I read this in 86 when it came out. I was an ASW Naval Aviator at the time and after HFRO blew our minds we were ready and waiting for this. Clancy's words painted an amazing picture in the fertile imagination of my mind. You have topped it. Keep up this outstanding and important work. RSR will never get the Hollywood treatment so you are our only hope.
I was an SH-3H Sea King pilot in 1986 when I read the book. I was totally fascinated by the SH-60 with the "experimental" dipping sonar flown by LCDR O'Malley flown off the back end of a FFG-7 class frigate. Although dipping sonar helos are normally flown off carriers, I was in a squadron that had put a Sea King det on a Spruance DD for ASW ops in the Pacific Yankee box. The one inaccuracy I found about the Seahawk and the dipping sonar was when O'Malley passively listens for the sub hanging around the wreck of the Andrea Doria. The frequencies the active dipping sonar can listen on are far too high to find a submarine. Other than that it was a great read for me.
I read it shortly after you in 87 aboard the USS Nassau while flying in CH-46s in the Marines. He got everything about the boat right when it was mentioned with the exception of a door on the CH-53. It was a great read and after listening to this I need to read it again. Actually, the Nassau may have been another of Tom's books. I read a bunch of his books on that particular cruise. Its been a while :)
As a vet, I'd like to think our military trains our airmen, sailors and soldiers using this approach. In the case of the book. Love it. My visualizations realized ++++
No other adaptation is as true to Clancy's love of logistical setup as this, honestly my favorite part of his books was seeing the set pieces laid out across the board, meticulously planned out, only to be swept off in the span of a few short seconds and a lovely combination of explosions and shockwave
Nailed it!! The prologue/intro with the audio overlay of the TC explaining his source material and the work done to give to video the appearance of 80’s colour TV was brilliant. Great work
This Red Storm Rising stuff youre doing is literally amazing. I've waited 30 yrs for something like this. Best book ever written. RIP Tom Clancy. Subbed.
Damn this is so good. I haven't read this since the late eighties, and this was one of my favorite chapters. I was intrigued with the F-117 after reading this book and later from playing the Microprose game F-119 Stealth fighter around '88-89. I was so immersive at the time trying to evade radars and taking out Iranian and Libyan targets. Good work here bringing Clancey to new generations.
Played the hell out of F-19. One buddy got a CMoH in game for flying a mission from Rammstein to Russia. My uncle worked for a certain aerospace company and they got the Testors model of the F-19 for Christmas one year. He said they all laughed because it was so wrong.
Just from playing Microprose games on my Commodore 64 and of course from reading the excellent manual that came with each, I learned a lot about weapons and weapons' systems. When some biker gangs in Norway clashed, one side used an actual anti-tank missile launcher. It didn't do much damage to the other gang's headquarters, just punched a neat hole through the wall and since there were no occupants in the building, no collateral damage either. So I figured that they must have used an actual anti-tank warhead. They should have used an explosive warhead intended for 'soft' targets.
Instantly I'm back in 1986, in high school, Top Gun had come out, I was reading every military book I could find. Tom was very close in his description of the B-2 concept with his frisbee idea. One of the B-2 designers told me they were trying to mimic a dinner plate, very flat with curved edges. A frisbee. The B-2 wasn't even acknowledged until 1989, and Tom was barking up the right tree, he just didn't know it yet.
He wasn't describing the B2. At the time there was a different idea of what the F117 would be. They even made toys and models of it. It indeed looked like a Frisbee with wings that came out and kind of scooped at the ends and had canted twin tails. It was like a blended and elongated disk. I'm not sure if it was a concoction or if it was ever an actual competing design. You can see it if you Google F19. All the information of it ever actually existing is... bizarre. But it was very much what everyone was publicly aware of as a "stealth fighter" at the time.
@@Salty_Balls If I remember correctly, the F-19 model was based off an artist's best guess in either Popular Mechanics or Popular Science. I also remember that F-117 was first publicly used in Panama in 1989. Seems like yesterday and yet it also seems so long ago!
@@OjiOtaku It was described, and photographed, from very far away as it did test flights. The F-19 model looks enough like the Nighthawk if you squint hard enough.
