Someone thinks Iron Dome is a Hoax

Breaking down another wild expert who searched far and wide to try and confirm his bias. Most of this is just clowning on the dude because I cant even take him seriously.
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[@Zimmzamm]

I’m a reactor operator for the navy. Watching you deal with this stupidity feels like me dealing with the stupidity surrounding nuclear power.

[@willcaputo1]

Yeah everyone always acts like chernobyl is an inevitability when it's like, Russia/USSR has a shit track record in a lot of safety related things. Fukushima was only a disaster because it kinda had to deal with an earthquake/tsunami that was one of the strongest on record occur nearby. Iirc, the energy released in that tectonic event was on the order of a nuke. I could go on but you'd know better than I would.

[@p_serdiuk]

Yeah I'm from Ukraine and I'm all for building mini modular nuclear power stations everywhere that are fortified against air threats. Because I'd rather not freeze in the winter if the central heating system stops working, and NPPs are a bit more independent from outside supply than coal and gas power plants as demonstrated by the Zaporizhia NPP and, well, submarines and other nuclear vessels.

[@joshua7551]

"Buh. Nuclear power bad. You're gonne give the plants cancer. Buh."

[@wizardsmokey]

which rock do i lick to get superpowers?

[@brabbledawg1499]

Cooool!!! I want to be a nuclear engineer after high school, and I get mad at all the idiots who hate nuclear power

[@ibanez9453]

I remember throwing a grenade for the first time and thinking "That's it?" People don't realize how much Hollywood makes everything very dramatic

[@Danspy501st]

I think I would be more like "Okay, the grenade is live. Time to throw this SOB as far from me as possible!" at first before thinking more like "That is it?" when seeing it explode. I had seen real combat footages of live grenades being used (Mostly from the war in Ukraine) It doesnt look much, but I think the newer and modern grenades counts on using concussion forces to kill or wound a person down rather then fragmentations. Like I think the standard grenade from WW2 was

[@ibanez9453]

@Danspy501st oh I was terrified of it. And prayed I wouldn't make a mistake. I yeeted that think as far from me as possible and got down as the DS instructed. But seeing and hearing the "pop" with some smoke and a bit of dirt raining down just made me laugh a little at it.

[@texan-american200]

I'm pretty sure that it's not a "that's it?" thing for the recipient of the thrown grenade...😳💣💥🤯

[@damageddystopia]

All I could think of was the scene from In the Army Now and I was so terrified I was going to throw the pin and keep the grenade.

[@JustThatOneRandomGuy]

@@ibanez9453 fr. All that weight (people, including me, just forgets how heavy that mofo is) and a slight pop. In my experience the M203 pop was much more satisfying.

[@michaelscott6022]

*'Experts' after already getting proven wrong:* "I ain't heard no bell!" *HLC:* "Ding ding ding, _class is now in session."_

[@CakeofWisdom]

When you got your PhD. from Google Search, it helps to not debate the guy who literally teaches the subject matter. Lol

[@njp33njit]

OH MY GOD ITS HCL OUT OF NOWHERE WITH AIR DEFENSE. OH MY GOD THE HUMANITY RIGHT INTO THE SPANISH ANNOUNCERS TABLE. SOMEBODY STOP THIS MAN.

[@Hungary_0987]

🛩️➡️🗼🗼

[@demscrazy6574]

This is a prime example of the dunning Kruger effect, the less people know the more confident they are, the more they know the less confident they are. Just a classic to witness.

[@goldenhate6649]

You….might want to research the effect. Because everything you said is false about the actual study.

[@demscrazy6574]

@@goldenhate6649 that is not exactly true. The effect is based in psychology on one’s overconfidence in one’s information. I tried to summarize it in a small paragraph. Besides, I took this one from a definition.

[@onerider808]

Unless you are the maintenance/repair technician. Then you’d better know exactly what you know. And fast. The planes are coming.

[@Ekdrink]

@@goldenhate6649that’s…that what the dunning Kruger effect is.

[@derrickhunter7680]

Sounds like soonish saw Niel's video about Terrance Howard, mayne!😂

[@Pratt_]

The Internet has revealed to us that some people would deny the existence of something that just hit them between the eyes

[@Apoc2K]

"Patriot doesn't work" crowd when patriot inexplicably does work: "Iron Dome doesn't work."

[@fuery.]

What do they turn to next ☠️

[@micaiahfonken]

It's a cycle of constant projection because in truth its their brain that doesn't work.

[@teineone]

@@fuery. "Hamas is shooting smoke bombs"

[@sophisthemlock246]

@@fuery. "CIWS doesn't work"

[@FirstDagger]

"War isn't real, everything is a projection" is their final level of thought.

[@dfmrcv862]

HBL really embodies the spirit of the War Thunder player who leaks classified information to get a more accurate portrayal of their favorite vehicle, yet has the self-control to not break 18 U.S. Code 798 while still informing his audience.

[@salenstormwing]

It took me a year and a half to get armament pylons on the P-38E/F & another 6 months to get them to turn a non-existent "water radiator" it had modeled into the actual 'air-cooled radiator that it actually had. And I had photos, and documentation. And it was so unclassified to boot... And people think Gaijin will make changes based on Classified Info in a timely manner? Hah!

[@polackwizerd]

😊

[@JohnSmith-kg2rt]

Lmfao😊

[@Jonathan-rv4lj]

“”Cool” guys don’t look at explosions” Am sorry for quoting this but it fits so well ( am referring to the TikTok guy)

[@insaniam_convertunt_scientiam]

Can you blame the kids for wanting to talk about the really neat stuff they get to play with? Even the stuff that doesn’t explode can be nerdy with destructive potential.

[@jsam1122]

I bet that guy also thinks that firearms are just noise makers because he can't see the bullet.

[@tearstoneactual9773]

If that is the case then a shotgun is a hell of a party popper.

[@HighDiver5555]

Ahh the good old days of "Bang! Bang!" Budget cuts haha

[@newperve]

Well not if they use tracers, they are real

[@lucassmith1886]

​@newperve lol yeah, they load 9 blanks and then one tracer or real round to make it look real lol

[@GrimK77]

Just as he makes noise, while you can't see his point

[@jeremyortiz2927]

Hollywood is to blame for the civilian lack of understanding of how explosives, like grenades, look when detonated.

