Growing up as a kid I lived next to a retired Navy A-4 pilot who flew in Vietnam. The stories he told me about flying the A-4 in combat were the stuff of legend.
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
Yes, I think pilots in those days had really exciting lifes. In the recent decades, it's more dropping JDAMs from medium altitude.
@harrypotterxl93263 жыл бұрын
That part during dogfight where AAA tracer chases you and then slows down to your speed.... so cool!
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Yeah. And I only noticed that during editing.
@myownsummrr3 жыл бұрын
timestamp pls
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
@@myownsummrr You're right, I was gonna do it but it slipped my mind. Thanks for reminding me!
@tjdowns37433 жыл бұрын
that was great ground attack action! And then wrapping the whole thing up with a MIG kill. Great video
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
@@tjdowns3743 Thanks for your comment. This certainly was an exceptional mission in the Vietnam War.
@apflyingamer36233 жыл бұрын
NIce touch with b/w 'recon' shots!
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Just exploring some preset filters in my editing software :)
@NeutronRob3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Along the note of your intro narration, some of these pilots became the senior commanders during first Gulf War and made sure this type of limited strategy was never followed again.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yes, they learned things the hard way. But even with experienced commanders who know what they are doing, there's still a chance that there are some bureaucrats above them who think they know better.
@pontiacGXPfan3 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 as proven during the 1983 air strike on Syria
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
@@pontiacGXPfan I believe that was Lebanon but you are right. A great example of meddling into things one doesn't understand.
@Wuestenkarsten Жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 Best Example: Afghanistan.....
@weissrw13 жыл бұрын
Thanks. All this stuff was happening when I was a teenager. I later served in the U.S. Army in West Germany from 73 to 75. You do a great job with the history.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's interesting when you remember something from so long ago. When I was a teenager, I followed the Desert Storm very closely. And that was ages ago as well 😁
@zepter002 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 how do you feel when air force in your country doesen’t exist?
@stevenscoggins170 Жыл бұрын
The A-4 was a great little plane!
@showtime112 Жыл бұрын
It's got a lot of undeniable charm.
@leopoldglasspool42612 жыл бұрын
I read once that if a pilot claims to have achieved an air to air kill with unguided rockets, he is either very very very good, or he is lying to you. Great Kill!
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
I only have experience in a simulation but essentially, your opponent mustn't maneuver and you need to be very, very close. Thanks for your comment!
@pablopeter35642 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the information and the viedo. I didn't know that an A-4 had shot down a MiG-17. Great historical contribution from you.
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
Plus one more by an Israeli A-4 over Lebanon, don't know if you saw that one.
@VikingTeddy3 жыл бұрын
There was a VPAF Mig-17 kill by an A-1 Skyraider too. Iirc the Mig went for a head on and got a face full of 20mm.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
That's right. I just checked that story, there were in fact two A-1 Skyraiders shooting at the same MiG-17 and sharing the kill. This was covered in an episode of History Channel's Dogfights. Maybe someday we get the A-1 in DCS, that would be great.
@ratagris213 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 yes good story. The Sandy's are good aircraft indeed as you showed one attacking the parked Migs area.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
@@ratagris21 Sandy in this video? I haven't seen it 😃
@dragonmeddler21523 жыл бұрын
Might be legend, but I heard a Navy EC-121 Super Constellation got one flying close behind by dumping fuel into its nose intake.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
@@dragonmeddler2152 I haven't heard of that one.
@brionjohnson28063 жыл бұрын
You dropped a Mig with a rocket salvo....hell yeah you get a thumbs up!
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Actually, it was Lt Cdr T.R Swartz who dropped a MiG with a rocket salvo (plus another one on the ground). I just made a video about it 😁 Thank you for your comment!
