“Excuse me sir, did you know you were going at Mach 2 on a 15 MPH road?”

@blip-hn6is

7 ай бұрын

sir, can i see your pilot license and the planes registration and insurance.

@uptowndunker6346

7 ай бұрын

He was going 80 knot not mach two

@Raindowdoge

7 ай бұрын

​@@uptowndunker6346it's called a joke Look it up

@bobuxking8961

7 ай бұрын

uh actually a f-35 cant go mach 2 🤓🤓🤓

@subjectc7505

7 ай бұрын

"Dispatch, show me out on a traffic stop with an F-35" Dispatch: uuuuh what?

Cop:" Do you know why I pulled you over today sir?" F-35:"... because I let you".

Fun fact: in March of 2019, a California Highway Patrol officer was stopped on the side of the road in the desert of Southern California to stop and watch F-16s flying overhead, when a particularly low F-16 made his speed radar in his patrol vehicle flicker in and out, displaying 250 mph. An F-16 has been caught doing 250 mph by the CHP.

@games1004

6 ай бұрын

That was a good F-16 pilot, setting his "cruise control" to the aircraft speed limit of 250 kts below 10,000 feet. 😁 I'm guessing he wasn't near the big-city airports' Class B airspaces, or he would've been clocked at 200 underneath them.

@omgpotatos9226

6 ай бұрын

@@games1004 200kts is roughly 230mph, and he was well under 10,000 feet, so yes, he was complying with FCC regulations

@pat9353

6 ай бұрын

Now I’m no expert, but don’t military war games not need to follow fcc regulations?

@jackjones9460

6 ай бұрын

CHP may have recorded the F-16’s speed but I doubt they caught it!

@omgpotatos9226

6 ай бұрын

@@pat9353correction, FAA regulations* my bad, I was being special when I said FCC, but to answer your questions, most FAA regulations still need to be followed when conducting war games due to air traffic in the surrounding area, and especially still true if over land whatsoever, because supersonic flight is not permitted at all anywhere near land unless, 1. Something is identified as a threat and needs to be intercepted, or 2. Is given permission by the president, as such for air shows in California’s deserts.

This reminds me of the Swedish Grippon Fighter, which is specifically designed to be small enough that they can basically land and take off anywhere in the country, and have mobile crews that are easily able to locate and refill and restock the fighter for the next mission. Of course it was largely designed with defense in mind and so being smaller while still packing a punch is easier if you're not potentially needing to send it long ways off into the unknown.

@Thomas-41234

7 ай бұрын

Hi, we do that with our F-18's and our future F-35's here in Finland. Every large highway is ready for fighter jet operation and the pilots train for it. We should have bought Swedish Gripen instead of F-35, because Gripen is ready for this kind of operation, but F-35 needs an army to maintain.

@lofis07a

7 ай бұрын

Hi, I'm Swedish. There's plenty of prepared dual purpose roads ready to be converted to runways. In the city Hjo, there's a speed camera on that runway. Imagine catching a plane on such a photo.

@forzaelite1248

7 ай бұрын

​@@Thomas-41234Man-hours per flight hour is at like 4-5 usually so it needs only like 3 people per plane. Compare to the F-16 which can take anywhere from 17-22, it's not that difficult to deal with. Only thing that might be cause for concern is the just-in-time parts supply LM seems to be trying to apply everywhere but the DoD is throwing it out next year

@Mr.Septon

7 ай бұрын

@@Thomas-41234 having F35's is an incredible asset, its just also good to have smaller aircraft that can operate under different circumstances. The US also doesn't know how far their battles will take their planes and so the larger craft like the F35 can offer the best of a lot of worlds, even if not the best at everything.

@edvin_hook

7 ай бұрын

@@lofis07a yeah i joked about that, but wheres hjo is like a ö or a ä on or just a hansius jååå

this concept of using roads as runways has always been so cool to me like the swedish viggens. the VTOL exhaust also introduces a new complication which hadnt been an issue before

@forzaelite1248

7 ай бұрын

If they do rolling short landings it probably won't be much different to normal fighter exhausts; the Finnish are doing it with their -As

In Finland this is NOT an experiment. We do that normally, pilots are trained for it and road segments exist for it. It is literally part of how our air force works. It just isn't something exceptional even. Most won't flop the eye, cause it is not new news or unusual for us.

