@@_hesha_7092 I agree, it is the equalizer but I think more regulation is needed. Possible measures might be taking extensive ongoing classes, pay a fee, be vouched for by members of your community, take a psychological evaluation, I don't know. I'm sure I'm probably wrong on one or more of those but there are just too many twisted awful people who have access to guns. I just don't know how to filter the guns toward responsible people.
I'm a army veteran from the US. And office blokes Dave is correct if there's is another word war. It would be beyond carnage. I've done enough military funerals too last me 10 lifetimes
Considering what the possibilities for our future seem to be right now.. Fucking terrible all way around. Let's hope we navigate through all the filters all right and have to neither suffer a world war, nor mass starvation or another pandemic.
The nypd is so large it is bigger than some countries army’s. Not to mention probably better armed...they also have boats and helicopters. The lapd has one of the best swat team training. Dc police is practically a secondary defense system for the us federal government. And that’s just scratching the surface
A family member high up in the military brass told me that “what the US shows as - current advanced technology- is actually about 20 years behind what is actually available and being perfected now.
I believe that cuz man these stealth fighters were designed 40 years ago and are still too of the line stuff. I cannot imagine what kind of things they have or are working on.
True, and even basic facts about current planes technology is wrong. Funny quick story but when I was going through air assault school we had a navy pilot there who got a few questions "wrong" on one of our tests. When he told the air assault instructors that he flew those planes and he was right, they basically acknowledged that they had heard that from other pilots as well. Gave him credit for the answers lol.
The reason you don't invade the USA is because there are families that give each firearm a name, like a pet or a family member. It is not uncommon to easily drop $2k on a rifle or $500+ on a sidearm.
You'd be surprised. Like there are a shit load of fire arms here but it's not like every single home you go into has a weapon. Like I'd say 10 out of 100 just spitballing. More or less it's not every one with a gun, it's a few guys with a shitload lol.
@@H4NKTriLL the thing is if we were ever invaded or waged war in our own country you’d see those guns spread out among militias when we recruit new members even now in local gun clubs we give our new members guns after they pay their dues for a couple of months
It's more like "let everyone wrestle how they want to but referee everything and as soon as there is foul play beat someone up." I just don't think our defense mantra is very quiet, is what I'm trying to say.
@@lucasharvey8990 then you really should consider how EVERYONE ELSE would run the world if you were stupid enough to give up that power! I’d rather see the USA 🇺🇸 or Britain 🇬🇧 running the world, otherwise we’re SCREWED! It’s getting to the point that chyna is a REAL THREAT. Who would YOU rather live under...? Because I’d really rather NOT have my ORGANS HARVESTED while I’M STILL ALIVE! The west isn’t perfect but they’re still the BEST. END OF.
"Minutemen were civilian colonists who independently formed militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies, comprising the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They were known for being ready at a minute's notice, hence the name."
They kinda still exist. State militias (not state national guards) are still around. When antifa threatened to burn down Gettysburg last 4th of July 2020 the Pennsylvania state militia and motorbike “gangs” flooded Gettysburg and they were armed! Long guns, sniper rifles, shotguns, big revolvers, tactical vests and more. State militias are very much like a small civilian military just without the fitness standards of the us military. There were some big dudes (morbid obese) in these state militias.
The minutemen were New England militia farmers who could get up in the middle of the night, get dressed, grab their rifles, and be ready to defend against British attacks in one minute. My son goes to the University of Massachusetts, which was a center of minuteman activity, and their football team is called "the Minutemen." The school motto is "be revolutionary."
I met my late husband when I was in the Air Force. He stayed in the Air Force 20 years. I am extremely proud of his commitment to his country and then as local law enforcement in our civilian community. He was the finest man I have known except for my Daddy of course. My late husbands family and my family have fought in every war beginning with the American Revolution. We are patriotic to our core. We are "One Nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all!" and will always defend her.
It should be stated that the US Navy does actually have Stealth destroyers such as the Zumwalt class destroyer. It is impressive to say the least if you ever get to go on one.
And there is already 2 or 3 Ford class carriers on the ocean! Also smart bombs with "swords" to slice through cars which doesn't even sound real but most certainly is
What i find the best fact is that you never know what the. USA really has!! Til ur on the wrong side of it! Never ever tell ALL YOUR SECRETS! Thats the whole idea of... GOTTCHA!
I was in the military for 14 years and without going into graphic details I can tell you the numbers of ready to go military assets are much higher than that narrator is telling you.
#6 - For two weeks in November and December each year, the number of deer hunters in Pennsylvania alone comprise the sixth largest infantry force in the world.
You also have to understand something about some of our decommissioned crafts. They can be recommissoned if things hit the fan, and those are large numbers also.
As far as I’m concerned, we the US and our ally the UK are essentially one in the same. We are like family and if one of us goes to battle you can guarantee the other is ready to help in a moments notice. Same can be said for Australia and a few other ally countries but the UK and US are literally family because we share the same blood for so many of our citizens. ✊🏻🇺🇸✊🏻🇬🇧
The UK and Australia have not adopted the 'Bill of Rights' of the United States Constitution! Therefore they are Human Rights violators! Do we need to change the wording to, "Bill of 'Human' Rights" so dipshitts like you can understand this? Any country that doesn't protect or assure citizens their God given right to bear arms is my country's fukkin' enemy!!!
3 countries we should be ready to defend to the death! Canada, Mexico go without saying. The third is Great Britain, why you might ask? Without the United Kingdom, America wouldn't exist in it's present form. That one reason is why we will always support our motherland. We just ain't paying their taxes! 🇺🇸🏴🇨🇦,🇲🇽 We should do everything possible to ensure Canada and Mexico share in our wealth as they are our front and back door's. We should always have their backs as they should have ours!
Yep the U.S and UK would never go to war with one another. Our history goes way back with one another and that we both operated during ww1 and ww2. The same goes with France and other closely related allies. Our histories have been close and intertwined where we should stay as family and friends than become enemies considering after all the things we done for one another in history
Minuteman. In U.S. history. An American Revolutionary militiaman who agreed to be ready for military duty “at a minute’s warning.” This is back when we weren't friends. FYI
The coolest/scariest part is how many Submarine Launched Nuclear ICBMs are out there. So even if somehow a country was able to wipe the entirety of every person and every piece of gear off of every place where the US has a hold on land, one group of submariners could still retaliate with complete devastation from under the surface sea. And also seeing a sub-surface misslie launch is just rad lol.
