THE MOST AUTHENTIC TOP GUN SIMULATOR! - DCS F14 Tomcat Supercarrier Ops
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2022
- ED Supplied me with a free code for the Supercarrier, so I'd thought i'd check it out in a vid. Tomcat go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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The missile *k n o w s w h e r e i t i s*
its knows this because it knows where it isnt by subtracting where it it from where it isnt or where it isnt from where it is it get a diffrence of a deviation it tells this to the guidence subsystem witch changes the trims on the missile flaps in the event that the missile dosent know where it is the guidence sub system changes the trim to drive the missile to a place where it isnt changing it into a place where it wasent it now is
@@wafflewhale9354 solid
Because it knows where it isn't.
It knows this because it knows where it isn't
*i t k n o w s w h e r e y o u a r e*
"WHAT WHERE YOU THINKING!?"
"YOU TOLD ME NOT TO THINK!"
is one of my favorite lines
What where?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
love the new one
@@theGovernmentHatesYou in the new top gun movie
XD
That was pure Comedy gold
People don't realize how capable the late Sparrow models are. Those things have a huge burn time and a max G-load of 30Gs against a target at sea level.
*Thirty Gs.* there's a reason the Sparrow can be considered a dogfight missile after the AIM-7E-2 model
I use 4xAIM-7M's and 4xAIM-9M's on my F-15 on online servers and I get most of my kills off of Sparrows. It also helps that I've noticed that sometimes the 120's don't kill the target especially if it's large. The AIM-7 turns anything that flys into metal confetti if it connects.
Well, the AIM-120 IS better, but it is after all a modified AIM-7, the AIM-7M is the best service recor'd SAHR missile in the world and second best theoretical SAHR missile in the world.
actually 25G's for the E-2/3, the E-4 might be 30G's, without mentioning F/M/N etc
@@CannedCoochie AFAIK that is not true, AIM-120 has a smaller diameter, half the explosive mass, is longer and has an entirely different rocket motor.
There are rumors about an active Aim-7Q concept/prototype though.
I'll have to run AIM-7s more then. Plus, since they can't go pitbull, they won't accidentally lock a friend lol.
It's not the flaps that make the Tomcat so floaty: it's the entire airframe. Which is why it has the DLC system you are supposed to use that deploys additional spoilers and also why the speedbrake has to be deployed during the landing approach. The Tomcat is a plane that just wants to stay in the air
@John Carlson you dont keep your feet on the throttle under braking
Fun fact: The Tomcat can take off, stay airborne and land again with the wings in Oversweep (= further back than they ever should go during flight, only used to stow the plane on a carrier), the fuselage just produces that much lift.
@@nickowen7406 sometimes you do. Some group b rally cars did that to keep the turbo spooled. But most of the time you dont.
@@Anthony-td6mn I'll concede that. But with the advent of anti lag, it's an obsolete practice
@@lgentry4832 It was actually part of the certification program, in case the wing sweep system malfunctions.
But yea, if any actual pilots did this, them AND the deck crew that let them take off would be in some hot water.
(It's literally their job to ensure the plane is properly configured before launching it...)
You might want to consider starting the jet yourself instead of auto-start. Auto-start takes longer and misses a few things, for example it doesn't set your gun counter and it leaves your altimeter in standby.
Yup! I haven’t flown the cat in awhile and was a bit lazy on these sorties. Rarely does the gun counter or altimeter in standby ever really effect my sorties.
@OperatorDrewski rad altimeter standby means you don't have altitude markers on the HUD in landing mode. Makes a big difference if you're doing a proper carrier break, you had them on though I think. Bare minimum manual start-up is really easy. You only need air and ground power, arm the seat and start each engine then switch air source. Then just setting up while you wait. All the hard stuff is for the RIO.
@@mostevil1082 As a RIO in DCS I can confirm this. Cold starting the 'Cat is such a pain.
some people like to fly without their targetting computers
@@charlesselrachski34 I know of one guy who didn't use targeting computers. Instead he used to rely on the ghost of an old man talking in his ear to get the job done. His name was Luke something or other, I forget now. Bit of a whiney bugger. Kissed his sister once, boy did we give him stick for that!
Supercarrier is one of those DLCs where you're like, "ehhhhhhhhhh this seems awful overpriced..." and then you get it on a sale.... Minutes later you really understand how much more immersive it is to fly F18 and F14. I can't stand using standard carriers now, its a must-own.
