Flying Tanks: The terrifying genius of Mike Sparks
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Today we dive into the majestic and sexy world of Mike Sparks 007 JAMES BOND nazi ufo fetish ROCKEFELLER ILLUMINATI us military secret cave under Tibet entrance to the hollow earth survivors of the great flood in bible mate with TECHNICALLY DEMONS but really lizard people (but not those lizard people).
Wake up sheeple, the truth is out there, and by there I mean in here. Flying bi-wing tanks are going to save us all from the ROCKEFELLER ILLUMINATI (not that Illuminati) which is why it is being suppressed, they don't want us regular folks to have the guns we need to protect ourselves against the new world order. I personally sleep with a fully loaded barret.50cal M82 under my pillow and my house is protected by Phalanx Close-In Weapons System capable of tracking 15 different targets and auto-targeting fast-moving aircraft or missiles with its 20mm M61 Vulcan Gattling Cannon.
Some say this is excessive in terms of force and puts something of an aesthetic blemish on an otherwise perfectly decent neighborhood, but I say nothing is excessive to protect my affordable suburban home in the quiet WHITE (but not that white) part of town against the ILLUMINATI terrorists and government that is coming after me specifically because I KNOW THE TRUTH and the truth is they won't let us fly our tanks into battle because that would give us too much of an edge against their elite ubermech troops and highly maneuverable fighter jets.
Check out my website at www.zapatopi.n... to see how your home is being invaded by the US Government BLACK HELICOPTERS.
#usmilitary #conspiracy #mikesparks #m113 #gavin
Cameo from Tina Turner, by me
The M-113 is so versatile and simple it's still in use in the 41st millennium, by the Adeptus Astartes. Under the codename "Rhino"
Something lazerpig doesn't mention is something I realized having a standard knowledge on planes, is that Mike sparks idea is for the tanks to fly really high in the sky which adds an issue of your soldiers suffering from hypoxia. So now they'd need to rig a system of oxygen masks and air tanks at minimum to even fly at higher attitudes.
finally someone who acknowlaged this. thanks.
@@anonymousfortunes2970 You'll also have to add more aerodynamics to complete with planes, lessen the armor to gain the speed needed to survive dogfights, and train pilots in how to fight in the air. Oops, you've turned your tank into a plane!
“Are enemies hide in metal boxes!”
Can confirm. The chassis is even used as the basis for the venerable Leman Russ.
Makes sense Mike holds it so high. M113 is probobly the only military hardware he ever used in his service. I fell in love with my first car and thought it was the best. But I never tried to put wings and missiles on my Nissan.
you see my friend, that's where you should have dug your heels in and converted your Nissan into a bastardization against the concept of aeronautical engineering and armored warfare
Why not? Surely the wings and missiles could aid you in maneuvering out of (or eliminating) high traffic situations.
Coward. It would have been beautiful if you had
I haven’t either, but I did once tape a rifle onto the roof of my old F-150.
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography peak American
I'm impressed how far the man's mind can go without registering the existence of attack helicopters and ground-attack aircraft.
bbuuuutttt.... SIDEWINDERS!!!!1!!
I was more concerned that he doesn't seem to have noticed assault helicopters, LAPES, b@5tard big helicopters...
@@martinboland810 we have also stuck sidewinders to attack helicopters as well. No not just stingers, but honest to god sidewinders
Or the concepts of weight, lift, balance, etc. Had a little pilot's training, fucking laughed my ass off at his model. It couldn't possibly gain enough lift, and even if the wings were ten times the size and invulnerable to snapping off, it couldn't reach the speed necessary to take off, and even if it could somehow do that, it's so incredibly front-heavy it would simply pitch forward into the dirt and kill everyone.
@@sol2544 I'm pretty sure the Marines have even floated the idea of putting AMRAAMs on their helicopters
Or hand-held SAMs, for that matter.
Wait, let me get this straight; every Fighter-Jet with more avionics than a Sopwith camel is too heavy and a turkey, but flying tanks are fine?
Listen Buddy! I am a fully certified US Marine Sniper with over 30 billion confirmed kills and I know some stuff.......
Exactly. I bet this thing could outturn an f35 in a dogfight.
@@alperakyuz9702 if the f35 was stuck in treacle
@@jameswhite153 r/whoosh
@@alperakyuz9702 r/woosh yourself
My favorite thing about Mike Sparks is that he wrote a James Bond fanfic to promote his Aerogavin idea. He is also 100% convinced that the James Bond movies are documentaries and James Bond, rather than being based on Christopher Lee, is a real, flesh and blood human being flying around with jetpacks and fighting villains who paint people gold.
1. What the
2. the fuck
@@Attaxalotl the man is nuttier than a forty-acre goober field and has been for many years. I actually read the article for the AeroGavin, and this video doesn’t even mention that he doesn’t think the vehicle’s lack of armor is a problem because tankers need to stop being little bitches who hide from all danger.
LazerPig also barely touched on Mike’s hatred for the Marine Corps, but it goes far beyond normal interservice rivalry and into the realm of, “If one of those shitbags was bleeding out in front of me, I wouldn’t even waste a bullet to put him out of his misery.”
@@Shaun_Jones do you have the link for the fanfic?
It sounds like the kind of stuff one reads when high on mariguana and barbiturics.
@@carlosdgutierrez6570 here’s the “Tankers are pussies” quote from the AeroGavin article. “Now the first reaction from the mech pussies must be dispelled. They will bitch and whine that Christie's tank was "too light and didn't have enough protection" yadda yadda yadda. NO TANK is ever protected enough for a coward. Secondly, these cowards do not understand WARFARE--which is about winning battles and not personal survival concerns over tank dueling. “
As a fanfiction writer, I'm going to vomit.
"We need tanks to fly."
We haven't since the early 70's.
Meet the AC-130: 105mm cannon, paired with a 30mm autocannon sticking out of the side door of a cargo plane filled with enough ammunition to bury half a city underneath the other half of the city, has an operational range of approximately 1600 kilometers, can fly at more than 600 kilometers per hour, and has been so effective it has gained lovely nicknames such as: The Spectre, Puff the Magic Dragon, The Ghostrider, and after it ripped Vietnam pretty much to shreds, _The Angel of Death._
Let me make this clear.
The main problem with plane armaments is ammo.
Guess how you solve that.
The AC-130 can be equipped with anything you heart desires; Miniguns, gatling guns, 30mm autocannons, 105mm cannons, *_FUCKING HOWITZERS._*
And it will pretty much just do donuts above your head while it's lobbing the equivalent of asteroids in your general direction, like the steroid addicted brother of a vulture who is tired of waiting for his prey to die and says 'fuck it' and goes on the offensive.
We needed tanks to fly.
So we slapped a big fucking cannon on a cargo plane, filled said plane with so much ammo that, while it might not change history, it WILL change the topography, and called it a day.
... They put Howitzers on a fucking cargo plane and use it to do drive-byes. *That's not a typo, when that plane leaves, it takes your ass with it.*
When you see an AC-130 in the sky, just dig a hole, and lie down in it.
Because don't worry.
_The plane will do the rest._
And even then, the AC-130 is hideously vulnerable to any anti-air weapon bigger than a light autocannon.
The "the steroid addicted brother of a vulture who is tired of waiting for his prey to die and says 'fuck it' and goes on the offensive", They exists and their designated as birds of prey (The actual birds ,not the awful DC film) this includes Eagles, hawks and moar (But voltures are also included also I ask for forgiveness for my poor use of the english lenguage)
You can also fly up to a significant altitude and shovel all the shell casings out the back. That's several hundred pounds of brass whistling down at you. Not very precise though.