@togaming11293 жыл бұрын
And that's another hit single from Showtime112 :)
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks 😊
@Yosemite-George-613 жыл бұрын
Another great story ! I send you this interesting, poorly known story that I got from a French aviation magazine. Story told by then commander of 2nd "escadrille de chasse" (Hunting squadron) Roger Pessidous on the Dijon air base. In 1969 american U-2s regularly overflew France taking photos of the nuclear sites, when confronted the Yanks denied it. The 2 Sq. had performed various flights over 60.000 ft with a rocket boosted Mirage IIIE. The tactic was to climb to 30-40.000 ft and accelerate to MACH 1.8 then light up the SEPR rocket and climb at 1.6 MACH, at rocket burn-out (80sec.) you should be above 60.000 ft maybe 65 depending on atmospheric conditions. There was just enough fuel left to come back to the base. So they planned an interception on the U-2, the first few times they missed it, often because the radar guidance was a little off or because they did not had enough altitude. They were guided by ground radar, the radar on the Mirage had short range and was almost useless for that kind of mission. On the day of the story, the commander himself was driving, it was a pefect day and the boys at the radar station performed flawlessly. He came up from behing the U-2 at 1.7 MACH and 64.000 ft. As he was carriyng a "vulgar of the shelf photo camera" he tried to take a pic (de did) but in doing so he got too close and really shocked the spy plane as it went under it. After that the Yanks stopped all U-2 flight over France as they realised it was vulnerable... until the SR-71 came about. (More details if needed, translated from French) Cheers !
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment and suggestion. It would be an interesting story to reenact. But U-2 is not available in DCS. Mirage III is a mod with borrowed cockpit (from F-15). But if those two ever become available, I will consider doing it.
@PappaBear_yt3 жыл бұрын
Great video - and the music was a really nice touch! 👍
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Thanks! The music is from YT royalty free music library. You can actually find surprisingly good stuff there with a little effort.
@alextrusty25853 жыл бұрын
I've thought, that it's from "Apocalypse Now!" for some reason.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
@@alextrusty2585 Perhaps those guys were inspired by the Apocalypse music. I saw it a long time ago so I only remember that Wagner bit :)
@chuckcawthon3370 Жыл бұрын
Outstanding Presentation.
@showtime112 Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I'm glad you like it!
@allgood6760 Жыл бұрын
Wr operated Skyhawks with our RNZAF.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿✈️
@showtime112 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for commenting!
@ronaldrabanes24523 жыл бұрын
The F4 PhantomII is the GOAT fighter (Greatest Of All Time!)
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Well, it's my favorite. ED said last year it might come to DCS in two years. If it were two years from now, I'd still be happy!
@kinglear59523 жыл бұрын
'All war are bankers wars' A short Vietnam war would not have served its purpose
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
That's one way of seeing it.
@Wuestenkarsten Жыл бұрын
Jupp...again repeated in Afghanistan. Instead of kicking Ass and go out again....NOOOO.....We "must bring Democracy; Schools; Kindergarten and whatever Nonsense.....only after paying the Industrial Military Complex Milliards of fu..ing Tax Payers Money. Should have "saved" that Money and spend on Ukraine instead. There is a "real" Enemy...
@user-rs8el7ll9y Жыл бұрын
Вот такой "горбатой" версии Skyhawk в 1967 г. ещё не было. Англоязычному автору ролика стоило бы знать об этом...
@callsignnictmere4653 жыл бұрын
Good mission, Informative too. Thumbs up 39.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Thanks for commenting, glad you liked it. I think history is only boring if presented in a boring way :)
@ronaldwatson19513 жыл бұрын
Excellent video and great shooting, good historic story line don't forget to RTB and let's see how well you on a carrier landing 😀
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment! Actually, at this point the Skyhawk mod had some bug and it would explode as soon as it touched the carrier deck. I mean, I could have done it with AI landing. But for some reason I didn't back then. Landing Skyhawk in that video about Bridge Strike in Rolling Thunder is mine. Second wire is not ideal but that was like my third Skyhawk landing on a carrier ever, the bug having been fixed just a little while before 😁
@luanha9782 Жыл бұрын
Vietnam's mig don't take off from the big airport, they take off from the makeshift airfield deep in the forest. And you never know they're approaching until you get shot. At large and important airports like this, there is always a dense air defense system with anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft missiles. The movie is good, but it doesn't describe the difficulty in this match because only 1 mig was shot down by A4 during the Vietnam war.
@showtime112 Жыл бұрын
We don't have such airfields on the map in DCS. And the scope of the video was not really do give a strategic overview, just this one particular story. Someday, there will probably be a proper Vietnam map and the MiG-17 so this is a good candidate for a remake video.
