I agree, their governments actions led to this but at the end of the day, they were both pilots doing their duties. The Iraqi pilot doing his best with what he had, and the US pilot with loads of training behind him just coming into action. Both being fighter pilots, they both probably had a lot in common, war is messy.
Imagine this: you’re a fighter pilot who’s been training for years. Suddenly, two USAF pilots pull up on you, immediately locked on. You pull some hard turns. Very hard. 7-8Gs. The blood in your body weighs so much that you’re struggling to even figure out where you are and what’s going on. You dive to prevent missile fire. You try to pull up before you hit the ground, pulling over 10gs since the only way to turn that fast is to activate afterburners. You lose consciousness. You die. Then 14 year olds make fun of you in a UA-cam video for the next 2 years
ignore the kids in the comments. It takes everything to become a fighter pilot. Who cares if the the enemy pilot was muslim or whatever, respect your enemy. They are fighting for their life and are under orders and so are you.
I have massive respect for fighter pilots in any situation, as a civilian I can't even imagine how difficult it must be to maneuver a fighter jet like that, truly amazing! My hat goes off for anyone in the air force from any nation
Same requirements for a f1 driver; have to be at peak performance all the time and have neck muscles capable of handling the force of gravity fighting you
Max Müller well considering the fact that Iraq was the aggressor in this war I wouldn’t call one mans death a happy ending but I would suggest Iraq’s defeat as a happy ending
Julian Pichardo Iraq wasn't the aggressor in this operation. Bush claimed Iraq had WMDs that is a threat to the US (never proved correct). So bush sent troops to Kuwait first and then invaded Iraq with over 100000 US troops and called it operation Iraqi Freedom. This is like Vietnam
Being a fighter pilot has to be one of the scariest things I can imagine, not to mention its probably hard af too. I have huge respect for those dudes, I get nervous just flying in general.
@@Xrashir2 to even 12 times the forces. I say 12 as there was a training incident where a pilot of an f15 blacked out from a prior maneuver and his jet went nose down with full power, he woke up saw the ground and pulled for all he had. Lucky he woke when he did and the pilots with him that day say he pulled 10-12 Gs.
The pure horror the Iraqi pilot felt must have been terrible. Imagine going towards the ground with speeds others could only imagine and then realizing you can’t turn around...
AIM-7 is not heatseeking, it's passive radar and is used in combat when friendlies are around. It requires for the shooter to maintain lock until impact
@@Shadow27Titan well at the time they weren't uncommon and a FOX 1 style missle would have been perfect for that engagement in my opinion as the bandit is in close proximity to friendlies. With a fox 3, like the aim-120, when the missle goes pitbull it has the chance of getting confused and will lock onto the target in front of it at the time. With a FOX 1 the wingman could keep an STT lock all the way to target.
Yeah I know!! Nobody knows what's it really like until they're on a real plane and the enemy has a lock on you n your buzzer warning is going crazy!! That's where your fighting tactics learned from top gun and aggressor fighting schools kicks in!!
Playing dcs I’m stilling trying to get a grasp on the inside of the cockpit on the f15, so I can’t imagine doing it in real life. Mad props to both the American and Iraqi pilot
@@michaelfallon6382 Good luck brother!! If one day i come back to these comments i'd like to see your comment after joining the air force !! Good luck again! ;)
The producers were needlessly ramping up the drama on this. The F-15 and the Mig 29 are very evenly matched, especially the F-15 with its heat seeking (chortle) AIM 7 missle. It's a shame the pilots had to go up and face each other to the death. I'm sure they'd rather have sat down together and talked for hours about flying. RIP to all of the brave fallen
I'm confused. AIM-7 Sparrow is a semi-active radar homing missile. There was a AIM-7R missile project, utilizing a infrared seeker but it was cancelled.
Well if that Mig fired while locked on sure the mig may have still got clapped because of the wingman but Rodriguez woulda been ded lol that's why they made it dramatic
Yes someone who signed up to be a fighter pilot and went to war would rather sit around and talk about flying instead of literally doing what they trained for thousands of hours to do..
Remember the man on the other side of the battlefield is fighting for what he believes in, has been taught, and for those they love, honor thy fallen enemy for they are human as well💯 respect to all pilotz all around
Bottom line a more superior fighter USA defeats some cocky might 29 pilots end of story and that's usually the end of these naritives. Basically got schooled and lost there lives as it should have been. No surrender no retreat. Stand and defend until the threat is eliminated period.
Iraq pilot crashes into ground: *XxXgitgudXxX has chosen the easy way out* Edit: yes I know he died Edit 2: I never said I don't respect the men, just making a joke about a video game
@@tejareddy2811 haha your teja your airforce saying it's a crap jet and you guys saying it's good lol Mig 21 shot by jf17 No f16 found missing when American engineer came for maintenance You can check their report
@@RealLudoKressh Why?He was a soldier of his country and died fighting like one. He sat on a jet fighter to fight for his people even if he didn't wanted to,that's called patriotism.
@@fast_mustang9287 i respect the fact your family fought for what they believed in, but to us acts of terror are mines and carbombs, but to other people being invaded and having a different nation decide about the politics in their own country, is an act of terorrism
@@fast_mustang9287 I think your perspective on terrorism is strongly influenced by how the western goverments define terrorism, with all the respect to your family members who served for the US, the US is human rights violater nr1 on this planet, they are the ones doing western imperialism and sticking their nose in places where they dont belong , like we have seen in vietnam, afghanistan and iraq
@@fast_mustang9287 yes, they bomb buildings because us only wanna attack cities because theyre good at it but trash fighting in the forest. Thats 1 reason why america lost againts vietnam
I have flown a single jet as the pilot one time, and it was only a trainer. While I was an instrument rated, multi-engine prop planes, this was an entirely different animal. It was everything I could do to maintain coordinated turns and all of the instruments in this machine. I have nothing but respect for the people who fly those amazing machines. They are and always will be heroes to me.
Zy dare Zy dare That was the good side actually. Bush claimed that the they had WMDs (never proved correct), and also the « They took the Kuwait » 😂, really ?? Obviously you petrol stealers told them to go for it then just told to everyone in the NATO and NA that we should attack Kuwait. Obviously USA killed so many just for petrol, both Gulf wars were for petrol. Glad us, french stopped that mascarade and refused to go to the second one. You guys can call us whatever you want, but at least we respect the human rights. And because I see the withe me flag jokers coming : at least we won a battle alone in our hole history lol😂😁👋🏽
The second MiG pilot was already dead the moment he ended up in a 2 on 1 situation, the fact that he attempted to perform such a dangerous maneuver shows the desperation of the pilot to evade the F-15s, and honestly hats off to him for trying, you need some serious balls to be trying air show like maneuvers in combat, cause no flares or jinking would had saved him from that situation. I see a lot of people mocking the pilot, I see a lot of people actually treating the pilot with respect, I can't say anything but how joking around about the enemy like that just shows how much we've dehumanized them, it's just childish.
There was an Egyptian MiG-21 pilot who attempted a Split-S at only 3,000 fight in a desperate bid to evade a pursuing Israeli Mirage III. According to the Israeli pilot, the MiG-21 threw up an enormous plume of sand/dust as it neared the ground and, for a moment, the Israeli lost sight of the aircraft (thinking perhaps it had struck the ground). Amazingly, the MiG emerged from its enormous cloud of sand and, pulling through the maneuver with bare feet (if not mere inches) to spare it rocketed skyward. Unfortunately for the Egyptian MiG, the Israeli had anticipated his position and positioned his own aircraft for a shot as the MiG lost energy near the top of its maneuver. As far as the Split-S maneuver was concerned, perhaps the Egyptian MiG-21 pilot had succeeded where the Iraqi MiG-29 pilot failed. It's not fully apparent that the MiG-29 pilot was trying to pull a Split-S, however, he could have just as easily been suffering threat fixation and been overly focused on what was on his six as opposed to the altitude left under his aircraft.