When I was a kid a family friend of ours was a top gun f14 pilot and he had the neatest photos and models around his house. He was retired by the time I knew him but I remember him showing me tons of photo albums. It was great. Rip bob Callahan. Great man
My dad keeps talking about the same thing but it was his uncle
This doesn't look realistic at all. Battlefield 5 beats this big time.
@@Eagle0watch7dv bullshit
You're bullshitting yourself. lol Look how slow everything is. And the buildings don't even have definition. Just looks like blocks. Looks like a game from 2005. Lmao
@@Eagle0watch7dv cry
Just in time! A new DCS video from Drewski was exactly what I wanted at this moment.
same
Drewski and DCS is a match made in heaven. But I'll never forgive him for the pain he has caused my wallet with these videos. Such a great game!
saaaaame
Is this PC only?
9:30. This happened with us during the end of the Golf War. My carrier launched our F-14, the moment the Araqi jets saw them they decided not to continue their engagement. it was awesome. We literally just scared them away.
I, too, was there during the Golf War. I still remember the moment when I saw tiger woods in an F-14 and it scared me so much I dropped my bags, turned tail, and burned until I was feet dry over Araqi green.
@@felixu95 Too funny. I see my typo. I appreciated your satire. Damn auto correct.
@@felixu95 You should have seen us. We were throwing mulligans left and right. Our balls were slicing and dicing. Divets everywhere. The average Joe wouldn't have made it through. And don't get me started on those damn sand traps.
@@freepilot7732 I had a hearty chuckle when I read your comment. I figured it was something along the lines of autocorrect but I can never let the opportunity slide. Much respect :)
Watch the birdie!!
this man just keeps getting better he's a milsim lover and dcs pilot and now i know he watches operations roon ? love the content keep it up drewski
Fr The Operations Room is such an awesome channel, i can’t stop myself from rewatching the Desert Storm episodes from time to time.
21:38 I have no words to describe just how much these kind of small moments bring some warmth to my heart in this cold cold world.
Brazilian Air Force???
The engine increased because of the high AOA it also has compressor stall physics at low speed high AOA its pretty mint
Right on lol
Quite possible? If they implemented that too. Should hear that bang, though?
“The flaps make it so lifty!”
- Orville Wright, 1903
I haven’t watched the full video yet so this comment may be useless, but the TF-30 engines in the F14A acted more like ramjets, the faster and higher you are the more power they produce. The F14B’s engine were better at lower altitudes and could pick up speed a lot quicker
Yep. This also meant the F-14A was faster at altitude and maxed out ~ Mach 2.3, while the F-14B, while having more thrust, topped out at just Mach 1.9. There were several reasons for this, principally aerodynamic in case of an engine failure, but also because the F101 was just designed to be most efficient in the Transonic (Mach 0.9 - Mach 1.4) range as part of its development for the B-1A.
Having grown up with Jane's US Navy Fighters 97, DCS blows up my childhood imagination.
now imagine it within vr … to me it was a life changing experience
i grew up with Janes Ww2 fighters. and i was blown away when i got my hands on IL2 1946.. but when i saw IL2 Great Battles.. I was drooling all over the place.. still working on a tight budget still not able to afford a new pc yet but i hope soon il be able to jump on it, and dcs too of course
@@mikelagaffe I had Janes WW2 as well, nearly wore the CDs out! The current IL2 is so amazing, just wish they'd release some Pacific Theatre content!
served on a CVN carrier from 99-02 launching them was on cats 3 and 4 so much fun
I absolutely love your videos, and I am absolutely blown away by the fact that DCS has the correct hand signals by the flight deck crew
why wouldnt they lol
Operations Room also made a documentary about Major Tullia, who dodged 6 anti-air missiles back in Desert Storm, incredible story.
As a former F-14 ordnanceman, this looks like the real thing. Amazing attention to detail!
Very nice video, OperatorDrewski, it is great to see that you enjoy the Tomcat. A sidenote: when you lock someone with PAL, it is a PSTT lock (not a PDSTT lock), which means that any phoenix fired is active off the rails. This is always true for PSTT locks, while in PDSTT it is SARH only (and does never go active). Hence in WVR range PSTT makes sure that you can fire and forget. ;-) Best regards from the Heatblur Team.
capitalizing on top gun faster than war thunder
lol
it's pretty cool to see the deck crew actually doing the hand signals and such
Personally, as someone pretty passionate about military aircraft, Ive never been able to see alot in real life, especially the F14, obviously, so the idea of active ones or even **potentially** active ones is quite a concept for me, thus I have spent quite some time on google and bing maps in the past.
