Should the US Spend Money on ACTUAL Defense? Air and Sea Defense of the US Mainland
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It would seem a simple solution is already out there and we just need to execute it.
1. Seal the southern gap by adding an additional radar station near southwestern Tennessee.
2. Reactivate and modernize Nike system.
NewsNow is a good resource as well. And free. You can corroborate with other articles and see the bias from certain sources. Almost real time reporting.
wheres my comment
These American "news bias" apps are just hilarious.
Oh the NY Daily News, such lefties supporting freaking Mitt Romney in 2012...
The US has no left. There are only two parties in the US, a right wing party, and a far right wing party.
l wonder when😵
The Nike system was badass. Especially for its time.
Yeah kind of weird that the Soviets NEVER stopped defending their cities despite the 72 treaty, yet the US took the opportunity to slash costs by leaving ours completely undefended. Pretty bad when literal communists are doing a better job at taking care of their people.
Sprint missles were also pretty awesome. Hot enough to melt metal in atmosphere? Yes please
the ADIDAS was more badass
Oh yea, airbursting nukes above all our OWN cities is badass.
There were Nike missiles stationed out on rockaway during the Cold War. Not a very comforting thought that they’d have to use nukes just to even have a chance in hell of stopping warheads or even bombers.
@@50megatondiplomat28 you have your answer in your response. There is a difference between following the rules and breaking all the rules in order to get your way. Chernobyl is more than just a footnote in history.
While I am a HUGE critic of the USSR and Communism in general, it is a verifiable FACT that, while the US government Civil Defense Plan ONLY focused on Continuity of Government by the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union's CD plan focused primarily on preserving the lives of their population. To this day, major cities in Russia will evacuate up to two million citizens to underground shelters in CD drills. It's almost like they understand that for a nation to continue to exist, it must have the people that compose that nation largely survive. The United States did and still does absolutely zero planning to preserve the lives of our population in the event of a nuclear conflict and I think that is a major indictment of what has become an absolutely worthless and rotten character in our ruling class.
Here, Here, well said.
That would explain what the rich and famous are buying and upgrading the bunker as of recently
750K+ deaths from COVID is a proof of that.
A lot of Americans balk at the thought of government-provided preventative protection though (and paying for it), so a major push for static civilian defenses might not be politically feasible anyway.
The US Govt did try various CD programs. There's still a good number of shelters in NYC for example, and the "build it yourself" shelters that they encouraged for a good long time for the average home to make in the backyard.
But let's face it. If anyone in the US were directed to a Government owned shelter for their own safety, they'd say NO. VIOLENTLY. Because everything is apparently a conspiracy.
Even the US National Guard are organized into deployable Brigade Combat Teams, not really territorial defense structures. As for State Defense Forces, they hardly organize for actual combat.
PS: The replies underneath me have devolved into irrelevance.
as if anyone is going to conduct an land invasion, the US army is still there too.
The unofficial Largest Army in the entire Planet is the Armed U.S. Citizens there are over 500 million fire arms and billions and billions of rounds of ammunition from all known calibers.
@@hernandez-perezandroid5983 except they are unorganized, have no supply routes, no leadership, no proper training. Y'all ain't no taliban.
@@hernandez-perezandroid5983 LOL! Good luck fighting againts airstrikes, armoured vehicles and artillery shells with your "500 million firearms". Armed civilians are absolutely useless against a nation state army. Just see how much succes militia units had in Iraq... the Fedayeen even had heavy weapons like heavy machine guns and anti-tank weapons, and they still got butchered even by US light infantry units.
@@LowStuff and the taliban has...all of those?
I'd say it's time to defend us from ourselves.
I see that you're drinking the Russian, Iranian, and Chinese Kool aid
Economic stability would stop most internal problems we have
@@rodrigorodriguez6332 i see that you prefer trump aid. you only think in enemys, lol you are your greatest enemy, you and your fears
Civil War 2 Electric Boogaloo
@@jbauerlu2 the enemy is the people who want isolationism and wants us to withdraw from the world as a sole superpower the trumptards want isolationism the stupid libs want peace I want war with Russia china and Iran anybody who bought the propaganda that we have a social problem is a traitor of this country
When I was stationed at Ft Hood, I always had this semi joke that if the base came under some sudden mass terrorist attack, like Olympus has Fallen level stuff, we'd be absolutely demolished. All of our tanks, arty, helicopters, and heavy weapons would be useless because of the massive paper mountain for drawing ammo. So the most defense you'd have is the gate guards and MPs, mostly with 9mm handguns, and the married soldiers who live on base and own their own firearms
It'd be even worse if it was Red Dawn type stuff, an entire professional army paradropping right on top of your post in the middle of the US, with armored vehicles, airborne tanks, and gunships
You mean like the crew aboard ships at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, who had to break open ammunition lockers to start shooting back?
Red Dawn military strategy is to attack high schools, not bases like Ft Hood
I wrote and said the same thing many times over. You would have more resistance from landing in a large town than a military base given that civilians have immediate access to arms and ammo.
