The best part is there is definitley at least one career officer at the Pentagon who hates this show but is begrungingly forced to acknowledge it does more for moral and recruitment than his entire budget.
Please explain how the belief in a non-existent missile is in any way, shape, or form good for us in any respect whatsoever? "Now we’re looking to take it to the next level and actually find a customer who’s willing to support us, building the missile, and actually demonstrating in flight.” - Rob Osterhoud, Lockheed Martin The War Zone, The Lowdown On Lockheed's Newly Revealed Mako Hypersonic Missile, April 11, 2024
I wish we could get one with the effect for some of US allies. Let's be real here, if the US ends up at war with China or Russia for whatever reason, the other one will join too. And the US is by no means strong enough to fight both at the same time, so they need the European allies, even in the sorry state of our militaries. Especially Germany needs help in that department since our tries were either extremely cringe or had a straight up opposite effect in the last decade...
Cools story except the mako has been in development since 2017 as a competitior for a new anti radiation missile which is a contract it did not secure. After the announcement of the mako the us navy placed it onto a list of programs they aim to fun for next fy.
Still not going to do anything. Think about it. In the current political climate, If any given current administration does ANYTHING, they've lost their next election. Full stop. Non-negotiable. They know this. Even the tiny bit of aid they did give to both Ukraine and I*rael (have to censor it, automod bots shadow-delete any comment with any mention of the ((())) country.) has put them in a very precarious position.
The sad part is that all we did, in the end, was get a bunch of our servicemen killed and make several countries in the middle east and Africa even shittier than they already were.
1999 my drill Sgt told my basic training platoon that the 50 cal was an anti material weapon and is designed to shoot enemy equipment, not personnel. Then he explained that the army considers belts, shoes, their weapons and anything else on them as "equipment." =)
We were told this is why US soldiers aren't allowed to carry money into combat. "You don't want them shooting at your wallets, do you?" I miss basic training...every thing made sense.
I asked my grandpa who was a Sherman tank commander in Italy in WWII if they were prohibited from shooting the 75mm main gun at soldiers. He said, no, we were told to hit the Germans with everything we had.
@@bryonslatten3147 What governments and higher ups in big institutions say and what actually happens on the ground is often different. The main point for them is the public outlook, and that they have plausible deniability
@@user-tt6il2up4o actually it was. We won the war in vietnam. We won every major engagement. We packed up and left because of politics. We never lost a single major battle. 😂
@@trailblazer632that and that United States never invaded North Vietnam, cutting fully to the ground the capabilities of the Vietcong to keep sending guerrillas But US didn't want a Korea War 2, and they were facing more rivals in United States than in Vietnam
Aliens. Not to fight. No. No. To $ELL. America would be the first to be an interplanetary arms dealer. The only thing that could tip us off is, if for some weird reason the US had ALOT of money. Like inexplicably infinite.
I swear HLC’s eyes get that look of “I did not escape the asylum, they gave me a day pass” whenever he’s saying one of the more colourful lines for Buff.
HLC… I have to say, and I usually do not comment anything anymore; this patriotic country / military equipment format of yours always makes my day. Genuine thank you to you. Best regards from Switzerland.
Just asking... Is your country considering *to end hundreds of years of isolationist neutrality and join the party like sweden did? I just need the "when swiss cease being neutral" to finish my 'everything has gone sh1t' bingo xD
We don't need hypersonic missiles. We can already beat radar with stealth. This just a pure American flex for all the people that didn't understand russia and china have fake hypersonic. Here is a real one. Pay attention to how it glows in the terminal phase. If it doesn't glow like a meteorite when it hits, it's not traveling at hypersonic speeds. You can't do that inside the atmosphere without plasma. No plasma, no hypersonic. Easy.
The best part is that we don't even need the mako. We can already beat radar with stealth. We don't need to do it with speed. This is purely just to flex on russia and china. BECAUSE WE CAN.
As someone whos currently applied for a position with the RAAF that would put me aboard a Posiedon... thank you so much for that new character. Love it!
No, we only use Willy Pete to mark locations now. Just remember that if the enemies start screaming because they are on fire, you have successfully marked their location.
Willy Pete is also used for obscuration. Dropping it on an enemy position is just as effective as dropping it in front of it. Especially if some of that smoke is cause by their equipment catching fire.
I think the primary use is still illumination, smoke generation, marking targets, and sometimes anti-materiel. Of course, if there happens to be people around the site of the WP rounds landing... well, sucks to be them, I guess.
Wow we getting the P-8 involved now?! Impressive. For those that are curious, the P-8 is the reconnaissance aircraft replacing the 50 year old P-3 Orion platform. It's essentially a Boeing 737, stripped of 151 seats, fitted with recon combat stations, the baggage bay an internal weapons bay, and since it shares so many parts with the 737, makes it highly cost efficient to operate. It's range is conservatively the same as Buffs, being that it can be refuled airborne.
The cargo bay is occupied by extra fuel tanks and, on certain planes, an extra avionics cooling system. The weapons bay occupies very little cargo space. Hell, the pneumatics for the sonobuoys takes more space than the weapons bay.
You make me proud again of our military. I grew up military. Civilians were muggles. Weird. And I've been surrounded by them for over 40 years now. Your site is awesome. Brings that pride back.
yeah these 5 mins one ( there is only one other i think. they hit real hard. :D) in far future i cant phathom what could be made in different content form. with other people popping in too. a whole darn comedy skit thats actually more informative then the news
My hubby feels I shouldn't watch these videos due entirely to language, but I cannot deny Grandpa Buff is the epitome of defiance our bad-ass country was built on!❤
Scr ... rather ... don't screw hubby! You're a grown woman, watch what you like, if he tries to preach/yell at you for it then tell him he's surfing the couch for the next X number of days or he can handle the laundry, cooking or whatever else you wanna pin on him. You hold the cards; Don't be afraid to play them.
@@athelwulfgalland I miss when humans (especially spouses) could voice their opinions to each other without fear of punishment like civilized fucking people.