I've joked around plenty at the state of the Iraqi army in the first Gulf War, but I won't joke at individual loss of life. Am I glad he lost, absolutely, but that doesn't mean I can't respect an enemy soldier who's only doing what he's been asked to do and think he's doing the right thing.
@@weltfrieden3031 thats true but its utter hypocrisy for countries like the US to lecture other countries on human rights when the us has done just to name things: Genoicde ( to native americans) Humam experemntation Toppling democratically elected governments Global survilence Assasinations Torture Mass killings in iraq, vietnam etc Targeting civilians Backing dictators like the ones in south america Meddling in foreign elections Attacking and silencing people like julian assange who exposed us war crimes which is an attack on the press
@@lightningboltt5437 what about russia mass killings of civilians in ukriane Using chemical weapons in syria and targeting hospitals invasion of Georgia and massive killings meddling with western elections threatening nuclear war & chemical weapons? invasion of Afghanistan?? Assassinations Human rights violation Using chemical weapon on british soil invading Nato airspace cyber attacks Poisoning and jailing anyone who is against putin Mass arrests in russia for protesting against the war?
Both you are right. However, those Iraqis you feel so bad about had also just invaded Kuwait without provocation before we got involved. War is disgusting, I know first hand unfortunately.
@@massivepump3059 I see you know a lot of things, than I also hope that you know that USA along with its NATO allies killed more than million Iraqis and this number is not even close to what iraqis did in Kuwait
@Aaron Kane you have to find something negative in everything hunh? They are All badasses...ANYONE who can do this, and fight for their country...no matter what country! I guess you didn't see the part about it being "scary and sad" as well!?!
As an Iraqi, I want to thank everyone who paid respect to the Iraqi pilot. This war was completely unjustified, benefitting the likes of Cheyney, Bush, and Big Oil. Rest in peace to every martyr and dead soldier whom these men's greed has caused, no matter what side they were on. Rest in peace to the million Iraqi people who died in the aftermath power vacuum this war has caused. The world owes Iraq a huge apology and gratitude, as after everything that happened, Iraqis still put their lives on the line to stop a terrorist organization like ISIS from spreading to the rest of the world.
@Trust The Process my response is up there. What are you bozos talking about? Do y'all have a Kuwaiti boyfriend or something? Iraq and Kuwait relationship is better than ever. I have lost five family members since 2003 due to bullets or explosions. Thanks to the lot of you who supported this war, you sheep.
@@georgecahill3046 what he said is correct, there is a thing called brakes on jets too to reduce air speed. It is actually a type of defensive manouevre and also, he was quoting tom cruise from top gun
To be honest, dogfighting has changed so much since the invention of aircraft. In the first war it was about speed and aerobatics, in the second great war it was speed, aerobatics, and firepower. Then jets came along and now its through greatly precise maneuvers and technology that assists the pilot. From training that took only around 3 to 6 months, now to I believe 7 or 8 years.
speed, aerobatics, and turning have always been the basics of dogfighting. dogfighting, or "basic" fighter maneuvers center around getting your nose on the enemy and taking them out. that hasn't changed. now, however, we primarily use missiles instead of guns and the pace is multiplied significantly as well as the ability to perform maneuvers such as going vertical, which simply were not feasible in the era of props. also, training does not take 7 to 8 years. you need to be an officer, which requires going to college for, so 4 years i guess, and then about 18 months of training including ots or ocs, depending on the branch and which can also be replaced with rotc or going to the navy or air force academy, which will be during your 4 years of college. nowhere near 7 to 8 years. i have no clue where you got that from. that's the length of 2 contracts.
@Dr. Irina Luminesk just... no. that's not how it works. just as it was shown in this video, there are ways to get around radar or infrared locks in dogfights. the whole premise of dogfights are that you have to get nose on and a radar or infrared lock. those are impossible in a slower turning aircraft or when the two aircraft are too close to each other. missiles can move in the general direction of the target aircraft's heat source or radar signature, depending on the missile. however, air-to-air missiles travel at speeds about mach 3, so it can only adjust itself onto the target aircraft so much. if the two aircraft are too close to each other, a fired missile will not have time to track onto and follow the enemy aircraft.
@@AlienVibesss Aim-7 requires an aircraft to maintain radar lock for the missile to ride'. Full-active is a missile with its own targeting radar (Fire and Forget)
@@AlienVibesss it requires the lock on the target until it hits the target ...unlike radar guided misile like aim 120 which uses its own radar to find its target some time after it launches ...but aim 7 uses the radar of the aircraft
Actually I found it a lot. One of them is a joke about "the pilot didn't pass the tutorial and now he can enjoy 7 wives in aLaH aKbAh land" Which is not true because it is possible that the pilot fainted from receiving too much g and if that were true he still wouldn't get 7 wives tho
Fact check: aim-7 sparrows are not heat seeking. They are radar suite dependent missiles that require continuous radar lock information from the aircraft until impact. They never go “pitbull”.
@@Funniest_Tings in my country most soldiers are poor and young and I'd imagine it to be the case for countries iraq as well , I get that it's what they signed up but they don't agree with their countries policies and orders they're given
I'm very sorry for your family's loss. His military family shares your grief. 1st Tank Battalion, Task Force Papa Bear, 1st Marine Division, ODS Semper Fidelis
Sorry. It sucks losing loved ones. Hang in there and just remember the good times. The first couple months are the hardest, but eventually it doesn’t hurt so much.
Sad part is that nowadays you could be making contact with him casually on the internet. But in the battlefield, war commands you to take each other down. They could’ve been friends in real life if it weren’t for politics.
Reminds me of that time a German pilot spared a heavily injured B-17 American bomber in WWII. They ended up mettjng each other 40 years later and became good friends. They stayed in touch with each other for the rest of their remaining life..I'll paste the link if you guys want...
There's a clip of the war in Chechnya in which a Russian and Chechen officer who were buddies in Afghanistan were trying to convince the other to retreat so that they didn't have to fight. The clip ends when they say that they have orders and no mercy will be shown.
The Iraqis knew they would die but instead of flying into Iran they gave their best with outdated equipment, no ECM, poor radar without fire and forget tech or HUD..plus they were outnumbered maybe 50 to 1..these were not even up to date outdated mig 29s they were stripped down export versions that might have had a chance if it was 1966 or 67 against Phantoms before they added guns and extra sidewinders
The mig -29 is an outstanding weapon that had the capability to take anything out of the sky that was flying that day. The difference here was the amount of training the pilots had received.
The Col was probably over hyping the situation, he knew his wingman had the first mig the entire time but he's on TV so he made it a bit more dramatic;)
The Col knew his stuff and it saved his life twice. The wingman did his job and scored a kill. Their training and teamwork allowed them to live to fight another day. Sometimes decisions are made in a few seconds that determine life or death. No over hyping occurred. It was a fight or die moment.
Probably over hyping the situation? I don't know how you cannot overhype that situation. It only takes a mistake from his wingman or himself and he's a dunner, mad respects for fighters who went through actual dogfights.
