It so nice of them to paint the big red sun on the deck! It made targeting a lot easier.

Be easy with the pain killers and lack of sleep. I ended up getting really paranoid after a week of it. I was acting like a crackhead looking out windows. I had to take sleeping pills to get out of it.

If I recall properly, by this point in the war, most of Japan's quality pilots were dead. Having been lost in Midway, Guadalcanal, etc. So in order to be realistic, for this video and the last, the AI settings on the enemy pilots shouldn't be as high as they were during the Pearl Harbor or Midway videos.

They actually announced today or yesterday that the AIM-260 will enter production late this year or early next year! Also they'll apparently be testing it from F-22 this summer

My 2nd started sleeping through the night on his first day home from the hospital. By 2-months, my wife had to set an alarm to wake up for his 3AM feeding. Turns out he’s high support autistic. He’s 17 now and still doesn’t speak. The lack of sleep is a trial by fire that every new parent experiences. That 3AM love is some of the most hard fought love you’ll ever experience. Nothing your kids will ever do will challenge your will to be a good parent as much as this. Have you watched “My Neighbor Totoro”? You should. It’s a primer on being a good parent.

Cap when my son could not sleep I would bundle him up and place him in his car seat for a drive. I suggest Brahms and Beethoven and a nice quite country road.

They say the most effective form of torture is sleep deprivation.

It will all be ok with the sleep thing Cap. My baby girl just turned 5 years old a few weeks ago. I remember going through that with both of my kids. The other is 19 now. Keep your head up. It will get better!

They need to do a remake of the movie "The Final Countdown" with modern equipment but let the battle go a little more further before being sent back. Also include the side of the story of the Japanese side of the story of "what the F" is going on.

Congrats on the new squadron member.

The AIM-260 had some great news come out today, they’re planning on producing it this year and heavily increasing its production

Great video as always team. Cap, been listening to your baby journey and really feel for you. It will get better.

Good work GR! Great planning Cap :) Get some rest

"Not physically beautiful, they're terribly ugly" True friendship right there.

Nice to see you boys still drop a video on KZfaq from time to time...im still waiting to see a 2025 Chinese Carrier vs the Imperial Japanese Fleet.....😁😁😁😁... OUTSTANDING. Hope you get some rest cap, you do not want to slip into DELIRIUM from lack of sleep...i speak from experience when i went 6 months with out a full nights rest....IT WAS LIKE BEING ON A BAD TRIP THAT WOULDNT STOP!

i'd guess the reason for the miss is that the few misses were the result of the guiding f35's going home and the missiles turned on their own seekers

Oh i waited this!

What most DCS wargamers tend to negelect is the existance of the martime tomahawk(BGM-109B) with a range of 490 kilometers and a warhead nearly four times bigger the RGM-84 harpoon. These are very effective against armored ships. Good video though!

I'm laughing my head off at the baby stories. My youngest is 14 now, so those days are long behind me, but I remember it SO well. So hard to have any patience, to keep a clear thought in your head, and to keep from strangling annoying strangers. Good times. So worth it in the end though. Best and hardest job you'll ever have.

Barely any sleep and yet still a great video. Hope you get a better sleep rhythm soon

Can you do the US navy vs the combined Europian navy? I want to sea how much damage they can do.

No worries on the new baby and I wear a headset while watching and I didn’t hear anything! Thanks for another great video!

This reminds me of the Final Countdown. You guys should do that, using cold war era Nimitz with F-14's vs the Pearl Harbor fleet.

Cap may be sleepy with a new baby, but when he is in "God" mode and giving all his viewers a bird's eye view of the battle, it shows us why he is a GRIM REAPER!

Awesome video GR! Very cool, and infinitely better without all missiles hitting the same ship!, I’m sure that was a ton of effort, thank you very much!! God Bless guys!!

Love it, hopefully i can join in future.

I bet some of the antiship missiles missed because after launch the plane ran low on fuel and had to return to base, breaking its lock on the target.

40:48 Cap, didn't know they 'C' versions could turn into 'B' versions. Must be the power of the hidden carrier.

