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  • @GrowlingSidewinder
    @GrowlingSidewinder  9 місяців тому +36

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    • @larsgottlieb
      @larsgottlieb 9 місяців тому +2

      The simple idea is, of course, to see what happens if the same swarm attacks a S400 site.

    • @gourmetbanana
      @gourmetbanana 9 місяців тому +3

      Could it work also against a CVBG Carrier Battle Group?

    • @mohammadrohams7056
      @mohammadrohams7056 9 місяців тому +3

      Please try it against iron-Dome too

    • @mohammadrohams7056
      @mohammadrohams7056 9 місяців тому

      And they said that Shahed136 destroyed 2 mig29 and 1 su27
      Is this possible?!

    • @user-qn7fi9fo2k
      @user-qn7fi9fo2k 9 місяців тому +1

      Name of the soundtrack please! Amazing video

  • @HKSTurboBRZ
    @HKSTurboBRZ 9 місяців тому +355

    Crazy thing is that the whole 1400 drones are still cheaper at $20k a unit than 1 fighter jet lol

    • @csjrogerson2377
      @csjrogerson2377 9 місяців тому +92

      Ah, they're $20K at Middle East prices. At US DoD prices, they're $1M each.

    • @mariosraptor
      @mariosraptor 9 місяців тому +54

      @@csjrogerson2377buy them from Iran 😂

    • @knifeduck5336
      @knifeduck5336 9 місяців тому +5

      Yet a fighter jet or 2 could possibly have done this mission without any losses at all

    • @leon-vfonai7931
      @leon-vfonai7931 9 місяців тому +15

      ​@@knifeduck5336and you think the few rockets or missiles it can carry wouldn't have been intercepted? Or the plane itself if it comes to dropping bombs?

    • @timmyhoward6638
      @timmyhoward6638 9 місяців тому

      @@leon-vfonai7931Not a stealth fighter firing stealth missiles and stealth bombs

  • @yaseen157
    @yaseen157 9 місяців тому +339

    Those CIWS opening up are always so beautiful, especially in dawn/dusk/night lighting

    • @davidpalmer4184
      @davidpalmer4184 9 місяців тому

      Spoken like a true Grunt. (That is not an insult.)

    • @bekeneel
      @bekeneel 6 місяців тому

      Do patriots standard have the Cram with them? And does this work well too against missiles that slip thru? (cruise, ballistic)

  • @duongle1606
    @duongle1606 9 місяців тому +54

    Cost of 1400 Shahed: 28 million USD
    Cost of 1 Patriot missile: 4 million USD
    So basically 1400 Shahed = 7 Patriot missiles

    • @GrowlingSidewinder
      @GrowlingSidewinder  9 місяців тому +23

      Correct.

    • @alphazuluz
      @alphazuluz 8 місяців тому +1

      Yeah but can a shahed shoot down a fighter jet? No. They have a place, but they are not a replacement for a Patriot battery

    • @sebastianbiedermann1555
      @sebastianbiedermann1555 8 місяців тому +15

      @@alphazuluzno one said they’re a replacement

    • @immortal5563
      @immortal5563 8 місяців тому +16

      they already shot down two ukrainian mig 29 tho :))))@@alphazuluz

    • @immortal5563
      @immortal5563 8 місяців тому +15

      so basically it is not the patriot hunting down shaheds
      it is shaheds hunting patriots

  • @claytonanderson578
    @claytonanderson578 9 місяців тому +210

    Anyone else old enough to remember the old Atari classic "Missile Command"? Well if it had a final boss level, this would be it.

    • @mattmcbee7109
      @mattmcbee7109 9 місяців тому +7

      Missile Command?

    • @fidelmax4787
      @fidelmax4787 9 місяців тому +16

      Thanks, now i feel old af 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @iandavis4348
      @iandavis4348 9 місяців тому +3

      We have a local retro arcade that has it. its awesome.

    • @richardkelly897
      @richardkelly897 9 місяців тому +6

      It’s what John Connor was playing in T2 if anyone is unfamiliar

    • @johnnyboy7002
      @johnnyboy7002 9 місяців тому +1

      I was thinking it's more like the tank rush tactic from the original Command and Conquer.

  • @kencrow1060
    @kencrow1060 9 місяців тому +256

    Great video as always, GS. One realism change they could make with the DCS Shahed module would be to have the sound not be a sleek rocket sound, but to have it sound like a lawnmower engine. In large quanties, the sound of a swarm of flying lawnmowers might even cause some real dread like the Stukas did during WWII.

    • @zloychechen5150
      @zloychechen5150 9 місяців тому +36

      If you have an untamed loathing for mowing lawns (like i do), it will indeed cause dread.

    • @sleepingninjaquiettime
      @sleepingninjaquiettime 9 місяців тому +19

      Aren't they rocket assisted on take off? I also dread the ways of lawn mowing. And also washing dishes.

