The Intense Dogfight Between a U.S. Pilot and an Iraqi MiG
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- It's January 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, and a USAF pilot is in trouble. An Iraqi MiG has locked onto his plane and is preparing to take him down. The next decision he makes will have to be perfect - or it could be his last.
#fighterjet #fighterpilot #dogfight
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You can joke about the Iraqi pilot, but he was a fighter pilot too, and he was fighting for his life.
Steven Zore...true, but he was totally outclassed in terms of training, avionics, AWACS, the plane...the Iraqi pilot didn’t stand a chance...
woodystorey I think you're missing the point.
I agree, their governments actions led to this but at the end of the day, they were both pilots doing their duties. The Iraqi pilot doing his best with what he had, and the US pilot with loads of training behind him just coming into action. Both being fighter pilots, they both probably had a lot in common, war is messy.
Sucks when you're playing for the Browns and the Patriots show up in town.
woodystorey I assure you, you only hear about the wins
That second iraqi pilot is a true pro, they can never shoot you down if you crash into the ground first
I'm dead 😂
Lmao
Damn Iraci kill stealer. Happens to me in GTAV all the time.
That does count as a kill for the US pilot though. Its called a maneuver kill where you force the enemy into a maneuver that causes him to crash.
HAHAHAHAHAHA XD
"Can't get shot down if you're already down. :)"
Imagine this: you’re a fighter pilot who’s been training for years. Suddenly, two USAF pilots pull up on you, immediately locked on. You pull some hard turns. Very hard. 7-8Gs. The blood in your body weighs so much that you’re struggling to even figure out where you are and what’s going on. You dive to prevent missile fire. You try to pull up before you hit the ground, pulling over 10gs since the only way to turn that fast is to activate afterburners. You lose consciousness. You die.
Then 14 year olds make fun of you in a RUclips video for the next 2 years
@@AaronCleetus-cj4gw yeee
@@AaronCleetus-cj4gw they’re probably going to be like “WheRES tHE voIcE ChaT?!?!”
I agree, that G force hits hard and your out. I can’t imagine the pain that pilot was in
@@CFM2 nah, they'll probably say "hAcKeR, iM rEpOrTiNG yOu, gEt GoOd"
Good life. The 12 year olds will never understand
Even tho I am American I honestly feel bad for the Iraqi pilot, that was someone son trying to defend their country. RIP man.
Both you are right. However, those Iraqis you feel so bad about had also just invaded Kuwait without provocation before we got involved. War is disgusting, I know first hand unfortunately.
@@massivepump3059 And US invaded iraq without any provocation, what is your point?
@@elafl807 whataboutism is not a valid argument
@@elafl807 True🤷.
@@massivepump3059
I see you know a lot of things, than I also hope that you know that USA along with its NATO allies killed more than million Iraqis and this number is not even close to what iraqis did in Kuwait
everyone saying "stop joking about the iraqi pilot"
me scrolling through comments to find nothing except comments saying to not joke about it
They’re down there. I was thinking the same thing; on my end, the tasteless jokes started after 30 or so comments down.
The Mig-29 could take down an Eagle with the right pilot.
it’s those and other people confused on where they are
@@charleswilson7371 Bald, or Golden?
An apt observation Lukson.
This is how people use fighter jets in Battlefield
RIGHT XD
Yes!!! Something Activision could never achieve...
I’m a plain main on bf3-5 it’s true
Bell plane you mean?
lamo right
I get the jokes, but remember it takes everything out of one's life to be a pilot.
Respect, F.
Yeah I know!! Nobody knows what's it really like until they're on a real plane and the enemy has a lock on you n your buzzer warning is going crazy!! That's where your fighting tactics learned from top gun and aggressor fighting schools kicks in!!
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Well good for him that he died in a dogfight and didn't get asassinated with his family like most of the Iraqi pilots during the civil war
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Remember the man on the other side of the battlefield is fighting for what he believes in, has been taught, and for those they love, honor thy fallen enemy for they are human as well💯 respect to all pilotz all around
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Bermuda Triangle mystery was solved tho
I know right
Lux Smash ya and Area 51 would not have aliens anymore
But Malaysian flight tho
U.S. Pilot: Barely escapes Iraqi missiles
Iraqi pilots: Die a horrible death
Smithsonian: *happy ending music*
But it is a happy ending.
