Being called a valued viewer always makes my day

Shootout to the RAF mechanics who repaired and turned around futuristic aircarft in record time with no training. The pilots get all the glory...

Actually Sweden built its airforce around the notion that it would be fighting a kind of air "Battle of Sweden" against the russians. Having large airbases was useless since these would be destroyed with ease. Therefore the swedish made fighters were made to be able to operate from roads all over the country. Since a large portion of the country is covered in dense forest, it would be possible to hide alot of fighters in these wooded areas. The planes were also designed to require very few maintenance personel.

Once the Germans see the hovering harriers, they would turn around and report to HQ the alien technology the British now have.

Who here wants to see what a single CBU 97 does to a group of landing craft?

Hey cap, I’ve never played a minute of DCS or IL 2 but I’ve been watching all your videos for the last several months. Love your content and just wanted to say thank you for the entertainment. I know you put a lot of work in to it. I hope you continue to grow your channel and wish you the best.

Seeing those Viggens used for proper improvised airfield operations piloted so expertly is a beautiful thing to behold. Rogue13 MVP

Don't worry, Captain Mainwaring and the boys from the home guard would have mopped up any Jerries that made it ashore.

10:16 Those cow's really don't care about the jets taking off right next to them.

Very nice to see the Viggen used as it was intended. Many quick strikes with very fast turnaround.

Viggen always works the best when it used as it built for. Fly low hit hard return and rearm and pound them again.

Scharnhorst mains were 11 inch and tirpitz were 15 inch.

Interesting scenario. The one thing that I found conspicuously absent were the Ju-52 transports, that the Germans would almost certainly have used to deliver paratroopers.

Wow. The naval bombardment was amazing! I didn't think it'd be that well modeled in DCS. Great short field landing skills too!

There's a castle at Deal that had 2 six-inch Naval guns that look like they could reach the Scharnhorst where you have it (14 miles max range).

Every time I see a Harrier I think of that scene in True Lies when Arnold Schwarzenegger shoots the missle with the terrorist dangling off it and says "You're fired." 😂

If the Poms lost the Battle of Britain, what a frightening scenario! That shelling of that coastal town was painful. I would like to see what happens if you use cluster bombs for the barges. Thanks for exploring alternative histories, very entertaining. 👍 (Ps. Can Harriers and Viggens carry a nuclear bomb! One on Nuremberg during one of their assemblies could be interesting)😃

taking off from that road was not easy... specially with the bump that you hit just at takeoff speed (lucky i had Stage 3 AFB) landing was much harder as one landed in the dip (but not bad with 7 takeoff and 6 landings) Fun mission! but i wonder if Predator drones buddy lasing for the Harriers would have made it easier for them or cluster bombs.... hmm BK-90 for Viggen?

Thanks Cap and the GR team. Love your videos and this one especially. I'm based in Ramsgate and it's lovely to see the site of the worlds biggest Wetherspoons getting hammered by German naval artillery. Keep up the good work.

Your videos are super cool. I really enjoy watching them, thanks for all the amazing videos.

these are so fun to watch! im in the middle of it now. Ac130s with some fighter cover would be great in this situation

Bismarck class battleships had 15 inch guns. More precily 380 mm

Would been interesting to see what one Viggen with Robot 15 would achieve against Tirpitz and Scharnhorst respectively, scrambled before the shore bombardment.

Awesome battle. I love the idea of having other squadrons compete by doing these scenarios.

Awesome! I'm currently tied up on learning the 14 and the 18, and patiently waiting for that masterpiece the AH-64D... now I believe I'll have to buy the Falcon!

As much I like these videos, the fun, the creativity of these situations and the simulations. I'm here for caps commentary and the team. They make these so fun to watch. I don't think it would be as good otherwise. And it is weirdly calming and leaves me with a smile on my face by the end of it, like I learned something new and yet hung out with my buddies doing it. So thanks cap for these videos. Hope you and everyone are doing well.

