@@vexingrabbit1824 yeah, even if the US didnt have the best of the best foot soldiers and pilots and tankers in the world we still would have the best logistics system, search and rescue, and training system in the world.
Radar doesn't work like that. Radar doesn't magically detect everything nearby, it still needs to "see" and recognize a target. Imagine being in a pitch black room, with a flashlight, and you need to find a fighter jet thats a few km away from you while being unable to move. Thats the best approximation of how it looks like for radar. And now imagine trying to see that basketball instead. (of course, radar is more sensitive and has way stronger "flashlights", but the distances are also longer. There is also background clutter from radio, the sun, etc )
the thing with that is in order for a RADAR to detect baseball sized objects moving that fast you need to tune the radar to well... detect baseball sized objects. Imagine a bird crosses the RADAR before ducking back out. Another bird pops up into the radar & suddenly to the radar system 'sees' a bird-sized object moving at several hundred kilometres per hour.
Zelki and Dani did meet and it was filmed in a documentary. Dani had be that time retired from the military and was working as (of all things) a baker. The only man to shoot down a stealth aircraft became a baker.
Reportedly, the Serbian SAM battery commander observed a regular pattern with US air strikes and he put that knowledge to use. That doesn't diminish the achievement in any way. He adapted to the situation and bagged a Nighthawk. Though I'm American, I admire his skill.
It still wouldn't have worked if he hadn't (a) known that bad weather had kept SEAD assets in the barn, (b) ignored SOP to turn his radar on a third time instead of packing up and scooting and (c) illuminated the F-117 at JUST the right moment. The F-117's stealth also still worked - it went completely undetected until it had already accomplished its mission.
@@wotb.cool.replays this out of all they did was the least impressive North vietnam was able to do it in the 60s if serbia couldnt then well yeah (The us also used corridors in vietnam for attacks)
In an interview, the same pilot said that his mistake was opening the bomb doors much earlier than necessary, and that he should have waited until he was over the target.
Makes perfect sense. When doors are opened RCS goes way up, allowing a lock with targeting radar. It’s one thing for relatively low freq search radar see something, but targeting radar is much higher frequency, where the stealth’s RCS is much lower until you open those weapon doors.
From the position where he was coming from and from when he was detected what he said kinda contradicts what he should have done. He came from the east and was detected by Zoltan at the west. His bombing mission even looking directly over was 30km away, which was farther from the furthest point of detection. Also these are GBU-10 they got some range
Thats not possible, the pilot has no control over when the bomb bay doors open. It's all computerized and automated to have the lowest delay of the doors being open and the bombs being dropped (less then two seconds). I'm not sure where you heard that but that is not true in the slightest.
@@zeddddd2846 That's what I saw in the interview. As far as I know, the pilots do have control over when they can activate or deactivate the bombing sequence, but I'm not an expert so I can't assure you that I'm right.
bro really gave them a "GG" after being shot down like he didn't almost get annihilated along with the big, black, subsonic tennis ball he was piloting.
Очень красиво, но, не реалистично с точки зрения реальности. F-117 был довольно хрупким и имел слабую маневренность, а так же сильные ограничения по перегрузкам в угоду малозаметности.
@@Semendrija123 Šta mene briga šta se prikazuje u 100 verzija to je montaža mogu da pričaju šta hoče! Ja znam pravu istinu a šta me boli kur za ovaj crtać!
In Serbia, the response to this was huge. They even made posters on which they had a photo of the plane, with a tagline that said "Sorry, we didn't know it was invisible"
Dude gets shot down. "I want to find the guy that did that and congratulate him." In a similar note, John F Kennedy's PT Boat was destroyed by the destroyer Amagiri in WW2. The captain survived and they at the very least exchanged several letters. JFK even invited him to his presidential inauguration.
They soldiers should not become enemies. The regular poeple should know each other before they get misused by fighting for other guys interests. esp. those who never risk their lives.
Rumor has it that after this plane was shot down, the Chinese managed to obtain quite a bit of it and took it to the basement of their Embassy in Belgrade for examination. Less than 6 weeks later, the US "accidentally" bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. It almost certainly was not an accident. Search for an article in the "Diplomat" magazine that will explain in detail. Even the BBC Has covered this.
This is highly likely a myth, for the simple reason that the wreck location was known by the US almost as soon as the crash happened, and they had plenty of opportunity to bomb the wreck. They chose not to do so, as they felt the stealth technology in the nighthawk was by then well researched, and there was nothing any power could learn from the wreck itself. IMO the bombing of the chinese embassy was absolutely an accident. War is complete and utter chaos, and militaries, even the US one, tend not to be very precise even at the best of times. The real "stealth" innovation behind the nighthawk were the computer models and mathematics that made it possible, and that's not something you can reverse engineer from a plane. You need to read some papers on electromagnetics for this.
Fun fact, Dale Zelko and Zoltan Dani have met several times and are friendly to each other. It's not often when enemies become friends. It's like these stories from WWII when enemies meet each other and become friends when they're old and retired are pretty rare.
Možda je vaša vojska namerno htela da postanu prijatelji da bi podkupili i saznali tajnu o obaranju ali srpski vojnik ima čast i nećete nikad saznati kako je oboren
@@pongsatonrattanapriyanuch7331 Why not? What is there to be embarrassed about? That 1 plane is worth more than our whole military... Was it a surprise that all of nato could handle 1 small Serbia? But they sure struggling with Russia now, things are different when you are not a Goliath vs David ha?
This is so insanely well produced. The shot of the pilot against the moon, the story-telling, animating tiny nuances, the sound design.... (chefs kiss) Totally supporting this channel when I can.
Total bull(you know)sh!t designed for audience who have no idea how radars and anti-aircraft missiles work, neither of evasive capabilities of F-117 (there is none) and how much dumb climb helps against SAMs (it doesn't). Just google it to understand how low the quality of this content is. Period.
@@Dragonman1OOOmidway from japan's perspective, when 3 aces fought germany's super pilot. Quite a lot of the stories they cover don't end with them being victorious.