[@AnAmericanPatriot1555]

It was entertaining to see some internet experts saying it was a physical structure. They actually said it was a literal dome they were building. I’d like to think they were just bot accounts.

[@mtmadigan82]

Grenades are nothing like you see in movies or tv. They are substantially scarier. Its a thing most guys have never experienced before the military. This baseball sized metal ball can end you and everyone around you in an instant. Its intense. In the different combat schools across the forces, those first few times are built up to. Practice using inert ones, then often smoke, then to live frags from above a trench with an instructor literally touching you the whole time. Why? People often throw the pin and drop the grenade the first time or 2. It sounds insane, and it is. But it just really tells you how feared, intimidated, and respected those things are at the begining.

[@richardbossman9875]

Truth, even though we KNOW Hollyweird amps up the explosions it is really kind of anti-climatic watching things like live hand grenades, fired grenades such as the ones for the MK-19 and M203 and even small IEDs go off. Still deadly but not the mountain splintering explosions that tv always showed.

[@mtmadigan82]

@@richardbossman9875 I always kinda thought they did this partially for this reason. In video regular grenades, 203, or similar all look like nothing. More or less. But the sound a pressure wave doesnt translate visually. That decent fireball almost mirrors how scary they are in person.

[@SovereignwindVODs]

My wake-up call to explosives not being what I thought was when Mythbusters did an episode about some grenade myth. I think it was about jumping on a grenade to save the people around you. They set up dummies around a grenade, some "in cover", some exposed, and these pressure valves that would break if a blast or shock wave strong enough to cause internal damage to a human hit it. The control test of no human analogue on the grenade looked unspectacular, but all of the dummies close to it, even the ones in cover, would have died or been severely injured due to the blast wave even though the exposed dummies only had shrapnel up their knees or so.

[@joshbingham7774]

DUDE, you had already won me over with your military sketches. I'm former Army and worked for the Navy for 16 years. Then I just watched your Lemons sketch and I posted it to my all-veteran amateur endurance racing team's group chat, because I was absolutely in stitches! Now I see that you have a sweetheart pittie, Knox! My pittie is brindle and named Adak and he has that same sweet soul! I wanna buy you a beer, man! Keep calm and carry on! HUA!

[@curtisthornsberry4236]

The lady looks so, unimaginably smug. You could put a picture of that face and get rid of the written definition of smug.

[@Midnight24435]

Came to the comments looking for this; glad I'm not alone in that thought process. The more I look at her smugness, the more I seethe like HLC is.

[@theguywiththat1face]

That's how I view just about all these types of video's that have some person just sitting there pointing at someone else's video. Just pure "look at me I'm smart" smugness.

[@antibull4869]

Guaranteed she votes progressive. That “type”/“look” of a person always do.

[@ElementofKindness]

It's always the most uninformed, that are the most smug. They go together like peanut butter and jelly.

[@volafox]

Perhaps we need to take the blinders off. Let them see the splatter.

[@TheMcEwens419]

Sir, I'm laughing. Not at you, but the level of frustration you are managing to keep in. "Don't tell me how to do my job, when we invented my job!" You knowledgeable take on everything is on point. Thanks for everything

[@damoclesecoe7184]

"Do not cite the deep magic to me witch! I was there when it was written!"

[@Thomas-fz9xw]

​@@damoclesecoe7184Hell, there's a Nike guy further up in the comments section who _was_ there when it was written, and he's agreeing with HLC.

[@jobanh7ify]

Yeah, everyone thinks they’re experts just because they read something on facebook 🤦‍♂️

[@waitwhat1029]

To be fair that is how I became a doctor...

[@jobanh7ify]

@@waitwhat1029 I’m actually a nurse dude 😅

[@waitwhat1029]

@@jobanh7ify ... I am not actually a doctor but I write like one. By Facebook standards, that makes me almost a neurosurgeon. Lol! My mother's friend sells essential oils and calls herself a doctor and says it's fine as long as you don't use a "big D". It's funny on way too many levels to stop talking to her.

[@joeblow5214]

To be fair, I've seen legal experts on cable and network news flub case law then have their analysis get wrecked in court and defense experts make extremely dumb claims that are easily debunked with a little stock footage, a open source document, and then actual events in the world. Especially all the experts on the F-35 getting told by the Chief Test Pilot how wrong they were. It's the funniest thing ever to see highly paid "Experts" on cable news get pwned.

[@waitwhat1029]

@@joeblow5214 ... Fair, but those people have at least been educated in what they are talking about, incorrect or not. There's an assumption anyway. Facebook is a bunch of not even half informed lunatics all running around sharing unchecked information like its absolute fact.

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

There’s a point at which you just have to accept that a select number of people are going to believe what they want to believe. Whether out of pure bias, or unwillingness to be wrong, they just aren’t teachable and insist on telling things the way they perceive them. I appreciate what HLC does, because it’s not really for those people, but for the others around them who, without proper instruction, might actually believe such opinionated morons.

[@Not-a-GSD]

You mean like people that believe the earth is flat?

[@lucassmith1886]

So true. I definitely do hear of people actually waking up and realizing how ridiculously wrong these crazy people are. but as you said, those tend to be the more normal, even slightly open minded people, while the rest will actively ignore any and all evidence to thebcontrary of what they believe. Or they will attack the source. For example someone may say the sky is blue, and these weirdos will respond with "that guy is a racist, I don't believe him."

[@mimcduffee86]

@@Not-a-GSD And the ones that believe humans have no negative impact on the Earth's climate.

[@Man_Emperor_of_Mankind]

​@mimcduffee86 You're either misunderstanding or misrepresenting the argument of the people you referred to Nobody is claiming that people have no negative impact, their argument boils down to "is it a truly significant impact" Just existing means there is an impact

[@Ork20111]

I think this man is totally underappreciated. Not just about air defense. We need to make this attitute common again. To many people are way to comfortable talking about things they know nothing off. And it is becoming a political problem. If someone behaves like an idiot, treat them like an idiot.

[@marcress]

I am a former Nike-Hercules air defender. We WERE the big bad airdefenders. Nike was ABM capable. It recorded a "kill" against a WAC Corporal ballistic missile as early as 1960. Nike was also capable on intercepting another Nike. Gotta love command guidance, proximity fuses and "special" weapons warheads. Of course, patriot made all of that obsolete. Keep spreading the word.