The jokes are great, lightening up the mood, but please pay respect for the Iraqi that died fighting for his country, he may look like the enemy in your eyes, but to his people, he was a hero... In the end, it all depends on our perspective...
Shouldn’t fight to to slaughter innocent women and children for what you believe. I’m glad we help the freedom fighters in other countries who otherwise would stand no chance
@@ballsach8864 Your country? Freedom fighters? What an excuse to get oil from arab nations, stirring up chaos and bombing villages? You think your country wasn't commiting a massacre. They were...
Royal Mirenda - there is hundreds of thousands of freedom fighters that do the bulk of fighting in the war in Afghanistan specifically, that Americans, Canadians and British fight besides. If they didn’t then millions would be killed by an oppressive government. All you care about is money, not the innocent who have no voice for them. They are killing killers that slaughter the innocent.
Royal Mirenda - You think am entire country should be allowed to torcher and commit genocide on there own people for money and control? Your a crazy man
I think we all forget that these men have their orders it's not like they willingly will shoot you down it's because their choices are made for them so let's respect everyone who is serving the army
Sergio Hernández Robla yea and Iraq totally wasn’t killing innocent people were brainwashed yet Americans are one of the few countries that have access to everything mostly on thebinternet
@@offzach You must really not know about drone strikes which Americans perform on villages do you? If we take into account for number of innocent lives taken by countries.. the u.s and the u.k would be number one by a mile.
Its really sad that they fought even though they knew that they were not going to win. Please respect them because they had the heart to fight and die following orders.
Ascher Lafayette didn't know that.. but I was thinking: if the first mig turned fast enough towards the missile would the heat seaker lock on to the friendly plane?
@@mizutani2144 I don't know the specifics, but that would probably require just about perfect positioning, also the missile would probably have bled all its energy trying to out turn the mig.
@@ascherlafayette8572 No, the elctromagnetic magnetism due to the abnormal physical properties of the Mig would have resulted in a E=Mc^2, however due to the sudden change in velocity the fire - Hydrogen ratio in the afterburners caused the Mig to ride the rocket like Mia on drugs.
@@hlf_coder6272 Crazy how people don't realize there was 2 Gulf wars in Iraq all sparked by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. They always remember the 'weapons of mass destruction' justification for the 2nd Gulf War while conveniently forgetting that Sadam was repeatedly breaking the terms of their surrender.
yah um the iraq Person responsible for defending a country that was committing massive genocide on its people. sorry no honor or sympathy there my friend.
@@B_Cleric_Time nope, but in the end, being that 400,000+ iraq citizens were slaughtered by sudam hussein and his government, you could very well say that another 24 million, or whatever their population may be, were right out saved by the americans. Did it do the Americans any good? no, but that only makes what they did even more honorable.
Amazing insight and great footage. I wish you wouldn't change the angles so quickly though. Was very hard to keep tabs on what was going on. It seemed like their were times when the pilot was talking about being in danger when the footage was showing him in a good position to strike the MIG.
Shows the downfall of our culture when the entire comment section is nothing but video-game references. These are real people/pilots, real events, real feats of engineering and training. Real life & death.
It's sad, war should not be an option for a civilized society. We have been conditioned since grade school to accept war as part of being a "free" nation. "War is a Racket". Gen. Smedley Butler General Smedley Butler on Interventionism -- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC. War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism. It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service. I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
@@tmvo2wotch96 We tried negotiating with Saddam Hussein. Hussein wouldn't budge. Since Iraq is land-locked, Hussein wanted Kuwait's access to the Persian Gulf on top of Kuwait's abundant oil. Since he insisted on standing his ground, we took it back from him at the request of the Kuwaiti government-in-exile.
You can joke about the Iraqi pilot, but he was a fighter pilot too, and he was fighting for his life.
Steven Zore...true, but he was totally outclassed in terms of training, avionics, AWACS, the plane...the Iraqi pilot didn’t stand a chance...
woodystorey I think you're missing the point.
I agree, their governments actions led to this but at the end of the day, they were both pilots doing their duties. The Iraqi pilot doing his best with what he had, and the US pilot with loads of training behind him just coming into action. Both being fighter pilots, they both probably had a lot in common, war is messy.
Sucks when you're playing for the Browns and the Patriots show up in town.
woodystorey I assure you, you only hear about the wins
Imagine this: you’re a fighter pilot who’s been training for years. Suddenly, two USAF pilots pull up on you, immediately locked on. You pull some hard turns. Very hard. 7-8Gs. The blood in your body weighs so much that you’re struggling to even figure out where you are and what’s going on. You dive to prevent missile fire. You try to pull up before you hit the ground, pulling over 10gs since the only way to turn that fast is to activate afterburners. You lose consciousness. You die.
Then 14 year olds make fun of you in a UA-cam video for the next 2 years
@@AaronCleetus-cj4gw yeee
@@AaronCleetus-cj4gw they’re probably going to be like “WheRES tHE voIcE ChaT?!?!”
I agree, that G force hits hard and your out. I can’t imagine the pain that pilot was in
@@CFM2 nah, they'll probably say "hAcKeR, iM rEpOrTiNG yOu, gEt GoOd"
Good life. The 12 year olds will never understand
ignore the kids in the comments. It takes everything to become a fighter pilot. Who cares if the the enemy pilot was muslim or whatever, respect your enemy. They are fighting for their life and are under orders and so are you.
Ryan D respect
@@squidget2693 +1
Preach!
Yeah even some nazis didn’t want to do what they were doing
True...Ryan
I have massive respect for fighter pilots in any situation, as a civilian I can't even imagine how difficult it must be to maneuver a fighter jet like that, truly amazing! My hat goes off for anyone in the air force from any nation
Don't forget Naval Aviators as well!
just imagine the G's you experience like that Iraqi pilot
Insane reaction time; undiagnosed adhd usually
Same requirements for a f1 driver; have to be at peak performance all the time and have neck muscles capable of handling the force of gravity fighting you
@@codypk5111yeah but F1 doesn’t encounter the same amount of G forces which can be up to 9-10 for fighter pilots.
That second iraqi pilot is a true pro, they can never shoot you down if you crash into the ground first
I'm dead 😂
Lmao
Damn Iraci kill stealer. Happens to me in GTAV all the time.
That does count as a kill for the US pilot though. Its called a maneuver kill where you force the enemy into a maneuver that causes him to crash.
HAHAHAHAHAHA XD
"Can't get shot down if you're already down. :)"
This is how people use fighter jets in Battlefield
RIGHT XD
Yes!!! Something Activision could never achieve...
I’m a plain main on bf3-5 it’s true
Bell plane you mean?
lamo right
U.S. Pilot: Barely escapes Iraqi missiles
Iraqi pilots: Die a horrible death
Smithsonian: *happy ending music*
But it is a happy ending.
KIMOA it’s sad to be honest
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory You must be some anti-Araqi group.
Max Müller well considering the fact that Iraq was the aggressor in this war I wouldn’t call one mans death a happy ending but I would suggest Iraq’s defeat as a happy ending
Julian Pichardo Iraq wasn't the aggressor in this operation. Bush claimed Iraq had WMDs that is a threat to the US (never proved correct). So bush sent troops to Kuwait first and then invaded Iraq with over 100000 US troops and called it operation Iraqi Freedom. This is like Vietnam
Being a fighter pilot has to be one of the scariest things I can imagine, not to mention its probably hard af too. I have huge respect for those dudes, I get nervous just flying in general.
People get scared of forces on roller coasters and I just can’t imagine those forces like 2x harder and fighting for your life
@@Xrashir2 to even 12 times the forces.
