Why these aircraft are MORE important than fighters. 

"NATO aircraft have completely multinational crews, so they can swear in several languages" Peak comedy absolute genius.

US tooth-to-tail ratio is freaking huge and their transport and AWACS demonstrate their global reach.

Thank you for this Video about aircraft who often are not in the spotlight.

I don't understand why you are not getting as many views as you deserve. Your content for this segment is the best on RU-vid, in my opinion. The detail, data, and presentation is second to none. Keep doing what you're doing. The RU-vid algorithm can't ignore you forever.

I love the U-28A Draco presentation. My favourite because ... "free chocolate is available onboard" 👍

A simply superb entry level explainer on the non-sexy assets that make air power such a complex and powerful for of warfare. Cornerstone assets indeed. Longer waits that result in such videos are well worth the wait.

Fantastic overview of the difficulty coordinating assets on the modern battlefield maximizing effectiveness and minimize collateral damage. Nice to see you were able to get out in the field to add realism to the program.

Intelligent, comprehensive breakdown of the sensor and communication aspects of air power, and the hair is on freaking point!

Excellent analysis. Very informative. Thank you!

Great video! Interesting to hear very accurate comments coming from someone with a slightly different perspective. I worked at NATO about 10 years ago as a comm guy in the air command management arena. When discussing NATO it’s important to understand that NATO doesn’t have actual army, navy and Air Force units. NATO provides the infrastructure that allows different military units from member and cooperating states to fight together. The key to this is interoperability. When communicating together a message transmitted by one entity must be clearly understood by all others. This sounds pretty obvious but when one considers the vast scope of all actions and objects involved, it becomes a pretty massive software undertaking. At my level the key tool for this was the use of data links between all players using the NATO TADIL J message standard. To be successful all participants must not only incorporate these data links, they must also certify that their systems react in a clearly understood fashion, i.e., they must be interoperable.

I see quality and value are increasing. Thx PS: take a look at the 200 CHF banknote, frames of reference have never been more popular

Don’t know how you manage to provide so much content of such complexity in so little time but thanks for the great work. Please take care of yourself. 100K subs on the horizon.

Thank you for making another analytical (rather than propaganda) video.

Already commented but I just wanted to add this after finishing the video - man this was an absolute *BANGER* and I appreciate you and your work so much! You never fail to bring incredibly informative and great content, but you really brought it on this one especially...bravo sir 👏👏👏!!!

I do not understand many of the things you talked about yet I enjoy watching your videos. You try to make them simple yet provide as much detailed explanation as possible. I wish you all the best.

Just after some 10 minutes (thouigh it is actualy 8 minutes (I think, rather 6 minutes)) there is a fundamental lesson in Information Technology (based upon an example from the militairy world) for exactly free!! No money or investment needed. Anyone who understands this is basicaly quite far in the world of "Why do we think we need computers" "or not". Thanks Millenium7.

Fighting the algorithm, one comment at a time. This video was right on top of my recommended videos this morning. I really enjoyed this one. Well worth the time to watch it.

I want to compliment you on finding a way to report on something that doe0sn't get demontized. You can't show the horror of war, but you can show how it's done. Bravo.

This should be a great video. Thank you sir

Certainly one of your best videos Millenium7!

Awesome channel man, and great content. Thanks for the detail and consistent diligence 🙂

How would things change if you account for the difference in how Russians (to my knowledge, please correct me if I'm wrong) generally have the helicopters in the aerospace forces while USAF and PLAAF mostly have them in the army/ground forces? I noticed on the PLAAF sheet that it listed 5 helicopters total, which might be true for PLAAF itself, but the PLAGF has hundreds of them. Similarly the USAF might only have a couple of hundred helicopters to support their planes, but the Army has almost 2 000 utility helicopters, hundreds of cargo helicopters and over a thousand attack & light recon helicopters. This makes it seem like the Russians are the only ones with a lot of helicopters, when they're just organized differently in the US and China.

"Free chocolate is available onboard". That earned my like immediately lol.

I love the exclamation delivery: The Earth is ..... Round!

Outstanding presentation as usual Sir!👏👏👏👍👍👍👍

Thank you for keeping the content coming. I always enjoy your videos.

Amazing content.

Comparisons between the different aeronautics made little sense because of internal organizational differences: russian aerospace forces comprise about all military helicopters but not a part of trainers and transports, USAF handle a lot more tankers because it's separated from their main allies by oceans and so on.

Superb. A really well considered and presented podcast

Amazing video as always

Excellent video. Thanks!

more graphs and doctrines pls. excellent vid.

