F-14 Tomcat Scenes from "The Final Countdown" HD Part3
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Love, love, LOVE the Jolly Rogers paint scheme. One of the best.
Literally the best looking cat squad ever....👍👍 Fear the bones ☠️
Would have been a great irony if the squadron had been Sundowners.😉
@@marklivingstone3710 Well played!!
I don't know, I think the Grim Reapers have a sick tail art
The "Wolfpack" does it for me.
I love how they Launch an EA-6A to jam all of those sophisticated Japanese electronics they had back in the day.
Radar was at it's infancy but it still got the job done. So yeah.
boymahina123 By the end of the war Japan had radar. However, at the start, they did not. Japan only started fielding land-based radar systems around the time of pearl harbour, let alone ship-borne systems. So at the time of Pearl Harbour, when the attack in this video was mounted, Japan wouldn’t have had any radar. In defence, the Prowler may have been useful in jamming radio communications between the Japanese forces.
Yeah... Forgot abt the comms-blocking capability of EW aircraft.
It's not used to jam radar, they are converted A-6E WCSI Intruder's. They are attack aircraft. They provided first generation laser guided bombs & missiles. Harpoon and SLAM missiles in that time both had similar guidance systems however WCSI SLAM equipped aircraft still needed a nearby A-6E to guide them...
how can you tell between ea6 and regular a6?
Admiral: Which planes do you and in the air for the next shot?
Director: Yes
We were a Grumman family - Dad was a machinist and helped build the Tomcat. If there's a more beautiful fighter, I haven't seen it!
She was a beauty.
ever seen the spitfire?
@@heccsclips3319 ever seen an A-10?
@@EnderKnightGames Yea of course its just not very pretty looking
@@heccsclips3319bruh ew
I feel old looking at this. In my day this was the exact air wing composition my ship had. Every one of those planes are long gone now.
You still have plenty of options on today's carriers. You can have F 18, F 18 or F18.
No disrespect to the F 18 but they are ALL F18s (except for AWACS and transport)
Enterprise 03 tomar was in it's final 3 years.
Sadness, over.
Nothing left but plastic bugs, Ewacs and Greyhounds...
I once saw an F 14. Doesn’t fly tho.
So so many amazing screenshots got from this video, awesome movie, loved it when came out. makes me miss my days on the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN69 bk in early 90s. So cool to have em show so much of how the some of the flight ops works and some of the weapon handling with so many aircraft, not just showing 1 or 2 being launched etc.. this movie def is a classic.
I first saw this movie when I was a kid in the 80s. I still have to rewatch this movie as a 44 year old. It just nicely satisfies when I want a cool time travel movie.
I would have loved to see the reaction of the Japanese Admiral looking up and seeing this force approaching his fleet.
Yamamoto: I've made a terrible mistake. The giant is already woke. Turn around and pack it up boys.
Japan would have been like:
"It's just a prank, bro! We weren't really going to attack you by surprise!"
"Saisho no nakama, chairo no pantsu o motte kite" roughly translated, means: "First mate, bring me my brown pants".
The thing is...with today’s weapons, they wouldn’t even see them.
With the speed of a Tomcat, they could have easily sent in two or four, let them do a fly by across their decks at speed, and then leave straight up. The performance show would have left the Japanese wondering how they were going to go up against a force that can fly right up to them, cross over, and leave with such impunity.
Its so good to watch a movie filmed without CGI
Oh is it amazing its just amazing dude
Yessssss!!! A real damn story for once!
@@unitedstatesofamerica5876 stop using that word amazing
I wish movies were still like this. Filmed on the ships and airborne.
Wait for TOPGUN 2 Tom Cruise and the other cast members ride back seat in the F-18 E and experienced everything I once did as a Naval Aviator. its coming out this summer and needless to say I cant wait to watch it opening day
LCDRhammond back seat of a F/A-18F the E one is a single seat fighter
@@iMobius your right that was a mistake on my part something that has been happening with me a lot the past few months due to lack of sleep they used the F model in the movie and made it appear like the E
I like the reality, less special effects is a good thing!
I recently stumbled onto a show called The Last Ship. A lot of fun to watch and looked really good. Seems like they filmed aboard several Arleigh Burkes.
RIP Kirk DEouglas. Made the Tomcat cool before Top Gun did. (Edit: it's was already cool!)
Yes, this movie came out 6 years before Top Gun! That movie had more emotion and whatnot, but this was pure naval power and tactics. Carriers, destroyers, Tomcats, prowlers, Intruders, Corsairs, Crusaders, Vikings, Sea Kings, Hawkeyes, most of which TG never had!