@@southfieldtrill9690 it just makes sense that they have tech 15-20 years ahead of what they show because knowing the US they aren’t showing they’re full capacity.
As a guy from the USA, I love the idea of the UK being cousins. Haha I hope to visit some day, always wanted to go to your country and check it out. Hopefully soon!
True. My household has 3 adults. 3 handguns. 1 rifle. 2 pit bulls & a large mutt. Multiple large sharp knives (my mothers family is from Liverpool) . We are not country militia - we are retired professional city folk.
In the gulf war the first air strikes were in Baghdad and by f117 nighthawk stealth planes. They were sent to literally see if the stealth systems would even work so they literally hovered over Baghdad for a long time and no SAM missiles worked. The funniest part is that the Iraqis knew they were there by the sound but their radars were pointless so they started blind firing unguided weapons into the sky to no avail.
Well the Viets, did the Afghans did, and soon the Iraqis will be kicking you out of their country as well. Face it, you guys never, ever win the long game, just too bloody expensive.
@@JB-yb4wn All of those countries are down and out drowning in their own oppressive cultures while Americans are so well-fed and prosperous that our biggest problem is identity politics. And for Vietnam I got two words: Agent Orange. I don't think we lost at all lol
@@eligr8523 Oh please! The disparity of income is drifting farther apart from the haves and have nots, real wages haven't kept up with inflation for over 40 years, your supreme court wants to ban abortions and you have one of the worst health care and education systems in the developed world. And you imprison more people than any other nation on the planet, which includes China. You have far more problems than an "identity crisis". As to agent orange, it killed more US soldiers than the VC did.
This all seems completely over the top, but it's the result of some really hard lessons we learned from both WWI and WWII. It used to be that after a war was fought, we'd disband most of our military and not bother to activate those units again until we needed it again. The result was an unprepared fighting force with no combat experience and wildly outdated weapons. We'd show a lot of heart and determination, but that loss of experience, outdated tactics and equipment would cost us tens of thousands of American lives. Never again. We'll spend lives if necessary but if you were in our shoes, wouldn't you want to spend the money to make sure more of your people made it back alive? Why would we risk losing tens of thousands of people just to appease the criticism of people who frankly know nothing of our history or country in general? Besides, truth be told our military spending usually comes out to around 16% of our total national budget. I know people like to claim that it's above 50%, but they don't realize that they're referring to discretionary spending, what Congress votes on. The vast majority of our national budget is considered mandatory spending, which automatically gets spent because it's things people rely on like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. On top of all that, we're a counter to bad actors on the world stage. Nowadays it's China and Russia and frankly both nations have proven that if it weren't for us, they'd both be invading other nations and we all know what that leads to. We have to be prepared to fight both at the same time, with or without allies because again, it means more Americans not coming home if we don't. We're not perfect, we don't always get it right and we can be outright malicious at times, but at the end of the day, we really are the less of two evils by a long shot. For the most part, we do leave the rest of the world alone and we're allied with countries all over the globe. Wars and conflicts still happen, but they are just a fraction of the destruction and death that used to occur.
And in spite of the fact that we have fought wars so people in other countries can be free, we are often treated poorly by others. God bless the Brits who've helped, at times.
The USA puts out what they have military wise cause of spending bills that need to be public. Private spending for new tech can be considered top secret and may be a undisclosed project.
I love these kinds of videos! The one thing, and arguably most important, most of them seem to leave out is our close friends and allies. This is the one thing China and Russia don't have, and judging by their actions around the world lately, isn't something they've seemed to figure out. 🇺🇸💙🇬🇧👍
@Anya Harrison You make a good point in that Turkey, China and other authoritarian governments are closer to Russia than they are to the Western Allied nations, but what they have is more of an alliance of convenience. It's also a very transactional relationship. Juxtapose that with the Western Allied Nations, most of us have not only fought and died for one another countless times, making this alone unique, we also have shared ancestry, cultures and traditions because America is much more embracing of new people. Don't underestimate China and India's rough past. India's people are also used to democracy, which is something they will never willingly give up. Turkey is corrupt and it's leader is an authoritarian, and I believe there is already consideration to limiting Turkey with NATO intelligence, and possibly even expulsion altogether. We'll see. India's people as a whole are much more in line with Western Democracies and cultures than Authoritarian regimes of Russia and China.
no the biggest thing they leave out is that to conquer america you have to wipe out every man woman AND child who is an american citizen, whether legal or honorary, and we are spread across the globe. each and every last one of us will rise up against you if you mess with us.
@@jdemd1977 Ultimately it's irrelevant, no modern nation has the capacity to launch any meaningful assault on America. They lack the blue water Naval capabilities to land an assault force capable of securing a foothold on American soil..If things where to escalate into nuclear conflict it's automatically game over for both the US as well as the aggressor nation. This is obviously known by US adversarial nations, and they don't want to have their own armies and civilian population destroyed even in the best of outcomes and they where to win a first strike nuclear option, what would remain for them to secure? No, the future of military conflict will be proxy wars in third world countries, be it Ukraine or the middle east, perhaps even far east less developed Asian nations like we saw in Vietnam. Even in this case you're unlikely to see mass conflict like we saw in WWII, instead it will be slow burn small scale conventional warfare..
Also, the Minutemen in US history were militia and military that were to be ready to fight at a minute's notice, hence the name. The modern usage of the term minuteman refers to the obvious fact that the nuclear ICBMs can be deployed at a minutes notice. Really not a more apt name to be given to them.
The US is very secret about their capabilities. The official speed of an SR-71 Blackbird was Mach 3.3, but a pilot claimed Mach 3.5. They outran missiles all the time. There are a few jets that can do mach 3, but they can't sustain it. The Blackbird could sustain mach 3 indefinitely, with fueling. By the time a SAM got a lock and fired, the Blackbird was already getting out of range. It didn't even have good stealth. It was just super fast and super high. It was in a place that nothing could touch. The F-117 Nighthawk was still 10 square meters on radar. Meanwhile, the F-22 Raptor is 0.0001 square meters on radar at nearly 42 tons. About the size of a bumblebee or a marble. Yep. We do that.
