lockmart video had way too many pictures, tried using a lot more videos this time around northrop grumman my beloved song is Money, Money, Money by ABBA none of the videos/images in the video belong to me
Just a reminder during WWII Mr Northrop was so good at designing planes that the US military had to turn down some of his proposals just so the other engineering companies could have a piece of the pie
Funny thing is, the B-21 is still estimated to be less expensive than the B-2, to operate, and produce. Part of this is down to the fact that the USAF was bouncing around the idea of ordering 80 (this is the smallest estimate) B-21s, while only 21 B-2s were ever built. Volume of production allows you to reduce costs.
It's also technological maturity. When the B-2 was built they had to practically invent all the Stealth features. Now they can piggyback off that work and probably a humongous amount of research from the F-35 program
@@rockboy3970 Northrop got probably no information on the F-35, Lockheed would never give them that. But they sure as hell are hired dozens of people from Lockheed who worked on JSF.
The fact the Northrop name finally made the flying wing concept work decades after he basically burned his career trying brings a smile to my face. That alone is priceless.
This is probably the 20th time I've watched this video. instead of listening to "money, money, money", i watch this video because it truly encapsulates the extremes of what this song is about. More money, easier solutions, less stress. The intention of this song/video truly hit... well done!!
@@BENKYismAnd now a more advanced stealth bomber with a higher payload costs a third of that amount. Cheap, quality, and high numbers. The American MIC makes me coom sometimes even if it is inefficient and largely corrupted by CEO bonuses and shareholder interests overriding the pragmatic aspect of defense contracting
Imagine for a moment, a plane jointly made by Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, with engines jointly made by Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, and Rolls Royce. The ultimate American military plane.
I hope companies start doing this kind of stuff on there own soon. The power of memes and vintage footage with that 80/90’s flare is powerful for getting 20 somethings on your sides
…and yet still can’t produce a single hypersonic missile which can actually, I dunno, WORK. China, Russia, NK and Iran are in shambles, that’s for sure. Muh almost 1 trillion defence budget btw 🤡
This is how the military should really be getting people to sign up. Just get a few meme channels start making this type of stuff and people will probably join
Honestly I enjoy it. Whether you like war or not, these companies are some of the single biggest reasons our country is still so indifferent to most outside threats today.
The choice of music had me wondering if it might be satire. I mean, do we *really* need to spend that much money on a new stealth bomber? Do we even really need a new one at all? Sure, it’s probably an amazing upgrade, but wouldn’t that money be better spent elsewhere? I know I for one can think of several better ways to spend it. Starting with NASA and better STEM education for primary school students. Or it could go to healthcare. Or used for more patrol aircraft for the southern border. We don’t need walls or barbwire. We need more eyes in the sky, and seismic sensors in the ground. Could probably create a surveillance network of cheap-ish drones and in-ground sensors capable of monitoring any and all life along the border. Seismic sensors would pick up any large animals(including people) in areas where a drone may not be presently covering, and the closest drone would be dispatched to the area. Seismic sensors would also pick up any attempt at tunneling. Not only would all this be better at preventing illegal crossings, but depending on what other sensors are installed in the drones and alongside the seismic monitors, we could be gathering data that would be useful to science. So in the end, lots of that money would still go to the “military-industrial complex,” but just in different and in some cases less direct ways. Also, active duty and veterans alike could use better healthcare too.
Ace combat will only ever be real when we figure out compact fusion energy and how to reload pylons in mid-air with replicated ordinance. That, and only if BVR missiles stop being a real thing and Radar tech regressed back to the mid 60s.
Western support to Ukraine and edits like this have really helped me realize that I FUCKING LOVE THE WESTERN/NATO MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰
If I had a nickel for every time a Northrop drone crashed within 500 meters of me, I'd have two nickels. It's not much but it's weird it's happened twice.
Seeing the YF-23 in person was so bizzare. Up close it looks so alien and its true size is revealed. It's a shame this bird never went into production.
2:36 from left to right. F6F Hellcat. An impressive replacement to the F4F Wildcat that even the Japanese pilots who survived fighting them said are a better plane than anything they had. They changed so little to the overall look of the F6F from the F4F that experienced Japanese pilots couldn't tell they were fighting a plane totally different from the previously easily defeated F4F. F-14 Tomcat. A plane that struck fear into the Iraqi forces who were piloting the Mig-23. Migs would take off and then seemingly out of no where just explode after take off. They had no clue what was going on. It was so rampant that Iraqi pilots refused to take off and grounded themselves. F7F Tigercat. The replacement to the P-38 Lightning. It never was since the war ended before it could be distributed to P-38 squadrons in the pacific and Jet aircraft were proving quite capable. F8F Bearcat. Similar to the F7F. the F8F was a replacement to the F6F and F4U Corsair. Again, it saw limited service due to the fact the war ended before it could be distributed to their Squadrons on mass. F4U Corsair. Speaking of in the last descriptor, the F4U was a very powerful aircraft that saw most of it's use in pacific and was very liked by its pilots. Yes. I have 3300 hours in Warthunder.
Jack Northrop was a huge proponent of the flying wing concept for aircraft design. But after his project got cancelled as WWII was over (and the dawn of jet powered propulsion as well as more mature conventional long-range bomber designs like the B-17/29 proving more reliable/practical), his dream of seeing the flying wing was on halt.... that was until he retired and got called in again before he died - to see the B-2 Spirit coming to life.
Jack Northrop's story reminds me of the poem Harlem/A Dream Deferred by american poet Langston Hughes: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. *Or does it explode?*
DOD - We have brought peace and stability our great empire NATO - our empire? DOD - dont make me free you NATO - America my allegiance is to the UN, to democracy!!!
God we gotta get Northrop. Grumman to build a set of three of all there retired aircraft we so need those Grumman cat celebrations without risking an old airframe That includes there one off experientials and even the biplanes they made I want it all
Its just sad that all XB-35 and YB-49 prototype was all destroyed and we'll never see the real thing (at least except the engineers, test pilot and Jack Northrop himself) 😢
Northdrop was so saddened to see that, that he quit from his own company. Eventually, he was given special permission to view a b-2 model. He reportedly cried and said "now I know why god has kept me alive for this many years"
