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Thanks for Thanking Al. It was so obvious how much he appreciated that thought. You make us all proud.

Have they fixed the IFF in the Harrier yet?

Making my way though all your Warbird stuff, it's excellent. I own all of them in DCS, and I'm trying to get better at them. Particularly the Thunderbolt. My favourite is the 109, that fantastic whine that DB605 makes is intoxicating haha.

isn't this the one Heatblur used for their rendition of the mighty phantom?

Hey Diesel, give a shout-out on your next video to your fans in Pearland PD. Great bunch! ❤❤❤❤

Al, thank you for your service and Welcome home sir!!!

I've got a couple pictures taken by a family friend of an F-100 in a revetment in Vietnam. Never found out specifically where it was taken, though.

Wow! My Dad was at Phan Rang! Crew Chief on F-100's! He might have run into this gentleman!

Hoping Al is getting his VA disability for Agent Orange…If you are in contact with him please have him check with Disabled American Veterans DAV or the Veterans of Foreign wars VFW for a Veteran Service Officer to explore what he has earned…As you should to

Wow, I got a lump in my throat listening to Al. Respect to all those who served in Vietnam. Welcome home.

thanks to you and Al for taking the time out of your vacations to share his stories with us! Also.. glad that you caught the corrosion issue with the intake screen before anything had the chance to go down the intake! I know how one's heart kinda sinks when you find those unexpected problems, but it beats losing a J79. Thanks!

Love listening to Old Toads share their experiences!

This was a great video! My dad was a F-100 Mechanic at Bien Hoa with the 510th Fighter SQ

That's great. Now all you have to do is fix the ICS so the ground can be connected in the left main WW like it's suppose to be.

Waiting for a video where things gets better when you are involved.

Thanks for another great video! Your explanations combined with the visual references showing the missile launch station & pylon details (for the Sparrow & Sidewinder missiles) made for an interesting presentation! Several years ago, while in the ANG, I was looking at a sidewinder missile (an inert, training missile, I believe) & noticed a toothed wheel (rather like a ratchet, as I recall) on the aft portion (I think) of the missile. I asked someone (maybe an Ammo technician) what it was for, & I believe I was told that the toothed wheel was an arming device, which would "spin up" aerodynamically to arm the missile, immediately after the missile flew off the lauch rail. I thought that was an interesting detail about the Sidewinder missile (but I don't know for sure how "true" it is, lol!). Thanks again for taking the time to create the great F-4 repair process videos, & the videos of other vintage military jets!

Nice tutorial, the weapons guys kept to themselves. One night a bomb-nav guy grabbed me so I could help him test the system on an F4-E. He set up the system in the back seat for me and all I did was fire off a test signal so he could make sure the repairs were good. One time I was at weapons a one of them pulled on the landing gear handle and blew it down. I helped out the angry hydro guy by raising and lowering the gear so he could remove the air out of the lines. This was in 1983 at Osan AB, I was an avionics guy.

Very cool video. I don't think I've ever seen another channel get this up close to how the missles actually are attached and released from the aircraft. THANKS!

Damn a hung 9.... try having a hung 500lb bomb.

Jamie, the voice audio quality on your recordings seems excellent, clear and natural sounding. Would you mind sharing what kind of microphone you're using? I've been looking to improve the audio quality on my own channel. Thanks. Carl in Houston P.S. It was neat to learn that the "launch rail" is exactly that, a simple rail. Never knew exactly how that worked.

Five years as a Load Toad on the F-4E, Seymour Johnson AFB. Brought back memories of our daily rask! Mishn0 already covered details. Im guessing you still have Lau-12 bomb racks as well as the centerline rack, and each of these were nuclear capable. The Lau-12 should still have a lockout with a lockout bolt for conventional weapons, or used as an extra lock for carrying travel pods to prevent accidental release. A word of advise, if ever you remove an Aim-7 launcher, install spacer blocks on the aircraft. The launcher is part of the frame, if its removed, and the aircraft gets moved, youll actually will have to tow the plane around while attempting to reinstall the launcher.

Great stuff Jaimie, see ya next weekend hopefully! Hope ya had a good vacation!

