DCS F4 Phantom

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7 ай бұрын

Mover, Doug, and I react to the DCS F-4 Phantom. AMAZING, can't wait to try it.
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@AndrewMurrell 7 ай бұрын

Used to watch Phantoms fly all the time as a kid since the National Guard around here flew them. One of my all-time favorite jets.

@PhantomMark 7 ай бұрын

I have literally been waiting for this since flight sims were a thing, we saw the Phantom in Janes Fighters 20 years ago I guess, but it was sadly sub par, never to be seen again since, the level of detail we see here just astounds me :D

@FlyingWithSpurts 7 ай бұрын

I knew when that trailer dropped because my mustache began to tingle. Then I watched it and the stache grew three sizes.

@JazAero 7 ай бұрын

I also saw the Thunderbirds and the Blues flying phantoms. I got to be around phantoms and F-14's as well as a A4's, F5's, F8's, A7's and E2B-C in the late 70s as a ADJ stationed at Miramar and later at Norfolk. as a 3D asset creator now for a DCS third-party, (CrossTail's AD1 Sky Raider) I am blown away by what Heatblur has done, I can't wait for the A6 intruder they are also working on. the phantoms would leave a bathtub ring around the airfield from the smokiness of the engine when they were circling before landing.

@RocketToTheMoose 7 ай бұрын

Nice! I was wondering if you guys would do a reaction to this! Count on Heatblur to sweat the details...they are the same team that did the F-14 for DCS. Would love to see you guys get some reactions from the old Phantom pilots.

@michaellefevers4248 7 ай бұрын

I saw the Thunderbirds in Phantoms at Cannon AFB, Clovis NM back in the early 70's as a kid. The THUNDER was real.

@solowingborders3239 7 ай бұрын

I had the opportunity to visit the JASDF air park in Hamamatsu and saw an F-4EJ Kai there, it's the first time seeing an F-4 and oh mate, she's a beaut.

@Osean_Kitty 7 ай бұрын

I'll probably get it in the future when I get a better HOTAS set up. Plus I kinda have a family connection to the F-4 in that my grandpa worked on the F-4 phantom when he worked at mcdonnell douglas, even worked on the electrical wiring for the Gemini capsules.

@TheRealCFF 7 ай бұрын

Lol! All I know is I grew up on the original MS-DOS Microsoft Flight Simulator taking off from Meigs Field in Chicago on a jerky, tiny monochrome screen and would have loved to play something like DCS back then. Long live MACAIR's Phabulous Phantom!

@redtailpilot 7 ай бұрын

Yep, same with me (in color though) on the Commodore 64, Amiga 500, then IBM PC clone. Flew every PC flightsim I could get my hands on and was very close to joining the USAF after high school, but decided to remain a civilian and pursue my electrical career. A little over a decade later, I went to flight school and got my PPL. All thanks to PC flight simulators 🙂

@scotthulsey8763 7 ай бұрын

I have this recurring dream and I've had it since I was little of climbing in a deciduous camo F 4 near a fence line in a line of F -4s and I even remember the airbase I was at ,Moody in Georgia!

@MitjaBonca 7 ай бұрын

Gonky: "Visuals in DCS are like 2nd to none, dude." - sounds so cool 😄

@UWfalcin 7 ай бұрын

Fastforward and you’ll hear ”look at that! Look at this! Just look at that!!! LOOK!” 😂😂 I’m just as excited. Fantastic to see fighter pilots reactions.

@aztec0112 7 ай бұрын

Ditto T-Birds and Angels in the Phantoms. The black tail on T-Bird #4 was...🤩

@sparrowlt 7 ай бұрын

Ironically i watched long time ago a video called "US navy carrier strike force" ( first video in a series of documentaries about combat aviation) made in the mid-late 90s and it showed clearly a guy flying a Hornet with sunglases

@seancolvin8545 7 ай бұрын

I have already purchase this aircraft. I have been flying FA-18 and P-47d last few years.. I am very excited...

@ricbish4122 7 ай бұрын

This looks like an awesome module! So just curios, have you looked at the pilot in the F18C ? He actually breathes and his eyes blink!! Its getting so crazy cool now with all these little minute details that just make it so cool. Anyway, check it out if you haven’t

@bryanbishop2377 7 ай бұрын

Colonel Tomb was known to fly the MiG-17. Supposedly, the MiG-17 is coming to DCS...

@carlchong7592 7 ай бұрын

I want Gonky and Mover skins so my game footage shows your unhelmeted astonished heads smiling like idiots so happy to be flying the new Phantom.

