I admit I have a problem: I am utterly obsessed with the Pelican. I love all the human vehicles from the original game, but the Pelican takes the cake, eats it, and bakes another f******* cake.
@@GretchentheAlligator I kind of now want a Foe Hammer HALO CE, where you're taxiing troops into/out of combat zones and occasionally rescuing Master Chief on HALO as the baddest pelican in the series.
@@andrewowens4421 that is because most don't have guns or missiles and the pilots don't make the first shot as a 70mm chain gun would have ripped open that scarab turret
Ya their kinda ridiculously useful... the simple fact that they can hold that much and go between Exo and atmospheric flight says something about how fucking powerful those engines are...
Y'know, the Warthog being hydrogen powered makes more sense once you take into account the Pelican (and presumably all the other dropships and other aerospace craft in UNSC service) being fueled by hydrogen. It's the space going future equivalent of the current US military requirement that every vehicle in inventory be capable of running on JP8 (their preferred blend of jet fuel), even if its not ideal for the performance or efficiency of the particular platform, because its one less logistical hurdle to overcome when the system gets stressed. And that's just with one nation on one planet (that's generally regarded as being pretty damn good at logistics), take space travel and accompanying limits in cargo volume into account and its a lot easier for the system to get stressed to a point where delivery of multiple different fuel types to the combat zone in sufficient quantity to fulfill needs becomes difficult or impossible, so they cut it down. No more fussing about with "30th Division needs X amount of petrol, Y diesel. No I said Z diesel, you ingrate!", instead UNSC logistics just goes "You get hydrogen! And you get hydrogen! So do you! Everyone gets hydrogen!"
Not to mention you could probably replenish fuel easily seeing as hydrogen is so common. Even if you needed a specific isotope you could make them on the ship and just pull hydrogen from space.
That is actually a brilliant point, I wondered why the Hog was Hydrogen rather than electric, matching the fuel with other equipment makes sense, saves on extra training and simplifies logistics
@@DavidSternburgYt Oh. Yes. Her. Lol. Sorry. Its just that I just finished Reach and just started CE. I'm in that snowy mission. Assault on the Control Room, I believe. Haven't played any of the Halo games except these 2. Just got MCC for PC. :)
Playing Combat Evolved as a kid, me and my friends, always said just wait till halo 2 we will get to fly a pelican !! I absolutely adore this vehicle such a great design
I once asked my dad; a lifelong pilot, what he thought of the pelican. He didn’t have to look at the picture for more than five seconds to tell me it would fly like a brick. After I got done laughing at his unintentional Sergeant Johnson reference I had to completely agree with him. It may fly like a brick but it’s a brick that can haul a main battle tank, and infantry support from one side of the solar system to the other. I miss you dad, you magnificent aviator.
It flies like a brick because it's meant to be stable transitioning from hypersonic to supersonic during fast re entry. The space shuttle was also a flying brick and it didn't do combat drops
The Pelican was always my favorite dropship in Halo. To be honest, I'd prefer to be transported by a Pelican. In my opinion, I prefer the D-77 Pelican dropship over the D-79 models.
The D-77 is sleeker, prettier and much more visually appealing than the D-79, it also provides a more functional shape for the cockpit glass, the almost globed shape of the D-79 cockpit which makes no sense and would actually make it weaker, again, makes no sense
DC-79 is more aerodynamic for in-atmosphere flights to put less strain on the engines. It's just common technological innovation, can't rock the 77 forever.
@DAS ist gut The D79 you're talking about is another variant. The normal D79 actually has less weapons than the D77 (D79 only has the chin mounted 70mm). The D77 has everything you said about it, along with two heavy missile pods ( one on each wing) and is heavily armored.
3:34 The Mosin Nagant comes close as it was first produced in 1891. The USS Consitution and HMS Victory are still both technically active warships and they were launched in 1797 and 1765 respectively, though as neither has seen combat in over 200 years, I don't think they count.
@@Xenonfastfall The Mosin has been used in more conflicts than almost any other gun. Read up on it a bit. Pre-WW1 and still sees use in active conflicts in the Middle East and whichever neighbor Russia is invading this year.
Xenonfastfall if you want to add the stipulation of it has to be deployed by a organized national military then the round the Mosin fires (7.62x54R) was developed in 1891 with the Mosin and is still used today in Russian PKM machine guns.