[@JoelDashReed]

"Nike was also capable on intercepting another Nike." Line remind me of the F22 in this channel's shorts. XD "Would you intercept me?, I'd intercept me! *smacks lips*"

[@MugenZeroX]

​​@@JoelDashReed that could be a new skit lol Nike to F22: kid you have no idea how fun it is to truly hunt yourself. It is *long inhale* sublime

[@MarkoDash]

@@MugenZeroX the Nike-Herc would be something even the F-22 would fear Radar: i think he's somewhere over there.. N-H: *puts a 20+ kiloton warhead 'over there'*

[@Hot_Sky_Astronomy]

Everyone watch out for his balls when he walks past.

[@MorrahaDesigns]

This whole comment thread is great. 😂

[@crazymoose6251]

Oh to be an American military member and have objectively better reasoning and basic research skills than 80% of college graduates.

[@damageddystopia]

Shhhhhhhh you'll make the dumb ones get an ego. But that said I feel like the military helped my reasoning and discussion skills much better than college, largely because day to day was full of so much more stupid.

[@jerryalbus1492]

As a non-american college student, I can tell you that when it comes to military, Students are as retarded as toddlers

[@mikesch7672]

There are a good number of grade school-aged kids that have more common sense than the average college student.

[@PickpocketJones]

If only this sentiment were true. I'm burdened by former military stuck in management positions they are simply incapable of doing competently.

[@mikesch7672]

@@PickpocketJones I bet they are just as excited working with you.

[@KSIREBEL]

Even worse, I found out this week that a few of my "friends" on Facebook, including my rackmate from bootcamp, think that the holocaust is a hoax...

[@UnluckyHistorian]

might wanna tell them to go meet a veteran who walked into any of those concentration camps or for them to read any of their autobiographies.

[@nephleim3748]

yea, these type of people are showing up more and more... they want to destroy the past they are scared of (ignorant of as well) and want the world to just keep repeating because history is there to learn from and they don't care to learn

[@MeeesterBond17]

I'm not military, but I have a couple of old school "friends" who think the same way... feels bad, man.

[@sanguinembwun6475]

That’s intentional! The holocaust has intentionally been all but removed from the public education system! And I’m willing to bet that your rack mates are younger guys who went to public school! The education system has been deliberately made so bad that people can’t tell you how many states there are or even read let alone know anything about the holocaust!🤬

[@wherdgo]

Brainwashed by the nationalist facist cult.

[@loganteague5805]

People like that are why I left debate club in school. My team was debating a complete idiot, who only had one counter-argument for our whole topic and that one was completely ridiculous, but he won the debate. It may have been because I called him an idiot, but I think the judge was just so stupid they thought he won. Which is why I did forensics through high school but not debate. They both get parent volunteers as judges, but in forensics they just needed to decide if I was funny, debate they actually had to use logic and reason.

[@rffromusa8319]

No lie. Your skit for the coffee was the best "commercial" I've seen in years! 😂😂 Bravo 👏 Also very informative about the Iron Dome, thank you for the easy to follow lesson. 👍

[@TheIamfrustrated]

The dude’s opinion reminds me of the British Army’s assessment of the RAF’s performance over Dunkirk. They thought they didn’t do much because the RAF was intercepting the Luftwaffe aircraft away from Dunkirk so their efforts really weren’t observed by the Army on the ground.

[@Four9sFineJewelry]

LOVED seeing you on Unsubscribed. Glad you’re back wrecking the keyboard warriors too.

[@jonpopelka]

I'm a pretty damn liberal guy, and this video had me rolling. I appreciate your expertise, research, and humor. You're obviously further to the right than I am, but you're right on the money about almost everything you talk about. You and Ryan McBeth are the best. Keep it up, man!

[@shanedaley6236]

This is why I hope this gets seen by more people then whoever the original video is from because there are stupid people that think they can be a arm chair expert with no knowledge

[@JoshSweetvale]

Thank god the crazy lefties are essentially harmless. The crazy conservatives kill people. Worst crazy lefties do is abuse their kids, same way crazy right-wingnuts dom

[@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger]

Left or right we should be be forming our thoughts out of core proven facts rather than random bs from the internet that comes from stories that go “ I heard from a buddy”

[@Dash62g]

Its a shame that political values bleed into how much truth people want to accept. The crazies on both sides have to denounce truths that support the other and everyome gets dumber in the process. Very much appreciate HL's comment sections for having level headed people regardless of their politics.

[@BullMooseLib]

@@Dash62g It's moreso people feeling an nessecity to "back their side" no matter the cost, reason, or evidence stacked against you i.e. partisanship. I diverged heavily from many of my leftist compatriots in regards to the Israel and Hamas conflict. I came out early against Hamas for their atrocities, and that no amount of historical justification/past transgressions are valid. If they wanted the moral high ground, they'd of targeted IDF personnel and military infrastructure exclusively, but Hamas didn't and openly encouraged it's 1000 members who engaged in the offensive to actively seek out civilians and take hostages as a means to bargin in the future. It's utterly insane to think that leftists, champions of compassion and empathy all of a sudden begin employing selective empathy, its some of the most evil shit imaginable I say.

[@irishbrewgaming2296]

"That advertisement had too many syllables, apologize.!"- Mr. Torgue

[@curiousguyontheinternet9023]

Not enough caps lock. Hilarious reference, though

[@allaboutboats]

Being a retired USN CPO, I wanted to first say how you are awesome at wrecking these "experts" on the internet. Great job! Also wanted to point out the "first intercept of a guided missile in 1989" that you refer to at timestamp 6:02 is leaving out the Navy. We have been using Navy Standard Missiles which has been doing that since the late 1950's early 1960's. This ship launched and guided missile has been regularly knocking anti-ship and ballistic missiles out of the sky for 60 years now. Patriot may have been the first Land Based platform, but were not Nike-Ajax and other Anti-Ballistic Missiles from the Cold War also able to intercept many types of Rockets or Missiles? Just wondering what your take on that is. You are doing Gods work, keep it up! Jerry

[@Mr.Slaughter]

Ah, yes. The conspiracy in the gaps argument. "I don't understand one aspect of what I am seeing and rather than do research to understand, its a conspiracy."