Thank you for another great vid Sir !

Thanks for the insight!

Great analysis, thanks.

This is the best class about modern war that I´ve had the chance of watching. Thanks a lot!

An Excellent analysis! 👍🏽👍🏽

love these unique videos that the algorythm hates. thx for uploading

Excellent information. Thanks.

Extremely interresting stuff. Thank you.

Great video ! Bravissimo

Thank you! You’re a savior for students like me !!! Thank you it’s an honor to subscribe ❤

As always, great job chief.

Thank you. I have said before and I say again, that: the quality of your explication and explanation is superb. Cheers from NZ. P.S. In regard to that interesting acronym you mentioned, I once read about an armed unit reportedly operated by the U.S. Customs Service. It was called: the New Orleans Special Helicopter Interdiction Team😁!

Great content

Thank you!

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have many combat aircraft, but not as large a proportion of transports as the USAF. The U.S. Army has a lot of attack helicopters but mostly relies on the USAF for transporting stuff and troops. If we were counting all the combat and non-lethal aircraft of the entire U.S. military, there'd be a greater percentage of actual combat aircraft.

Ya know; We have missed your insight...Nice Breakdown! Stay Healthy!

Love the inflatable battle rattle. 😆

Timestamps would be nice.

Great work🎉. The algorithm is leaning towards short ,

The lack of tankers for the PLAAF and VVS is even more striking. Shows their lack of reach in addition to their lack of blue water navies. The US is also boosted by their Euro allies having a huge number of AWACS/ISR aircraft.

I really like your videos; Merci!

Interesting, something to consider

All information that you call boring (for example about planning in this video) usually are most interesting for me 😅

The best is back

Great content, as per usual. I'd love to hear your take on Saab's Globaleye.

"The earth is round", at that point I just couldn't help it.😄

W❤️W! That’s Incredibly Awesome! 🤗❤️✨

That big round thing on top looks pretty easy to spot

Guss! Super content!

Obviously the targets must have a quality factor to adjudicate the need for attention. Thanks for your knowledge.

grazie Augusto

1) Thank you for the video 2) Thanks for clarifying the empty coffee cup in your videos 3) Really interesting analysis about the support aircraft (ex. AWACS) 4) Is artificial intelligence the answer to the increasing volume and complexity of raw data and possibly the battlefield decision maker ? 5) Do you see in the foreseeable future a drone AWACS (large size like the Beriev A-50, Boeing 737 AEW&C, Boeing E-3 Sentry) ? A possible evolution of the RQ-4 Global Hawk perhaps ?

The rigid 'stay in your lane' style soviet taskings seem overly precise, but when you look at the difficulty they are still having with IFF it makes a lot of sense. Operating interceptors in the same area as ground based air defences would likely be distracting for them at best. Something as simple as all interceptors sticking at a precise specific altitude can make an intruder stand out to a radar operator, and SAM operators having standing permission to fire on any target in their sector without having to go through channels is important when a spy plane may be flying at Mach 3. Soviet air doctrine was always quite defensive, and any confusion benefits intruders. The aircraft were regarded almost as missile first stages with a bus driver. While it looked clunky, I am not convinced it was wrong for their purposes. If anything, Ukraine has demonstrated that air defence can hold off a significantly stronger air force.

Hair looks great!

Thanks!

Let my algorithm be the rocks and the trees and the birds of the sky!

I see you got my old D-Net phone from the 90's

Does Otis prefer tea or coffee? Great topic and presentation.

Excellent as ever, thanks. Maybe a video on spoofing, hacking, deception, etc. Also, if possible, some investigation into how non-standard information into targeting.

Thank you, and I am very happy, because in the Sci fi universe I made the real magic of fighting in 25th century is not the Variable Muzzle Velocity weapons, it is not the Adaptive Active Camouflage, it is not the moderately capable Integrated Defensive Lifesupport Medicare Shell, or their Micro Singularity Projection Kinetic Barrier... the real magic in fact is the system called DCIIFS, Distributed Combat Information Integration and Fusion System ( they call it Deceives to have a better ring tho) it's basically an AI mini awacs onboard each trooper that sifts through all the information gathered by onboard sensors ( including the trooper, via biometrics and feedback familiarisation) then reforms them to an easily usable UI while also works as tiles with tactically relevant nodes in its proximity for exchange and process of collectively gathered data, communications could take many forms from tight beams to any usable radio modulation based on the topology and EW environment, and the local network also works in tangent to decide what information is relevant for the higher assets to be broadcasted, while integrating the information it is receiving from them to the picture it is providing for the troops under its charge... That's what basically makes my human space commandos unstoppable... well until they come across another force of peer capability and things start to get dicy but... drama is name of the game right... This video proved me I wasn't far off the actual idea... dear sensei, you just build me a lot of confidence, thank you...

