Please, please make a bomber vs bomber dogfights!!

One of the best cases for F-15E is to let Cap film in a mission like this while still showing the front seat.

sounds like someone was reading a dale brown book and came across the EB52 megafortress and the EB1C vampire

Depending on what you consider an escort, ef-111 would escort fighters into sam covered air space to provide electronic warfare.

B1R was 2010 concept, the original was the YB1F concept which had a new twin tail based on the F117 to reduce the RCS. It had 14 Aim120 external plus 12 in each bomb bay

Is it just me or whenever cap says the b-1-r, I get a giggle out of it like a child would even when I’m a grown ass man.

Nothing better than waking up with a B-one-R notification.

Ok Ok,, 2 things I really enjoyed. Cap's kill and the bomb runs on those runways was perfection. Nicely done you lot.

The mighty B1R rides again!

Im happy to hear that the B1R was able to get a load off.

You just made Dale Brown very proud. The Old Dog concept is real.

That gun kill was awesome.

I gotta say, it might be sad for you guys to miss on that perfect mission but for us Viewertons, this was very exciting, especially the end when it nearly turned into a nail biter kind of suspense with that one Flanker causing all kinds of trouble! The Bomber performing its job well but then suffering some kind of "malfunction" (yes I know its the dumb AI but there are unexpected difficulties arising in real life too, so the AI basically "emulates" the Factor X that can happen in real life), the necessary adaptation of tactics to the changed parameters, the successful "by the book" bombing run including shooting down a Flanker right when its airborne and finally the last hostile causing all kinds of trouble and even causing tragic losses (you will be remembered as heroes boys) and the final push towards the safety of home....this is the stuff movies are made off!

There's been scuttlebutt they may not want to demossion the B-1B's. The B-1R concept came out years ago, but there's been some reviews of this idea recently. They may in fact do a reconditioning with updated avionics, an onboard area denial weapons station (arsenal ship). Along with this refit, updated LO engine pods with F-135 engines.

I just love this Channel. Thank you for all the work you put into these😊

Imagine actually flying B1R. The closest DCS gets to Ace Combat levels of air to air missiles.

I figure the new Raider will be able to provide air cover for fighters

Would be interesting to flip this round and see how much easier/more effective it is to run a more conventional lineup. Boner could definitely carry enough bombs to take out the 2 runways. Then have 6 of the F15's running pure CAP loads (pref 260s but could also be interesting to see if the F15 can get it done with 120s) and 2 F15s and the F16 running CAP/SEAD. Also means youre less likely to have boner go full pants on head and kill himself halfway through the mission

20:19 holy smokes this sequence was incredible

I saw a really good tube video last night of a walk around of a B1. It was titled B1 walk around lancer bone by Eric…Johnson I think. Worth a watch

Cap, I have a cunning plan... Re-do the mission, with 2 Bone-R's and get your pilots to hit: Aircraft flight 1 (so first two AC in the flight of 6 (or however many you have flying) AC, assuming Runway Left and Right being hit by consequtive AC) hit first third of runway, AC 2 second third, and last 2 AC final third of runway, damaging all of it. I noticed that although all got their bombs down on the runway, it looked at one point like all hit the start of each runway. Great mission though, enjoyed that one.

You simply cannot BOOM BOOM without a BONE-R. A practical & physical impossibility 😮

I hope the boys weren't feeling inadequate next to that big black B1-R

I have seen a photo of a damaged P-47 sticking close to a B-17 on the way back to England. No promises he hung out there the whole way, of course.

Here, I thought I was coming up with a new idea suggesting a B-52 refitted as an AWACS with tons of long-range air-to-air missiles to clear air space, and they had already tested it. Thanks for the enlightenment and entertainment. I'm glad to see the idea was actually feasible.

