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Hey brother, I thought I'd lave another suggestion for another amazing story by "The Fat Electrician" since he does such a great job, if interested. "The Berlin Wall: How Communism Turned East Berlin Into A Prison State"
...compared to people in the service. He's kind of foul-mouthed. PG-13 language and stories. I'm not complaining, I enjoy his stories, but his language and topics are usually not family-friendly.
@@Stevarooni The topics are not family friendly, the way he presents them is as family friendly as you can get without disrespecting the story, the people involved in them, or the actions taken. you can't talk about the time the US strapped napalm bombs onto bats without getting gritty. Like, what's the family friendly version of "we set bats on fire to set a city and it's people on fire"? Military stories are seldom without fuck bombs, or a clusterfuck of fuck bombs, let the kid listen to the word, and if you have kids and are afraid of them learning that shit, slap their mouths everytime they say it. Eventually though, they'll start asking questions as to why the fat electron guy can say it and they can't, tell them "Because if you say fuck, shit, asshole, or anything like that, I have to answer for whoever you piss off, when you're an adult and you pay for the consequences of your actions, you can say it" it worked for me at 12, it will work for you. you welcome.
@@Stevaroonihe's a American veteran telling American military history stories, the British aren't foul mouthed but they fuckin lost and shouldn't be telling our stories. You're fuckin welcome for our service 🇺🇲
@@johngillespie3409The fact you believe the british to not be foulmouthed tells me you are as educated about the rest of the world as 95% of America. The average brit drops more c**ts in a day than you'll find on the hub. Nevermind the irish, welsh or scots😂
Depends on what side you are on....if you are on the US side, then it is usually terrifying but good. I imagine if you are on the other side you hear the scream of a red-tailed hawk, a whistle and then realize they effed up...
The Fat Electrician coins the terms Grunts and Craft's when America improvises a weapon. A lot of the time they work out a lot better than they should have. Examples include Gun trucks of Vietnam To an extent of what they did to the PT boats during WWII The M50 Ontos Armored tractors The M2 Stinger. He has videos on all of these. America: If we don't have the weapon to make the other guy regret their life choices, we'll make one.
He talks so quickly, but to answer your "shrug" around 2:15, Fat Electrician loves to make fun of the words "dictator" and "cockpit." For dictator, think male body part and a potato - dic. tater. Cockpit seems pretty obvious to me. But I love his switching of words. Cracks me up every time.
Your pronunciation is just fine. I was at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia during this time. One of the facilities at that base is the Inactive Ships Facility, with a couple dozen inactivated destroyers. Overnight, all of the destroyers had their gun barrels vanish - cut off at the turret face - and shipped off to make more bunker busters. Because Iraq had lots and lots of bunkers that needed some 'love.'
That clip you saw and laughed at was from a Leslie Nielsen TV show that only lasted half a season it was called Police Squad! you have to see the whole clip, there were three movies made from it, The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2 1/2, and The Naked Gun 33 1/3, he also starred in the movies Airplane and The Scary Movie franchise, he is hilarious and has been in so many moves and basically plays the same type character in all of his movies
I loved your reference to MacGyver! I hope you were talking about the original MacGyver, I don't know anything about the newer one! You did very well on your translation!
I have learned all kinds of things since I started to follow you.... thank you....❤ Did not know the story behind the bunker buster bomb.... crazy... 😁
The US can act quickly if it wants to. Years ago, when the wars in the old Yugoslavia were in full roar, we were using MC-130H aircraft to drop food to the people around Saravo. We found out that the aircraft were vulnerable to the portable Surface to Air systems that were in the area. On a Friday morning we were asked if we could modify the planes to counter those SAMS. That afternoon we told them we were ready to do it they said to hold off. Saturday morning they called us to execute our plan. The plan required three contractors who hated each other, (cutthroat competitors), six+ different Government facilities/organizations, and three MC-130H aircraft. Saturday afternoon two of the contractors were flying to the third armed with drawings and data, equipment was being pulled from multiple Government warehouses/production lines and being hand carried or shipped overnight. Sunday the first MC-130H arrived at the third contractor's facility. The design was finished and approved by Tuesday. The modification was done and installed on Thursday. We tested the aircraft on Friday, and two mod kits were on the way to Europe by Sunday on the test aircraft along with tech reps to install them. By the next Wednesday all three aircraft were flying combat missions into Serbia/Croatia. Everything was done on handshakes, e-mails and trust. It took over six months to figure out what it costs and who got paid what. When lives were at stake, everyone can work together. Remember you can get something quicker, cheaper, or better performing, but you can only control two of the three.
