I live in the Appalachian Mountains. No way to cross but on the roads, which will be guarded by a lot of hyper-patriotic folk armed to the teeth. There's more thermal sights in civilian hands in West Virginia than in the Soviet military, I reckon. They'd probably do things like block the way at choke points, using their tractors to move large trees, and then sniping the enemy when they stop to remove the blockage. Stuff like that.
You got that right. I use to live in Southern WV and you are definitely telling the truth. I first learned how to shoot from my grandmother in WV, and my Grandfather use to have a Czech Sks and an M1 I use to love to shoot. The Appalachian population from WV, TN, VA, and NC could reek havoc on any invading army.
Armed civilians in the US are just as much as a threat if not more to a potential invading force that's for sure. It's kind of the same problem the US had in Afghanistan of not being able to tell who the enemy is, as it could potentially be anyone
@@wiijjdog except there wouldn't be many, if any civilians in the open if China or Russia were invading, and if there were then they would take much more extreme measures than we or our allies did in middle east. Another difference is that we weren't there to invade, we were hunting. Meaning we allowed civilians to conduct their business as much as possible while focusing on hunting the Taliban or other terrorists, this allowed them to hide amongst civilians. An invasive force would take control of everything and everyone. We would all be killed or imprisoned, or they would impose some sort of extreme martial law to control civilians. But personally I think they would herd us all into prison camps. That's probably the smartest thing for them to do.
@@rovers141 you sound like you dont arm yourself, its your right to own a firearm so make sure to use your rights, i for one would never let some other country come in and prison me I will never be laid on my knees by the enemy for any reason id rather die with freedom then live any life for another country in a jail cell as a prisoner, there are hundreds of thousands like me, I wouldn't want to be drafted to another country to fight a pointless war, but if another country chooses to fuck with us I will fight to my last breath to make sure America continues to be free
The fact that the US has an armed citizenry is something our likely opponents have little, if any experience with. The is a quote inadvertently credited to Yamamoto, but nonetheless true, "When you invade the United States, expect to find a rifle behind every blade of grass."
This is a misquote / not a real quote fyi. Not throwing shade, just saying. With that in mind, the amount of people who are strapped here is insane. I was getting fingerprinted by a lady from New Jersey (for a CCW) and she told me that she processes hundreds per day.
@@vladg832I actually live in Texas. I got a license to carry before constitutional carry was passed, but does allow me to purchase firearms and take them home the same day.
@@vladg832 I know it was a misquote and not real. That was why I said inadvertently attributed to Yamamoto. But you have to still agree given the number of guns in civilian hands, it's somewhat true.
The trivia bit that always makes me chuckle: The largest air force in the world is the United States Air Force. The 2nd largest air force? The United States Navy.
Great reaction! I was in grade school during the Cuban missile crisis. We were sent home from school and I prepared to die as I watched live TV coverage as Russian ships approached the American blockade. It is true that a lot of Americans have lost faith in our elections, but not in the democratic process or in America itself. I really enjoy your channel. Keep going strong.
two years ago a Russian missile was seen launching but the ship capturing the footage was an american fishing boat. it was from a Russian war ship. The whole thing was captured on camera by the discovery channel during the deadliest catch. it scared the heck out of everyone and was considered an act of war according to several treaties. The sighting was reported and the fishing boat retreated back to port. It gave everyone in Alaska a very big scare.
When? I live in Alaska and never heard of a missile launching but the only thing that happened was a Russian Military aircraft flew over Alaska and the F-22 responded and escort them to the Military airport here in Alaska.
Funny thing is when Millie said that it wasn't showing a tank but a M113 Armored Personnel Carrier or APC for short or as my unit nicknamed it sardine can on tracks lol spent many hours couped up in 1 of those
Yeah, the fascists are trying to come back real hard. We have more guns than people here, shits gonna pop off at some point. The religious zealots and neo-nazis have no idea how well the left is armed.
Your video reminded me of the movie "War Games" from the '80's. The war games computer (Joshua) ran nuclear simulations before stating, "Strange game. The only winning move is not to play." Being as young as you are, there is a chance you haven't seen it, or even heard of it! 🙂 Worth watching if you haven't seen it...
2nd on the movie "War Games" no need to do a reaction video, just watch. This was the first total annihilation movie showing how dangerous nuclear war tension was during the cold war era. The childhood memories of sitting with your head tucked between your legs and covering your head with your hands if the threat was real seems unreal now. Hope we never get to DEFCON 1.
(16:49) We were taught "Civil Defence" when I was in school. Even then (early '70s), we were told we had, at most, 20 minutes to find a fallout shelter from first alarm.
They made us do 2 things. Either hide under desks or run to the hallway and squat in the corner single file with hands over our heads. In retrospect that was only to be able to somewhat easily identify us.
@Turd Furgeson Yeah but all of that was lies If you're Near the definition of a nuke the shock wave by itself would have ablitteraided buildings That's not mentioning they fall out
You can sometimes buy an older decommissioned US tank, Humvee, jeep and other military equipment for Millie at a US government auction. Most buyers for the tanks are state, and local civic organizations who use them as monuments, or for parades, etc. Some buyers are private collectors. There might be a lot of hoops to jump through to export it to Jersey tho.
@@joshjones6072 Very seriously doubt you can find a decommissioned Ambrams. Decommissioned tanks would be an old Sherman tank, or something older. Most likely a Vietnam era light tank that the Marines used back then for infatry support
The short answer is yes. There's a couple places you can shoot a tank here in the US. Another fun fact: you can own and drive one on the roads here. I think most states require you to remove the weapons from it and use rubber tracks instead of metal tracks to avoid damaging the roads as much, but yes, you can legally drive a tank to church in the morning if that's your thing. ;)
UK and the WORLD should ABSOLUTELY remember that here in the US *We are NOT and NEVER have been a Democracy* . We ARE a Representative Republic. There is a huge difference kids.
