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  • Not a good video. The f-35 joint strike fighter was not only the design of the Brits, but Americans, canadians, and alot of other countries. The JSF is used by many allied countries. Also many aircraft are missing from both sides. The u-2 was mentioned but was extremely outdated. And for future aircraft? Reall? Update this video please. Music too. Not that cookie cutter shit I hear on thousands of other videos. God bless the UK and god bless America

  • America and uk are allies, america has the money and we have the know how.

    @MrPoodles666 actually the USA has killed more of their own men than any other army/navy/airforce. There aim is terrible! Its well documented, that being said together we are a force that is unmatched in the world past, present and future.

  • WTF the F-35 is not a British made aircraft its an American made aircraft

  • @6Boar joint collaboration between us uk and other states, wiki that,,,,

  • They have researched the armed forces of the world and found americans in general to be the best shots in the world, but brits generally, have better trainning, thus are better pilots, seamen, and troops (SAS... just sayin).

    however americans have incredible amount of man and thus are more powerful.

  • Notice how the British have hand down, old models of US aircraft, including the future aircraft.

  • Ummm Notice how america still use the harrier which was made in britian The euro fighter take note euro (europe) Made in britian one of the most advance fighters in the world to date. Lol and that future aircraft is of british design And its not in service in america or britian so shutup you retard

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  • The USA is broke. That is why a poor Canadian just bought his 7th property in the USA. To rent back to the people in the USA. Briton has us to call on and other Country's as well for forces. Gee we even help the USA all the time when they need it. Your USA Govt is bankrupt and corrupted. The only reason the USA has such a large military is there are no other jobs! Canada has a small Military...but a good trained one! Better than the US military.

  • again another shit video...the UK and US are allies we fight and die together. we do not fight against one another...GET A GRIP FFS

  • @teggart123 Totally agree with you, we are allies!! why compare both air forces? is it only to create a debate and an argument? what is it with these vs videos.

  • My Information is From British Armed Forces & Wikipedia & the UK Telegraph. thanks for the Laugh you brainwashed man.

  • video was off by alot

  • i'm from the uk but i think there all the same i mean there near;y the sam planes and one of the comments sed that the usa had the best traind air force i'm from the uk and i'm not just saying this but about 100 vids i'v seen the uk has the most trained pilots so dont comment if u dont know ! :). THERE ALL THE SAME GUYS!

  • @9parr7conley amrican pilots are bettter trained the british pilots its a fact. if you dont want to except the fact that the united states id the most powerful and best rained military in the world you can go die because britin will never be as good as the us you stupid inbred.

  • @rimacho14 AAAHHHHH FUCK FUCK THE US ARMY BUNCH OF CUNTS I'V HAD ENOUGH OF YOU US WANKERS CHINA HAS A MISSILE THAT CAN BLOW UP YOUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS,RUSSIAN PLANES CAN GO UNDER YOUR RADAR U LET MEXICAN MILITARY CHOPPERS IN U ARE DICKS PISS OFF THE ONLY REASON THE US IS GOT MORE STUFF IS FROM THE UK MONEY THE UK GIVES YOU MONEY AND U SPEND IT ON MILITARY AND U GIVE US MONEY BUT BECAUSE WERE IN 2011 NOT 1985 WE DONT NEED TO BUY MILITAY.FAT ASSES .!!!:).

  • @9parr7conley sorry buddy you commented to late, im not into that shit anymore:) i was joking by the way:)

  • @9parr7conley and you 100% percent false by the way and you sound like a little kid lol

  • @rimacho14 yehh what ever.

  • No offense to the British but Royal Air Force is losing their credibility since the end of the world war 2, their mightiness that symbolized by Spitfire is gone and replaced by several US made aircrafts...RAF try to get back up with Harrier plane but US take advantage of the harrier's vertical take off technology and create a better one with stealth technology F/A-35 Lightning II

  • british are force is better the americans are to fat to get in there planes

  • @chunkyfatguy yeah you got hink that but the truth is that american troops are phisically stronger that the british troop 3/4 of the time.

  • 2010 - 2011 (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland) AKA The British

    RAF - Royal Air Force = 1500 War Planes.

    British Armed Forces = 240,000 British Soldiers.

    Royal Navy = 90 British War Ships.

    MBT - British Main Battle Tanks = 500 Challenger 1 & 2.

    + 300 - 400 Nuclear Warheads.

    + The CommonWealth Armies + If thats not Superpower Status, you can all kiss my British Ass.