@LockOnNow3 жыл бұрын
Wow ! 🤩 Feels like one is watching a real Movie 🎥 Great Historical Content as always thx for taking the time providing us with such great Aviation stuff.👍🙏 Just wondering what’s your DCS Hardware Setup a like ? 😉 👍
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Thanks again! I'm actually aiming for some kind of immersive experience for the viewers. Maybe a movie or documentary such as History Channel's Dogfights. Don't know if you ever watched it. My hardware is relatively modest. Ryzen 5 1400, AMD Sapphire Pulse RX580 and 16 GB of RAM. Initially, I had only had 8 GB of RAM. Expanding to 16 GB really helped. You can notice that many of my older videos stutter because of it. I wasn't even aware how bad it was back then.
@LockOnNow3 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 Thanks 🙏 a lot for the prompt Answer it’s very much appreciated 👍 Was also wondering which Hotas your useing? And yes I know the Dogfight Series of the History Channel i bought them back then great 👍 series even the jets ✈️ look unproportional.😉
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
I also bought the entire DVD set of dogfights. I recently watched a couple of episodes and I can say DCS has better graphics :) As for joystick, I don't yet have a proper HOTAS model. Rather, I use an older Logitech model. It's got 8 buttons, force feedback, twist handle etc. It's good enough for what I do now but in multiplayer dogfight, I would surely get my butt kicked 😁
@LockOnNow3 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 Yes that's what i am also wondering they made such a good Historical Documentation but such crapy looking jets doesn't really go together. And yes i do also have a Hotas Logitech model and since DCS doesn't make my daily living i don't really feel the need for a high class Hotas Setup of course it would be nice but spending 450> bucks no not really right now. I upgraded my PC with all SSD's and two Samsung NVMe-M.2 SSDs and 64 GB of RAM. It does its job works for me.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
@@LockOnNow Well, the show was made in 2006. so I guess graphics were OK for that time. They didn't look that bad when I watched it back then. Only now when I watch DCS it becomes obvious. 64 GB of RAM? Do you use all that? SSD is a good idea, I have a small one for Windows but I should buy a bigger one for DCS, I'm sure it would improve performance.
@TheKid96783 жыл бұрын
Great Video, Showtime.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, feel free to check out others too!
@motorheadrocker6504 Жыл бұрын
Thank you, great video! Does A-4 have a possibility to drop rocket pods when in trouble?
@showtime112 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the comment! I think the pods can be jettisoned just like bombs and fuel tanks.
@jernejfunkl83002 жыл бұрын
It's funny to see the Navy F-4 in the E version (with the cannon under the nose). I think the Navy ever flew this version of the Phantom.
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
Nope, the Navy never had an F-4 with a gun. But as of yet, DCS doesn't have any other variant to it's an approximation.
@MrOlgrumpy2 жыл бұрын
I have been trying to guess your speech accent,no insult intended if I'm wrong,Bosnian ? ,we have people from many nations here in Australia 😊
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
Go west a little. Or north. Or south. 😁
@ulisesvelez58462 жыл бұрын
the nva-af mig-17-fresco sub-sonic but lethal.
@dragonmeddler21523 жыл бұрын
It's an A-4F. Rockets were banned on Navy aircraft carriers some time in 1967 because they were too unstable in all the RADHAZ present on the roof.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Different video, same problem. E is the only Skyhawk available so not much choice than to approximate. But thank you for the comment!
@davibrandao26442 жыл бұрын
Cool music in start
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
It's good to hear that people understand why the music is there in the videos.
@alextrusty25853 жыл бұрын
Pal, you oughta grab opentrack somewhere. Otherwise, the content is very quality!
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Actually, I ordered Delanclip head tracker. Courier status says 'Prepared for export at international hub' in the UK. And it's been there since 25th last month. I don't know if it's corona or frikkin brexit but I hope they get that thing moving soon 😁
@sergioernestogomezlopez2146 Жыл бұрын
I Love your videos... But... Croatian subtitled? Whyyy?
@showtime112 Жыл бұрын
There's really just one possible answer to that which makes any sense :)
@mortiubenoni-andrei59482 жыл бұрын
In fiecare episod pe care îl umaresc ,MIG-ul iese în evidenta.A fost așa de bun la vremea lui.,?