Clancy missed on a few things: 1) No afterburner on the 117 (but Clancy called it the 'expected' F-19); 2) a 2 seater, and 3) can't hang anything on the airframe and still be stealthy. Still scary on his predictions on something that hadn't been disclosed at the time the book was written.
During Desert Shield/Storm back in '91, I was detached from my tank to the supply trains for a few weeks as we prepared to go over the line. One night, while sitting in our big green tent shooting the breeze with some of the other guys, I felt more than heard a jet-like sound in my inner ear. Curious, I went outside and looked up. There, just a thousand feet up or so, were six sets of navigation lights. I couldn't see a damn thing between them... but they were dropping flares. "Hey guys," I said with a grin as I stepped back inside. "We're tonight's bombing practice. Check it out." They all laughed and blew me off until one guy joined me at the tent flap... and seconds later, all of them were crowding through, to stare up in awe at the F-117s we'd never heard coming.
Got the audiobook for this book based on the quality of this video series. Thanks for making them and exposing yet another generation to the wonderful world of Tom Clancy novels beyond the Hollywood creations.
This is the one I've been waiting for. It was very clever of you to include Clancy's NSA lecture where he explained what he knew of the stealth program before it became public. I've often wondered how he would have rewritten the book had he better info about it
Hell, he might have been in on the DOD's deception plan, or at least got a whiff of the truth talking to people and deliberately misconstrued what the aircraft would be. It strikes me as something Tom would do on behalf of the country.
Testors produced a 1/48th scale model of the stealth fighter that was all curves. It looked nothing like the real aircraft. Even so it was the best selling model of the year.
@@MM22966 That is a good sentiment but given his mistakes in other places I think it was just an error. He was quite good but it's still fiction and not reality, it's important to remember that just because it's a realistic portrayal does not mean it is realistic
Outstanding: Great to have the Tom Clancy talk from 1988 (I think) as part of the audio so the youngsters understood that even knowing the designation of the F-117A was Top Secret. Adding to Tom's commentary, there was brief blurb in an aerospace-centric issue of National Geographic about 1982 showing an artist's representation of what the F-19A might look like according to that Air Force article; A good bit of misinformation, because the F-117A was anything but curvy.
@@smyers820gm not that we know of publicly and probably won't for at least another 30 years. There are systems from battleships that are still classified
@@N3PEM This thing has been declassified the technology is so outdated they didn’t even waste time to demolish or retrieve the one that was shot down Yugoslavia
pilots called it the "Wobbly Goblin" which we can all image its flight characteristics... apparently if you lose the flight computer it drops out of the sky like a stone.....
It is content like this that makes RUclips a bargin at twice the price! I seriously appreciate you FIXEDIT! And as long as you're able to have a life at the same time: _please keep up the great work_
Would be nice to get some people together in ARMA to recreate the ground warfare scenes and the stuff on the ground in Iceland. Fantastic work as always FixEdit. Message to Random House. This series of RUclips videos encouraged me to purchase the audio book narrated by Michael Prichard from Audible. Please do not take these videos down.
One Remark to the well done Video: in 1986/87 when the book came Out, Bitburg Air Force Base, Just around the Corner from Ramstein, was the American Air Base in West Germany with Always the Most modern US Fighters. The Base doesn,t exist anymore today, but at the time of the book, the Base hosted 72 F15 Fighters iot keep Air Superiority in Europe, while Ramstein hosted F4, F 16 and A10....in other words, its highly likely that Bitburg AFB would have been the Chosen Base for that Kind of Secret aircraft. Greetings from Germany.
Man, I remember my dad letting me read this and then I bought F19 Stealth Fighter for my C64. I flew this mission probably hundreds of times and always tried to see how close I could follow this scenario. Good times🙂
One can't help but be impressed by how much he got right with so little info. Especially got the implications of the tech right too, stealth is an impressive force multiplier. Simply fantastic work FIXEDIT.
His description of the plane was way off what it actually looked like, because of Air Force pressure, and even how it was used is wrong. The F-117 did NOT fly at treetop level, it came in like any other fighter plane because they knew no one could see it. There was a model plane released in the 80's based on the F-19 Ghostrider, it was all round edges.
