Brilliant Cap as always...gutted to hear we might not hear more from GR at some future point 😢 - you've given hundreds of thousands of people great entertainment over the years and truly hope you'll keep going! Maybe promote your Patreon more often or simply include a PayPal link?
@@grimreapers Agree it's really sad to hear the Grim Reapers "might not be long for this world" :(. You've done phenomenal work and thousands of videos, and all of that is hugely appreciated. But with the recurring illnesses and a growing family to support, understand how it might not make sense anymore. One thought - go to a weekly format? That might give you a break from the pressure of putting out a video everyday, and you have a lot of loyal viewers here who would still watch an occasional Grim Reapers "special".
@@KristyMurray-s9nyes it has it’s been used for air to ground officially and anecdotally has been observed coming back from air cover missions in Syria without full bays.
I’m sad to hear some people dislike a vid just when the red side wins. I for one love the USA and her allies but it’s entirely possible a red team can win especially in the sim. We can learn from it, be entertained by it, and it makes good discussion.
I find that utterly mental. It's a simulation FFS, and not to forget - a heavily gamified one. It's not a concerted effort to discredit anyone's military. Some people...
Honestly i agree with you. Cap puts so many hours of work into these and people leave a dislike because it didn't work out how they wanted..... America can't win every battle even with our allies and all that. I appreciate all the work cap does for my entertainment ❤
If I'm going to be honest I stopped watching this channel because it seemed like blue won every single time. I prefer when red wins some of the matches it's unrealistic to believe that America will come out on top 100% of the time
@@KristyMurray-s9nthat doesn't matter in a saturation attack the point of a first strike is to destroy everything the first time around if America has a 1000 missile interceptors ready to go China is going to send 2000 missiles ensure that whatever they want destroyed is. it doesn't matter how much you spend on defense or how good your technology is when you simply don't have enough interceptors to take out whatever is coming to destroy you it's that simple. Your logic is simplistic at best. We fought a war against terrorists and weren't able to destroy them even with all the technology that we had in the trillions of dollars we threw at the war in Afghanistan. Money and technology does not win wars. So I'd like to ask you how are you so confident that the Chinese don't have technology that is at least comparable to the Americans considering that both America and China are very tight-lipped about their capabilities. Wikipedia and Reddit aren't good sources by the way neither is this RUclips channel.
Cap, while undergoing chemo/radiation treatments, two years ago, your channel was one of the few i watched regularly, being too exhausted to keep up with mutch else. My thanks to you and the rest of the reapers as you gave me one of the few joys i got to experience during treatment (im a year cancer free as of this past September 30th). I hope you reconsider and keep up the series. My best to you and the rest of the reapers!
Found you because of the “Modern Carrier protects Pearl Harbor “ battles and here we are cheering on America protecting Japan. Funny old world. Thanks Cap!
Thanks! Get a better processor. Play around with stealth/4th gen data sharing integration. Come on everyone! Just a dollar or a two. Lets get him an upgraded PC!
Cap, don’t underestimate the power of asking for help. Us viewingtons are always ready willing and able to support your channel. Promote your Patreon or PayPal etc. we will help you get through rough times. Love you as always, keep it up! 👍
This is entertainment (and science) You are allowed to be human. You are even allowed to be a little less than "average human" under the circumstances. I am just happy to see each new video. You and your family remain in my prayers.
And now you know why folks( not me ) gave the last vid thumbs down. Not because of the outcome but because of you not using U.S. assets. No U.S. assets was unrealistic (never mind that that was the scenario you were given) so complaining ensued. Great vid thanks for the updated scenario.
Cap was given that scenario because that is what he asked for. If you recall the scenario of North vs South Korea, we tested that one with just the North vs the South and US assets were not used. Cap said on that one they would redo it if the South Koreans weren't able to handle it on their own. In this one, Cap wanted to test it without American support and he asked for a scenario that could possibly pull American forces away from Japan. So I gave him what he asked for. It was the most realistic scenario that I could think of to get American involvement out of the scenario. After how the last one went, he asked me to put in the American assets, which is what we did. Keep in mind these are what if scenarios. Just to envision what might happen.
CVN 73 USS George Washington is enroute to Japan as we speak to be the new foward deployed Carrier with a squad of F 35Cs on board.....Funny how after the Regan left, then the Chinese.. started war games around Tawian....great job Cap!..👉🏻👉🏻
big kudos for putting together these giganto battles - everyone familiar with the mission editor knows how painful and time consuming this process can be - not to mention using heavily modded assets, that's some mad skills !
Here's an idea cap, run the CPU at 50% speed, but play back the recorded video at 2x speed, thus the result will be the battle playing at normal speed? Then you can commentate as normal, if that all makes sense.... 😂
24:24 you can see one of the missiles that got through actually "hit" the water (or missed by hitting water, not target)... so technically only 3 got through.
@@grimreapers Also in real life wouldn't South Koreas Anti-Air at a minimum kick in on the side of the Japanese, plus the US Air-Bases in South Korea helping more assets like the F-22 make it into battle. Maybe a bomber would even get shot down from South Korea. Just a thought, but your poor computer might not make it unless you took out all the other f-22 that didn't make it into battle perhaps.
