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DCS or IL Sturmovik have late model Russian P-39 vs a Kiwi or US P-40N? Or same P-39 vs FW-190D if sticking with Russia vs Germany? P-39 somewhat underdog to P-40 and clear underdog vs 190 Dora.
There are not enough words to explain how much i love your videos they are so good. i wanna start playing DSC, do you have any good tips and which planes should i use?
The F-22 is the exact definition of a bully. That AWaCS did a runner as soon as he saw radar sights start blowing up with no warning. He knew what was coming.
Every bully I've ever met has folded the second someone fought back. The F-22 is the air equivalent of a Navy Seal or a Green Baret. It will preferably sneak up on you and do the silent neck snap, but if you do manage to see it in advance then raw unadulterated aggression works too.
Nah, this isn't a bully. It's the little guy sneaking up on an egomaniacal, self-assured, wanna-be badass and taking him out in front of all his soon-to-be former, hangers-on.
As much as I love the "I got close enough to see what brand of sunglasses the pilot was wearing" videos, having them be looking and aware makes it more exciting.
@@mrliver3250 yeah my stepdad worked for Lockheed on the F-22 program. Just criminal to destroy this stuff without a successor aircraft ready to replace it.
The reason why the AMRAAM can be used as an air to surface missile like a Zuni rocket is because it has a feature that you can shoot it without a lock and it will pitbull on any target it sees, while it doesn’t see anything it will just fly in a straight line, unguided. Hope this explains it =)
In reality an AIM-120 will guide onto any target that the host fighters radar will lock on to. So did the AIM-7 Sparrow. The pilot uses HOTW (Home All The Way) mode and the missile will ride the radar beam straight into the target.
@AtticusMoreno-oy6nd They won't fit the bay of the F-22, correct? This would be a viable option as the F-22 is likely not going to be retired as soon as the USAF is pushing for with the NGAD kinda in semi-limbo ATM.
I've seen the F-22 Raptor at an airshow two years ago doing some aerial maneuvers and it's really interesting to see them in DCS just being nothing short of badass! Thank you for making these videos!
"F-22 is doing ground attack!" "You mean F-35, dah?" "NO! F-22 _IS DOING GROUND ATTACK!"_ "You drinking too much vodka again, Yuri." "..." "Yuri?" "..." "Someone vector to Radar station. Yuri is being drunk again. Wake him up."
@@AtticusMoreno-oy6nd lol no they sound effects are edited in post, lots of hours actually go into the audio work of these videos, including aircraft fly by sounds, explosions, bullets, hits and misses etc etc just an attempt to further immerse the viewer when possible.
@@GrowlingSidewinderYou have (or had, at one point) a missile impact sound with a long pre-woosh to it, which always breaks immersion for me because: 1) You're not going to hear a supersonic missile before impact. The first thing you hear should be the bang. 2) It gives a half second spoiler: "GS is about to eat a missile". Also, the effects added in post tend not to be properly delayed for sound travel time, which also breaks immersion. I tend to prefer the in-engine sound effects as sound delay gets applied properly. I may or may not have watched way too many videos of large explosions 😂
My guess would be one of the following: relative target hardness and site dispersion. Even though each radar site was relatively compact, it might have taken multiple gun runs to definitely KO a site, which is time the mission cannot afford. The AIM-120 with a contact detonation takes out the whole site, support vehicles and all in one discrete blast.
@@Wien1938 electronics are very sensitive. 20mm is a big round. I don’t think it would take much to render them ineffective. Might not make a big explosion but then I think the 44-pound warhead of the AAMRAM is over-modeled here too.
But you see, a radome with some holes in it can be repaired in due time. Whereas a radome that has been reduced to rubble cannot be and it must be replaced.
Agree with some of the other comments: why not gun-run the ground targets? I know it’s a 20mm Vulcan and not a 30mm Avenger, but should still be enough for an unarmored AA site, and saves the AMRAAMs for the air fight.
