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You were flying with your navigational lights on, the entire fight. Minor thing, but you mentioned it as the sign that the opponent has given up. Still an entertaining video. Kudos.
I remember being a little kid in the early 90's when Desert Storm started. The news videos of the AAA firing into the sky at night is something I'll never forget.
I was just in...what I guess is sort of 'Technical High School' at that time. Remember the teachers letting us listen to a transistor radio in class. It was buzzing everywhere...'It has begun...shit actually has hit the fan'.
Keeping with the desert storm theme you've been doing lately, personally I think it'd be very cool to do an F-117 mission evading anti air, radar, and enemy planes to deliver just two bombs on an HVT. Food for thought
GS, when you "read" or listen "between the lines" of F-15C pilots during Desert Storm - and they will never flat out tell you due to the classified operations of the F-15Cs - is they ingressed @ 55,000+ ft and close to Mach 2 or above. We've been told for decades the altitude of the "Wall of Eagles" is 30,000ft. Contrast with with interviews of ..."high 50's". I don't think you can get the F-15C in DCS to 55,000+ feet however, I think you can get the F-15E to this altitude and most likely you'd need to be above Mach 2. One F-15C pilot stated he got the f-15C with 3 tanks to Mach 1.8 "up high". Clean off the jet with only 8 missiles and Mach 2.0 @ 55K ft is plausible. One pilot stated he got the Eagle out to Mach 2.35 @ 30,000 ft with 8 missiles and a centerline tank. Just some interesting "intel" from reading many books and listening to what pilots don't say in many interviews. Cheers and Merry Christmas from Edmonton.
About 20 years ago during Exercise Maple Flag at CFB Cold Lake, a CF-5 "killed" an F-15. Nobody believed it till the CF-5's gun camera film was processed and reviewed... there in the crosshairs was a F-15, the CF-5 pilot got a kill credit, he also managed to over stress the CF-5, but hey, a kill is a kill. As you said, never under estimate your enemy.
“The closest thing out there to someone killing an F-15”…unless you count the time when one F-15 shot another F-15 with an AIM-9 up in Alaska(around 1990-91). That one also made it back safely. I believe there’s a Stars and Stripes article still floating around. Pretty robust aircraft.
GS to base - "Growling Santa RTB. Winchester on gifts, dispensed lumps of coal and missile toe to 8 naughty elves in our no-fly zone. Merry Christmas to everyone else!" Base to Growling Santa - "Roger that. And a Happy New Year to you! Appreciate all you do to keep our skies friendly."
Great video GS, top 1%! This is pretty close to IRL action. Eagle pilots were indeed told not to turn with MiG-29s, but at least one did anyway. The Fulcrum driver went around and around and finally did a split-S and punched out just before the plane hit the ground. Eagle pulled 12 Gs at one point though IIRC. In general though, usual story. Russian crap was all hype and US stuff (MiG-29 flight controls were full of bob-weights, springs, pulleys & impossible to keep in trim, uuuugh) was understated - at least for a day or two. Not sure about the Mirage, but Dan Hampton didn't have much respect for them.
When I asked what plane you would want if you couldn't pick the F-22...now I know why you picked the F-15. I thought for sure you would have picked the F-16 though at the time.
Thank you buddy :) This one is currently sat with the moderators, and I assume they’re doing christmas things so expect it to go live 26th+. Happy Christmas
7:30 I'd say the closest an F15 got to being shot down was when an Israeli F16 collided with an Israeli F15 and took it's entire wing off... F15 was still able to return to base and land.
7:06 Samurra really rolled a Nat-1 during that fight before rolling a Nat-20 on survival. Despite the overall reliability of the Aim-7 being substantially improved by 1991 with the Aim-7M and MH, an astonishing 3/4 of his Sparrows failed sequentially to either come off the jet or light, with the 4th finally working. Samurra would have otherwise shot first, but the discrepancy allowed for quite the time gap between his shot and his opponents, allowing the R-40 shot at him to hit first, though it was a proxy hit. Claims of a shootdown were never really substantiated, though I can guess that repair job wasn't easy. F-15 survivability on display once again.
Brother, it's not too late to do a Santa Sleigh escort video! The tracker shows him near Pyongyang right now, he's gonna meet some S-400 resistance out there. He may need some Raptor support!
Would be something to see this kind of mission from the Iraqi perspective. MiG-21, MiG-29 or Mirage F1 taking on the Coalition armada would be a serious challenge, even with lots of AAA/SAMs to retreat back to.
