I wonder if Top Gun had a scenario as the Area 88? Just picture an alternate story where Maverick who was a civil pilot gets betrayed by his best friend from Japan Kanzaki, so he is enforced to serve a s fighter pilot in a Foreign legion of Arsan Royal Air Force for three years! There he meets his new buddies- Goose, Iceman , Slider, Hollywood , Cougar and Merlin! I think this anti-war drama adaptation of Top Gun would get twice more Oscars for sure.

Only Macross DYRL

Both area 88 and TOP GUN inspired me to become a navy fighter pilot as my dream job

@@P42_foamer same here to an extent, but don't be too naive. Real combat is nothing like how it's portrayed in entertainment media, but I do encourage you to follow your dream

@@chiefturion7134 yeah ik I've seen vids of real life combat so I know it's gonna be hard but thx for encouraging me

The Harrier AV8s are in the Ace Combat 7 mission, you can destroy them before they take off on the base, but it isn't explicitly mentioned

There were already missions like these in Ace Combat 2

Now that I think about it. The tiger camo for the F-104 probably was based on the F-105 camouflage in this scene.

It also reminds me of Ace Combat 6 mission 10, Ragno Fortress. The Harriet's just appear out of nowhere

@@TheOfficial007 The F-104 camo is based on the paint scheme used by planes during "Tiger Meet" exercises. Tho AC does have a scheme based on Shin's plane in Zero and I'm pretty sure Infinity had a crossover event with Area 88 planes.

They actually hired a former Japanese air force pilot as technical consultant when producing this.

I did a little research for f5 tigers and it has m39 cannon rather than a m134 minigun (showed in top gun 1986.) M39 also does a brrrrt rather than shooting 20 rounds per second. That auto cannon must be vibrating like hell

@@DoomDwaneCat Well, no one implied that the F-5 (or the F-20 that Shin Kazama flies) is equipped with a minigun (!) as you say. The minigun is mostly a helicopter gun in 7.62x51mm and no fast jet has this particular weapon as it's armament internally or externally. Too small of a caliber to be useful in modern aerial combat. You must be talking about the M61 Vulcan in 20x102mm that equips the F-105, F-4E, F-14, F/A-18 etc. The M39 surprisingly even though a revolver (also chambered in 20x102mm), does make a buzz when fired, thought a bit different than a Gatling rotary cannon like the M61. I always thought that the buzzing sound was produced by the motor that rotates the barrels when firing, but I was wrong. Also the difference in this sound is because of the different rate of fire every gun has AFAIK. Anyway, both TopGun movies kinda failed in reproducing it realistically. If you want to compare the M39 and M61 firing sound, search for Swiss Air Force F-5E and F/A-18 AXALP live firing videos, there are quite a few in KZfaq. Thanks for the comment, cheers.

@ThyPeasantSlayer They appear in numerous Ace Combat games, mainly as enemy-only units.

That’s Yak-38

Yep they are always being enemy bots and unplayable except in Assault Horizon, Infinity and Project Wingman

@@johnsoncheung4576 its harrier dude based on the design

@@thypeasantslayer3621 In Zero you face a unit of harriers in the Garden sector of Glatisant.

I have a feeling they may be some sort of Soviet Missiles, though I could still kind of see the rebels using AIM-9s. Still, from their profile, they look more like AIM-9Bs or Es

@@Tigershark_3082 Not sure if you could Mount R-60s on a Harrier though 🤔

@@dariusti974 Good point. However, I'm not sure Harriers could mount Air Force missiles such as the J or P, either. They were designed to carry Navy missiles, such as the D, G, and H

Not to mention he had so many bombs and rockets weighing his plane down.

Indeed

It even has that stupid rule that you have to shoot two missiles at s time whenever possible yo kills someone with them.

@@irongeneral7861 In case of the anime, it's not a stupid rule, it was common practice at the time to ripple fire missiles to increase kill probability, especially since they're using older planes with very likely questionably sourced ordnance.

@@MEGATRYANT in case of the ANIME, yes

My thoughts exactly

Eh, don't worry, Landhart pulled up too high, he was asking for it.

Oof

He's too low and then he's too high

It's not a military anime without at least 6 guys kicking the bucket before even arriving at the objective.

Surprisingly enough, those Dassault Mirages are actually IAI Kfirs. Kfirs are a heavily augmented Dassault Mirage 5, with a J79 engine (License-built) and canard foreplanes. It also has dog-toothed leading edges. Due to their canards, they have a habit of losing a lot of speed during hard turns.

@Stargeneral410 Let me fix my mistake really quickly

Cancer now

Soon, the F-20 will be in-game, I can feel it

​@@Tigershark_3082damn. right on the money

This is the anime that made Ace Combat a thing in the first place.

