The pilots keep begging the Kansas City Cheifs to let them do fly overs on EVERY home game. We heard them take off and the chiefs we’re in Vegas this week so we all knew someone was in trouble
@@Maya-uq7tctake into consideration of research for B-2 bomber(23 billion) technically it would be more than Yemen’s GDP. . If you’re only counting Yemen’s exports (900 million) then yes the B2 would be worth more than Yemen too.
Capable of "intercontinental" engagements. A little over 100 years ago, we were still dressing up in bright colors and lining up in a neat "gentlemanly" manner to fight.
Then came America and now any ground can be battle ground. Yay! America, you're with us or you are with the terrorists. Thanks Bush, do I get an AK or a plane ticket or?
Yup, a big part of doing it that way is to show that there is no way they can win. There isnt a single other country right now that could pull off a combat mission like that. Hell, the entire fleet of B-2s is more than the GDP of Yemen. And that isnt including the other parts of the logistics chain that were required. Just like the B-52s that flew basically the same journey to start off the first Gulf War.
@@NavyDood21 B-2 holds the record for furthest bombing mission, from missouri to Afghanistan, landed in diego garcia after dropping. Flew over the pacific, thru the straight of malacca, around india, over pakistan to Afghanistan.
So that is what bombed my home and my whole neighbourhood and my grandmother s home from both my dad and my mom and that is why my 5 year old sister has trauma
The current iteration of the GBU-57 bunker buster bomb is reported to have the capacity to penetrate 200+ feet of earth before penetrating an additional 25 feet of armored concrete. If two B-2’s are deployed, the second plane can drop its ordinance into the colossal crater created by the first bomb thus penetrating an additional 200+ feet underground. This means that GBU-57’s already have greater penetrative power than a nuclear blast, without the radiological complications. Not satisfied with the devastatingly destructive capabilities of these “conventional” munitions, the USAF is continually working to enhance them with each new iteration that emerges every couple of years. If the Iranian regime believes its subterranean facilities provide it any real prophylaxis from aerial bombardment then they are sadly mistaken. In the current era of strategic bombing there is literally no place to safely hide.
For those of you who aren't well versed in military hardware here's how it goes. You send the Lancer when you want a few particular buildings in a neighborhood wiped off the map. You send the Buff when you want the entire region to cease existing. You send the Spirit and the Raider when you want to make a *statement.* Specifically one that says 'If you keep on keepin' on, you won't even know your apocalypse is coming until we've already glassed your coastline.'
@@redherring6154that there is no way the Houthis will absolutely not fight on the ground like a man they will use guerilla warfare to strike and then hide among civilians
The script makes it sound like the terrorists did stick to attacking Israeli-related vessels. That connection got weaker and weaker every attack to the point where they're just chaotically attacking anything.
The connection didnt get weaker and weaker. If there is A connection, they attack it, the ammount of connection irrelevant. "israeli" owned? Israeli crewed? Israeli company? Israeli products? Towards israel? 1% israeli stake? Yes. (Oh, and plug in USA and UK anywhere it says israeli, and its also gonna get sunk).
$2bln is just a number for accountants to put as capital assets on the ledger. A trillion dollar plus of military infrastructure ground/sea/air/space makes these missions happen.
Also, even though it may be overkill, it's not like they crashed the bomber into the target suicide style. Not counting pay for soldiers, including for maintenance, the real cost of this strike was probably something in the 10s of thousands for the munitions, fuel, and other ancillary costs.
@@adamredwine774 Estimated cost per flight hour ( weaponry not included) is around 150,000 per hour. Still a bargain when you think about what it can deliver and get home safe.
No joke, I almost didn't click on this because I am not subbed to WarFronts, I get my geopolotics from Warographiocs and RealLifeLore...but then hovered over it and I was subbed...and when I clicked it was Simon, so I thought it was yet another project Simon is taking part in. This guy is the hardest working narrator on RU-vid (and writer/researcher? I know he has a team, but IDK how involved he is with the content research).
Well, they certainly overkill it in Afghanistan and Iraq, look how that turned out. Have Americans ever considered that overkill a target make them....immortal?
Cmon, we haven't *officially* been at war for over a decade. When the chance arises to use the coolest stuff you take it. Totally unnecessary and didn't tell iran anything they didn't already know, but still.
"It's not about the money, it's about the message!" -Joker. It wasn't about Houthis, their ability to fight back or not, or it being overkill. It was a message to other aggressors, the Houthis were just the sounding board.
The Houthi dont store anything in big quantities anywhere. I know. Because I spent 4 months in Houthi controlled Yemen in 2017 and I saw first hand what they do. It was obvious that the Houthi had made strategic decisions to spread not just their bombs in multiple locations but also vehicles of all kind. You can literally see this everywhere. When driving from Sanaa to Hodiedah or Sanaa to Sadaa, both journies I have done, you can see the sides of mountains carved into small tunnels/caves and boxes of weapons stored there. Its not hidden. Anyway, the fact that the Houthis high sea terrorism is actually going to cause Egypt much more economic damage than Israel, and also has sped up the changing of far east sea routes to actually utilise the new Iraq port of Faw ( in construction right now and will be one of the largest container ports in the world allowing for freight to by-pass the Suez canal completely, rendering the Houthi response counter productive) is a moot point now. The dye has been cast. These supply chain routes are going to change. I'm available for middle east geo political consultancies if anyone wishes to reach out... cheers.
