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There is one more documentary that you haven't realized you are doing. You are documenting how to build a proper channel by being... engaging receptive knowledgeable friendly funny serious ever improving and learning sharing those wins and losses with others entertaining and just an overall awesome person Well done brother...Well done.
Interesting fact: you had to launch tomcats one at a time off the older carriers because when their wings were fully extended they would reach over to the catapult beside it
When I was in the navy I used to watch the f14 and the a6 intruder flying around and it made me feel invinsible. I don't know if the modern aircraft exude as much confidence in today's sailors but I hope they do.
Well I’m not in navy but I work in a area that has fighter jets flying in and around the sky of a joint strike base. And we see a lot of f15 and f22. I can truly tell you when I hear the sound of those twin after burners I truly know we are a protected nation and I know no matter what this city is protected no matter what lol. I hope everyone feels that sense of safety and national pride when they see fighter jets.
It'd be more interesting to try and guesstimate what Israel is going to do to/with their F-35Is. Just adding the Python 5 would be interesting close-in.
I sort of laughed when the screen said the bear was getting too close to the carrier. In 1980, when Iran had the American hostages, my Marine amphibious unit was on the USS New Orleans, a helicopter carrier, floating in the Persian Gulf. The Soviet Bear aircraft flew so close to the carrier that you could see facial details on the Soviet airmen. We would wave at those guys and they waved back. They would circle around the ship several times, disappear, and then return again and again. We were floating around out there for about 60 days.
When I was in 2/3 I got to do RIMPAC one year and was on the helicopter carrier HMAS Canberra. We got a couple flybys from Chinese aircraft close enough that we could see a pilot taking pictures of us, so a few of us decided to moon them on one of their passes. I hope my cheeks are still in a folder marked “INTELLIGENCE” somewhere in Beijing
If anyone is ever in Charleston SC. We have a f14 on the deck of the Yorktown carrier. I think we have a f18 also. But the f14 was added back in 2017 I think it was. They have to sent up in launch ready. It allows you to walk around and get hands on with the f14.
In terms of avionics and rising maintenance costs due to airframe fatigue, it was starting to grow long in the tooth by the mid-late 90s, but the design itself? Certainly had some more life left in it.
I spent 4 years on board the Theodore Roosevelt CVN 71 as an Aviation Ordnance tech working in the weapons magazines. I was primarily in the forward missile mags working with the 7M Sparrows, 9M Sidewinder and 54C Phoenix’s. We had not yet received the AAMRAMs. Good days
Awesome video. I really like the minidoc/fight format. The fact that it was about the Tomcat , and what it was designed to do made it very special. Great job.
I would love to see MiG-31 vs Tomcat, but the MiG-31 is doing MiG-31 things, like flying at mach 2+ at 60,000 feet. Might have been a harder fight and more representative of what an actual fight between these two aircraft would look like
Really enjoyed the mini doc before the DCS fun, thanks for letting me fly through your vids, as I currently can not afford to upgrade anything computer wise. Peace.
Great Video GS! During my time in the Navy, while I was on the Kitty Hawk we had F-14s. I was able to get up close and personal with those awesome birds. It's really surprising how *BIG* they are! Their afterburners hitting the JBD's (jet blast deflectors) at launch are probably the most awesome sight you'll see!! Such an awesome fighter!!
I know your channel name is Growling Sidewinder and that’s so badASS. I vote that your tactics and demeanor are true ICEMAN. Those warning bells drive me nuts, I don’t know how you are so calm, cool and collected. Love your channel and the fun you have being so professional.
Appreciate the relevant history lesson here, the F-14 and Mig-31 were both gamechangers, but money's definitely on the Tomcat if it gets to a dogfight.
My first intimate experiences with the F-14 was on board the Lincoln. I always thought they looked too big to be a fighter, but when they were removed from service, I missed them. I had seen flight demos for them when I was younger and was always impressed by their maneuverability, but that really isn't saying much. I can remember being impressed by how maneuverable the B-25 was while doing a fly by during a warbirds airshow.
