Why not arm the Reapers with sidewinders (in real life)?

Reality: a couple of drone intercepts happened, lets show them to the public! Grim Reapers: our drone was intercepted, lets start a World War 3 immediately!

Just recently found your channel. Absolutely loving the content. Retired last year from 20 years active duty USAF, not a pilot though.

Ok 1 like for the "Hail Hydra ! " at 8:31 This one got me !!! 🤣🤣🤣

The only thing dropping faster than those SU-35s would be the stock markets.

Holy crap that is a LOT of raptors crossing the camera on takeoff.

Some nice flying today guys and girls. Shoutout to Grump (glad to have him back) for thinking he had a Grippen to land sans fuel and Cap for a great looking refuel. This scenario may become reality in the not too distant future.

They need to add the ability to place airfields really, the runways, taxi ways & hanger buildings.

if you come to the USA , a must see is the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in DC

Dang let the Raptors Eat.

The rebels fought back during the Arab spring when many countries were seeing a rise in unrest. The rebels in Syria were actually winning against Assad until the Russians intervened and basically destroyed Aleppo. They changed the tide for Assad by supporting him and the Americans help the Kurds control the oil rich areas in east Syria. It gives the Americans an area to operate from to attack ISIS but it also keep Iran, Turks, Russia, Assad, and ISIS from killing the rebels. Many factions were fighting for control of certain areas.

First flight of the Raptor was September 7th 1997 and was variously designated F-22 and F/A-22 before it formally entered service on December 15th 2005. (per Wikipedia)

Raptor pov: take off, point up, point up again, point up more until you are pointing 90 degrees

One of the reasons the Russians intervened is Syria was they received exclusive use of a Deepwater port in the Mediterranean in Tartus. from Bashar al-Assad. Its the only one they have in the Mediterranean.

i would suspect any combination of "could raptor" and vs russian is usually a yes. Now more than ever. Also by no means a suggestion: Assad is as big a piece of work as any Isis leader! Also also, i know the Arma videos didn't get many views but they were always great fun. Kind of a school trip with the occasional hostile action. But i guess the baby has now replaced Pritchard.

That Grumpnic looks very suspicious to me.

Hell yeah!! Thank you for the heads up on this, I had only read a headline in passing about this redeployment. I am a huge history nerd, and I have to say, watching your guy's tactics today, staying out of range, lobbing long shots, and turning cold only to be replaced by the next incoming Raptor immediately made me think of an ancient Spanish tactic that was later adopted by the Romans called a Cantabrian Circle!! Literally the same concept only men on horseback using arrows or javelins when they were on the side of the circle closest to the enemy. Super Cap, if you do make it stateside and are in the southwest, I've got to recommend the Grand Canyon. I know it's just a big giant hole in the ground, but it is absolutely one of the world's natural wonders!! Bonus, Arizona gets a ton of US military aircraft overhead!! Luke AFB right next to where I live has F-35's, Davis-Monthan in Tucson has A-10's, and there is a Raytheon facility there as well, so the sky is full of aircraft!! Probably the wildest one I've personally seen was the QF-16. Biggest thing to see as an aviation enthusiast down there though is the Boneyard!! It's where America mothballs old airframes, and there are more than 3000 birds out there just enjoying the good weather and being kept in case they are ever needed again. That being said, if you do come to the southwest, hit me via Facebook and let me know, I would gladly load up the wife and kids to show you around any of the above-mentioned locations, and we would be happy to provide food and lodging or even just a lift from the airport if you needed!! I feel like that is the very least that any of us dedicated viewingtons could do to repay Super Cap for all the work you do, and I bet you will find the same offer as I'm proposing anywhere you end up going stateside!! Great flying as always Grim Reapers!!

