Could USAF Strike Penetrate Crimea And Bomb REINFORCED Kerch Bridge? (WarGames 53)

Could USAF Strike Penetrate Crimea And Bomb REINFORCED Kerch Bridge? (WarGames 53) | DCS

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0:00 Intro
0:40 VV Complaints
2:49 Mission Overview
6:40 Mission Details
9:40 Take Off
12:46 Refueling
16:12 Ingress
Ukraine-Russia Series:
Fulcrum/Flanker vs Foxbat/Super Flanker: • Mig-29 & Su-27 vs Su-3...
NASAMS vs Russian Cruise Missiles: • Could US-Supplied NASA...
Russian KH-47M2 vs Polish Air Force: • Could Russian Air-Laun...
Su-27 & Drone vs Snake Island: • Could Ukrainian Su-27s...
Su-25s vs Russian Convoy At Kyiv: • Could Su-25s Penetrate...
NATO Eurofighters vs Crimean AWACS: • Could NATO Eurofighter...
Patriot, Gepard & Gripen vs KH-65: • Could Patriot, Gepard ...
A-10s vs Russian Convoy At Kyiv: • Could A-10s Penetrate ...
USN Tomahawk Strike Kerch Bridge: • Could Russian Su-35, S...
USAF Stealth Strike Kerch Bridge: • Could USAF Strike Pene...
Ukrainian Jets Strike Kerch Bridge: • Could Ukrainian Jets P...
F-22 Raptors vs Russian Fighters: • Could F-22 Raptors Dom...
Raptor/Eagle vs Super Flanker: • F-22 Raptor & F-15 Eag...
USAF Bombers vs Mariupol Defenses: • Which Aircraft Can Pen...
Ukraine Bombs Snake Island: • 2022 Ukrainian Su-27 F...
Stealth Fighters vs Russian Bombers: • Could USA Operate Stea...
Sinking Of Moskva #3: • Why The Moskva's Radar...
Sinking Of Moskva #2: • Ex-US Navy Guys Specul...
Sinking Of Moskva #1: • How Well Defended Was ...
Russia Nukes Britain: • Could Britain Be Defen...
Ukraine Uses Danish F-16s: • If Denmark Loaned F-16...
Ukraine Uses Polish Mig-29s: • If Poland Loaned Mig-2...
Russian-Britain Missile Attack: • Could Britain Survive ...
Ghost Of Kyiv: • The Ghost Of Kyiv Comm...
Belgorod Raid: • Belgorod Raid: Could A...
Eurofighter/Fulcrum vs Super Flanker: • Eurofighter Typhoon & ...
US Strike vs Odessa • Could A Coordinated US...
Russian Helo Rocket Lob: • Can Helicopters Really...
Russian Su-25 vs US Patriot SAM: • Could Russian Su-25s O...
Understanding Russian SAMs: • Explained: Russian SAM...
Ukrainian Jets Road Operations: • Could Su-27, Mig-29A O...
Russian 40 Mile Convoy: • Could FA-18, A-10 Or B...
Flanker vs Super Flanker: • Ukrainian Su-27 Flanke...
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@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Ukraine-Russia Series: Fulcrum/Flanker vs Foxbat/Super Flanker: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eM6ImduUnpqucYk.html NASAMS vs Russian Cruise Missiles: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prB5ksVqmtDeoJ8.html Russian KH-47M2 vs Polish Air Force: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdSiiduisZvVaas.html Su-27 & Drone vs Snake Island: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/isWfhdKGl6fdlqM.html Su-25s vs Russian Convoy At Kyiv: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qN-GaZiTurDeoqs.html NATO Eurofighters vs Crimean AWACS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e896Zcd3t86dZZs.html Patriot, Gepard & Gripen vs KH-65: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kM6ol9V_z8_LYZs.html A-10s vs Russian Convoy At Kyiv: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eJakjdKglduwmGg.html USN Tomahawk Strike Kerch Bridge: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtygnJupp9_Lhmw.html USAF Stealth Strike Kerch Bridge: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7CSmZxzyN7Sp2Q.html Ukrainian Jets Strike Kerch Bridge: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f552qNCmv7jJcmg.html F-22 Raptors vs Russian Fighters: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/edWdhcae192uh58.html Raptor/Eagle vs Super Flanker: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ocuhjNCmuKvTXWw.html USAF Bombers vs Mariupol Defenses: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l6mjldKArJa1hWg.html Ukraine Bombs Snake Island: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eL5mbJl-sMrPkmw.html Stealth Fighters vs Russian Bombers: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qN-dbJOb07eoo3U.html Sinking Of Moskva #3: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hK-aotx6zsuzqo0.html Sinking Of Moskva #2: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdSamcWbxKvbh2g.html Sinking Of Moskva #1: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eN6nm5l-rLKufpc.html Russia Nukes Britain: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qOCbZ5iDq7fbcWw.html Ukraine Uses Danish F-16s: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z52AnM6j1Za1kY0.html Ukraine Uses Polish Mig-29s: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sKmZZ9dyruDZf4k.html Russian-Britain Missile Attack: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sN15esmSx9zeeHU.html Ghost Of Kyiv: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9iTp5uHmdSVXYk.html Belgorod Raid: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7epnrep2ZzKpKs.html Eurofighter/Fulcrum vs Super Flanker: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7apfMyhqs7LgmQ.html US Strike vs Odessa kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gcuZgquY38_HZo0.html Russian Helo Rocket Lob: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z5doesp407bDo4E.html Russian Su-25 vs US Patriot SAM: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9mgaZyLqcXYf2Q.html Understanding Russian SAMs: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iJqoh9t9s8C8k6s.html Ukrainian Jets Road Operations: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nqigrbSZztS0kqs.html Russian 40 Mile Convoy: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNiPYJV3scjQcp8.html Flanker vs Super Flanker: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jLVxqLJ3sbCrm2g.html

@Anarchy_420 2 жыл бұрын

My only complaint would be the over use of The SU-35's, when MIG-29's, SU-27's, and SU-30's are more prevalent! Even SU-34's...

