As a Combat Engineer myself, I'm insulted that Mike Sparks exists. Just because you have 'Engineer' in your job title does not make you smart. The 'Engineer' part in Combat Engineer is a little misleading. Most of us are not super highly qualified. We purify water on small scale, clear minefields, build Lego-like bridges, yadda. We don't design tanks.
idk, just sounds like your sad that you don't get to do the fun stuff, if you can maintain a tank you can design one (imo most military vehicles are outdated, if it can be taken out by a 150 dollar drone and a molotov its outdated)
@@gpfuns Maintaining tanks is also not part of our job description so I don't know where you get your BS from. He didn't 'design' shit. He slapped some wings and a turbo prop on an m113 and called it a 'design'. Maybe learn what combat engineers do before making ignorant statements again.
@@gpfuns You know what, it's been 5 months, but I don't care. Saving your original reply here for posterity: "idk, just sounds like your sad that you don't get to do the fun stuff, if you can maintain a tank you can design one (imo most military vehicles are outdated, if it can be taken out by a 150 dollar drone and a molotov its outdated)" Now to respond: "if you can maintain a tank you can design one" Combat Engineers DO NOT maintain tanks. We don't repair tanks or service them; we don't design them or build them. We don't do that for any other vehicles either. The people who actually do all of the above are called "Maintainers" (In the US anyway). Combat Engineers and Maintainers only have 3 things in common; smoke tobacco, drink whiskey and welders. Other than that, we might as well be from different galaxies, so that argument makes no sense in context. Combat Engineers do the following: Clear minefields, purify water, blow shit up, build prefab bridges, use power tools (Jackhammers, earth augers, etc.), dig trenches (and graves), operate inflatable boats and build fences. The 'construction' branch of Combat Engineers also includes welders, electricians, brick layers, painters, CMO's and so on. We also have a Terrain Intelligence unit (Updating and printing of maps). Notably no vehicle mechanics. If Mike Sparks was a Maintainer, he'd have a leg to stand on, but he's not. He's a waterboy. "imo most military vehicles are outdated, if it can be taken out by a 150 dollar drone and a molotov its outdated" One guy with a cheap machine-gun and no training can gun down an entire platoon of elite infantry (outfitted with the best equipment money can buy) in seconds. I suppose that makes infantry outdated too. "If it can be destroyed it's outdated" is a very ignorant argument. Vehicles and weapons become outdated when something else does their job better than they do or if the job they do is no longer necessary. In conclusion: I strongly suggest that next time you get your facts straight before making ignorant comments and trying to tell other people how their job is done. To remind you; I am a Combat Engineer, just like Mike Sparks was. I know how to do his job. You clearly don’t.
TBF the original use of the term “Engineer”-“Ingeniarius” in Medieval Latin, was in reference to combat engineers. whose main jobs were directing the construction of basic wooden bridges, forts, and siege engines, none of which they designed, but just memorized the principles and proportions for by rote, maybe improving some slightly by trial, error, and intuition-which they in turn would pass down to their apprentices. Design engineers are a pretty new thing in the grand scheme of things.
@@IONATVS Very true, however; whenever you talk about engineers nowadays everyone thinks of design engineers. I've lost count of how many times I've been asked what engineering projects I'm working on, whenever I tell people what I do. I'm not that kind of engineer.
Giant ocean based airports sound good until you factor in storms and incompetence. If you don't think several of them wouldn't do an ocean ranger and flip over because someone would bungle the ballast during rough seas, I admire your optimism.
Yeah, and not to mention that the only places they’d make more sense than a land airstrip is places with no suitable land around-ie the middle of the ocean-which is also where there are no valuable targets to protect or attack and building oil-rig-style anchors to the seabed would be most insanely difficult & expensive.
mike sparks used the james bond music in his video because he genuinely thinks that James bond is real, I'm not joking, he wrote a book on the subject.
Important thing about military tech is that a idea with a lot of potential or "interesting ideas" do not always equate to good ideas. The moving island base for example is cool in theory, but it's size would make maintenance a nightmare, especially if it needed to go to port, it's size would make it impossible to miss, so the escort group needed to protect it would be utterly unfeasible, and the logistics of a battle group of that size would be horrendous, that's why we use aircraft carrier, they provide a similar if lesser function, but we have the resources and infrastructure to maintain them, they are bunch easier to protect, and they can move much faster. As lazerpig has said in another video, massive super weapons are a horrible idea.
These "interesting ideas" are great for sci-fi shows and video games. Also, the Aerogavin looks like something that I'd try to kitbash together for a Warhammer 40k Ork army...
Yeah, that's maybe the worst part of it for me. So many of these ideas sound so *cool!* Flying tanks sounds so cool, battleship carriers sounds so cool, hovercraft destroyers sounds so cool, so much of these ideas are just so fucking *cool!* But they are also awful the second you apply reality and physics to them, and that's not even touching on the logistics needed. So while they are such amazing ideas, any sane person can also recognise that they are just that; cool ideas. Maybe something for sci-fi settings and far future space stuff where you don't have to account for things like gravity to the same degree as on earth. But actually applying them to modern military? Not a chance.