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  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH You must care about what i have just said. thanks man

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH Listen to you, you're a 40 year old man who is stressing out over YouTube, once again go & tell some 1 who give a fuck what you are saying lol, just look how other people are proving you wrong on here, never mind me man, you're just freaking out over YouTube.You are the 1 that needs to get a grip. A 40 year old man who is telling everyone in here that they are wrong & that you're the only 1 thats right. My information is off British Armed Forces you complete idiot.

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH This is just Words you are telling me, were the fuck are you're Facts you Complete & utter shamed man? Why are you making this up in you're head you idiot lol, tell me where you get this information from & i will have a look at it man.

  • @BritishLad87 its not lol

  • @BritishLad87

    US Airforce - 5573 War Planes

    US Army - 1,430,000 On Duty, 848,000 On Reserve

    US Navy - 436 Ships

    US Tanks - 16,000

    + 5,113 Nuclear Warheads

    Ha!

  • if it was about numbers and technology america would win but if it was about training and guts royal ir force would win.

  • Royal airforce rules

  • US air force rules

  • @cwood4ever USA wins! USA Air Force is the most experienced in the World. Greetings from Kosova.

  • how come you used a REAL LOGO FOR USA BUT JUST A COUPLE OF SHIT FLAGS FOR UK? aslo you used mostly outdated aircraft for uk,also although the harrier jumpjet is a breittsh aircraft the us purchased shit loads of them coz when the brittish made them it was the only plane in the world that could hover

  • Speed made good on mean course was about 5 knots, she had a list to port with a heavy sea. Main gunnery control (along with Lt/Cmdr Schneider) knocked out within the first 3 salvoes, so gunnery went to local and she was flooding. She fought to the end and was a warship worthy of the name.

    The ability of the Iowas to absorb punishment(or not) from another battleship is pure speculation as they never took the test. Face it, theoretically Musashi and Yamato could'nt be sunk by aircraft.

  • Even fields.....saying a 15" shell is lighter than a 16" shell. Wow, thats some revalation! One inch difference means 10,000 lbs diff. in the broadside (14,000 to 24,000 lbs) Mind you, 14,000 lbs could do some damage if it hit..

    I find that "my" experts know their stuff. Try, Nicholas Lambert, William Jurens, Norman Friedman,Chris Wright, Tetsuro Sumida and the US BuOrd

  • @SuperAncientmariner William Jurens who said bismarcks hull was poorly constructed because of poor welding that bismarck turret and deck armor was weak her TDS armor was shallow and vulnerable to plunging fire as POW shells did when they pierced bismarcvks hull underwater causing massive fuel oil leak that crew could not stop. Thats Right South Dakota, Iowa broadside was 24.000 LBS 10.000 LBS more then weak bismarcks armor.

  • @jers59 As I said, Jurens knows the subject.The deficiencies in Bismark are well known and much published, as are the shortcomings of German destroyers (bad sea keepers) and crew training. The Hippers were never really tested and Scharnhorst was completely overwhelmed.

    Re:-TDS, South Dakota class had a weakness in TDS aft, owing to hull complexity that came from high speed requirements.

    Are you talking Radar controlled guns or Radar directed guns, 2 very different things.

  • @SuperAncientmariner Radar directed guns as USS West Virginia used at Surigao Strait in october 1944 when it hit the jap BB Yamashiro at night with its first salvo from 22.800yards to 25.000 yards. Why are UK toy companies taking the pig out of childeren farm sets are they really that afraid of offending moslum terrorist?

  • @jers59 21,300 yds (depends who you source), and 93 round fired. Radar didn't help the other BBs fitted with it (Mk 3 as apposed to W.Vs mk 8, but radar directed nontheless)

    Survival depends on frquency of hits for torps and site of hit. Bismark was hit by 3 before the fleet got anywhere near her. Hornet took 16 to sink(including efforts by Japanese and Americans) after Santa Cruz. In your list, only the Royal Oak Barham Oklahoma and Kongo were pure torpedo sinkings, the others ..cont

  • @jers59 ..cont included bombs/gunfire. What would have happened to Yamato only took 3 torps and no bombs. You really think she would have sunk.

    Regarding the pigs, it was an idea mooted by some twat or other but has been over-ruled. Piggies stay in. lol

  • @SuperAncientmariner Thats why british banks will no longer give out piggy banks to muslims so they are not offended british police dogs have to wear booties if they are needed in muslim houses to sniff out explosives

  • @jers59 You must belong to the Alfred E Neuman fan club. Banks never have given out piggy banks, and Police dogs do not wear booties. You don't belong to Alfred's fanclub.......you are his understudy.

