F16 can compete on an equal with most Russian aircraft. Interview with Dr. Frank Ledwidge
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Henry Keen the interview with Dr. Frank Ledwidge, Senior lecturer at the Royal Air Force College and a former military intelligence officer. What to expect on the battlefield after Ukraine receives the F16? How to prosecute those guilty of war crimes, including torture? What to expect in the near future in the Russian-Ukrainian war? Dr. Frank Ledwidge answered these and other questions
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Very interesting and intelligent chap, who can think for himself. Love listening to him.
Looks as though the permission and preparation to use F-16s should have started sooner. But we know now that Joe lacked the basic mental powers and relied on a group of scared and ignorant political wanna bes, unprepared to think militarily.
Very good Frank; on all of it. Some of us can remember the Eichmann trial, even if we were quite young at the time. And I can remember a poignant interview with one of the witnesses who broke down on the stand. When asked why he broke down he said, something along the lines of, ‘I remembered an evil man in black with a skull on his cap and he was the devil, now I just see a broken-down old man, and realize that it is in all of us.’ Putin does know that using tactical nukes would gain him nothing but losing his army in Ukraine. Biden needs to lift all restrictions and let them win this thing, but this would have been more effective a year ago. Mr. Sullivan is a problem.
Thanks Frank.
The fact that you’re in a horrible situation doesn’t relieve your personal responsibility.
True. But when standing up against torture will get you tortured, choices are limited. America engaged in torture and lost the moral high ground. Cheney's daughter still insists that water boarding is not torture. Then why engage in it, Liz?
@@AstroGremlinAmericancompare the treatment of POWs between the 2
I agree that no one knows what he might do if elected but remember what he said to RocketMan, “stop or you will be met with fire and fury the likes the world has never seen!”
Perhaps, but where is the F16, not in Ukraine last time I looked.
I am very interested in torture prevention. Cheney and the CIA, which destroyed the water boarding tapes, should become examples. There should be a little voice in the back of one's mind, "This could happen to me." A study of professional torturers showed that they had been tortured.
Good interview Henry. Bring him back. Glory to Ukraine!
A matter of Perspective.
I believe Ukraine has pilots that are very up to speed with the F-16's and gained that ability in just a few months. Note they were already very experienced pilots prior to F-16 training.
However, that said, their numbers are few overall.
Less skilled pilots require more time and new pilots like any other country takes several years of training.
As to the F-16's themselves.
If they've recieved the latest upgrades, they can face off with every ruZZian aircraft equally or better. Even the Su-35's.
But I assume they'll only have had the next to latest upgrade. This could change. I recall seeing the price of the very latest upgrade ranges around 20 million$ per aircraft.
Part of the reasoning on this is the power of Observation.
If ruZZia says they have a missile with a 150 mile range, subtract 1/3rd or actual being 100 miles.
The math being they fudge their claims by 50%. 100 plus 50. Or reversing that 1/3rd off equals 100. At least that's what you usually observe.
U.S. technology doesn't always live up to claims, but that depends on methodology many times.
In the past
Patriots hit missile, but didn't destroy war head. Called a success, but if you get hit by that war head, you wouldn't call that a success.
Also a claim of 90% effective. But that's based on 2 Patriots fired at the target.
So depending on ones perspective you can interpret the data multiple ways.
Current Patriots allow 2 Patriots per target with a very high success rate according to Ukraine.
U.S. tech like HIMARS are rated with a 50 mile effective range. However, they've been very effectively accurate at up to 57 miles. According to Ukraine. So they perform better then advertised.
I'm not aware of any ruZZian tech performing to claims let alone exceeding them. Like their hypersonic missiles claim of mach 9 and even exceeding mach 10.
Have never been clocked beyond mach 6.7..
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Much of what gives people ‘permission’ to act like monsters is the old Mob Mentality’. It only takes one other person or more to start acting monstrously to give others the thought that it must be okay. You see it all the time with criminals. Two people come together and alone would never act on their base instincts but they encourage each other and next thing you know they’ve carried out monstrous deeds.
Smart guy.
yes, as long as they dont leave the showroom...
Because they are the best.
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What are you going to do about the R-37M air to air missile Russia has?
I feel like that is an insult to the F-16 and what it actually is. F-16 was designed to engage and fight any Russian aircraft. Most Russian aircraft don't actually have this same philosophy in mind. They have larger wings and engines they were meant to get in and out of danger. They have no fight in them and will surly drop like flies should they choose to fight the f-16 on its own terms
Frank being frank .. say no more .
The F16 for Ukraine. Us yhis some kind of joke?
Rien à branler !
