Maverick was launched as alert fighter after wolfman was shot down, ice man had to hang in and survive against 6 by himself until maverick got “going supersonic be there in 60 second”
You argued over how many and what missiles to take, but then launched 3 aircraft simultaneously. In the movie Maverick and Merlin sat alert 5 and did not launch until after Hollywood and Wolfman were downed. There were never more than 2 Tomcats in the fight.
They also went out to hunt all the "Migs" from the start. The movie scenario started out with the two Tomcats getting ambushed by 4 more planes than expected and starting the encounter just trying to survive. A F-14 vs F-5 fight is unbalanced to begin with, this just stacked the deck in their favor.
I've been trying to remember if it was 5 or 6 MiG-28s. I remember the "not one pair, but two pair." And then Wolfman saying "there's another one" when the 5th showed up, but I don't remember the 6th.
Hey Cap, I think myself along with everyone else just getting into DCS would love to see a setup tour of not just your setup, but everyone in GR. From Rudder pedals to monitors/VR headsets. It would be a pretty cool video/series, being that GR is the best DCS channel on RUclips!
@@grimreapers Actually we changed his role and position within the USAF and set to move him to the UK. He is the new PR DCS General and is permanently tasked with GR DCS duties now :D
Queue the Top Gun quotes - excellent :) Oh the memories of 1986 - the film - being in the ATC - spending a week down at RAF Wyton and visiting Alconbury and Lakenheath......
@@grimreapers Only ever saw a Jag airborne once, at Church Fenton early 90's when I was there with the ATC, flew straight down the runway and buzzed a Chipmunk and disappeared just as fast as he appeared..
Way back in 2005 I was at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, AZ and saw two F-5’s painted in some blue camo livery, complete with the red star on the tail wing and all. The air wing guys told me they were used as more realistic opposing forces for training with the squadron down there, which at the time were flying Harriers. Thank you for showing some love to the F-5!! You all did a fantastic job in this bout of calibrating and then recalibrating tactics after each round. Great flying as always Grim Reapers!!
Great scenario, I was hoping more for more of the movie fight with two Toms having to get visual and tangle with the "Migs" then send a third Tom from the carrier and what not. Perhaps a future Version 2.0 of this fantastic movie fight to really nail it down. Good to see Kortana back. She's a beast in the air (or underwater in a U Boat)
"Blob" was the original tactic in the movie. They came in showing 2, then 4, and then 6. It'd be interesting to run again with the tomcats going 2 v 6 and then adding one if one gets shot down/out of fight. Also starting with ROE where the migs have to fire first. Tomcat 3 could engage bvr by that point. Good fun though! Maverick helmet was a nice touch.
For the filming of the movie, the producers paid for two missiles to be fired, each filmed from multiple angles for later splicing into the movie. If I remember correctly....
It was used in top gun because it was used as an aggressor plane because it closely resembled the mig-21, next you need to do hot shot and Topper Harley
Didn’t the RoE in the film prevent the Tomcats shooting first? Otherwise they would have splashed the MIGs from 60 miles with their video cameras and phoenixes.
I loved the NOT named Red Star version of the F-5. I know it wasn't a Great dog fighter but it's a beautiful and aggressive looking airframe. Love these fun and interesting setups too.
I was big into plastic models when the original Top Gun came out. I already had an F-14 built, so I built an F-5E. Mine didn't end up black like the "MiG-28" It ended up in a blue splinter camouflage, and I won a blue ribbon at the country fair with it. I guess if the "MiG-28" had a NATO reporting name it could be "Feline". 😂 You know.. this could be a series. The navy used A-4s, F-5s, F-16s, and Kfirs as aggressor aircraft. A Mirage 2000 could stand in for the Kfir if need be.
