@@nathantorresstanevil6958 Nope. Not a stealth bomber (at least the kind you are thinking of). Look at its size relative to the other drones and missiles. Look at the air intake (On the upper surface and where you would expect the cockpit to be ). Look at the engine exhausts. It looks like it is based on the Grumman UAV.
Fun fact: nuking allien mothership is one of theoretical scenarios that pentagon prepared long time ago as sort of mental experiment. But it involves using mid range ballistic missle to drop it directly on top of allien ship using it to shield surface from nuclear explosion, while using excessive amount of decoys to overwhelm whatever defensive systems it may have. Considering absurd amounts of nukes both USA and Russia have in storage they could fire few hundred of them if the first one does not work.
US actually figured out many different ways to deal with Alien motherships. Look up the first object launched into space accidentally. That incident actually led to an even more ingenious solution for dealing with orbital motherships.
@Daniele T so u think, but u can´t say for sure, maybe they where allrdy here, interstellar travel is not impossible, for us humans rn it is a thing of imagination. But we are mostly limited by the tech of our time, not the sience
Fun fact the government and military has a plan for everything for training purposes they even have complete plans to deal with a mass zombie outbreak both zombies created by biological means and even magical means they even have a plan for dealing with zombie chickens.
@@sithrisarkuro7909 The sun is brighter than a nuclear explosion. He stared at the nuke for .2 seconds, you can do the same thing to the sun and be fine
the nuke exploded in air not on ground, and distance is taken into effect here, windows would only be shattered in a certain mile radius. no earthquake because it was in air, but they captured the emp, the flash, and the dust cloud raised from the explosion well done.
You know, they could have just dropped a nuke from orbit at hyper velocity and saved themselves 2 billion in drones then dropped another when they saw it getting up.
the aliens would have taken out anything fired from that far out. You'd need to fire the nuke from much closer as they do in the scene. I'd even bet irl the only way you'd get a nuke anywhere near it would be on foot, sneaking it in somehow and setting it off.
it could be very possible for movie purposes they were located far away enough from the shockwave for only minor/no cracking of the wndows. looked like it tbh.
Those UAV drone operators in Nevada during this were having the most awesome game of War Thunder in their lives. Alien at 1:27 tried a ram, then "you've got a hole in your right wing" followed by winning the game at the last second with a nuke.
Now the meta is enemies also fly in formation with the nuke carrier. "They earned it." Damn right! "YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING"
They where definitely playing Sabaton music in the drone control hub, I thinking either, hell and back, or whinged hussars, maybe fighter piolets in axial or metal machines, so many fitting songs
And they say that people cannot learn from games 😂 But yeah, if i was given the controls of several million dollars worth machine, i would try to keep it whole too 😂
Stares directly at a nearby thermonuclear explosion through a high-powered telescope and he's apparently seeing perfectly again 2 minutes later. Hmmm. Ima go try staring at the sun through binoculars for 30 minutes and see if maybe I found a cinematic faux-pas here. *EDIT* Okay, tried it and I'm completely blind now. I'm calling out the movie director on this one.
When I watched this movie, I could tell right away that one drone was "The Special" - both in payload and in AI skill. The way other drones covered it, sacrificing themselves towards it. It went 150% to get the job done, even pulling level and steady for the final launch, wing crippled and barely holding on, to get the AIR-2 Genie Missile out straight and true- at the cost of being an easy target as a result immediately after. The rest of the movie was meh, but that drone brought a gasp of the feels from me that still holds to this day. I should hope that true AI emergence would occur in this way; GoodBoi always trumps Skynet.
@@fasteddy9312 That 700 billion Dollar thing?. Not that much. They still have to be shared between matras, advance projects, retirements and benefits, not to mention the price of today's stuff with all those electronics and things. And I havent mention about politicians.
@@AcuraAddicted This is true, but there is literally no way that windows would still be whole. No matter how small, that was still nuke, which detonated like what, 3km from them?
One of the dumbest most unrealistic scenes you mean. The missile went inside the ship. How did it not blow apart? Also, how did the windows on the apartment not shatter? 🤡😂
Itsvthus sort of dumb nonsense that makes people believe they'll survive nuclear war.. that guy looking down the telescope would have an eye left.. derp
@@TheBlackIdentety Most energy absorbed by the ship, ship has hollow parts allowing leftover energy to vent, and if you use a small nuke (Davy Crockett sized, or about 20 ton yield) the blast radius is much smaller than a Tsar Bomba style. From there, distance? Assuming that the drone was the RQ-170, the drone has a similar payload as the RQ-9 (1.7 tons), and warhead weight is ~1/9 that of the missile (based off the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile), you are looking at just under 200 kilograms for the warhead. The Davy Crockett nuke (20 tons) is ~50 kg in mass, so scaling up would be ~80 tons yield.
Brandon, your lack of knowledge is truly breathtaking. If you're just 9 or 10, I understand. Please get a thorough education on military strategy and science. If you're an adult, I will have to tell you it's not too late in life to educate yourself. Hopefully, then you will realize how godawful stupid this scene was.