The B-2 Stealth Bomber is one of the coolest jets I've ever seen. I live in Missouri so it wasn't too uncommon to travel near Whiteman AFB where they're stationed. I saw one fly one day and it was one of the craziest things I ever saw. At first I thought it was a UFO but quickly remembered I was near the air base. It's wing span is massive yet it's so thin that if you're at a distance and see it level out, it looks like the bomber disappears.
11:30 there’s an old aircraft carrier in New York City that’s converted into a museum. I went there when I was a kid. When you’re on the carrier it doesn’t feel like you’re on a boat, it’s so huge and sturdy you really feel like you’re on an island
Whenever people bitch about our military budget (our being US - don't know where you are) I just shake my head and wonder if they have a clue as to what that budget has created for their safety and the things they take advantage of every day (ie, GPS). If we didn't have the budget we did we wouldn't have the deterrents in place and it there would be a lot more wars. Being the biggest deterrent on the planet helps keep wars to a minimum (except when the warmongers in Congress want to make a few trillion dollars).
@@mortimerbrewster3671 idk for sure if you were commenting to me or just anybody.? If me, all i can say is ,i,for one, agree with every word you said. I am all for our military , always have bn..always will! If not for the U S A .. i cant imagine how bad things would be. There are a lot of countries who would just love to attack us and hate us. Our military and its power is all that keeps most of the world safe at all!!i never got to serve,but most of my family has as far bk as WW I my grandfater ,father, uncles cousins have served in korea, vietnam, etc. I will always support and bk our military. Just keep the poloticians out of it as much as possible and it works. I hope i ve bn clear on my opinion,..if you were responding to me? If you were not, im sorry. I do the best i can. ..dan,north fl U S A -11/22/21!!
❤I love my Country (USA) and our Military services! Thank you for all you do! Wow!🎉 I'm proud of my Country (USA)! I appreciate my Country more heh.. Amazing!😂 Keep it up, America! Love the 🇬🇧, too!😊❤
The amount of military might that my country wields is truly terrifying. But I often wonder what the world would be like if we didn’t wield it. Very very different I think.
@@wheelmanstan that’s because you live in the country with the biggest military budget. People who live in other countries will probably not agree with you.
I cant imagine it'd be that different. Possible even better for the Americans as they wouldn't live in a place that's constantly at threat to terrorism
Minutemen were common folk who took up arms against the Red Coats in the Revolutionary War (I forget what you blokes call that war). They were essentially farmers and craftsmen who would arm themselves on short notice and act as a sort of militia to hassle the British troops until the actual Army arrived.
smart bombs r unreal... we fired 21 of them in iraq and all 21 hit the target with pinpoint accuracy, 2 were programmed to enter elevator shafts and did
These Nimitz Carriers (that takes years to build) when decommissioned could be sold or transferred to friendly nations like England or Australia. Only the Nuclear Core needs to be updated. They are cities at sea equipped with their own desalinization systems for disaster relief.
The "advancements" that the U.S. military tells us about are usually a good two decades old. It's really quite scary to imagine what all they can actually do.
Lord have mercy, boys! You’ll get kicked off for this one! Saying anything positive about America is racist, xenophobic, patriotic, nationalistic..... 🙄 God Bless America! 🇺🇸
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME." In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ." Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE." And please repent of all of your sins and be baptized by the Holy Spirit before it is too late, you will never know when the time will come 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a few relatives who were high ups or worked in special areas in the military, and they were saying our technology is more advanced than these other super powers. For example, Aunt who was a high up in the chain of command for one of our submarine bases, was saying that submarine technology wise, we are about 20 yrs ahead of Russia and at least 30 yrs, if not more, ahead of China. As a matter of fact, she was saying that the China's most advanced sub is very, very loud in the water. SO much so that during one of their ( China) initial excursions with this submarine, an older U.S. submarine tailed it and they (China) had no idea because they couldn't hear ours over the noise of their own.
The X-47B stealth drones have began to be deployed around the world, they look like a peregrine falcon when viewing them from a profile-view, super cool. (edit: Sorry I mean X-47B not X37B, the X37 is the unmanned space ship.)
I enjoy you guys hilarious! You know though you got to give Great Britain credit in WW2 you guys had the plane that defeated Hitler you guys went through hell and held your own hat's off.
@13:21 Of course he has heard the words minute men a load of times, from every girl he’s ever been with 😂😂😂😂! I absolutely love it when Daz and Mike are giving him such a hard time lol. That’s one of the things that makes this channel so enjoyable tbh.
I would recommend checking out the A-10 Warthog. In BRRRRRRRRRt we trust. As for the smart munition, the M982 Excalibur round for the M-777 howitzer is one of the smart munitions for artillery.
They failed to mention when they were talking about air superiority that the US navy has the biggest air force in the world... That is, except for the US air force. Seriously though I agree with the "boots on the ground" sentiment. Would've been nice if they got into that more.
by 'boots on the ground' i hope your talking about every last american citizen down to the children. because it would take wiping us all out to 'defeat' america. leave one alive, america is undefeated.
We actually keep the old carriers in reserve for quite awhile. While we only have 11 that are operational at the moment we have several more in the mothball fleet.
The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor really affected the American defense posture. If you look at the figures from post WW1 to post WW2, it was like "yeah, that's not happening again". Hell, we barely even had an army at the time the Japanese attacked. After that we realized we couldn't just depend on our isolation across 2 oceans to keep us safe.
I saw a stealth aircraft once. I lived in the country and that ship caught my eye. I couldn't hear it but it was only about a mile away from me. It came up over a hill and down, then lifted again and went over another hill and out of sight. I was stunned but never told anyone. It was in about 1991 and the war was raging in the war against terror.
The US also has the ships and planes that are “retired” able to be used if needed in a time of war. As for the gorilla warfare, started with the Native Americans.
Here is a fun story about our carriers. We found out the hardway that they are incredibly difficult to sink. Before the Nimitz Class carriers we had a class called Kitty-Hawk Supercarriers. One of them was called the USS America which was decommissioned in 1996. It sat around for about 9 years and in 2005 somebody decided that it would be fun to try and sink it, so thats what they did. It withstood explosions above and below the water for so long they they just gave up and sent a demolition team to scuttle the ship and put it out of its misery. So, we were not even able to sink one of our own pre-nimitz carriers. Also, you guys mentioned lasers and shit in space... so we have this thing called the X--37b. It is pretty much a drone that looks like a miniature space shuttle, and while a typical drone is an unmanned aircraft, the x-37b is an unmanned space craft. We launch it into space and leave it in orbit for a few years, bring it back down, do something to it and then send it back up. Our military says that it is not a weapon and that they are just using it to test technologies that will be used in future space flights, and that is probably all they are doing with it, maybe. It could be armed and this is the US, if something can be used as a weapon our military is going to figure out how they could use it as a weapon... so the military implications are crazy. We can arm it, send it into space for years at a time and if needed we could bring it back and rearm is before sending it right back up into orbit. Our F-22s and f-35s are "air superiority" aircraft because controlling the skys is necessary to win a battle but with a fleet of like 20 x-37bs we would control the skys by default in any region at any time until some other country develops the technology to reliably take out targets in space and while some countries do have technology capable of it to some extent, doing it reliably is a different story.