@Anarchy_420 2 жыл бұрын

Love seeing The F-22 Raptor's and F-35 Lightning II's working together! Simply beautiful!😁👍👍 Lol idk why or what it is about the idea but I REALLY want to see a mission including F-22's, F-35's, B-2's, F-117's, and YF-12's!😅🙏

@hotstepper887 2 жыл бұрын

These questions are only juvenile in their context. The USA can't beat farmer Taliban, armed with only old 1950s AK-47s and homemade IED's. The United States has one of the worst, and easily the most cowardly military record/history of any country on earth. Yet read you all? The United States was founded in 1776, (even that's a lie). She's been at war for 226 out of her 246 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 20 calendar years, in which the U.S. did not wage any wars. The Wars waged were never against any militarily capable countries, but only countries considered the Third World. Any resistance from those countries, always saw the USA lose!. Pick any year since 1776, and there's about a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year, and about 73% they lost it. Less nonsense.

@Anarchy_420 2 жыл бұрын

@@hotstepper887 your delusional, deranged, and have an incompetent backwards way of thinking if you can even call that garbage you typed thinking more like spouting out racist nonsense, I hope you receive the help you apparently need in w.e screwed up country you crawled out from under your bridge from, freakin despicable👍

@Gabriel_McMillan 2 жыл бұрын

Looks excellent so far. Still in the mission brief phase... Sorry I haven't commented on the Iraq Shock and Awe campaign. Brings back not so great memories, to be honest. I suppose that's a story for another day. I do want to thank you for taking the time to do all of that not-so-sexy data entry on the Iraq video, to make it truly realistic. For all the people in the world who wish to learn to fly realistic combat aircraft missions DCS, or a future, hyper-realistic simulator (since all truly realistic simulations of the same aircraft will, by definition, be very similar, and knowing how to fly one should mean you will quickly know how to fly in the other too), or to fly a real combat mission. I do see how it could be a little aggravating, though, so perhaps this process has been streamlined quite a lot with the F-35 target data entry system, using lessons learned from experiences like yours. It is extremely useful to have a detailed, real-time video of someone actually trying to hurry, in a realistic scenario, showing us all how to do this as they go along. I assure you, your experience is indeed very realistic. I'm sure that's only a small fraction of how flustered the people on the tarmac in 2003 were. I recall my own experiences, carrying my rifle into the C-130 on a tarmac in Kuwait in 2006. Flustered indeed. One thing they've learned is, you really want to make these things as simple as they can be, because you're a bit less able to concentrate than normal when people are really trying to kill you. Another benefit of drones, is that it may actually improve pilot performance considerably, partly because the stress will be much less, if you aren't actually about to die, and partly also because things like going from 9 G's to weightlessness can also be quite distracting, as it turns out, when people are also trying to kill you, and you need to be worried about that instead of worrying about why you suddenly weigh1,800 lbs... Anyway, back to the video. More to come. And, thank you all. Keep up the good work. This is a more useful service you are performing than many of you may realize. I know it is for me, in helping me to better visualize how all of the systems interact, what changing one variable here does to other variables there, what their limitations are, the best counters, and tactics, how to optimize the use of one system or another in various conditions, etc. I hope some of my ideas may also be useful to you.

@Davros-vi4qg 2 жыл бұрын

USAF tanker crews have a long history of ‘bustering’ towards emergency low fuel aircraft, and ‘towing’ them back to friendly skies! Not every flying hero straps on a fighter/bomber. 🫡

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

^^^

@darrendegouff9965 Жыл бұрын

Amen and protect the Refuelers

@optimusprimus89 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was thinking that too

@anthonysaponaro6318 Жыл бұрын

1000 % they're in the war as much as anyone else and they will do everything they can to get their men fuel , including EHR situations . . . .

@oceanhome2023 Жыл бұрын

Do you mean the Tankers can actually tow a plane to safety?

@christophero55 2 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the time and effort you take in reading our comments and addressing criticism and ideas presented by we the valued viewers. It's nice to have a content creator that engages so much with the community. Kudos.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

It's where all of my ideas come from TBH.

@headoverheels88 2 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers So you're saying you owe US money. Interesting. You'll be hearing from my lawyer, SIR.

@adamtheninjasmith2985 2 жыл бұрын

For real though. Cap is pretty awesome 👍

@adamtheninjasmith2985 2 жыл бұрын

@@headoverheels88 I'll take my payment in warbirds... 😂

@1mouseman Жыл бұрын

Well said!

@vipondiu 2 жыл бұрын

I think missions from an external POV are the most enjoyable, like this one. It allows to see the bigger picture and pay attention of every small part of the theatre, like in this one we could follow the side show with the SEAD planes better than if Cap would had been flying. I really enjoyed this mission

@damonried1720 2 жыл бұрын

It's for this reason that I root for Cap's demise on these types of missions.

@colinmatlock2164 2 жыл бұрын

As someone who's job involves both demolishing and building bridges I think that all the people saying that it's not that easy to make some or most of a long bridge such as that unusable and/or beyond repair are probably people that have never actually demolished a bridge before. Some nicely placed bombs will easily take out entire sections between piers. Let's be honest bombing bridges isn't exactly a new concept.

@Vitaliy0001 2 жыл бұрын

The problem with aerial bombing of bridges, is you just end up damaging the deck 90% of the time which is readily repairable. To destroy it more or less permanently, you need to take out enough load bearing members - the piers, truss chord and web members. The problem with aerial bombs is they radiate their explosive energy in all directions, leaving little energy to damage one of the small load bearing members. You'd need a direct hit on a truss member to reliably take it out and a hit on a concrete pier - especially a circular pier - won't necessarily destroy it, as its shape would deflect the explosive energy. Yes it would be damaged, but bridges are designed with redundancy. E.g. this particular bridge was probably designed to take ship collision without collapsing. Even in terms of contemporary events, there are some videos of Ukrainians blowing up their own bridges - note how much and where they place the explosives. On one video I saw a pier (much smaller than the one for this bridge) with boxes of explosives stacked 1 m high all around it.

@user-sm3xq5ob5d 2 жыл бұрын

@@Vitaliy0001 Perhaps the concept of cannon balls chained together should be considered? Or a kind of dragnet that unfolds close to target and is loaded with many packs of explosives spread out over the net. That either cuts through the suspension cables or wraps arond them and demolishes them with the explosives. Think "bola".