I say 12 as there was a training incident where a pilot of an f15 blacked out from a prior maneuver and his jet went nose down with full power, he woke up saw the ground and pulled for all he had. Lucky he woke when he did and the pilots with him that day say he pulled 10-12 Gs.
Counter IED patrols would argue that the fighter jocks do not have the hardest job.
@@mh-ht2fp Thank you armchair general, I'll retire now.
The pure horror the Iraqi pilot felt must have been terrible.
Imagine going towards the ground with speeds others could only imagine and then realizing you can’t turn around...
Why he didnt eject?
@Christofer Cervantes What was in 2001...this story is from Gulf War,what does that pilot have to do with what happend at 9/11 ?
@Christofer Cervantes stop commenting on youtube videos, you're embarrassing us...
@@corndog7905 Now it's make sens...
@@corndog7905 Don't be a smartass, there's idiots in every country around the world just as you're demonstrating.
the fact that these guys in jets and do what they do is literally mind boggling to me. These guys have my full respect.
What a precios thing to have your respect MaTthEw raza, great stuff
I wonder why the Iraqis went up as singles rather than as wingmen. Poor tactics.
@@zipz8423 its less power and less fighters
@@rickybobby9649 there were 2 Migs. Perhaps they had no GCI at that point.
It's a 1vs1 battle with 20 million dollar toys...blows my mind.
everyone saying "stop joking about the iraqi pilot"
me scrolling through comments to find nothing except comments saying to not joke about it
They’re down there. I was thinking the same thing; on my end, the tasteless jokes started after 30 or so comments down.
The Mig-29 could take down an Eagle with the right pilot.
it’s those and other people confused on where they are
@@charleswilson7371 Bald, or Golden?
An apt observation Lukson.
AIM-7 is not heatseeking, it's passive radar and is used in combat when friendlies are around. It requires for the shooter to maintain lock until impact
Yes, although they are obsolete and no one uses them. The f15 in the video probably carried the AIM-120 AMRAAM instead
@@Shadow27Titan well at the time they weren't uncommon and a FOX 1 style missle would have been perfect for that engagement in my opinion as the bandit is in close proximity to friendlies. With a fox 3, like the aim-120, when the missle goes pitbull it has the chance of getting confused and will lock onto the target in front of it at the time. With a FOX 1 the wingman could keep an STT lock all the way to target.
dont worry, the missile knows where it is at all times
@@HQinternet no it doesn't
@@gospon wooosh
That Iraqi pilot didn’t finish his tutorial
He only trained to fly not land
Wasn't there BVR back then? How come the radars didn't find the Mig.
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I thought it was mossad trained Saudi pilots that didn't learn how to land?
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Yeah I know so was mine.
No he passed his tutorial and got mission accomplished. You know he coulda pulled that Mig up. Now he can enjoy his 7 wives in Alah Akbah land
20% of comments: Respect to both fighter pilots
80% of the comments: "Where is the joke?"
Too many people all commenting at the same time. Some of the jokes were pretty funny though.
Even the comment section has it's own algorithm that nobody understands.
Main one is by This Fish who commented that he couldn't be shot down if he crashed first
@@henrybaker4239 na that was funny man
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I get the jokes, but remember it takes everything out of one's life to be a pilot.
Respect, F.
Yeah I know!! Nobody knows what's it really like until they're on a real plane and the enemy has a lock on you n your buzzer warning is going crazy!! That's where your fighting tactics learned from top gun and aggressor fighting schools kicks in!!
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Well good for him that he died in a dogfight and didn't get asassinated with his family like most of the Iraqi pilots during the civil war
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As a pilot it’s gotta be so rough seeing a crash like that even if they are your enemy
Iraqi pilot probably passed out from the consistent high Gs he was pulling and he didn’t wake up until it was too late
Yeah
It takes a lot to stay awake in a situation where your doing stunts like those
Most likely
He would have lost anyway
I don’t think he woke up at all... catch my drift
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Bermuda Triangle mystery was solved tho
I know right
Lux Smash ya and Area 51 would not have aliens anymore
But Malaysian flight tho
*Mig crashes into the ground*
MigFighterJetz - *left the game*
Lmaooo
*ANGRY GERMAN KIDS INTENSIVE*
- *left life*
Left the universe you mean!!🤨😂
*Player Disconnected*
Playing dcs I’m stilling trying to get a grasp on the inside of the cockpit on the f15, so I can’t imagine doing it in real life. Mad props to both the American and Iraqi pilot
They get formal training in real life, they might have it slightly easier on the learning part of it
Sometimes video games are harder than real life
If you can pilot any jet. You’ve earned my respect
As a man very close to joining the air force, I'll come back in a few years and expect my respect 😂
@@michaelfallon6382 Good luck brother!! If one day i come back to these comments i'd like to see your comment after joining the air force !! Good luck again! ;)
@@9Alien8 I'll try to remember, and if I do remember I swear I'll come back here :)
@@michaelfallon6382 My best wishes for yours up-coming days as a pilot !!
@@9Alien8 tysm man! Means a lot to know at least someone is supporting me 😂
it’s kinda insane that stuff like this happens and we don’t know most of the time
People care more about celebrities on Instagram. Its human nature to ignore the uncomfortable stuff
The government doesnt want you to know its for the better
Like it could be happening rn and we wouldnt even know about it
@@nczioox1116 reading this while procrastinating my work proved your point on the spot
@@nczioox1116 no
The producers were needlessly ramping up the drama on this. The F-15 and the Mig 29 are very evenly matched, especially the F-15 with its heat seeking (chortle) AIM 7 missle.
It's a shame the pilots had to go up and face each other to the death. I'm sure they'd rather have sat down together and talked for hours about flying. RIP to all of the brave fallen
Good comment!!!
I'm confused. AIM-7 Sparrow is a semi-active radar homing missile. There was a AIM-7R missile project, utilizing a infrared seeker but it was cancelled.
Well if that Mig fired while locked on sure the mig may have still got clapped because of the wingman but Rodriguez woulda been ded lol that's why they made it dramatic
Yes someone who signed up to be a fighter pilot and went to war would rather sit around and talk about flying instead of literally doing what they trained for thousands of hours to do..
Yep propaganda
Remember the man on the other side of the battlefield is fighting for what he believes in, has been taught, and for those they love, honor thy fallen enemy for they are human as well💯 respect to all pilotz all around
Respect to the Iraqi pilots working with what they had. I know many of them would rather be allies than enemies. Good good mista
MIGs are good fighter jets. Don't get it wrong.
He’s talking about the training.
true that...
I can confirm that.
🇮🇶 🇺🇸
still filmed better than school fights
Even when they take 2 hours taking their backpacks off this video got them speeding thru the air xD
jeffy
Still filmed better then UFO sightings
Not the real fight I think
Bottom line a more superior fighter USA defeats some cocky might 29 pilots end of story and that's usually the end of these naritives. Basically got schooled and lost there lives as it should have been. No surrender no retreat. Stand and defend until the threat is eliminated period.
Iraq pilot crashes into ground:
*XxXgitgudXxX has chosen the easy way out*
Edit: yes I know he died
Edit 2: I never said I don't respect the men, just making a joke about a video game
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Wow he’s one of those K/D grinders huh? Smh
Lol all gta5 players got recommened this
XxXGitGudXxX KD:100000000000
Frickin tryhards
The skill and precision it takes to pilot anything is unparalleled, it’s a sad death but an honorable one
Iraqi’s parents took his controller away in the middle of playing
U r jst lcky nthng mre than else cmee around an indian pilottt u taste the bitrnesss
@@100percentgurantee?