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Oh, please...
KIMOA it’s sad to be honest
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory You must be some anti-Araqi group.
Max Müller well considering the fact that Iraq was the aggressor in this war I wouldn’t call one mans death a happy ending but I would suggest Iraq’s defeat as a happy ending
it’s kinda insane that stuff like this happens and we don’t know most of the time
People care more about celebrities on Instagram. Its human nature to ignore the uncomfortable stuff
The government doesnt want you to know its for the better
Like it could be happening rn and we wouldnt even know about it
@@nczioox1116 reading this while procrastinating my work proved your point on the spot
@@nczioox1116 no
The Iraqi pilots controller died.
But seriously respect to all soldiers.
@@vanillavilla. The USA were the terrorists in this war lol
@@fast_mustang9287 doesnt matter, the US invaded them for oil, we all know it
@@fast_mustang9287 i respect the fact your family fought for what they believed in, but to us acts of terror are mines and carbombs, but to other people being invaded and having a different nation decide about the politics in their own country, is an act of terorrism
@@fast_mustang9287 I think your perspective on terrorism is strongly influenced by how the western goverments define terrorism, with all the respect to your family members who served for the US, the US is human rights violater nr1 on this planet, they are the ones doing western imperialism and sticking their nose in places where they dont belong , like we have seen in vietnam, afghanistan and iraq
@@fast_mustang9287 yes, they bomb buildings because us only wanna attack cities because theyre good at it but trash fighting in the forest. Thats 1 reason why america lost againts vietnam
That Iraqi pilot defended his nation till last breath. Respect.
Why is USA invading
The second MiG pilot was already dead the moment he ended up in a 2 on 1 situation, the fact that he attempted to perform such a dangerous maneuver shows the desperation of the pilot to evade the F-15s, and honestly hats off to him for trying, you need some serious balls to be trying air show like maneuvers in combat, cause no flares or jinking would had saved him from that situation. I see a lot of people mocking the pilot, I see a lot of people actually treating the pilot with respect, I can't say anything but how joking around about the enemy like that just shows how much we've dehumanized them, it's just childish.
Just dont come into the comments section then.
@@critik4l169 don't dehumanize the enemy, it could backstab you in the end.
There was an Egyptian MiG-21 pilot who attempted a Split-S at only 3,000 fight in a desperate bid to evade a pursuing Israeli Mirage III. According to the Israeli pilot, the MiG-21 threw up an enormous plume of sand/dust as it neared the ground and, for a moment, the Israeli lost sight of the aircraft (thinking perhaps it had struck the ground). Amazingly, the MiG emerged from its enormous cloud of sand and, pulling through the maneuver with bare feet (if not mere inches) to spare it rocketed skyward. Unfortunately for the Egyptian MiG, the Israeli had anticipated his position and positioned his own aircraft for a shot as the MiG lost energy near the top of its maneuver. As far as the Split-S maneuver was concerned, perhaps the Egyptian MiG-21 pilot had succeeded where the Iraqi MiG-29 pilot failed. It's not fully apparent that the MiG-29 pilot was trying to pull a Split-S, however, he could have just as easily been suffering threat fixation and been overly focused on what was on his six as opposed to the altitude left under his aircraft.
f-15s are whack.
I've joked around plenty at the state of the Iraqi army in the first Gulf War, but I won't joke at individual loss of life. Am I glad he lost, absolutely, but that doesn't mean I can't respect an enemy soldier who's only doing what he's been asked to do and think he's doing the right thing.
But did you know that he went into 100% defensive mode?
Did he? I didn't pick up on that. Good thing his wing man had a heat-seeking AIM-7 to drop that baddie.
Agreed, that’s too much. 🤣🤣🤣
But. Can he go 87% defensive mode? Maybe he will be less stressful in that range.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAH.