@@ronmaximilian6953 difference is that ammunition on American military bases is stored on the other side of post, far away from the unit areas and motor pools
@@SlavGod47 I know. I also remember Nidal Hassan's Jihad shooting at a base
Only 5 seconds in and my answer is yes, yes, and yes. Pretending we’re completely safe from missiles or drone swarms is a terrifying miscalculation we can’t make
I recall checking on interception of bombers off the US coast. On average, we detect Russian bombers at roughly the distance where they would be ~20 minutes from their targets. The time it takes for F-22 fighters to intercept average 38 minutes. F-15's drops this down to 33 minutes.
Yeah.
US is helpless and defenseless against hypersonic weapons. So the mistake has been made and we can proof read it. Just like communist trolls online always make that mistake of not ending sentences. Something no 1st grader passing their written test would ever do. We can proof read that in the annual NSA report to US Congress.
Especially when you're determined to piss off every peer adversery.
@@MrFlatage You should take a break off social media if not including a period makes you think communist troll
@@Cabin_Fever13 Haha sorry in my lands of the free the mighty red, white and blue flies. That means no one tells me what I should do? So you are attacking proven facts as well now and? Telling people what do to? Yes luckily we have proof and evidence from the NSA report that you are a communist. It also states that a Chicom troll would attack people and? Yes even attack what they think. Who attacks people and what they think? Yes communism. A classical personal attack because the official source with the evidence? Yes you cannot attack the United States can you? There is another person you can attack though. He is called General John E. Hyten. The 2nd highest military officer who took the oath of office before US Congress and tell them ... That they are 'helpless and defenseless against hypersonic weapons'. Ofcourse a commie troll would attack truth and fact under the U.S Constitution and scream at military experts. Just like the report said you would do. Love how you tick every box!
6:59 and on is the craziest military test footage I’ve ever seen. It’s so ominous and has almost the feel of meteors coming down from space, it just looks wild.
Have to disagree on the United States being offensively focused in development while their communist counterparts being purely defensive. The ballistic missile treaty was broken when Russia displayed “hypersonic glide vehicles” that could “evade the US anti-ballistic missile system”, and was visualized striking a landmass that was instantly recognizable as Florida. The only known ballistic missiles* in service are of course the ones in static silos and in submarines and they are both incredibly old.
The US's anti-ballistic missile system negates Russia's nuclear deterrence, thus, increasing the possibility of a US strike on Russia without Russia's ability to defend itself. This is accentuated since the US's ABM shield is on Russia's border, not within the US's border.
@@hermanwooster8944 the US ABM complex is nowhere near large enough to defend against a nuclear attack from a world power. It is focused on defending against small numbers of ballistic missiles from smaller state actors like Iran and North Korea (something that has been openly stated as not to raise tensions with Russia/China).
@@TT-hd3zi That argument doesn't hold up to scrutiny. If Iran and North Korea were the threat, then why is the missile shield in Poland and Romania rather than in Iraq and South Korea? Why is the radar system in Turkey rather than Israel? Geographical reality indicates these are designed for Russia.
Consider the history. The ABM Treaty was signed with the USSR in 1972 to stop nuclear proliferation. In 2001, President Bush indicated he would exit the treaty despite Russia insisting this would lead to a new nuclear arms race. The US ignored these pleas and Russia has embarked on a new nuclear arms race.
Part of the problem is the new US ABM shield is modular and can easily be retooled to house intermediate ballistic missiles -- at the time a banned weapons system. The Russians were wary of a "defensive" missile shield being rapidly turned into an offensive, illegal, weapons system. Since the US has exited the INF treaty that banned intermediate ballistic missiles in 2018, authors have urged the US to do exactly what Russia feared -- convert them into offensive weapons.
Unless the US suffered from inaccurate maps that misled them where to place their missiles, I don't think anyone actually believes for second that the missile shield is for Iran or North Korea. Last time I checked, those countries never threatened Poland or Romania. The ABM shield presents a legitimate threat to Russia and they have responded in kind.
@@hermanwooster8944 Primarily because it is easier to defeat a missile system in its ascent as opposed to trying to destroy all reentry vehicles and decoys.
@@hermanwooster8944 For Iran, it makes more sense, but I would guess the U.S. is still concerned about a rogue launch from Russia as well. I know after the cold war ended we were very concerned about both security and command and control of Russia's missile stockpiles. There are not enough there to counter a major strike, but keep in mind that if you pull a string tight from northern Iran to say New York, the ark of the string will pass rather far north in Europe and well into the range of Polish based interceptors. I actually do understand why the Russians would not like anything at all that might shoot down even one of their missiles though.
Covert said that many countries now have an ability to use cruise missiles.
Before, this situation was halted by the US that didn't sell cruise missiles, but recently Russia announced that it starts selling export variants of Kalibr rockets, (with range up to 300km), so after 10-15 years almost every country that has a hostile neighbor may have hundreds of them: All African states, South American States, and some countries in Asia.
didnt Russia sold lots of Kalibr rockets to Malaysia and Many other countries last year or so
Curse you, Putin
@@abraham2172He sells his missiles, cz those are much better and cheaper then what America's offering it's allies....mostly warplanes, 4th and 5th generation. What Putin is doing is no different then what the US has been doing. Only, Putin's merchendise is a lot more affordable for poorer countries who can't print currency out of thing air.