Great job! I appreciate you took your time and effort to learn about F14/AIM54 deployment more. Its much different than AIM120, habits die hard and I can see you improved a lot in comparison to your older BVR F14 videos :P Keep up the good work
Love the mini docs. Also love the big red arrows pointing to pertinent data displays. I'm no DCS expert (not even a DCS player yet), but I still enjoy your videos. But I don't know how to interpret much of the data on the aircraft instrument panel. And... what is notching? I searched but found nothing. Did the Mig 31's have any countermeasures? I didn't see any chaff & flares from them. A Sparrow that tracked perfectly? How did THAT happen? 😂
This video reminds me of the decades I spent living in Alaska where fighters scrambling from Elmendorf AFB to intercept incoming Bear bombers testing our response time is a regular occurrence. Instead of doing a doc on a particular aircraft, that ten hundred other guys have already done, how about doing some research and educating us on the history of Bear intercepts over the bearing sea? Is could easily be a series of episodes showcasing the various aircraft that have served in this capacity over the last 70ish years, F86, F4, F15, F22, maybe more. I appreciate your content, I'm sure I have learned more about aerial combat form your videos than any other source. Keep up the good work!
I’ve said this forever, if the navy took the F14 and reworked the sweeping wings so it didn’t have as many moving parts, 3D printed the already designed frame with updates, update the HUD and canopy, and throw like F35 dual engines on it with modern missles. Thing would be an absolute unit
I like how you can see those retractable canards on the film of those Iranian F-14A models. I know the US Navy found them to be a non-factor in flight, so they permanently had them fixed in the retracted position on all later F-14 models. I wonder if the Iranians did the same with their A models?
Relatively recent pictures of the Iranian's modernized F-14AM still feature functioning Glove Vanes, so even after all this time they still don't weld them shut. Later B and D models ditched the glove vanes entirely.
It's about 90 miles from Buffalo, NY to Erie, PA. Puts it into new perspective how far 100 miles is and how something was able to make a kill at that range.
Great video! Love the Tomcat. Would love to see you do a video building off of what you were saying towards the end with multiple Tomcats intercepting multiple bombers with escorts. Thanks for the great content!
Feel free to call the Phoenix your ‘Great White Wingman’ after launch, lol. And just like dropping your tanks before a merge make sure you unload the rest of the Phoenix (active) before a merge…. 1k pounds of dead weight each when you are in a phone booth.
I was an VF143 F14A TARPS guy. I was in the second class for TARPS in Miramar 1981. I loved the Tomcat. The powers that be should have kept 12 F14 squadrons one for each CAG and one RAG and gone with the modernization program. The F14 was a big stick with decades more life left in the ar.
I know I've been watching the Mini-Docs channel. Good Stuff. I like how you brought a mini-docs intro into this video. You've done this style before here and there. Would be cool to get a more in depth analysis of the content here over on mini-docs (for example elaborating on what the Iraq-Iran war was...Why Iran was sold F-14's at the time, clearly we are not so friendly now...etc). Sort of like using this as a trailer for mini-docs sometimes, while giving the BVR and dogfight crowd on this channel what they want at the end of the explanation...every now and then. Obviously they don't want to sit through that every time.
That Bear looked like he was hauling ass. Even when the Foxhounds separated to engage you, it didn't look like there was a ton of separation. Might have been a trick of the optics, but, still. Nice intercept.
"...ANYTIME, BABY!" Love the Tomcat! I wish the Navy would have kept upgrading the Tomcat. I know she was a maintenance hog and I love the Bug and Super Bug but the F-14 is just an iconic Naval Aircraft. Would have liked to see Super Tomcat 21s, flying an Alpha Strike with A-6Fs and Super Hornets.
Sorry in advance, if that's something you already discussed in another video, but I would love to hear your thoughts on the performance of the Phoenix in DCS. I noticed a lot of ... irritation ... in the DCS community about it (at least in the small part of the community I view).
Well, I can’t really put any weight behind my thoughts I never fired an aim54 or worked on one in real life so what do I know? But to me it does appear to be kind of slow. It also doesn’t seem to loft when it feels like maybe it should. I know heatblur claims it’s based on data they have so I don’t want to dispute that without having anything to really put up as evidence, all I can say tho is the aim54 currently feels weak.