In the 90s, there were ads about not believing everything you see on the internet. That message has stayed with me and I feel more people need to remember that. When looking things up, I usually check multiple sources to verify. And see if there is conflicting information. I also only use RUclips as my social media so I am not bombarded by stuff from TickTock or Twitter or even Facebook. I have read more than enough Japanese and Korean manga/manhwa to know that information is key and rumors can break and divide.
James you're pretty close on the gun ownership in the United States, there's actually 120 firearms for every 100 people so yeah we're packing, I personally own 23 firearms of different caliber and gauges
@@emzkoe3904 you know what's really crazy is we spend 3.1% of our GDP on our military and it's the best in the world and we spend over 19% of our GDP on healthcare and it's a joke
3:56 to 4:04 is a military reserve base. Vehicles already constructed waiting to be called. The Air Force has a similar base for military aircraft. The Navy also has ships in reserve.
In 1984 the BBC broadcast "Threads", a very chilling movie done in a documentary style. It's available online, and it is so well done it'll scare the holly hell out of you, but very well worth watching.
Demolition Ranch is just the guy that done the video. He paid to fire the tank from another company in Texas. I forget the name but they allow you to use grenades and other cool shit. I'd imagine they're also involved with the film industry as well.
As a Texan, I do have to complain about the comment 12:20 “If you include biofuels, the US COULD be considered the number one supplier of oil.” Forget biofuels, the US is the undisputed #1 supplier of oil now and in recent years, thanks to fracking. We produce more than 12 million barrels per day of crude oil out of the ground, easily ahead of Saudi Arabia, way ahead of Russia, and multiples more than any other country. Not a debatable point. Also in case anyone cares, #1 in ethanol too.
You need to watch an old movie called WarGames. It supposes that the computers are accidentally triggered to start the countdown to a thermonuclear attack.
The fear is that by the time the first nuke hits , there will be enough in the air ( both ways) to mean no one wins, again it mirrors the War Games movie.
17 million veterans , several million of them are combat veterans , and you figure we have hunters in all 50 states, all marksman , and there are about 50 million of them . The numbers say just don't ! Oh yeah , I got a real laugh , one of these said to try to invade Texas. My answer to that was "Good Luck" .
the 10 top states for deer hunter numbers total 5.5 million people.... all with at least one rifle and most with several. Granted that entails all sorts of skills and physical abilities but that's still 3 times the size of the Chinese military!
Almost without fail, if you ask a question about anywhere else in the world... "Can I do that..." an easy answer is "You can in Texas." :) So yes... you CAN drive a Tank in Texas! Ya'll get some cowboy boots, a nice hat, and a used Sherman and come on down!
Thanks for his service . I'm a US Navy veteran living in Upstate South Carolina. We vets and patriots have to stick together in the coming times . I've stocked up on rice and dried beans , and have built up a small scale ammunition reloading bench . I have a friend who is a Paramedic. Beans , bandages , and bullets are great items to stock up on in these times . God Bless you and yours .
Lol fyi there are tanks you can buy and drive on the road. My bro in law has a couple of them. He loves Messing with people in town by driving it thru fast food drive thrus .. of course the cannon is in-operable
I live in Massachusetts 1 mile from the New Hampshire border. Just 2 miles from me in New Hampshire an old army vet has a tank on his front lawn--hahaha. I drive by it every day and it makes me laugh. That is one heck of a deterrent from someone trespassing on his lawn. New Hampshire's motto of "Live Free or Die" is very apropos here.
If you guy's ever go to las Vegas, nevada In the USA. They have a place called battle field vegas. If you want to drive a tank, and even shoot one. That's the place. They rent, at their desert range EVERYTHING! From pistols to tanks, and everything in-between. It's loads of fun.
Living in Atlanta, EVERYONE has access to a firearm. Most of my male friends hunt(over half of the females do as well) and own literal arsenals. Including multiple hunting rifles, sport and protection shotguns, a variety of handguns, and thousands of of rounds for all of them. In one municipality, Kennesaw, has a law on the books requiring every household legal to own one to have one. I wouldn’t want to try to invade the metro area. Then you would see just how many well armed citizens that own 4 wheel drives, dirt bikes and quad runners there really are!!
It gets worse for any hypothetical attackers in the country's rural areas. Some farm families alone have enough hunting weaponry to outfit 20+ people with a sniper rifle, handgun, shotgun & ammo each. Not to mention a tractor and plow could throw up some fairly decent embankments to slow down invaders while the hunters/snipers take out enough of the invader's officers to disorganize them.
@@danhollifield mentioning tractors, the Ukrainians during their invasion were towing Russian tanks away with them. In addition we'd be making Molotov cocktails and other explosives as well. I'm an easy going woman but I own 2 firearms. Self defense is a fundamental right of everyone here.
@@salyluz6535 I always figured that to be a piece of diplomatic graft. If necessary, the contract would be reassigned to our closer allies than distant rivals. There is no telling what kind of stockpiles exist, just to deny it to other nations while we outgrew it.
Eddie Hall who lives in Stoke-on-Trent has a tank he bought almost a year ago and drives it everywhere on the streets! He's also a world record holder... ask him and he'll tell you all about it!
The ending comment about how the confidence in our democracy is eroding was interesting. Currently we are in a culture war with the Liberals using Democracy to describe our Republic. Their end goal is the popular vote which is Mob Rule and would mean the end of America. We are a representative democratic republic which ensures that our vastly different populations and demographics are equally represented. Straight votes would mean that the cities would outvote the rural populations and that's not going to happen. Our culture war isn't much different from what's happening in GB right now.