@@KondorDCS The question is, are they really "much better and more reliable" or is that just russian marketing propaganda? Dont forget Putin is a master of propaganda, since he doesnt have the economic might to compete with the United States elsewhise. He even built a whole "troll factory" in St Petersburg, a building full of people getting money for praising his regime on Social media, amongst others on TH-cam...
@@abraham2172 Better and more reliable in that you don't have to do as much to keep a missile battery functional. It's easier and cheaper to maintain an arsenal of glorified scud launchers than it is to build up an entire aerospace industry capable of keeping your planes flying and train dozens of competent pilots to fly them.
Basically: America's selling battleships, russia's just selling the cannons.
Emma with her two moms are more than enough
If USA ever gets attacked, we will retaliate by filing a nuclear sexual harassment report.
Yes, the us and Canada need air and naval defence, The threat of peer militaries is growing, especially in the Arctic, additionally the Chinese will have an intercontinental stealth bomber capable of reaching Canada and the United States in five years
It’s a serious gap, the fact that the Russians and Chinese have advanced systems we don’t, already developed, already experienced, and standing by to deploy where they need them. We have the tech to make top of the line AD systems, but we don’t have the constant experience, the same way the Chinese are having to catch up learning how to use their carriers. And when we might need them, we better already have it because there won’t be time to order, design, develop, and then have congress cancel the project and start over, repeat several times, then finally get a product mass produced and deployed, ofc over budget, under performing, and just in time to become obsolete and need replaced.
@@fromthefire4176 if you think it’s bad in the us it’s 100 times worse over here in Canada, we have the worst procurement process on the planet, in the us it’s price vs capability, in Canada it’s price vs capability vs civilian jobs, and civilian jobs always win over the other two, worse yet it’s not the military who decides when The military needs new equipment, it’s politicians Who have 0 knowledge when it comes to defence, so that’s why it’s really important The public learns about this, so they can influence the politicians, because on our current course we are a prime target for invasion
@@canadiandefenceinitiative3599 I think an invasion of Canada will give anyone invading it experiences of Afghanistan. Plus Chinese stealth aircraft sucks as they got detected by SU30MKI.
never want to put all your eggs in 1 basket, so yes they are needed
@@belluh-1huey102 Yeah lol, not even a chance China would attempt such a thing. It would be a disaster for them.
You are magnificent. Greatly structured info with great visualization! Wow.
You're awesome.
FYI, the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was replaced by Flexible Response Strategy during the Kennedy Administration.
In administrastion level yes, but in political level, no, mad was still unreplaceable.
You actually fell for a made up cold war propaganda rant?
And those Nike Missiles protecting NYC that were located in Mahwah NJ had nuclear warheads because the guidence systems in the ‘60s weren’t good enough to ensure a kill. A nuclear warhead just had to get anywhere near the Soviet bombers to bring them down.
Hypersonic vehicles are by their nature somewhat hardened. I wonder how close a detonation of a nuclear bomb would have to be to disable one?
Best defense is always a good offense
I don't think the Chinese carriers are a risk to mainland US. Maybe Guam.
For real lol
😂 America never thought that China will become manufacturing hub and global 6G player. Now Hypersonic again. 😂😂
Xizingping "I love this white man superiority days dream".
Lol 😅😅😅 this comment hurts the ego of some fanatic Whiteman superiority. 😂😂.
I don't like China either, but I feel funny some still in the dream of whiteman hegemony. Whereas they are interested only in oil;
Afganistan, no oil, leave it to their fate.
Mayanmar, no oil, leave it to their fate. Talking about humanity but without a prize( money,power and oil) to gain just ignore it.
@@lolhing4626 the fuck you talking about? China only exists because of foreign investment.
@@lolhing4626 found a ccp bot. +10000 social credit for you.
Underestimating them is the worst thing to do
Nah. The US is very lucky it does not share border with any country, unlike China, India or Russia or Europe. So there are no threats. This is why the US military is offense-driven. 13 carrier battle groups plus long range bomber aircraft like B2 and F117 and Tomahawks.
While the Ground Based Midcourse defense is expensive, it's a midcourse phase interceptor, meaning it shoots the missile down before it releases it's warheads in the terminal phase, leading to less missiles needed since you aren't targeting individual warheads. What about the Sm-3? It to is a midcourse phase ICBM interceptor, much cheaper as well... While nothing is perfect, the US defense is great, and lasers will not be used on hypersonic weapons do to the plasma they build up burns much hotter then any laser. A plasma cutter you or I could buy at home depot burns hotter then anything the military has now or will have. Hypersonic missiles need heatshields to be able to withstand that temperature, negating lasers unless hit in the boost phase or unless someone makes lasers strong enough(MW) to have the range to hit them in their midcourse phase. Otherwise lasers will be used on sub and supersonic missiles/rockets.
GMD and SM3 are exo-atmospheric interceptors smart ass. HGVs are endo-atmospheric 99.9% of the time. HGVs only travel above the karman line for 500km so you can forget about midcourse intercept. Idk why people keep voting up for this pretentious guy.
