The missile *k n o w s w h e r e i t i s*

"WHAT WHERE YOU THINKING!?" "YOU TOLD ME NOT TO THINK!" is one of my favorite lines

People don't realize how capable the late Sparrow models are. Those things have a huge burn time and a max G-load of 30Gs against a target at sea level. *Thirty Gs.* there's a reason the Sparrow can be considered a dogfight missile after the AIM-7E-2 model

It's not the flaps that make the Tomcat so floaty: it's the entire airframe. Which is why it has the DLC system you are supposed to use that deploys additional spoilers and also why the speedbrake has to be deployed during the landing approach. The Tomcat is a plane that just wants to stay in the air

You might want to consider starting the jet yourself instead of auto-start. Auto-start takes longer and misses a few things, for example it doesn't set your gun counter and it leaves your altimeter in standby.

Supercarrier is one of those DLCs where you're like, "ehhhhhhhhhh this seems awful overpriced..." and then you get it on a sale.... Minutes later you really understand how much more immersive it is to fly F18 and F14. I can't stand using standard carriers now, its a must-own.

When I was a kid a family friend of ours was a top gun f14 pilot and he had the neatest photos and models around his house. He was retired by the time I knew him but I remember him showing me tons of photo albums. It was great. Rip bob Callahan. Great man

Just in time! A new DCS video from Drewski was exactly what I wanted at this moment.

9:30. This happened with us during the end of the Golf War. My carrier launched our F-14, the moment the Araqi jets saw them they decided not to continue their engagement. it was awesome. We literally just scared them away.

The engine increased because of the high AOA it also has compressor stall physics at low speed high AOA its pretty mint

“The flaps make it so lifty!” - Orville Wright, 1903

this man just keeps getting better he's a milsim lover and dcs pilot and now i know he watches operations roon ? love the content keep it up drewski

Having grown up with Jane's US Navy Fighters 97, DCS blows up my childhood imagination.

21:38 I have no words to describe just how much these kind of small moments bring some warmth to my heart in this cold cold world.

I haven’t watched the full video yet so this comment may be useless, but the TF-30 engines in the F14A acted more like ramjets, the faster and higher you are the more power they produce. The F14B’s engine were better at lower altitudes and could pick up speed a lot quicker

served on a CVN carrier from 99-02 launching them was on cats 3 and 4 so much fun

capitalizing on top gun faster than war thunder

Operations Room also made a documentary about Major Tullia, who dodged 6 anti-air missiles back in Desert Storm, incredible story.

As a former F-14 ordnanceman, this looks like the real thing. Amazing attention to detail!

I absolutely love your videos, and I am absolutely blown away by the fact that DCS has the correct hand signals by the flight deck crew

Very nice video, OperatorDrewski, it is great to see that you enjoy the Tomcat. A sidenote: when you lock someone with PAL, it is a PSTT lock (not a PDSTT lock), which means that any phoenix fired is active off the rails. This is always true for PSTT locks, while in PDSTT it is SARH only (and does never go active). Hence in WVR range PSTT makes sure that you can fire and forget. ;-) Best regards from the Heatblur Team.

it's pretty cool to see the deck crew actually doing the hand signals and such

"Thank you for saving my life" "It's what my Dad would have done" Man tears, engage.

Personally, as someone pretty passionate about military aircraft, Ive never been able to see alot in real life, especially the F14, obviously, so the idea of active ones or even **potentially** active ones is quite a concept for me, thus I have spent quite some time on google and bing maps in the past. In the 4th row of the southmost side of the aircraft boneyard in Tucson, there appears to be a 4x f14's and if you go about 300m north followed by a lonesome singular one, I found a further 2x on the NW corner along the road. Now thats easy pickings though. On bing, the 4 are moved north 300m, however it appears that 2x are in the yard closest to the south-southeast, without wings Its also fun to try and sus out the Iranian air force bases for planes left out, You can see stuff such as F-4's and all sorts of old school classic aircraft. On the very very east side of Mehrabad Air Base, You can see one F14 sitting out, very clearly aswell. On Bing maps there's another one chillin with all the helicopters on the southside. Isfahan International Airport also has 5x out in view on the right side of the base, sitting next to their hangers. on Bing maps theirs *potentially* 7 there. I could be wrong about some of these aircraft being F-14's, please correct me if I am, sometimes I do in-fact get a tab bit too excited when i see swept wings, and they can turn out to be F-111's etc. Enjoy this useless information as I prepare myself for the hate bombardment, for this is a joyous KZfaq comment section.

It's so cool how realistic this is with the ground crew and everything. It's badass and i'd love to do it, but i'm certain i'd be overwhelmed by all the controls.

7:24 last I heard there was about 2 dozen F-14Ds still mothballed in the Boneyard somewhere.

Man, seeing videos like this brings me back to deployment. it sucks the F-14s weren't being used, but F-18s are pretty awesome too. Of course, I was in a helo squadron, but it was still rad seeing them launch.

The hand signals and the launch procedure is so cool to see in a game.

I'm so glad you mentioned Operations Room. They have some extremely well done and educational videos on a lot of history.