    • @deafidue5535
      @deafidue5535 9 місяців тому +19

      Veterans who survive will never be able to cut their grass or live in a suburban neighborhood again.

    • @Nathan-vt1jz
      @Nathan-vt1jz 9 місяців тому +11

      I think he used fast forward for a good portion of the video, otherwise they were going way faster than 120mph.

    • @Cybetrexs
      @Cybetrexs 9 місяців тому +2

      @@Nathan-vt1jznope, just cuts. The rocket sounds from the beginning were the rocket boosters, the whistling after was cause unlike what OP suggests, thise turboprops moving at 120mph do not sound like lawnmowers when you’re standing there watching em.

  • @ascherlafayette8572
    @ascherlafayette8572 9 місяців тому +335

    I feel like an offset line of CIWS would be very effective against slow moving weapons like that

    • @M167A1
      @M167A1 9 місяців тому +50

      You want to put your short range stuff out a ways on whatever the expected direction of attack is, it's called a primary target line

    • @11kungfu11
      @11kungfu11 9 місяців тому +18

      Until they need to reload.

    • @b2spirita
      @b2spirita 9 місяців тому +29

      ​@@11kungfu11yeah...that's true for everything though.

    • @Jermo7899
      @Jermo7899 9 місяців тому +1

      It is. Especially cruise missiles

    • @Dimension2010
      @Dimension2010 9 місяців тому +5

      I'd prefer 57mm aa guns.

  • @play_boy7543
    @play_boy7543 9 місяців тому +29

    Just imagine how much more effective this drones swarm would be if cruise missiles with radiation detection sensors were launched alongside it

    • @abdirhmanali6320
      @abdirhmanali6320 Місяць тому

      Iran is a force to be reckoned with now they got nukes too 😮

  • @jarrettdavis1181
    @jarrettdavis1181 9 місяців тому +37

    The closer we get to 2025, the more technology is looking like Black Ops 2 .

  • @nhbountyhunter
    @nhbountyhunter 9 місяців тому +110

    Well I guess flack is back... But seriously, we have rifles and tank rounds that can be programed by the gun to explode at a given range deploying shrapnel in a specified direction or just burst in all directions. New age flack with this tech would be a great anti swarm counter measure.

    • @SabertoothedFrostbite
      @SabertoothedFrostbite 9 місяців тому +20

      I believe rheinmetall was already working on something similar to your idea.

    • @Justin-dv7ul
      @Justin-dv7ul 9 місяців тому +23

      @@SabertoothedFrostbite yeah its called the mantis, kinda like cram but it fires at targets and explodes into tungsten sub projectiles that can shred a target.

    • @the1fab
      @the1fab 9 місяців тому +11

      @@Justin-dv7ul and it's actually "deployed" or rather tested in the north of germany
      And I have to admit, those turrets of the MANTIS look damn good

    • @ghostpredator125
      @ghostpredator125 9 місяців тому +2

      I think that's the German variant you are talking of...Mantis

    • @BadPenny611
      @BadPenny611 9 місяців тому +6

      It’s not flack, it’s flak which is an acronym for Flugabwehrkanone.

  • @matthobbs5203
    @matthobbs5203 9 місяців тому +36

    I never thought I'd see a Macross Missile Massacre in DCS but here we are! Thanks!

  • @Nathan-vt1jz
    @Nathan-vt1jz 9 місяців тому +43

    Cool video! I know a drone swarm is not what the Patriot system is designed to defend against. The new DEW’s are probably the best way to handle a drone swarm. It will be interesting to see how drone swarms and DEW’s are going to change the future of warfare.

  • @TheKarikanijr
    @TheKarikanijr 9 місяців тому +5

    Like the battle of Carrhae. There, too, the Persians defeated the Romans with tens of thousands of arrows and spears. it's really creepy.

  • @MCBob-nh4cr
    @MCBob-nh4cr 9 місяців тому +12

    I looked up an LG 10,000 BTU air conditioner and this video was one of the options. I fail to see the relation but hey I like it!

    • @GrowlingSidewinder
      @GrowlingSidewinder  9 місяців тому +4

      Lol ur right that’s a weird thing to recommend this video on. I guess the UA-cam algorithm is having an off day. Thanks for stopping by though.

  • @krakkos99
    @krakkos99 9 місяців тому +72

    really besides AA laser technology their main defense is their intel gathering tools seeing a large build up of these launch vehicles and pre-emptively striking them before they can launch

    • @SEJay-gj2cv
      @SEJay-gj2cv 9 місяців тому +4

      Or if each missile would carry multiple smaller warheads, instead of a single big warhead, that would deploy while at speed and be able to engage multiple targets at once. Even better if each sub-munition could communicate with the IADS for target deconfliction.