I think you massively underestimated the effect of the different missile settings. I'd love to see the previously Japanese-only video redone with proper settings on each side. Faster J-20 takedowns by the F-35s means the F-35s could have potentially survived until reinforcements arrived and they wouldn't have gotten surrounded. Also, I can't wait to see this recreated in Sea Power with proper ECM modeled.
The air battle might have been different, but the ballistic missile fight would have been the same. The fleet would have been sunk and the harbor destroyed.
@@grimreapers The importance of one doesn't diminish the importance of the other. If you need something to do your job, it's a valid use of the platform, The buy me a coffee one particularly. Glad you got some help with the Cancer mate and hope you're on the mend.
This video reinforces how important it is to place the best fighters in the right places geographically - closer to likely attack approaches. Having at least some F22s, F35s and F15EXs front loaded near Sasebo, Taiwan, and Okinawa is important. Also, placement of the DDGs is critical to blunt any attack. Lastly, forward basing the AWACs makes a difference, since it increases detection and response time. There are drawbacks to all of these decisions, but benefits as well. Lastly, I wonder if anyone is working on high altitude balloons with early warning radar, for placement over places like Sasebo, Okinawa and Taiwan. They would be vulnerable, but could give very early detection notice, which is a game changer. Even 15-30 minutes matters a lot.
Kadena used to have a squadron of KC135s. they could be put into a racetrack east of Japan so that Okinawa planes could burn into combat. Also northern planes burn south and land to refuel and take off again. Use spawning to simulate this.
Probably still in testing phases.....there has been no pics I have seen of LIVE AIM 174Bs yet......the ones on the Hornets were just testing how far the missile flies....speed.....distance, havent heard of any deployed ones yet.
There is a few issues here. The first one is tactical. This situation is totally unrealistic. No general would fight like this, on neither side. Just running out and defending the ocean makes no sense, The next issue is that the plane model is largely based on guesses. While they are guesses by very well informed people, its still guesses. In reality nobody knows how large diffrance there is in radar and EW. Apart from that DCS don´t differentiate between block 1-3 F35 and block 4 F35. The block 4 once are really quite a lot better. For example the engine is considerably more heat resistant. The main reason for this is to decrease maintenance. But a side effect is that top speed increases quite a lot and also fuel efficiency. The way DCS handle link also really don´t work the same way it does in modern aircraft. Nothing of this is really DCS fault. The game is not made to simulate modern aircraft. And really even if it would, it could not do that. The planes need to be old so we got reliable data.
So the US needs Japan to help defend Okinowa, and Japan needs American help to defend..... Japan. Alliances exist for a reason. I'll be China wishes it has some. :D ERROR; you keep placing your Navy as part of the target area! You need to deploy them in a V-shape to either side of the enemy approach vector. This forces the attacker to choose between targeting them or the land targets (and so allowing the ships to snipe away). Give it a try someday, you'll see.
It doesn't make sense any J-7 or JH-7s in an air war. The J-7s are retired already or turned into unmanned drones. The JH-7 are only armed with short ranged AAM and only used for anti-shipping. They should really be replaced with J-10Cs which have replaced the J-7s and would actually be used in their place in a scenario like this.
Random question ? can't you just despawn the fighter Jets once they have run out of missile's. Just like you do to the Bombers after they have fired the ballistic missile's. That would save your PC from overstressing so badly, with these huge epic battles you have.
@@johnwolf2829 🤔 yeah didn't think about that. but I have never played dcs, I would love to. So not sure if that would erase there kills. Do you play dcs?
Will investigate but they way DCS works may simply be too much work as each planes would have to be programmed separately like this. Would take days...
@@grimreapers Oh wow, this is so cool, I can't believe you replied to my message. I watch your videos all the time. Thx for making such awesome videos, for us to enjoy. You should be getting millions of views for your videos, they are really good. Anyway lol I am rumbling on now. Oh ok, I see, well I am not very knowledgeable on dcs. but if it's too complicated to program in, then I guess it's not worth it.
@@CombatIneffective I’m familiar with it. It would add a whole other dimension to the battles if it could. Huge fan of your work as well as Cap! Y’all are great and thanks for the endless hours of entertainment!
@@onetime8424 thank you for the compliments. I always let Cap know the Growlers are there even though he hardly uses them, simply because I never know what changes DCS has made. He is the wizard of that part.
Rules for watching grim reapers videos. #1, cap works hard so all the thumbs up. #2, we all watch the briefing #3 dislikes in the comments😂 #4, now that the video has worked properly and ended properly, the next is REVENGEEEEEEEE😂😂😂😂😂
Cap, this battle is taking place in 2024, right? I believe the F-35s (both A & C variants) do NOT have the sidekick upgrade as of 2024. It would make more sense for the F/A-18s to be strapped with AIM-174Bs.
