If your awacs gets shot down and you have to say you did it yourself, then something has gone terribly wrong.

@FireFish5000

3 ай бұрын

Which is worse for PR? Someone else shooting down your surveillance plane or your military being so discordinated that they shoot down the one plane on the map in the area that is labeled as their own

@xXAmaroqXx

3 ай бұрын

@@FireFish5000 the enemy shooting down your surveillance plane is much worse. First of all, you might "have to" create international conflict that you will then have to respond to to show your own population you are not to be screwed with and you admit that your defensive measures are incapable of defending the aircraft against enemy attack. By claiming that your own military shot them down, not only do you keep up the illusion that the enemy cannot shoot them down, you even say that YOUR anti Air can overcome those seemingly impenetrable defenses. You admit having made a mistake, but you still make it seem like you usually are the superior combattant. hang a low ranking guy as scapegoat, and your military is in the clear.

@cjwrench07

3 ай бұрын

@@FireFish5000being shot down by a patriot anti-ballistic-missile-system’s missile isn’t as bad for PR either. That can also be blamed on horrible planning & lazy people. If sigint didn’t tell the Russian Air Force where they thought the patriots were, they would fly closer to the frontlines than was safe to.

@edvin_hook

3 ай бұрын

@@FireFish5000 also it may not be that bad if russia actully shot it down, considering that ukraine has in the past used missinformation on enemy Communication channels, making the impact of fog of war much worse, or just creating a fake scenario when the pilots or sam operators have seconds to respond.

@antoniohagopian213

3 ай бұрын

It wasn't shot down nor did they say that

U2 and SR71 were replaced by satellites. AWACS are completely different.

@nochannel1q2321

3 ай бұрын

The U2 continues to operate.

@N330AA

3 ай бұрын

@@nochannel1q2321 Yes occasionally. Though talk of it being retired in the coming years.

@DarkKnight52365

3 ай бұрын

@@nochannel1q2321 yes but in situations where air superiority has been achieved or more commonly for scientific endeavors, but it would not be expected to fly into Russia or China as it would be shot down

@nochannel1q2321

3 ай бұрын

@@DarkKnight52365 AFAIK from news coverage we're running U2 flights along the border carrying side-looking electronic intelligence and deep, high grade photography. But I absolutely agree they wouldn't be deployed into an area where there was much of any chance of someone even taking a shot at one.

@RielMyricyne

3 ай бұрын

and drones too. Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk does some of the stuff U-2 used to do.

The reason for AWACs actually proves that the earth is a globe . Once pilots realised the could fly under radar due to the Earths curve , then putting radar at altitude was a no brainer.

@BobSmith1980.

3 ай бұрын

Kind of sad that still needs to be proved to some people

@Gravvvyyy

3 ай бұрын

Funny. I think you misplaced "dome" with "globe." I'll wait for your edit.

@TwoGuysOnePassion

3 ай бұрын

I've never realized THAT is why you can fly "under" the radar, that makes so much sense, damn. I thought it was just terrain interfering

@bwofficial1776

3 ай бұрын

@@Gravvvyyy You're going to wait forever.

@Gravvvyyy

3 ай бұрын

@@bwofficial1776 🧐

The "we shot down our A50 by accident" hoax makes sense. Russia is already on strained shaky grounds on quality and performance of hardware sold to India, and India still has 2 of these on order at over $1Bn a pop. That's a deal they really don't wanna lose, because it's not like anyone else wants it. Certainly not at or above cost.

@navneetsharma8968

3 ай бұрын

But the radar will come from isreal (which also use in current phalcon awacs of iaf) which is one of the most advance radar in world even US pressurized isreal not sell this radar to China when china wanted to buy it ..

@flapperofwar7445

3 ай бұрын

I'm not sure how they think that sounds any better, lol.

@honkhonk8009

3 ай бұрын

Thing is India is full of infinitely more competent engineers than Russia. Especially electrical. India has had a horrible enough time maintaining russian aircraft carriers. Honestly they might aswell just make their own AWACS.

@justinhu9650

3 ай бұрын

Why do I feel like almost every single country has done something evil

@antoniohagopian213

3 ай бұрын

No a50 was shot down. You believe nonsense like usual.

