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Shout out to the DCS team and their lighting team. The shot of you coming out of the fireball was gorgeous and the fact that they even thought to show the glow of your burner on the ground as you climbed out is an amazing detail
The Rafale is beautiful. Honestly a piece of flying art in my opinion. The way the intakes melt into the fuselage is just so good. I'm convinced the French bailed out of the Typhoon program as soon as they saw how ugly it was turning out.
Ahaha that is a possibility ;-) The Rafale is frankly a beautiful aircraft. And I think the most complete, modern, versatile, durable of the "european delta generation". No joy in saying that, because, being Italian, I have a love/hate relationship with our French cousins ;-)
Luckily everyone is entitled to an opinion. I never really liked the Rafale like I do the Mirage III, V and 2000, Typhoon and Gripen visually. Front the front it looks likes it is sucking in its cheeks, and that always bothered me.
That step by step breakdown of neutralizing that first rate fight was really cool and helpful. I appreciate things like that for trying to learn bfm etc
Flying through the fireball of your enemy at ground level is about as maximum disrespect as you can get, I love it 😂. The first fight was awesome, especially seeing the turn reversal from the hornet’s perspective. Great vid as always GS
I have real-world experience in joint air-ground operations, and the Rafale is highly underrated. It's probably the best non-stealth strike (air to ground) aircraft in the world in all performance characteristics.
About the non-retractable refueling probe : The French military has a lot of fairly remote bases. When they want to move aircraft in and out of those bases, the only options are either to use an aircraft carrier or long flights with refueling. Considering the French only have a single aircraft carrier, they often have to rely on refueling. In many cases, not being able to refuel mid-air means losing the aircraft. For those reasons, the French need air refueling to be as reliable as possible. The deployment mechanism of the refueling probe was considered to be an additional point of failure. Meanwhile the aerodynamic penalty of having the probe always out was determined to be negligible. Removing the deployment mechanism also meant less maintenance, less parts and a slightly cheaper airframe. So yeah that's why the french refueling probes are fixed.
The first thing your instructor tells you when he presents the Rafale to you for your first time is that the refueling probe is there and will always be, thus suppressing any further talk about that for the rest of your carrier as a french Armee de l'air or Aéronavale pilote.
Hello! Amazing job as Always. Fyi, Marcel Dassault, founder of Dassault Aviation manufacturing both the Rafale and Mirage, used to Say " a good-looking aircraft Will Always be a good-flying aircraft".
The Rafale has a reduced IR signature on its front and is considered to be a semi-stealthy fighter thanks to the materials used, and its shape. It uses jammers a lot, because French think it is better than passive stealth as passive stealth "only" works in some electromagnetics bands (which is already a good thing), and it contributes to lower the price of the plane. You're welcome ;)
I've been watching your channel for a good while now & without a doubt, the entire Round 1 sequence (flying and video perspective) was the best BFM fight I've seen. This channel just keeps getting better! Showing the fantastic talents of both GS & DCS devs. Bravo!! Encore!!!
Dude I found this channel this morning (10 april 2023 at 15:37 CEST) and I’ve been binging these dogfights since then till now (22:48 CEST) and will do so for the next few hours. Love this!
GS, you just keep ratcheting up the creativity. Brilliant cinematography! Great use of perspective and camera angles! Anyone think it's time UA-cam begins to offer some awards for content creators besides # of subscribers? They need to step it up with some recognition for content quality and creativity. I nominate this man for one or two right now.
By far the best one yet in a long time. The A10 stuff is alot of fun to watch too. More night time fights. I screen shot you flying thur the flames of your fresh kill. Now it's my wall paper desktop. Thank you. Awesome
He just felt like cutting (burning) some grass after that dogfight was finished at 5:13. No but seriously that shot was BEAUTIFUL! Really reminded me of a hollywood movie but that just makes it better, the quality in hollywood movies is always good! Great vid GS really enjoying the A-10 stuff too, but this vid was next level fun to watch!! keep it up!