I know my reply is a technically correct answer, but the U.S. military (Navy and Coast Guard) still uses the .45-70 Gov. cartridge that was designed from 1873 and is 147 years old. This round does not have a bullet since it uses it's gunpowder for line-propelling purposes. Off topic, but the little door on lever-action rifles where you insert cartridges that goes into the magazine tube (called King's Patent Loading Gate) was designed and patented in 1866 and used on the Winchester 1866. That rifle was so influential that it caused the Russians to design the Mosin Nagant by the massive losses from the Battle of Plevna (outgunned by a way smaller Ottoman force). The gate is still in use today and is 154 years old.
2120 youtuber: I challenge you to find a single example of military equipment still in use today after being originally introduced in the 1950s. 2120 commenter: B-52 Stratofortress, what's my prize?
The M2 browning or the AK-47 and AKM would be good guesses. As long as there is war there will be two things for the foreseeable future. The maduce and the kalash
I don't know of any military equipment still in use from the 1860's but the Madsen MG was first introduced in the 1890's, its last know use was in 2016 by the Brazilian Military Police.
That picture you showed of the 'C-130' loading an M1 was in fact a C5 Galaxy. While I'm not sure about the internal dimensions of the C-130 cargo bay, I am certain it cannot carry an M1 Abrams. The Abrams weighs 68 tons while the max cargo weight of the C 130 is 24 tons.
I do love how Bungie really thought out the Pelican and how she could operate.. with out realizing it completely mind you but you can get this brick to fly and that makes me so happy. The Pelican is one of my favorite drop ships of all time. Knowing she's similar to a 130 makes me just smile even more!
I’ve been having a rough go of it lately (anxiety and depression are a bitch aren’t they). Seeing an alert for a new Installation 00 lore video, especially the Most Detailed Videos really does make me happy Thank you
I know it's already been done, but I've always wanted to build my own Pelican in Space Engineers. This video has given me enough information to design one in real life, let alone in a game. You are a credit to the Halo fanbase. Thank you for your service.
Also not a vehicle but a military hardware introduced in the 1860s and still in use today it the Gatling gun(introduced in civil war ) which they put a motor on and turned into the minigun
And then they made a bigger version that fires 20mm ammo and put it onto just about every US fighter jet as the M61 Vulcan and finally an even bigger version in the form of the GAU-8 on the A-10 Warthog. Not bad for something that started out as a hand-cranked weapon mounted on what looks like a mount for artillery of that same era.
yeah but it's not like we're using the exact same model of the same hardware made in the same way, as the pelican. You can discern lots of common points between the 1860s one and the present day one, but apart from their basic functions they're almost nothing alike
160+years of service for the pelican eh? The closest real-world example of military equipment over a century old still being in use is the 7.62x54r rifle cartridge, introduced in 1891 for the Russian Empire's Mosin-Nagant M91 bolt-action rifles, and used today in PKM machine guns and SVD and PSL marksman rifles.
To be fair, the past 200 years have seen some very fast technological advancement. In that time frame we got rid of the flintlock and have now developed the railgun...
@@Bird_Dog00 crazy to think how fast we went from no internet and limited medicine and damn near no space travel( no self landing rockets) among other great technology is seemingly just one lifetime it’s like as soon as we found out what electricity was and can use it technology was literally just off to the races. Just like how our grandparent don’t understand current technology much it’s hard to believe that I’m prolly gonna be that grandparent who can’t understand my grandkids toys and technology
@@mizzinfamous9746 I don't think electricity had much to do with it beyond making some things like communication easier. The real game changer were the printing press, the mechanisation of agriculture, freeing up much manpower and improving food supply thus allowing more people to devote their time to things other than food production and more universaly available education. Those factors combined were a force multiplier for collective learning.
@@immortalwarrior2695 the halo 4 design just does not feel right. the cockpit traded out that "halo" look for something more hind like. the back feels even smaller and the few time you see it there are no lights providing a black hole to keep you from realizing that it is not detailed AT ALL! like so much of H4, there were good ideas with bad implementation, and then royally fucked by H5. that being said, the H5 take on the bird is at least slightly improved in a few points: larger and detailed bay.
@Kit Andrei Maniquis I hate to completely ruin your life, but the plural for "mongoose" is actually "mongooses". Somebody told me that once and.. low and behold, Google was there to ruin me, and now you guys as well.
@@irondudeful both are correct, as is listed on many online dictionaries. Don't just trust what people tell you, same for me, go check the merriam-webster dictionary, that's one i personally trust.
