Incredible Ukrainian Air Force Cockpit Footage
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2022
- Highlights of Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 sorties showing pilots firing the AGM-88 HARM and the 30 mm cannon. (Also note the teddybear wedged between the canopy and the glare shield on the left side.)
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DAYYUM! Never thought I’d see an AGM-88 HARM on a MIG-29. I worked on the HARM program for 10 years back when they were manufactured by Texas Instruments’ Defense Systems Electronic Group before Raytheon purchased it. Hell must have frozen over 😂
Good day sir. Can you explain HARM rocket speaks to a jet? Can Harm use mig 29 soviet targeting system or is it impossible?
@@dukenukem8381 There's a few different possibilities, the first ones reported was that they're being fired in a kind of dumb fire mode: Travel to X, then activate seeker. The other possibility is that they've jury-rigged some kind of control system using the several tablets you see that are mounted. It's for sure not using the MIG-29 targeting system.
@@dukenukem8381 It's my understanding these are fired entirely in pre-planned mode where GPS coordinates are entered in on the ground and they have to launch them within a certain range of that point. HARM goes to a point and turns on the seeker looking for a specific radar emitter type.
Any other mode would require integration of other systems which I doubt they did. the easiest would probably be the HARM Targeting System pod, but you'd need a western MFD and cursor control to make it worth it. At that point it's almost worth just getting the F16C to mount it to instead of to the MiG29.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
@@Whiskey11Gaming Yeah, i think the tablets that were started to be shown during the same timeframe as the HARM made a lot of people think they're related. They're probably not, they're most likely just using pre-planned mode as you said. The only other way would to use the tablets, but it's not like they've got radar receptors installed...
Interesting observation here. It's at least 3 different airframes, seemingly flown by the same pilot (whenever we see him in the mirror).
0:26 - This is a modernised Mig-29MU1 - No dash cover on the left, two switches installed instead. Russian HUD repeater screen on the right removed, replaced by a color MFD (obscured by GPS mount).
0:32 - (Wild Weasel MiG) This appears to be a regular non-modernised model 9-13. Dash cover present on the left, original HUD repeater screen on the right.
0:41 - No dash cover on the left, but ONE switch on top. Screen on right obscured by GPS mount, but it seems to be the standard elongated housing of the original HUD repeater.
0:42 onward - Same Wild Weasel MiG.
We only see the less capable, unmodernised 9-13 being used for SEAD and firing HARMs.
well spotted good sir
I can't imagine how many flight/fight hours these pilots are doing, must be insane. Respect.
The missiles are cool and all, but the dad in me is getting a little misty seeing this dude flying with a teddy bear strapped in beside his HUD. This is a man who knows what he's fighting for.
Rooting for him to make it through so he can spend the rest of his days with his children in a free and peaceful Ukraine.
"It's personal"
🙄
$10 says he’s deader than most of Ukraine’s pilots
@@rinzler9775 When the fighting is in your home, it usually is.
AMEN!
The WSO on the WIndshield makes the HARM work.
I have that teddy bear with the flying jacket--got it from my wife and kids. Great to see one flying and checking for bandits, and getting the green ink in his logbook.
The question is, does he have to split primary time with the teddy bear?
A good question.
Bearly flight-qualified.
Would the bear be his RIO, WSO, or BN?
i was sure surprised to see it
Like the FLTD (Forward Looking Teddy Bear)😃
haaaahahaha
Surely that would be FLTB or am I missing something?
Made me go back and look for it...lol
@@jamesoshea4702 Yip, FLTB is better.👍
R2D2 meet your replacement...
Notice how the GPS falls down at 0:39 because of the gun firing...
BTW, Harms on a MiG-29... not even in a Tom Clancy's novel... but here we are...
Lmao Ukrainians have always been resourceful mfs.
Helluva lot more resourceful than the enemy
Well the Soviets design their stuff to be able to use captured NATO ordnance, or so the rumor was back during the cold war.
@@robertsmith4681 Given how 29 avionics treats them as R-27EP, it's probably a field mod not a design capability.
Harms can be fired with pre programed target information, so If the Ukrainian military has good target information on Russian sam sites, yeah, harms can be launched from migs.
@@delayed_control can you explain a bit more? Is this related to MIL-STD-1553/ARINC-429/ARINC-825?