It makes me laugh how just before saying that you can never underestimate your enemy, you just got finished talking about how you're going to get a kill with all the different weapons types. 😮😅😅
Hey GS, you ever consider how many phone/ipad/computer screens you indirectly clean? I get pissed when I’m trying to pick out bogies and it’s just a speck of dusk. 😂
Boy was the United States military something else back then. Built to fight the Red Army, ended up deploying with the Coalition against a lesser form of it using the same equipment. Specialized aircraft shining in the role they were designed to fulfill.
8:18 Very True, I was recently watching a podcast by a former US Army ISA (military intelligence) guy named Adam Gamal on the team house youtube channel. He described going behind enemy lines and infiltrating enemy terr0rists using seripticious entry methods. Underestimating your enemy is one of the worst things you can do.
Desert Storm is my personal favourite conflict to study and read about, so it's a treat to see the aerial conflict simulated in DCS World. I wish we'd treat the vets better, though. Keep up the great work!
Hey, very nice videos, always brightens up my days. i would wanna get into DCS, but i'm kinda poor :,(, but if you see and wanna do this, i would wanna see you fly the Mig-19 again :)
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L39 vs aermacchi common buddy it's been a year I have been asking for this ultimate fight of two trainers
You were flying with your navigational lights on, the entire fight. Minor thing, but you mentioned it as the sign that the opponent has given up.
Still an entertaining video. Kudos.
Can i play dcs on my laptop
Merry Christmas GS!!
How many flight hour's on DCS you have altogether? You make it look effortless 👍 😊
I remember being a little kid in the early 90's when Desert Storm started. The news videos of the AAA firing into the sky at night is something I'll never forget.
I was just in...what I guess is sort of 'Technical High School' at that time. Remember the teachers letting us listen to a transistor radio in class. It was buzzing everywhere...'It has begun...shit actually has hit the fan'.
I remember this as well, it blew my mind.
"You see, a Sparrow's vision is based on movement, if I stay perfectly stationary at the top of this climb it can't see me" -Iraqi Mig pilot
He’s not totally wrong though looool he just moving a little too much still at the end there
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The F-15A/B/C/D/E/EX has always been the GOAT of American air power and no one can convince me otherwise
Immortal Eagle
104:0 KD
You just hurt the F-15D's feelings. 😢 😂
Also the super hornet
@@muhammadsaleh7229the fact that youthink that actually baffles me😂
@@sammanix5585 why though . ? Navy and USAF
"two, four, six, eight kills. Time to go home [and collect my Distinguished Flying Cross].
Ace in one flight
What a gift! A stalled Immelmann turn is exactly what NOT to do in a MiG-25. 🌲
The F15 sure does have some power.
That sunset made things kind of interesting too.
First to acknowledge.. since I spent time in that combat theater back in the day…. Would see F-16s above my head escorting B-52’s.. surreal 🐫 ☀️
Keeping with the desert storm theme you've been doing lately, personally I think it'd be very cool to do an F-117 mission evading anti air, radar, and enemy planes to deliver just two bombs on an HVT. Food for thought
lmao you were playing eeny meeny miny moe with the Mig-21s
GS, when you "read" or listen "between the lines" of F-15C pilots during Desert Storm - and they will never flat out tell you due to the classified operations of the F-15Cs - is they ingressed @ 55,000+ ft and close to Mach 2 or above. We've been told for decades the altitude of the "Wall of Eagles" is 30,000ft. Contrast with with interviews of ..."high 50's". I don't think you can get the F-15C in DCS to 55,000+ feet however, I think you can get the F-15E to this altitude and most likely you'd need to be above Mach 2. One F-15C pilot stated he got the f-15C with 3 tanks to Mach 1.8 "up high". Clean off the jet with only 8 missiles and Mach 2.0 @ 55K ft is plausible. One pilot stated he got the Eagle out to Mach 2.35 @ 30,000 ft with 8 missiles and a centerline tank. Just some interesting "intel" from reading many books and listening to what pilots don't say in many interviews. Cheers and Merry Christmas from Edmonton.
Finally some eagle love. Plz GS , need more eagle videos
About 20 years ago during Exercise Maple Flag at CFB Cold Lake, a CF-5 "killed" an F-15. Nobody believed it till the CF-5's gun camera film was processed and reviewed... there in the crosshairs was a F-15, the CF-5 pilot got a kill credit, he also managed to over stress the CF-5, but hey, a kill is a kill. As you said, never under estimate your enemy.