The shot at 5:15 wouldn’t have been nearly as good if it was a day time dogfight. It’s pretty lucky we get that shot the one time GS does a night fight
Lol imagine being on the ground at night then a jet crashes into the ground and from the ball of fire emerges the victor jet mere feet from the ground...
I liked the ending with you coming out of the fireball as well as a lot of the others ;) And landing on the hyway??? Gettouttahere lol. What a vid of endings ;)
Hey GS, an idea for a new combat format: instead of doing bandit unknown, do a loadout unknown. You and the bandit each have a total of 4 fox3s and 6 fox2s for 5 rounds. Neither of you knows, what the other guy brings to battle. Should be a lot of fun.
The way y show us both POV of fighter aircrafts is really appreciated 🙏🙏 in that sense, we also hv the chance to know acknowledge the fact of dog fight more ❤️❤️ do this in upcoming videos "DCS" is now on peak level🔥🔥🔥 in aviation terms 😀.
To your question: I think the Rafale is one of the best looking Gen 4 to 5 aircraft. While the Eurofighter looks more sinister with its squared off enormous intakes, located directly under the fuselage like the F-16, and more forward placement of the canards, the Rafale looks more elegant and smooth in contrast. The Saab JAS-39 Gripen kind of splits the difference in looks to my eye. I've always preferred the more sleek and elegant aircraft judging purely based on looks. The Rafale, B-1B Lancer, and the SU-34 Fullback (Hell duck) are all at the top of my list for best looking planes ever. There's always exceptions. The A-10 is a perfect example. I love the Porsche 911, but I also love a good off-road capable pickup truck. It's not a pretty aircraft by any stretch, but it still looks awesome in its own way.
Flying through the fireball of the hornet burning the bushes has to be one of the coolest things I've ever seen on this channel, and then that textbook landing at the end of round 2 😂 what a video!
i personally would like to see some fights with the ctrl+enter controls indicator, would be useful for learners to look at how some maneuvers are performed
The Rafale is one of my favorite aircraft both aesthetically and practically. That fuel probe is the only nitpick I have with it as well. That shot of your Rafale going through the Hornet's fireball was spectacular!
The Rafale is IMO the sexiest looking delta wing design there is. Probably the best looking non-stealth fighter jet overall. The Typhoon also looks good, but the square intakes underneath just ruins the look completely. Gripen also looks great, but it doesn't have the same flow to the design that the Rafale has. The refueling probe looks pretty weird though.
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Love seeing you take video ideas and such!
Can chaff or flares disrupt an opponent's engine?
You just haaad to do the slo-mo play back without out the night-vis didn't you?
Hey GS could you make eurofighter CAS video please
Great vid; loved the viewpoint switch leading up to the kill in the first round
That Rafale screaming through the explosion two meters off the deck has got to be the most Hollywood thing I've ever seen on this channel.
💯
Michael Bay-esq
I think Tom Cruise will see that, and Top Gun 3 will immediate go into development.
Cool guys don't look at explosions 💥😎
I was just about to comment that 🤌🏾
That shot of you coming out of the fire was incredible!! What a scene!
Just draggin afterburner
It's like a Michael Bay movie.
That was sofa king epic.
Could be your new intro! 😎
Only thing missing is a dude with a hot dog on a stick. :)
Really appreciate the view from inside the hornet after the evasive maneuver. Showing it from both angles was a great idea.
Yes, more of this!
Definitely. I'm always looking at his opponents channels looking for the other perspective. Rarely do I find it.
Shout out to the DCS team and their lighting team. The shot of you coming out of the fireball was gorgeous and the fact that they even thought to show the glow of your burner on the ground as you climbed out is an amazing detail
The Rafale is seriously one of the best looking modern military jets out there.
It isn’t one of the best looking, it IS the best looking
@@rowdyace5719the f22, su57 and rafale are the holy trinity
The Rafale is beautiful. Honestly a piece of flying art in my opinion. The way the intakes melt into the fuselage is just so good. I'm convinced the French bailed out of the Typhoon program as soon as they saw how ugly it was turning out.