This should be a thesis statement for a future Lazerpig video.
Which you can only use in completely uncontested air space with no manpads.
In a sense Mi-24 is essentially what Mike is proposing.
Flying, winged, fast, reliable, armored, armed (including AA-missiles), carry troops, designed in 60-s.
Also looks cooler, flys better than the aerodynamic brick of a m113 and does everything that the Gavin can even the hypothetical crackpottery of it
Advantages over flying Gavin:
-armored
-can carry a squad of troops
-can provide fire support
-can carry air to air missiles
-designed for takeoff on hasty runways
-can actually fly
BULLSHIT! YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND MY GENIUS!!!
Would it be BULLSHIT or genius to rename the M113 APC into the Gavin sounds British to me. Was there a General Gavin if there wasn't then even renaming it to somebody like Custer (don't think he was a general but that's neither Custer nor the Gavin's biggest problem) and probably historically accurate given THE GAVIN bar napkin specs
Throw in some assembled in the u.s.a stickers you got yourself a deal. starts stuffing leftover money into government black acco.... I mean filing a report about how we need more money for the stickers and staplers and pencils yep really expensive stuff money money money I mean filing filing filing
Throw in some assembled in the u.s.a stickers you got yourself a deal. starts stuffing leftover money into government black acco.... I mean filing a report about how we need more money for the stickers and staplers and pencils yep really expensive stuff money money money I mean filing filing filing
Mike Sparks is like the galaxy brain meme but in real life.
Monkey Brain: F35
Dull Brain: Drone
Normal Brain: F-12
Super Brain: A-10
Mega Mind: Stuka
Galactic Brain: Flying APC
Omnipresent Brain: A dude strapped to a kite
@@Predator20357 Meta-Universal Brain: Genetically engineered chimps with jetpacks
Weeb: Gundams
@@jamiekamihachi3135 New-Age Weeb: *A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR*
@@jamiekamihachi3135 still a better idea than Sparks'
Another thing - In Sparks' grade-school level diorama presentation under the "Exfiltration" section, he just shows the AeroGavin flying away... without demonstrating how the soldiers supposedly flying it managed to lift what is surely several tons of wings, missiles, and turboprop engine back onto the 113 without any heavy lift gear. What, do they just tow it all into a captured insurgent auto shop, stick it on with a car-jack and fly it out of the garage?
i can totally see this working by having a hydraulic system integrated to the wings, that would extend support beams, to stand on, while the m113 goes out to shoot friendly fire. and then, when it comes back, simply backs it up, connects via a hydraulic system of connectors, and pulls up the support beams via hydraulics. for much needed redundancy, they should have seperate hydraulic curcuits. and to make those system indestructible, they should be made out of high duty materials. think about it, you want that tank to be very well connected to the wings. you really need structrally sound hydraulic connectors made out of high duty material. if the material is HIGH DUTY it will break less. what's that word again? what HD stands for in metal made objects like cars and trucks. i thaught it might be high duty, like in high definition. the OTHER word that's abreviated with HD. high duty. something something duty.
Also fuel
Mike Sparks needs to watch the Battle of Geonosis! The LAAT gunships easily dropped of ATTE heavy walker-tanks on a dime! The Seperatists didn't stand a chance!
I’m pretty sure the Hercules can do something similar. *Almost* land with the cargo ramp open, light tank rolls out - -in neutral to keep the gearbox from tearing itself apart- on a palate with a drogue chute - and paratroopers who’ve hopped out earlier hop in and do light tank stuff
@@joshuahadams this was a concept in the 90s to rapidly reinforce gaps in a defensive line. It's actually featured in command and conquer as the NODs means of importing vehicles to the battlefield.
@@blackwoodsecurity531 Yeah, meanwhile GDI build their vehicles in the field...
I love star wars a much as the next guy (unless he likes the sequels, in that case I´ll probably stab him) but the FIRST battle of geonosis was kind of stupid, The republic should have enforced a blockade around Geonosis, that would have screwed with Douuku´s (or the fuck his name is) escape and instead of a long and bloody war, it could atleast be less bloody and long, a few things can be forgiven like the jedi task force that was send to destroy the orbital cannons but instead of infiltrating into the coliseum they should have just send the clone extration instead of the jedi infiltration (I ask for forgiveness for my poor use of the english lenguage)
Halo did it first in 1974.
Every single time someone mentions the words "Nazi Germany" and "technology" in the same sentence I immediately think of that scene in Band of Brothers;
"Say hello to Ford and General Fuckin' Motors!"
"You have horses, what were you thinking?!"
The appropriate response to any Wehrabooism. If you're gonna ignore well researched historical studies to preserve your Michael Wittman homoerotic fan fiction I'm gonna respond in memeable quotes.
My favorite question for werhaboos will now be "what kind of pack or pulling horse is your favorite? Why that? Because you'd obviously have a preference liking the ww2 German military so much🤣!"
The answer is "Mules", because they can be used in the mountains where your General Fords are Scheiße und Kaputt.
@@InternetStudiesGuy Well played. But wasn't that what Bren Carriers were pretty useful at?
Either way, mules and horses have their uses. But in macro, you want ships and trains* ❤
(*Yes, all of this is circumstantial, everything depends on context of what year, region, logistics and recent pew-pew)
@@MichielWerring I'm swiss. Switzerlands army had regular mule-based logistics formations until the mid-90ies, and is still using small numbers of draft horses and mules. Mind you, Switzerland is quite a bit more mountainous than Germany, and most countries really. But mules can pass through paths that otherwise is beholden to mountain goats. No wheeled or tracked vehicle can supply things where mules can. The only alternative is helicopters, and they tend to get shot down easily in mountainous areas.
I wouldn't be surprised if say the Colorado national guard would also have some mules in their employ. The point where it gets too mountainous for vehicles, tracked or wheeled, is easily reached by any decent mountain range such as the Rockies.
I actually applauded after you wound up golden eye. I mean. You actually have really good lungs and sing talent to be able to follow that song in a comedically bad way! Bloody impressed mate.
I once attempted to read one of his entire webpages but it was too much for my feeble brain
It is amazing that he almost convinced the world that the M113 was named the Gavin.
Gavin McCloud? The actor?
I admit, I actually do like the name Gavin for the 113. It just kind of unironically fits.
@@Shaun_Jones And in the original form he proposed (i.e. turning an M113 into a BMD equivalent) it would have made sense, since it was named after Gen. James Gavin, an American general which commanded and even jumped with paratroopers into combat.
But then like many ideas Sparky has regarding anything military (which in the broad strokes seems sensible, unlike anything else he says), he takes it way too far in completely the wrong direction.
It does help as any time you see someone unironically refer to it as a "Gavin" you know they know less than nothing about the matter. That person would be me about 15 years ago.
The thing is, people are hungry for information about things like this, and people like Mark Sparks put it all out there. Before games like World Of Tanks finding much info on this meant buying a stuffy book for $70 or making a FOI request to the government.
@@Treblaine I do find it odd in this video that he didn't call it what most US servicemembers called it; the track. Probably because it has tracks, and it isn't a tank.
Mike Sparks is the textbook example of why a lot of people think army reserves are a joke.
Yeah obviously not all of them are that insane, but people like him give the rest a bad name.
I can’t imagine how but he also claimed to have been a Marine officer who was kicked out. His early webpages had long diatribes about how stupid the Marine Corps was.
I mean why? Price’s delusional beliefs are his
@@c3aloha I don't buy the "officer" part, but I can see him being kicked out of marines (probably because he's a crazy moron) and then developing a burning hatred for them out of spite.
@@c3aloha Obviously, the Marines don’t value original thinking.