Crying troll when you get served facts you can't refute. Nobody is following you, just happen to subscribe to the same channels and unfortunately get to suffer your embarrassing pretentious comments everywhere I go.
"Joined Dec 17, 2020" Watch out for the troll above, they follow me around and have multiple accounts, best to block and mute. I guess they don't remember how the SM-3 was originally designed for boost phase BMs. I guess the Sm-6 also does not exist nor any other SM series missile. Are you are China or Russian bot?
Deleting comments now lol. SM3 uses exo-atmospheric kill vehicles, they cannot survive at speed in the atmosphere period. So no they can't chase down an ICBM at boost phase. And now you are moving the goal post with SM6. Try THAAD genius if you want to shift the talk to terminal phase missiles - Mach 8 and both endo/exo-atmospheric.
I heard a report about using much shorter wavelengths to penetrate the plasma and also to penetrate the outside of the hypersonic vehicle. The trouble is that we have nothing within many orders of magnitude in such short wavelengths as it would take tremendous intensity to have enough energy absorbed internally to damage a vehicle or even its electronics.
There is simply zero chance of a Foreign power mounting a successful invasion of the US Mainland, the logistics alone are simply beyond anyone’s ability to overcome, the movement of the number of troops needed, insanely long and vulnerable supply lines and a very well armed population. The only way the US falls is from within and we are doing a splendid job of that without any help.
It's not about invading and occupying the US mainland, it's about preventing a nuclear attack. No country would want to invade the US but plenty of countries would be willing to send a nuke onto the US mainland, that's what this video is about, defending against those missiles is the point of this video
lol no so wrong. You see when you fight a real war you kill every civilian. If they were to launch a surprise attack and gain air superiority they could systematically bomb every city. Then mop up the survivors with ground troops. Not to mention how easy it would be if they used chemical and bio weapons.
We have defenses. We just don't talk about it.
@@D.Trout222 US has like 80 million heavily armed population. Noone can even take out this population let alone US military. And indeed. The logistics alone will maken it impossible even for something like China
Why do you think China has taken to “unrestricted warfare”
GMD (ground based mid-course defense) also has only a 55 percent chance of first shot kill probability meaning multiple 75 million dollar missiles have to be launched, and we only have enough to intercept a handful of missiles, which is fine maybe for North Korea but, an opponent like China is really scary.
Mutually Assured Destruction was abandoned as a strategic concept in the 80s because it doesn't match with Game Theory. Nuclear Utilization Target Selection is the name of the game nowadays, but MAD still gets used in all the movies because it's a familiar phrase and sounds like bigger stakes to your typical viewer.
Source?
I don’t understand what that is supposed to mean. MAD is something real, not something to accept or abandon. Or are you saying the US or assume any other country won’t counter launch all their missiles if attacked?
MAD was abandoned in the early 60s by the Kennedy administration and replaced with Flexible Response Strategy.
Well the concept of MAD was bascially around since the soviet union had their first nukes and it lives on until today. Before ICBM's bombers got deployed in mass scale just to assure that if you get attacked at least some of your bombers will be able to hit the enemy even if they destroy a certain number of your bombers.
This is basic military strategy, that's the reason why the US has not just one Minuteman III Missile or one nuclear submarine, no even further that's the reason why the US has more than 1 Abrams Tank or more than 1 Soldier.
The more weapons you have the bigger is the chance to inflict damage on your enemy.
MAD hasn't been abonded nor will it ever be, it just got pushed to the max from caveman fighting with sticks to the most capable destructive force ever discouvered by mankind implemented into a weapon. Just because the US gov changed the name for MAD doesn't mean that this changes anything in the basic perception of nuclear weapons as they are meant to, when used in a large amount, completly whipe out your enemy even if they try to get you with the first punch.
@@TheBooban Basically, the new version says that if an enemy launches one and only one nuke at you, then you launch one and only one nuke in return. The idea being that both sides lose everything in MAD, but both sides lose less in NUTS. It turns nuclear warfare into another ladder of escalation and offers more opportunities for both sides to back down with their populations, economies, and militaries largely or at least partially intact.
Put another way, if both of us had guns, and I dumped a cup of water on your head, would you pull out a gun? Rational people respond to escalation with force of a comparable level, because both of us wet is better than both of us shot.
Offense is the best defense.
Defense is the best offense
@@user-pd9ju5dk5s Not for the US which is geographically isolated from the rest of the world, if you understand my point. The defence of the US mainland won't defend its trade or other interests.
@@rick7424 America should send China millions of its women for marriage so Chinese men will become happier and more peaceful. China's going to use that gender imbalance for war unless we send them wives so they'll want to settle down and start a family instead of fighting. It's a small price to pay
@@user-pd9ju5dk5s China won’t become more peaceful until the CCP is gone.
@@RussellWarshay Idk, it's more peaceful than the US. Hasn't started as many wars as the US in the past 40 years 😳. Send them American women so they wont use the gender imbalance for war. Best way to avert a global crises
I recall back during the first Cold War, there was talk of putting missiles on orbiting platforms and station them in geosynch orbits over target countries, but that was negotiated out. Now there are the possible Rods from God, tungsten steel rods the size of telephone poles that would be dropped from orbit onto targets at over 10 times the speed of sound and go bang with kinetic energy alone. We would have MAD from space.