Ahaha that is a possibility ;-)
The Rafale is frankly a beautiful aircraft. And I think the most complete, modern, versatile, durable of the "european delta generation". No joy in saying that, because, being Italian, I have a love/hate relationship with our French cousins ;-)
Luckily everyone is entitled to an opinion. I never really liked the Rafale like I do the Mirage III, V and 2000, Typhoon and Gripen visually. Front the front it looks likes it is sucking in its cheeks, and that always bothered me.
@@Gripen90 I would like to know where you read that not everyone is entitled to an opinion.
@@andreabindolini7452 that was in relation to Mr. Sandmans comment about the french pulling out of the corporation due to the ugliness of the EF-2000.
@@andreabindolini7452 he said everyone is entitled To an opinion
From 5:15 to 5:35 is the best scene in DCS ever. It feel like it was directed by Micheal Bay.
That Rafale exiting the flames and landing damaged on the road was absolutely epical.
Rafale is one of the best looking planes.
5:13 after that crazy good shot I think night missions/dogfights will always have a place in this channel :)
I very much appreciated the view from the Hornet to help understand what’s happening, why you are doing it and the effects on the bandits
Gotta say it, the shot of the Rafale through the fire is just KILLER!!!!🤯🤯🤯🤘🔥🔥🔥
That step by step breakdown of neutralizing that first rate fight was really cool and helpful. I appreciate things like that for trying to learn bfm etc
Flying through the fireball of your enemy at ground level is about as maximum disrespect as you can get, I love it 😂. The first fight was awesome, especially seeing the turn reversal from the hornet’s perspective. Great vid as always GS
Emerging through the flames - that's a movie shot! You should use that in your channel intros!
I have real-world experience in joint air-ground operations, and the Rafale is highly underrated. It's probably the best non-stealth strike (air to ground) aircraft in the world in all performance characteristics.
About the non-retractable refueling probe :
The French military has a lot of fairly remote bases.
When they want to move aircraft in and out of those bases, the only options are either to use an aircraft carrier or long flights with refueling.
Considering the French only have a single aircraft carrier, they often have to rely on refueling.
In many cases, not being able to refuel mid-air means losing the aircraft.
For those reasons, the French need air refueling to be as reliable as possible.
The deployment mechanism of the refueling probe was considered to be an additional point of failure.
Meanwhile the aerodynamic penalty of having the probe always out was determined to be negligible.
Removing the deployment mechanism also meant less maintenance, less parts and a slightly cheaper airframe.
So yeah that's why the french refueling probes are fixed.
The first thing your instructor tells you when he presents the Rafale to you for your first time is that the refueling probe is there and will always be, thus suppressing any further talk about that for the rest of your carrier as a french Armee de l'air or Aéronavale pilote.
I really liked the two different view points and the prompts to show what you were doing.
The pull away / flyby on the first kill, w/ the afterburners at full output = beautiful !!!
That "dogfight lesson" on round 1 was very informative. The Hornet perspective helped a lot. Please do more of them.
As a French i was waiting so much for a Rafale dogfight :)
but i want a 2 morons video as well :)
En plus ce plan du Rafale qui sort des flammes est magnifique !
@@deltaelite42 magnifique tout ca
Ça rend fier tout ça
@@nico_b.999 et vive la france 💪🇲🇫
Hello! Amazing job as Always. Fyi, Marcel Dassault, founder of Dassault Aviation manufacturing both the Rafale and Mirage, used to Say " a good-looking aircraft Will Always be a good-flying aircraft".
"Why were you late to work?"
"I got side swiped by some idiot driving a Rafale on the highway"
Whoa!!! 5:19 was the sick as hell! Well done, GS. Well done!
The Rafale has a reduced IR signature on its front and is considered to be a semi-stealthy fighter thanks to the materials used, and its shape. It uses jammers a lot, because French think it is better than passive stealth as passive stealth "only" works in some electromagnetics bands (which is already a good thing), and it contributes to lower the price of the plane. You're welcome ;)
That shot of Rafale coming out of the flames is the best visual shot in DCS & GS history
I cannot begin to describe how freakin awesome that first kill cinematic was coming through the fireball 🤯🤯
I've been watching your channel for a good while now & without a doubt, the entire Round 1 sequence (flying and video perspective) was the best BFM fight I've seen.