Wish Tom Clancy was alive to give us his take on current events and to write a commentary on Russia-Ukraine conflict. Nord Stream pipeline bombing seems like a plot point directly from one of his books. RIP
When that Russian school was attacked and those kids were killed, I thought for sure Putin would blame it on the Ukrainians. Where have I seen that before...
I have read almost all of Tom’s books. I always thought he had the ear of skunk-works and other black builds. This may be true, however it is amazing to hear that Northrop read Red Storm Rising thinking” how does this guy work this stuff out, and get it so right.
That made me smirk like nothing else has in awhile, excellent choice in music, the hud scene was great, nice job all around, hope to see more of these.
He envisioned the fictional F-19, that much is clear from the book. What he describes is nothing like an F-117. You can't hold that against him, obviously, the first public look at that was still a way off.
@@ianmcsherry5254 Yes, I did find it quite funny the way he described rounded curves as the key to stealth shaping when the reality is quite different, especially on the 117.
@@TheFuzzypuddle absolutely. As I say, the F-117 was a surprise to everyone outside the "darker" side of the military community when it was finally revealed. Takes nothing away from the book though. Still a good look at what might have been in the eighties. Not to mention what those characters in the Kremlin are driving us towards now. Not trying to start a political discussion there, but recent events speak for themselves. Perhaps a current author, as well-informed, might take this as a cue to write a 21st century "Red Storm Rising".
Larry Bond is still active and still working on the Modern Naval Warfare rules for miniatures (called Harpoon 5 or Harpoon 5th edition) that he and Tom Clancy used to work out the naval and air battles for both Red Storm Rising and Hunt for Red October.
RUclips is full of rubbish nowadays but this is a breeze of fresh air. HFRO was an spectacular book when it came out but RSR is for me the best book of all Tom Clancy's books. Excellent present from my ex girlfriend on my birthday back in 1988.
Gosh.. when I heard Tom Clancy's voice at the beginning of this, goosebumps happened, and brought me nearly to tears. Nostalgia mixed with a respect for a wonderful storyteller gone too soon.
As a child in the early 80s I saw an airfix plastic model in a store that called itself a “stealth fighter”. The picture on the box was the same shape that Clancy used in his description, all down curved wings. So very different from the angular F119.
I hope someone interviewed Tom Clancy after he learned how Nighthawks flew in 1991 and eliminated Iraqi C2 after screaming right over Baghdad in the first wave of Desert Storm. Also, I finally started reading this book after watching this reenactment with the audiobook, helluva job dude.
Amazing. I've probably read this book a half a dozen times since I got my first hardbound copy. I've always wondered why the studios never made this book into a movie. Thanks Fixedeit for doing this amazing book justice!
God damn it that opening was rad... tho the F90 Clancy sensei had in mind was more like a two seater EDI from the movie Stealth but the use of F117 was a good decision... HUD view was a killer, now the parts you showed before about running and gunning at low light low altitude are making sense 👌 this this such a fun project to watch, incredible job man... thank you for all the care and effort...💯❤🤯
Another fine episode. Shame they messed up on some of the details such as "F-19" and "afterburners" and "rear seat operator" but still a worthy effort. Looking forward to the upcoming airbattle as the NATO squadrons clash with the Op-Force who are now radar blind after the loss of their Mainstay EW birds. Don't forget, if you loved RSR then be sure read Larry Bond's "Cauldron" which is an excellent big picture techno thriller also.
When we cleared out the support warehouse at Plant 10 in '07-08 we came across a crate with two long metal pieces inside. Looking up the NSN on the id markings, we discovered it was a pair of AIM-9 launch rails. Now why would the F-117 program have a pair of 'Winder rails hidden neglected and forgotten in the Site 7 warehouse? Because someone, at some time, fiddled with the idea of slinging a Sidewinder on one of the weapon trapeezes.
Loved Clancy’s early work, and played Red Storm Rising and F19 when Microprose launched them - cutting edge for a PC with a 286 processor…😅 funny thing is - to this day, they still deny the F117A ever had Air to Air, but a HARM, Sidearm or Sidewinder doesn’t need much support systems to be used.. as the Ukrainians have proved.
Read this book when I was a kid in the '80s. Apart from Red October, it was the most intense book I'd ever read - simultaneously terrifying and thrilling. Pray we don't ever go there irl.
