Stargate: Goa'uld Death Glider - Ship Breakdown 

Goa'uld: "That's a nice job you did there. Would be a shame if we put a recall device in it."

@@cowcannon8883 O'niell:wtf

@@cowcannon8883 Tau'ri: "Thats a nice recall device. Didnt like it much so we built our own and made it better."

Laughs in F302

@@nahuelleandroarroyo x304 sad noises

We used to ride these babies for miles!

@Ethan Lackey oorah

Ah yes, was hoping someone would mention those, great craft. If they'd made that the standard it would have opened up so many strategic and logistic possibilities. Minor revolt, just spam them through a Stargate and overwhelm the rebels. Unless they can coordinate a number of worlds at once you can focus superior forces without waiting to hyperspace a carrier. And in System Lord vs Lord battles they make a great surprise attack and enable quick reinforcements. Hope SpaceDock does a video on that variant.

@@casbot71 DG goes through the gate just fine thanks to folding wing tips as demonstrated by pilot casually flying through deactivated gate in either first or second episode of the first season when chasing SG-1. Then authors were subjected to memory wipe apparently

Bra'tak, not teal'c.

@Some Sarcasm Required , no definitely a quote from Teal’c. You may be confused with a following great line from Bra’tac that goes.” “Not I. Threading the needle is a skill for the young.”

@@backupplan6058 oops. You are correct.

spamviking yupp b making carter shoot a rope with the p90

Yes it's the one were they are offering to arm a resistance group. Odd choice of weapon for that episode though, while the SGC using a PDW like the P90 makes perfect sense, it wouldn't be the fist choice for arming a resistance group that is deliberately going into battle. It's quite a complex weapon from a maintenance point of view and it was designed for support personnel and vehicle crews who aren't expecting to see combat but still need to defend themselves.

@@lordwisehammer how about the fact that they compare it to Staff and not it's PDW(or outright sidearm) counterpart - Zat?

Tealc is a terrorist? Or why had he never given up on his Staff? Why is SG-1 using Zats so frequently?

@@lordwisehammer Personally, I think that SG-1 would have been better off with an M4 or M4 variant. I'd wager that an AP 5.56 round has better armor penetration than the 5.7mm round fired by the P90, even if the principle behind the rounds are similar; small bullet backed by lots of powder going at high speed.

As Jack once said of the Staff weapon when comparing it to the P-90, "This is a weapon of terror, it is designed to intimidate the enemy. *This* is a weapon of war, it is designed to *Kill* the enemy"

laughs in a f15 can easly take that death glider down

*Laughs in not needing SFB to reach orbit, line up the whole craft to use weapons, having superior sensors and neural interface in place of terran avionics... cries in being crewed by a lone untrained jaffa pilot without assistant gunner:(

@@8vantor8 Glock 17 can take a Hatak down!:)) But now imagine that DG is piloted by Teal'c and Bratac and your dear swarm of F-15 by simple redshirts. Woopsie...

@@weldonwin as authors once said of writing a dumb scene "let's compare Zat to Milkor M32 MGL!" and then had done exactly that, but in reverse:\

Ah, yeah, in a distant future of "literary 5 years passed with not much changing"

@@TheArklyte why not? That was roughly the gap between the movie and SG-1

It's not a good time to be doing reboots. They'd make it politically correct.

Shol`va

Yoo-hoo as well, Razgriz

What the hell does kree even mean anyways?

I said kree, dammit!

@@nikkity5491 Well, it means a lot of things, attention, get ready, look here... Yoohoo

I actually liked this as an explanation for why SG-1 pretty won every firefight hands down against an enemy with a supposedly superior weapon and that the only Goa'ould weapon the SGC ever adopted was the Zat gun

weldonwin Couldn’t agree more.

The Jaffa had a lot of questionable weapons and equipment, since not only were the Goa'ould looking to terrify primitive slaves, they were trying to avoid giving the Jaffa anything too formidable in case they ever rose up. For example, Jaffa units on the ground communicate in battle using War horns, to signal one another, when the Goa'ould do have personal communication technology, that would allow Jaffa to communicate between units clearly and quickly without passing their communications to literally everyone in earshot of the big horns.

@@weldonwin Which would make sense if they actually maintained better equipment somewhere to do so but it doesn't seem like they did, outside of a few random one offs. I guess they just went so long without needing it that they dropped/forgot about it.