The Minuteman missiles were named for our troops back in the Revolutionary War which were called the Minutemen because they had to be ready to fight at a minute's notice you guys learned about him at Concord and Lexington
Yeah, i was gonna mention the origin of the term "minute man" but there's some really good comments on it in the comments. Their importance in our history is also very unique. Basically Britain back in that time was like the US today. They dominated every aspect of war and the US didn't even have a standing professional Army. The minute men for Americans represents Americas determination not to be ruled by another country. They represent freedom.
We Americans aren’t all that crazy, in general, however we can crank up the crazy and go full-blown ballistic when the need arises. Our military is the vanguard of that attitude. Ronald Reagan spoke of peace through strength and that applies not only to our military but also to our citizenry and our commitment to our allies.
we have I think it's like 330 million people in the US, and there are way more guns then people, it's almost 395 million the last I checked, and that is just the ones that are registered.
Very true. We've been stockpiling them for, well, forever - AND they're now being manufactured and sold at a record pace. Out of Stock (because of demand) is now quite common here.
Dave the term Minute Men came from the revolutionary war when men had to ready at a minute notice!
I thought minute men was just a fallout 4 thing
@@r3mii-CL That's where they get their name from. The Museum you first find Preston and the rest of them in actual has a thing about the originals.
It's really a coincidence but the missiles are designed for fuel and launch in around a minute once triggered.
That's right...had to be ready to muster at a moment's notice when you redcoats came "tyranny-ing" about! :) lol
They were fantastic Brit destroyers.
Keep in mind if they are allowing it to be showed on TV. They have a whole new bunch of weapons systems you don't and won't know about.
"Maybe there's more fucking crazy people that live in American than anywhere else!" LMAO! As an American, I would say this is a decent reason.
Also 330 million with normal distribution will get more weird people.
We just need to keep our 2A. An armed crazy person is way more threatening than an unarmed one.
@@_hesha_7092 I agree, it is the equalizer but I think more regulation is needed. Possible measures might be taking extensive ongoing classes, pay a fee, be vouched for by members of your community, take a psychological evaluation, I don't know. I'm sure I'm probably wrong on one or more of those but there are just too many twisted awful people who have access to guns. I just don't know how to filter the guns toward responsible people.
@@wilsonedwards8189 no.
Hell, we got Florida!
I'm a army veteran from the US. And office blokes Dave is correct if there's is another word war. It would be beyond carnage. I've done enough military funerals too last me 10 lifetimes
Considering what the possibilities for our future seem to be right now.. Fucking terrible all way around. Let's hope we navigate through all the filters all right and have to neither suffer a world war, nor mass starvation or another pandemic.
Yes, word wars are dangerous.
Feel like you’re lying but whatever.
@@FatAmericanMantittys says the fat guy soooo it must be true
@@lateefpou2986 stolen valor....
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass" Isoroku Yamamoto - unconfirmed.
Yup
And we would put all others to shame like the vietcong fighting on their own land.
Or you have people like me who would surrender and help the enemy.
@@minuette1752 well, every country has its traiters and cowards. They are usually dealt with appropriately.
@@msdarby515 How would I be a traitor when I have no real loyalty toward any country in the world?
Not to mention our citizens are considered a military of its own
I'd just send my wife, after hearing her mouth, they will surrender in short time.
@@mikeytodd7 o decide to shut it for her
@@benozzy003 that would be fantastic!
The nypd is so large it is bigger than some countries army’s. Not to mention probably better armed...they also have boats and helicopters. The lapd has one of the best swat team training. Dc police is practically a secondary defense system for the us federal government. And that’s just scratching the surface
Exactly! I mean we can own guns!
A family member high up in the military brass told me that “what the US shows as - current advanced technology- is actually about 20 years behind what is actually available and being perfected now.
I believe that cuz man these stealth fighters were designed 40 years ago and are still too of the line stuff. I cannot imagine what kind of things they have or are working on.
I still want to know what replaced the greatest airplane of all time, the A12/SR71 Blackbird?
True, and even basic facts about current planes technology is wrong. Funny quick story but when I was going through air assault school we had a navy pilot there who got a few questions "wrong" on one of our tests. When he told the air assault instructors that he flew those planes and he was right, they basically acknowledged that they had heard that from other pilots as well. Gave him credit for the answers lol.
Yeah, the military already had GPS in the WW2
@@1dumpedviper I was obsessed with the sr71 growing i put together so many models of that and the f117 nighthawk
Not mentioned:
>National Guard
>Massive Law Enforcement Networks at the Federal, State, County, & Local levels
>Millions of Private Gun Owners
works out well in case of a hypothetical mainland invasion, not so well for day to day functionality
The reason you don't invade the USA is because there are families that give each firearm a name, like a pet or a family member. It is not uncommon to easily drop $2k on a rifle or $500+ on a sidearm.
Who told? Lol.
10k if we buy a Barrett. 50cal
Family’s all across the country with literal armory’s lol, stockpiles of firearms and ammunition.
You'd be surprised. Like there are a shit load of fire arms here but it's not like every single home you go into has a weapon. Like I'd say 10 out of 100 just spitballing.
More or less it's not every one with a gun, it's a few guys with a shitload lol.
@@H4NKTriLL the thing is if we were ever invaded or waged war in our own country you’d see those guns spread out among militias when we recruit new members even now in local gun clubs we give our new members guns after they pay their dues for a couple of months
Whenever you see military aircraft you just feel like "YES!!".. unless it's not yours then you're like "shit, nooo" 😂😂
Lmao 🤣
American defense mantra.. "speak softly but carry a big stick."
It's more like "let everyone wrestle how they want to but referee everything and as soon as there is foul play beat someone up." I just don't think our defense mantra is very quiet, is what I'm trying to say.