The algorithm found your other Red Storm videos. i can wholeheartedly say that you’re on the right track. These videos are amazing and so much fun to watch. You already got me and my brother subscribed to you.
I remember reading listening to the audiobook of flight of the intruder. While with my dad as he and I were in his semi truck going to Mississippi for a long haul.
In the 1980's I spent a lot of time aboard passenger aircraft. San Francisco was "central" to Europe, Asia, and Australia, and that's where our clients were. On those long flights and business trips, that could last a week or four, I became familiar with those early Tom Clancy novels. They were all so very long and detailed, one book would last an entire trip. It became commonplace to see men in the business and first class sections of 747's reading thick Clancy novels. I enjoyed your animated versions of those "Books on Tape." My only disappointment was to discover that you didn't do all the chapters! 😉
Really good. I read this as a teenager when I was a junior high school student. Gobbled it up in less than a week and went back for THFRO. Great piece of work you did and a great tribute to the OG OSINT nerd.
I read this in 86 when it came out. I was an ASW Naval Aviator at the time and after HFRO blew our minds we were ready and waiting for this. Clancy's words painted an amazing picture in the fertile imagination of my mind.
You have topped it. Keep up this outstanding and important work. RSR will never get the Hollywood treatment so you are our only hope.
I was an SH-3H Sea King pilot in 1986 when I read the book. I was totally fascinated by the SH-60 with the "experimental" dipping sonar flown by LCDR O'Malley flown off the back end of a FFG-7 class frigate. Although dipping sonar helos are normally flown off carriers, I was in a squadron that had put a Sea King det on a Spruance DD for ASW ops in the Pacific Yankee box. The one inaccuracy I found about the Seahawk and the dipping sonar was when O'Malley passively listens for the sub hanging around the wreck of the Andrea Doria. The frequencies the active dipping sonar can listen on are far too high to find a submarine. Other than that it was a great read for me.
Even if they did make a movie of it, they'd butcher it like most everything else.
@@h.m.5924 I always wanted a movie for The Sum of All Fears and look what they did to that.
I read it shortly after you in 87 aboard the USS Nassau while flying in CH-46s in the Marines. He got everything about the boat right when it was mentioned with the exception of a door on the CH-53. It was a great read and after listening to this I need to read it again. Actually, the Nassau may have been another of Tom's books. I read a bunch of his books on that particular cruise. Its been a while :)
@@shawnc1016 I have not read the book, other than the lack of book related details, what was wrong with the adaption?
i freaking love this approach of DCS animations of the audiobook chapters. I can't wait for the whole book to be complete.
Agreed, this is pure gold
Hell yes, given this another listen to, haven’t read it in over 20 years but with the Ukraine situation it’s suddenly relevant again. Mores the pity.
As a vet, I'd like to think our military trains our airmen, sailors and soldiers using this approach. In the case of the book. Love it. My visualizations realized ++++
@Joseph Herrin lol it was strange hearing “Kiev Military District”
don't stop please, this is the best series
No other adaptation is as true to Clancy's love of logistical setup as this, honestly my favorite part of his books was seeing the set pieces laid out across the board, meticulously planned out, only to be swept off in the span of a few short seconds and a lovely combination of explosions and shockwave
Totaly agree.
Indeed please don't stop
Nailed it!!
The prologue/intro with the audio overlay of the TC explaining his source material and the work done to give to video the appearance of 80’s colour TV was brilliant.
Great work
Agreed
This Red Storm Rising stuff youre doing is literally amazing. I've waited 30 yrs for something like this. Best book ever written. RIP Tom Clancy. Subbed.
Damn this is so good. I haven't read this since the late eighties, and this was one of my favorite chapters. I was intrigued with the F-117 after reading this book and later from playing the Microprose game F-119 Stealth fighter around '88-89. I was so immersive at the time trying to evade radars and taking out Iranian and Libyan targets. Good work here bringing Clancey to new generations.
Played the hell out of F-19. One buddy got a CMoH in game for flying a mission from Rammstein to Russia.
My uncle worked for a certain aerospace company and they got the Testors model of the F-19 for Christmas one year. He said they all laughed because it was so wrong.
I've spent hours playing it as well, good times, lots of fun.