7:30 Having been slightly obsessed with this topic when it happened, here's my take: Assad and Putin are both strongmen, like Kim Jong Un, that despise the West. They work together to achieve their geopolitical goals. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Syria under Assad is huge buyer of Russian arms. Additionally the Syrians are leasing to the Russians the naval base in Tartarus - Russia's only direct access to the Mediterranean and one if it's 4 naval bases outside of Russia (the US has at least 15). It's also ice-free year round, which all except two naval bases in Russia are not. (I cannot stress this enough, Tartarus is a huge factor here.) When you're trying to project power beyond your borders, and maintain your strategic goals, this is hugely important - I mean if Assad fails, Russia's access to the Mediterranean fails as well... as you guys would obviously know, case in point Okinawa for the Americans. In fact the Syria - Russia relationship is similar to the Japan - USA relationship, in many aspects beyond the military, and goes back to the Cold War. Fun fact: if you look at Syria's parliament it's basically only Arab Socialists and Communists. They're not like the hardcore Islamic monarchies in the gulf that are friendly to the US. 7:35 They didn't win. The war is still ongoing, believe it or not. What Assad and Putin did achieve though, is driving ISIS to near extinction (along with Turkey and the US), and liberating about half of Syria from the rebels, again, not entirely. Around 8,000 square kilometres or around 6% of "Assad's Syria" is still under FSA. In addition ISIS holds maybe half as much. The non-Assad part, everything north of the Euphrates river is controlled by the Kurds. Btw the way they manage their de-facto independent state is actually really interesting - for more info just google Rojava. So yeah in short, only about 65% of Syria is controlled by Assad and his Russian buddies. 7:40 It's not that they want to throw out the Americans "now". They never wanted them there in the first place. As you know, the US doesn't tolerate the likes of Sadam Hussein and Gaddafi in the region. He's reasonably paranoid. The only thing in common Turkey, the US, Russia, Assad have in this conflict is eradicating ISIS. Other than that they basically hate each other, as ironic as that is given that Turkey is a part of NATO meanwhile the US sided with the Kurds which Turkey is against... You then get this bizarre scenario of NATO weapons fighting NATO weapons. Anyway, the Americans showed up uninvited on the pretext of fighting terrorism, as usual. Then Russia stepped in, which was kinda surprising at the time. To further clarify - Assad has external enemies like the US and the West, but even internally he has three enemies: ISIS, the FSA and the Kurds. All this got blown off the lid when the Arab Revolution started and he just couldn't hold down his iron fist. Add to that Turkey randomly meddling along it's borders with it's own insane plans... you get the point. Interestingly we're now seeing parallels to that in Russia - the trigger was the recent invasion of Ukraine, but since it strained the Putin regime so much (just as the Arab Revolution did to Assad), he ended up having one of it's own, Wagner PMC, stage a mutiny. Now imagine if all hell breaks loose and every faction that's dissatisfied with Putin starts fighting him, and in the process start fighting each other as well. Now add to that foreign militaries and that's basically the state of Syria since 2011. Hope that clears it up a bit!

I don't know why, but your videos are so good to watch in the evening after a long day of work. Like recently I've been having sever social anxiety, stress, depression and your videos helped me a lot! I actually look forward to a nice cup of tea and a new episode. It's relaxing but at the same time mentally stimulating in a perfect amount. I'm feeling good rn. Thank you. Keep up the busy upload schedule! :)

Yay! I just sat down for lunch and get a new video!

Cap sees the new baby for the first time: Mmmm Too new. I don't like that. :D

I was at Edwards Air Force Base during the fly off of the YF-22 and YF-23. Back in the early 90's. Remember, the concept of the YF-22 dates back to 1986.

They mentioned "seeing it from the ground" and I gotta say it was really weird. I saw a tanker actively fueling a C-17 with a second tanker trailing them, in a sustained turn, flying low over a big city.

I think Cap should make sure to visit a Target store so he knows what they are the next time the US east coast is used in a video lol!!

For things to see, I’d recommend the naval aviation museum in Pensacola, Florida. Lots of cool planes, and dummy cockpits you can climb in

Omg Cap, please visit the PNW! I’d love to have you and the family in Seattle

Just a lovely mission everyone. Jumping from one type of aircraft to another isn't easy. Real Air force and Navy pilots spend years learning and training in just one type of aircraft, but with that said there are some pilots that can fly almost if not all types in inventory. My son-in-law is one of these pilots and he has 35 plus years in the U.S.A.F.

Amazing work as ever!