Me staring out my window as NORAD defense system fail to intercept and contain unknown flying nuclear objects which seem to strike north of el Paso county on November 3rd, 2022
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He's usually so pro American, it's a wonder he doesn't have the 'star spangled banner' playing in the background.
Where is he pro american?
For as far as i know he is doing is best to not be biased
@@themightycat7238 yep he is not in anyones favor .
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We have emma and her 2 husband moms to protect us
Emma and her two moms would wipe the whole Russian and Chinese armed forces with the power of love and diversity.
Recently their aircraft carrier caught on fire. Thats what happen when you let someone who have 2 mom operate a war machine.
@SHIIEEET why wouldn't I worry about that. That's worse.
Pretty stupid comment. It’s sad we have so many bigots and homophobes in our country.
@Not A Shitbag PV2 If they're trained and armed, who gives a shit?
Thank you for all you do.
US: Builds one GMD, removes all tanks from Europe
Russia: That is a blatant sign of aggression! Deploy Iskanders and invade Ukraine!
US: has 100s of bases within 100km of Russia
@@r.p5380 Russia has bases within 100km of USA's European allies.
@@jakeaurod And even tactical nukes !!
They have nerve claiming the west is " escalating"
@@r.p5380 It's like Putin is acting like a "President for life"
@@jakeaurod Yeah they're neighbors with Russia. I'm pro weapons sales but not occupation. We need to get the hell out of there. Russia has for some reason been patient with us. Where as JFK almost started a war because of Cuba. We also had to remove nukes from near by the Soviet Union. Watch Tales Of The American empire channel.
Americans feeding their own enemy and creating a headache for the world
Thanks for the ground news link.
Yes. Let’s seal the southern border and move to a model of full legal immigration only.
Was going to say, drugs and people seem to be able to get through without any problems.
Where are Emma and her 2 mom husband when we need them most?
@@GuderII I don’t get the joke.
I don't understand why those would have been taken away at all.
Love your videos!
Lets start with a boarder fence
A *what*?
Keep it up. These videos are the best.
Pretty ironic the term *DEFENSE BUDGET* is not actually for defense, instead, its for offense
Sometimes the best defense is having an offense.
Geography pretty much gave the US the best defense system there is(Yeah goodluck invading through the Canadian tundra or the Mojave Desert) though it can be better.
Good luck trying to get a foot hold across an ocean in the most civil armed nation
Both China and Russia have military bases in Mexico and all aroubd south america.
@@jeremybstudentpilot5315 No, I am sorry, there is no Russian military base in Mexico, currently Russia maintains military bases in the following countries outside of their borders: Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Syria, Tajikistan, Vietnam, and upon occupied territory in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova. They have no bases in the Americas at present and were warned that we would invade a particular country if they were to build one within it just a few years back. They do not even have one within Cuba at present. As for Communist China, it only has bases outside of its country in Myanmar, Djibouti, and Tajikistan. Incidentally, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore, The United Kingdom, and Taiwan all maintain military facilities, or bases, within the United States, though most of these are training bases. Canadians share control over North American airspace with the U.S. and are jointly based in many cases with the U.S. at bases in the U.S. and Canada.
@@richhagenchicago They are there trust me. They been there for 20 years. Its very hush hush.
@@jeremybstudentpilot5315 Ok, whatever you wish to think. I have extra aluminum foil if you wish for me to send it to you for a new hat.
There is no strategic advantage for anyone. At this point. As the empire wanes and reaches out to destroy it's enemies in ever more desperate ways they may require it but at this point the world is just tired and working very hard to maintain local agency against the worlds first truly global empire.
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Besides land or space, directed energy weapons might be mounted on naval vessels or, more interestingly, on high altitude airships.
We are orders of magnitude away in terms of power in order to shoot down or disrupt hypersonic missiles that will already be hardened against thermal damage and surrounded by light blocking and electrically conducting plasma at their bow. Atmospheric conditions might have negative impacts upon the effectiveness of such weapons depending upon their operating frequencies as well. It is hard to beat the speed of light though. . . . .
@@richhagenchicago I'm not knowledgeable enough about plasma physics or Re-entry Vehicle design to know if re-entry shielding provides protection against directed energy weapons. My understanding is the blunt nose design causes the plasma to detach, which keeps a lot of the heat away from the surface. A directed energy weapon would hit it directly. And it may not be necessary to destroy it, if the applied impulse or changes in surface geometry cause the RV to tumble in a way that damages it enough so that it does not survive re-entry intact, or trips some sort of failsafe, or causes the RV to miss the intended target (but bad for those who might be at the place it hits if it otherwise initiates properly).
@@jakeaurod Like you I do not have enough information, but what I have heard is that our current state of technology for such weapons is orders of magnitude less than what we would need for them to be reliable against such craft. Larger radius curves do cause a greater space between the surface and the plasma as I recall that much from designs for thermal management of reentry vehicles.