The comparison between Spy Planes and Radar Planes at the Beginning is a bit weak.

@HALLish-jl5mo

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, we replaced the SR-71 with spy satellites. Or, more acutely, the electric transmission of spy satellite photography, instead of having to drop film canisters every few months.

@Dr_Larken

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, just because a spy plane uses radar, doesn’t make a radar plane a spy plane! I feel like that’s misleading for gullible people who don’t understand what’s what. Ie those people who truly believe the J. Brand..Biden’s story when he told people about the time & escapades when he was a top secret spy & he actually met 007 a couple of times!

@phforNZ

3 ай бұрын

Pretty normal for this channel. Entertaining enough but enough inaccuracies I wouldn't call it informative

@michaelusswisconsin6002

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was about to say that the SR-71,A-12, and the U-2 play a different role than an AWACS.

@cadenbigler

3 ай бұрын

We haven't even entirely replaced spy planes with satellites, and that's obviously evident by the US building is successor to the SR-71. Advanced spy planes still hold a roll in US operations even with satellites. ​@@HALLish-jl5mo

The other thing that saved the AWACS crew... when any plane traps on a carrier, they put the throttles to full power until the arresting gear has fully stopped the aircraft. Just for such a situation.

@pedro.alcatra

3 ай бұрын

Yep. On a turbo prop engine it works really well. As the props can be turned to 0 angle of stack and turned back quickly to operating range. The same way I also think they use the propes as brakes

@BanzaiYaris

3 ай бұрын

Was listening to a pilot of one of these on the Mover and Gonky show yesterday actually, they land on part throttle unlike jets, the pilot reacted quick enough to firewall the throttles, something about P factor whatever that is. I thought they'd land on full throttle too. Apparently not.

@wolfboylikesmetal

3 ай бұрын

@@BanzaiYaris yeah it's worth pointing out they land at full nonafterburner too, not quite sure why but I'm guessing with afterburner is probably enough speed to break the cables.

@niczim123

2 ай бұрын

How common is this problem of snapping the arresting cables? Also does the plane have to wait until a cable is replaced or I think they typically have like 2-3 already on the deck, so could the plane just land right away using those?

@xv6701

Ай бұрын

It’s an uncommon problem and standard US carriers have 4x arresting wires.

The boeing phalcon looks like something straight out of ksp on career mode

@azuredragonofnether5433

3 ай бұрын

Except it works.

@SuprSBG

3 ай бұрын

Yeah.

@CrazyBear65

3 ай бұрын

What's ksp?

@Tzshchsjsjxijyo

3 ай бұрын

@@CrazyBear65 kerbal space program

@Anolaana

3 ай бұрын

The Phalcon radome is definitely hilarious.

The plane in the thumbnail and 0:05 is the Chilean Boeing EC-707 "Cóndor", which was equipped with an Israeli IAI EL/M-2075 Phalcon radar array. It was retired in 2022, replaced by two Boeing E-3D Sentry.

@cupgunner

3 ай бұрын

silly plane :-)

@CrazyBear65

3 ай бұрын

Israel is treating the Palestinians the same way the nazis treated the Jews.

One of the reasons why there was a lot of talk about stealthy surveillence planes was the very fact the E-3 Sentry is a relatively slow plane with a detectable radar emissions. There was real fear that the Russians in the early 1980's would develop a modified version of the Kh-22 (AS-4 _Kitchen_ ) missile armed with an anti-radiation seeker and a big warhead specifically to target AWACS; that's why Northrop developed the _Tacit Blue_ platform to make the plane less vulnerable to such a missile.

@jenniferstewarts4851

3 ай бұрын

umm, they did. R-37 missile is a massive missile with a 250 mile range. its not very manouverable but its passive, active, home on jam, and home on radar... its designed to be fired from the extreme detection range of an E-2, to "blind" carrier groups.

@andrewyork3869

3 ай бұрын

​@jenniferstewarts4851 you assume it performs as advertised.

@jenniferstewarts4851

3 ай бұрын

@@andrewyork3869 No, i assume they had an aircraft strong enough to lift the darn thing. ROTFL.