@@TheBlackIdentety yup bro you said it...... total nonsense!! but hey.... we have a expert on Aliens spaceships here and he's top on rocket and nuke stuff!!
as rediculous as this movie was i still loved it. the alien concepts were cool. using human nervous systems as batteries, essentially a symbiotic organism harvesting us like a crop. thought it was sick despite the plot holes
Movie was shit but ideas were cool. The idea of using human brains for batteries is beyond dumb but I always understood that they were not using them as batteries, just synapses hardware until the brain burned out from use. Brains don't produce any power. They use on average 1000 Calories of energy per day. Our brains on their own burns as much as the rest of our body combined, heart, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, all the muscles, ect. Brains are power hungry. They're the plug-and-plug computer chip for the aliens. When the chip wears out, they plug in a new one to keep their 'application' running. It's unintentionally smart, because this movie clearly demonstrate a lot of Derp on part of the producers of it, but in reality making the Aliens need to harvest our brains because they provide the require processing capability to use in their current... cybernetic biological setting is actually an OK idea. There's actually no real reason for alien life to want to explore here, truthfully. We are hostile and clearly dominating the planet that's full of microbes and other forms of life that could kill. There's plenty of water in the universe as a whole and tons of carbon can be found any moons and asteroids easily. There's no reason to come to earth unless A) they're truly benevolent and want to help us primitives ascend or B) they wish to destroy us because they know we will be a threat in the future or C) it is WE, the crunchy tasty humans, that's the needed resource!
That alien spaceship held up pretty well to a nuke going off inside of it. An H-bomb would vaporize a large amount of the ship, which would then explode outward because it's so hot. It looked mostly intact when it crashed.
thats your deal? really m8? so a nuke just exploded INSIDE an alien ship, and because of stupidly written plot armour it somehow "repairs itself and shrugs it off", but no, lets talk about the telescope and tv, lmfao
I saw most of this movie and wondered why, when the aliens were so powerful and invulnerable, they wanted to incorporate human brains into their machines.
Have you seen the price of computer chips nowadays? Then again, this might have been a Cyberman/Borg thing. They believed they were helping us with this forced conversion.
Human brain works in space, advanced computers do not, including storage. Human brain can store at least 2.5 petabytes, with new studies increasing that by a magnitude. Of course, organic computers can just be grown... so why raid a world? Well, for all we know the Aliens in skyline are just a corrupt interstellar Corporation that decided to get its product by raiding planets, instead of you know paying for all the stuff needed to grow the organic computers themselves.
My fan theory is that the aliens in this movie are a progenitor. An incredibly powerful cybernetic race, maybe an empire, that constantly needs fresh organic material. So they seed life on planets, and ensure that an intelligent creature that is genetically compatible with THEM rises to the top (humans). Then they wait until their 'farm worlds' reach a certain population density, and then come back and harvest 99.9% of the population. They leave behind enough humans to repopulate, but not enough to keep society from regressing back to the stone age. The aliens wait several thousand years, and then come back and do it again. As evidence, I'd like to point out that the aliens have a beam of light that overrides the human will if you look into it. The aliens either built technology specifically to capture humans... or humans were genetically modified to be easily captured.
Then the alien ship magically rebuilds itself. Why do I get the feeling this movie was written at the same time it was being made? "Yay the humans killed the mothership!" "Oh wait now we don't have a movie.." "Retcon in magic spaceship rebuilding tech!"
Even though I was honestly expecting it after seeing what the aliens did earlier, a part of me didn't want to believe the whole damn ship could just come back to life.
People are saying it's a drone, but I'm going to keep believing that bomber was flown by a human, a badass who knew what he signed up for. The scene always stuck with me because I liked to imagine being that ace pilot, whipping through enemies, dodging death by a nut hair and managing to get off the last shot before dying in a blaze of glory. Hearing it was just a drone takes away a lot of the tension for me. Hard to root for a computer.
That was a drone, not a bomber, and it already exists, look up the RQ-170 Sentinel While it would have probably tore itself apart during the maneuvers it pulled in this scene I’m sure it can pull 15+ g’s Having no pilot means you can do a lot more stupid maneuvering
@@vergyl9969 technically… they don’t But There was an attempt to make it happen in 2012 So Who knows what the DOD has hidden away for a rainy day Might have a plan for a quick mission package to allow these puppies to carry nukes Wouldn’t be that far off from a cruise missile So Not a stretch of the imagination Though I figure it would significantly reduce the drones range, from 6 hours of flight time to likely closer to 3
@@bornonthebattlefront4883 i see you're quite the expert. But frankly, this doesn't change the movies budget range and the fact that the acting quality's quite shytte HaHahahhh.. 😄👍
A great example of how a film score can bring out emotion. I have read multiple comments saying they couldn't believe a flying drone made them emotional, but I think the scene really comes together with the music.
I think its funny how the ground shakes so violently during the explosion that they cant stand, but when the spaceship crashes into the Earth about a mile away, there is nothing.
i watched this when i was 11 yrs old, now i realize all of those nuclear squadron was all drone unmanned aircrafts, which makes the movie more realistic cause humans would use drones to face these extraterristrials first because they dont know what they're dealing with and then there was no further military attack because they'd be containing the entire city so no one leaves who knows what sickness the aliens can bring, and so aliens can't go anywhere when the entire city is heavily surrounded.
They took that dose of hard Gama like Champs. Dudes retina would be crispy and the rest of them would look like they just took a scalding hot shower. Moments after dude realized he was blind in one eye, the blisters would start forming on his face and chest. Followed by a long slow lingering death for all of them. Telescope guy would have a much easier time, he'd last a few days at most. The rest of them are looking at a week or more as their cells die and they slowly die of complete organ failure.
Realistic? Haha... Omg... Nothing can survive direct nuclear hit. Every compound is boiling and vaporazing in that temperature and aliens can be advanced far as you want. Nuclear bomb inside that thing would rip that in a part and vaporized it.