Ideas for scenarios: could 2020s Sweden defend from Russian strike? Could 2020s RAF defend against biggest German bombing raid from ww2? Could 2020s 10 RAAF F18 super hornets or F35As (replacing 10 F2A buffalos from 453 Squadron) defend HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, against Japanese air attack off the coast of Malaya, north west of Singapore by 88 aircraft? I would love to see these, I don't think any of these simulations are unfeasable and would be enjoyable to watch. Could use Falklands/middle East for sweden vs Russia, would be cool to see some viggen too :). Could use channel for german bombing raid and Falklands/channel/ middle East maps for the battle of Malaya. Hope these give you a few fun ideas and help you sleep better at night. Thank you for putting so much effort in and I hope the baby gets easier to manage :)

28:10 the GR version of safe landing patterns^^

WOW, what a coincidence, I also struggled to sleep well last night and I also lay awake in my thoughts, amazing. I wondered what biscuit would stay in one piece longest after a tea dunking.

Nice, you did it! I recommended to you and Growler Sidewinder for the Bone as a missile sled.

Think I mentioned Dale Brown's Battleship Bomber concept in a comment recently 😊

Flight of the Old Dog - Wikipedia Flight of the Old Dog is a 1987 thriller novel written by Dale Brown. The novel's descriptions of B-52 controls and operations are based on Brown's knowledge of the systems as a USAF navigator. ... Plot. Flight of the Old Dog is the story of a secret highly modified B-52 bomber flying into the Soviet Union on an impromptu strike mission.

Cool concept!

Bombing the runway and gunning a plane in the same pass is amazing.

20:23 best CAP kill ever?

That gun kill at the runway was AWESOME!!!

the soviets/russians had a version of this concept funny enough, called the Tu-160p (or Tu-161 depending on where you searched) which would carry an A2A radar and 12 r-33s internallly

I am really loving these B1R jokes, keep them coming! Love me some innuendos

Please recreate the scenarios from Dogfights Season Two Episode Eighteen Dogfights of the Future!🙏👍

Nothing worse than getting your B-OneR slapped down right in the middle of all the action.

I don't mean to interrupt, but this is such a New Dad operation. I like it though, it's legit out of the box, and worth testing.

So I've not heard of an instance where a bomber escorted a fighter, but this scenario reminds me of the story of "Old 666" a B17 setup for recon. It was was on its own when it was intercepted by 17 Japanese fighters. After 45 minutes the Japanese had to abort due to fuel and Old 666 made it back to base while completing its mission. There was an episode of History channel's Dogfights that featured this story.

Redo mission but have one or two of the F-16s orbiting the target zone whose primary responsibilities are to shoot down and prevent any and all enemy aircrafts from taking off during the bombing run.

There have been cases where the escort fighter outweighed the bombers it was escorting, such as the Bf 110 vs. the Ju 87. There was also the YB-40 - a B-17 converted into an escort gunship for other B-17s. It outweighed (and struggled to keep up with) the bombers even before they dropped bombs.

The lil F16 coming in clutch! I love that plane ❤

That bombing run kill was pure sex.

Would have turned out very differently if Simba had been in the B1R, I think.

Never take your eyes off the B-OneR.

Hey cap, can you maybe make and or adapt a panavia tornado gr1, gr4, and f3/ADV set of mods. I think it would be cool because it has been the RAF’s main strike aircraft till recently and you could also do gulf war re-enactments with the gr1 and then the jp233 runway busting munitions

The B1R was bad asss while he lasted.

2:35 _"Any predictions, Guys?"_ Cap, I'm SO-O-O disappointed that no one said, "I'm willing to put my B-One-R up against any aircraft." But, I've gotta admit, that _"Our boner got cocky,"_ at the end kind of made up for it. 😅😅😅

To all the Indians and whole mankind, Congratulations on landing first time on the south pole of the Moon

At 20:20 that’s some real Ace Combat stuff. Bombing a runway and getting a gun kill on the Flanker who just took off.

Considering how much the US spends on secret military projects and the creative ways that budgeting can be done. For example, turning projects over to private companies to keep things off the books. Then suddenly there are cost overruns on one project that is actually on the books. The "cost overruns" actually fund another "privately funded secret project." I have no doubt that there is at least one possibly two B-1Rs prototypes in existence. Look at the project costs for F-35 project, it will eventually cost somewhere near $2 trillion when all is said and done. How hard would it be to move a few billion dollars from the f-35 project to the gen 6 aircraft project to advance that project much more quickly then would normally occur?

speaking of big missile gunship bombers, the natural counter to that would be VLRAAMs like the R37 or the PL17, which. hint hint. CH should make.