A couple of points: 1. The movement to put together a coalition and stop Saddam started pretty much immediately when he invaded Kuwait, but it took time to get the political ducks all in a row. The US President at the time was sensitive to the fact that if we just went in guns blazing on our own, half of Europe would see America as a rogue aggressor. Also he was facing some opposition in Congress. So the whole thing started with political maneuvering, and three months is actually pretty fast for global politics to pull off a mostly-unified front like that, especially with important countries like Russia and France dragging their feet. Did Saddam's trick with the petroleum prices tip the scales and get a few more people to sign off on the thing than otherwise would have? Yes, and that probably accelerated the time table as well. But it was going to happen anyway. Enough people remembered their high school history teachers talking about WWII happening because the League of Nations barely even sent Hitler a sternly worded letter each time he took over a smaller country (Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, ...), that the political will was there to stop Saddam before he could finish consolidating his gains and invade whoever was next. Especially in America, because we have a close ally in the Middle East that would not have been very far down Saddam's list of targets (and, indeed, during the war he did lob some missiles in their direction, mostly ineffectually; they wisely hunkered down and hid behind the American troops and their Patriot anti-missile systems, because more active involvement from them would likely have drawn in more countries on Saddam's side, which nobody wanted except maybe Saddam, and his vote wasn't being taken into consideration at this point). 2. Iraq's military, though large, was not nearly as powerful as they wanted people to think. As is generally the case with Eastern powers, Iraq wanted to be perceived as more powerful than it actually was, so in addition to its actual military prowess they also displayed a lot of smoke, mirrors, braggadocio, and outright fabrication. They made a big deal out of how well trained their Republican Guard was, but honestly the _average_ American soldier was just as well trained, and the RG was a small portion of the Iraqi military, most of which was nowhere near as well trained. Further, a lot of their equipment was ex-Soviet military surplus. Just to pick on one example, quite a lot of those missiles he mentions in the video were twenty-year-old R-17 Elbrus ("Scud" in NATO parlance) unguided tactical ballistic missiles, an incremental improvement on the V2 rockets that Germany used in the Battle of Britain in the forties. They weren't so old as to be completely useless, but their capabilities were notably limited. And so on. I don't want to pretend that Iraq didn't have some military power, because they did. But if push had come to shove, Israel would have wiped the floor with them and their allies, though they would have sustained losses doing so. America was in another power class altogether, making the conflict heavily asymmetric. Calling the Iraqi military the fourth most powerful in the world at that time, strikes me as probably an exaggeration, and if it's not, then it's a very sad commentary on the extent to which standards had slipped in Europe.
For the record, Andre, although Hussein managed to escape being blown up in one of his many bunkers, he was was ultimately discovered inside a "spider hole" mini-bunker of sorts and was eventually executed.
4:07: that's a ZU-23, the same gun the Iranians used to open fire on our Navy during Operation Preying Mantis. It's actually quite a dangerous weapon for low altitude, close range air defense as it's mainly an optically sighted system (meaning the gunners have to see the target directly) and you won't know it's there until after it begins firing. Used properly (usually the crews have radios linking them to the radar operators who will call out incoming aircraft to them), it can be hell on helicopters and low-flying strike aircraft.
Desert Storm the air war day one and parts 2,3, and 4 are also a good watch. even though they are a little long. These bombs are mentioned in that series.
There is a channel, I believe it is 'The Operations Room' that has a series of videos on Desert Storm you should check out. The Air War, Day 1 is the first one I believe.
Your confusion about the dic-tater joke is explained by potatoes being nicknamed as taters on the states. Thus the dictator joke is created, should need to explain the first part of the word.