Read it again a few months ago and with the war in Ukraine going on, the entire prelude in the book feels like someone went down a checklist.
Just from playing Microprose games on my Commodore 64 and of course from reading the excellent manual that came with each, I learned a lot about weapons and weapons' systems.
When some biker gangs in Norway clashed, one side used an actual anti-tank missile launcher.
It didn't do much damage to the other gang's headquarters, just punched a neat hole through the wall and since there were no occupants in the building, no collateral damage either.
So I figured that they must have used an actual anti-tank warhead. They should have used an explosive warhead intended for 'soft' targets.
@@AudieHolland The awesome manuals in computer games were always a great bonus. Great illustrations and maybe some back story helped with immersion.
Instantly I'm back in 1986, in high school, Top Gun had come out, I was reading every military book I could find. Tom was very close in his description of the B-2 concept with his frisbee idea. One of the B-2 designers told me they were trying to mimic a dinner plate, very flat with curved edges. A frisbee. The B-2 wasn't even acknowledged until 1989, and Tom was barking up the right tree, he just didn't know it yet.
He wasn't describing the B2. At the time there was a different idea of what the F117 would be. They even made toys and models of it. It indeed looked like a Frisbee with wings that came out and kind of scooped at the ends and had canted twin tails. It was like a blended and elongated disk. I'm not sure if it was a concoction or if it was ever an actual competing design. You can see it if you Google F19. All the information of it ever actually existing is... bizarre. But it was very much what everyone was publicly aware of as a "stealth fighter" at the time.
@@Salty_Balls If I remember correctly, the F-19 model was based off an artist's best guess in either Popular Mechanics or Popular Science. I also remember that F-117 was first publicly used in Panama in 1989. Seems like yesterday and yet it also seems so long ago!
@@OjiOtaku It was described, and photographed, from very far away as it did test flights. The F-19 model looks enough like the Nighthawk if you squint hard enough.
Clancy missed on a few things: 1) No afterburner on the 117 (but Clancy called it the 'expected' F-19); 2) a 2 seater, and 3) can't hang anything on the airframe and still be stealthy. Still scary on his predictions on something that hadn't been disclosed at the time the book was written.
During Desert Shield/Storm back in '91, I was detached from my tank to the supply trains for a few weeks as we prepared to go over the line. One night, while sitting in our big green tent shooting the breeze with some of the other guys, I felt more than heard a jet-like sound in my inner ear. Curious, I went outside and looked up.
There, just a thousand feet up or so, were six sets of navigation lights. I couldn't see a damn thing between them... but they were dropping flares.
"Hey guys," I said with a grin as I stepped back inside. "We're tonight's bombing practice. Check it out."
They all laughed and blew me off until one guy joined me at the tent flap... and seconds later, all of them were crowding through, to stare up in awe at the F-117s we'd never heard coming.
These are so well done. I’m old. Really entertaining blend of audio books, deep gaming and soundscaping.
the music is really good. cool editing.
THIS is the way that I imagined the books. God this is too good.
I remember so much of this dialogue word for word, thanks for bringing it to life.
I’m employed by a major defense contractor and enjoy this immensely! Please don’t stop!!!
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Got the audiobook for this book based on the quality of this video series. Thanks for making them and exposing yet another generation to the wonderful world of Tom Clancy novels beyond the Hollywood creations.
This is the one I've been waiting for. It was very clever of you to include Clancy's NSA lecture where he explained what he knew of the stealth program before it became public. I've often wondered how he would have rewritten the book had he better info about it
Hell, he might have been in on the DOD's deception plan, or at least got a whiff of the truth talking to people and deliberately misconstrued what the aircraft would be. It strikes me as something Tom would do on behalf of the country.
Testors produced a 1/48th scale model of the stealth fighter that was all curves. It looked nothing like the real aircraft. Even so it was the best selling model of the year.
@@michaelcanty4940 I remember that model in the BX
@@MM22966 That is a good sentiment but given his mistakes in other places I think it was just an error.
He was quite good but it's still fiction and not reality, it's important to remember that just because it's a realistic portrayal does not mean it is realistic
@@BeKindToBirds True.
