How about Tomcat crews screaming over comms for permission to fire and being denied? Absolutely disgusting. The Air Force was handed kills on a silver platter, often by enemy aircraft running in fear of Tomcats.
I was a Yellow shirt, USS Saratoga CV-60. We lost birds during Desert Storm. I know a F-18 (Striker the pilot) RIP, and an A-6, crew taken prisoner, Wetzel and Zahn, VA-35. Good video.
1:20 seconds or so that VF-33 Starfighter low viz weathered by the sea and constant slapping on of different shades of grey to give it the perfect cat rode hard and put away wet look!!!!. A scheme hunters delight are the Tomcats. Tails are even there own religion in the modeling community practically. I’m barley a minute into the 20 you spoke of and I can tell you now I’m glued to it. Thanks man. Positive vibes your way and back to the action I go!
@@IrisAviation91 I know there are couple of Turkish sources for the sorties could be useful but they're in Turkish. If you need help translating I could help with that
Just one correction - As someone pointed out earlier, 12:46 is meant to be a 2x Air Force MH-53s NOT a Navy one doing the rescue.
Another note: (Reference the almost downing a mig section) Semi-Active Radar Homing Missiles brevity is Fox-1, not Fox 2.
Those were actually Air Force MH-53s. The Army never flew any version of the CH-53.
@@solidlift no clue why I put army, must’ve not been thinking right 😅
Desert Storm really did the Tomcat dirty, so many missed opportunities :(
I agree, researching it you just come across so many ‘what ifs’ 😅
How about Tomcat crews screaming over comms for permission to fire and being denied? Absolutely disgusting. The Air Force was handed kills on a silver platter, often by enemy aircraft running in fear of Tomcats.
I was a Yellow shirt, USS Saratoga CV-60. We lost birds during Desert Storm. I know a F-18 (Striker the pilot) RIP, and an A-6, crew taken prisoner, Wetzel and Zahn, VA-35.
Good video.
Thank you, my respect goes to all those guys
our boy iris never disappoints.
Thanks man
The MH-53 that rescued the downed pilot was a USAF helo.
So going off memory wasn’t so smart then! I thought it was Navy MH-53s not army - I’ll add in a correction
@@IrisAviation91 No worries mate. It happens. Fantastic video btw.
Fantastic video! That footage was integrated so well and was fun as hell to film 😎
Thanks so much man, the video would be nothing without your help
Dcs clips are beautifully integrated! Good job!
Thank you!
Nice 👌 as always... F 14 TOP GUN MAVRICK ... 👍
THANKS 👍
Cracking video as always!
Thank you man!
This one's going into the top favorite list! XD
Well done man! It was great!! 🥰
Haha thanks Reker
Wow. I never knew the new engines allowed them to take off in dry thrust. They must have been one hell of an improvement.
When it came to “SFMC” in selecting the F-14A under the Desert Storm 1991 campaign I chose that of VF-1 markings take a guess why.
Oooh lesgooo
Thats very excellent information about the F 14 capacity 👍
Oh boy 😍😍😍
This is going to be a good one :)
1:20 seconds or so that VF-33 Starfighter low viz weathered by the sea and constant slapping on of different shades of grey to give it the perfect cat rode hard and put away wet look!!!!. A scheme hunters delight are the Tomcats. Tails are even there own religion in the modeling community practically. I’m barley a minute into the 20 you spoke of and I can tell you now I’m glued to it. Thanks man. Positive vibes your way and back to the action I go!
Found myself back here 😂
Will you be able to do anything about the Turkish Airforce? i.e the invasion of Cyprus where the Turkish Sabres went against Hellenic Phantoms
I have never heard of this, but phantoms and sabres would’ve been quite a dogfight. I’ll note it down for the future!
@@IrisAviation91 I know there are couple of Turkish sources for the sorties could be useful but they're in Turkish. If you need help translating I could help with that
What is your opinion on the 1996 classic "Space Jam" featuring Michael Jordan?
pretty jammy
That is because of experience they had with Iranian f 14s