His parents should have let Donald Trump finish his game..
@@100percentgurantee wow nce gramr sklz brooo
I see u again tf
Disclaimer: No dogs were harmed during the making of this video
@@yaseencr7151 and pakistani pm shit on tv and sent him back
@@yaseencr7151 if only the pilot of mig21 was indian and f16 was pakistani, this battle can be won by mig 21 haha what loser cuntry pak is
@@tejareddy2811 haha your teja your airforce saying it's a crap jet and you guys saying it's good lol
Mig 21 shot by jf17
No f16 found missing when American engineer came for maintenance
You can check their report
@@yaseencr7151 😂😂😂good one
@@tejareddy2811 any 1 proof of your claims hahahaha even in this modern era ....AGR HUMRAY PAS RAFAEL HOTA TO YE DIN NA DEKHNA PARTA
The second Mig is like- "I'm going to do what is called a pro-gamer move."
He probably thought he would re-spawn.
Nico Arnold He just wanted to change his load out.
Nah he just tryna keep his kd above 1.00
Suicide is badass xd
@@gamingclipsofsomesort he looks like hes making a suicide
I’m a door kicker. I have nothing but love and respect for aviators. Their training and skill set is second to none.
The jokes are funny, but I have respect to the dead soldier.
Negative. He made his choice and knew the consequences.
@@RealLudoKressh Why?He was a soldier of his country and died fighting like one. He sat on a jet fighter to fight for his people even if he didn't wanted to,that's called patriotism.
@@RealLudoKressh He didn't make this choice. Without the U.S, he would have never been in this situation that cost him his life.
Orbit 01 the U.S. didn’t tell him to attack.
@@RealLudoKressh Everyone makes a choice whether to be a fighter pilot no matter which country.
Seriously respect to all soldiers.
(Edited)
@@vanillavilla. The USA were the terrorists in this war lol
@@fast_mustang9287 doesnt matter, the US invaded them for oil, we all know it
@@fast_mustang9287 i respect the fact your family fought for what they believed in, but to us acts of terror are mines and carbombs, but to other people being invaded and having a different nation decide about the politics in their own country, is an act of terorrism
@@fast_mustang9287 I think your perspective on terrorism is strongly influenced by how the western goverments define terrorism, with all the respect to your family members who served for the US, the US is human rights violater nr1 on this planet, they are the ones doing western imperialism and sticking their nose in places where they dont belong , like we have seen in vietnam, afghanistan and iraq
@@fast_mustang9287 yes, they bomb buildings because us only wanna attack cities because theyre good at it but trash fighting in the forest. Thats 1 reason why america lost againts vietnam
POV:you’re trying to find the joke comments about the Iraqi pilot
Fr
No
Found em
Yep
Fr.
I have flown a single jet as the pilot one time, and it was only a trainer. While I was an instrument rated, multi-engine prop planes, this was an entirely different animal. It was everything I could do to maintain coordinated turns and all of the instruments in this machine.
I have nothing but respect for the people who fly those amazing machines. They are and always will be heroes to me.
But did you know that he went into 100% defensive mode?
Did he? I didn't pick up on that. Good thing his wing man had a heat-seeking AIM-7 to drop that baddie.
Agreed, that’s too much. 🤣🤣🤣
But. Can he go 87% defensive mode? Maybe he will be less stressful in that range.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAH.
Still didnt get it. Mig has a lock on. Why he didnt fire a missile
Imagine being ordered to fight for your life and the internet jokes about your death. Pathetic 12 year olds smh.
Chose the wrong side. Hehe 😎
@@AttenboroughAdmirer what choice did he have?
Cruel
Zy dare Zy dare That was the good side actually. Bush claimed that the they had WMDs (never proved correct), and also the « They took the Kuwait » 😂, really ?? Obviously you petrol stealers told them to go for it then just told to everyone in the NATO and NA that we should attack Kuwait. Obviously USA killed so many just for petrol, both Gulf wars were for petrol. Glad us, french stopped that mascarade and refused to go to the second one. You guys can call us whatever you want, but at least we respect the human rights. And because I see the withe me flag jokers coming : at least we won a battle alone in our hole history lol😂😁👋🏽
Shawn Hapes Sad that we have bad leaders now
Can't even see the "terrible" jokes with all these other comments on about them
Yeah same.
Same it’s more people complaining then jokes
Wdym I saw like 10 jokes and they not even funny.
True
Same :D
That Iraqi pilot defended his nation till last breath. Respect.
Why is USA invading
This is how my parents went to school
They had to walk through the sky while fighter Jets fought each other
@@dkv674 r/wooosh
Underrated comment
@@a15bionic59 I would not say that’s a whoosh
@@bumblebeeyep yeah, more like r/Brrrrrrt
idk what everyone is talking about, im just looking at the jets. they're cool.
lol
Same
If I was an alien I would have fun shooting these f****** down everyday.
1:43 "heat seeking AIM-7"
Same
The second MiG pilot was already dead the moment he ended up in a 2 on 1 situation, the fact that he attempted to perform such a dangerous maneuver shows the desperation of the pilot to evade the F-15s, and honestly hats off to him for trying, you need some serious balls to be trying air show like maneuvers in combat, cause no flares or jinking would had saved him from that situation. I see a lot of people mocking the pilot, I see a lot of people actually treating the pilot with respect, I can't say anything but how joking around about the enemy like that just shows how much we've dehumanized them, it's just childish.
Just dont come into the comments section then.
@@critik4l169 don't dehumanize the enemy, it could backstab you in the end.
There was an Egyptian MiG-21 pilot who attempted a Split-S at only 3,000 fight in a desperate bid to evade a pursuing Israeli Mirage III. According to the Israeli pilot, the MiG-21 threw up an enormous plume of sand/dust as it neared the ground and, for a moment, the Israeli lost sight of the aircraft (thinking perhaps it had struck the ground). Amazingly, the MiG emerged from its enormous cloud of sand and, pulling through the maneuver with bare feet (if not mere inches) to spare it rocketed skyward. Unfortunately for the Egyptian MiG, the Israeli had anticipated his position and positioned his own aircraft for a shot as the MiG lost energy near the top of its maneuver. As far as the Split-S maneuver was concerned, perhaps the Egyptian MiG-21 pilot had succeeded where the Iraqi MiG-29 pilot failed. It's not fully apparent that the MiG-29 pilot was trying to pull a Split-S, however, he could have just as easily been suffering threat fixation and been overly focused on what was on his six as opposed to the altitude left under his aircraft.
f-15s are whack.
I've joked around plenty at the state of the Iraqi army in the first Gulf War, but I won't joke at individual loss of life. Am I glad he lost, absolutely, but that doesn't mean I can't respect an enemy soldier who's only doing what he's been asked to do and think he's doing the right thing.
Much respect to the Iraqi fighter…..no telling who he left behind. He’s a person too.
a Person responsible for defending a country that was committing massive genocide on its people. sorry no honor or sympathy there my friend.
What about the USs war crimes in vietnam and iraq and south america
@@lightningboltt5437 war crimes happen in every war?? You think veitnam wasn't commenting war crimes? And iraq??