Great show - It's interesting that the Harpoons were visible to targeting by the battleships in a prior video but not the LRASM's in this. Also, you and Mrs. Cap get some sleep! We'll be here when you get back

Thanks GR

I don’t miss that stage of kids. It’s bloody hard work. I found a midnight feed and making sure they burp out all the gas was the trick to a solid few hours sleep.

Sorry Cap.... Got to interject... Long time viewer but rare commenter... I just wanted to give some love to Simba whilst he's off on his tours. Stay safe and come back to us soon Simba, We miss you already. No seriously! Hurry back! The segways to the other platforms..... it's not the same. We miss you man! Be safe and come back soon I miss the good segways

I've been pondering this deep philosophical question for the longest time... is a bog really a bog if it wasn't made by ED?

Father of two here, one 3.5 year old daughter (Scarlett), and a 3 month old boy (Saxon). If you manage to find the instruction manual for these things, let me know. ;) Thanks for the video, they help me relax!

I'm offended that the replacement for the Hellcat was the Hornet instead of the Tomcat. 2020s be like that i guess...

There are audiobooks on yt that I'm following of the two series about a modern our timeline industrialized nation suddenly teleported into a medeival world and going to war. THey eventually meet a WW2 era country and do this to them. Titles are Summoning Japan Summoning America

12:45 it is probably a wartime thing. It stresses the airframe so much, that it is better to sent more planes whenever possible. But if needed it can carry it. Like the Tomcats and their Phoenixes. They can carry 6, but that's not adviced for everyday use

If the Long Range Anti Ship Missile is called LRASM, what will the Obscene Range Gigasonic Anti Ship Missile be called?

Ha! 1st. Yeah. Landing carrier. Appreciate the *SuperBABY* update.

I remember the good old days when mom looked after the kids (me) and dad worked to pay for it all.

Well done boys

Low sleep will cause adrenaline to be poorly regulated and will impact your emotions severely. Also can cause heart attack like symptoms. Hang in there Cap.

GR Baby is practicing to do his own videos! You rock GR Baby! I suggest that we rename GR Baby to Cap Jr.

What a way to enjoy my chicken n chips with tango super....Bravo GR flight

That was fun.

Cap: once the youngun hits about 4 or 5 months, it’s time to teach them how to fall asleep by themself. We are doing that this week with our 3rd. It’s not fun, but it’s worth it. Once in bed, after 10 mins of fussing Dad goes in for 1 min of shushing and comfort. Repeat until baby falls asleep. After midnight, baby gets a nappy change, feeding (lights on, keep them awake), a kiss on the cheek, and back in the crib. Takes about 3 days, but doing the work while they’re young is huge.

Lol Cap, we used to sleep when the baby slept. I ended up outlawing family calls to our house after 7pm. Eventually they get on some schedule and you’ll get more sleep. Good luck!

Green Peace would be having a field day...lol

"Biggles sticks it to Tojo", Episode 2.