    • @KingofDoubleBogey
      @KingofDoubleBogey 9 місяців тому +3

      Preemptive strikes for sure- get to it Israel

    • @maple1234567890321
      @maple1234567890321 9 місяців тому +6

      Preemptive strikes is the best option but are not a guarantee. Those launcher can be, imo, be well hidden.
      CIWS and passive defense might be the answer.

    • @csjrogerson2377
      @csjrogerson2377 9 місяців тому +3

      Dont forget GPS jamming, nor forget that the US controls Selective Availability, ie the ability to make GPS less accurate. No need for a pre-emptive strike, just make them miss the target or get lost.

    • @S.Figur-the_real_one
      @S.Figur-the_real_one 9 місяців тому +3

      The German Mantis System will solve the problem 😊

  • @midnighttrain-jz2my
    @midnighttrain-jz2my 7 місяців тому +2

    8:18 That C-RAM quits like a hero 😔

  • @ameeralmaliky6099
    @ameeralmaliky6099 9 місяців тому +9

    It was a battle between $28mil and $1.1bil...that's terrifying

  • @Orphican
    @Orphican 9 місяців тому +6

    Ah, last time I checked a Patriot battery doesn't usually (never) pack 1400 missiles so this is pretty much a foregone conclusion.

  • @kijanka0-056
    @kijanka0-056 11 днів тому +5

    bro really predicted the future

  • @0neBadRabbit
    @0neBadRabbit 9 місяців тому +66

    This makes me thankful we are dedicating so much R&D to DEWs, which is really the only defense against swarms like this.

    • @samuelhopkins2308
      @samuelhopkins2308 9 місяців тому

      Yup until they get into hands of pelosi/newsom gang and are used to burn down California (this happened)

    • @usonumabeach300
      @usonumabeach300 9 місяців тому +8

      Short range EMP pulsers and microwave emitters

    • @ettcha
      @ettcha 9 місяців тому

      ​@@usonumabeach300 Are MASERs still a thing? I read about them in some encyclopaedia back when they were more concept than anything

    • @death_parade
      @death_parade 9 місяців тому +4

      @@ettcha You don't really need MASERs for EMP do you? I know an Indian program using explosively pumped flux compression generators as an EMP warhead for a SDB-style air-dropped munition.

    • @Slipknotfanatic89
      @Slipknotfanatic89 9 місяців тому

      @@usonumabeach300I have been thinking the same thing, EMP’s and airspace denial.

  • @1984Phalanx
    @1984Phalanx 9 місяців тому +13

    This makes me think of those 30mm German AA guns that unleash shrapnel from the sides of the shells as they fly.

  • @edwarddavey14
    @edwarddavey14 9 місяців тому +8

    The way the CRAM just gave up at 8:20😭😭😭

  • @jussilantela9455
    @jussilantela9455 9 місяців тому +4

    What an interesting video. Great cinematography and music as always. That's a huge amount of money spent. Damn those Shahed drones.

  • @Sandroider
    @Sandroider 9 місяців тому +3

    I love the sound of geran in the morning... sounds like - victory

  • @brianbrantner
    @brianbrantner 9 місяців тому +3

    Fantastic choice! That was gripping man. What a way to showcase modern warfare tactics.

  • @abhineetsingh12
    @abhineetsingh12 9 місяців тому +19

    Gotta buy Raytheon and Lockheed stock ASAP

  • @user-pw9zm1ig1y
    @user-pw9zm1ig1y 9 місяців тому +46

    Thank goodness that the new high-power anti-air LASER systems have recently been approved for deployment. Of course, ANY system can be overwhelmed, but at about $10 per shot, a strong defense will at least be a lot more affordable.

    • @bubblesofthecoast6393
      @bubblesofthecoast6393 9 місяців тому +2

      I imagine smth like an M163 or the Gepard would be a decent substitute, though nothing beats $10 per shor

    • @robertrogers6021
      @robertrogers6021 9 місяців тому +6

      I feel like with that amount of targets the lasers would over heat. Id say the best defense for that is simply good ol classic air burst munitions

    • @Fatallydisorganized
      @Fatallydisorganized 9 місяців тому +4

      @@robertrogers6021 it's been discovered that the new striker-based laser system is only limited by power. The heat dissipation is adequate for continuous use although it wouldn't be used that way. And all that would need to be done to overcome the instantaneous shot capacity from the capacitors would be to connect it directly to an installations power plant giving it an extremely long firing time.

    • @TheCrnic
      @TheCrnic 9 місяців тому

      Time to update the M51 Skysweeper.

    • @Moses_VII
      @Moses_VII 3 місяці тому

      Laser is now a real word and not an acronym, no need to spell it in all caps.

  • @4Climates
    @4Climates 9 місяців тому +71

    You make an interesting point with this video. I wonder if the USAF has any cluster munitions in mind for such scenarios.