Can an A-10 Warthog take off from a road? It would be so much fun to see the BRRRRRRRRRRRT take out the barges.

Great channel ! Thanks to computer simulations we can find out how a small group of modern fighter jets will do against a massive array of WW2 fighters. Only in a good simulation can such wild battles take place, without anyone getting hurt. To me it's the stuff of Sci-Fi. To whom it may concern, my 3 favorite science fiction art books are : - Wonderworks by Michael Whelan - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson - Icon by Frank Frazetta

as far as classic scenarios go, hunting the bismark or destroying the Tirpiz in the Fjord would be amazing.

all swedish aircrafts, viggen and JAS39 Gripen have the short takeoff requirement.

Ah, so this is what it looks like in Civ5 when my military tech is two generations higher than my opponent. Amazing footage and super fun to watch, GR! Keep it up!

I wonder whether cluster munition would generate results? Barges were nicely grouped.

Cap you should do an American Pacific theater re-enactment of WWII! Island hopping invasions, major battles, maybe even a "What If" invading Japan!

Well if we are going with histroical accuracy the seawaves and weather WOULD have stopped Sealion, before the Royal Navy decimated it even if the Luftwaffe had air superiority. The Kregismarine had about 12 major combat ships (Destroyers and Bigger. The Invasion of Norway decimated the kreigsmarine, and you WAY overpoulated the ships they had.) operational at that point against the home fleet of over 100, and were trying to cross the channel in riverine, craft, barges, and other non oceanic craft no suitable for the channel. The Luftwaffe at this point had no good anti ship weapons, and was particularly bad at anti shipping at this point.

Sooooo happy you did this!!! Right after you did the A-10 v Ju88 video. My first thought was could A-10 stopped Operation Sea Lion. Thank you all so much for the fun!

Remember the SNL skit What if Napoleon had a B-52 at Waterloo

These alt-history missions are a lot of fun! I wonder what the RBS-15 blast radius is? ;)

Love the way cap yell next as the harriers took off,he runs the the control like dmv counter

So: Could something that never happened be stopped by something that could never happen? Your counterfactual theme just reached a new high! :-D Keep it up!

Thank you Cap- wife still well all is good!

Poor Simba how embarrassing for him.

That's some beautiful flying in the Viggen.

Tirpitz was commissioned in Feb 1941 - long after sea lion was abandoned - bismarck was nominally available - though still working up at during the sea-lion period Scharnhorst was in repair from June to December 1940, her sister Gneisenau was in dry dock from july to december 1940 The kriegsmarine was pretty much roached while the RN had cruisers and BBs aplenty.

At 10:40 there are some quite cool cows 😋

8:34 you are absolutely right. Turpitz had 15 inch guns. Scharnhorst had the same 11 inch guns as Graf spee too…

A10 might also be a good option with the cannon on a good run could take out multiple targets. Love the content!

Some issues. Issue 1) Landing Craft. The Landing Craft the Germans had for Sea Lion were converted River Barges, two thirds were unpowered, and those that did have engines could make about 3.5 knots. Hardly ideal when considering the ebbing tide around most of the UK reaches 2 knots (faster in some places), meaning that during an ebbing tide those barges would be making 1.5 knots against the flow. During a Spring tide when the flow rate is faster then they would be effectively stationary during an ebbing tide.... Issue 2) You would not need aircraft. The Royal Navy was more than capable of defending against a Landing. At the end of the Battle Of Britain the Kreigsmarine had 7 Destroyers and 3 Cruisers capable of sailing. They had other surface assets but they were all either undergoing routine refits, or were undergoing repairs, generally for battle damage suffered. In contrast the Royal Navy had on hand, around the UK, so not including Force H in Gibraltar or the Mediterranean Fleet, 6 Battleships, 2 aircraft Carriers, 25 Cruisers and over 100 Destroyers. This is ACTIVE ships and does not include ships in refit or under repair. Given that disparity there is NO WAY Germany could have launched a seaborne invasion of the UK Mainland. Period. The RN would not even need to commit Capital assets. A half dozen Cruisers and a couple of dozen Destroyers could have easily kept the German fleet assets busy while Motor Torpedo and Motor Gun Boats slaughtered the more or less helpless invasion barges. U Boats would not be an answer either, as the likely invasion beaches due to the slow speed of the barges were all within the narrow confines of the Channel, which means EXTREMELY shallow water. The narrow Channel waters are a nightmare even for modern submarines, for WWII boats they were a death trap.