@colinmatlock2164 2 жыл бұрын

@@Vitaliy0001 the thing with long bridges is they need multiple expansion joints to allow the bridge to expand and contract with various weather conditions. Bombing on the bridge deck itself at expansion joints can easily drop entire spans of the bridge deck which would cause damage even farther down the line past even that single span due to the deck being tied together between spans with rebar. Drop a section at an expansion joint and the next section will be damaged beyond repair as well if it even stays up. Bridge columns do not like side loads, their strength is in vertical loading. The truss section would be the hardest section to take out with conventional Bombing but the other girder sections of the bridge not so much. The columns may even stay in place if you drop some of the girder sections but depending on the girder bearing pad design and damage transfer to the caps of the columns more than likely the column piers at the affected areas would no longer be sound for any quick bridge deck rebuild on top of them. The rebuild of these sections would take months crippling mobilization in the area quite a bit. It all comes down to targeting the right spots of the bridge deck and using the correct munitions.

@Vitaliy0001 2 жыл бұрын

@@colinmatlock2164 You'd need to shear through the half depth girder "corbel" at the expansion joint to cause a collapse. Those are usually located at min. moment zones in a continuous span girder design, so are not highly stressed in bending. But given they still need to take large shear loads (while being half the girder depth) they are typically strengthened, e.g. with a much thicker web - making it even more difficult to damage with shrapnel or pressure. For your scenario to work, the bomb would need to penetrate the deck and explode just beneath it and next to the girder at the expansion joint. Mind you this doesn't apply to the main span - its expansion joints are at its ends. For the other spans, you'd need to repeat the above feat of targeting at least 2 more times, to take out the other 2 of 4 girders. Given they are very simple welded 'I' sections, it would be relatively easy to replace a span or two by floating out new ones on a barge with a modest crane or two. I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians had some of the materials already set aside given the strategic importance of this bridge. As for the columns, these ones can take enormous lateral loads, judging by their stockiness. They look like they're around 4 m x 4 m (I was wrong about them being circular) ... off the cuff that'd be around 100MNm in bending capacity with min. reo and an equally ridiculous shear capacity. They are also portalised in one direction, so multiply that a few times. Anyway, this bridge would not be easy to destroy.

@colinmatlock2164 2 жыл бұрын

@@Vitaliy0001 as stated before its my job not only to build new bridges but to demolish old ones and what engineers or people who call themselves engineers think it takes to take down or put up a structure never matches up with the reality of what it actually takes in practice. All other arguments aside, bridge girders are also something that's not just "kept in stock" places ready to be purchased for replacement of a damaged bridge, they are ordered and producedon a project to project basis months in advance. This can go on and on. End of the day, just like many many times before in history, bomb the bridge anywhere in multiple places and that avenue of mobilization will be out for at least months forcing a new route to be taken. Mission accomplished

@daveyjove Жыл бұрын

This aged beautifully

@diapason89 2 жыл бұрын

"Any predictions?" "We are gonna die." He's not wrong. Just seeing those defenses already gave me an aneurysm.

@simonglancy7070 2 жыл бұрын

he is clueless and still over estimating the russian systems real world examples so far are confirming that this would not happen the USAF would pentrate and destroy every defense system in frount of them and would get the 4 hits they need

@sterrre1 Жыл бұрын

All those defenses didn't help Saki, or stop drone attacks on Sevastapol.

@bastianstiefler3390 2 жыл бұрын

I gotta say it amuses me to read the russians talking complaining about not being op enough and their bridge not being treated as a "marvel" of technology. Shows the effectiveness of state media. Feels to me like Germans in WW2 talking about "invincible" tigers.

@bastianstiefler3390 2 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right. This game does not represent reality. However it is weird and amusing for anyone to claim to know how the real systems work or perform, outside of people who worked with the system, who all signed extensive NDAs. Let alone anyone suggesting they know what can or cannot destroy a specific building. And yes, it is my opinion that russians are as delusional about their weapon systems as americans are for their own. Whenever both came up against any enemy of competence those enemies allways proove their weaponsystems to be not at all as good as they claimed to be

@Dream0Asylum 2 жыл бұрын

I find it hilarious that the commentary is always surprised that the Russians run out of fuel. The Russian aircraft are notorious for not carrying huge volumes of fuel and also having relatively higher mass/tonnage than their competition in the same generation. Were the AI actual Russian defense coordinators, the interception aircraft would loiter at low consumption velocities and only intercept after the aggressors had done most of the work of closing the distance. It's also possible that the AI is simulating "possible/unconfirmed hostile contacts" and is simply scrambling interceptors to confirm a contact and/or scare off an opportunistic strike. EDIT: After watching the whole video. This operation would have benefited from a feint or drone decoy precursor originating from the exact opposite vector (Ukraine) with highly visible assets. The Ukrainians feinting an attack would have scrambled alert fighters on full afterburner - and that might have allowed f-22/f-35s to subsonic (low consumption) route to the primary target over the black sea. That being said, have you guys ever thought about a "wild-weasel" video where you soften a primary target first by depopulating the area of interest of SAM/AA?

@superflyguy4488 2 жыл бұрын

Dear complainers, you do realise this is a PC game being used on KZfaq for the purpose of entertainment, just wondering.

@anthonyadkins7487 2 жыл бұрын

And it’s probably the best it gets!

@fatherwilliam7256 2 жыл бұрын

The more I think about it, the more I'd like to see this scenario done with two teams: red force planning and operating the defense, and blue planning and executing the attack. Red would be generally aware of the vectors bule was attempting to infiltrate from and that destroying a section of the bridge is the objective, and blue would have intel on all static assets such as ships and SAM sites in the area. No MANPAD's or WMD's , but anything else modeled in game goes. Ready? FIGHT!

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

agreed

@Daemor 2 жыл бұрын

And properly working AA systems, and no godmode AWACS Cap.