Still didnt get it. Mig has a lock on. Why he didnt fire a missile
"It's not about the plane, its about the pilot" - Top Gun or something
yeah lol
Can't even see the "terrible" jokes with all these other comments on about them
Yeah same.
Same it’s more people complaining then jokes
Wdym I saw like 10 jokes and they not even funny.
True
Same :D
This is how my parents went to school
They had to walk through the sky while fighter Jets fought each other
@@dkv674 r/wooosh
Underrated comment
@@a15bionic59 I would not say that’s a whoosh
@@bumblebeeyep yeah, more like r/Brrrrrrt
The jokes are funny, but I have respect to the dead soldier.
Negative. He made his choice and knew the consequences.
@@RealLudoKressh Why?He was a soldier of his country and died fighting like one. He sat on a jet fighter to fight for his people even if he didn't wanted to,that's called patriotism.
@@RealLudoKressh He didn't make this choice. Without the U.S, he would have never been in this situation that cost him his life.
Orbit 01 the U.S. didn’t tell him to attack.
@@RealLudoKressh Everyone makes a choice whether to be a fighter pilot no matter which country.
Imagine being ordered to fight for your life and the internet jokes about your death. Pathetic 12 year olds smh.
Chose the wrong side. Hehe 😎
@@AttenboroughAdmirer what choice did he have?
Cruel
Zy dare Zy dare That was the good side actually. Bush claimed that the they had WMDs (never proved correct), and also the « They took the Kuwait » 😂, really ?? Obviously you petrol stealers told them to go for it then just told to everyone in the NATO and NA that we should attack Kuwait. Obviously USA killed so many just for petrol, both Gulf wars were for petrol. Glad us, french stopped that mascarade and refused to go to the second one. You guys can call us whatever you want, but at least we respect the human rights. And because I see the withe me flag jokers coming : at least we won a battle alone in our hole history lol😂😁👋🏽
Shawn Hapes Sad that we have bad leaders now
Cant kill a mig if there isnt a mig to kill! *crashes into the desert*
Walrus_War_King 16 wtf hahahaha
XD
That’s why you don’t put an iraqi in a plane
He probably said that.
You should know that a video games are far cry from real thing.
As an Iraqi, I want to thank everyone who paid respect to the Iraqi pilot. This war was completely unjustified, benefitting the likes of Cheyney, Bush, and Big Oil. Rest in peace to every martyr and dead soldier whom these men's greed has caused, no matter what side they were on. Rest in peace to the million Iraqi people who died in the aftermath power vacuum this war has caused. The world owes Iraq a huge apology and gratitude, as after everything that happened, Iraqis still put their lives on the line to stop a terrorist organization like ISIS from spreading to the rest of the world.
What about when Iraq invaded Kuwait?
@Trust The Process what a bozo
@Trust The Process my response is up there. What are you bozos talking about? Do y'all have a Kuwaiti boyfriend or something? Iraq and Kuwait relationship is better than ever. I have lost five family members since 2003 due to bullets or explosions. Thanks to the lot of you who supported this war, you sheep.
@@paper7272 and?
@@paper7272 USA gave them the green light
It's not a game, it's real life and death. So scary and sad, yet somehow badass at the same time.
Hollywood will make you want to enlist real quick. Then one week in you will be wanting right back out
@Aaron Kane you have to find something negative in everything hunh? They are All badasses...ANYONE who can do this, and fight for their country...no matter what country! I guess you didn't see the part about it being "scary and sad" as well!?!
Aaron K Iraq was invading Kuwait when this happened though
@Aaron K MIG are good jets lol
@@emmanueledano5194 Not good enough to compare.
whoever record these jets fighting deserves a raise
My uncle served in the Gulf War. He died recently, not in the war. Some health problems. Anyway, you will be forever missed man. ❤💪
.......
where the health problems related to anything from the gulf war
I'm very sorry for your family's loss. His military family shares your grief.
1st Tank Battalion, Task Force Papa Bear, 1st Marine Division, ODS
Semper Fidelis
Sorry. It sucks losing loved ones. Hang in there and just remember the good times. The first couple months are the hardest, but eventually it doesn’t hurt so much.