You don't need a license for it. You just can't drive it legally on public roads. Also the ammo is heavily regulated but not impossible to get. In a real life scenario for civil defense they'd probably let citizens have the ammo easier.
The US has taken a strong stance against nuclear threats from Russia. The B61 Mod-12 light tactical delivery bombs are being deployed to air bases in Germany and Turkey right now and will reach full strength in March rather than May or June. The US flew bombers of a type that carry ALCM missiles over southern Germany where they could be spotted by passengers on Swissair flights. Not sure the planes had a load of missiles, but it still sends a message. The US has also had conspicuous missile drills since last spring. Meanwhile in Russia they talk about fantasy weapons on talk shows and release ten year old animations about weapons that likely do not exist. BTW, it seems the UK's V-Class sub fleet got their nukes refurbished ten years ago, and they're now on higher alert to get a second and third sub out faster than ever.
She can drive a tank here in the United States are legal to own in some state down here in the South anyway painted pink purple whatever color she want
The only thing that keeps someone from flipping the switch is that other countries have nukes too. And while yes we have large amounts of oil, coal, gas etc our president has shut down the pipelines, stopped a lot of the drilling and stopped many of the coal mines so we can't use it. He has even bought it from other countries instead of staying self sufficient like we were before him.
Another thing to remember is that, of that civilian population and due to the US involvement in various military conflicts, a good percent of them have had either some period of military service or at least some training. Watch "War Games".(1983)
I mean there is the old and new movie, "Red Dawn" depending on which one you watch it shows how the US was invaded and it didn't go well even though the invasion came out of nowhere
2:15 Most flat maps distort the globe in a way that makes things near the poles appear larger and things near the equator appear smaller, which is why most people don't understand how truly MASSIVE Africa is. Canada, the US, and China all have almost the same area: 3.86M, 3.80M, and 3.71M sq miles.
Just imagine being an enemy paratrooper landing in the Appalachians, when out of the darkness you hear thousands of men begin singing the star spangled banner from the woods surrounding you. It’d be a bad time
You're right about our citizens being armed. I personally don't own a gun and don't want to but I support the 2nd amendment. Also even though I don't want a gun or own one but is some stuff went down like and invasion all I have to do is walk over to my next door neighbors'house or a short walk through the woods to my uncle's house and say "I need a gun and some ammo" to help defend my homeland. Plus we will form a citizen militia. Plus I live out in the sticks in the middle of nowhere. So I know every road, back dirt roads, trails, creeks, ponds, and lake within a 30 minute drive. I also know how to live off the land. So there will be some hard time gorilla warfare.
(4:29) There is actual video of a man that lives near London, I think, that owns a tank and had it licensed for the road and he drives it in the city. Not sure what he had to modify to make it "street legal". BTW, The US has 2100 Abrams Tanks just in storage, not counting what the Army is using.
It’s MAD, mutual assured destruction. If they send nuclear weapons we will respond in kind while they are on their way here. So basically before their attacks hit, ours would be launched. Also, did not hear if the narrator covered all the reserves and National Guard troops that would be mobilized, including prior military members who carry a reserve obligation for X amount of years after separation from active duty
He spoke on the river system like a North/South highway. Most of the WW2 US Submarine Fleet was constructed around the Great Lakes because that's where a lot of iron and copper was produced. And right in the middle of the Continent, at the Canadian Border, they're building freaking submarines!! Down the "Mippippippi". (if you know you know)
The Great Lakes naval base just north of Chicago was massive and still all new naval recruits receive training at the RTC command at Great Lakes. This is useful because no one outside the US realizes Chicago is the 3rd largest city and is not like mid sized cities (that part is sarcasm).
You're mistaken about that. 28 submarines were built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin in WW2. The largest builders were the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine which built 79 submarines and Electric Boat (now General Dynamics) which built 74 in Groton, Connecticut. Other companies included Cramp Shipbuilder in Philadelphia, which built 12 and Mare Island Naval Shipyard near San Francisco which built 17.
@@mikeg.4211 Yea, I found out that women were only trained at RTC Orlando, so that was one of my signing conditions. It was about 5 years after the final fall of Saigon. They were begging for recruits.
@@salyluz6535 Yes, Portsmouth was the highest producer during WW2 and received a citation from the Navy for having the quickest turn around time from order to launch. One day in 1944 they launched 4 new subs, three of them simultaneously, a record that still holds today. Groton, however, holds the record for all time most submarines built. They started earlier than Portsmouth and several years ago the Navy changed the Portsmouth mission from building nuclear submarines to providing overhaul, repair and modernization of U.S. nuclear submarines.
This guy skipped over the Sierra Nevada mountain range.The highest unbroken mountain range in north america.A formidable barrier if you invade from the west coast.
Guys, that's a flat map of a globe planet. A globe can not be put into a flat plain without stretching out countries in the north and south pole...making Canada and Greenland and russia 3x bigger than it actually is. Canada is bigger than the US but by only 100,000 km2. Canada basically is the same size as the US. And russia looked like look 2x bigger than Africa, but it's actually not!
Canada and the United States are the same size. Canada is just a hair 1.5% bigger than the U.S. if you want to get technical when including all water and land territory combined. But the U.S. is a hair larger in total physical land area than Canada is. Keep in mind that the map distorts the size of countries. When you overlay Canada over the U.S. on a globe they are the same size. As mentioned in the video, the U.S. does have far more land that has the potential to be used for farming. And it has the largest amount of land that is accessible to people. So U.S. citizens have access to more physical land than any other population in any other country. Also having the world's largest road and railroad network helps. The U.S. is also home to the largest variety of climates of any country on Earth. The more you know! 🌈🙂
Canada is large but important to note that things further away from the equator are distorted on the map to look larger than those near the equator. You wouldn’t believe it but Africa is soooo large and Canada and Europe are small by comparison.
