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@aksmex2576

7 күн бұрын

Thanks for your video. Just want to note we appreciate your top quality content, and your neutral perspective.

@EdCUSA

7 күн бұрын

You failed to account for operational hours to all the US and NATO missions. Here is a fact, training hours are critical when you can't meet your flight hours, if you burn all your hours in actual operation then why you need "training hours"? Here is another fact...US pilots are meeting its flight hours.

@robertbaird881

7 күн бұрын

Part of the problem, if you dont make Major you are out, great pilots are seldom great staff officers.😢

@jackwalker9492

7 күн бұрын

I want videos that arent full of BS like you used to put out.

If the USAF wanted more fighter pilots, it could allow more AFROTC cadets to stay in the program and allocate more fighter pilot slots. There were many cadets at my university who wanted a fighter pilot slot but the USAF was very selective.

@pogo1140

7 күн бұрын

@@nicholasmarshall9128 no fighter slots because no airframes

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

@@nicholasmarshall9128 The USAF has sufficient pilots to man all of their aircraft, what they are missing are the field grade officers to do staff work. The issue isn't recruitment/accension. The issue is with retention.

@Theggman83

6 күн бұрын

@@taoliu3949

@chetmcmasterson

5 күн бұрын

No such thing as a "fighter pilot slot" out of any commissioning source. You don't get your airframe assignment until almost the end of pilot training, +- a year post-commissioning.

@Theggman83

4 күн бұрын

@@chetmcmasterson ☝️🤓

A lot of training is done in simulators. Norwegian pilots get less flying time in the F-35, but sim training is higher than before. So total training time is more than before.

@vedagi4859

7 күн бұрын

Sim. and real-life are two very dif. things, and real-life hours are way better then on sim.

@CultureCrossed64

7 күн бұрын

​@@vedagi4859why? Unless you're getting shot at with real bullets, it's effectively the same as long as you're flying against other humans also using simulators.

@Inkling777

7 күн бұрын

@@vedagi4859 And "real-life hours" that aren't genuine 'if I get this wrong I die' emergencies. That means they aren't really testing the most important of flying skills, an ability to stay calm in an emergency. And yeah, I do realize that the USAF isn't going to deliberately create high-risk scenarios when a $100 million plane is involved. But during WWII training so dangerous it resulted in deaths was justified by asserting that facing those dangers in training would result in fewer deaths in combat.

@philipjamesparsons

7 күн бұрын

Sims allow for scenarios that may not be possible in real life. That depends on the fidelity of the sim.

Training hours isn't the same as flight hours. And with the F-35 simulator so capable, they didn't even build an F-35 trainer... And I doubt any of the hours spent in that simulator count against this "hours spent training" number being reported. It's true, no one flys as much as we'd like them to, but it's not as bad as what's claimed. You're also ignoring the fact that actually flying missions in combat wouldn't be counted as training, even though the entire goal of the training mission is to train the pilot for that mission in combat. It's also important to do the math on this. You say 170 hours a year, and then describe maybe 6 hours of pre and post flight activity for every flight. If air force is only flying 3 hours a week, that's, maybe two sorties. And that means maybe 15 hours. In a 40 hour work week. Those numbers just don't add up... There's a LOT more training going on than you're giving credit for. And also consider if hours flown you're reporting are in the assigned type and not a trainer. I'd believe the hours cited if they were in the trpe, such as the F-15 or F-16, etc... But I bet the hours in the T-38 aren't necessary counted, especially since it's unrelated to the way we track flight hours per aircraft, which is probably how some of these flight hours per year are calculated.

@kevink1575

7 күн бұрын

I live in SA, TX. Lackland and Randolph are here, and jets are flying over all the time.

@shanerooney7288

7 күн бұрын

@a24396 They didn't design an F35 trainer. Instead, they built faulty F35s at full cost, which were deemed too expensive to retrofit the upgrades to. They'll never use these specific jets in war, so they use them as trainers instead. It's like having a trainer aircraft, but more expensive.

@a24396

7 күн бұрын

@@shanerooney7288 Nope... Jet trainers are TWO seat so the instructor pilot can teach the student how the aircraft is used. They didn't build any F-35 trainers because it wasn't necessary since the simulators are so capable. Pilots of the F-35 have already received an average of 192 hours of simulated flight in the F-35 before actually flying one. As for pre-production aircraft or technology test platforms? Those aren't "trainers" and they have maybe 10 of them, clearly not intended to provide the thousands of annual hours of training needed.

@shanerooney7288

7 күн бұрын

@@a24396 Again, I reference early blocks of "combat" aircraft that will never see combat. Thus, reassigned as "training" aircraft. BTW, 108 is a lot more than 10 😉

@a24396

7 күн бұрын

@@shanerooney7288 nonsense. You can make claims all you want but that doesn't mean you're right. Are you under the impression the aircraft in a training squadron, putting mud hen pilots (for example) through their paces should be expected to see combat? They aren't throwaways, they're older but still useful. But you claim 100+ were throwaways never intended to be used in combat? If they couldn't be used for combat then how would they be usable to simulate fight in combat conditions? The fact is every aircraft built was intended to be combat capable upon delivery. Later tranches were always expected to have more capability. But the first deliveries very definitely were intended to be combat capable. You might need to actually study this a bit, you don't seem to know what you're talking about.

I flew for 26 years on the Air Force reserves. It was up to the individual to sign up for flying missions and training flights. I ended up with over 10300 flying hours. It was easy to fly 200 hours per year. Flying on cargo air planes as I did, many missions down range were over 30 total hours.

@dusanpantic792

7 күн бұрын

Your achievement is truly admirable,Sir! Greetings from Serbia. All the best...

When talking about the invincibility of the US military. Everyone seriously When talking about the problems of the US military. Audience: Lmao eveyeone knows this is a propaganda channel and no one takes it seriously

I have first hand knowledge of some of the crazy reasons that the AF turns applicants down. If they had a shortage it’s largely by choice

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

@@l.wilson3484 The shortage isn't with accession, the issue is with retention. The USAF career track for pilots basically forces them into desk jobs when they become an O4 which is why they get out. The USAF isn't short on pilots to man their aircraft, they're short on pilots to fill desk jobs.

@Theggman83

6 күн бұрын

@@taoliu3949

@chetmcmasterson

4 күн бұрын

​@@taoliu3949 Was going to chime in just this. People think "just hire more pilots," but minting a disproportionate number of new guys thrashes the training pipeline, institutional knowledge, mission effectiveness, etc. Onboarding more new guys requires convincing more old guys to stay, and the USAF hasn't figured out that money isn't what keeps pilots in.

Remember when these videos had a little green puppet named Binkov in them? I miss that guy.

I served in the USAF in the late 80's, I remember that pilots who had more than 1k hrs, wore a patch with the number of thousands of hours they'd flown.