@@weltfrieden3031 thats true but its utter hypocrisy for countries like the US to lecture other countries on human rights when the us has done just to name things:
Genoicde ( to native americans)
Humam experemntation
Toppling democratically elected governments
Global survilence
Assasinations
Torture
Mass killings in iraq, vietnam etc
Targeting civilians
Backing dictators like the ones in south america
Meddling in foreign elections
Attacking and silencing people like julian assange who exposed us war crimes which is an attack on the press
@@lightningboltt5437 what about russia
mass killings of civilians in ukriane
Using chemical weapons in syria and targeting hospitals
invasion of Georgia and massive killings
meddling with western elections
threatening nuclear war & chemical weapons?
invasion of Afghanistan??
Assassinations
Human rights violation
Using chemical weapon on british soil
invading Nato airspace
cyber attacks
Poisoning and jailing anyone who is against putin
Mass arrests in russia for protesting against the war?
Even tho I am American I honestly feel bad for the Iraqi pilot, that was someone son trying to defend their country. RIP man.
Both you are right. However, those Iraqis you feel so bad about had also just invaded Kuwait without provocation before we got involved. War is disgusting, I know first hand unfortunately.
@@massivepump3059 And US invaded iraq without any provocation, what is your point?
@@elafl807 whataboutism is not a valid argument
@@elafl807 True🤷.
@@massivepump3059
I see you know a lot of things, than I also hope that you know that USA along with its NATO allies killed more than million Iraqis and this number is not even close to what iraqis did in Kuwait
there were no dogs,, click bait
It's not that's what their called
it was such an obvious joke guys...
R/woooooosh
Lol. I think he's being funny, guys.
@@nonotherthanme8313 woooosh
"I was within seconds of being a casualty"
Outro song: 😊🌈💖🎉
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Loool
“It’s brighter here.”
lol!
"It's not about the plane, its about the pilot" - Top Gun or something
yeah lol
Cant kill a mig if there isnt a mig to kill! *crashes into the desert*
Walrus_War_King 16 wtf hahahaha
XD
That’s why you don’t put an iraqi in a plane
He probably said that.
You should know that a video games are far cry from real thing.
It's not a game, it's real life and death. So scary and sad, yet somehow badass at the same time.
Hollywood will make you want to enlist real quick. Then one week in you will be wanting right back out
@Aaron Kane you have to find something negative in everything hunh? They are All badasses...ANYONE who can do this, and fight for their country...no matter what country! I guess you didn't see the part about it being "scary and sad" as well!?!
Aaron K Iraq was invading Kuwait when this happened though
@Aaron K MIG are good jets lol
@@emmanueledano5194 Not good enough to compare.
He was in survival mode. He shoulda been in creative mode.
Oh yeah yeah
no they had hacks. they could fly and still die
Not just survival, hardcore. That pilot won't be able to log back in.
This isn't Minecraft kid
@@bumnuggetz6894 congratulations! you have completely missed the joke!
As an Iraqi, I want to thank everyone who paid respect to the Iraqi pilot. This war was completely unjustified, benefitting the likes of Cheyney, Bush, and Big Oil. Rest in peace to every martyr and dead soldier whom these men's greed has caused, no matter what side they were on. Rest in peace to the million Iraqi people who died in the aftermath power vacuum this war has caused. The world owes Iraq a huge apology and gratitude, as after everything that happened, Iraqis still put their lives on the line to stop a terrorist organization like ISIS from spreading to the rest of the world.
What about when Iraq invaded Kuwait?
@Trust The Process what a bozo
@Trust The Process my response is up there. What are you bozos talking about? Do y'all have a Kuwaiti boyfriend or something? Iraq and Kuwait relationship is better than ever. I have lost five family members since 2003 due to bullets or explosions. Thanks to the lot of you who supported this war, you sheep.
@@paper7272 and?
@@paper7272 USA gave them the green light
ima slow down..hit the brakes..he'll fly right by..
"YOuRe gonna do WhAt?!"
Roger maverick
@@georgecahill3046 what he said is correct, there is a thing called brakes on jets too to reduce air speed. It is actually a type of defensive manouevre and also, he was quoting tom cruise from top gun
Pugachevs cobra
Roger that callsign boso turn west bound
To be honest, dogfighting has changed so much since the invention of aircraft. In the first war it was about speed and aerobatics, in the second great war it was speed, aerobatics, and firepower. Then jets came along and now its through greatly precise maneuvers and technology that assists the pilot. From training that took only around 3 to 6 months, now to I believe 7 or 8 years.
5th generation is all technology. F-22 will shot down any aircraft and never be seen.
8 years????
speed, aerobatics, and turning have always been the basics of dogfighting. dogfighting, or "basic" fighter maneuvers center around getting your nose on the enemy and taking them out. that hasn't changed. now, however, we primarily use missiles instead of guns and the pace is multiplied significantly as well as the ability to perform maneuvers such as going vertical, which simply were not feasible in the era of props. also, training does not take 7 to 8 years. you need to be an officer, which requires going to college for, so 4 years i guess, and then about 18 months of training including ots or ocs, depending on the branch and which can also be replaced with rotc or going to the navy or air force academy, which will be during your 4 years of college. nowhere near 7 to 8 years. i have no clue where you got that from. that's the length of 2 contracts.
@Dr. Irina Luminesk just... no. that's not how it works. just as it was shown in this video, there are ways to get around radar or infrared locks in dogfights. the whole premise of dogfights are that you have to get nose on and a radar or infrared lock. those are impossible in a slower turning aircraft or when the two aircraft are too close to each other. missiles can move in the general direction of the target aircraft's heat source or radar signature, depending on the missile. however, air-to-air missiles travel at speeds about mach 3, so it can only adjust itself onto the target aircraft so much. if the two aircraft are too close to each other, a fired missile will not have time to track onto and follow the enemy aircraft.
So much training and money spent and u just die in 1 kaboom.
"Heat seeking AIM-7 Missile."
The AIM-7 was radar guided...
Semi radar guided
Thank you! Glad someone else caught that. Semi-active radar guided, to be specific, but definitely not heatseeking.
@@araizkhan221 I actually did not know it was semi guided. So, what's the difference between semi radar guided, and radar guided?
@@AlienVibesss Aim-7 requires an aircraft to maintain radar lock for the missile to ride'. Full-active is a missile with its own targeting radar (Fire and Forget)
@@AlienVibesss it requires the lock on the target until it hits the target ...unlike radar guided misile like aim 120 which uses its own radar to find its target some time after it launches ...but aim 7 uses the radar of the aircraft
Mig Engineer : How many cameras do you want on the Mig 29 fighter for an american show?
Pilot : yes
This was not real, how'd the Americans get GoPro's on the enemy fighter
@Zekeroo00 Where did it say that it was from the real footage of war?😂
Can’t find any of these jokes under all the “don’t joke” comments
Actually I found it a lot. One of them is a joke about "the pilot didn't pass the tutorial and now he can enjoy 7 wives in aLaH aKbAh land" Which is not true because it is possible that the pilot fainted from receiving too much g and if that were true he still wouldn't get 7 wives tho
A fool with their eyes closed.
I know everyone’s saying stop but haven’t seen a single person actually make a joke
Yep, just a bunch of virtue-signalling about them
Fact check: aim-7 sparrows are not heat seeking. They are radar suite dependent missiles that require continuous radar lock information from the aircraft until impact. They never go “pitbull”.
lol i was just about to point that out
Maybe they got it mixed with the aim 9?