    • @matthobbs5203
      @matthobbs5203 9 місяців тому +52

      I'd imagine going back and digging up some dedicated flak batteries would make more sense/be cheaper. It's not like there isn't almost 80 years of experience blowing up slow-flying prop planes out there...

    • @kirbyr558
      @kirbyr558 9 місяців тому +23

      They would see it on radar and bomb the launch site preemptively.

    • @cot-pilot2129
      @cot-pilot2129 9 місяців тому

      @@kirbyr558if they can do it, why do they don’t just bomb the Patriot site?

    • @localracer
      @localracer 9 місяців тому +3

      Burst missile

    • @FM4AMGV
      @FM4AMGV 9 місяців тому

      @@kirbyr558 you're going to see a truck on the ground, on a radar? Do you smoke crack?

  • @StudSupreme
    @StudSupreme 9 місяців тому +22

    1. Sounds to me like you need more C-RAMs.
    2. The patriot battery needs higher mobility.
    3. Maybe create a patriot munition that is cheaper and has a shotgun effect.
    4. Those Shaheds need to fly lower, maybe follow the terrain.
    5. Overall, it looks to me like a very long range GRAD rocket barrage.

    • @brendonwood7595
      @brendonwood7595 9 місяців тому

      Given an attack like this hasn't happened yet I;d bet the patriots are already mobile enough to avoid it.

    • @dannileigh6426
      @dannileigh6426 9 місяців тому

      Did they quad pack PAC-3 CRI's in modern Patriot launchers? NASAMS with ESSM BII/AMRAAM and AIM-9X or python for mid-close range like tor or SEARAM and Iron Dome to assist the C-RAM's could be options to spread the load with some optimized for 'leakers'. Like the C-RAM was used as for heavy lifting in this sim.
      DEW's will be on everyone's lips (fingertips?) but once they target lock they take a non-insignificant amount of time to 'burn-through' the weapon system or the warhead - one at a time per weapon - similar to CWIS/C-RAM, so they do have targeting-destruction refresh rates relative to # of targets incoming over a certain time and distance per system. They are not a perfect or magical panacea for saturation swarm attacks, but a very useful arrow in our quiver for such a task, when the technology has been matured sufficiently.

    • @tanmaysingh267
      @tanmaysingh267 9 місяців тому

      ​@@brendonwood7595Shaheed uses anti radiation seekers so if it sees radar somewhere it will target it

    • @brendonwood7595
      @brendonwood7595 9 місяців тому

      @@tanmaysingh267 then the easy solution is a radar transmitter, couple hundred metres of cable and a very cheap antenna. Decoy them all to a non target.

    • @rileymorrisroe6743
      @rileymorrisroe6743 6 місяців тому

      ​@@dannileigh6426Yes, PAC-3 CRIs, are slightly better and alot cheaper PAC-3s where are also 4 per tube.

  • @thecheese8261
    @thecheese8261 9 місяців тому +9

    Damn, Currenthill just pumps out great mods.

  • @brianwaldo2642
    @brianwaldo2642 9 місяців тому +5

    So now you know how Custer felt like😟

  • @Husker5454
    @Husker5454 9 місяців тому +26

    Seems we have returned to the need for AAA on mass aswell as SAM systems . Strange how warfare evolves .

    • @steamconte4388
      @steamconte4388 9 місяців тому +4

      How about electronic jamming?

    • @MaxIsStrange1
      @MaxIsStrange1 9 місяців тому +3

      The way to go seems to be lasers. Both the US and Israel decided to go that way for anti-swarm solutions because lasers are really cheap per shot (around $10) and they don’t really deplete. An example of such a solution for the US Army is the DE M-SHORAD (Directed Energy Maneuver SHOrt-Range Air Defense) based on the Stryker vehicle with a 50-kilowatt laser, and an example for Israel is the Iron Beam with a 150-kilowatt laser and its smaller version, the Lite Beam (7.5-kilowatt laser).

    • @steamconte4388
      @steamconte4388 9 місяців тому +1

      @@MaxIsStrange1 in my opinion an additional solution is to create a new weapon, manpads but which will be much cheaper since the target flies at low altitude and with a low speed and that all units should have. Like that large surfaces are covered since soldiers are scattered along the borders

    • @Fatallydisorganized
      @Fatallydisorganized 9 місяців тому +2

      @@steamconte4388 the problem is numbers. A new manpad would be great however it is inadequate since it requires dozens of soldiers at the exact same place to have the capacity of one M-shorad. It isn't practical.

    • @Husker5454
      @Husker5454 9 місяців тому +1

      @@MaxIsStrange1 yeah thats a good point . How far out are we from mass produced systems ready to go though ? i know isreal managed to make a full operational one just not sure if its been put into production .

  • @Pimps-R-us
    @Pimps-R-us 9 місяців тому +2

    That was an amazing video. Job well done sir. Would love to see more of this.

  • @zeebaa6
    @zeebaa6 9 місяців тому +21

    This was awesome. The future counter will have to be ewar. Or lasers I guess.