I absolutely love watching your videos. They’re DEFINITELY TOP NOTCH and I always learn so much. I have to admit that I do enjoy watching your F-22 videos the most since it’s my Fav Jet Fighter but they’re all awesome! The screaming of that one guy who ejecting from the AWAX was freaking HILARIOUS! 😂🤣😂 Keep doing what you’re doing brother. 👍👍
If you're that accurate with a 120 as an AG munition, imagine what it would be like if the Raptor could actually carry hidden AG bombs/missiles. I know it can carry them via detachable external pylons, but then that defeats the whole purpose of an F-22 being a stealth jet, lol. Great video as always, GS!!
Just because it can, doesn't mean the community wants to. Air-to-Air only guys are very reluctant to get into the A2G arena. "Not a pound for air to ground" is their motto. This notably came from the F-15C guys, and originally the F-14 community, and I also assume the Raptor guys feel the same way. The F-14 community eventually realized them going A2G gave them new life in the later half of the plane's career, and they also gained a lot of bomb dropping knowledge from having absorbed the A-6 pilots. While the A2A mission of the Tomcat gets all the movies and spotlight, the A2G mission of the Tomcat is actually very fascinating as it became the premier deep strike fighter of the late 90s and early 2000s.
About ten years ago Northrop-Grumman designed an F/A-18 variant with better stealth characteristics that used underwing pods to house additional ordnance that would otherwise increase the aircraft's radar signature. It was an in-house project, not a response to a request for tender by the military, and afaik it got a few articles in aviation publications and fizzled. But the idea of stealthed pods for external hardpoints has a lot of potential. More realistically, it's likely that this mission would have been flown by a pair (at least) of F-22s, with a pair of F-35As tasked with taking out the radar sites. The AGM-88 probably won't fit in either plane's internal bays, but it doesn't need to, since they weren't SAM sites. A couple of Mk.82s with guidance packages installed *would* fit in an F-35's weapons bay, and that'd be plenty to wipe those sites off the map.
When I was new to your channel and first heard you say that the AMRAAM doubles as an AGM/ASM, I actually thought you were serious and I googled if it was true lol
You have such a calm voice and then you say something like, "I am unobserved just like I like it" and there is a chill! Just think you will have new helmet soon and the new MFH radar!
Whenever you sneak attack I’m always wanting to go back into the back vids and rewatch you having an F22 form up on your wing before you ate a missile. 😊
Great job man, sick ambush. You are definitely nailing those AMRAAM's onto ground targets Sick bloody video mate. Great job. I love when you start to toy with the AWACS dude it's funny as. Nice of to give them a chance to bail out. Awesome shit man.
I can't imagine the feeling of invincibility that comes with strapping a Raptor to your back. They probably have to warn against that in training to avoid careless errors.
In Braveheart, Steven asks William Wallace, " now what are you gonna do ?" To which William replies, " I'm gonna pick a fight ". F22 is a scrapper. Fantastic with an upper cut.
The BONE probably could have done this mission without the assist from the F-22. They're already low observeable, they can break the sound barrier, and can come close to supersonic speeds while maintaining an altitude of about 200 feet over any terrain.
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Any reason to not just pile gun rounds into the radar station and save the missile?
2:55 Ah man, normally I love when you use the AMRAAM that way, but I thought that you might need it for later. There’s always 20 Mike Mike 🫶
Man I love your videos... but at the risk of sounding repetitive how bout me262 vs a10 guns only? Please sir
DCS or IL Sturmovik have late model Russian P-39 vs a Kiwi or US P-40N? Or same P-39 vs FW-190D if sticking with Russia vs Germany? P-39 somewhat underdog to P-40 and clear underdog vs 190 Dora.
There are not enough words to explain how much i love your videos they are so good. i wanna start playing DSC, do you have any good tips and which planes should i use?
GS out here lighting the Beacons of Gondor.
_The beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid!_
*And the F-22 will answer.* 😎
@@JesusFriedChrist Would you intercept me?
@@ChrisLawson-np6km That's a twist, but...
"I'd intercept me."
I was waiting for this.