@ShionWinkler 2 жыл бұрын

I know it is a limitation of DCS not being programed correctly, but the fact the SU-35 can see a F-22 or F-35 at 31 miles is BS, the radar cross section of both planes is that of a marble, and a SU-35 can't see a marble at 31 miles. “Whilst the Su-35 does have the hypothetical capability to detect the F-22 at close ranges using its IRST (Infa-Red Search and Tracking) and potentially the Irbis-E radar, both sensors would have to be cued to focus on exactly the right part of sky to have a chance of generating a target track. By contrast, the F-22 will know exactly where the Su-35 is at extremely long range and can position for complete control of the engagement from the outset with superior kinematics.” ~ Justin Bronk, Senior Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology in the Military Sciences team at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). We also no this is correct from real life experience of F-22's coming up on SU-35's without the SU-35 pilots even know they were there till they got into visual range. This took place in Syria in December of 2017.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

The strange thing is that it all worked fine in testing, but in the live multiplayer session they somehow saw us again. very strange.

@benghazi4216 2 жыл бұрын

Justin Bronk is really one of the best sources of information you can find He has some interviews uploaded here on KZfaq, a few with Ward Carroll, and those are pure gold

@charlietheunicorn5383 2 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers It is called Russian Bias.

@ShionWinkler 2 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers From what I've learned from a software engineer, it is very hard to make a program ignore information it has available. Basically DCS knows where you are, and DCS can't help but uses that information when controlling the AI. This is an issue mostly seen in RTS games, like StarCraft, etc., where the AI simply knows where you are at all times.

@nikolanojic6861 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah and S400 tracked F35's on a range of 100 + kms ! also in Syria

@plutus205 2 жыл бұрын

This is better than watching Netflix. Good shit my men.

@jakobholgersson4400 2 жыл бұрын

I read that Ukraine was considering to license-produce Gripens before the invasion, but decided not to because they lacked the funds. I'd like you to make a video on how the Gripen might hold up in the current conflict.

@xaviergarcia7965 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I would think this would be a good video! A Gripen squadron also works good because they’re design for highway takeoff and landing and short takeoff/landing. If they were given air-air weapons from NATO, they could even run Meteors from France and UK, and IRIS-T from Germany while getting the airframes from their planned factory in Lviv.

@kirgan1000 2 жыл бұрын

The latest Gripen will murder a Flanker, if Ukraine have the Meteor misile.

@tranbachuyen6655 2 жыл бұрын

@@kirgan1000 in your dream russian have awacs ukraine didn't . also all russian jet fighter in ukraine carry R-77 they no longer carry any outdate R-27 anymore

@hemendraravi4787 2 жыл бұрын

@@kirgan1000 can argue the same if russia is using r37s

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Wilco

@bonesmiginty2458 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, Cap! I also really appreciate how you go through most of the comments, super cool. So here’s my thoughts on this mission. I was definitely disappointed that the Su-35s detected the Raptors and Lightnings that far out. I’d love to know how that happened. But it was cool to see what happens when things don’t go to plan (was also sad to see you lose your Raptor, but I won’t hold that against you :) ).Awesome job with the SEAD aircraft. Simba, you did a great job taking down the AWACS and the Su-35s, always awesome to see the Raptor dominate. And F-35 pilots: Awesome job to you all! Here’s what I’d love at some point: An updated version of this mission. F-22 with AMRAAM D (when it’s available in DCS). That would help a lot against Su-35s. I’d also love for the Raptor and Lighting to be undetectable past 20 miles. I feel like the S-400 would pick them up in real life, but I always like seeing stealth dominate. I think next time, have four F-22’s, four F-25s, and a dozen SEAD aircraft. I get you have real people fly these so getting those numbers would be tough. Just some thoughts. Awesome video!

@kurtreichenbach8927 2 жыл бұрын

We were operating on the ramp right at the end of runway during a Red Flag @ Nellis AFB and B-1's taking off at night that was an awesome sight and we were close enough to feel the burners rumble as they took off. Also APG is airframe, powerplant and general(always has been), Also know as All Purpose Gorillas. RB

@Tragic387 2 жыл бұрын

All the people lining up near area II gate to get glamor shots, makes me appreciate how close I get

@NightshadeX85 2 жыл бұрын

All this is assuming the Russian gear works coz it ain't been doing to well in Ukraine .

@Mbappe627 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Grim Reapers, I know this is not really related to the video but thank you SO much for creating the How To tutorials on fighter missiles. Especially the F-14B Tomcat missile tutorials, I had been struggling so much with playing air-to-air combat prior to finding your tutorials. But on a sidenote, great content.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Pleasure.

@markmastenbroek8959 2 жыл бұрын

Gawd! These early morning take-offs are so incredibly beautiful! And even Cap shows some respect... 🙂 We'd have these spouses with cricket all the time. They were called "The Grass Widows" not liking that the match would take so long and all was so boring.

@geraint8989 2 жыл бұрын

Subscribed! This channel has become my big bag of prawn crackers with dip and beers - utter comfort and silly-smile-inducing guilty pleasure to unwind in the evening or while away a wet Sunday afternoon. Great job lads! And kudos for addressing points of criticism to design the best product you can.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

@anthonyadkins7487 2 жыл бұрын

Cap…”ahh a thing just happened.” I had a belly laugh. I’m sorry it was at your expense. You guys are great. Every video I feel like I’m in the cockpit with you. You guys are so professional. (Most of the time lol) thanks for you hard work Cap.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

lol thx

@_Addi_ 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love that nighttime/early morning takeoff. Just absolutely gorgeous.

@headoverheels88 2 жыл бұрын

It legit made me deeply miss traveling pre-COVID. Whether flying into a city at night -with lights sprinkled across the ground- or falling asleep at night and waking up to the sun reflecting off clouds. Damn. I need a vacation.

@OldStreetDoc 2 жыл бұрын

Not to be critical, but I really enjoy the longer format videos with the time spent transiting. I certainly learn a lot more from the details when given the opportunity. You don’t always have to scrub forward, Cap.

@ironmann16 2 жыл бұрын

Man, you guys are awesome. I've been here since the very beginning of the channel, and I'm still impressed at how professional, yet relaxed all of your videos are. It's always an absolute pleasure to watch.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chuck!

@anthonysaponaro6318 Жыл бұрын

for sure !