[@jefferymosdell2490]

I'm definitely guilty of trying to sound smarter than I actually am when I was in high school, but at least I'm not being torn apart by an expert in a given field for thinking I know more about it than they do. These people need to log off and got talk with people who actually know what they're talking about.

[@TheCloudhopper]

Thank you. As an intersted (and somewhat eduated) civilian who cringes every single time one of those pretend experts spews their idiocy, I can't overstate how valuable it is for active service personnel to speak up and debunk this bullcrap.

[@spartanonxy]

You need to remember even in the literal sense expert as a description means nothing. It has often been misapplied and is usually in the modern day just an appeal to authority fallacy. Which is why I can respect Linecrosser and quite like his content. He doesn't go "air defense officer therefor right" he instead explains his position to the best of his ability and permissions and corrects some misconceptions others have about the field he is in. May not agree with him sometimes but I most certainly don't discount what he says since unlike "experts" he actually does his best to back it up.

[@anthonypuccetti8779]

The Boston Globe, October 13, 2023: Israel’s Iron Dome system doesn’t work, says missile defense critic Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense system could do nothing against the hundreds of Hamas fighters who stormed the country last weekend. But a prominent US scientist says Iron Dome is also failing at the job it was designed for - shooting down short-range rockets fired into Israel by Hamas. Theodore Postol, professor emeritus of science, technology, and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became famous in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War for disputing the reliability of the US Patriot anti-missile system. His research showed that, contrary to claims by the US military, Patriot interceptors were rarely successful in shooting down Soviet-made Scud missiles fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia. A September 1992 report from the US General Accounting Office confirmed that Postol was right, concluding that only 9 percent of Patriot launches resulted in a definite Scud kill.

[@TheCloudhopper]

@@anthonypuccetti8779 Those numbers for the Patriot are 31 years old. I hate to break this to you but.... The Patriot of 2023 has nothing in common with the Patriot of 1992, apart from the shape of the missile canisters and the trailers. And I would be extremely surprised if RMD doesn't use the current opportunities to field test fresh firmware on a daily basis.

[@anthonypuccetti8779]

@@TheCloudhopper So what? He said the Israel defense system doesn't work. From the article: "But Postol says the 90 percent success rate is a myth. As with his research into Patriot anti-missile performance, Postol relies on photographic images of attempted Iron Dome intercepts. Postol said he’s reviewed about 100 images, some shot by still cameras and others by video cameras. He claims that the photos show Iron Dome warheads exploding too far away from the rockets to knock them down. The exploding warhead gives the impression of a successful intercept, but in reality, Postol says, the incoming rocket just keeps going. “They can produce no evidence that the system is working,” Postol said. “It’s a fraud perpetuated by the Israeli government on its own people. It’s also perpetrated on the American taxpayer because we’re paying for everything.” The US has provided Israel with $3 billion to finance the Iron Dome program, according to a Congressional Research Service report.

[@anthonypuccetti8779]

@@TheCloudhopper An article from "Globes", 2014: Defense Prize winner Moti Shefer: Iron Dome is a bluff In an interview last Thursday with Radio 103, Israel Defense Prize winner and aerospace engineering expert Dr. Moti Shefer stated simply that Iron Dome was one of the biggest bluffs ever seen. He said, "There is no missile in the world today able to intercept missiles or rockets. Iron Dome is a sound and light show that is intercepting only Israeli public opinion, and itself, of course. Actually, all the explosions you see in the sky are self explosions. No Iron Dome missile has ever collided with a single rocket. Open spaces are a myth invented in order to up Iron Dome's current interception percentages. The rockets announced as intercepted by Iron Dome either never reach the ground, or are virtual rockets invented and destroyed on the Iron Dom control computer. To this day, no one has ever seen an intercepted rocket fall to the ground." He continued, "What lands here is what's launched. The parts we see on the ground are from Iron Dome itself. We're shooting at ourselves, mainly virtually. The virtual rocket was invented in order to increase the vagueness surrounding Iron Dome. Assume that a real rocket arrives. What does the command and control system do? It creates nine more virtual rockets, and transmits their paths on computer graphics to the rocket launcher operators. The launcher operators see 10 rockets and launch 10 Iron Dome interceptors. People hear 10 booms, one rocket enters, and you get a 90% success rate." According to Dr. Shefer, Iron Dome is a part of a broad conspiracy, in which two interested parties afraid of peace are participating: the defense industries and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[@tarajoyce3598]

Best ad ever! Rewound to watch it again. Literally crying 😂

[@danielboatright8887]

Im shocked he didnt use the phrase 'break it down Barney style for you', considering he was explaining it for a guy that clearly is operating with an IQ that would find toddler cartoons intellictually engaging and challenging.

[@aaronjg682]

Like, NBC had coverage of Richard Engel a few days ago... they literally saw Iron Dome working IN REAL TIME 😂😂😂

[@joeblow5214]

I've also seen live reporters on NBC deny what was happening behind them was even happening. Trust but verify everything they say. But your story is funny.

[@logicplague]

​@@joeblow5214Yeah, I was gonna say, citing NBC as a source is about as credible as citing a magic 8-ball 😂.

[@aaronjg682]

@@joeblow5214 There's actual video! Are you so far up Putin's ass that you wouldn't believe your own eyes while watching who all actual news orgs understand is one of the best foreign correspondents in the industry? GTFO comrade.

[@trailblazer632]

To be fair.... "firey but peaceful" WAS a thing 😂

[@joeblow5214]

@@trailblazer632 To be fair that was CNN initially but it was a lie perpetuated by the media at large. It was one of the most transparent recent example of the media in the U.S. and even internationally gaslighting the populous. Even trusting Google as a news aggregator is foolish because it's usually the same narrative with a minor twist.

[@MrKeepnit100]

My understanding of Iron Dome is that it works

[@throttlejockey34]

When dealing with the self confessed "experts", sometimes, it's best to just let them run off at their c*%! Holster. You could literally be the guy who invented something, and they will still argue that they know more than you about it. Remember the words of Robert Heinlein...."never underestimate the power of human stupidity" Thank you again for another great video.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Never argue with the willfully ignorant. They'll drag you down to their level and deprive you of logic.

