Ace Combat: Arsenal Bird | Aircraft BREAKDOWN 

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The arsenal birds were invincible until they realized force fields were a subscription service.

“Alright, I heard someone ordered a package and it didn’t arrive on time. So I decided to come out here and deliver it myself, the package is *death* , *die now* “

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You know Oseans, they love their scifi white birds

My theory about the Arsenal birds is that their shields detonated the combustible parts on missiles and aircraft, not a physical energy shield of sorts, and that's why the bullet from the Stonehenge penetrated it, it was solid metal bullet flying at mach 5, just the speed alone would do that damage, and since it had no combustible parts, the shield couldn't detonate it, it fits everything in the game.

"We heard you liked drones. So we put combat drones in your combat drones!"

The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in

Knew this design would be a icon ever since the very first trailer

"Only a total madman could bring down the arsenal bird" I mean... technically thats what happened. Trigger definetly is a madman

I hope you do more Ace Combat breakdowns! The universe of AC is full of rich lore and very amazing designs of various types.

Thank you for mentioning these Absolute Units! Ace Combat as a series is full of this sort of wacky stuff, and it's awesome! Severely underrated, and an 11/10 job on representing it!

I love the fact that the devs came up with the explanation that they used the mass driver and SRBs to get the arsenal birds in the air

ACE COMBAT MENTIONED LETS GOOOO WTF IS A SIMPLE PLOTLINE

Seeing all the Max0r references is making me smile so hard. Thanks for covering these beautiful machines. Looking forward to the next video!

The music during this boss fight is amazing, and yeah the design is cool and all but its not the reason why it is one of my favorite missions in the game, its the music, its all the music, like, all of it The name of the music is Daredevil for those looking for it

>Osean aerospace engineers when you ask them to design a weapon system that isn’t tailor-made to be a video game boss battle

Was a great fight. Bringing Stonehenge online to pop one was also great XD

I just love huge impractical eggs in one basket war machines. Wiping the floor with everything before Inevitably being destroyed by overwhelming numbers.

can you do the alicorn?

The Lighthouse itself could have been fitted with very powerful lasers along its length, that could have zapped any aircraft or missile that it got line of sight on. Those shields would have also been handy. And drone swarms could have been ready to launch from nearby protected hangers, with a small number always out flying doing recon patrols.

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The arsenal bird & the alicorn is the only ace combat bosses managed to shoot me down in 20+ years playing ace combat games.

Two beautiful machines from one of my favourite games

Wow, been a while since Spacedock did a craft breakdown. Nice to see one again!

My favorite thing about Ace Combat is it doesnt even pretend to be realistic. Its wild and silly and thats why its so great

I love how many Max0r references there are in these comments. That video got me into Ace Combat. It is an absolute classic.

The Maxor references are amazing

Bruh I recently got into ace combat and now see this, great timing

in a similar topic to this, i think a breakdown of the garuda class from zeta gundam would be really interesting

Ace Combat content, I love it!

Always love the soundtrack to these games

I really did miss the breakdowns, glad to have the format back in some form

Finally some Ace Combat content

*madman*. Trigger, dancing with the angels.

The Arsenal Bird's cinematic intro in the game always gives me goosebumps. First your hear the ominous droning music, then you see it slowly come out from behind a distant cloud like some angel of vengeance. Then everything in the mission goes to shit.

Imagine taking the time and expense to build a multi billion dollar war machine with cutting edge tech, only for it to get shot down by an unhinged F18 pilot that decided to strap a railgun to his plane that day for shits and giggles

I love this game series I hope to see more break down for all the amazing ace combat vehicles

I enjoy all of Spacedock videos

I never realized how kerbal the Arsenal birds' launch process was!

I love Ace Combat games, silly storylines, amazing graphics and music, blasting hundreds of enemies in the newest or classic or futuristic aircraft... Love it

Seems to me that one could develop a fuel system that didn’t require manual refueling. Assuming an atmosphere that has plenty of oxygen and water vapor, some combination of electrolysis or similar hydrogen and oxygen harvesting should be able to create one or more types of compressed Fuel for the drones. That’s taking advantage of the endless supply of electricity to ensure the drones are fully fueled. The only downside of this being that there would surely be some delay between using fuel and replacing it, so if you continually attacked, the drones would eventually run out of fuel while waiting for additional fuel to be manufactured on the flying ship.

I would love more ace combat breakdowns!!!

Excellent breakdown 👌

Fascinating. Thank you.

Its about time you did a video on Ace Combat.