Or you could build a massive bunker network where the goal of nuclear war isn’t to avoid being hit but to survive a hit.
I feel like you know something lmaooo
I mean it's very pointless, the environment will literally be destroyed sooo
@@jimtroy4380 we're talking about the US's budget here.
There have been sections of the country that already connected underground. Not to mention the KNOWN underground routes (there's a map out around).
Look at the Chyanne Mountain Complex, and tell me they don't have bunkers (not like CMC, like half of CMC potential) in every possible point.
@@jimtroy4380 but yes environment wise, yes. They know that but don't care.
Nah bro bunkers are literally the most expensive shit to build and the capabilities of mankind really reach it's borders when it comes to construct a bunker that would survive one, possibly even more nuclear strikes.
Which country is more "friendly" that one who focus on offensiv or that one focusing on defensive weapons?
Does the U.S needs defending?
No.
Does the rest of the world needs defending from the U.S?
Yes.
Oh wow I've been thinking about this for several weeks. Nice
You still have the SSBN fleet that can destroy any nation.
problem is you might not now who shoot nuke at you, then you gonna fire nuke at who?
@@mobiuszero2424 If it gets sent by air missile or bomber they know exactly who sent it. Also each nuclear weapon design is unique with tell tail isotopes ratios left behind. Even more easy to identify the source than are chemical explosives.
@@matthewhuszarik4173 yes you can detect it if it was detected by radar, ICBM trajectory can be calculated, bomber has operational range, but if someone disguise the payload as "satelitte" and actually put that in orbit for long time you have little time to detect and respond to it, its true that SSBN will still be safe, but they might not get the order to retaliate since HQ already destroyed before they can respond
@@mobiuszero2424 True there are many ways to hide the immediate delivery. But any satellite in orbit the source is known because they are all continually tracked. A more real risk is smuggle a weapon in across the boarder or under water into a port. That is why the Russians nuclear torpedo is so significant I think even more so than hypersonic weapons.
@@matthewhuszarik4173 sure they are but once they move or launch you only have so little time to react, might not even enough to assess whats going on. SSBN also cant communicate 24/7 , they must get certain signal to surface and after that they can communicate or get the message
How about spending money on HEALTHCARE, INFRASTRUCTURE, DIPLOMACY etc?
NPR said that we should stop building missile interception systems, then China would stop building new ICBMs.... I'm sure thats totally how that would work 🤔
And I’m sure they totally said that.🤔
Defence is futile. Just overwhelming offence.
Budgeting is futile. Just overwhelming debt.
Attacc
Keep em coming!
*Hypersonic glide vehicles **_do not_** undermine the US second strike capability via it's strategic submarine fleet* - they do however counter _US ambitions for circumventing the valid 'mutual assured destruction' doctrine via missile defense systems_ , eroding the relative trust that had been established by the 1970s *ABM treaties* since 2001.
That is *the strategic context* in which these arms were developed by Russia and China - and are now deployed, maintaining _their_ second strike deterrence.
Deploying military lasers in space means _militarizing space_ , increasing the probability of skirmishes, escalating into full scale war e.g. in case, early warning satellites are being taken out - just as merely German naval buildup _incentivized_ the British Empire to declare a preemptive war unto a rather surprised Germany in 1914 (using the 'Treaty of London' of 1839, directed against a potentially Bonapartist France and a revanchist Protestant Netherlands as a pretext)...
The video _does_ adress these points - but considering the political climate, they need to be _stressed_ .
A question that may be raised is in regard to the actual effectiveness of both, ballistic missile defenses and hypersonic vehicles in general, as these technologies are challenging and their procurement may well benefit manufacturers more than commanders...
Something worth noting, I think the reason that both Russia and China have been particularly interested in both hypersonic cruise missiles and glide vehicles recently, even though they have much more powerful ICBMs, is because the US has developed some extremely capable anti-ICBM defense system. Any such system would heavily depend on ICBM parabolic trajectories being predictable, and would therefore be useless against cruise missiles and glide vehicles with unpredictable trajectories.
@@yaz2928
"I think the reason that both Russia and China have been particularly
interested in both hypersonic (...) glide vehicles (...) is because *the US has developed some extremely capable anti-ICBM defense system* . Any
such system would heavily depend on ICBM parabolic trajectories being
predictable (...)"
I'd say we shall find out what 'extremely capable' means in the event of an all out thermo-nuclear exchange of thousands of warheads.
But as I wrote, the US encroachment in Eastern Europe (Poland) and the Far East (South Korea) to install ballistic missile defenses - 'against Iran and North Korea', so the claim - triggered the recent arms race for hypersonic weapons.
There's no scientific proof of a consistent counter against a free falling ICBM warhead, protected by decoys or sheer numbers within 30 km distance - but e.g. US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense against single medium range missiles could interfere with Russian and Chinese regional, _theater_ capacities.
In that case such installations would be prime targets for hypersonic vehicles with their difficult requirements for a short atmospheric glide - and if these places are operated by the US, increase the risk of escalation from a regional conflict to a global nuclear conflict.