🤣😂😆😂🤣😂😆😂🤣
13:30 I was NOT expecting that sound effect, lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
My autistic brain does this naturally even if no sound effect played 😂
The F-22 is the exact definition of a bully. That AWaCS did a runner as soon as he saw radar sights start blowing up with no warning. He knew what was coming.
Every bully I've ever met has folded the second someone fought back. The F-22 is the air equivalent of a Navy Seal or a Green Baret. It will preferably sneak up on you and do the silent neck snap, but if you do manage to see it in advance then raw unadulterated aggression works too.
@andersjjensen operating on both kinds of stealth: no one noticed, and anyone that did didn't live to tell about it
Nah, this isn't a bully. It's the little guy sneaking up on an egomaniacal, self-assured, wanna-be badass and taking him out in front of all his soon-to-be former, hangers-on.
The enemy has been unusually observant lately. Got the eyeballs tuned up
As much as I love the "I got close enough to see what brand of sunglasses the pilot was wearing" videos, having them be looking and aware makes it more exciting.
@@tachometer7450/50
I live my "gaming life" vicariously through these videos. I'm too old and diseased to play these games...but Wow...great to watch you play them.
I hear that
Same, sort of: I don't want to invest in a gaming rig for DCS, nor do I have the time and patience. So I enjoy these videos instead!
We were all very proud to make tooling for the F-22 in my machine shop!
Bless you sir. You did the Lord's work for this beautiful aircraft.
Apparently all destroyed after production ended.
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AF Metals Tech?
@@mrliver3250 yeah my stepdad worked for Lockheed on the F-22 program. Just criminal to destroy this stuff without a successor aircraft ready to replace it.
@@ThePrisoner881 Happily for us it still has no competition.
Some soldier seeing the destroyed radars "Sir! The Beacons are lit!!! Gondor calls for aid!"
But Rohan didn't answer. Rohan bravely ran away. Until the Raptor caught up.
GS living by the age old Canadian Air Force motto - "Strike First, Strike Hard". 😆
💪🇨🇦
eh? 😂
Cobra Kai no mercy.
The reason why the AMRAAM can be used as an air to surface missile like a Zuni rocket is because it has a feature that you can shoot it without a lock and it will pitbull on any target it sees, while it doesn’t see anything it will just fly in a straight line, unguided. Hope this explains it =)
Mad dogging the fox 3
In reality an AIM-120 will guide onto any target that the host fighters radar will lock on to. So did the AIM-7 Sparrow.
The pilot uses HOTW (Home All The Way) mode and the missile will ride the radar beam straight into the target.
A a10 wouldn’t last long in a combat scenario loaded with Sam’s going after it. There’s a reason why the f16 was selected for the role.
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh5832 The A-10 was literally used to directly attack SAM sites in Desert Storm. In actual combat. On dozens of occasions.
@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh5832 random A-10 hate for no reason, noted.
An amram with a home on radar source mode would make a hell of a cheap HARM.
It could also be useful as a awacs killer specific mode assuming the awacs doesn't see the rcs of the missile.
Except AMRAAMs aren't exactly cheap
@RT42069 The best harm missile is around 90% the cost of an amraam si for now those are better.
@AtticusMoreno-oy6nd They won't fit the bay of the F-22, correct? This would be a viable option as the F-22 is likely not going to be retired as soon as the USAF is pushing for with the NGAD kinda in semi-limbo ATM.
Ever see the vids of the Airsoft guys in ghillie suits sniping enemies at point blank? lol Gotta love the Raptor.
Only two chutes? Rough day to be a scope dope on that bird.
What happens when you get your ejection seats from Temu.
@@geoffgreen2105 Not ejection seats - but a Party commissar on board to prevent 'cowardly' actions like bailing out.
You are definitely the king of the FB-22 RaptorFortress.
12:30 sparked an idea, you should totallydogfight two C-130's and/or other bigger/chunkier aircraft types
2× A-10Cs vs 2× AC-130J gunships?
Post-air-superiority CAS planes head to head
@@getahanddown A-10s would cook the Hercules if they just flew on the side where they don't have guns
Introducing the F/A-22!