It once was: "Being a fighter jet pilot is truly awesome and it is a childhood' dream come true!" Now: "Sorry Uncle Sam, gotta pay my bills."

@matthewreynolds2384

7 күн бұрын

If you can make more money as a commercial pilot (ie for ups FedEx Amazon etc) than as an air force vet, then we aren't taxing corporations enough!!!

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

@@KallegrandStudios The issue isn't pay. The issue is the USAF forcing pilots into desk jobs they don't want to do at their 10 year mark.

@Theggman83

6 күн бұрын

@@taoliu3949

we just need a new top gun movie

@Xenomorphin1

6 күн бұрын

There literally was one just now.

@dogevb370

6 күн бұрын

@@Xenomorphin1 nuh uh

That’s because they never want to pay them better. If the officers are leaving for better pay imagine the enlisted.

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

It's not about the pay. Pilot officers actually take a pay cut when they leave for civilian airlines. The issue is that the USAF wants to force their pilots into desk jobs when they become an O4. Pilots when they hit their 10 year mark are basically choosing between going to the airlines and continue to fly or stay in the Air Force to do desk work.

@Theggman83

6 күн бұрын

@@taoliu3949

Why is Binkov so adamant about collecting US salt?!?

@LordBaldur

7 күн бұрын

Because the analysis would be boring otherwise. Practically, there is only one superpower on the world stage.

@SGUSOMUSA

7 күн бұрын

Cuz he’s a commie. All they think about is the USA.

@atomf9143

7 күн бұрын

Couple reasons. One, it’s a nuanced topic that you can put basically any spin on based on any information available. Second, it’s just good clicks. Talking about a US military issue tends to get a lot more attention than, say, an Indonesian fighter pilot shortage or a Tunisian scandal.

@pieterveenders9793

7 күн бұрын

@@SGUSOMUSA Lol, imagine being that insecure. The Chinese are rapidly overtaking the US. Ow well, in a few more years that reality will be so obviously you can't ignore it more. If your country is more concerned with pronouns and hiring "minorities" instead of the most qualified, you've already lost.

Uhh i hate to be that guy but how about US Navy pilots?

@Turf-yj9ei

7 күн бұрын

And Marine Corps

@davidrossa4125

7 күн бұрын

Don’t forget the Coast Guard!

@Saxongar74

7 күн бұрын

Exactly, in the event of a conflict, its more likely it'll be the USN and USMC pilots doing battle with China then the USAF.

I've always wondered how air force pilots can fly from continental US to middle east / pacific and still conduct combat operations. They probably get less leg room than the international economy flights of US airlines

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

It depends on the aircraft. Bomber aircraft has more legroom and you can get up and about.

@Theggman83

6 күн бұрын

@@taoliu3949

Whoever is the best, I just hope this war stays in the comment section of the internet forever

8:43 how do we reconcile the previous claim with the fact that in this same document it’s also stated that US pilots get 250 flying hours?

@looinrims

7 күн бұрын

It’s old numbers, and the same document on the left states 180 hours, this isn’t a yearly syllabus seemingly rather an average of total flight time per pilot?

A TEN YEAR stint in the Air Force? Holy crap! No wonder the Air Force can't recruit enough bodies. That's a hell of a commitment to a 22 year old who has no idea with they are going to mesh with the culture, or more importantly to withstand 10 years of constant combat deployments.

@J.C.1966

7 күн бұрын

10years as an officer isn't like 10 years ss an enlistedman. It's not like they're living in the dorms.

@fang45acp

7 күн бұрын

@@J.C.1966 bro you served in the 80's. Back then the service commitment for a pilot was six years... Sometimes even less. You had lots of officers who didn't extend, and the competition to promotion opened up much, much faster. I served in the 2000's. I spent 3 years of my six years enlistment IN COMBAT! After I got out you know what happened to the handful of folks I know who stayed in? Thats right.. more and more combat! Anyone with half a brain knows exactly what happens to the folks who enlisted in the last two wars and how long they ended up lasting. Signing up for what might be a decade of your life for what may be non stop deployments and all the family strife and mental anguish that goes with it... That's a hell of a gamble!

@fang45acp

7 күн бұрын

And yes, the constant deployments was the same with all of the officers I served with too. Seeing a guy with 7 tours is common place now.

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

The issue isnt with accension, the issue is with retention. The USAF has all the pilots they need to man their aircrafts, what they're actually missing are pilots to fill field grade staff billets. The issue is the USAF don't treat their pilots as pilots, they treat them as USAF Officers who happens to be a pilot.

@Theggman83

6 күн бұрын

@@taoliu3949 comedy gold...

It's not like the Air Force couldn't train more fighter pilots. There are thousands of potential candidates that are rejected or end up flying cargo that are as qualified (or more qualified) than any fighter pilots today. This includes people with perfect physicals and vision. But Active Duty is not training fighter pilots besides Academy grads and top ROTC graduates, and the Reserves/Guard bases with fighter wings only hire an average of 2 new pilots per year.

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

The issue isnt with accension, the issue is with retention. The USAF has all the pilots they need to man their aircrafts, what they're actually missing are pilots to fill staff billets when they hit O4. The issue is the USAF don't treat their pilots as pilots, they treat them as USAF Officers who happens to be a pilot.

@Theggman83

6 күн бұрын

@@taoliu3949

I know I cant be speaking to the whole of the AF, but I live on training flight path and there hasn't been any slow down in the amount of planes flying. There are fighters, bomber and cargo flying over quite often. The tourists and retirees hate them but we locals love them.

@kevink1575

7 күн бұрын

I live in SA, TX. Lackland and Randolph are here, and jets are flying over all the time.

@pogo1140

7 күн бұрын

Individual pilots are flying fewer flights. It's in the hard data.

Naval Aviation has entered the chat

Highly doubt that US pilots train less. They are constantly training with other allied militaries around the world. Not to mention that the US has the largest fleet of training aircrafts in the world.

@m.a3914

7 күн бұрын

And have the highest amount of commercial pilots in the world. In case of need, I'm sure they are gonna find enough people.

@amr8457

7 күн бұрын

Well. You can find that China pretty much caught up to us years ago from Millennium +7 channel. You must stop listening to mainstream media and wake up. China and Russia is the world's power now Skippy. It is what it is.

@mdolfjitler9833

7 күн бұрын

@@amr8457Russia can’t even take one of the poorest countries in europe from a bunch wheat farmers And Chinas military is damn full of corruption they’re literally trying to purge their staff every other week I wouldn’t call them “the new powers” now would you

@reekpeekseek

7 күн бұрын

​@@amr8457Sure. Russian and Chinese superpowers 😂. Give me a break with your commie propaganda 😆

@Troesmis

7 күн бұрын

@@mdolfjitler9833please understand him. He is brainwashed

Raptors in Alaska, Raptors in Japan, Raptors in Guam, but more would be nice

i was about to comment 'no way' and the thumbnails says 'yes really'.