Rip iraqi pilot
ima slow down..hit the brakes..he'll fly right by..
Your gonna do what
"YOuRe gonna do WhAt?!"
Roger maverick
@@georgecahill3046 what he said is correct, there is a thing called brakes on jets too to reduce air speed. It is actually a type of defensive manouevre and also, he was quoting tom cruise from top gun
Pugachevs cobra
These were all brave men. One day we are enemies and on others we could’ve been allies.
Sadly the enemy died before we could find out more…
Can’t find any of these jokes under all the “don’t joke” comments
Actually I found it a lot. One of them is a joke about "the pilot didn't pass the tutorial and now he can enjoy 7 wives in aLaH aKbAh land" Which is not true because it is possible that the pilot fainted from receiving too much g and if that were true he still wouldn't get 7 wives tho
A fool with their eyes closed.
I know everyone’s saying stop but haven’t seen a single person actually make a joke
Yep, just a bunch of virtue-signalling about them
"Heat seeking AIM-7 Missile."
The AIM-7 was radar guided...
Semi radar guided
Thank you! Glad someone else caught that. Semi-active radar guided, to be specific, but definitely not heatseeking.
@@araizkhan221 I actually did not know it was semi guided. So, what's the difference between semi radar guided, and radar guided?
@@AlienVibesss Aim-7 requires an aircraft to maintain radar lock for the missile to ride'. Full-active is a missile with its own targeting radar (Fire and Forget)
@@AlienVibesss it requires the lock on the target until it hits the target ...unlike radar guided misile like aim 120 which uses its own radar to find its target some time after it launches ...but aim 7 uses the radar of the aircraft
To be honest, dogfighting has changed so much since the invention of aircraft. In the first war it was about speed and aerobatics, in the second great war it was speed, aerobatics, and firepower. Then jets came along and now its through greatly precise maneuvers and technology that assists the pilot. From training that took only around 3 to 6 months, now to I believe 7 or 8 years.
Then came guided missiles...
Whatever you do, you would die.
5th generation is all technology. F-22 will shot down any aircraft and never be seen.
8 years????
speed, aerobatics, and turning have always been the basics of dogfighting. dogfighting, or "basic" fighter maneuvers center around getting your nose on the enemy and taking them out. that hasn't changed. now, however, we primarily use missiles instead of guns and the pace is multiplied significantly as well as the ability to perform maneuvers such as going vertical, which simply were not feasible in the era of props. also, training does not take 7 to 8 years. you need to be an officer, which requires going to college for, so 4 years i guess, and then about 18 months of training including ots or ocs, depending on the branch and which can also be replaced with rotc or going to the navy or air force academy, which will be during your 4 years of college. nowhere near 7 to 8 years. i have no clue where you got that from. that's the length of 2 contracts.
@@Dr.Kraig_Ren just... no. that's not how it works. just as it was shown in this video, there are ways to get around radar or infrared locks in dogfights. the whole premise of dogfights are that you have to get nose on and a radar or infrared lock. those are impossible in a slower turning aircraft or when the two aircraft are too close to each other. missiles can move in the general direction of the target aircraft's heat source or radar signature, depending on the missile. however, air-to-air missiles travel at speeds about mach 3, so it can only adjust itself onto the target aircraft so much. if the two aircraft are too close to each other, a fired missile will not have time to track onto and follow the enemy aircraft.
Imo it sounds like the last fighter g-loc'd. The nosedive wasn't an evasive maneuver but rather an unconscious pilot. They probably woke up 5 - 6000 feet above the ground, tried to correct with afterburners but at that speed recovery was impossible. This is how many pilots die, not from being shot down, but from losing consciousness during high G maneuvers.
AIM 7 isn`t a heat seeking missile, it`s a radar guided sparrow, AIM 9 is a Sidewinder.
why hasn't anyone else spotted/ commented this. such an obvious mistake.
@@plasmacarrot6863 there is a couple in the comments
I think it's only semi actice radar missle.
