5 Reasons You Shouldn't Mess With The USA REACTION | OB DAVE REACTS

[@Zekespeaks]

Retired US Navy man here; when you see the photos and video of all of the ship together it's just a photo op. When operating the ships are spread out over a very large area and in constant communication.

[@WaywardVet]

Army does that too, but on a much smaller scale. If you're close enough to whisper, we can both be taken out by one grenade. Back off, use hand and arm signals.(Edit: Army gets mad if you're within meters. Navy getting pissed if you're within kilometers makes sense.)

[@Al3xTrucho20]

In the 34 years I've been alive there has never been a more scarier USA on September 12 2001. An entire Country united, willing to help your neighbors and help your fellow citizens what ever race. We had a common enemy and was willing to to anything to protect our family, neighbors and fellow citizens at all costs. I was 11 then and still remember it.

[@meganmangold1074]

I agree totally. At least if they come to get us, we have 365 million to fight and most of them armed.

[@TreyM1609]

MURICA!! Happy 4th fellows Americans… our UK cousins…..sorry we had to.

[@brettboulette5106]

Thank you hello from Nashville Tennessee

[@TreyM1609]

@@brettboulette5106 right outside of Knoxville here lol

[@MultiClittle]

GR Michigan ❤

[@ryenbowyer7352]

Iowa here Happy 4th

[@hazardsplay5073]

Cousins from across the pond ♡

[@TimothySparks-dn4pp]

I am a retired US ARMY veteran, and during my service, we worked with the British military numerous times. It was always special to work with your military. Your military might not be as big as ours, but damn, your military uses their equipment to the MAX! Specifically, while working on CH-47D and CH-47F helicopters, your pilots would put the helicopters through maneuvers are pilots were forbidden from executing, thus your pilots would break structural parts of the helicopter that we had never seen broken before. I have much respect for your military as they demand way more performance out of their equipment and their troops, whether it be special operations troops or their pilots. I am glad our countries are allies! If you guys had the same numbers as us, you would make our military look silly. I am not kidding! So, don't be too down on your own military! For their size, they DEFINITELY hold their own in any conflict. Loved your reaction to this video.👍👍❤❤

[@ExUSSailor]

This is a few years old at this point. The USS Gerald R. Ford is on active deployment, and, the second Ford Class ship, the USS Enterprise, is almost complete. In fact the Ford made a port call last year at Portsmouth. They actually had to anchor outside the port, and, ferry personnel between ship, and, shore with her small boats.

[@njd4291]

Our ships are too damn big for pier side docking. We need our liberty boats.

[@ronb6152]

The Enterprise is the 3rd Ford class carrier. The Reagan is also active, I believe.

[@n3v3rforgott3n9]

@@ronb6152 Launched but set to be commissioned in 2025. It is also called the John F. Kennedy as the Reagan is a Nimitz.

[@ronb6152]

@n3v3rforgott3n9 so I was correct that the Enterprise is the third, I just got the seconds name wrong.

[@ronaldthibodauxjr]

The reason we do not sell them is the nuclear reactors. They are so highly classified. Even the sailors on the carriers are not permitted in the reactor rooms. Of the 5000 plus sailors on board, less than maybe 100 have clearance to go in the reactor rooms. The reactors are so powerful that during the aftermath of a tsunami. one of our carriers docked and used its reactors to power an entire city. That's in addition to supplying the boat's needs.

[@jameshobbs1460]

Absolutely correct. It cracks me up when folks ask me when they send a carrier to a place that has just been pounded like a volcano or tsunami. Folks only think of the military aspect of the ship. Not the simple fact that people live on that ship. And can do the same for folks when they get there. Power, Water, Food, Bed space, medical supplies, etc...

[@dwhite849]

I was that one a submarine for 21 years 3 years overall of training before I was left alone on watch

[@Ira88881]

You don’t just buy a nuclear powered carrier like you’re buying a used row boat.