Even the dude making coffee is contributing to the fight.

Would love to see you do a video of the Avro Arrow Talking about this legendary Canadian aircraft, what it was probably capable of and debunking many of the myths surrounding it

Bravo, another excellent video, I got sucked back into adopting taxonomies, agreeing sampling frequency and significance, Data v Information debates of the past, you are right, you could be doing videos for years on the roots to fruits of this.

If gets even worse when you start looking at how many are operational and how many are waiting on repairs. Same is true for the navy. Only about 1/3 of our fleet is at sea at any given point in time. That's less than 100 ships. They are mostly at port.

Thank you for this video, as an aerosexual I like my planes fast, slow, small, and large I don't discriminate. 😏

Love the video...dislike the title 😏🤣 Also I think the AWACS are sexy in their own right...really hope you'll do a spectrum/EW video soon!! But this definitely appeased my appetite for now!! Lol

i thought someone will finally talk about refueller and transport aircraft or even the innovation/transition in recent years for trainers to become light recon/strike aircraft... not to say warfare support aircraft are not important, but an airforce isn't just about warfare. even for these warfare support aircraft, the bulk of their work is peacetime related.

As a former U-28 mechanic, I can confirm free chocolate is onboard.

Sigint deep dive please!

Speaking of non combat aircraft have you don a video on tankers yet?

Not correct! The first combat airplane to have full network centric warfare capability and could seamlessly share data and fire missiles with other airplanes was Ja 37 Viggen. In defence sevice since 1980. It had a stealthy, multipurpose, broadband, data link, glass cockpit and central computer.

Great video. I have a question, from where did you get that phrase that goes "in the future the airforce and navy will share only one plane" about the cost of aircraft

Surely the U-28A has Dracolate on board?

Awsome video as always!!! Still i would love to see a video about all the data that is collected by nato AWACS in the ukraine conflict. And what type of data is probably provided to ukraine.

Drones can extend line-of-sight horizon.

1/4-1/2 in friendly fire - that's a huge number... tho that mostly for the 1st few months and affected helicopters and SU-24/5 the most ( both have them). Afaik I know they shot only 1 SU-34 in friendly fire.

i was sold on the free chocolate

I heard that some US Military aircraft can use their Radars & Sensor to send and receive normal cell WIFI TV other civilian frequencies to deliver information / propaganda to large areas.

hmmm... for usa i think navy would need to be taken into consideration too. i suspect less transports and more helicopters there

So, when you say it is a mess, are you talking about Massive Electronic Systems Sources? Just clarifying here lol.🤯

And F35’s and new “super raptors” humm that looks like a TicTac 😂

" Shadow of satisfaction "

There's another workstation aboard AWACS and several similar aircraft in the US. 2 seats worth on AWACS itself. It's behind an opaque tarp at US airshows, when they open it up to touring through the plane. Behind the tarp though, is a very fancy cotton candy maker. They don't want other countries to know what flavor of cotton candy is available, so nobody will get jealous. Unfortunately, the subject matter of the video, and any discussions based on it, are significantly affected by the cotton candy variable. Oh, also, the vast majority of helicopters in the US are operated by the Army or Navy, and aren't under the USAF. The US is actually more into helicopters than Russia.

37:20 I may show You photos of destroyed hotel, destroyed football stadion which curtenly was destroyed by airstrike. Also can show place on which they killed at least 30 people while "covering retreat" which essentially mean a mortar squad just shooting somewhere in that direction... Terror is part of thier strategy, so why not? Thier goal to kill so many people as possible and I personally witnessed it.

That dot looks like a ...looks like a dot,lol

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I propose a new class of aircraft called fighter-bomber-vip transport-tanker

Thanks for excellent content. As always, I would say. I'm glad I found your channel some years ago. If I can make a wish, it would be nice with a video on the international Military Industrial Complex. Before the 24:th of February 2022 I saw the storm coming, and loaded up on stocks in Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, SAAB Aerospace, BAE Systems, Dassault Aviation, Leonardo, Rolls Royce. Since then I've added Raytheon and Airbus to my portfolio. With the worlds second largest weapons exporter likely going out of business, there must be someone to pick up the slack. I am particularly curious where the -stan's will get thear weapons from (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan). Will they lean towards west and go for NATO-weapons, or lean towards China?