If you guys could replicate a scene from the movie when Tom Cruise went inverted on the top off a mig and take a picture of the bandit.... That would be a awesome clip 🤣🙏
I've been making this request for a very long time now... Please fly MIG-28 VS MIG-29! Lol same plot as Top Gun Maverick with the Planes of original Top Gun however in this case Maverick is in stolen MIG-28 while engaged with (for the time;) advanced MIG-29! Both Planes black paint red star skins🙏👍 Btw Simba! The North Koreans captured an F-5! ;)
Kortana!😁✌ Really hope you haven't forgot n you'll do this request!😅 U.S.(Uncle SAM;) corridor for Russian/Chinese Planes try to fly through as it progressively becomes more difficult! Please include MANPADS Stingers, Avenger Air Defense System, C-Ram, NASAMS, Patriot, Plus Allied Nations, Iron Dome, IRIS-T's, Gepards and so on you get the idea! However it'd be really cool if you used different variants of certain systems making it more difficult as it goes on with more modern variants and if you could layer up at certain points! Especially against the target GR Headquarters near The Great Pyramids!🙏👍
seeing as the coordinates to the hostile target in the second movie come up as point Nemo (the farthest point from any inhabited landmass) I've chosen to declare that the enemy in the top gun movies is Badguyistan
Awesome video! The F-14 is just a much superior weapon system as a whole. The thing is, as AIM/ACEVAL showed, even with 2:1 kill ratio in favor of the F-14 (or F-15) it was still not worth it for the blues. Hence the decision to develop fire and forget radar missiles. An idea to make this even harder for the F-14's, don't let the 3rd one launch until the first pair merges with the 28's!
BIg movies dont use stock footage, they work with the CIA/Hollywood Liasion Office in the Pentagon, so in the second movie the ask the real captain of the aircraft carrier to turn into the light for a specail shot, the U.S. Navy Captain says "it cost over 25,000 dollars an hour to run this boat" one of the producer runs away and comes back up with a check for 25,000 dollars...and that's the shot in the new movie were the sun is perfect in the shot on the carrier...
This was good fun to watch, especially enjoyed your underdog victories as “MiG-28” jets, well done. The F-5 is lovely, even if most of my countrymen don’t know it as well as the venerable F-14 Tomcat
your not going to make it far enough to engage in a fight for more than 1 min with out having had the extend range tanks to get you to the fight. you would have dropped them before engaging but you would have took off with them.
In the movie they used F-20 Tigersharks, a improved design that was basically a highly upgraded F-5, intended for the export market but never got any sales. Topgun was its high-water mark.
The immediate visual ID between the two is the engines. The F-5 had two relatively small engines, while the F-20 had a single, more powerful engine. The single engine is clearly seen in the movie. For the sim-battle here, you are correct.@@ApacheVR-4
@@xet1sw156 O I know the differences between the F-5 and the F-20. The jets playing the Mig-28s in Top Gun DEFINITELY have 2 engine nozzles. They can be clearly seen in the ending dogfight that the Grim Reapers are re-enacting here. They used F-5Es and F-5Fs during the filming of the movie. This is well documented.
In the movie, they were clearly using F5e/f tiger, not F20. The difference are F20 have one big engine's exhaust vs F5's twin small engine's exhaust. Then you can clearly see there is no cooling vent in the base of Mig28's vertical stabilizer, indicates they'r F5 tiger; because F20 have them.
Awesome TopGun movie re-enactment!! Everything was great until Kortana got shot and kicked her computer.. 🤔 How in the world did you manage a video showcasing the F-14 without Dampsock being involved? He's gonna pop! Only problem I see with this is; the Movie pilots had much closer formations.. Grim Reapers should try more of that. 😆 they played creepy music whenever the 'baddies' were on screen, which gives a huge tactical advantage.. Cheers!! 🍻
From what I remember the baddies that are supposed to be in Top Gun 1 or Russia or China or Iran that's it because they all export and import stuff with each other in real life I wish they would keep at least three Tomcats still in action just for air shows you know last time I saw on Tomcat was when I was a little kid the guy afterburner over everybody and you can feel that shit in your chest and then when he popped G and went straight up your ears would ring. Then he did a slow fly by the slowest he could do before he stalled. Pretty remarkable plane and they also displayed it and they put the wings out it's huge that's what she said I thank you LOL. I appreciate the gr guys and what you guys do I know this is not the official page. I don't know who runs this one but if they get these messages I've been watching for over 4 years now so thank you for your guys's time and effort.
