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Desert Storm was probably the greatest exhibition and employment of the next gen weapons technology in history. German invasion of France in 1940 had a similar effect but was executed with known weapon systems that were employed in innovative and different ways. Desert Storm introduced a whole slew of technologies that were, by that time, largely unknown to the general public. From the precision guided munition, (although on a relatively small scale and still without the GPS guided bombs), to Tomahawk cruise missile to stealth to modern targeting systems.. And all that tech came together in a perfect moment in history, under the command of the greatest US generals since the WW2. From generals Norman Schwartzkopf and Colin Powell to the chief of air operations general Chuck Horner.. This command structure was incredibly important given the abysmal performance of the US military's high command during the Vietnam War...
Few people know that the key component of the Tomahawk is the motor that powers it. The Chrysler corporation R&D division had worked for many years to build a gas turbine car. They built 100 of them and tested on the highway, and they performed really well. At the time, this was the smallest turbine ever made, and it was a miracle of metallurgy and engineering. Chrysler fell into financial trouble, and the turbine car was cancelled, but one of the 3 top engineers kept going on the motor, and the DoD eventually realized that this motor would be ideal for their devious purposes. The missile goes over 1500 miles on a single tank of gas. (Can your car do that?) It's an amazing engine; a bit too powerful for a car, but is a tragedy of history that we don't have turbine cars. The faster they go, the more the air gets squished, and the motor improves in efficiency. Would be great for high speed trains too; at 200 MPH you would get good intake compression. Only 1 moving part! Anyway there is a great book on the Turbine car you can get.
@@Lohanujuan Maybe he couldn't remember the title offhand. It would have been as easy to Google it as it was to be sarcastic about it- Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation
Don’t forget Honda. They have a small turbine for their tiny business jet. If there’s a good idea for an engine out there they’ll make them. But it doesn’t mean that I want to own one of their cars.
An SF guy in my Chapter 99 of the Special Forces Association managed to get a slot as an MP for this action. He was a former Louisville KY police officer. He ended up being a body guard and assistant to General Norman Schwarzkopf. Rudy had a couple of marvelous stories about his adventure. He had a heart attack a few years ago and passed but he is remembered in the Association.
@@bobjenkins4606 Bob, check out this video. I was 71 when I made that jump, I am next to the fellow with the GoPro camera, check out my shoulder patch and then let's talk about whether or not I have a real Green Beret. ruclips.net/video/UDny1OzNO5I/видео.html
I remember the whole lead up to Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield as I was married to an active duty marine stationed in Yuma, AZ. 8/2 is when Hussein invaded Kuwait..8/5 Daddy Bush told Hussein get out or we will make you....8/7 I gave birth to mine and my husband's first child and 8/9 I was standing on the tarmac at MCAS Yuma with a 2 day old baby saying good bye to my husband as he loaded onto a C130 to go to Saudi. I watched every single minute that I could when I was not working or taking care of my baby.
I remember that very well! I remember feeling they where using up their stock of "OLD' 1st generation Tomahawk's so they could buy a whole bunch of NEW ones!!
@@armadillotoe I am assuming Russia cannot take a third rate power... they are using a artillery war... This is shocking to the west... The usa is not worried about russia... China is a threat
The difference is air superiority. The Russians have missile systems that have not been taken out by US cruise missiles. Thus Ukraine has no air superiority, and must face well entrenched, deep defenses. This is why they have been getting slaughtered.
The T-72 was a good tank for its time and for what it was. What most people don't realize is how much smaller it is than the M1 Abrams. Critical concessions had to be made due to its smaller size, including crew protection and overall armor. The result is a tank that is potentially a killer, but not a survivor.
An Abrams is made to take a hit and return the hit. T-72 is made to take a hit and...being replaced by next T-72 behind it. It a lose-lose approach just as Japanese has discovered during WWII with their Zeros- losing both the gear and the crew is much worse than just losing the gear.
@@TonymanCS The T-72 was designed to take the hit. . .from an M60. It could take a hit from contemporary tanks just fine. But it was not armored against its own gun.
The Abrams was supposed to be too complex, not have enough fire power with it's manual loading, and it's systems were unproven. Many had proclaimed that in the rigors of actual combat it would fail to perform. It ended up it was the equivalent of alien tech vs WWII machinery. Not much has changed if you look at Russian tanks in Ukraine.
@@Relayer6a 1980 M1 Abrams has a digital fire control system coupled with a thermal sight that could work for longer than 10min sight on premier Russian T-80UK, that alone put it way above Russian T-72/80 of that time even as basic M1 had 105mm gun and struggled to penetrate Russian tanks front armor. In a night fight Abrams would simply outflank and destroy Russian tanks that by that time barely had any thermal sights. Manual loading was not a problem with 120mm shells just yet until 130mm guns will be in service, a decent loader can keep sustained reload time at around 8s which is on pair with Russian autoloader, some loaders can reload it in just mere 5-6s. Having 4 man crew also proved to be right concept as it also help you to have more people for maintenance and for future expansion like UAV operator. When it comes to combat effectiveness Abrams have more than proved itself, it served with Americans, Iraqis and Saudis in combat and we barely see any pictures of it with turret thrown away. It faced both RPG-29 and Kornet and crew fatality was light. In one case an Iraqi Abrams got ammo lit up by ATGM and yet it kept moving, turret kept moving with no sign of smoke leaking out of barrel/crew hatches indicating the there was no fire inside crew compartment all thanks to blown off panels. So nope, Abrams is a combat proven tank and its newest version AbramX is going to serve further for a long time. As the war in Ukraine proved you don't want Western tech to meet Russian ones, it never end well for Russians.