@anthonysaponaro6318 Жыл бұрын

for sure !

@fagalon9152 2 жыл бұрын

14:10 i've seen that, back when there was B1's posted at Fairford, was walkin home and heard this almighty roar, looked up from my phone and all i could see was these four streaks of fire Everyone in the high streets stopped and looked at it 😂

@hawkeye2816 2 жыл бұрын

I've lived and worked on or near B-1 maintenance facilities most of my life. Can confirm they set off car alarms. When they go full burner it feels like your body is getting shaken apart anywhere within a mile. Weirdly, the only other plane I've been around that shakes me that bad is F-35.

@pogo1140 2 жыл бұрын

The F-35 has been tested for noise, on full military it's the same as an F-16 on full burner and 50% longer in duration 15sec at 90-116db vs 10sec at 90-110 for 10 sec for the F-16

@anthonysaponaro6318 Жыл бұрын

Those F-135 engines! second to none and getting better every year

@infamousRED91 2 жыл бұрын

Loving these missions, RIP to the guy who had to end his session early

@DefenderCJ21 2 жыл бұрын

Loved watching the BONEs take off from downrange. I love the video I got of one... SUPER LOUD when taking off heavy.

@Ravenor1313 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible work from Simba that was so cool to watch!

@trottheblackdog 2 жыл бұрын

Checklist: 1) New GR vid 2) Click Like 3) Full screen 4) Enjoy

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

lols

@TheHoneyThief 2 жыл бұрын

OK Cap, here's the problem. You had that SU35 limping home after tanking. If it can see you, it can tell the AWACS where you are. Which tells everyone else. YOU MUST SLAY THEM ALL.

@charlietheunicorn5383 2 жыл бұрын

Entertaining. It appears there should have been 3 strike/CAP packages. 2x F22s dedicated to taking out the enemy AWACs, 2x F22s flying CAP and the F35 strike package for the bridge. As mentioned already, hell of a job putting all the pieces together to run this DCS simulation. USA valued viewers, have a good Memorial Day weekend.

@martinsimek3963 2 жыл бұрын

The real question is though - can you drive with a Russian plane from one side of that carrier bridge to the other side across the carrier decks ? :-) But honestly, watching this is like watching top gun 3 :-D

@jr8656 2 жыл бұрын

or takeoff without burners.

@zedwpd 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a 20 year Mission Crew Command Air Battle Manager on AWACS and have been saying I would have taken out the Kerch bridge months ago. Still needs to happen.

@forge20 2 жыл бұрын

Agree 100%, and no planes needed to do it. Just one SSGN and a few Tomahawks.

@danysainz-gootenberg7809 2 жыл бұрын

@@forge20 if tomahawks were launched at the Kerch bridge by a US warship all American cities would be rubble within the hour. It’s just not feasible

@jasoncampbell5518 2 жыл бұрын

These missions are cool , not tactically accurate but entertaining and you got the job done !

@romain5967 Жыл бұрын

This is hands down your best simulation, another long range steath strike with multiple units and directions of attack video would be fantastic

@hypercarspottinggr 2 жыл бұрын

USAF would more realistically operate from Greece and not Turkey

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Noted. I though Incirlik was a big US base?

@pogo1140 2 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers Yeah, but the Turks are iffy, they've been playing both sides. Selling Ukraine drones, sheltering the assets of Putin's cronies, and blocking Finn and Swed's NATO entry.

@hypercarspottinggr 2 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers I beleive there aren't any US aircraft left there. They have all moved to Larissa, Souda and soon in Alexdropoli air base.

@the84redtiger 2 жыл бұрын

I doubt if Russia really have 14 Su-35S operating in this area. They have only 142 for whole russia - if you take realistic numbers at least one third of them would be in maintenance, which means only roundabout 100 are really operational. So it woudl be something about 15% from all SU-35S just protecting this little amount russian airspace. I don't believe that this is a realistic amount. I believe that there would be a nice mix of SU-35, Su27, MIG-31 and MIG-29 operating. I believe that the SU-35 is the smalest part in this mix.

@nikolanojic6861 2 жыл бұрын

You are forgeting that this is one their most important positions to defend in the moment !

@anthonysaponaro6318 Жыл бұрын

LMMFAO @ Russia and maintenance in the same sentence.

@manuelroca5289 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome simulation! Very realistic. Loved it!

@luke5g230 2 жыл бұрын

Really love these missions thank you everyone involved and please keep them coming

@Dream0Asylum 2 жыл бұрын

RUSSIAN RADAR OPERATOR: Sir, I'm tracking 5 postage stamps approaching Crimea at roughly Mach 1. OFFICER: Comrade, don't bother me unless the postage stamps are going Mach 1.5 or greater.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

lol

@Neugo Жыл бұрын

turns out it was easier to do it with a U-Haul

@bibleortraditions 2 жыл бұрын

I just watched this one. Well done, gentlemen. I thoroughly enjoyed this attack strategy. Thank you! I hate seeing the F/18 being used as missile fodder. Hmmm... perhaps a large Rapid Dragon dump (96 stealth cruise missiles) from due west to overwhelm the S400 in Crimea. The second half of the stealth cruise missiles carry on to the bridge. 👍

@andrejsmith Жыл бұрын

Like many, I lap up these air combat scenarios. This one really captured the full range of possibilities and strategies and thus stands out as one of the best yet. Also the current relevance around the Kerch Bridge question adds layers of excitement.

@fatherwilliam7256 2 жыл бұрын

You guys do amazing work! Thanks! Would EA-18 have helped out in any way? Also, I would love to see a sim like this setup with human red force pilots. One final thought, I'm not sure what Vc (best cruise) is for the F-35's, but I would recommend planning around the strike package's fuel consumption at that speed.

@trottheblackdog 2 жыл бұрын

Can you fake a Growler with the available loadout in the Bog?

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Problem is we don';t have an area jammers in game, and the Growler is an area jammer plane.

@YenrocOz 2 жыл бұрын

Realistically Blue would plan the mission to have zero loss of aircraft knowing the usual loss rate of aircraft in combat. So fuel would be planned with a minimum extra. No aircraft would be knowingly scarified against a s-400. Would they not send cruise or other missiles against the SAM sights or another stealth strike force to eliminate it and the AWACS????