Also, if you are willing to do a long reaction, I’d love to see you watch his t34 video. It completely changed my perspective on the tank when I first watched it
The funny thing about this monstrosity is like 3 Nightstalkers CH-47s are about as stealthy, can carry more troops, and can get in and out a hell of a lot faster, of course you have the Nightstalkers using Stealth Hawks on occasion (they used them during operation Neptune Spear), which can carry as many troops and are stealth aircraft, reminder, the “Aero Gavin” has the radar cross section of a gigantic cube since that’s what it essentially is.
@@mikistenbeck6517 Maybe if he made it a mono and put an absolutely ridiculous engine in it, then maybe? The problem is tracks don't like to go very fast after a certain point. Maybe if he put wheels on it? At that point it's barely even an M113 so, unfortunately I don't think its ever going to happen.
Not to mention the engineering challenges in keeping such a wide and top-heavy platform from being ripped up by waves: there's a reason cargo ships haven't been replaced by similar "cheap" platforms just keeping a giant stack of containers on a mile-long flat deck deck being towed around the ocean by tugboats. And it still needs a carrier task force's worth of escort vessels to protect it from submarines and cruise missiles. And regardless, the end result probably wouldn't actually be any cheaper than a carrier, while it'll be considerably more vulnerable to attack than a carrier.
These reactions are amazing, more lazerpig videos please! You seem to be focusing on tank related ones but i promise every single video is worth a reaction. I recommend the A-10 videos.
@@brennanleadbetter9708 Isn't that the one that was supposedly sunk by the *crew* because admitting that the Ukraine military managed to hit it *at all* was somehow more embarrassing than calling their own navy personnel incompetent?
@@brennanleadbetter9708 You know, this entire fustercluck with Russia invading Ukraine would be a lot funnier if it wasn't *real.* I mean, part of what makes it funny is that it *is* real, but then I start thinking about those poor saps getting essentially Shanghaied into the Russian army and the Ukrainians who've suffered and died for Putin's ego trip.
@ brigidtheirish their tactics haven’t changed in over 70 years. I feel bad for the troops being thrown into the meat grinder while Putin doesn’t give a shit.
8:51 although a Battleship LHD has Potential as a shore support asset for the Marine Corps. Granted it would be expensive. There is used for it, though just not as a Battleship, it would actually be more of a monitor.
Seeing his video of the AreoGavin in action now makes me wonder if Sparks thinks infantry can be summoned like Marvin the Martian's Dehydrated Martians? He shows a bunch of guys jump out of the thing then more climb out after getting to the objective, where do all these guys come from?
What really fucking get's to me with his "genius" design on the so called "Airo-Gavin" is that he put a fucking *single engine* on the thing! *One!* Like, if he'd at least put two engines like must modern planes I'd at least be able to see what he was thinking and where he was comming from, even if it still wouldn't work, but *one?!* A single big engine, yes, that's going to lift it all! I wish I was able to be that funny. I genuinly wish I could come up with such absolute comedy as that. It amuses me to no end.
@@Shaun_Jones If the Ratte managed to come into existence, it will be a logistical nightmare to send to any front lines. Assuming it doesn't get carpet bombed on the way there.
@@aaroncabatingan5238 yes, that is all true; but the Ratte could exist in a functional state, so it’s still more practical than the physically impossible AeroGavin.
I find that there’s four forms of intelligence The first one is where the individual/ individuals understand and know how, what and why they’re doing something and know full well that their inventions will 100% work The second form of intelligence is where the individual knows that something might or will work even though the idea seems bat shit insane and yet somehow manages to actually work And finally there are those who are just bats shit insane in which an idea can either work or just barely work in theory but is utterly useless or impossible or impractical in practice or reality eg HMS HABAKUK
Even German engineers in aviation and armored warfare admitted to the Allies that as the war progressed they saw the Western allies advance leaps and bounds faster than they could. Even the Germans admitted that the P-51 mustang was the most advanced propeller driven fighter of the war. The B-29 was recognized as the most advanced bomber of the war. The bomber utilized early robotics. When B-29 bombers had to make emergency landings in Vladivostok, the engineers and personnel on the ground thought they were looking at an airplane from the future because it was filled with technology far beyond anything they could duplicate. Germany did not have the most advanced military on the planet. What edge they did have at the beginning of the war was quickly lost as the war progressed.
@@carlruth5692 Thank you for telling me but the “Dramatically drunk but amateur” part was supposed to be a joke…guess we Germans are not funny after all…
I know this is video is a year old, but looks like you picked the wrong time to stop drinking😀 (a reference from the movie Airplane 😀) I would like to see a tracked vehicle go over 100+ mph, without the tracks, sprocket wheel teeth, road wheels, the brakes, the suspension system destroy themselves.
Not gonna lie, I cringed so hard when I first saw the part where Mike Sparks shows how the AeroGavin would work in battle. The only way it became bearable for me is Lazerpig's singing. Thank fuck that guy is out of the army. Can someone tell that idiot that helicopters exist?