[@Elias_Avraham]

Respectfully, this is nonsense. To address your second point first, no one is jerryrigging unapproved electric cabling into the reactors of any US carrier to power anything off ship, much less a city. For one, there are absolutely no procedures for this from NAVSEA or the NNSA, for two there are much better options to provide power in emergency situations, these little things called generators, than to dock an essential part of US military hardware. No, a US carrier did not dock and power an entire city. Unless you're thinking of the USS Lexington CV2... In 1929. The Lex did dock in Tacoma and used its coal powered boilers and 4 turbo generators to provide about one quarter of Tacoma's energy needs for a month following a drought, nothing to do with a tsunami, nothing to do with modern aircraft carriers or modular nuclear reactors. This would not occur in a similar situation today given the ability to quickly deliver better alternatives by air or freight. As for 'less than maybe 100 have clearance to go in the reactor rooms', on a Nimitz class carrier 100 crew would be about the absolute minimum within the Reactor Department, you're looking at 200-500 crew with RCT training and radiological control operations who can 'technically' enter the reactor compartment, although you would be correct the true figure for how many of these actually DO enter the reactor compartment would be well below 100 given the fact no one can enter the compartment surrounding the reactor without any good reason for being there; this compartment is completely inaccessible during reactor operation which is the majority of the time. This also excludes the several hundred naval dock workers or external organizations of third parties with clearance to enter the reactor compartments to complete checks and maintenance, of which the US Navy trains approximately 3,000 crewman annually to enter the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command and Nuclear Enlisted Commissioning Program.

[@Ira88881]

@@Elias_Avraham I did pro bono work some years back for a group that wanted to bring the JFK to Miami or Boston as an attraction, like the Midway. The Navy is incredibly diligent about preserving the legacy of some ships, but I never understood why they would prefer to scuttle/scrap some vessels than to exploit their recruitment potential. Yeah, I understand it’s a minefield for them to navigate the solvency of the municipalities/consortiums that want these vessels…their plans to assure financial success so they don’t rust from neglect, etc. …but still. There must be a deeper political reason that I don’t understand.

[@TreyM1609]

Btw they usually don’t dismantle them. They sit in a harbor and are used for some parts but if WW3 kicked off we could probably have them up and running in a year or so

[@peensteen]

They do scrap quite a lot. My ship was the supercarrier USS Constellation (CV-64), which I was on for its last 2 deployments, then decommissioned in 2003. It got towed to Brownsville here in Texas, and then was scrapped. The last bits were sent off for recycling in 2017.

[@TripleDinLV]

​@@peensteenMy first float was aboard the Okie (USS Okinawa, LPH-3) in 1990 for familiarization cruise; hated it got struck in 1992, then CONEXed in 2002.

[@mitchellburns2999]

8 months -

[@clarkegrattet5035]

They are dismantle them now there doing the enterprise now nimtz is next takes years because of nuclear power plant

[@ryant3600]

@@peensteen I was on the Kitty back in the early 90's. I believe she's been scrapped as well now.

[@JasonMistretta-wf5ip]

17:00. During the late 1980s there was a definitive slogan that MADE sense! "Peace through Superior Fire Power." If BOTH sides arm themselves with "superior" arsenals then both sides negate themselves! That is how Reagan & Gorbachev ended the Cold War in 1991.

[@dwhite849]

agreed but a new leader in Russia - delusional scary to have a delusional enemy

[@farelli608]

10:45 I served on a US submarine, and I became very skilled at walking while the vessel rocked, though it rocked quite a bit more slowly than most people might assume. A submarine doesn't typically move as much, as it's usually beneath the surface roughness, and it of course has a round keel. I also never had difficulty returning to land.

[@ryant3600]

I was in the US Navy and worked the flight deck of a carrier. I remember at first I thought it was massive.. by the end of my deployment not so much.. But, it was fun, hard work, but some great memories.

[@chrisanderson3806]

Costs WAY more to develop the technology than buy that which already exists, from the USA. If the UK hasn't been keeping up with development you're starting nearly from scratch. That'll cost a lot more, you'd have had to have been doing it all along.

[@ExUSSailor]

The UK's 2 carriers, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, and, HMS Prince of Wales, are a good bit smaller, lighter, with smaller crews, and, are conventionally powered. For example, the Queen Elizabeth is 284m long, displaces 65,000 tons, and, has a crew of 679. The Ford is 333m long, displaces over 100,000 tons, and, has a crew of 4539.

[@binxbolling]

But more modern. It doesn't need nearly as much crew.

[@williambranch4283]

HMS QEII missing a modern air wing?

[@binxbolling]

@@williambranch4283 They're building it slowly.

[@TaterAvila]

17:04 The synchronized "whoop whoop" 🤣

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

There’s also running costs to maintaining and supplying carriers as well. The cost isn’t just acquisition cost.