Outstanding: Great to have the Tom Clancy talk from 1988 (I think) as part of the audio so the youngsters understood that even knowing the designation of the F-117A was Top Secret. Adding to Tom's commentary, there was brief blurb in an aerospace-centric issue of National Geographic about 1982 showing an artist's representation of what the F-19A might look like according to that Air Force article; A good bit of misinformation, because the F-117A was anything but curvy.
It's amazing Tom Clancy figured out exactly the mission of the F-117 without knowing what it even looked like.
Lol😂 no he didn’t….he got it wrong. I loved this book but it was wrong. He used it to shoot down awacs but irl it was a small micro bomber.
@@smyers820gm it was found out later that they could theoretically carry A2A
@@TheDuvalboy theoretically yes but factually they were never equipped for such a mission
@@smyers820gm not that we know of publicly and probably won't for at least another 30 years. There are systems from battleships that are still classified
@@N3PEM This thing has been declassified the technology is so outdated they didn’t even waste time to demolish or retrieve the one that was shot down Yugoslavia
pilots called it the "Wobbly Goblin" which we can all image its flight characteristics... apparently if you lose the flight computer it drops out of the sky like a stone.....
It is content like this that makes RUclips a bargin at twice the price!
I seriously appreciate you FIXEDIT! And as long as you're able to have a life at the same time: _please keep up the great work_
Would be nice to get some people together in ARMA to recreate the ground warfare scenes and the stuff on the ground in Iceland.
Fantastic work as always FixEdit.
Message to Random House. This series of RUclips videos encouraged me to purchase the audio book narrated by Michael Prichard from Audible. Please do not take these videos down.
One Remark to the well done Video: in 1986/87 when the book came Out, Bitburg Air Force Base, Just around the Corner from Ramstein, was the American Air Base in West Germany with Always the Most modern US Fighters. The Base doesn,t exist anymore today, but at the time of the book, the Base hosted 72 F15 Fighters iot keep Air Superiority in Europe, while Ramstein hosted F4, F 16 and A10....in other words, its highly likely that Bitburg AFB would have been the Chosen Base for that Kind of Secret aircraft.
Greetings from Germany.
I have read many of his books and This is my favorite of all times.
Man, I remember my dad letting me read this and then I bought F19 Stealth Fighter for my C64. I flew this mission probably hundreds of times and always tried to see how close I could follow this scenario. Good times🙂
One can't help but be impressed by how much he got right with so little info. Especially got the implications of the tech right too, stealth is an impressive force multiplier.
Simply fantastic work FIXEDIT.
His description of the plane was way off what it actually looked like, because of Air Force pressure, and even how it was used is wrong. The F-117 did NOT fly at treetop level, it came in like any other fighter plane because they knew no one could see it.
There was a model plane released in the 80's based on the F-19 Ghostrider, it was all round edges.
Wish Tom Clancy was alive to give us his take on current events and to write a commentary on Russia-Ukraine conflict. Nord Stream pipeline bombing seems like a plot point directly from one of his books.
RIP
When that Russian school was attacked and those kids were killed, I thought for sure Putin would blame it on the Ukrainians. Where have I seen that before...
dude predicted the Russo Georgian conflict
These get better and better! That prologue was very nicely done
I have read almost all of Tom’s books. I always thought he had the ear of skunk-works and other black builds. This may be true, however it is amazing to hear that Northrop read Red Storm Rising thinking” how does this guy work this stuff out, and get it so right.
IIRC he got debriefed by a three-letter agency after this book or HFRO.
The '80's synth soundtrack to the storytelling is absolutely perfect!
That made me smirk like nothing else has in awhile, excellent choice in music, the hud scene was great, nice job all around, hope to see more of these.
I loved the book and have re read it multiple times, these video’s are the icing on the cake!!!! Thank you all..
I love that you included Clancy's discussion about how he envisioned the f117 from tiny scraps of publically available information.
He envisioned the fictional F-19, that much is clear from the book. What he describes is nothing like an F-117. You can't hold that against him, obviously, the first public look at that was still a way off.
@@ianmcsherry5254 Yes, I did find it quite funny the way he described rounded curves as the key to stealth shaping when the reality is quite different, especially on the 117.