Iraq wasnt that strong they just had a lot of troops and a lot of outdated equipment. That worked against small countries like Kuwait not so much with America and its allies who have top of the line military equipment and soldiers that knew how to use that equipment.
There was also the fact that the USA had GPS and integrated CNC in all their tanks, meaning that they not only knew where they were in the featureless western desert that no one wanted to fight in (because they'd get lost), but every platoon leader knew where the others were and where they reported the enemy as being. The technological edge involved in both land and air forces was immense.
Let's not forget that the Iraq/Iran conflict, while long and bloody, was conducted in a manner that most modern militaries would consider poor at best. Irag had a large army, with a lot of outdated equipment, but the quality of its troops and officer corps where complete crap. That more than any other factor played into just how fast and overwhelming the coalition was against Iraq.
A great video to get a better idea of what actually happened to Iraq, check out this video title: "Desert Storm - The Air War, Day 1 - Animated". Not cartoony animated, moving map animated.
Iraq was strong on paper BUT all of its technology was ancient or broken a couple of A-10s and AC-130s would have won by themselves America is like a new Tesla where the rest of the world is similar to the horse and buggy
Fat Electrician basically just redid this video: th-cam.com/video/KJTq9yb_Zow/w-d-xo.html Used the same timeline and even pictures. Not a horrible thing but kinda lazy.
Well yeah, because those pictures all come from open source places like Wikipedia lol. Furthermore, the video you linked is ungodly boring with a narration that sounds like the dude would rather be wiping his but with sandpaper instead of commentating that video.
Donald Trump needs to watch this and if at all possible, see why his derogatory comments about the defenders of our country are an abomination. He claims to be patriotic.
Gave you a thumbs up however I just couldn't watch the video because this guy has a very foul mouth. It's disturbing that we or I say most people find this language acceptable. Love From Michigan and it's a very cold Evening temp is 9 degrees.
He's an American army medic veteran telling American military history. This is the way we talk about the fucked up shit you fuckin civilians had us fuckin do. 11C Lightfighter you're fuckin welcome for our service 🇺🇲
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You should watch the Desert Storm videos from Operations Room
@@colejohnson8853I was about to type that in bro
Yes please European react to operations room
Hey brother, I thought I'd lave another suggestion for another amazing story by "The Fat Electrician" since he does such a great job, if interested. "The Berlin Wall: How Communism Turned East Berlin Into A Prison State"
Sir, as an Army guy I can tell you, every video of the fat Electrician IS the family friendly version.
...compared to people in the service. He's kind of foul-mouthed. PG-13 language and stories. I'm not complaining, I enjoy his stories, but his language and topics are usually not family-friendly.
@@Stevarooni The topics are not family friendly, the way he presents them is as family friendly as you can get without disrespecting the story, the people involved in them, or the actions taken. you can't talk about the time the US strapped napalm bombs onto bats without getting gritty. Like, what's the family friendly version of "we set bats on fire to set a city and it's people on fire"?
Military stories are seldom without fuck bombs, or a clusterfuck of fuck bombs, let the kid listen to the word, and if you have kids and are afraid of them learning that shit, slap their mouths everytime they say it.
Eventually though, they'll start asking questions as to why the fat electron guy can say it and they can't, tell them "Because if you say fuck, shit, asshole, or anything like that, I have to answer for whoever you piss off, when you're an adult and you pay for the consequences of your actions, you can say it" it worked for me at 12, it will work for you. you welcome.
@@Stevaroonihe's a American veteran telling American military history stories, the British aren't foul mouthed but they fuckin lost and shouldn't be telling our stories. You're fuckin welcome for our service 🇺🇲
@@bogustoast22none25he's a army medic veteran and gets to talk that also. 11C Lightfighter. Got lots of fuck bombs in our stories 🤣🇺🇲
@@johngillespie3409The fact you believe the british to not be foulmouthed tells me you are as educated about the rest of the world as 95% of America. The average brit drops more c**ts in a day than you'll find on the hub. Nevermind the irish, welsh or scots😂
I checked Portugal was in the collation that fought Iraq in the Gulf War.
How about Japan?
Japan played a support role. @@AayYoWhatUp
@@usmc24thmeu36 nice, how about Argentina?