This channel just keeps getting better! Showing the fantastic talents of both GS & DCS devs. Bravo!! Encore!!!
That scene of the Rafale coming out of fire is crazier than what Hollywood could think of
Dude I found this channel this morning (10 april 2023 at 15:37 CEST) and I’ve been binging these dogfights since then till now (22:48 CEST) and will do so for the next few hours.
Love this!
Very cool thanks for watching and welcome to the channel, much love.
5:30 omgs. You couldn't of planned that if u wanted to. What an epic movie hero move!!!
GS, you just keep ratcheting up the creativity. Brilliant cinematography! Great use of perspective and camera angles! Anyone think it's time UA-cam begins to offer some awards for content creators besides # of subscribers? They need to step it up with some recognition for content quality and creativity. I nominate this man for one or two right now.
By far the best one yet in a long time. The A10 stuff is alot of fun to watch too. More night time fights. I screen shot you flying thur the flames of your fresh kill. Now it's my wall paper desktop. Thank you. Awesome
5:40 I watched and rewatched that, that’s was fricken insane seeing it come through the fireball like that holy shit good job @growling sidewinder
Mr.Dassault (the creator of the company that made the Mirages and Raffales) used to say : "A beautiful plane is a plane that flight well".
Hats off to the opponent for letting you pull off a cool damaged landing.
Once landed, I assume he'll turn around and make a strafing pass...
Top 5 most cinematic things I’ve ever seen on UA-cam!
He just felt like cutting (burning) some grass after that dogfight was finished at 5:13. No but seriously that shot was BEAUTIFUL! Really reminded me of a hollywood movie but that just makes it better, the quality in hollywood movies is always good! Great vid GS really enjoying the A-10 stuff too, but this vid was next level fun to watch!! keep it up!
Coolest freaking move of the Rafale’ emerging through the flames of the
f/a 18’s explosion. My gosh that was awesome 😂
I had been waiting to see you fly the Rafale, especially with your overall tactical approach. That was Hollywood material! 😁 Loved it!
Rafale fire exit scene is def one for the highlight reel!
5:19 is just an amazing shot of the Rafael coming through the fireball desperately clawing for altitude!
Geeze! That flying through the fireball was such an action movie moment!
5:11 - *sings* - "Tough guys, fly away from explosions!!"
🤯 OMG... that shot of you flying out of the fireball 6ft off the ground...🤯
5:15 is going to be the highlight of your UA-cam career man haha. So awesome.
DUDE!! That shot of you coming out of the flames was pure HoLLyWooD!!! I loved it...
Seeing your Rafale emerge from that Hornet's fire ball, best kill wrap I've seen from you.
I had the pleasure of working with the French Rafales overseas and they were absolute professionals and that plane is so badass.
That slomo of the Rafale emerging from the fireball could be the greatest DCS shot of all time. DAMN.
The Rafale emerging from the Hornet's fireball scene is straight out of Micheal Bay movie.
love to see the Rafale getting some time in videos!
I've never seen anything more beautiful... Purely cinematic stuff as always!
need to send that first kill in for a promo video! sick shot!!
cool seeing you taking on the Rafale! Very impressive 1st kill in this video. Taught me a lot.
The shot at 5:15 wouldn’t have been nearly as good if it was a day time dogfight. It’s pretty lucky we get that shot the one time GS does a night fight
Coming out of the F16' s fireball near the ground was right out of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie.
Ooooh man !!! At 5:12 is better than all Hollywood action movies scenes 👋👍👋👍
You emerging from the explosion was epic.
By far one of your best kills. That clip of you going through the blast was epic.
Saw you pull through the fire and flames and had to watch that fight again with Danger Zone blasting. This is the way.
The Rafale is a beauty. One of my favorite planes to look at.
Lol imagine being on the ground at night then a jet crashes into the ground and from the ball of fire emerges the victor jet mere feet from the ground...
Wow, what a awesome slowmo coming through the explosion
I love the "cheekbones" of the Rafale. Like the part under the cockpit and infront of the intakes.