@@lucasharvey8990 then you really should consider how EVERYONE ELSE would run the world if you were stupid enough to give up that power! I’d rather see the USA 🇺🇸 or Britain 🇬🇧 running the world, otherwise we’re SCREWED! It’s getting to the point that chyna is a REAL THREAT. Who would YOU rather live under...? Because I’d really rather NOT have my ORGANS HARVESTED while I’M STILL ALIVE!
The west isn’t perfect but they’re still the BEST. END OF.
Best rephrase of this saying is “speak softly and carry an m4”
@@dannytonnessen6896 China*
Lol at “speak softly”
"Minutemen were civilian colonists who independently formed militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies, comprising the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They were known for being ready at a minute's notice, hence the name."
Lmao!!! That profile pic! xD
@@FlaminKanami :-)
They kinda still exist. State militias (not state national guards) are still around. When antifa threatened to burn down Gettysburg last 4th of July 2020 the Pennsylvania state militia and motorbike “gangs” flooded Gettysburg and they were armed! Long guns, sniper rifles, shotguns, big revolvers, tactical vests and more. State militias are very much like a small civilian military just without the fitness standards of the us military. There were some big dudes (morbid obese) in these state militias.
@@CT-5736-Bladez oh please! Antifa didn’t threaten anyone . Funny how those who used that scare were the ones busted though ..
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This is a perfect example of Ronald Reagan's mantra of... "Peace through strength."
Totally
Absolutely.
Ronald Reagan had dementia. Nancy Reagan was actually the President during her husband's term.
@@jeremyboehm5512 just like Biden has dementia and Kamala is running the country
@@jeremyboehm5512 no she wasn't. Bush was.
The minutemen were New England militia farmers who could get up in the middle of the night, get dressed, grab their rifles, and be ready to defend against British attacks in one minute. My son goes to the University of Massachusetts, which was a center of minuteman activity, and their football team is called "the Minutemen." The school motto is "be revolutionary."
I met my late husband when I was in the Air Force. He stayed in the Air Force 20 years. I am extremely proud of his commitment to his country and then as local law enforcement in our civilian community. He was the finest man I have known except for my Daddy of course. My late husbands family and my family have fought in every war beginning with the American Revolution. We are patriotic to our core. We are "One Nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all!" and will always defend her.
Does that include fighting for the Confederates?
@J B No. They should have been left to starve, once all the slaves were free.
Always haters showing up.
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I've mentioned this before as well as others. If this is the stuff they are showing you imagine the stuff they are NOT showing you.
It should be stated that the US Navy does actually have Stealth destroyers such as the Zumwalt class destroyer. It is impressive to say the least if you ever get to go on one.
And there is already 2 or 3 Ford class carriers on the ocean! Also smart bombs with "swords" to slice through cars which doesn't even sound real but most certainly is
What i find the best fact is that you never know what the. USA really has!! Til ur on the wrong side of it! Never ever tell ALL YOUR SECRETS! Thats the whole idea of... GOTTCHA!
Yeah, whatever you learn about the U.S. military nowadays, you can assume their actual current tech is at least a decade ahead..
Yeah, but no Railguns :( because they won't use unguided rounds... so they're too expensive.
@@rameaseshaw3245 at least they have toy box missile systems.
I was in the military for 14 years and without going into graphic details I can tell you the numbers of ready to go military assets are much higher than that narrator is telling you.
We should give jets silly names just to hear the enemy yelling..
TAKE COVER THE B-52 FLUFFY BUNNY IS COMING!! 🤣
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Your sick, but cool
The biggest reason is we have all this yes but mainly the fact that nearly every American is armed and crazy as hell 😂
Minutemen were called that because they were supposedly "ready in a minute".
I thought it had something to do with quick cooked rice.
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I thought it was because they were tiny.
“Then the Chinese guy plays a Covid card”
TH-cam: YOU DONE MESSED UP D-A-RON!!!
Reverse UNO card.
#6 - For two weeks in November and December each year, the number of deer hunters in Pennsylvania alone comprise the sixth largest infantry force in the world.
On the plus side, our man Dave can be ready in a minute; on the minus side, our man Dave is done in a minute.
You also have to understand something about some of our decommissioned crafts. They can be recommissoned if things hit the fan, and those are large numbers also.
As far as I’m concerned, we the US and our ally the UK are essentially one in the same. We are like family and if one of us goes to battle you can guarantee the other is ready to help in a moments notice. Same can be said for Australia and a few other ally countries but the UK and US are literally family because we share the same blood for so many of our citizens. ✊🏻🇺🇸✊🏻🇬🇧
The UK and Australia have not adopted the 'Bill of Rights' of the United States Constitution! Therefore they are Human Rights violators! Do we need to change the wording to, "Bill of 'Human' Rights" so dipshitts like you can understand this? Any country that doesn't protect or assure citizens their God given right to bear arms is my country's fukkin' enemy!!!
@Big Daddy you sound hurt🤣🤣🤣 you must be a Chinese or Russia bot GTFOH 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
3 countries we should be ready to defend to the death! Canada, Mexico go without saying. The third is Great Britain, why you might ask? Without the United Kingdom, America wouldn't exist in it's present form. That one reason is why we will always support our motherland. We just ain't paying their taxes! 🇺🇸🏴🇨🇦,🇲🇽 We should do everything possible to ensure Canada and Mexico share in our wealth as they are our front and back door's. We should always have their backs as they should have ours!
Yep the U.S and UK would never go to war with one another.
Our history goes way back with one another and that we both operated during ww1 and ww2. The same goes with France and other closely related allies.
Our histories have been close and intertwined where we should stay as family and friends than become enemies considering after all the things we done for one another in history
UK doesn’t have gun rights though…
I feel terrible saying this but whenever I feel bad I watch these videos and then suddenly become happy again.
Okay so I’m not the only one 😂
if you're american, i can understand it. we are strong.
Minuteman. In U.S. history. An American Revolutionary militiaman who agreed to be ready for military duty “at a minute’s warning.” This is back when we weren't friends. FYI
The coolest/scariest part is how many Submarine Launched Nuclear ICBMs are out there. So even if somehow a country was able to wipe the entirety of every person and every piece of gear off of every place where the US has a hold on land, one group of submariners could still retaliate with complete devastation from under the surface sea. And also seeing a sub-surface misslie launch is just rad lol.