I suggest videos on: The Nautilus X-jet Death Star (Canon) Tie fighter series (Canon) AT-RT Executor class Star Destroyer

I loved these things as a concept.

I cannot understate the nostalgic joy that the Stonehenge mission brought me. I was *almost* sorry for also being responsible for blowing it up 20 years earlier in AC04. :P

Arsenal Bird is still one of the best named fictional aircraft ever, the name is imposing, dangerous to its enemy yet is inspiring to those it serves.

Thanks Sojourn

It’s to see some Ace Combat content, thanks.

Good one bro. The Arsenal bird is interesting version of "flying aircraft carrier", wich answers the most problematic questions about the design: 1) propulsion and power/fuel - solution picked is sufficient, although nuclear power might be better (number of smaller nuclear generators onboard, wich can be switched for newly fueled (or completely different principle) power module of the same shape - say fusion would be discovered in a decade after lift of, and can be utilized when needed). 2) how to take off with aircraft much bigger than all runways on the world (only "better"---more advantageous to the machine and users--- solution i can think off is VTOL concept). 3) how to replenish the equipment/ammunition, wich can not be produced "indefinetly" midflight 4) how to connect/park/stack the fighter-drones on the mother/plane, ... 4)a) altough IF the fighter-drones are connected SIDEWAYS (i.e. turned one side up, one side down), the wing could be twice (or in minimum one third more than) the original number... Me personally, would introduce one design feature, that might be of help with the "self repair" part, especially of the engines and plane surface - If the engines are housed in detachable streemlined pylons, wich can move on the surface of the airplane, you can simply "disconnect" whole engine, transport it to the repair facility, and after being repaired transport it back to the bird (wich would "reshuffle" the engine pods again, to gain optimal thrust and weight distribution with changed number of engines onboard. I mean - it is impossible with engine using fuel (because the fuel lines would mean extreme failure point), but when you need only supply electricity to the engine, it can be perfectly supplied during moving ON the superstructure (and locked to it befor it starts to proppel the plane). And the same system could be utilized for b) smaller repair bots (shaped to have extremely small airdrag) moving on fixed grid of rails situated OUTSIDE (on top of) the mothership, ment to cutt off the dammaged segment, transport modular replacement parts to the dammaged area and repair the dammages by reconnecting the newly replaced segment to the whole. Same robots could be used to do smaller repairs of dammaged fighter-drones, basically OUTSIDE the mother/plane. c) said "surface train carts" can be used for small local sensor clusters and/or point defense lasers, wich would MOVE on the surface of the mothership, to maximize the sensor clenliness and/or firepower in needed direction.

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You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this video..

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After 5 years The Lockheed Mart drone boomerang is finally on space dock

That last saturation attack eas amazing to play

Would be really cool if you did a breakdown of some more of the Ace Combat aircraft, or maybe some Warship Gunner 2 boss ships

Nice Video. Since you covered the Arsenal Bird, could you maybe do a breakdown of the "Agaion" from Ace Combat 6 in the future ??

Well that is very cool concept

This thing reminds me of the Lockheed CL-1201 one of my favorite concepts from cold war era engineers. I'd honestly be surprised if the game designers didn't take some inspiration from the plans.

It’d be interesting if someday you did a breakdown of the spacecraft from Larry Niven’s “Known Space” stories. Or really just the vintage ones (From 1965 to 1980) since nothing he wrote after Ringworld Engineers added much to the mythos, and all the cool, fun stuff happened in the first 15 years (And most of that in the first 5 or 6) The ships are, in my opinion, really interesting and unique and the FTL system they use is not unique except in the way it affects the human nervous system and vision.

Would love to see more content on Strangereal tech.

I should look into ace combat! Thats some awesome hard sci fi stuff that I’ve only seen discussed on SFIA

This is AWACS Long Caster. All callsigns, check in.

Suggestion, Take a look at Nebulous Fleet Command Ship designs, Nebulous is an fleet managment/Combat RTS