I haven't heard that name in a long time.
THE DCS GOAT HAS POSTED
Ya… running late, no? maybe christmas shopping 😆
I needed this today, thanks GS...
Watch as the Raptor stalks its unsuspecting prey....
David Attenborough presents.
No.. at this point it's playing with its food
@@loganmerryman202 A Raptor doing Raptor things lol 😆
*David Attenborough voice INTENSIFIES🤣
Guess that Mainstay forgot his tailguns at home.
Or it's supposed to be a KJ-2000, but potayto, potahto.
Great video GS! Love these behind enemy lines missions with the Raptor.
When you send an F-22 to knock out radar sites with AMRAAMS instead of an A-10, it explains why the Pentagon has failed seven straight budget audits.
To be fair, sending an A-10 into hotly contested airspace patrolled by air superiority fighters would be a one way trip.
It would make more sense to have the F-22 escort some F-16’s or F-35’s for that portion, but that would probably cost more anyway, gas is spendy, yo.
@@ScreamiNarwhals except if they don't want witnesses or any evident left behind who did the attack
I've seen the F-22 Raptor at an airshow two years ago doing some aerial maneuvers and it's really interesting to see them in DCS just being nothing short of badass! Thank you for making these videos!
"F-22 is doing ground attack!"
"You mean F-35, dah?"
"NO! F-22 _IS DOING GROUND ATTACK!"_
"You drinking too much vodka again, Yuri."
"..."
"Yuri?"
"..."
"Someone vector to Radar station. Yuri is being drunk again. Wake him up."
LOL 😂😂😂😂
Minor correction, it’s *da?, no h!
In Russian Cyrillic it’s “да?” 👍🏼
An AWACS E-3 has a flight crew of 4 and a mission crew of usually 13 to 19. But up to 33 possible.
13:30 the panicked scream of the ejecting crewman is a hoot! Are these crew sounds a recent new feature in DCS?
That caught me off guard and I chuckled out loud to myself. 😊
i think GS edits these in, like the A-10 flyover cheers
I'm pretty certain they are a feature in DCS and have been for a while.
@@AtticusMoreno-oy6nd lol no they sound effects are edited in post, lots of hours actually go into the audio work of these videos, including aircraft fly by sounds, explosions, bullets, hits and misses etc etc just an attempt to further immerse the viewer when possible.
@@GrowlingSidewinderYou have (or had, at one point) a missile impact sound with a long pre-woosh to it, which always breaks immersion for me because:
1) You're not going to hear a supersonic missile before impact. The first thing you hear should be the bang.
2) It gives a half second spoiler: "GS is about to eat a missile".
Also, the effects added in post tend not to be properly delayed for sound travel time, which also breaks immersion.
I tend to prefer the in-engine sound effects as sound delay gets applied properly.
I may or may not have watched way too many videos of large explosions 😂
Love when you go by the ones that have ejected and they are screaming
I wonder if GS can AT LEAST TRY to go behind enemy lines with Su-57 and J-20.
Plot twist: The AWACS has HOBs.... ☠️
Everything is an air-to-ground missile, ONCE, including an F/A-22 Raptor 😹
0:57 "Gotta get'em all... Pokemon!"
Gotta find em all
I'm more hung up on him saying uuhh at least once in every sentence
Thank you for the video!
Also appreciate the variety the last few postings!!
3:59 I'm just going to believe actual pilots train for this lol
12:40 onwards, now that's just playing with your food.
That guy's scream as he ejects was 👌though 🤣🤣
Using AMRAAMs as unguided rockets is diabolical
Next video, using MK-83 as high off-boresight missiles.
Subscribe for more advanced tactics.
The AIM-9X block II actually is a dual mode ground attack missile.
Can you not just give those radars a quick burst of 20mm? Seems like that would be pretty devastating.