But the comments are there to ruin it unfortunately. This is the most neutral telling of this story, yet people somehow still found a way to spread anti-Serbian propaganda and laugh at the people who lost the war...
@@vanja2565 The first ejection seats were developed independently during World War II by Heinkel and SAAB. Early models were powered by compressed air and the first aircraft to be fitted with such a system was the Heinkel He 280 prototype jet-engined fighter in 1940. - Wikipedia
Reportedly, the Serbian air defense commander noticed a consistent pattern in the US air strikes and effectively utilized that information. It certainly doesn’t take away from the significance of his accomplishment. He adapted cleverly to the circumstances and managed to bring down a Nighthawk. Even as an American, I have to respect his expertise.
that's because it's not a joke, "stealth" aircraft are not stealthy unless very close to the ground so that they can blend in with the rest of the environnement and even then they are easily heard and seen by infantry so weak for infantry ground to air missiles, even small "stealth" drones can be detected nowadays so a metal hurling flying jet is obvious
Who would have thought that two enemies would meet again after 12 years? Only a warrior can understand this friendship. "My mom's gonna scold me" he said while parachuting after being shot down was a big hit.
Yeah, that was a pretty good story. More details are that they were complacent and flying the same routes but the Commander of that SAM sight was a master of his craft. He knew what he was doing and with a little bit of luck got the kill. When they met up later in 2011, I guess the Commander of the SAM sight was a baker and sold either cookies or biscuits in the shape of F117s at his bakery, pretty cool!
@@gabyspan940 Do you have something pointing to this not being the case? Why is it so unbelievable that the US would get complacent and make a mistake?
@@mobiusflammel9372 because you can find the chinese embassy adress on google, it just so happened that the wreckage was just there and after a few days it got demolished, thats no mistake, they dont mak mistakes like these
This was an awesome video, whoever did the animations deserves a raise. As an American I would say that this a learnable moment for everyone, especially us, and that I wish continued peace to the peoples affected by that conflict, even the Serbians. War sucks but it can teach people a lot, and bring all sorts of people together. My favorite part is that pilot got into contact with the dude who shot him down. All in all good work guys youve got a sub.
"even the Serbians" That little line shows you didn't learn a single thing, none of you did. Who do you think was getting slaughtered left and right before the counter terrorism operations started? Why are you now helping Israel while they reap 10x the collateral we did? You should read Jacque Hogard's (NATO soldier) book on Kosovo, you sound way too naive.
@@TheAlexRhodes You mistake my humility for naivety and that is your problem. What does Israel have to do with Europe's problems? America is damned whether we do, or we don't so it doesn't matter what you think, geopolitics aside I wasn't being dishonest in how I think, war is hell and yet nations big or small, continue to partake of it, and the results are never good or fair. The Elites and the corrupt are never punished and our young die or become fucked up for the rest of their lives. This is the same here as it is over there. (And to be frank the only answer to all of this is by following Christ, even the Joos will have to accept the fact that their Messiah walked the earth, yet just like the prophets they rejected him, and thus will be destroyed for serving evil, only those secure in Christ will be saved, whether you are from a Christian nation or household, or not).
Pilots have nicknamed this plane "the Wobbly Goblin " because of how hard it is to maneuver so if a SAM locks onto it or if another enemy pilot got clise enough the F117 is at a serious disadvantage.
SAM obtaining a lock is not a huge problem even on stealth aircraft. SAM MAINTAINING the lock from launch to hit is the problem with stealt aircraft...
I remember seeing this story on the front page of the LA times when I was in middle school. I remember my teacher saying "I hope we dont get dragged into another war because of this"
That was such an amazing animation, it almost felt like I was watching a movie! I was hooked to the seat to see what happened next, like there were so many twists and turns. Awesome dude!
WE GETTIN OUT OF WWII WITH THIS ONE!!! Seriously though thank you for not posting ANOTHER WWII video. There were more and greater stories that came out of the Cold War, and I think there’s more besides me who’d love to see them brought to life on this channel.
Hey Yarnhub been here some time and just hearing a countryman speak and remembering those days made me have chills.Hats down to Zoran he knew how to move his sam system so offten that many times they didnt have sleep for days.He studied the airframe,spies from Italy did thier job he knew that F117 can only be locked on a low freq that was deemed absolite.An amazing serviceman Vega 3-1 got shot down,just another day in office.
It's a testament to the technology behind the F117, that it has flown over 2,000 sorties, mostly over areas with active enemy radar, and has only lost a single plane.
@@cosmicwakes6443 Yea, cope from you. Don't jump into conversations you have zero understanding of, kid. Nearly 850 sorties flown over Yugoslavia without a combat loss. Seethe some more.
@@cosmicwakes6443 >thinks trump is a fascist >thinks losing 1 plane out of the 8,600 sorties it ran makes it a failure Oh yea, it's low IQ postin time, baby.
As always you outdid yourself Yarnhub, well done. I find these military stories absolutely interesting. Zoltán Dani's achievement of shooting down an F-117 Nighthawk is not something that is to be scoffed at(granted at the time some would argue it was outdated or dumb luck but it was also a matter of patience also due to the opening of the bomb bay). Everything about this video: the voice acting, the action and most importantly the animation are stellar.
Also, hilariously, the Russians have ever since tried to sell the missile system as a magical anti-stealth weapon and brushed over the MASSIVE skill, balls, and luck that had to come together in one moment for Zoltan Dani to fire a successful shot.
Without a doubt, this is one of the most entertaining video I've ever watched on RUclips. You truly deserve all the recognition. I recommend creating another video about the F-22!:D
“He can do nothing but sit and pray”. The NATO bombing of Serbia killed between 489 and 528 civilians. I imagine what his prayer would be - “dear God, I flew to this country and bombed it, killing civilians. Now I’ve been shot down and the soldiers of the country I bombed are looking for me. Please save me”
Unfortunate deaths, but blindly blaming the deaths on NATO instead of the main problem which started the war is just not right, blame the guys that started the war, not the unfortunate casualties.