Andy Dai don’t think they would be using the aim9
I’m a guy about tanks, so I have no idea what any of you are talking about. But good facts
Gaicomo biamonte
They never gave a range and the aim-9 is still in service, but they did show an aim-7 launch
The second Iraqi pilot must have went afk
Saiah smeth 😂😂😂😂😂
His controller died
HypeBeast his mom told him to get off the screen😂😂
That moment when you have ro send a message from your lazer but it looses jigh too fast
The power to his house went out for the day
Full respect to every fighter pilot in this video
Still wasting my time to find the jokes
Fr
Me too
if u cant see the jokes then ur eyes have failed u
@@qusaiagha5852 you must’ve scrolled quite a while
Theres one above your comment.
Great teamwork guys, RIP to those Iraqi pilots. That's two husbands, fathers , brothers and sons that didn't come home that day.
@my name idk no.
@my name idk They second one sure didn’t. He crashed into the Earth. He was passed out. He died
@my name idk uh they def died
Everybody chill for these pilots. They are the bad guys
@@noobistheog everybody is the bad guy in war. Thegre still people
Most messed up thing about war is that these soldiers were just following orders while doing their best to survive
Ahmed Boughoula but most of them decided to become a soldier and knew the risks of death but still signed up
@@Funniest_Tings in my country most soldiers are poor and young and I'd imagine it to be the case for countries iraq as well , I get that it's what they signed up but they don't agree with their countries policies and orders they're given
Jeremiah Gottwald "he joined the military therefore he had it coming"
Shouldn’t fight for an oppressive government that kills innocent people
@@ballsach8864 Tell that to the States.
I am even scared to get on commercial planes. Bravo to all these fighting pilots! I wish I had it in me!
AIM 7 isn`t a heat seeking missile, it`s a radar guided sparrow, AIM 9 is a Sidewinder.
why hasn't anyone else spotted/ commented this. such an obvious mistake.
@@plasmacarrot6863 there is a couple in the comments
I think it's only semi actice radar missle.
@@averytiredman4857 yeah it is
Isn’t the aim7 a fox one? So semi avtive radar
Why didn't he Alt F4 that's what I do to deny failure
*insert Roll_safe.png*
Alt F4 yo life
@Alec Constantineau
Best roast to date. [clap] [clap] [clap]
He tried to alt-f4 but it didn't work so he went afk and crashed into the ground
Prabhdeep N im dead hahaaga
I’m getting gta 5 flashbacks.
All he had to do was go in a circle
Nexolity hydra vs lazer
@@spicyrussianowlthothunter1044 hydra sucks versus lazer
Johnny K
For dog fighting lazer wins
But for free roam and missions hydra wins
Who fights with jet’s? And not oppressors
"Heat seeking AIM-7" was all I really needed to bounce from this vid.
1:45 ---- "...heatseeking AIM-7 missile" -- wanna go back and do more research on this Smithsonian?
Aur0ra12 Isn’t the heat seeking the AIM-120?
Edit: what am I thinking it’s the AIM-9
I was thinking the same thing haha.
I thought I was thr only one who caught that
Good point pal, now his radio is dead!
It's not even FNF, where did they get heatseeking???
My uncle served in the Gulf War. He died recently, not in the war. Some health problems. Anyway, you will be forever missed man. ❤💪
.......
where the health problems related to anything from the gulf war
I'm very sorry for your family's loss. His military family shares your grief.
1st Tank Battalion, Task Force Papa Bear, 1st Marine Division, ODS
Semper Fidelis
Sorry. It sucks losing loved ones. Hang in there and just remember the good times. The first couple months are the hardest, but eventually it doesn’t hurt so much.
Rip iraqi pilot
Sad part is that nowadays you could be making contact with him casually on the internet. But in the battlefield, war commands you to take each other down. They could’ve been friends in real life if it weren’t for politics.
Doubt it.
Reminds me of that time a German pilot spared a heavily injured B-17 American bomber in WWII. They ended up mettjng each other 40 years later and became good friends. They stayed in touch with each other for the rest of their remaining life..I'll paste the link if you guys want...
@@nitusingh393 that would be appreciated!
@@nitusingh393 there was an amazing book about it. I can’t remember the name. Also Sabaton wrote a song about it called “ No bullets fly”
There's a clip of the war in Chechnya in which a Russian and Chechen officer who were buddies in Afghanistan were trying to convince the other to retreat so that they didn't have to fight. The clip ends when they say that they have orders and no mercy will be shown.
Thank you for your service.
The Iraqis knew they would die but instead of flying into Iran they gave their best with outdated equipment, no ECM, poor radar without fire and forget tech or HUD..plus they were outnumbered maybe 50 to 1..these were not even up to date outdated mig 29s they were stripped down export versions that might have had a chance if it was 1966 or 67 against Phantoms before they added guns and extra sidewinders
Ok and
Sounds pretty ignorant to me.. makes sense though
Mig-29 had both capable radar and fire and forget missiles. And a HUD, of course. Speaking of Mig-29s radar, it was more powerful than F-16s
The mig -29 is an outstanding weapon that had the capability to take anything out of the sky that was flying that day. The difference here was the amount of training the pilots had received.
There not skilled as u.s pilots
The Col was probably over hyping the situation, he knew his wingman had the first mig the entire time but he's on TV so he made it a bit more dramatic;)
There is no hyping it when you are a button push away from being blown out of the sky.
Of course
The Col knew his stuff and it saved his life twice. The wingman did his job and scored a kill. Their training and teamwork allowed them to live to fight another day. Sometimes decisions are made in a few seconds that determine life or death. No over hyping occurred. It was a fight or die moment.
No hype--the MiG 29 platform is a badass adversary, ya dolt!
Probably over hyping the situation? I don't know how you cannot overhype that situation. It only takes a mistake from his wingman or himself and he's a dunner, mad respects for fighters who went through actual dogfights.
Whether friend or foe, these guys are brave men.
The MiG fighter went down a hero. Defending his country against an invading horde.
This was during Desert Storm when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
@@ty23uywraKuwait is an illegitimate country
The jokes are great, lightening up the mood, but please pay respect for the Iraqi that died fighting for his country, he may look like the enemy in your eyes, but to his people, he was a hero... In the end, it all depends on our perspective...
Shouldn’t fight to to slaughter innocent women and children for what you believe. I’m glad we help the freedom fighters in other countries who otherwise would stand no chance
@@ballsach8864 Your country? Freedom fighters? What an excuse to get oil from arab nations, stirring up chaos and bombing villages? You think your country wasn't commiting a massacre. They were...
Royal Mirenda - there is hundreds of thousands of freedom fighters that do the bulk of fighting in the war in Afghanistan specifically, that Americans, Canadians and British fight besides. If they didn’t then millions would be killed by an oppressive government. All you care about is money, not the innocent who have no voice for them. They are killing killers that slaughter the innocent.
Royal Mirenda - You think am entire country should be allowed to torcher and commit genocide on there own people for money and control? Your a crazy man
@@ballsach8864 you have no idea whats going on there do you ?
I think we all forget that these men have their orders it's not like they willingly will shoot you down it's because their choices are made for them so let's respect everyone who is serving the army
brainwashed citizens of the great nation of murica don't understand this.
“Good soldiers follow orders”
Sergio Hernández Robla yea and Iraq totally wasn’t killing innocent people were brainwashed yet Americans are one of the few countries that have access to everything mostly on thebinternet
@@offzach You must really not know about drone strikes which Americans perform on villages do you? If we take into account for number of innocent lives taken by countries.. the u.s and the u.k would be number one by a mile.
@@kaziamin7874 they don't care
"There's a hole in your left wing"
r/warthunder is leaking
@@pedror598, "Attack the D point!" - team proceeds to spam chat command for 5 minutes straight
Did not expect this here thanks for the laugh.