@@GrowlingSidewinder "It also doesn’t seem to loft when it feels like maybe it should." That's already interesting! Because the people I follow do complain about the exact opposite! Apparently, the AIM-54 goes up as if it's trying to target something in low earth orbit...! In some instances, the pilot was joking he would overtake the missile if he just keep flying in a straight line and get shot down himself! And after finishing it's trip up to the moon, the missile is left with little to no energy and struggles to hit and can easily be avoided with minimal maneuvering... óÒ
Finally, you got the Mig-31 without using the Raptor or riding the ground crashing into trees lol. Well done. I was hoping you would Merge with it and take it to school.
Great Video @GrowlingSidewinder! So this scenario exemplifies the purpose of the fleet interceptor and what the F14 Tomcat was built for, but it would be interesting to put one F18E/F in this same scenario to see if it can fill the shoes the Tomcat left behind. Moving the US and Russian (since the USSR has fallen) technological clock forward 10 to 20 years in technology just to be fair. Obviously carrier fleet defense is still a valid scenario, or has this threat diminished?
I really enjoyed this excellent video! I love military hardware documentaries with a good narrator. I just can't with Dark Skies narrator. (can't put my finger on why) I'd prefer anything here, this being easy to follow vocally.
@@GrowlingSidewinder So I notice it is mainly older jets that do this. Is this just due to older designs being less efficient? Regardless, it is an interesting tell...
"Jalil Zandi " was a fighter pilot in the Iran Air Force who served during all of the Iran-Iraq War. His combat record qualifies him as one of the most successful pilots of that conflict in air-to-air combat as well as one of the best Iranian aces ever. It also made him the highest-scoring pilot in the history of the F-14 Tomcat. He earned his fame as an F-14 Tomcat pilot during the Iran-Iraq War. He has been reliably credited with shooting down 11 Iraqi aircraft (eight confirmed victories through examination with US intelligence documents released according to FOIA inquiry and three probable victories).The victories include four MiG-23s, two Su-22s, two MiG-21s, and three Mirage F1s.This makes him one of the most successful Iranian fighter aces and the most successful F-14 Tomcat pilot worldwide.
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I do love the Mini Docs channel! I find that stuff super interesting, so I highly recommend it to anybody!!
we'd love to see a F-35 vs Su-57 BVR fight.
Hey Growling, what happened to the F-16 Nuke intercept video? I can’t find it anymore
*why wasn't the f22 and f15 selected by US Navy* ?
All of them the hornet the Falcon raptor eagle aardvark have tail hook
@@doczspec4502 no it's the ugliest thing I have seen
There is one more documentary that you haven't realized you are doing.
You are documenting how to build a proper channel by being...
engaging
receptive
knowledgeable
friendly
funny
serious
ever improving and learning
sharing those wins and losses with others
entertaining
and just an overall awesome person
Well done brother...Well done.
your feedback is valued greatly. Thank you.
The F-14 and the AIM-54...
It's like a PBJ; they go SO well together.
Especially considering the only plane that can carry the aim-54 is the tomcat
exactly.. PB&J, the only combination 😊
All that plus an Iranian pilot
That was a design Combo.....Both designed for each other....for Fleet Protection.
Yep, as if the were made for each other just like PBJ
Interesting fact: you had to launch tomcats one at a time off the older carriers because when their wings were fully extended they would reach over to the catapult beside it
Yep, finally someone says this
😮😮😮🎉😂❤❤❤❤
On the older smaller, non Nimitz class carriers, yes.
The f14 is a horrible plane and the ugliest I have even seen 😊
Another fact, the Midway Class Carriers could not launch the Tomcat due to the weight. They could land them, with the Barrier, but, never launch them.
When I was in the navy I used to watch the f14 and the a6 intruder flying around and it made me feel invinsible. I don't know if the modern aircraft exude as much confidence in today's sailors but I hope they do.