@@tomas12912 I think that after this scene the directors were like oh shit we killed off our main plotline.. No worries we will just make the aliens have magic harry potter repair functions.
Obviously a very low-yield tacnuke; unlike the non-nuclear Beiruit explosion, the blast didn't break any windows! (It didn't even knock out the lights on the Alien ship...)
In real life the ship would’ve been disintegrated when a nuclear weapon goes off it has 6 to 8 times the heat and the pressure of the center of the sun released in a microsecond.
A 4 minutes drone serial battle of 2010 movie is more enjoyable than the entire indipendece day 2. Even after over a decade i feel the tension of this scene
I think this is the only science fiction film where a nuke actually destroys an alien spacecraft. Also wouldn't they just use a land based ICBM instead of drones?
It's a badly written movie with 0 knowledge of how military tactics actually work LOL. The ship would have been getting battered the whole movie or run out of drones halfway through because the US has an arms stockpile large enough to fight God. It's actually a common trope in science fiction that the aliens have spent their entire evolutionary process just working on space travel and not really any means to face a truly militant enemy while Humanity has spent tens of thousands of years perfecting the art of warfare to the point that a civilization that is so seemingly advanced compared to us simply crumbles in a real fight and then we successfully reverse engineer the space travel technology.
That was an epic fight One of the best scenes in sci fi battles. During the years, I have watched this specific part many times. In my opinion they should have build the rest of the movie with battles like that instead of human drama. And forget the "we can hear lasers in space" logic part (turn off the logic circuit) and enjoy sci fi battles.
I swear it is like they had a different writer and director for this scene only because this was amazing. Why couldnt the entire movie be this good? and also leave out that weird BJ scene near the start?
Hey, script writers skip a lot of school? The temperature from a nuclear bomb explosion would be hundreds of millions degrees and MELT the alien craft ! Nothing left to rebuild 😂 !!!!!!
This was a good scene...the drones soaking up enemy fire, for the main strike craft was something you can easily imagine being used in such a situation. Then we have the initial joy of the hit, then the sheer horror of watching the thing starting to repair itself. The best part of this movie was the end credits though...not in a bad way, but the revenge/love story that was told by them. This film was brainless fun IMO.
I can imagine the pilot of that bomber drone getting high 5's from everyone yelling "WHO'S THE MAN!?!?!? WHO'S THE MAN!?!?!?!?". And then 5 minutes later: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT THING REGENERATED????????????
- Sir! Our drone pilots are over stress they can't perform their duty. - No problem Sargent just get some gamers those folks will get the job done even without paying them.
There will be nothing left but ash from the center of the nuclear explosion, this movie is too fictional when the alien ship simply burns its outer shell without harm.
@@codlogic7060 I am quite disappointed that this movie makes nuclear weapons useless, in fact if attacked like that, even the alien ship and the whole city will be wiped out, aliens and humans All survivors will die from radiation. The Avenger did this well, the nuclear missile was launched and everyone was scared including Thor, Hulk, Steve and the rest of the Avengers and that nuclear warhead wiped out all the Chitauri aliens that were attacking NY at that time in outer space, there is no reason Alien Skyline survived the nuclear explosion :v 😎😒😂
Unpopular opinion... Many people talk about underrated movies/shows, this is the one for me. For all that people hate on this movie, I kind of love it.
Im still a believer that nuclear energy is alien technology that was given to us to use to protect the planet, not use against one another in war. I personally dont think a "shield" of any sort would protect a ship from being completely destroyed. Also, Hollywood trips me out with this notion that a nuclear warhead needs a direct hit to be effective when all they had to do was detonate one right above the space craft same as they did over the city of Hiroshima (air burst are much more powerful), but use a device with 5x more power. It makes for good entertainment considering that entire place would've been wiped out completely in real life.
Sorry, I really dig this movie and this scene. You can nitpick this scene but the goal was to show the Earthlings were truly outclassed in weaponry. Still made me cheer we got one good shot in.
@@ketamineheadyoda2248 Be specific, what didn't you like? For instance, the plot line where Jarrod was being slowly exposed to the light and developing a resistance which might turn the fight against the aliens was a good one, imo.
@@sneakyrodent1853 Agree! I'm a soundtrack junkie and went so far as to get this one. Not a top ten soundtrack but has a few very good tracks on it. Was worth getting.
![Megan Thee Stallion - Bigger In Texas [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QxTkZTLWdo4/mqdefault.jpg)
That one drone is literally the best character in this entire film.
Indeed he is. Brave and heroic little drone.
LOL
Definitely. The drone and its comrades.
But that was a stealthbomber
@@nathantorresstanevil6958 Nope. Not a stealth bomber (at least the kind you are thinking of). Look at its size relative to the other drones and missiles. Look at the air intake (On the upper surface and where you would expect the cockpit to be ). Look at the engine exhausts.
It looks like it is based on the Grumman UAV.
Fun fact: nuking allien mothership is one of theoretical scenarios that pentagon prepared long time ago as sort of mental experiment.
But it involves using mid range ballistic missle to drop it directly on top of allien ship using it to shield surface from nuclear explosion, while using excessive amount of decoys to overwhelm whatever defensive systems it may have.
Considering absurd amounts of nukes both USA and Russia have in storage they could fire few hundred of them if the first one does not work.
US actually figured out many different ways to deal with Alien motherships. Look up the first object launched into space accidentally. That incident actually led to an even more ingenious solution for dealing with orbital motherships.