Cap there is another air base missing. MCAS Iwakuni is just south of Hiroshima. It is home to 2 Marine F35B squadrons and is the home base of Carrier air wing 5 when they're not deployed on the ship. Usually one Marine F35 unit is home while the other is deployed on one of the LHD carriers part of the 31 MEU
Cap i would like to do a study on one of these campaigns. I would like to compare the experience and flight expertise and training of US pilots being assumed superior to the training and experience of Chinese fighters and see how to try to account for said discrepancy in an already ran scenario. Whether its this or the Taiwan or just a Carrier vs Carrier group. I think we all know the avg US Naval or Airforce fighter Pilot receives more training and flight hours to earn their wings and maintain readiness training levels per year are also better. We also know that US Pilots have most likely given the past wars have more real-life experience & their training scenarios are greater in scale and are more realistic to modern air-to-air combat scenarios. I think these scenarios for fairness try to allow for China and US Pilots marked at the same level but I think it would be interesting to see how big of an impact pilot skill is. Like one scenario have all pilots on Vetern skill then have the next with the tip of the spear US Pilots are Ace's then the rest be the next best level. While the Chinese have no Aces and have their bulk near the lowest skill level. Correct me if I am wrong but there are 4 levels to Skill and the US should have 20% at Level 4, 60% at Level 3 and say the remainder 20% being the younger new recruits at the 2nd skill level. Then China has less training, fewer flight hours, and less real-world experience, to have 20% level 3, 30% level 2 and the rest being very inexperienced 50% level 1 skill. I would also say it would make sense to put the better pilots in the better aircraft aka the Ace US Pilots would be flying the F-22s if available and maybe a few on the F-35s. The rest of the 35 and half the 18/15/16's would be level 3 and have the last to engage 4th gen be the 20% level 2. Then for China, the J-20s would have all their level 3 skill and the rest of them would be level 2 and all the 4th gen would have level 1 skill.
The previous scenario took the US out... Both from Japan and Korea. You put the US from Japan back in this scenario but forgot about those from Korea... They're only about 400kms away so.... Merica!
I have a question, sir. Can you Daisy-chain your older computer would the new computer you plan on acquiring? In doing so, will doing that increase your computing power? This caveman is curious to know.
Cap, you gave the mig 21s a better probability than what China actually has. You kept everything fair and even tried to help China from not being totally destroyed but it didn't help them. Thank you for all the work you do
How much you have RUclips premium it doesn't matter whether your channel is monetized or not RUclips is out to make a buck so they're going to show you ads
The winner is whoever can recover materially to keep fighting. Without massive sabotage of chinese manufacturing it would seem they have a material advantage
I think a bigger issue would be having trained, especially combat-experienced pilots. China could pump out a lot of aircraft, but how many work as advertised (cheap/broken/overrated), how many hours flight time do the pilots have, etc. The U.S. military I think would have a massive advantage in chain of command, combat experience, supply, logistics, etc. China would be able to mount a modest first wave, but once the bulk of their combat-ready air force and navy is wasted, they'll start throwing untrained soldiers into battle. Where the U S. would be up against the wall is more in terms of willpower. The American people didn't have the stomach for Iraq and Afghanistan, which had only roughly 5k casualties in 20 years. A full-scale war vs China could easily have 5k casualties a month or a week. The US lost 14k troops on Okinawa in 2-3 months. Losing a Ford carrier or losing 40 F-35s would be a massive hit to the U.S. morale. Would Americans be okay with continuing a war with China over an island 7,000 miles away? China on the other hand could lose 2 million soldiers or 10 million civilians and won't bat an eye. China lost roughly 10 million people in their civil war and 20 million people in their war against Japan, then not even a decade later fought in Korea and lost near half a million more. They didn't quit. So the U.S. crushing China in one battle or twenty battles won't really determine the result. Would the American people be willing to lose 400k troops to launch a ground invasion of China? Would they support a war even if we lose a couple aircraft carriers? Would we immediately put 250k troops on Taiwan to defend them, or would we hope one or two aircraft carrier battle groups in the area would deter China? If we try to defend China like we have Ukraine, I think China wins. The U.S. would need to go into wartime economy, put 200k troops on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines, would need to start pumping out more Ford carriers about every 1-2 years.
@@shaunholt Except we wouldn't have to do any of that. America's military is built to end things quickly. Strike hard, fast, and diminish the enemy's ability to keep contesting in any meaningful way. Once China's entire Airforce and Navy is zero'd in the first few battles, we would move on to the Chinese mainland and start zero'ing their factories and shipyards with B-2s and B-21s + F-35s with Stealth Drones. China would not be able to manufacture new planes and warships in time to keep things going, and once the U.S. establishes control of an area, it is IMPOSSIBLE to push them out, even if China is allowed to keep building things which they wouldn't. We would completely diminish industrial capacity as well as blockade their shipping routes and deny them the ability to get new materials and electronics for construction. The war would be over swiftly. An indisputable American Victory. People think this war would be close, it would not be..
@@ObiWanShinobi917 there's not a rats chance in hell we'd invade mainland china. We don't even have enough missiles to contend with the air force or navy. We're ramping up drone production as a stop gap but frankly, nothing is stopping China from doing the exact same with greater numbers. I'd say its a result of the short-sighted and foolish efforts to move all of the world's manufacturing to china for short term profit since the 90s, however I still think it was always the elite's intention. they wanted to prop up china up as the puppet of the 21st century of totalitarian capitalism. The fact the 1989 tiennamen square massacre was swept under the rug in 2 months shows how deep china has had their roots in our governments way back in 1989. No doubt it has expanded since then.