In the 4th row of the southmost side of the aircraft boneyard in Tucson, there appears to be a 4x f14's and if you go about 300m north followed by a lonesome singular one, I found a further 2x on the NW corner along the road. Now thats easy pickings though. On bing, the 4 are moved north 300m, however it appears that 2x are in the yard closest to the south-southeast, without wings
Its also fun to try and sus out the Iranian air force bases for planes left out, You can see stuff such as F-4's and all sorts of old school classic aircraft.
On the very very east side of Mehrabad Air Base, You can see one F14 sitting out, very clearly aswell. On Bing maps there's another one chillin with all the helicopters on the southside.
Isfahan International Airport also has 5x out in view on the right side of the base, sitting next to their hangers. on Bing maps theirs *potentially* 7 there.
I could be wrong about some of these aircraft being F-14's, please correct me if I am, sometimes I do in-fact get a tab bit too excited when i see swept wings, and they can turn out to be F-111's etc.
Enjoy this useless information as I prepare myself for the hate bombardment, for this is a joyous UA-cam comment section.
Love the commitment to searching for them bro!
WOW, dude! Impressive research!
I imagine there are a LOT of F-111's sitting around... I'm sure all those Toms in the Boneyard are empty shells. It's awful that we destroyed those aircraft just bc of the Iranians. Thanks, Reagan!
@@theonlyegg Tell me about it! Im gutted. Im a young Australian fella, so my days of being able to see one and remembering and able to appreciate it enough were gone before i was even born.
@Luca Bloor and @theonlyegg I Appreciate the kind words!
F-111's are quite a common site I would believe aswell, however i only recall seeing a few in the boneyard last i checked, might have to do some more research on that one!
Unfortunately I have recently come to the realisation that my beloved F/A-18's are slowly but surely getting there and will soon be gone for good out of atleast the RAAF, with the classics already gone last year (2021- RAAF, 2019 for US Navy, still current for USMC and Spanish Air Force)
Im hoping to get my butt into gear and get into university or something along the lines to eventually get up into either the front or rear seat of a Super Hornet or Growler before they are gone in '2030' from RAAF, which may very well end up being '2026/2028' sad days since i dont have any, well... liking for the F-35. Too modern, its like old cars, loud, slow, no AC, always breaking, yet you cant go get an 'upgrade'.
Sorry about that, bit of a sad, useless rant about a young mans dreams and fondness for old aircraft... maybe i just like cougars i guess
Wow didnt know all this was on google maps, hell there are dozens of a10s and other cool things by the tomcats thanks man!
It's so cool how realistic this is with the ground crew and everything. It's badass and i'd love to do it, but i'm certain i'd be overwhelmed by all the controls.
It’s easy as baking. A little of that and more of this and a twinkle of that and voila!
*explosions*
At first I was really overwhelmed by the f/a 18 c hornet controls once you start to learn it becomes really easy
Man, seeing videos like this brings me back to deployment. it sucks the F-14s weren't being used, but F-18s are pretty awesome too. Of course, I was in a helo squadron, but it was still rad seeing them launch.
"Thank you for saving my life"
"It's what my Dad would have done"
Man tears, engage.
7:24 last I heard there was about 2 dozen F-14Ds still mothballed in the Boneyard somewhere.
Less than 10 still in storage of varying models (A, B, D) all non flying condition from a quick open source search. TBH who knows the complete picture, but the DOD said they cut up the remaining flyable F14s to prevent Iran and China from getting parts. There is one in possession of a Hollywood company, and it was last used for Top Gun Maverick and is not flight worthy.
All empty shells.
Regarding to Wikipedia the Iran still use them.
2:43 Drewski, as you’ve seen TG:M, you (and everyone else who has seen it) will get this reference…
“Why are the wings coming out Mav?”
Anybody who hasn’t seen it yet… what are you waiting for? Get your butts to your nearest cinema!
9:20 that’s called “keeping up the foreign relations” 😂
The hand signals and the launch procedure is so cool to see in a game.
I just gotta say. Top Gun maverick is the first movie in my whole life I haven't heard anything bad about.