That coastal bombardment, wow is just amazing but terrifying at the same time. Actually, if the Luftwaffe had put down the RAF, it just might have been possible to open a safe route in the channel for the invasion fleet if the British navy was kept away for a while.

A10 Warthogs to pepper the barges with 'brrrrrrrrr!'.

Land in a soccer field. Does that mean even if its a perfect landing you will fall over with a fake injury?

Yesss 💪, love the content....thank you 👊

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Cap Watching ur vids has cost me a small fortune on a new hi spec pc to play DCS I salute u for making me make that jump sir :)

I love you work thank you for your amazing content.

Wowza thatViggen consistently landing and taking off from the road is black magic

I can only imagine if there were spitfires added into the IA to take care of the air to air attacks while your taking out the transports, would have been ideal.

Hi Chaps, very enjoyable series you have here. Thanks for posting. How about the Spanish Armada v WW2 aircraft?

Hey cap just wanted to say hi the video was very good I liked how you had people taking off with the harriers and the Wiggins like I always say I appreciate these videos that you make with everybody and you guys do it together as a community and it's very nice I promise I'll be getting my Grim Reaper shirt in January right now I'm having money problems so and Christmas is coming up so it would be nice if I could get myself something and help out with the Grim Reaper team. Not sure where do you go to watch those videos that you put up on here when the Grim Reaper teamfights other spiders can you watch that in real time? I don't mind watching it on KZfaq but I'm just asking I'm not trying to be a annoyance. I went on my KZfaq page to see how many hours of grim reaper videos and time I watched I've watched over it was a big number I couldn't see it. I know this sounds stupid but we have an air show every year at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida United States maybe the grim reapers can come to the US and you guys can come there I believe it's two days they do it still it's basically the same thing for the two days when I used to go as a kid like I've always said I went till I was 21 and there be over 200,000 people there really cool planes from World War 1 you can name it they were most likely have it I've been lucky enough to see the stealth bomber the stealth fighter. But my all-time favorite fighter jet is the F-16. But I thought I would just drop by and say hi hope everybody is doing well and yourself cap and Simba. I had something that just came to mine is there anyway that you guys can use the F-22 Raptor during one of your videos or do you guys strictly just go for the older airplanes I don't remember you using wandering like a the campaign maybe you can do one more you can recreate a World War 2 and you can bring like some F16 maybe two F-22 Raptors I don't know I thought I would ask. I hope everybody on here has a wonderful day and stay safe. Much appreciated John from St Petersburg Florida United States of America💯🤙

loadout with Hydra 70 rocket pods and cluster bombs? attack landing craft formations in formation for mass fires? Need some ADA around the FARPs. 40MM bofors?

Yay the Tirpitz using its 15in guns for something other than protecting a fjord..

Hi cap regards aircraft you could have brought back which used rough terrain take off or roads etc, was the SEPECAT JAGUAR ! Tough aircraft used in tandem with Harriers would have been formidable to see !!

It's quite overkill taking down those bardges with missiles... Take them down with Hydra rocket with armour piercing warhead is pretty good enough..

Gonna stop you on the FW-190. It wasn't introduced to the Luftwaffe until August of 1941. Operation Sea Lion was scheduled for September of 1940 and therefore no FW-190s would have been available.