@@efone3553 nuclear powered cannons ftw, so long as the target is directly above you anyways.
@Daniele T so u think, but u can´t say for sure, maybe they where allrdy here, interstellar travel is not impossible, for us humans rn it is a thing of imagination. But we are mostly limited by the tech of our time, not the sience
they could try the god darts, guess that would leave a mark
Fun fact the government and military has a plan for everything for training purposes they even have complete plans to deal with a mass zombie outbreak both zombies created by biological means and even magical means they even have a plan for dealing with zombie chickens.
The fact that no windows shattered and the guy isn’t blind from staring at a nuke going off tells you alot
He stared at it for .2 seconds. You can look at the sun for that long through a telescope and be perfectly fine too
It's science *fiction* not nonfiction 😁
@@rxauger01 That wasn't the sun. . . . .
@@sithrisarkuro7909 The sun is brighter than a nuclear explosion. He stared at the nuke for .2 seconds, you can do the same thing to the sun and be fine
the nuke exploded in air not on ground, and distance is taken into effect here, windows would only be shattered in a certain mile radius. no earthquake because it was in air, but they captured the emp, the flash, and the dust cloud raised from the explosion well done.
You know, they could have just dropped a nuke from orbit at hyper velocity and saved themselves 2 billion in drones then dropped another when they saw it getting up.
How boring, if more drones are needed the FED can just print more money and that's it
the aliens would have taken out anything fired from that far out. You'd need to fire the nuke from much closer as they do in the scene. I'd even bet irl the only way you'd get a nuke anywhere near it would be on foot, sneaking it in somehow and setting it off.
Dude , it's the only decent scene in this movie...
They dont have satellites after the first wave
trueeeee
I love how in movies people can track a target in a telescope *instantly* and *easily*.
I can't track the damn moon hardly.
ı immediatly cringed when he manhandled the telescope. that poor telescope mount is f*cked.
@@dzg4930 lmao. I cringed when they were watching though the telescope from the tv. Like come on
and the fact that his eye isn't fried from the flash
@@cato2k182 this
Whoever was piloting the Flying wing drone is a fantastic pilot.
Years of ace combat finally paid off!
yeah a great AI
Homie was feeling his inner Luke Skywalker fr fr
anything is possible in reel.. not in real buddy
Autonomous aircraft. The computer was flying it, no human pilot. That was the X-47 Pegasus.
That stealth plane must be felt like protagonist
He was listening to free bird
That stealth plain was was unmanned. Felt like human made AI vs. alien made AI.
@@TinyBlitz8 it was a drone
stealth means - radar cant detect... but aliens used eyes and camera lol
Fun fact : the pilot of that ace bomber drone is.. Maverick
At the very least they could have made the windows shatter from the shockwave of a NUCLEAR BOMB.
it could be very possible for movie purposes they were located far away enough from the shockwave for only minor/no cracking of the wndows. looked like it tbh.
@@thatonerobloplayer1934 definitely not far enough.. a real nuke may shatter windows several cities apart lol
@@thatonerobloplayer1934
If they can see and hear the explosion from a nuke, it is close enough to shatter some f**king windows, dude.
@@P07AT0 you’re
The shaking isn't enough too
That one drone had more personality than every other character in this movie.
Those UAV drone operators in Nevada during this were having the most awesome game of War Thunder in their lives. Alien at 1:27 tried a ram, then "you've got a hole in your right wing" followed by winning the game at the last second with a nuke.
Now the meta is enemies also fly in formation with the nuke carrier. "They earned it." Damn right! "YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING"
They where definitely playing Sabaton music in the drone control hub, I thinking either, hell and back, or whinged hussars, maybe fighter piolets in axial or metal machines, so many fitting songs
@@thebrittaniondragon6183 I would go with Night Witches. "From the depths of hell in silence cast their spells explosive violence"
ATTACK THE D POINT
Never!@@scotthillard3418
When your gaming skills finally come in handy as a drone pilot
That's not a drone, its the B2 bomber, you guys have that tech 🤦🏻♂️
@@bladvagsrgyallo2053 bruh that literally is a drone, not the b2 bomber
@@yourmother7088 oh yeah, it's not. Looked like it.
What makes you think its a drone?
@@muffdriver69 what makes you think this attempt at trolling is funny?
That stealth drone operator must of played a lot of Ace Combat
And they say that people cannot learn from games 😂 But yeah, if i was given the controls of several million dollars worth machine, i would try to keep it whole too 😂
@@HanithSVK bro was playing Deardevil or Zero
or a AI XD
Maverick was flying that drone.
@mrdriver2988 maybe those Drone Operator is "Trigger"? 😅
Stares directly at a nearby thermonuclear explosion through a high-powered telescope and he's apparently seeing perfectly again 2 minutes later. Hmmm. Ima go try staring at the sun through binoculars for 30 minutes and see if maybe I found a cinematic faux-pas here. *EDIT* Okay, tried it and I'm completely blind now. I'm calling out the movie director on this one.
Nice, amazon delivered that brail keyboard to you fast so you could report your findings to the rest of us. 😎
He didn't stare at it for 2 minutes...it was more like as soon as he saw the nuke go off he stopped looking. That's what I saw.
Yeah he should not only be blind in one eye, but have a charred hole in the back of his head.
@@ARandomInternetUser08 Only a glimpse through a telescope is enough to be blind waching a nuke at this close distance... forever!
@@ARandomInternetUser08 Yea thats instant, permanent loss of vision in one eye.