2:43 Drewski, as you’ve seen TG:M, you (and everyone else who has seen it) will get this reference… “Why are the wings coming out Mav?” Anybody who hasn’t seen it yet… what are you waiting for? Get your butts to your nearest cinema! 9:20 that’s called “keeping up the foreign relations” 😂

I worked with a guy who was a mechanic on a carrier during the Gulf War, I can confirm that the "A' models were pretty much all upgraded from the older engines, at least from his account. He worked on F-18s, but they had Tomcats onboard during his service.

i would love to see a game like DCS where you could actually walk around on the base in first person and talk to people with proximity voice chat exchanging stories and have mini games to play together and then once in a while you would get an unidentified aircraft you need to take care of so you need to run to your jet and then take them down or investigate the threat, maybe make a room with daily missions and tasks and such for the airbase

I just gotta say. Top Gun maverick is the first movie in my whole life I haven't heard anything bad about. My only complaint is they never used the original version of the top gun anthem. Some of the best guitar ever.

I find a good work flow with a RIO is I hand over the phoenix controls to the RIO in BVR that way I can keep an eye for anything else and he can tell me where to position the jet, then when we get into visual range 20nm or less I take over on the weapons and RIO does the spotting, feels like a better flow in my opinion so give it a go next time your up!

absolutely love the animations for the deck crew and how life like it is, like it was motion captured

I was on the Nimitz CVN68 and that was pretty awesome launch. I had a friend blown off his feet by a hornet and luckily he landed in the netting and didn't get completely blown off the carrier.

for a nice cinematic shot when taking off from the carrier, press the fly-by view just before saluting

I spent 4 years on the Theodore Roosevelt, which at the time was brand new, just having been commissioned in 1986. The sole reason I joined was the Top Gun movie. I remember going through basic training and being so tired and sore all the time. One of my buddies looked up at me once when we were mopping the deck at 2 in the morning and said "...I wish I never seen that movie now..." Our DI used to call us all Tom Cruise wannabees. I bet 30% of the recruits in my company were there from that damn movie. Best recruiting tool the Navy ever had.

So glad that you took the time to learn, not to light the cans on takeoff, don't think most players understand how much thrust the B had

Isn’t that story about the f14s taking photos and giving them the finer the story that inspired the opening scenes of the original top gun?

It always feels like Everyday Astronaut is in the jet, very similar voices

Gotta love the Tommy Cat! Great cinematics and b-roll, great video Drewski!

Another fantastic video Drew! I love that you mentioned the Operations Room, that channel is amazing. It's great when two of my favorite KZfaq channels have a crossover moment.

Drewski just so you know, the launch parameters for a phoenix are like at 50 miles, best to shoot a pheonix at around 40-50 then at 10. 10 I usually just use sidewinders.

I’m literally waiting for DCS to finish downloading right now. Been super excited for the last week or so since my HOTAS came to hop into this sim!

You’ve gotten me hooked on DCS and a new upload is always a welcome sight

Gotta love the pump when you come back from watching TGM, and you load up DCS..shoot,I did the same thing😂 but I loaded up in a F-16..it was a good run that's for sure! Great video as always Drewski!! Still my favorite Toober of all time!💚💚

I added that Kuznetsov on the server you were playing on. I didn't realize that it was trying to send the Russian fleet to the shadow realm until after I watched your video... Glad to see people enjoying the server!

I watched it twice last week it was so good not the original but god tier for me a DCS player since I got the tomcat first cause you and the original I use the 16 more but I do fly the 14 every now and then.

Absolutely love Operations Room's content. I cant wait for the next vid

Keep up with the great content!

Your DCS videos helped nudge me along to finally purchasing a hotas and a plane for vr.

Ayo In class and watching Drewski play DCS ? Hell yeah

Drew I just had the best movie experience of my life watching top gun maverick, only to come home and see you’ve made another vid on the tomcat!! One of my better days thank you for all you do and keep on going❤️❤️

the F14 intercepting like it was built for puts a tear to my eye

Whats crazy is we still do fly closer enough to the enemies to snap some photos of them. one of the squadrons from my ship actually got a few photos of J-15s flying next to our F/A-18s where you can see the pilots.

DCS is looking great. I want to see night time carrier launch and retrieval.

The Libian shootdown story kind of has a life of its own as most combat stories seem to have. Ward Carroll has a good KZfaq video on the real story of the shootdown. It isn't what we think. Apparently an observer watching the whole thing taking place contradicted the story that the Libian aircraft kept changing course to merge with the US Aircraft. Apparently, there were disciplinary actions taken behind the scene. Ward's channel is pretty good. I highly recommend it.

As a previous navy f18 AE with multiple carrier deployments .. this is spot on!

that liftoff sequence , I LOVE THAT . i need to get this game and play this lmao this is sick!

I don't know if I could take the time to learn this game but the mechanics of this and how it applies in real life never ceases to amaze me

That GarandThumb style intro tho, gold!

When I was stationed on the Lincoln, our Berthing was under the catapult...I can still hear the sound of it going of and shaking everything.