@yuuzyerbrejn9603 2 жыл бұрын

Seems like 150 or so Tomahawks split between the 4 pylons might overwhelm the defenses without endangering stealth assets and pilots. You'd have to try both a concentrated single direction swamping effort, and then a dispersed, many angle attack maybe? I love it when the scenarios immediately don't go how you thought they would. Adds to the sense of realism. Keep it up!

@DiegoHernandez-bh4sw 2 жыл бұрын

I think using any standoff weapon makes more sense than a incursion

@charlietheunicorn5383 2 жыл бұрын

There are rumors of a stealth version of the Tomahawk cruise missile. This also appears to be a target that a hypersonic missile would be designed to knock-out.

@michaelmitchell6629 2 жыл бұрын

To bad my navy ship from west coast Gorgeous port city of long beach CA Which took out many enemies in Vietnam an Korean an first Lebanon war when I was in my navy duty .my ship most powerful navy ship. Uss New Jersey bb62. Most powerful ship. In world. Just to bad navy shut them down took them out of duty. Them Iowa class ships bb 63 our sister ship Famous uss mighty mo. Based in long beach too for while with my ship.other Iowa class ship uss wisconsin.bb 64. Uss Iowa bb61 was on duty we would show Russia lessons Move away from coasts of Ukraine or we blow you out water open up that blockade so merchant ships can pass in and out to carry food .for world

@michaelmitchell6629 2 жыл бұрын

My ship and other Iowa class battle ships has tomahawk and harpoon missiles that blow any Russian subs or ships out of water if all 4 or 3 together sailing together with our Nimitz class carriers two of them together will be huge firepower that Russia will Not mess with.

@turnerdan53 2 жыл бұрын

Growing up in the 60's I remember a Summer of sonic booms shaking the windows. Never could see the planes. Plausible that it was B58s out of Wright Pat. Also in younger day I have stood just outside the tast cell within 10 feet of an B1 engine at full afterburner. The roar is awesome.

@benjaminringrose536 Жыл бұрын

Love when Cap takes the AWACS role

@oldmanjenkins38 2 жыл бұрын

As my father always says. No plan survives initial contact with the enemy. Also. Remember the weapon you are firing was manufactured by the lowest bidder.

@Michael-rg7mx 2 жыл бұрын

Your plan and training for the fight all goes out when Mike Tyson knocks your mouthpiece into the stands.

@oldmanjenkins38 2 жыл бұрын

@@Michael-rg7mx 🤣

@Davros-vi4qg 2 жыл бұрын

Next test… how fast can a supercar go and stop in the length of a carrier! Sounds like a Funday challenge!

@The340king 2 жыл бұрын

It certainly shows the value of splashing the AWACS immediately if possible. They appeared to not function without the AWACS.

@jonshaffer5793 Жыл бұрын

Love your content guys. The best at what you do. About as realistic as can be done with available hardware.

@charlietheunicorn5383 2 жыл бұрын

Simba is the GR viewers choice for Top Gun!

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

rgr

@iandennis7836 2 жыл бұрын

"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy " so realistic.

@tonymills5086 2 жыл бұрын

Well.... Nazi Germany ran through Europe like a hot knife on butter, it was called blitzkrieg, you know if Hitler hadn't got greedy we might be living in a different world today

@kenhelmers2603 2 жыл бұрын

I actually predicted success! Thanks GR

@romanlewandowski9616 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know how you guys do it but it absolutely looks fantastic

@cfurterer Жыл бұрын

Turns out, the complaints were moot. You can just do it with a truck😂

@Lunumbrus 2 жыл бұрын

The 2nd and 3rd SU-35 groups kinda seemed to be vectoring for Simba intercepts, based on what seemed to be Datalink info from the one he was sitting on top of, despite the radar cone not covering him...makes me suspicious that the AI don't use radar data as the only detection factor towards the AI behaviour. But I know next to nothing about this game, so yeah.

@MrJimmyT 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like a mint game, I might have to get it good work.

@Chio_OB 2 жыл бұрын

That was brilliant!

@scribebat 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you got spotted as soon as you turned on your radar. A flock of birds emitting radio signals is highly suspicious, not how to stay invisible. Just a thought. Love your vids. 🙂

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Possibly.

@thedausthed 2 жыл бұрын

In real life they are not going to be detected like that.

@michaelmckinnon7314 2 жыл бұрын

So somebody fell for the Kerch Bridge defense story

@user-hs5ee2by2h 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@abymathew295 2 жыл бұрын

A squadron of world war 2 planes vs a modern jet dog fight would have been a real nice one..🥰😍🥰😍

@CorsetGrace 2 жыл бұрын

After Ukraine, seeing how well Russian equipment actually works, I seriously doubt a Russian missile could track a stealth fighter and hit it. The main radar might be able to see but I doubt they have the datalinks to guide those missiles in. That bridge would never be attacked by jets because of the distance. This is why cruise missiles were invented.

@DavidStickney 2 жыл бұрын

The Russians have the best air defense of any country and Jane's Defense said Crimea was the most defended landmass on the PLANET.

@subjectc7505 2 жыл бұрын

You know it's gaps between stealth technology? That's how the F-117 was shot down due to its bomb bay's. It just takes a pilot to mess up.

@CorsetGrace 2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidStickney That MAY be, my issue is that I do not believe for a minute that the Russian air defenses are as good as they claim. Look at their fail rates with their equipment in Ukraine due to training and maintenance issues, not to mention corruption in stealing spare parts. I'd honestly be surprised if half the assets Russia claims are in Crimea are actually operational. Also, we've seen in Ukraine that their tech is further behind the U.S. than we thought, their best anti-air ship, the Moskva went down easily to two missiles and that was their FLAGSHIP! Their very best people aboard and they couldn't operate the air defenses correctly. I have doubts.

@tremedar 2 жыл бұрын

@@CorsetGrace Also the fact that Ukraine, which possesses *ZERO* stealth aircraft, launched a to-there-and-back air strike on Russia, and the Russian air defense did nothing to stop it. When Ukraine with their modestly outdated airframes could successfully penetrate the vaunted s-400s defensive perimeter...whatever an F-22/35 was set to attack would be a smoking pile of rubble without anyone ever seeing what did it.