Nice another video

The Arsenal Bird and the Art Book makes me wish I got the collectors edition

The Railgun wouldn't need to penetrate the Energy Shield... It was mentioned earlier in the video that the shield is not kept active all the time and is only energized when an incoming attack is detected...which means as long as the Arsenal Bird doesn't know it's under attack, the shield is down and it was also mentioned it takes a minute or so to charge the generators and raise the shield...given how fast a Railgun round flies, it will hit the bird before it even realizes it's under attack and if that round is large, fast and accurate enough, it will destroy the Arsenal Bird before it can activate the shield by destroying the Microwave Power Receiver that powers the entire Arsenal Bird and it's Shield... If I was planning the attack, I'd have a minimum of 2 Railguns, each would be aimed at 1 Arsenal Bird and both would fire simultaneously so one bird isn't warned of the attack by the destruction of the other bird and raises it's shield before I can shoot it...that first shot would destroy the Power Receiver, preventing the shield from being powered up and also shutting the engines down so I don't need to fire any more shots since the Arsenal Birds will now be forced to glide and no aircraft of that size can stay airborne for long before crashing to the ground (or water depending on where it was in it's orbit when shot)...the fact I wouldn't need to take a second shot means the chances of anyone figuring out where I was when I took my first shot (and carpet bombing the area with the still functioning combat drones, the Arsenal Birds may be doomed to destruction at that point, but are still MORE than dangerous enough to take out their killers before that final death) is highly unlikely...tracking weapons fire back to the launcher is very difficult with only one shot taken... If I could arrange for more than 2 Railguns, then the additional guns would shoot at the weapons storage pods brought up by the resupply shuttles to hopefully cause a detonation of either the drone missile magazine and/or drone fuel bunker which would tear the Arsenal Bird apart and cause it to crash (in MANY pieces) before being able to launch any drones... 2 Railguns are the minimum needed to kill both Arsenal Birds, more would simply speed up the process...

Looking at AB again, didn't realized there's some similarities from the systems Arsenal Birds has with the weapon used in during Aurelian-Leasath War

Have you guys done P1112 Aigaion from AC6?

Has anybody who knows anything about missile logistics? Will tell you. A weapon that has one way of being reloaded is a weapon that’s going to jam 90% of the time. You don’t need to fight these things. You just need to take out their supplies and do significant damage to the combat capability. Depending on how long their engines can last without lubricant, you have a Clock for when this thing is going to smashing into the ground or at least become combat significantly less effective.

Since you're doing Ace Combat breakdowns, can you do Project Wingman breakdowns as well? They have stuff called Cordium that powers airships and fighter jets and rail guns and nukes that cause planet wide destruction when fired at the Ring of Fire.

What about those dieselpunk airplanes or battleship airships in the skies.

This would be easier to accomplish than an airborne aircraft carrier. Not that it would be easy, just easier. I should build one and get some of those sweet Government™ contracts!

Knocker used the nickname "Big Baby Huey" to refer to an Arsenal Bird in Two-pronged Strategy, which is a reference to the cartoon character Baby Huey.

Kinda funny starting with a space elevator using micro waves to transfer power and an impenetrable field. Sounded like something more from gundam 00

Fascinating designs. Though I doubt their status as superweapons if they couldn't stop the one thing they're meant to defend from falling to extremists in the first place.

Nice

Can you do a video on airships that can carry aircraft fighters for a deployment type scenario.

Have you ever done/ thought of doing star citizen ships? im a fan of the game and your channel and would love to hear your opinion on some of them

I feel like attacking the resupply facilities would have been a more robust plan to bring the birds down. I haven't actually played the game so maybe there was some time pressure that I don't know about requiring the super-planes to be destroyed quickly, but if not, cutting their supply chain would eventually lead to them either breaking down and falling out of the sky on their own or it would force the Eruseans to expend significant resources creating and protecting an alternate method of resupply. The most powerful weapon in the world is just a really expensive lawn ornament if it runs out of engine grease.

Pretty Formidable drones in their hey day.

I didn’t know I could fly through the rectenna!

Talk about the generators of FrostPunk!

Osea loves their birds

came for Max0r jokes in the comments was not disappointed. ALSO the Banshee from Yukikaze come one you got to admit there preity dope and need a video if you haven't seen Yukikaze its on TubiTV.

how effective would the ship be if mechanic johnny expanded it with galvanised square steel and borrowed expansion screws to add more weapons?

Do the CDV Roosevelt from Project Wingman Frontline 59 next.

I see Ace Combat, I click!

This is what Lockheed Martin dreams about making every night.

when is the next season of the Sojourn coming out?

Any one noticed that in the ISAF national anthem has the lyrics liberty and justice wounder if thats how they got there names

Could you look at War of The Worlds Tripods

I’m still waiting for ace combat 5 2

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Looks like supreme commander animation

The Arsenal Birds were cool but I still have a soft spot for the Arkbird

Can you do a video on designations in sci-fi? This is something that has been confusing me for a while. Anytime i watch anything explaining ships, weapons, vehicles, etc, the one question that comes to mind is "wtf do any of those numbers and letters even mean?"