@@averytiredman4857 yeah it is
Isn’t the aim7 a fox one? So semi avtive radar
My grandpa was an ACE pilot flying a p-30 I think it was, they called it “The Blackout”
He caught in the pacific and completed 3 bomb runs before retiring in 1944 one year before the war ended rip John M Ivey thank you for serving
I think we all forget that these men have their orders it's not like they willingly will shoot you down it's because their choices are made for them so let's respect everyone who is serving the army
brainwashed citizens of the great nation of murica don't understand this.
“Good soldiers follow orders”
Sergio Hernández Robla yea and Iraq totally wasn’t killing innocent people were brainwashed yet Americans are one of the few countries that have access to everything mostly on thebinternet
@@offzach You must really not know about drone strikes which Americans perform on villages do you? If we take into account for number of innocent lives taken by countries.. the u.s and the u.k would be number one by a mile.
@@kaziamin7874 they don't care
at 1:46 the commentator says that the aim 7 is a heat seaking missile however it is not. In fact it is more of a radar missile called a fox 1 it doesn't track heat signature it locks the ennemy plane thanks to the host plane's radar and need a constant lock in order to hit which is completely different from a heat seaking missile such as the aim 9 sidewinder because the aim 9 locks onto any heat signature and when launched it will track it and hit unless some flares are launched
(sorry for my english i'm french ahah)
The jokes are great, lightening up the mood, but please pay respect for the Iraqi that died fighting for his country, he may look like the enemy in your eyes, but to his people, he was a hero... In the end, it all depends on our perspective...
Shouldn’t fight to to slaughter innocent women and children for what you believe. I’m glad we help the freedom fighters in other countries who otherwise would stand no chance
@@ballsach8864 Your country? Freedom fighters? What an excuse to get oil from arab nations, stirring up chaos and bombing villages? You think your country wasn't commiting a massacre. They were...
Royal Mirenda - there is hundreds of thousands of freedom fighters that do the bulk of fighting in the war in Afghanistan specifically, that Americans, Canadians and British fight besides. If they didn’t then millions would be killed by an oppressive government. All you care about is money, not the innocent who have no voice for them. They are killing killers that slaughter the innocent.
Royal Mirenda - You think am entire country should be allowed to torcher and commit genocide on there own people for money and control? Your a crazy man
@@ballsach8864 you have no idea whats going on there do you ?
No one:
The GTA airport:
Ha
@@skyboomin r/woooosh
@@skyboomin Why? Just why?
69th like
Umm people saying some 14 year olds are making fun but i havent found any
Its really sad that they fought even though they knew that they were not going to win. Please respect them because they had the heart to fight and die following orders.
I'm not sure if "this" one, but one of the Iraqi MiG-29 pilots was a career veteran with three kills to his credit from the Iran-Iraq War.
@@otyliciu well those outdated migs were outmatched
How dare those Iraqi pilots defend their country from a hostile invading force.
@@benami3071 bruh😭
@@benami3071 I know right!!1!1! HOW DARE THEY DO THAT!!1!1!1
Whether friend or foe, these guys are brave men.
He obviously survived if he's being interviewed
The other guy is being interviewed
Way to ruin the ending.
God Bless you Rodriguez! Men like you aren't easy to replace!!
The Iraqis actually shot down a F/A 18, and a few other jets most of these won't tell you about. It's sad, Iraq was actually really civilized before the invasion.
It was also one nation vs nearly 100.
@@f4wnz132 100? Wasn't it just nato and EU?
@@rageagainstthewashingmachi2877 How many nations is that? 100 was an overexaggeration, maybe, but the war was still not fair.
Shows the downfall of our culture when the entire comment section is nothing but video-game references.
These are real people/pilots, real events, real feats of engineering and training. Real life & death.
It's sad, war should not be an option for a civilized society. We have been conditioned since grade school to accept war as part of being a "free" nation.
"War is a Racket". Gen. Smedley Butler
General Smedley Butler on Interventionism
-- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
First day on the internet?
Real life and death? Is it for Xbox/PC or a PS4 exclusive?
@@JP-qb8qx well, all i can tell you is, ask the video-gamers, cause your guess is as good as mine.