@theraptorsnest5891 7 ай бұрын

Complete with the Mover beard which is totally against the regs, but whose looking? LOL

@yolkiandeji7649 7 ай бұрын

I bet Gonky in a MiG-19 could beat Mover in an F-4. He’d be too worried about having someone else in the plane.

@FirstDagger 7 ай бұрын

Keep in mind that this F-4E has the Agile Eagle slats, so she isn't a slouch in WVR.

@terraoftime 7 ай бұрын

@@FirstDaggeri hope the bring out the J at some point, boat opps plus its more maneuverable and has a better radar.

@FirstDagger 7 ай бұрын

@@terraoftime; They did say that the want to do a naval Phantom. But I disagree with your statement about maneuverability, the F-4E with Agile Eagle slats is more maneuverable than an F-4J. The F-4S added slats for Navy Phantoms, but they still didn't quite match the F-4E. Concur on the radar part however as F-4J/S with late model Sparrow would be scary.

@terraoftime 7 ай бұрын

@@FirstDagger thanks, i was a bit screw up on the varients. Though from what i have heard the S is more manuverable because it doesn't have weight of the gun up front

@slowhornet4802 7 ай бұрын

@@FirstDagger F-4F ICE with APG-65 and AMRAAMs would be even more scary 🙂

@viper31stvfw86 7 ай бұрын

great reaction to the f-4 announcement^^ absolute priceless^^ both of you, doing great content there. i love it really much. go on with that.

@corvetteworldrob8586 7 ай бұрын

LOVE THE F4!!

@badassoptic 7 ай бұрын

All the vibration animations are awesome. Now we just need to see future sonic boom effect.

@Dstew57A 7 ай бұрын

Awesome new video from Gonky. I was just watching an old f16 video…nothing like flying a fast Jet! Hope your having a nice time doing your stroke two competition race.

@weschilton 7 ай бұрын

Man the F4 is one of my all time favorite jets, so this is SUPER cool! I saw the Thunderbirds when they were flying F4s too!

@ypw510 7 ай бұрын

There were variations on the expression, but at its simplest, it was "With enough thrust, you can get a brick to fly." The F-4 was a prime example. I heard the primarily thing taught at Topgun was how to use its power advantages even though it wasn't as maneuverable as the Soviet fighters that it would likely face. It was also used as a bomb truck. Big engines. Lots of weapons. Not maneuverable but it got the job done.

@weschilton 7 ай бұрын

@@ypw510 Yeah I've heard that one too. :)

@Karl-Hungus 7 ай бұрын

PHANTOMS PHOREVER!!!!!!

@okie4x4 7 ай бұрын

I saw the Thunderbirds in Phantoms at Vance AFB @71-72 and got to ride back seat in F4's at NADEP Cherry Point in 2001-2002 as a GySgt after they were SLEP'd and had the Remote Controls added for drone/target flight for the Navy. Test flights were full FCF flights including mach runs. It was an amazing experience to say the least.

@mikemccarthy2243 7 ай бұрын

I was a FAAR radar operator in 76 and deployed to Germany and we would see and track F4's all day long along with Cobras UH1 kiowa, we were with Chaparral-Vulcan Air Defense System.

@AaronMal1978 7 ай бұрын

I can't wait to try it out.

@Pmedic548 7 ай бұрын

Would be nice if Heatblur had the smokeless version. My unit (183 FW/170th FS) received the first batch of smokeless engines and to hear the old timers talk about going to Vegas and using the jets with the old smoky engines to lure the others into a fight, while the smokeless jets waited to pounce.

@themoverandgonkyshow 7 ай бұрын

No idea they had a smokeless engine in the F4!

@Pmedic548 7 ай бұрын

I did a phone a friend, a fellow member who was there during the F-4 days. We started getting the smokeless engines in 1983.

@michaeldenesyk3195 7 ай бұрын

Colonel Toom flew a MiG-17

@RocketToTheMoose 7 ай бұрын

We're supposed to get one for DCS...eventually.

@TROUT_Actual 7 ай бұрын

Col. Tomb (Toon) didn't exist, unfortunately.

@dogsbd 7 ай бұрын

@@TROUT_Actual Correct but the dude Randy Cunningham fought May 1972, who he thought was the legendary Tomb, did fly the MiG-17

@TROUT_Actual 7 ай бұрын

@@dogsbd that much is true. Although it's hard to say the word "True" and Duke Cunningham in the same sentence...lol

@dogsbd 7 ай бұрын

@@TROUT_Actual Whatever may have become of Cunningham post war his war record is undeniable.

@madaxe606 7 ай бұрын

The MiG-21 is the F-4's main dance partner, and really needs an update to measure up to this gorgeous module. Gonna be some very cool Vietnam-era recreations, methinks.