Inept leadership from the top, and deep into the Pentagon. This could be a "You had one job..." video.

The quality of the pilot is really important also.

@shanerooney7288

7 күн бұрын

According to the comment section, USAF pilots are x100 better because 'Merica.

@Statueshop297

7 күн бұрын

@@shanerooney7288 facts are what matter not opinions.

@shanerooney7288

7 күн бұрын

Agreed. Too bad so many people mistake their opinions as being facts.

Thank you for your new focus on real-world issues; more interesting and (vastly!) more important than what might happen if there were a war between Austria and Switzerland, or whatever.

@The_FatGeneral

7 күн бұрын

Yeah well, the tensions in the world during those videos were far lower and the war in ukraine hadnt started yet either.

@andrewhirsch6472

7 күн бұрын

@@The_FatGeneral : Tension is about emotion, not logic. Logical people could see years ago that China and Russia are expansionist powers, in both desire and capability.

simulation training nowadays are very2 important, as the simulator get much more accurate n able to train various condition.. i recon having 100hours of the 200 hours in simulation is much more beneficial than having full 200 hours of only on flight training.

I question the "trains less" thing. I've been out for a couple of years now, but we were doing three sorties and 1-2 sims per week minimum. Very often it would be every day, sometimes double-turns or fight-tank-fight or hot pits. Burnout and lack of time to handle other duties was more of a problem, at least for us.

@MrCastodian

4 күн бұрын

You do know were this info comes from?

Flying regular int-midation missions close to T-wan's airspace must clock up the hours.

How about our Navy and it's Air Force?

I would do it if they train me for free and guarantee an UPS captain position/salary when I get out. They make 500k+ a yr just sitting on their behind.

@Vhvjdow0ajsbcdhcuei3o22-om4sm

5 күн бұрын

It's not easy to be a pilot for the military, you need a degree from either a college or Air Force/Naval Academy. And no health problems that could impact your ability to fly. You also need good vision and cannot be colorblind. And once you are a pilot you must consider whether you want to fly SMAs, Transports, or fighters. SMAs and Transports will be targeted the most and fighter qualification is a grueling process and takes incredible instincts, skill, and intelligence. Combat maneuvers, bvr training, etc are all taxing on the body. And why would the military care what you do after the military?

If training times continued to increase from 2022, then this should no longer be a problem. It seems like America was shaken awake that year. But it's really scary how complacent US defense was between 2009 and 2022. The Great Recession really mopped up what was left of the defense sector. But now it's clear the trend is reversing.

Did Binkov have a stroke? Hard to understand at 1.0 x play speed.

I feel like this doesn't account for real-world individual and organizational experience. The USAF and USN pilots have been consistently doing combat missions around the world for decades. The Chinese haven't.

@ttuliorancao

5 күн бұрын

Let's be real that doing sorties against literal farmers armed with AKs isn't really useful experience in fighting actual modern militaries that outproduces you in every aspect...

@ulrik1773

5 күн бұрын

@ttuliorancao yeah, because Yugoslavia, Iraq, Iran, Libia, factions in Syria etc. had no aircraft and no air defenses. Farmers one and all. Its not near-peer conflict but its still real world, meanwhile China's combat experience caps out in the 70s against Vietnam, and some haphazard melee combat with India. I'm not saying it makes all the difference, but real world is a factor that China lacks entirety. Discount it all you want, but give me the soldiers who have trained and fought over the soldiers who have just trained 9 times out of 10.

@ttuliorancao

5 күн бұрын

@@ulrik1773 last time the US has any war against an actual national army with a whole country behind it to supply it was the First Gulf War and that was 30 years ago. How many veterans of this war are still on duty? All the other ones you mentioned was basically flying very high altitudes and dropping bombs with a complete air superiority. It would mean almost the same if they were just on simulators as those didn't teach anything useful for fighting an actual national military. Air-to-air combat? Almost zero. Fighting latest generation air defences? Zero. Naval aviation combat against another navy? Zero again.

@ulrik1773

5 күн бұрын

@@ttuliorancao ok.

@jdo8405

Күн бұрын

​@@ttuliorancao Oh boy, this again. Sit down, class is in session: "Air-to-air combat" Annual combat exercises with allied and partnered nations. We set ourselves up to lose on these exercises by putting restrictions on how we fight. Why? Because how else are you supposed to put an F-15E in a purely defensive situation outside of its network of supporting aircraft? The only difference between exercises and actual combat is the lack of missiles being launched at other planes and artificial ROE restraints. The "adversary" forces (we're usually the adversaries for these exercises though) are provided with the same capabilities and support as what we normally operate with, so in a lot of cases, partner nations have a lot more capabilities than what they're normally used to so they can also learn how to leverage our capabilities. Last I checked, Chinese pilots run target practice on stationary targets or drill using the same routines against simulated Taiwanese/American targets. They are practicing to perfection, but that perfection comes at a cost of realism - these targets are not defended by realistic or even simulated air defense. Also, our F-35As and Cs tussled with J-20s a handful of times. Our assessment? Their AWACS are more of a threat than the J-20s were. China commended their J-20 pilots fairly recently for "flying in adverse conditions" and identified key weaknesses in how the J-20s performed. We don't know what those weaknesses are, but even their military is treating whatever planes they encountered as having a significant advantage that needed to be addressed by the PLAAF. "Fighting latest generation air defences" If you know, you know. Russian S-400s struggling to differentiate targets in Crimea and Chinese HJ-9s failing to detect Indian air threats over Pakistan paints a very grim picture on either system's effectiveness. Combine that with how the PLAAF couldn't even find a civilian airliner over Taiwan with moderate Growler activity and you have a bleak assessment on these so-called "latest generation air defenses". "Naval aviation combat against another navy" Again, if you know, you know. Russia does flybys on NATO ships if you want to count that against the US. Same with China. Meanwhile, China and Russia aren't announcing the many, many times they were shadowed by NATO/Allied aircraft. By the way, none of those NATO planes did any showboating because doing low-passes on AA-capable ships is something we stopped doing since WWII. If you can see us, we're letting you know we're not a threat to you, full stop.

The USAF now might be short on pilots now, but that doesn't mean the USAF doesn't have any trained pilots in reserve.

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

The reserve is actually where most of the shortages lie.

Does the estimated cost per hour of flight for the more advanced US fighter jets factor into the reduced training time as well? I know hours logged can be done on a number of systems, but an F-22 or F-35 pilot doesn’t spend hours in other jets as part of their training. Does the same hold true for Chinese pilots, or do they spend some time in top end fighters and some in older jets as well? Do Chinese equivalents for our Air National Guard get to fly jets on par with the F-15 and F-16, or are they older models? (Not disrespecting, just curious. CCP data isn’t as transparent as US figures for similar reporting.)