@andrewyork3869

3 ай бұрын

@jenniferstewarts4851 nothing in Russias inventory in the last 50 years has been the threat claimed the R-37 is no different.

@tobymaltby6036

2 ай бұрын

Not sure a Stealth AWACS aircraft was ever gunna really work....

Also stall speeds are determined by the wing not the engines. Typically props have less swept or even unswept wings as they are not designed to go as fast, and this is turn means their stall speed is lower. But it's not due to them having props. Props are more efficient at low speeds however. A 10mw prop will produce more power at low airspeed than a 10mw jet engine which is why jets have longer takeoffs.

@LottoDub720

3 ай бұрын

So it's almost like rear differential gears in pick up truck axles in the sense that 4.10 gears give you more power at low speeds and 3.55 gears give you more power at higher speeds

@yaseen157

3 ай бұрын

I think the argument mr. Host was making is that because its a propeller plane, its inherently designed for slower speeds than a jet - so the propeller plane has a greater chance of taking off with low speed. Its still the wrong train of thought as you pointed out, yes, but if you squint hard enough you can sort of see what they meant

@TheByQQ

3 ай бұрын

@@LottoDub720 That is absolutely not the same. That's not even how gears work. Higher gear ratio means more of the RPM is converted into torque (or vice versa), lower gear ratio means less torque but higher RPM

@Pierrot9315

3 ай бұрын

@@TheByQQwould the right comparison be different sizes of wheels ? A lot of mountain bikes for example use 29 inches wheels these days for an example, slower to gain speed but they travel more and have more inertia

@TheByQQ

3 ай бұрын

@@Pierrot9315 No, that's genuinely the same, since you have gears on bikes too, and even if you didn't the wheel itself would act kinda like a gearbox, by being moved by a smaller gear. An ICE with and without a turbo would be much better, since the limiting factor with jets is the amount of air flowing into the intake. At low speeds (so low RPM, turbo not working fully) the engine has to suck in the air on it's own, but at higher speeds it gets also pushed into the engine (higher RPM, turbo spooled up) and more air means you can burn more fuel and produce more power. A prop doesn't need as much air to function properly. It's like a naturally aspirated engine. It's not going to be as powerful, but you don't need the turbo to kick in to get the full power. But even that isn't perfect, sadly I can't think of a good way to explain it properly

The first prototype of Boeing Phalcon had an unpleasant encounter with wasps. The aftermath was never fixed and made it into full production.

@RR-gp3qy

3 ай бұрын

Haha exactly my thoughts!

Not much point making an aircraft stealthy if it’s carrying a gigantic radar emitter😳

Peanut allergies are no joke in the aerospace design world

Surveillance and spying are two different things. Just like cover and concealment.

Imagine a stealth AWACS. F-35: “Am I a joke to you?!”

@o3ohno123

3 ай бұрын

imagine production of f35

@StrikeNoir105E

3 ай бұрын

@@o3ohno123 The F-35 already produced its 1,000th airframe, and has delivered more than 600 to various nations.

@giovannyc.1724

3 ай бұрын

​@@o3ohno123imagine production of SU 57. It's very difficult

Interesting as a matter of fact one can actually make a version based on B737 Max 7 or A319neo the Boeing 737 Max 7 version would have been treated as another E-7 variant family planes. Max 10 as a P-8 family plane. Looks like it started back in World War II where you had bombers in this type of mission

@MommyKhaos

3 ай бұрын

"Good news! We have a new spy plane based on the MAX 7!" "That's great, where is it?" "Currently burning in the ground after the door flew off and sucked the pilots out" "Oh yeah, forgot they do that"

@EpicThe112

3 ай бұрын

@MommyKhaos if they did that that would have been an E-7B just like how the B747-8 became VC-25B

The U-2 may have been replaced by these, but it's still in service for things like calibrating radars for high altitude contacts and domestic mapping of wildfires. It also buzzed and photographed from above that Chinese balloon that overflew the US and Canada last year.