@nimaiiikun 7 ай бұрын

I grew up seeing the F-4 flying with its smokey engines. Since you also worked with the smokey MiG-29s.. how much of a liability are smokey engines in combat?

@GrantvsMaximvs 7 ай бұрын

All airplane guys have the same reaction to the Phantom

@theraptorsnest5891 7 ай бұрын

The Air Guard in my state flew both the A7D and the F-4. They were both replaced by F16's . Gotta say I miss seeing the ol lead sled blasting off with coal black exhaust trails....

@brandspro 7 ай бұрын

F-4E? Easy life. Leading edge slats and a gun, and a -17 engine that didn’t drag a smoke trail behind it telling every MiG you were on your way. My father flew the real deal, the F-4C! First AF Phantom squadron in SEA, first to kill, and sadly first to lose a jet to a SAM. 143 1/2 missions…

@jamesyoungquist6923 7 ай бұрын

One of my coworkers flew the reconnaissance version of the F4 in the Israeli air force. If you're looking for interviews, he might be up for it.

@fridge7515 7 ай бұрын

@Gonky , if you could fly any military aircraft in service or retired what would it be?

@scotthulsey8763 7 ай бұрын

Love the Phantom.Dcs is cool its cooler in VR .I have a mid rage computer R5600g,Rx6600.This is good for nearly max graphics on 1080 p. In VR I get med to high on settings. Got men in the verge of dropping big money on next computer .

@iamfritz Ай бұрын

Forget Col Toon! Can you do a Phil Handley? Supersonic guns kill on a MiG-19 in a dogfight!

@andresgarcia7757 7 ай бұрын

Please show this to f-4 guys!

@whatsup448 7 ай бұрын

we need the whole reaction vedio ASAP

@indianajon7980 7 ай бұрын

I had no real interest in this until I saw that video and now it's on order. I do think heatblur keep raising the bar! I heard you even get a crew chief to help with the start up

@ankilo5519 7 ай бұрын

Hello! I just came across your channel and i see that you were/are an army pilot, do you mind of i ask you what did you use to pilot?

@theraptorsnest5891 7 ай бұрын

Not trying to butt in here but Gonky was a Naval Aviator who flew the F/A 18 Hornet. He also flew red air in the T-38 Talon.

@ankilo5519 7 ай бұрын

@@theraptorsnest5891 thanks for clearing my doubts!

@TheDrummer846 7 ай бұрын

You ever flown or had the chance to fly a f4 in the wild gonky?

@MusicByNemo1 7 ай бұрын

try to beg heatblur for early access to it and guilt trip them or sum so we can see some gameplay asap LOL

@nmflyerrobbin5413 7 ай бұрын

helmets were not vietnam style but still cool

@lunai0076 7 ай бұрын

are they going to update the F-14 Tomcat ?

@RocketToTheMoose 7 ай бұрын

They've said the Tomcat will get some of the new tech from the Phantom, like Jester 2.0.

@rwhunt99 7 ай бұрын

I remember them well! The biggest fighter at the time, the baddest fighter of the times! I am curious; it's a Navy fighter built from the ground up and only later did the Air Force get interested in them and Heatblur brings out the Air Force version first, what's that all about, maybe they said why at some point, but it's a Navy Fighter, just saying. Have a good one!

@ypw510 7 ай бұрын

That was the doing of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. He said they should have a look and they were impressed with the performance. It was better for many missions than anything else they had, but for their version they insisted on a cannon. McNamara was also behind the USAF adoption of the A-7. However, McNamara was also responsible for the TFX program that tried to make a common platform aircraft for the USAF and Navy. The F-111 in USAF (and RAAF) versions was OK, but Navy's F-111B was an utter failure although the lessons learned brought the F-14.

@sfertonoc 7 ай бұрын

Basically it is going toward a full blown historical/reenactment artistry value to it, beyond mere simulation. It is like religion , dreams/therapy and art mix each other eventually.

@redtailpilot 7 ай бұрын

Left Brain hemisphere: "don't do it dude, you have enough DCS modules and you're trying to learn the Mudhen now". Right Brain hemisphere: "shut up and just pre-order it with a cool T-shirt....you know you've always wanted to fly the Phantom since childhood". 😂

@aztec0112 7 ай бұрын

I passed on the Mudhen because when the Phantom comes out, that's all I'm gonna fly! (Yeah, I know🙄)

@redtailpilot 7 ай бұрын

@@aztec0112 haha, I hear ya. The F-15E is incredible! The speed of this thing when compared to the others, is a blast. I'm loving her in VR and motion rig!!! Crazy thing is, I bought the Tomcat and never really got into it other than a few flights (no combat). Maybe I'll revisit it one day.