😮😮❤😂😂😂
Yes in air combat, but submarines have something to say about that
Well I’m not in navy but I work in a area that has fighter jets flying in and around the sky of a joint strike base. And we see a lot of f15 and f22. I can truly tell you when I hear the sound of those twin after burners I truly know we are a protected nation and I know no matter what this city is protected no matter what lol. I hope everyone feels that sense of safety and national pride when they see fighter jets.
Speaking of the R-37 in previous videos, I think it would be super interesting to put the powerful mig31 radar against the F-35!
stealth go brr it would be a quick fight....
It'd be more interesting to try and guesstimate what Israel is going to do to/with their F-35Is. Just adding the Python 5 would be interesting close-in.
With meteors, dont forget!
@@sulyokpeter3941 Only British F-35s carry the Meteor. American F-35s use the AMRAAM.
@@Stinger522 i know but he did a video recently how powerfull the F-35 with Meteors. This is why.
I sort of laughed when the screen said the bear was getting too close to the carrier. In 1980, when Iran had the American hostages, my Marine amphibious unit
was on the USS New Orleans, a helicopter carrier, floating in the Persian Gulf. The Soviet Bear aircraft flew so close to the carrier that you could see facial details on the Soviet airmen.
We would wave at those guys and they waved back. They would circle around the ship several times, disappear, and then return again and again. We were floating around out there for about 60 days.
When I was in 2/3 I got to do RIMPAC one year and was on the helicopter carrier HMAS Canberra. We got a couple flybys from Chinese aircraft close enough that we could see a pilot taking pictures of us, so a few of us decided to moon them on one of their passes. I hope my cheeks are still in a folder marked “INTELLIGENCE” somewhere in Beijing
Man, the F14 looks so cool with the wings swept and missiles loaded out. I know it goes without saying.
If anyone is ever in Charleston SC. We have a f14 on the deck of the Yorktown carrier. I think we have a f18 also. But the f14 was added back in 2017 I think it was. They have to sent up in launch ready. It allows you to walk around and get hands on with the f14.
the F-14 will always be one of my favorite aircraft. For it's time it was a beast
In terms of avionics and rising maintenance costs due to airframe fatigue, it was starting to grow long in the tooth by the mid-late 90s, but the design itself? Certainly had some more life left in it.
I spent 4 years on board the Theodore Roosevelt CVN 71 as an Aviation Ordnance tech working in the weapons magazines. I was primarily in the forward missile mags working with the 7M Sparrows, 9M Sidewinder and 54C Phoenix’s. We had not yet received the AAMRAMs. Good days
Awesome video. I really like the minidoc/fight format. The fact that it was about the Tomcat , and what it was designed to do made it very special. Great job.
I would love to see MiG-31 vs Tomcat, but the MiG-31 is doing MiG-31 things, like flying at mach 2+ at 60,000 feet. Might have been a harder fight and more representative of what an actual fight between these two aircraft would look like
Inclusing their real world radar problems?
@@dreaminknight mig-31 has a better radar than the f-14
Really enjoyed the mini doc before the DCS fun, thanks for letting me fly through your vids, as I currently can not afford to upgrade anything computer wise. Peace.
Love this documentary content and the dogfights. I stay to the end on those too. Such great content and humble attitude.
Thank you for making this video ... especially the part you mentioned about glory days of tomcat during iran-iraq war ... keep up the good work m8 ♡
love the tense score you use when showing your adversaries
I know people think the Russkie airframes are sexy, but man, the Tomcat is in a whole other class.
Words fail to describe just how much I love the F-14.
I'm loving these objective-based videos! My favourite content by far.
Great Video GS! During my time in the Navy, while I was on the Kitty Hawk we had F-14s. I was able to get up close and personal with those awesome birds. It's really surprising how *BIG* they are! Their afterburners hitting the JBD's (jet blast deflectors) at launch are probably the most awesome sight you'll see!! Such an awesome fighter!!
Omg! I love the mini doc content First half of the vid!! Thanks so much!!🔥🔥🔥
Instant SUB!!
I know your channel name is Growling Sidewinder and that’s so badASS. I vote that your tactics and demeanor are true ICEMAN. Those warning bells drive me nuts, I don’t know how you are so calm, cool and collected. Love your channel and the fun you have being so professional.
thank you John, I appreciate you. You do anything enough times and you'll also be calm while doing it also lol nothing special here man.