The E3 is being quickly retired because of cost, age, and availability of parts. It can't be relavent when it can't fly. Their mission was always relavent, but it's adversary wasn't when it was top of it's ability. The Boneyard already has multiple being prepped to be mothballed because current fighters can do much the same with onboard electeonics.

"Just one of these new planes" ?? Dude get your facts straight. E3's are old AF and already being replaced by the new E-7 Wedgetail.

@RielMyricyne

3 ай бұрын

And they don't replace U-2 nor SR-72. Absolutely not the same tasks.

@bigman23DOTS

3 ай бұрын

The wedge tail is good but…I have a feeling it’s about to become great and even greater

My dad was one of the first crews to work on the E3, I’ve always had a soft spot for it.

Really appreciate you mentioning (saying) the distances in miles and showing it in parentheses in kilometers! Like I always say; it's kilometers not ki-LO-meters! You got it right! 👍👍👍

The Phalcon is the aircraft version of "I'm allergic to bee stings"... 😂😁😜

Comparing AWACS to SR-71 and U-2 at the beginning is a misnomer and ignores RQ-4 and other surveillance drones which have taken that role, modern AWACS platforms replaced the EC-121 of that era!

When people talk about "spy planes", they often refer to the aircraft that perform photographic reconnaisance, such as the U-2 and the SR-71, whose task were to photograph large swathes of territory to analysis. The reason these aren't used like before is because of technologies like satellites and more recently drones that are much safer and less expensive in the long run to operate. Also, comparing those kinds of aircraft to the AWACS aircraft is kind of nonsensical because they perform very different roles, with the AWACS mostly used for early warning, communications, and battlefield command and control, which are tasks no U-2 or SR-71 ever handled. Finally, the video really neglected to mention that the reason the USAF E-3's are being retired is because they're meant to be replaced by the more advanced E-7 Wedgetail which are already in service in other nations. Hell, the video already showed the E-7 in footage, yet still failed to mention that fact.

@dianapennepacker6854

3 ай бұрын

If you believe some. The Sr 72 exists. Also the AF already has stated the B21 will be taking up certain recon missions. Thing is supposed to be an intel and possibly EW beast. I guarantee you if that last sentence is true. That means the B 21 can also defend its self, and be a missile truck. While it won't be able to dog fight? It will be able to fire basically any A2A missile.

RQ-180 is a surveillance aircraft and it's extremely stealthy.

@c0r313

3 ай бұрын

was looking for this - seems like the stealthy part is working out well

I thought the plane in the thumbnail was fake 😂. Well played Mr. NWYT... well played.

Squidward looking plane.

spyplane? yeah looks a bit nosy

stealth means can be spotted but hard to be locked on with missiles, jets are quick ,big planes are slow.

@redstonemaster6264

3 ай бұрын

IRCCM Missile: "Meh, bring me 1.5km to him, throw me, and i will do my job properly."

@Charles-A

3 ай бұрын

It can mean both depending on the circumstances. In some cases, stealth planes can be invisible to radar; other times, specially when low frequency radar is used, they can be detected, and what you said is 100% true, they can be "seen" but a firing solution becomes extremely complicated. Instances of stealth being invisible to radar include the F-117 nighthawks in Serbia, of which the only one that was shot down was because the air defense radar was used in the lowest possible frequency and because the bomb bay doors were open. With more modern planes we have the F-22 intercepting F-4 phantoms and being completely invisible until it made itself known by visually approaching the planes and actually communicating via radio

@nopants3560

3 ай бұрын

Stealth is to AVOID DOGFIGHTS its about beyond visual range attacks , who saw who first. Russia ,putting this aircraft in the range of a Ukrainian weapon system was foolish. Ukraine are being coy ,deliberately . maybe they got intel from NATO or maybe the have a new deadly weapon . Keeps Russia guessing. BUT I guarantee there weren't 65 POWS. I've seen the footage and theres about 3 or 4 bits of bodies , like hands and messed up Torsos.

@earlvinbicoputinov1566

3 ай бұрын

Stealth also means that it can only be spotted from a closer range, so stealth aircraft can fly in-between radars undetected, where other aircraft would be detected. That's because, due to the small radar cross-section, they are out of detection range

@Kriss_L

3 ай бұрын

B-1B Lancer is big, and fast.