@nikopursiainen9097

7 ай бұрын

Also, every pilot has to be able to take off and land both day and night.

As a service member in Marine Aviation, I love watching these videos and even see some aircraft from my home squadron/station! Very cool to learn more about how our air forces are operated.

Sweden has done this since the cold war, all fighters since JA37 Viggen (J35 Draken had limited capabilities) were designed from the getgo to operate from roadbases across the country. The roadbases are extremely simple and mostly unmaintained with a hidden hangar (sometimes inside mountains/hills) and a bunch of "re-arm" platforms along the road. They are easy to spot from satellite, but there are so many of them and the planes move all the time so it's impossible to track. JAS 39 Gripen has a road turnaround time of ~15 minutes (which includes inspection, re-arming, refueling, etc.).

@Thomas-41234

7 ай бұрын

Hallo from Finland, we just bought 64 F-35's We should have bought Gripens, not F-35's. American jets are so labor intensive and rely the fact that they can fly back to the are where there isn't war.

@Mr.Septon

7 ай бұрын

@@Thomas-41234 having both is the real edge. The F35 does offer functionality that the Gripen otherwise doesn't carry, so I think having the combination is beneficial. The F35 is a bit of a beast.

@juntingiee2602

7 ай бұрын

@@Thomas-41234 nuh uh gripens costs almost as much as the f35 with less functionality and capabilities

@Thomas-41234

7 ай бұрын

Yes, but the Gripens are ok with highways with the people who come there by trucks. The F-35 needs an aircraft carrier.

@Thomas-41234

7 ай бұрын

And the USA planes have never operated on war zone. They have always had a safe plase to land.

Yes, as Mr. Septon and PvtDuckling point out the Swedish have mastered the art of landing somewhere in the wild, refuel, rearm and take off again. Very impressive. In Switzerland and Germany there are still stretches of the Autobahn capable of supporting such an operation and during the cold war maneuvers were conducted. The Swiss even have (secret, secret, secret) a runway in a mountain

@Bruno74823..

6 ай бұрын

Yeah very secred

@yalog5523

6 ай бұрын

The base is in the mountain, not the runway

You know what is causing the pilot shortage? The idiocy of the military 10 years ago. I tried to sign up for the airforce in 2014 and they dug through my application with a fine tooth comb and rejected me because I saw a councilor as a kid after my parents divorced. Never on meds, never hospitalized, nothing bad but that was all they needed to reject me. Then, because they formally rejected me, none of the other branches would touch me, even after Trump loosened the requirements. I met a guy in college who was in the airforce in 2014 who said they were discharging a ton of people which led to a bunch of people leaving rather than letting themselves get discharged and the military never recovered.

@philipthecow

7 ай бұрын

There was a large draw down back in 2014. I know about someone who went through 4 years of ROTC on a full scholarship and then never commissioned (which was convenient). I think it was caused by congressional funding problems. It was obviously very short sighted.

@RamblingRodeo

7 ай бұрын

And DUE to COVID also, alot got kicked out or others just retired.... didn't want anymore. My son who is 18rys old, wanted to join he is all i don't want to join under this president!

@nightjarflying

7 ай бұрын

You will not know why you were rejected - they did not reject your application because of counselling! Obviously they are interested in how you coped with adversity. In fact having received counselling & being from a broken home can INCREASE your chances, IF you've shown that you coped well & adjusted. It is interesting that you blame an outside source [the military] rather than considering other possibilities...

@RamblingRodeo

7 ай бұрын

What a bullshit answer! And when the DRAFT happens, you tell them to GO FUCK OFF!@@nightjarflying

@cruisinguy6024

7 ай бұрын

You weren’t rejected because of your parents divorce and getting counseling. There’s definitely something you’re leaving out.

one of those videos that deserves a double-like! great job man thanks

Nice informative episode ! Love that u took the time to read the manuals and found out detailed points

I love you guys keep up the good work

5:05 in Australia they call this the "Bare Base" concept, where they built a bunch of runways in the desert and everything else you need goes in the back of a truck.