@@TheFuzzypuddle absolutely. As I say, the F-117 was a surprise to everyone outside the "darker" side of the military community when it was finally revealed. Takes nothing away from the book though. Still a good look at what might have been in the eighties. Not to mention what those characters in the Kremlin are driving us towards now. Not trying to start a political discussion there, but recent events speak for themselves. Perhaps a current author, as well-informed, might take this as a cue to write a 21st century "Red Storm Rising".
This series is so well done in DCS, keep ‘em coming!
This Chapter and The Dance of the Vampires...Most memorable some 40 years after first reading it back in 86.
The F-22 could also play the role of the F-19. Indeed the way he describes the F-19 sounds a lot like the F-22 without supercruise.
amazing work. Red Storm Rising has always been one of my favorites, such an awesome way to enjoy this great book.
Wonderfully done! Thanks! Makes me want to read RSR again for the fourth time (with many years between readings!) Clancy and Bond were the best!!!
Larry Bond is still active and still working on the Modern Naval Warfare rules for miniatures (called Harpoon 5 or Harpoon 5th edition) that he and Tom Clancy used to work out the naval and air battles for both Red Storm Rising and Hunt for Red October.
RUclips is full of rubbish nowadays but this is a breeze of fresh air. HFRO was an spectacular book when it came out but RSR is for me the best book of all Tom Clancy's books. Excellent present from my ex girlfriend on my birthday back in 1988.
Red Storm Rising has to be, one of Tom Clancys best book! This has to be one of my Favorites!
My favorite chapter!!! When I restart my audiobook version this is always the beginning.
This series is great, I only recently finished rereading Red Storm Rising. Thank you.
I read the book while going through sub school in Groton, CT.
Gosh.. when I heard Tom Clancy's voice at the beginning of this, goosebumps happened, and brought me nearly to tears. Nostalgia mixed with a respect for a wonderful storyteller gone too soon.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! Love this! Keep it up!!
As a child in the early 80s I saw an airfix plastic model in a store that called itself a “stealth fighter”. The picture on the box was the same shape that Clancy used in his description, all down curved wings. So very different from the angular F119.
Curved wings, cathedral bell, that’s the F19 shape of the Victory 1 plane in Ring Raiders
I hope someone interviewed Tom Clancy after he learned how Nighthawks flew in 1991 and eliminated Iraqi C2 after screaming right over Baghdad in the first wave of Desert Storm. Also, I finally started reading this book after watching this reenactment with the audiobook, helluva job dude.
The amount of effort that goes into these videos is incredible and they're always incredibly entertaining. Well done man!
That was mindblowing, I'm already hyped for part 2!
Truly awesome. Nailed it with the Clancy intro!
I remember reading RSR as zationa junior high student decades ago. This has been a great visualization.
I just finished reading this chapter in "Red Storm Rising!"
Outstanding!
These are terrific! I've read the book about a dozen times and these DCS videos make me want to start up the audiobook again!
Loved the Clancy interview put in at the beginning. Great job with the video. Can't wait for the next part.
Finished listening to it a few weeks ago....this adds a whole new level to an already great book.
Something reminded me of this book today so I searched it on RUclips. Glad I did. Love these videos man.
Amazing. I've probably read this book a half a dozen times since I got my first hardbound copy. I've always wondered why the studios never made this book into a movie. Thanks Fixedeit for doing this amazing book justice!
Outstanding. You stirred me to buy the Audible version and revisit this novel that I read so many years ago.
What were the specific songs used?
DUDE! This is epic! Best chapter of the book right here and you nailed it!
Dude - epic! Love how you're bringing the book to life via DCS.
I read the book back in the 80s. It has been a long time since I revisited the book. Great purring the book to video graphics.
Magnificent! I'm loving these, don't stop!
Finally did this chapter. One of my favorite chapters in the book, and looking forward to completing the entire chapter
Brilliant video. Loving the visuals with the great audiobook
Awesome Aircraft, Amazing Book, Great Video, can't wait for the rest.
This was my favorite chapter in Red Storm.
Keep up the great work!
God damn it that opening was rad... tho the F90 Clancy sensei had in mind was more like a two seater EDI from the movie Stealth but the use of F117 was a good decision... HUD view was a killer, now the parts you showed before about running and gunning at low light low altitude are making sense 👌 this this such a fun project to watch, incredible job man... thank you for all the care and effort...💯❤🤯
Another fine episode.
