Why Some Military Airplanes Are Almost IMPOSSIBLE to Kill 

If your awacs gets shot down and you have to say you did it yourself, then something has gone terribly wrong.

U2 and SR71 were replaced by satellites. AWACS are completely different.

The reason for AWACs actually proves that the earth is a globe . Once pilots realised the could fly under radar due to the Earths curve , then putting radar at altitude was a no brainer.

The comparison between Spy Planes and Radar Planes at the Beginning is a bit weak.

The boeing phalcon looks like something straight out of ksp on career mode

The other thing that saved the AWACS crew... when any plane traps on a carrier, they put the throttles to full power until the arresting gear has fully stopped the aircraft. Just for such a situation.

The "we shot down our A50 by accident" hoax makes sense. Russia is already on strained shaky grounds on quality and performance of hardware sold to India, and India still has 2 of these on order at over $1Bn a pop. That's a deal they really don't wanna lose, because it's not like anyone else wants it. Certainly not at or above cost.

The plane in the thumbnail and 0:05 is the Chilean Boeing EC-707 "Cóndor", which was equipped with an Israeli IAI EL/M-2075 Phalcon radar array. It was retired in 2022, replaced by two Boeing E-3D Sentry.

Also stall speeds are determined by the wing not the engines. Typically props have less swept or even unswept wings as they are not designed to go as fast, and this is turn means their stall speed is lower. But it's not due to them having props. Props are more efficient at low speeds however. A 10mw prop will produce more power at low airspeed than a 10mw jet engine which is why jets have longer takeoffs.

The first prototype of Boeing Phalcon had an unpleasant encounter with wasps. The aftermath was never fixed and made it into full production.

One of the reasons why there was a lot of talk about stealthy surveillence planes was the very fact the E-3 Sentry is a relatively slow plane with a detectable radar emissions. There was real fear that the Russians in the early 1980's would develop a modified version of the Kh-22 (AS-4 _Kitchen_ ) missile armed with an anti-radiation seeker and a big warhead specifically to target AWACS; that's why Northrop developed the _Tacit Blue_ platform to make the plane less vulnerable to such a missile.

Peanut allergies are no joke in the aerospace design world

The U-2 may have been replaced by these, but it's still in service for things like calibrating radars for high altitude contacts and domestic mapping of wildfires. It also buzzed and photographed from above that Chinese balloon that overflew the US and Canada last year.

Imagine a stealth AWACS. F-35: “Am I a joke to you?!”

Interesting as a matter of fact one can actually make a version based on B737 Max 7 or A319neo the Boeing 737 Max 7 version would have been treated as another E-7 variant family planes. Max 10 as a P-8 family plane. Looks like it started back in World War II where you had bombers in this type of mission

Surveillance and spying are two different things. Just like cover and concealment.

Not much point making an aircraft stealthy if it’s carrying a gigantic radar emitter😳

The E3 is being quickly retired because of cost, age, and availability of parts. It can't be relavent when it can't fly. Their mission was always relavent, but it's adversary wasn't when it was top of it's ability. The Boneyard already has multiple being prepped to be mothballed because current fighters can do much the same with onboard electeonics.

Really appreciate you mentioning (saying) the distances in miles and showing it in parentheses in kilometers! Like I always say; it's kilometers not ki-LO-meters! You got it right! 👍👍👍

My dad was one of the first crews to work on the E3, I’ve always had a soft spot for it.

"Just one of these new planes" ?? Dude get your facts straight. E3's are old AF and already being replaced by the new E-7 Wedgetail.

Thank you man, always a pleasure

Great video!

The Phalcon is the aircraft version of "I'm allergic to bee stings"... 😂😁😜

Squidward looking plane.

so nice to have metric also displayed!

Good video!

If RU-vid auto-plays when you don't want it to and you pause it after 1s you get NWYT yelling 'Spy Plane!'

stealth means can be spotted but hard to be locked on with missiles, jets are quick ,big planes are slow.