    • @highlander723
      @highlander723 9 місяців тому +5

      I think The Iron Dome Laser system would fo it.

    • @MaxIsStrange1
      @MaxIsStrange1 9 місяців тому +4

      @@highlander723and/or the American DE M-SHORAD with a 50 kilowatt laser 😁

    • @zeebaa6
      @zeebaa6 9 місяців тому +1

      @@EricTheBlue2010 agreed. But I'm not sure we've made flak since Korea. Shouldn't be that hard to mass produce tho. Great idea!

    • @renatoigmed
      @renatoigmed 9 місяців тому +1

      imagine what a show it would be to watch this at night

    • @akiratubehd6560
      @akiratubehd6560 9 місяців тому

      ​@@renatoigmed its gonna look like a travis scott concert

  • @farranmaqsood
    @farranmaqsood 9 місяців тому +29

    Loitering munitions are one of THE key for future warfare.

  • @_IFLYFSX_
    @_IFLYFSX_ 9 місяців тому

    Crazy! wow. GS, you created an amazing video mate!

  • @wolfroze9703
    @wolfroze9703 9 місяців тому +4

    WW2 anti aircraft guns are gonna be making a comeback any moment now. Cant wait to see modern bofors and oerlikons lol

  • @superiorf22raptor
    @superiorf22raptor 9 місяців тому +1

    It looks like the night between years,
    Happy new year! 🎉

  • @georgevanhoose6333
    @georgevanhoose6333 9 місяців тому +9

    So.... bring back barrage balloons and wire nets?

  • @DmitryBaranovskiyMrBaranovskyi
    @DmitryBaranovskiyMrBaranovskyi 8 місяців тому +2

    The maximum we've been shelled is about 40 on New Year's Eve. Very nice fireshow. In this case - Skynex or Gepard will solve the problem if all these Shaheds are trying to hit the target in the same position. They intercept dron mostly from the first or second try so it's 10 ammos...

  • @cavemandelta
    @cavemandelta 9 місяців тому +1

    I did a fireworks show during late evening in Causasus with a bunch of UFOs against Iron Dome and it was wonderful to watch lol.

  • @01Z06guy
    @01Z06guy 9 місяців тому +33

    Similar to a mass Kamakazi attack against a carrier task force. It works pretty well the first time. Then the superior force goes out and destroys all that shit on the ground before it can ever assemble en masse again.

    • @renatoigmed
      @renatoigmed 9 місяців тому +3

      send just one B-2 Spirit 🦇

    • @magni5648
      @magni5648 9 місяців тому +8

      LMAO. Pretty sure cranking up the radars on a Burke to max is enough to completely drown out the control signal on these toys and render them all inert.

    • @AugustSchroif
      @AugustSchroif 9 місяців тому +1

      Only works if you have a superior ground force in the first place.

    • @twochilis6763
      @twochilis6763 9 місяців тому +1

      There's no need to assemble en masse though. With anywhere close to the stated range, you can keep the launch vehicles spread out. You just need them to converge on the target at the same time. Command and control might be tricky, but there's no reason you could not relay the communications.

    • @gtifighter
      @gtifighter 9 місяців тому +1

      you sure you didn't miss the part where these can be loaded on commercial trucks that can be easily classified as civilian, and fly distances of up to 2000km?

  • @angusblack4068
    @angusblack4068 9 місяців тому +1

    The old saying "Quantity is its own Quality" is very apt.

  • @Racketeerof89
    @Racketeerof89 9 місяців тому +3

    That would be such a large radar signature.

  • @mickeydoolittle2057
    @mickeydoolittle2057 8 місяців тому +1

    I’m sure General Millie is on it. We are all 100% safe…

  • @juniormello2530
    @juniormello2530 9 місяців тому +3

    better than all 2023 movies

  • @jamesarnott6262
    @jamesarnott6262 9 місяців тому +1

    That was really cool. Thanks.

  • @Duvstep910
    @Duvstep910 9 місяців тому +1

    the intro of them launchng is the mosquitoes in my room coming at me while I'm sleeping

  • @weasle2904
    @weasle2904 9 місяців тому +2

    GPS spoofing, jamming, MASERs, microwave transmitters, laser defense systems, all would be more effective at stopping entire swarms in their tracks.

  • @t3avelos
    @t3avelos 9 місяців тому +4

    6 launchers per truck, 233 trucks in order to launch all at the same time as a swarm. Good luck with that logistics. Interesting scenario though!

    • @rq21abdullahi96
      @rq21abdullahi96 9 місяців тому +2

      Shaheed 136 can be launched in many many platforms. By trucks, boats, on top of a toyota, one the ground especially for russia. Air launched. Large cargo ships.on top of a building.