The Abrams had night vision and automated turrets. Those were a big part of it. The t72 has mechanical turrets, that's a big disadvantage. Night vision means one side can see what the other can't.
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We (US) put 550,000 soldiers on the battlefield along with millions of tons of weapons, ammo, food, water, spare parts, fuel etc 5000 miles away, supported those 550,000 soldiers logistically and when the time came won decisively on the battlefield. No other nation can do such such a thing. No way, no how. That's not bragging it's just the truth.
One of the new technologies employed was global positioning kind of replacing the compass! The coalition forces traveled through the desert and caught the Iraqi forces off guard by flanking them. They were incredulous that an army had traversed the desert from that direction; they assumed it was a closed door, and no army would dare come from that direction!! I believe it was the first time they used it!!
@@garybulwinkle82 I know, I was part of some of the GPS testing back in the mid 80's, we didn't know what it really was back then as Marines. I sent text messages back then years before it was ever a thing. It was called PLRS, (position locating reporting system). I only say this because I doubt it is classified anymore. I won't go further into it though, no use in pushing your luck with talking about things.
Gps was a Huge Factor And it was virtually unknown at the time... Moving out into the trackless waste was a pucker factor moment... Watching the Huge sandstorms approach,and seeing the after...gave me a huge amount of respect for those that deal with that environment and Live...
I remember camping in Northern Maine in the seventies and eighties when the Tomahawk was being tested. The Tomahawk Missiles didn’t make a ton of noise but the chase fighters let you know a test Missile was coming.
I stopped watching it for that reason, the title got me to have a look but I saw it was not about the missile, so before I left I had a quick look at the comments, cant go without agreeing with you.
I was a young expat. Teacher in Kuwait who went home for the holidays literally a month before the invasion on August 2nd. Never saw my car or any personal belongings ever again.
Damn those Battleship Artillery shells are enormous !!!! i get a patriotic woody when i see them guns a blazin... cause i know whatever on the other end is dust!
Got to love the USAF throwing shade on their Iraqi counterparts for not even trying to put up a fight.. '80% of their aircraft are still intact, on the ground'.
In one of the war's more bizarre developments much of the Iraqi air force sought sanctuary in Iran of all places!?! Talk about strange bedfellows. I wonder if they were ever returned? Anyway.... goodtimes#
Because they where grounded and those that did take off got blown up, the rest got blown up on the ground, some went to Iran and Jordan, others where hidden underground.
I love how the Thumbnail shows on the left the launcher for the Harpoon RGM 84 Missile in its classic Mk 141 Launcher whilst talking about the Tomahawk 😆
Plus the SLAM, STANDOFF LAND ATTACK MISSILES which were used to go through windows at a hundred or more miles away. SLAM is an upgraded Harpoon missile.
Challenger II and Abrams M-1 proved to be far superior to the Russian designed Iraqi tanks. A British Challenger tank achieved the longest range kill on an Iraqi tank, at more than 4,000 metres.
@@AbuBawa-sw1utChallenger 2 tanks are already seeing combat. One unfortunately was confirmed to be destroyed. It’s now known that it was immobilized by a mine, and the crew escaped unharmed. Afterwards, a Russian missile destroyed it after it was abandoned
Those are America's babies and America loves each and every one of her babies. Don't let any one of them get hurt or injured because those are her babies and she loves her babies. America loves her babies.
I believe tomahawks have an inertial guidance system (probably better than average)and that alone will let it get to target in spite of jamming etc. I knew a guy who worked on the Tomahawk development team. He was incredibly grounded in getting to what works rather than any other concerns of engineering. Inspired me to be a better problem solver.
I was a cryptologist on a ship that fired 43 of them into Iraq in the opening salvo of the Iraq war. The first tomahawks were guided by what was called TERCOM (terrain contour matching) navigation. A satellite would take a pic of what it wanted the missile to hit and that picture was uploaded into the missiles targeting system and when it found a match it struck. Then, later it was modified to GPS targeting which gave it even greater accuracy. We loaded 43 at Seal Beach Weapons Station and went to a place called North Island to load 19 more. Needless to say, those 19 were something totally different from the 43 we loaded at Seal Beach.
@@Obvioustroller nah, you've got it mixed up. The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
I find it crazy my dad was a marine helicopter mechanic in the early 80s but to this day knows nothing about computers. To this day he does hvac ductwork with pen paper and math.
meh, i worked with one of those mechanics... they just read instructions booklets that tell them exactly what to do... they dont have to actually know anything, just follow the booklet
@@picklerix6162 AC Contractors can use a circular slide rule to do the calcs. My dad used one but didn't realize that that is what it is. Once I understood I could create scripts and calcs in FileMaker Pro to do the same work. He scoffed at me until my prog came up with the same answers he did using it.
Back then I was a school kid very much in love with air combat simulators, so I was very familiar with the concept of air superiority. The Gulf War however was the first time I was introduced to the whole other level of air _supremacy_ .
You can certainly tell this film was made a long time ago. He called the F-22 the “Lightning II”. Must have been made prior to 1997, because that was when the first production F-22 rolled off the line, and it was certainly known as the “Raptor” by then.
I remember when the U.S. did their tests over Canada, I was a teenager and watching Star Wars with family when we seen it flying by, it was a green glow, then it exploded due to failure, we were in North Central Alberta when they tested the Tomahawk
Almost 400 Tomahawks fired. Think of the EXPERIENCE and PROVING we achieved with these missiles. We’ve fought three large scale, extended wars in the modern, present stealth, Patriot missiles, and combat drone age. That kind of experience can’t be simulated in a computer, no matter how much computing power it has. We’ve flown tens of thousands of combat sorties from air craft carriers. Our military hardware is unmatched because we have so much real time data. We train our soldiers, seamen, and airmen from examples of current, and real military operations. We are the best, period. My main concern is the cyber warfare the Chinese and to some extent, the Russians engage in against us, stealing the knowledge all that blood and treasure has gained us. Anyone we catch and prove is involved in cyber espionage against us, stealing military files, has got to get the death penalty, due to the death and pain we suffered to get our knowledge, and the death and pain that stealing it will cause to our personnel.