F22..... takes me back to TFX days and F22 - Total Air War days..... TFX was 1993 for PC Dos so that's 30 years, and included the Typhoon too. Loved those games.

Great content!

"Fire at will!" "Uh which one is Will...?" 😂

Cap you should go to San Diego next year! It’s close to Mirimar the original top gun school. It also has the Midway museum. All the valued viewers here would like to meet you!

Incredible to see a fight group of bumble bees flying at Mach 1.5 on radar. Getting ready to wreck some chit!!

I believe Russia has supported Assad because it views Syria as a critical ally in the region. Russia has a naval installation and other bases in Syria, which it believes it can use to project power into the Mediterranean. With Turkey in NATO, Russia knows its warm water ports in the Black Sea are always at risk of being denied access through the Bosporus Strait. The bases in Syria theoretically give Russia leverage to prevent that from happening.

I once flew in a C-130 from North Carolina to Gander, New Foundland. Refueled. Just west of the Azores we did an inflight refueling then landed in Germany. During the refueling we got up to look out the windows - but were told, "Don't make a lot of noise - you DON'T want to distract the pilots."

I want a ---- All i got from my trip to England was a lousy footshake from u - Tshirt

HEY! RUSSKIES! LEAVE OUR DRONE ALONE! (with apologies to Pink Floyd)…

Feed the raptor!

Fire at Will, you can’t fire at Will, he’s on the bridge of the Enterprise.

Cap, just saying, if you come to America, you've got three places to go see: 1) Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This is where the Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville, first made their heavier-than-air flight in 1903. Interestingly, I just found out about a month ago I'm a distant cousin to the Wright Brothers. 2) Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan. Greenfield Village has a replica of the Wright Brothers' Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop they built their early aircraft in, not to mention other historical exhibits. 3) Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. This is a major eastern US air base for land aircraft. 4) Honorable mention: Whiteman AFB in South Dakota. This base houses both B-1 and B-2 bombers.

They just need to attached the CIWS to a few of the drones and problem solved

Loved this one.

Greetings, got the notification this time.

A10 demonstration, hypothetical scenario: targets are marked with orange smoke. Just stop oil: throws around orange powder making large orange cloud😂😂

Come to Pueblo Colorado. We have the most Medal of Honor recipients per capita than any other city in the country.

Lambeau Field would be a place for Cap to see!

I used to work on the British Red Arrows in the early 90's.

I'm off to RIAT on Saturday with a mate too! Would be great to see you guys.

Claimed to be 71st fighter squadron which is a training unit (doesn't deploy) from Langley AFB (FF tail) while flying with Hill AFB F22 (HH tails)😅

Great vid Cap 👌! Could you do a video scenario showcasing the power of hive-mind via Link16 using a couple F-35 running stealth in front of a wing of missile trucks (F-15s or F-18s) using the "shared" radar from the F-35s vs say a Russian air wing of couple Su-57s running with a wing of other gen 4 missile trucks that don't have the technology to share radar? I'm guessing you'd need to use an AWACS to simulate Link16?

"You cant fight in here...this is the war room!"

"Can US F22 Raptors take on-" Yes. Yes they can. "...i didn't say-" Doesn't matter

Cap’s visit to the US should include Stone Mountain Georgia and a tour of the Lockheed-Martin facility at Dobbins AFB in Marietta.

That take off... God bless America.

I remember playing F-22 ADF in 1997 - 2002... Good old days

Come on out to D-Day Ohio in Conneaut, Ohio next August. The organization I work for brings lots of fully functional WWII tanks for an invasion reenactment. There will be flyovers, 3 days of battles and lots of vendors. Food for thought.

Ya gotta leave one alive to take the message home.

Hey Cap, I think Shaw Air Force base in South Carolina has an air show next year

I live in central Arkansas and got a treat of a flight of F-35’s refueling at a 5-10k feet. The 35’s were flying clean. Who knows what they were carrying. I’d seen F18’s with 4 AIM 120’s and 2-4 AIM 9’s, and sometimes instead of 120’s 2 larger something.?.