Thank you man, always a pleasure

If KZread auto-plays when you don't want it to and you pause it after 1s you get NWYT yelling 'Spy Plane!'

your channel should be named "sometimes its not what you think"

so nice to have metric also displayed!

Chile recently purchased second hand E-3s from England. Very interesting video, greetings from Chile!

You should make a video about the f-4 or the f-15

Fun fact. The E2 hawkeyes are rarely ever in the hangers. Theyre the first out and the last back. Mainly because theyre big and you cant really launch any other aircraft with it still on the deck. Its usually already lined up on a cat just waiting.

Hawkeyes were the first military aircraft ive ever seen growing up. It's because we live near a base, and planes fly over our house at low attitudes all the time

To be fair, the E-2 Hawkeye uses Turboprop engines so it still uses jet fuel

The first AWACS aircraft for the US Navy was the E-1 Tracer.

Love the coffee machine inside these plane. All crew drink them like 30 times each time it flies.

Looks like that aircraft is having some sort of allergic reaction.

Wow that FedEx bit near the end got *real* 😯😏👉 Neat Technology- Laser

"Light up like a christmas tree" im pretty sure I've heard it somewhere... reminds me of a certain pig...

The U2 has not been replaced. Lol

I really hope the Navajo get a SIGINT or AWACS helicopter named after them. It would be so cool to honor the code talkers.

please do a video on these (this is a copy and paste list for a few channels) units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches) like the 82 snd 101 airborne units or infantry tank units, (or when tanks were assigned a infantry unit like i think earlier war Russia then all tanks were formed into there own units wich meant the infantry no longer knew the true strength of there own tanks but alowed tank units to fight more efficiently) the tank doctrine of countries evaluation of tank veiw ports evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries evaluation of aircraft types of different countries, different between navil and army/air force fighters logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2 ww1 estern front tactics Russian Civil war tactics and strategies navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works) evaluation of types of ships or evaluation of navil warfare (or just dedectsded videos on ww1 and ww2 navil doctrine as theres stuff out there on other times of history) air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries) ancient persan ships, ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser) ships used by genoa and the vernesain republic the vernesain republic government all sailing ships, (i know theres many on yt but some contradict each other and i think theres more left out) ancient macenean greek and trojan troops 2b9 vasilyok morter tactics used so far in the Ukraine war, better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3, and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks, ancient urban warfare ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords, (and Chinese civil war) tactics in the ruso jap war cold war navil tactics, Korean war tactics, strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil how were 17th centry sailing ships build types of bombs lunched by drones comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say) why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations) why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this

The reason the Navy uses props vs turbo fans is not the stall speed of the prop. Although propellers and fan blades both can stall. The airplane shown that recovered from the cable break is because the wings have a low stall speed that allowed it to gain lift before the plane hit the water. The reason for the props is better fuel efficiency at lower airspeeds.

The U2 is still in service and being replaced by armed UAVs. Electronic warfare, radar monitoring, and communication is very different mission to areal surveillance.

That boeing phalcon looks like it got stung by a bee

@NotWhatYouThink AWaCS stands for Airborne Warning and Command System. So where did you get Airborne Warning and Command Force from? My guess, is all your scripts are read out by an A.I.

AWACs is the most important role in war

@sbr7018

3 ай бұрын

heavily debateable

@honkler5974

3 ай бұрын

@@sbr7018you won’t hit what you can’t see

@ChinaPower1

3 ай бұрын

no

@AirShark95

3 ай бұрын

I'd say its the transport vehicles. No fuel, no supplies and no food? Well you're pretty much done for. Can't get the troops to the area they need to be in for an offensive or defensive maneuver? Well might as well welcome the enemy with a red carpet. Logistics is the one and only God of War.

@L0K0M0T1V

3 ай бұрын

@@honkler5974 You can't hit without something to hit with. I much rather would want to have the possibility to hit even if it's not guaranteed I will see my target. Than Only being able to see.