More like this please (New Mexico, USA)

How about using a few "grid removal tools" (MLRS) batteries against the barges? Cluster munitions would mostly land in the water, but a salvo from one vehicle into a formation would still likely do a lot of damage and sink some of the Higgins boats. Enough MLRS vehicles might still do enough damage, particularly as they are capable of running and hiding to avoid being killed.

I would love to watch you guys do a full war win or loss not just a battle

I've had a Saab as my 3rd car since 1997, and 2 of them were stage 3 Viggens.

Loving to see the keep calm and carry on harriers taking teapots on their sorties

Great work 👍. But seeing the harrier and viggen in action, made me wonder about the Hercules and it's insane tactical landing and take off videos. What aircraft can within set parameters can pull off a similar landing and take off. 🤪

Nice take off and landing on the road boys....Ohhh Yurrrrr!!!

From what I can recall of the Wehrmacht's logistics available for Sea Lion, the USS Enterprise (CV-6) would've been enough.

amazing video, nice work cap getting more kills in one run than...

Being in a landing barge would seem like avenging angels roaring out of the sky without understanding of and defense against my impending death. I would be begging the barge captain to please turn around and get me back safely to Calais.

the cows were amazingly calm on first take off :-)

The bombardment was pretty scary. But whatever killed the RAF, FAA, the Royal Navy and the shore batteries and Royal Artillery must have been terrifying! I assume a terrible storm sent battle ships flying into airfields and factories. You used the right tactics. The Argentine pilots attacked battleships not troop ships in 1982 and it didn’t end well.

Well Done, Boys! Sent them swimming and crying back home!

I'm going to 2nd that comment about being called a valued viewer. It's awesome. That's as good as a win really, you denuded the landing force by about 3/4 before they landed. That would do the trick.

The cows are totally chilled

Love these I need to get a decent PC and get back into flying sims 👍

Love the sound the Harriers make when they fly by.

This reminds me so much of Panzer General's 1 operation Sea Lion mission!

Im addicted to this channel.

Need more airburst weapons against those landing crafts.

Harrier needs to use their Aden cannons

Hay cap watched this with the harriers and all the explosions made me think that I've just installed the new Echo19 CORE sound upgrade. I was wondering of you'd be able to do a video on it and see what you think? Many thanks

Hey cap, was the boat you used for the bombardment a mod? And if it isn't then what country is it from.

What a fun video. Would it have been worth it to sling a Harpoon or two at Tirpitz or Scharnhorst?

Man, I think my cats or dog unlock my phone when I'm asleep because it's retarded and if you so much as look at it it turns on and continue the War Games Playlist. Because I don't remember seeing this but I definitely remember hearing it. Down to the specific Harrier designations.

The Luftwaffe would be embarrassed to know where some of the tech for the Harrier came from, the P.1127 and Kestrel. 😄

Good luck on the campaign guys

The real targets would have been the larger supply ships and supply landing craft not the troop transports. Army's can not fight if they do not have food and ammo.

Tankie “expert harrier driver”

Do you have to capture the windowsbar? I pressed it a couple of times already thinking it was mine!

The AV 8A can take any loadout that you want just make sure they have as much Jet A as you can get.

Amazing flying Rogue!

I could wish to see this entire scenario over again, but with Harriers watching over a handful of C130 gunships giving it to the barges. Let it rain lead!

The Royal Navy would have stopped Sea Lion. Indeed, it did. The Wehrmacht realised it had no hope of crossing the English Channel without defeating the RAF and the RN. The RN would have obliterated a Wehrmacht attempt to do so. They may have got some troops ashore, but they would have withered away with no maritime logistics support.

I would have thought that A-10's would also be really good in this situation as the Warthog can also operate from rough air strips.

GR your videos are tops

Well, excellent thing then that Sealion was an absolute travesty of an operation and would have ended in disaster if ever launched. Fun side note, the map you showed of the invasion plan at the beginning? Apparently Wightlion was on the cards too. So that's my Sealionista induced trauma returning.