I liked the teddy bear in the glare shield it must be his child's favorite toy. Now if he had the Great World War I flying ace, Snoopy in his airplane, I would have fallen off my chair. A memorial to a fallen friend. Good men are dying in this war.
The teddy bear speaks softly and carries a big AGM-88 shaped stick.
Damn, that cannon makes a lot of light :O
It's a 30mm, the Russians are known for making big cannons with almost no cowling to conceal muzzle flash.
And powerful enough to knock down his mounted GPS!
@@petamericangaming6177 That and the muzzle comes out basically right besides the canopy so the entire thing ends up riding it's own muzzle blast. It keeps it out of the engine I suppose but I'm not so sure throwing it at the pilot's face is that much better.
Yeah, look at videos of any fighter firing at night and the whole cockpit just lights up like a massive sparkler is in front of it.
Love the teddy bear...
"Talk to me, Paddington..."
Thanks for posting this. It moved me.
I saw this the other day and I had a few observations.
1. In a few of those shots I was surprised by how high they were. I thought the Russian air defenses had them trapped pretty much at worm burning level.
2. They certainly aren't afraid to burn those worms. Some of that low level footage looked pretty darn low to my untrained eyes.
3. I was proud of myself for recognizing the HARM shot in at least one clip. I know what a HARM looks like, but it looks a lot different in a Google image search that it does on a cell phone screen when it's blasting off the wing of a fighter jet in a war zone.
4. In one section, you can see that air to air missiles under the wings showing in the left side mirror. I am trying to learn those Russian AAMs, so correct me if I'm wrong. It looked like 2x R-77s (the Fox 2) and an R-27 (Fox 1 IIRC). Timestamp 1:02 to about 1:05.
Anyway it was cool cockpit footage and for the little that this helps, I'm with that pilot in spirit and fervently hope to see him and his country triumph over this unprovoked aggression.
*Edit* ok I know those are the wrong missiles.
R-73 at 1:02 and 1:05 is an R-27 of some variant the r-77s don't have front fins they are more toward the middle and rear of the missile also the R-77 is a BVR Fox 3 missile like the USA's AIM-120s.
@@liamtung4435 Yeah I started looking after I posted. I knew the smaller 2 were the IR ones but I always get the designation messed up. They're apparently the R-73s. I think the one, the larger inboard is an R-77. *EDIT* Nope you're right is 100% some kind of R-27. I didn't see the front fins before. That makes it the 27 for sure.
R-73 Vympel indeed like Liam said. Most MiG-29s i've seen were running some mix of R-73s and 27s
I've got the same teddy, whose name is Warren (I was a CW2 when he came home with me). He's flown a couple of hundred hours with me, and he's great company--never critiques my landings, or the quality of my instrument approaches. May GOD BLESS each and every one of those who fight for their freedom! Hammer
The MiG-29 is still a hot ride even after all these years.
MiG-29 and Su-27 are two of the best looking jets still flying now. In a totally different way to how the F-16 or F-22 looks good. I think the contrast between different countries' "aesthetics" of their machinery make all of them look even cooler next to each other though.
Yeah, i was just thinking the same - serious hot rodding in contested airspace. Wow.
@@leehoward562 The MiG-29 is to an F-15C what a Dodge Challenger is to a Charger. Similar overall, but the MiG-29 is a bit more sporty looking.
@@leehoward562 In a lot of ways the Fulcrum and Flanker look like fixed wing Tomcats.
You've got to love the off the shelf hand held GPS.
Improvise.
Adapt.
Overcome.
I'm quite sure it's not necessary off the shelf, as civil GPS units have a speed limits to prevent them from being used in targeting
I'm no expert but my bad maths say that sucker is cruising ~ 450-500 MPH 👀
@@KD2HJP it's a hiking GPS. I have the exact same one from 0:41 - also pretty useful in case you have to punch out and find your way back home.
@@NatendoSwitch There are what are called CoCom limits in consumer and GPS, but further research shows that limit to be 1900 Km/h or 1200 MPH
That is booking!
Slava Ukraini!
Don't forget Super Hornet pilots wear commercial Garmin (GPS) Watches in case the cockpit instruments are unreadable.
I just realized that this is the first time Ive ever seen the cockpit of a jet as a missile is fired
As a visual effects artist, I am taking notes!
It's interesting to the the Radar warning equipment blink like a Christmas tree, it being quite accurate as to show a radar, probably a friendly just behind and to the right. Flight sims can do only so much to capture what it's like to fly.