@@TheAkashicTraveller Well, the Needle Threader fighter, was just dumped in some undergrowth and forgotten about until Braytak and Teal'q came along and just literally pulled the vines off it. Even so, given how much the System Lords fought with one another, surely someone would have thought it'd be an advantage to equip their Jaffa with something better than a Horn for communication. I look at the System Lords and I see rulers who are very paranoid and insecure in their rule and are simply afraid to give their underlings anything more advanced and keep all the best tech for themselves, like the communication globes and personal shield devices.

Yeah. In Stargate Continuum, Russian use Mig to fight death glider

but only 302 can be used in space. Spacedoc meant this.

Or just don't engage and shoot it from 200 miles away with advanced missiles. And when 6th generation fighters come out they would probably topple the goa'uld empire.

@@lazy_riveN yeah, but they literally show F-15's engaging Death Gliders with a reasonable success rate. It's just not a very good fighter.

If you can take it down with 20 mm rounds. Any jet fighter will do. Horrible rate of fire. Bad accuracy. Targetting systems? And the plasma bolts fired don't seem to go faster then what a F-16 gatling gun fires. Looks like what you ll get when you fire a unguided misile pod. Reminds me of the Battle Star Galactica original series cylon fighters. Like tie fighters with stormtroppers in the pilotseat. Only upside is the detachable stafweapons that can be used by heavy infantry. The kind of ground attack/bombercraft a complacent empire would make after centuries of lack of serious opposition.

techticianLars Productions snap I’m now watching the one where the death glider after being retrofitted by earth and goes flying into the space

i agree, person who is essentially talking to nobody due to lack of replies

its like they *want* to be branded as heretics. so few wh40 stuff....

Except this one IS good, but has bad pilots. Wraith dart is TIE fighter...

@@TheArklyte it has no fast-firing weapons or missiles and can only attack targets that can be seen by the pilot - that means, a few hundreds yards at most. These things are basically useless during the night or when it's raining. Modern-day RL fighter jets can shoot down enemy aircraft that are kilometers away. The Jaffa piloting those death gliders wouldn't even see what hit them.

@@BrokenCurtain except Spacedock is making an assumption here and you're just going by misunderstanding even that. Especially parts about Tealcs complaint, being half crewed and "lack" of targeting. When used by SG-1 it suddenly starts shining. And it was used in those conditions you've described too. Goa'uld DO have advanced sensors(you wouldn't be able to travel in space otherwise). We see it in the very start of the series when they immediatly detect launch of two ICBMs and then observe them until those hit the ship without any effect. It lacks guided munitions like rockets and missiles, that's what the part about computer targeting means. Not ALL forms of targeting. Cannons are gimballed and targeted by neural system for f//cks sake! Yeah, we had those in every WWII fighter, you know. So yes, it's limited to short range weaponry... surprising for a dedicated fighter, right? Don't mistake something that isn't shown for not being there. We haven't seen humans sh//t during TV series too, want to make a statement about this? Alternate reality biology maybe?

Thing is they never had to be good they just had to be flashy. When fighting amongst themselves the System Lords didn't care about Jaffa losses. In fact the more casualties the better as far as they cared (less full grown symbiotes to get hosts for/fight for power etc) And what else did they fight? Guys with bows and arrows, *maybe* a catapult at best? Nothing that could even threaten them. So as far as the Jaffa are concerned only the weapons of "the gods" can bring down another. And it worked for thousands of years without issue. Until that one fateful day when Daniel Jackson figured out how to dial a stargate.

@@TheDjbz ok, I'll just copy paste my comment from neighbouring chain: "bad accuracy? Neural interface, gimballed mount, dedicated gunner and plasma bolts that DON'T lose most of their velocity in a blink of an eye as well as sporting enough power to cause dust plumes of similar size to 102mm mortar when hitting the ground? That thing can get to Mach 3 and turn any way it wants. Any moderately good pilot would just boom zoom your ass from stratosphere and evade your dear AIM-120's with no trouble. But once again, being half crewed by untrained Jaffa sh//ts all over the picture:(" That thing literary has only one weakpoint - lack of trained crew. Do you know a lot of fighter aircraft that can hover, reach Mach 3 probably even when going "candle" ie straight up completely vertically, reach orbit and just keep going? How many of them outside Ace Combat and anime?;) Even by sci-fi standarts this thing is no pushover.

Ha Ha, look up Centauri Sentri class fighters, The Death Glider is clearly a straight copy

@@adrastos8401 Huh, I didn't know about that ship until just now. Interesting.

That we never saw again.

no it was from teal'c about the gate travel fighter (which is a dg variant) where "them" they once made is the needle threader and the "them" made now is the dg

Star citizen's vabduul blade?

@@nielsmichiels1939 yeah, basicly every kilrathi fighter, too.

@@florianwilke2162 The continental breakfast of doom