[@robertevans2450]

The #1 reason why you don't buy a used carrier off the US is because the cost to operate these ships doesn't make budgetary sense. The reason why the US replaces them is as they get older their cost of operation goes up dramatically and it becomes cheaper to just build a new one.

[@trevor3013]

Firstly, the Nimitz requires 6000 crew members to operate and youd need 70+ planes to get the most out of it The other problem is. Even if the UK was allowed to purchase one, the maintenance is where the true cost is. Maintaining not just a carrier, but a super carrier. Thats a hefty expense that the US can afford. The gerald ford carrier for example is like 1/5th the UKs entire annual defense budget in initial cost alone. So the UK already is struggling to finance all the planes and maintenance needed for a single smaller carrier you guys built. How could you expect to purchase a super carrier, maintain it, find the crew for it, and supply the planes. Its very difficult as is. This also is made worse when considering the UK has been struggling to meet enlistment goals as is.

[@warrendavis9262]

Re: lightning storms...in Gainesville, Florida, I had the pleasure of witnessing one that was so high up, there was no thunder...

[@rg20322]

The UK is becoming so diluted that the impact of the folks you let come in and rampage your country is influential. The people you keep electing, regardless or Labour or Conservative seem to be one in the same since nothing changes. The UK is or has lost its identity, with the dilution of the people itself. It's a shame to see such a great Country become so diluted, but expected based on the political decisions, and the people voting in global government, which is the end for all. Thank you, Poland, for standing your ground and making sure your borders are secure to your identity!

[@TerryB751]

It's incredible how long you can spend going up and down the decks of naval ships that have been turned into memorials such as the USS Alabama battleship in Mobile, Alabama or the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina near Charleston. It's an all day experience. And these were in use back in World War II.

[@williammoore841]

Great example of our allies not spending funds on defense because they expect the US to defend them, but I spent 3 weeks training with Brit firefighters at RAF Wadington Lincolnshire, great people very well trained, top notch professionals, great memories

[@d2ndborn]

I was in the US Navy for 20 years and yes you get your sea legs after about 1 week. And the sleep is amazing with the rocking and rolling and ambient noise. I was on small ships so sometimes in rough seas it was like being in a canoe in river rapids. We do sell or give away some ships. Or scrape them and use them for artificial reefs. @ of the one I was on are such. Also this video is older and under our current administration our military has been focus on the wrong things. Love you two and your content. I hope Dave your sparky course is going well. Ash how is your new job going?

[@The_real_I_am_Ash]

Thank you so much for sharing! That’s super interesting! I start my new role end of this month - very excited!

[@mariejustme]

My husband is a Navy Vet who spent years on aircraft carriers. He didn’t experience any ill effectives from being onboard but he has told me a few stories about huge storms and incredible waves that would break 30 feet or more over the bow, with the ship pitching and rolling. That terrifies me personally, but I love boats and have been on a variety including cruise ships for up to a week. It never bothered me but I was never in a huge storm, thank God. 😁

[@butchgriggs6325]

Understand...The cost to maintain an aircraft carrier is beyond your GDP. Add the support ships and planes. That's your entire nations GDP...Training, supplies and salaries, medical for 7000 people.

[@donaldsmith283]

I live in the united states and was in the military for fifteen years. I just want to say thanks, and we love the British people .. god bless them.❤😊😊😊😊

[@bigyeticane]

The newer PGMs that I am aware of utilize a wire that unspools from a fired PGM shell, as the shell travels down range to its target, usually propelled by a rocket. As it travels, that wire maintains analog control of the shell by its pilot/gunner, who can steer it home to its target. I am not 100% sure about every part of the following; but if I remember correctly, this allows PGMs fired and guided this way to be resistant to EMP disruption, immune to Warlock device disruption, and also completely immune to any attempts at disrupting on-board computers/sensors/wireless communication... aaaand, immune to chaff countermeasures! Nasty! Bradleys can fire the right kind of munition like this toward a target up to 2 miles away (yes, the PGM has that much wire), and take out a full grown tank in one shot, despite all known countermeasures.

[@SighNaps]

The reason the US won't sell an intact and functional aircraft carrier, even to allies, is the amount of technology on it that isn't exported outside of the country. If a carrier was stripped of everything that is considered restricted it would be too difficult/expensive for another nation to reequip to combat readiness. That's the main reason most retired US carriers (in modern times) end up as shells being dismantled in Bangladesh.