Next week, the counter [word youtube is such a gigantic baby, I can't say]? China's air force trashed, still plenty of stealth remaining on blue to go in first and clear anti-air, followed by heavily loaded 4th gen with message to send! [you would not believe the amount of editing, removing of perfectly normal words, I've had to do to get this message to not get youtbe treated (deleted)]
why cant you write off a new computer as a business expense? are tax laws that different in england? you should look into a supermicro dual cpu mobo with amd epyc 7003s. they can support 4tb of ram. youd have to run dcs as a local lan and just use your current pc to access. wont help when you play online but these solo videos would benefit. probably get into that set up under 4000 usd. we do something similar with our hell let loose server but the internet connection is our bottleneck
@@Kalgeriplan if its essential to your business you can absolutely write it off your taxes. for example shelves and vehicles can be written off. there are tons of things that can written off your taxes
I don't think it works like that in the UK. If you are a VAT registered company, you can claim the VAT back (20%) but being VAT registered has many other rules and regulations.
The only factor that could possibly be added in would be ballistic missiles fired from mainland China. However even that would have some detection of happening before the attack. The ETC would be the most realistic as the aircraft are already close at hand and can be armed and readied under cover of their hangars in a relatively short amount of time. The weapons can even be prepositioned at the bases months before without anyone knowing an attack is coming. Adding a large fleet deployment by China would also not be seen as a surprise. A large fleet deployment would be spotted rather quickly and would ruin the element of surprise. They wouldn't be able to launch a Pearl Harbor style attack with surprise today. Especially with how far China would have to sail to get in range to attack.
CPU and GPU begging for mercy lmfao
Cpu gpu and my brain eye connection in first 4 minutes of the west oob. 😮😊😂
Cpu. Gpu. And my brain eye connection just innthe oob of the US lol
OGPU?
Anyone know his computer specs? I wonder how well this game would run on the highest end AMD CPU with an RTX 4090?
Brilliant Cap as always...gutted to hear we might not hear more from GR at some future point 😢 - you've given hundreds of thousands of people great entertainment over the years and truly hope you'll keep going! Maybe promote your Patreon more often or simply include a PayPal link?
Roger, just seems a bit cheesy, here here it is:
PATREON: www.patreon.com/GrimReapers
PAYPAL one-off donations: www.paypal.me/GrimReapersDonation
@@grimreapers Agree it's really sad to hear the Grim Reapers "might not be long for this world" :(. You've done phenomenal work and thousands of videos, and all of that is hugely appreciated. But with the recurring illnesses and a growing family to support, understand how it might not make sense anymore. One thought - go to a weekly format? That might give you a break from the pressure of putting out a video everyday, and you have a lot of loyal viewers here who would still watch an occasional Grim Reapers "special".
@@grimreapers I sent you 20 quid. This is much better than a superchat because yt doesn't get 50%.
What? The F22 didn't get an intercept? **Sad raptor noises **😂😂😂
Would you intercept me? I'd intercept me😂
@@KristyMurray-s9n someone watches Habitual Linecrosser. Do you think Franklin followed in the cockpit?
Too bad Grandpa Buff wouldn't have a part in a battle like this. But imagine B-52s acting as missile trucks for the stealth fighters with AIM-174s
Oh, and
Buff and Franklin '24
How pissed would the F22 pilots be that they missed such a target rich environment and a bunch of Marine aviators in F35Bs became aces.
They wouldn't be upset. The 22 has never seen combat and honestly, it probably and hopefully never will.
@@KristyMurray-s9nyes it has it’s been used for air to ground officially and anecdotally has been observed coming back from air cover missions in Syria without full bays.
I’m sad to hear some people dislike a vid just when the red side wins. I for one love the USA and her allies but it’s entirely possible a red team can win especially in the sim. We can learn from it, be entertained by it, and it makes good discussion.
I find that utterly mental. It's a simulation FFS, and not to forget - a heavily gamified one. It's not a concerted effort to discredit anyone's military. Some people...
Honestly i agree with you. Cap puts so many hours of work into these and people leave a dislike because it didn't work out how they wanted..... America can't win every battle even with our allies and all that. I appreciate all the work cap does for my entertainment ❤
If I'm going to be honest I stopped watching this channel because it seemed like blue won every single time. I prefer when red wins some of the matches it's unrealistic to believe that America will come out on top 100% of the time
@@Kalgeriplan with a defense budget like America's, they honestly should win almost every fight. We have better technology, weapons, and training
@@KristyMurray-s9nthat doesn't matter in a saturation attack the point of a first strike is to destroy everything the first time around if America has a 1000 missile interceptors ready to go China is going to send 2000 missiles ensure that whatever they want destroyed is. it doesn't matter how much you spend on defense or how good your technology is when you simply don't have enough interceptors to take out whatever is coming to destroy you it's that simple. Your logic is simplistic at best. We fought a war against terrorists and weren't able to destroy them even with all the technology that we had in the trillions of dollars we threw at the war in Afghanistan. Money and technology does not win wars. So I'd like to ask you how are you so confident that the Chinese don't have technology that is at least comparable to the Americans considering that both America and China are very tight-lipped about their capabilities. Wikipedia and Reddit aren't good sources by the way neither is this RUclips channel.