Say what you want about the movie but that drone scene was pretty epic whoever was flying that drone was pretty good.
The drone was flying itself :)
It gives me chills
When I watched this movie, I could tell right away that one drone was "The Special" - both in payload and in AI skill. The way other drones covered it, sacrificing themselves towards it. It went 150% to get the job done, even pulling level and steady for the final launch, wing crippled and barely holding on, to get the AIR-2 Genie Missile out straight and true- at the cost of being an easy target as a result immediately after.
The rest of the movie was meh, but that drone brought a gasp of the feels from me that still holds to this day. I should hope that true AI emergence would occur in this way; GoodBoi always trumps Skynet.
That wasn't a Drone. That was a B2 Spirit which is manned
@@Darqshadow That's definitely not a B2. Looks like something based on the x-47b
@@Darqshadow those were all drones. It’s way too small to be a B-2 anyway.
dude the air-2 has been out of service since like the 1980s
that was a remote piloted drone, we dont have ai pilots that fly that good yet.
bro the way the pilot of the ship carrying the nuke avoided all the aliens WAS SO CLEAN AND SMOOTH
Yeah especially the part where he avoided 2 of them coming right at him
No pilot. They were drones.
It's unmanned. You could tell it with the way it's designed; there's no a way a human could fit in a plane that slim.
not true there where 2 drones carring nukes, but one got hit in the first seconds
It was ridiculous, the notion that they would all attack from the same direction is hilarious. There would have been an immediate second wave too.
If the drones are that plentifull
@@danyleon4870just reminding you the United States has a bigger military budget than the next 10 countries behind it.
@@fasteddy9312 That 700 billion Dollar thing?. Not that much. They still have to be shared between matras, advance projects, retirements and benefits, not to mention the price of today's stuff with all those electronics and things. And I havent mention about politicians.
lol "second wave" 🤣🤣🤣 You didnt watch the movie I see.
@@ICU1337 Immediate second wave sonny.
The moment drones make you emotional. How to express it, ummm it's a really well made scene.
They were better written and acted than the humans.
The moment Maverick from Top Gun saves Planet Earth.
way to spoil Top Gun 3
Lol😂❤
As usual the cameraman is the under appreciated hero, dude was steady asf during that explosion.
That building would be toast
Yep not to mention gamma rays
No, it wouldn't. That was a tactical nuke.
@@AcuraAddicted This is true, but there is literally no way that windows would still be whole. No matter how small, that was still nuke, which detonated like what, 3km from them?
its only a 1.5 kt warhead
@@randyblackburn9765game rays*
One of the best US military vs alien scenes imo
One of the dumbest most unrealistic scenes you mean. The missile went inside the ship. How did it not blow apart? Also, how did the windows on the apartment not shatter? 🤡😂
Itsvthus sort of dumb nonsense that makes people believe they'll survive nuclear war.. that guy looking down the telescope would have an eye left.. derp
@@TheBlackIdentety Most energy absorbed by the ship, ship has hollow parts allowing leftover energy to vent, and if you use a small nuke (Davy Crockett sized, or about 20 ton yield) the blast radius is much smaller than a Tsar Bomba style.
From there, distance?
Assuming that the drone was the RQ-170, the drone has a similar payload as the RQ-9 (1.7 tons), and warhead weight is ~1/9 that of the missile (based off the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile), you are looking at just under 200 kilograms for the warhead. The Davy Crockett nuke (20 tons) is ~50 kg in mass, so scaling up would be ~80 tons yield.
Brandon, your lack of knowledge is truly breathtaking. If you're just 9 or 10, I understand. Please get a thorough education on military strategy and science. If you're an adult, I will have to tell you it's not too late in life to educate yourself. Hopefully, then you will realize how godawful stupid this scene was.
@@TheBlackIdentety yup bro you said it...... total nonsense!! but hey.... we have a expert on Aliens spaceships here and he's top on rocket and nuke stuff!!
"Hooray!! - now we can die of radiation poisoning in 3 months!!"
Your dead anyways from the aliens so just nuke them.
😂😂😂 I was thinking of the same thing
Its only a 1.5 kt tactical nuke
Just stay inside for a few days and youd be fine
Modern nuclear bombs produce very little fallout theyre almost 100 percent efficient
Drone Pilot: All my years of Ace Combat have come down to this moment.
Aliens: Oh F$%&
This movie is literally aliens and porn quality acting XD
bro what?
@@GavinIsSkibidi you obviously haven’t seen the movie
😁😂agree
@@Noble1200 I have but your extreme disgusting by “Porn Quality Acting”
In a good way😁
The humans really deserved the win in this one. Ive officially retconned this scene to save its epicness, the director has been notified.
as rediculous as this movie was i still loved it. the alien concepts were cool. using human nervous systems as batteries, essentially a symbiotic organism harvesting us like a crop. thought it was sick despite the plot holes
Reminds me of the Matrix
This movie was better than Elysium, IMO
@@squirrelsinjacket1804 sure very similar concept but totally different execution
@@newdefsys I agree!
Movie was shit but ideas were cool.
The idea of using human brains for batteries is beyond dumb but I always understood that they were not using them as batteries, just synapses hardware until the brain burned out from use.
Brains don't produce any power. They use on average 1000 Calories of energy per day. Our brains on their own burns as much as the rest of our body combined, heart, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, all the muscles, ect. Brains are power hungry. They're the plug-and-plug computer chip for the aliens. When the chip wears out, they plug in a new one to keep their 'application' running.