  • @SuperAncientmariner South Dakota with its radar directed guns that could let the ship manuever radicaly and keep firing solution would leave the bismarck a wrecl long before bismarck could get in range to use its main battery. Lets not forget escorts US destroyers and cruisers were leap years ahead in quality fighting ability and crew training then kraut destroyers or cruisers

  • may i recommend ... not as a dig to the yanks ... that you take the F22 off the list as it doesn't work and something like 60% of the fleet are grounded indefinitely, which bring real concerns to me about the F35 and if they are really worth buying.

    Personally i'd spend the money upgrading the sea harriers, buying more Typhoons and possibly looking at the French Rafale.

  • @lukehillwood The F22 is best fighter out there now it could take out five euro fighters with no problem the F15 is history greatest dog fighter, Lets not forget since 1945 there has been 0 euro aces

  • @jers59 Unfortunately friend you are wrong about the internet and the 22.

    To say that USA invented the internet is like saying china speaks chinese ... thats just ignorance. To define internet is a network of networks that allows the instructor and participants to dialog with each other and exchange documents.

    So in fact the first internet could be considered created by the british during WW2 where the whole nation was covered by look out posts relaying information in real time.

  • What your are thinking is of DARPA internet where the US have manipulated into there invention when all they did was decades later change the way an/the internet was used.

    The Internet as we know it today, in the mid-1990s, traces it origins back to a Defense Department project in 1969. The subject of the project was wartime digital communications. - lincoln.edu/ math/ rmyrick/ ComputerNetworks /InetReference/ 57 .htm

    But That is only the psychical internet

  • The way we use it and how everyone uses it is actually the invention of a British engineer who designed the "World Wide Web" and therefore how everyone uses it. So in all fairness he could be considered the main reason for the internet and how it is used today and as we know it.

  • What i am trying to say is an internet is a exchange of information in real time that has evolved over the decades ... The first one that i know of started in Britain as a thousands of look out post across britain reported information as and when they saw it to eventually the war room where it was processed and visualized, then it evolved into DARPA then eventually the World Wide Web.

    May i ask you what makes the F22 Raptor so great Jer59?

  • @lukehillwood No Im right about the F22 being the best the euro fighter should be called euro non fighter because euro nations like germany will never use it in combat .

  • @jers59 "The F22 is best fighter out there now it could take out five Euro fighters with no problem." Really?! Please evidence this innane statement with some facts, as opposed to your banal personal opinion. That is a ridiculous sweeping statement that highlights your incredible stupidity. "F-15 is history(?) greatest dog fighter." Really?! How many kills has the F-15 achieved in combat compared to any number of WW2 fighter aircraft?

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH Of course WW2 fighters are going have more kills there were over 100.000 WW2 fighters built by both sides F15 maybe 2000 if that, The F15 is undefeated in air to air combat from 1982 to now 125 to 0 please name the last europren mainland or UK ace? 1945 maybe, not latter F22 better engines, better airframe the only 5th generation fighter flying today look who flies euro nonm fighter germany, spain when was last tiome those countries were in air to air combat?

  • @jers59 When has the F-15 ever come up against QUALITY opposition & well trained pilots? Answer- NEVER. World War 3 did NOT happen. The F-15 has fought third rate powers with obselete equipment & very mediocre pilots. Would you like to discuss how the F-15 has fared in NATO air combat exercises against the Euro fighter? lol Ace pilots? What does that have to do with the price of fish? Go and research Sharky Ward for starters.....Then have a look at the Korean War.

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH Lets see serbia up against serbian pilots in mig 29,s Israelis up against syrian pilots 1982 99 kills to 0 losses. Nice try but there were no brit aces in korean war only 1 kill by RN pilot your nato air combat exercises are all un verified as usual I forgot to mention the AH64 Apache pilotsare worldsbest helicopter pilot and best attack helicopter followed by cobra the euro tiger is just more euro crap that has never seen combat and never will

  • @jers59 Ah yes, I was forgetting the Serbs, a real military power to be reckoned with- NOT. lol. I suspect the kill ratio says more about the quality, traininh standards & professionalism of Israeli pilots, than it says about the F-15. The Syrians are third rate. Korea? Perhaps you should research British pilots who fought in USAF Sabre squadrons EG Johnny Johnson. You see, Google is NOT infalible & if you rely on, you get found out for the fraud that you so evidently are........