And the government is usually 5-10 years ahead of the public. So imagine what tech is in use now
Try 15-20 year's. The USA discovered GPS in the late 60's. Introduced to the world in 1991 (Gulf War)
@@southfieldtrill9690 it just makes sense that they have tech 15-20 years ahead of what they show because knowing the US they aren’t showing they’re full capacity.
“Bring a nuke to a knife fight” thank you very much I’m keeping that phrase forever lol
far better tahn 'bring a gun to a knife fight' for sure.
As a guy from the USA, I love the idea of the UK being cousins. Haha I hope to visit some day, always wanted to go to your country and check it out. Hopefully soon!
I am glad to be a member under this fire power. I will always support protecting and working with Canada and Great Britain
True. My household has 3 adults. 3 handguns. 1 rifle. 2 pit bulls & a large mutt. Multiple large sharp knives (my mothers family is from Liverpool) . We are not country militia - we are retired professional city folk.
“The 2021 Karen” I love this 🤣 But the aircraft would have to demand to speak to your commander directly before attacking.
I still love the navy comparison.
1st place: US - 11 supercarriers
2nd place: UK - 2
Well the 2 that the UK has are not both Supercarriers. 1 is, the HMS Queen Elizabeth.
Hey Welcome back guys!!! Saying hi from Orlando, Florida, USA!!!
Connie Williams We're glad to be back, thanks to all you guys for sticking with us 🙌👍
In the gulf war the first air strikes were in Baghdad and by f117 nighthawk stealth planes. They were sent to literally see if the stealth systems would even work so they literally hovered over Baghdad for a long time and no SAM missiles worked. The funniest part is that the Iraqis knew they were there by the sound but their radars were pointless so they started blind firing unguided weapons into the sky to no avail.
Proud navy vet here. Enjoyed the video, said it for years--don't mess with the US.
Well the Viets, did the Afghans did, and soon the Iraqis will be kicking you out of their country as well. Face it, you guys never, ever win the long game, just too bloody expensive.
@@JB-yb4wn All of those countries are down and out drowning in their own oppressive cultures while Americans are so well-fed and prosperous that our biggest problem is identity politics. And for Vietnam I got two words: Agent Orange. I don't think we lost at all lol
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Oh please! The disparity of income is drifting farther apart from the haves and have nots, real wages haven't kept up with inflation for over 40 years, your supreme court wants to ban abortions and you have one of the worst health care and education systems in the developed world. And you imprison more people than any other nation on the planet, which includes China.
You have far more problems than an "identity crisis".
As to agent orange, it killed more US soldiers than the VC did.
This all seems completely over the top, but it's the result of some really hard lessons we learned from both WWI and WWII. It used to be that after a war was fought, we'd disband most of our military and not bother to activate those units again until we needed it again. The result was an unprepared fighting force with no combat experience and wildly outdated weapons. We'd show a lot of heart and determination, but that loss of experience, outdated tactics and equipment would cost us tens of thousands of American lives.
Never again. We'll spend lives if necessary but if you were in our shoes, wouldn't you want to spend the money to make sure more of your people made it back alive? Why would we risk losing tens of thousands of people just to appease the criticism of people who frankly know nothing of our history or country in general?
Besides, truth be told our military spending usually comes out to around 16% of our total national budget. I know people like to claim that it's above 50%, but they don't realize that they're referring to discretionary spending, what Congress votes on. The vast majority of our national budget is considered mandatory spending, which automatically gets spent because it's things people rely on like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
On top of all that, we're a counter to bad actors on the world stage. Nowadays it's China and Russia and frankly both nations have proven that if it weren't for us, they'd both be invading other nations and we all know what that leads to. We have to be prepared to fight both at the same time, with or without allies because again, it means more Americans not coming home if we don't.
We're not perfect, we don't always get it right and we can be outright malicious at times, but at the end of the day, we really are the less of two evils by a long shot. For the most part, we do leave the rest of the world alone and we're allied with countries all over the globe. Wars and conflicts still happen, but they are just a fraction of the destruction and death that used to occur.
preach it, friend.
We have a lot to protect. I think the expense is justified.
And in spite of the fact that we have fought wars so people in other countries can be free, we are often treated poorly by others. God bless the Brits who've helped, at times.
What is your experience with the military?
@@marc2397 I was an 0331.
That ship in the beginning of number 2 is the independence variant littoral combat ship or LCS for short
Americas has an amazing military, and a really amazing ally 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 ❤️
The USA puts out what they have military wise cause of spending bills that need to be public. Private spending for new tech can be considered top secret and may be a undisclosed project.
Unless it's a Black Project, not even congress has the authorization to even know what it is.
Exactly what happened with the Manhattan project
when your navy has more aircraft than other nation's airforces
The Minuteman were essentially the US's first special forces group. There were small handpicked group quick reaction force in the revolutionary war.
Not really special forces it was basically just local militias
@@benjamindenton9453 Special forces for the time.
I love these kinds of videos! The one thing, and arguably most important, most of them seem to leave out is our close friends and allies. This is the one thing China and Russia don't have, and judging by their actions around the world lately, isn't something they've seemed to figure out. 🇺🇸💙🇬🇧👍
Keep thinking this way.
@Anya Harrison You make a good point in that Turkey, China and other authoritarian governments are closer to Russia than they are to the Western Allied nations, but what they have is more of an alliance of convenience. It's also a very transactional relationship. Juxtapose that with the Western Allied Nations, most of us have not only fought and died for one another countless times, making this alone unique, we also have shared ancestry, cultures and traditions because America is much more embracing of new people. Don't underestimate China and India's rough past. India's people are also used to democracy, which is something they will never willingly give up. Turkey is corrupt and it's leader is an authoritarian, and I believe there is already consideration to limiting Turkey with NATO intelligence, and possibly even expulsion altogether. We'll see. India's people as a whole are much more in line with Western Democracies and cultures than Authoritarian regimes of Russia and China.
@@lamerde4778 china is only good at making enemies lmao
india UK taiwan japan south korea USA majority of europe canada and Austrailia all hate china
no the biggest thing they leave out is that to conquer america you have to wipe out every man woman AND child who is an american citizen, whether legal or honorary, and we are spread across the globe. each and every last one of us will rise up against you if you mess with us.