A point that should be noted is that almost all current documentation on missile defense systems - especially on social media platforms - is presented by manufacturers and their lobby organisations - which is as trustworthy as marketing feminism in Afghanistan for two decades...
Can you do a video on the New North Korean expo and all the weapons that were just unveiled.
:D
The major concern of America's enemies is our submarine force. It's undetectable and unstoppable. Our submarines ensure that America will always be able to hold any enemy accountable.
That's what the Germans thought too. 😅
US submarines are not undetectable…
@@MemeNChillGermans in WWII were building subs to replace sunk ones so they knew they were detectable. Nor did any have missiles launching from submarines that could mass hit land targets, let alone nuclear missiles that go into space, on nuclear powered submarines.
@@TT-hd3zi i swear who is supposed to be the guy finding them out here? I MEAN REALLY? You morons gas up russia like there an actual peer. you and what navy? give it a rest.
at least U.S is adapting
you forgot that the US has THAAD and SM3
With JB in office ain't nothing gonna change.
Im sure everything would be great with DT
@SubtoPolecat324 lmao
Ah yes. Forgetting the nonsense of the steam catapult cult.
@@Student0Toucher Everything was great right up to the Pandemic. Then it all went to shit. If it wasn't for the Pandemic and how badly it was handled DT would have easily sailed to a second term.
@@Recovering_Californian Yea but DT failed to handle the pandemic good lol and he’s Presidency caused a way bigger division
I love the way you wrote 'ACTUAL Defense?' with caps. It really is comical when you put the word in context like that.
No need to defend the mainland as long as we can project power all over the world, but we should be investing more into defense of those places so we can do it more comfortably.
@SubtoPolecat324 And we could turn both of their capitols into a wreck, it is MAD to attack anything on the US homeland. It is a deadwish, Japan should’ve taught this you since they merely attacked Hawaii and still got it all. The nuclear bombs were merely mercy bombs, since the bombs which were already being dropped were way worst.
@@Andrea-1998 nuclear bombs were mercy bombs? Want some mercy showers at your own home?
@@hiteshadhikari lesser is evil is better, if the US didn't drop those bombs and invaded the mainland more people would have died.
Plus it was the only way to stop Japan and other countries aggressions since they knew the US could strike them down at any moment which, ultimately decreased the wars and ended many wars to come.
Japan murder and killed millions of people, It's their own fault they didn't surrender.
@@hiteshadhikari The firebombing of Tokyo alone killed twice as many people as the nuclear bombs did combined, people are merely more scared of it since the superpowers wanted it to be seen like that.
@@Andrea-1998 ah yes hundreds of firebombs vs 2 nukes is same.
Even the numbers dont help u
What about genetic issues caused? Generations hurt?
Numbers help anyone with a clear motive to discredit or credit something they wish maam
"beeing able to completely stop a nuclear attack on you"(8:30), i wold not call destroying nukes over your own country totaly stopping a nuclear attack. It will still spread alot of radiation especially if theres more then one ICBM beeing shot down.
Defend against Joe Democrats
They will destroy everyone else before they destroy themselves
allot of sources put the range of the Kh-101 and 102 at 4500 - 5500KM
that means that a KH-101 or 102 can reach Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Even Area 51. from Novoye Chaplino within Russian territory.
Better ground based radar and missiles are key. Ours are outdated. We need S-400 and S-500. We could recreate Moscow.
Doesn't our patriot defense system have a problem with targeting friendlies?
Great video, well thought out.
The problem with the US is that they think they can’t be touched they think there untouchable 🤦♂️
Yeah, go ask Japan what happened when they touched Pearl Harbor, apart of the U.S., you may touch us but you might not live ever again after that. We nuked Japan (TWICE). Yeah, to an extent we are untouchable, otherwise many nations would have already tried to take on the United States. They know that doing so is a death sentence. I mean if we launched nukes at Japan way back then, what's going to stop us doing so a second time against an adversary.
@@NimaEUUS Taliban: hold my goat
Yes, I think we need better defenses on the US Mainland.
Thing is - there's so no such thing as "defensive weapons system". Every weapon system is offensive by default. Whether a weapons system is deployed offensively or defensively is a matter of the circumstances.
id like to see you try and hurt someone with chaff
For all the money we spend, how is it that the US is caught with its pants down like this?
Most of the RND money was spent on stuff for fighting terrorism. And since the end of the cold war less money was pumped into the military. America has now woken up to the threat and is racing to be at the front. Be interesting to see what will he coming out in the next 10 years
"Fighting terrorism" lmao. We all know what the fuck the US were doing in the middle east
The best defensive weapon is economic. America could easily preempt WW3 by defunding its adversaries through rescinding unfair trade agreements and building its own domestic economy.
That carries the potential risk of further enraging the adversaries. And btw, who's talking about unfair trade? It was U.S. that started to exploit the cheap Chinese labor force knowing full well the countries have polar opposite values. We feed our enemies then act surprised when they grow.
@@hamzamahmood9565 I agree it was some really short sighted policy decisions that got the US there. Interesting perspective you share that the cheap Chinese labor was exploited in the process as well. The US can't go cold turkey without economic and political damage to both sides. It would have to be a more gradual scale back - if that's even possible now.