  • @Erv704
    @Erv704 9 місяців тому

    GS your videos is aways on point sir. Sometimes I just want to grab some popcorn. Great job

  • @Cybetrexs
    @Cybetrexs 9 місяців тому +2

    The beauty of a bottomless defense budget.

  • @handyandqu
    @handyandqu 9 місяців тому +26

    The problem is assembling the massive convoy of trucks without retaliation for setting up for an attack like this. It's almost like countermeasure like the Jeune École strategy, except the larger country with more resources can counter you with more things before you can even deploy. This idea is good in theory and against fixed targets, but it's not like the patriot battery is going to stick around for the dozen plus hours it takes these things to make it to them.

    • @DerLoladin
      @DerLoladin 9 місяців тому +11

      The point isn't the scale, because Patriot batteries also never deploy at a size like that. You can downscale this engagement with very similar results, thats the point imo.

    • @lcmattern
      @lcmattern 9 місяців тому

      ​@DerLoladin very true.
      Though i would like to see this with the launchers and cwis spread out and placed in more optimal locations.
      Assuming you this coming in the first place.

    • @GrantvsMaximvs
      @GrantvsMaximvs 9 місяців тому +7

      Good point. Also, an attack like this would be more effective if it were the opening phase of a manned aircraft strike. To me, it seems to be the least cost effective method of SEAD possible.

    • @sergiotell8856
      @sergiotell8856 9 місяців тому +4

      Well, with that range you don’t need to put all the trucks together firing from a single place, on smaller groups firing from different positions you could achieve the same effect

    • @gungho57
      @gungho57 9 місяців тому +1

      @@sergiotell8856 Time on Target...a well known artillery tactic to make counterbattery fire hard...

  • @imbangperdana838
    @imbangperdana838 8 місяців тому +2

    Ababil's swarm in modern age

  • @colinmarshall6634
    @colinmarshall6634 9 місяців тому +17

    This is why we need things like Iron Beam. It's not economically viable to defend against these types of swarms with current anti-air tech.

  • @skewerz
    @skewerz 9 місяців тому +5

    Some Gepards with air burst rounds might work nicely on defense.

    • @viraloracle5151
      @viraloracle5151 9 місяців тому

      Phalanx systems as used in the video are much better and as i said used in the clip.

  • @sebsunda
    @sebsunda 9 місяців тому +3

    I guess that is where a Laser Defense System like LaWS would be useful...
    But wouldn't Iron Dome be more useful in that scenario as well?

  • @docbailey3265
    @docbailey3265 9 місяців тому +2

    Reminds of the opening scene from The Gladiator with all the Roman flaming arrows in flight.

  • @lukenewton6491
    @lukenewton6491 9 місяців тому +2

    new type of vid, I like it!

  • @kevinbuzgierski3029
    @kevinbuzgierski3029 9 місяців тому

    I liked this video. Alot better then the other guys doing same stuff. You don't talk whole time it's goin on and it's not paused alot. Keep it up GS

  • @m.searay4629
    @m.searay4629 9 місяців тому +2

    Can you imagine all the debris from this scenario? Raytheon investors would be happy about this expenditure.

  • @jameslooker4791
    @jameslooker4791 7 місяців тому

    I'm very curious how many years we will need to wait until swarms this size are a problem. I'm also very curious if huge swarms like this are more difficult to defend against at high altitude where SPAAGs have reduced accuracy.

  • @turbopower7308
    @turbopower7308 9 місяців тому +1

    8:18 bro accepted his fate 🤧

    • @mikes989
      @mikes989 9 місяців тому +1

      LOL!!, I thought the same!!!

  • @Godsjudgement12
    @Godsjudgement12 9 місяців тому

    and thats why development of laser tech is our priority, as well as other short range to medium range platforms such as the M-SHORAD and multi mission launcher

  • @primephilag8816
    @primephilag8816 9 місяців тому +2

    This has me curious about what a swarm versus squadron scenario might look like. What exists to counter, the attack of a swarm on ground, troops, Maple, resources, etc.?

    • @the_dude182
      @the_dude182 9 місяців тому

      Communications and sensor jamming? As there arent enough missiles and cwiz to handle this beast.

  • @princewynad
    @princewynad 9 місяців тому +10

    Airborne cluster bomblets can be used in the patriot missile warhead. Also fragmentation type warheads. Something similar to a shotgun cartridge.

    • @ezey2746
      @ezey2746 9 місяців тому +1

      assuming theyre all gonna be next to each other like in the animation. im sure they will be shot from different direction.

  • @theangryMD
    @theangryMD 7 місяців тому +1

    I've never been so mesmerized by 1.1 billion dollars on fire.