@@tmvo2wotch96 We tried negotiating with Saddam Hussein. Hussein wouldn't budge. Since Iraq is land-locked, Hussein wanted Kuwait's access to the Persian Gulf on top of Kuwait's abundant oil. Since he insisted on standing his ground, we took it back from him at the request of the Kuwaiti government-in-exile.
AIM-7 isn't heat seeking.
Just shows how smart these guys actually are
@@jamesmcgee2463 Right. The narrator said the AIM-7 is heat seeking. Maybe it's deliberate to misinformation?
WHO SAYS?
AIM-7 is a semi active radar homing missile. No infrared seeker.
Heat seeking AIM-7.... that cracked me up!
"Heat seeking AIM-7" was all I really needed to bounce from this vid.
Pilot: i was within seconds of a horrible casualty
Smithsonian: it’s brighter here
2:19 you can hear an iphone “notification”
Yea i heard it . It was a masseg from viber
glad i’m not the only one😂
I cant hear it
@Yusuf patel no u
That’s just the missile lock on sound
This comment section be like:
60%-"Don't joke about enemy pilot!"
39%-"I can't see any joke comments under all those "don't joke" comments"
1%-"joking about enemy pilot"
You forgot all the people correcting the exact guidance system in the AIM-7.
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@@lambdaman3228 I just saw that😭
True statement
Lol this is so underrated
This is insane but kinda goofy how the announcer said “heat seeking aim 7” when the aim 7 is a radar missile
As others have pointed out, aim-7 is not a heater. Get it together, Smithsonian...
They are too busy adding hype and 'drama' to worry about getting the story right.
How do so many of you guys even know what a aim7 even is. First time ive ever even heard about it. You guys must be ex airforce or jet enthusiasts
jet enthusiasts
Taylor Smith The overall quality of the videos produced by the Smithsonean is pretty bad. Their research is terrible. I’ve seen a number of videos and it was embarrassing.
@@KoreanKoalaRider ..it's a missile and no it's not heat seeking it radar guided the guy apparently confused the aim9 with the aim7
Pilot: *crash and died*
comment section: haha dark humour goes brrrrrrtt
piwwuゴゴ it must be fun living behind the lines of the winner side
NOoOoo you can't just make jokes about pilots dying!
Haha explosion goes brrrr
@@totozilla6396 am not american btw
Haha a-10 warthog go brrr
@@totozilla6396 lies*
Tbf, i would NEVER use a heat seeker when a friendly is close to an enemy jet. DCS taught me enough
XPjammie HD its aim-7; it is radar guided, not heat seeking
@@Kid82fy Yea, they said heat seeking, but the aim 7 is radar. I wonder why they got that wrong.
@@blackfalcon1324 Because Smithsonian channel is entertainment and they are extremely bad with facts. Embarrassingly so.
Bleagle 🔥🔥🔥
You COULD if your name was 'Maverick"....HE does that kinda stuff!!! And it works!!
Totally different worlds we live in, salute to the military
Heat seeking AIM-7 pissed me off so much
WELL, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT- YOU DON'T HAVE TO EAT IT!!!
Who is here after watching top gun mav?
Mr Rodriguez,
Thanks to you and every veteran who has served to protect the country, freedoms, rights and life I have. I hold these as close as the love for my family. BEST AND PEACE.
Yes, brother. Every person has a right to exist. We all matter to God and ourselves. For real
@@OptimusTraps 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Glad you enjoyed the show. Most of you have already figured out this is not what happened. The instant the USAF pilot was in Abdul's sights and range...kaboosha. Game over. You're also forgetting who trained the Arab.
"Just hit the brakes, he'll fly right by." - Pete Mitchell
Hahaha
maverick, you can be my wingman any time.
I watched this movie like half an hour ago. Still my favourite movie ever.
@@henryblake2933 Youre dangerOUS
@@breastmilkgaming You can be my wingman anytime.
Respect to all pilots, USAF and Iraqi.
Thought the AIM-7 Sparrow was a SARH missile that uses the radar.
The aim-7 is a semi active radar guided missile, not a „heatseeker“.
Potato potato
Well I guess that phrase doesn't really work written out.
vidright finaly someone else who has even a small amount of knowledge
Call me uninformed but what foes that mean?