@@c3aloha Allegedly he tried to join the Marines when his military career started, but bitched out when they would only offer him a position in logistics instead of a combat arm, although this being internet hearsay I'd at least take it with a grain of salt. If true, that would explain why he hates the MC though.
I saw a guy who (purely for the meme) took the AeroGavin a step further, by designing a SpaceGavin. Basically a Gavin mounted on an ICBM.
We need the interdimensional Gavin! Can’t believe the government isn’t considering it.
@@SteelLegionnaireJust need to mount Obi-Wan Kenobi's detachable hyper drive ring on the space Gavin. I'm sure Mike would see no problems with this plan.
@@MrFelblood YOURE A GENIUS
Regarding leaving the missiles behind, there's a really simple solution. Just make a much, much bigger and tougher version of the Gavin, which has a normal Gavin inside it. It will land with the other Gavins, the normal Gavin inside will drive out, pick up all the left over missiles and other stuff, and fly out to safety. You can't limit yourself to conventional thinking!
That's the kind of out of the box thinking that's needed for a successful military bonkers youtube video...
@@MsJoao101 Gentlemen!
I present you!
- Earth trembles and a shadow looms to blot out the sun -
- Front Ramp Lowers to reveal massive vehicle bay and barracks like something out of GI Joe -
The GIGA GAVIN!
Gavinception
Preggers Gavin.
I'm sorry, I had to.
@@Bustermachine THE GIGA GAVIN 🤣 PERFECT
“Human can of Bud Light.” 🤣🤣🤣
I made that picture and am far too pleased with it. Fantastic joke, worth the effort
Holy shit. I had no idea this guy was a “known” figure. I actually had an argument with him like a decade ago when he was shitting on some marines in Afghanistan wearing green camo. I pointed out that not all of Afghanistan was a desert and much of the country is extremely green especially in the spring and he didn’t seem to believe me.
Yeah, that sounds about right for the mind that brought us this fucketry
I remember me and my ROTC buddies found this guy's original page in 2005 and initially, a lot of his surface level, infantry level advice made a lot of sense. How to assemble your kit, what items you actually need, streamline for your actual mission, some basic bushcraft stuff including poncho shelters and a million and one uses for paracord, etc. He sounded like someone who we thought did time in Panama and the Gulf and had some good knowledge. The M113 and airmobile (helicopters, not glider "Gavins") stuff made sense early on. Then you dig deeper and find this guy is trapped in the Cold War where maneuver warfare with rear echelon guys was being done in areas NATO already held and you weren't going toe to toe against the armored waves of the Red Army. He was feverishly trying to adapted holding Germany in 198X to what was going on in Afghanistan. This is where a lot of his advice started losing traction in the 21st century and he seemed very technologically impaired in the internet age.
I want to like this comment, but it's at the totally appropriate 113 likes, so I'm unable to.
@@akizeta I didn't even know. It's perfect!
Everything makes sense at first in rahtsee. Then you learn whose blowing smoke up their own butts and avoid them.
I mean, old comment, but I had to explain to him why marines have 13 man squads and that we don’t have to have 13 man squads if we don’t want to, situation dictating. He just went on an unhinged rant in response. I think he has autism. Not being mean but he gets really obsessive about random things that are neither here nor there. He’s like a tactical Chris Chan.
@@mh3225 IIRC, didn't the dude start out as USMC enlisted, then go to an Army Reserve unit and went mustang?
The Aero Gavin was the greatest gift Gad could give to a human mind.
My favorite part is how he expects paratroopers to hop out of the flying tank before landing, after which an entire squad disembarks and there's still a crew to man the M-113.
Somehow I missed the AeroGavin. I've truly slipped in the Twilight Zone. Intellectually I know he's serious; but I still can't wrap my mind around that fact. Building helicopters that can lift the 113 is a fantastic idea. But the AeroGavin is like a five-year-old's Lego creation. I'm simply gobsmacked.
He has other creations, including other M113 contraptions. My favourite is a scissor lift M113 for use in Special ops to combat sieges of two/three story buildings.
@@LazerPig So basically a siege tower. A slow, loud, heavy siege tower, for use in normally clandestine, fast moving, operations.
@@LazerPig yo you sound like magnus's va from tts
@@LazerPig how about the AstroGavin? It’s a 113 made airtight and used as an interplanetary rover. It also comes with a 30mm autocannon, for use against space aliens.
@@LazerPig That sounds neat in its own isolated way, though I'm an engineering student, not a historian.
This reminds me of when I was a teen and thought "just putting floats on a tank" would make it a sea-worthy and great for amphibious warfare. I think we can all see the flaws there.
At least "putting floats on a tank" is something that has been done and actually worked in WW2, albeit just for short-distance landings in mostly-calm waters...
... I see no flaws, this is genius.
The navy should commission you to design their first tank.
... Btw, whats hilarious about this is the germans actually used tracked mini uboats in WW2.
@@hatman4818 But did they equip them with 88mm guns? 🤔
@@chaoticinkinc.3145 well regular U-boats had them lol
The whole hostage rescue scenario was absurd. A LP says at the end of the video, a helicopter would be far more efficient at conducting such a mission without having to use a magical detachable flying module.
Fun fact: the US army made a serious attempt to make the Christie suspension work, and had several tanks, but decided against it, not because of Christie’s temper, although that didn’t help, but because of a different light tank that would eventually lead to the Stuart light tanks, which was cheaper, more reliable, and offered more room for DAKKA!!!!
The Stuart’s are a light tank design that gets slept on, it may not be as impressive as a Sherman or such but at least it still was a good enough light tank for the time.
@@Predator20357 it's an icon of the dieselpunk aesthetic. I was checking scrap bins at a tabletop store in SA and wow. The number of ODST vehicles that used a Scott or Stuart turret..
Ended up making an Sdkfz 251 with a rear mounted Scott turret, and an M5 honey with an Sdkfz 222/2 turret.
It's hard not to fall into that "why not just retrofit parts" mindset. It's easy to see why the whole unit is replaced when advances in fuel effeciency, reliability and for god's sake ease of shifting gears gets better through development.
Still though, M5 with a 20mm and a 152mm side mounted rocket launcher was pretty cool. Too bad it disintegrated before I could get it painted :(
It wouldn't be American at the time if it didn't have a minimum of 5 machine guns.
Didn't the soviets get the christie suspension and incorporate it into the T-34?
Maybe I am mis-remembering.
@@BeKindToBirds soviet and britain made their tanks with christie, but thats not what we're discussing here.
Great mini-lesson on WWI aerodynamics and how you got maneuverability more than speed back then
Broadside of a barn.
And Mike Sparks came in standing on a rotating carousel, armed with a quad-linked minigun blasting out 20,000 rounds per minute.
It is statistically impossible to not hit that barn, yet you'll still be surprised he managed to hit the one intact window in that barn.
I love that concept art so much. Pure childhood crayon design, just with the marvels of 3D rendering and photoshop
Words cannot express how pitch perfect is that rendition of "Goldeneye" under that AeroGavin video is. It just perfectly encompasses the absurdity on every single level and just gives the entire promotional video that extra touch. D-g bless you, LazerPig.
LazerPig singing Goldeneye has to be the cure for most mental illnesses, I haven't laughed that hard in a very long time. Thank you Sir
"Tanks that cannot be taken back with you must be destroyed."
Someone tell the Russian army that.
War crimes and civilians are details that russian army doesn't care about, as to arming the enemy they know that anything they leave is unusable before the mission.
I wouldnt call the russian army "organized"
Theres footage of them throwing hand grenades in to try but also that practice is quite wreckless as you might kill yourself at the same speed as just sitting in the tank
Ukrainian Farmers gotta pay the bills too man, don't go ruining a good thing for them.