It's unintentionally smart, because this movie clearly demonstrate a lot of Derp on part of the producers of it, but in reality making the Aliens need to harvest our brains because they provide the require processing capability to use in their current... cybernetic biological setting is actually an OK idea. There's actually no real reason for alien life to want to explore here, truthfully. We are hostile and clearly dominating the planet that's full of microbes and other forms of life that could kill. There's plenty of water in the universe as a whole and tons of carbon can be found any moons and asteroids easily.
There's no reason to come to earth unless A) they're truly benevolent and want to help us primitives ascend or B) they wish to destroy us because they know we will be a threat in the future or C) it is WE, the crunchy tasty humans, that's the needed resource!
That alien spaceship held up pretty well to a nuke going off inside of it. An H-bomb would vaporize a large amount of the ship, which would then explode outward because it's so hot. It looked mostly intact when it crashed.
nobody is talking about how any of that shit could've been on the television for them to watch in the first place
wasn`t the telescope linked to the tv/monitor?
@@themagpie_1 Yeah you can see the cable. But yeah it was a kinda cheese scene but meh who cares it was a cheese movie.
thats your deal? really m8? so a nuke just exploded INSIDE an alien ship, and because of stupidly written plot armour it somehow "repairs itself and shrugs it off", but no, lets talk about the telescope and tv, lmfao
@@nightfalls5462 that’s the best part, nit picking what doesn’t need to be nit picked 😂
I saw most of this movie and wondered why, when the aliens were so powerful and invulnerable, they wanted to incorporate human brains into their machines.
Have you seen the price of computer chips nowadays?
Then again, this might have been a Cyberman/Borg thing. They believed they were helping us with this forced conversion.
Why not?
Human brain works in space, advanced computers do not, including storage.
Human brain can store at least 2.5 petabytes, with new studies increasing that by a magnitude.
Of course, organic computers can just be grown... so why raid a world?
Well, for all we know the Aliens in skyline are just a corrupt interstellar Corporation that decided to get its product by raiding planets, instead of you know paying for all the stuff needed to grow the organic computers themselves.
You made the egregious error of using your critical thinking skills. Shame on you.
My fan theory is that the aliens in this movie are a progenitor.
An incredibly powerful cybernetic race, maybe an empire, that constantly needs fresh organic material. So they seed life on planets, and ensure that an intelligent creature that is genetically compatible with THEM rises to the top (humans).
Then they wait until their 'farm worlds' reach a certain population density, and then come back and harvest 99.9% of the population. They leave behind enough humans to repopulate, but not enough to keep society from regressing back to the stone age.
The aliens wait several thousand years, and then come back and do it again.
As evidence, I'd like to point out that the aliens have a beam of light that overrides the human will if you look into it. The aliens either built technology specifically to capture humans... or humans were genetically modified to be easily captured.
Producer: How much of this scene do you want to steal from Independence Day?
Director: Yes
military:we lost 2 drones with the nuclear ones Gamer: don't worry, I'll take care of it
I swear I saw Tom Cruise eject from that stealth just before it exploded, no wonder they couldn't stop him.
No , that is Will Smith , last war he took a dead alien to Area 51 !!! XD
‘Looks at a nuclear missile as it explodes with a telescope’ his retina: instantly annihilated
Then the alien ship magically rebuilds itself. Why do I get the feeling this movie was written at the same time it was being made? "Yay the humans killed the mothership!" "Oh wait now we don't have a movie.." "Retcon in magic spaceship rebuilding tech!"
Dangerous CGI
Like the borg
If was true the ship have a shield and all humans die with the explosion, that was realistic😂
The building of tension on this scene is well done by making it feel the hope of one shot.
This is one of those scenes you disregard the acience and just enjoy it
*Respect to the B2 drone pilot*
Even though I was honestly expecting it after seeing what the aliens did earlier, a part of me didn't want to believe the whole damn ship could just come back to life.
1:46 At this moment he should have permanently lost all sight in his right eye.
People are saying it's a drone, but I'm going to keep believing that bomber was flown by a human, a badass who knew what he signed up for. The scene always stuck with me because I liked to imagine being that ace pilot, whipping through enemies, dodging death by a nut hair and managing to get off the last shot before dying in a blaze of glory.
Hearing it was just a drone takes away a lot of the tension for me. Hard to root for a computer.
A Drone is still manned by human in current days, but not in the cockpit but rather from a distance
He wouldn't survive the g-force.
but human can't fly any plane like this ......... even a F-16 pilot
@@StarParty-Workshop Its a movie about aliens stealing human brains. I could suspend my disbelief when it comes to a good aerial dogfight scene.
nope keep coping, that "bomber" is a drone developed by Northrop Grumman in real life, named X-47B
besides human body can't stand those high g roll
If we could already make a bomber plane that nimble, than we are already more advanced than the aliens
That was a drone, not a bomber, and it already exists, look up the RQ-170 Sentinel
While it would have probably tore itself apart during the maneuvers it pulled in this scene
I’m sure it can pull 15+ g’s
Having no pilot means you can do a lot more stupid maneuvering
@@bornonthebattlefront4883 thx, can drones carry nuke now? I thought small missiles at best.
@@vergyl9969solo porque sea un dron no significa que sea algo debil.