What did they send one soldier or MREs
@@AayYoWhatUpno Argentina was too busy trying to regroup itself from the ass whooping it got from UK but then it got distracted with communism FACTS
Telling the US military "I don't know, figure it out" is either the best or worst idea ever. Sometimes both
usually worst... That is one thing about the US military... if there isn't a way to unalive the enemy, they'll make one.
Depends on what side you are on....if you are on the US side, then it is usually terrifying but good. I imagine if you are on the other side you hear the scream of a red-tailed hawk, a whistle and then realize they effed up...
The Fat Electrician coins the terms Grunts and Craft's when America improvises a weapon. A lot of the time they work out a lot better than they should have.
Examples include
Gun trucks of Vietnam
To an extent of what they did to the PT boats during WWII
The M50 Ontos
Armored tractors
The M2 Stinger.
He has videos on all of these.
America: If we don't have the weapon to make the other guy regret their life choices, we'll make one.
It's weird....I'd never heard of the Fat Electrician until recently.
Now I see his content constantly.....and I love it!!!
He started on Tik Tok and exploded on youtube.
That would explain it.@@vagabondwastrel2361
Portugal sent a small ship and 2 transport aircraft to Desert Storm. About 50 people.
He talks so quickly, but to answer your "shrug" around 2:15, Fat Electrician loves to make fun of the words "dictator" and "cockpit." For dictator, think male body part and a potato - dic. tater. Cockpit seems pretty obvious to me. But I love his switching of words. Cracks me up every time.
He started on TikTok and had to squeeze a bunch of information in 3 minutes. Tater jokes are gold 🤣
I like the fast stories. He gets right to the point.
Andre, your English has improved so much! It's always been good but it's really becoming quite wonderful. Just wanted you to know.
Your pronunciation is just fine.
I was at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia during this time. One of the facilities at that base is the Inactive Ships Facility, with a couple dozen inactivated destroyers. Overnight, all of the destroyers had their gun barrels vanish - cut off at the turret face - and shipped off to make more bunker busters.
Because Iraq had lots and lots of bunkers that needed some 'love.'
“Where’s Portugal , got damn it no Portugal” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That clip you saw and laughed at was from a Leslie Nielsen TV show that only lasted half a season it was called Police Squad! you have to see the whole clip, there were three movies made from it, The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2 1/2, and The Naked Gun 33 1/3, he also starred in the movies Airplane and The Scary Movie franchise, he is hilarious and has been in so many moves and basically plays the same type character in all of his movies
"This guy goes too fast!"
He is a _very_ fast talker, even for native English speakers. 😁
He started on TikTok and had to get a lot of information in 3 minutes.
@@johngillespie3409 Yeah, but he keeps it up through a 2-hour podcast, too. 😆
Fast Talker? Two words: Ben Shapiro.
In the 1950s the US had a canon that fired a nuclear shell BOOm. Look it up...Atomic Annie.
We used to have nukes that fit in a backpack that allowed you to adjust the size of the blast as well...
I loved your reference to MacGyver! I hope you were talking about the original MacGyver, I don't know anything about the newer one! You did very well on your translation!
You got my subscribe just for being Portuguese, may grandfather would have loved your channel
0:55 that clip was from one of the Naked Gun movies
I have learned all kinds of things since I started to follow you.... thank you....❤
Did not know the story behind the bunker buster bomb.... crazy...
😁
The US can act quickly if it wants to. Years ago, when the wars in the old Yugoslavia were in full roar, we were using MC-130H aircraft to drop food to the people around Saravo. We found out that the aircraft were vulnerable to the portable Surface to Air systems that were in the area. On a Friday morning we were asked if we could modify the planes to counter those SAMS. That afternoon we told them we were ready to do it they said to hold off. Saturday morning they called us to execute our plan. The plan required three contractors who hated each other, (cutthroat competitors), six+ different Government facilities/organizations, and three MC-130H aircraft. Saturday afternoon two of the contractors were flying to the third armed with drawings and data, equipment was being pulled from multiple Government warehouses/production lines and being hand carried or shipped overnight. Sunday the first MC-130H arrived at the third contractor's facility. The design was finished and approved by Tuesday. The modification was done and installed on Thursday. We tested the aircraft on Friday, and two mod kits were on the way to Europe by Sunday on the test aircraft along with tech reps to install them. By the next Wednesday all three aircraft were flying combat missions into Serbia/Croatia. Everything was done on handshakes, e-mails and trust. It took over six months to figure out what it costs and who got paid what. When lives were at stake, everyone can work together. Remember you can get something quicker, cheaper, or better performing, but you can only control two of the three.