I agree completely! My son-in-law works at Bridgestone in TN, and the company’s whole computer system got hacked last week. Said they were told they might have to reprogram from ground up. Said they were also told that Amazon and McDonalds also got hit.
Much of this appears to be filmed in the 90's. Those were our concerns in the 90's. Obviously now the issue is Taiwan being the most probably battlefield. Though North Korea is still a problem as well. Eastern Europe seems highly unlikely (even with what's going on in Ukraine), but you never know.
In the early 80s I worked at the Boeing factory in Kent, Washington. We built the the Air Force version of the Cruise Missile, that was carried on the B-52 Bombers. Called the ALCM, (Air Launched Cruise Missile). When it left the factory, it was fully fueled, and ready to fly, minus the W80 nuclear warhead.
Iran fought Iraq for 10 years in a war that ended in a stalemate. Then couple years later they watch the U.S. defeat the Iraqi military in a just few weeks. Soon after that Iran made a the full commitment to acquiring nuclear weapons.
The BGM 109G (a slightly upgraded for ground launch) was developed by Gryphon and was basically designed for the GLCM program in the Air Force. Ground Launch Cruise Missile. Sophisticated mobile nuclear weapon system that was in several locations around Europe. Many of my Air Force buddies served overseas on this project. It got Axed during an arms treaty with the Ruskies.
I was rather Young and I remember this war.. I remember watching the missiles start cruising in the Baghdad live on television. I had no idea as a little kid that our military had these kind of weapons. Even today it's a very very impressive volley of destruction. My absolute personal favorite missile has always been the tomahawk Cruise missile. It's range and it's destructive capabilities even still.. Jesus christ. I do recall the first time I saw one flying like an airplane when I was younger.. I didn't know missiles could do that. I gave half of my life to my country and I have no regrets. I wish I were still serving. God have mercy on us all now though. It's getting towards the end of April.. Tuesday April 26th 2022 and we are at the doorstep of World war III possibly new clear. I pray it doesn't go that way. Stay safe out there. 🙏🔥🇺🇸🔥
USA launched how many tomahawks at Syria airbase in retaliation for using chemical weapons? Syria had that airbase opened back up one week after the attack ...
Was sitting up in the Northern Gulf that night aboard USS Curts - manning an SH-60B Seahawk - was boring for us... but got to see CNN footage later . Curts was a frigate, and had no Tomahawks, but we could see the other ships launching
Everybody knew when it was going to start. As all the differential GPS offset systems were removed. As they become accurate within 3 feet.. This was back in the day. When and if you owned a GPS. The United States had used offset differential for commercial GPS devices...
I watched those TLAM on CNN launch into the dark night. Some years later I stood on the deck of the USS Wisconsin and saw those badges signifying each missile launched. While the actual tubes were gone, I stood at the very spot they came from and felt a bit connected to that important part of our history. Many of my fellow visitors did not know the significance as there were no guides. I explained to one family and they remembered that CNN image of the dark black night. "That image came from where we are now standing" I said and they were delighted.
Except for the fact America destroyed Iraq's electrical infrastructure and their bombing campaign killed many thousands of civilians. Overkill and it lead to the conflicts in the next decade that would kill thousands of americans and hundreds of thousands of people in the middle east. Desert Storm was a perfect example of wanting to fight a war where you kill none of your own armed forces but destroy a sovreign nation in the process.
how come iraqi freedom went down the toilet, also from military perspective... granted it was more ground forces, in this air and sea powered fight. I guess bush younger was cocky and careless, a bit like biden now. bush older is true statesman.
The Vacuum and Microwave Munitions and tech is some of the scariest things we have... both leave the equipment and kill the humans inside.... hopefully our anti-missle defense continues to advance.. it'll be a glorious day when ICBMS are no longer a major threat to the U.S mainland
@@Itsmattzefficiency. We don't need as much when the same Soldier can move faster, carry more, operate longer, be more accurate, be more lethal and do so with higher survivability.
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. surprised i haven't seen anyone post this
16:12 The most accurate statement I've ever heard. Desert Storm was over in weeks. Operation Enduring Freedom (Afganistan) went on for 20 years... 15:29 This statement didn't do so well. We sure did have another Gulf war
8:40 Pete Mitchell’s dad disappeared in an F4, flying with with VF-51 off the USS Oriskany, on November 5th, 1965. He went down in the worst dog fight any fighter pilot had ever dreamed of. There were bogies like fireflies all over the sky. His F4 took a hit and he was wounded in the cockpit. He had a chance to head back to the ship but he elected to stay in the fight. He took out three Migs before his aircraft took an unrecoverable hit. Due to fact the aerial battle took place of the nation of Laos, no rescue attempt was ever launched. His aircraft crash site was never located, nor was any trace of Pete’s old man. Rumor has it he ejected, survived the ejection and by use of SERE training he eventually made his way to Bangkok, Thailand where opened a tattoo parlor near the White Lion Bar. Bangkok has him now, and she’ll never let him go.
About the Wild Weasels...that pilot looks just like i expected him to look....even more so...how did he even manage to take off with those massive balls of steel? Good dammit.
My step father was the head of the tomahawk missle development project. Or should I say, lead project manager. We used to have ( I dont like with my parents anymore so I can say if it still there) a plaque that was awarded to him because of the success of the project. Not that any of this means anything, or that anyone is going to think this comment is truthful. In truth I have no idea why I just wasted time typing this :P.