@madzen112 Жыл бұрын
9:27 Just how did you manage to get those GoPro shots??! 😄😉👍
@showtime112 Жыл бұрын
You first select F4 and then, you can move the camera around by holding down R SHIFT and R CTRL plus cursor keys (on numpad, I think). And you can move it forward and back ward by / and * on numpad.
@madzen112 Жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 Had a feeling it wasn't mounted on a selfiestick from the cockpit 🙂😉
@ramrod78652783 жыл бұрын
Where can I get that A-4 mod and the f-4 for DCS ? . . .love these videos ! . . .
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Thanks! A-4 mod is here: github.com/heclak/community-a4e-c/releases Flyable F-4 (and some other mods too): filehorst.de/folder.php?key=duuqITUb
@madzen112 Жыл бұрын
Bathtub vs sharks. Almost. 😄🙂
@joeavent55543 жыл бұрын
The A-1 that shot down a MiG during the Vietnam War is a good story.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
In fact, it's a great story. Two A-.1 actually shared a kill because they both fired at the same time. Sadly, we don't have the A-1 in DCS.
@joeavent55543 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 Ah, that's correct. I watched the air battle recreation on television many years ago. Great series.
@johnshepherd86873 жыл бұрын
The F-4 was a mediocre fighter. It was designed to kill bombers attacking a carrier battlegroup. A mission it could not accomplish for at least a decade after introduction. There was inadequate C2 for beyond visual range engagements and the early Sparrow were plagued by too many problems to be effective. It the wrong plane for Vietnam. It's competitor, the F8U-3 Crusader III, was superior in every aspect of performance and its capabilities were not exceeded by any aircraft until the F-15. The F8E was the fighter for the conditions in Vietnam. When Top Gun stood up in 1968 the Navy just matched Crusaders and Phantoms and the outcome was a clear cut superiority of the F8 in traditional air-to-air combat.
@andrewmorke2 жыл бұрын
Shot with Zunis. Little bitty pieces.
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
Not a dedicated air-to-air weapon but that's what he had 😁
@oveidasinclair9822 жыл бұрын
Why didn't you use the 20mm inboard cannons on the MIG?
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
That's what Lt Cdr Swartz used. He did fire his guns on another MiG but missed. There wasn't too much ammo so he quickly ran out.
@samnigam34513 жыл бұрын
Why were skyhawks not used further in dogfights with Sparrow n Sidewinders? They could have wiped out Migs
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment. For one thing, A-4 had no air to air radar so it couldn't use Sparrows. It was primarily an attack aircraft. But US Navy had a great dogfighter, F-8 Crusader. However, this type of combat was considered obsolete so they replaced it.
@robertterhune46122 жыл бұрын
1:40 F4E in navy colors?
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
A necessary compromise since there aren't any naval Phantoms in DCS. There will be one but the exact date is unknown.
@mower20083 жыл бұрын
That many MiG-17s destroyed on the ground would've been crippling to the North Vietnamese Air Force, even more so if they were actually MiG-21 Fishbeds.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Actually, Osprey's 'A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War' which I used as my main source says that as many as 30 MiGs were destroyed on the ground. I reduced that number to make it look more credible :)
@SwordofDivision3 жыл бұрын
That Navy F-4 had a cannon? Might be the wrong model.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
There's no 'might'. It definitely is the wrong model 😁. That's an E model with J model skin. In fact, fighter escort on this mission wasn't even Phantoms. They were Crusaders but we don't have these yet. The only thin that comes close to a US Vietnam era fighter in DCS is F-4E.
@tristanholland64453 жыл бұрын
What’s up with your gun sight? It’s way off you have the center pip just out off the glass.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
That's what it looks like with zero depression.
@pontiacGXPfan3 жыл бұрын
Attack Squadron 76 Spirits
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
You know your squadrons 😉
@pontiacGXPfan3 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 the Navy keeps very good historical records
@shaunjohnson18542 жыл бұрын
good veiw huh
@djordjealeksic95482 жыл бұрын
Mozes li napraviti video o obaranju američkih c47 od strane Jugoslavije 1946
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
Moguće je to jest, bit će moguće pomoću IL-2 Great Battles. Tamo je C-47 u fazi razvoja. Mislim da su to bili lovci Jak-3?