*Random Russian
Insults to American ps4 players*
I do CYKA not BLYAT understand!?
@@aquinochristianjosephp.1840 YOU GOT A WING ON YOUR LEFT HOLE
I noticed your wingman pilot from the Fighting First. I was over there at the same time. Thx for your service, Sir !!
Its really sad that they fought even though they knew that they were not going to win. Please respect them because they had the heart to fight and die following orders.
I'm not sure if "this" one, but one of the Iraqi MiG-29 pilots was a career veteran with three kills to his credit from the Iran-Iraq War.
@@otyliciu well those outdated migs were outmatched
How dare those Iraqi pilots defend their country from a hostile invading force.
@@benami3071 bruh😭
@@benami3071 I know right!!1!1! HOW DARE THEY DO THAT!!1!1!1
Smithsonian: heat seeking aim 7 missile
Aviation enthusiasts: *So you have chosen death*
radar guided right?
@@arthurgray3934 yes an Aim 7 is a fox 1 missile that is slaved directly to the radar.
Ascher Lafayette didn't know that.. but I was thinking: if the first mig turned fast enough towards the missile would the heat seaker lock on to the friendly plane?
@@mizutani2144 I don't know the specifics, but that would probably require just about perfect positioning, also the missile would probably have bled all its energy trying to out turn the mig.
@@ascherlafayette8572 No, the elctromagnetic magnetism due to the abnormal physical properties of the Mig would have resulted in a E=Mc^2, however due to the sudden change in velocity the fire - Hydrogen ratio in the afterburners caused the Mig to ride the rocket like Mia on drugs.
He obviously survived if he's being interviewed
The other guy is being interviewed
Way to ruin the ending.
I just watched this episode of this documentary yesterday. Definitely my favourite one so far.
respect for the iraqi pilot, they are men fighting for their own country, probably in another world we can be brothers
That can already happen here thanks to Jesus
He makes enemies into brothers
And hes quite good at it too
@@alexm7627 why not put it into one comment
@@peetadalgaard3003 🤔
"Heatseeking Aim-7 missile"
Uhhhh, The aim-7 is radar guided. Not heat seeking.
yep, aim -7 it's a Fox 1 lock and stay lock until hit, heatseeker like sidewinder Fox 2, Shot and forghet like Aim 120 are Fox 3
NERDS
edit: bruh chill with these roasts it was a joke
@@aidynsbestyoutubemoments A retro insult. Are you having a 1970’s theme day or something?
Yes,mr pro teach the man his job
@@typehyuga607
I mean, clearly the narrator needs the lessons...
We can either turn south and retreat or turn north and fight
Pilot 2: 👀 at pilot 1
Pilot 1: drifts northbound
Pilot 2: Say no more...
He should of tried spinning since it's a good trick
He got his mans killed
Lol
@@jamgerman3754 neither died tho lol
Mighty Murph hahahahahahahaha
Yeah, I got nothing but respect for these guys, they go through so much difficult stuff to make sure everyone is safe.
Respect to both pilots for defending there own country
@@hlf_coder6272 Crazy how people don't realize there was 2 Gulf wars in Iraq all sparked by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
They always remember the 'weapons of mass destruction' justification for the 2nd Gulf War while conveniently forgetting that Sadam was repeatedly breaking the terms of their surrender.
yah um the iraq Person responsible for defending a country that was committing massive genocide on its people. sorry no honor or sympathy there my friend.
@@jonathanmayberrydesigns On the other end, who was the US pilot defending? Was the US under threat of an Iraqi invasion?
@@B_Cleric_Time nope, but in the end, being that 400,000+ iraq citizens were slaughtered by sudam hussein and his government, you could very well say that another 24 million, or whatever their population may be, were right out saved by the americans. Did it do the Americans any good? no, but that only makes what they did even more honorable.
*their
“Heatseaking Aim-7 missile” something is wrong I can feel it
Lol
Aim 9 is agm now
Just thought that
:v... True.. there is to much heat there
Pretty sure aim 7 is radar guided
AIM-7 isn't heat seeking.
Just shows how smart these guys actually are
@@jamesmcgee2463 Right. The narrator said the AIM-7 is heat seeking. Maybe it's deliberate to misinformation?
WHO SAYS?
AIM-7 is a semi active radar homing missile. No infrared seeker.
Heat seeking AIM-7.... that cracked me up!
Amazing insight and great footage. I wish you wouldn't change the angles so quickly though. Was very hard to keep tabs on what was going on. It seemed like their were times when the pilot was talking about being in danger when the footage was showing him in a good position to strike the MIG.
Does it count as a kill if the enemy pilots own ineptitude causes him to crash?
It’s logged into the feed as “mistakes were made” 😂😂
Perhaps, "drove the enemy into the ground."
It should. Scaring him to death is as good as shooting him to death. Better in fact. It saves ammo.
It doesnt unless You Made previos damage before he crash -acording war thunder ofcourse!
Eric Taylor I believe that it is considered a manoeuvre victory
Shows the downfall of our culture when the entire comment section is nothing but video-game references.
These are real people/pilots, real events, real feats of engineering and training. Real life & death.
It's sad, war should not be an option for a civilized society. We have been conditioned since grade school to accept war as part of being a "free" nation.
"War is a Racket". Gen. Smedley Butler
General Smedley Butler on Interventionism
-- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
First day on the internet?
Real life and death? Is it for Xbox/PC or a PS4 exclusive?
@@JP-qb8qx well, all i can tell you is, ask the video-gamers, cause your guess is as good as mine.
@@tmvo2wotch96 We tried negotiating with Saddam Hussein. Hussein wouldn't budge. Since Iraq is land-locked, Hussein wanted Kuwait's access to the Persian Gulf on top of Kuwait's abundant oil. Since he insisted on standing his ground, we took it back from him at the request of the Kuwaiti government-in-exile.
The Iraqi pilots had the honour to die for their country and I respect that. May the find peace
Your respect don't matter he's still dead doubt if he cared what you thought on the way down
Bruh nobody cares about the Middle East
JoeDurant Gaming without the middle east you wouldnt even be holding a phone rn
Jay C I agree with your statement to an extent.
JoeDurant Gaming imagine being this ignorant
God Bless you Rodriguez! Men like you aren't easy to replace!!
Comment section: Stahp joking about the pilots!
Me: Day 5 and still no signs of jokes.
I still love how I once got 43 likes which is more than You on one of my accounts. Not trying to rub it in pal, it’s just a fact.
@@TehUltimateSnake nah my man no need to assume now do we
@@Ean256 oH wOw 43
ThAt's So MuCh
Also it really doesn't matter
@@floppademon1506 you’re kinda right, not now, but I’m allowed to explain the facts
Ive only found one and it was from like yesterday
13 year olds in the comments when the Iraqi pilot lost his life: haha lol noob xD
If the American would’ve been shot down: OMG 😳 F guys!
Tru zenit
Cmon man we aren’t all like that...
He’s probably the 13 year old that talks like that here 🤔
@@Lorddonen of course you would, no difference between you 2.
I think the "haha noob" comments would have been there if the American got shot down too)
AIM-7 is semi-active radar guided, not heat-seeking.
There went all the video's credibly.
Came to say the same.
AIM 9 is the IR homing missile Not the AIM 7
@A I what
Yeah that threw me for a second too, I assume they meant aim 9 but a sparrow could also work (although 3 miles is pushing it)
To the commentator, you said "Heat seeking AIM-7" this is wrong, the AIM-9 is heat seeking, an AIM-7 is radar guided