If you wind up anywhere near Pittsburgh, we can arrange some full-auto maximum boom boom. Also nearby is Fort Necessity, and a bit further Gettysburg. Lots of American civil and revolutionary war history around here. Oh, and I also mentioned the old Nike missile site just around the veritable corner from us.

So much cool stuff to see in the old USA it’s hard to recommend anything without knowing which part of this big ol country you’ll be in. There are some cool air and space museums in every part though. Hope you have fun. If you’re in the northwest let me know be happy to help you out

The USAF museum in Dayton Ohio at Wright Airforce Base.

7 mile Detroit; you will surely not regret going to 7 mile Detroit

Visit the EAA AIr Convention in Oshkosh Wisconsin in 2024.

White water, Selway River, Idaho.

Watching makes me want to play so bad, then I remember the setup that is required. So bad.

unless you particularly like doing the ferry part of this why don't you air spawn closer with lower fuel to simulate the ferry then air refuel and continue the mission. You could do the take off as B roll then reset server and do the air spawn thing.

Yes.

interesting that drones.. which are supposed to replace manned aircraft....require manned aircraft to guard them.

9:47 surprise a tanker is way slower when cruising than an F22

If you haven’t already could you rest various CIWS systems? I would like to see how the phalanx’s counter parts preform

*can anti radiation missile designed to deal with SAM engage a powerful radar of fast moving F15 closing in on you*

Cap should go to the USAF Museum in Dayton, OH and the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL. The Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, MI is also pretty solid.

For Cap's first time in US, he should swing though Alaska. We have just a shade over 30% of the US's 5 gen aircraft.

I assume in real life the lead raptor will tank for longer than following planes so that all planes are similar in total range of fuel on board.

Cap, you should Google what the US did a certainly not russian force attacking a US position in Syria. They just slaughtered them with their whole arsenal. 200 Kia on the no russian side. One injured interpreter on the us side. I don't think the us will move an inch.

Qatar has so many pronunciations even among the locals :)

Cap when you get to the states visit the museum of the USAF in Dayton Ohio. Worlds largest air force museum

what if the reaper operator goes "stuff it!! an puts a hellfire into a su35?"..........

Fit the drone with a self destruct system.

Those are two separate DCS maps.

I am disappointed again. No Jeeps to the flight line.😢

Would weapons engagement be ordered if they actually fired on our drones??

Russia is siding with ISIS now... time for the drones to start being escorted by F22s. The raptors would love the oportunity to let the russians find out

The Syrian civil war created a lot of break off groups including a group of Kurdish enclaves which the U.S. backed. Once ISIS came on scene the U.S. put special forces on the ground to help out the Kurdish forces they allied with. Russia has been allied with the Assad regime since the jump but all sides kind of dropped everything to fight off the ISIS incursion

Grump looks way more competent harassing that Reaper than the Russians did in the video. 😂

US also supports Kurds in their operations zone and thats a another situation which gets tense time to time with Turkey and US and sometimes Russia. Latest IS leader was killed by Turkish Intellingence's SOF team and the one before him was killed by US SOF in Idlib province with support of Kurds and Turkish Intelligence. Civil war won by Assad but that seemingly is won only in the East and some of the Mediterranean coast, to the north and east fighting still goes on between Russia Assad Kurds Turkey and some other groups.

You should have called the Russian view "Vodka Cam"

Whoop unleash the Raptor…. No more flares, let’s see those AMRAAMs fly!!!

*CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN HOW SIDEWINDER ACQUIRES HEAT SIGNATURE WHEN ITS INSIDE WEAPON BAY* like stuffed inside f22

Cap should visit Target in US - based on past video LOL

Chicago lol only bc that's where I'm at tho...😅✌

Come see St. Paul MN Pretty fun here

I joined Grumps top tier on OF and he sent me feet pics 😮

First time in America you should go to the Kansas City/NewCenury air show!

Cap, Johnson Space Center... Absolutely great day out.

Short answer. Yes

When Cap goes to USA, he should visit Midway Carrier. Excellent place!

QF-16 drones harassing Russian aircraft in retaliation would be better. If Russia thinks it is okay to damage or destroy drones, it should be okay for the drones to fight back in self defense.

Raptor would be detected on irst at 20-40 miles and die of alamos.