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH The serbs were real fighting force because the euros needed the US to come in and end the war with US airpower as they sat back

  • @jers59 When was the last time the USAF fought any significant RESPECTED major military power with F-15's? Iraq doesn't cut it. Serbia & the Balkans conflict doesn't cut it. 'Ace' status counts for little when your opponants have largely been third rate nations, duckshoots are a stroll in the park. The Israelis success reflects more so on their high levels of professionalism & training than simply their use of the F-15. On top of that, look at the relative paucity of their opponants.

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH 1991 iraq military was most combat tested military 8 years of war with iran they were in 73 israel arab war

  • @jers59 Oh please, save the horse manure for the roses! lol The Iraqi airforce barely offered any resistance at all, many of their aircraft flew over the border & landed in Iran, where they were impounded. Most of the aircraft they possessed were obselete. The fact that Iraq fought Iran does not rate them as a potent military force. The allies had total air superiority during GW1. It was the greatest miss match since the Luftwaffe took on the Polish bi-planes in 39-no parity whatsoever.

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH I am still waiting for you to qualify your remark re the F22, "THE F22 IS BEST FIGHTER OUT THERE NOW IT COULD TAKE OUT FIVE EURO FIGHTERS WITH NO PROBLEM." EVIDENCE PLEASE, or is this yet more subjective, enthnocentric banal speculation from Jerk59? It's a rhetorical question incidentally........lol

  • @jers59 i was being sarcastic because you started on me about the chinese when i was no part of any conversation about the chinese or there inventions.i believe u wrote to the wrong person

  • @jers59 if u bothered reading u would see he is no friend of mine and that im from florida

  • @marks95911 no problem not my buisness

  • @wba95x Yes of course, most Americans are dicks. Of course you'd never see the civilized British getting pissed and making asses out of themselves at their football matches (snickers & laughs)!

  • @xiongmu Getting pissed and making asses is a national sport, and we are very good at it. Don't mock. LOL

  • @xiongmu you mean sniggers, not snickers mate

  • @UKkid19

    Uhhh...it IS RAF+USAF. Aint that great!?

  • british air force is the best easily

  • stop saying that just the British are having the f-35 the US is buying more

  • @saloontamoon Well technically we here in the US are not buying them(exept for our tax dollars). Lockheed Martin is producing them along with funds from the UK, as well as several ofther European countries that will be recieving them.

  • As a British citizen I agree that it shouldn't be US vs Great Brit. If they were enemies, the world would be a very different place today

  • the iron man could kill all of these hands down!

  • Let us not forget our common heritage and language. If it had not been for the bravery of the men of the RAF and the air forces of the United States fighting together during WWII, this world would be a horrible place in which to live today. Definitely, it should be the RAF and USAF as allied air forces that work together to keep peace in the world and safeguard their respective nation's security. As an American citizen from birth, I am proud to say that!

  • BTW dude take it from an American who lives right in the middle of there testing grounds for aircraft the F-35 lightning 2 or the JSF will be used by at least 3 different country's the UK and USA use smiler aircraft as well like ur F-16 F-18 and F-22 there will be more to come the only planes we don't share are the black project Aircraft like the B-2 F-117 U-2 and the SR-71 or the A-12

    an ok vid but do more reserch

  • For the most part, they use the same jets and both use/will be using F-22's and F-35's. Retarded.

  • All of you saying who built what well just to say Sir Frank Whittle invented the jet engine and he was born in my home city of Coventry.

  • The problem with this scenario, is that the F15E's are based at RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath, the U2/TR1's are at RAF Fairford and RAF Akrotiri, the Typhoons are training Nellis AFB and the AWAC are joint force assets based in both countries...Not to mention almost everything is designed to work together. And is. 4000 miles away in Afghanistan.

  • @Reichsfuhrer1979 Not strictly correct. F15s at Lakenheath, But Mildenhall has KC 135s,RC 135s and RC 135vs, C17s KC 10s C 130s, E 3s, the odd RC 12N. U 2s also fly from there but not often. And the whole bloody lot, inc. the F15s come over my house .....noisy bastards.

  • @SuperAncientmariner what housing project do you live in near Mildenhall? life on the dole good for you?

  • Let's not forget that it was the U.S. and U.K. that worked together to win the two world wars of the last century. The "States" and Britain have been close friends and have a common kinship. Forget about comparisons. Both nations have many reasons to be proud of their accomplishments. Signed: A U.S. Citizen.

  • @SteveH1947

    Agreed, let's not fight about the differences but unite.

    Signed: A UK Citizen.