Actually an army couldn’t invade from Mexico either, the desert/mountain/canyon terrain would not permit that. In the Mexican-American War in the 1800s, Mexico’s army just got bogged down and stranded in North Mexico, while the US just sailed past them to make a successful amphibious invasion further south.
2:27 Canada’s big but not nearly as big as it looks at that point in the video. It’s size there is distorted by the 2-dimensional projection, which also exaggerated Alaska there.
@@margaretspignardo5588 I don't know what to say. Maybe they've updated the Mercator map. All I know is that there are several RUclips videos that show and talk about different map projections. And even from a youngish age, I learned that the Mercator map, which is probably the most ubiquitous map shown in the West at least, is way off on perspective.🤷♂️
The draft ended in 1972. The authority for the government to induct ended in 1973 and registration with the Select Service System was suspended in 1975. The military in the US is for the most part voluntary with a few exceptions of those given the choice of jail or military service. The concept of mutual destruction has kept the major powers from using nuclear weapons. There is a very good novel called the last ship which explores the concept of mutual destruction due to use of nuclear weapons.
All males 18-25 still have to register for the Select Service, to this day. I hear PSA ads on the radio for that all the time. It's 'insurance' in case the government needs to reinstate the draft.
I live in the Appalachian Mountains. No way to cross but on the roads, which will be guarded by a lot of hyper-patriotic folk armed to the teeth. There's more thermal sights in civilian hands in West Virginia than in the Soviet military, I reckon. They'd probably do things like block the way at choke points, using their tractors to move large trees, and then sniping the enemy when they stop to remove the blockage. Stuff like that.
You got that right. I use to live in Southern WV and you are definitely telling the truth. I first learned how to shoot from my grandmother in WV, and my Grandfather use to have a Czech Sks and an M1 I use to love to shoot. The Appalachian population from WV, TN, VA, and NC could reek havoc on any invading army.
Armed civilians in the US are just as much as a threat if not more to a potential invading force that's for sure. It's kind of the same problem the US had in Afghanistan of not being able to tell who the enemy is, as it could potentially be anyone
@@wiijjdog except there wouldn't be many, if any civilians in the open if China or Russia were invading, and if there were then they would take much more extreme measures than we or our allies did in middle east. Another difference is that we weren't there to invade, we were hunting. Meaning we allowed civilians to conduct their business as much as possible while focusing on hunting the Taliban or other terrorists, this allowed them to hide amongst civilians. An invasive force would take control of everything and everyone. We would all be killed or imprisoned, or they would impose some sort of extreme martial law to control civilians. But personally I think they would herd us all into prison camps. That's probably the smartest thing for them to do.
@@rovers141 you sound like you dont arm yourself, its your right to own a firearm so make sure to use your rights, i for one would never let some other country come in and prison me I will never be laid on my knees by the enemy for any reason id rather die with freedom then live any life for another country in a jail cell as a prisoner, there are hundreds of thousands like me, I wouldn't want to be drafted to another country to fight a pointless war, but if another country chooses to fuck with us I will fight to my last breath to make sure America continues to be free
@@rovers141
Then why are you telling them this?
The fact that the US has an armed citizenry is something our likely opponents have little, if any experience with. The is a quote inadvertently credited to Yamamoto, but nonetheless true, "When you invade the United States, expect to find a rifle behind every blade of grass."
This is a misquote / not a real quote fyi. Not throwing shade, just saying. With that in mind, the amount of people who are strapped here is insane. I was getting fingerprinted by a lady from New Jersey (for a CCW) and she told me that she processes hundreds per day.
@@vladg832I actually live in Texas. I got a license to carry before constitutional carry was passed, but does allow me to purchase firearms and take them home the same day.
Ever heard of drones , missiles etc
@@claregale9011 Agreed. Those very much helped the US win the Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, Afghanistan War, and the War on Terror.
@@vladg832 I know it was a misquote and not real. That was why I said inadvertently attributed to Yamamoto. But you have to still agree given the number of guns in civilian hands, it's somewhat true.
The trivia bit that always makes me chuckle: The largest air force in the world is the United States Air Force. The 2nd largest air force? The United States Navy.
Fun Fact:
There are more hunters in the USA, than in all the world's armies, COMBINED.
And that's just the hunters.
I backed off a break in and shot him, I think I got his shoulder. We are all armed
Imagine being that one Chinese soldier and then you hear a boom and one of your buddies is dead shooting at nothing and then get shot
American here, we love our friends “across the pond”, Cheers!
Great reaction! I was in grade school during the Cuban missile crisis. We were sent home from school and I prepared to die as I watched live TV coverage as Russian ships approached the American blockade. It is true that a lot of Americans have lost faith in our elections, but not in the democratic process or in America itself. I really enjoy your channel. Keep going strong.
It has proved that Russian influence had no effect
two years ago a Russian missile was seen launching but the ship capturing the footage was an american fishing boat. it was from a Russian war ship. The whole thing was captured on camera by the discovery channel during the deadliest catch. it scared the heck out of everyone and was considered an act of war according to several treaties. The sighting was reported and the fishing boat retreated back to port. It gave everyone in Alaska a very big scare.
Why would they bomb the area closest to themselves?
When? I live in Alaska and never heard of a missile launching but the only thing that happened was a Russian Military aircraft flew over Alaska and the F-22 responded and escort them to the Military airport here in Alaska.
I saw that episode also! It was quite a shock to even see it let alone what it could do to us!
@@Tyujhgfgffgufgfguvuyvugvugvugv it was in 2021 type in deadliest catch missile launch
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4:20 - "I want a tank"...Trying to picture Mille driving a tank between parked cars down those tight streets asking James, "Am I good on your side"? 😆
Funny thing is when Millie said that it wasn't showing a tank but a M113 Armored Personnel Carrier or APC for short or as my unit nicknamed it sardine can on tracks lol spent many hours couped up in 1 of those
@@spike3082 You just made me hyperventilate....