1) The Sidewinder's locking lugs aren't "retracted" on launch. There's a spring inside that needs a certain amount of force to be overcome to force them to retract or "break", sort of like some of the mechanisms rifles use to delay their bolt unlocking when the gun is fired. High G maneuvering can cause the 'Winder to creep off the lug sometimes and an arrested landing may complete the issue and will allow the missile to fly off the rail. And, other times, on arrest, the missile's seeker head, and maybe also the fuse section and maybe the warhead will all come off leaving the rest, including maybe just the motor where the locking lugs are located, would stay on the rail. On flight deck debrief I asked a pilot how the systems were on landing, he said the radar was good but he didn't have any tone on the Sidewinder. I looked over and there was only a rocket motor was still on the rail. I pointed over to the rail, he laughed and shrugged. 2) Sparrow: The Sparrow's ejector feet do move really fast, milliseconds. There was also circuitry that would inhibit the motor fire signal if the timing of the ejection carts was incorrect. The forward foot had to come down a few milliseconds before the aft one to ensure the missile wasn't nose up when the motor fired, that would be bad... The interlock on the centerline station loaded condition was because if there were a centerline tank on board when a forward Sparrow fired, the aft fins on the missile would cut the tank open when it ejected. That would be bad. There were similar interlocks that inhibited a Sidewinder launch if the speed brakes were out. If the missile fired with a speed brake open, it would burn the crap out of the speed brake. The READY light on the MCP came on on a particular station when the missile was powered up and tuned. The missile had to tune its receiver to match the frequency of the jet's radar transmitter (plus a simulated doppler shift to account for the closing range to the target) That signal is set to the missile by way of antennas on the bottom of the aircraft. If you look at the nose area of each Sparrow station there's a fiberglass cover for an antenna. There's also a fiberglass cover behind each rear well and one between the aft ends of the to forward wells. These send a signal to the missile to tune its receiver. There's one at the nose and tail because the way a Sparrow works is it compares the signal it gets in it's nose antenna from the reflected radar energy off the target to the direct radar energy it gets from the launching aircraft's radar in its tail antenna. It calculated its lead by that comparison. There's a bunch of other signals that the aircraft sends to the missile to set it up for launch. Since the missile is carried in a "+" configuration with one fin straight up and it flies in an "x" configuration, the radar's computer had to tell it which way to roll upon launch. The missiles are all also in their own orientation, a little nose down and toed in in the front stations, the aft ones were pretty much straight ahead. The missile also needs to be told where to look for the target when it is ejected so there's signals that point the missile's antenna in the right direction including offsets for roll and angle. There's also inputs for altitude because at higher altitude the missile's guidance fins have to move farther to achieve their desired turn rate than they have to do at lower altitude. Both types of missile's used an umbilical cable with shear pins that broke off when the missile was fired. The 'Winder had a cable attached to its nose that stayed on the aircraft when the missile was launched and thrown away when the aircraft landed. The Sparrow had a shear wafer with break away pins that connected the launcher to the missile. I'll quit now, it's already TLDR.

Great vid !

It's really funny how it looks like the F-4 is stuffed in someones garage at the house lol

You didn't mention the umbilical for the AIM-9. Early F-4's and Navy used I believe the Aero -7, which used a sliding front cover ( nose piece ) to connect the umbilical to the aircraft and had a snubber assy on the very rear end of the launcher, while the later ones used a hinge nose piece, The umbilical block, that is the connection that actually attaches it to the seeker head section had shear screws, safety wired, and had it's own torque value, 5 in. oz I believe. Captive carry (CATMs) would have an adapter (safeing plug ) that would not fire the gas grain generator used to power the entire thing in free flight. You see, the CATM was just basically an inert tube that looked like it, allowed it to be mounted ( interface ) and that would mount a live guidance and control section that would give the actual feedback to the aircraft weapons system so they could "turn n burn", sim launch, in air combat training. In a real launch of a live, the aircraft would bring the sheared off umbilical cable, to be removed and disposed of. This avoided damage to to the launcher...could immediately be reloaded.

Really good video ! 👍 ...and I have a question too : the sidewinders provide this tone....so that the pilot can know when they track a heat source.....how does this audio signal get transmitted to the aircraft? Is there some kind of electrical connection on the sidewinder rail ?

Great vid, loving this never knew how this sort of stuff worked, so cool thanks ;)

Excellent video, enjoy your vacation.

Im a mechanic on modern fighters and its fascinating to see how it worked back in the days and how little has changed since !!

Loving this format, mix it up a bit. Learned many new things that joined the dots. Hope you enjoy your vacation.