@@athelwulfgallandI miss when people, especially spouses, could voice their opinions to each other like civilized f***ing people without fear of punishment. (How ironic is it that RUclips doesn’t let me swear in this comment)
@@Kilovotis We live in a clown world, no question about it & I have no idea where these bizarre twists are going to wind us all up. I also miss being able to engage in public discourse without fear of censorship, being labeled a bot & being called completely baseless names. I knew one marriage that was sorta like that of the OP but the hubby in that relationship would go to extreme lengths to assert his control over his wife, son, daughter & even our mutual mother in law. His wife spent way too many years making excuses for his behavior, getting beat, choked, SA'd, etc. She turned to drugs & alcohol for a while & while she eventually got clean of the drugs she still struggles with alcohol. He died, likely as a result of an insulin overdose, most probably because he was too high on pain killers to even realize how much he was giving himself. His daughter became a non-surgical trans-man; Nor is she on the hormones. Her partner is a mostly non-surgical trans-woman. If she were on hormones apparently it would interfere with their intimacy. His son was a total basket case. Emo to the extreme, agoraphobia to the nines, social anxiety to the point of trembling & with a strong desire to do something bad to his father. After his father passed it didn't get much better. We don't know many details but he & his older half-brother got pretty close. Everyone in the older half-brother's family accepted him & his nieces really loved him. Something went horribly wrong one day though & nobody is willing to talk about it. He attacked his older half-brother, put a few bullets in him & then sequestered himself away in a back part of the house in a guest room. The kids & wife were unharmed, they managed to get my older nephew to safety after that. When the cops arrived & tried to talk him down they heard a single pew-pew discharge. He'd removed himself from the gene pool. Now my wife's older sister the mother of those two boys & wife to that twisted individual I mentioned has indicated that her older son is having a real hard time recovering from what happened. He & his wife are now separated, plus his daughters are in counseling. If she'd only have listened & realized how toxic this man was earlier. She even knew that he'd SA'd his mother-in-law but stayed with him; Can you believe it?! No, there was no being open in that household. I'm tremendously grateful that while I had insecurities & a bit of a temper when I was younger neither my wife or I ever refrained from communicating. Even if it resulted in an argument, that was fine, because we both trusted one another that we'd be able to sort things out. While I've never resorted to violence I've gotten hit a time or two; Then a beautiful tackle, that would've made a linebacker proud, when I tried leaving the house to drive around in the family car. The funniest part about the tackle is that I was so shocked & genuinely impressed at how perfect her take-down was that I just couldn't stay mad. I busted up laughing! Eventually we were both laughing like idiots - all in a pile by the front door. That cooled both our heads & we were able to make amends over whatever it was. lol We NEVER sleep on an argument; That's a rule we've held since our relationship began all the way back in '96. In any case she's never told me what I could or couldn't do (unless you count taking the car out on a drive that night?! lmao) - I also have never told her what she could or couldn't do. We've both admitted if we'd rather something different to be done about one thing or another but that's a whole different kettle of fish. Neither of us have had to remind the other of our vows either our hard earned trust is too important to squander.
@@Bluecatteunfortunately the news on TV are more about making America look like a horrible country rather than showing that we are in fact ready to fuck someone’s shit up
Making moves on a global scale requires a lot of hands and plenty of time. Fyi, presidential policy normally takes 10 years before a clear outcome can be viewed. Most things done in office are either killed by the next president, or can't be felt until their terms are over.
"Do they gotta theme song over there? We wanna know so we can remix it to be proper American" Love me some Union Dixie, what's the Iranian equivalent we could make?
@@fracturedframe1462 I still only half believe everything that happened to start those 20 long years of war. Osama was the CIA's boy during the Afghan Mujaheddin insurgency against the Soviets. He was already on the FSB's S#it list so why on Earth would he make an enemy of his former allies too? That never made much sense to me. Furthermore, while all flights in the US were grounded, the FAA gave his family special permission to fly & vacate the nation's airspace. Then there was the nurse that testified that after 9/11 Osama was receiving medical care at a US military hospital; Though I can't remember the location of it; Just that it was nowhere near Afghanistan or Pakistan. Never mind the whole issue with the towers collapsing, including Tower 7, which just happened to be the depository for all of the CIA's financial records. (While they were on the verge of being audited.) Lastly were the aircraft themselves. I'm still not sure if I believe what really hit the pentagon since none of the light poles were damaged in the slightest, despite the shallow angle of descent, when not long prior one of our VC-25s took out a few near an airfield on a shallow approach on landing. Furthermore the video that depicted an aircraft which flew directly over the cameraman was NOT a civilian 767. It had parts of the fittings for a KC-767; Though it was painted in proper airline livery. It was just like one of those that Boeing was in the process of preparing for Italy. Incidentally the delivery got pushed back almost a full decade due to unspecified delays. In the following 3 weeks all online sources which talked about the progress of the KC-767s for the Italian Air Force were scrubbed from the internet. (I used to have screenshots but I've gone though 2 or 3 hard drive deaths since.) Then there was the issue of ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State/The Caliphate. In the beginning they were entirely armed with off the shelf civilian equipment, such as the Toyota Hilux, body armor, optics, etc. Plus easily sourced US surplus such as M16s & M4s. Then we, seemingly without any motivation, attacked Libya. Although Libya had been a state sponsor of terror in the past they had long since shifted their direction & even paid restitution to those that lost their lives in the high profile destruction of an airliner over the British Isles. Libya had become the nation with the highest standard of living in Africa & was poised to introduce a new gold-backed currency that would become the equivalent of the Euro but for Africa. Then we suddenly attacked? If it were even just for fear that the USD would lose a great deal of it's value it would be a war crime. However the supposed gold reserves soon after disappeared like a puff of smoke. Even then it doesn't appear that was the entire purpose to the attack. Libya was like a used car lot of Soviet era equipment that had been kept in mothballs, in working condition, that could readily be made operational. Suddenly huge numbers of cargo vessels were headed to Turkey from Libya & convoys full of vehicles with spray-painted over Libyan markings were filmed passing into Syria from Turkey. Now, I'm no rocket scientist or brain surgeon or rocket surgeon or brain scientist but it sure seems the US tried to use ISIL in the same fashion as they used the Mujahedin in Afghanistan. McCain was even photographed in a carefully cropped photograph that removed the banner above he & the "freedom fighters" that clearly indicated that they were ISIL. I have no idea who our guys were really fighting in Northern Iraq & Syria unless ISIL got out of the US's control; Or that was just a cover for fighting al Assad forces & Wagner Group? My point in bringing all this up is; Yes, our strong men & women went abroad, answering to Uncle Sam's call. Believing that they were there to make a difference in making the world a better place & especially protecting American Interests. I applaud those men & women, would proudly take off my hat & bow my head to them in respect while I put it over my heart. However, all things considered, who's interests were they really protecting? Did the actions that Uncle Sam had them take really make the world a better place? If even HALF of what I've said above seems legit ... then what does that mean about who the enemy of We the People, of the United States of America, really are?