Very nice, I’m sure you guys may know, I usually argue for our (US) tech is it proven, and this is pretty damn good, I’ve never seen or worked on these, but I worked on the modernized versions of 60-60’s tech at base level, with tons of add ons and modern stuff we had to make all work, together, in reality, day to day, of Vietnam era stuff at base level. That still out performed any Russian, let alone soviet crap. Sure the lost modern soviet stuff can be dangerous…but it’s not good, not against truly modern/upgraded stuff. Some russian stuff that is actually modern/good can be very dangerous…but that’s very, very limited. Anyways, I can see at least 2 of our LRASMS to take out a modern BB of WWII, which at that point they are basically super/fast BB’s in size technology and money poured into making them ultimate killing machine and very, very hard to kill, even close to impossible to kill, if they had a full fleets support as they were designed to have. Hell, our (US) BB’s of the teens and twenties, into early 30’s survived close range atomic, and even nuclear blasts, couldn’t sink them, of not basically a direct hit…and that’s with zero crew/damage control…we tested our atom bombs and limited nukes against our oldest. Moth balled BB’s when the Iowas were still in service, before being refit in modern times…our old ones survived the bombs, as in hundreds of meters to a Km away or so of atomic bombs/thermo nuclear warheads, the old BB’s survived, most other ships types didn’t, and our newer ones were a lot better, in many ways. More armor, or equal thickness, but far better quality for all the steel, whether or not armor. Or just structural, tougher. Stronger, harder steel, all around. Less prone to failure that’s why a while back, in one of your vids, I was like no. No single Russian missile would kill an Iowa, especially as they don’t have true AP warheads, or enough explosive mass, I don’t care of their missiles are big and heavy, their HE isn’t kiloton into megaton range HE. If they hit an Iowa, the BB would laugh at their missile and ship. As it’s made to defeat that weight or greater, of a true AP shell, no just explosive mass. Sure, it’d damage the ship/outer systems, to some extent, but wouldn’t come close to sinking a modern BB, so yeah, at least LRASMS to sink a yamoto class, perfectly viable and believeable, it’d probably take like 4-5 plus to sink, say the Bismarck, or a Yamato, or Iowa, part of it would be determined by how experienced and well trained the AA crews are, as the radar of that time may not see them. But eyes will, at a certain range, so if they are very well trained. Experienced and lucky, they may well spot them coming in, and take one or two, by manual fire/sheer luck, thus increasing the number of missiles needed to kill them. Or they out on a hell of a show, trying to bring down the missiles. Honestly think US crews would stand the best chance, especially late war, as we got very experienced with things trying to crash into us, for obvious reasons, more so than any one else. Not saying we’d succeed, we’d have the best chance, possible, with that eras tech, to knock them down, as only the speed would change. Realistically. Besides no guaranteed fire solutions from fire control. So it’s be down to individual skill and initiatiave, we just the lost experience in those fields, and the relative freedom to do so without being severely punished. As long as it worked. Or you became a hero in doing so, haha.

Thanks.....A list of the Mods used in the scenario would be helpful.

Laughed my head off at the aircraft floating off the carrier.

All my 4 boys slept through the night as well!

3 children in, feel your pain, wish someone had told me sooner that getting them on milk formula once that’s possible makes life a lot easier.

It's temporary! They grow out of it, be patient. As you grow older, you require less sleep so just think of it as practice.

Dude, don't apologize for baby. Baby always wins. I wish I could help, I have that baby whisperer power. Your stress actually keeps them up. The rocking chair is not for them, it's for you. I had 7, once I figured out the tricks, you can run them like you fly, you'll be a baby Ace.😂

Fat Amy also has sensors on the back and sides as well, so you have 360 degree visibility with the new helmet system

Not a child, but pain wakes me up many times at night. The last full night of uninterrupted sleep was over 6 months ago. Your brain recalibrates after a while and you learn to function really badly while faking an air of competence and proficiency which will get you through most day to day situations!

Beating an enemy aircraft to death with your landing gear DOES have historical precedent; during the Guadalcanal campaign an F-4F Wildcat from the USS Enterprise ran out of ammo during a battle and so he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above a Japanese bomber and proceeded to beat the crap out of it until something on the Japanese plane broke and it fell out of the sky. Say what you like about the USN, they do put in a good shift when it comes to attacking an enemy....

I know this community is very much in love with modern aircraft and weapons systems. But I would *_much, much_* rather see these battles recreated using historically correct vehicles and equipment. Those wings on the battleship's main turrets are rangefinders for when the mast systems are down.

The quote is "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."

Is it an idea to take some planes and thru waypoints see if you can attack from multiple angles so the missiles do not all approach from the same side but rather from almost all???

Do the Battle off Samar with Taffy 3 verses the Meat of the Japanese Fleet! Instead of Taffy 3, replace it with whatever modern ships make sense

For some reason every video seems to give me the mental image of a guy dressed in a supervillian outfit, cursing the sky and shouting "Soooooooooock!" Only difference is now the guy has a baby in a chest-harness monching on an aeroplane-shaped teething ring.

Now do 1 2020 Japanese carrier vs 1945 US Pacific Fleet

cap, can you do a battle where f35bs take off from the back of the 80s mod USS Iowa? I know they were going to do something like that with harriers. Thanks

Does your damage display give a total armament expended by the carrier group? It was neat hearing the damage done to the IJN fleet, but I wonder what the comparative cost was for the USN.