@@GrowlingSidewinder Man, I know thousands of people must've said this, but I do love the history at the start about the planes! Thanks GS!
Day 47 of asking for F-35 vs Su-57 bvr
Same! i want to see F-35 vs Su-57 BVR
I really don't know what to expect from that fight
Same, but also a merge, although I think the su-57 would win in a close quarters dogfight
@@dashdanny 10/10 i bet the felon has as much lifting surface on one side of the aircraft as both the 35s wings combined
The X-ray cockpit fighter 🆚. W I D E stealth fighter would be interesting.
You done the F-14 proud there Growling. Some great shots of her too. 👌
2 uploads in one day? Nobody can sleep on GS's work ethic
Appreciate the relevant history lesson here, the F-14 and Mig-31 were both gamechangers, but money's definitely on the Tomcat if it gets to a dogfight.
Love.. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS FORMAT! This IS the schick!
My first intimate experiences with the F-14 was on board the Lincoln. I always thought they looked too big to be a fighter, but when they were removed from service, I missed them. I had seen flight demos for them when I was younger and was always impressed by their maneuverability, but that really isn't saying much. I can remember being impressed by how maneuverable the B-25 was while doing a fly by during a warbirds airshow.
Great job! I appreciate you took your time and effort to learn about F14/AIM54 deployment more. Its much different than AIM120, habits die hard and I can see you improved a lot in comparison to your older BVR F14 videos :P Keep up the good work
*why wasn't the f22 and f15 selected by US Navy* ?
All of them the hornet the Falcon raptor eagle aardvark have tail hook
Your content is second to none man. Love it.
I really like the historical intros to the content, great addition.
One of your best videos ever I think. Covered all the bases
6:35 beautiful cinematics in those sky scenes
Love the mini docs. Also love the big red arrows pointing to pertinent data displays. I'm no DCS expert (not even a DCS player yet), but I still enjoy your videos. But I don't know how to interpret much of the data on the aircraft instrument panel.
And... what is notching? I searched but found nothing.
Did the Mig 31's have any countermeasures? I didn't see any chaff & flares from them.
A Sparrow that tracked perfectly? How did THAT happen? 😂
What a fantastic Tomcat video. Well done GS!
I forgot this was a DCS video after this amazing intro lmao
@growlingsidewinder this is an exceptional video! Will love to see more like it
Very well done and really enjoyed How the F-14 in Phoenix evolved 🇺🇸👊😎
My dad, "Smoke" Wilson was the 6 on 6 test pilot, flying out of the Pacific Missile Test Center at Pt. Mugu, CA. 😎
Great video, GS! I loved the intro.
Just checked the calendar to confirm it is NOT my birthday...
...so then how come I get TWO videos from Growling Sidewinder on the SAME day?! 🤔🤔🤔
U the man Tim, always nice to see you commenting around here. All the best.
@@GrowlingSidewinder Don't want to argue, but must politely insist that...
...YOU the man! 👍👍👍
This video reminds me of the decades I spent living in Alaska where fighters scrambling from Elmendorf AFB to intercept incoming Bear bombers testing our response time is a regular occurrence. Instead of doing a doc on a particular aircraft, that ten hundred other guys have already done, how about doing some research and educating us on the history of Bear intercepts over the bearing sea?
Is could easily be a series of episodes showcasing the various aircraft that have served in this capacity over the last 70ish years, F86, F4, F15, F22, maybe more.
I appreciate your content, I'm sure I have learned more about aerial combat form your videos than any other source. Keep up the good work!
4:30 bruh by this point I forgot this was a DCS video, thought I was watching one of those documentaries
Nicely done tho lmao
I love any F14 content where GS flies the F14!
I'm having a lot of fun in the F14 in DCS myself at the moment.
I’ve said this forever, if the navy took the F14 and reworked the sweeping wings so it didn’t have as many moving parts, 3D printed the already designed frame with updates, update the HUD and canopy, and throw like F35 dual engines on it with modern missles. Thing would be an absolute unit
If Dick Trickle taught us anything, it's that the F-14 is a phenomenal dog fighter.
