concepts from this design, from the belly flopping before landing vertically.. Plus the winch for equipment, etc

There was a concept proposed by a US Marine engineer back in the late 90s that was changed to a space hypersonic spaceplane. Along with two space platforms, the Marines could be anywhere in the world under one hour.

They're actually considering using SpaceX's Starship for this

@kentonian

3 жыл бұрын

I think all they need is super heavy. The upper stage could just be 100’s of drones in separate re-entry pods.

@commonsenseskeptic

3 жыл бұрын

No, they’re not. Starship is garbage.

@sebastiaomendonca1477

3 жыл бұрын

@@commonsenseskeptic They are legitimately considering using it for this purpose, whether its bad or not. Besides, they haven't even gotten past the prototype stage, my guy, calm down. We'll know if its good or not soon enough.

@commonsenseskeptic

3 жыл бұрын

@@sebastiaomendonca1477 oh, it’s bad. We just did an episode on that proposal and gutted it. There’s is no chance in hell.

@sebastiaomendonca1477

3 жыл бұрын

@@commonsenseskeptic Watched it out of curiosity, heres why you're wrong: You're cherrypicking scenarios in which Starship is impractical, failing to consider that they're not scenarios they'd ever use Starship in. The goal of a point to point transportation system like this is to get military hardware to key locations around the globe in as little time as possible. Starship is not going to deliver them to the precise location needed, simply to bases outfitted for it around the world from which point they'd be taken by a smaller, more convenient but also slower method of transportation the rest of the way. It relocates military assets around the world extremely quickly, but does not deliver them straight to battle. It is very likely, perhaps even obvious to assume a point to point cargo Starship would not use the human lander layout with the airlock. It'd make much more sense to use something like an aligator hinged, large door to the fairing as proposed for cargo Starship to allow for loading in one go. A movement in the load during launch wont break apart a rocket when you're considering small 1 ton boxes stacked 1 high, in your scenario. Of a 20 ton satellite as payload? Sure. Of small boxes like these? It wont do a thing. Thats not to mention the acceleration on ascent is plenty enough to secure these crates in place given they are not stacked. Comparing Shuttle propellant loading times with Starship propellant loading times is not accounting for the different propellants, different operating temperatures and densities. It is not an accurate comparison. This is not proposed as a regular cargo delivery service, it is a contingency "Human ventriloquist dummy Gwynne Shotwell" Way to undermine someone infinitely more qualified than you Just the fact that Scott Manley himself has called your point bs is proof enough you're not competent enough in this topic to argue about it. Having a look through your channel its clear you're not concerned with debunking anything, rather just going with the anti-Elon train without actually understanding any of this. Elon has bad ideas, and very often, but this isn't one. Especially considering the military themselves are considering it.

So pretty much larger capacity ODST pods

Really love the video nice to see you cover SpaceX StarShip! Sorry I mean the ICARUS rocket

Isn't this the real purpose of spacex's starship?

@dadillen5902

3 жыл бұрын

No, the purpose of Starship is to burn money and fuel and produce scrap metal. So far it is a great success.

@mobiuscoreindustries

3 жыл бұрын

Negative, the real purpose of starship is to be the first orbital launch system to ever be entirely reusable. SpaceX already pioneered the reuse of the first stage via their falcon 9, and NASA proved the potential of reuse of the second stage through the shuttle (though this one was plagued with problems due to it pretty much being designed for the congress) Starship aim to steer the vehicle away from the inherent issues of the space shuttle design via the use of stainless steel construction, rapid itteration, uniform tiles, methane engines (which burn clean unlike RP-1 engines), a landing sequence that does not nessesitate a gigantic runway and a WHOLE lot of cargo transport ability. The idea that starship could be used to transport troops was simply derivated from the point to point transportation concept for the starship, which is for civilian use. However much like how air transport is very much apreciated by the miltary due to its much faster speed and modularity compared to ground trasport, a Starship is a very interesting additon to a military's arsenal. Primarely because: - its unmatched speed - its carrying capacity, pretty much identical to a regular transport plane - Its ability to land at sea, on mobile platforms. Something that even transport planes cannot do, this reduces the need for military airfields on foreign soil since you can operate exclusively from open waters - For transorbital flights not exceeding its operational loads, starship does not actually need a superheavy booster, allowing it to operate from spaces with limited infrastructure since all you need is a way to generate the fuel from ambient CO2 and oxygen. Overall, its a smart choice, because it allows a far more monetary and infrastructure efficient way of power projection, all the while pretty much allowing a small force an overhwelming amount of strategic moblility. Also, simply consider that a starship cost LESS to build and operate than an equivalent transport aircraft. Simplified construction, reliable design and dirt cheap fuel especially help in that