[@Bear230grain]

I have to say as Americans we like to think are the toughest and the best. I got to train with the Royal Marines when I was in the military. The Brit’s are some tough guys. And I had great time in the UK.

[@DarkKatzy013]

Lol not to say others aren't good in their own right but yes homie we USUALLY have the best the toughest the estests of the ests. If not we will 🫴 me back and then have the best. That's just the way we roll.

[@holycats8]

If you get seasick, you're gonna want to go to the deck and stand midship. Keep your eyes on the horizon. Midship moves the least in choppy or heavy seas, and the horizon doesn't move. It helps to reduce or resolve seasickness by keeping you and your brain stable.

[@Undeadsamurai666]

Countries also don't like to buy because of the sheer maintenance cost and you'd have to hire and train an entire generation to provide maintenance to most systems

[@Bryan-li8qi]

if you buy the ship..you also need to be connected with the supplier for parts in case of repair and retrofits. I can't imagine they'll just hand you containers of these parts and tech. Then there is the logisitcs of training your navy on a whole separate operating system. which means you wouldn't be able to just move sailors from one ship to the next without consequence.

[@yomama629]

If you saw an Australian aircraft carrier then it was probably a Canberra-class helicopter carrier, which are far smaller than a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. I remember visiting the USS Midway which is an old American aircraft carrier turned into a museum in San Diego and when I was on the flight deck, I looked across the bay to a US Navy installation with a Nimitz-class docked. It looked absolutely colossal in comparison

[@billward9301]

I was on the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier, about the only way you know the ship is moving,is when it turns

[@Lord_Baphomet_]

People talk crap about America but I think we are all secretly happy there is a crazy huge military out there keeping everyone in line.

[@bobbyquinting3918]

I was lucky enough to go on a father son 2 day cruise on the U.S.S. America. I had a blast and I was 12! And yes! Aircraft carriers are huge! It was scheduled to be decommissioned and it was. But they wanted to test it's structural integrity. They removed any fuel (it ran on Deisel) and oil, because it was supposed to be an artificial reef underwater. It took 2 weeks to sink it! Eventually they had to add explosives inside of it to scuttle it. It was impervious to all of our sea fairing weapons!

[@archangel2143]

Yes, I was a US Navy Lieutenant and yes after long periods at sea you do get your sea legs especially in smaller vessels. I was on a Spruance Class Destroyer and because you are constantly making balancing adjustments while you walk to keep from hitting things when you get off the ship and the ground is not moving your knees can buckle without warning because you are still subconsciously trying to stay stable. I remember after leaving the ship when we returned from a 6 month deployment I was walking down the pier with my wife and my knees buckled without warning. 😂

[@richardbruce2233]

Served aboard 5 USCG cutters from 82ft to 378ft long (about 3yrs sea time). Longest I sailed without touching land was two weeks crossing from New York to Scotland. Had 40ft seas for 18 hours south of Iceland. Yes, I used to have sea legs when leaving the ship. Sailed aboard the tall ship USCGC Eagle. Served as escort to the Carrier Eisenhower. Amazing watching night flight operations. F-14 Tomcats used to dive bomb on us for training. One Tomcat flew by supersonic about 100ft from the bridge of my ship.

[@DakotaBorn-111]

Crossed the Pacific east to west pm a US navy ship/t takes about 3 days to get your sea legs and yes you do feel the street rise and fall under you.

[@gregpulse1333]

No, I was stationed on an Aircraft Carrier Cv-64 USS Constellation, worked on the flight deck, you don't get rubber legs getting off, you run off😅

[@ranger-1214]

As a child in the 50’s and 60’s we had school drills in case of nuclear attack by Russia, two special Civil Defense channels on radios that were marked by the manufacturer, etc. So the acronym then was MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction. If either attacked with nukes, they would also be destroyed so quantity as well as diversity (bombers, ICBMs, submarine-launched) became part of MAD deterrence. Armed B-52 bomber wings were cycled so some were always in the air at classified orbit points. It was a somewhat scary time, especially during the Cuban Missile Crisis and how close things actually came to reaching the tipping point.