Great Video! Anything with the F-14 is guaranteed to put a smile on my face!
That was fun and interesting to watch.
Mr. Sidewinder, you rock.
Day 10 in a half of asking for AH-64 Apache versus SU-57 Felon
What 💀
why do you hate SU-57 Felon
@@hertzwave8001 coz it deserves it
Best RUclips short idea ever!!
I was rewatching you F14 videos just today! I love that aircraft!!!
Best and most dangerous looking plane ever
Amazing video as always. As a tomcat fan myself, I can say it's truly a magnificent aircraft
Yo GS. Nice mix of minidocs and your GS content. great video as always. F14 any time baby! Have a pleasant day. Cheers
Thank you for your commitment to making amazing content!!!❤❤❤
agree
I like how you can see those retractable canards on the film of those Iranian F-14A models. I know the US Navy found them to be a non-factor in flight, so they permanently had them fixed in the retracted position on all later F-14 models. I wonder if the Iranians did the same with their A models?
It's probably because they didn't realize it and just kept it.
Relatively recent pictures of the Iranian's modernized F-14AM still feature functioning Glove Vanes, so even after all this time they still don't weld them shut. Later B and D models ditched the glove vanes entirely.
It was to also save weight and other aerodynamic factors, they had little use after the US got G-110 engines (F-14B/A+). Also maintenance.
@@valhallaab8399 GE F110* but yeh
It's about 90 miles from Buffalo, NY to Erie, PA. Puts it into new perspective how far 100 miles is and how something was able to make a kill at that range.
Great video! Love the Tomcat. Would love to see you do a video building off of what you were saying towards the end with multiple Tomcats intercepting multiple bombers with escorts. Thanks for the great content!
Feel free to call the Phoenix your ‘Great White Wingman’ after launch, lol. And just like dropping your tanks before a merge make sure you unload the rest of the Phoenix (active) before a merge…. 1k pounds of dead weight each when you are in a phone booth.
I actually learned a lot about fighting in the cat. Thanks GS 👊
I was an VF143 F14A TARPS guy. I was in the second class for TARPS in Miramar 1981. I loved the Tomcat. The powers that be should have kept 12 F14 squadrons one for each CAG and one RAG and gone with the modernization program. The F14 was a big stick with decades more life left in the ar.
I know I've been watching the Mini-Docs channel. Good Stuff. I like how you brought a mini-docs intro into this video. You've done this style before here and there. Would be cool to get a more in depth analysis of the content here over on mini-docs (for example elaborating on what the Iraq-Iran war was...Why Iran was sold F-14's at the time, clearly we are not so friendly now...etc). Sort of like using this as a trailer for mini-docs sometimes, while giving the BVR and dogfight crowd on this channel what they want at the end of the explanation...every now and then. Obviously they don't want to sit through that every time.
Nice Mini Docs opener 👍
had my first day at my new job. being received by a new GS video is just 👌
very cool, hope you had a good first day and you enjoy the new job.
5:22 would have been a great opportunity for some hardbass.
Bro the shot at 12:50 hoooooly cow.
The first air show I went to I think was around 1976 to 78 at Hulman Field in Terre Haute IN....The F-14A was the star of the show
These edutainment vids are definitely my favorite 👍
Love the history lessons added on!
That Bear looked like he was hauling ass. Even when the Foxhounds separated to engage you, it didn't look like there was a ton of separation. Might have been a trick of the optics, but, still.
Nice intercept.
"...ANYTIME, BABY!" Love the Tomcat! I wish the Navy would have kept upgrading the Tomcat. I know she was a maintenance hog and I love the Bug and Super Bug but the F-14 is just an iconic Naval Aircraft. Would have liked to see Super Tomcat 21s, flying an Alpha Strike with A-6Fs and Super Hornets.
Those bears need a shaving. Badly.
Sorry in advance, if that's something you already discussed in another video,
but I would love to hear your thoughts on the performance of the Phoenix in DCS.
I noticed a lot of ... irritation ... in the DCS community about it (at least in the small part of the community I view).