Maverick was launched as alert fighter after wolfman was shot down, ice man had to hang in and survive against 6 by himself until maverick got “going supersonic be there in 60 second”
You argued over how many and what missiles to take, but then launched 3 aircraft simultaneously. In the movie Maverick and Merlin sat alert 5 and did not launch until after Hollywood and Wolfman were downed. There were never more than 2 Tomcats in the fight.
They also went out to hunt all the "Migs" from the start. The movie scenario started out with the two Tomcats getting ambushed by 4 more planes than expected and starting the encounter just trying to survive. A F-14 vs F-5 fight is unbalanced to begin with, this just stacked the deck in their favor.
I've been trying to remember if it was 5 or 6 MiG-28s. I remember the "not one pair, but two pair." And then Wolfman saying "there's another one" when the 5th showed up, but I don't remember the 6th.
@@Andywils02 It was 2 on 4 and migs 5 and 6 showed up later
@@talyrathagreed, they should have started out 4 on 2 at the merge with the 3 Tomcat 50miles away
Also the roe were "witness hostile act" so fox 3 bvr was not on. They were necessarily defensive.
I smiled seeing Cap's helmet in the mirror too
The tomcat is the F22 of its time... watching the video really confirmed that idea. And we aren't even counting the phoenix here.
Should switch out the Tomcat for various other aircraft for fun.
Hey Cap, I think myself along with everyone else just getting into DCS would love to see a setup tour of not just your setup, but everyone in GR. From Rudder pedals to monitors/VR headsets. It would be a pretty cool video/series, being that GR is the best DCS channel on RUclips!
We all want a Simba face reveal really
roger, this is still pretty much current TBH: ruclips.net/video/eqOG75mXrwI/видео.html
Simba is active USAF so we are not allowed to show him until he retires.
@@grimreapers Actually we changed his role and position within the USAF and set to move him to the UK.
He is the new PR DCS General and is permanently tasked with GR DCS duties now :D
Queue the Top Gun quotes - excellent :) Oh the memories of 1986 - the film - being in the ATC - spending a week down at RAF Wyton and visiting Alconbury and Lakenheath......
Good times.
Two of the most beautiful jets ever! This is going to be a good one. Remember boys, no points for second place...
DANGER ZONE!
I miss it to😢
Kortana! Best video we've got in a while for her alone!
The Mig 28s did the blob strat at the beginning of Top Gun 😂😂
I just love how Matrix' (and Kortana's) chatter adds a whole extra level of immersion.
I know Matrix was an actual RAF fighter pilot ( I think that is true, Early 80s Harriers?) but is Kortana also an actual pilot?
Matrix flew Jaguars in RAF. Kortana jumps out of planes but does not fly.
@@grimreapers She falls...
...with style!
@@grimreapers Only ever saw a Jag airborne once, at Church Fenton early 90's when I was there with the ATC, flew straight down the runway and buzzed a Chipmunk and disappeared just as fast as he appeared..
@@grimreapers I would love a documentery style video of whose who of GR, getting to know the voices behind the stick.
At the end fight, Dark never leave your wingman!
I hope I'm not the only one who put on Danger Zone while watching this.
Way back in 2005 I was at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, AZ and saw two F-5’s painted in some blue camo livery, complete with the red star on the tail wing and all. The air wing guys told me they were used as more realistic opposing forces for training with the squadron down there, which at the time were flying Harriers. Thank you for showing some love to the F-5!! You all did a fantastic job in this bout of calibrating and then recalibrating tactics after each round. Great flying as always Grim Reapers!!