@michaelwen5540

7 күн бұрын

Mind you, the Chinese aircraft types may not be that cheap to train on as well, those are running on either scrappy old Russian engines or high fidelity replicas of those Russian engines. In other words, less reliable, more prone to break down and far more down time. Which means despite American jets being more advanced and expensive, but they can have way more uptime and provide better training.

@pogo1140

7 күн бұрын

Its mostly navigation, follow orders for the chinese it seems, being able to navigate and find the tanker is a mission goal in itself while for the US, it's task to be done on the way to the actual training

@shoshe-vs8nd

7 күн бұрын

@@michaelwen5540 All of them as of today run mostly on the shenyang engines it's not 2000s

Make more Country vs Country Like in the past.

As a person in the US who wants to be a fighter pilot, that 6% number is beautiful

@alqash6749

7 күн бұрын

Bro knows hes getting that job

I think sim quality is important. Are there some task that sim training performs as well as live flight training.

why do people think flight simulators don't exist

People with degrees dont always wanna work for peanuts. They need to open up pilot slots to the enlisted.

@taoliu3949

7 күн бұрын

Pilots are relatively well paid. The issue is retaining them. People who like to fly don't stay because being a pilot in the USAF is a lot more than just flying.

@Theggman83

7 күн бұрын

@@taoliu3949 pilots that have been in a while, and make rank, can get more money. That's not an instant thing. It takes time.

@Theggman83

7 күн бұрын

@@taoliu3949 only after they've been in awhile. They don't make "good money" right off. And that's the issue with the military, it's not competitive with salaries vs the private sector.

@taoliu3949

7 күн бұрын

@@Theggman83 If they're leaving the USAF, they've been in a while. Pilots have a 10 year obligation, which means they'll be O3/O4 at that point. That is like ~$8k per month plus BAH/BAS/Benefits/Bonuses/etc.

@Theggman83

7 күн бұрын

@@taoliu3949 yup... That's pretty much what I'm talking about. No one with a degree wants to work for peanuts or spend 4-6 years of a 10 year contract waiting to get to a higher bracket. No, please, keep making excuses for why recruitment is down.. seems like you think that should pick up without changes to the recruitment process?...

Maybe the USAF should relax its requirement that pilots have perfect vision. Long distance eyesight has become less important with today's sensors and with the much lowered frequency of air combat within visual range.

@gumbyshrimp2606

7 күн бұрын

They don't need to, because there are enough candidates with perfect vision that aren't being hired anyway that they can continue to remain picky about that trait.

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

The issue isnt with accension, the issue is with retention. The USAF has all the pilots they need to man their aircrafts, what they're actually missing are pilots to fill field grade staff billets. The issue is the USAF don't treat their pilots as pilots, they treat them as USAF Officers who happens to be a pilot.

The military culture matters, especially in air units. Does a low rank Chinese officer have a voice in the briefing room? I don't know.

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@user-yw8zm9wn7l

4 күн бұрын

4倍太少了应该增加到10倍然后调动所有军事力量与中国进行决战😂

@FiveMissiles

4 күн бұрын

@@user-yw8zm9wn7lchina is weak. they are bluffing their strength

@user-yw8zm9wn7l

4 күн бұрын

​@@FiveMissiles？？？😂😂😂😂

@FiveMissiles

4 күн бұрын

@@user-yw8zm9wn7l you really believe the lies your government sells you. the shit they do to keep their people in line. america posts fake numbers for fun

@user-yw8zm9wn7l

4 күн бұрын

​@@FiveMissiles？？？什么？中国政府中国官方媒体很少报道美国的腐败新闻，你对中国太不了解了，只是依赖假新闻

As the comedian would say in "Watchmen": The american dream has come true

That’s why the air force is investing in AI buddy/ wingman drones including an option for the pilot to manage the drones. (the optimal number apparently is 6.) Missile capacities along with their range will need to be increased. China isn’t to be underestimated but neither should the American MIC.

@archangel7052

7 күн бұрын

And China is already building a two seater J20 stealth fighter. Second pilot to command their loyal wingmans.

My thought is that US pilots spend a lot of time in simulators, and the simulators they actually train on are REALLY good. Nearly 1:1. The biggest issue, and I can't really see how they manage it with such heavy computer hardware, is they'd have to find a way to accurately simulate the G forces pilots experience in combat. They'd have to use a massive gyroscoping rig to even try doing that, and I'm not certain that'd even work.

@mathieusimoneau3358

7 күн бұрын

Well for that part, which is a significant trade-off of simulators, the USA fully arms its fixed-airwing in live training so the pilots can get used to maneuvers when the planes are at its heaviest. And they do get a lot of live training compared to most countries.

The US must have many pilots in the reserve. Whilst many are now working for airlines, in an extended war, some could surely be recalled. I also think simulators are likely not considered enough. Fewer flight hours and more sim hours could be a good thing. Why fly $50000 per hour + jets when a high fidelity sim can allow for quality training for a fraction of the cost. I work in the airlines myself and know that sims have come a long way in the last decade.

@matthewbarabas3052

7 күн бұрын

im not sure they have any pilot reserves. also, simulators, and even training, isnt comparable to real world live fire missions.

@philipjamesparsons

7 күн бұрын

The 5000 aircraft in storage at Davis Morgan AB, are there for a reason. If the crap hits the fan, the people who flew and fixed them are still there too. Simulators will get them up to speed and are an excellent way to train.

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

The reserves is where most of the shortages are. Of that 2000 shortage figure, 1200 were reserve/ANG.

Also how many fighter pilots do the US navy have compared to china as well as the US Army? I feel like the US has a more total amount of fighter pilots between all branches than china does total. Also the US has better equipped aircraft and support systems.

@razrose2380

7 күн бұрын

A very pious hope. Sometimes you can feel sorry for America, on the one hand, it has to say the dastardly enemy has thousands of weapons so as to keep the money flowing while at the same time claiming its own weapons could destroy the Death Star so as not to frighten the populace. America spends over twice as much on weapons as the rest of the world combined which is why they can't afford a National Health Service.

@shanerooney7288

7 күн бұрын

USAF has better training in 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

I appreciate your efforts and clarifying these issues, but the Chinese haven’t even worse off situation having to hire outside foreign instructors to train their naval aviators. Also do not forget America has allies such as Japan, the Philippines, France, and England, etc., that have highly trained pilots that would also act in conjunction with US military doctrine.

If only the US was hiring more people with 2 dads and a history of rioting! We would have doubled our pilot numbers.