Great episode. Interesting as always. Thanks!,

First of all, Thanks for the video!... then.. I have to say, I am very impressed by the work behind.. (story line, research, production, etc..).. please keep going! Best!

Another excellent explainer - top quality.

3:06 theyre building an airbase already, i live in the philippines p-8 poseidons are active in mcia

I like your content and upbeat English! I learn a lot from you!

Love this episode

Good show!

That was a good one. Very professional. I'm glad there were no crass masculine jokes in this one. Keep 'em coming!

Excellent Video !!!

As someone who just learned agile concepts for work less than a year ago I can see how they can be highly effective and am glad they are being used in the service.

There are plenty of people willing and able to fly for the military. The problem is, the application process to become a military pilot takes years. If you start civilian flight training at the same time you start the military application, you will be 2 - 3 years from a 6 figure airline salary by the time you hear back from the military. The money and time calculus just doesn't add up

@doujinflip

6 ай бұрын

There's a shortage of pilots in general... mostly because there's a shortage of willingness in the private sector to invest in OJT in general. The military and government being the few places left training new hires from near scratch are then even under more pressure to retain such rare talent while also not "wasting taxpayer money".

@andrewyork3869

6 ай бұрын

Why we don't have reservist recruited from the air lines or even general avation private pilots is beyond me.

@alexadornato9492

6 ай бұрын

@@andrewyork3869 most civilian pilots don't want to go to the military because they have already payed for flight school. Airlines are a better return on investment. If the military reimbursed for previous flight training, they might be more attractive

@brentneil3730

6 ай бұрын

2-3 years to a 6 figure salary. Check the published payscales for NA airlines. It is a myth that most pilots make very large salaries. Also everytime you change aircraft you jump back to the zero experience payscale on the type. It takes many years to get to those 6 figure payscales if you want to be a commercial pilot its much more a question of passion then pay.

@andrewyork3869

6 ай бұрын

@alexadornato9492 I was thinking of a monthly stipend. If you agree to fly X hours for us per month, you get X number of dollars. Idk if that makes sense. FAA would have to make some adjustments for such to not be in conflict with airlines and max monthly flight hours, which, let's be honest, will never happen.

10:42 the way he says it, made me chuckle more than I should've

One of the best channels on KZread. Because it's not what you think!

It’s cool to hear that a new GEV (ground effect vehicle) is in the works. I need to see an Ekranoplan before I die!

10:50 I'll be damned, that shot was taken from my home city and out onto a old monastery located on a island outside the city. (It was converted to a fortress after the monastery was closed due to the reformation, it's also been used as a prison at times and a execution location, and the Germans also used it, these days it's just a tourist location though)

This points to large units and uncommon vehicles as being more risky for detection than soldiers with small drones. Small sizes, generic units, and ubiquity are useful for blending in, as you pointed out with camo. I suspect we will see more mobile forces with smaller footprints distributed over larger areas, constantly moving to avoid detection. Defeating large, high value assets will transform from what people have thought to an asymmetric war, using a special operations approach to destroy key targets and then retreat to resupply.

“Beans, bullets, & Bandaids”…ahhh, “The 3 B’s, aka the essentials for warfare…or the zombie apocalypse”😂

Great to see an Australian C-17 unloading HIMARS in that. I knew we’d ordered them but didn’t know we had the already. Or perhaps they were American here on exercise.

This reminded me of the ski-equipped variant of the C-130, LC-130. It's used to resupply Antarctic scientific bases. I was wondering how they swapped out skis for tires .. Apparently, the landing gear has retractable skis.

I recall the first time I saw a Harrier. A truck drove out of the woods into a small clearing and dropped metal matting which was spread out as a landing pad. A Harrier appeared and landed. Then a fuel truck drove out of the woods to refill it. Next another truck full of bombs/rockets came out of the woods. The Harrier then took off. Lastly the first truck reappeared and collected the metal matting. The whole process took maybe 15 minutes.