Heatblur didn't model the pistons? The Hornet, Viper, and F-15C all do it. :(

Very good and very accurate description. It gives a good idea how complex it was to fire the missiles on the F-4, especially the C and D models. Are you going to go do the bomb and AGM controls and stations next. You showed most of the controls along side the missile controls already. If you can believe it it is even more complex than the missiles.

Great look at the delivery mechanisms. Hope she will be flight ready soon!

I can understand the concerns about modern aircraft as they are much classified, but if you stop and think about it, even the modules in DCS are similar and we don't know anything about IFF, radar signatures and a number of other specs to set up a simulation that is accurate. That said, the Eurofighter will come out long before the F-35, and that is super classified also and will be an environment changer. However; they can pretend and simulate things and we will never know and real pilots may never say how accurate they are, so why not. If we can get a reasonable accuracy or flight dynamic, that is all we need, especially as most are computer controlled flight systems. I probably won't buy this until they come out with the navy VTOL version, because I think it is the most interesting version.

Good video! Some interesting additional facts about the Sparrows. Often some wonder why they only logged a 7% kill probability in Vietnam. Part of the reason were those parts shown here. Not mentioned but worth noting is that the Sparrow rotates 90 degrees upon launch. This isn’t modeled in DCS - probably because few would care- but the missile maneuvered best from a X pattern. So, if the missile came off the jet but a fin didn’t work right…game over. If the missile was launched but a pigtail connector failed, no fire signal would be sent to the missile and it would fall inert (“Bdonk” in Israeli terms). If the missile was installed correctly but a gas charge didn’t work properly, the missile would come off at an incorrect angle - remember, it turns to go from “+” to “X”- and go astray. If the missile was installed but the pigtail sensor reel failed, no fire signal would be sent and the missile would drop inert. Add in the radar and G limitations of the Sparrows, plus the lack of education on how to use them on fighters, and you can see why so few hit their targets.

I was in munitions line delivery at the 33rd Eglin when the F4 was there. Those cartridges look like aluminum shotgun shells. We had a storage locker in our flight line revetment full of cartridges of all shapes and sizes. I delivered plenty of carts, missiles and 20mm ammo. The only bombs were practice bombs, usually 25 lb bombs with smoke charges in the nose.

I appreciate the explanations! The whole subject of weapons and how they mount or are released/ejected is an interesting one. After you see the videos where stores separation didn't quite go as planned, you appreciate the idea of having ejectors to get the stores out of the aircraft's slipstream as quickly as possible!

I wonder if Heatblur modelled worn pylons on their simulation? Regardless, I love these deep dives. Gives me a better understanding when I'm flying in DCS

That was REALLY good, I'm looking forward to the next time you do a tech episode. As always, thanks for sharing! And I hope you and your lady had a good, and memorable, vacation.

wao big excellent video,tnx. 👌👌

Hello, Diesel Thunder... I hope you also follow the comments under your posts from a year + ago... 😉 And since you have guided me in the best possible way through the commands in the cockpit of a spitfire, and at the same time taught me to fly in a way, I turn to you again, with a strange - or ordinary - problem. So, when I begin the game with a cold start, everything is ok until the moment I start moving towards the runway. As soon as I press the brake for the second or third time, the top indicator on the brake moves to the left and stays there, and I can't get to the runway at all, one way or the other, the plane is turning... This is what happens when I want to fly in Caucasus.. When I took off from Marianas, I had no problems with the brakes. Do you have any idea what I should do? Best wishes from Slovenia, thank you. Vito

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So, since she's had all her combat capabilities removed, does that mean you can't also use Smokewinders as well?

2 minutes, no views. channel's dead.

The Dora has 2x13mm, not 12,7mm. :)

One: It's mostly an educated guess. As far as realism goes, I'd guess, at BEST, 60% Two: There are no peer, or even near peer aircraft for it to fight. Good luck finding a server that will host it Three: I will not pay for a prime rib module and get a happy meal. Four: Designed to appeal to the Air Quake/War Blunder crowd. In summary: No thanks

On AI models: Cold war and Vietnam scenarios using a B-52H... Which didn't have guns removed until after the Cold War and wasn't committed to Vietnam missions, intentionally, with no D or G models... Not very well represented considering all the other bomber from the various nations with guns on the bombers are. Would be nice if that were given some consideration.

Say what you want about the F-35, I think a FF 5th Gen Fighter for a simulator would be so much better then what's currently out there (VTOL VR, War Thunder, and Battlefield 2042). Plus a full glass cockpit is a nice change compared to all the steam gauges of pretty much every aircraft that's in DCS.