Great scenario, I was hoping more for more of the movie fight with two Toms having to get visual and tangle with the "Migs" then send a third Tom from the carrier and what not. Perhaps a future Version 2.0 of this fantastic movie fight to really nail it down. Good to see Kortana back. She's a beast in the air (or underwater in a U Boat)
"Blob" was the original tactic in the movie. They came in showing 2, then 4, and then 6.
It'd be interesting to run again with the tomcats going 2 v 6 and then adding one if one gets shot down/out of fight.
Also starting with ROE where the migs have to fire first. Tomcat 3 could engage bvr by that point.
Good fun though! Maverick helmet was a nice touch.
For the filming of the movie, the producers paid for two missiles to be fired, each filmed from multiple angles for later splicing into the movie. If I remember correctly....
The visual of the kill at 8:30 was GR magic. Beautiful.
F5 is such a beauty and underrated
This really cheered me up. Love the top gun content.
agreed
It was used in top gun because it was used as an aggressor plane because it closely resembled the mig-21, next you need to do hot shot and Topper Harley
This one was definitely a lot of fun to watch.
Do not fire until fired up on.
Yes, I know this quote was said during the beginning of the movie. But it's one of my favorite quotes.
Didn’t the RoE in the film prevent the Tomcats shooting first? Otherwise they would have splashed the MIGs from 60 miles with their video cameras and phoenixes.
I loved the NOT named Red Star version of the F-5. I know it wasn't a Great dog fighter but it's a beautiful and aggressive looking airframe.
Love these fun and interesting setups too.
I was big into plastic models when the original Top Gun came out. I already had an F-14 built, so I built an F-5E. Mine didn't end up black like the "MiG-28" It ended up in a blue splinter camouflage, and I won a blue ribbon at the country fair with it. I guess if the "MiG-28" had a NATO reporting name it could be "Feline". 😂
You know.. this could be a series. The navy used A-4s, F-5s, F-16s, and Kfirs as aggressor aircraft. A Mirage 2000 could stand in for the Kfir if need be.
Cap, this video shook my nerves and rattled my brain.
Too much love (for Grim Reapers) drives a man insane...
Good fight, Cap! Good to see Kortana again in the fray.
Bonus - Added Kortana.
mig 28 theme coming in hot
at 19 minutes in, it's like I could hear Iceman's coms saying "I'm totally defensive here! Launch the alert 5! Where are you Mav?"
Catching up on old videos. Aswesome fun! Talk to me Simba!
Couple of things to make it more match the movie:
-ROE: no firing before merge
-3rd Tomcat launches only if one of the two first ones is shot down
Yes, this! Redo please!
Kortana, I have missed you xxxx
"Gear Down" in the guns battle was rather unbelievable, especially after the engine flame-out. +1
If you guys could replicate a scene from the movie when Tom Cruise went inverted on the top off a mig and take a picture of the bandit.... That would be a awesome clip 🤣🙏
I've been making this request for a very long time now... Please fly MIG-28 VS MIG-29! Lol same plot as Top Gun Maverick with the Planes of original Top Gun however in this case Maverick is in stolen MIG-28 while engaged with (for the time;) advanced MIG-29! Both Planes black paint red star skins🙏👍
Btw Simba! The North Koreans captured an F-5! ;)
Good to see (hear) Kortana in another video. Great pro pilot.
Edit: The low res flat ocean struggle is real.
"We're merged."
"Oh, shit!"
😂
Nice....would have been nice to see Damp in this one.....
Any combat with Kortana flying is worth the watch.
2x2 is a good loadout for CAP or alert fighter. -14's rarely carried more than 2 phoenix if they carried them at all
thx
i always wonder, how often pilots, military or civilian, throw random Airplane! quotes at each other.
I bet a lot.
*** Just like the "Old- Back in the Day " GR Videos.
F5 tutorial is perfect.
you could say the F-5 is a older relative of the F-18, as the YF-17 was heavily based on a F-5 derived prototype called the P-530
This was cool, but when you guys flew the Japanese VF-1's that was just crazy.