One thing you didnt mention that I'd be curious to know more about is why the E3's seem to be coal-rolling at low altitude? I get to see E3's flying out of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska from my office all the time, and they are some of the dirtiest, most EPA unfriendly vehicles I have ever seen, leaving dark plumes of exhaust in their wake.

@rainerbowden2714

3 ай бұрын

Some air pollution dosen't rlly matter when there are enemy aircraft invading ur country

@stevenshea990

3 ай бұрын

the E3 uses a turbofan engine designed in the 50s with famously smokey exhaust. It's shared by the b-52 and some 707s, which have similar smoke plumes

@shadowridged224

3 ай бұрын

Fortunately, the E-3 is now only a stopgap until the E-7 arrives. Congress deemed it more important to acquire the E-7 than to reenginee the E-3, which Frances has done.

@nightjarflying

3 ай бұрын

"Rolling coal" in this case is caused by water injection which increases engine thrust, particularly at low-altitudes & at take off. It is soot particles from fuel that hasn't been completely burned. It has little effect on the environment [Alaska has good air quality] & looks much worse than it really is. Though I'm glad I don't live near soot emissions. When I was a kid in 60s UK it was common to have smog days so bad you couldn't see your hand at midday in the industrial cities from coal burning. Compared to that a few engines burning inefficiently are nothing given that they serve a wider purpose that protects our lives & freedoms [such as they are].

@JarrodFrates

3 ай бұрын

​@@stevenshea990 The B-52 is getting new engines that won't do that as part of the upgrade to the B-52J. They will be quieter and have little or no smoke, but will also be more efficient and have lower maintenance costs since they're based on an engine that is in current production.

Never under estimate your opponent! Russia constantly coming up with new weapons..

NWYT, do you play DCS? Because you seem like the exact type of person who plays DCS and/or other hardcore flight sims. 😄

"One awacs can cover all of poland" ME, a former E3 Radar maintainer: Yeah... just poland! totally just poland!

I love your videos

I don't think AWACS will be completely replaced anytime soon. The combination of stealthy high tech sensor aircraft like the F35 in combination with one huge AWACS is likely the most deadly combo in the sky for any opponent.

putting in a prediction, they want to abandon those planes due to maintenance and operating costs

Why does that plane looks like it wants to charge me 20 % interest on a loan?

@navienslavement

3 ай бұрын

Oy vey, it's only a small fee for my troubles, I need to feed my family and keep my business 👏

@user-gu8qi4me8x

3 ай бұрын

​@@navienslavementI actually genuinely agree with you

😂 “We shot down our own A50.” Russia says this as if it isn’t more embarrassing than an enemy shooting it down.

AWACs didn't replace the U-2. Satelites did on top of the fact that missile reach increased to the U-2's operational altitudes. The U-2 designed to operate in different mission environments than AWACs. AWACs are designed for combat zone reconisance where you have freindly combat aircraft and ground forces active.

The B21 will most likely act as a replacement for these systems.

Ukrainian SAM operator: "And I took that personally "

ho god, that wasn't a clickbait thumbnail

0:04 hey, thats the 707 cóndor from my native Chile, ty for showing it. (he do be a lil ugly, but I love him like that)

The Boeing Falcon looks like it needs a Benadryl tablet.

Russian A-50U would highly disagree ;)

6:00 the crew was like oh sh*t and then they are like how did it recover

there is two kinds of stealth. blending in and becoming invisible, or yelling so loudly they can't hear your foot steps and locate you.

The statement that the U2 dragon lady has been replaced is inaccurate, this information is from the USAF website: "U-2S is home based at the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air Force Base, California, but are rotated to operational detachments worldwide. U-2 pilots are trained at Beale using five two-seat aircraft designated as TU-2S before deploying for operational missions." Facts are importance.

"Flying where only eagles dare"

they can provide information over the area of whole poland me: hold up *looks outside*

1:03 Did you really say that AWACS can't be shot down? There was one literally shot down last week.

@niclink1030

3 ай бұрын

Pretty sure he talked about it like 3 minuts later

@MotanTurbat

3 ай бұрын

@@niclink1030 And that makes it better? "It can't be shot down, here's one that was shot down earlier!"