@@AShyBiBlob Correct. No crushing g forces, noise levels or adrenaline surges in a sim.
@@AShyBiBlob the blinking is likely caused by the frame rate of the camera. LED lights always blink at an extremely high rate, so when you take video at certain frame rates, they appear to be on and off or moving.
Seeing it through the mirror at 1:10 was amazing.
I like the bolt-on GPS unit. Purely utilitarian make-do and it works.
I wanted to mention something about all the low level flying. My wife is Bulgarian and since retirement we decided to move to Bulgaria and besides a very few airline jobs and jump school jobs. The only opportunity to fly outside of the military is agricultural work. My father in law who helped me get into ag work flew mig 21s and 29s for the Bulgarian Air Force and jokes how he would have forgotten how to fly in the late 80s early 90s if it wasn't for crop dusting 😆 He's also flown in Ukraine and knows a few Ukrainian pilots who have done the same during their military careers.
Nice memories
There's a 2002 book titled Border Pilot, by M.W. Bourne. Covers his career, ex-Army, as a crop duster in south Texas. Unique life, you'll enjoy it.
Saw this a few days ago on a different channel without the obnoxious music. My question remains, where is this kill shot? I see smoke, but where is the killshot?
AGM-88s on a Fulcrum? I can't even describe how awesome that is.
Excellent video quality.
As a pilot, this gives me goosebumps.
Godspeed
What do you pilot, a Cesna simulator...
To expand on my previous comment... I was also looking closely at the HARM launch rail we see in the mirror (I used a cleaner, 1080p version of the video from another source) and it appears to be mounted on the standard inboard pylon... but it's NOT the APU-470 launcher rail that normally goes there for use with the R-27 (which the plane interprets the HARM as - as seen on the HUD repeater). Nor is it the lower profile AKU-470. While close-up photos suggest the HARM and the R27 sit on their launch rails in a very similar way, it doesn't seem like either of the 470 type rails was used, as they both stick out far beyond the front of the pylon. This one is flush with the front of the pylon. So that suggests the HARMs are installed together with their normal US launch rails - which are pretty compact and have that vertical front face, and the whole thing was somehow bolted into the existing wing pylon. Russian pylons are mated with their various launch rails by two to three large bolts going laterally, which makes it pretty easy to fabricate adapter brackets out of basic steel flats from a hardware store. What I find astounding, however, is how CLEAN it looks. Either they took special care to make the HARM rail line up all pretty, or they went through the trouble of fabricating a dedicated new rail specifically for this application. It really does seem to fit like a glove.
From what I've read (take with appropriate grains of salt) the mods that allow MiG-29s to mount and launch HARMs are entirely the work of highly motivated Ukrainian Air Force ordnance technicians. US manufacture didn't think it could be done.
@@andrewjanssen8663 The AARs from this war, when we can get them, are going to be better than any Tom Clancy novel.
Also SEI-31 shows the missile as R-27EP (PRH one, not to confuse with R-27ER which is SARH) on HUD and HDD, that means AGM-88 at the very least is integrated into weapons control system. R-27EP can be either fired "as it is" and will go after the strongest radiation source (like Sparrow in flood mode), or given emitter sources data from SPO-15. If they managed to make HARM listen to Beryoza RWR that's some of the maddest skills.
Bingo well spotted! The US rail is what makes the HARM integration possible, all the circuitry required to operate the missile is actually inside the launch rail itself. So the Russian jet can give the American rail a simple voltage change fire cue. No data link emulation or whatever needed. American SEAD pilots have pointed out the missile is probably loaded with a preplanned target on the ground and the mig-29 is, as you pointed out, pretending its a AA missile.
@Ward Carroll, this footage is a reminder that as we sit here in the United States, there are those fighting to maintain their own ways of life today. Thank you for sharing this to give me perspective today.
Afghanistan 2003 and Iraq 2005-2006 combat vet here, just wanted to say I love your books and channel. Keep up the good work brother.
“Scouts Out!”
Badass with the Garmin GPS car navigation system for IFR and the teddy bear on the glare shield.
"In 900 meters, fire Fox 2..."
@@samsignorelli Best comment today good sir!
The teddy bear on the forward dash wind screen was interesting.