  • Fiveoscar yu probably dont know that the british are about 1700 older your country and about 700 years of expirance so they amll but strong.

    The americans build there forces by having high taxes which nobody likes.LOL

  • @MrUndestroyable That's served us well so far and we are actually the nation that has some of the lowest taxes of all the western nations so your argument doesn't really make a strong point.

  • @MrUndestroyable high taxes its the brits with high taxes we have no VAT tax we have low gas prices compared to brits you even have to pay road tax every year,

  • Like I said hot bubbly bath and a scented candle !

    Re: Internet/World Wide Web it was invented by Dr Tim Berners Lee(a Brit)and Dr Robert Cailliau(a Belgian) at CERN in Switzerland.

  • You are both really really really MENTAL ,

    Go run a hot bubbly bath and light a scented candle,

    CHILLAX

  • @Joss682 Bow down to you?? Hahaha you're living in the past. You're still bringing up stuff from ww2. We invented GPS and the internet which is wat led the way to modern warfare today. We track our forces and guide our bombs with them. Plus, we've been making the best fighter aircraft for years. England can't even put a man on the moon so suck our nuts.

  • @fiveoscar Everybody appreciates that GERMAN brains put man on the moon, the Yanks merely bank rolled it. Ever heard of the German rocket scientist genius Werner Von Braun? He put man on the moon-changed our way of life didn't it? NOT! Glad you invented the internet, but the British created the worlds first INTRANET in th late 30's- go research the RAF air defence system! lol Also, thank Britain's Baggage who invented the computer in the first instance!

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH Hahaha! and how did the intranet, as we know it to be today, come before the internet?? Please post or message me the link cause so far my search has indicated that you're full of shit. I'll politely wait for it. As far as the computer, it was global effort for the first computer but england did not play a bigger role than the U.S. and it was American companies that made it affordable.

  • @fiveoscar As usual, being American, you completely miss the point. One of your fellow citizens was spouting off (very common amongst Americans who arrogantly assume they invent EVERYTHING.) about technology, computers, internet etc. The concept of the computer was created by BABBAGE, an Englishman. The world's first intranet, was created in the UK in the 1930's-go research RAF fighter command & control system. The pont is, the concept of internet, as an evolution of the concept of intranet.

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH The concept?? Might as well give Da Vinci all credit for the airplane since he developed the concept for that also. hahaha! You brits are stupid.

    Where is the link? Do you have the web address? Or are you now realizing how stupid your argument is?

  • @fiveoscar You have just proved that Americans are by far the most stupid people on the planet! You are so lacking in knowledge that you attribute the concept of aircraft to Leonardo Da Vinci! He is credited with having drawn up a crude design for a HELICOPTER!! Get your 'facts' correct before you attempt to scoff at others! ROFL

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH That's why it's called sarcasm, stupid. LOL! You've proven a lot about yourself hahaha! And we've got the best space program in the world and invented some of the most important modern items. The cell phone, internet, e-mail, GPS, and the top ten best internet sites on the web just to name a few.

  • @fiveoscar Sorry to stick my oar in but Da Vinci merely made conceptual drawings whereas Babbage built a working (and accurate) "Calculating Engine." For a link try the Science Museum, London

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH And our space program has continued to own the EU program. Those are some long living germans. hahaha! NASA consist of mostly MIT geeks and the foreigners they do have come here to work on a real space program that actually makes history. How many english chumps on the moon now?? Any EU devices landing on meteors or other planets?? lol

  • @fiveoscar After Challenger NASA stood for Need Another Seven Astronauts did'nt it. That was the result of a Yank making a decision against advice.

  • @SuperAncientmariner Very good. Too bad NASA can be as good as the english space program... Oh wait, you guys are too stupid to have your own. And how many astronauts has the ESA put into space with their shuttles again... oh wait, NONE. Hahaha! Get a space program than can at least compare to NASA then talk.

  • @fiveoscar Why would we want to, you are the paranoid people who feel they should control everything inc. space. So if you want it, pay for it and if it results in you being the butt of humour to everyone else......tough titty.

  • @SuperAncientmariner Why would you want to?? Hahaha!! the famous "we can but we don't want to" excuse Hahaha!!! I have to admit, I knew you were stupid but man you must be like ten years old LOL! So sure, we'll dominate space and somehow that will be looked down upon hahaha!! It's called envy you chav fag.

  • @fiveoscar You are even dafter than your compatriates. The phrase is what it is...we have no space programme or pretentions, we never have said "we can but...." , we are certainly not envious...(of what?) , so ....why would we want to?...jerk.