Downtown and marketplace in town Nis was bombed by cluster bombs. It was massacre,woman screaming,body parts everywhere,try to find that video. Town Nis. Cluster bombs on civilians.
@@alpha-2-184 You mean the United States, which made a joke out of the peace negotiations because they were already on the ground, sided with the terrorists? Yeah, so much for unfortunate deaths, the US ran out of intel a week into the air war, the rest was mostly improvised criminality. "By the end of the war, civillian collateral was a daily occurence" -american pilot codenamed "Starbaby" You take that propaganda uncle sam fed you and shove it you know where.
@@heavyweaponsguy21 Yeah they knew the f117 was going to be around Belgrade. When and where exactly around Belgrade not really. These spy comments makes me think Serbia had a better spy force than CIA or mossad. And that Zoltans battery was the only one that knew of this apperently, conveniently forgetting that there was a SAM circle around Belgrade and the f117 had to go thru 3 batteries before reaching Zoltans.
Not true and couldn't be possible. It was the third day of the campaing. Belgrade had a circled AA batteries overlaping on all sides, the third battery was relocated outside the ring as an ambush.
I won't and I don't think anyone will. Yes,that's are people from Serbia and neighboring countries here ,cause YarnHub is a great channel and I really do respect them. That "story" is something I'm tired of really cause I was living there at the time. I'm tired of any kind of conflicts but more than happy to learn about the world's history.
@@P.Palmata while what it took was extreme luck and they brag about it it like they won the war to(and it was also a very early version of stealth and by the time it was outdated since the f-22 and f-35 were in development by skunkworks)
A few inaccuracies here. The F-117s radar warning receiver is retracted into the aircraft during missions and is non operational as it couldn’t be made stealthy with the technology of the time. The pilots first warning was him spotting the missiles breaking through the clouds below
@@noblearmories1265 I can see that you are confused, so I will give you few details about what actually happened. For the first three days of the war most of the SAM units operated in radio silence, meaning they didn’t communicate often with the main command post, and they didn’t turn on their radars most of the time. As a matter of fact they have turned on their P-18 search radar for the first time since the beginning of the war approximately one hour before they have shoot down the F-117. So the notion that they had some “James Bond” type of intelligence from the mole inside the NATO headquarters, or that they knew the flying routes of the F-117 is just stupidity of the first class! You also can’t distinguish the radar tracks to be able to recognize the type of the aircraft in question, so based on that you can’t specifically make an ambush for the particular type of the plane (in this case F-117), even if you were able to make some patterns (which was not the case in reality). What is worse, the P-18 radar had some resolution problems and was unable to provide the data for distances that were less than 60 km. They had detected multiple targets at the distance between 70-80 km when they have turned the radar on, and one plane started to approach their position, but they had to turn the radar off in order to sort out the problem with the resolution. The second time they turned the radar on, that one target was at 23 km distance and entering WEZ. They have waited for target to get to 16 km from the launcher and then they turned the firing radar on. First two attempts to lock the target were unsuccessful because of the great angular velocity, and the fact that they have limited illumination time to just 8-10 seconds in order not to get hit by the HARM missile. They were able to lock the target from the third attempt at the distance of 11,9 km. Missile was launched and it hit the target that was flying away from the SAM site at the distance of 14 km and altitude of 8 km. The time it took the missile to hit the target was about 28 seconds, and the whole processes lasted around 84 seconds. The reason why I’m giving you the details about the time in seconds (that was needed for the downing of the F-117), is because of retarded claim that the main reason F-117 was shoot down was because of its weapon bays doors?! The position where the F-117 pilot dropped the bombs was around 40 km away from the place where it was shoot down! In reality F-117 takes less than 5 seconds to open the doors, drop the bomb and close the doors, so it is impossible for the SAM unit to use that short time window to shoot the plane down for two reasons. First reason is obviously not enough time for the whole sequence of detecting, tracking, launching the missile, and hitting the F-117, because if the doors were the main source of detection, after less than 5 seconds the radar would loose the lock, and the missiles would go stupid! And the second reason is the distance, because S-125 Neva doesn’t have the missiles with that kind of range (far less than 40 km), it is that simple!
Wooow Modern aircraft stories are so nice We want more like "Desert Storm", "Vietnam Air Wars", "October Air war 1973" & Ukraine air wars if possible like "The ghost of Kiev"
More like they got lucky, they happened to ping it at the exact second. You realize that there is a reason only 1 ever got shot down, ever, despite that they could "see" it
@@alexsawchuk5371Another one was hit and nearly crashed, the US confirmed it 2 decades later. The same missile battery claims it downed a B2, which crashed in a forest in Croatia and was fully salvaged by the US, but this was never confirmee.
This is overdramatised. The F-117 will not maneuver like that as it would give further radar reflections back to the targets, it also does not have the T/W to perform like what is shown. There was also not missile dodging scene with them chasing him. As far as the source from the pilot shows, he was not aware any radar was tracking him or firing at him (no wierd SAM warning) as the F-117 has no RWR. He only saw the missile exhaust trails at the last second, the first missile missed his cockpit and the shockwave coming off it's nose buffeted the cockpit, the second hit him.
Calm down brother... No one is being technical here, it's just an animation. If you want technical stuff then I guess this is not the right channel for you. :)
@@ioanplesa Considering the historical topics being covered and the ability of the animators, one would hope for historical accuracy, or else many misunderstanding will occur about events and people/objects within them.
@@stormjet814 I just checked, supposedly if a conversation I have found is correct it does have 2 RWR or (Radar Location System panel antenni). And was not used on the aircraft activated long before the time of this incident in service. So though it may have had the ability initially, it would have voided stealth quite seriously if both were deployed and would not have been used in bombing runs where stealth was a key factor. And from the story of the pilot himself he had no idea he was being tracked though he knew they were there. He only new he was being shot at seconds before the first missile narrowly missed him.
I love when youtube randomly recommends cool stuff like this
Me too
Same here
Rarely but it sure is a gem
😂 That's what brought me here.
Fr
stories of how pilots manage to escape after being shot down in an enemy territory is always so intriguing.
It’s suspenful
Pararescue all the way.