❤I have been watching for quite a while and I feel like this was the best one yet. Please keep these coming bud they make my day every time. Just wanted you to know your appreciated.
Wooo hoo! Nice to see the MPRA community got a character! Welcome to the group, Poseidon! If you make it specifically a Mainer accent, you can say it's in honor of the closed NAS Brunswick.
I was literally talking with a buddy last night about what's going on in the world right now, and I mentioned that you were probably going to have a field day in the next video or two. You did not disappoint! I was giggling like a schoolboy at Grandpa Buff's roasts, and absolutely love how terrified Russia and Iran are because it's beginning to dawn on them just how badly they've messed up. Bravo, HLC!
WOW... you said a whole lot in this one! Keep it coming, I suspect we are gonna need you more than ever very soon! Living my best life here in south eastern Arizona
Fun thing I learned about the MAKO is apparently it is Anti radiation, gps guided, and radar guided and that is just what we know it can do so if it gets hit by an anti air radar then that radar turns off it can still hit the last known location.
It's because he's old. People tend to lose their filters as they get old. Mostly because they have enough wisdom, experience, and knowledge to not need it anymore. A lot of times, it is a problem. But the majority of the time, they're just spit'n facts - like G-Buff here. "Slavic special ed". 😂😂😂
No matter how much I hear it Grandpa Buff is the best just because it hits home for me as he has no filter and so does the elders in my family. Thanks for the videos, I hope to keep seeing more!
Grandpa buff slanging heat not even thirty seconds in “vomit it back into Scott ritters mouth like a baby bird “is almost as savage as someone else will raise your sons and daughters
I would love The Kid to meet the Avro Arrow. I can imagine the Arrow coming out of a dusty old hangar, and when Buff remembers who the Arrow is, Avro just goes "So, ya know NORAD? How it stops Missiles, right? Ya wanna know who they were to call should they actually find a missile? Yeah, that's right, *I'M THE GHOST THAT GOES SONIC BOOM IN THE NIGHT*."
@@spiritofthewolf15x Fuck that limp-dick PM for ordering them all scrapped. I know ICBMs rendered it's intended role obsolete (or at least that's how the story goes), but it could've easily been repurposed & we'd have the mother of all air superiority/defense fighters.
This was glorious. Half way through I was like omg it's still going?!? How Long is this?!?! Will my Brain be able to handle this much joy in one sitting?!
Damn no wonder Grandpa BUFF is sticking around until the Air Force says it’s time to rest. He goes hard the entire time. Never saw the Kuwait thing coming. Keep it coming
Buff will never see retirement until the Air Force decides upgrades won't cut it anymore. Which will probably be sometime after it's well over a century old. It'll be older than Galapagos tortoises when it's finally retired.
More like these two modes: 1. Can't even agree on a budget half the time and constantly on the brink of government shutdown. or 2. WE FUCKING PUT MEN ON THE MOON JUST SO WE COULD AND TO CRUSH YOUR ECONOMY UNDER THE WEIGHT OF OUR SHEER WILL.
Grandpa Buff is getting right up there in popularity with the Kid (22) as the best character. Love it. If you can let the A 10 out to play more that be great too. A 10, 22, and the Buff walk into a bar and roast the shit outa Putin and Iran....I would pay to see that. Keep up the great content!!
Proud of my father for participating in the liberation of Kuwait and gulf War in general. Thanks for your service gentlemen, and to you dad for taking care of us thousands of miles away.
Damn- this was so funny you hit the HARD! Sitting in the hospital getting a new hip installed- really needed a laugh and you didn’t disappoint! Thank you!
The military 737 should be Minnesota Accented because it burned down during the pandemic, and it's mainly a gopher for utility, radar, and stuff. University of Minnesota's mascot is the Gopher and they invented a proto internet called gopher. A gopher plane for a gopher accent, and they can both be cold as ice when they open a door in January.
Stupid trivia: The U of M mascot is *called* a gopher, but the character…isn’t. It’s actually a thirteen-lined ground squirrel that we incorrectly pretend is a gopher.
@@machinistmikethetinkerer4827 Not really. From the same town, so related, but distantly. I’m in the other branch, so probably like fourth or fifth cousins or something.
"No, she's crazy and she needs to go down. I will teach you lightning bending, but in case you do not have sufficient internal balance, inside my crate of Ginseng tea is a tool for bending the sound Barrier. We should name it!"
They named it after the shark shark (Mako is the Maori word for shark or shark tooth so it is either the shark tooth shark or the shark shark). They picked the Mako shark because it is not the fastest fish in the sea but all the ones faster dont have as cool a name (sailfish, tuna, marlin) or were probably to navy like (swordfish).
The best part is there is definitley at least one career officer at the Pentagon who hates this show but is begrungingly forced to acknowledge it does more for moral and recruitment than his entire budget.
😢 poor REMF.
it's often more accurate than the 'news' channels too.
Please explain how the belief in a non-existent missile is in any way, shape, or form good for us in any respect whatsoever? "Now we’re looking to take it to the next level and actually find a customer who’s willing to support us, building the missile, and actually demonstrating in flight.” - Rob Osterhoud, Lockheed Martin The War Zone, The Lowdown On Lockheed's Newly Revealed Mako Hypersonic Missile, April 11, 2024
I wish we could get one with the effect for some of US allies.