This is so cool

I'm from France (Français). And this is is really the only channel about "American Power" I can watch. Or about U.S Army in general. Because it's well made, and subtile. Enormous respect to the best military in the world. 🇫🇷🤝🇺🇸

@everypitchcounts4875

7 ай бұрын

Have you tried Sandboxx?

*"Are you from the United States Marine?"* -Yes. *"So why are you driving a air vehicle on land?"* -Yes.

@games1004

6 ай бұрын

That's quite the thought, the sea operating air from land. Small islands are basically earth's aircraft carriers, so it checks-out. 🙂

Pilot: My F-35 can destroy concrete roads using only jet exhaust! SpaceX: Hold my rocket beer.

Growing up I was told that when the US Interstate Highway system was first thought of they had this mind. A multi-use road system for both motor vehicles and planes. I don't think it stuck though, and I believe this idea is still spread around today because in emergencies planes do land on roadways. But this new experiment is a good step imo. This would be a very difficult thing to pull off, better start testing it now and not when SHTF. But I am not too sure this will work that well in actual use, these highways will be full of vehicles that would need to be cleared. And then the rest of the traffic would need to be diverted. This could be a big heads up to the enemy that a temporary airbase is being established there. I think if America wasn't so dependent on these roads for daily use this would be far more feasible.

@devanujroy6005

4 ай бұрын

I think in war the highways should be pretty empty ? or are u talking about people fleeing through the highway

The original use of the interstate It was copied from the auto Bahn It was meant to serve as as auxiliary landing strip for the current planes. It also was meant to allow quick, accurate, and easy access to mil bases. The mil would take over the interstate to move men, machinery, and materials fast and efficiently.

Excellent podcast with special attention to logistics wins wars. You did overlook the branch that delivers the elephant in the room, Military Sealift Command. Bullets, beans, bombs, fuel, parts, clothing, and anything else to big, bulky, heavy, or hazardous is delivered by Military Sealift Command. Which is crewed by civilian members of the US Merchant Marine (MMC). MSC also delivers into war zones and gets occasionally shot at. Mark Fay MMC Jr. Engineer STCW QMED AS-E

The A10 Warthog was originally created to destroy Russian tanks should the Cold War become hot in Europe. Their refuelling and rearming were achieved using the extensive European freeway network. The idea for their original use was to land on a freeway and stop underneath a road overpass, thus the aircraft was able to be refuelled and rearmed undercover, even during rain, thunderstorms and snow storms, and out of sight of enemy aircraft which would have been using the current technology of those days.

@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire

7 ай бұрын

I’m surprised that any haven’t been sent to Ukraine or other NATO nations. Since Russia’s been reduced to sending mostly older tanks, the A-10 should have no issue shredding them, and Ukrainians have proven capable of disrupting Russian AA be destroying them outright and/or exhausting them beforehand with mass drone strikes or logistics disruptions. And related to the point above, they COULD probably get away with flying A-10’s on a battlefield within Russia’s Air Force range, mostly because there’s a good chance Russia’s own jets will be shot down by their own AA. Again.

@kekistanimememan170

7 ай бұрын

@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire A10 couldn’t spread m48 from the 50s so meh.

@kenharris5390

7 ай бұрын

@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire You are right that they could be used in Ukraine, but when A10s are strafing ground targets they usually have US fighter jets running top cover. This may draw in Russian fighters who may become involved in dog fights, and the US government may not wish to up the ante at this time of the war. The Pentagon's strategy may be to wait and see how the present situation develops, this being the first conflict that drones have played a huge part in offensive operations. Having said that, I would love to see and hear that gun with a plane attached doing what it was designed for.

@Spearmint22425

7 ай бұрын

With all the manpads over there they would get torn up, no need to fly low and slow when you can fly high fast and still be accurate

@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire

7 ай бұрын

@@kenharris5390 I mean Ukraine is already getting western jets anyway, so those dogfights ARE going to happen either way.