  • @SuperAncientmariner Good for you. You're a conformist. Satisfied with scratching America's balls. LOL

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  • @fiveoscar Probably would if America had any, and use a cactus to do it.......the only balls America knows about are shaped like Stewie Griffin's head :o)

  • @SuperAncientmariner also america has over 97 million people that are overweight in it's country, thats more than one and a half times the population of britain. if we had that many fat people our island would sink.

    you have you own domestic problems that should be dealt with first. Britain isn't perfect but by saving money but not going into space we are gdoing hell of a lot better than you.

  • @CiderCanRaver Hand on Cider, I'm a Brit in UK, not a yank.

  • @CiderCanRaver fat people contribute to the American economy by eating more food!

  • @xiongmu also contribute to global poverty by eating more than their fair share of food...

  • @SuperAncientmariner you are envious because the U.S. flag are on the moon, mars and out of our solar sysyem pioneer, voyager,

  • @SuperAncientmariner

    How can someone from a nation with such a storied tradition of exploration criticize others for doing the same? Space is the last frontier. Nobody is making any pretention to "control" space; we are learning more about the universe around us.

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  • @ObdurateJayhawker Nobody "criticised" anyone. Learning about space and putting the odd military sattelite up there. Whats that if not controlling. I know ....US defending the world against Aliens.

  • @SuperAncientmariner Thats right we even have killer drones in space that stay up there for 270 days  then returns for repairs can kill satellites or attack any target on earth in 30 minutes

  • @fiveoscar

    why waste money on space when america has 36 million people living below the poverty line in it's own country. thats over half the population of britain.

  • @CiderCanRaver Why should any country? Even england has people living bellow its poverty line yet it still spends money on their programs. Now answer this. Why waste money on a royal wedding given that fact??????????????????????????­????????????????????

  • @fiveoscar nice one with the 9 month late reply. i agree we shouldnt have spent money on the royal wedding because i dont believe we should have a monarchy,but still it cost nowhere near as much as a space program. england has a tiny amount of people living under the poverty line. america has a massive income inequality compared to most if not all european countries. p.s do you know the difference between england, great britain and the UK?

  • @CiderCanRaver Better late than never I guess. And the space program provides a field for new technology to develop. Much like a military program. Thanks to the space program we got GPS, the Internet, satellite TV, etc. As for the poverty line, Great Britain has 14% of its population living under it while the US has 12% living under it. So the US is actually doing better there. To answer your other question:

    Great Britain is the Island with Scotland, england, and Whales

    UK includes N.Ireland.

  • @fiveoscar i can assure though those figures aren't correct. I study economics. Absolute poverty is defined as the lack of sufficient resources with which to keep body and soul together. IN the US this is around 14% or 44million people. The 14% figure you give for the UK is relative poverty (defines income or resources in relation to the average. It is concerned with the absence of the material needs to participate fully in accepted daily life.) UK absolute poverty is around 9% on average.

  • @CiderCanRaver I study economics also. Your word is not enough assurance. A simple google search will lead you to this statistic. It's actually not that hard. And our median income is actually higher than that of the UK also. The latest research I've been able to find on absolute poverty shows that the UK is at 13.1% for 2009-2010. No newer research is available yet. The latest I could find for the US is a NY times article from 2008. At the time, AP for the US was at 8.7%. UK at 12.4%.

  • @fiveoscar furthermore, a higher median income just shows you have a larger level of income inequaliy and also implies a higher level of poverty. if the top 50% of people in the USA hold a higher amount % of national income then it obviously means that the lower 50% hold less. Granted, the USA has is "richer" overall, but this only furthers my point. IMagine if the USA had same income level as UK, how many more people would be in poverty then?

  • @CiderCanRaver How would you get that from the "median" income??? The median is the "average" household income. Come on! Didn't you take statistics in school? The medians show, basically, that the average family in the US makes more money than the average family in the UK. That's basically what it means. How did you get your 50/50 figures also???? And where's that link I asked for?

  • @fiveoscar *facepalm* the median isn't the average. it's the middle value, hence it has 50% of populations values above it and 50% below it. anyway it's well known the median value of income in the USA is greater than 70% of what most americans earn. which obviously implies more income inequality which in turn implies greater poverty. it's not difficult. and i already gave you the link, its on the reuters website, can't remember the exact link now but it was an article about US poverty search it

  • @CiderCanRaver Wow! You're stupid. By definition, that's what median is. LOL! And you claim to be studying economics??? It's literally a synonym for average, sunshine. It's also a fact that most of the world's supper rich live in the US. If you look at forbes top 20, most on that list reside in the US. I believe only one resides in Britain. On average our middle class makes more money than your middle class. And how did you send the links cause I got nothing on my PM?