[@old_grey_cat]

You are right about the "experts."Have you seen the report from a woman at a convention who was told that she was wrong in her analysis, and she should read the book by Dr So-andSo the top expert.... She was Dr So-and-So. He had misremembered the text.

[@arandomkobold8403]

Im going to steal "cock holster", thats great

[@lauradana22]

OMG, this was funny, my mom's a physics teacher, and she is currently learning English, and she understands some of what you say, but not all, and she had a blast of laughter in the last part of your video and after that she said, "the guy is funny, but there are lots of idiots, and idiots don't understand, because they are idiots."

[@Acts-1915]

There are people who think the world is flat. Stupidity is now a competition.

[@tearstoneactual9773]

This problem used to sort itself out. Then we put warning labels on everything, and nobody gets their shit rocked for being stupid.

[@MWilmott]

In all fairness, I also didn’t realize that rockets became unpowered in their terminal phase. I figured gravity would mess with the trajectory of the rocket, and you would want it to remain powered so that it could hit its target with a modicum of accuracy. I learned something today, thank you Linecrosser-sensei!

[@riku3716]

You were assuming Hamas is interested or capable of accuracy.

[@jakkittleson5498]

Fins still guide the trajectory of the descent?

[@jakkittleson5498]

UNLESS ITS A SCUDD !!!

[@mawnkey]

A lot of longer range missiles operate that way. Look up how the AIM-120 AMRAAM operates. It's kinda mind blowing to see. Cruise missiles are the only thing I know of that will sometimes still have thrust as they hit their target, but that's because they try to fly low and flat for most of their trajectory instead of on a high arc.

[@jakkittleson5498]

@@mawnkey what the missel for ships that impact like 5 feet above the waterline ? or is it a cruise missle too?

[@hetzer5926]

When your defense system is so good that people are using the lack of damage as proof that it’s useless

[@tomwhone9804]

Although there are multiple ways proximity-fuse missiles use to damage/destroy their target, the coolest named (IMO) is done by installing a secondary explosive surrounded by metal spikes located behind the missile's warhead. It's called an LED (lethality enhancement device). I imagine a general discussing US missile development with the contractor. General: "Can we get some more lethality enhancement with this missile?" Raytheon: "Sure, general, sure." And the rest is history.

[@alden1132]

I've had my name ending in -den for *decades*, and I have to say, I don't appreciate these Karens depreciating my nominal-caché.

[@kainofpride2893]

I bet they think it's a literal dome too. XD

[@Rotorhead1651]

🤣😝😆🤪

[@Noam_.Menashe]

The Simpson's movie ruined a whole generation.

[@foxmcld584]

To be honest, I actually thought all air defense missiles were proxy-fuzed and when you mentioned that Patriot can actually steer into kinetic intercepts it was worth a bit of a jaw-drop.

[@peterstickney7608]

Most are - it's when a manufacturer starts advertising their stuff as "Hittiles" that will always impact (I'm looking at you, BAE) it means that they couldn't suss out the Prox Fuze on the best day they ever had.

[@jonyoung4793]

​@@peterstickney7608don't bully BAE. They are still riding the short bus everywhere they go.

[@fenriders7008]

@@jonyoung4793when is the lockheed/raytheon/GD equivalent to Meteor coming into service again? I’ll wait :) Which American MIC was making the rail guns for the navy again? Does ASRAAM lack proxy fuse capability and is it a worse system than 9X? How’re those multiple requests for Brimstone going? Congress blocking them even though US MIC still can’t match it’s capability? Yeah BAe is laughing all the way home on their short bus, bud.

[@bubba200874426]

@@fenriders7008 ah, yes, the list of random bullshit. Always a good tool of persuasion.

[@fenriders7008]

@@bubba200874426 ah excellent non sequitur fallacy sir. I simply asked Jon (and Peter) a list of questions whose answers might help me understand in what ways BAe is a ‘shortbus’ tier MIC. Keep barking up that tree, dog.

[@growserpilot5332]

Retired SFC here, just remember the greater your reaction to a behavior the more you validate it. Don't rent space out your brain for incompetent people like the ones featured in this video. I think it's fair to say you are a "Bad Ass Air Defender" given your competence and evident expertise regarding all things air defense. Consider making a video that counters this sort of quackery without giving them the exposure that they get in your video. Don't cast your pearls to swine. Correcting people who are obviously ignorant and lacking in any reasonable amount of intelligence only brings you down to their level. I appreciate your content and find it informative and useful. I also enjoy your humorous videos. Keep up your good work, we're all better for it.

[@kyleemery2798]

"Karen McKarenson puts down her son Aden Braden or Jayden" Ha! This is the top notch material that I come to this channel for! Keep up the great content!

[@maxdanielj]

Propaganda usually has a goal, but I can't figure out what that "dr" guy's goal is since calling iron dome a hoax makes hamas look pathetic

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

Maybe he's trying to imply that all Hamas attacks are Hoaxes/False Flags by Isreal to justify oppressing those poor innocent Palestinians who are therefore justified in counter attacking Isreal...

[@jcf2103]

You can roll a 60 ton truck over asphalt, can't roll a sixty ton truck over you. Asphalt is really tough stuff.

[@iloveplasticbottles]

Bro roasted that woman's entire existence

[@ErukanuSenpai]

Damn, you can see HLC nearly popping a vein there !

[@andrewreynolds4949]

Considering the hype of how effective proximity fuses were when they were invented by the Americans during WW2, I didn’t realize some people still don’t understand that a rocket exploding next to a target shreds the target with shrapnel

[@bmxriderforlife1234]

Ahhhh yes americas favorite invention of canada in ww2. We really liked them there slam fire shot guns for the trenches tho.

[@andrewreynolds4949]

@@bmxriderforlife1234 The original concept was explored by a British company early in the war, and they consulted with the American program, but the actual working production designs were developed by the US National Defense Research Council. Germany was also working on something similar but never got it to function.

[@JustAnAmerican_]

Ahh yes all those hundreds of rockets got shot down by the sheer willpower of the IDF.

[@boxman7044]

“No because it’s artillery” Man that’s great

[@thehavok4258]

I binged watched all his comedy skits last night. All of them. In 1 night. Shorts and vids. Comedic fucking gold.

[@travisfabel8040]

I know absolutely nothing about air defense and I'm mostly here to see your face superimposed upon various countries making silly comments.