[@elizabethford6738]

...I recall the "air raid" drills when we sat on the floor under our little wood desks in school. As if the desk would protect us from injury of a nuclear strike...😂 15:50

[@Anubis78250]

The cost of maintaining a carrier, particularly one that has reached retirement age and is not designed to function within the capacities of existing support infrastructure, would be close to the cost of building another HMS carrier. It seems like it would be a good investment, but when you really look at it you wouldn't be getting a bargain and that's without even factoring in the air wing. Consider that the HMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest vessel ever constructed for the Royal Navy with a displacement of 65,000 tons and a crew of 1600. The Nimitz class with a displacement over 100,000 tons and a crew over 5,000 would be a real struggle to maintain, even at a bargain price. Not to mention we're talking about ships that have already seen 50 years at sea. I would love to see them live on among allies, but sadly I think they're destined to be scrapped.

[@alexred9111]

Fortunately for me i was on a big enough ship where i never got sea legs. It helped that we hit ports . I was at see for 4 months straight and thay was interesting to say the least.

[@douglascampbell9809]

All ship hulls undergo stress over their lifespan. The hulls themselves actually wear out over time. That's why you rarely see very old ships that actually go to sea.

[@njd4291]

Happy 4th. We love our UK bros and sisters.

[@HikingPNW]

This video underplayed how incredibly destructive the ICBM (land based) and the Trident (sea based) nuclear missiles truly are. The Ohio-class submarines can carry 20 Trident missiles on a single submarine. Each Trident missile can be configured to carry multiple warheads with different size of kilotons. For instance, you can have a single Trident missile carry up to eight 475 kiloton warheads with each warhead able to be programmed to target a different city. You can get more than 8 if you have a smaller kiloton warhead which they have that configuration as well. The missile gets the warheads very close to the target so that the individual warheads can then separate and hit their targeted city. Just to give a reference how much 475 kilotons is, Hiroshima was 15 kilotons and Nagasaki was 21 kilotons. So each submarine has the potential to launch 160+ nukes depending on how each missile is configured. The U.S. has 14 of these submarines that go undetected so even if a country bombs every inch of America and it's allies, these subs can appear out of nowhere and a single sub can destroy the world.

[@AlPowers53]

I was in the USN for 4years...And yes you "sea legs" are a real thing.

[@glennallen239]

Happy 4th of July. I was a Medic in the North Carolina Army National Guard from 1981 to 1987. I have been on the World War II Battleship USS North Carolina. It was decommissioned and is anchored in my Hometown of Wilmington, NC. The Battleship was huge. The USs Gerald R Ford has already been built and on Deployment.

[@markedwards3647]

When you are generating dust to which you are allergic, wearing an N-95 will help a lot. Unlike using an N-95 for microbial isolation, you can re-use one without cross contamination. Particulates are not contagious. This also applies to peak hay fever season, Most people can sleep wearing an N-95. If there is a lot of irritating dust, goggles might help, but I've never tried to sleep wearing goggles.

[@curtiswilson3569]

Love you OB Dave... I won the first Office Blokes hat from that channel and it was sent straight from you, appreciate it. A few days ago on the facebook, a few of your countrymen told me that America is a quantity over quality military and Britain would eat America alive in war... and that America did not help in WW2, but rather was just taking credit. I expect and know that you know this is not true.

[@thunderknuckles3623]

Went on trip on the US John C Stennis carrier. Unbelievable. They put on a show of its capabilities. Never felt safer in my life and that's just the carrier but a carrier strike group? Forget about it.

[@cameronking3341]

19:53 as for the MTAR program the first Major test happened a week ago and it hit a moving Target with such accuracy the pentagon reported to the public meaning it soon will be in mass production the test impressed military leaders in the USA

[@mikebalzano2108]

A lot of our equipment is either put into storage, warehoused and put into shipyards, you know put away for safe keeping. Some equipment is maintained for possible future use if needed you just in case we need it again. I just saw a report that US is going to take two old world war 2 battleships out of mothballs to possibly send them over to the Pacific which are the USS Wisconsin and the USS Iowa that will be reinstated. We also are still building new warships in fact about 2 months ago Bath Iron Works shipyard just finished building a new destroyer and launched it for sea trials. They’re about an hour away from where I live. I think there may be some videos about the ships and aircraft that are stored away and the government still maintains it might be worth checking out someday if you have some time. Oh by the way you guys have some great reactions.

[@billmarshall5040]

Most Carriers are not dismantled. They become part of the “Molt ball fleet”. They could recommissioned if needed.