@loresma77 because the new port is going to be directly connected to the Turkish border point in north Iraq once the new railway and motorway are built. These are also in development. The aim was always to offer an additional route to the EU, the actions of the Houthi just confirms it's a great idea. Ta very much khat eating stupid Houthi, that's what I say. 👍.... also Google TIR convention and Iraq... bit technical but it's another supply chain tool that benefits Iraq.
Nuclear free zone since 1925? I didn't think that Fermi and whoever else had their "yay-i-created-a-new-element-wait-no-oops-actually-i-discovered-how-to-do-a-nuclear-fission" episode, let alone the field be mature enough for relatively disparate and far flung pacific nations to base military doctrine and diplomatic strategy on
I have an ex whose first name that was. I don't really see it as that weird. People in the west name their kids "Christian," and all other kinds of biblical names, why wouldn't other cultures do similar?
@@Julianna.DominaJihad is an Islamic word meaning holy war & genocide such as Muslim Turks using jihad to justify genocide against Armenians in Ottoman turkey. That’s why you hear “jihad” being shouted when Muslims try to exterminate an ethnic or religious group. It’s ridiculous you tried to downplay its meaning by comparing it to the name Christian which doesn’t mean war, genocide, death or anything sinister like Jihad does. Biblical names like John or Mary don’t call for the destruction of anyone.
@@Julianna.Dominano we have two types of the word jihad one is a verb pronounced with an a like saying ahhhh and one is a softer a like a sudden realisation
You see Westerners named Christian yes, but you don't see Westerners called "Crusade" or "Crusader" It would be considered cringe at best and offensive at worst.
Simon I am a proud former U.S. Marine I've studied history, economics & current world events for 30 years & ive also been a HUGE fan of all your channels. You definately know what your talking about. Your funny as hell sometimes too. Your line: the B2 Bomber with great stealth capability & flying too high for S.A.M.s, all but guaranteed the B2 would nail its targets! Lol, love it.
Yemen is split between an actual government and Houthi. As far as I know, both sides are still at war and both claim to be the legitimate government of Yemen.
Because they lay low on the international scale doesn't mean they're idling and disbanding. Iran is still funneling money to the Houthi leadership, and thew US told them: We know what you're doing, we know how to stop it, knock it off.
NZ isn’t taking sides with China or the US. Choosing between your largest trading partner of your traditional Anglophile allies is a bad position to find yourself in. NZ and the rest of the pacific islands don’t want to get involved in these spats as it is bad for the South Pacific.
The only issue i have with all the attitude about how capable the B2 is, eventualy it will get old, we will lose one and everyone will freak out. Just like they did the F117 after it was in flight forever. Im just waiting to hear people get excited for knocking down a 30-40-50 year old plane. But that shows how crazy the B2 was on first draft. Imagine being the first person to see the designs for the thing 🤣
I'm glad it seems Wellington has mostly gotten its head out of its ass and finally understands a Communist Dictatorship is not their friend. Only a dollar short and a dime late.
Really curious about this too, but I think it must be basically impossible to quantify. The actual cost probably wasn’t insane, maybe $1-5M, but that’s just a crazy guess. But how do you account for things like pro-rated research costs? Or its value as deterrent? I remember when these things were first introduced in the late 80s and the cost just seemed utterly insane, far out of proportion to any value we might get out of them even as deterrence, and that instinct has been proven 100% correct over the system’s lifetime so far. It’s hard to not factor that outlandish initial investment into the cost of the mission. But given that we did make that decision however long ago it was and that money has already been spent, the incremental cost of running one mission was probably only extravagant and not completely outrageous.
The Saudis have been bombing the shit out of the Houthis for more than a decade now. Any group that was vulnerable to airstrikes got wiped out a long time ago. I'm not sure what these strikes are supposed to do besides provide some real world training for the USAF and USN pilots.
We knew the b2's were a threat. Because it was just six or eight months ago that they flew the b2's to Turkey let him sit there overnight and then flew him back to England. As far as the US military is concerned we really don't have any idea where the B2 came from.
Houthi please stop buying gun from iran or from Russia,,stay at home be peace at home,, Allah will not support you only, Allah love all human and creation,stop thinking Allah is only yours
Only because Qatar would not let the US strike the Houthis from its US Qatar air bases. Al Udeid Air Base, which is the largest US military installation in the Middle East: Home to: The 379th Air Expeditionary Wing of the USAF, The 379th Air Expeditionary Wing is is the largest, most diverse expeditionary wing in the Air Force with more than 90 combat and support aircraft.
Con-o-co. Continental Oil Company which is now ConocoPhillips Phillips I believe had been Oklahoma based and Continental Oil was Texas based. ConocoPhillips is now based in Houston, TX--- like most big Oil companies. Simon .... it's just NOT pronounced 'co-no-co'.
I find the statement "New Zealand has only been semi aligned with the west" (@22:03) quite ...err... wrong. I mean NZ trades with China sure .... so does the US. Yes it makes up a bigger portion of our (yes I'm a kiwi) trade but then look at a map and its easy to see why. -- I think given the fact NZ has fought alongside the west in WW1,WW2, Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf & Afghanistan we should qualify for more than "semi aligned" status.
Trade embargoes, sanctions & lawfare & dependency patronage/Bribery economic war. All predictable. Opium wars a good example. Great stuff Simon. Thanks. Cheers 🥂
10:36 “independent journalistic work by the NYT”.. 🙈 If reporting on Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank is anything to go by, this hasn’t been true for a while now.
Before i continue, You do seem to have unique "content" rather than many, and yes... My first thought to was even the conversation from "some" who work and telling this flight driver that this will be a 0% action you can drive and do your work and nothing will happen with you. And so he went, haha... Crazy world huh..... I WOULD NEVER HURT ANYONE