@@vergyl9969 technically… they don’t
But
There was an attempt to make it happen in 2012
So
Who knows what the DOD has hidden away for a rainy day
Might have a plan for a quick mission package to allow these puppies to carry nukes
Wouldn’t be that far off from a cruise missile
So
Not a stretch of the imagination
Though I figure it would significantly reduce the drones range, from 6 hours of flight time to likely closer to 3
@@bornonthebattlefront4883 i see you're quite the expert. But frankly, this doesn't change the movies budget range and the fact that the acting quality's quite shytte HaHahahhh.. 😄👍
A great example of how a film score can bring out emotion. I have read multiple comments saying they couldn't believe a flying drone made them emotional, but I think the scene really comes together with the music.
The pilot who flew the Bomber Plane is a real Chad Dodging those aliens
It’s a drone. Unmanned.
@@andreilukyanov4286
Drones may still be controlled
Real advanced behind the computer screen
UAV Controller ( Drone Pilot ) : Finally it pays out, that i watched "Top Gun" 100x 😅
@@HaydenLau. But it's still unmanned.
I think its funny how the ground shakes so violently during the explosion that they cant stand, but when the spaceship crashes into the Earth about a mile away, there is nothing.
That Ai pilot definitely watched Commander Erwin's speech.
If you looked at a nuclear fireball with a telescope you’d be pulling away from that scope with holes where your eyes used to be 💀
By far this was the best scene in the movie. Military should have had a second wave to strike the target again when it hit the ground.
That scene made the movie
i watched this when i was 11 yrs old, now i realize all of those nuclear squadron was all drone unmanned aircrafts, which makes the movie more realistic cause humans would use drones to face these extraterristrials first because they dont know what they're dealing with and then there was no further military attack because they'd be containing the entire city so no one leaves who knows what sickness the aliens can bring, and so aliens can't go anywhere when the entire city is heavily surrounded.
They took that dose of hard Gama like Champs. Dudes retina would be crispy and the rest of them would look like they just took a scalding hot shower. Moments after dude realized he was blind in one eye, the blisters would start forming on his face and chest. Followed by a long slow lingering death for all of them. Telescope guy would have a much easier time, he'd last a few days at most. The rest of them are looking at a week or more as their cells die and they slowly die of complete organ failure.
Gamma rays have a very short range in air. Even neutron radiation at that distance would be miniscule.
You're right about his eye though.
don't be silly. Plot armor protects against anything. What's a little deadly radiation? haha
This is a tactical nuke, not a strategic one, Thats how none of these characters died. Telescope guy should still be permanently blind from one eye,
Something about this scene moves me. Bravo for a low budget film.
In real life that ship would’ve been totally vaporized.
true, it would've never gotten close enough to fire its missile
In real life tha alien ship would have parked near Jupiter and launched its cargo from there.
@@josephfilm73 yeah
Perhaps its made of a material that doesn’t make sense with current scientific knowledge.
@@DakkaDakka12 true
Kinda like football and the quarter back is trying to reach the goal 😂
if aliens do invade earth they're gonna indeed regret when they find out about nukes.
if aliens can get to Earth, then they already know about nukes
If alien can get to Earth then they have already had enough advantaged technology to tank it. Energy absorbtion shield like war of the world
Alien watching human's movie: "they really think a single nuclear missile can take down our mothership?"
The most realistic movie about what happens if a highly developed Alien civilization attacks earth. Spoiler alert:
Mankind was smashed in this film.
Realistic? Haha... Omg... Nothing can survive direct nuclear hit. Every compound is boiling and vaporazing in that temperature and aliens can be advanced far as you want. Nuclear bomb inside that thing would rip that in a part and vaporized it.
@@tomas12912 I think that after this scene the directors were like oh shit we killed off our main plotline.. No worries we will just make the aliens have magic harry potter repair functions.
One of the more modern masterpieces. Brilliant movie
I always wondered what had happened if they had double tapped the target. You could followed up with another or even smaller nuke.
Justamente esa era la idea, había 3 de esos drones, solo 1 de ellos logró acercarse y lanzar la ojiva nuclear.
Obviously a very low-yield tacnuke; unlike the non-nuclear Beiruit explosion, the blast didn't break any windows! (It didn't even knock out the lights on the Alien ship...)
In real life the ship would’ve been disintegrated when a nuclear weapon goes off it has 6 to 8 times the heat and the pressure of the center of the sun released in a microsecond.
A 4 minutes drone serial battle of 2010 movie is more enjoyable than the entire indipendece day 2. Even after over a decade i feel the tension of this scene
I think this is the only science fiction film where a nuke actually destroys an alien spacecraft. Also wouldn't they just use a land based ICBM instead of drones?
The aliens probably shot down anything launched from afar.
It's a badly written movie with 0 knowledge of how military tactics actually work LOL. The ship would have been getting battered the whole movie or run out of drones halfway through because the US has an arms stockpile large enough to fight God. It's actually a common trope in science fiction that the aliens have spent their entire evolutionary process just working on space travel and not really any means to face a truly militant enemy while Humanity has spent tens of thousands of years perfecting the art of warfare to the point that a civilization that is so seemingly advanced compared to us simply crumbles in a real fight and then we successfully reverse engineer the space travel technology.
Tactical nukes are aonly carried by Aircraft. This ship is small enough so that strategic warheads arent needed.
"Achieve your mission with all your might"
"No despair untill you take your last breath"
"Make your death count"
Valkries Motto
If the alien ship can be taken down by a Nuclear Missile, there is zero chance the aliens are leaving this planet alive.
It gets back up again.
Drones showed more emotions than the actors.. 😂
What I find hilarious is that they heard and felt the explosion at the same time. Anyone who's been near a mine blast knows it goes: See, Feel, Hear.