Let's be real here, if the US ends up at war with China or Russia for whatever reason, the other one will join too.
And the US is by no means strong enough to fight both at the same time, so they need the European allies, even in the sorry state of our militaries.
Especially Germany needs help in that department since our tries were either extremely cringe or had a straight up opposite effect in the last decade...
Cools story except the mako has been in development since 2017 as a competitior for a new anti radiation missile which is a contract it did not secure. After the announcement of the mako the us navy placed it onto a list of programs they aim to fun for next fy.
"It fits on the F15"
So they strapped a hypersonic missile to a hypersonic missile. Murrica!
Yo dawg I heard you like hypersonic missiles
Cost savings measure.
If you launch a mach-5 missile from a plane going mach-5, it really extends the range!
heh.
F15 bristling with hypersonics: FETCH ME THEIR SOULS
@@LadyWarmachine With arms that have such reach, you can fetch them yourself… Before they even hear you coming
I love how the F22 acknowledges grandpa Buff's badassness
The kid knows what's up
well when you stick around for 72 years of service and hand out so many L's to enemy combatants even if you arent stealth....gotta respect
Buff probably has a higher body count than most other aircrafts combined, so it'd make sense.
The f22 almost reveres ol grandpa buff as is natural
Don't disrespect your roots. F-22 is a badass in its own right, but to deny one's noble roots is to be arrogant, and the F-22 don't bluff.
"America, you never do anything!"
Geez, I wish I could forget 2001-2021 so easily.
Still not going to do anything. Think about it. In the current political climate, If any given current administration does ANYTHING, they've lost their next election. Full stop. Non-negotiable. They know this. Even the tiny bit of aid they did give to both Ukraine and I*rael (have to censor it, automod bots shadow-delete any comment with any mention of the ((())) country.) has put them in a very precarious position.
The sad part is that all we did, in the end, was get a bunch of our servicemen killed and make several countries in the middle east and Africa even shittier than they already were.
I wish I could forget 1916-2021 so easily
@@54MUR411337you can thank the allies for making the Middle East and Africa in general what they are today
@@jejeakleexactly but everyone overlooks it and just say that they are terrible people that hate the USA
Oh I wonder why
“Slavic special ed” god damn grandpa buff
Grandpa Buff is not wrong
That will come in handy when dealing with these russian trolls.
I had to pause and catch my breath after that one 😂
Love it
😂😂😂 That was good
1999 my drill Sgt told my basic training platoon that the 50 cal was an anti material weapon and is designed to shoot enemy equipment, not personnel. Then he explained that the army considers belts, shoes, their weapons and anything else on them as "equipment." =)
We were told this is why US soldiers aren't allowed to carry money into combat.
"You don't want them shooting at your wallets, do you?"
I miss basic training...every thing made sense.
I asked my grandpa who was a Sherman tank commander in Italy in WWII if they were prohibited from shooting the 75mm main gun at soldiers. He said, no, we were told to hit the Germans with everything we had.
@@bryonslatten3147 What governments and higher ups in big institutions say and what actually happens on the ground is often different.
The main point for them is the public outlook, and that they have plausible deniability
Soooooo if you don't want to get shot by a big gun, run around absolutely naked?
The Marine Drill Instructors were of the same mindset in '03. 😂
“To win.” Is the most American Military line anyone can hear. And he’s right.😂
Vietnam was proof of this I guess.
@@user-tt6il2up4o actually it was. We won the war in vietnam. We won every major engagement. We packed up and left because of politics. We never lost a single major battle. 😂
@@trailblazer632that and that United States never invaded North Vietnam, cutting fully to the ground the capabilities of the Vietcong to keep sending guerrillas
But US didn't want a Korea War 2, and they were facing more rivals in United States than in Vietnam
I've said it many, many times. We don't need NATO... NATO needs us...
@@user-tt6il2up4o What a one dimensional way to look at the world
"What are you preparing for?"
Planetary game mode of, winner takes all, free for all, king of the hill speed run.
Aliens.
Not to fight. No. No. To $ELL. America would be the first to be an interplanetary arms dealer. The only thing that could tip us off is, if for some weird reason the US had ALOT of money. Like inexplicably infinite.
Nah, the US just decided to skip past Beast Mode & go full-out God Mode. lol
@@athelwulfgalland When we designed God Mode, we had to design a way to beat it.
I legit thought the video was over when Russia asked “America, what are you preparing for” only to see it was HALFWAY done. This was awesome.
Russia asked “America, what are you preparing for?”
America replies "Yes."
After Afghanistan they all got cocky. Guess they forgot just how much hammer the US can drop.
He's used that joke twice now. Last time was when discussing Poland's growing arsenal
@@katelyntaylor7384 I mean, yeah. Thats kinda why I thought the video was over
“America, what are you preparing for?”
"ALL the things. Like the movie: everything everywhere all at once."
“104-0 look out below i took out a satellite just for show” 🔥 🔥 🔥
Funny most of them were from Operation Mole Cricket 19
I died at that lmao
Epic
That NEEDS to be ON a T shirt and Bumper Sticker!
Thay shit was fire!
"104 and 0 look out below
I took out a Satelite just for show"
F-15 is spittin' bars
Man the world must really love the phrase "Fuck Around and Find Out."
Things are about to get real “proportional”.
It's not going to be proportional it's going to the old school America mushroom stamping idiots
Again lol
Fat electrician fan I take it?
Did I miss someone touching the boats?
@@Kaiquintos If they had touched the boats it would already be on.
I swear HLC’s eyes get that look of “I did not escape the asylum, they gave me a day pass” whenever he’s saying one of the more colourful lines for Buff.
or almost EVERY line from the Kid
That is so accurate!
… fuck I heard Buff say that…
You know he has some of those psych ward grippy socks.
He didn't escape the asylum...
...the asylum escaped him...