And yes, Kirk Douglas was a legend. From Captain of the Nimitz to leader of the Romans (Sparticus), he lived more than a century, from 1916 to 2020. Rest in Peace sir.
This was a really good movie (with not the nest dialogue writing or acting for the extras) but it was SUCH a huge disappointment when you realize you're not going to get to see any version where the officers in the Japanese carriers look up and see a flight of Tomcats and Intruders inbound, the flight lead calls tally ho on the flat tops and calls weapons free. What American wouldn't want to see that scene?
@@seanhamilton8502 This movie was called Coitus Interruptus!! we need another version of "what if..."
100% agreed. It was one big tease.
You aren't the only one who wants a "what would have happened" ending
New movie How the USS Nimitz ended WW2 lol.
Well any Japanese born to America might not like it. Or any who have family in Japan, but I don't know. It all depends on family ties. Think grin.
In the catapult launch montage, did I see an F8 Crusader?
Arklight80 Yeah, I saw the A-7 earlier in the scene.
Then suddenly, an F8 Crusader... waaat!?
bayushizero It's an RF-8 recon versoin, look at the forward fuselage, cameras, no 20mm. They were still usign them at the time, as it was a while before they got the recon pods for the F-14s Keep in mind that Carter was still pres (for just a litle longer thank God), and the Navy had their budget cut almost as badly as the current guy has done. The tires were probably worn out, like they were during Clinton's term whree I photographed one that would get your car pulled over if it was on your car. No parts, no tires, like now. The Nimitz was one of the few CVNs at that time that could actually be considered fully operational. No money for ops, kinda like now, with all three of our operational CVNs at any one time ouit of 11, much like then. The RF-8 did its job quite well though. THye do have ECM pods on the A-6Es though, which they would not be carrying , as there is nothing for them to jam. No SAMs, no radar, nothing. Still a great movie tho9ugh. I saw it in the theatre. loved it.
yes
also the a5
También el S-3 Viking
2:51 now THAT is a strike package
Considering that the IJN didn't have any radars at that time, the EA6's were kinda useless....
1:42 That looked like a locked tire and subsequent tire explosion
Thats the same plane that they catch with the net at the beginning of the movie, because of that tire explosion.
They look really cool in their light grey with bright colours 👍
Man did this bring back good memories nothing has compared to launching off the catapult of a navy carrier though for me it was the F/A-18 unfortunately didn't get to play with the Tomcat long since it was retired in 2006
2:17
That was my father's Squadron in 1978-79.
I was 6 when it came out,and watched it at a Drive- in that doesn't exist anymore.
I really missed drive-in theater.. if I had the money, I would start one up.
He forgot to add this scene, but after the rescued Japanese pilot being escorted by armed Marines arrives on the carrier deck and sees an F-14 landing, the pilot's expression is like "Wait what? We're going up against THAT?!"
This movie was so underrated
Soooooo underrated..
Showed the actual flight operations of a carrier long before and much better than Top Gun. Did it even better than Top Gun Maverick, which at least had an E-2D Hawkeye in it. The Final Countdown had it all, including a reconnaissance RF-8 Crusader making photo passes.
If there ever is a movie screaming for a remake it's this.
DIRECTOR: I want all possible F-14B in the air, a few AAA tanks, Jammers and bombing squadron, all in 1 shot.
You got it!
Those are F-14As.
Black exhaust nozzles…..😉
1:48 The most awesome salute in the history of steam catapult launches.
The Pilot who done that, explains the reason for it on the "F14 Tomcast" YT chanel.
Reminds me of myself before in 1988 VF-84 F-14A.
I always found the appeal in this movie not just from the crazy sci fi, but the deeper examination of how they shouldn’t mess with history.
Put that with a carrier fighter group and F-14s and they did it well.
The best thing about this movie? No CGI.
Great stuff loved "The Final Countdown" as a kid (even if the plot of a nuclear aircraft carrier getting "sucked backwards in time" to just before Dec 7,1941 is a little hokey)! It was some of the best F-14 Tomcat footage on screen until "Top Gun" came out. One minor gripe, why is the volume so low?
probably to avoid a copyright ban.
I still think this has better Tomcat footage than Top Gun. This is the movie that eventually led to my joining the Navy. It may have had hokey special effects, but TFC was a better overall movie, too.
@@cailanericrice6947 top gun has a strong intro and ending, but the footage in this is at least equal if not better
That takeoff montage is the best in any movie.