The aviation historian say that the Saudi pilot used "Exocet" in air to air. Did he mispeeak, I had the understanding that that program was an antiship missle developed by France.
Tomahawk save pilot life and naval personel in future without sacrified national security and interest and good deterence prevent people from starting arm race again...and next step we must be aware that opponent may develop and use the same capacity in future so preparation always must be up front and centered
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Same case here,bt a year has passed.
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Came for Tomahawks, stayed because I was high and forgot this was supposed to be about Tomahawks
The exact same reason I'm watching it 🤣😂🤣
Same
*Takes way too big of a rip of a glass bowl, and coughs and hacks* quit smoking weed, sinner.
Same
Sober here, and loving it.
Desert Storm was probably the greatest exhibition and employment of the next gen weapons technology in history. German invasion of France in 1940 had a similar effect but was executed with known weapon systems that were employed in innovative and different ways. Desert Storm introduced a whole slew of technologies that were, by that time, largely unknown to the general public. From the precision guided munition, (although on a relatively small scale and still without the GPS guided bombs), to Tomahawk cruise missile to stealth to modern targeting systems.. And all that tech came together in a perfect moment in history, under the command of the greatest US generals since the WW2. From generals Norman Schwartzkopf and Colin Powell to the chief of air operations general Chuck Horner.. This command structure was incredibly important given the abysmal performance of the US military's high command during the Vietnam War...
Desert Storm was the first deployment of the F117 Nighthawk wasn't it?
It's like the polar opposite of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
@@JustJezBeingJezit was first used in Panama 1989.
@@bigballzmcdrawz2921 thanks :)
@@JustJezBeingJez no prob
Came for the tomahawks, stayed for the straight up 90s nostalgia
Gotta love the 16 inch guns on the battleships being fired. Lobbing rounds that weigh as much as a car 23 miles!!!
Somewhere i saw reports of Iraqi troops surrendering to the battleships drones knowing they were spotting for the 16 inch guns.
Yeah? and a Tomahawk is like a cargo ship container being guided 1,000 miles inland.
@@Coinz8lol okay ?
@@Pesso317 the Tomahawk weighs up to nearly 2 tons when equipped with a booster. "lol okay ?"
A tomahawk cost over a million each. 16" cost..... quite a bit less. 😁
Few people know that the key component of the Tomahawk is the motor that powers it. The Chrysler corporation R&D division had worked for many years to build a gas turbine car. They built 100 of them and tested on the highway, and they performed really well. At the time, this was the smallest turbine ever made, and it was a miracle of metallurgy and engineering. Chrysler fell into financial trouble, and the turbine car was cancelled, but one of the 3 top engineers kept going on the motor, and the DoD eventually realized that this motor would be ideal for their devious purposes. The missile goes over 1500 miles on a single tank of gas. (Can your car do that?) It's an amazing engine; a bit too powerful for a car, but is a tragedy of history that we don't have turbine cars. The faster they go, the more the air gets squished, and the motor improves in efficiency. Would be great for high speed trains too; at 200 MPH you would get good intake compression. Only 1 moving part! Anyway there is a great book on the Turbine car you can get.
“I won’t tell you the book, but there’s one out there” 😆
the turbine system was used on Abrams tanks too, the military must have bought the patent for it
@@Lohanujuan Maybe he couldn't remember the title offhand. It would have been as easy to Google it as it was to be sarcastic about it-
Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation
Def good for tomahawks and high speed train not the greatest for tanks the Abrams would probably be better off with a diesel
Don’t forget Honda. They have a small turbine for their tiny business jet. If there’s a good idea for an engine out there they’ll make them. But it doesn’t mean that I want to own one of their cars.
One thing I learned from this documentary is that I am getting old. 😊
😂
Ditto 😂
i learned the early 2000s were still the 90s *sweating grin emoji
Basic "primitive" tactics and weapons training are a must. Whatever technical wizardry that an EMP attack would disable needs shielded.
An SF guy in my Chapter 99 of the Special Forces Association managed to get a slot as an MP for this action. He was a former Louisville KY police officer. He ended up being a body guard and assistant to General Norman Schwarzkopf. Rudy had a couple of marvelous stories about his adventure. He had a heart attack a few years ago and passed but he is remembered in the Association.
Yeah man, everyone is an ex SF guy these days. SEALs, Deltas, para. Stop lying you sack of Stolen Valor.
@@bobjenkins4606 11th SFGP 389th MI Co. My Beret is real.
he had a delta detail so
@@Phantom15241 He, if you mean General Schwarzkopf, also had SFC Rudy Davis on his security detail.
@@bobjenkins4606 Bob, check out this video. I was 71 when I made that jump, I am next to the fellow with the GoPro camera, check out my shoulder patch and then let's talk about whether or not I have a real Green Beret. ruclips.net/video/UDny1OzNO5I/видео.html
I thought this was about the tomahawk , it's about everything else but the tomahawk
Whaaaat? They totally talked about the Tomohawk...for like 2 minutes...at the end.
@@fwootamala 🤣😂🤣
20 mins in that's hilarious. Haha
It was a good story but definitely lacking in the tomahawk department...
Title should be “Everything About Desert Storm, (Including The Tomahawk Missile)
I remember the whole lead up to Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield as I was married to an active duty marine stationed in Yuma, AZ. 8/2 is when Hussein invaded Kuwait..8/5 Daddy Bush told Hussein get out or we will make you....8/7 I gave birth to mine and my husband's first child and 8/9 I was standing on the tarmac at MCAS Yuma with a 2 day old baby saying good bye to my husband as he loaded onto a C130 to go to Saudi. I watched every single minute that I could when I was not working or taking care of my baby.