2:09, what's that clip from? and are those planes Mirages of some kind?

The behaviour of the US forces here exactly show why they are so far ahead of everyone else. They constantly train in complex war games. Also while the US army already has by far the best logistics of any army, they still are constantly improving and trying to find new better strategy.

@DoctorMandible

7 ай бұрын

Too bad they constantly get wrecked by rice farmers and goat herders.

@geiers6013

7 ай бұрын

@@DoctorMandible Wtf?😂

@muppstrom

7 ай бұрын

Issue with the us forces is that they are to complex to work in these makeway setups, As for these mobile airfields, its nothing new. Sweden build its airforce around it.

@xaina222

7 ай бұрын

The civilian sector do logistic much better though, and China is on a whole other level.

@TurUwU

7 ай бұрын

In Finland, we have had this kind of setup all around for 30 years lol

This must be on Camp Pendleton by my house in Oceanside. The Marine Corps is using a stretch of former US 101 by the intersection of I-5 and Las Pulgas Rd. When not in military use, anyone can bicycle through here on their way between Oceanside and San Clemente. In fact, the old road is used as a parking area for people that want to drive their bikes up here. This explains why this piece of abandoned highway was re-paved so recently, when it was bypassed by the 5 Freeway decades ago.

I think some of the comments misses the point. It’s not just about landing on a road. It’s being able to move and rapidly deploy the logistical sustainment across thousands of miles in the pacific theatre. That’s what’s make the US military exceptional. Not the landing in a street (as people have pointed out, Sweden and Finland do this). But the ability to operate and entire task force thousands of miles from home and help

Here before 20 minutes

Cops: you exceeded the speed limit Pilot: uhm you better run Missile: the missile knows where it is

@nursestoyland

6 ай бұрын

because it knows where it isnt

Removing the requirement for BA degree to become a military pilot would greatly benefit the US military as it would make the job more attractive and recruiting easier as well as quicker

"what are you in for?" "I went mach 1 past the speed limit. "

*Speed limit enforced by aircraft* signs taken on a whole new level 😂

Modern wars are won before they're begun. "[With enough] prep time there really is no fight I can lose." -Sun Tzu Wayne, The Bat of War

Hes surely getting a ticket.

@jtgd

7 ай бұрын

You can’t give a badass like that a ticket… And don’t call him Shirley…

@TransKidsMafia

7 ай бұрын

The pilot is trans so he won’t get a ticket.

@TheOtherBill

7 ай бұрын

There's a saying "you can outrun a cop but you can't outrun his radio". If you're in an F-35 that no longer applies.

Another potential sealift platform is Japan’s Shin Meiwa 2 seaplanes. Japan should look into coproducing this with the USN USAF.

Hey NWYT could you do a video on the recruitment crisis?

Is this why I've always noticed specific straps of highway I always travel in the past years are always the typical black top tar looking road and some are always maintenance and poured sections kf what looks like clean concrete. Are these specific sections designated landing zones that are always maintenance on purpose

I worked EMS in Phoenix years ago and was told in addition to Skyharbor Airport, Interstate 10 was an emergency landing strip for the shuttle in case of emergency coming for a touchdown.?

Whoever was on that Amtrak surfliner got to see a neat sight.

The big problem is not the plane or the road. The big problemis to have the maintinance, rearming and refueling able to be mobile and swithch from place to place. It helps if the plane system has been designed for this from the start.

"Sir, you were going 1000x over the speed limit but I'll just leave you off with a warning".

Gripen, has the best grip, on STOL highway use.

7:00 Didn't Pentagon just recently create fighter pilot uniforms for pregnant women? I was certain that would solve all the shortages? So surprised...

Same thing they did last year in Alpena Michigan.

Not only dispersed air forces would need to be refueled but aswell reloaded as fast as possible. You cannot fight only with a full tank. in order to keep bombing pressure on opposing force a fast reloading technique with moving ammunition fast through the road that is not constructed for easy fit to ammunition transporters

9:49 The Liberty Lifter reminds me the Russian Caspian Sea Monster. It is not the same design but the same concept.