Cap, while undergoing chemo/radiation treatments, two years ago, your channel was one of the few i watched regularly, being too exhausted to keep up with mutch else. My thanks to you and the rest of the reapers as you gave me one of the few joys i got to experience during treatment (im a year cancer free as of this past September 30th). I hope you reconsider and keep up the series. My best to you and the rest of the reapers!
Found you because of the “Modern Carrier protects Pearl Harbor “ battles and here we are cheering on America protecting Japan. Funny old world. Thanks Cap!
Thanks! Get a better processor. Play around with stealth/4th gen data sharing integration.
Come on everyone! Just a dollar or a two. Lets get him an upgraded PC!
Cap, don’t underestimate the power of asking for help. Us viewingtons are always ready willing and able to support your channel. Promote your Patreon or PayPal etc. we will help you get through rough times. Love you as always, keep it up! 👍
I see no issue with your slowing the busy battles down. No upgrade needed imo.
This is entertainment (and science) You are allowed to be human. You are even allowed to be a little less than "average human" under the circumstances. I am just happy to see each new video. You and your family remain in my prayers.
And now you know why folks( not me ) gave the last vid thumbs down. Not because of the outcome but because of you not using U.S. assets. No U.S. assets was unrealistic (never mind that that was the scenario you were given) so complaining ensued. Great vid thanks for the updated scenario.
Cap was given that scenario because that is what he asked for. If you recall the scenario of North vs South Korea, we tested that one with just the North vs the South and US assets were not used. Cap said on that one they would redo it if the South Koreans weren't able to handle it on their own. In this one, Cap wanted to test it without American support and he asked for a scenario that could possibly pull American forces away from Japan. So I gave him what he asked for. It was the most realistic scenario that I could think of to get American involvement out of the scenario. After how the last one went, he asked me to put in the American assets, which is what we did. Keep in mind these are what if scenarios. Just to envision what might happen.
Fair comment.
Fair play, my computer would have just self deleted.
CVN 73 USS George Washington is enroute to Japan as we speak to be the new foward deployed Carrier with a squad of F 35Cs on board.....Funny how after the Regan left, then the Chinese.. started war games around Tawian....great job Cap!..👉🏻👉🏻
Yeah, the timetable was getting close. The last I saw was the Reagan was on their final patrol before they would be routed back to their new homeport.
Well that made a remarkable difference! Thanks, Cap.
Goodness me Cap, I've not even started watching the fight yet and all the planning you've put into this is amazing 😃
Yeh this was a REAL bitch to get working I can tell you.
I was in Norfolk VA during July 4th weekend in 1991 on a family vacation. We went to the shipyard to see the Arleigh Burke being commissioned.
just FYI the newer Sm6 block 2 B is coming soon. It's hypersonic and has even greater range than block2A.
big kudos for putting together these giganto battles - everyone familiar with the mission editor knows how painful and time consuming this process can be - not to mention using heavily modded assets, that's some mad skills !
Here's an idea cap, run the CPU at 50% speed, but play back the recorded video at 2x speed, thus the result will be the battle playing at normal speed? Then you can commentate as normal, if that all makes sense.... 😂
24:24 you can see one of the missiles that got through actually "hit" the water (or missed by hitting water, not target)... so technically only 3 got through.
You missed the submarine underwater lol
Well spotted!
@@grimreapers Also in real life wouldn't South Koreas Anti-Air at a minimum kick in on the side of the Japanese, plus the US Air-Bases in South Korea helping more assets like the F-22 make it into battle. Maybe a bomber would even get shot down from South Korea. Just a thought, but your poor computer might not make it unless you took out all the other f-22 that didn't make it into battle perhaps.
No that was a interceptor that was lead chasing a missile. You can see it going backwards in the map few and can see the smoke trail...
Thanks Cap for doing what we asked for, great job and great science 😂
Pleasure as always!
I hope you can maintain Grim Reapers, I really enjoy it.
I think you massively underestimated the effect of the different missile settings. I'd love to see the previously Japanese-only video redone with proper settings on each side. Faster J-20 takedowns by the F-35s means the F-35s could have potentially survived until reinforcements arrived and they wouldn't have gotten surrounded.
Also, I can't wait to see this recreated in Sea Power with proper ECM modeled.
The air battle might have been different, but the ballistic missile fight would have been the same. The fleet would have been sunk and the harbor destroyed.
You won't see this in Sea Power. At least not yet. The initial version models the 1960s to the 1980s.
@@christopherjohnson529 true, but keep in mind that mods in sea power are possible from day one
I wonder if there's a way to automatically keep track of assets that were shot down/culled for CPU capacity, so as not to count as a loss.
why not make a go fund me or buy me a coffee cumputer fund, i'm sure you would get a bit of dosh towards it.
I did a gofundme for my cancer, but a new PC seems a bit... "taking the piss" we say in UK.