Good old fashioned dogfight, shame the damp sock wasnt around, hes good on the 14
Agreed
Actually the MiG-28s were meant by the creators to originally be North Korean fighter pilots
thx
Rice is rice
Kortana!😁✌ Really hope you haven't forgot n you'll do this request!😅 U.S.(Uncle SAM;) corridor for Russian/Chinese Planes try to fly through as it progressively becomes more difficult! Please include MANPADS Stingers, Avenger Air Defense System, C-Ram, NASAMS, Patriot, Plus Allied Nations, Iron Dome, IRIS-T's, Gepards and so on you get the idea! However it'd be really cool if you used different variants of certain systems making it more difficult as it goes on with more modern variants and if you could layer up at certain points! Especially against the target GR Headquarters near The Great Pyramids!🙏👍
The F-5E is a fantastic module, I just wish they would renew the graphics inside the cockpit
Agreed
I am leaning towards a Mig-28 being an F-20 Tigershark, as that would be closer to 80s tech.
seeing as the coordinates to the hostile target in the second movie come up as point Nemo (the farthest point from any inhabited landmass) I've chosen to declare that the enemy in the top gun movies is Badguyistan
Click on that damn camera at the bottom of the HUD of the F14 to get rid of it
I need to know who all these pilots are. Who is Kortana? Who is Bird? Who is Matrix? Who is Santa Claus?
ruclips.net/video/0s-1hN97xAs/видео.html
This just shows the power of super cap!
You can be my wingman anytime!
BS! you can be mine!
Use the Mig-28's radar suppression projection beams! The ones that look like guns!
Awesome video! The F-14 is just a much superior weapon system as a whole. The thing is, as AIM/ACEVAL showed, even with 2:1 kill ratio in favor of the F-14 (or F-15) it was still not worth it for the blues. Hence the decision to develop fire and forget radar missiles.
An idea to make this even harder for the F-14's, don't let the 3rd one launch until the first pair merges with the 28's!
Yes mate! Took my breath away
BIg movies dont use stock footage, they work with the CIA/Hollywood Liasion Office in the Pentagon, so in the second movie the ask the real captain of the aircraft carrier to turn into the light for a specail shot, the U.S. Navy Captain says "it cost over 25,000 dollars an hour to run this boat" one of the producer runs away and comes back up with a check for 25,000 dollars...and that's the shot in the new movie were the sun is perfect in the shot on the carrier...
Nice
Kortana rocks
Been waiting a very long time for this
That was Super Fun!! Thanks Cap 😊😊😊
That was WAY cool you guys! Thanks for sharing. Also, when will DCS model overspeed gear damage? Cheers boys and girls!
This was good fun to watch, especially enjoyed your underdog victories as “MiG-28” jets, well done.
The F-5 is lovely, even if most of my countrymen don’t know it as well as the venerable F-14 Tomcat
Shouldn't at least some of the MiGs be weighed down with Exocets? That was kinda the whole reason the encounter occurred after all.
Nice Fight All!! ;) cool Vid CAP!
great fight 🤘
I've noticed that since 2.9 the tomcat B is faster? Also Phoenix loft at 55° ??
In the movie- wasn't it 2 on 4 with Mav joining late? i.e. there were only ever 2 tomcats operational?
We measured it from when the first Tomcat was shot down, and included the two migs that ran away.
It's not the plane. It's the pilot.
Roger but that big Tomcat radar really helps...
Wasn't it 2 on 4 until Hollywood messed up?
We measured it from when the first Tomcat was shot down, and included the two migs that ran away.
Simba: North Korea i believe
That is Correct.
10/10 boys. Love it!
Great vid!
I don't think either side would have had drop tanks, they were configured for A2A so they would have had the max loadout for that purpose.
Yes fair point.
your not going to make it far enough to engage in a fight for more than 1 min with out having had the extend range tanks to get you to the fight. you would have dropped them before engaging but you would have took off with them.
TOMCATS!!!!
Darn it, you beat me to it 😁
TOMCATS!!!!!