  • @fiveoscar

    no, there are many different ways of calculating averages and yes the median is one, but generally if you say the average you are talking about the arithmetic mean, so if you're going to use the median then state it rather than the general term "average". Yes the super rich live in america, that's what drags your ARITHMETIC MEAN income up, your median income is not much higher than our own, but don't forget it'snot all about income, for example health care and standard of living.

  • @CiderCanRaver We still tend to make more money than you, dude. And healthcare is a totally different issue that I don't want to get into since it will derail the point. The point being, we are in no worse a situation financially than you guys so us spending money on our space program is justified given the technology it has conceived. And still a lot better than spending it on a wedding.

  • @fiveoscar This has nothing to do with how much money you make. China makes more money than the UK but there is still loads of piss poor people and high poverty. Healthcare is always an area where the UK comes out on top. Funnily enough, I was watching BBC news not 20 minutes ago and it appears that the USA is now ditching it's last space shuttle and relying on Russia, funny that. Pretty sure space programs cost more than a wedding anyway.

  • @CiderCanRaver It has everything to do with how much money you make. Hell that's what determines if you're rich or spoor, idiot. And no kidding China has tons of poor people. Their system is fucked. Slave labor, little consideration for public safety, etc etc. It's the big companies that makes all the money there. Not the people. And yes, the "availability" of your healthcare is better. Have a cookie.

  • @CiderCanRaver More poverty? By having a greater median?? We have a lot of rich people and by comparison the middle class isn't as well off as they are but that doesn't mean that having more millionaires will result in more absolute poverty. Are you now referring to relative poverty?? The fact still remains. Our situation is not much worse than that of Britain.

  • @fiveoscar "Our situation is not much worse than that of Britain" thankyou for admitting you're in a worse situation. This is what I was trying to point out in the first place when you were arguing the opposite.

    You only have to look on the streets of america, areas like black ghettos etc to see poverty is writhe. You don't really get that in Britain other than a few places in London and Glasgow. I'mnot going to try and point out the economics to you, you simply just don't understand it.

  • @CiderCanRaver I said not much worst. We're in the same ballpark, idiot. Of course were going to have many more rough places than you. We're many times bigger than you. If england took a jump in population and area, they'd be a near carbon copy. Just like you can get a way from those rough parts in england, you can do the same here.

  • @CiderCanRaver Thank god we don't. Our average income is still higher. As for the Space shuttle topic that I forgot to reply about, They cancelled it to start work on a new way to get us into space. In the meantime, if we have to make trips into space, the russians are going to give us a ride. We would as you for a ride but ...

  • @CiderCanRaver But if you can please send me the link to where you got your info on absolute poverty in the US, that would be much appreciated.

    On the topic, the poverty rates tend to differ by a few percentage points at best. So If you're trying to argue that poverty rates in the US are "epidemic" compared to those of the UK or the whole of Europe for that matter, you're on a slippery slope. I still stand that these programs are important.

  • @fiveoscar it is vary hard to get decent poverty figures but it was a general calculation from various bits of data. your data was from the cia factbook which gave figures from 2004 and 2006, since then the USA had a right wing government supporting the rich to the detriment to the poor whilst we had a left-ish government which had a strong poverty reduction scheme. also take into account the UK has welfare support, free (quality) education and a free health service, none of which the USA has.

  • @fiveoscar americans never really do so well on debating on the internet, and at the same tome gloat that they know nothing of other countries because they do not need to. maybe there is a connection here.

  • @CiderCanRaver Funny cause every European dude, especially the english, has been as stupid as you.

  • @fiveoscar however here are the figures i used,they are from reuters who you should have probably heard of. type "reuters poverty rate" into google and it should be at the top.

    the figures are also less than a year old, and as you can probably tell poverty figures like almost all figures, are produced with a lag.

  • @CiderCanRaver Wow. We're at 15 and you're at 14. What a spread.

  • @SuperAncientmariner

    And what an asshole you are to make light of the Challenger disaster. Only man completely lacking in moral fiber would crack such a sick joke to make a political point.

  • @ObdurateJayhawker 2 points here...1) That joke was told to me by an American.

    2) If you read and assimilate my remark, you will realise that the remark was not political but an attack on an Idiot American who should have listened to his advisors and NOT launched, but, in common with a lot of US people in authority..he knew better. Had he/NASA listened to people like the booster makers, it would not have happened.....so get off your soapbox.