Rodrigo Marques a radar guided missile uses either its own inbuilt radar or the one from the place it was fired off to follow a target. A heatseeking missile locks onto a thermal signature of something, the sky is very cold and the jet pipes of planes are very hot
AIM-7 Sparrow is a semi-active radar homing missile that homes on the reflected radar energy from the firing aircraft's radar. The Sparrow does not have its own radar so must usebthis energy to guide on. The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a "heatseeker" that homes on the thermal energy from the target's engine.
Jokes are fun. But pls keep in mind that someone died ! This is not a game.
A terrorist died. Who cares
Human Personson so you will decide the dead was terrorist and not the other one? militaries fight for their survival and they go to any distance, if war crimes are considered terror then america and UK probably are biggest terrorist militaries in the world
@@LOKSTED he was not a terrorist.
Human Personson Keep in mind, he was also a fighter jet, fighting for his life.
Human Personson you mean a person from a third world country who was trying to defend his home?
If it were the American dying you’d all go on about how he’s a ‘hero’ and died for his country
Didn't need the narrator to be so dramatic. The account of what happened was horrifying enough. There narrator's excessive dramatization almost cheapens it.
The entire exchange probably happened quicker than the video.
You may laugh, but with the simulator Falcon 4.0, I found out you can't 'power through' a situation where you are headed to the ground. I initiated a split-S at only 5,000 ft AGL, and tried to use afterburners to pull out of the dive. I hit the ground. Later I found in that situation if I reduce the power it's much easier to pull up.
3:36 guy says his sentence and then happy music
“I’m in a 100% Survival mode”
*he clearly played minecraft*
@@brapa1190 *GASPING FOR AIR*
only respect this joke so far
@@Ean256 yeet
@@xyreace well you could say it’s the only one that’s relevant
MIG21 shot down an F16 last week in a dogfight between IAF and PAF. First in the world
With absolutely NO proofs :) .. Pakistan DIDNT even use F-16 but your Nightmare JF 17
@@danyalkhaliq915 Pakistan is always been liar
@@danyalkhaliq915 there are many proof been provided they have use f16 beaten by mig 21,
That's power of iaf
Joke of the day lol
@Vamshee Goud did you get your proof?
dont forget that the us invaded iraq for made up claims and slaughtered millions. they are the nbad guys here, the iraqi pilot was just defending his country
Shout out to the camera man he made the story worth it
May they didn’t switch the “terrain” warning from Russian to Arabic in the second iraqi’s mig??
Aren't iraqi migs ex German, Polish or Czech?
Pull up, CYKA BLYT
@@GinsengStrip-wt8bl i saw cyrillic written all over the mig, but it's probably not the actual footage
@@GinsengStrip-wt8bl MiG I am pretty sure are mostly all Russian. Of course they probably sell to those countries but the jet was most likely in Russian Cyrillic.
They’re trained in the USSR
Top Gun 2 brought me here
You were in a 4G inverted dive with a Mig 28?
@@punchycat8113 i am very sad you don't get this
@@thehonestloaf3575 ?
@@punchycat8113 reference to top gun movie ;3
@@christianperezlindo8628 oh. Lmao
Yes, we were.
What were you doing in a 4g inverted dive?
Keeping up foreign relations.
The Aim 7 is not a heat seeking missle... It's radar guided... Aim 9s and old AIM 4s are heat seekers... Haven't loaded since early 70s... Don't know what's available today...
3:08 3:18 every time i zoom and boom in war thunder
WireLoop40 lol what?
Grey Gray :P forgot to put a word 😂
Heres a tip for you: if you wanna boom and zoom choose and aircraft that was designed to do that and make sure to turn your throttle all the way down to zero or you might end up breaking the speed limit and crashing.
Came for the dogfight.
Left with PROPAGANDA.
Well played...
What propaganda?
yep ....Americans 2...... Bad guys .....0...goose egg....zip.....nada....shut out.....na na na na,...nananana, ...hey hey,,,GOOD BYE!
They just told what happened in the dogfight...whats ur problem??