HLC… I have to say, and I usually do not comment anything anymore; this patriotic country / military equipment format of yours always makes my day. Genuine thank you to you. Best regards from Switzerland.
Just asking... Is your country considering *to end hundreds of years of isolationist neutrality and join the party like sweden did? I just need the "when swiss cease being neutral" to finish my 'everything has gone sh1t' bingo xD
I absolutely love the idea of the Raptor in absolute shock and awe at just the bars Papa Buff drops.
"snorts 3 ounces of cocaine" "grandpas roasts go so hard"
That's not cocaine. That's powdered RAM coating.
@@atigerclaw Lmao
@@atigerclawlmfao
@@atigerclawpppffttttt
Nah pretty shure it’s pure rage and adrenaline he’s snorting
"The 'P' stands for 'Plenty'," is such a hardcore line
Kind of reminds me that "phosphorus" is an internationally recognized war crime.
Essayons
KInda wish it was "proportional"
Out of all the hard one liners, that one goes the hardest!! Chefs kiss!!
Engineers clear the way!
I'm addicted to all of these but this particular one went exceptionally hard.
I'd intercept you, HLC. You a real one.
My goodness, Grandpa Buff just gives me a warm glow listening to him talk.
"What are you preparing for?"
"To win"
I see what you did there
It sounds very Polish......
I would wear that shirt everyday
immediate Poland flashback
I love that the Mako isn't made hypersonic by fancy propulsion like Scramjet... they are made hypersonic by sheer brute force.
It's the American way
If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough.
We don't need hypersonic missiles. We can already beat radar with stealth. This just a pure American flex for all the people that didn't understand russia and china have fake hypersonic. Here is a real one. Pay attention to how it glows in the terminal phase. If it doesn't glow like a meteorite when it hits, it's not traveling at hypersonic speeds. You can't do that inside the atmosphere without plasma. No plasma, no hypersonic. Easy.
@@alaricvis09 ha ha ha ha ha Bravo sir. Bravo
The best part is that we don't even need the mako. We can already beat radar with stealth. We don't need to do it with speed. This is purely just to flex on russia and china. BECAUSE WE CAN.
"I took out a satellite just for show" wow that hit hard too
As someone whos currently applied for a position with the RAAF that would put me aboard a Posiedon... thank you so much for that new character. Love it!
Currently on P8 and I agree I love the shout out!
"America, what are you preparing for?"
To Win.
Hooah!
Poland chimes in: "you stole my fucking line"
@@crabman2010
Poland with the current administration that's a 🐩🇺🇲
No, we only use Willy Pete to mark locations now. Just remember that if the enemies start screaming because they are on fire, you have successfully marked their location.
Willy Pete is also used for obscuration. Dropping it on an enemy position is just as effective as dropping it in front of it. Especially if some of that smoke is cause by their equipment catching fire.
This has me cracking tf up.
then you hone in on the sound of screaming.
I think the primary use is still illumination, smoke generation, marking targets, and sometimes anti-materiel. Of course, if there happens to be people around the site of the WP rounds landing... well, sucks to be them, I guess.
Shouldn't be standing where a spotting round is deployed.
I love how the F22 revere's Grandpa Buff like he truly is his grandpa
Man just cooked for five straight minutes. Buff went hard in this one. Hats off, HLC.
5 minutes of HLC?
Awesome!
my first thought too!!
Makes up for bailing on Friday ❤
Felt like 30 seconds, shit's just too good.
Wow we getting the P-8 involved now?! Impressive.
For those that are curious, the P-8 is the reconnaissance aircraft replacing the 50 year old P-3 Orion platform. It's essentially a Boeing 737, stripped of 151 seats, fitted with recon combat stations, the baggage bay an internal weapons bay, and since it shares so many parts with the 737, makes it highly cost efficient to operate. It's range is conservatively the same as Buffs, being that it can be refuled airborne.
Boeing 737 is not something to brag
About lately
@@baoxidiaoyu the P8 doesn't have door plugs....
@@Matthias_Cruger The only thing the P-8 is dropping is pain, freedom, and motherfucking liberty, courtesy of the american taxpayer.
@@baoxidiaoyuP-8 maintainers are held to higher standards than United. (I was on P-8’s from the start of fleet replacement until I got out.)
The cargo bay is occupied by extra fuel tanks and, on certain planes, an extra avionics cooling system. The weapons bay occupies very little cargo space. Hell, the pneumatics for the sonobuoys takes more space than the weapons bay.
You make me proud again of our military. I grew up military.
Civilians were muggles. Weird.
And I've been surrounded by them for over 40 years now. Your site is awesome. Brings that pride back.
F22 and gramps are probably the best characters I’ve seen, I love them dude 😂
The f-35 *cough cough crackpot *returns
The kid felt the hypersonic missile coming inside of him…
Ayo 😂
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HLC I love these longer. I know you won't be able to do them any longer because of editing and voice lines but these are always a treat!
yeah these 5 mins one ( there is only one other i think. they hit real hard. :D)
in far future i cant phathom what could be made in different content form. with other people popping in too.
a whole darn comedy skit thats actually more informative then the news
My hubby feels I shouldn't watch these videos due entirely to language, but I cannot deny Grandpa Buff is the epitome of defiance our bad-ass country was built on!❤
Scr ... rather ... don't screw hubby! You're a grown woman, watch what you like, if he tries to preach/yell at you for it then tell him he's surfing the couch for the next X number of days or he can handle the laundry, cooking or whatever else you wanna pin on him. You hold the cards; Don't be afraid to play them.
@@athelwulfgalland I miss when humans (especially spouses) could voice their opinions to each other without fear of punishment like civilized fucking people.
@@athelwulfgallandI miss when people, especially spouses, could voice their opinions to each other like civilized f***ing people without fear of punishment. (How ironic is it that RUclips doesn’t let me swear in this comment)
@@Kilovotis We live in a clown world, no question about it & I have no idea where these bizarre twists are going to wind us all up.
I also miss being able to engage in public discourse without fear of censorship, being labeled a bot & being called completely baseless names. I knew one marriage that was sorta like that of the OP but the hubby in that relationship would go to extreme lengths to assert his control over his wife, son, daughter & even our mutual mother in law.