Very refreshing to hear someone get off the "Ukrainians are so awesome that they can learn to fly an F16 in just 2 months" line. Absolutely no disrespect intended there. But too much of the media were inflating expectations in the extreme. Sure they can fly it in 2 months. But to use it effectively, proficiently, and to accomplish what you want to do with it in conjunction with other F16s and other weaponry...... I'm sure that takes a very long time.
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It's all a matter of perspective.
I believe Ukraine has pilots that are very up to speed with the F-16's and gained that ability in just a few months. Note they were already very experienced pilots prior to F-16 training.
However, that said, their numbers are few overall.
Less skilled pilots require more time and new pilots like any other country takes several years of training.
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The F-16 carries a wide variety of boom boom sticks. Sorry to get technical.
The F-16 has taken down huge numbers of Soviet aircraft.
Soviet missiles took out a lot US aircraft as well
The graphic news about war crimes in Ukraine must not be forgotten. The thought that we all seem to have this means of depravity is disturbing.
This guy was good until the final answer.
It's not so simple as who's best in the air,but also the jamming capabilities of each plane.Theoreticly an f-16 could beat the F-22 if the jamming was superior to what the F-22 has.
I've heard that the F-16"s have a longer and superior radar range. The biggest factor will be what kind of missles and rockets will be "allowed" to use.
Where will this fighters lan ans take off they are are very sensitive too stones and trash if they take off from a Nato state 3rd war world
Just like an old fiat can compete with a Russian tank.
Fiat wins if the russian tank is an T-14.
A Golfcart is better then T-14
I question his view on Trump a little. He states that trump may contribute more than Nato, but one must remember, trump wanted to LEAVE Nato.
Trump didn't say he wanted to leave NATO
@everypitchcounts4875 Yes he did, he said if they didn't up spending, the us would "go their own way".
That in principle is a threat to leave the alliance or at the very least leave them to burn if attacked.
They had to have an emergency allies only session to deal with what he said.
@everypitchcounts4875 Also, to add, he did say he believed he could leave nato without Congress needing to approve it, when questioned later.
Not sure how much more plain as day that could be.
@@pwnpawnTrump said why should US spend so much money defending NATO members that don't bother investing to defend themselves.
@@pwnpawn France has done it before with NATO. Its just taking less of a leadership role
Sir does Ukraine government plan for open Ukraine space station in Ukraine capital and training the Ukraine astronauts help with NASA and European space centere?
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With the Ukrainian pilots not trained
russia has over 1000 combat aircraft. ukraine is getting what 85 if they are lucky? its not enough to match them.
You mean on paper. In reality maybe 100 of them can fly.
So it'll be a target-rich flying environment for the F-16s then.
I very much doubt the terrorist federation can produce enough adequately trained pilots fast enough to trickle aircraft to the front any faster than they have been doing so far - there is no reason not to have done so sooner (while they have less opposition) if they were capable. So as fast as the terrorists bring fresh squadrons up to readiness (and we know how many - or rather how few - flying hours per year the terrorists have been doing, which isn't enough by a long shot), the F-16s will swat them. I don't believe many of the terrorist federation aircrew will be queuing up to be turned into greasy smoke over and around Ukraine, which may save on missile expenditure.
@@vksasdgaming9472 there might be some truth to that. heck even in the west only half the f35's in circulation are flight capable and i imagine russia still has the bulk of their planes still back protecting russia.
the ones they are running tho? zelensky mentioned thousands of fab glide bomb attacks every month so they are certainly active.
@@vksasdgaming9472 They can't afford to put in the flying hours to even maintain proper flying proficiency, which is a long way short of actual combat readiness, even if they had adequate aircraft for the task. Paper flying hours really don't help them, and they have been making too much use of the training budget on other things. The commander's Mercedes doesn't fuel or maintain itself, and the supply officer has to maintain his yacht somehow. Then there are all the holiday villas - How do those get funded if they don't get their share of the corruption? That is a feature, not a bug - in their "system", if you aren't corrupt, you are not vulnerable to being prosecuted any time they need to, so you can't be trusted. It is the system employed by the mafia, where nobody can ever be "made" until they have committed a murder. It works for producing trust but is very bad for producing proficiency unless the funding is high enough to do both - which it never has been.
@@phillee2814 russia had a real air force to start and they can do everything in house themselves and whats left to stop them?
look up the total numbers of patriot interceptors ever produced and divide by the number of days this war has gone on. thats not an encouraging figure and ukraine does not have every patriot ever produced do they?
meanwhile zelensky has told us russia is firing over a thousand strategic missiles a month along with 2 thousand fab glide bombs.
what can you really say in the face of hard numbers straight from the horses mouth?
edit: and did i forget to mention you fire 2 interceptors at every target you are trying to intercept?