  • @Im_Ratatouille
    @Im_Ratatouille 9 місяців тому +3

    I love your videos GS they’re so calming and they show planes, i aspire to be a fighter pilot some day and these are very entertaining keep up the good work congrats on almost 500k

  • @sikAFskilz
    @sikAFskilz 9 місяців тому +3

    Dude THAT WAS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!! BBRRRRRAAA!!! BBBAARRRUUMMM!!! DADOWWWWWW!!! SKKKEEEOOWW!!! BRAAATTT BRRATTTT!!! RAABBBOOOSSSHHH!!! SEEEOOOWWW!!! DADOWWWW!!! OMFG DUDE PLZ MORE!!! I JUST WENT PSYCHO FANBOY FOR THIS MECHANIZED OPERA OF EXPLOSIVE GREATNESS AND SADNESS!!! PLEASE PLEASE WE DEMAND MORE OF THIS!!! ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY ALIKE EVEN FROM A SIDE EYE ASKEWED VIEW PLZ!!! PLZ!!!

  • @beng7844
    @beng7844 9 місяців тому +2

    I always find it funny how ineffective the CRAM is portrayed as in DCS

  • @taylor_drift1
    @taylor_drift1 9 місяців тому +1

    Your videos are top notch!

  • @whirlwindeddie2124
    @whirlwindeddie2124 9 місяців тому +9

    Taking a break from all the flying huh😂😂😂

    • @GrowlingSidewinder
      @GrowlingSidewinder  9 місяців тому +23

      I was just really curious about this scenario tbh lol, my curiosity got the best of me.

    • @neighbor-j-4737
      @neighbor-j-4737 9 місяців тому

      ​@@GrowlingSidewinder
      The three most terrifying minutes of that Patriot operator's life...

  • @supremegreaser2399
    @supremegreaser2399 9 місяців тому +2

    I have a feeling that coordinated drone attacks would happen from a lower altitude.
    Like what happened in 2019.

  • @darklordojeda
    @darklordojeda 9 місяців тому +1

    I like this style of video as well as your dogfight videos. Great what if scenario. We all know the Shahed launchers would be destroyed before they could deploy but this is a cool scenario.

    • @hippoace
      @hippoace 9 місяців тому

      How? They can launch these almost 1000km away

    • @War_Daddy103
      @War_Daddy103 9 місяців тому +1

      @@hippoace the radar control units on modern surface to air interceptor missiles can see more than 1000km away.
      I know that the most advanced AA platforms currently in the world can network multiple radar units together to expand the search area, even units that are dissimilar in nature such as a nearby destroyers long range radar or even a nearby AWACS providing electronic support
      I dont think the worlds superpowers are really that threatened by some slightly-better-than-north-korea irrelevant 3rd world nation with delusions of gradeur.
      I'd even go far as to say the US is itching to show iran just where it belongs on the global food chain. we've already seen the capabilities of the "mighty" russia and how it fairs against western hardware, what chance does a country poorer and worse equipped than the russians stand?

    • @hippoace
      @hippoace 9 місяців тому

      @@War_Daddy103 lol you forgot about LOS and curvature of earth. Shahed typically fly 500m or less.

    • @hertzwave8001
      @hertzwave8001 9 місяців тому +1

      @@hippoace datalink with AEW assets

  • @TroublingStatue
    @TroublingStatue 9 місяців тому +4

    I wonder, would flak batteries be effective against large swarms like this that fly close together?

  • @highlander723
    @highlander723 9 місяців тому +15

    I wonder How the Iron Dome system would do...

    • @Reaper_03-01
      @Reaper_03-01 9 місяців тому +5

      Probably fairly well. It was designed with saturation attacks from Hezbollah who are incidentally supplied largely by the Iranians.

    • @midnighttrain-jz2my
      @midnighttrain-jz2my 6 місяців тому

      @@Reaper_03-01 Those rockets, fired from Gaza are not from Iran, they are backyard-made in Gaza out of scrap. Each of them costs $50 max.

  • @willwozniak2826
    @willwozniak2826 9 місяців тому

    Interesting scenario.....the Patriot did hold....The PAC 3 missiles are faster than people realize!...good job bro!

  • @nickmadar5078
    @nickmadar5078 9 місяців тому +10

    You know I was thinking. Maybe you should do a video on how effective data link is with an f35 and a f-15 missle truck loaded with aamrams. Idk if DCS has the ability to send info like that but it would be cool.

  • @ohalrighthen4301
    @ohalrighthen4301 9 місяців тому +11

    A scenario many military planners are wide awake middle of the night thinking about

    • @renatoigmed
      @renatoigmed 9 місяців тому +1

      or even having nightmares about it thinking about a solution that doesn't break the budget of the State Ministry of Defense.

    • @brendonwood7595
      @brendonwood7595 9 місяців тому

      @@renatoigmed the solution is existing recon assets and moving the target. Why do you think there haven't been any strikes like this successfully carried out yet?

  • @cz75fanatic
    @cz75fanatic 9 місяців тому +1

    Volume wins... flawless victory.

