MK-24 Spitfire = chefs kiss🤌

Yak-3 is much more beautiful IMO.

Excatelly

It's still very much pilot vs pilot. It's not always the tech so much as how you use the tech. For example, when you're flying BVR in a region where your debrief has indicated that you can expect certain opposition from specific fighters with specific long range weapons, you can plan for that. Growling Sidewinder often does this in his videos, where he has to make a call on whether or not to begin defending posture based on assuming whether or not the enemy has already launched on him. Unlike most flight sims throughout the years, pilots don't automatically know when a missile has been launched on them. Sometimes they won't know if the missile has it's own active radar, and doesn't use it until within a certain range. Choosing to act can make the difference between being splashed, or evading the missile. Do I notch? Do I go cold? Do I maintain altitude and wait for a better firing solution, or do I defend and use the terrain to break any potential missile lock? Pilot skill and tactics are still just as incredibly important as they ever were.

In a way… but for WWII it was as much engine vs engine as pilot vs pilot (kinda the way it is sensor vs sensor as well as pilot vs pilot now) ​​⁠​​⁠@Aquascape_Dreaming has it right

Try a Sopwith Camel!

@@thomasjorge4734WWI dogfights is like 2 kites going at it. It’s friggin’ insane!

It also reduces wing flutter!

As does the Brewster Buffalo 🤣

Well spitfires were likely much easier to produce than any 4th/5th gen craft along with the fact there was a world war going on so a lot more changes for a lot more kills.

*if your opponent fucks up badly

@@appa609 Agreed. Opponent got lured into 1-circle in every fight. It also appears the pilots agreed to guns only ahead of time, or else this would have been a matter of the 4th gen fighter blowing through the merge to create separation, going out of guns range and then turning around and sending an AIM-9X or AIM-120 to the Spitfire's face.

​@@Jason608 Yup. It was guns only - GS has gotten better than he was at announcing the rules - and even guns-only, the jet should have won every time. If I link it the comment will be shadowed but vpjPZfIDFHo&t=6m31s is my favorite demo. The Grim Reapers demonstrate an F-35 which is (excellent at its intended missions including modern air superiority but) a poor dogfighter, demolishing a pair of P-51s with impunity. GS' opponents are usually strong - and named on screen. Other comments speculate that they may have agreed for the jet to fly stupidly for better content, but the source video includes the jet pilot starting to adjust toward the right tactic and the opponent isn't named so I dunno about that. He also won four of four rounds in the A-10 vs. the P-51 because that opponent kept going 1-circle, which the Grim Reapers (coincidentally) proved with like ten rounds of the Mustang being completely untouchable and disassembling the A-10 if it went 2-circle. GS has occasionally had fights where he says in surprise that something is an obvious mistake. I think he's got a job to do and sometimes that means rumbling with a rando who doesn't know what he's doing, that's fine too.

I think that was a ground rule, not to go over a certain distance. Otherwise there would be no challenge.

Thank you!

Exactly, the FW-190 was a boom and zoomer with absurd firepower in it's time, it couldn't turn with the Spitfire so the good pilots wouldn't even try.

This is a IX lmfao.

Counterintuitively, having a heavy weight on the F-16's wingtip reduces wing flutter. You generally will only see AMRAAM, not AIM-9X on the wingtip of USA operated F-16 fighters.

@@Jason608 It’s not so much the weight, it is the position on the wing tip, it’s so far forward. Perhaps that’s to account for the booster?

Yes, lots of people do that. Google CW Lemoine, Make Them Tell You Know for good advice on how to work that.

That's exactly the ways to defeat aircraft like this. If area-limited, one can also go high and force such an opponent into totally defensive fight where he will make a mistake sooner or later. But these also require a lot of skill to implement.

Yes obviously, but it wouldn't make for a great video if it just blasted it from BVR.

@@andrew6978 i dont think you understood what I wrote. I wasnt suggesting missiles.

@@andrew6978 Locking them up is not equal to using missile. But gunning them down from 1.5km is more likely with a radar lock, especially in top-down plane.

@@ShadeAKAhayate Even still, kind of defeating the point of this exercise.

That is a valid configuration! I think they just wanted to make sure the wing tips could handle an AIM-120

@@MaxAfterburnerusa ah got it, makes sense, thanks man!

His opponents were really bad. A jet should climb climb climb climb well above the Spit, then dive and fire. Do that and he'd have no chance of shooting you down. Instead these smoothbrains kept trying to turn fight a piston.

@@Ananamitron and piston planes were specifically designed to be really agile in the air, I hear they're also really fun to fly. I have a feeling they could be useful on the modern battlefield for cheap ground support, if they had a stealth paint job. By the time the enemy see them coming it would be too late.

I think you're missing the point. Warbirds have advantages over modern jets, in certain limited, circumstances.

@@liamh9814 I know that WWII prop fighters are very agile. I was just joking.

@@jangelelcangry Agreed. The Wright Flyer was the first interceptor I suppose - straight lines only. :)

GS: “Again, I’m not saying the wright brothers first airplane is the best interceptor, but if you play your planes strengths against your opponent-yep right there…splash SR-71”

They needed guns in Vietnam, but not anymore. The NGAD is being designed with no guns. It may have a directed energy weapon though, but mainly to shoot down incoming missiles. The Aim-9x almost never misses and it's a somewhat old missile.

Nah, human, I think he just lined up a shoot with a beginner who wanted to mess around with different jets and didn't know about counter-piston tactics. GS' opponents are usually strong - and named on screen. Other comments speculate that they may have agreed for the jet to fly stupidly for better content, but the source video includes the jet pilot starting to adjust toward the right tactic and the opponent isn't named so I dunno about that. It's common in DCS for people to flare against guns on their six as essentially a joke.

@@HypoceeYT thanks! Yeah I was surprised that they wouldn’t just fly the jet like a FW190 on steroids…abuse the high dive speed and roll rate to just pounce on him repeatedly and zoom back up 😅

Of course it does. The range would be a bit limited, but WW2-era airplane is quite hot compared to everything else.

The exhaust would be hot, yes.

@@andrew6978 Not only the exhaust. The whole frontal part will glow in IR.

Hey you're right 🤣🥺

@@xDerHunterHeli That's as rare as the steaks I cook :P

@@vampiro4236 yea thats prob true bro

Great for insurgents. Useless against a conventional military with decent air defenses.

@@TerraZetzz Ehh, you could always eliminate those air defenses with the F-35 before you send in the A-10s. Think its more about financial reasons.

@@Taczy2023 That remains to be (hopefully, never) seen. Also, see Ukrainian scenario where everything is packed with MANPADs to the brim -- anything flying is flying very low and usually at standoff. A-10 loses most of its advantages in such scenario and becomes more vulnerable due to its lower speed. So A-10 is more akin to a glorified assault helicopter with loiter capability.

@@Taczy2023 You can't eliminate manpads with an F-35....

@@andrew6978 Well obviously not, but Manpads are close range air defenses. Not as dangerous as more advanced Mobile SAMS...

Says you

@@chuckh4077 captain obvious