Was asking myself the same thing
Seems kind of a strange decision to dump 3 fox3 into radars and then go into a dogfight to conserve them
My guess would be one of the following: relative target hardness and site dispersion. Even though each radar site was relatively compact, it might have taken multiple gun runs to definitely KO a site, which is time the mission cannot afford. The AIM-120 with a contact detonation takes out the whole site, support vehicles and all in one discrete blast.
@@Wien1938 electronics are very sensitive. 20mm is a big round. I don’t think it would take much to render them ineffective. Might not make a big explosion but then I think the 44-pound warhead of the AAMRAM is over-modeled here too.
But you see, a radome with some holes in it can be repaired in due time. Whereas a radome that has been reduced to rubble cannot be and it must be replaced.
I flat out had coffee shooting out my nose when i heard the whailing of the guy that bailed.
Using the AMRAAM like a short range dumbfire missile hmm that's one way of taking out a target
Agree with some of the other comments: why not gun-run the ground targets? I know it’s a 20mm Vulcan and not a 30mm Avenger, but should still be enough for an unarmored AA site, and saves the AMRAAMs for the air fight.
LMAO, loved the scream of the ejecting crewmember as his chute deployed, nice touch.
These F22 missions are the best to watch. Hope there is more to come
Sending 8 x Bones is serious overkill considering each plane can take around 80 500lbs bombs!
Ya…9 even more so!
😂
I absolutely love watching your videos. They’re DEFINITELY TOP NOTCH and I always learn so much.
I have to admit that I do enjoy watching your F-22 videos the most since it’s my Fav Jet Fighter but they’re all awesome!
The screaming of that one guy who ejecting from the AWAX was freaking HILARIOUS! 😂🤣😂
Keep doing what you’re doing brother. 👍👍
the dude screaming after eject was hilarious I almost shot beer out my nose when it happened
13:32 aaaaaaaa 😂
Basically using the AMRAAM like the HVARs from WWII. I like the improvisation!
If you're that accurate with a 120 as an AG munition, imagine what it would be like if the Raptor could actually carry hidden AG bombs/missiles. I know it can carry them via detachable external pylons, but then that defeats the whole purpose of an F-22 being a stealth jet, lol. Great video as always, GS!!
It can, just not a lot of them.
@jameskrieg8156 in the internal bays? That's cool. I've only seen pics with them on the outside lol.
Just because it can, doesn't mean the community wants to. Air-to-Air only guys are very reluctant to get into the A2G arena. "Not a pound for air to ground" is their motto. This notably came from the F-15C guys, and originally the F-14 community, and I also assume the Raptor guys feel the same way.
The F-14 community eventually realized them going A2G gave them new life in the later half of the plane's career, and they also gained a lot of bomb dropping knowledge from having absorbed the A-6 pilots. While the A2A mission of the Tomcat gets all the movies and spotlight, the A2G mission of the Tomcat is actually very fascinating as it became the premier deep strike fighter of the late 90s and early 2000s.
About ten years ago Northrop-Grumman designed an F/A-18 variant with better stealth characteristics that used underwing pods to house additional ordnance that would otherwise increase the aircraft's radar signature. It was an in-house project, not a response to a request for tender by the military, and afaik it got a few articles in aviation publications and fizzled. But the idea of stealthed pods for external hardpoints has a lot of potential.
More realistically, it's likely that this mission would have been flown by a pair (at least) of F-22s, with a pair of F-35As tasked with taking out the radar sites. The AGM-88 probably won't fit in either plane's internal bays, but it doesn't need to, since they weren't SAM sites. A couple of Mk.82s with guidance packages installed *would* fit in an F-35's weapons bay, and that'd be plenty to wipe those sites off the map.
2:16 - Those AMRAAM runs could have been an Me262 with guns. You could have hit them with a Mk108 30mm at that range. 😁 Thanks for another great vid.
2:49 What was that radar site filled with? ANFO? The AMRAAM blew up the radar, and then the trucks just cooked off.
When I was new to your channel and first heard you say that the AMRAAM doubles as an AGM/ASM, I actually thought you were serious and I googled if it was true lol
looool ya thats why I clarified later, I thought some people might assume thats true cuz I said it kind of serious lol
Best F22 GS video yet. So brutal and disrespectful. Sniping one engine off at a time is the ultimate insult.