[@shannonhoenig873]

Most of the time when a big ship is retired the us turns it into a museum

[@folkblues4u]

We have TWENTY aircraft carriers. Eleven of those are "Super Carriers". 🇺🇲

[@mschun21]

We also have missile systems to knock out nukes or icbms in flight

[@Marty_YouTuber]

Trident II D5 ballistic missile Main article: UGM-133 Trident II The Trident nuclear missile is Britain's nuclear deterrent. Carried only by the four Vanguard-class submarines, the missiles travel up to 7,000 mi (11,000 km) at over 13,000 mph (21,000 km/h). Each Vanguard boat can carry up to sixteen missiles, and each missile can deliver up to eight warheads. Each variable yield warhead can have a yield up to 100 kt.[35]

[@sandilar]

Love OB Dave n Ash!

[@rileyfam]

Great channel, love your content! I'm a retired submarine sailor, so we didn't really get sea legs. It would be great for Ash, just feels like you're on a plane, except on the surface. 🤢

[@The_real_I_am_Ash]

Sounds smooth when you’re under water at least!

[@1Adam20]

@1:42 The US Budget is nearly $900 Billion (830.25 Billion Euro).

[@dtroit2]

While the Earths diameter is about 8000 miles, the illustration seemed to showed the circumference which is 25,000 miles. An important distinction.

[@lawrencenull]

Fat electrician has some of the best military videos on KZbin.

[@patriciapierce9781]

You are not the only one who gets hay fever.

[@JasonMistretta-wf5ip]

Hello friends in the UK. Please know that the US are your allies--hahaha! What you are watching is YOUR military & defense system. :o)

[@DarkKatzy013]

Yup and the rest of the free worlds .

[@thomasharkless4605]

I spent my time on submarines, if the surface got choppy, we went deeper. No keel so if we are on the surface, we roll quite a lot.

[@Rocamurderface187]

The 6th reason is the conventional ground forces like Infantry and Special Forces. I enlisted because of 9/11 and was infantry during my first 5 of 13 years in then went Special Forces. Our capabilities are just as lethal as what was listed, not in mass but in capability

[@keithajayan]

You only get sea legs for the first time you go out I was stationed aboard a destroyer at sea for 3 days and I was a bit wobbly when I first got off but after many years I never felt it again

[@Prozak63]

Correct Dave, strength through power is a deterrent.

[@jameshobbs1460]

You never realize how big a carrier is till you get right up on it. And BTW, America has 47 active carriers 11 of which are considered nuclear powered fleet carriers. Not all carriers are nuclear. The Ford class is bigger than the Nimitz class in this video. The 11 carriers have twice the deck space of every carrier on the planet by Double!

[@mabutoo]

You bring up a good point. When we decommission our current carriers, the UK could buy the Hull and refit it with your technology for less than the cost of building one from the ground up. It would be win win for both countries in terms of saving money.

[@tjhorne82]

Nuclear power is great. Nuclear weapons, not so much.

[@WaywardVet]

No, please mess with the USA. We will hurl insults at every opportunity, but we appreciate our allies and constructive criticism is a good thing. I remember the Falklands. Y'all did the best refueling operation just to make a point. And Rick Jolly running the Red and Green Life Machine.... absolute legend. We look across the pond and say "We need to be like them".

[@theylied1776]

The U.K. decided about 10 years ago that the only way to keep up with the United States militarily is to buy American military equipment. The U.K. is only one of two countries that the United States uses as military researchers and contractors. So we fund it, and a lot of British scientists help to develop our technology.

[@wayneperkins7605]

our enemies are within and hold office.

[@brianjordan9446]

We actually keep a lot of them in near-ready state, in the case a major global conflict kicks off, American doctrine dictates that we need to be able to fight at least two fronts, so that means we could even be required to open a third front. Also, the older the tech gets the more costly it is to maintain and operate, it would be likely that if we were dismantling something it would be sufficiently old that it'd cost a military like the UK too much to maintain and operate. It'd be cheaper for them to commission and maintain their own modern fleet of carriers than grabbing a couple old American ones and maintaining them.