@auqanova

3 ай бұрын

theres a big difference between a russian awacs being shot down and a nato awacs. the russians have historically had inferior sensors, training, and even simple aircraft build quality. add in russias unwillingness to share any information, and we dont even know if their awacs have defensive jamming, or air escorts, or are being trained on SAM avoidance. but in nato a full escort, safe operating parameters, countermeasures, jammers, and communication with the awacs is not a question, its considered the bare minimum.

2:56 Just a correction regarding the E7 Wedgetail - it was made for and mainly operated by the Australian Air Force, the British airforce do not currently operate any although they have put an order in for some.

POLAND REFERENCE POLAND REFERENCE

Another great video! 👍

@thebigone9781

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 I'm a former pilot this is junk

I know this isnt the case, but when the Hawkeye broke its cable, the tracking camera's overlay went from showing a C in the upper right to a blinking F! F! F! F! F!, which my brain translated into "Cool" and "FARK FARK FARK FARK", as Im pretty sure thats what suddenly everyone on (and unfortunately, off, the flight deck suddenly started thinking

as someone who did maintenance for the rc135v/w i understand but still annoyed we dont get any mentions

6:01 THEY DID THE ACTION MOVIE THING

Of course Russia "shot down their own plane"

@nopants3560

3 ай бұрын

Thats a war crime to kill pow ! anyway I'm sure it was a Patriot , looking at the shrapnel damage on the airframe. Biggest question is what plane it actually was. Theres a missing IL-76 somewhere. The suggested Iran return flight seems to be incorrect . only time will tell

@niclink1030

3 ай бұрын

​@@nopants3560think hes talking about the a-50

You left out one of the best defenses an AWACS has against long-range SAMs: turn away from it and dive. Those missiles only have such a long range while flying at high altitudes where the low drag allows them to reach very high speeds and thus cover long distances. If you dive down to low altitudes, the missile has to dive to chase you "into the soup", at which point the high drag kills its momentum and it won't be able to reach you anymore. This is a useful defense against any rocket-powered missile, but especially against heavy, long-range missiles like the largest SAMs.

Saying either the U-s or SR-71 was replaced by an E-3 is like saying that air craft carriers replaced battleships. They serve different roles with little overlap.

They call it The Karl Malden express . 😅

Your enemy doesn't need to shoot down the AWACS ... They can simply track it and wait for it to pass so they can launch an attack with low flying fighter jets or cruise missiles

The second plane has a tumour.

a machine that is supposed to keep watch on everything designed to look like Mr Magoo huh😂

Great video!

Plot twist, they are stealthy. You just don't see those ones.

The Chilean Air Force's Phalcon was retired in 2022 due to the airframe's age and increased cost of maintenance. It was replaced by two E-3D Sentries.

2:59 so we’re not going to talk about the flying carpet that was captured in this footage!

@gaveintothedarkness

3 ай бұрын

Its clearly a weather balloon!

the second deadliest fleet of a single large, slow, and unmanuverable plane sent on a slow and predicatable flight path in broad daylight in a warzone ever devised.

That plane can smell where the aircraft is

The E3 is not "also called the AWACS", it's an example of an AWACS plane. That would be like saying the B-52 is also called the bomber.

I wonder about the part on missile defense. Sure, getting a lock from a ground radar might not be a great idea, but what's stopping them from firing home-on-radar/home-on-jam missiles? You dont need a lock for those. Putting hardkill on these is probably a good idea.

In reality, the Chilean Boeing 707 PHALCON AWACS was recently replaced by former RAF E-3 Sentry (from Delta variant) and the Israeli Air Force replaced them with smaller Gulfstream Eitan (with their characteristic radar array embedded in a Gulfstream G.550 airframe).

The thumbnail kun is given so much freedom🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲💥💥

There are no heavier air-to-air missiles. An Amraam Air to Air guided missile only weighs around 160kg and probably has a maximum range of 180 km. This is similar to the range of a ground-based Pac-2 Patriot, which weighs approximately 1000 kg. It would be possible to build very heavy rockets for Air to Air Use of very high reach.

Good video!

thumbnail plane looks like a dog that got stung by a bee

e3 can jam like EA18 ? Thats someting new.