Wow, I bet that was rough having to leave your wife a newborn child.
Yes like yesterday. I was taping on VHS the news reports expecting to get any gas attack on tape.
Military wives, thank you for your support!
I remember that very well! I remember feeling they where using up their stock of "OLD' 1st generation Tomahawk's so they could buy a whole bunch of NEW ones!!
39:30 "The gulf war demonstrated that the human factor is as important as weapon quality" That seems key to the issues Russia has in Ukraine
You are assuming everything you are told by the talking heads is true.
@@armadillotoe I am assuming Russia cannot take a third rate power... they are using a artillery war... This is shocking to the west... The usa is not worried about russia... China is a threat
that and Russia's abysmal track record in maintaining their military equipment.
You think Russia is fighting Ukraine? Lol Russia is fighting everybody but Ukraine
The difference is air superiority. The Russians have missile systems that have not been taken out by US cruise missiles. Thus Ukraine has no air superiority, and must face well entrenched, deep defenses. This is why they have been getting slaughtered.
great way to test our newest weapons
Be careful what we teach our enemies
No it's not.....
@@carolynwheeler6176 yeah it is
@@carolynwheeler6176 well what's a batter way to test new weapons in a combat scenario then
The T-72 was a good tank for its time and for what it was. What most people don't realize is how much smaller it is than the M1 Abrams. Critical concessions had to be made due to its smaller size, including crew protection and overall armor. The result is a tank that is potentially a killer, but not a survivor.
An Abrams is made to take a hit and return the hit. T-72 is made to take a hit and...being replaced by next T-72 behind it. It a lose-lose approach just as Japanese has discovered during WWII with their Zeros- losing both the gear and the crew is much worse than just losing the gear.
@@TonymanCS The T-72 was designed to take the hit. . .from an M60. It could take a hit from contemporary tanks just fine. But it was not armored against its own gun.
The Abrams was supposed to be too complex, not have enough fire power with it's manual loading, and it's systems were unproven. Many had proclaimed that in the rigors of actual combat it would fail to perform. It ended up it was the equivalent of alien tech vs WWII machinery. Not much has changed if you look at Russian tanks in Ukraine.
@@Relayer6a 1980 M1 Abrams has a digital fire control system coupled with a thermal sight that could work for longer than 10min sight on premier Russian T-80UK, that alone put it way above Russian T-72/80 of that time even as basic M1 had 105mm gun and struggled to penetrate Russian tanks front armor. In a night fight Abrams would simply outflank and destroy Russian tanks that by that time barely had any thermal sights. Manual loading was not a problem with 120mm shells just yet until 130mm guns will be in service, a decent loader can keep sustained reload time at around 8s which is on pair with Russian autoloader, some loaders can reload it in just mere 5-6s. Having 4 man crew also proved to be right concept as it also help you to have more people for maintenance and for future expansion like UAV operator. When it comes to combat effectiveness Abrams have more than proved itself, it served with Americans, Iraqis and Saudis in combat and we barely see any pictures of it with turret thrown away. It faced both RPG-29 and Kornet and crew fatality was light. In one case an Iraqi Abrams got ammo lit up by ATGM and yet it kept moving, turret kept moving with no sign of smoke leaking out of barrel/crew hatches indicating the there was no fire inside crew compartment all thanks to blown off panels. So nope, Abrams is a combat proven tank and its newest version AbramX is going to serve further for a long time. As the war in Ukraine proved you don't want Western tech to meet Russian ones, it never end well for Russians.
The Abrams had night vision and automated turrets. Those were a big part of it. The t72 has mechanical turrets, that's a big disadvantage. Night vision means one side can see what the other can't.
Remember when History Channel had history docs like this on them all day long… sigh…
Ok, I can't offer you proper history programming, but I can offer you cheap sitcom like programming instead.
"I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens"
I remember watching Inquiring Minds as a child. I still use information that is relevant today, which I learnt from it!
Ha ha!
It's amazing how bad the sound quality was around ~1990.
What a massive task to _coordinate_ all the various coalition units! That’s the wonder of it all, I think.
ive been waiting for part 2 forever
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We (US) put 550,000 soldiers on the battlefield along with millions of tons of weapons, ammo, food, water, spare parts, fuel etc 5000 miles away, supported those 550,000 soldiers logistically and when the time came won decisively on the battlefield. No other nation can do such such a thing. No way, no how. That's not bragging it's just the truth.
I watched this whole broadcast
Takes me back to realizing what my desert training was for just before it started. We already knew that was the direction the compass was pointing at.
One of the new technologies employed was global positioning kind of replacing the compass! The coalition forces traveled through the desert and caught the Iraqi forces off guard by flanking them. They were incredulous that an army had traversed the desert from that direction; they assumed it was a closed door, and no army would dare come from that direction!! I believe it was the first time they used it!!
@@garybulwinkle82 I know, I was part of some of the GPS testing back in the mid 80's, we didn't know what it really was back then as Marines. I sent text messages back then years before it was ever a thing. It was called PLRS, (position locating reporting system). I only say this because I doubt it is classified anymore. I won't go further into it though, no use in pushing your luck with talking about things.
Gps was a Huge Factor And it was virtually unknown at the time... Moving out into the trackless waste was a pucker factor moment...
Watching the Huge sandstorms approach,and seeing the after...gave me a huge amount of respect for those that deal with that environment and Live...
I remember camping in Northern Maine in the seventies and eighties when the Tomahawk was being tested. The Tomahawk Missiles didn’t make a ton of noise but the chase fighters let you know a test Missile was coming.
Was that tested at Limestone? Near Caribou ME?
