From your reactions to this, I think you'd be very interested in reacting to the documentary '13 hours that saved Britain' which recounts the day mentioned in this where the nazi flew a huge bombing raid which they expected to decimate the RAF and enable a nazi invason of Britain that the RAF went all in to repel. It features many eyewitness accounts from pilots, those in the air control, and eyewitnesses on the ground, many of them children at the time. It gives a very human perspective on what life was like under German bombing, as well as the RAFs defence of the nation. That day is now commemorated as Battle of Britain day. Sir Winston Churchill said of these pilots "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". Really enjoying your channel ✌️👍
If you want to see what really low level looks like, "RAF Buccaneers Attack HMS Liverpool Off Gibraltar". The U.S.A.F. hold an annual exercise called "Red Flag", in the 1970s a squadron of Buccaneers took part as the attacking force, and the U.S.A.F. were unable to intercept them, the Buccaneers were going to approach at a height of 20feet, but found they were kicking up dust trails, so they increased their altitude to 30feet.
Respect to you for your video 👏 Nothing is better than QRA and the force they deliver RAF Coningsby - RAF Lossiemouth & Ämari Air Base Estonia where our German Luftwaffe allies make up our QRA teams
The Russian blackjack bomber is a knock off copy of the Concorde civilian supersonic jet. They are ancient and even when new were known deathtraps. Like most Soviet era tech it's development was rushed its design deeply flawed and poorly built. I can only imagine what fifty years of hard use and Russian maintenance have done to the poor bloody machine. Or just how terrified the poor pilots ordered to fly it all the way to Britain and back must be. Only America still fields a similar aircraft the B1 Lancer they have been upgraded and rebuilt over the years and even then are never sent into contested airspace whithout escort fighters to protect them because strategic bombers are no longer a viable first strike weapon against a nation with competent air defences.
The part women played in the air force during the Ww2 would be a great documentary, and many would be surprised at some of the duties they took on, bringing unarmed fighter planes, even bombers, from Canada and USA across the Atlantic to Britain, in most cases piloting them on their own and always in silence, no radio communications until they were challenged as they neared the British coast.women whose job it was to straddle the tail of fighter aircraft and the pilot would gun the engine and start to move down the take off strip , the woman would get the signal to “dismount “ ( very un lady like) she would then duck sharpish so as not to be hit by the tail plane, more times than not it was unnecessary ducking as it was hard to land on the trot as it were, so they would stay down until the plane was well clear of them
As bad as the worst aspects of the East India Company and the British Empire were, was and is ...for the Indian Principalities and Maharaja States etc... If the India was instead under Imperial Russian control, how much worse would the atrocities committed hav likely to have been?, let alone their endemic genocidal Russification progroms & cultural practices?