  • @magnanimus9692
    @magnanimus9692 9 місяців тому +13

    It'd be awesome if Habitual Linecrosser reviewed and gave an analysis of this.

    • @shino2788
      @shino2788 9 місяців тому +1

      Was just thinking about this. I mean the patriot afaik isn't made for this type of stuff but it shows a type of scenario that might happen.

    • @223556762308
      @223556762308 9 місяців тому

      The ass kicking that comes next: priceless. The world has never seen the US fight, except maybe Kasham.

  • @Hellfox777
    @Hellfox777 9 місяців тому +1

    Impressive by both sides. Now, since we know it's possible to do so, we can now compensate for it.

  • @KUSHxKiNG
    @KUSHxKiNG 9 місяців тому +2

    This is a job for the German Mantis. It has airburst munitions which would have a high chance of taking out more than one at a time for a fraction of the cost per shot. Considering it shoots rounds with tungsten balls inside of each round pretty much a shotgun round inside each round😂😂 so it would be cheaper and a lot more efficient and effective

    • @Moses_VII
      @Moses_VII 3 місяці тому

      China and Germany both invested in flak guns on tank treads

  • @cryhavoc8461
    @cryhavoc8461 9 місяців тому +13

    A far cheaper and infinitely more effective counter-tactic is to pack up and more 500 m to a side.

  • @kenhelmers2603
    @kenhelmers2603 9 місяців тому

    Huge Patriot site! Thanks GS :)

  • @MrStickthrower2001
    @MrStickthrower2001 9 місяців тому +1

    There could be a significant arguement for the equivalent of rapid fire canister shot for final defensive fire in situations like this... gigantic rapid fire shotguns that just fire into a specific cone of sky with overlapping fields of fire. Nothing gets through.

  • @leeroyjenkins422
    @leeroyjenkins422 9 місяців тому

    At least the AMG survived. Those AMG guys are like roaches (in a loving way). They can survive a nuclear attack.

  • @AmericanAdvancement
    @AmericanAdvancement 9 місяців тому

    In the near future laser weapons like the THEL will be able to help neutralize a swarm like this. It’s one or two pennies per shot and if you keep it plugged into a power source then it’ll keep firing forever

  • @philipx2
    @philipx2 9 місяців тому

    C Ram have there own radar built in, they don't share a patriot style radar setup. They do however share there radar with each other in the local network.

  • @midnighttrain-jz2my
    @midnighttrain-jz2my 7 місяців тому

    When the C-RAM goes online, you know your in some serious trouble...

  • @tomislavmiletic_
    @tomislavmiletic_ 9 місяців тому +1

    😱😱😱😱😱 More videos like this one, PLEASE !

  • @jamesjarrait2231
    @jamesjarrait2231 9 місяців тому +5

    I wonder how much warning the Patriot site would get of the incoming assault. How long does it take to move a Patriot site? At least the radar anyway.

    • @brendonwood7595
      @brendonwood7595 9 місяців тому +1

      more warning than it takes time to move would be my guess for anyone that owns a patriot battery. They would have airborne radar platforms as well.

    • @Godsjudgement12
      @Godsjudgement12 9 місяців тому +2

      to move the radar? minutes if all safeties are thrown into the wind, we can detect the incoming flying lawnmowers as theyre launched across the gulf, if we determine its a swarm attack that we possibly couldnt hope to defend against then the higher ups will determine to either stand and fight to the last missile, or pack up and leave and send everyone into bunkers to hold out, there would be more than enough time to do so

    • @jtrosse9092
      @jtrosse9092 9 місяців тому

      Then they are leaving a vulnerable valuable asset to become the target that the Patriots were set up to protect, like an airfield and surrounding aircrafts and personnel.

  • @dipereira0123
    @dipereira0123 9 місяців тому +2

    Considering that a patriot Missile is 4M USD each vs 20k each Shahed theres no way to defend against it without bankrupcy, and the C-RAMs would probably overheat or run out of ammo in this situation

  • @daCHuNKY1
    @daCHuNKY1 9 місяців тому +1

    Dude the intro is epic!!!!

  • @WreckedRover
    @WreckedRover 9 місяців тому +5

    They need some AOE for the zerg.

  • @user-rx4vs3kk4i
    @user-rx4vs3kk4i 9 місяців тому

    awesome vid, do more like it in the future plz=)

  • @sourave7979
    @sourave7979 9 місяців тому

    I can watch this video and then witness roughly the same thing the same night out of my window

  • @GM-fh5jp
    @GM-fh5jp 9 місяців тому +1

    Not enough reloads available to repel a second wave anyway.
    They are going to need high speed laser anti-air weapons to handle asymmetric attacks such as swarm drone strikes.

  • @xekul
    @xekul 9 місяців тому

    well that is humbling

  • @georgeisnotagogo6450
    @georgeisnotagogo6450 9 місяців тому +5

    Now do the same but same thing with s400 and pantsir s1