@@Full_Otto_Bismarck I heard about one farmer that was upset because the Ukrainian Army took ALL his tanks. He just wanted to keep one, he was going to give up the rest, but nnoooo, those jerks took every last tank!
(Not the farmer's words, just the idea)
It must be an incredibly distressing time for Mike Sparks. He's vehemently pro-Russian and buys into all the conspiracy theories about Ukraine being run by paedophiles and all that, and quickly immediately predicted that the tank-heavy Russian Army would quickly win...
...he's had to come to grips with not only with his predictions being completely wrong, but also seeing Ukraine field hundreds of his beloved M113s and take them into combat. Perhaps that's why we haven't heard anything from him in so long...
One other thing you should know about Sparky, is that he really hates wheeled vehicles, he even goes as far as calling them "Trucktards", even the Stryker gets called a truck by Sparky. Although the Stryker is not perfect, it has still proven itself in combat, able to travel longer distances, and drive faster than tracked vehicles like his beloved M113, or Gavin as he calls it, but one major asset the wheeled Stryker has over the M113, is the fact it's quite silent, which had insurgents in Iraq been surprised by Stryker units. Sparky thinks tracked vehicles are indestructible and impervious to the terrain, and battlefield obstacles, even though M113s have been destroyed in Iraq and Afghanistan, stuck in the soil, or trapped in urban barricades, but he seems oblivious to this, and this omission of facts shows how biased he is to battlefield realities, if it were up to Sparky, soldier casualties would have been higher if the Gavin were deployed in the numbers, and the ways and tactics he believes would work, but Sparky has pyrrhic victory as his doctrine.
i spent 12 1/2 years in carriers and love them and even back driving one after 20 years, the biggest advantage wheel vehicles have over them is speed and way way less maintenance as tracked vehicles will always be maintenance heavy. finally got a drive of the NZLAVIII a few years ago and they are far easier than a carrier, yes they can have their down sides on the types of terrain they can go over compared with tracks but for most situations they can win out on tracks.
I can tell you that the infantry/cavalry tradition SBCTs do indeed frequently call the stryker a truck. broken clock I suppose
we called our LAVs, boats as they have a marine drive and are fully amphibious. I always assumed it was in referance to higgins boats or other landing craft but Ive never seen a source in any direction. And at this point Im too scared to ask.
I think there is also the other part of the glider: wing loading. The wings would be so overloaded at even the slightest turn or otherwise the crossbeams would go straight through the cabin, and even then that probably isn’t enough for the massive wings. So not only is it incredibly vulnerable to AAA, it can’t even attempt to evade lest the wings snap in half.
You'll note that Sparks used the wings and tail of an OV-10 Bronco for his prototype. Yet another stroke of genius as retired aircraft gathering dust can be recycled, therefore saving taxpayer dollars
They have brought some OV10s back into use but only in benign environments
@@c3aloha I like it as a cheaper alternative to attack helicopters or scout aircraft, but only against asymmetrical opponents.
Much like the A-10, with all it's drawbacks, has a more effecient hangtime when compared to attack helicopters, but that hangtime over adaptability is a drawback when fighting, you know... SAMS
@@c3aloha As benign as spotting for aerial drops on forest fires can be anyways.
@@MrMontanaNights I mean, forest fires don't usually shoot back..
I think we could all agree that Sparky had the right idea, just using the wrong tank. The Bob Semple tank is clearly the correct option.
Why do people hype up expensive boondoggles like the Abrams and the Armata when tanks were perfected with the Bob Semple?
@@paulmahoney7619 Because people do not believe for it is too preposterous of such existence of the perfect tank. Of course we all know they are blinded.
Don't tempt him
nono killdozer. Concrete is cheap and the fact that it contains air pockets gives it better buoyancy in air.
@@neglectfulsausage7689 🤣
4:25
That project was actually lowkey a success.
In Afghanistan they use surveillance balloons as cheaper MQ9s.
They can carry the full sensor suite and everything, but are infinitely easier to maintain than a fully blown aircraft.
They just didn't use a full blown airship like that lol
Ye olde spy balloon, but with modern cameras instead of a guy with a telescope
Interestingly, the recently destroyed AN-225 from Ukraine, I.E the largest fixed win aircraft ever built, and that was was able to transport 4-5 modern *main battle tanks.*
Sure enough, it has an 88.4 meter wingspan close in line with what was supposedly needed under the hypothetical British tank transport.
Just to give you an idea of how easy it is integrate GPS guidance into... well literally anything.. I built a little drone based on arduplane last week and had it up and running with automatic waypoint guidance in about an hour after finishing the build.. Airplane avionics are about as simple these days.. but this was a fun either way. Looking forward to the glorious rise of the Aero-Gavin
In fairness, you didn't have to fly your drone within range of enemy ECM.
@@lesthodson2802 Which type of ECM? Although it is true that a general spectrum jammer might disrupt the connection between the pilot and the UAV, the gps will bring it home in most situations. Sure, there are more powerful jammers that might be able to ground the drone (depending on firmware, programmed emergency protocols, etc) but the truth is jets like Pakistan's JF-17 use existing commercial off-the-shelf avionics suites used in passenger jets. Those avionic suites are not so different from the components we use to build commercial UAV's.
Sm.
GPS is one part of aircraft avionics, and it is one of the lighter ones. Redundant gyros and IMUs - Accurate, calibrated IMUs, not the 9-axis chips you get in cellphones that lose track with a wave of the hand. Airspeed and AOA sensors. VORTAC, and other navigation receiving equipment. IFF transponders.
@@watchm4ker inertial navigation aside, most avionics amount to some fairly simple equipment engineered and programmed to in theory never fail *cough* *Boeing* *cough cough* and fancy radio equipment. Assuming you're just doing experimental stuff or RC aircraft, you could build an entire modern avionics package from a Arduino, a raspberry Pi, and a box of sensors and hats.
This is exemplified by semi autonomous helicopters being built using a godamn smartphone SOC running unix. On Mars.
16:58 - “I want to see an M113 go 149mph.”
You can. Just shove one out of a C-17 without a parachute. That should at least get you close, right?
I think we already have flying tanks, they are called helicopters.
It would be far easier to make a plane with a cannon drive on the ground. And when it encounters difficult terrain it will just fly over it.
Oh wait, we have those, they are helicopters too.
Okay, you arrived at the same conclusion lol
Ah64 apache probably has more arms than an m1a2 abrams
Personally I was thinking of an AC-130 gunship when you said 'plane with a cannon'.
a Hind strike more fear to Mujahedeen than a T72
Well helicopters can't be armored to the same degree as armored vehicles due to weight concerns. But yeah helicopters are why all the other crazy ideas for vertical lift never go anywhere. Sooner or later someone asks "is this better than a helicopter" and the answer is always no because helicopters have basically maximized disk loading and thus vertical lift performance. The only way to exceed a helicopter in that regard would be to make a machine with lower disk loading (basically the bigger / slower the rotor is the more efficient it is), and you really can't do that. It's just physics that makes helicopters better than competing vertical lift designs. Tiltrotors are the exception because they bring improved speed and range to the table at the expense of vertical lift efficiency. No matter what the kool-aid drinkers tell you though tiltrotors aren't going to replace helicopters because they must compromise between prop drag in forward flight and disk loading in hover, they can only ever be "kinda ok" at both.
@@atomicskull6405 Well, jet engine helicopters potentially could be better, but as far as i know they they had their own significant drawbacks.
