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Only problem I have with this sim is that the Russian navy wont come anywhere close to the Ukrainian coast - they would use the same anti ship missiles they used on the Moskva

Cap, this is legitimately one of the more realistic missions I've seen from you guys. Using the assets as designed, not too many airframes utilized, no one going crazy and charging into the enemy, and so on. On top of that, DCS even modeled some of the Russian incompetence we've seen from their navy, where the first ship's CIWS saw the first missile on radar and tracked that rather than the lower altitude threat headed towards it. That's honestly exactly what I'd expect a Russian ship to do in that scenario whether it's due to their naval crews being burnt out after this long on-duty in the Black Sea, under-trained seamen, old or faulty equipment (like Moskva), and so on. Very nice job. I know I'm harsh on Russia in the comments generally, but I'm merely basing my real world expectations on the videos and news reports from the actual war.

The last A.I circling waiting for Cap was so wholesome for some reason lol. Like a child waiting for their parent to join the rest of the group😭

Love the GR formation flying (although there was an 'unexplained perpendicular oddity', possibly UFO 👽, circa 11:50).

I remember back when we believed that there WAS an actual Russian navy and that Russian sailors would do their jobs, the equipment would work and the munitions, though not as good as ours, were still pretty good. Of course now, we know better.

Very nice mission! It’s great to see how all of the parts work together to accomplish the task.

That felt so real! As everybody formed up for the attack and prepared to fire, the tension that built up was palpable. A good plan well executed. I would not be surprised if some Ukrainian Air Force officers and some Russian Air Force and Navy officers end up viewing this with interest.

Shout out to the AI planes for not doing something goofy and wrecking the whole plan.

the degree of accuracy & CGI graphics within DCS never ceases to amaze me

Every GR mission has a Super Cap quote worth remembering. *Crazy guy at front...don't do it* lol You guys speak in a code that only you know. We Viewington's don't have a clue what he was attempting, but Cap did!

You guys are getting too good. We hardly hear the catchphrase anymore. "Get another one."

I never had any luck with Harpoon missiles without HARMs causing havoc when playing the old game, Harpoon II. I was going to suggest using them but it seems it wasn't necessary. Eagerly awaiting the peregrine missile, and while we're at it, Hornets have been seen carrying SM-6 without the boosters. Wonder how that would perform...any advantage over jatm?

'Don't make the AI mad.' Straight up wisdom right there

Great idea, the only thing I would say is the decoys would have gone on separate tracks and firing at diff angles to cause even more confusion, but the idea imo was solid

"What the hell did we do right?" Great mission.

some points to note: A typical flanker loadout in Ukraine contains at least one R37M. There are 4 much bigger Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate with 2X VLS cells to one Steregushchy corvete. It's therefore possible that a blockade has at least one of the Grigorovich rather than a Steregushchy.

Imagine some drones thrown into the mix as well with a second flight of tomahawks coming in behind to mop up oooof sir oooof

Thanks for this video CAP!!!!!

I love seeing this, even though theres likely stuff we dont/cant know, its interesting to see real world current conflicts played out in DCS.

Thanks for the vid.

Lol I thought you hated Harpoons Cap😆 They did perform beautifully today, as did the boys, and yourself!👍👍

Could Rapid Dragon En Masse, In Conjunction With Decoys, Take Out The Russian Blockade Fleet And/Or The Kerch Bridge?

Genuinely, with these sim situations you have to try it from both ends becasue you guys are so much better than the Ai!

The best planned and executed mission I’ve ever seen from you guys. Especially the fire your missiles and get the hell out of dodge aspect. Why wait for the bad guys to fight back, just bug out and go home.

This mission would be good example of the Russians getting caught off guard by such bold and well plan attack by the Ukrainians. So the way it went and its outcome are not unrealistic.

Very nice work Cap. Cant think of a better time for ED to fill out the Caucus map with southern Ukraine.. if they are not already doing so.

great mission!

Always enjoy your content! Thanks for posting...🙂 +1

Nice plan, well flown GR :)

Those harpoons are so cool! I'm new here, but it would be really nice if you guys made these missions available for download.

Starting from the road, that seems to be more a job for the Gripen...

Well done GR!

Do a Thing !