Not too shabby. First round was textbook bfm. Flying through the crash explosion was the icing.
5:10 that's a sick shot man!
Very nice , with the opponents perspective and the explanation of your manoeuvres. That's cool!
I love that we get to see the fight from the perspective of your enemy!
Something about this night dogfight hits the spot. Please do more!
Love the bandit's perspective of the turn reversal
I liked the ending with you coming out of the fireball as well as a lot of the others ;) And landing on the hyway??? Gettouttahere lol. What a vid of endings ;)
the Rafale is a great looking plane. one of my favs. check out the demo of one in Swtzerland. best demo i've seen.
The rafale coming out of that huge fireball was so epic
The Rafale through the flames slomo has been ma-jes-tic!
Hey GS, an idea for a new combat format: instead of doing bandit unknown, do a loadout unknown. You and the bandit each have a total of 4 fox3s and 6 fox2s for 5 rounds. Neither of you knows, what the other guy brings to battle. Should be a lot of fun.
I loved how you explained your moves in the first fight and even showed his view. Exelent material for learning. Thank you!
5:15 if the French made a Top Gun movie holy cow
Okay flying through the fireball just a couple feet off the ground was just cool.
The way y show us both POV of fighter aircrafts is really appreciated 🙏🙏 in that sense, we also hv the chance to know acknowledge the fact of dog fight more ❤️❤️ do this in upcoming videos "DCS" is now on peak level🔥🔥🔥 in aviation terms 😀.
To your question: I think the Rafale is one of the best looking Gen 4 to 5 aircraft. While the Eurofighter looks more sinister with its squared off enormous intakes, located directly under the fuselage like the F-16, and more forward placement of the canards, the Rafale looks more elegant and smooth in contrast. The Saab JAS-39 Gripen kind of splits the difference in looks to my eye.
I've always preferred the more sleek and elegant aircraft judging purely based on looks. The Rafale, B-1B Lancer, and the SU-34 Fullback (Hell duck) are all at the top of my list for best looking planes ever. There's always exceptions. The A-10 is a perfect example. I love the Porsche 911, but I also love a good off-road capable pickup truck. It's not a pretty aircraft by any stretch, but it still looks awesome in its own way.
As a french i was waiting a rafale against a american fighter. The Rafale is for me a very good fighter jet. Thank you so much for this video 🇫🇷🔥🇺🇸
5:23 that cinematic shot is beautiful
Flying through the fireball of the hornet burning the bushes has to be one of the coolest things I've ever seen on this channel, and then that textbook landing at the end of round 2 😂 what a video!
I have to agree with you GS. I have always said that the French make the sexiest Fighter Jets. And i do too love the Rafale.
I love the Hornet,,, but ya that Rafale coming thru the explosion feet/inches off the deck was sh*t hot!! Coolest thing!!
It's nice that you're able to give your fans the video requests they demand dude.
5:20 that's gotta be the dopest thing i've seen on this channel...
i personally would like to see some fights with the ctrl+enter controls indicator, would be useful for learners to look at how some maneuvers are performed
Looked like a Michael Bay movie clip when he flew through the crash blaze.
That shot coming out of the fireball is perfect. That’s shot of the year right there. DCS marketing will be in contact soon I’m sure haha
The Rafale is one of my favorite aircraft both aesthetically and practically. That fuel probe is the only nitpick I have with it as well. That shot of your Rafale going through the Hornet's fireball was spectacular!
This is awesome. I just suggest this yesterday. Thank you man. 😊
The Rafale is IMO the sexiest looking delta wing design there is. Probably the best looking non-stealth fighter jet overall. The Typhoon also looks good, but the square intakes underneath just ruins the look completely. Gripen also looks great, but it doesn't have the same flow to the design that the Rafale has. The refueling probe looks pretty weird though.
thanks for featuring the Hornet view for parts of fight 1.
The hornet perspective and explanation was great. Thank you!
Holy cinematography award, Batman!!! Incredible shot! 5:22
5:30 I think you made some glass coming out of that fireball!!! Whooohoo!
One of the aspects that caught me the first time I heard it was the fact that it has 14 hard points.