Unfair trade agreements, America trades dollars for goods, and America is the only one printing dollars,how can there be an unfair to America trade agreement.
Within 26 mins the comment section is lit.
The US's isolated geography almost guarantees that no nation will invade the USA. Invading and conquering the US (physically half-a-world away from Africa, Asia and Europe) would provide no benefit for any nation. If nations want to attack the US to weaken it or cause fear, they have to cross an ocean from east or west. That means dealing with the US Navy and/or Air Force. It makes no sense for the US to have any substantial defenses in the 21st Century, This isn't 1812 anymore where the US is bordering an empire. The US spends most of its defense budget on aggressive weapons, its navy and air force, because 1) offense is better than defense and 2) the Navy and Air Force are the first line of defense for the USA.
We claim we’re intelligent life.. but deep down we’re all animals
Let’s go Brandon
wat
EXACTLY !!!!! WE HAVE NO MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM AT ALL. ON THE ENTIRE WEST COAST. WE ONLY HAVE TWO AIR DEFENSE BASES. VANDENBERG AF BASE. AND ONE OTHER. SOMEWHERE IN ALASKA !!!!
Let's go Brandon, you effing lib
wat
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@@JaegerMatthias wat
Cant defend it from whats coming...
Doesn’t China have the world’s largest Navy?
@Emrys it’s kinda like having the largest Air Force but with unskilled pilots
Largest in terms of number of ships, yes. But not in terms of tonnage or number of missiles tubes, the metrics that really matter.
In terms of ships yes, in terms of tonnage (literal size of fleet if combined) no
@Emrys yup, the bulk of China navy (just like Russia) is made up of ancient Soviet era ships. Sure they have something formidable here and there-but nowhere near as consistent at the U.S Navy.
@Emrys quantity has a quality all it’s own
Yes, unfortunately. The U.S. is going to have to update its defensive and offensive countermeasures.
New York: has 3 air defense batteries.
Dallas: 250 I need a way for my people to practice their second amendment if world War III happens.
US Government:...... Why are you like this?
The best defense is offense.
Basically a video about everything that has been talked about for the last 5 years
Pretty sure nobody making TH-cam videos knows anything about the true classified spending of America's missile defense...
Empires fall.
Except America
Jp America will fall one day but not anytime soon lol and this video proves nothing on that
America is not an empire
@@RANDO4743 Right, China acts more like an empire since it's aggressively claiming territory already long governed by its neighbors. Most US military presence overseas though is done by invitation, since for the hosts it's more beneficial to have Americans contribute to their defense than to use more of their own smaller economy to develop and maintain a full-featured one all on their own.
The best defense is a good offense.
Canada said they'll defend the US
with their free healthcare
lol One nuke or even many won't "decapitate" the US military. There's a reason the US has nukes stationed around the world and at sea all of the time. Hitting the mainland does not mean you won't be hit back.
After leaving Afghanistan, the arms industry needs a new cash cow…
Why not invest 500 billion in healthcare? Or switching to metric? Or fixing the rotten suburban infrastructure? It's not even a full yearly budget of the military...
I'd be on board with the third one. Metric sucks and everything run by government sucks.
"Developing unique methods of delivering nuclear warheads will really cut back on the possibility of ever having a nuclear war" LMAO 🤣 you could tell the writer forgot about the existence of SLBMs until the script was almost over but was too lazy to go back and make changes to account for there existence.
diected energy weapons have problems.... range down low, and getting rid of waste heat up high..
Go Brandon!
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wat?
@@JaegerMatthias this is a Worldwide movement
Thumbs up for presenting a 'relevant sponsor' concept.
Best indicator of an Empire in decline?
It starts taking defence seriously again.
low IQ comment
So the swiss have been in decline for more than a hundred years? Sure.
@@Am_Yeff yeah, you see how small Switzerland is
@@arkadious9320 lol the burn.
It's more of belligerent nations improving its offensive capability that urged US to invest a bit more on defence.
Wait we don’t have one ?
I wonder what itd have been like if the US developed nukes in time to end the war in Europe. I can imagine the order being given for all allied troops to withdraw from Berlin and Hitler might think we retreated then only to discover they were withdrawing forces for their own safety against an impending nuclear strike on Berlin that Germany wouldnt have been able to comprehend what happened for quite awhile
Berlin likely would not have been a target. There would have been too many civilian casualties.
@@StudleyDuderight tell that to Dresden or Tokyo which were firebombed to kill as much civilians as possible.
@@Daokl Dresden wasn't the US and firebombs are not nukes.
@@StudleyDuderight it wasn't only US, but Dresden was firebombed by US and UK forces (without USSR approval). End result was comparable to a single nuke. If they had bunch at the time, they would have used them on civilians in europe, so its a good thing they didn't.
Their scientists would have figured it out rather quickly as did Japan's. They were not very far along, but they were working on the idea themselves.
You don't even have a border I don't understand how you can defend anything especially has you ran away in the night without telling anyone who went there to support you. Are you crazy?
The best title I have ever seen
Really good videos man keep it up
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