@@nicholaswalsh4462 correction: ammunition that stopped being used in the 50's. The gun itself looks pretty advanced being significantly smaller than modern turrets and having an impressive fire rate of 15 rounds per minute using an auto loader and having much greater variation in the z-axis (seriously that mother fucker can almost look straight up) also the turret turns pretty fast, I don't know how fast exactly but it's way faster than most real tanks
3:35 While I can't think of anything still in use that's specifically from the 1860s (i'm not counting knives or bayonets), there are some bits of hardware that have been going for over a century, and some will probably be in use for longer than that length of time. 1. 7.62x54mmR - A Russian rifle cartridge in military service since 1891. Many modern rifles are chambered in 7.62x54, and it won't be going away anytime soon. 2. Mosin Nagant - Firing the above round, this bolt action rifle has also been in active service since 1891 with a variety of countries. 3. Kommuna - A Russian salvage ship launched in 1915, and still in active use. 4. M1911 pistol - In use around the world since 1911, including by some special forces today. 5. M2 HMG - The M2 has been in use for 87 years, and there are no plans to retire it, even though far newer 12.7mm machine guns exist. It will definitely go over 100 years. Halo also makes some predictions about ammo we use today. Maybe some of them will actually last over 500 years. The UNSC regularly uses 7.62x51mm (NATO, since 1954), 12.7x99mm (US, since 1921), and 14.5x114mm (USSR, since 1941).
The pelican is one of my favourite vehicles from any universe and it's just amazing how much detail they put into there stuff like how it works and everything
If I were to change one thing, I’d be to have a Covenant power plant to power the ship, some of those engines for better speed and maneuverability, plasma weapons and shields, but keep the design the same
There's one in the books. Sorta hybrid designed ship. The infinity has forerunner based slip space engines and shields and actual forerunner engineers fixing her up
Minor correction: jet fuel does not detonate, it combusts, when in a jet engine. A detonation would explosively destroy the engine, a much less desirable outcome than an exothermic chemical reaction producing hot, expanding exhaust gasses. Fantastic video as usual!
Well, the browning m1911 has been around since....1911. Its well over a century old and many variants see service with police or as a choice for military personnel in many countries.
Does it act as a vehicle? No it does not. Pretty sure he was pointing out a vehicle platform going that long. At present C-130 is most likely on that path and A-10 Warthog though retired might see a revision update soon.
As an upcoming aerospace engineer, I hate the pelican. As a a Halo fanboy, God is it beautiful. Something about it just does it for me, she has a wonderful design.
@@gavinstarks2761 it would be possible to recreate something similar (like we could make a functional aircraft that looks like it), but the design is impractical so you'd never see anybody do it. For one- we don't have efficient propulsion that could lift something like that (the weight) the way it does, and beyond that, to add extra weight/passengers would be even harder. Possible? Yea, we could probably do it, but it would cost millions of dollars that no one would be willing to blow. It would fly like a brick.
I turned wrenches on H-60's so I feel it too, the VTOL aspects of it I can get behind mostly and the whole "lifting body" ability of the fuselage is maybe believable but it would be nowhere near enough to take most of the weight. But I can kinda maybe believe it could go supersonic if you shove powerful enough engines on it but hypersonic? No.
As an aircraft mechanic, the breakdown of the engines and propulsion systems was very interesting and very well researched. Of course, I wouldn't expect anything other than a well researched video from the lore master himself. Love these videos sir, and I'm really enjoying the Cartographer series.
I thought the browning came into service in 1933 (ergo 87 years rather than over 100)? The M1911 is a good example though. Only other thing I can think of (which is kinda sketch at that) is the Lee Enfield rifle (in service 1895-1957) which continued to see use in other countries armies until the 70's and recently mostly used either for training (up until 2016 was the training weapon for the Canadian rangers) or by relatively poorly equipped fighting forces (such as ISIL in 2019). Though, depending on how much leeway is given to a modification before it's declared an entirely different entity (comparative to the Pelican's model numbers), one could argue that a heavily modified version of the Gatling gun ( original in service 1862-1911) exists today in the M61Vulcan minigun and the GAU-8 Avenger given that the basic operating principle (though not the systems that power them) are very similar - in fact, miniguns are often referred to as a subcategory of gatling guns.
@@Neion8 Oh was it? I must have confused the year it was fiished with the year it entered service, my bad. The Maxim/Lewis guns were in service for almost a hundred years though. I do expect the M2 Browning to hit that 100 year mark, the US honestly tried to make a better one but it ultimately failed to be as reliable. They instead went and upgraded them making the M2A1 and the GAU 21.
@@PolymurExcel No probs, and yeah I think the M2 browning is a design that will keep with us for as long as guns like it have a place on the battlefield; any changes you make sacrafice something, whether it's reliability, accuracy, rate of fire, cost or ease of maintainance.