The 2017 Chinese figures displayed for bomber and fighter pilots is 100 - 150 hrs per year...You all get that's a 50% gap right? Silly math and stuff lol

Well, in 1990s Navy Pilots were flying what, 250+ hours per year and USAF on F-16 what - 190-220? Few years back there was article criticizing trend of going below 140h / per annum.

@user-cz9jj2em2v

7 күн бұрын

I think the downward trend is probably mostly on F-16, F-15, and older Hornets. Probably because of the Airframes being older than intended.

This is why I would have bomber and cargo pilots have a minimum for fighter simulation time every year. Even better if they could gamify it with year round bonuses for the top 10%. A military edition boeing flight simulator goes for around $800 usd same price for an f35 or f-16 layout. Make it a tax write off for pilots and spend 2 mill a year in cash bonuses for top pilots and teams. It's not the real thing but it will build muscle memory, shorten learning curve and help with tactics. Then if war hits you have an AI red team that mimics enemy tactics taken from real sensor data in combat. Again no substitute for the real thing but broadens options and let's the air force and navy know which pilots rank higher in simulation if they need to pull bomber and cargo pilots into fighter rolls quickly.

Generally, I would take anything about Chinese military with a large helping of salt. But I think I was watching an F115 fighter pilots KZread channel a while back and he was talking about how he was talking to a Chinese pilot and he was surprised how little training that pilot had in terms of flight hours compared to him . The other thing that is going on is China’s freaking out about fighter pilots because the reform you’re talking about in 2017 changed the number of flight hours and the timeframe to become a pilot from three years to like six months.. if I can find the video that I watched that kind of explained it I’ll link it in this comment later, but basically china is under the impression at this point that anybody can start the plane and take it up off the ground without it exploding is now a train to fighter pilot. And a big reason why china is doing this is because they are building so many aircraft that they don’t have the pilots whatsoever to fill them and unlike the United States Chinese fighter pilots find it difficult to get jobs in the commercial airline industries, which is why if you hang out at any international airport you can actually find a lot of US pilots British pilots and Australian pilots flying for companies likeChina air East China, air and southern China airlines

@koriko88

7 күн бұрын

It's better to underestimate your opponents than plan for the future.

@Phox532

7 күн бұрын

@@koriko88 if you think that the United States military is under estimated any potential photo, then you clearly don’t understand why the F-16 was created. Because the creation of the F-16 happens because the United States completely over, estimates the capabilities of a Russian mig. The US military does not ever underestimate but rather overprepared for conflict. I think one of the best quotes I’ve heard describing the United States military today is that the United States military is a logistical organization that dabbles in conflict.

In the end,all of China's equipment is made in China. Have seen their "craftsmanship", the Temu army don't want none

@rutstrangle

7 күн бұрын

Says the person who can only afford Temu.

@falrus

7 күн бұрын

Does Boeing make military airplanes with the same quality control standards as their passenger planes?

@SelfProclaimedEmperor

7 күн бұрын

​@@falrusUS military gets it's aircraft mostly from Lockheed martin and Northrop Grumman, not Boeing

I work at the Harrisburg airport on the cargo ramp next to the PA air national gaurd. They are constantly training aswell as navy planes from Norfolk(im assuming) constantly doing touch and goes. Ukrainian antonovs have also been here a lot recently bringing damaged weapons(himars and a patriot battery from what was reported. But that was 2/7 trips)

The Chair Force would like announce that all Chair Force personel will receive a personal 5-Star Michelin Chef and a luxury condo. All pilot training will be done in chairs from now on, instead of simulators and planes.

@asspukeshit

7 күн бұрын

youre a chair

@MrJdsenior

7 күн бұрын

@@asspukeshit More just the seating portion, though. :-)

Making every pilot be an officer and requiring one to have a four year degree to be an officer definitely isn't helping them. I wanted to become a fighter pilot but because they mandated a four year degree, I opted not to.

@MrJdsenior

7 күн бұрын

There are reasons for those requirements. If you are not willing to put in the time, and have the inclination and discipline to receive a simple four year degree, in ANYTHING, what makes you think you have what it takes to be a fighter pilot? Think about it. It's not exactly like getting your ticket in a Cessna 152. I've got a piece of news for you, those guys are DRIVEN, and that is what they are looking for. If that little mole hill stopped you, why would they take you on?

@50megatondiplomat28

7 күн бұрын

This is a great point. My grandfather was pulled off a farm and thrown into a P-40 Kittyhawk. He stayed in the service through the war, the transition to the Air Force, the drawdown and went on to fly cargo planes and jets. He transferred over to the Army later and went on to fly helicopters and retired as a Lt. Colonel. All of that with no college degree. You obviously don't need one. Get rid of that stupid requirement and you'll have plenty of applicants.

@Inkling777

7 күн бұрын

I agree. Fighter pilots need to have sharp minds, but there's no guarantee that their minds would be tested or improved by sitting in a university classroom

@556m4

7 күн бұрын

@@MrJdseniorI can tell you that a lot of people that are brilliant and driven don’t learn well in classroom settings and choose other routes to success. I’m sure if these type of people needed to sit in a classroom as part of pilot training they’d deal with it but to get a four year degree just to possible be considered it’s too much of a turn off.

@iandoyle3695

7 күн бұрын

@randomlyentertaining8287 the bottom line is that you self selected and because of that you weren't able to do it. Don't lay your mistakes in life on others

We are short on pilots and absolutely crush the chinese in training. Thats like saying kindergarten and MIT are all students and therefore on equal footing.

@michaelwen5540

7 күн бұрын

Also, not having to rely on scrappy Russian engines or scrappier Chinese clones of said engines means more up time and less maintenance costs, training American pilots may be expensive, but it's nice when it's expensive for a good reason.

@pogo1140

7 күн бұрын

The USAF is short of airframe more than it's short of pilots. You have new pilots getting parked in non-flying jobs because there are no open slots in the squadrons that have the plane they are trained to fly. At the same time that lack of available aircraft means current pilots can't get enough flight hours so they start looking for civilian jobs where they can still fly and make money

@koriko88

7 күн бұрын

Underestimating one's opponent is a popular way to lose.

@shoshe-vs8nd

7 күн бұрын

proof don't ever bark with out proof son of a sluuuut

@user-eo3pt7uh2m

7 күн бұрын

Poor people who have been brainwashed by Western media

Very interesting

We do have a shortage of pilots

Fortunately for the US, this is a relatively easy thing to fix. Just pour more money into pilot training and retention. Uncle Sam has a deep pocket when push comes to shove.

@taoliu3949

6 күн бұрын

The USAF is offering $600k bonuses to keep their pilots and it's still not working. The issue isn't the money (pilots actually take a pay cut when they goto the airlines), the issue is that the USAF wants to force their pilots into desk jobs when they hit O4. The USAF has all the pilots they need to man their aircrafts, what they're actually missing are pilots to fill staff billets. The issue is the USAF don't treat their pilots as pilots, they treat them as USAF Officers who happens to be a pilot.