My only complaint is they never used the original version of the top gun anthem. Some of the best guitar ever.
I worked with a guy who was a mechanic on a carrier during the Gulf War, I can confirm that the "A' models were pretty much all upgraded from the older engines, at least from his account. He worked on F-18s, but they had Tomcats onboard during his service.
I’m literally waiting for DCS to finish downloading right now. Been super excited for the last week or so since my HOTAS came to hop into this sim!
Have fun, happy flying!
Have fun man :)
Absolutely love Operations Room's content. I cant wait for the next vid
Yea his military breakdowns are second to none :)
I'm so glad you mentioned Operations Room. They have some extremely well done and educational videos on a lot of history.
I find a good work flow with a RIO is I hand over the phoenix controls to the RIO in BVR that way I can keep an eye for anything else and he can tell me where to position the jet, then when we get into visual range 20nm or less I take over on the weapons and RIO does the spotting, feels like a better flow in my opinion so give it a go next time your up!
I added that Kuznetsov on the server you were playing on. I didn't realize that it was trying to send the Russian fleet to the shadow realm until after I watched your video...
Glad to see people enjoying the server!
Excuse me, could you tell me which server this is?
@@GolddenWaffles It's the hoggit Georgia at war server. It's a public server but has a password you can find on their discord.
I spent 4 years on the Theodore Roosevelt, which at the time was brand new, just having been commissioned in 1986. The sole reason I joined was the Top Gun movie. I remember going through basic training and being so tired and sore all the time. One of my buddies looked up at me once when we were mopping the deck at 2 in the morning and said "...I wish I never seen that movie now..." Our DI used to call us all Tom Cruise wannabees. I bet 30% of the recruits in my company were there from that damn movie. Best recruiting tool the Navy ever had.
How long ago was it? How was your experience overall? Did you end up flying any planes?
@@bewsket No. I was ships company. An enlisted Aviation Ordinanceman which was responsible for all the weapons that went on the planes. If you watch the movie, you saw guys on the flight deck with red jersey's on. I was one of those guys. Hard work and long hours, but I was 18 and it was a hell of an experience. Something I will always remember. I joined as a boy and became a man
Drewski just so you know, the launch parameters for a phoenix are like at 50 miles, best to shoot a pheonix at around 40-50 then at 10. 10 I usually just use sidewinders.
I was on the Nimitz CVN68 and that was pretty awesome launch. I had a friend blown off his feet by a hornet and luckily he landed in the netting and didn't get completely blown off the carrier.
i would love to see a game like DCS where you could actually walk around on the base in first person and talk to people with proximity voice chat exchanging stories and have mini games to play together and then once in a while you would get an unidentified aircraft you need to take care of so you need to run to your jet and then take them down or investigate the threat, maybe make a room with daily missions and tasks and such for the airbase
The Libian shootdown story kind of has a life of its own as most combat stories seem to have. Ward Carroll has a good UA-cam video on the real story of the shootdown. It isn't what we think. Apparently an observer watching the whole thing taking place contradicted the story that the Libian aircraft kept changing course to merge with the US Aircraft. Apparently, there were disciplinary actions taken behind the scene. Ward's channel is pretty good. I highly recommend it.
Gotta love the Tommy Cat! Great cinematics and b-roll, great video Drewski!
Another fantastic video Drew! I love that you mentioned the Operations Room, that channel is amazing. It's great when two of my favorite UA-cam channels have a crossover moment.
absolutely love the animations for the deck crew and how life like it is, like it was motion captured
It always feels like Everyday Astronaut is in the jet, very similar voices
Gotta love the pump when you come back from watching TGM, and you load up DCS..shoot,I did the same thing😂 but I loaded up in a F-16..it was a good run that's for sure! Great video as always Drewski!! Still my favorite Toober of all time!💚💚
Trying not to spoil, but I absolutely adored the part in Top Gun: Maverick where two characters went into the plane to escape after the crashes. It's like it went full circle from the first movie. I know who the two characters are, but I'm just not saying cause I don't want to spoil it. It was just so cool to see those characters in THAT plane and them demolishing fighters right off the production line with a relic like the certain plane they were in.
You’ve gotten me hooked on DCS and a new upload is always a welcome sight
for a nice cinematic shot when taking off from the carrier, press the fly-by view just before saluting
I watched it twice last week it was so good not the original but god tier for me a DCS player since I got the tomcat first cause you and the original I use the 16 more but I do fly the 14 every now and then.