Great video but a horrible title. The title should read something about the Persian Gulf war
I stopped watching it for that reason, the title got me to have a look but I saw it was not about the missile, so before I left I had a quick look at the comments, cant go without agreeing with you.
Clickbaited.
I knew something was off when I saw the F4 roll out
This was an incredibly well done, facts based video. Thanks for posting !
I was a young expat. Teacher in Kuwait who went home for the holidays literally a month before the invasion on August 2nd. Never saw my car or any personal belongings ever again.
Damn those Battleship Artillery shells are enormous !!!! i get a patriotic woody when i see them guns a blazin... cause i know whatever on the other end is dust!
Got to love the USAF throwing shade on their Iraqi counterparts for not even trying to put up a fight.. '80% of their aircraft are still intact, on the ground'.
In one of the war's more bizarre developments much of the Iraqi air force sought sanctuary in Iran of all places!?! Talk about strange bedfellows. I wonder if they were ever returned? Anyway.... goodtimes#
Well yeah. They were probably told Iraq has one of the best airforces in the world. Then it ends up being a total wash.
Because they where grounded and those that did take off got blown up, the rest got blown up on the ground, some went to Iran and Jordan, others where hidden underground.
My uncle Randall Falcon flew the A-10 Warthog 2 in Desert Storm and retired flying the F-16 Viper and survived the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11/01
The narrator is awesome 🇺🇲
The most powerful country the world has ever seen 🇬🇧 for a cross the pond
I think he also did that documentary - Clayton Bigsby
Guys mustache is all Kinda jacked up. He musta trimmed it without a mirror😂😂
The “Second Best Military in the world” should’ve watched this before launching a global embarrassment of a warrantless invasion.
They should also watch Threads before threats of nukes
@@somethingelse4878 How old are you?
You must be talking about Russia and Ukraine lol ? 😆🤣😂👏
@@jonathanclarkson4621 👍🏻😂
The tracers and night vision with so many bullets is kind of beautiful in a way.
I love how the Thumbnail shows on the left the launcher for the Harpoon RGM 84 Missile in its classic Mk 141 Launcher whilst talking about the Tomahawk 😆
It's funny how it's about the tomahawk and yet the tomahawk hardly appears in it at all
I miss battleships.
Plus the SLAM, STANDOFF LAND ATTACK MISSILES which were used to go through windows at a hundred or more miles away. SLAM is an upgraded Harpoon missile.
Challenger II and Abrams M-1 proved to be far superior to the Russian designed Iraqi tanks. A British Challenger tank achieved the longest range kill on an Iraqi tank, at more than 4,000 metres.
Iraq got the export version of every weapon they have,what's going on with the challenger II tank in Ukraine? When are you sending the Abrams?
@@AbuBawa-sw1utChallenger 2 tanks are already seeing combat. One unfortunately was confirmed to be destroyed. It’s now known that it was immobilized by a mine, and the crew escaped unharmed. Afterwards, a Russian missile destroyed it after it was abandoned
@@openthinker6562I think mines are ieds are some of the most horrific parts of war
Those are America's babies and America loves each and every one of her babies. Don't let any one of them get hurt or injured because those are her babies and she loves her babies. America loves her babies.
I believe tomahawks have an inertial guidance system (probably better than average)and that alone will let it get to target in spite of jamming etc. I knew a guy who worked on the Tomahawk development team. He was incredibly grounded in getting to what works rather than any other concerns of engineering. Inspired me to be a better problem solver.
I was a cryptologist on a ship that fired 43 of them into Iraq in the opening salvo of the Iraq war. The first tomahawks were guided by what was called TERCOM (terrain contour matching) navigation. A satellite would take a pic of what it wanted the missile to hit and that picture was uploaded into the missiles targeting system and when it found a match it struck. Then, later it was modified to GPS targeting which gave it even greater accuracy. We loaded 43 at Seal Beach Weapons Station and went to a place called North Island to load 19 more. Needless to say, those 19 were something totally different from the 43 we loaded at Seal Beach.
Wow. That's a helluva mentor.
@@jamesstreet228 The missile knows where it is...and where it isn't.
@@Obvioustroller nah, you've got it mixed up. The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.
The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
@@evil993 I heard his voice and had a flashback to that presentation lol.
I find it crazy my dad was a marine helicopter mechanic in the early 80s but to this day knows nothing about computers. To this day he does hvac ductwork with pen paper and math.
Hat,s of to your Dad, after a Nuke war his skills will be essential to rebuild whats left of society.
Pen and paper is all you need for small HVAC ductwork designs. You need CAD software for large building designs.
meh, i worked with one of those mechanics... they just read instructions booklets that tell them exactly what to do... they dont have to actually know anything, just follow the booklet
@@picklerix6162 AC Contractors can use a circular slide rule to do the calcs. My dad used one but didn't realize that that is what it is. Once I understood I could create scripts and calcs in FileMaker Pro to do the same work. He scoffed at me until my prog came up with the same answers he did using it.
Back then I was a school kid very much in love with air combat simulators, so I was very familiar with the concept of air superiority. The Gulf War however was the first time I was introduced to the whole other level of air _supremacy_ .
Being able to launch cruise missiles from underwater submarines is amazing
You can certainly tell this film was made a long time ago. He called the F-22 the “Lightning II”. Must have been made prior to 1997, because that was when the first production F-22 rolled off the line, and it was certainly known as the “Raptor” by then.
He called the F117 Black Jack. I thought it was Night Hawk.
@@jason1440 I thought they said "black jet" for the F-117.
I remember when the U.S. did their tests over Canada, I was a teenager and watching Star Wars with family when we seen it flying by, it was a green glow, then it exploded due to failure, we were in North Central Alberta when they tested the Tomahawk
The Tomahawk is just a modern day V1!!!