In Col. David H. Hackworth's book About Face he states the troops actually hated the M113 during the Vietnam war. He said that because of its magnesium alloy armor tended to burn extremely frequently and incinerate the people inside. Apparently, drivers would go so far as to attach strings to the steering system and control the APC from outside. So yes, I think that's an AMAZING vehicle to upgrade.
I thought it used aluminum and even then strikers are going to supplant it
it was because of landmines it did not have blast seat if they are inside when it hits a mine the shockwave is passed right up to their seat
I have read an ex-NVA RPG troop memoir, he said that the enemy are deadly afraid of it and would call in artillery once they spotted the smoke plume
The engines still light on fire often to this day
Hey, the burning problem reminds me of the main real-life concern Bradley troops told me about the vehicle. The good news is, there's a halon push-button extinguisher system, but the ugly news is that it asphyxiates everyone still inside.
The fact that the M-117 has the exact same problem explains why this doesn't get much mentioned by the [de]formers. Illuminating comment, thank you.
Mike starts pretty milktoast but spirals quickly into a total madness. Some of his takes aren't that insane and plenty of relatively normal people would look at them and think about them but man, he goes off the rails immediately after.
8:04 At here, I actually thought you’d mention the Tetrarch and the M22 Locust, which the British deployed via glider. They were very lightly armed and armored, but they were capable of providing fire support until they could link up with an armored division.
In any case, in modern warfare, there are armored vehicles today that can be deployed by helicopter, so the AeroGavin seems about as useful as a Stuka
In low threat environments the Stuka would be useful.
@@jeffreyskoritowski4114 far less then buying a new plane. Like France did with the Panther.
@@jeffreyskoritowski4114 If you don't face modern AA pretty much every major WW2 ground strike aircraft would still be devastating.
@@jeffreyskoritowski4114 Yeah, but as soon as the insurgents get their hands on a MANPADS, you are done for.
I was trying to say that the Stuka would be more useful than an "Aerogavin".
I showed the flying m113 to my dad (who was in the polish army) and he couldn't stop laughing for 10 minutes
Russians took a look at this video, and immediately started spinning the Armata's turret.
The German solution was to build a glider that can carry a medium tank and worry about what aircraft is going to tow it later.
And then they just said “fuck it” and slapped six engines and RATO boosters on it.
I mean it worked. By the point they got it to work it was sort of pointless, but that's another issue.
@@MandoWookie it wasn’t even that bad, all things considered. Imagine if someone decides to build a replica me-323 and bring it to an air show.
@@Shaun_Jones Oh yeah, it ended up being a rather good aircraft for it purpose. But by the time they got them really rolling they had lost air superiority so they became giant targets unable to complete the mission they were intended for. And then after losing Africa there was little point to them after that.
@@MandoWookie me 323 also looks badass. If you ever watch or rewatch a lot of Hayao Miyazaki movies you can see a lot of world war elements.
To be fair, while the interference drag from a biplane layout makes it less efficient than a monoplane, it DOES allow you to generate more lift with less wingspan, which is important if you want to keep the overall width small enough to actually be able to land it onto an unprepared assault landing site.
The idea is still batshit bonkers, but the fact that he made it a biplane is hardly the craziest aspect of it.
A flying cube, How much stealth that could be.
@@samfire3067actully more stealthly than a sphere
I’d love to see Sparks’ face if he ever builds this thing, only to watch the wings fly off leaving the Battletaxi behind.
The Russians tried this in the early 1940s, and dropped the idea after the prototype was tested in 1942. It was called the A-40.
@@nicholasconder4703Then there was the Hafner Rotabuggy, which tried to use an autogyro rotor instead of fixed wings, and on a jeep rather than a tracked AFV. Reportedly it was hard to control and a pilot mentioned the control stick juddering all over the cockpit in tests.
Underrated channel. What passionate works.
The warhammer 40k flying bricks is more aerodynamic than his idea
Even the Ork planes are more practical than this accursed thing, even without WAAAGH power. In fact, they’ve even figured out a better way to do it. The Megatrakk Scrapjet is a stupidly fast tank-thing made from a downed plane’s fuselage. It even has a drill on the front for ramming people. You know you’ve failed as a vehicle designer when the Bri’ish fungus ladz outclass you in every way.
I a not a trained engineer, but when I look at where the Gavin's propeller is located relative to the center of mass of the vehicle, and I just see it doing a series of front flips until it crashes and burns. Or, if it starts on the ground, just sort of instantly crashing and burning.
Well, that propeller placement isn't unheard of, plenty of planes have used it.
The problem is that most of the planes that used it were floatplanes, and, put them there to keep them from taking in seawater.
And now i want to make it in Kerbal Space Progam (if i can) just to see the inevitable havoc...
@@SymbioteMullet You just need to make the prop a bit bigger and change its axis of rotation to the vertical then you're well on the way to the inevitable Mi-28 Havoc!
The "fire engine" M113 was a wonderful concept, an escape vehicle for Apollo mission astronauts at Cape Canaveral. The idea was that if shit went wrong before they launched the Saturn 5, like a pad fire, the crew would get out of the capsule (if they could) then slide down a wire to the ground where the M113 waited to get them the fuck out of the blast radius as two thousand tonnes of liquid oxygen and kerosene did its explosive thing behind them.
They actually tested it, it worked (without the earth-shattering kaboom). Whether it would have worked in a real ohshit situation is another matter.
And they’ve since replaced the modified surplus M113s with modified surplus MRAPs.
Well I suppose it is fortunate that it was never put to the test
99% sure that was a PR band-aid to make people who didn't think about it too much feel better. No shot at getting everyone in and pressure sealing the vehicle before a blast creates a firewave, explosive decompression, hard vacuum, then superheated ash and dust, all in the course of a couple seconds.
If they really wanted to save astronauts, there'd be a capsule eject that yanked the entire module down into a reservoir and held them underwater on life support until it was safe. (like a tower drop ride only serious)
They're used in Corsica for wildland firefighting (as is M548 in the US) and spawned a long line of successful log skidders also sometimes used for firefighting. Aberdeen Proving Ground modded one among other tracks for fighting range fires. Too bad Sparks has done so much to poison M113s image since the hardware worked rather well. It's APCs as a FOV which are obsolete because anything less than an IFV with APS is doomed on a modern battlefield in peer combat.
Is that like a redundant rescue in case the escape motors failed to fire?
When I was deployed, in Iraq, back in 2007, there were large surveillance balloons throughout the FOBs I was in. They were tethered and about the size of a blimp. Putting those things on the US borders doesn't seem that crazy. Or at least less crazy than walling off the entire southern border.
Perhaps. But I doubt they'll be floating for long after being shot.
@@johnlocke9383 you have a point. Concrete is really hard to shoot out of the sky.
There were a couple tethered surveillance and AEW aerostats - the JLENS system - in operation at Aberdeen in the mid-2010s. They were expensive and loaded with sensors, and could track any ground vehicles as well as low-altitude aircraft (including cruise missiles) anywhere from NOVA to Rhode Island.
The program was cancelled after one snapped its tether and went walkabout up the east coast. There was enough cable remaining that as it gradually lost altitude the tether started dragging on the surface and took out powerlines, leaving a long but narrow swathe of blackouts in its wake. It eventually crashed in north-central PA.
I think that blimps could also be used for stuff like fire watch, or any other job that just requires being high up and loitering, but the minute you put it in a situation where it could be shot at, you're going to have issues
also knowing sparks 1) it was going to be given an active role in combat 2) was probably going to be used for something they aren't that capable of doing and 3) sparks was probably thinking about Airships, which are substantially more expensive, more fragile (or rather more prone to catastrophic failure), harder to run and all around much more impractical than any other kind of aircraft.