@@grimreapers The importance of one doesn't diminish the importance of the other. If you need something to do your job, it's a valid use of the platform, The buy me a coffee one particularly. Glad you got some help with the Cancer mate and hope you're on the mend.
GR must continue! How will I spend the 3 hours a day watching ur videos cap?!
I love it Cap. Keep up the good work.
Watching this at 0144 and there's a four-blade heli bumbling about. Bet the neighbours are chuffed. [Edit - buggered off at 0206]
That seems like a lot of PLAAF aircraft being able to just fly through Korean airspace.
I upvoted the last video. Excellent effort, sir.
This video reinforces how important it is to place the best fighters in the right places geographically - closer to likely attack approaches. Having at least some F22s, F35s and F15EXs front loaded near Sasebo, Taiwan, and Okinawa is important. Also, placement of the DDGs is critical to blunt any attack. Lastly, forward basing the AWACs makes a difference, since it increases detection and response time. There are drawbacks to all of these decisions, but benefits as well. Lastly, I wonder if anyone is working on high altitude balloons with early warning radar, for placement over places like Sasebo, Okinawa and Taiwan. They would be vulnerable, but could give very early detection notice, which is a game changer. Even 15-30 minutes matters a lot.
Kadena used to have a squadron of KC135s. they could be put into a racetrack east of Japan so that Okinawa planes could burn into combat. Also northern planes burn south and land to refuel and take off again. Use spawning to simulate this.
Why are none of the super hornets carrying AIM-174?
Probably still in testing phases.....there has been no pics I have seen of LIVE AIM 174Bs yet......the ones on the Hornets were just testing how far the missile flies....speed.....distance, havent heard of any deployed ones yet.
It is still in testing phase. Can't give them something not fully integrated.
This is a here and now scenario, not a future battle.
Have you explored running these sims on AWS servers?
There is a few issues here.
The first one is tactical. This situation is totally unrealistic. No general would fight like this, on neither side. Just running out and defending the ocean makes no sense,
The next issue is that the plane model is largely based on guesses. While they are guesses by very well informed people, its still guesses. In reality nobody knows how large diffrance there is in radar and EW.
Apart from that DCS don´t differentiate between block 1-3 F35 and block 4 F35. The block 4 once are really quite a lot better. For example the engine is considerably more heat resistant. The main reason for this is to decrease maintenance. But a side effect is that top speed increases quite a lot and also fuel efficiency.
The way DCS handle link also really don´t work the same way it does in modern aircraft.
Nothing of this is really DCS fault. The game is not made to simulate modern aircraft. And really even if it would, it could not do that. The planes need to be old so we got reliable data.
Someone once said, "Success has a thousand fathers, failure has none."
You are doing good work, keep it up.
I would love to hear HLC narrate with voices.
So the US needs Japan to help defend Okinowa, and Japan needs American help to defend..... Japan. Alliances exist for a reason.
I'll be China wishes it has some. :D
ERROR; you keep placing your Navy as part of the target area! You need to deploy them in a V-shape to either side of the enemy approach vector. This forces the attacker to choose between targeting them or the land targets (and so allowing the ships to snipe away).
Give it a try someday, you'll see.
Roger John. I understand what you mean but there are some weird restrictions in game that define where I can put stuff.
@@grimreapers Its cool, I'm just glad you haven't melted your harddrive yet.
That is why all the talk about pulling out of NATO and other alliances is so important to take seriously, and push back on.
It doesn't make sense any J-7 or JH-7s in an air war. The J-7s are retired already or turned into unmanned drones. The JH-7 are only armed with short ranged AAM and only used for anti-shipping. They should really be replaced with J-10Cs which have replaced the J-7s and would actually be used in their place in a scenario like this.
Random question ? can't you just despawn the fighter Jets once they have run out of missile's. Just like you do to the Bombers after they have fired the ballistic missile's. That would save your PC from overstressing so badly, with these huge epic battles you have.
Was thinking same, but would that also erase kills made by the de-spawned one?
@@johnwolf2829 🤔 yeah didn't think about that. but I have never played dcs, I would love to. So not sure if that would erase there kills. Do you play dcs?
Will investigate but they way DCS works may simply be too much work as each planes would have to be programmed separately like this. Would take days...
@@grimreapers Oh wow, this is so cool, I can't believe you replied to my message. I watch your videos all the time. Thx for making such awesome videos, for us to enjoy. You should be getting millions of views for your videos, they are really good. Anyway lol I am rumbling on now. Oh ok, I see, well I am not very knowledgeable on dcs. but if it's too complicated to program in, then I guess it's not worth it.
Great sim.
Wish they would model the Growler! It would make a big difference
It is essentially a 2 seater Super Hornet with an EW package and no gun. DCS doesn't have a way currently to model how jamming works.
@@CombatIneffective I’m familiar with it. It would add a whole other dimension to the battles if it could. Huge fan of your work as well as Cap! Y’all are great and thanks for the endless hours of entertainment!
@@onetime8424 thank you for the compliments. I always let Cap know the Growlers are there even though he hardly uses them, simply because I never know what changes DCS has made. He is the wizard of that part.