Haha
Just come to NC for $400 USD you can rent a tank Mr. Beast did.
She ought to contact that guy who has an Alvis Scorpion tank and once drove it to a petrol station. He's in Britain.
Our biggest enemies are within...
Should a second American Civil War occur, it’ll end the same way the first did.
Correct. United we are undefeatable, so we are attacked from within.
Couldn’t disagree they are republicans and democrats especially the elderly ones
Yep, the Y'allQaeda have infiltrated law enforcement.
Yeah, the fascists are trying to come back real hard. We have more guns than people here, shits gonna pop off at some point. The religious zealots and neo-nazis have no idea how well the left is armed.
You guys should check out a video by Reallifelore called “Why geography made the US ridiculously OP”
Your video reminded me of the movie "War Games" from the '80's. The war games computer (Joshua) ran nuclear simulations before stating, "Strange game. The only winning move is not to play." Being as young as you are, there is a chance you haven't seen it, or even heard of it! 🙂 Worth watching if you haven't seen it...
that thought crossed my mind as well
When she said just don't do it "Shall we play a game" popped in my head lol
A Cold War classic. As well as the original Red Dawn.
2nd on the movie "War Games" no need to do a reaction video, just watch. This was the first total annihilation movie showing how dangerous nuclear war tension was during the cold war era. The childhood memories of sitting with your head tucked between your legs and covering your head with your hands if the threat was real seems unreal now. Hope we never get to DEFCON 1.
"How about a nice game of chess?"
(16:49) We were taught "Civil Defence" when I was in school. Even then (early '70s), we were told we had, at most, 20 minutes to find a fallout shelter from first alarm.
I remember in the 60's they made us hide under our desks LOL
They made us do 2 things. Either hide under desks or run to the hallway and squat in the corner single file with hands over our heads. In retrospect that was only to be able to somewhat easily identify us.
@Turd Furgeson Yeah but all of that was lies If you're Near the definition of a nuke the shock wave by itself would have ablitteraided buildings That's not mentioning they fall out
What fall out shelters I don't think we have any national shelters the most we have are private citizens
You can sometimes buy an older decommissioned US tank, Humvee, jeep and other military equipment for Millie at a US government auction. Most buyers for the tanks are state, and local civic organizations who use them as monuments, or for parades, etc. Some buyers are private collectors. There might be a lot of hoops to jump through to export it to Jersey tho.
But you can't own the shells for the main gun or 50+ Cal ammo unless you're in Nevada or Louisiana.
It’s also law that you take out the ability to fire the cannon barrel unless you are using it for tank range purposes
Haha yeah, an Ambrams tank driving around in a field in Jersey would be funny 😂
@@joshjones6072 It would be funnier in Upstate NY
@@joshjones6072 Very seriously doubt you can find a decommissioned Ambrams. Decommissioned tanks would be an old Sherman tank, or something older. Most likely a Vietnam era light tank that the Marines used back then for infatry support
Do not forget Mr and Mrs Beesley, having an ally, a friend, and kith and kin in Britain is a great asset.
The short answer is yes. There's a couple places you can shoot a tank here in the US. Another fun fact: you can own and drive one on the roads here. I think most states require you to remove the weapons from it and use rubber tracks instead of metal tracks to avoid damaging the roads as much, but yes, you can legally drive a tank to church in the morning if that's your thing. ;)
Don't forget we also have naval and military bases throughout the Pacific they'd have to deal with. Never leave an enemy force behind you.
It tickles me when you say, "That's mental!" It's the equivalent of us saying, "That's crazy!" 😅
I would suggest reacting to how geography made the us ridiculously op by realifelore his video really explains how the us got where it is now
Literally the best video on youtube^ ⬆️check it out yall 💯
Agreed
UK and the WORLD should ABSOLUTELY remember that here in the US *We are NOT and NEVER have been a Democracy* .
We ARE a Representative Republic.
There is a huge difference kids.
You can own a tank in The Us
I used to own a 1972 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser 9 passenger station wagon with a 455 4 barrel ...Now Talk about a Tank .M.A.G.A
I knew someone in Connecticut who had tanks and jeeps in his backyard
"The only winning move is to not play at all."-War Games on Nuclear War.
In the 90s, there were ads about not believing everything you see on the internet. That message has stayed with me and I feel more people need to remember that. When looking things up, I usually check multiple sources to verify. And see if there is conflicting information. I also only use RUclips as my social media so I am not bombarded by stuff from TickTock or Twitter or even Facebook. I have read more than enough Japanese and Korean manga/manhwa to know that information is key and rumors can break and divide.
RUclips us censored too
Keep that in mind
James you're pretty close on the gun ownership in the United States, there's actually 120 firearms for every 100 people so yeah we're packing, I personally own 23 firearms of different caliber and gauges
I only own 5! I need to catch up 🤣💞
@@GenXfrom75 I'm 62 got my first gun ( a .22 rifle) at age 12 and just kept accumulating them I did sell and trade some over the years
Yeah, my brother is always like "attack us and we'll show you why we don't have health care" lololol. Which makes me laugh but also sad lol.
@@emzkoe3904 you know what's really crazy is we spend 3.1% of our GDP on our military and it's the best in the world and we spend over 19% of our GDP on healthcare and it's a joke
@@emzkoe3904 (TFE)???
It's like Einstein said, "I know not with which weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV shall be fought with sticks and stones".
3:56 to 4:04 is a military reserve base.
Vehicles already constructed waiting to be called.
The Air Force has a similar base for military aircraft.
The Navy also has ships in reserve.