TOMCATS!!!
31:11 what happened here why did the wings fall off? Over g?
How about using the upgraded F20 tigershark, is it modeld?
I don't think it is.
blob is good. blob is life.
Yes V, yes it is.
someone tell cap to press ctrl YY when he does the simulations or literally any video. That bar at the bottom of the screen ruins the video.
In the movie they used F-20 Tigersharks, a improved design that was basically a highly upgraded F-5, intended for the export market but never got any sales. Topgun was its high-water mark.
Not true
Being that only 3 F-20 Tigersharks were ever made and i believe that 2 of them crashed... no they didn't. They were just F-5s painted black.
The immediate visual ID between the two is the engines. The F-5 had two relatively small engines, while the F-20 had a single, more powerful engine. The single engine is clearly seen in the movie. For the sim-battle here, you are correct.@@ApacheVR-4
@@xet1sw156 O I know the differences between the F-5 and the F-20. The jets playing the Mig-28s in Top Gun DEFINITELY have 2 engine nozzles. They can be clearly seen in the ending dogfight that the Grim Reapers are re-enacting here. They used F-5Es and F-5Fs during the filming of the movie. This is well documented.
In the movie, they were clearly using F5e/f tiger, not F20.
The difference are F20 have one big engine's exhaust vs F5's twin small engine's exhaust.
Then you can clearly see there is no cooling vent in the base of Mig28's vertical stabilizer, indicates they'r F5 tiger; because F20 have them.
What is that droning sound
Sidewinder growl?
Миг 28 это вертолёт)) Все истребители миг имеют нечётную цифру. А истребитель миг28 это выдумка киношников.
Tovarish I like your Sukhoi-57 codename: Femboy
@@artnull13 а твоё кодовое имя pider
@@LostStalker pretty sure that’s your CALLSIGN 😂 😂 😂 coomer
@@artnull13 какая же ты крыса... Побежал жаловаться в ютуб.. You are real femboy.
Cap you need to change ur top display to the camera to easily ID targets then you dont need to zoom so much
Hahaha! This is freaking cool!!!
Awesome TopGun movie re-enactment!!
Everything was great until Kortana got shot and kicked her computer.. 🤔
How in the world did you manage a video showcasing the F-14 without Dampsock being involved? He's gonna pop!
Only problem I see with this is;
the Movie pilots had much closer formations.. Grim Reapers should try more of that. 😆
they played creepy music whenever the 'baddies' were on screen, which gives a huge tactical advantage..
Cheers!! 🍻
yeah there were some skill level difficulties in getting that tight formation.
So was this video preceded with an overly boyish game of beach volleyball.
Correction: topless volleyball.
HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE 😅
If you die and out of the game, one cannot give any advice/directions or talk.......... let's keep it realistic guys.
We were pretty good, not much cheating going on in this one.
I herp derp just wanted to see air planes go brrt go spelunkadunk ok? Leeme along
Too close for missile, switching to guns.
it was israile btw
The fact you got the scenerio wrong is saddening. Everything you did was wrong to the movie.
From what I remember the baddies that are supposed to be in Top Gun 1 or Russia or China or Iran that's it because they all export and import stuff with each other in real life I wish they would keep at least three Tomcats still in action just for air shows you know last time I saw on Tomcat was when I was a little kid the guy afterburner over everybody and you can feel that shit in your chest and then when he popped G and went straight up your ears would ring. Then he did a slow fly by the slowest he could do before he stalled. Pretty remarkable plane and they also displayed it and they put the wings out it's huge that's what she said I thank you LOL. I appreciate the gr guys and what you guys do I know this is not the official page. I don't know who runs this one but if they get these messages I've been watching for over 4 years now so thank you for your guys's time and effort.
1:19 if I remember rightly, Tom takes off to intercept completely unarmed.
I fact checked myself, he has the 2 bags, that's it.
kinda dismissed the entire reason for the Phoenix. Engaged at 11 miles?? really?