When doing an attack and even defense type dealin these videos, would " the circle of death" be a good tactic?

why not launch the aircraft set some of them to fire using a mix of the two methods? I suspect the actual missiles will be programmable to prioritise key assets, carriers and BBs.

Cap, if people get pissed with you calling the AIs "AI", you could try calling them "bots". That is how I frequently call video game AI when talking to my Brazilian friends (because it sounds/feels more natural than "AI" in Portuguese), and it probably is more technically accurate than calling them "AI"

Would they sink a battleship? Probably unlikely to get through the belt armour and into the citadel if it doesn’t have an AP warhead. A few could probably mission kill it though by taking out the command and control facilities in the superstructure.

Started getting sleep again when my boys turned 5. So.... almost there!

CAP I found something I don’t know if it’s ridiculous or amazing but I found something there is a German battleship class the H-44 it had 20 inch guns it was 345 m in length and it’s displacement was 131,000 tons or 129,000 long tons it would be the biggest battleship at the time. maybe even bigger than the Nimitz class aircraft carrier?

Wouldn't it be easier to go around the fighters to launch the antiship missiles from the flanks?

Sokay Cap, you seem like you're going to make a wonderful Dad.

Reminds me of the movie the final countdown

41:00 They really have improved the hover capability of the F35

Hey GR, suggestion for a video here, try doing a US CSG performing a strike on a Chinese man made island. The first part would be a CAP flight of F-35 and F-18 against land based J-11 and J-16, if you can; then there would be F-35 SEAD with AGM-88G, and lastly a strike by Tomahawks to knock out remaining installations. Also, remember that the J-11 does not currently have the PL-15 integrated, if you choose to use that.

Had 5 kids don`t worry you can make the sleep time back later parental controls are great as 55 its 10 hours a night now.....no internet they go to sleep. What they do later is more scary. Love the content need more.

“There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.” Royal Navy Vice Admiral David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

I wonder how deadly warbirds would be if you tuned their engines for 10% more power and gave them IR missiles.

Congratulations on the new addition to the family. As a dad, I recommend this: make sure you have skin to skin contact with your baby. Its an important part of the bonding process for the father as well

Why do you worry about cost winning is what matters!

Famous quote is “ what is wrong with our bloody ships today”

Electro optical sensors can't see through thick clouds - except in the world of DCS!

28:45 there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today

How come you can edit such unbeliavable battles.. i once tried dcs.. but i would have to buuy soo many dlcs etc.. to use those aircraft Your opinion guys.. which is better overall Dcs editor or il2 sturmovik?😮

How come the IJN isn't trying to shoot down the missiles?....normally the Ships would fire everything and get a few missiles as in the Battleship vs Missile videos. Of course it would be highly ineffective but with the sheer number of 25mm AA guns and 5 Inch Cannons with Time fused HE shells in that fleet some missiles would be downed

My friend, I have two boys Both horrible sleepers. Know your pain.

20:16 - 16 mile climb back up to the F35's in a plane thats still got a full load vs 80+ mile flight back from spawn. No reason to kick him out of the plane there.

"There's something wrong with our bloody ships!"

The files you have to maintain, are they text? And when you have to update them, are the updates the same for each file?

heh. My lockjaw was caused by over ear headphones.

Me: Need sleep badly. My brain: But would an F-35 be able to sink the Yamato?

Cap, as a non doctor, I prescribe a large spiced rum and coke with a modest amount of ice......... see you in the morning Sir!!!

Video no the idea you’ll ever see a carrier without escort is ludicrous. For the record, a father should never have to apologize for his baby crying. That’s what babies do. Congratulations on having a strong, healthy baby👍😎

Can the AI be ordered to fire and guide a missile, and then backtrack say 20 miles and repeat? To avoid the loiter?

Wondering why the first missile wave was not automatic? After that manual aiming makes more sense, because there are so many ship wrecks... Also wondering if it is possible just to ruin aircraft carriers first. That's only common sense. There is no need to shoot other ships before all aircraft carriers are down.

Why are the f35s fire ring the LRASM’s from so close ! It has enormous range

Isn't it more of a challenge to have the modern aircraft carrier against the US Navy in this situation?