Idk if jersey has any local laws but I do know you can own and drive a tank in the UK as long as the gun has been disabled. So happy hunting lol
In 1984 the BBC broadcast "Threads", a very chilling movie done in a documentary style. It's available online, and it is so well done it'll scare the holly hell out of you, but very well worth watching.
I just watched that yesterday! A dismal film, as it should be, I guess!
Saw that a few years ago and it gave me nightmares. Most terrifying of all doomsday movies, imo.
When you come to the US to visit you should check out a place called "Demolition Ranch" it's in Texas and you can drive a tank
Demolition Ranch is just the guy that done the video. He paid to fire the tank from another company in Texas. I forget the name but they allow you to use grenades and other cool shit. I'd imagine they're also involved with the film industry as well.
Demo Ranch is a gun channel, I believe the company he goes to when he does those tests and what not is a company in Texas called Drive Tanks.
Someone needs to introduce them to Brandon Herrera and his RUclips channel
Thank you Beesleys for this great video!
As a Texan, I do have to complain about the comment 12:20 “If you include biofuels, the US COULD be considered the number one supplier of oil.” Forget biofuels, the US is the undisputed #1 supplier of oil now and in recent years, thanks to fracking. We produce more than 12 million barrels per day of crude oil out of the ground, easily ahead of Saudi Arabia, way ahead of Russia, and multiples more than any other country. Not a debatable point. Also in case anyone cares, #1 in ethanol too.
BDE
You need to watch an old movie called WarGames. It supposes that the computers are accidentally triggered to start the countdown to a thermonuclear attack.
The fear is that by the time the first nuke hits , there will be enough in the air ( both ways) to mean no one wins, again it mirrors the War Games movie.
17 million veterans , several million of them are combat veterans , and you figure we have hunters in all 50 states, all marksman , and there are about 50 million of them . The numbers say just don't ! Oh yeah , I got a real laugh , one of these said to try to invade Texas. My answer to that was "Good Luck" .
And even the ones who didn't see combat likely still remember how to do what Uncle Sam spent millions training them to do.....
There are a lot of militaries in the world and if you added ALL their guns it equals 150 MILLION..
The American gun owners have 400 MILLION
the 10 top states for deer hunter numbers total 5.5 million people.... all with at least one rifle and most with several. Granted that entails all sorts of skills and physical abilities but that's still 3 times the size of the Chinese military!
Almost without fail, if you ask a question about anywhere else in the world... "Can I do that..." an easy answer is "You can in Texas." :) So yes... you CAN drive a Tank in Texas! Ya'll get some cowboy boots, a nice hat, and a used Sherman and come on down!
4:30 you could get in touch with that guy in the UK that drives his tank on the roads.
We also have gators grizzly bears mountain lions bigfoot you name it 😂
My husband and I have a very small arsenal...and growing 💗. We'd do what was required. He's a combat veteran, as well. So that helps.
Good grief stop telling anyone. There are gun grabbers and Karens who would love to red flag and swat you.
Behind every blade of grass is a rifle.
Thanks for his service . I'm a US Navy veteran living in Upstate South Carolina. We vets and patriots have to stick together in the coming times . I've stocked up on rice and dried beans , and have built up a small scale ammunition reloading bench . I have a friend who is a Paramedic. Beans , bandages , and bullets are great items to stock up on in these times . God Bless you and yours .
As the saying goes.
"F*** around and find out."
Lol fyi there are tanks you can buy and drive on the road. My bro in law has a couple of them. He loves Messing with people in town by driving it thru fast food drive thrus .. of course the cannon is in-operable
A lot more open farmland in the middle that's our bread basket
I live in Massachusetts 1 mile from the New Hampshire border. Just 2 miles from me in New Hampshire an old army vet has a tank on his front lawn--hahaha. I drive by it every day and it makes me laugh. That is one heck of a deterrent from someone trespassing on his lawn. New Hampshire's motto of "Live Free or Die" is very apropos here.
Hey neighbor, I am in Methuen. New Hampshire is a wild place, 😂😂😂😂
@@Chrisyt272 I live in Amesbury. The tank is in South Hampton, NH. 😄
This was one of your best reaction videos, in my opinion.
If you guy's ever go to las Vegas, nevada
In the USA. They have a place called battle field vegas. If you want to drive a tank, and even shoot one. That's the place. They rent, at their desert range
EVERYTHING! From pistols to tanks, and everything in-between. It's loads of fun.
Honorable mention: Raceway. Rent whichever flavor of supercar and go. Because why not?
IIRC, they also do helo shoots where you get to shoot a mini-gun out of a flying helicopter.
I love how Millie says Canada, like it should be spelled “Can-a-der” 🤣🤣🤣
That's why it's called MAD (mutuallly assured destruction).
Living in Atlanta, EVERYONE has access to a firearm. Most of my male friends hunt(over half of the females do as well) and own literal arsenals. Including multiple hunting rifles, sport and protection shotguns, a variety of handguns, and thousands of of rounds for all of them. In one municipality, Kennesaw, has a law on the books requiring every household legal to own one to have one. I wouldn’t want to try to invade the metro area. Then you would see just how many well armed citizens that own 4 wheel drives, dirt bikes and quad runners there really are!!
It gets worse for any hypothetical attackers in the country's rural areas. Some farm families alone have enough hunting weaponry to outfit 20+ people with a sniper rifle, handgun, shotgun & ammo each. Not to mention a tractor and plow could throw up some fairly decent embankments to slow down invaders while the hunters/snipers take out enough of the invader's officers to disorganize them.
@@danhollifield mentioning tractors, the Ukrainians during their invasion were towing Russian tanks away with them. In addition we'd be making Molotov cocktails and other explosives as well. I'm an easy going woman but I own 2 firearms. Self defense is a fundamental right of everyone here.