@mobiuscoreindustries

3 жыл бұрын

@@dadillen5902 Yeah, neither of these are a fully reusable polyvalent orbital launch superheavy vehicle. The shuttle had a refurbishable second stage (slow and heavy costs), and an expandable first stage (expensive and entirely lost). The DC-X never even made it to a suborbital path and ended in abject failure (and yet another reminder that SSTOs fucking suck), making it even worse of a comparaison that BO's new shepard which at LEAST managed a transorbital flight as per its limlited operational capabilities. Its like saying "well aircrafts could already land and trucks can carry things, so why do you even need spaceships". You are not just missing the point at this stage, you are right on interplanetary transfer orbit away from it.

@dadillen5902

3 жыл бұрын

@@mobiuscoreindustries Sure, sure when it learns to fly. I just bet thunderf00t already has his ticket.

@mobiuscoreindustries

3 жыл бұрын

@@dadillen5902 Ah yeah right, you are one of those guys... kind of explains your lack of competence in the subject matter at hand. I would say that i'm surprised but i really really am not...

Please make videos about 1st gen jetliners in the future if possible.

@FoundAndExplained

3 жыл бұрын

perhaps the 707?

@TigerChamp99

3 жыл бұрын

@@FoundAndExplained You should definitely make that video and don't forget about the Douglas DC-8 (and planes like Comet and Caravelle).

@oxcart4172

3 жыл бұрын

Tigerchamp 99 I can recommend Mustard!

@TigerChamp99

3 жыл бұрын

@@oxcart4172 I watched all of his videos and he made the Comet video but not the 2 planes I've mentioned or 707 (at least when this comment was written).

@captainpoptarts

3 жыл бұрын

I would watch that.

Kinda reminds me of a mix between the Halo ODST droppods, and the dropships from the opening of COD Advanced Warfare

5:14 why use feet when u can use meters so much easier with meters

Phil Bono introduced the world to Rombus and the aerospike in the 1960's. The world may have forgotten but I never did. And I'm still have hope for the future.

imagine if the entire thing malfunction, you ended up with 1200 casualties

@MachineMan-mj4gj

2 жыл бұрын

That's probably why they didn't go through with it.

you could call the marines, orbital shock drop troopers, if you will.

These videos are so amazing i would pay $1000 just to watch one

@FoundAndExplained

3 жыл бұрын

would you really? here are my bank details

@gabrielb9010

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@cedriceric9730

2 жыл бұрын

@@FoundAndExplained yes they are

Borders mean that in times of peace, a semblance of stability will preserve your culture as you know it.

@MachineMan-mj4gj

2 жыл бұрын

But who needs borders when the world's superpowers can literally drop a battalion of dudes in your backyard in the span of the average coffee break?

The US Air Force and Space Force must recombine to form the Aerospace Force. Then we rename the Marines the Colonial Marines and BAM, we’ve got the same thing in Aliens, but in real life!

A whole chapters worth of space marines able to be deployed at a moments notice, any nearby planets are doomed

Oh boi, this channel is going to space, he's going further and beyond! I hope spaceplane/SSTO concepts would be discussed in the future like Skylon, pretty interesting stuff. edit: 13:09 unintentional (?) WH40K reference, Age of Strife

looks like spaceX got some inspiration for their starship landing sequence

The real meaning of *Space Marines*

*Heavy Astartes breathing intensifies*

Great Video! Make a video about the Sea Dragon

6:04 yea no kidding, why name a rocket by the best known myth of flying high and dying in a crash landing, must've been a joke that stuck.

@RipOffProductionsLLC

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Icarus is a badass name, despite it's tragic Association... On a similar note I hope if there's ever an orbital artillery type weapon/space station, that it be named Damocles, because what better name for what could easily be considered a major deterrent/WMD positioned high above us at all times?