@forge20 2 жыл бұрын

This. No planes need go anywhere near that bridge, the US Navy can handle it quite neatly with one SSGN.

@cakeshoe 2 жыл бұрын

If you ran a few tests from the Russian’s side, do you think you’d have similar results with regard to picking up the stealth aircraft flying in formation / becoming visible while bomb bay doors open/closed?

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to trying.

@warrior3614 Жыл бұрын

There is a lot more S400 in crimea in Sevastopol Naval Base then what they have in this simulation but it was fun watching the video good ideas enjoy it.

@anthonysaponaro6318 Жыл бұрын

Been watching you for a while , don't know what took me so long to sub? Very interesting content. KUTGW my man , All the best!

@anthonysaponaro6318 Жыл бұрын

This stuff can not be that simple to produce and edit. I appreciate you .

@AlexKlimanov 2 жыл бұрын

I think Simba should have flown not South, but straight North and, using his invisibility, infiltrated through small-range coastal air defenses, and land on the nearest friendly airstrip on Ukrainian territory.

@dominickefrim3088 Жыл бұрын

This was entertaining considering the bridge got bombed 4 months later....by a truck. 😂

@MqncoMarepoto Жыл бұрын

i dont think it was a truck

@dominickefrim3088 Жыл бұрын

@@MqncoMarepoto it was last week. A truck packed with explosives. Could've been something else. I only saw 1 video angle.

@robandcheryls Жыл бұрын

“Never interrupt your enemy while doing stupid shit. Wait until they are done”

@keithnoneya 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if they could be done by using HARM missiles against the SAMs and some Harpoons against the Surface Ships in conjunction with the F-22's & F35's also some cruise missiles against some of the Russian airfields. Basically quit playing tenderfoot and pull out all the stops. I love how Simba did a fantastic job of taking out the AWACS and it's escorts. Then again it's contingent on the game actually not seeing the Stealth aircraft and the Growlers actually jamming the SAM Sites, like in real life. Also next time pick an F-35 pilot that can air refuel. Maybe do tryouts and have them present a video that they up to basic capabilities to be used in the mission to be performed. Thanks for sharing guys thoroughly enjoyed it, Thumbs Up! Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

@pogo1140 2 жыл бұрын

bridge don't damage easily? bridges are always under stress, release that and it goes down. 4 2000lb bombs are enough to weaken it enough that gravity does the rest. we know this because US Air Force and others have been studying the problem since WW2 and have been doing successfully since the 1970's.

@master_shifu4208 2 жыл бұрын

bro the guy who made that comment was clearly a russian fan boy

@pogo1140 2 жыл бұрын

@@master_shifu4208 Pretty much, cause the bridges blown up by air delivered bombs are milestones in military aviation.

@Davros-vi4qg 2 жыл бұрын

Ask the old folks of 617 Sqn how to destroy bridges. No Sat nav, no LGB, no stealth!

@andrewhogan6533 2 жыл бұрын

Any of you guys see TOP GUN Maverick yet? If so, will you be talking about it.

@loganjefferies3927 2 жыл бұрын

i saw it yesterday and no spoilers but it is very good

@andrewhogan6533 2 жыл бұрын

@@loganjefferies3927 oh, I saw it, I thought it was okay.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

I havent seen yet.

@loganjefferies3927 2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewhogan6533 it was pretty cheesy. but a solid 7.5/10

@andrewhogan6533 2 жыл бұрын

@@loganjefferies3927 it’s funny, it seems everyone who loves it didn’t care for the original.

@dcijams 2 жыл бұрын

Airframe and power, was used back in the early 80s for commercial flight. I work for TWA. Started out as a line service and was working gradually over to an A & P. The planes that we had. Were the Beechcraft 1900. TwinTurbo,

@jefftodd6384 Жыл бұрын

Cap, I think you do a great job with DCS. I appreciate your efforts!🙂

@benghazi4216 2 жыл бұрын

Man, that guy did really drink all of the Kremlin kool-aid..

@TURVY27 2 жыл бұрын

What could get you in is some fine tea, right cap?

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

yes

@noycamba 2 жыл бұрын

use hundreds of high-speed drone speed boats full of TNT and simultaneously drive to to the bridge pillars. overwhelm the radars and defensive missile. - kaboom

@vanguard9067 2 жыл бұрын

Or one container ship, captained by a disgruntled former Mig pilot?

@D_Rod205 2 жыл бұрын

Cap in the awacs. Love it

@sebastianromanowski3087 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos cap

@about3penguins 2 жыл бұрын

Welp the first 2 complains are warmonger simps

@BravoCheesecake 2 жыл бұрын

"The bridge is impossible to defeat!" OK buddy relax lmaoooo

@mikemike669 Жыл бұрын

“DD” was it? Former A-10 Crew Chief? I wanted to say I appreciated your service! I’m a retired USAF JTAC. The A-10 is our Buddy in the sky! Cleared Hot Brother

@BringerOfD 2 жыл бұрын

I think the formation was what gave you guys away at 300mi, whoever said that was right. You basically created one large radar signature by combining a few signatures that should have individually been basically invisible.

@Anarchy_420 2 жыл бұрын

8:35 lmao The F/A-18 Block III Super Hornet would make a big difference over The Legacy Hornet...

@Anarchy_420 2 жыл бұрын

At least it most certainly does in real life, I'd hope it's capabilities would be improved in DCS

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

All it was doing is chucking HARMs and dodging SAMs.

@Anarchy_420 2 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers yeah I may have spoken to soon as far as this scenario however I still stand by what I said and believe The Super Hornet should be superior in any scenario even dogfight🤔

@ricbarker4829 2 жыл бұрын

"His wife was annoyed how long the mission is" WTF? Dude needs a new wife.

@ricbarker4829 2 жыл бұрын

@@TeenTeenFpv Out of a cannon I hope...