These AGM-88 HARM are doing some serious damage, I saw the aftermath of a Tor M1 that was destroyed by one and today there was a Pantsir S1 that got roasted probably by another. The Ukrainians are back to using TB-2 drones aggressively and I would wager a large part of the reason they are able to do that is using HARM to suppress Russian air defenses. Awesome footage, Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!
I'm sure the tablet is being used in conjunction with those HARMs but for a second there (at 42 seconds) I thought he was watching a soccer game lol
To quote lover boy, loving every minute of it!
Hey Ward, i just Started The First Audiobook of Punks War. I was mad I had to Park. It's Really Good!
Thanks for the awesome content Mooch! Any chance you ever worked alongside Marine Harriers?? Just had to ask… as a grunt.. and a aviation enthusiast,, I still can’t get over that shape.. absolutely one of the coolest planes ever!
You got to love the high-tech Garmin Navigation.
Today was the back to school day over there it's been heart breaking seeing the impact of the destruction to those communities.
Russia should be forced to pay retribution.
Seeing Zelenskyy there to greet and talk to classes of children during such a time was heartwarming. I have no idea what the kids know or think about what is being done to their home, but I know that those classes of children represent a rebirth of Ukraine and her people. As interesting as the combat videos are, I'll be even more excited to see pictures and video of Ukraine and her people rebuilding their country and to hear about how her youngest generations rising to the challenge over the next couple of decades.
@@maximilliancunningham6091 need to be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the end of the first world war.
I can't wait to see some nice reference pics of how the HARMs were mounted on a MiG. I really want to model one of these jets.
I was thinking the same thing...
There are already other comments addressing this but it seems like there was some kind of simple fabricated adaptor to which the US original hardpoint is mounted, also in part of the video it seems to show that the harm is recognized by the system as an r-27
Proshchavaj, Yevgen. Heroiam slava!
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew -
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
("High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.)
I immediately noticed the teddybear. 🧸👍
Cool to see an AGM-88 on a Mig-29
Thanks for posting this with sound, Ward. The Sun couldn’t be bothered.
This is why I don't care when somebody say "such and such weapon cannot be fitted to such and such aircraft....." When life is on the line, everything can be made to work
There are plenty of cases where you really can't put any weapon on any aircraft. You can't just make a few tweaks and put AMRAAMS on the MiG-29, for example. Equipping HARMs is just simpler.
The point still stands though...
This is a culture where AKs got “refined” and scaled into massive production out of stamped metal and rivets. If it can be done, it will be. Necessity is the mother of invention.
@@majorborngusfluunduch8694 Don't forget that Robin Olds, in preparing to simulate F-105s with his F-4Ds, carried the ALQ-160 ECM pod from the Thuds on his F-4Ds by using the nuclear circuitry to operate the ECM pods on Operation Bolo. Net result? HALF of ALL the NVPAF MiG-21s were shot down. May God BLESS you General! 🙏
Hammer
@@majorborngusfluunduch8694 I'm sure if the country's existence depends on Mig 29s firing AMRAAMs, it can be made to work.
Wow, that was good vid!
Damn, he was mowing the lawn at one point.
Amazing footage
I like how he has a Garmin GPS attached to his dash the same way I attach my cell phone.
This made me weep with Joy. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by what those bastards are doing to Ukrainians. Visiting Ukraine, which my screens tell every day is a stunningly beautiful country, has become an aspiration now. They deserve to take my fucking money. I want to hang with them after they have won this. They evidence what superb people they are every day. When I see footage of Jewish and Mujahideen fighters laughing together in trenches, putting themselves on the line, saying it’s “because behind us are Ukrainian women and children” - they know where it’s at. If that doesn’t tell all of us something, I don’t know what will.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
With love from Australia 🇦🇺
Excellent.
I'm not that knowledgeable about 29s but since the cockpit changes slightly from clip to clip it appear to be different planes. But having watched it a couple of times it looks like the same pilot?
0:39, is that a Garmin GPSMAP 296 strapped to the dash? Wild.
For what they saved on the GPS unit, you think they could have gotten a mount that would have stayed up when the gun was fired. 😅
By show of hands, how many expected to see HARM's fired from MiG-29's before february 2022?
Anyone?
YGBSM!
Bueller... Bueller...
on a list of things I didn't expect to ever see, it would've been pretty far up there.
best copilot ever
Problem with this footage us nobody knows exactly what's going on aside from random footage
This video shows two major things to me happened in the Ukraine over the last 250 days I would never predicted ...