@@barrag3463 Idea: airship UCAV carrier.
it doesn't need to be anywhere near the action, just close enough to launch the UCAV equivalent to those manned torpedoes that were strangely popular in WWII.
That flying APC looks like it would be a perfectly functional, practical vehicle. If fuel had no weight, and turboprops were about six times as powerful as they are in real life, and you could make a tracked vehicle with nearly-zero friction in its treads and steel were lighter than balsa wood.
As a military historian, and an Armor historian at that, reading some of this has been like jumping into a fever dream. Certainly, there are oddities, programs designed to test limits on concepts to go ‘can we even do it, and will it give us the leg up?’ Often shelved because the answer was ‘No’ after looking at the expense on the project and someone taking a long hard look at it with a test pilot/driver.
The concept of the flying tank is neat enough at face value, but grows more impractical the closer your reality grows to that of genuine combat realities. Closest we have to ‘flying tanks’ are live drops from planes which are not easy, very dangerous, and only done with very very particular parameters. You have to be going slow enough in the plane not to flip the tanks, fast enough in the tank not to cock up the transmission, and land juuuust right to avoid catastrophe. And even then it’s not advised for anything but swift insertion, and certainly not under fire. It’s either that, or paradrop, which most tanks can’t do since weight tends to be a deciding factor. Often the best we can do is air transport, which even then is a biiiiit sketchy depending on the model.
Gosh, revisiting those soviet designs was fun. They’re a neat oddity.
Edit: Also Sharp sounds more and more insane the longer this goes. By minute 17 I’m just laughing.
That clip at 1:47 is a trip, I cannot fathom what caused him to get to this line of thinking. His audio is terrible, but did he say that Nazis tunneled to both poles and are using hovercrafts? Haven't gotten three minutes into this video and already I'm shocked and laughing.
Edit: That Facebook page, holy crap. UK and US baited Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor????? I'm sure we also baited them into attacking other targets all over the Pacific then, right?
That’s actually not the craziest Pearl Harbor theory I’ve seen. I once saw reference to a theory that said that Pearl Harbor (and the light cruiser Sydney) were attacked by prototype nuclear weapons that Germany sold to Japan. I can only assume that someone saw the footage of the Arizona’s magazine going up in a mushroom cloud and assumed it had to be a nuke.
@@Shaun_Jones people are wild!
The US didn't "bait" Imperial Japan, however it is right that the attack on pearl harbor was the result of US-Embargoes. So was it deliberate bait? Most certainly not. Should the US have seen it coming? Absolutely.
@@DefinitelyNotEmma yup.
If you engage in economic war with someone and they are on the verge of economic collapse... don't be surprised if they decide to take it actual war.
@@DefinitelyNotEmma It's important to remember as well that when the embargoes were declared, Imperial Japan was waging a brutal war of conquest in China and Southeast Asia, so cutting off supplies of steel and oil was both strategically and morally justifiable.
As a aerospace enthusiast I can see more problems. Landing with tracks instead of aircraft tires which are ment to withstand hard landings seems like it would be a problem. The control surfaces need to be connected to the stick/yoke (probably just fly by wire I guess). Also the no visibility is a problem as well.
Also the issue of hypoxia, if they flew at higher attitudes the crew could suffer from hypoxia affecting their performance or die. So the plane may need oxygen tanks and masks at least so the crew doesn't risk suffering from hypoxia, by the shitty picture Mike sparks used in the background of his tank nightmare show they were above the clouds 😂
I mean I find that the m113 slipping out of the glider the biggest concern mid flight personally. Well least it could make it an anti tank weapon even if does cost 8 men.
Would that suspension take it well at all?
Probably not lol
There is already a working solution for this in production, multiple companies producing dune buggies with rear propellor and using a parachute as a wing that can be packed on land (look at: Skyrunner aircraft, I-TEC Maverick or Parajet Xplorer). So, you just need to add something like a Minimi machine gun, a few Javelins or Carl Gustav recoilless rifles, and some lightweight bullet-resistant panels to cover the frame of a dune buggy like Dyneema as is used for bulletproofing commando rafts, at worst, you may need a larger parachute or reduce crew for necessary lift/weight...
The M113 can fly, and it has! I've seen Chinooks sling-load those lovely vehicles into artillery impact areas to be targets (That was the moment I fell in love with the Chinook, which is the bestest helicopter evar, fight me). Granted, those were stripped down and probably didn't have engines or a lot of other internal parts, but it can absolutely fly.
So all your saying is we need to remove the engine, ammo, any other excess parts like fuel tanks and chairs and we can get flying tanks? Awesome
I like to imagine that you got to see a Chinook just sling an M113 into a field and then watched the poor 113 promptly blown to pieces by Artillery.
@@ryerial7723 Well, seeing as I was standing in the impact area at the time, that wouldn’t have gone well for me. Target insertion requires identifying and marking an area clear of Surface UXO (unexploded ordnance).
@@willerwin3201 well granted you were clear of the area it would have been hilarious
Everything is air droppable.. Once.
A truely majestic cover of Golden eye; musical genius.
"im gonna need a bit more wine for this" is how i brace myself for 50% of the average week, i laughed far too hard at that!
The only person more credible than Pierre Sprey.
We’re all talking about Mike but why are we all ignoring Lazer’s *flawless* rendition of the James Bond theme
I return to this video just for the song.
If you made a variant/sucessor of the Sikorsky CH-54/S-64 Skycrane based on the engines, gearbox, rotors etc. of the CH-53E, you could conceivably have a helicopter that could carry a combat-loaded M113 (about 12.5 tonnes) around. But the idea for a plane is INSANE.
Sikorsky even made a concept of that exact helicopter. It lost the contact to a Chinook derived Skycrane (that was never completed).
Imagine joining a fighterschool, dreaming about becoming an F22 or an F35 pilot thinking that you will be so fucking badass.
And they give you fucking M113
Flying brick
It can fly in water with proper prep :)
@@williewilson2250 I mean, a solid rocket booster can get anything in the air, if it can do anything with that is a big question.
DUDE.... I was a leopard gunner. That thing had these THICK metal hoops for attaching parachutes, you guessed it, for deployment from above.... We never used it, and we never TALKED about using it.... We just had silent nightmares. Such nightmares.
But, but, ... Hannibal Smith and his crew did it.
"You mean the movie lied???" (Return of the Living Dead, 1985)
You REALLY hope that they would never parachute your tank with you IN IT into a drop zone, I'd guess?
@@dragonsword7370 LOL yea, that was the nightmare ;-)
@@dragonsword7370 Also, I don't even thing we HAD the parachutes... If they were even actually made.
They might have been used for pulling out the turret for maintenance or for lifting the tank during production
Your songs are absolutely brutal😂 This nonconformistic approach to perform them in Your own way, is something that make my day better each time I see episode even with a shotr end-titles song. But todays 'Golden Eye" just blew my mind. Could You consider making some compilation with some favourites? Something like: "LazerPig - the best of"
"Former Ugandan dictator Ida Amin to the Chiquita Banana lady"
She doesn't have a page but you can do Idi Amin -> Soviet Union -> Cold War -> Banana Republic -> Chiquita Brands International
You have to know in advance that the Chiquita banana lady is Carmen Miranda, she does in fact have a Wikipedia page.
Ida Amin -> Fruitarianism -> Fruits -> Bananas -> Banana republic -> Chiquita Brands International -> Fruit Hat -> Carmen Miranda
I went Amin>military dictatorships>Guatemala>United Fruit>Chiquita
You ask and he shall deliver! Thank you for this little exposé on Sparky's MCU (Military Cinematic Universe)!
And for the uninitiated; it's still just the surface, his madness could fill long monographies.