His wife spent way too many years making excuses for his behavior, getting beat, choked, SA'd, etc. She turned to drugs & alcohol for a while & while she eventually got clean of the drugs she still struggles with alcohol.
He died, likely as a result of an insulin overdose, most probably because he was too high on pain killers to even realize how much he was giving himself.
His daughter became a non-surgical trans-man; Nor is she on the hormones. Her partner is a mostly non-surgical trans-woman. If she were on hormones apparently it would interfere with their intimacy.
His son was a total basket case. Emo to the extreme, agoraphobia to the nines, social anxiety to the point of trembling & with a strong desire to do something bad to his father. After his father passed it didn't get much better.
We don't know many details but he & his older half-brother got pretty close. Everyone in the older half-brother's family accepted him & his nieces really loved him. Something went horribly wrong one day though & nobody is willing to talk about it.
He attacked his older half-brother, put a few bullets in him & then sequestered himself away in a back part of the house in a guest room. The kids & wife were unharmed, they managed to get my older nephew to safety after that.
When the cops arrived & tried to talk him down they heard a single pew-pew discharge. He'd removed himself from the gene pool. Now my wife's older sister the mother of those two boys & wife to that twisted individual I mentioned has indicated that her older son is having a real hard time recovering from what happened. He & his wife are now separated, plus his daughters are in counseling.
If she'd only have listened & realized how toxic this man was earlier. She even knew that he'd SA'd his mother-in-law but stayed with him; Can you believe it?!
No, there was no being open in that household. I'm tremendously grateful that while I had insecurities & a bit of a temper when I was younger neither my wife or I ever refrained from communicating. Even if it resulted in an argument, that was fine, because we both trusted one another that we'd be able to sort things out.
While I've never resorted to violence I've gotten hit a time or two; Then a beautiful tackle, that would've made a linebacker proud, when I tried leaving the house to drive around in the family car.
The funniest part about the tackle is that I was so shocked & genuinely impressed at how perfect her take-down was that I just couldn't stay mad. I busted up laughing! Eventually we were both laughing like idiots - all in a pile by the front door. That cooled both our heads & we were able to make amends over whatever it was. lol
We NEVER sleep on an argument; That's a rule we've held since our relationship began all the way back in '96.
In any case she's never told me what I could or couldn't do (unless you count taking the car out on a drive that night?! lmao) - I also have never told her what she could or couldn't do.
We've both admitted if we'd rather something different to be done about one thing or another but that's a whole different kettle of fish. Neither of us have had to remind the other of our vows either our hard earned trust is too important to squander.
As a P-3 veteran, HELL YEAH for throwing out some ASW love!
If only American leadership was actually this bold and decisive....
Someone hasn't been paying attention to foreign policy.
@@Bluecatteunfortunately the news on TV are more about making America look like a horrible country rather than showing that we are in fact ready to fuck someone’s shit up
Making moves on a global scale requires a lot of hands and plenty of time.
Fyi, presidential policy normally takes 10 years before a clear outcome can be viewed. Most things done in office are either killed by the next president, or can't be felt until their terms are over.
@@Bluecatte Or anything else for the last 30 years
Well, there'd be a lot more than 50 stars on the flag for a start.
“I feel like America is actually upset this time”
*Courtesy of the Red White and Blue intensifies*
"Do they gotta theme song over there? We wanna know so we can remix it to be proper American"
Love me some Union Dixie, what's the Iranian equivalent we could make?
RIP Toby Keith
This is the "America in the Middle East" theme song, and shall not change
@@fracturedframe1462 I still only half believe everything that happened to start those 20 long years of war. Osama was the CIA's boy during the Afghan Mujaheddin insurgency against the Soviets. He was already on the FSB's S#it list so why on Earth would he make an enemy of his former allies too? That never made much sense to me.
Furthermore, while all flights in the US were grounded, the FAA gave his family special permission to fly & vacate the nation's airspace.
Then there was the nurse that testified that after 9/11 Osama was receiving medical care at a US military hospital; Though I can't remember the location of it; Just that it was nowhere near Afghanistan or Pakistan.
Never mind the whole issue with the towers collapsing, including Tower 7, which just happened to be the depository for all of the CIA's financial records. (While they were on the verge of being audited.)
Lastly were the aircraft themselves. I'm still not sure if I believe what really hit the pentagon since none of the light poles were damaged in the slightest, despite the shallow angle of descent, when not long prior one of our VC-25s took out a few near an airfield on a shallow approach on landing. Furthermore the video that depicted an aircraft which flew directly over the cameraman was NOT a civilian 767.
It had parts of the fittings for a KC-767; Though it was painted in proper airline livery. It was just like one of those that Boeing was in the process of preparing for Italy. Incidentally the delivery got pushed back almost a full decade due to unspecified delays.
In the following 3 weeks all online sources which talked about the progress of the KC-767s for the Italian Air Force were scrubbed from the internet. (I used to have screenshots but I've gone though 2 or 3 hard drive deaths since.)
Then there was the issue of ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State/The Caliphate. In the beginning they were entirely armed with off the shelf civilian equipment, such as the Toyota Hilux, body armor, optics, etc. Plus easily sourced US surplus such as M16s & M4s.
Then we, seemingly without any motivation, attacked Libya. Although Libya had been a state sponsor of terror in the past they had long since shifted their direction & even paid restitution to those that lost their lives in the high profile destruction of an airliner over the British Isles. Libya had become the nation with the highest standard of living in Africa & was poised to introduce a new gold-backed currency that would become the equivalent of the Euro but for Africa.
Then we suddenly attacked? If it were even just for fear that the USD would lose a great deal of it's value it would be a war crime. However the supposed gold reserves soon after disappeared like a puff of smoke.
Even then it doesn't appear that was the entire purpose to the attack. Libya was like a used car lot of Soviet era equipment that had been kept in mothballs, in working condition, that could readily be made operational. Suddenly huge numbers of cargo vessels were headed to Turkey from Libya & convoys full of vehicles with spray-painted over Libyan markings were filmed passing into Syria from Turkey.