While we admire skill from the pilot and the enemy commander I think the the rescue team was the HVP of this story.
@@vexingrabbit1824 yeah, even if the US didnt have the best of the best foot soldiers and pilots and tankers in the world we still would have the best logistics system, search and rescue, and training system in the world.
Similar example on the other side. A Serbian pilot shot down over enemy occupied territory walked for two days to get to safety.
"it has the signature of a baseball"
"sir, we have a baseball on the radar flying at 1000kph"
Or a pigeon 😅
Radar doesn't work like that.
Radar doesn't magically detect everything nearby, it still needs to "see" and recognize a target.
Imagine being in a pitch black room, with a flashlight, and you need to find a fighter jet thats a few km away from you while being unable to move.
Thats the best approximation of how it looks like for radar. And now imagine trying to see that basketball instead. (of course, radar is more sensitive and has way stronger "flashlights", but the distances are also longer. There is also background clutter from radio, the sun, etc )
the thing with that is in order for a RADAR to detect baseball sized objects moving that fast you need to tune the radar to well... detect baseball sized objects. Imagine a bird crosses the RADAR before ducking back out. Another bird pops up into the radar & suddenly to the radar system 'sees' a bird-sized object moving at several hundred kilometres per hour.
idk man, can your eyes observe a baseball flying at 1000kph ?
That's not what they said, but alright
Zelki and Dani did meet and it was filmed in a documentary. Dani had be that time retired from the military and was working as (of all things) a baker. The only man to shoot down a stealth aircraft became a baker.
That's a great story indeed. Two enemies become friends despite all that madness.
@@DamirUlovec "Two enemies become friends despite all that madness" yeah, similar to Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown
Zelkos friendship is false they want to findout a secret but Zoltan is honorable to Serbia
@@srdjanmilivojevic7515 What secret?
@@DamirUlovec još ovi vaši nagađaju kako smo oborili f117 ali samo nagađaju
Reportedly, the Serbian SAM battery commander observed a regular pattern with US air strikes and he put that knowledge to use. That doesn't diminish the achievement in any way. He adapted to the situation and bagged a Nighthawk. Though I'm American, I admire his skill.
Crazy how smart they were
@@wotb.cool.replays No comment
It still wouldn't have worked if he hadn't (a) known that bad weather had kept SEAD assets in the barn, (b) ignored SOP to turn his radar on a third time instead of packing up and scooting and (c) illuminated the F-117 at JUST the right moment.
The F-117's stealth also still worked - it went completely undetected until it had already accomplished its mission.
@@ioanplesalooks a lot like a comment to me
@@wotb.cool.replays this out of all they did was the least impressive
North vietnam was able to do it in the 60s
if serbia couldnt then well yeah
(The us also used corridors in vietnam for attacks)
In an interview, the same pilot said that his mistake was opening the bomb doors much earlier than necessary, and that he should have waited until he was over the target.
Makes perfect sense. When doors are opened RCS goes way up, allowing a lock with targeting radar. It’s one thing for relatively low freq search radar see something, but targeting radar is much higher frequency, where the stealth’s RCS is much lower until you open those weapon doors.
From the position where he was coming from and from when he was detected what he said kinda contradicts what he should have done.
He came from the east and was detected by Zoltan at the west. His bombing mission even looking directly over was 30km away, which was farther from the furthest point of detection. Also these are GBU-10 they got some range
Thats not possible, the pilot has no control over when the bomb bay doors open. It's all computerized and automated to have the lowest delay of the doors being open and the bombs being dropped (less then two seconds). I'm not sure where you heard that but that is not true in the slightest.
@@zeddddd2846 the doors could be opened manually as well, so, the pilot could have very well have decided to open them manually.
@@zeddddd2846 That's what I saw in the interview. As far as I know, the pilots do have control over when they can activate or deactivate the bombing sequence, but I'm not an expert so I can't assure you that I'm right.
bro really gave them a "GG" after being shot down like he didn't almost get annihilated along with the big, black, subsonic tennis ball he was piloting.
lol
It was 12 years after though
Or like he didnt just kill people at the base he bombed.
@@Lost_Hwasal le soldier le kill enemy soldiers?? 😯😯😯 wowwww
@@juanquireyes6703 And you missed his point. Wooowwww
Sorry, we didn't know it was invisible. From Serbia with love
Belgrade wasn't invisible 🤣🤣🤣
@Galaxyca No it wasn't, it's bridges were full with people saying: "fuck you, drop another one".
least gigachad orthodox slav vs. strongest american secularist
i was looking for this comment
@@Aru-2005 Next time, use the Soviet Neva air defence system, you will find it faster.
just in time for the WT update
That's wha I thought to
it's out??
@@DTXShadowsFriday
@@DTXShadowsnot yet
@DTXShadows yes om dev server
This is top level animation. Anyone that knows a bit about animation can understand the colossal work that goes into making a video of this quality.
Very true
He make team
Очень красиво, но, не реалистично с точки зрения реальности. F-117 был довольно хрупким и имел слабую маневренность, а так же сильные ограничения по перегрузкам в угоду малозаметности.
AI does it all these days
@@lolbots if you find an AI program that makes animations on this level , please let me know lol.
as a serbian myself, i'm kinda impressed with the voice acting. top tier content as per usual
Ja sam bio na radaru te večeri!
@@BOKIBACKApa sto onda brate ne kazes da video nema veze s’ vezom, da ljudi ne misle da je stvano ovako oboren F-117?!
@@Semendrija123 Šta mene briga šta se prikazuje u 100 verzija to je montaža mogu da pričaju šta hoče! Ja znam pravu istinu a šta me boli kur za ovaj crtać!
@@BOKIBACKA ok Boki 👍
@@BOKIBACKAi ja sam bio na radaru te veceri!
In Serbia, the response to this was huge. They even made posters on which they had a photo of the plane, with a tagline that said "Sorry, we didn't know it was invisible"
Zalko and Danni remain friends to this day, I like stories like that, enemies on the battlefield become brothers in peace time
Dude gets shot down.
"I want to find the guy that did that and congratulate him."