Well, I can’t really put any weight behind my thoughts I never fired an aim54 or worked on one in real life so what do I know? But to me it does appear to be kind of slow. It also doesn’t seem to loft when it feels like maybe it should. I know heatblur claims it’s based on data they have so I don’t want to dispute that without having anything to really put up as evidence, all I can say tho is the aim54 currently feels weak.
@@GrowlingSidewinder "It also doesn’t seem to loft when it feels like maybe it should."
That's already interesting! Because the people I follow do complain about the exact opposite! Apparently, the AIM-54 goes up as if it's trying to target something in low earth orbit...!
In some instances, the pilot was joking he would overtake the missile if he just keep flying in a straight line and get shot down himself!
And after finishing it's trip up to the moon, the missile is left with little to no energy and struggles to hit and can easily be avoided with minimal maneuvering... óÒ
@@Seth90 that looks like the behaviour of a very long range missile for bombers
@@epicboi3213 yeah, but then there is the "but Iran had used them effectively against fighters too! " argument...
I really like it when you try to engage bombers and stuff
Anytime Baby!
Dude the music you have when the em force is sick. Im not even playing and it fills me with dread lol.
Love the History Lesson at the beginning
It would be good to have tac-view analysis for this.
Finally, you got the Mig-31 without using the Raptor or riding the ground crashing into trees lol. Well done. I was hoping you would Merge with it and take it to school.
14:48 did the Mig just over speed it’s engine, and go kaput?
Possibly or it was activating the afterburners , didn't help though
Two vids in two hours? GG Growling!
11:55 classic F14 footage rifht there.... 😊
That Tomcat is a sexy beast. Great video, GS!
Id like to see a carrier landing. If it can be done on dcs
Great fight by you GS in beautiful F14 Tomcat
did yall know that the audio in the introduction is from the conflict between two american f14s and two syrian mig 21s
Great Video @GrowlingSidewinder! So this scenario exemplifies the purpose of the fleet interceptor and what the F14 Tomcat was built for, but it would be interesting to put one F18E/F in this same scenario to see if it can fill the shoes the Tomcat left behind. Moving the US and Russian (since the USSR has fallen) technological clock forward 10 to 20 years in technology just to be fair. Obviously carrier fleet defense is still a valid scenario, or has this threat diminished?
I honestly wonder what would happen if you were to put modern avionics into the cat and use modern missies.
Put her up against fat Amy ⛳
That was the plan for the Super Cat.
Would love to see you land on the carrier after the mission.
I love the background song when you show the Russian planes.
The Intro was very cool!
Love this format. See if you can upgrade the bomber to a Backfire next time. Possibly Flankers for escort.
I really enjoyed this excellent video! I love military hardware documentaries with a good narrator.
I just can't with Dark Skies narrator. (can't put my finger on why) I'd prefer anything here, this being easy to follow vocally.
What are the black puffs of smoke we see come off certain aircraft?
Engine when they come out of afterburner
@@GrowlingSidewinder So I notice it is mainly older jets that do this. Is this just due to older designs being less efficient? Regardless, it is an interesting tell...
Searched the comments to find out why the the 2nd MiG-31 trailed black smoke before getting splashed. Thanks!
"Jalil Zandi " was a fighter pilot in the Iran Air Force who served during all of the Iran-Iraq War. His combat record qualifies him as one of the most successful pilots of that conflict in air-to-air combat as well as one of the best Iranian aces ever. It also made him the highest-scoring pilot in the history of the F-14 Tomcat.
He earned his fame as an F-14 Tomcat pilot during the Iran-Iraq War. He has been reliably credited with shooting down 11 Iraqi aircraft (eight confirmed victories through examination with US intelligence documents released according to FOIA inquiry and three probable victories).The victories include four MiG-23s, two Su-22s, two MiG-21s, and three Mirage F1s.This makes him one of the most successful Iranian fighter aces and the most successful F-14 Tomcat pilot worldwide.
Nice video… only thing is that the 2 MiGs barely fired at you
Ya know , there’s just something about the alarms and comms with the F-14 … nostalgia 👏🏾 🇺🇸
The fleet defender, imagine it with the new BVR missiles
That was a really good military history lesson