Now, I'm no rocket scientist or brain surgeon or rocket surgeon or brain scientist but it sure seems the US tried to use ISIL in the same fashion as they used the Mujahedin in Afghanistan. McCain was even photographed in a carefully cropped photograph that removed the banner above he & the "freedom fighters" that clearly indicated that they were ISIL.
I have no idea who our guys were really fighting in Northern Iraq & Syria unless ISIL got out of the US's control; Or that was just a cover for fighting al Assad forces & Wagner Group?
My point in bringing all this up is; Yes, our strong men & women went abroad, answering to Uncle Sam's call. Believing that they were there to make a difference in making the world a better place & especially protecting American Interests. I applaud those men & women, would proudly take off my hat & bow my head to them in respect while I put it over my heart.
However, all things considered, who's interests were they really protecting? Did the actions that Uncle Sam had them take really make the world a better place? If even HALF of what I've said above seems legit ... then what does that mean about who the enemy of We the People, of the United States of America, really are?
❤I have been watching for quite a while and I feel like this was the best one yet. Please keep these coming bud they make my day every time. Just wanted you to know your appreciated.
Wooo hoo! Nice to see the MPRA community got a character! Welcome to the group, Poseidon!
If you make it specifically a Mainer accent, you can say it's in honor of the closed NAS Brunswick.
2:13 The fear in Russia's voice gives me life XD
Hey Rhodor
I was literally talking with a buddy last night about what's going on in the world right now, and I mentioned that you were probably going to have a field day in the next video or two. You did not disappoint! I was giggling like a schoolboy at Grandpa Buff's roasts, and absolutely love how terrified Russia and Iran are because it's beginning to dawn on them just how badly they've messed up. Bravo, HLC!
As a combat engineer vet, can confirm, P does stand for plenty
WOW... you said a whole lot in this one!
Keep it coming, I suspect we are gonna need you more than ever very soon!
Living my best life here in south eastern Arizona
Fun thing I learned about the MAKO is apparently it is Anti radiation, gps guided, and radar guided and that is just what we know it can do so if it gets hit by an anti air radar then that radar turns off it can still hit the last known location.
The "sick of your shit" missile
Well that's terrifying.
@@dylandarnell3657 "Basically, run"
@@intelati49 "It won't help, but it'll be funnier."
Absolutely love Grandpa Buff 💕 he's got no filter and I love it 😂😁
Well, he is old enough to not care anymore, so why not
It's because he's old. People tend to lose their filters as they get old. Mostly because they have enough wisdom, experience, and knowledge to not need it anymore. A lot of times, it is a problem. But the majority of the time, they're just spit'n facts - like G-Buff here. "Slavic special ed". 😂😂😂
Sgt Long
Let's not forget the men that fly these missions. Their commitment to the mission was beyond simple bravery.
@@taitano12
Having to explain the rules to a full bird and lived to talk about it was an expression of just how tired i was of his bull shit.
I knew this video was going to be straight fire as soon as Buff made that Scott Ritter analogy. 😂😂😂
HLC always delivers!
I love that Grandpa Buff and all the fighters are this big family, with Buff giving the most badass one-liners.
Grandpa: "Have a nice f$*^ing day!" Lmao 🤣🤣🤣 🔥🔥🔥
Coffee, a cigarette, and some Grandpa Buff talking smack. Thats a good way to relax.
Grandpa Buff held nothing back. This was absolute gold
"104 and 0 look out below, I took out a satellite just for show" was really good.
Grandpa Buff brought the smoke today, and I am here for it.
My father was a B-52 maintainer in Vietnam. It was his job to keep the BUFF in the fight.
No matter how much I hear it Grandpa Buff is the best just because it hits home for me as he has no filter and so does the elders in my family.
Thanks for the videos, I hope to keep seeing more!
Right? He's reached the age where he just doesn't give a fuck any more and just says whatever badass shit comes to mind. It's hilarious!
@@talon8911 - my only filter is my wife. if she ain't around................................incoming!
This is absolutely my newest favorite video from HLC News. Thank you sir for the laughs this Monday morning.
Grandpa buff slanging heat not even thirty seconds in “vomit it back into Scott ritters mouth like a baby bird “is almost as savage as someone else will raise your sons and daughters
I would love The Kid to meet the Avro Arrow. I can imagine the Arrow coming out of a dusty old hangar, and when Buff remembers who the Arrow is, Avro just goes "So, ya know NORAD? How it stops Missiles, right? Ya wanna know who they were to call should they actually find a missile? Yeah, that's right, *I'M THE GHOST THAT GOES SONIC BOOM IN THE NIGHT*."
A plane that sounds like Darkwing Duck and uses his catch phrases. I'm here for that.
As a Canadian, I'm all for this. The Arrow was both a high, and low point of our aviation industry.
*Shakes Canadian industrial complex hard* DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU AND GIVE US OUT BITCHSLAPPING INTERCEPTORS!!!
@@spiritofthewolf15x Fuck that limp-dick PM for ordering them all scrapped. I know ICBMs rendered it's intended role obsolete (or at least that's how the story goes), but it could've easily been repurposed & we'd have the mother of all air superiority/defense fighters.
@@spiritofthewolf15x
Yanks involved in the killing your beloved Avro Arrow !
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Poseidon sounds like the Scout. Hella.
It's an airliner with a bombbay and hard points. Hoo-rah!!
it fits
That is why Buff said he went with the Northeastern US accent AKA Yankee accent. Scout is from Boston which is deep in Yankee territory...
In an extreme case of allowing any American the chance to practice their 2A rights, Boeing has mounted weapons on a 737.
Drachinifel (probably)
now i cant unhear the scout from TF2 lol
This was one of the best in a while! Loved it!
HLC ..freaking Large Canadian man who's a big fan of you! Love this stuff!
This was glorious. Half way through I was like omg it's still going?!? How Long is this?!?! Will my Brain be able to handle this much joy in one sitting?!