Been too long since Cap's voice got that high
China has unveiled their newest missile - The Wiggly Wiggler.
Rules for watching grim reapers videos.
#1, cap works hard so all the thumbs up.
#2, we all watch the briefing
#3 dislikes in the comments😂
#4, now that the video has worked properly and ended properly, the next is REVENGEEEEEEEE😂😂😂😂😂
brilliant
Try using engage in zone with an orbit set. Seems it's just those F-35s having the issue.
Cap, this battle is taking place in 2024, right? I believe the F-35s (both A & C variants) do NOT have the sidekick upgrade as of 2024. It would make more sense for the F/A-18s to be strapped with AIM-174Bs.
Cap there is another air base missing. MCAS Iwakuni is just south of Hiroshima. It is home to 2 Marine F35B squadrons and is the home base of Carrier air wing 5 when they're not deployed on the ship. Usually one Marine F35 unit is home while the other is deployed on one of the LHD carriers part of the 31 MEU
I wish the defenders could have this great result in the first wave defence IRL. But i don't think that's likely. :-/
you know i enjoy your simulations, but DCS (or someone else), really need a complete set of maps/charts to use.
They are expensive. So are all the different aircraft models they use, especially ones that are playable.
lol yes agree.
Worth the Like just for Cap playing Hit or Miss :)
Cap i would like to do a study on one of these campaigns. I would like to compare the experience and flight expertise and training of US pilots being assumed superior to the training and experience of Chinese fighters and see how to try to account for said discrepancy in an already ran scenario. Whether its this or the Taiwan or just a Carrier vs Carrier group.
I think we all know the avg US Naval or Airforce fighter Pilot receives more training and flight hours to earn their wings and maintain readiness training levels per year are also better. We also know that US Pilots have most likely given the past wars have more real-life experience & their training scenarios are greater in scale and are more realistic to modern air-to-air combat scenarios. I think these scenarios for fairness try to allow for China and US Pilots marked at the same level but I think it would be interesting to see how big of an impact pilot skill is. Like one scenario have all pilots on Vetern skill then have the next with the tip of the spear US Pilots are Ace's then the rest be the next best level. While the Chinese have no Aces and have their bulk near the lowest skill level. Correct me if I am wrong but there are 4 levels to Skill and the US should have 20% at Level 4, 60% at Level 3 and say the remainder 20% being the younger new recruits at the 2nd skill level. Then China has less training, fewer flight hours, and less real-world experience, to have 20% level 3, 30% level 2 and the rest being very inexperienced 50% level 1 skill.
I would also say it would make sense to put the better pilots in the better aircraft aka the Ace US Pilots would be flying the F-22s if available and maybe a few on the F-35s. The rest of the 35 and half the 18/15/16's would be level 3 and have the last to engage 4th gen be the 20% level 2. Then for China, the J-20s would have all their level 3 skill and the rest of them would be level 2 and all the 4th gen would have level 1 skill.
Trop fort ces américains.
So it looks like theres no comms vetween F35 and other planes, sending targeting data?
Math is hard... US Aircraft 24 + 20 + 12 + 45 = 101, not 77 😎
14:24 is an error. That is 101 US Aircraft not 77 24+20+12+45=101
47:47 looked like an AIM kill
They’ll never be smarter than humans?
Let’s hope not
I just watched a video last night saying there are F35 Bs and F35As now. Hope they are modeled. Still watching into at the moment.
The previous scenario took the US out... Both from Japan and Korea. You put the US from Japan back in this scenario but forgot about those from Korea... They're only about 400kms away so.... Merica!
are the Raptors late due to the fuel issue?
You had to put j35 in this war scenario
J-35 isn't in service yet.
Make a video with the refitted Kirov class battlecruiser!
Is there a reason the F-35s etc. cannot just turn and then vanish when they cross a certain threshhold?
I have a question, sir. Can you Daisy-chain your older computer would the new computer you plan on acquiring? In doing so, will doing that increase your computing power? This caveman is curious to know.
If people are disliking the video because their preferred team didn't win they need to get help.
Cap, do you have somewhere we could donate to help you build a new computer?
@grim reapers what about new polish fleet of 50 apache vs some ruzzia ?
I'm sure the majority of us would give you $5 every now and then if you were a bit more open about it
Just signed up for Patreon. Would love to hear a plug for it in every video. ;)
Cap, you gave the mig 21s a better probability than what China actually has. You kept everything fair and even tried to help China from not being totally destroyed but it didn't help them. Thank you for all the work you do
Thank you for your efforts! Your videos are always so interesting and professional. Keep it up!🎤♂️😕
What, I got served ads. It wasn’t demonitized
Im pretty sure even demonetized videos show ads now
How much you have RUclips premium it doesn't matter whether your channel is monetized or not RUclips is out to make a buck so they're going to show you ads
Maybe RUclips needs another option. Up thumb if you like it, down thumb if you hated it, middle finger if you liked the video but hated the result.