時空を越えた時間と歴史の狭間を体験出来たのは貴重でした❗何故か大好きな作品です‼️
You can see A-7E Corsair modex "412" blow a tire during launch at 1:44. This aircraft had to be recovered into the barricade, they used that footage earlier in the movie just after Nimitz goes through the portal.
Impressive bit of trivia. I always wondered about that sideways puff of steam and had written it off as a simple innocuous quirk of the catapult on that one launch.
my brorher worked on the A7 sidewinder fleet on Nimitz she was a good multi task aircraft
Awesome 'cat' launches!!!!
Red 5 standing by.
What a wonderful blast from the past!!!.
I love the hell out of this movie.
its a old good movie must watch
The filmmaker worked around the personnel on the aircraft carrier and the action you see with the aircraft is real. The actors play their role on the carrier and the movie is made with financial help from the studio to the Navy.
It was odd on deck we still had a job to do, I was a brown shirt(plane capt), but seeing a camera mounted on a tripod right in the middle of the bow, we had to launch our plane and stay out of the view of the camera, kinda of a headache at first. But when I heard K. Douglas was in it, I knew then it would be a good movie and all this mess would be worth it...I was with VF 41 and jolly Rogers, our sister squadron, took all the action....felt kinda left out...but hey...that's Hollywood. They did get disestablished later...didn't see that coming.....
The music in this movie was just PERFECT!
Jolly Rogers 🏴☠️ in action 🇺🇸☠️🇺🇸☠️🇺🇸
Blue balls... well time to play Ace Combat
Play DCS Instead. Ace combat would be if Michael bay remade this movie. DCS has the F-14 and a bunch of warbirds for you to actually do this with as well, though maybe not the zero itself.
we all want a remake of this movie!
Screw that. I want a sequel where the time travel phenomenon is figure out and entire international up to date task force to stop WW2.
→ Harriers joining the battle of Britain
→ B2 bombing Berlin
→ GSG9 strike team assassinating Hitler
I'm open to suggestions
@@HiopX bri'ish
In CGI? No thanks.
Now I have to go watch the movie again.
1:01 I wonder if that guy ever did get that promotion to colonel for that crazy mission going up that damn river.
"Is Commander Owen in the air yet?" Well, damn captain, you're standing on the bridge with a complete view of the flight deck. You should be able to see where Commander Owen is.
Strange how Tomcats and Hollywood may be forever personnified by Top Gun, which was a Top Movie on its own for sure. But there was some great stuff in The Final Coutdown too. The story was appealing, the acting was good (Sheen/Douglas) and the shooting was very impressive. I would say the aero shooting was as good as in Top Gun, no less. Plus it was a great time to film with the Tomcats and other birds in high viz camo. I still remember the line about the "the time paradox" i.e. if you go back in time and kill you grandpa you cannot be possibly be born and thus kill him. Epic.
That'll be one hell of a fun queue for landing afterwards
At 2:14 that A6 had practice bombs attached to the MER no live ones...oops. And quite of few of the birds were taking off with only expansion fuel tanks or clean wings (no armament) attached. Still one of my favorite launch and F14 scenes in a movie.
Prowlers Intruders Tom Cats Oh My !!!!
Arguably much better Tomcat and Carrier footage in this movie then in Top Gun.
Oh God, the Intruder was such a good looker.
The Final Countdown is the OG to Top Gun and Back to the Future.
At the end of the movie when the Nimitz aircraft were ordered back (zeros in sight on radar), before turning around I'd have a "missile failure" resulting in the launch of my missiles (hoping others would have the same failure). ;-)
Ya you could do that but then you better be able to deal with the court martial afterwards as well as more then likely never stepping into any military cockpit ever again
not even considering the effect on the space time continuum. They go back to the present day to find Nazi or Communist control of the planet because the US never entered WW2.
Honestly while its cool seeing the Navy planes from that era the plot of Final Countdown is pretty stupid.
@@williamt.sherman9841 The concept of time travel is pretty stupid, but it's fun to pretend.
F-14 Tomcats, E-2C Hawkeye, A-7 Corsair II, S-3A Viking, A-6E Intruders
Sheen couldn't have been happy being on the Nimitz... Tomcats, Intruders and Corsair II's got to love it..
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Cougar it’s time to land!! Cougar!!!”
RIP Kirk Douglas. Great movie.
Alpha strike... every plane that can fly, flies.
I first saw the F-14 at the Oceana Naval Air Station in 1974, I was awestricken! ! Doc Mike USN
The Ordies got some good screen time in.
I love seeing the real ordinance for the mission,not the blue bombs (used for a CAP mission??) of Top Gun
To this day I’m still furious we didn’t get the battle scene. I know models would be difficult, real vehicles even harder but still… someone should do the battle no a days, we have the CGI to do it pretty damn well
Love the music!