Ps.: Carlton W. Meyer at some point?
I'm not ready for a deep dive. I don;t think my sanity could take it!
Military Crayon-drawn Universe
I discovered a (his?) RUclips channel, and he also thinks that NASA should use 113s (AstroGavins) as interplanetary rovers. Apparently he also thinks this rover needs to defend itself with a 30mm autocannon. It made me lose brain cells just reading the description. He also deletes all negative comments. He also straight up disabled all comments on his AeroGavin video and put something in the description about how freedom of speech is not anarchy of speech.
@@Shaun_Jones Then you should take a gander at his fanfic featuring Indiana Jones, Ian Flemming and James Bond.
@@zalankarpati4387 I refuse, I’m going for a masters degree and can’t afford to lose that many IQ points. I did tell him to get bent on a video about him gloating about how he figured out that the original 1989 soft top Humvee was vulnerable to bullets.
I had the displeasure of operating a 113 for a few years. It’s versatile…in the number of ways it falls short. It’s too small to be a real modern troop carrier (8 troops in full kit CANNOT fit ina 113, unless 3 of them are on the roof )nor is it a functional ambulance (loaded with 2 patients you couldn’t move around enough to treat them) , and most importantly it’s WAY too slow to keep up with any other tracked vehicles the Army uses. I was constantly being left behind /out runned by Bradley’s , m88s , abrams and shit even the 557s…now It might make a half decent cav scout vehicle but…they use Bradley’s.
It was adopted 60 years ago. It predates the M16 and was in service the entire time the Berlin Wall existed. I'm shocked it took until 2007 to stop building them.
Umm military observation blimps/balloons are a thing.... all the major bases in iraq and afghanistan had at least one. And they had camera systems that could resolve people at 20 miles. Our pilots even had to wrangle one back to base when it broke free of the tethers during a storm.
Sparks idea was not just cameras mounted onto a balloon, we're talking a full base (food, beds, working shower) with two people onboard a mobile dirigible.
@@LazerPig ok thats rediculous lol rofl
Did those balloons ever look like bombs to you or was that just me
@@barryward2128 I know what you mean :)
how the hell did they wrangle one back after it broke free?
Great video, but I feel a bit more context is necessary for the M113. This is a very slight semi-defense of what he may have been proposing. As you said, the M113 is a legitimately versatile platform, and the US had lots of surplus ones laying around after the fall of the USSR. It also looked for a "medium motorized" infantry carrier between light infantry and the Bradley that eventually became the Strykers. And it ALSO had a legit fear that you couldn't get a big procurement project through in the same post-Soviet lull.
So the absolute basic concept of simply using surplus M113s as a stopgap to get formations that were lighter and more dismount-heavy than a Bradley, but more mobile and (a little) more durable than just on foot/trucks was a perfectly valid one. Too bad Sparky didn't stop there. His book "Air Mech Strike" is basically contradictory thinking where you can make an M113 light enough to paradrop and swim, but uparmored, and cheap enough to replace everything en masse but able to be extensively upgraded. And none of the scenarios are seriously stress-tested.
The only feasible reason to go low/old tech is it your opponent has such a technological advantage that they can hack into your data stream and know your radio traffic, but even then you are massively putting yourself at a disadvantage. At that point you are more of a resistance force.
every sci-fi fiction ever:
Airmule will fail for the same reason every other vertical lift system that isn't a helicopter has always failed. Because helicopters exist and the only way to beat the vertical lift efficiency of a helicopter would be with something that has even lower disk loading than a helicopter, which is impossible.
The only even kinda exception are tiltrotors and even they cannot match a helicopter in vertical lift because the proprotors have to be a compromise between disk loading and prop drag. You make one mode better and the other mode gets worse.
Also there's absolutely no reason for a crop dusting flying car to exist when the Yamaha R-Max (essentially a 200lb R/C helicopter with a simple autopilot powered by a dirt bike engine) and other similar such systems (large multirotors with tank sprayers, etc.) already exist and can do it at a fraction of the price. You don't need an expensive elaborate solution for this application simple and cheap is better.
I honestly think it’s a better idea to just use a Helicopter to drop one of them off if you really want a APC to be in the back lines of somewhere, at least then you won’t have something going slow as balls.
Disk load? Like how good it is at vertical lift?
@@Predator20357 Enter the Sky Crane design of heavy lift helicopter.
@@MediumRareOpinions Better than slapping a boulder with wings and a turbine to fly around behind enemy lines
I truly don't understand why people want to make a flying tank, when you can just go to the simpler route as with the a10, you make a flying weapons platform
If you want something that's basically a troop transport with support options, you have numerous helicopter platforms, and if you want a beef something up that's fine but there is literally no logical reason as to why someone would want to put wings on a tank other than some childish dream
Well in WW2 it was very simple, you want to get your tanks into battle very quickly and between France and Britain, there was a bit of ocean with a lot of big guns defending it.
The want for flying tanks among the armchair tactician crowd is just an extension of that, a need to get a tank into a place very quickly without having to drive it there.
The conversation doesn't really go beyond that because their understanding of a modern battlefield is quite limited and they somehow believe that once the tank is airborne it is somehow immune to ground weapons.
@@LazerPig I guess the idea of highly mobile and transportable tanks is something that can be debated, however it becomes largely irrelevant with the invention of helicopters, as well as numerous other technological advances
This honestly sounds like something out of Warhammer 40,000 LOL only that fandom could justify a flying tank, and it all do reality I believe there are a couple of them in the franchise
@@LazerPig hey
I got a DM from Mr sparks and drew his ire on his Facebook. Lmk if u want the screenshots lmao
@@mnameisjefff Yeah but why'd he DM you? You didn't drive slowly past his house in a wheeled tank did you?
@@LazerPig maybe he was offended he didn’t use a stage coach.
Okay, but counterpoint: I'd absolutely run a homebrew version of this in something like Konflikt '47.
Why bring AIM-9s when you could just throw a couple of stingers in the M113 and have something that's significantly less expensive and aren't at risk of getting stolen.
Or, better yet, just use an A10. Faster, more maneuverable, better gun, more missiles, better crew protection, better visibility and targeting, it’s actually designed with the equipment to fire AIM-9s, and it can return to base whenever it needs refueled and rearmed.
@@Shaun_Jones Or, even better:
A helicopter. There is no situation I can think of where a Blackhawk and some 101st Airborne would handle the job worse than a flying M113.
@@randombrit4504 I think Mike Sparks would take that as a challenge. For some reason I’m tempted to come up with some absurdly contrived scenario to make an M113 more effective than heli forces.
@@paulmahoney7619 You'd be a more creative man than I if you could, seriously.
@@randombrit4504 I have an idea: The hostages are being stored behind tough barricades. The hostage takers have a plethora of SAMs and they'll execute the hostages before you can get any SEAD aircraft in theater. The most powerful weapons usable on ground targets they have, however, are heavy machine guns. There is an open field big enough for the Aerogavin not long out of the range of their radar, at most an hour or two's drive for the gavin though. That probably isn't contrived enough for the aerogavin to make sense though.
I can’t believe I used to treat people like Blacktail defense and Mike sparks words as truth.
Sounds like you have a story to tell *leans in* please continue...
@@LazerPig it all started back in 2016, I had just finished the girls und panzer feature film: girls und panzer Der film.
The BT-42 scene fascinated me and I wanted to learn more, where should I go but youtube! There was a “Failed tanks” episode on the vehicle and it all kinda went downhill from there you see.