Why do they have to get to within 50 miles to detect the ships? Modernish fighter aircraft RADARs can easily "see" something as big as a ship at well over 100 miles. Even the original Sea Harrier with it's flawed Blue Fox RADAR can "see" a ship at 50 miles.

Very well done, lads!!

Just in time for morning coffee!😎

Could you run a similar mission to this but in the hypothetical scenario where Ukraine has radar absorbing materials to their F-16s like the USAF applied to theirs?

Very odd not seeing any thing go horribly wrong or the humans not doing any thing dumb... besides right at the end... and Cap not screaming at some one. Not sure how to feel but still very enjoyable

In Pearl Harbor /Arleigh Burke, they had Harpoon that never fired. They would of course so assumed that you just couldn't use them? Is that problem here with the black sea?

feel like we are gonna be coming back here in a couple months being like 'oooooo he predicted it'

because Russia is limited to the ships already in the Black Sea (unable to reinforce due to the treaty of Bosphorus being enforced by Turkey) Those 2 Grishas are not getting replaced any time soon.....Mission accomplished

Hi Cap the US has just tested the latest version of the AIM 120 with a supposed range of 180K

Thank you guys! Cap could you do the same including a russian sam site defending the ships for exactly this kind of attack?

The only completely unrealistic thing I found was the Stere actually being awake enough to fire it's SAMs

Probably russian Personell would shoot at the decoy too, because they are probably not well trained. However, i wonder what a rollüle equipment malfunctions would play herr

It's always odd to think that these airframes were designed in the 70's, yet still effective front-line combatants in the 2020's.

Can you guys do a video showing the a10C vs a zombie apocalypse?

That was a good one.

Wouldn't you first run in with TALDs, then follow up with HARMs and HARPOONs?

Good battle and Science for the Ukrainian's to use!!!

Stoke me a Kipper!

Dare I say, in a few months from now when Ukrainian pilots are well suited with their new 16's that they pull some action this way, using ASM's and other platforms to support these attack packages and gain more success on the russian vessels. More artificial reefs please!

When will the F4 phantom be released?

Why wouldn't you hug the ocean until you got to launch range?

Nice Hop! ;)

Any chance for a round of Carrier Command? So fun!

Thanks for doing a Ukraine video! I hope they get the f16’s quickly 😊😊😊

f16's taking off from a road just seems weird to me. git er done.

This is a good show of the capabilities Ukraine will receive with F-16's. Bear in mind this might even be an undersell, as F-16's can carry British Storm Shadows, and American JASSM-ER's. Which are very capable air-to-surface missiles, and much more likely to hit their targets than Harpoons. Its very probable that the U.S. sends JASSM's to Ukraine with the F-16's. We've got tons of em, and can afford to spare a few. Plus, we really wanna see how it performs in "modern" combat 😂

Can't help but think how purty it'd be flying in ... if y'all had festive colored smoketrails.

The Ukrainians would used multiple weapons to attack the blocked. Besides using the F-16s with Harpoons, they would have used their R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles and their famous "Sea baby" aka Sea-Doo based water drones.

how can you put those missiles or any other missiles that cant be in regular dcs? btw great video as always

Hey Crew; I may be late in my comment, however I LOVE Caps content, but I don't see a lot of Human influence on the opposing side. Am I missing something?

Surprised the ship defense was so slack.

Would love to see this.

Ukraine could use some F-35s right now 😂

We’re the Harpoon F16s circling to wait for their missiles to hit? It seemed that when their missiles hit, that’s when a plane stopped circling.

Silly, silly. All they had to do to protect the ship was put tires about the ship (or for my UK friends "tyres" (how dare the English think they, like, own the language or sommit") . Been tried already, and not one of the tire/tyre aircraft have exploded yet. Takeoffs, on the other hand, have been described as a little trickier ...

Is there a mod to get the harpoon working with f16 bl 50?