A couple of points:
1. The movement to put together a coalition and stop Saddam started pretty much immediately when he invaded Kuwait, but it took time to get the political ducks all in a row. The US President at the time was sensitive to the fact that if we just went in guns blazing on our own, half of Europe would see America as a rogue aggressor. Also he was facing some opposition in Congress. So the whole thing started with political maneuvering, and three months is actually pretty fast for global politics to pull off a mostly-unified front like that, especially with important countries like Russia and France dragging their feet. Did Saddam's trick with the petroleum prices tip the scales and get a few more people to sign off on the thing than otherwise would have? Yes, and that probably accelerated the time table as well. But it was going to happen anyway. Enough people remembered their high school history teachers talking about WWII happening because the League of Nations barely even sent Hitler a sternly worded letter each time he took over a smaller country (Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, ...), that the political will was there to stop Saddam before he could finish consolidating his gains and invade whoever was next. Especially in America, because we have a close ally in the Middle East that would not have been very far down Saddam's list of targets (and, indeed, during the war he did lob some missiles in their direction, mostly ineffectually; they wisely hunkered down and hid behind the American troops and their Patriot anti-missile systems, because more active involvement from them would likely have drawn in more countries on Saddam's side, which nobody wanted except maybe Saddam, and his vote wasn't being taken into consideration at this point).
2. Iraq's military, though large, was not nearly as powerful as they wanted people to think. As is generally the case with Eastern powers, Iraq wanted to be perceived as more powerful than it actually was, so in addition to its actual military prowess they also displayed a lot of smoke, mirrors, braggadocio, and outright fabrication. They made a big deal out of how well trained their Republican Guard was, but honestly the _average_ American soldier was just as well trained, and the RG was a small portion of the Iraqi military, most of which was nowhere near as well trained. Further, a lot of their equipment was ex-Soviet military surplus. Just to pick on one example, quite a lot of those missiles he mentions in the video were twenty-year-old R-17 Elbrus ("Scud" in NATO parlance) unguided tactical ballistic missiles, an incremental improvement on the V2 rockets that Germany used in the Battle of Britain in the forties. They weren't so old as to be completely useless, but their capabilities were notably limited. And so on. I don't want to pretend that Iraq didn't have some military power, because they did. But if push had come to shove, Israel would have wiped the floor with them and their allies, though they would have sustained losses doing so. America was in another power class altogether, making the conflict heavily asymmetric. Calling the Iraqi military the fourth most powerful in the world at that time, strikes me as probably an exaggeration, and if it's not, then it's a very sad commentary on the extent to which standards had slipped in Europe.
For the record, Andre, although Hussein managed to escape being blown up in one of his many bunkers, he was was ultimately discovered inside a "spider hole" mini-bunker of sorts and was eventually executed.
Different wars
@@jamesrustles8670 That's irrelevant, what I said is still true
4:07: that's a ZU-23, the same gun the Iranians used to open fire on our Navy during Operation Preying Mantis. It's actually quite a dangerous weapon for low altitude, close range air defense as it's mainly an optically sighted system (meaning the gunners have to see the target directly) and you won't know it's there until after it begins firing. Used properly (usually the crews have radios linking them to the radar operators who will call out incoming aircraft to them), it can be hell on helicopters and low-flying strike aircraft.
Your reactions are great, but to be honest, I'm here for your jokes. 100%, you are hilarious!
There. I said it. x
Well to be honest, you speak English better than some of my Louisiana friends (water-boy). Thanks for sharing.
The average size of a house here is 1400sqft or larger. Smaller is a Granny unit. The garage isn't included in the square footage of the house.
2:40 The EXACT day I was born! January 15th, 1991!
