American Reacts to When Britain Nuked America...Twice!

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[SoGal_YT]

Loved being introduced to the Vulcan B2! 🇬🇧✈️ Like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video 👍🏻 Follow me on social media:

[Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire]

Fun fact: very recently 100 Royal Marines Commandos defeated a force of 1, 500 US troops in a war game that had to be cut short as the results were so unexpected.
See the thing is the British have always lacked quantity being a small island nation with just 67 million people, but we have always made up for that with devastatingly high quality

[stephen]

Don't feel bad, we Brits have been fighting for thousands of years longer than America. Also 'Vulcan' was the god of fire.

[cuthalin]

Some US Generals refused to believe this happened, until they were shown the photos taken by the Vulcans of New York ! For me the most embarrasing part is that a Vulcan LANDED at a US Airbase in N.Y. and the first the airbase knew was when it told them it was on finals ! They had flown right up the US East Coast !

[terrythomas]

You are possibly the most thoughtful American reactor on YT IMO. I enjoy listening to you. Thank you.

[remittanceman]

No, we didn't have "stealth" technology, that's a passive way of avoiding enemy air defences. The Vulcans used heavy jamming (an active system) to defeat the US air defence system. I don't think the Americans were being dumb. The Brits simply studied the US air defence system and worked out a way to defeat it rather than sticking to doctrine.

[clivestevenson]

I would have loved to have been the RAF officer at NORAD - standing at the back of the room - with a smug smile on my face!
Love your videos - and great to see someone genuinly interested in world history. Live Long and Prosper.

[Xoferif]

Fun fact: The only target that Vulcans ever blew up for real was a British airport. =)
(Operation Black Buck during the Falklands war.)

[graemehossack]

What I find amazing about the Vulcan is that its first flight was only eleven years after the first flight of the Lancaster bomber, both designed by the same man.

[garymcatear]

There is only one lesson to be learned here, never ever underestimate the Brits in any situation.

[soulsuitesteve]

During the 'Red Flag' joint UK, US war games in the 80's, the height 'ceiling' of operations was set to 500 feet. one of the Vulcan crews on that exercise was reprimanded for flying so low it brought down telephone cables with its vertical tail plane. What really annoyed the top brass was that the cockpit data recorder showed that the aircraft was 'climbing' when it hit the wires!! Vulcan crews were a breed apart for

[TheSmittenman]

After the first exercise, most of the US Airforce refused to believe the RAFs claims, which is why on the 2nd exercise they decided to land a plane in New York to prove a point, and until they asked for permission to land, the airport were not even aware they were there, so the story goes anyway

[dazza]

That's Mark Felton, this guy knows everything about military History, what he doesn't know isn't worth knowing. It's worth checking out his channel.

[daveofyorkshire]

The British had a nuclear programme long before your Manhatten project. During the war there was an agreement to work together (along with several other countries - it wasn't an American breakthrough) and share the technology. Your president went back on that and we had to create our own from scratch, you did it again with the hydrogen bomb too.

[ajvanmarle]

When someone says their air defenses are 99 percent effective, always remember that getting hit by just 1% of all the oncoming nukes is still not a good thing.
As for the Vulcan, it wasn't really stealth, though the radar cross section was small for its size. But because of its enormous wing area it was very maneouverable at high altitude, despite the thin air. At 60, 000 ft it can pull tighter turns than an F-15. And the jamming was very good for its time.
As for why the USAF didn't learn from the first time it happened, remember, they swept it all under the rug. No officer who wanted to have a career would mention it to his superiors, so nobody could ever learn from it.

[greyknightsrealm]

I think the key words from the video were "with the right aircraft". The Vulcan B2 was the right aircraft for so many things, it was a design marvel and an incredible piece of engineering for the task it had (a bit like the U2 spy plane is for a different purpose). Ahead of her time. I'm glad to have been able to see one fly for real before it was finally retired a few years ago.

[robertwardle]

In the falklands war in the 80s a british vulcan did the longest known bombing run at 6, 600 nautical miles with several refules in air

[FaithlessDeviant]

jamming is more like the opposite tactic of stealth. where you try to blind the enemy radars so it is making it difficult to pinpoint the planes.

[nicksykes]

SoGal, mentioning 9/11, check out the UKs reaction on 9/12 when the Queen ordered the Guards Band, at the ceremonial changing of the guard, to play the Star Spangled Banner instead of God Save The Queen. This was the only time ever that the anthem of a foreign country was played at Buckingham Palace without the leader of that country being present.

[jayzo]

You should look at the story of the Australian submarine that evaded the US in a training exercise and then played "Down Under" by Men At Work over the radio to celebrate their victory.