Can you imagine just driving on the road and pass a literal F-35 just cruising down the road 💀

If I recall correctly, during the Cold War NATO had a plan to use Soviet highways as aircraft runways

@RamblingRodeo

7 ай бұрын

Our highway system was always to be dual used potentially, in case something happened on our shores and needed.

@doujinflip

6 ай бұрын

The dual part being the ability to handle constant traffic of fully loaded wheeled military supply convoys, in addition to the trucks and commuters that dominate the freeways today. Its use as an airstrip though wouldn't be evaluated until the civilian governments securing the rights of way and paying for the actual construction commit to the final build.

The Interstate Defense and Highway system, Eisenhower.

Operating from temporary runways is pretty common in europe. Logistics and operational security are easier to solve before actually building the road. It’s not that hard to spot such runway driving in finland: they are always far away from dense population, and many are obvious enough to make the road feel suspiciously wide. Some double (or triple, depending on how you count) as an emergency landing sites for civilian aircraft. I’d guess it’s also safe to bet there is one or more military bunkers nearby if it was worth to ensure the road can safely handle a passenger jet. So scandinavian airforces likely know a lot about supplying such operations. The logistics need to ensure no plane ever has to land on the same stretch of road it took off from. This strategy predates computers, and it certainly predates vertical landing and take-off as well as drones. The only new thing USA is doing is not doing this on their own soil.

That is why Swedish jet fighters has in their design specifications to be abble to take of and land on half runway lenght than other NATO counter-parts, for decades. They also have the tools and things for supporting the aircraft on trucks even when on base.

That road is at Camp Pendleton, the road is next to the 5 frwy..

The pilot shortage is directly related to requiring them to have a 4 year degree to fly. If some one already has a pilots license but no degree they should be allowed to bypass the school requirement as that takes a ton of effort to get.

"Beans, bullets and bandaids" This guy understands logistics.

This is going to take a lot of practice and planning, along with a lot of trial and error.

This reminds me of the casualness of online media talking about future force projects on open source media....

12:01 I did not know they could do that!

@Ishanjaber

7 ай бұрын

Me too

@NotWhatYouThink

7 ай бұрын

So they can fit inside the hangars on amphibious ships.

To avoid local social media presence an emp or some form of transmission jamming would solve that

Bicyclist were allowed to use that section of Hwy 101 through Camp Pendleton so as not to have to ride on the shoulder of I5.

Most Marine pilots of Captain rank and up have a "Side Job" like avionics platoon officer and such. Most of the Marines doing maintenance are corporals and up and do not need much supervision, it is more about executive/ budgetary oversight. Unless the Corps has changed a lot, the Officers are not babied like they are in the Air Force.

Lots of Norwegian stuff here i love it

0:20 methinks you got those speed conversions mixed up.

Replace some of those flight paths with rapid rail transit. that could free up some pilots. Granted, I don't know how many. My guess is not many.

That story about certain strips of U.S. highways being one mile of straight road goes back at least to the early 1970's during the cold war. This is long before there was an internet.

Not an expert, but OSINT cuts both ways. Just as locals inadvertently give away intel on friendlies, they also (as shown with the MH17 incident) provide inimical forces intel. This is the area ripe for very large scale AI image inspection software. Any discovery of accidental exposure of own forces can be used to decide when to relocate, and any inimical force activity spotted can be used to develop a counter. The trick will be to have the fastest AI on the job. (And hope those AI don't have too many hallucinations... 😸 )

I appreciate that they kept clear of the bike lanes. 😂

The tires on top of that Russian Tu-95 are intended to keep it from tipping backwards onto the tail because all the engines and props have been removed. It has nothing to do with protection from drone attacks.

How can there be a shortage of Pilots, that is like one of the top tier "cool" jobs that every child wants. Astronaut, EMS trio, fighter pilot, dragon rider & princess.