@justinhall32433 жыл бұрын
Where did the F-4 Phantoms come from. Bon Home Richard CV-31 was incapable of operating them. She would have deployed F-8 Crusaders.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
True. Historically, Crusaders were flying fighter cover here. But they are not available in DCS so this is an approximation. Also, MiGs are 15s instead of 17s. Good thing is that both these aircraft are being developed for DCS so I might do a remake sometime in the future.
@dmutant26353 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 I enjoyed the segment a lot! But those F-4's look like E models in Navy paint! DCS obviously needs F-8s...
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
@@dmutant2635 Thanks. As for the F-4,. that's exactly what it is but there's no other choice at the moment. F-8 is coming to DCS. And so is MiG-17. I might probably remake this video once those two become available.
@dmutant26353 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 Good to hear! Perhaps you might consider the 195/66 VA-176 A-1 v Mig-17 combat in the future. Or Dick Bellinger's F-8 v Mig-21 kill around the same time? Keep up the good work...
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
@@dmutant2635 I will certainly try to cover as many of the F-8s clashes with the MiGs as possible 😊
@ulisesvelez58462 жыл бұрын
zuni rockets vs mig-17. a real dogfighting.
@charlesfaure11893 жыл бұрын
Let's keep in mind while bemoaning micromanagement from Washington that our political leadership was trying to avoid bringing the USSR into direct and open participation in the war and thereby setting off World War Three. Preserving capitalism in South Vietnam (democracy had nothing to do with it) wasn't worth risking the whole of human civilization. You might notice that the 'loss" of Vietnam was vastly less catastrophic for the West than government and military hawks had hysterically warned us. Still, respect for the men and women who served bravely and professionally.
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
Well, we have to be honest and consider that we do have the benefit of hindsight. And the feared 'domino effect' wasn't as terrible as believed. Still, some of the policies were strange, to put it diplomatically.
@Carrierbuilder406 Жыл бұрын
At least use the right F-4. Navy never flew F-4E.
@showtime112 Жыл бұрын
Don't you think that I would have used the right version had this been possible? Do you think that you can simply select any version of any airplane, vehicle or ship with any modification?
@Panchoproductions20692 жыл бұрын
the music gives me a headache
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
Could be some kind of a medical condition. I hope it's nothing serious 😁
@vladimirtkachenko30263 жыл бұрын
First!
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
I expected nothing less from you 😁
@samdigiorgio44122 жыл бұрын
The rolling thunder campaign reminds me of Nazi Germany's handling of the " Battle of Britian " in 1940 . . . Both complete failures and a waste of airmen and equipment !!
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
I never actually thought of comparing these two campaigns but it does make sense, now that you mention it.
@benlaskowski3572 жыл бұрын
When you micromanage nothing gets done. The restrictions on Linebacker made it pointless: you can't fight without experience, and a desk-bound dummkopf who's never flown a mission should never lead a charge. And those Zuni's hit like artillery!!
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
It's an ego thing. Hierarchy is a very stupid way of functioning but we haven't thought of anything better. Some people think they know everything better than anybody subordinate to them. The way Vietnam War was run is a clear example.
@benlaskowski3572 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 Thinking is better, last I heard. Had the Royal Navy done that Kuantan might have been avoided.
@deepscuba73843 жыл бұрын
Too bad those are F4Es...
@showtime1123 жыл бұрын
I think that in reality the escorts weren't even F-4s but F-8s. However, the list of resources is quite limited in DCS so I was happy to find any US fighter with USN skin.
@ingwiefreak2 жыл бұрын
No F4E for the navy!!!!!
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
Don't you think that a proper version would have been used had it been available?
@ingwiefreak2 жыл бұрын
@@showtime112 sorry i didn't realize,im new to showtime 112 👍🏻👍🏻
@showtime1122 жыл бұрын
@@ingwiefreak That's alright. People 'correct' details all the time and I still haven't gotten used to it 😁 DCS World is used to create these reenactments, but it only has a certain range of assets so it's necessary to approximate. Otherwise, no video would be possible.