In a similar note, John F Kennedy's PT Boat was destroyed by the destroyer Amagiri in WW2. The captain survived and they at the very least exchanged several letters. JFK even invited him to his presidential inauguration.
Honor and respect amongst warriors
They soldiers should not become enemies.
The regular poeple should know each other before they get misused by fighting for other guys interests.
esp. those who never risk their lives.
@@nickm1242 his torpedo was destroyed? what?
@@Mike_Oxard PT Boat
Hands down one of the most entertaining videos I've seen on YT in years. Fantastic production quality. Thank you.
Right
Fr
What do you mean? The voice acting is chessy AF.
Indeed
Rumor has it that after this plane was shot down, the Chinese managed to obtain quite a bit of it and took it to the basement of their Embassy in Belgrade for examination. Less than 6 weeks later, the US "accidentally" bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. It almost certainly was not an accident. Search for an article in the "Diplomat" magazine that will explain in detail. Even the BBC Has covered this.
Fascinating.
You've heard of "don't touch the boats".
Now you've heard "don't touch the stealth". Lol
Oh well lol
@@blackhatfreak Agreed, the CCC knew the risks.
This is highly likely a myth, for the simple reason that the wreck location was known by the US almost as soon as the crash happened, and they had plenty of opportunity to bomb the wreck. They chose not to do so, as they felt the stealth technology in the nighthawk was by then well researched, and there was nothing any power could learn from the wreck itself.
IMO the bombing of the chinese embassy was absolutely an accident. War is complete and utter chaos, and militaries, even the US one, tend not to be very precise even at the best of times. The real "stealth" innovation behind the nighthawk were the computer models and mathematics that made it possible, and that's not something you can reverse engineer from a plane. You need to read some papers on electromagnetics for this.
Fun fact, Dale Zelko and Zoltan Dani have met several times and are friendly to each other. It's not often when enemies become friends. It's like these stories from WWII when enemies meet each other and become friends when they're old and retired are pretty rare.
Možda je vaša vojska namerno htela da postanu prijatelji da bi podkupili i saznali tajnu o obaranju ali srpski vojnik ima čast i nećete nikad saznati kako je oboren
@@srdjanmilivojevic7515 srdjane zaboravio si lekove
@@МатијаМиљковић objasni
It was later explained by Serbia that they didn't know that the nighthawk was supposed to be invisible.
Had we known, we wouldn''t have shot at it XD
I love the line, but seriously can you said this after all your valuable asset got blow up by F-117?
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
@@pongsatonrattanapriyanuch7331 Why not? What is there to be embarrassed about? That 1 plane is worth more than our whole military... Was it a surprise that all of nato could handle 1 small Serbia? But they sure struggling with Russia now, things are different when you are not a Goliath vs David ha?
This is so insanely well produced. The shot of the pilot against the moon, the story-telling, animating tiny nuances, the sound design.... (chefs kiss) Totally supporting this channel when I can.
Total bull(you know)sh!t designed for audience who have no idea how radars and anti-aircraft missiles work, neither of evasive capabilities of F-117 (there is none) and how much dumb climb helps against SAMs (it doesn't).
Just google it to understand how low the quality of this content is.
Period.
I love how Yarnhub never antagonize any side.
Still it is a "pro-victor" channel. As always spreading the victor version of a story.
@@Dragonman1OOOmidway from japan's perspective, when 3 aces fought germany's super pilot.
Quite a lot of the stories they cover don't end with them being victorious.
@@erner_wisal That's why I love yarnhub, always seeing both sides regardless (even if they're still not pretty cool)
But the comments are there to ruin it unfortunately. This is the most neutral telling of this story, yet people somehow still found a way to spread anti-Serbian propaganda and laugh at the people who lost the war...
@@Dragonman1OOO were you born yesterday? You started watching yarnhub just today?
Clearly, you don't know what you're talking about.
I love how you can FEEL the jet speed in the radio. Keep this up please!
One little detail that would have been nice at the end of the video, is that after this the two of them became friends
Its not part of this channels agenda.
@@Dragonman1OOOit was mentioned in the end that they met.
@@centurymemes1208 He only hinted that they met but never said that they become friends or showed it.
Two? You mean tuah of them?!?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@randomdude10011pretty sure they meant exactly what they wrote, you're being cringy.
Bros timed this perfectly with the warthunder update
The fact we invented technology that can save a life by ejecting the person at extreme speeds never ceases to amaze me.
Look into Martin Baker MB-3 and it's story, it is amazing.
That is the story of how ejection seats came about.
Some ejection seats have the possibility of it killing you. Or at least breaking your back.
@@vanja2565 The first ejection seats were developed independently during World War II by Heinkel and SAAB. Early models were powered by compressed air and the first aircraft to be fitted with such a system was the Heinkel He 280 prototype jet-engined fighter in 1940. - Wikipedia
@@MaticTheProto none of which ultimately made it.
I am speaking about the successful one, not the first one
@@vanja2565 wdym not made???
Reportedly, the Serbian air defense commander noticed a consistent pattern in the US air strikes and effectively utilized that information. It certainly doesn’t take away from the significance of his accomplishment. He adapted cleverly to the circumstances and managed to bring down a Nighthawk. Even as an American, I have to respect his expertise.
Now i can understand the F-117 shot down by Serbians joke that WarThunder community is talkin' about lol😂
Same
Do tell the joke! I haven't played WarThunder much.
People here always joked "Sorry, we didn't know it was supposed to be invisible" :D
@CharlieTheAstronaut haaaaa that's hilarious!!! I'm installing WT now
that's because it's not a joke, "stealth" aircraft are not stealthy unless very close to the ground so that they can blend in with the rest of the environnement and even then they are easily heard and seen by infantry so weak for infantry ground to air missiles, even small "stealth" drones can be detected nowadays so a metal hurling flying jet is obvious
Who would have thought that two enemies would meet again after 12 years?
Only a warrior can understand this friendship.
"My mom's gonna scold me" he said while parachuting after being shot down was a big hit.