Did you know the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in 1980 had the biggest armed strike force for the last parts of the 20th century more than any other carrier? Here's what it had: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms, Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcats, Vought RF-8 Crusaders, Vought A-7 Corsairs, Northrop Grumman A-6 Intruders, Northrop Grumman EA-6 Prowlers, McDonnell Douglas EA-3 Skywarriors, Lockheed Martin S-3 Vikings, Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeyes, Northrop Grumman C-2 Greyhounds, and Northrop Grumman C-1 Traders for airplanes. Plus SH-3 Sea Kings and RH-53 Sea Stallions for helicopters. A total of 136 aircraft on the USS Nimitz, WOW!!! And they we're going up against 408 Japanese World War II airplanes which were Mitsubishi A6M Zeros, Aichi D3A Val's, and Nakajima B5N Kate's that took off of Japan's 6 World War II aircraft carriers! Thanks!
no they weren't, they were up against a bunch of boats that had no hope of retaliating. they wouldn't have been up against hardly any airplanes. a token guard, but most of the planes would be getting outfitted for the attack on pearl harbor. the initial strike on the fleet would have occurred before they even knew jets were around. it would have been a massacre. Japanese didn't have advanced longer range radar on ships. the first salvo of missiles would have hit long before they had detected the planes.
Wow u know your history I am Xusn and didn't know all that
Split the task force. Send half to meet the attack as they flew south over Oahu to Pearl. The other half to where they knew the defenseless carriers would be, causing the Japanese to disappear in their own way. A senseless war would have been avoided. The future atomics could have averted to peaceful means.
@@rconger24 There war in the Pacific might have been averted. But the war in Europe was already ongoing. The Germany was working on an atomic weapon. So the Manhattan project would have still happened, D-day would still have happened. Japan was an Axis ally they get pulled into the war when Hitler declares war on the US.
@@rconger24 the war was on, Pearl Harbor or not. It wasn’t jut Pearl Harbor attacked and Japan declared war on the US before the attack. Though their message wasn’t decoded and delivered by the Japanese until an hour after the US had already decoded it and the attack had already occurred.
They could not film a movie like this now days they had full access to the ship and crew as extras could not do it now with all the security we have This I am sure was a boost to the Navy recruiting wise !
Was a sweetspot for U.S. Navy.early 1980s ,flying Everything .A_6 A_7 ,F_14 ,A_ 4 ,and ,F_8 Crusader .didn't last long ,But ,Kept the Peace in world
Good movie. Good cast
please some one make more movies like this fantastic a million years old
F-14 tomcat best jet fighter
It was sexy but the upgraded version F-14D was way better!!!
This movie was a great idea, it just didn't go far enough.
Agreed. It's very anti climatic IMO. It was great up until the end though.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 Do you know "Weapons of Choice" by John Birmingham?
Definitely one of my favorite movies history syfi😂and yes a couple of f14s could have changed everything easily 😂❤
Let's be honest... you play "highway to the dangerzone" in your head...
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Want To Mess With An F-14 Tomcat, Be My Guest.
The Japanese fleet wouldn't stand against the Tomcats, Corsair and Intruders. That would've been a disaster for them.
Brandon Bryant Their lighter armored ships won't stand a chance, but it actually takes quite a bit of ordnance, even modern ones, to sink something like a battleship. Disabling it is much easier though.
Brandon Bryant accepted the A-6s couldn't do much outside of Aerial Refueling.
Battleships were built to take an extended amount of punishment from larger munitions. It would be extremely difficult to sink, even with modern anti-ship missiles. Modern anti-ship weaponry is built to evade defenses and destroy lightly armored ships; not to penetrate the extremely heavily armored citadels of battleships. And even if penetrated, the battleship could stay in the fight. It would take hundreds of missiles or more to sink a battleship.
The best thing to kill a battleship would be a torpedo, which was always the battleship's weakness. But as far as I know, air-dropped torpedoes are a thing of the past.
Yeah with air-dropped torpedo and air piercing bombs; both of which modern missiles are not built to do.
Also, depends on the type of battleship; the battleships sunk at Pearl were mainly WW1 era Super Dreadnoughts and not "modern" Battleships like the Nagato, Iowa, South Dakota or Yamato.
The armored citadels were built to resist 16 inch shell fire and keep on fighting. A 16 inch shell hit has way, way more KE than modern aircraft dropped anti-ship missiles. At the moment, there are no more anti-ship torpedoes in service; which are and have always been the bane of Battleships. Battleships are extremely top heavy so damaging or creating unequal buoyancy has always been the way to sink them.