My dad served as a photographers mate on the USS Nimitz in the early 80's. He was on board for the Gulf of Sidra incident. (although I never connected the dots until now that it was that particular incident...)

Watching drewski play dcs makes my head hurt but, still entertaining.

Unlike the MSFS 2020 version, you can actually you know... Fire weapons.

Superb stuff. Thank you for your support and professionalism OD. Kind regards Nick

Trying not to spoil, but I absolutely adored the part in Top Gun: Maverick where two characters went into the plane to escape after the crashes. It's like it went full circle from the first movie. I know who the two characters are, but I'm just not saying cause I don't want to spoil it. It was just so cool to see those characters in THAT plane and them demolishing fighters right off the production line with a relic like the certain plane they were in.

Piece of advise, with phoenix always use the TWS and stay high (30-35 angel) they have a lot of range and they are fast. For what You did you should use sparrows

This looked so authentic. I worked v-1 on the cvn-71. This freaking awesome!!!!

I did the SAME thing lol. Went into the movie with very low expectations and then I found myself smiling for the last 20 minutes of the movie lol. I LOVED it! And I also could not wait to get home to play DCS lol

Just finished watching the movie 2 hours ago. THE MOVIE WAS AMAZING! I was surprised to see you release a DCS Video. I always watch your Tarkov Content.

Succesfully almost overspeeded the flaps on takeoff :D I usually put everything up as soon as I am off the deck, that thing accelerates like a beast. Also yeah the tf30 does spool up on high aoa... Quite funny you can fly it on idle for a long time if you're empty on both fuel and stores

2:23 I'm suprised that the boat can stay afloat with this dudes' balls of solid steel

Thanks Drewski 👍watching the first minute of the vid made me sit down and re-watch Top Gun and remembered how amazing that movie is!

Your friendly F-5E with three bags here. You should try CAP in the F-5 with me. Two Fox 2s, a lot of gas, and a dream. Nuts 1-1

You can be my Wingman any time Drewski...........

Watching this really makes me want to test out my new GeForce RTX 3060 on DCS so I'm gonna go learn the F-16 :) I watched a video of Thunderbirds flying and it made me want to fly that :) I'll probably fly the Hornet this weekend :)

Love these DCS vids. Nice flying.

i just bought this with the mavrick bundel and im in love. increadbly easy to learn and super fun.

Haha I love this video! I was planning to get the F-14 and this is exactly the type of video I want to see!

Love your content drewski, keep it up man

Perfect landing you did at the "end"

I just picked up the F-14 in DCS after seeing the new TopGun movie! Its an absolute blast and its so fun to watch combat in it

‘Neat’ video as always, that RIO guy won’t shut up though. It’s pronounced ‘Technea-sh-ium’ not ‘Tech-neat-ium’ ;)

Imagine flight deck crews having this to train for flight ops in the early 2000's...

Garand thumb joke in the first 5 seconds? Love it!

I took CVN75 on maiden deployment and I think that was last deployment for Tomcat. Seeing one loaded down in the movies is cool. Seeing one in person sitting on the elevator is jaw-dropping.

too all newby. DCS as a 2 week trial for every planes, map and extra module ( like the supercarrier) on they main website . available until the end of june. also DCS do 50% sales in every occation they can. you can wait for summer sale if you want to save some $$$ DCS itself is free

Ive decided to get into DCS, this looks like the perfect hobby to keep me out of jail

Top Gun Maverick is the best movie I've seen since the pandemic started.

There’s a similar story to that f-14 story that f-22 pilots did too lmao like the radars just couldn’t pick up the f-22s so they were just chillin right next to them until they broke radio silence to tell them to leave or die pretty much

Was that a garandthumb reference at the beginning?

SPOILER WARNING: I wasn't sold of Top Gun Maverick, I felt the whole premise strayed really far from reality having to canyon run with old planes because of blahdeblah. The odd placement of the SAM sites and yadaya made it feel more like a bond film. Then Rooster hit the chaff button for the first time and I was sold. The inner child in me seeing a flare dump with incredible sound design went nuts. Everything after that was pure joy, from the Hind Gunship coming in, to the og F-14 v 2x Su-57 (5th gen or whatever they call them in the movie).

My neighbor and good friend, Ret. Commander Scott Cartvedt (former Blue Angels) was the pilot who flew the canyon scene and trained the actors in the movie. We house-sat for him and his wife while they were away. I went to a premier here in Colorado and met some of the cast. Scott is the most humble dude you'll ever meet and you’d honestly never guess he is such a badass. He's in some exciting new stuff coming soon!

one cool thing i learned from an vet f14 pilot was that you can distinguish the variants based on the colour of their exhaust cones. i can’t remember the term he used but you guys get the point

Did ED model the tendency of the A variant to experience compressor stalls?

It still happens today. I've had Chinese fighters off my wing before giving me the finger during an intercept. I didn't notice until I looked at the pictures. Obviously, they're classified, but it happens.

Garand thumb intro style right here, hehe love it !

Remembering Playing Topgun on the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) lates 80s and now this in DCS great how technology has come along