More content on the 055 would be appreciated.

Why is there no link? We all want the B-1R pls pls pls

Thanks very much, Mr. The Reapers. I'd absolutely love to see AC-130 vs AC-130 dogfights. Starting at 2,500 feet AGL. That might be extremely exciting, or a bit too slow - not sure which!

Good Show!!

Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress was a modified B-17 made into a long range gunship.

Cap going into battle with the weirdest BoneR

Russia experimented with Both the TU-22m and TU-160 to create massive long range interceptors.

Would love to see you set up a night mission. Using instruments almost exclusively would be a skill test for your pilots definitely. Hope it's possible but I understand if it is not feasible. Thanks for your work! Schwerer Gustav!!!

Well, disregard, no idea where you would find Snake Eyes, but those were them. Of course you dropped well above the allowable airspeed and would have ripped the fins right off.

B-1R was designed to have a "V" tail and coated in a RAM type material.

The "BONE"

This... But with B1R loaded with meteor and modernized AIM-54/w data link. NO AI for the B1R.

Cap's kill was pretty smooth...

Clearly the next logical step is having a flight of AI-piloted Loyal BOneRs to accompany you. Have one of them launch some MALDs so it looks like you have even more Loyal Wingmen.

Cap, how’s GR baby doing? Hope all is well for you and the family. Thanks for all the great content!

Could you do this again with a human in the B1R instead of A.I.?

I just had an idea about a scenario Grim Reapers could do. Well ....... here goes. You heard what happened in the past hour on the news. Yeah........ that's it.

The B-1R worked great for a while 👍

China has been really active in the Strait of Hormuz lately.

GR, I would still like you to do a Yamamoto escort mission to protect him from being shot down. I asked several months ago because it be a difficult challenge for GR. I have a bunch more ideas but I'm not sure if they are possible or if you just aren't interested which is understandable.

That split-second decision to hold fire killed 2 pilots in the end, fascinating.

As stated....it's just like a BONE-R to shoot its load and then go stupid. Hahaha

If this doesn't get flagged I'll be amazed

Got to be careful with your flappy inlets near a Boner, Cap! Great mission, shame you weren't 30 seconds earlier to the runways.

Flight of the Old Dog?

In real life those J11 are no comp for the F15

How the turntables.

I just saw a video today were b52 intercepted su 27 over the black sea, and I thought to my self a bomber is useless against a su 27, and here you are making a video of how the bomber intercepts.

This has got to be the most ridiculous scenario

I thought any plan to dominate your enemy would rely on each of you having you own support aircraft. It would be better if you each had a B1-R.

As I have said before the B-1R is very similar to how the NGAD will function. Just that it has somewhat higher payload and will not be as fast or stealthy as the NGAD.

Read some dale brown books like Battle Born, EB-1C vampire and EB-52 megafortress

B-1, sexiest plane ever

Could the mission be flown with 8 fighter set for escort, 2 F-15E for each red force group and 1 B-1R as the bomber.

Cap, I know this is off topic, but has CH considered building a 2025 version of the Zumwalt Class Destroyers with the new Conventional prompt strike hypersonic missile? It’s taking the place of the failed 155mm guns, twelve missiles per boat. Would be cool to see it in action.

Can you craft the 747 missile carrier?

" I got a boner in my sights and I like it " 😂 . Shoutout to #SuperCap , Simba and the GR boys for always giving us great content

I wonder if you placed a human in the B1-R if they would have handled all the targets better than the AI. Perhaps have Cap do the B1-R and have the rest handle the bombing runs from their F-15s.

WW2 Mosquito would escort Typhoon and Hurricanes on anti tank sorties

New drinking game: Every time you hear the word "Boner" you have to do a shot. Good luck.

can you not load the Type-200A Durandal on the F15?

Hah! I was thinking of asking you guys to see if it was possible to hack together a B-52 or similar that carried naval SM series missiles and worked in tandem with AWACs from their max altitudes.

@cap. Can u please do simba Vs ......... see what he can beat

There was a B17 gunship!

Do they ever call the B-1R "the Boner"?[lol]

Need to do this with the Tornado!