Loved watching the F-16s at Mildenhall today

Scenario suggestion: Ukraine’s F16s have accidentally been delivered to Crimea! GR are tasked with sneaking onto the air base, stealing the planes and making it back to safe territory

should have used krivak and grigorovich

Why don't modern fighters have rear firing missiles ?

ok, now imagine ukraine getting the gripens + rbs15 mk3 (air launched version) actually cap you can try this? is the gripen modeled already? idk

Nice how the soldiers stand at attention along the road for takeoff, dutifully going deaf for the cause. Maybe they're artillerymen and they're already deaf. I'm curious if there would be a way to design a kind of "universal booster" to turn air-launched missiles into ground-launched missiles. The US could give Ukraine a boatload--see what I did there--of Harpoons, but without the F-16s, they're just boat anchors.

Still should try this with an actual apkws. Aim9 is made for what you just did. I bet its alot more challenging with a laser guided rocket.

Is it just me or were the decoys flying inverted

Can we make this more realistic where some of the Russian ship’s spontaneously promote themselves to submarines and missiles just yeet themselves into the water for a quick swim?

A perfect mission. 👍✴👾✴

Would they not have gone in at low altitude maybe.

i know you have done Pearl to death .. however .. have you done a Pearl Harbor, with a modern carrier strike group IN Peal Harbor with the same advance warning that they had at the time of Pearl Harbor attack?

I can’t express how bad I wanna see the Black Sea fleet with it’s only frigates being their 2 krivak class frigates and buyan m corvettes being the only kalibr launching surface combatants. Like I want to see both grigorovich class frigates and that brand new corvette they have blown in half no less than 50 kilometers out to sea

If a nato/American fleet sailed up into the black sea in order to intimidate the Russians into breaking the “naval blockade” but the russian attacked them, what would happen?

Hi Cap please repeat the sim but with MIG 29 and humans on the side of Ukraine. And AI on the side of Russia. This is because pilots from Russia have been accused/reported as being under trained with aging/poorly serviced planes.

If you gave the anti-shippers amraams you wouldn't need escorts

Would all the weapons not be sent as a lend lease like the UK in WW2? The debt will be repayed in 60 years and Europe gets to flog its old equipment and buy shiny new f35s etc.

With RAF Eurofighters and F35 intended to fly CAP for grain ships entering/leaving Ukranian ports this would be attract Russian Naval activity. Also why doesn't France supply Exocet missiles to Ukraine which can be mounted upon existing SU25........

Snap, crackle, pop!!! Sank Grisha!!!'

this can't be GR no one crashed on takeoff........I suspect trickery!!!! LOL

Anyone seen Violet recently?

What this is truly overlooking, is that the Russian fleet isn't nearly as powerful as what is described here. We can look at the most recent sinkings in port and the Moskau having been sunk with unguided and truck launched, missiles.

seeing how easy this is, makes you wonder why Ukraine struggles so much! I mean you guys have just "won the War" for Ukraine "Rambo style" for them basically! Lets see if those F-16s will be the "Wonder Weapons" Ukraine has been waiting for so long (the Leopards and Challengers obviously werent). If not, we can try sending Hollywood Actors next, they should definitely do the trick!

I like these possible Ukrainian scenarios being run. Attacking Russia's Navy is very important to Ukraines efforts to take Crimea.

There is no Russian naval blockade of Odessa nor any other ports still in Ukrainian hands. All Russia has to do is destroy or seriously damage the various port infrastructure and ships can't unload or load up. On top of that, they have perfectly adequate anti ship missiles that can be launched from land if needed. Or submarines, for which Ukraine has very little defence against.

Do any of the decoy platforms have jamming capabilities? I'm looking at that mission and thinking the ships could easily figure out who the real threats are just by assuming they are the ones in back. OTOH if you could put an opaque wall of expendable jammers between the attack birds and the target you might be able to force the defenders into a "I know it's a decoy, buy I still need to shoot it down so I can see the threat" dilemma.

"Could Ukrainian F-16s hit targets which are within fire control of land based batteries" You could have at least made an attempt to make this feasible, the Russians are never getting that close and if they -did- get that close the Ukrainians would just use the Neptunes they've stockpiled for exactly this purpose.

Q. Have the USAF ever integrated Harpoon missiles with their hundreds of F-16s? NO? Q. When will Ukraine be able to use the F-16s? Q. Are there not Land Targets that are of a Much Higher Priority? Q. are we armchair Generals?

We give em Maverick to go with those f16s and the wars over..He'd take Moscow by lunchtime.

Why are you at 36000 feet , why not A Low alt attack