@jamesmitchell1471

6 күн бұрын

Bro so does the Chinese and it's a shitload cheaper for them too

It's a tragic story, but sadly the USA cannot find enough non binary black lesbians of Polynesian descent capable of meeting their quota for entrance into the air force academy.

The prevalence of Loyal Wingman Drones, Autonomous Dones and Remote Controlled Drones, Along with Longer Stand Off BVR distances will be the main play moving forward. Chinese already have the PL-21 air to air missiles and HQ-9B air to ground missiles, where as the USA is still developing air to air AIM-260 JATM missiles with similar range. Realistically rely on the AEGIS system on their naval Assets to defend against Air Threats which really haven’t been test against Controllable Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missiles China and Russia are quickly developing. From what I understand, if a main airborne attack was to occur on the USA by China, the first response is for Airforce Interception, rather than say land base missile interception? What were are living in, is an age where USA security guarantees for trade on land, sea and air are being challenged. I think this by and large has resulted in every nation to shore up its military capability and supply.

How does quantity compared to quality? Who do you think is going to travel the 6000 miles required to get close enough for a fighter pilots to be useful?

@randomlyentertaining8287

7 күн бұрын

You need a balance. Too much quantity and you just have canon fodder. Focus too much on quality and you lack the numbers needed to perform the mission effectively.

China can absolutely force their pilots to train more, however how you train and technological superiority can make up for that. When American pilots aren't training, they could be physically exercising. I'm sure Chinese training involves physical exercise no doubt but physical exercise, specifically cardiovascular exercise, can have a huge impact on whatever learning is done by increasing bdnf and such. I imagine US airforce pilots and Chinese airforce pilots are constantly worrying if they are training more than the other. One thing might be certain, I would suspect that training for us pilots is much more expensive than Chinese pilots. The massive price gouging by the us military industrial complex is a MASSIVE hindrance to the entire US military. Fixing that should be the top priority for the US. Our military would be FAR stronger and robust if our own defense contractors weren't fucking us so hard. The US government allowed our defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to buy out their competition and they repay us by fucking us over. It's shameful and damn near treason.

@doc0core

6 күн бұрын

Excellent imagination, awesome really!

@4thzone697

5 күн бұрын

This framing is ridiculous😂 'force their pilots to train more', in what nation do the pilots get a choice of they train or not? Nope, only big bad china does

@jamesmitchell1471

5 күн бұрын

@@4thzone697 fucking lmao you talk EXACTLY like the people China pay to comment shit like that but bro it's cheaper to train a Chinese pilot, so for the same amount of resources/money the US would spend on training pilots, you can train the Chinese more. The cheaper they are to train, the more you can train them.

@jamesmitchell1471

5 күн бұрын

@@doc0core I'm so fucked up right now I can't tell if you're complimenting me or being sarcastic so I'll take it as a compliment. Thanks

nope, aint no way anyone gets more experience than usaf aviators. its a problem / boondoggle at the expense of the nation

I would glad fly for the air force if they make changes.

@mrmcscuseme

4 күн бұрын

@@subjectc7505 🤣

I wouldn't be surprised if the Americans are playing weak. It is a common military strategy. As for lack of pilots, this would never or should never be a problem in a conflict. The US has the highest amount of pilots in the world. I'm sure they would be fine.

Dji entered the chat. Pilots? We don’t need no steenking pilots!

If you look at the trend in the last couple of years before 2023, I would suggest that they very much DO have something to hide, exactly the opposite of what you think. And "some rise" from 2021 to 2022, huh? It was about, row by row, 50%, 600%, 50%, 20%. What exactly would you call a LARGE rise? I expect the numbers in 2023, given the environment deltas during that time frame, rose FAR more than that. You aren't thinking very well, here.

Why not add if china go war with USA and its allied nation Asia. what will happen❓how make deference over all strategy China and USA ❓IF that happens how mush cost and resources add both side to up scale gain battlefield❓.that ❓ most view in asian bro

@dominuslogik484

5 күн бұрын

Between Taiwan, Japan and South Korea china could be contained easily and they would need to spark a war between North and South Korea to even out the local power balance a bit but that would risk an instant nuclear exchange as North Korea is unlikely to hold back its nukes for very long when fighting the south.

Have you ever heard the tale of the world's largest air force? And the world's second largest air force? And the world's third largest air force?

As an 80's USAF pilot I can assure you it's VERY DIFFICULT to qualify for FA training (fighter, Attack). The fault in your argument is that USAF sim technology is light years ahead of China and is extremely useful and can supplant MUCH of the basic training to operate high performance jets. Yes, fighter pilots do need more flight hours to become skilled at that type of flying. But I still feel USAF training is much superior to communist countries that discourages independent thinking in every branch of their military. Just look at the abysmal performance of Russian troops and officers in Ukraine. Because Ukrainian pilots were trained in that same system they are having real difficulties flying "the American way". They aren't tactically proficient and too reliant on orders and predetermined flight operations. That's the reason your statistic don't really tell the entire story.

@watchinglistening

7 күн бұрын

Thank you for your Patriotism and all your efforts in your Service to the Freedom of our Country! 🇺🇲🗽

@user-wm9es2ih6n

7 күн бұрын

China has been recruiting retired western pilots to train its air force.

@Gongolongo

7 күн бұрын

China is hardly like that. There's reports by US intelligence that Chinese training reflects western training, not Soviet. They have some really good simulators too and that's publicly known. But we have a more mature program that's for sure.

@user-ov4jl6hg3x

7 күн бұрын

I wouldn't say light years, but yes, definitely a few years, less than a decade possibly even.

@Sunshine-sl3kr

7 күн бұрын

Prob because that is THE most dangerous war to be millitary pilot since the blooming korea !

How's many hrs does china put into aircraft maintenance?

The Americans getting mad in the comments that their invincibility myth isn't being reinforced

@TheArklyte

5 күн бұрын

Почему ты еще не на фронте? Неужто опять отказали такому идейному и инициативному добровольцу?

@FiveMissiles

4 күн бұрын

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

@joshuaclark1719

Сағат бұрын

Why can’t you stop talking about us? The obsession is unhealthy

Assuming we accept anything from China as "true"...there's also a huge difference between flying, and actual useful training. While America may be slipping with its training and pilot numbers...China still has an absolute mountain to climb to even think about competing in a hostile air war.

@Vhvjdow0ajsbcdhcuei3o22-om4sm

7 күн бұрын

Is the source from China or is it from US analysts that document chinese flight hours?

In war, one can produce a modern fighter faster than a competent fighter pilot. You can toss a barely trained pilot in a plane, but that would be a waste of both the pilot and plane.

