They make an inexplicable Top Gun/Tom Cruise reference which suggests they don’t seem to know the difference between the F-15, F-14, or F-18. Or perhaps even between the US Navy and USAF.
I’m not aware of any plans to send F-15s to Ukraine. I have only heard of F-16 and maybe F-35.
The video thumbnail shows F-15s with a single (offset?) rudder.
There’s a reference to the F-11 which seems to actually mean the F-111.
There is a reference to an F-22 Megaprojects video that doesn’t seem to exist. They may mean F-35 here.
They claim the F-15 was active in Vietnam when it didn’t enter combat service until 1976. This may be another mistaken F-14 reference.
The video claims the F-15 C and D are no longer in service with the US military but they are.
The gun is not in the nose, it is in the wing root.
The AIM7 and AIM9 were not new for the F-15C. Both are from the late 1950s.
F-15E weighs more than the F-15C/D.
The video suggests that the F-15EX and F-15 II are different planes but the F-15EX is the “Eagle II”, the same plane.
The F-15EX is not claiming to go mach 3+. It is mach 2.4 capable, similar to the F-15C/D.
Jordan didn’t have Mig-25s, the Syrians did.
It’s so egregious I unsubscribed from the channel before my Gell-Mann amnesia could subject me to further incorrect information. It’s a shame because I enjoyed these channels but now can’t trust them.
> It’s so egregious I unsubscribed from the channel before my Gell-Mann amnesia could subject me to further incorrect information. It’s a shame because I enjoyed these channels but now can’t trust them.
Kinda curious that a lot of people complain about "videos replacing text" yet these "inaccurately paraphrase Wikipedia out loud while playing a Powerpoint made from Wikipedia/Commons and other images" channels like the one you linked, Asianometry and so on are huge and popular. And those at least write a (highly derivative or essentially plagiarized) script and read it, there's channels that do the same thing but with GPT for the script and TTS for the voice, and even those are pretty big.
edit: Funnily enough both kinds of channels have the "GPT issue" in that they always want to sound confident and authoritative, so they never point out if they are unsure about something. Compare this to channels like Applied Science or Breaking Taps where they very clearly point out when they don't understand something or are unsure of their understanding.
I'm one of those people who complain about "videos replacing text". The difference here is context.
I don't want to watch a video about how to configure my shell, or Kubernetes. I want hypertext for that, so I can quickly seek through the information and find what I need. I want it to be searchable. I want to be able to reference it. I don't want to wait for YouTube to buffer just to see the config file path for a setting that would be one paragraph up in text.
Megaprojects, Asianometry, and friends are entertainment. They curate some content that is generally relevant to some topic and then present it in a simple way. I can basically switch off and learn about something new that is relevant to my interests. I don't expect them to be the authorotative source on the topic but I also don't expect them to lie to my face. Wikipedia has a random page but it doesn't have a "random pages visited by people like you". That's all these channels are.
Nothing in life is absolute. There is no one true media format. I like to read technical documentation in text, watch high fantasy on a dedicated screen, and consume popsci brain candy with my phone's screen. Similarly I listen to music on vinyl and Spotify. None of this is contradictory.
They make an inexplicable Top Gun/Tom Cruise reference which suggests they don’t seem to know the difference between the F-15, F-14, or F-18. Or perhaps even between the US Navy and USAF.
I’m not aware of any plans to send F-15s to Ukraine. I have only heard of F-16 and maybe F-35.
The video thumbnail shows F-15s with a single (offset?) rudder.
There’s a reference to the F-11 which seems to actually mean the F-111.
There is a reference to an F-22 Megaprojects video that doesn’t seem to exist. They may mean F-35 here.
They claim the F-15 was active in Vietnam when it didn’t enter combat service until 1976. This may be another mistaken F-14 reference.
The video claims the F-15 C and D are no longer in service with the US military but they are.
The gun is not in the nose, it is in the wing root.
The AIM7 and AIM9 were not new for the F-15C. Both are from the late 1950s.
F-15E weighs more than the F-15C/D.
The video suggests that the F-15EX and F-15 II are different planes but the F-15EX is the “Eagle II”, the same plane.
The F-15EX is not claiming to go mach 3+. It is mach 2.4 capable, similar to the F-15C/D.
Jordan didn’t have Mig-25s, the Syrians did.
It’s so egregious I unsubscribed from the channel before my Gell-Mann amnesia could subject me to further incorrect information. It’s a shame because I enjoyed these channels but now can’t trust them.