"HEAT-SEEKING AIM-7 MISSILE"
LOL
He prolly meant AIM9 lol
@@robertburge7582 The pilot said he launched an AIM-7, and I'm inclined to think he wasn't the one who made the mistake.
@@Dubanx he said AIM7 by accident most likely. Cuz the AIM7 Sparrow isn't a heatseeker, the AIM9 is. Look it up
@@robertburge7582 he wasn’t the one who said that, it was the narrator. Go to his dogfight episode he says aim7.
props to the camera man
xXLa-Z-eRXx: *shoots Jet with missle*
Missle: *damages Jet*
GetGoodBot387: *HAS CHOSEN THE EASY WAY OUT*
2:31 that shot is legendary, i can only imagine how confusing it is to have to keep track of another plane while your pulling hella g's
The mig 29 is more maneuverable than the f15 because it has a higher thrust to weight ratio but its electronics arent near as capable as the f15 from my understanding
Especially Iraqi shit ones we sold to them, which had worsened characteristics for a purpose. Also Iraqi pilots' training isn't even near to American or Russian pilots'.
They work better also when you don't fly em into the ground.
The trust to weight ratio isn't the only factor that affects an aircraft's manoeuvrability
@@TheGr1mFandango exactly. Except for the "or Russian" part of course. Russian pilots may have a worlds better mindset, but they don't train all that much more than any other country. Flight time is just too expensive.
@@jiaruiyan870 the Mig actually does have a lot of advantages in terms of kinematics. Less fuel and lighter armament/sensors/electronics load out allow it to turn better at most speeds and have better speed characteristics almost all around.
That all comes back to bite it, like OP said, in its poor BVR capabilities and lack of integrated or intuitive WVR systems. Early adoption of helmet targeted IR-SRAAMs just wasn't enough to curtail an overall much more ground-centric "missile bus" mindset on the part of the designers.
that iraqi really didn’t want him to get the exp for shooting him down.
Most people in Ace Combat these days
01:40 I think AIM - 7s are radar guided, not heat-seeking
The second MIG-29's air dive led to his downfall.
🇺🇸 And this is why the F22 program was more than necessary. Hats off to these F15 pilots. True American heroes. 🇺🇸
More like terrorists.
I pray for these individuals, regardless of any borders, they are just people who want to do their best for their country and go back to their loved ones. This is heartbreaking
Nice to see a Hispanic war hero finally acknowledged
1:42 _"... heat-seeking AIM-7 missile.."_
*Facepalm*
tatum ergo I know, I’d hate to be the one to tell them there is no place on a flight line called the tarmac
The Gulf War was the most unjust and unequal war in history. The war was 41 days, 34 days of it were bombing on Iraq. It was the largest air alliance in history. After World War II, all Iraqi radars and air defenses were destroyed, and most of the Iraqi army planes were destroyed on the ground, and Iraqi planes were suffering for Obtaining the locations of enemy planes in the air due to the lack of radars, so these pilots should never be underestimated because of this war
Man props to the cameraman. He went all out on getting these 2 battling it out. Props to the iraqi soldier too. Love how he respected the press there by not killing them.
Really sick „footage“. (--_____--)
Dead joke
This is a tribute to Colonel Rodriguez, his wingman, fellow pilots, the aircraft they flew (crafted by the United States), and the U.S. Air Force. Kudos to all.
HMU
Thank you for your service
Its honestly crazy how far they can target each other with guidance systems
Heat seeking AIM-7
why you bully me
Whose watching this after Top Gun Maverick?
Aim 7 is not heat seeking, the Aim-9 is
That was my immediate thought too. I guess it is more dramatic when the narrator says "heat seeking missile."
Thank you all for your service
Please, before anyone starts talking remember that the Iraqi Pilot fought to defend himself and others so give him some respect. He may be on the opposite side. But hes still human. Heck even some of the Nazis didnt know what they were really fighting for other than defend there country and themselves.
Ive seen too many 13 year olds being ignorant. Dont be like them
These edgy little kids will never learn
Just following orders isn’t an excuse for war crimes
>heat seeking
>aim 7
Wat