[@katyusha9319]

Speaking facts "Stand there and see what it does to you"

[@tearstoneactual9773]

"But I don't feel this is right. What about my *feelings*."

[@SYBEX21]

Proof that idiots will “deny reality and substitute their own” Adam Savage.

[@AkushevDmitry]

Hey, Israeli here. While I'm not an Air Defense guy, figured I'll add some info about this Motti Shafir guy. Mordechai (Motti is short) Shafir is an Israeli engineer that worked on the Rafael Python 3 missile guidance system. His doctorate is in aerospace engineering from Stanford, for a dissertation titled "Estimation and control with cubic nonlinearities". Other than his work on the Python missile family for Rafael (from the late 60s to late 90s), he has a lot of patents with the US patents office about... Image compression, analog-digital conversion, and his latest contribution in aerospace engineering was a patent for a method of transferring inertial rotation on a rocket. In 2006 he offered an alternative system to all Israeli missile defense system called "Bell" which used low orbit satellites to track targets, which he claims was accepted but cancelled a year later, which may explain why he's so salty about Iron Dome. Since 2013 he's been very outspoken against the Iron Dome going so far to argue that the Mossad has killed people who knew about its inefficiencies. He also claimed that the laser defense system Light Shield wouldn't be capable of eliminating any rockets, which ... Unfortunately (and fortunately) we proved to be wrong as well. He also claimed that the 3 civilians kidnapped and murdered leading to the 2014 Operation Protective Edge were kidnapped and murdered by Palestinians operated by Shin Bet (Israel's equivalent of the FBI) on orders from PM Benyamin Netanyahu, Chief of General Staff of the IDF Benny Gantz, and Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon. And just to top it all off he also subscribes to the Moon Landing conspiracy theories. Source: Mordechai Shafir's wikipedia page, available in the Hebrew version of Wikipedia but never translated to other languages because despite all his patents he is very much unrecognized in the West. Love your stuff, keeps me mad entertained through these troubling times.

[@Mr.Janitor]

Learning about rockets that use a firing arch and intercept systems that use proximity. I am glad I done subbed to this man.

[@Paul-vi9gh]

I'm so happy I found you and your channel. I've slept better after learning from you. I feel more confident in our capabilities and less worried about our enemies' threats and the promises of threats. P.S. - Give that puppy a lot of love and treats. Make sure when you get worked up you lower your blood pressure and your puppies' tension too. :D

[@GoonyMclinux]

If you expect a defense system to stop 500 rockets simultaneously I have some nice ocean front property to sell you in Arizona.

[@ddelv1601]

When I was a kid, I was shocked the first time I saw a grenade test on TV. They had plywood cutouts to represent people. It looked like nothing, and they had to closely examine the cutouts BB sized holes. My kid brain thought "that doesn't seem dangerous"... I was a idiot. Things don't have to look dangerous to kill you. Ignoreing the shockwave can make your soft parts bleed on the inside. It only takes one small metal object passing through you to cancel your cellphone plan, and even small booms contain hundreds. It's a bit like people being more afraid of the blast of a gun, instead of the nearly silent metal objects that do all the dirty work.

[@mcarrowtime7095]

The metal object creates most of the “boom” of the gun. It is not at all quiet.

[@Robert08010]

You make a good point. The apogee of a rocket's flight is because it ran out of fuel. If it had more fuel, it would have reached a higher further apogee.

[@MalfosRanger]

You know I came for the memes, still like the memes but I'm sitting to listen to the expertise. Thanks.

[@Mariner311]

Great Video - thank you. I'm not an ADA guy - I'm ASW from the 80s-90s, but Dad was a EE Doctorate who was in on Pave Paws and other similar systems of the 70s and 80s and I got taught a bit (math, electromagnetic propagation, etc) and learned more from the Ships ADA guys . Just from the videos I've seen over the years of Iron Dome - from either CNN, Fox, or Israel - I watch the Hamas rockets go up, then watch the interceptor go up and "pop" - so seems to me a proximity fuse found SOMETHING . And back in the 1990s when I was testing the Maverick from the SH-60B - the missile hit and went "pop" with very little flame or boom to MY eye - but it sure wrecked the target... and one time we got to shoot at a boat target with some bit of fuel left aboard - THAT made a pretty boom and flash.

[@Slurreydude]

I know there was content in this video. But I got distracted by puppers

[@rosspittman2317]

Bruh. You’re ALWAYS going to have to argue with these idiots. I’m glad you’re here to do it.

[@tearstoneactual9773]

There's a massive supply of idiots that outstrips the demand for them.

[@EnderMalcolm]

The history of Proximity fuses is actually quite fascinating, considering they were invented when the best piece of electronics we had was a vacuum tube radio, and some Television. Keeping it a secret from Germany was also quite impressive. Imagine if they had gotten the proxy tech for the Flak 88, or their Minengeschoß ammunition for 20 and 30mm aircraft cannons. The best explanation ever for an optical proximity fuse is actually in a video about the Aim-9 sidewinders: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4mpmWhqm8hrfa8

[@jakkittleson5498]

is it just the same as a auto-door? instead of door opening it go BOOM ?

[@EnderMalcolm]

@@jakkittleson5498 I suppose yes, though the door is also moving to intercept you at multiple times the speed of sound. Think claymore, but rocket.

[@jakkittleson5498]

@@EnderMalcolm I was going for the K.I.S.S aproach. but the rocket science ,guidence, and anti personal , for high speed enemy ordanace works too!! thanks!!!i know prxmty fuses were first used in WWII for AA munitions, yes?

[@EnderMalcolm]

@@jakkittleson5498 Correct. The shells had a built-in radio which looked for a return signal bouncing off the target. Wikipedia has a fairly good explanation on how they worked, but naturally the source material will be even better.,

[@jakkittleson5498]

i think a lot of divine ( for lack of a better term ) intervention happend in wwii . along with shear determination & fortitude . not only with troops but rosey the riveters insan productivity output.thanks for the link i'll chk it out!