@itsabe90

7 күн бұрын

I remember seeing the military channel and the History channel DirecTV 90s early 2000s. The F-22 raptor deployed the biggest weakness is all the high-tech is meaningless if the pilot doesn't know how to use it. A simulation where 3 F-22 raptors encounter 5 inexpensive Su but well trained pilots. All 5 SUs were destroyed and 1 F-22 survive was it the victory? Enemy lost five pilots and five planes. The US lost two highly skilled pilots billions of dollars.

@piotrd.4850

7 күн бұрын

Nah, we're told that F-16s in Ukraine will be game changes.

scary

Now there is a clickbait headline.

US manpower shortage is only going to get worse as birthrate is below 2. China's is falling even faster and have no immigration as backup. This just further reinforce the conclusion that AI pilots are coming sooner than you think, which is why US Airforce is already testing AI controlled F-16s vs human pilots. I wonder what's the AI's current win/loss ratio.

@pogo1140

7 күн бұрын

Pretty high since the AI was not trained for self preservation unlike the US pilot. Ie, US pilots are trained to not make head on guns passes, to keep a 500ft min separation and similar safety rules

@atomf9143

7 күн бұрын

However, US population is still growing due to immigration, and will continue to grow for around a decade more. China’s decline is beginning how, but they also have a lot more people to lose. And while I do agree that AI fighters are the future, the cost is already looking to be insane for the nodes of that network.

@pieterveenders9793

7 күн бұрын

Lol, you think no immigration is a weakness for China and a strength for the US? Like Northern Europeans, the Northern Asians have an average IQ of over 100, so millions of people with an IQ of 60 to 80 invading your country isn't a "strength", no matter how much the DEI maffia claims otherwise.

@pieterveenders9793

7 күн бұрын

@@atomf9143 China has a population of near to a billion and a half. They don't need immigration, their population is bigger than all of the American countries combined and then some.

@gior987

7 күн бұрын

@@pieterveenders9793 one thing we know for sure is your IQ given the comment you made

The good news is that AI is going to take over a lot of fighter pilot duties

@andrejohansen9986

7 күн бұрын

God news?

@williamperry01

7 күн бұрын

​@@andrejohansen9986HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING UKRAINE????

@philipjamesparsons

7 күн бұрын

AI = hype

I just want to say that another thing is the weird requirements for US pilots, mainly the education one, I’m sorry a gender studies or art history or English degree isn’t worth fuck all for pilots. I think it’s fair to say they’re losing out on some people because of it, they certainly lost me because US tertiary education is mostly a scam, but I can’t be a pilot then afaik, same for others. I’m sure less Americans over all are attending tertiary education, and with that comes a drop in people ‘qualified’ to be pilots

@matthewbarabas3052

7 күн бұрын

education requirements isnt weird. at all.

@looinrims

7 күн бұрын

@@matthewbarabas3052 education requirements are fine, but what’s the education? Pilot education? Sure, officer school? Sure, maybe military college? By all means A degree in Egyptology should not qualify someone any more for being a combat jet pilot though, do I need to explain this further?

@matthewbarabas3052

7 күн бұрын

@@looinrims and yet... im pretty sure the airforce trains people even if they dont have a pilots license. therefore, the kind of education is moot, just that they *have* it.

@looinrims

7 күн бұрын

@@matthewbarabas3052 …that’s my point, or rather, the lack of point to it The Air Force pilot syllabus comes after the education requirement which means fuck all

@armedmage

7 күн бұрын

I have no idea why the Air Force doesn't have a warrant officer flight program like the Army does. I think that alone would solve a lot of their pilot shortage problem.

I watch F22s take off multiple times every day here how much more can they train?

@jayjay53313

7 күн бұрын

Binkov isn't always correct on everything. China is catching up on fast pace while US is still training their military personnel. Only thing is China is building its military at faster pace than US receiving far more new equipment in short time, so are the hours on training

@user-cz9jj2em2v

7 күн бұрын

I think the downward trend is probably mostly on F-16, F-15, and older Hornets. Probably because of the Airframes being older than intended.

@pogo1140

7 күн бұрын

@@user-cz9jj2em2v It's across the board

@shoshe-vs8nd

7 күн бұрын

@@jayjay53313 not true that's a false observation

"Yes really" I'm un-subbing after this one

@thisguy7175

5 күн бұрын

Bye bye!

@litmusing

4 күн бұрын

On every single binky video there's someone announcing their departure because of "propaganda". Curious that you lot never seem to run out though.

people used to tell me Russia was a huge military threat, too. 🙄

@jamesgarner327

6 күн бұрын

China outproduces, Russia, Europe and the US combined in industrial output, that's the catch. Let's face it, if the US could invade China, they would have done it already...

Roll 👀

So many DCS wannabe players in the comment section.

There is training and then there is combat experience.

@randomthot125

7 күн бұрын

If you think dropping bombs on cave dwellers counts as combat experience then you're delusional

@ahmadloai2378

7 күн бұрын

Pardon me but when did the last time US air force fought against near peer adversary with a capable air force after ww2 ? Because after WW2 US air force only fought against third world countries with weak or none air capability .. so what experience you're talking about ?

@GHST995

7 күн бұрын

@@ahmadloai2378 Not much better than WW2 but Vietnam is one example.

simple numbers China PLAF 400,000 active personnel (2023) 3,510+ aircraft (2023) USAF 321,848 active duty personnel, 105,104 Air National Guard personnel, 68,927 Air Force Reserve personnel, 495,879 total uniformed personnel ,147,879 civilians, appox. 65,000 Auxiliarists, appox. 5,500 combat aircraft, appox. 400 ICBMs(2023) Not including US naval Airforce, or Marine, or USAAF. There is a reason why the USA has the 1st, 3rd 4th and 5th most powerful Airforce's

@Airdrifting

7 күн бұрын

Numbers can be deceptive. Most US combat aircrafts are largely obsolete garbage from the cold war era, you expect those A-10, early F16 and F15 variants to be used in a modern warfare? Only ones capable are ~300 x F35, ~400 x F18E/F, ~100 x F22, ~200 x F15E and very few F15EX, that's just over 1100. Besides F35 and F18E/F, how many of those have AESA? Can you still trust those planes made by Boeing? Quality > quantity, now I don't see US has advantage in either.

@zenzulu24

7 күн бұрын

QED, @bkeckk had mercury poisoning as a child.

@gior987

7 күн бұрын

@@Airdrifting you can trust them more than chinese garbage, they might not be shiny new toys but properly maintained and updated can work much better than what we're seeing russian planes do in Ukraine

@Airdrifting

7 күн бұрын

@@gior987 You are free to compare "made in the usa" trash to Russian garbage, although I do find I trust Russian more given their planes don't have wheels or doors falling off while taking off, or have fuselage leaks or panel randomly coming off. But Chinese fighter planes are already leagues above either trash, and when is the last time China buying Russian jets, do you even know?