So glad that you took the time to learn, not to light the cans on takeoff, don't think most players understand how much thrust the B had
Drew I just had the best movie experience of my life watching top gun maverick, only to come home and see you’ve made another vid on the tomcat!! One of my better days thank you for all you do and keep on going❤️❤️
Ayo In class and watching Drewski play DCS ? Hell yeah
Bruh pay atention to the class
@@Gustavo.C.. man gotta get that daily dose of DCS cmon
Isn’t that story about the f14s taking photos and giving them the finer the story that inspired the opening scenes of the original top gun?
thats what they based it off of
DCS is looking great. I want to see night time carrier launch and retrieval.
Your DCS videos helped nudge me along to finally purchasing a hotas and a plane for vr.
Piece of advise, with phoenix always use the TWS and stay high (30-35 angel) they have a lot of range and they are fast.
For what You did you should use sparrows
Unlike the MSFS 2020 version, you can actually you know... Fire weapons.
bro they need to add weapons
@@Timewalker13 not that easy since missle mechanic is pretty....complex
@@Edward.Hudson or maybe they don't want people just shooting down planes and griefing
@@theglitchedmissile9239 6 seconds ago
well they could just have seperate lobbies you know, weapons and no weapons
and if you just wanna do some co-op you could have pvp and pve
@@Timewalker13 No weapons and no crashy crashy, it's part of the deal they have with Lockheed Martin, Boeing and others.
Your friendly F-5E with three bags here. You should try CAP in the F-5 with me. Two Fox 2s, a lot of gas, and a dream. Nuts 1-1
Superb stuff. Thank you for your support and professionalism OD. Kind regards Nick
Keep up with the great content!
I don't know if I could take the time to learn this game but the mechanics of this and how it applies in real life never ceases to amaze me
Yup simulators nowadays are awesome! In hiking simulator series Arma, it really feels like you hiking in woods with your buddies!?
My neighbor and good friend, Ret. Commander Scott Cartvedt (former Blue Angels) was the pilot who flew the canyon scene and trained the actors in the movie. We house-sat for him and his wife while they were away. I went to a premier here in Colorado and met some of the cast. Scott is the most humble dude you'll ever meet and you’d honestly never guess he is such a badass. He's in some exciting new stuff coming soon!
Just finished watching the movie 2 hours ago. THE MOVIE WAS AMAZING! I was surprised to see you release a DCS Video. I always watch your Tarkov Content.
This looked so authentic. I worked v-1 on the cvn-71. This freaking awesome!!!!
Succesfully almost overspeeded the flaps on takeoff :D
I usually put everything up as soon as I am off the deck, that thing accelerates like a beast.
Also yeah the tf30 does spool up on high aoa... Quite funny you can fly it on idle for a long time if you're empty on both fuel and stores
Thanks Drewski 👍watching the first minute of the vid made me sit down and re-watch Top Gun and remembered how amazing that movie is!
that liftoff sequence , I LOVE THAT . i need to get this game and play this lmao this is sick!
Watching drewski play dcs makes my head hurt but, still entertaining.
That GarandThumb style intro tho, gold!
I did the SAME thing lol. Went into the movie with very low expectations and then I found myself smiling for the last 20 minutes of the movie lol. I LOVED it! And I also could not wait to get home to play DCS lol
As a previous navy f18 AE with multiple carrier deployments .. this is spot on!
Watching this really makes me want to test out my new GeForce RTX 3060 on DCS so I'm gonna go learn the F-16 :) I watched a video of Thunderbirds flying and it made me want to fly that :) I'll probably fly the Hornet this weekend :)
Haha I love this video! I was planning to get the F-14 and this is exactly the type of video I want to see!
on dcs main website . you can freely try every module for 2 week until the end of june. then we will have to wait for a other 6 month for the chrismas trials to be back. ps: you can loan the f 14 , carrier module and persian map at the same time for he same experiance. in the video
Tomcat is my the most beloved module in dcs. Though it takes huge time to fully understand a plane, it is gorgeous on every aspect from nice worn textures through ancient cockpit tto the way it reacts to controls. All fbw planes feel like arcade toys after this monster. But be aware, it is inferior to all other 4th gen in the game when they have fox3, however you still can claim positive k/d ratio on modern servers If you will be patient enough to master this bird
@@user-if4zv5nj5m Ok! Yeah I really love this plane now. I only have to find time to learn how to fly and use it now haha
@@samgau2 Yeah I do that sometimes but I feel 2 weeks isn't enough to learn the whole plane.
i just bought this with the mavrick bundel and im in love. increadbly easy to learn and super fun.