1. The determinism and heroism of the Ukraine air force to fight against all odds and against an overwhelming enemy. These guys managed it to not concede air space over Ukraine which would be a key factor for Russia to win as initially planned. Many died fighting, all of them should be remembered to gave their live for their country, for their family and for their way of live …
2. The support of the USA to Ukraine is amazing. These guys managed it to mount terrifying western HARM rockets to their MIG 29. I think almost nobody would have thought this could ever happen. And is shows again that Europe stays is dept of the Americans again.
bit of a mish mash, you can see AGM-88s in some shots but also the number of outboard archers change and what appears to be Apex's appear where the HARMs were, and the e-tablet disappears in a few shots as well
Whoa....he's flying tree top level! I always liked the design and "look" of the MiG-29, more so than the F-16, even though it is probably not as capable.
Definitely with you on that. The Fulcrum might be the best looking fighter of all time (Come at me Spitfire fans).
In a lot of ways the Fulcrum seems like how the Soviets would have built a Northrop P-530 competitor. Combine the PFI's aerodynamics with the basic concept of the P-530 (~25 000 lbs, twin engine, some degree of rough field capability and ability to be maintained close to the front, high alpha capabilities, etc). The P-530 was mostly aimed at NATO allies in Europe so the analogy seems as close as possible.
The LWF was always intended to be smaller/lighter than the P-530, that's probably put the P-600 at a disadvantage in that competition.
What a tribute to a fallen friend. Very moving.
You know, I love the A-10, F-16, F-15, and F-14... All for different reasons. But there has always been something about the MiG-29's lines that I have always found very appealing. the Fulcrum is a beautiful airframe in its own right. And it's pretty cool seeing them kitbashed with some Western tech!
Good hunting, Ukraine! Give 'em hell!
Same here. Mig-29s & Su-27 family do are works of art, imo.
Also Mig-25s/31s in their own brutal way.
It follows the same lifting body, twin tail aerodynamic composition of the 70's, like the Tomcat and Eagle as well as the Flanker. Just that it's much smaller. In my opinion the best looking jets of any era.
The old "wings" documentary said the engineers in the design bureau received new houses as a reward for the MiG-29 research development.
Truth, beautiful bird.
@@UkraineStar77 It really does look like a baby Eagle from some angles. Or, in the over-the shoulder helmet cam, an OG Hornet, which is the closest American jet in its class.
The banjo is a nice touch.
Super, now the good guys are fighting with one of our favourite jets!
Hey Ward, what's the link for their FB page. Can't seem to find it.
He had an automobile GPS unit, a handheld GPS unit and a handheld G1000 I think. So much respect to these guys. (If I am wrong about what I identified please let me know!)
Agree - Reminds me of, in a different light, 1776. A people trying to break free with the help of other powerful nations. The US would not exist without help from France (how things have changed...) and it is good to see us return the favor. This is no nation on its knees... Ukraine has spirit. Give 'em hell!
@@horscategorie while I certainly don't disagree the point I was making is that this poor pilot is using the most rudimentary of systems and still managing to be effective.
@@paulloveless9180 I completely agree on that point too! It takes guts... I have a lot of respect for the Ukrainian people as a whole. Sure, their culture is vastly different, the fighting spirit and will to sacrifice is very much a part of the people. Do what it takes to get it done. Duct tape, epoxy, velcro and rivits/screws will gain a creative individual much more of a functional environment, even if it doesn't look like it came from the Lockheed or Boeing factory. Adapt and overcome.
Oddly upbeat music for combat footage, amazing quality though. I love that the 30MM vibrated the aircraft so hard that screen fell down. Hope this war ends soon.
The RWR scope at 1:11 is terrifying
Why? The signal strength is low and he only got painted by long range radar.
For those of us who aren't military service or pilots can you explain more on this? Is it as simple as green=good/low radar energy vs red=lit up/heavy radar coverage/about to eat a SAM? Is there more depth to understanding that picture as we can see it?
@@alexkitner5356 So on the bottom there's a row that's an indicator of the source, probably a long or medium range scan radar from a SAM site or similar.
There's a top semi-circle which is the angle it's coming from, looks like it's coming from off the port nose. Around the middle there's a counterclockwise circle that fills up as the strength gets higher, since it's a small arc in the bottom right that seems like it's relatively long range. There's also a big red light in the middle that lights if you're getting locked and flashes if you're being shot at. Oddly I'm not really seeing anything that'd correspond to the centermost indicator, which is a simple pair of lights for whether the radar is above or below you, which I'd expect one of the two would always be on if it's live.