Actually the concept was presented in the book 'The Pocket Encyclopedia of Spaceflight in Color - Frontiers of Space" by Philip Bono and Kenneth Gatland, published in 1969 by Blandford Press LTD in London (ISBN o 7137 3504 X). The 1200 troop transport was called "ITHACUS" and was one of many designs presented in the book, using the Plug-nozzle Aerospike engine. Other projects were the Saturn Application Single Stage to Orbit (SASSTO), Hyperion passenger transport, the Re-usable Orbital Module-Booster and Utility Shuttle (ROMBUS), the Pegasus Intercontinental Passenger Rocket and the mentioned ITHACUS Intercontinental Troop Transport. Variants of the ROMBUS system involved a vehicle to be used for a temporary lunar base (Project Selena) and an other configuration for a manned Mars mission (Project Deimos).

I'm pretty sure this video will be in ODST's training course

Love your videos!! Please consider the Northrop YB-49 for a video

Nice idea but if an enemy were to hit it before it gets a chance to land the resulting explosion would not only destroy the spacecraft but also kill all the soldiers inside

Fascinating project. I can see some of those aspects working today. I love old projects like these

I'm a new subscriber and your channel is amazing!

We might see this thing get built one day.

Yeah I love found and explained

*Roger Young ballad plays over the comms*

Thanks!

Imagine the hole that would be melted into the flight deck by this rocket.

@twistedyogert

3 жыл бұрын

Any ship that would deploy a vehicle like this would probably have a flame trench in the deck.

@patrickradcliffe3837

3 жыл бұрын

@@twistedyogert no to mention a water spray curtain. But a aircraft carrier deck steel and non-skid was never designed for that kind of heat.

@twistedyogert

3 жыл бұрын

@@patrickradcliffe3837 New aircraft (spacecraft?) carriers might need to be designed around this thing. Also, since the ship would already be in the water, the flame trench could theoretically just be a giant hole in the deck with tubes extending into the ocean. The blast would just go straight into the ocean through the tubes, negating the need for a spray system. Of course, one could also go the Sea Dragon route and place the spacecraft into the water on floats. This wouldn't endanger the deck as the aircraft carrier would back away before blastoff. Either way, I'd imagine that the FAA would pitch a fit every time this thing would be used from US soil/waters. SpaceX recently got into hot water for launching a Starship prototype without their approval. It appears Elon shares my distaste for paperwork and bureaucracy. 😁 But public safety is important.

@gerry5134

3 жыл бұрын

I think they intended to cover the deck underneath the rocket with a big pair of oven gloves ! 😁

So. They wanted to build starship in the 70s…. But for troops. I swear we should have just funded this craze shit just to see where we’d be at as a society 😂 I love how I comment close to the end of the video and then You completely mention exactly what I typed!!!! Cheers mate you’ve got a happy new sub

@dadillen5902

3 жыл бұрын

Can not be true Electric Jesus invented rocket and he was not born yet.

@childishfiend5923

3 жыл бұрын

Makes me wonder how starship could be applied to a use like this, just food for thought because it really does have the exact capabilities and more.

@dadillen5902

3 жыл бұрын

@@childishfiend5923 Far to busy transporting 1,000,000 colonies to mars by 2050. 😂😂😂

@childishfiend5923

3 жыл бұрын

@@dadillen5902 you seem to forget that starship is funded by both nasa and the military so I think they would definitely find the time to get something like that done. When they have billions invested they will receive ships of their own and do with those whatever they please

@dadillen5902

3 жыл бұрын

@@childishfiend5923 Yeah sure whatever you say. Just don't hold your breath.

1200 marines anywhere around the world in 45 minutes Ryanair: 30000 passengers on "premium configuration" anywhere around the world in 45 minutes + 2 hour drive to the actual destination

Love it found and explained

Wait... it bellyflopped like starship

@3gunslingers

3 жыл бұрын

Kind of. Mode of flight was more like the Falcon9 first stage. The engine would have been used as the heat shield during reentry. The craft would *not* have used its side as "braking pad" like Starship. Only after reaching subsonic velocities the little wings would have provided cross range capability and "lift". But the rocket would still have traveled engine first all the way to the ground.

Are we getting military stuff now as well...is this real life? this is glorious Also I love how Elon has been trying to "invent" these rockets lol

@FoundAndExplained

3 жыл бұрын

I hope so! Depends if people like it?

@WoolfJ35

3 жыл бұрын

@@FoundAndExplained I for one love it!

Awesome 👍👍

Holy shit, this whole concept is over-the-top insane. I fucking love it. When you mentioned that it would HOVER and provide CLOSE AIR SUPPORT I couldn't stop laughing... This is gold!!

I kinda want to see the US military someday build a rocket, just to show how wasteful their engineering methods are. Putting one next to a Falcon 9 or Atlas V would be like a Humvee next to a standard 4-door.