They're not enemies they're retired professional soldiers
Yeah, that was a pretty good story. More details are that they were complacent and flying the same routes but the Commander of that SAM sight was a master of his craft. He knew what he was doing and with a little bit of luck got the kill. When they met up later in 2011, I guess the Commander of the SAM sight was a baker and sold either cookies or biscuits in the shape of F117s at his bakery, pretty cool!
Serbs also had spies at the Italian base where the Nighthawks were operating from, if memory serves.
@@lucasokeefe7935 yea right... the usa would do everything to minimize a shameful loss
@@gabyspan940 Do you have something pointing to this not being the case? Why is it so unbelievable that the US would get complacent and make a mistake?
@@mobiusflammel9372 because you can find the chinese embassy adress on google, it just so happened that the wreckage was just there and after a few days it got demolished, thats no mistake, they dont mak mistakes like these
@@gabyspan940 rule #1: never underestimate the incompetency of the US military
Man the story, The CGI, the narration, the music damn all of it is so good, I subscribed to the channel after 1 min in the vid.
let me guess: "Sponsored Ahhh by WaR tHunDeR ;----DDD"
GIVE US MORE 262 VIDEOS PLEASE!!!
Probably because of the new update
@@apkgaming0515 WOW, GENIUS!
Hi Smigol, keeping up your WT antics?
Frr firebirds
my heart was beating as if I was literally in the scene, amazing animation and story. Thank you.
Nah but what’s crazy, is this is almost perfectly timed for the WT update.
FRRRR
Esa noticia sí me interesa habrá actualización de wot???
Why didn’t I watch this earlier? Pure fact and no terribly executed explanation. Hooked throughout the whole video 🔥
4:49 "There's a hole in your left wing!"
"Left wing destroyed, I repeat left wing destroyed!" - Commander Ben Shapiro
that israeli pilot moment
It is WT meme bro
This was an awesome video, whoever did the animations deserves a raise.
As an American I would say that this a learnable moment for everyone, especially us, and that I wish continued peace to the peoples affected by that conflict, even the Serbians. War sucks but it can teach people a lot, and bring all sorts of people together. My favorite part is that pilot got into contact with the dude who shot him down. All in all good work guys youve got a sub.
"even the Serbians"
That little line shows you didn't learn a single thing, none of you did.
Who do you think was getting slaughtered left and right before the counter terrorism operations started?
Why are you now helping Israel while they reap 10x the collateral we did?
You should read Jacque Hogard's (NATO soldier) book on Kosovo, you sound way too naive.
@@TheAlexRhodes You mistake my humility for naivety and that is your problem. What does Israel have to do with Europe's problems?
America is damned whether we do, or we don't so it doesn't matter what you think, geopolitics aside I wasn't being dishonest in how I think, war is hell and yet nations big or small, continue to partake of it, and the results are never good or fair. The Elites and the corrupt are never punished and our young die or become fucked up for the rest of their lives. This is the same here as it is over there.
(And to be frank the only answer to all of this is by following Christ, even the Joos will have to accept the fact that their Messiah walked the earth, yet just like the prophets they rejected him, and thus will be destroyed for serving evil, only those secure in Christ will be saved, whether you are from a Christian nation or household, or not).
Pilots have nicknamed this plane "the Wobbly Goblin " because of how hard it is to maneuver so if a SAM locks onto it or if another enemy pilot got clise enough the F117 is at a serious disadvantage.
SAM obtaining a lock is not a huge problem even on stealth aircraft.
SAM MAINTAINING the lock from launch to hit is the problem with stealt aircraft...
well it's not exactly a supermanoeuvrability-capable fighter either
This was by far the coolest video that I have ever seen on youtube
The two warriors (and their families) did indeed meet and became liife-long friends. There's a great documentary about it called Second Meeting.
lol the “two warriors” we aren’t talking about Roman legionaries here. Stop with the military worship.
@@doomsday9973define warrior
😂😂@@doomsday9973
@@doomsday9973 We do what we want mate. Besides, define warrior
@@doomsday9973 you have a problem?
4:15 I cant believe Lieutenant Colonel Darrell Zelko was the Bay Harbor Butcher
I remember seeing this story on the front page of the LA times when I was in middle school. I remember my teacher saying "I hope we dont get dragged into another war because of this"
USA doesn't get dragged into wars. USA causes wars.
Russia will never ever forgive us this invasion.
That was such an amazing animation, it almost felt like I was watching a movie! I was hooked to the seat to see what happened next, like there were so many twists and turns. Awesome dude!
Pretty incredible animation. The rain on the canopy looked real.
WE GETTIN OUT OF WWII WITH THIS ONE!!!
Seriously though thank you for not posting ANOTHER WWII video. There were more and greater stories that came out of the Cold War, and I think there’s more besides me who’d love to see them brought to life on this channel.
There are a lot of great wwl and wwll stories that are yet to be told but I agree it’s about time for a change
Hey Yarnhub been here some time and just hearing a countryman speak and remembering those days made me have chills.Hats down to Zoran he knew how to move his sam system so offten that many times they didnt have sleep for days.He studied the airframe,spies from Italy did thier job he knew that F117 can only be locked on a low freq that was deemed absolite.An amazing serviceman Vega 3-1 got shot down,just another day in office.
man i love this channel, lost the track of it almost 2 years ago and the improvements are massive
This channel’s animations are so good!
Agreed! 🫡
It's a testament to the technology behind the F117, that it has flown over 2,000 sorties, mostly over areas with active enemy radar, and has only lost a single plane.
The cope is hard.
@@cosmicwakes6443 Yea, cope from you. Don't jump into conversations you have zero understanding of, kid. Nearly 850 sorties flown over Yugoslavia without a combat loss. Seethe some more.
@@bud389 Enjoy Trump and his fascism.
@@cosmicwakes6443 >thinks trump is a fascist
>thinks losing 1 plane out of the 8,600 sorties it ran makes it a failure
Oh yea, it's low IQ postin time, baby.