@rodbey9318 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they have a couple of dozen coast watchers with industrial spotting scopes placed about.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

nice

@theronprice 2 жыл бұрын

This video was very interesting. Thank you for posting it. Lately I've been wondering the same thing... What would happen if Europe / US needed to start using Aircraft to help the Ukrainians. That scenario does not seem to be immediate but who knows what will happen within the next 60 - 90 - 180 days. Europe and the US may make the decision at some point to help the Ukrainians more directly. If that were to happen I think there is one particular detail that would be very important. The detail is as follows: About 45 days ago I saw multiple reports that the US sent four (4) special F-18 Model E Growlers to Germany in anticipation of escalation. I think that if the United States felt the need to participate in an Air War, the special F-18 Growler Aircraft would be used to; Launch Decoys, Blind Rader, Damage AWACS, Etc. I may be mistaken, but from what I understand the special F-18 Growlers are used exclusively for Electronic Warfare and waging War against enemy Radar Systems. Because of these F-18 Growlers I think it may be possible that the success of the Counter Offensive would be very very high. Supposedly the F-18 Growlers are extremely effective at blinding enemy Radar Systems, allowing other Aircraft to fly freely without being shot at.

@LionPaw743 2 жыл бұрын

then we would be a direct party to the war (we already are, by the way). I wished Germany would stay out of it and let the US/Brits deal with all the terrorism and meddling, which is your specialty anyway. I dont want to get blown up because of Ukrainians, Americans or any other foreigners and their problems, which are not my problems. Have a good day.

@inside98 2 жыл бұрын

Simba MVP!

@theiceman447 2 жыл бұрын

I think you should listen to your plane and defend when there's a missile coming at you instead of maintaining a straight heading at altitude, but I'm no expert.

@yokotaashi 2 жыл бұрын

That was so good. Like Hollywood couldn't do a better action sequence!

@chrislong3938 Жыл бұрын

I like the notion that they picked the tanker in an area where refueling is going on and made a very good guess as to what was going on...

@robdee81 2 жыл бұрын

I wouldnt really want to see any Russian missions against Ukraine at the moment, it kinda seems in bad taste what with the mounting evidence of war crimes against civilians and the fact that Russia is the agressor. Russia vs any other nation is fine though obviously . Dont know what the rest of our community thinks though as this is just my opinion.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

noted.

@Davros-vi4qg 2 жыл бұрын

Agree, seeing Redfor bomb a maternity hospital due to either;incompetence, cowardice or terrorism, doesn’t have the same ring of heroism as this rerun of the Dambuster… but with a bridge. 🇺🇦

@robdee81 2 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers just to make myself clear im only talking about Russian Ground attack missions against Ukraine targets. I think strictly air to air between the 2 is fine and Ukraine Ground attack missions against Russia are fine as they are really outgunned so they make for difficult interesting missions.

@javiermoya2801 2 жыл бұрын

300 mile spot on stealth with no established IADS....I was going to be generous and say highly unlikely but given that F22 raptors during the war on ISIS penetrated a mixed Russo/Syrian IADS with total impunity to hit ISIS targets, I can confidently say that stealths being spotted at 300 NM out is outright impossible.

@anthonyb5279 2 жыл бұрын

DCS has a bug. AI can see stealth at any range.

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Yeh, something weird was going on. Never seem that happen before.

@anthonyb5279 2 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers I wish I was aloud to release the DOD version of X-Plane. But there are too many national security issues. DCS is sooooooo slanted to the Russians that its total bullshit.

@benkirby8461 2 жыл бұрын

Simba always manages to do the unexpected and impossible. Sometimes good and sometimes bad. Always a joy to watch you "beautiful boys". Thank You

@grimreapers 2 жыл бұрын

Yup that's our Simba. He will never be ordinary.

@Madeyes6 2 жыл бұрын

Having watched Growling sidewinders video today on the F16 v Eurofighter I think I’d always take a euro fighter for musing like this to pressure the AWACS & maybe take it down.

@guyb7995 2 жыл бұрын

I think DCS gives the S400 much more lethality than it deserves. I am not saying it is worthless, far from it, but I also think in the field its not as good as Russia claim on paper, which is what the game will be based on. Lets face it, TB2s have been getting around many of these or similar systems claimed to be impenetrable by Russia here and there, not always, but often enough (Moskva anyone?). Perhaps its an issue with the operators, not the hardware, but either way, DCS is modeling it above its capabilities. This is not a go at you at all, just a general thought.

@pogo1140 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the slow speed of the TB2's causes the radars to filter them out?

@guyb7995 2 жыл бұрын

@@pogo1140 hmmm, maybe Hypersonics are not needed after all, just go slower😜

@74dthereapers94 2 жыл бұрын

S400 is not designed to counter drones. Other systems for that. Ukraine literally can not keep a plane in the air long, then thing deadly asf.

@guyb7995 2 жыл бұрын

@@74dthereapers94 I don't buy that in any way. If a S400 isn't able to detect and take out an armed drone such as a TB2 it is utterly useless in a real theatre of war. US drones like the Reaper simply fly in and take them all out. These other systems have much more limited ranges and altitudes, drones like the Reaper can simply fly over them.

@74dthereapers94 2 жыл бұрын

@@guyb7995 any important assets of Russia ever been hit by a drone? No. They were shot down but not by S400. S400 missiles are massive and not used for small drones who has the power less than most artillery shells. If you put 100 drones in combat no matter what defenses a nation have some will still hit their target and in todays age, 1 successful hit will be put all on social media totally blurring reality. Thousands of weapons on the battlefield but yet such a small number of all kinds of Ukrainian weapons actually working even a small bit. That goes the our country too, our ex intelligent officers even say america hasn’t faced a real foe since WW2 and maybe the Korea war. Media make everything so damn bias

@uaagent Жыл бұрын

aged well LOL

@topgun201196 2 жыл бұрын

Well, I luv your vids and have notices that when you're running head to head, they always see you. When notching , the stealth works and you are invisible

@Sightbain. 2 жыл бұрын

I do wonder how much damage an airframe travelling as fast as possible would do if it slammed into one of the supports. It kind of turns into a ballistic missile at that point and if the planes have no way of returning and the airframes cannot be allowed to recover it might be interesting to ditch them into the pillars too. Of course nobody would greenlight it but I am curious nonetheless.