Analogue to Digital.
Almost 400 Tomahawks fired. Think of the EXPERIENCE and PROVING we achieved with these missiles. We’ve fought three large scale, extended wars in the modern, present stealth, Patriot missiles, and combat drone age. That kind of experience can’t be simulated in a computer, no matter how much computing power it has. We’ve flown tens of thousands of combat sorties from air craft carriers. Our military hardware is unmatched because we have so much real time data. We train our soldiers, seamen, and airmen from examples of current, and real military operations.
We are the best, period. My main concern is the cyber warfare the Chinese and to some extent, the Russians engage in against us, stealing the knowledge all that blood and treasure has gained us. Anyone we catch and prove is involved in cyber espionage against us, stealing military files, has got to get the death penalty, due to the death and pain we suffered to get our knowledge, and the death and pain that stealing it will cause to our personnel.
Agreed.
you never know the true value of the information until it's too late or something proactive was done
I agree completely! My son-in-law works at Bridgestone in TN, and the company’s whole computer system got hacked last week. Said they were told they might have to reprogram from ground up. Said they were also told that Amazon and McDonalds also got hit.
Thanks for your service and sacrifice!
@@snowjammma Agreed
Thank you Texas instruments and Raytheon for all y'all do!
Gotta love mr dunnigan’s views on the challenges of fighting “Our future wars in the Koreas and the Balkans”… uhhh… wtf?
The Russians and North Koreans.
Much of this appears to be filmed in the 90's. Those were our concerns in the 90's. Obviously now the issue is Taiwan being the most probably battlefield. Though North Korea is still a problem as well. Eastern Europe seems highly unlikely (even with what's going on in Ukraine), but you never know.
In the early 80s I worked at the Boeing factory in Kent, Washington. We built the the Air Force version of the Cruise Missile, that was carried on the B-52 Bombers. Called the ALCM, (Air Launched Cruise Missile). When it left the factory, it was fully fueled, and ready to fly, minus the W80 nuclear warhead.
The CALCM was a great weapon AGM-86C/D dropped the TERCOM that the nuclear AGM-86B used, and gained GPS guidance.
Iran fought Iraq for 10 years in a war that ended in a stalemate.
Then couple years later they watch the U.S. defeat the Iraqi military in a just few weeks.
Soon after that Iran made a the full commitment to acquiring nuclear weapons.
And were then beaten to it by the North Koreans 🤦
Not US but NATO
This was a time/life special and available for purchase on VHS ages ago. This was tape 3 of 4 of the set.
My father didn't change the channel from CNN for the duration of the war.
Same here lol.
Thanks for sharing
Remember our tanks had 105mm cannons on it and still dominated
The BGM 109G (a slightly upgraded for ground launch) was developed by Gryphon and was basically designed for the GLCM program in the Air Force. Ground Launch Cruise Missile. Sophisticated mobile nuclear weapon system that was in several locations around Europe. Many of my Air Force buddies served overseas on this project. It got Axed during an arms treaty with the Ruskies.
I was rather Young and I remember this war.. I remember watching the missiles start cruising in the Baghdad live on television. I had no idea as a little kid that our military had these kind of weapons. Even today it's a very very impressive volley of destruction. My absolute personal favorite missile has always been the tomahawk Cruise missile. It's range and it's destructive capabilities even still.. Jesus christ. I do recall the first time I saw one flying like an airplane when I was younger.. I didn't know missiles could do that. I gave half of my life to my country and I have no regrets. I wish I were still serving. God have mercy on us all now though. It's getting towards the end of April.. Tuesday April 26th 2022 and we are at the doorstep of World war III possibly new clear. I pray it doesn't go that way. Stay safe out there. 🙏🔥🇺🇸🔥
USA launched how many tomahawks at Syria airbase in retaliation for using chemical weapons? Syria had that airbase opened back up one week after the attack ...
Nuclear
Remember on one network one newscaster believed he was being gassed.
nothing special, just the u.s desperately wanting to be seen as competent only to end up as a jester
0:46 that beat tho!! lol sounds like something i'd hear on an old mortal kombat game
Most of the video is about planes the first 5 min's is about the tomahawk
Was sitting up in the Northern Gulf that night aboard USS Curts - manning an SH-60B Seahawk - was boring for us... but got to see CNN footage later . Curts was a frigate, and had no Tomahawks, but we could see the other ships launching
kinda crazy to think that the BBs were firing their guns up into the 1990s.
The early 90s doco Tv music is bringing back memories
6:55 they death starred the building
when the title says "how the tomahawk missile shocked the world" but less than 8 minutes are about the tomahawk, you deserve the click bait award
Everybody knew when it was going to start. As all the differential GPS offset systems were removed. As they become accurate within 3 feet.. This was back in the day. When and if you owned a GPS. The United States had used offset differential for commercial GPS devices...
God that F-4 was an amazing looking aircraft
There were a surprising amount of errors in this video
Can you imagine what we have now and it capabilities? That was in the 90s
Mislabeled video. More of an overview of the Gulf War with little emphasis on the Tomahawk.
Sad
Stormin' Norman 2024....... PLEASE!!!!!!