It was not that invisible to radar after all
As always you outdid yourself Yarnhub, well done. I find these military stories absolutely interesting. Zoltán Dani's achievement of shooting down an F-117 Nighthawk is not something that is to be scoffed at(granted at the time some would argue it was outdated or dumb luck but it was also a matter of patience also due to the opening of the bomb bay). Everything about this video: the voice acting, the action and most importantly the animation are stellar.
Also, hilariously, the Russians have ever since tried to sell the missile system as a magical anti-stealth weapon and brushed over the MASSIVE skill, balls, and luck that had to come together in one moment for Zoltan Dani to fire a successful shot.
Without a doubt, this is one of the most entertaining video I've ever watched on RUclips. You truly deserve all the recognition. I recommend creating another video about the F-22!:D
The new subtext and subtitle effects are very appreciated and super cool
Interesting story, for a moment I thought it was that F-117 that went down during an airshow in the garden of a house.
But what you showed was better.
This video is absolutely incredible! I’ve been waiting for animations like this that present real historical facts.
This is the best thing I've watch on RUclips the last 5 months .
"daddy orders" 1:36
OMG DADDY
Diddy
lol
I think se said “that he orders”
ʷᵉ ʷⁱˡˡ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵏⁿᵒʷ
“He can do nothing but sit and pray”. The NATO bombing of Serbia killed between 489 and 528 civilians. I imagine what his prayer would be - “dear God, I flew to this country and bombed it, killing civilians. Now I’ve been shot down and the soldiers of the country I bombed are looking for me. Please save me”
Unfortunate deaths, but blindly blaming the deaths on NATO instead of the main problem which started the war is just not right, blame the guys that started the war, not the unfortunate casualties.
Downtown and marketplace in town Nis was bombed by cluster bombs.
It was massacre,woman screaming,body parts everywhere,try to find that video.
Town Nis.
Cluster bombs on civilians.
@@alpha-2-184 You mean the United States, which made a joke out of the peace negotiations because they were already on the ground, sided with the terrorists?
Yeah, so much for unfortunate deaths, the US ran out of intel a week into the air war, the rest was mostly improvised criminality.
"By the end of the war, civillian collateral was a daily occurence" -american pilot codenamed "Starbaby"
You take that propaganda uncle sam fed you and shove it you know where.
@@alpha-2-184 NATO and USA started that war.
@@SnakeP1tPoetry no serbian ethnic cleansing of albanians did
I’m strapped in and ready for Information Captain.
the graphics are getting better and better! love hearing these aerial missions!
Yarnhub playing WT: *sees F-117 Nighthawk*
Also Yarnhub: looks cool, lemme make a video about it
It was shot down because NATO became complacent with its mission planning. The Serbs knew when and where the the F-117 was going to be.
Source?
@@ioanplesa Google it, mate.
@@ioanplesaDid you watch the video?
@@heavyweaponsguy21 Yeah they knew the f117 was going to be around Belgrade. When and where exactly around Belgrade not really.
These spy comments makes me think Serbia had a better spy force than CIA or mossad. And that Zoltans battery was the only one that knew of this apperently, conveniently forgetting that there was a SAM circle around Belgrade and the f117 had to go thru 3 batteries before reaching Zoltans.
Not true and couldn't be possible. It was the third day of the campaing. Belgrade had a circled AA batteries overlaping on all sides, the third battery was relocated outside the ring as an ambush.
I wish this channel was also on Netflix. The best in Military stories, really interesting
Bro this is one of the SICKEST videos I have watched in so long! Thanks!
Oh Jesus here come the Serbs saying “Haha we didn’t know it was supposed to be invisible”
I won't and I don't think anyone will. Yes,that's are people from Serbia and neighboring countries here ,cause YarnHub is a great channel and I really do respect them. That "story" is something I'm tired of really cause I was living there at the time. I'm tired of any kind of conflicts but more than happy to learn about the world's history.
It’s hilarious that their entire national identity is shooting down via a and only via a fluke an old outdated plane.
Well they have every right to. The flex of being the only one who shot a stealth aircraft in combat is insane.
@@P.Palmata while what it took was extreme luck and they brag about it it like they won the war to(and it was also a very early version of stealth and by the time it was outdated since the f-22 and f-35 were in development by skunkworks)
@@P.Palmataonly internet worriers do. They literally became friends after..
10:36 nice chat... should have a coffee instead 😂
😅😂 and some pancakes
A few inaccuracies here.
The F-117s radar warning receiver is retracted into the aircraft during missions and is non operational as it couldn’t be made stealthy with the technology of the time. The pilots first warning was him spotting the missiles breaking through the clouds below
There are few inaccuracies besides the ones you have mentioned, and that is the fact that basically everything about this video is wrong 😉
@@Semendrija123???
@@noblearmories1265 I can see that you are confused, so I will give you few details about what actually happened. For the first three days of the war most of the SAM units operated in radio silence, meaning they didn’t communicate often with the main command post, and they didn’t turn on their radars most of the time.
As a matter of fact they have turned on their P-18 search radar for the first time since the beginning of the war approximately one hour before they have shoot down the F-117. So the notion that they had some “James Bond” type of intelligence from the mole inside the NATO headquarters, or that they knew the flying routes of the F-117 is just stupidity of the first class!
You also can’t distinguish the radar tracks to be able to recognize the type of the aircraft in question, so based on that you can’t specifically make an ambush for the particular type of the plane (in this case F-117), even if you were able to make some patterns (which was not the case in reality).
What is worse, the P-18 radar had some resolution problems and was unable to provide the data for distances that were less than 60 km. They had detected multiple targets at the distance between 70-80 km when they have turned the radar on, and one plane started to approach their position, but they had to turn the radar off in order to sort out the problem with the resolution.
The second time they turned the radar on, that one target was at 23 km distance and entering WEZ. They have waited for target to get to 16 km from the launcher and then they turned the firing radar on. First two attempts to lock the target were unsuccessful because of the great angular velocity, and the fact that they have limited illumination time to just 8-10 seconds in order not to get hit by the HARM missile.
They were able to lock the target from the third attempt at the distance of 11,9 km. Missile was launched and it hit the target that was flying away from the SAM site at the distance of 14 km and altitude of 8 km. The time it took the missile to hit the target was about 28 seconds, and the whole processes lasted around 84 seconds.