@@jdemd1977 Ultimately it's irrelevant, no modern nation has the capacity to launch any meaningful assault on America. They lack the blue water Naval capabilities to land an assault force capable of securing a foothold on American soil..If things where to escalate into nuclear conflict it's automatically game over for both the US as well as the aggressor nation. This is obviously known by US adversarial nations, and they don't want to have their own armies and civilian population destroyed even in the best of outcomes and they where to win a first strike nuclear option, what would remain for them to secure? No, the future of military conflict will be proxy wars in third world countries, be it Ukraine or the middle east, perhaps even far east less developed Asian nations like we saw in Vietnam. Even in this case you're unlikely to see mass conflict like we saw in WWII, instead it will be slow burn small scale conventional warfare..
Also, the Minutemen in US history were militia and military that were to be ready to fight at a minute's notice, hence the name. The modern usage of the term minuteman refers to the obvious fact that the nuclear ICBMs can be deployed at a minutes notice. Really not a more apt name to be given to them.
The US is very secret about their capabilities. The official speed of an SR-71 Blackbird was Mach 3.3, but a pilot claimed Mach 3.5. They outran missiles all the time. There are a few jets that can do mach 3, but they can't sustain it. The Blackbird could sustain mach 3 indefinitely, with fueling. By the time a SAM got a lock and fired, the Blackbird was already getting out of range. It didn't even have good stealth. It was just super fast and super high. It was in a place that nothing could touch.
The F-117 Nighthawk was still 10 square meters on radar. Meanwhile, the F-22 Raptor is 0.0001 square meters on radar at nearly 42 tons. About the size of a bumblebee or a marble. Yep. We do that.
Si vis pacem, para bellum. Roughly translates to "if want peace, prepare for war "
“Give the Queen a bell”
I swear my car just bowed for a second
The B-2 Stealth Bomber is one of the coolest jets I've ever seen. I live in Missouri so it wasn't too uncommon to travel near Whiteman AFB where they're stationed. I saw one fly one day and it was one of the craziest things I ever saw. At first I thought it was a UFO but quickly remembered I was near the air base. It's wing span is massive yet it's so thin that if you're at a distance and see it level out, it looks like the bomber disappears.
Were getting the new b21 raider unless dead eyed Biden kills it
11:30 there’s an old aircraft carrier in New York City that’s converted into a museum. I went there when I was a kid. When you’re on the carrier it doesn’t feel like you’re on a boat, it’s so huge and sturdy you really feel like you’re on an island
"We should get a good deal for being chums." Yes, yes, I gurantee you will get a "good deal", my chums. 😂
That bumblebee is flying at 50k feet and twice the speed off sound.....cool
I just pray none of it is ever needed again! Ever!
Whenever people bitch about our military budget (our being US - don't know where you are) I just shake my head and wonder if they have a clue as to what that budget has created for their safety and the things they take advantage of every day (ie, GPS). If we didn't have the budget we did we wouldn't have the deterrents in place and it there would be a lot more wars. Being the biggest deterrent on the planet helps keep wars to a minimum (except when the warmongers in Congress want to make a few trillion dollars).
@@mortimerbrewster3671 idk for sure if you were commenting to me or just anybody.? If me, all i can say is ,i,for one, agree with every word you said. I am all for our military , always have bn..always will! If not for the U S A .. i cant imagine how bad things would be. There are a lot of countries who would just love to attack us and hate us. Our military and its power is all that keeps most of the world safe at all!!i never got to serve,but most of my family has as far bk as WW I my grandfater ,father, uncles cousins have served in korea, vietnam, etc. I will always support and bk our military. Just keep the poloticians out of it as much as possible and it works. I hope i ve bn clear on my opinion,..if you were responding to me? If you were not, im sorry. I do the best i can. ..dan,north fl U S A -11/22/21!!
❤I love my Country (USA) and our Military services! Thank you for all you do! Wow!🎉 I'm proud of my Country (USA)! I appreciate my Country more heh.. Amazing!😂 Keep it up, America! Love the 🇬🇧, too!😊❤
Yet we wouldn't be where we are without our british brothers and sisters across the pond, love from the US.
In WW II the great Japanese Admiral Yamamoto declared that they cannot invade America because there will be a gun behind every blade of grass
The amount of military might that my country wields is truly terrifying. But I often wonder what the world would be like if we didn’t wield it. Very very different I think.
someone's gonna wield it, best it's us
@@wheelmanstan that’s because you live in the country with the biggest military budget. People who live in other countries will probably not agree with you.
I cant imagine it'd be that different. Possible even better for the Americans as they wouldn't live in a place that's constantly at threat to terrorism
@@wellifailed392 that would be nice. ✌🏻
@@wellifailed392 ....u think that those weapons are what make terrorists?
Minutemen were common folk who took up arms against the Red Coats in the Revolutionary War (I forget what you blokes call that war). They were essentially farmers and craftsmen who would arm themselves on short notice and act as a sort of militia to hassle the British troops until the actual Army arrived.
I go to boot camp for airforce next month. Can't wait. I'm gonna be a 2a933.
Thank you for signing up to serve
smart bombs r unreal... we fired 21 of them in iraq and all 21 hit the target with pinpoint accuracy, 2 were programmed to enter elevator shafts and did
Not elevator shafts, ventilation shafts.
These Nimitz Carriers (that takes years to build) when decommissioned could be sold or transferred to friendly nations like England or Australia. Only the Nuclear Core needs to be updated. They are cities at sea equipped with their own desalinization systems for disaster relief.
GPS guided missiles lol...The last thing you would wanna hear is "REROUTING" lol
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Same here!
Cheers from Philadelphia as well!
Go Pens!!
@@digimortalone2759 looks like another cup year!
@@Issafreecrunch I hope so. Need Malkin and Tanev at 100%.
@ 14:58 when Dave said "I fucking hope not" I lost it.
"So we're learning that the Americans have ABSOLUTELY NO CHILL." -Sovietwomble
The "advancements" that the U.S. military tells us about are usually a good two decades old. It's really quite scary to imagine what all they can actually do.
As an American. I know this might be scary, but I hope we still keep our allies. Especially our brother and sisters across the pond.
Having a beer and a conversation with you guys looks like it would be a blast
Lord have mercy, boys! You’ll get kicked off for this one! Saying anything positive about America is racist, xenophobic, patriotic, nationalistic..... 🙄 God Bless America! 🇺🇸
Shhhh. Grown ups are speaking.
@@carilin1965 But, he was right!