Shame they messed up on some of the details such as "F-19" and "afterburners" and "rear seat operator" but still a worthy effort.
Looking forward to the upcoming airbattle as the NATO squadrons clash with the Op-Force who are now radar blind after the loss of their Mainstay EW birds.
Don't forget, if you loved RSR then be sure read Larry Bond's "Cauldron" which is an excellent big picture techno thriller also.
I love Frisbees of Dreamland, its a killer. Amazing work
I wish more games would add "what if" aircraft like the F-19 Ghostrider. We got the F-20, F-15 ACTIVE, F-4X and more in Ace Combat.
try Jane's Fighters Anthology (1998) , or birsds of prey (1991) from electronics arts ;)
We also had the Aurora in Ace Combat 3.
Red Storm Rising is the best Clancy book. And absolutely deserves a movie representation especially with recent events
I've been transfixed by this series...well done Fixedit, outstanding! 👍
Your videos have caused me to start red storm rising again!!! This has always been my favorite chapter! The Tom Clancy intro is too perfect!!!
When we cleared out the support warehouse at Plant 10 in '07-08 we came across a crate with two long metal pieces inside. Looking up the NSN on the id markings, we discovered it was a pair of AIM-9 launch rails. Now why would the F-117 program have a pair of 'Winder rails hidden neglected and forgotten in the Site 7 warehouse? Because someone, at some time, fiddled with the idea of slinging a Sidewinder on one of the weapon trapeezes.
I mean ive heard from a few interviews it was capable.
Very much enjoying this FIXEDIT, keep up the good work. All the best from Scotland.👍
Loved Clancy’s early work, and played Red Storm Rising and F19 when Microprose launched them - cutting edge for a PC with a 286 processor…😅 funny thing is - to this day, they still deny the F117A ever had Air to Air, but a HARM, Sidearm or Sidewinder doesn’t need much support systems to be used.. as the Ukrainians have proved.
Mate I just stumbled onto these a week or so ago - great work!
Absolutely awesome series.
Read this book when I was a kid in the '80s. Apart from Red October, it was the most intense book I'd ever read - simultaneously terrifying and thrilling. Pray we don't ever go there irl.
I love these series man, keep it up!
Gotta love this simulation and audiobook chapters... I just wish you had the rest of the story up for us now!
Another amazing video. Keep up the great work. Can’t wait for the next one.
The algorithm found your other Red Storm videos. i can wholeheartedly say that you’re on the right track. These videos are amazing and so much fun to watch. You already got me and my brother subscribed to you.
I just finished this book last week. This series is amazing!
I loved taking potshots at Mainstays in the old MicroProse F-117 game.
Wake up babe, FixedIT posted again.
I remember reading listening to the audiobook of flight of the intruder. While with my dad as he and I were in his semi truck going to Mississippi for a long haul.
I love it. Can't wait to see more. Thank you!
HOLY crap dude this was A M A Z I N G
Nice work !!!!
THANK YOUUUU!
I LOVE this chapter!
Awesome!!!!! Can't for a complete movie version of Red Storm Rising
In the 1980's I spent a lot of time aboard passenger aircraft. San Francisco was "central" to Europe, Asia, and Australia, and that's where our clients were. On those long flights and business trips, that could last a week or four, I became familiar with those early Tom Clancy novels. They were all so very long and detailed, one book would last an entire trip. It became commonplace to see men in the business and first class sections of 747's reading thick Clancy novels.
I enjoyed your animated versions of those "Books on Tape." My only disappointment was to discover that you didn't do all the chapters! 😉
I read the book a douzend times and it never gets old, but this, this is new world. Very cool!!
Really good. I read this as a teenager when I was a junior high school student. Gobbled it up in less than a week and went back for THFRO.
Great piece of work you did and a great tribute to the OG OSINT nerd.
Thanks for bringing my childhood to life!
These videos are awesome. Thank you!
Awesome. I can’t get enough of this
God almighty this got my blood pumping!!! EXCELLENT!
I am so glad i have found this channel
I have read that book I dont know how many times. This is great
This series is fantastic. Please keep them coming.