There was something like this during the Cold War on both sides. What would have happened if a war had broken out? The first to be attacked would be airfields (military and civil) and rail links. That's why they needed auxiliary airfields. Why motorways? Well, because you didn't need to set up the runway. In the planning of a motorway, the use of sections as auxiliary airfields was already planned. In the event of an emergency, all that was needed was to bring in the remaining mobile equipment such as radar, runway lighting and tower. In Germany there were and still are the so-called motorway auxiliary airfields.

It call modern warfare Traditional bases can be hit with PGMs but its hard to stop a plane that can land virtually any where

One way to reduce the "Facebook Threat" is to put out tons of fake ones so that the enemy will have trouble determining which ones are real and which ones are fake.

“ sir , I’m gonna need you to step out of the vehicle and also pop the trunk for me “ Proceed to open all weapon bays

@Justanotherconsumer

6 ай бұрын

He’s got a gun! No, wait, that’s a B model, no gun.

It's exactly what I think

Well as long as they keep to the speed limit I see no problems.

10:38 We need dem narco sub makers for the logistics

I just saw 2 F-35As and they were LOW like i could make out every detail of it and it wasn’t even a airshow day

I always loved the idea of road runways or using fields as FRAPS for some reason ☠️ and I'd happily join the Air Force to fly, they can try doing what the standard recruitment instead of college degrees, use standard education and length the flight schools and training. I bet people like me would come running to get in a seat.

@edvin_hook

7 ай бұрын

join the army or marines as a pilots becase the air force ironicly dont fly much.

@nightjarflying

7 ай бұрын

You can't write. Flying is heavily academic these days, there's a lot of systems & techniques to understand & instantly recall - it's a degree level career for people with a solid education.

@subjectc7505

7 ай бұрын

@@nightjarflying I can't write lol? It's people who can be easily taught and trained to handle operating systems, training, tactics and etc. My Generation is less likely to look for a higher education and pretty tech savvy. The NEW age of warfare is technology based, old ways of fighting are over unless we're fighting unequip and underdeveloped militaries. Wanna adopt, you gotta apply to those of this generation 🤷🏽‍♂️. Drone operators in Ukraine are literally kids and adults who are gamers or familiar with remote control planes, and look how effective they are against the Russians and it's the same with Russia, look how effective Lancets are against the Ukrainians. You don't need a degree to operate a drone with people who're familiar with it while you spend weeks teaching a UAV recruit on how to fly and operate a drone.

@nightjarflying

6 ай бұрын

@@subjectc7505 You can't write & you edited your initial post. So now you say you are interested in flying a drone & that's what you mean by flying - talk about moving the goalposts! You are interested in DCS & no doubt that makes you think you would be good enough for real world combat. There are millions of boys who think like you & they are all in fantasy land. This is all confirmed by your special forces avatar, I think you are 13 years old. Please note that you are factually incorrect about your generation being less likely to "look for higher education and pretty tech savvy" [bad grammar]. The truth is that more people than ever before are entering FE & those that do not are NOT more tech savvy - it's the ones who gravitate to FE who are the tech savvy ones. You are living in a dream world where you want to achieve without using too much brain. You want to be a winner by playing games & that is what you mean by being "tech savvy" - being able to use a controller & remember some specs in DCS. LOL. Grow up.

@subjectc7505

6 ай бұрын

@@nightjarflying ☠️u can literally look up, Ukrainian pilots being trained on DCS to fly the F-16 and it's not a dream. 😂You don't know what a technology war is, literally pay attention to Russia and Ukraine. Look at the programs that are introducing unmanned vehicles into their arsenal. You got kids out here destroying Russian equipment with a bomb strapped to an Amazon drone. Wake up! 😂Or be left behind. "You can't write or edit" because you don't understand what's going on and what is changing. It's always the people who never touched a video game who think how you think. News flash, The Military uses Simulations to train and run possible outcomes.

Imagine getting a ticket in a fighter jet 💀

I've never seen a jet taking off from here, but it would be cool to look out the window of a train and see an F-35 on the road next to the tracks.

“Sir please get out of the plane, Mach 1 is criminal speeding in this state”

Technically some dude could land one of these at a 7 Eleven, pick up a 6 pack of beers and fly back to the carrier 😂