  • @SuperAncientmariner british aerospace died with all the passengers on the comet splattered all over the ocean. Took US built B707, and DC8 to show how to build passenger jet airliners We all remember the Titanic and brits claim that God himself could not sink it.LOL . F15 greatest fighter, B52 greatest bomber, C130 greatest transport, SR71 greatest all around aircraft and DC3 known to brits as dakota the plane that changed the world made passenger travell possible

  • @jers59 = Worlds Biggest Arsehole With BIGGEST Mouth & Smallest Brain! British. You are more full of shit than a sewage farm.

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH How is life on the dole in Liverpool your breath smells like the Mersey on hot summer day. Von Braun learned everything about liquid fuel rockets from reading Robert Goddards books you knob. US created the modern computer, the internet, TV, transistors, telephones, cell phones, VCR, elevators, sky scrappers, bar code, airplane,

  • @jers59 I couldn't begin to tell you what it like not to work, I have worked all my life in a profession. What's it like being a sad, enthnocentric FUBAR moron like you? Such a sad, insignificant little turd, you dedicate your life hurling anti-British comments all over YouTube-what a wanker! lol I don't know how you manage to combine your sad YT activities with your job as a Midnight Cowboy rent boy.........

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH whats your profession ? local pub drunk, living on dole is not profession

  • @jers59 Perhaps your sole purpose is to act as a warning to others........ You make arrogant, ill founded judgements on others about whom you know nothing. You make me laugh with your boundless levels of stupidity.

  • @jers59 No need to spend time second guessing what your profession might be, that's clearly evident, PROFESSIONAL ARSEHOLE.

  • @fiveoscar "track our forces and guide our bombs....etc" Do you not mean "track friendly forces and drop our bombs on them" Man on the Moon? First man made thing on the moon was Russian, first man in space was Russian. Get out of that.

  • @SuperAncientmariner first brit in space?????????????????????????­????? oh there is no brit space program Gagarin bailed out of his capsule before it landed making Allen Sheppard lawfully the first man in space if you follow the rules

  • @jers59 Perhaps it has escaped your attention, but President Obama has effectively curtailed the US Space program. He has chopped NASA off at the legs financially. China leads the way now, she is developing a huge space program. She has just built the worlds fastest super computer that leaves the fastest US machine for dust. By 2030, China will eclipse US GDP, she is on the rise, the US is on the way out as THE superpower, so I wouldn't crow too much if I were you. ROFL

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH china will implode its military are uneducated conscripts can anyone name famous chink pilot, admiral? I thought so, China will have shortage of females in near future due to 1 child rules most families will abort female fetus, muslims are up rising in central part of china peasants and farmers are losing lands US navy by itself can take on and defeat the next 20 biggest navies in 1 battle. obama is on hisway out the space program will be rebuilt by new congress and president

  • @jers59 And pigs might fly.........Let's see if China 'implodes' by 2030-5. Your nation has past it's peak & you cannot even see it. In the 60's, US had the money to fight an intense & prolonged war in SE Asia, 500,000 troops on the ground at one time & the biggest helicopter fleet in the world. US was also engaged in a massive Space Program, man on the moon etc. In 2010, you have next to no Space program, and you can barely put 150,000 troops in Afganistan and your national debt is trillions!

  • @jers59 "China will implode." Pray tell, were did you obtain your crystal ball from, or perhaps you read tea leaves, or use tarot cards?! China is going through her industrial revolution, She is doing exactly the same thing that Britain did 200 years ago, using cheap labour to mass produce goods to export worldwide. She will undercut everybody else & is well on her way to becoming the workshop of the world. The US meanwhile is living on borrowed time with massive spiralling national debt.

  • @LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH i love that you take great glee in the fact that china is rising and you feel the usa days are numbered .i wonder if when the british empire crashed people were looking on and saying the same things as you .you make fun that nasa is done and the worlds fastest computer has been over shadowed

    well i would just say the outcome is yet to be seen but the sun has long since set on the british empire .in the usa they call people like u a hater .

  • @marks95911 china does not invent they pirate and make poor copies, chinese navy is only dangerous to chinese sailors just recently chinese diesel sub killed the entire crew chinese space program based on 1960,s soviet era rockets

  • @jers59 why are u talking to me about pirates ?

  • @marks95911 Jesus Christ, what school system did you attend? I said china does not invent they pirate which means make illegal poor copies of another goods or inventions