They didn't mention that there are over 20 million military veterans that could be recalled to active duty in a national emergency!
Antimony wouldn’t really be a factor they would just reopen the stibnite mine if they had to.
Bolivia, Canada and Mexico also have Antimony.
@@salyluz6535 I always figured that to be a piece of diplomatic graft. If necessary, the contract would be reassigned to our closer allies than distant rivals. There is no telling what kind of stockpiles exist, just to deny it to other nations while we outgrew it.
Yeah when Eisenhower became President. He created the Highways. There is always a 5 Mile stretch straight that airplanes can land on.
Eddie Hall who lives in Stoke-on-Trent has a tank he bought almost a year ago and drives it everywhere on the streets! He's also a world record holder... ask him and he'll tell you all about it!
You can drive a tank on the road as long as it has indicators and brake lights and other small things.
@16:31 MAD mutually assured destruction
Damn he said it right after I did
The ending comment about how the confidence in our democracy is eroding was interesting. Currently we are in a culture war with the Liberals using Democracy to describe our Republic. Their end goal is the popular vote which is Mob Rule and would mean the end of America. We are a representative democratic republic which ensures that our vastly different populations and demographics are equally represented. Straight votes would mean that the cities would outvote the rural populations and that's not going to happen. Our culture war isn't much different from what's happening in GB right now.
On your film channel you should review "War Games." Others have mentioned it in these comments.
James, you were right. 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US-Canada border.
You can absolutely own a tank (even an armed one) in the US... you just need a license for it. Which is expensive and hard to get... but still.
*Insert heavy metal riff
You don't need a license for it. You just can't drive it legally on public roads. Also the ammo is heavily regulated but not impossible to get. In a real life scenario for civil defense they'd probably let citizens have the ammo easier.
@@S1D3W1ND3R015 Bullshit. They don't even want us to have ammunition for our non-tank weapons. Why would they ever let us have ammunition for a tank?
guys remember that when looking at the world on a flat map, the size of countries at the poles is distorted. Canada is actually a lot smaller in size.
The US has taken a strong stance against nuclear threats from Russia. The B61 Mod-12 light tactical delivery bombs are being deployed to air bases in Germany and Turkey right now and will reach full strength in March rather than May or June. The US flew bombers of a type that carry ALCM missiles over southern Germany where they could be spotted by passengers on Swissair flights. Not sure the planes had a load of missiles, but it still sends a message. The US has also had conspicuous missile drills since last spring.
Meanwhile in Russia they talk about fantasy weapons on talk shows and release ten year old animations about weapons that likely do not exist.
BTW, it seems the UK's V-Class sub fleet got their nukes refurbished ten years ago, and they're now on higher alert to get a second and third sub out faster than ever.
She can drive a tank here in the United States are legal to own in some state down here in the South anyway painted pink purple whatever color she want
Milly if you come to the US there are a few places you can shoot a tank. There’s one in Vegas and one near San Antonio.
He did, so did how Ridiculous from Australia. Demolition Ranch lives by my in laws
The only thing that keeps someone from flipping the switch is that other countries have nukes too. And while yes we have large amounts of oil, coal, gas etc our president has shut down the pipelines, stopped a lot of the drilling and stopped many of the coal mines so we can't use it. He has even bought it from other countries instead of staying self sufficient like we were before him.
16:43 reminded me of an old movie - War Games 1983 film.
Another thing about the nukes, here in America we have nukes on some of our subs and are given orders like if we get nuked you nuke them back.
Another thing to remember is that, of that civilian population and due to the US involvement in various military conflicts, a good percent of them have had either some period of military service or at least some training.
Watch "War Games".(1983)
In America you can drive a tank. You can rent out fixed up ones on a closed course and even shoot the cannon
i live on the mississippi right by the Rock Island arsenal. It feels safe, until you think they'd probably try to bomb that.
Anybody else remember the Mississippi River being the longest in the US? 🤔 Well not anymore 🧐
Had no idea what you were talking about until I googled it. No way it's Missouri! It was always Mississippi
There's no way anybody remembers it being Missouri.
Mind blown. How??
That is the one thing about us, the amount of militias you would run into that are heavily armed here would overwhelm any invader.
I think warfare is slightly different now .
Many have moved to the Rocky Mountais as the altitude will not see atomic fallout due to height snd thin air
I mean there is the old and new movie, "Red Dawn" depending on which one you watch it shows how the US was invaded and it didn't go well even though the invasion came out of nowhere
2:15 Most flat maps distort the globe in a way that makes things near the poles appear larger and things near the equator appear smaller, which is why most people don't understand how truly MASSIVE Africa is. Canada, the US, and China all have almost the same area: 3.86M, 3.80M, and 3.71M sq miles.
Just imagine being an enemy paratrooper landing in the Appalachians, when out of the darkness you hear thousands of men begin singing the star spangled banner from the woods surrounding you. It’d be a bad time
You're right about our citizens being armed. I personally don't own a gun and don't want to but I support the 2nd amendment. Also even though I don't want a gun or own one but is some stuff went down like and invasion all I have to do is walk over to my next door neighbors'house or a short walk through the woods to my uncle's house and say "I need a gun and some ammo" to help defend my homeland. Plus we will form a citizen militia. Plus I live out in the sticks in the middle of nowhere. So I know every road, back dirt roads, trails, creeks, ponds, and lake within a 30 minute drive. I also know how to live off the land. So there will be some hard time gorilla warfare.
The whole “Russian interference” thing was a psi-op.
If you ever get to Las Vegas there is a place that you can drive Armored vehicles.
(4:29) There is actual video of a man that lives near London, I think, that owns a tank and had it licensed for the road and he drives it in the city. Not sure what he had to modify to make it "street legal". BTW, The US has 2100 Abrams Tanks just in storage, not counting what the Army is using.