You have such a calm voice and then you say something like, "I am unobserved just like I like it" and there is a chill! Just think you will have new helmet soon and the new MFH radar!
So funny when the guy in the parachute screams as he goes by you. I nearly peed my pants. I watched it 4 times. lol
I've said it before, gunning the AWACS at the end is the bon mot.
Whenever you sneak attack I’m always wanting to go back into the back vids and rewatch you having an F22 form up on your wing before you ate a missile. 😊
Great job man, sick ambush. You are definitely nailing those AMRAAM's onto ground targets
Sick bloody video mate. Great job. I love when you start to toy with the AWACS dude it's funny as. Nice of to give them a chance to bail out. Awesome shit man.
appreciate you brother, hope you've been well.
@GrowlingSidewinder ha, you don't want to know the answer to that champ. Your channel helps but bro. So thanks man.
glad to be of service man.
Ok for a minute or so I thought some madman actually equipped the F-22 with a rocket pod module for its underbelly bay. And that was a fun minute.
It cracks me up every time I hear the scream as you fly by..
i think since you are using a fox-3 as an air to ground weapon the terminology when you fire it should be rifle 3
The F-22 can carry GBUs, it might make the air-to-ground part a little easier if you packed a couple of them.
nice video bro!
i had to rewind 3 times to listen to the scream from the man as you flew by him, lmao. great video.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa umuddafckrrrrrrrrr@13:32
I can't imagine the feeling of invincibility that comes with strapping a Raptor to your back. They probably have to warn against that in training to avoid careless errors.
Hot damn...another video from GS!
Always good to see the Bones get some flight hours in
I'd like to see the look on the crew chief's face when you ask him to paint three radomes on the side of the fuselage 🤣
These Raptors footages are always gripping
The yelling guy made me spit my drink laughing.....lol thanks for that.
Can't wait until Sea Power is in a state that you can start doing missions like this in it.
In Braveheart, Steven asks William Wallace, " now what are you gonna do ?" To which William replies, " I'm gonna pick a fight ". F22 is a scrapper. Fantastic with an upper cut.
10:28 pause...😂
Loved the bail out scream. LOL.
I don't know why, but that tiny burst from the point defense gun the instant before the base gets flattened makes me giggle. :P
This kind of mission is always cool to watch. Surprise and destruction.
I would make the AWACS follow me back to base and then tell the commander, he followed me home can we keep it!
12:03 he's going for the overshoot...
Awesome , pls do more missions now with different jets like Typhoon, Gripen, F15 and so on ^^
Yeah I caught him blocking the ice cream aisle and had to fly back around him 👀
The other eighteen jumped out after they identified it was you…😂
Pilots said let’s go low
The screaming bailout guy is great.
The BONE probably could have done this mission without the assist from the F-22. They're already low observeable, they can break the sound barrier, and can come close to supersonic speeds while maintaining an altitude of about 200 feet over any terrain.
Nothing more than I like some gs vids after school 🎉🎉
If that AWACS was smart, he would have climbed and ordered the crew to bail out once he saw you comings 😂
Ah yes, the Raptor in his natural apex predator environment, sneaking on his prey. David Attenborough would love to narrate that.
Another GS banger ‼️‼️
I see GS, I click.
You should try missions like these with the YF-23. It’s just a thought and I’ve always felt the YF-23 doesn’t get the recognition it deserves.
GS is getting good with guns
I'm a simple man. I see GS playing with his food, I click.
“The Beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid!”
“And China shall answer.”
I think I laughed so hard at that awacs guy screaming by that I ripped my hernia back open lmao
Nice shoot’n Tex!
Love the screaming dudes
GS in an F-22: "Would you intercept me?...I'd intercept me."
GS is the pilot of HLC's F-22.
Nicely done
F/A-18E/F vs F-35C (Fox-2 fight) would be epic to see! Navy vs Navy : Old vs New
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