“The closest thing out there to someone killing an F-15”…unless you count the time when one F-15 shot another F-15 with an AIM-9 up in Alaska(around 1990-91). That one also made it back safely. I believe there’s a Stars and Stripes article still floating around. Pretty robust aircraft.
I had never heard of that! Gotta look it up!
@ I tried attaching a link. YT didn’t like it. Just search “f-15 shoots f-15 Alaska”. There are a number of articles. March 1990.
Is that the one where the F15 landed with only 1 wing?
@kenny240 that was an Israeli F15 that had a midair with (I believe) an A4 during ACM.
@@MattH-wg7ouYep. Just flew home to land, be repaired and fly again.
F/A-18E/F vs F-35C (Fox-2 fight) would be epic to see! Navy vs Navy : Old vs New
Day 184
6:15 that shot is beautiful. Straight out of a movie
These past 2 weeks have been 🔥 with the new videos
15:48 lol "It was at this moment, he realized....he fuc#*d up"
11:32 Imagine being some poor schmuck on the edge of Baghdad and suddenly hundreds of 20mm rounds fall out of the sky.
That's why Phalanx rounds self destruct after a few seconds
16:55: The sight of MIG-25s crashing in the morning. It looks like… *victory.*
Growl Sidewinder back in the seat of an F15 again
It's like dream come true
Merry Christmas GS, thanks for the entertainment and laughs this past year.
Love to see some Sparrow gameplay 🙌🏻
GS to base - "Growling Santa RTB. Winchester on gifts, dispensed lumps of coal and missile toe to 8 naughty elves in our no-fly zone. Merry Christmas to everyone else!"
Base to Growling Santa - "Roger that. And a Happy New Year to you! Appreciate all you do to keep our skies friendly."
Idk why im so hooked on watching these videos.
Your videos are so awesome, wish I knew all the terminology and more about all the buttons and acronyms but its still fun to watch haha
Upload at Christmas evening? Wow. Thanks
Great video GS, top 1%!
This is pretty close to IRL action. Eagle pilots were indeed told not to turn with MiG-29s, but at least one did anyway. The Fulcrum driver went around and around and finally did a split-S and punched out just before the plane hit the ground. Eagle pulled 12 Gs at one point though IIRC. In general though, usual story. Russian crap was all hype and US stuff (MiG-29 flight controls were full of bob-weights, springs, pulleys & impossible to keep in trim, uuuugh) was understated - at least for a day or two. Not sure about the Mirage, but Dan Hampton didn't have much respect for them.
I don't know why, but this is my favorite video you've made. Maybe I'm just a $lut for the F-15.
The Sicario sound effects in the background are amazing!! Fitting for the demise of the Eagle's enemies
Bro it definitely is Christmas we have gotten 2 vids a day for 4 days. Hell yea
I love the f15 it’s my favorite fighter so if you could do more of this content I’d be watching every single video
5:03 “Mig circles the size of texas” 😂😂
The Eagle is ridiculously good ...makes all this look like "just another Tuesday"...
Yes! GS is taking the Charlie Eagle out today!
As a Desert Storm veteran I approve this video
Master has blessed us with a Christmas Eve present. Thank you, Master.
When I asked what plane you would want if you couldn't pick the F-22...now I know why you picked the F-15. I thought for sure you would have picked the F-16 though at the time.
@evangellica just found your other missions!!! So cool. Hope this one gets on the user files too. Thx
Thank you buddy :) This one is currently sat with the moderators, and I assume they’re doing christmas things so expect it to go live 26th+. Happy Christmas
7:30 I'd say the closest an F15 got to being shot down was when an Israeli F16 collided with an Israeli F15 and took it's entire wing off... F15 was still able to return to base and land.
Back in 2003, I remember a bunch of Iraqi Migs sitting on the runway, graffiti all over them. Other jets were buried till they were pulled out.
Toast of the O Club tonight, GS! Great video.
Great video, have a great Xmas mate 👍
F 15 Eagle...best fighter to ever see combat
More sunsets, please!
“If it flies, it dies,” was taken a little too close to heart by a certain, recent Ticonderoga… 👀
Awesome atmosphere for an awesome fight.
Merry Christmas GS and everyone here :)
that heartless call was VA-36. that was thier call sign
Kudos for knowing your stuff!