"Alright guys we got an alien mothership over Los Angeles lets hit them with everything we got! Send in 6 drones!"
They sent all the drones that were in the nearest base. And the ships weren't just over Los Angeles, they were everywhere.
Loved this scene, best air battle in any movie
Finally learned the name of this film 🎥🎥 thank you
That was an epic fight One of the best scenes in sci fi battles. During the years, I have watched this specific part many times. In my opinion they should have build the rest of the movie with battles like that instead of human drama. And forget the "we can hear lasers in space" logic part (turn off the logic circuit) and enjoy sci fi battles.
should I watch this series?
I swear it is like they had a different writer and director for this scene only because this was amazing. Why couldnt the entire movie be this good? and also leave out that weird BJ scene near the start?
Can’t believe that stealth bomber drone was the bay harbor butcher
That's obviously the most heroic bomb-dropping drone I'd ever seen, I felt for it, really~~😆
NGL, this movie is a guilty pleasure.
That was the best, and arguably one of the few good scenes.
Kudos to the stealth pilot.
Still waiting for the second part of this movie. So far the best alien invasion movie.
There already 2 more parts. Beyond Skyling (2017) and Skylin3s (2020) Both are ok, but there more like B-Movies.
I remember seeing this boring movie with my dad, but we got hyped asf when this scene happened 😂
Hey, script writers skip a lot of school? The temperature from a nuclear bomb explosion would be hundreds of millions degrees and MELT the alien craft ! Nothing left to rebuild 😂 !!!!!!
even at that distance his retina would have been fried and they would have been burned
This was a good scene...the drones soaking up enemy fire, for the main strike craft was something you can easily imagine being used in such a situation. Then we have the initial joy of the hit, then the sheer horror of watching the thing starting to repair itself.
The best part of this movie was the end credits though...not in a bad way, but the revenge/love story that was told by them. This film was brainless fun IMO.
Wait!! are they watching Skyline at the 1:22 mark?
Could’ve sworn it was Independence Day lol
Who ever controls that drones is fire bro
I can imagine the pilot of that bomber drone getting high 5's from everyone yelling "WHO'S THE MAN!?!?!? WHO'S THE MAN!?!?!?!?".
And then 5 minutes later: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT THING REGENERATED????????????
- Sir! Our drone pilots are over stress they can't perform their duty.
- No problem Sargent just get some gamers those folks will get the job done even without paying them.
Looks like they may have antigravity technology with that you can have shields and those drones would travel 10000 moh or so and make a 180 turns
There will be nothing left but ash from the center of the nuclear explosion, this movie is too fictional when the alien ship simply burns its outer shell without harm.
Not to mention the Hellfire missiles being used in air to air combat lmao
@@codlogic7060 lmao Maybe they ran out of Sparrow or AIM-9 missiles in the Middle East or Afghanistan before 🤣
@@codlogic7060 I am quite disappointed that this movie makes nuclear weapons useless, in fact if attacked like that, even the alien ship and the whole city will be wiped out, aliens and humans All survivors will die from radiation. The Avenger did this well, the nuclear missile was launched and everyone was scared including Thor, Hulk, Steve and the rest of the Avengers and that nuclear warhead wiped out all the Chitauri aliens that were attacking NY at that time in outer space, there is no reason Alien Skyline survived the nuclear explosion :v 😎😒😂
True. If not parts of it would be flying everywhere.
@@NetherVoiD yeah, how can they neft nuclear weapon like Thanos in What if :)))
Unpopular opinion...
Many people talk about underrated movies/shows, this is the one for me. For all that people hate on this movie, I kind of love it.
drone pilot needs a raise
The little UAV that could… a good boi indeed.
MQ-89 REAPER AND X47 ITS A GOOD COMBINATION
THE ALIENSPACESHIP EXPLODED LIKE A DAY OF JUDGEMENT
First part is actually a pretty decent movie. Its really amazing how they could make the second one such crpy.
Me in World of Warships when I am all alone in a battle and get that last torpedo off before I am obliterated.
That drone is a true American hero.
I watched this movie in theatre and believe me this was the best sci-fi movie at that time
That alien should have been vaporized. And being organic it should have been radiated so much the up to 3rd alien sequel it has cancer.
Im still a believer that nuclear energy is alien technology that was given to us to use to protect the planet, not use against one another in war. I personally dont think a "shield" of any sort would protect a ship from being completely destroyed. Also, Hollywood trips me out with this notion that a nuclear warhead needs a direct hit to be effective when all they had to do was detonate one right above the space craft same as they did over the city of Hiroshima (air burst are much more powerful), but use a device with 5x more power. It makes for good entertainment considering that entire place would've been wiped out completely in real life.
That X-47B makes its dream come true
X-47B can use nuclear missile?
@@kevinchristian8460 No, that UCAV just carry standard ordinance, in fact never was operational, just remains like technological demonstrator
Sorry, I really dig this movie and this scene. You can nitpick this scene but the goal was to show the Earthlings were truly outclassed in weaponry. Still made me cheer we got one good shot in.
You mean in plot?
Agreed, I enjoyed the film in general and this scene/musical score especially.
@@ketamineheadyoda2248 Be specific, what didn't you like? For instance, the plot line where Jarrod was being slowly exposed to the light and developing a resistance which might turn the fight against the aliens was a good one, imo.
@@sneakyrodent1853 Agree! I'm a soundtrack junkie and went so far as to get this one. Not a top ten soundtrack but has a few very good tracks on it. Was worth getting.