[@wmichael78]

UK is okay though. You know if anyone messes with the UK, the US have 3 carriers parked off the UK's shores ready to rock. ;)

[@glennwhittaker1417]

If the buttons are pushed? The only thing left on this planet will be cockroaches, and Keith Richards

[@Megadeth1921]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 maybe just Keith Richards, I’m pretty sure he hung around with king tut, when they were kids

[@joshuacantos1903]

The Newest Carrier cost around 13 Billion to build

[@loneponderer495]

The tsar Bomba was a one-time test. Russia obviously have nukes, but they aren't Tsar Bomba level bombs as that one wasn't practical for actual use. It was too big (as in physically) it makes more sense to have smaller bombs that plans can cary more than one of or ones that you can launch on avaliable rockets. The US had it's own overpowered nuke they tested once but will never use or mass produce for the same sort of reasons. The US one wasn't as big as the Tsar, but it was still impractical.

[@christophermastrocola3048]

Really appreciate the acknowledgement of financial disparity within NATO. Post WWII, this arrangement made sense. America has been proud to keep the seas safe and deter or quash any would-be repeats. But its long past time for Europe to step up.

[@linkeecarrillo5846]

The retired Naval ships and Aircraft are not sold, they are put into mothball fleet in case of a major conflict they will be brought back in to service.

[@flo4710]

GRF IS A AWESOME CARRIER IN USE NOW!!! WOW!!!

[@pauld6967]

The flight deck of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is 4.5 acres in size.

[@Thepirireis]

"Sea Legs"? Everyone overlooks getting your Land Legs back after a long deployment😎

[@Lonewolfmike]

One thing they didn't mention on the nukes are the Ohio-Class nuke subamaries the US has. And then you have some of the nuke subs that were converted to firing Tomahawk missile carriers and they carry over 100 Tomahawk's.

[@Sk8c03]

Funny how sneezing makes you look drunk

[@ChrisReese-z9u]

Us Gerald r ford was in Portsmouth in 2019

[@ronaldambs1124]

British carriers handle 38-40 aircraft and need about 1600 crew to operate. The US carriers handle 70 plus aircraft and require about 4300 crew to operate. The UK doesn't have the resources to crew or operate more than 2 US type carriers. They may also be hard pressed to supply the support vessels needed to form a decent Carrier Battle Group. The UK has about 60 active navy vessels, the US has 280 plus. That being said, a couple of US Carrier Battle Groups could defeat any other single countires entire navy in no more than a few days.

[@ChuckHuffmaster]

Yeah it looks like a bumblebee at 20k feet in the air traveling at Mach fuck

[@Sk8c03]

No taxation... in our faces

[@Chris_McC]

In an increasingly divided country, the American armed forces are almost universally loved. Those opposed to war hold politicians responsible for sending them to war.

[@williambranch4283]

More recently, the Manta Ray ... underwater naval drone ;)

[@douglascampbell9809]

The tsar bomb was a test bed not a deployed weapon.

[@jodo7814]

With advancements in AI and unmanned technology, we are slowly moving towards sci-fi movies like “transformers” and “the terminator” becoming non-fiction.

[@aazo5]

Proud to be an American, but the reality is that it’s not just the US that would be involved in a real World war. It’d be NATO as a whole and you can’t discount how much countries like the UK, France, Germany, etc. would add to our overall strength and military might. Respect to them all. Also I agree, Tsar Bomba is terrifying, but a good anti-alien mothership weapon for sure 😂

[@Average_Middle_Aged_American]

Each ICBM has MULTIPLE warheads that 20x aBomb each.

[@lowprofile513]

Any country in NATO probably doesn’t need to worry too much about how much it spends on its military when the USA will have to get involved in any military conflict involving NATO anyway. Sad but true.

[@GreenBeamzzz]

Trump might pull out of NATO so they will have to worry

[@dwhite849]

my nickname is Sparky at 75 Us Navy trained world travel for business

[@3DJango]

Will never see what was reverse Engineered from Roswell at Wright Patterson AFB

[@ColoradoDuB]

Welcome come construction lol. I lasted 6 years. Good luck brother!

[@1Adam20]

@17:11 The "nuclear football" as it is called requires more than the Saturday Night Live skit of hitting the wrong button. The President is only one link in that chain. And, without asking ages, and knowing your ages in the "Cold War" I lived through the 80's, 90's, and so on to see that even when nuclear weapons have pushed the world to the brink, cooler heads prevailed. I guess it has some to do with the winds as my father used to say, not too mention the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) treaty between the US and the Soviet Union. That treaty isn't just lip service, as it shows that could the US destroy Russia? Yes. Could Russia destroy the US? Yes. But, in the end, we destroy each other as the radioactive trade winds unleashed on the other would simply destroy everything in its path (aka shoot first, and die from your own bomb).