[@mewingbroom7650]

"Everyones an Iron Dome expert." Me: hehe rocket intercept looks cool

[@ryanhodin5014]

I love how when he says "There isn't any damage to the asphalt", but if you look at the view before the impact (7:11) compared to after (9:49) you can pretty clearly see things have changed. Like HLC said, it's not a big explosive so it's not a ton of damage, but the asphalt where the rocket hit has pretty obviously suffered some damage (Looks like some burn scarring/soot deposition, though I'm not an expert in asphalt or in explosives to say what it really is). Like so many videos like this, it only works if you take what the author says at face value - If you give it even a very minimal amount of critical thought, it's really not difficult to conclude he's wrong, even if you don't know much about rockets, or air defense systems, or explosives... A lot of people do assume rockets are fully powered straight through impact, and I mean it can be a fair assumption to make if you're uneducated... And/or eight. But at the end of the day, rockets can keep flying after they run out of fuel (momentum exists), so they have longer range if they don't provide thrust through impact, and the question of "Can you see a rocket engine firing after it runs out of fuel?" seems like a pretty stupid question... It's strange to me how many people are so invested in air defense not being a real thing. Like, fine - If you want to argue that the people there who follow the religion with a star are bad, or those that follow the religion that also have a crescent are bad, that's not great, but you can sure argue that their governments kinda suck, or that both governments kinda suck. Why argue that things that verifiably exist, have existed longer than lots of people (myself included) have been alive, and verifiably have worked for just as long, don't work? It's kind of mind boggling to me that people are so desperate to find some sort of big conspiracy that they resort to things like that.

[@JustThatOneRandomGuy]

I think in this particular case, the author was just extremely pro Palestine, to the point of pro terrorism and pro Hamas. If you think that isn't possible, just look at the protests in NYC and Sydney where fully integrated Aussies and Yankees are saying Hamas is karma for Israel and " gas the jews". These types of people are just so blinded that they are willing to use everything and lie about everything just to get their point across. In this case, full on Jewish hate, leads to thinking everything Israel has is fake news.

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

I suspect that a lot of the reasons behind these asinine arguments stem from an unwillingness to admit that the West (primarily America, but also her allies and NATO) has left the rest of the world in the dust from a military standpoint. The people who make these “arguments” don’t like the idea that there could be such a gross imbalance in power that one side can almost effortlessly shrug off the best that the other can throw at them.

[@jessehachey2732]

I think it’s because these people are scientifically illiterate and lack any critical thinking skills! 🥴 If truth and facts don’t matter, or they’re unable to distinguish, then yeah I guess they can believe the earth is flat, or that the moon landing was fake, without a solid base in physics. I’m constantly surprised at how little folks know in basic science, biology, human physiology, physics or chemistry, perhaps science isn’t taught in high-schools in the US, or not as comprehensively.🤦🏼‍♂️ It’s usually those same people who question ALL of the wrong things (that have been proven without a doubt even) but then won’t question real conspiratorial nonsense. They also tend to not understand how social media algorithms function, and believe their comments are being censored, or that just because they saw it on YT it must be fact. They’re usually the kind of people who go down conspiracies rabbit holes fuelled with those algorithms just feeding them more and more nonsense (that they perhaps wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise, or as much 🤔). It IS mind-boggling I agree, that folks seem desperate to believe disinformation and conspiracies…I don’t get it. Probably because I have two STEM-degrees. I have cousins like those people, they’ve made fun of me for calling them out on COVID misinformation (when I literally studied immunology and virology at the graduate level, more specifically in vaccine R&D 🤦🏼‍♂️). And they laughed it off, saying doctors are not to be believed, same with scientists and experts. It’s almost as if they have an active RESENTMENT for scientific discourse 🤯 For real, COVID has been incredibly frustrating for those of us with degrees in the field, dealing with the medicine and research deniers and the never ending disinformation (that’s so easily debunked with proper knowledge). Much in the same way HLC here seethes at the smug lady in this clip, yikes! Predictably, that same cousin also thought I’d done nothing in life having saved my country in uniform for over a decade (and paying the price too, now paraplegic 🦽 , so what a jerk thing to say). But anyway, these people seem to retch at the idea of experts and facts, and if called out by them, react with attacks, because they’ve got nothing else. I mean, here (🇨🇦) we have some of the highest post-secondary rates of education in the 🌎, but we still have some uneducated id10ts that’s for darn sure! 🥴🤦🏼‍♂️

[@michaelchaney2336]

"You can't see it because you are not a radar." Ouch I felt that from here. Hilarious.

[@christopherrhodes3228]

I remember learning how accurate THAD is, how it could track the movement of a basketball in Florida from Washington D.C.

[@caseyjfromli3240]

Israel has more than Iron Dome, they actually got the Jewish Space Lasers online and working! Praying for end of Hamas and peace in the region. Praying for the hostages that Hamas is holding. Praying for the IDF and for Palestinian civilians. Keep up the great work HLC. Fighting disinformation is God’s work at this point!

[@RadBruce.]

Amen brother

[@ebnertra0004]

I can imagine Liam from WTYP on the phone with the Cabal trying to call in a laser strike

[@blackwatertv7018]

It’s technically an earth laser not a space laser, but close enough

[@TheHolymadrix]

This made me think of SpaceBalls and Jews in space.

[@Hungary_0987]

And i got your mom working😂

[@huntercase9794]

Any information I pass along about air defense to family or friends comes from you. Keep up the good work. Blue skies.

[@charlespowell4583]

Gotta love it, when someone is belt fed some truth!

[@iversontucker5776]

Thank you for informing us all, as much as you can, on this topic, and the topic of air defense in general. I can say I've learned a ton from your videos. I love how you sign off every day too, it's a nice touch that I don't think enough people think about. You rock man

[@joeprice-ml9qs]

Dudes expecting a Michael Bay explosion in order for it to be considered ordnance

[@summersoldier1003]

'says the guy that's never seen proximity fuse' I felt a bad bitch in that one. slay queen

[@Azurek1991]

This is basically how I feel when people try and argue with me (a structural engineer) that 9/11 was an inside job.

[@HubertofLiege]

So what’s your take on jet fuel and steel?

[@Azurek1991]

​@@HubertofLiege Oh that's simple. Yes, jet fuel does not melt steel beams, and in fact most of the fuel burned up in the first few minutes after the crash. But melted steel was not the cause of the collapse. While the jet fuel burned off, it set fire to all the furniture, paper, and other flammable items on multiple floors which is why the fire was still burning at the time of collapse. Heating up steel changes its structural properties and can weaken it, just like how telephone wire sag in the summer metal expands when heated up. The point of failure are the connection plates, the little pieces of steel attached the main structural members that allow them to bolt together. When looking at the wreckage you'll often notice that the connection plates at the end of the steel members are cracked along the bolt holes. The cause is two fold. One - the heat of the fire causing the plates to expand, weakening them. Two - the damage to the building placed bending loads on those plates that they were never meant to take.