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE." And please repent of all of your sins and be baptized by the Holy Spirit before it is too late, you will never know when the time will come 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a few relatives who were high ups or worked in special areas in the military, and they were saying our technology is more advanced than these other super powers. For example, Aunt who was a high up in the chain of command for one of our submarine bases, was saying that submarine technology wise, we are about 20 yrs ahead of Russia and at least 30 yrs, if not more, ahead of China. As a matter of fact, she was saying that the China's most advanced sub is very, very loud in the water. SO much so that during one of their ( China) initial excursions with this submarine, an older U.S. submarine tailed it and they (China) had no idea because they couldn't hear ours over the noise of their own.
The X-47B stealth drones have began to be deployed around the world, they look like a peregrine falcon when viewing them from a profile-view, super cool.
(edit: Sorry I mean X-47B not X37B, the X37 is the unmanned space ship.)
This is just what America is willing to tell everyone about. Think about what they aren’t telling us about.
I enjoy you guys hilarious! You know though you got to give Great Britain credit in WW2 you guys had the plane that defeated Hitler you guys went through hell and held your own hat's off.
The minutemen were a militia group formed during the revolution to be up and ready within a minute to fight.
I like your guys sketch comedy reactions.
@13:21 Of course he has heard the words minute men a load of times, from every girl he’s ever been with 😂😂😂😂! I absolutely love it when Daz and Mike are giving him such a hard time lol. That’s one of the things that makes this channel so enjoyable tbh.
I would recommend checking out the A-10 Warthog. In BRRRRRRRRRt we trust. As for the smart munition, the M982 Excalibur round for the M-777 howitzer is one of the smart munitions for artillery.
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The US military is said by those in the know to be about 30 years ahead of what is made publicly known.
They failed to mention when they were talking about air superiority that the US navy has the biggest air force in the world... That is, except for the US air force.
Seriously though I agree with the "boots on the ground" sentiment. Would've been nice if they got into that more.
The second largest air force in the world is the Taliban since we gave them all the airplanes.
by 'boots on the ground' i hope your talking about every last american citizen down to the children. because it would take wiping us all out to 'defeat' america. leave one alive, america is undefeated.
We actually keep the old carriers in reserve for quite awhile. While we only have 11 that are operational at the moment we have several more in the mothball fleet.
these are just the stuff they're allowed to show us..love watching you farts!
The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor really affected the American defense posture. If you look at the figures from post WW1 to post WW2, it was like "yeah, that's not happening again". Hell, we barely even had an army at the time the Japanese attacked. After that we realized we couldn't just depend on our isolation across 2 oceans to keep us safe.
The boys are back in town. Yayyyyy 😎
dude made me laugh way too hard at the covid joke, omg I died laughing. i needed that laugh
Minutemen were civilian militia during the american revolution that could be ready to fight on a minute's notice.
I saw a stealth aircraft once. I lived in the country and that ship caught my eye. I couldn't hear it but it was only about a mile away from me. It came up over a hill and down, then lifted again and went over another hill and out of sight. I was stunned but never told anyone. It was in about 1991 and the war was raging in the war against terror.
"the war against terror" my guy, YOU are the terrorist. YOU wielded force at the behest of one of the most corrupt institutions in the world.
The US also has the ships and planes that are “retired” able to be used if needed in a time of war. As for the gorilla warfare, started with the Native Americans.
The Minute Men were a group of soldiers during the Revolutionary War who were trained to be ready for battle in a minutes notice.
Here is a fun story about our carriers. We found out the hardway that they are incredibly difficult to sink. Before the Nimitz Class carriers we had a class called Kitty-Hawk Supercarriers. One of them was called the USS America which was decommissioned in 1996. It sat around for about 9 years and in 2005 somebody decided that it would be fun to try and sink it, so thats what they did. It withstood explosions above and below the water for so long they they just gave up and sent a demolition team to scuttle the ship and put it out of its misery. So, we were not even able to sink one of our own pre-nimitz carriers. Also, you guys mentioned lasers and shit in space... so we have this thing called the X--37b. It is pretty much a drone that looks like a miniature space shuttle, and while a typical drone is an unmanned aircraft, the x-37b is an unmanned space craft. We launch it into space and leave it in orbit for a few years, bring it back down, do something to it and then send it back up. Our military says that it is not a weapon and that they are just using it to test technologies that will be used in future space flights, and that is probably all they are doing with it, maybe. It could be armed and this is the US, if something can be used as a weapon our military is going to figure out how they could use it as a weapon... so the military implications are crazy. We can arm it, send it into space for years at a time and if needed we could bring it back and rearm is before sending it right back up into orbit. Our F-22s and f-35s are "air superiority" aircraft because controlling the skys is necessary to win a battle but with a fleet of like 20 x-37bs we would control the skys by default in any region at any time until some other country develops the technology to reliably take out targets in space and while some countries do have technology capable of it to some extent, doing it reliably is a different story.
The Minuteman missiles were named for our troops back in the Revolutionary War which were called the Minutemen because they had to be ready to fight at a minute's notice you guys learned about him at Concord and Lexington
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Russia has never giving a public demonstration to prove that they can intercept a ICBM. So far the US is the only one to do that.
Yeah, i was gonna mention the origin of the term "minute man" but there's some really good comments on it in the comments.
Their importance in our history is also very unique. Basically Britain back in that time was like the US today. They dominated every aspect of war and the US didn't even have a standing professional Army.
The minute men for Americans represents Americas determination not to be ruled by another country. They represent freedom.
Yeah, I know, and you tried to bring your freedom to own slaves to Canada and both times you failed miserably.
@@JB-yb4wn good thing you're bringing communism there.
We Americans aren’t all that crazy, in general, however we can crank up the crazy and go full-blown ballistic when the need arises. Our military is the vanguard of that attitude. Ronald Reagan spoke of peace through strength and that applies not only to our military but also to our citizenry and our commitment to our allies.
we have I think it's like 330 million people in the US, and there are way more guns then people, it's almost 395 million the last I checked, and that is just the ones that are registered.
Very true. We've been stockpiling them for, well, forever - AND they're now being manufactured and sold at a record pace. Out of Stock (because of demand) is now quite common here.
If one big reason is that half of the entire world's small arms 49% is here in the United States
350million guns? It’s a lot more then that, I have 5 just by myself
I always feel like the Brits don't realize how easy the US could just take their shit if it came down to that.