Tanks are a completely other matter. What you are talking about seems to be HESH effect and modern spal liners prevent HESH from creating spall shrapnel from wrecking the crew. Modern tanks have a mix of armor in order to defeat HEAT rounds and Kinetic energy penetrators. The rule is generally a super dense material to defeat KE and ceramic/mixed material plates to defeat HEAT.
Battleship armor does not work at all like tanks. Completely different philosophy.
Problem is they'll run out of missiles and ammo engaging so many of them.
I understand now, all that macross/robotech references, they took ideas from this movie, including the skull on tail
But my question is how did they even manage to get to the 1941 in the first planes?
Quentin Torrentino needs to do a remake of this movie and give it a happy ending! Inglorious Bastards Pacific edition!
Someone call QT!!
at 1:44 crusader blows a tire!!!!! cause the wheel is jammed
That was an A-7, not an RF-8.
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I have this movie on DVD. Love it.👍
One of the best movies ever
I didn't watch the movie but why did they make all those jets take off?
The entrance to the National Naval Aviation Museum has a Tomcat dressed in Jolly Rogers at it's front door. Located aboard NAS Pensacola. Same as in this movie.
THEY GOTTA DO A RE-MAKE OF THIS MOVIE! And hopefully take it seriously enough to make it awesome.
unfortunately it would be nearly impossible today due to how tight security is these days on and surrounding our carriers. Hell, getting permission to film Top Gun 2 must have been a nightmare.
It never fail to amazed me, a pilot engaging a future combat plane, that's at least 100 years in the future! What if emerge into present, their jaw will fall off seeing F22 F35B V22, apache! Its nice to see fantasy movies like, the bombing of pearl harbor! WW2
Skull and Crossbones. Strike Fighter Squadron 103 (VFA-103) at 1:09
Welcome to Tomcat Alley.
Would have been VF-84 here VF is tomcat squadrons VFA is hornet which the squadron transitioned to when they started taking up the 18's I believe in 2005 VF-31 (my squadron) was the last to fly the tomcat becoming VFA-31 in 2006 to present
@@CDRhammond The Tomcat was such a cool, pretty plane to watch. Especially back then, when the carriers had a variety role of planes to fill certain rolls. Now, the Hornet is pretty much an all in 1 plane now.
@@JamesinAZ Ya the hornet is a multi purpose fighter can do everything from going out and dogfighting or escorting high value assets to bombing the hell out of enemy targets did it all as a 18 driver. cant imagine what will happen when the hornet is eventually phased out for the F-35 if they can get them carrier ready that is.
1:07 Macross Live Action Movie
Pleeeease! 😱😜😍
A Question ???? I saw in this video clip that the number for the USS Nimitz was CVN68. Now another carrier built before her was the now decommissioned carrier USS Enterprise which was CVN65. So what were the two carriers that would have been inbetween these two carriers . Those carriers would have been CVN 66 & 67 . Does anyone know their names ???? Please anyone answer this question. I would really like to know. Thank you.
СVN 66- “America”, CVN 67- “John F. Kennedy”
@user-vp5hu8om9b Oh Ok. Thank you very much for the information.
Towards the end of the movie I kept thinking, before returning to the ship and the zeros were in radar range ("but we can see them") the jet pilots should have fired all of their missiles (aim at leading planes).
I would have loved to see them take on the entire japanese task force One modern aircraft carrier would sink them all lol
One wing of them would sink everything they had in less than an hour. Air to Ship missiles are a bitch. And they can engage at altitude the Japanese can't even dream of.
One modern destroyer could also have done the job. A handful of tomahawks would have been more than enough.
There is a great piece of fan fiction that depicts the results of that. It is...well shock and awe comes to mind.
2:13.... that's not a Tomcat or an Intruder. Anyone know? Corsair II or Crusader? Not a Viking!
01:18 what's the name of this aircraft?
A-6 Intruder
@@TheblueTraxxasRustler thank you.
Like wasps spooked outa their nest
Huh I didn’t know the Kestrel went back in time ;)
Nice razgriz ref. 👍
The Phoenix missile was mahoosive.
I didn't realize Roy Folker served in the Navy
Damn this looks better then my old VHS tape. How the hell you find an HD version?
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この空母はたしか、ニミッツだったかな
Yep, liked this Film, pity they did not meet in the end, was disappointed
2:34 Snuck an RF-8 in there.
👏👏Yes it is recon F-8A .The plane is without cannons and has "square ramps" on the bottom of the fuselage where the built-in cameras are.