Comparing AWACS to SR-71 and U-2 at the beginning is a misnomer and ignores RQ-4 and other surveillance drones which have taken that role, modern AWACS platforms replaced the EC-121 of that era!

Another great video! 👍

I love your videos

RQ-180 is a surveillance aircraft and it's extremely stealthy.

When people talk about "spy planes", they often refer to the aircraft that perform photographic reconnaisance, such as the U-2 and the SR-71, whose task were to photograph large swathes of territory to analysis. The reason these aren't used like before is because of technologies like satellites and more recently drones that are much safer and less expensive in the long run to operate. Also, comparing those kinds of aircraft to the AWACS aircraft is kind of nonsensical because they perform very different roles, with the AWACS mostly used for early warning, communications, and battlefield command and control, which are tasks no U-2 or SR-71 ever handled. Finally, the video really neglected to mention that the reason the USAF E-3's are being retired is because they're meant to be replaced by the more advanced E-7 Wedgetail which are already in service in other nations. Hell, the video already showed the E-7 in footage, yet still failed to mention that fact.

I thought the plane in the thumbnail was fake 😂. Well played Mr. NWYT... well played.

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Looks like that aircraft is having some sort of allergic reaction.

spyplane? yeah looks a bit nosy

Why does that plane looks like it wants to charge me 20 % interest on a loan?

Good video, interesting

To be fair, the E-2 Hawkeye uses Turboprop engines so it still uses jet fuel

"Light up like a christmas tree" im pretty sure I've heard it somewhere... reminds me of a certain pig...

"Flying where only eagles dare"

Russian A-50U would highly disagree ;)

putting in a prediction, they want to abandon those planes due to maintenance and operating costs

Chile recently purchased second hand E-3s from England. Very interesting video, greetings from Chile!

Hawkeyes were the first military aircraft ive ever seen growing up. It's because we live near a base, and planes fly over our house at low attitudes all the time

You should make a video about the f-4 or the f-15

Fun fact. The E2 hawkeyes are rarely ever in the hangers. Theyre the first out and the last back. Mainly because theyre big and you cant really launch any other aircraft with it still on the deck. Its usually already lined up on a cat just waiting.

Love the coffee machine inside these plane. All crew drink them like 30 times each time it flies.

your channel should be named "sometimes its not what you think"

I really hope the Navajo get a SIGINT or AWACS helicopter named after them. It would be so cool to honor the code talkers.

That boeing phalcon looks like it got stung by a bee

😂 “We shot down our own A50.” Russia says this as if it isn’t more embarrassing than an enemy shooting it down.

Wow that FedEx bit near the end got *real* 😯😏👉 Neat Technology- Laser

as someone who did maintenance for the rc135v/w i understand but still annoyed we dont get any mentions

The U2 has not been replaced. Lol

Thank you for interesting information

The Boeing Falcon looks like it needs a Benadryl tablet.

The reason the Navy uses props vs turbo fans is not the stall speed of the prop. Although propellers and fan blades both can stall. The airplane shown that recovered from the cable break is because the wings have a low stall speed that allowed it to gain lift before the plane hit the water. The reason for the props is better fuel efficiency at lower airspeeds.

The U2 is still in service and being replaced by armed UAVs. Electronic warfare, radar monitoring, and communication is very different mission to areal surveillance.

there is two kinds of stealth. blending in and becoming invisible, or yelling so loudly they can't hear your foot steps and locate you.

2:56 Just a correction regarding the E7 Wedgetail - it was made for and mainly operated by the Australian Air Force, the British airforce do not currently operate any although they have put an order in for some.

AWACs is the most important role in war

The first AWACS aircraft for the US Navy was the E-1 Tracer.

6:01 THEY DID THE ACTION MOVIE THING

Never under estimate your opponent! Russia constantly coming up with new weapons..

0:04 hey, thats the 707 cóndor from my native Chile, ty for showing it. (he do be a lil ugly, but I love him like that)

2:29 looks like spaceballs.

e3 can jam like EA18 ? Thats someting new.