That's what she said 🎉
I LOVE the longer ones, love when you put a lot of lore in the videos! Definitely a fan of it!
Again THANK YOU for all of your content.
Grandpa Buff always goes hard when he has the floor
Damn I love Grandpa Buff, Slavic Special ED!!
I spit my coke out and laughed my butt off
Really? Because Gen Xers were using lines like that back in elementary school.
YES! Loving the longer format. The 1 minute shorts are great too, but if you want to make them a little longer sometimes, we're here for it too!!!
"We use Willy P only on their equipment, like the shirt they're wearing"
That line in particular made me snort.
I love your videos so much, they also keep me up to date with our capabilities
Damn no wonder Grandpa BUFF is sticking around until the Air Force says it’s time to rest. He goes hard the entire time. Never saw the Kuwait thing coming. Keep it coming
Buff tells the Air Force when it's time to rest
Buff will never see retirement until the Air Force decides upgrades won't cut it anymore. Which will probably be sometime after it's well over a century old. It'll be older than Galapagos tortoises when it's finally retired.
It'll finally get warp drive and photon torpedoes.
God Rest ol Willypete... he was a good dawg.
Love the P-8 voice 👍🏻 GREAT PICK👍🏻🫡🇺🇸
Your videos get better and better and I love every second of it
"The 'P' stands for Plenty" 😂
Love the engineer reference there HLC. Essayons!
America has two modes:
1. Cooperative when approached peacefully.
2. Zealously competitive when told it can't build better technology.
You for got 3. Horrifying destroyer of armies when somebody touches our boats, and 4. Teacher of the concept of fart around and find out.
You know he was being serious when the jokes stopped. USA was to busy laughing internally while looking over a logistics spreadsheet
More like these two modes:
1. Can't even agree on a budget half the time and constantly on the brink of government shutdown.
or
2. WE FUCKING PUT MEN ON THE MOON JUST SO WE COULD AND TO CRUSH YOUR ECONOMY UNDER THE WEIGHT OF OUR SHEER WILL.
I needed that laugh. Thank you. Amazing as always 👍🏻
Man I really loved this one. I think you nailed it.
Grandpa Buff is getting right up there in popularity with the Kid (22) as the best character. Love it.
If you can let the A 10 out to play more that be great too. A 10, 22, and the Buff walk into a bar and roast the shit outa Putin and Iran....I would pay to see that.
Keep up the great content!!
I suspect A-10 is going to go "someone F'd Around and is about to Find Out."
Proud of my father for participating in the liberation of Kuwait and gulf War in general. Thanks for your service gentlemen, and to you dad for taking care of us thousands of miles away.
Grampa Buff is terrifying and I LOVE it!
As someone who worked on the P8 Poseidon, this makes me smile
"Buff, be nice"
"I am being nice"
SLAVIC SPECIAL ED! OMG! Dude... This is why we should respect our elders! Love it!
"I feel like America is actually upset this time"
*(Sound of Fortunate Son Intensifies)*
I absolutely love your stuff hlc. If I was younger you're videos would have me seriously thinking about serving.
grandpa woke up and chose violence, somehow amplified by how calm he kept it
"Mako the terrorist go awayo!"
-Lockheed Martin
They called it Mako because it leaves the enemy only slightly chunkier than Mayo.
@@willythemailboy2 Or because the mako shark is the fastest shark alive.
@@JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine Either or.
"MAKO, Me say Mako me light'em up and they gonna go home (to see Allah)"
Damn- this was so funny you hit the HARD! Sitting in the hospital getting a new hip installed- really needed a laugh and you didn’t disappoint! Thank you!
Long live the Buff, humble and quiet till that voice comes out and the ground shakes.
"Too WIN." oh! that response goes hard.
The military 737 should be Minnesota Accented because it burned down during the pandemic, and it's mainly a gopher for utility, radar, and stuff. University of Minnesota's mascot is the Gopher and they invented a proto internet called gopher. A gopher plane for a gopher accent, and they can both be cold as ice when they open a door in January.
Yeah the summer of love. Got a lot of refugees here in South dakota the last few years.
Stupid trivia: The U of M mascot is *called* a gopher, but the character…isn’t. It’s actually a thirteen-lined ground squirrel that we incorrectly pretend is a gopher.
@@TonyYarussoyou don't happen to be of the family that owns a certain Italian restaurant are you?
@@machinistmikethetinkerer4827 Not really. From the same town, so related, but distantly. I’m in the other branch, so probably like fourth or fifth cousins or something.
Im so glad I took JROTC to have some basic understanding. Love the videos
This was probably one of the best ones I have seen so far keep up the great work! Delta battery 5/7 ADA in K-town 07-10
Im waiting for the history lessons now that I know they are coming. also you should totally use the cartoon versions for fever dream segments.
Yes! This is perfect for when the kid gets locked in his hanger and has nothing to do but sleep!!!
Grandpa Buff's response to Russia had me rollin 😂😂😂😂
I love these five minute videos. Not only does it go more in depth on what’s happening right now but also it makes everything more funny
News from military world presented in the most funny way imaginable. Love your content man, keep it up.
Wait they named a missile after the guy who voiced Iroh? Kinda cool.
no, they named it after the vehicle in Mass Effect
"No, she's crazy and she needs to go down. I will teach you lightning bending, but in case you do not have sufficient internal balance, inside my crate of Ginseng tea is a tool for bending the sound Barrier. We should name it!"
They named it after a shark ....
@Cyclonus5 see now that's how you know a character is legendary when someone can type a whole ahh monologue 38 seconds after a comment is posted.
They named it after the shark shark (Mako is the Maori word for shark or shark tooth so it is either the shark tooth shark or the shark shark). They picked the Mako shark because it is not the fastest fish in the sea but all the ones faster dont have as cool a name (sailfish, tuna, marlin) or were probably to navy like (swordfish).
definitely enjoying the longer episodes. it gives a chance to tell a bit of a story. also god damn buff with the dense fog smoke.
The best episode yet. 5 mins of gold!
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Grandpa Buff be going hard this episode 😂