The reason why I’m giving you the details about the time in seconds (that was needed for the downing of the F-117), is because of retarded claim that the main reason F-117 was shoot down was because of its weapon bays doors?!
The position where the F-117 pilot dropped the bombs was around 40 km away from the place where it was shoot down!
In reality F-117 takes less than 5 seconds to open the doors, drop the bomb and close the doors, so it is impossible for the SAM unit to use that short time window to shoot the plane down for two reasons.
First reason is obviously not enough time for the whole sequence of detecting, tracking, launching the missile, and hitting the F-117, because if the doors were the main source of detection, after less than 5 seconds the radar would loose the lock, and the missiles would go stupid!
And the second reason is the distance, because S-125 Neva doesn’t have the missiles with that kind of range (far less than 40 km), it is that simple!
The Production Quality is Insane ! Glad algorithm suggested this.
Wooow
Modern aircraft stories are so nice
We want more like "Desert Storm", "Vietnam Air Wars", "October Air war 1973" & Ukraine air wars if possible like "The ghost of Kiev"
Yes, thank you, I’m glad I’m not the only one. WWII stories are great but there were even more incredible stories to come out the Cold War.
Fax
Bud, the ghost of kiev isn't real.
@@DarkMatterX1the only 2 cconfirmed aces are both russian
Ghost of kiev 😭😭😭😭☠️☠️☠️
i actually was on the edge of my seat during this video!
The first and only appearance of a soldier of Hungarian origins on this channel :D
This video being free to watch is a privilege, thank you.
Damn this was very good... Kept me on the edge to the end. Keep them short clips coming 👍
''Sorry, we didn't know it was invisible"
Dead internet theory
More like they got lucky, they happened to ping it at the exact second. You realize that there is a reason only 1 ever got shot down, ever, despite that they could "see" it
@@alexsawchuk5371Another one was hit and nearly crashed, the US confirmed it 2 decades later. The same missile battery claims it downed a B2, which crashed in a forest in Croatia and was fully salvaged by the US, but this was never confirmee.
@@alexsawchuk5371 Because it has mostly been used in countries lacking anti air capability? Sure.
@@alexsawchuk5371 lol! cause the entire fleet was grounded after this incident never to fly again over enemy territory
I like how he calls the Serbs the enemy as if it's Serbia invading America 😂
Avg American story be like:
Big thumbs up to the team that recreated this event. It was quite engaging
Another great video yarnhub! Thanks! 🤙🏼
Each video, they just keep getting better and better!
Now that's some god level animation that makes the story telling more exciting
This could literally be made into a movie.
Better story telling than major Hollywood studios
2:12 The numbers on the radar screen in Comic Sans 😅
i dont know why, l but I hate comic sans and I cant unsee this
That's one hell of a catch
@@Corndadthepop The curse of being a graphic designer :(
wow, what a great video! excellent storytelling! you got a new sub!
Reminds me of “Love Death Robots” story/animations. Thank you youtube for reccomending me this channel. This is top tier content
You should do the time a sidewinder missile got lodged in a PLA mig, which gave birth to the soviet R13 missile.
Did ya do it for the hype cus of WT? Nice video btw. Love to hear more military stories and animations.
Yeah hot topics get views fast
"The ghost is here. " That shit goes hard as fuck not gonna lie.
this is the kind of content I like on yt! better than Marvel movies 😆
The most advanced stealth bomber comes with a orange parachute 😂
Amazing quality as always yarnhub 😮💨🔥
Just in time for the warthunder update to lol
yeah lol
pretty sure they paid the guy to make this video
This was such a great video! Love the visual re-creation, great storytelling. Riveting stuff!
F-117: I'm invisible😎
Soviet missile: Wat das 'invizible' mean?🤓
The dog might be working for the enemy but he ain’t no snitch
Собака не выполнила свою работу...
0:32 im sorry but those are training AIM 120s strapped to the vipers. Wheres the HARMs 😭
no way
I've heard that 100 percent accurate depictions of the military is illegal.
the amount of time this dude puts in a single video is insane
5:21 bro started T-posing
This is overdramatised. The F-117 will not maneuver like that as it would give further radar reflections back to the targets, it also does not have the T/W to perform like what is shown. There was also not missile dodging scene with them chasing him. As far as the source from the pilot shows, he was not aware any radar was tracking him or firing at him (no wierd SAM warning) as the F-117 has no RWR. He only saw the missile exhaust trails at the last second, the first missile missed his cockpit and the shockwave coming off it's nose buffeted the cockpit, the second hit him.
Calm down brother... No one is being technical here, it's just an animation. If you want technical stuff then I guess this is not the right channel for you. :)
@@ioanplesa Considering the historical topics being covered and the ability of the animators, one would hope for historical accuracy, or else many misunderstanding will occur about events and people/objects within them.
The f117 does have an rwr, however to actually use it it would have to extend the antennas and lose it’s stealth capabilities
@@stormjet814 I just checked, supposedly if a conversation I have found is correct it does have 2 RWR or (Radar Location System panel antenni). And was not used on the aircraft activated long before the time of this incident in service. So though it may have had the ability initially, it would have voided stealth quite seriously if both were deployed and would not have been used in bombing runs where stealth was a key factor. And from the story of the pilot himself he had no idea he was being tracked though he knew they were there. He only new he was being shot at seconds before the first missile narrowly missed him.
@@FutureFlash2034 well not everyone will be entertained when its all about flying straight
Basically just watched an entire movie in 12 minutes
This episode will certainly be the top one of this channel
“sorry we didnt know it was invisible” as a serbian. This is one pf the most sickest lines ever
So much for the "all weather" aspect of the F-16's.
It's a f117
@@jtazevedo7104
He's referring to the escorts that turned back.
well yeah otherwise the F117 would of been detected sooner
lot's of hearsay
Insane video bro, keep it up
Wait a sec are you samiul codm youtuber ?
wow i didnt expect to watch the whole thing
now im interested about military stuff