Definitely had yo be the wheels because those tracks tear up normal roads.
@@SonOfMuta I hate "movie buff experts"!!
It’s MAD, mutual assured destruction. If they send nuclear weapons we will respond in kind while they are on their way here. So basically before their attacks hit, ours would be launched. Also, did not hear if the narrator covered all the reserves and National Guard troops that would be mobilized, including prior military members who carry a reserve obligation for X amount of years after separation from active duty
heres something to think about the us highway system was only finished in 1995 so there are parts of it that im older then
I can tell you though, step foot in the hive, and you get the whole swarm
Interesting map at 17.30.
He spoke on the river system like a North/South highway. Most of the WW2 US Submarine Fleet was constructed around the Great Lakes because that's where a lot of iron and copper was produced. And right in the middle of the Continent, at the Canadian Border, they're building freaking submarines!! Down the "Mippippippi". (if you know you know)
The Great Lakes naval base just north of Chicago was massive and still all new naval recruits receive training at the RTC command at Great Lakes. This is useful because no one outside the US realizes Chicago is the 3rd largest city and is not like mid sized cities (that part is sarcasm).
You're mistaken about that. 28 submarines were built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin in WW2. The largest builders were the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine which built 79 submarines and Electric Boat (now General Dynamics) which built 74 in Groton, Connecticut. Other companies included Cramp Shipbuilder in Philadelphia, which built 12 and Mare Island Naval Shipyard near San Francisco which built 17.
@@ptournas: Thank you! I knew the numbers were off.
@@mikeg.4211 Yea, I found out that women were only trained at RTC Orlando, so that was one of my signing conditions. It was about 5 years after the final fall of Saigon. They were begging for recruits.
@@salyluz6535 Yes, Portsmouth was the highest producer during WW2 and received a citation from the Navy for having the quickest turn around time from order to launch. One day in 1944 they launched 4 new subs, three of them simultaneously, a record that still holds today.
Groton, however, holds the record for all time most submarines built. They started earlier than Portsmouth and several years ago the Navy changed the Portsmouth mission from building nuclear submarines to providing overhaul, repair and modernization of U.S. nuclear submarines.
Fun fact. We never use the phrase "It's mental".
We say "that's crazy"
Same thing
9:10 LOL every 5th american owns 2 guns
This guy skipped over the Sierra Nevada mountain range.The highest unbroken mountain range in north america.A formidable barrier if you invade from the west coast.
It goes thru Central America & South America, too.
Guys, that's a flat map of a globe planet. A globe can not be put into a flat plain without stretching out countries in the north and south pole...making Canada and Greenland and russia 3x bigger than it actually is. Canada is bigger than the US but by only 100,000 km2. Canada basically is the same size as the US. And russia looked like look 2x bigger than Africa, but it's actually not!
Imagine trying to drive an M1 Abrams in London lol. That thing is as wide as the road 😆
They didn't include the Ohio river in the Mississippi there's a lot of Industry east of the Mississippi
Canada and the United States are the same size. Canada is just a hair 1.5% bigger than the U.S. if you want to get technical when including all water and land territory combined. But the U.S. is a hair larger in total physical land area than Canada is. Keep in mind that the map distorts the size of countries. When you overlay Canada over the U.S. on a globe they are the same size.
As mentioned in the video, the U.S. does have far more land that has the potential to be used for farming. And it has the largest amount of land that is accessible to people. So U.S. citizens have access to more physical land than any other population in any other country. Also having the world's largest road and railroad network helps.
The U.S. is also home to the largest variety of climates of any country on Earth. The more you know! 🌈🙂
Texas has about the same GDP as Canada despite a smaller population.
Canada is large but important to note that things further away from the equator are distorted on the map to look larger than those near the equator. You wouldn’t believe it but Africa is soooo large and Canada and Europe are small by comparison.
Actually an army couldn’t invade from Mexico either, the desert/mountain/canyon terrain would not permit that. In the Mexican-American War in the 1800s, Mexico’s army just got bogged down and stranded in North Mexico, while the US just sailed past them to make a successful amphibious invasion further south.
2:27 Canada’s big but not nearly as big as it looks at that point in the video. It’s size there is distorted by the 2-dimensional projection, which also exaggerated Alaska there.
FYI...the population of the state of California is greater than the whole population of Canada!
Imagine my surprise when we moved to Canada. I learned that, ‘no one will attack Canada because we are so nice!’ Thank god they are protecting the US
Yes we have lots of guns and here in th south we have thousands of hunters also
No one would dare try to attack the mainland militarily. Their ships lanes wouldn’t even come close.
Honestly I’d love some surplus vehicles
To see the true size of countries, look at a Mercator map.
I think you meant to say "don't look at a Mercator map". While being a great map for maritime navigation, it is extremely off on country sizes.
@@ryanjustice2670 the one I just looked at had the true size of the country overlaid on a typical world map. ??
@@margaretspignardo5588 I don't know what to say. Maybe they've updated the Mercator map. All I know is that there are several RUclips videos that show and talk about different map projections. And even from a youngish age, I learned that the Mercator map, which is probably the most ubiquitous map shown in the West at least, is way off on perspective.🤷♂️
@@ryanjustice2670 Oh well. We may not have solved the problem but we highlighted the issue. 😂😂😂
The draft ended in 1972. The authority for the government to induct ended in 1973 and registration with the Select Service System was suspended in 1975. The military in the US is for the most part voluntary with a few exceptions of those given the choice of jail or military service. The concept of mutual destruction has kept the major powers from using nuclear weapons. There is a very good novel called the last ship which explores the concept of mutual destruction due to use of nuclear weapons.
All males 18-25 still have to register for the Select Service, to this day. I hear PSA ads on the radio for that all the time. It's 'insurance' in case the government needs to reinstate the draft.