I don't really see anything that marks that as being particularly scary for a plane that's launching ARMs. You've kind of got to expect to get painted by radar if you're going to shoot at radars emitting at you.
Mooch, I saw this on another channel, and I'm glad you picked it up. I was wondering if you could elaborate on some of the specifics such as the color (!) display showing the strikes (?) targets?, maybe some of the flight tactics? I can make assumptions and guesses, but would appreciate your input.
I have a strong feeling that is a standard, commercial GPS navigation unit. The interface looks exactly like an old TomTom-style device. Plus later in the video, it is completely blank and turned off. I think it's a portable device.
@@wazza-au If Ukrainian navigation is predicated on GLONASS, which would make some sense, it would explain why we see Russian and Ukrainian air assets using them. Early on we made fun of the Russians for resorting to consumer grade GPS equipment, but I think it may be a workaround for the lack of robustness of GLONASS compared to GPS. Obviously I have no proof of this, but if anyone wants to tack onto my speculation with better info I'd be very interested.
@@leehoward562 glonass derives its timing signals from GPS along with the baidu satelites so lately glonass has gotten... worse
We're going to learn a lot from the war in Ukraine.
For example, they evidently don't teach Operation Desert Storm in Russian military academys. That or new officers don't pay much attention in class.
1.1k👍👏👏🎉great film!!
Ya, couldn't believe my eyes when I eyeballed the teddy bear ! Leather jacket and helmet with goggles.That guys got my vote for coolest dude ! His first few rounds are on me !!
Unsurprising due to aircraft avionics age, but always amusing to see consumer grade GPS in a sophisticated military fighter.
Are you salty because Ukraine has a total control over the skies with their consumer grade GPS?
Lol. As far as modern fighters go the Mig29 is not very sophisticated.
@@hooviedoovie5220 I'm aware of that, and should have said "in something as relatively sophisticated as a military aircraft."
Except the M model, other MiG-29 avionics are worse than Airbus civilian jets.
Cool.. but I’ve noticed that Russian/eastern block aircraft tend to have what looks like pink putty around their cockpit canopy frames.. It literally looks like window putty.. Does it set hard.. I’m assuming it’s for improving the seal for cockpit pressurisation?
Yes, it's putty for sealing the frames. Been used for decades by Sov/Russian aviation.
Would love a "reaction" vid where you explain or conjecture on what we're seeing.
Loved the teddy bear 🧸
A bit surreal that this is actually real combat footage.
Welcome to the GoPro / mobile phone / UA-cam generation
Seeing a HARM come off a Mig29 is pretty awesome. I hope that maybe we can incorporate the AMRAAM, and Aim-9X as well. Really give the Russian Air Force something to think about.
Amraam is probably out of question, cause they'd need to replace the whole radar system
AIM-9X however... I wonder if the guys at Skunk Works could come up with a way to integrate them with Shchel-3UM.
Although R-73s is a decent missile with HOB capability, Russians also have it. AIM-9X could give them an edge.
The Russia pilots will only have seconds to think about anything, before they get shot down. 🤣
Yea that side mirror view was spectacular
@@delayed_control Considering the US has test-fired AIM-9X from ground based launchers, I have to imagine they wouldn't be the *most* difficult armament to attach to a MiG, but the short range would limit its effectiveness considering the way the war is currently being fought. Not a bad idea to keep up our sleeves though, should the air war turn more toward dogfighting. Right now, the HARMs are an unbelievable get for the UAF.
It would be great to get a bit of commentary on what we are seeing in this video. Obviously I can see the missiles are being fired and chaff going off but I've no idea what's really going on. Can you do an analysis video? Cheers from the UK 🙂
The gist of it is that these MiG 29 are conducting SEAD (Supression of Enemy Air Defenses) sorties. The missiles seen firing are AGM-88 HARM (Highspeed Anti Radiation Missiles) which home into radiation sources, such as Radar from an enemy air defense system.