The winner is whoever can recover materially to keep fighting. Without massive sabotage of chinese manufacturing it would seem they have a material advantage
I think a bigger issue would be having trained, especially combat-experienced pilots. China could pump out a lot of aircraft, but how many work as advertised (cheap/broken/overrated), how many hours flight time do the pilots have, etc. The U.S. military I think would have a massive advantage in chain of command, combat experience, supply, logistics, etc. China would be able to mount a modest first wave, but once the bulk of their combat-ready air force and navy is wasted, they'll start throwing untrained soldiers into battle.
Where the U S. would be up against the wall is more in terms of willpower. The American people didn't have the stomach for Iraq and Afghanistan, which had only roughly 5k casualties in 20 years. A full-scale war vs China could easily have 5k casualties a month or a week. The US lost 14k troops on Okinawa in 2-3 months. Losing a Ford carrier or losing 40 F-35s would be a massive hit to the U.S. morale. Would Americans be okay with continuing a war with China over an island 7,000 miles away? China on the other hand could lose 2 million soldiers or 10 million civilians and won't bat an eye. China lost roughly 10 million people in their civil war and 20 million people in their war against Japan, then not even a decade later fought in Korea and lost near half a million more. They didn't quit. So the U.S. crushing China in one battle or twenty battles won't really determine the result. Would the American people be willing to lose 400k troops to launch a ground invasion of China? Would they support a war even if we lose a couple aircraft carriers? Would we immediately put 250k troops on Taiwan to defend them, or would we hope one or two aircraft carrier battle groups in the area would deter China? If we try to defend China like we have Ukraine, I think China wins. The U.S. would need to go into wartime economy, put 200k troops on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines, would need to start pumping out more Ford carriers about every 1-2 years.
@@shaunholt
Except we wouldn't have to do any of that.
America's military is built to end things quickly. Strike hard, fast, and diminish the enemy's ability to keep contesting in any meaningful way.
Once China's entire Airforce and Navy is zero'd in the first few battles, we would move on to the Chinese mainland and start zero'ing their factories and shipyards with B-2s and B-21s + F-35s with Stealth Drones. China would not be able to manufacture new planes and warships in time to keep things going, and once the U.S. establishes control of an area, it is IMPOSSIBLE to push them out, even if China is allowed to keep building things which they wouldn't. We would completely diminish industrial capacity as well as blockade their shipping routes and deny them the ability to get new materials and electronics for construction.
The war would be over swiftly. An indisputable American Victory.
People think this war would be close, it would not be..
@@ObiWanShinobi917 there's not a rats chance in hell we'd invade mainland china. We don't even have enough missiles to contend with the air force or navy. We're ramping up drone production as a stop gap but frankly, nothing is stopping China from doing the exact same with greater numbers. I'd say its a result of the short-sighted and foolish efforts to move all of the world's manufacturing to china for short term profit since the 90s, however I still think it was always the elite's intention. they wanted to prop up china up as the puppet of the 21st century of totalitarian capitalism.
The fact the 1989 tiennamen square massacre was swept under the rug in 2 months shows how deep china has had their roots in our governments way back in 1989. No doubt it has expanded since then.
Do a Give Send Go for a new system: 9950X CPU, 96GB, 7900 XTX, T705 SSD, ...
Next week, the counter [word youtube is such a gigantic baby, I can't say]?
China's air force trashed, still plenty of stealth remaining on blue to go in first and clear anti-air, followed by heavily loaded 4th gen with message to send!
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Increase your patreon minimum to $10 perhaps?
Yeah, I'm only going to down vote something I don't want to see. I may not like a video where fly babbles on and on but never dislike.
why cant you write off a new computer as a business expense? are tax laws that different in england? you should look into a supermicro dual cpu mobo with amd epyc 7003s. they can support 4tb of ram. youd have to run dcs as a local lan and just use your current pc to access. wont help when you play online but these solo videos would benefit. probably get into that set up under 4000 usd. we do something similar with our hell let loose server but the internet connection is our bottleneck
Can you do that in America I don't think you can
@@Kalgeriplan if its essential to your business you can absolutely write it off your taxes. for example shelves and vehicles can be written off. there are tons of things that can written off your taxes
I don't think it works like that in the UK.
If you are a VAT registered company, you can claim the VAT back (20%) but being VAT registered has many other rules and regulations.
As expected, China stands absolutely no chance at all in a fight where America is involved, and isnt purposely nerfed, lol.
Thinking China would go to war against Japan + USA using only the airforce of the ETC is funny but still, nice little wargame once again.
The only factor that could possibly be added in would be ballistic missiles fired from mainland China. However even that would have some detection of happening before the attack. The ETC would be the most realistic as the aircraft are already close at hand and can be armed and readied under cover of their hangars in a relatively short amount of time. The weapons can even be prepositioned at the bases months before without anyone knowing an attack is coming. Adding a large fleet deployment by China would also not be seen as a surprise. A large fleet deployment would be spotted rather quickly and would ruin the element of surprise. They wouldn't be able to launch a Pearl Harbor style attack with surprise today. Especially with how far China would have to sail to get in range to attack.
China would rely heavily on their ballistic and cruise missile imo
Why you r so bias ... Just add the Eastern Theater Command Navy and PLA Rocket Force (PLARF) .... Come on man just get real ...