@@jldldr3933 you forgot that Top Gun, Star Wars and Afterburner also inspired them to create Ace Combat

Yep.

Oh damn, you were in VX-9 I believe VX-4 also used the logo

Only Chris Patton (Shin) probably. He's doing work for Bang Zoom since 2016, though he still does voice work at Sentai Filmworks too.

This anime was dubbed in 2005.

Well, there are some other differences: The F-20 was mach-2 capable, and was able to use BVR weapons (such as the AIM-7 Sparrow). It also was one of the first planes (other than the F-15 and F-16) to use HOTAS controls.

Ik I'm crazy late, but in the re-release of Area 88 Shin does fly an F-5 so many people probably get confused despite obvious art style, animation, and music differences

Cape Rainy assault except its dogfight, not base assault.

Since the series predates AC, it'd be more accurate to say that several ace combat missions are like *this.*

Isn't the sr71 a spy plane with no weapons?

@@novemberdelta1282 yes it is, never been upgraded with missiles.

@@TheJasonsvideos ah.

@@novemberdelta1282 There was an armed variant called the A12 Archangel

@@joshuanishanthchristian5217 oh? I mean i've heard of it but never knew it actually carried weapons.

This part is set in 1982. The first OVA was set in 1979

War thunder moment

Viffing, the move demonstrated here, in the first episode of James May's Big Ideas, was put to devastating use in the Falklands War fought between Argentina and the UK in the Austral winter of 1982. Using this technique, Harrier pilots chased by Argentine Mirages could slow their jets very rapidly in flight and get behind their attackers in an instant, a decidedly handy maneuver in air-to-air combat. Handy it was for the British: no Harriers were lost in dogfighting during the war. jalopnik.com/the-eeriness-of-viffing-a-harrier-5715656

They're mercenaries. They can't even affored AGM-65 Mavericks

somehow they have the budget to get that many aircraft with aim-9s and a lot of pilots. Just lay off like half of them or smth. The series is cool but seems to have plot gaps

@@breezygamer1179 Simple: The Aslanian Air Force bought a shit-ton of surplus US military aircraft. The Manga goes into better detail, with them originally only having F-5As, A-4Es and Fs, early F-4s (Cs and Ds), F-100s, and F-8s. Later on, the majority of the aircraft are destroyed, and Saki is forced to rent out 10x Kfir C.2s. Later on, McCoy starts buying back new aircraft (it isn't shown in the OVAs, but McCoy usually blackmails other militaries or suppliers to get newer aircraft in). I just assume Area 88 takes place in an Alternate universe where, after Vietnam, most older aircraft used by the US military get sold for cheap, possibly scrap. McCoy is then able to buy it all via changing serial numbers, or buying said scrap airframes. In the Manga, Shin used a Draken at one point. In order to get it for Shin, McCoy had to buy two scrap J 35OE as and fuse them together. He then has to get the engine from another country, and has to go to yet ANOTHER country just for the afterburner. Mickey's Tomcat was originally intended for Iran, but wasn't able to get there in time before the revolution. The F-14 was mostly just sitting in a shipping container in Italy for awhile. Eventually, McCoy was able to change the serial number for it, so it had the number of a scrapped a. Then, he was able to buy the F-14 for as cheap as scrap. In order to get Greg's A-10, McCoy had to bribe some NATO members (guess NATO itself operated A-10s in this universe...)

its called VIFFing (Vectoring in Forward Flight).

From what I know, it was the USMC who first discovered VIFFing in 1983, which is where they practiced it. The British might've used it, but I'm pretty sure they scored most of their kills with AIM-9Ls, which were supplied to them by the US right before being deployed.

And later in the manga he flies a Grumman X-29A.

@@TheJasonsvideos Yeah, but it didn't make a whole lot of sense

Yeah

Damn. He should’ve waited till he got a bit lower to open his chute

Phantasm BANDAI NAMCO SAVE AREA 88 MAKE ACE COMBAT 8 WITH IT get it 88 And 8 Heheh

Ace Combat 7, Mission 14

@@pootisspencer2579 there was an area 88 collab event in AC Infinity years back. They had F-20A Shin Kazama, A-10A Greg Gates, AV-8B Kim Aba, and F-14A Mickie Simon on offer.

Watch the OVA first for sure. They have different endings, but the OVA is just better.

@@Bishounen okay... Thanks bro

OVA is more psychological. While 2004 series is more action based series. I like them both though

@@kejiri3593 noted. Thanks.

Somewhat, but they're not nearly as responsive

Would be been too slow, and they would easily get downed by those Harriers

Phantom-051-plane guy yet still considering that in this universe the skyraiders can carry AIM-9s it wouldn’t been so bad for them