I took CVN75 on maiden deployment and I think that was last deployment for Tomcat. Seeing one loaded down in the movies is cool. Seeing one in person sitting on the elevator is jaw-dropping.
2:23 I'm suprised that the boat can stay afloat with this dudes' balls of solid steel
‘Neat’ video as always, that RIO guy won’t shut up though.
It’s pronounced ‘Technea-sh-ium’ not ‘Tech-neat-ium’ ;)
Hey bro I’m sure someone told you already but if not (because I’m to lazy to read through all the comments) there is a manual for hand signals for use with military aircraft to include Flight Deck Hand Signals NAVAIR 00-80T-113.
Love these DCS vids. Nice flying.
You can be my Wingman any time Drewski...........
Love your content drewski, keep it up man
the F14 intercepting like it was built for puts a tear to my eye
15:51 navigator with three landline phones, a cup of coffee and office stuffs : «Hello, this is the Ghost Rider, how may I help you? Yes.. Certainly, unfortunately Mr Drewski seems a bit busy right at the moment as we are landing the aeroplane, and lot of people are calling us, but we will do the necessary. Yes, thank you for calling, have a good day! Phew.»
too all newby. DCS as a 2 week trial for every planes, map and extra module ( like the supercarrier) on they main website . available until the end of june. also DCS do 50% sales in every occation they can. you can wait for summer sale if you want to save some $$$ DCS itself is free
Ive decided to get into DCS, this looks like the perfect hobby to keep me out of jail
My league of legends bud just got locked up stay out of trouble.
@@TexasGreed locked up for what
played league probably sexual harassment
12:35 Oi you have to trust your phoenix, the missle know where it is
My dad served as a photographers mate on the USS Nimitz in the early 80's. He was on board for the Gulf of Sidra incident. (although I never connected the dots until now that it was that particular incident...)
SPOILER WARNING: I wasn't sold of Top Gun Maverick, I felt the whole premise strayed really far from reality having to canyon run with old planes because of blahdeblah. The odd placement of the SAM sites and yadaya made it feel more like a bond film. Then Rooster hit the chaff button for the first time and I was sold. The inner child in me seeing a flare dump with incredible sound design went nuts. Everything after that was pure joy, from the Hind Gunship coming in, to the og F-14 v 2x Su-57 (5th gen or whatever they call them in the movie).
The ending felt like a homage to cheesy 80s action flicks and I’m okay with that. Not super realistic but that’s okay, the first movie wasn’t either. It also introduced the F-14 to the newer generation.
Imagine flight deck crews having this to train for flight ops in the early 2000's...
I just picked up the F-14 in DCS after seeing the new TopGun movie! Its an absolute blast and its so fun to watch combat in it
Whats crazy is we still do fly closer enough to the enemies to snap some photos of them. one of the squadrons from my ship actually got a few photos of J-15s flying next to our F/A-18s where you can see the pilots.
Did ED model the tendency of the A variant to experience compressor stalls?
yes they did
@@GolddenWaffles Thanks!
Was that a garandthumb reference at the beginning?
11:25 I could see tracers flying straight past your nose.
Call me weird, but every time I see an F-14 I can't help myself but to whisper "you beautiful thing"... I was born on September 2, 1974, and the first deployment of the Tomcat was 20 days later, I feel I'm bonded with that amazing aircraft! Awesome work, Drewski. Keep it up!
Weird
It still happens today. I've had Chinese fighters off my wing before giving me the finger during an intercept. I didn't notice until I looked at the pictures. Obviously, they're classified, but it happens.
They're "communicating".
Happy pride month everyone! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
There’s a similar story to that f-14 story that f-22 pilots did too lmao like the radars just couldn’t pick up the f-22s so they were just chillin right next to them until they broke radio silence to tell them to leave or die pretty much
Wow I'm gonna have to get myself one of these? Everything looks realistic? When you were first on the flight deck? I actually believed that the video was actual footage of the goings-on on board a carrier? The only thing that gives it away? Is when dude is running from the jet. Great video bro. Thank you!!