Now, since the AGM-88 is an american weapon and the MiG-29 is a soviet platform,. there are challenges in getting the HARM to fire from the Mig. So that's what the tablet is doing, it's there to provide an UI for the pilot to launch the weapon. and there are adapters so the plane and the missile can comunicate, the Plane thinks it's talking to an R27EP, thats the ARM version of the R27 and the missile thinks it's talking to an F-16
@@cockatoo010 great thanks for this. I did see the colour screen and wondered what this was for. Interesting that it may be a way to interface the US and UKR hardware. Were they all AGM88 being fired? Seems like a waste to fire multiple at the same time.
Appreciate the explanations 👍
@@Cirrus4000 the integration is extremely adhoc and would not be done except in these kind of circumstances.
Multiple missiles increases kill probability, the enemy gets a say as well. The way people are describing, the missile goes to a GSP coordinate then goes active. this is not a reliable method to taking out the opposition and could be countered. But, the HARM is prob the best missile in the world for the job, so its worth firing 2 if it complete the objective.
Thank you for sharing LCDR Carroll (retd.). I am sorry you lost a friend and the Ukrainian people lost a hero. R.I.P.
Ain't no majors in the Navy, friend :)
@@jchrystsheigh great point, corrected, sorry about that.
This was featured on yesterday's stream.
Very interesting.
An aside: what struck me was the lack of visor... the pilot was squinting in the sun.
Is this SOP?
Ward, For your next video, can you please explain how they mounted and HARM to a MiG-29?
@Ward Carroll, if you ever have a chance I would love to see your description and comments on what is happening in this video. It is very confusing to me as a non-aviator.
Very cool footage thanks Mooch. At times we could see the pilots eyes in the rearview mirror, hope he was taking out a Russian Sam site or some tanks or trucks💪🇺🇦🖖⚓💪🇺🇸
Anybody notice the Garmin handheld GPS clipped to the instrument panel?
For those who are wondering how Migs are firing this missiles :
This videos quality is quite bad. In the original video, at 0:32, you can notice the Head Down Display (Which is a repeater of HUD) shows the selected weapon as 'Р-27ЭП' (in the down-right corner) or R-27EP in English while they were actually firing HARMs. R-27EP is a longer-range passive anti-radiation version of the R-27 air-to-air missile. Harm itself is an anti-radiation missile dedicated for ground-based SAMs. They somehow tricked the system into thinking it's implementing R-27EP while it's actually firing HARMS.
Nice video
Love the Arcade Fire knockoff. Music by The Laundromat Inferno.
I've been positing that the HARM firing method is a system operating over wireless between a custom pylon and the cockpit. That VDT/Tablet we see may be the interface. Would be quicker to implement though less reliable than a wired solution.
could they also just be preprogrammed on the ground and doing a bit of blind firing in the vicinity of known SAM sites?
@@SoloRenegade yes, but not with a very high probability of doing anything other than expending missiles.
@@nomar5spaulding of course. And there is nothing worse for me than watching them dual fire HARMs as standard practice. Watching them slinging expensive missiles like they are going out of style and not likely getting got hit ratios makes me cringe. But sometimes that's the best you can do and it's better than nothing.
But for example, if they are aware of actual S300 or S400 sites that ping them on sorties, they can go back, load up on HARMs preprogrammed to those sites, fly back and wait to get close to the SAM sites and wait to be painted, and then just fire them in the general direction of the SAMs they know are awake and tracking, trusting they will pick up the targets and track them all by themselves for as long as they can. This would explain how they "integrated" HARMs on the Mig29 so fast.
I've always liked the Fulcrum's design. Short and muscular; sort of like comparing an 80's Mustang to the longer and sleeker Camaro, which would be the F-15.
Talk about the real deal....
Using a Garmin Aera too!
Here's to Yevgen Lysenko!
What is the Combat range of the Mig-29?
"Never in the field of human conflict , has so much been owed by so many to so few "- Sir Winston Churchill , Battle of Britain 1940 .
Interesting to see the Consumer avionics and GPS mounted in the cockpit, But i guess its a comparatively cheap way to upgrade that aircraft.
Were they actually firing the missiles at a valid target or just for 'display' in which case that is an awful waste of money! Also in my day as an F4 engineer having potential loose articles in the cockpit (teddy bear) would be considered a flight safety hazard and could become a distraction if it started flying around the cockpit in high G manoeuvres.
You can see SPO-15 (1:10) showing active surface emitter straight ahead. They aren't just yeeting the missiles.