@@LazerPig I may or may not have binge watched the entirety of his RUclips content. And while I’d like to think that my opinions of vehicles has matured since then, nothing will convince me that the Stryker armored car is anything of worth. As I’ve talked with actual military personnel, one of whom was actually deployed to an IBCT
I feel I should clarify that I was never stupid enough to believe something like the Areo Gavin would work, because the glider died when Skorsky got us the working helicopter and someone upscaled it to a troop transport. If you want to transport an m113 low and fast, then use a Chinook for gods sake.
@@highjumpstudios2384 I feel bad in admitting I am one of the very few people in the world into tanks and armored warfare who doesn't watch Girls Un Panzer.
But I do feel your pain, everything people like MS and Blacktail say sounds plausible until you start really looking into it and I am ashamed to admit for the longest time I was a person very much like MS and BTD. That was up until maybe about 8-9 years ago when I started reading up on my then favourite tank the T-34, the infamous "rough and ready" best tank of WW2, only to find it was actually pretty terrible and tales of its amazing performance mostly come from the Russian Militaries equivalent to greasy second-hand car dealership owner.
That kind of broke me and I began to question everything I thought I knew so It's always good to meet someone who was once in a similar position since it makes me feel a little better about how dumb I was back then.
I may do a video on the Stryker since it seems to be a focus of Sparks and his crowd, and having read most of what he says it all seems to be born from the confusion of why a Tank would have wheels.
9:40 got me spitting my drink out it was so good, but now i need someone to inform what the french were doing for this to come about, please
You get a like just for the singing. Man that must have been hard on your vocal cords 😀
It broke my voice at one point and I had to stay quiet and drink ice for two days.
@@LazerPig your sacrifice will be remembered, soldier ! I'm pressing F to pay respects !
Uhh does Mike Sparks know that Helicopters are a thing?
Probably the best video on the internet. The range of vocal talent expressed at the end make Lazerpig a shoe-in for next year's Eurovision.
The most terrifying part? Sparks and his "studies group" have consultation credits on two books published in the late 90s. Like, legit books from a legit (though now long defunct) publisher. Concord Publications did em, one on the US 10th Mountain Division and one on US Green Berets. His ideas are pretty evident in em. Thankfully I don't think Concord asked for his help on any of their books about the 113.
"So, the publication house says we need some 'consultants' to list in order to make it less obvious that we just skimmed Wikipedia. It's short notice, so we don't have time for any actual fact checking, but we've got some people who've agreed to appear in the credits if we slip them a fiver under the table. It's either the 'Tactical Studies Group' or this guy who wants to be styled as 'Drs. MadotsukiInTheNexus, ASD, BS. His., BPD, MA Poli. Sci., MDD'."
"The second guy sounds well educated."
"I'm not sure those are all degrees."
"...."
"Ma'am?"
"...I'm thinking."
@@NyanCatHerder lol, probably why they went outta business in '08.
Real talk, though. Concord had some amazing books in their prime. Basic info, but the photography is top notch. My personal favorites are "Carrier Air Wing Six" and "The Balkans on Fire".
THANK YOU
Now I know that I need to strap some bi-wings to my tinfoil hat for it to REALLY work
Reminds me of the Tex Talks Battletech episode on the Maruader where he brings flying tanks up briefly.
"Remember; not all ideas are equal."
Oh my god as I dig into the rabbit hole of military lolcows the more I wonder how these people were even allowed jobs in the U.S. military.
Someone needs to dig ditches and scrub floors
@@eazy8579 He claims to be an officer….If that’s true, I want to know what poor soul let him even try to earn a commission, let alone gave it to him. Private Bubba whose highest education is a GED is smarter than him!
@@jamesharding3459 I’m skeptical of that; you can probably look into his career through public records
@@jamesharding3459 IIRC getting an officers commission basically just requires completing college, and finishing officer training school which teaches small unit tactics and that's about it. Then, promotion basically happens automatically all the way up until Colonel. Spend enough time on grade. Get promoted automatically.
@@Scriptedviolince thing is, Mike seems like the kind of guy would refuse to go to college because he thinks it teaches people communism
come to think of it, isn't an Mi-24 exactly what the dude wants. A fat assed missile/autocannon platform that can take off and land anywhere, engage other air targets, transport a squad of infantry into battle, and then support them by turning everyone in in the target village into bloody crater. Also it used to be able to do SOME SEAD tasks... and then radar AA happened.
Ok, i am convinced that this entire episode has only been created to have an excuse for singing the Golden Eye Theme Music.
"A flying APC? You mean a helicopter?"
"NO! I mean more like a flying tank."
"OHHHHHHHHHH... You mean an attack helicopter!"
i can’t believe Mike Sparks vs Gonzalo Lira was a possibility we may never have again
I watched all of your videos instead of sleeping this night and im pretty sure that you are just an internet historian persona that got interested in tanks.
ssshhh
Canon
Your rendition of Goldeneye left me in tears. Interpret that as you will.
It's a masterpiece! I hear it every day!
I would like to see a video on stealth technology, as it is frightening how many times I've heard "ww2 biplanes would be absolutely invisible to modern radar technology, and too slow to be shot by modern planes, therefore, a night bomber regiments equipped with something like a Po 2 would be able to destroy modern American military targets without any risk for themselves"
i mean it's kind of happened before in Korea
@@harveyknguyenFormer radar tech here. Given that even WW2 biplanes had metal engines which would have had a large radar cross-section, and that modern stealth aircraft have radar cross sections between the size of a marble and the size of a BB, those planes would have been toast. (Hell, with our radar we could even track large birds like eagles, so the fabric and wire wings of WW1 aircraft still would have been detected.)
@@stefanlaskowski6660 maybe it was also bc they were flying low too low
"Hey, whats that flying lawnmower doing over there buzzing by very slowly like the red baron got drunk and timewarped to the 21st century? "IDK who cares, let CWIS handle it." BRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. "It's gone" "okay, cool."
19:50 It looks like something the Orks in Warhammer 40k would use.
Except they would make it work with some redesigning.
@@shcdemolisherno,i'm pretty sure that if the orcs believed it should work,it would work even if its an unholy abomination that couldn't realistically work.
@@shcdemolisher And add more Dakka.
@@AndrewGivens YEP! Of course even they can admit when something has too much dakka.
imagine drooping a division of Churchill tanks behind the germens at Normandy
I would drop the tanks on the Germans, would be more effective
1 other thing I noticed.
Due to the engine being placed high above the center of gravity on the aerogavin it would would have a tendency to pitch down because the thrust is above the center of gravity on the “aircraft”
instead of a flying tank i propose a land spitfire! swap out the propeller for swords and dive straight towards the enemy.
Why are we not funding this!
@@LazerPig I'm thinking kickstarter! I have seen much more ridiculous projects on there get funded! Lol
@@LazerPig while letting youtube play in the background while i was busy doing as little as possible i watched this video for the third or forth time and i have just had the eureka moment that would be the perfect machine of war. a combined aircraft carrier with tank tracks and wings and/or rotors covered in cannons, guns and as it is now the future lasers1 i really dont know why noone has thought of it before, im sure it would be very easy to build such an awesome machine. the only thing holding it back would be what to call it! how about "Satans Strapon, i.e. The God Fucker!"?
You deserve way more subscribers. This is awesome!
I love how you brought up civilian risk and hardware disposal in regards to the missles. This is something that isn’t talked about at all. And honestly it’s something the military needs to think about more.
house: exists
flying taxi driver: HEY, I'M FLYIN 'ERE
C'mon! This is every eight-year old boys' dream! I remember seeing to the Hangar #1 museum in Denver on the way to hockey practice as a kid, and falling in love with the B-52 they had out front, and thinking to myself "now, if they'd just stick a tank at the front of that it'd be the greatest _boom-woooosh_ ever made!".