@Airdrifting

7 күн бұрын

@@gior987 Did Russian planes have random doors or wheels falling off while taking off? Or fuselage leak and panel coming off randomly during flight? Also do you know when last time China purchase fighter jets from Russian? I'd take any "made in China" over "made in the usa" trash all day long.

What's everyone's opinion on the Three Gorges Dam? This is not related to the video, but I saw a Reddit post talking about how destroying this dam wouldn't be feasible due to the fact that it's a genuine gravity dam and is extremely heavily defended. Has binkov ever spoken about this?

@gugabalog

7 күн бұрын

Iiirc it is a target that they plan to respond to a strike on with nuclear arms.

@superburrito9797

7 күн бұрын

Dont take redditors seriously. Its an echo chamber made up of pseudo-intellectuals confirming their own biases.

@Chaser835

7 күн бұрын

1. The air defenses is bad because it failed to handle strikes in Pakistan. (Plus heavy corruption) 2. The product is made out of cheap products. 3. If you haven't heard, the dam is in poor shape. China is a heavily corrupted and dangerous country, that tries to be a bully, and yet they are scared to invade Taiwan.

@Chaser835

7 күн бұрын

@@J_X999 Corruption

@J_X999

7 күн бұрын

@@Chaser835 cope.

Going forward, I don't think actual real world piloting experience will be as necessary to help maintain an aviator's flight readiness, flight simulators are just going to keep getting better and better at fulfilling that role for them. That said, what I don't think can be replaced so easily are the hours and hours of real world experience that all the flight crews and engineers get by repairing and maintaining the actual aircraft being used in these real world training missions.

Do these figures include the political theory training mandated by the CCP to all it's officers? It's not just about the number of hours, but what they're actually doing with them. In the UK, armed forces recruitment was privatised in 2010 and been a disaster. It's not unusual for recruits to wait 18+ months to get an interview only to come up against DEI and be told they're now "too old" to qualify. One head of recruitment was ordered to IGNORE high scoring white men and instead recruit women and men of colour even if they DIDN'T qualify in testing. That woman publicly quit and wrote an open letter outlining that she would not break UK anti-discrimination law to fulfill a political target. The USA is in exactly the same position, where do you think the UK got this wokery from? and this is why ALL US departments including special forces are facing a shortfall. You come back from one of the 'stan' countries facing the sort of unimaginable brutality that scars a person for life, then get forced to take an experimental injection or be fired, THEN you are forced into DEI training which calls caucasian men the greatest threat to world peace in the current world... There's plenty of clips of US congress drilling the head of recruitment where she cries but "it's not my fault recruitment went down when I joined, it's a coincidence". US recruitment was 50-60k short of it's annual target which was then reduced and they still failed in 2023 to get enough recruits, and why wouldn't it? The US Army recruitment adds with Emily with "2 moms" are hilarious, but would you give YOUR life for that?

@shoshe-vs8nd

7 күн бұрын

Its flight hours not training literally more flight hours no excuses china is winning us lost

@Whiskey11Gaming

7 күн бұрын

Emma had two moms... not Emily

Yea sure, but have I told you about our lord and savior 💪 🇵🇱 poland 🇵🇱💪

@markmierzejewski9534

7 күн бұрын

przestań.

@Paulftate

7 күн бұрын

John 3:16

@codybaker7100

7 күн бұрын

Hahahahaha!! Ain’t that the truth? The major NATO countries have underfunded, undertrained, and undersized their armed forces for decades, but don’t worry guys, PoLaNd is gonna save us! 😂 I’m not hating on the Polish, and I don’t think you are either, but the idea that Poland by itself is going to make up for a British Army of less than 50k is crazy.

@Paulftate

7 күн бұрын

@@codybaker7100 definitely a interesting situation ... like after the elections in the UK ... best keep your powder dry .. there is no easy answer and us with comatose Joe

@codybaker7100

7 күн бұрын

@@Paulftate Amen brother!

What's the point of any of this? The US Air Force isn't the only branch with very capable aviation and aviators? Quoting a think-tank paper and believing anything China says is not even coming close to the truth. So much to refute here, but I'm not in the mood for armchair general BS. This one is just plain stupid and I regret clicking on it.

@markymarknj

4 күн бұрын

If I had to rank pilots, I'd say Israeli pilots are the best, bar none. Why? They HAVE to be! What other country is surrounded by enemies who'd love nothing more than to push them into the sea? It's only because the IAF pilots are the best that Israel not only survives; they THRIVE! IAF pilots are heads and shoulders better than anyone else.

@cerberus276

3 күн бұрын

@@markymarknj I don't know how or why you're ranking pilots by nation. But who's aircraft are they flying and who trained them?..... Yeah.

@markymarknj

3 күн бұрын

@@cerberus276 while the IAF if flying American designed and built aircraft, they're installing their own equipment and avionics on them. Why do you think their aircraft designations have an "I" suffix, such as F-35I? It's because they're customizing our aircraft for their unique mission requirements. Who trained IAF pilots? The IAF for the most part does; they do most of their selection and training by themselves. The only time they'd receive training from us is if they acquire a new aircraft from us, e.g. the F-35; they'd need to send some of their pilots for familiarization training as they put a new type into service. Once the IAF has achieved IOC for a new type of aircraft, I imagine that they'd once again take over training themselves. As for why I'm ranking pilots? Well, SOMEONE has to be the best! Not all fighter pilots are created equal. They're not equal in terms of talent, ability, training, or experience. It's the same in any area of life. When it comes to fighter pilots, the IAF would have to be among the best out of sheer necessity; the literal survival of their nation depends on them being the best. I can't think of a better motivator than good old fashioned self preservation!

I wonder how much better/cheaper simulators help. If the simulators are compatible, it should be easy now for pilots in different geographic regions to simulate flying different sorties with different aircraft. It's weird that MS Flight Sim may has better graphics and compatibility even if the experience and instruments are lacking.

@shanerooney7288

7 күн бұрын

A military simulator costs as much as the equipment they are replacing. And breaks down almost as often.

@nathanbanks2354

7 күн бұрын

@@shanerooney7288 I believe you, but I see no reason that this has to be the case. I'd also be surprised if the cost of repairing and running a simulator is comparable to an F35, even if the purchase price is similar measured in hours of simulation/flight.

Binkov...speculation supreme..dude your about as knowledgable as wiki

The amount of blind nationalistic hubris in this comment section is scary, the only way to defeat your enemy is to understand and respect their capabilities. A true patriot and warrior knows this.

@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle

7 күн бұрын

Yep

@Nexusforce1

7 күн бұрын

Exactly

@Nero-Caesar

7 күн бұрын

Finally someone who isn't blinded by patriotism