This was dead on arrival, as what it really is is a large slow moving target in the air as it tries to land.

@3gunslingers

3 жыл бұрын

How is this apparently not an issue with modern paratroopers? Do they jump from hypersonic jets?

@deth3021

3 жыл бұрын

@@3gunslingers when was the last time the paratroops went in without air superiority? I can't think of a time? I can't actually think of the last time paratroops en mass were used. The French in Vietnam maybe? I'm not even sure how much spec ops use stuff like halo outside of training. Also there is a difference between a couple hundred troops in a plane with parachutes compared to 1200 trapped in one object.

@imsoawesome2013

3 жыл бұрын

@@deth3021 Paratrooping really doesn't make sense for anything other than getting like a thousand guys all in to one place as fast as possible. If its less than that it makes way more sense to fly them in with helicopters for most situations.

@deth3021

3 жыл бұрын

@@imsoawesome2013 ok but I don't see paratroops in that scale going into contested airspace? Who even has air dropable vehicles anymore? Just saw that apparently the not is air dropable, 2 per c17. The marines even seem to be moving away from beach landings, as I understand it. Wasn't that the reason they built the America class without a well deck.

@3gunslingers

3 жыл бұрын

@@deth3021 _"when was the last time the paratroops went in without air superiority?"_ Exactly my point. So why do you imply that ICARUS would have? Just because you don't know *if* they would have?

13:16 “what do borders even mean”. ..a world without borders... just imagine it. I T S T I M E

@listeed1995

3 жыл бұрын

“This twisted game needs to be reset. We'll start over from "zero" with this V2 and entrust the future to the next generation.”

That’s exactly how I deliver people to certain deaths around the world in KSP

As a wild suggestion for a future video, how about the rockets build by the German OTRAG company, that tried out their cheap-of-the-shelf rockets in Zaire? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG

Do a face reveal

@FoundAndExplained

3 жыл бұрын

haha first comment! i am going to i promise!

@jimmyjohn9821

3 жыл бұрын

@@FoundAndExplained can’t wait!

Thanks. I had a book with all those images in the mid 80ies. :)

Amazing video!!!

- One fly for tokyo please - economy or business ? - eco plz - okay i have a seat for tonight, it will be 4 000 000 $.

This idea is both hilarious and amazing at the same time. Now the military is looking into using Starship point to point travel for supplies. Maybe this could be expanded to troops as well?

New word for the day; "De-accelerate." You the man!👍🏿😁

That's awesome!!!

Never heard of it before! Quite mad!

I can't imagine that rocket landing vertically at that time, now that we are in the 21st century those of space x are suffering to be able to land their ship vertically

I like the concept of the Drop Pod used in the novel Starship Troopers

Engineers had exactly ZERO chill in the 1950's and 60's. I'm stunned each soldier wasn't carrying a Davey Crockett.

@MachineMan-mj4gj

2 жыл бұрын

They were still working through the Pervatin supply from the war.

I thought the video would be about the soviet version, based on the Proton.

Good one. Subbed.

This is the best channel on KZread

Great video, where did you get the animation?

This kinda reminds me of ODST's from halo. Cool concept and great video.

Jesus, imagine getting strapped in to a fucking rocket, shot into hostile territory and expected to fight.'

I wish I still had the books I got in the 70s that described real and possible spacecraft like Icarus and Hyperion as well as Mercury, Gemini, the MOL and Apollo.

Putting all your Marines in one basket ? One farmer with an RPG takes out an entire battalion.

Could you do a video on Rockwell's Star-Raker? Also,I really enjoy watching your videos

Tank shedding would probably be done in pairs on opposite sides to maintain balance of mass and drag.

I can see this coming back for combat drone deployment

This sounds over the top. But honestly, id have pressed it into service due to its functionality. What a concept. Yea ditch all your world bases, combine this with drones... oh yea. Id bet this might be a functioning unit in the deep black fleet right now... or was and has now been replaced by a functioning space plane.

@onshisan

2 жыл бұрын

Considering mutually assured destruction, launching one or more of these for a conventional attack somewhere on earth would have been difficult to distinguish from the start of a nuclear first-strike… there’s a good chance the USSR would have “retaliated” before things could be sorted out (assuming they weren’t the intended target to begin with). In addition to the vulnerability to SAMs, it’s easy to see why this novel idea wasn’t followed though.