10:03 "It's an SA-2"
Says it with such disdain and 'I'm better than this' stank on it while sipping from his teacup. 😜😆😆
Would be interesting to see the Samurra Air Battle from the Iraqi side and see if you can adapt tactics to make it work
7:06 Samurra really rolled a Nat-1 during that fight before rolling a Nat-20 on survival. Despite the overall reliability of the Aim-7 being substantially improved by 1991 with the Aim-7M and MH, an astonishing 3/4 of his Sparrows failed sequentially to either come off the jet or light, with the 4th finally working. Samurra would have otherwise shot first, but the discrepancy allowed for quite the time gap between his shot and his opponents, allowing the R-40 shot at him to hit first, though it was a proxy hit. Claims of a shootdown were never really substantiated, though I can guess that repair job wasn't easy. F-15 survivability on display once again.
Brother, it's not too late to do a Santa Sleigh escort video! The tracker shows him near Pyongyang right now, he's gonna meet some S-400 resistance out there. He may need some Raptor support!
16:20 Dude popped up in the air like, "Catch me, catch me!" and the missile was like, "Okay!"
Now you gotta do a stealth mission with the F-117 Stealth and B2 Bombers. Night missions only though
Splash 8. A good day's work.
Freaking love these vids keep them coming😊
Would be something to see this kind of mission from the Iraqi perspective. MiG-21, MiG-29 or Mirage F1 taking on the Coalition armada would be a serious challenge, even with lots of AAA/SAMs to retreat back to.
Not the plane, but the pilot. But damn, the Eagle makes it easier.
It makes me laugh how just before saying that you can never underestimate your enemy, you just got finished talking about how you're going to get a kill with all the different weapons types. 😮😅😅
The bird may have been hit. But if it flew back to base and landed, it most definitely was not a kill.
She was hurt, obviously. But she wasn’t down.
Ya but the Iraqis claim it didn’t go back. Which I doubt but ya that’s the claim
8 kills, missile efficiency 82.5% with 100% AIM-7 efficiency.
Nicely done with the F-15. Great mission
that sparrow took its sweet time at 15:00
The new systems in the F15EX make a super beast with new missles coming on it.
Hey GS, you ever consider how many phone/ipad/computer screens you indirectly clean? I get pissed when I’m trying to pick out bogies and it’s just a speck of dusk. 😂
Haha yes lad 👌🏼
Happens every time!
Yay new video!!! I hope to fly against you someday man!
104:0 and a satellite just for show.
Boy was the United States military something else back then. Built to fight the Red Army, ended up deploying with the Coalition against a lesser form of it using the same equipment. Specialized aircraft shining in the role they were designed to fulfill.
Merry Christmas, aviators! 🎉❤
Love the Dune-esque soundbite at around 1:40
This was back when Pontiac was a going concern.
8:18 Very True, I was recently watching a podcast by a former US Army ISA (military intelligence) guy named Adam Gamal on the team house youtube channel. He described going behind enemy lines and infiltrating enemy terr0rists using seripticious entry methods. Underestimating your enemy is one of the worst things you can do.
Desert Storm is my personal favourite conflict to study and read about, so it's a treat to see the aerial conflict simulated in DCS World. I wish we'd treat the vets better, though. Keep up the great work!
Hey, very nice videos, always brightens up my days. i would wanna get into DCS, but i'm kinda poor :,(, but if you see and wanna do this, i would wanna see you fly the Mig-19 again :)
Merry Christmas everybody! 🎅🎅🎅
that last mig had a pucker factor
I really wish that the comms sounded like radio comms instead of a family member in the same room!
Love the videos and WW2 action!
"Pontiac, stop playing with your food, over."
Crew Chief needs to work on those canopy scratches
That F-15C that got hit by Su-25 had half its wing blown off and flew all the way back to Base with Half a wing...
Merry Christmas, GS
Keep up the great work
can we have some more f4 videos especially the underdog/outclassed 1v1s ie f14vf4 su27vf4 etc
GS posted early today
I can’t find this Iraq mission from the user files list linked in the description.. mind helping me out ?
The sunrise was amazing.
Also, the canopy was CATASTROPHICALLY scratched up.
ADA motto: If it flies it dies....
i‘d like to see more F14 stuff. Pretty sure you didn‘t fly her for some time
Can you do a similar mission with the Tom Cat since the Air Force went out of their way to sideline the Navy?
your video's are amazing and nice and I would like it if you used the f15c more. thank you.
Best part of the day 🎉
Sparrow go BOOM!
Notice how long GS was in the fight before he dropped his tanks. The engine power of the Eagle is kinda ridiculous.
Merry Christmas To All! May the New Year bring you joy and happiness! God Bless!
lmao the segment at 15:07... You splashed him with a sparrow, but the real damage was caused by your Statler and Waldorf commentary
Closer but I still need my f-15c vs f-4e rematch
I wish I could play dcs but all I got is a Xbox