100 hour plan
I watched those TLAM on CNN launch into the dark night. Some years later I stood on the deck of the USS Wisconsin and saw those badges signifying each missile launched. While the actual tubes were gone, I stood at the very spot they came from and felt a bit connected to that important part of our history. Many of my fellow visitors did not know the significance as there were no guides. I explained to one family and they remembered that CNN image of the dark black night. "That image came from where we are now standing" I said and they were delighted.
lol
“To saddam, A 2000lb kiss from Flarity’s” Mikedon NY” ABSOLUTE LEGEND 🤣
Desert Storm is a masterpiece. Like monalisa but for war. 😅
Except for the fact America destroyed Iraq's electrical infrastructure and their bombing campaign killed many thousands of civilians. Overkill and it lead to the conflicts in the next decade that would kill thousands of americans and hundreds of thousands of people in the middle east. Desert Storm was a perfect example of wanting to fight a war where you kill none of your own armed forces but destroy a sovreign nation in the process.
how come iraqi freedom went down the toilet, also from military perspective... granted it was more ground forces, in this air and sea powered fight. I guess bush younger was cocky and careless, a bit like biden now. bush older is true statesman.
I came here to hear about the Tomahawk, but I cared more about the 16 inch guns. My god, the bang. How can you possibly beat that.
Now we're about to see Russias version
Thanks tuyệt vời
Just imagine how capable we are now ,this was 1991
I think that was our peak of power. We have better toys now, but fewer of everything.
The Vacuum and Microwave Munitions and tech is some of the scariest things we have... both leave the equipment and kill the humans inside....
hopefully our anti-missle defense continues to advance.. it'll be a glorious day when ICBMS are no longer a major threat to the U.S mainland
@@Itsmattzefficiency. We don't need as much when the same Soldier can move faster, carry more, operate longer, be more accurate, be more lethal and do so with higher survivability.
@@inorite4553true
I’d rather there b no wars to find out
Today, USAF F22 pulls up next to Iranian F-14s, with one message: "maybe it's best that you go home". (the Iranians went home)
There needs to be cameras on these missles so we can see the pre-impact flight.
There are its all classified.
CNN sponsored tomahawk?
I say we put an artist on the end of the missile so s/he can paint a picture of what the target looks like right before impact.
"A chance to participate..."
Makes it sound so rosy.
"A Saudi pilot who downed 2 F-1's with an Exocet"
He downed 2 planes with an anti ship missile?
He downed 2 planes that were carrying Exocet missiles.
This documentary is so old i can't believe it wasn't made before desert storm.
So proud of all these brave warriors from all nations
did anyone else notice at 9:22 the F-4 Weasel pilots face is super swollen
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.
surprised i haven't seen anyone post this
some say the missile knows when we post this
Oh shut up, MR I copy shut off google and regurgitate it as if I already knew it
Yeah, that's what I was going to say, but I didn't want to show off........
@@rockinroll817 yet you still tried to show off by saying that
@@tannerlane9669 Not at all. I was pointing out I'm too humble to brag about how smart I am.
20:16 look at the message someone wrote on the bomb "to Saddam, a 2000lb kiss from Flarity's" lolol
16:12 The most accurate statement I've ever heard. Desert Storm was over in weeks. Operation Enduring Freedom (Afganistan) went on for 20 years... 15:29 This statement didn't do so well. We sure did have another Gulf war
8:40
Pete Mitchell’s dad disappeared in an F4, flying with with VF-51 off the USS Oriskany, on November 5th, 1965.
He went down in the worst dog fight any fighter pilot had ever dreamed of.
There were bogies like fireflies all over the sky.
His F4 took a hit and he was wounded in the cockpit.
He had a chance to head back to the ship but he elected to stay in the fight.
He took out three Migs before his aircraft took an unrecoverable hit.
Due to fact the aerial battle took place of the nation of Laos, no rescue attempt was ever launched. His aircraft crash site was never located, nor was any trace of Pete’s old man.
Rumor has it he ejected, survived the ejection and by use of SERE training he eventually made his way to Bangkok, Thailand where opened a tattoo parlor near the White Lion Bar.
Bangkok has him now, and she’ll never let him go.
Who doesn’t love an A-10 Warthog? Except for non-Allie’s.
The British
Check out LazerPig's videos on the A-10. He was less than impressed.
And superior sheading capabilities and old school methods ramming my personal favorite
About the Wild Weasels...that pilot looks just like i expected him to look....even more so...how did he even manage to take off with those massive balls of steel? Good dammit.
I had never heard of the Wild Weasel before. That would take nerves of steel!
The Wild Weasels (along with the 'normal' weapons) were also equipped for electronic warfare, weren't they?
The Wild Weasels (along with the 'normal' weapons) were also equipped for electronic warfare, weren't they?
37:30 Where's his Foo? A Foo-Man-Choo ain't the same without Foo.
My step father was the head of the tomahawk missle development project. Or should I say, lead project manager. We used to have ( I dont like with my parents anymore so I can say if it still there) a plaque that was awarded to him because of the success of the project. Not that any of this means anything, or that anyone is going to think this comment is truthful. In truth I have no idea why I just wasted time typing this :P.
Where is the cruise missile stuff?
The aviation historian say that the Saudi pilot used "Exocet" in air to air. Did he mispeeak, I had the understanding that that program was an antiship missle developed by France.
France will sell weapons to anyone with the money.
I understood that the exocet was a French missile. Wasn’t it an exocet that struck the USS Stark?
Crazy how good these cruise missiles are and still other nations can’t get anywhere near it
My dad was the program manager over the dispersion system on the Tomahawk cruise missile. Which is where the air bags for your car came from.
I was there,1980 to 1991, San Diego, GD Convair, Flight Test to fullscale production, completed 1 a day.
Saying this video is about the Tomahawk missile, is like saying that the battle of midway was about the Brewster Buffalo !
Glad this has been here it’s been a good design it works!
We were so damn full of ourselves in these days lmao
it was a completely different time. seems like a century ago.
@@jordaneimer2873 more like 3 decades ago lmao
Tomahawk save pilot life and naval personel in future without sacrified national security and interest and good deterence prevent people from starting arm race again...and next step we must be aware that opponent may develop and use the same capacity in future so preparation always must be up front and centered