Hi Ward, can you do a report on the BUFFS currently forward deployed to RAF Fairford 🇬🇧 UK. They came from Minot AFB, N Dakota. 5th Bomb wing. They are flying missions over Eastern Europe and the Middle East
The MiG-29 is such a badass airplane. It's a shame that the MiG-35 isn't seeing the same widespread popularity.
No point. Russia has gone down SU-27+ derivative path because the airframe is better. MiG 29+ derivatives airframe has limitations and instead of addressing, can instead go with SU models.
@@nochancesimo It's also somewhat a matter of prioritizing the aircraft with the longer operational range because they can't afford to maintain the same numbers of both planes and pilots. Sukhoi also enjoys political favour, which probably helps quite a bit.
Very cool but kinda weird that the media says it’s so bad over there yet they have time to make this production.
Oh I had to see this.
I don't know why but I've always liked the teal tinted gray they paint their cockpits in.
Less eye strain.
The Mig-29 is great fighter that has both BVR and dogfight ability. it's cheap, expendable, and very deadly. The MIG-29 is one of the fastest "combat/fighter" aircraft with top speed of mach 2.25. (reference f-18 top speed is mach 1.8). The main reason some people think badly of the MIG-29 is it's combat record (average record 6-18-1) but that's because this aircraft was so mass produce and sent out to other 3rd world countries with sub-par pilots. These below average pilots made the mig-29 look bad when it went against professional pilots with decades of experience. Not only that but it went up against the US quite a few times which is a death sentences to any aircraft that goes against the US. example gulf war. Though it's been redeeming it's name from wars that it did well in and with the recent Ukraine-Russia war the mig-29 is being used by experienced pilot in Ukraine and it's been shooting down quiet a few Russian rotary aircraft, su-27s and even su-35s. Tho admittedly the mig-29s are also getting shoot down by Russian aircraft as well but the difference is the mig29 is cheap and massed produce while SU-27/35s are expensive and limited.
If MiG-29s received a similar history of upgrades (that actually got procured) as F-16, it would be a 1:1 match to it to this day. Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be. Ukraine is probably the first and only occasion for Wild Weasel MiG-29s to become a thing.
@@delayed_control I like that - Mig-29 'Wild Weasel'... I give Ukraine props for their crafty engineers and mechanics abilities to come up with solutions that take advantage of what they have. Go Ukraine!
MiG-29 isn't cheap to produce, which is its main problem and why MiG went from cranking out thousands of low-cost, single engine fighters, to relatively low production numbers on the MiG-29.
2 engines is what hurt it, whereas the F-16 is produced by the thousands.
The Russians have saud there wasn't a big cost difference between the MiG-29 and Su-27, so why even bother with making or buying MiG-29s when you can get Su-27s?
The MiG-29 really hurt the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the long-term. Their forte was mass-producing affordable, single engine fighters like the MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-21, and MiG-23.
MiG-29 was a bit of a departure for them, from which they have never recovered.
@@delayed_control The only thing that could help the MiG-29 to reach parity with the F-16 would for it to be made in the US with carbon fiber structures, skins, US motors, DFLCS, US Databuses, US cockpit, actuators, fuel pumps, E&E, Radar, ECM, etc.
Since it has a low combat radius and huge RCS, it's kind of a dead-end design.
0:32 look like HARMs…
The Ukrainians modified their MiGs to meet NATO standards and armories.
Serious combat footage from a war, proceeds to put the most peaceful music known to man overtop of it.
Ripple firing AGM88's what a blast.
Where are the kill shots? And who is the dead pilot you mention at the end?
Lol “kill shots” 😂 There is photo evidence from the Russians of one HARM nearly intact after getting shot down and another photo of a HARM that missed and hit the ground. Just because a weapon is launched does not mean it will get a kill. Those HARMs are old, from 1991; some may not even work properly due to age, for example they may miss or have malfunctions. Similarly their age makes them more susceptible to jamming and electronic warfare, but on top of that they can be intercepted. Even under perfect conditions, ie: everything working, no Russian jamming or missile defense, HARMs can still be defeated if radars operate intermediately and then are moved, if Russian radars are turned off then the HARM has no radiation to source to lock onto, even if it has a ‘memory mode’ as some suggest it will be useless if the radar/vehicle is moved.
Completely with you on these not being kill shots, but given the job is usually to supress air defences they are not useless even without a kill. An air defence site that is moving is an air defence site that isn't shooting.