Anyone going to tell this guy about the M50? The US makes fun toys all the time.
I’m still waiting for like, half the reaction channels to do this video about the bazooka chariot. It will blow their minds lol
Desert Storm the air war day one and parts 2,3, and 4 are also a good watch. even though they are a little long. These bombs are mentioned in that series.
More on this era, check out the battle "73 Easting". Plus check out the new gbu thar we are using!
Mcguiver Good One and Correct!
I love this guy!!.. and the valentine/penetration reference was perfect!!! Loved your reaction.. thank you!! xo
The U.S. has one weapon that could have taken out those bunkers, but they were understandably hesitant to use it.
The Nuclear Bunker Buster.
Compared to other youtubers I think he talks fairly steady, not to mention hes great at explaining things
There is a channel, I believe it is 'The Operations Room' that has a series of videos on Desert Storm you should check out. The Air War, Day 1 is the first one I believe.
You should definitely look into the very unique terrifying R9X missile.
We actually discovered more oil in America than anywhere else so we're good now. 😂
Love you all too brother!
Yeah, it worked. lol
Theres a video series on youtube from the operations room that covers desert storm, you should react to it
I agree, a very well-produced, well-presented, and well-researched series. I love The Operations Room content.
This is the second half of his video that you did like 2 weeks ago
It was the proportional video where we took out the Navy that they were fighting
Don't worry about the joke lol trying to understand them is how you learn. Cool channel- new subscriber
Your confusion about the dic-tater joke is explained by potatoes being nicknamed as taters on the states. Thus the dictator joke is created, should need to explain the first part of the word.
Iraq wasnt that strong they just had a lot of troops and a lot of outdated equipment.
That worked against small countries like Kuwait not so much with America and its allies who have top of the line military equipment and soldiers that knew how to use that equipment.
There was also the fact that the USA had GPS and integrated CNC in all their tanks, meaning that they not only knew where they were in the featureless western desert that no one wanted to fight in (because they'd get lost), but every platoon leader knew where the others were and where they reported the enemy as being. The technological edge involved in both land and air forces was immense.
Let's not forget that the Iraq/Iran conflict, while long and bloody, was conducted in a manner that most modern militaries would consider poor at best.
Irag had a large army, with a lot of outdated equipment, but the quality of its troops and officer corps where complete crap. That more than any other factor played into just how fast and overwhelming the coalition was against Iraq.
you should watch operation paul bunyan done by Fat Man you will like that story.
Oh, that is definitely NOT what Stormin' Norman was saying. He was being really sarcastic, basic saying that the man was a useless piece of trash.
The truth is stranger than fiction
It’s just don’t mess with us
Your english is fine sir.
MURICA!
A great video to get a better idea of what actually happened to Iraq, check out this video title: "Desert Storm - The Air War, Day 1 - Animated". Not cartoony animated, moving map animated.
Iraq was strong on paper BUT all of its technology was ancient or broken a couple of A-10s and AC-130s would have won by themselves America is like a new Tesla where the rest of the world is similar to the horse and buggy
You have an American TH-cam channel and are trying to be family friendly? My friend, family friendly left America's chat a long time ago 😂
Fat Electrician basically just redid this video: th-cam.com/video/KJTq9yb_Zow/w-d-xo.html Used the same timeline and even pictures. Not a horrible thing but kinda lazy.
Well yeah, because those pictures all come from open source places like Wikipedia lol. Furthermore, the video you linked is ungodly boring with a narration that sounds like the dude would rather be wiping his but with sandpaper instead of commentating that video.
Donald Trump needs to watch this and if at all possible, see why his derogatory comments about the defenders of our country are an abomination. He claims to be patriotic.
Gave you a thumbs up however I just couldn't watch the video because this guy has a very foul mouth. It's disturbing that we or I say most people find this language acceptable. Love From Michigan and it's a very cold Evening temp is 9 degrees.
He's an American army medic veteran telling American military history. This is the way we talk about the fucked up shit you fuckin civilians had us fuckin do. 11C Lightfighter you're fuckin welcome for our service 🇺🇲
He sucks at everything but he's smart cause if they say anything they'll die
Outdated technology from russia