@@Neion8 Recommend you watch Forgotten Weapons newest video on the M2 for an actual history on it. It just missed WW1 and is technically over 100 years old seeing as it was made in 1918, and saw service officially in 1922.
for military equipment still in use today from the 1860s you are looking for the Gatling gun of 1861 made by Richard Jordan Gatling. Though a big difference of the m61 gatling gun of today vs the original.
I adore this even a year later! Installation00, You would make my entire nerdlife if you did a video for the GA-TL Longsword like this. That would be truly fantastic my guy.
@@cancelanime1507 to each their own, but where the longsword has had significant changes to its look over the course of HCE through HR, the Pelican managed to remain much more consistent in that same span.
You challenged us to find a piece of military hardware that's been in use starting in the 1860's... I don't have one of those, the closest I can think of though is the B-52 bomber, the last one built was in the 1960's, and they're trying to push it out to 2060... which is pretty crazy if you think about it
The Gatling gun was introduced in 1861 and is still in service, it’s only main Upgrade was its use of electric motors rather than spinning the barrels by hand
As an aircraft Mechanic I feel compelled to point out that each stage of the compressor can compress the air at a ratio of 30:1. Meaning the pressure inside the engine is far greater than 30 times the ambient pressure
@@ajobdunwell2585 The M2 browning is older than the KABAR and the KABAR was never a bayonet its a knife only. Do you even know what you are talking about?
@@cattledog901 Now explain to me the entirety separate design elements of attaching a knife to a gun barrel. I think that for as long as the US has been fielding an army, they've been equipping those soldiers with bayonets. Updating them to fit the current issue weapon rather than designing the guns to fit the bayonet.
Introduced in the 1860's was the Gatling gun, designed by Richard Jordan Gatling. Although you no longer crank the gun by hand, its nowadays powered by an electric motor. The design was later updated into the Minigun and the M61 Vulcan.
The halo infinite pelican definitely looks like it could fit an Abrams in it that's for sure. Gives you a proper feeling of just how big the pelican is on the inside
I've always considered myself a Halo need. But watching your in depth videos has humbled me to a scale I can only consider myself a noob for knowledge.
The pelican use a stronger alloy than titanium with a reflective,anti heating coating,lighter than a C130,with a main ion pulse reactor with massive infinite amounts of power making the Pelican versatile in space or any type of atmosphere.Same technology is used in the main vessels. This technology actually will become a reality for the US military forces.
"A single example of military equipment still in use after being introduced in the 1860's" Pelican has been modified, updated, etc, so using those same terms... How about a Gatling Gun? (1862) Still the basis of CIWS, GAU-8 Avenger, Minigun, etc.
The Gatling Gun has been a concept for hundreds of years. And if you count prototype gunpowder and arrow weapons that the Chinese and Koreans supposedly made, thousands of years.
I just found this channel and I'm absolutely loving it. The level of detail you go into is amazing and easy to grasp. Keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing much more.
Best ship break down ever, even better than the ship breakdowns than a lot of Star Citizen RU-vidrs XD. No really, if anyone plays Star Citizen, it's because of the Pelican that I love the Vanguard Hoplite so much. This made me appreciate both ships even more.
The US Army still uses the M2 Browning .50 machine gun. Which has been in service since 1933. When I was in the Army, we got to check out some of the Air Force's KC-135 refuelers, and it had been built in 1958. At the time it was 56 years old. So, it makes sense that the Pelican would be in service for that long, based on how long military equipment, aircraft especially, can remain in service.
Make her Slip space capable, and I will take one! I hope Elon Musk pays attention to these specs, would love to see one in operation in our time! Would love to see an Arc Plasma engine, for space injection!
I remember on the old Bungie website where it showed different vehicles it could attach to the magnetic latch below the tail, and the one that caught my attention was the Troop Pod attachment. I think 343 should capitalize on that more, as it is a very good solution to the troop capacity restriction on Pelicans, especially the post-war UNSC being low on resources. You don't need to build another ship, you can just attach the troop pod and you suddenly have more space for troops or even cargo.
The Khukuri used by the Gurkhas of the Cuttack Legion (1817) as part of the army of the East India Company and still used today. The Royal Gurkha Rifles 2d Battalion deployed to Afghanistan in April 2016.
I don't know if it's a hundred and sixty years old, but the Gatling gun was invented sometime in the mid/late 1800's and modern versions are used on aircraft like the A-10.
The oldest piece of active military equipment today would be the Browning machine gun, I believe it is mounted on humvees However the m 1911 is still used by special forces today and was made in 1911