[@HubertofLiege]

@@Azurek1991 yeah, I never believed the conspiracy, not to say our government is without blame.

[@markhirsch6301]

​@@Azurek1991i distinctly remember saying something less refined than that, but then the dude I was talking about brought up the B21 hitting the empire State building as if it changed anything

[@Azurek1991]

@@markhirsch6301 A B-25. Much smaller plane flown at a much lower speed. Compared to a 737 it might as well have a Cessna. And more importantly, the fire was extinguished in less than an hour. I believe they call this "whataboutism" where they try to use an argument comparing apples to oranges.

[@asureaskie]

"Big, bad air defender!" You can say all sorts of stupid s*** to your dog and the rest of us are just gonna go, "Yep, totally legit, what an awesome pupper he has!" 😂

[@ODB11B]

A pupper! Them ears! You have your own early warning system with them. Love it!

[@Lazarus1095]

Well, to be fair every time someone "lobs a missile" over it, it disappears...

[@moonmelons]

Look all I'm saying is if everyone wants to be an expert on air defense, I'll at least listen to the one dude that actually has some credentials to prove it. At least when he's not thinking of ways to make fun of Russia and Florida.

[@rcslyman8929]

To be fair, he doesn't have to think too hard.

[@tomwhone9804]

I feel for HLC. Idiots like he describes are bad enough but HLC has an added frustration. 90% of what he knows is classified so when he debunks these people he has to deal with the additional frustration of reigning in his most advanced knowledge.

[@moonmelons]

@@tomwhone9804 He is one of the very few people that will use Wikipedia to figure out what numbers to say not because he doesn't know, but because he legally can't say what he DOES know.

[@thebu383]

Prob my favorite non character episode.

[@america8706]

I am in fact a geopolitical iron dome patriot expert. Shades of grey and black, very cool, literally named for freedom. Thanks for listening to my expert opinions.

[@mehmarcus1995]

Iron Dome is a Hoax? Iron Dome is cool to watch in action, like a missile spam scene from a Mecha Anime.

[@mateuszzimon8216]

They release DLC, it's even better

[@PaRan0iIdAnDr0id]

Iron Dome is no joke.

[@NoNo-xt8ku]

HLC at the beginning: I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress.

[@TotalDbag24]

To add to your point about the small rocket and grenades. It's not even the explosion of the grenade that usually kills. It's the shrapnel.

[@Biosynthnut]

I'm not even in the military, and I understand how this system works.

[@StalkingGrizzly]

Movies really ruined people when it comes to understanding how certain weapons and munitions work

[@logicplague]

To be fair, their job is to tell a good story(something they've REALLY dropped the ball on as of late), not write documentaries. The blame lies at the feet of those who cannot distinguish fiction from reality.

[@logicplague]

That being said, I really wish they would make the effort to incorporate a little realism into them. God Bless The Expanse.

[@oneoldmanontheroad9034]

I love your explanations of how things work. Would have made my basic training so much more fun 😂❤

[@jburt779]

How did we get here? We’re still fighting flat earth theory. Thank you for combatting such flagrant stupidity.

[@unknown_potato2229]

I love the ad cut before you start the video, gives me time to think about if I really want to waste my braincells watching you get into detail about the stupidity that's about to be thrown upon us

[@shouldntgivename3994]

Yeah. Seeing those awful takes on advanced weapons because it doesn't support their agenda is awful feels about the same as listening to a flat earther.

[@spamlorddooomba]

You know I don't even care if the video had false info the thing that irritates me the most is those that make a "reaction" video and it is just them staring into a camera with maybe a few face expressions and no commentary on what they are watching, that is just video theft at that point. HL you are what a reaction video should be.

[@charliechop4891]

2 minutes in, nothing but a rant about karen. cant fucking stop laughing. he really felt that one to just ooze it out like that. love your vids and energy. best of luck!

[@michaelsolomon3496]

"Roll the clip" I immediately got an add😂

[@sargeanttater3295]

The terminal phase is also evident in the V-1 'doodlebug' rocket fired by the Germans in the second world war. It was one of the first self guided munitions ever, and like the very first, the HS293, in its final phase, or 'terminal phase', its propellent extinguished, and it had a distinct difference in the noise it made, with the noise itself literally being gone. While this rocket was visible in its terminal phase (albeit without a trail), this is easily explainable by the fact that it was the size of a f***ing car.

[@Aotearas]

Ah man, the only thing that I enjoy more than people excitably geeking out about stuff they know about is people angrily geeking out about stuff others don't know shit about. It just turns the passion in those lectures up to eleven and you learn even harder just to spite that sorry fool whomst the rage lecture is for!

[@jambo4202]

Thank you for your service HBL...I always wondered how it works when 2 rockets love/hate each other very much and give birth to debris fields😂... No cap tho excellent video, the longer ones are always bangers

[@AllTheHappySquirrels]

Knox 😍😍😍 I don't know why the algorithm recommended this channel (I'm not into shooty things, military equipment, or basically anything war-adjacent) but I love learning here and all the humor.

[@wmason1961]

"Karen McKarenson" freakin funny.

[@kerblingtime]

How people still don't have a basic understanding of weapons is really surprising to me. How are they going to be anti-war and anti-weapons and all that but no even understand how they work even at a basic level...you would think if they're passionate about the subject they would've put in SOME research.

[@EricDaMAJ]

Are you kidding me? Have you not watched liberal anti-war movements in the past 30 years? Ignorance about military affairs, technology - _military anything_ - isn't just not unusual. It's a FEATURE. A feature they're PROUD of. Go ask a liberal about how an AR works, correct them (gently) when they're wrong, and see the pride in their response. They literally see themselves as virtuous for not understanding anything about the military.

[@tearstoneactual9773]

They put in the absolute minimum, just enough to validate their *feelings*

[@chaosXP3RT]

I also think a lot of people get confused about rockets and missiles. Rockets and missiles are 2 different things and that function completely differently.