6:00 the crew was like oh sh*t and then they are like how did it recover

please do a video on these (this is a copy and paste list for a few channels) units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches) like the 82 snd 101 airborne units or infantry tank units, (or when tanks were assigned a infantry unit like i think earlier war Russia then all tanks were formed into there own units wich meant the infantry no longer knew the true strength of there own tanks but alowed tank units to fight more efficiently) the tank doctrine of countries evaluation of tank veiw ports evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries evaluation of aircraft types of different countries, different between navil and army/air force fighters logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2 ww1 estern front tactics Russian Civil war tactics and strategies navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works) evaluation of types of ships or evaluation of navil warfare (or just dedectsded videos on ww1 and ww2 navil doctrine as theres stuff out there on other times of history) air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries) ancient persan ships, ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser) ships used by genoa and the vernesain republic the vernesain republic government all sailing ships, (i know theres many on yt but some contradict each other and i think theres more left out) ancient macenean greek and trojan troops 2b9 vasilyok morter tactics used so far in the Ukraine war, better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3, and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks, ancient urban warfare ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords, (and Chinese civil war) tactics in the ruso jap war cold war navil tactics, Korean war tactics, strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil how were 17th centry sailing ships build types of bombs lunched by drones comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say) why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations) why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this

"One awacs can cover all of poland" ME, a former E3 Radar maintainer: Yeah... just poland! totally just poland!

Of course Russia "shot down their own plane"

Nice

You mean the Russian “We have AWACS at home”.

@NotWhatYouThink AWaCS stands for Airborne Warning and Command System. So where did you get Airborne Warning and Command Force from? My guess, is all your scripts are read out by an A.I.

One thing you didnt mention that I'd be curious to know more about is why the E3's seem to be coal-rolling at low altitude? I get to see E3's flying out of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska from my office all the time, and they are some of the dirtiest, most EPA unfriendly vehicles I have ever seen, leaving dark plumes of exhaust in their wake.

The B21 will most likely act as a replacement for these systems.

The thumbnail kun is given so much freedom🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲💥💥

Anyone watch these and get to the end and think “that was what I was thinking”

Plot twist, they are stealthy. You just don't see those ones.

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thumbnail plane looks like a dog that got stung by a bee

the second deadliest fleet of a single large, slow, and unmanuverable plane sent on a slow and predicatable flight path in broad daylight in a warzone ever devised.

was it trying to blend it at 2:09

I don't think AWACS will be completely replaced anytime soon. The combination of stealthy high tech sensor aircraft like the F35 in combination with one huge AWACS is likely the most deadly combo in the sky for any opponent.

the nose on the plane in the thumbnail looks like squidwards nose

The Americans now use the Australian Wedgetail AWACS

That plane can smell where the aircraft is

Cool.

I bet the other airplanes make fun of the one with the big pimple on its nose.

dont care how obsolete the blackbird is I want it in my airforce

ho god, that wasn't a clickbait thumbnail

They call it The Karl Malden express . 😅

I know this isnt the case, but when the Hawkeye broke its cable, the tracking camera's overlay went from showing a C in the upper right to a blinking F! F! F! F! F!, which my brain translated into "Cool" and "FARK FARK FARK FARK", as Im pretty sure thats what suddenly everyone on (and unfortunately, off, the flight deck suddenly started thinking

AWACs didn't replace the U-2. Satelites did on top of the fact that missile reach increased to the U-2's operational altitudes. The U-2 designed to operate in different mission environments than AWACs. AWACs are designed for combat zone reconisance where you have freindly combat aircraft and ground forces active.

NWYT, do you play DCS? Because you seem like the exact type of person who plays DCS and/or other hardcore flight sims. 😄

1:03 Did you really say that AWACS can't be shot down? There was one literally shot down last week.

they can provide information over the area of whole poland me: hold up *looks outside*