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I know they are your sponsor and all, but given the current environment....."Wouldn't you like a nice game of chess?" (can you guess that movie quote??) 🤭
Wow, picking this specific sponser for this video is really inappropriate, with a real conflict going on, civillians getting killed. Operations room just wants money for new videos I guess. Hey, you know what you could do? Maybe address the conflict over blood diamonds in South Africa and let one of the warlords who has child soldiers sponser you, since you have no morals and all.
Still waiting for the Battle of Ia Drang 65 Part-2 ... Watching part-1 I subscribed immediately.. & you still haven't told me about the background Music .. where can I find it?
Got my ass chewed by an infantry MAJ once when I was new to the staff world. He said his infantry have "fucking pea shooters" (referring to their M4's). Said he don't wanna kill the enemy with those. Said he wants to kill them with artillery and from as far away as possible
You should consider covering the first Gulf of Sidra incident, it was a very interesting operation that is rarely talked about and could be easier to make than big battle videos
Honestly doing both would be pretty cool, especially if done in a similar style to the one done for Stroke-3 evading 6 Iraqi SAMs over Baghdad where it uses the real footage at the end Now I personally haven't been able to find any guncam videos from the first Gulf of Sidra incident, but I have the video for the second one saved on my PC because it's honestly just iconic to me
I was part of OSW from Jan ‘01 to May ‘02. I was actually outside Riyadh at Eskan Village for 9/11. They launched several raids on the Spoon Rest Radars while I was there and the TOC had a wall of stencils of radars and SAMs and the dates they were hit. It was an exciting tour. Little did I know when I came home in May ‘02 I’d be back in Jordan in Jan ‘03 for the invasion of Iraq.
@@morgan97475 it should be. They were planning the move to Qatar when I was there. It was called Operation Desert Shift. They were moving all US assets out of KSA.
People need to stop asking for something that would cause real WW3. We don't need a repeat of 1914 or 1939. So what if one country invades another country. It is not worth 1000s of millions of deaths world wide.
@@robertsears8323 A no fly zone over Ukraine wouldn't necessarily start WW3. It would certainly lead to NATO vs Russia, possibly some CSTO members. But a 'WORLD' war is a stretch.
@@mattai2354 Real question. Wouldn't the prevalence of unmanned vehicles make this a moot point? With the power of the Bayraktar's in Ukraine, it's obvious that drones and loiter munitions are way more cost-effective than F-22's and F-35's. We could send in a fleet of unmanned drones that can outmaneuver the best of the Russian Air Force. Drones that can withstand 10x the G-Forces of a human pilot. Drones that don't need to be pressurized to hold a bag of meat. There's literally no downsize. We can rev up the Military Industrial Complex if need be.
@@mattai2354 Seriously this video is from an operation in fucking 1993 lol. Do you really think No-Fly-Zones from before the iphone existed would be anything like a no-fly zone today?
@@subashchandra9557 yes, you still have to shoot down planes in a fucking no fly zone, its not a fucking game that any sane person should be wanting to play with Russia.
Jutland, The Lost Battalion, The first Zepplin shot down over Britain would some good WWI videos. I wouldn't mind some larger battles done in multi-part series'
@@samu4176 If Drach could work in some animations, even very simple ones, it would make his already great channel even better. It's hard to visualize some of these battles, particularly battles as dynamic as air and naval battles.
There was an incident around the same time where an American helicopter was mistaken for a Hind and fired upon by a fellow American jet, destroying it. I wish I could remember the date. It was in the Iraq no fly zone.
I've really appreciated your Twitter coverage of the invasion of Ukraine. Are there videos in the works, or is the conflict still to recent to have the necessary information?
@@popeo1973 yea definitely. Especially with all the information coming out of it you can’t tell what’s true or not until the after action reports. Even then it won’t be too accurate because it’s written by the victor
OSW vet here. We were taking out SAM sites all through the 90's. The Iraqis also launched sporadic Scuds at coalition targets during the same period. I spent time in the bunkers on Kuwait and Saidi on several occasions because of the Scud tjreat.
All those who seem to think all NATO has to do to ground the Russian air forces is to declare a no fly zone should watch this. The number of aircraft (and air crews) that it took to enforce a no fly zone over southern Iraq was staggering. And this was over a country that was not in a hot war with active AA batteries as well as manpad anti aircraft missiles all over the place. Anyone who thinks a no fly zone over Ukraine without killing Russian pilots and AA and SAM gunners AND losing a bunch of planes and air crew to ground fire or sams is nuts.
Love your videos. It's really interesting to see the more detailed accounts of these conflicts and events on both a strategic level and just as a whole.
My brother flew Provide Comfort flights over Northern Iraq so thanks for providing this background on the effort he participated in. You probably know this already, but F-16 pilots refer to their ride as the Viper and not Falcon.😉
@@yedoom Pilots and their crews give their own nicknames for the planes they fly and maintain, The B-52 Stratofortress is called the BUFF, the F/A-18E/Fs Super Hornets are called Rhinos, the A-10 Thunderbolt IIs infamous nickname of Warthog or 'Hog, the F-15E Strike Eagles are called Mudhens. Even the F-35 Lightning IIs have a new nickname, Panthers.
10:35 that those block 50 F-16's came brand new to Spangdahlem in 1994 as we moved the block 30's out. I was in the blue tail squadron then (23rd FS) I can't imagine what the flight hours are on those things today.
My Squadron the 4th FS did both Operation Northern and Southern Watch from 98-01 that I can remember. For the Northern part we flew out of Incirlik, Turkey.
Imagine the suffering of the iraqi people because of saddam hussein and the US, having to suffer bombings, sanctions, uprisings, death of family members for a decade.
I love your videos, you make amazing content.... Keep up the great work..... Well done. Very professional and informative content as always..... Great job good sir...
I once heard a story from Southern Watch, The pilot said “I was down in Southern Watch, flying my F-16, when lead called for a pic and AWACS came back clean. But I saw a contact on my scope and it was running hot, and though I wasn’t targeted, I went ahead and shot.” Now in this pilots defense he never even noticed that his nose was pointed East. Though I imagine that Iranian fighter pilot was surprised to say the least. He also tried to take it back, but by then it was too late.
Did you miss the part about Saddam invading Kuwait and spending the next few years harassing and raiding across their borders? A no fly zone in THAT context makes NATO villains?!
These no fly zones had to be one of the most criminal act in our recent history. Like how did people think it was ok or had the right to tell another country if and how it could fly in its own country ??? Apalling.
Concerning the Iraq war in 2003 - I clearly remember these events and numerous other problems with Saddam Hussein NOT complying with the coalition agreements after the end of hostilities of Desert Storm.... These events alone were plenty of reason to go back into Iraq and "finish" the job left over from Desert Storm. (Not meant to diminish the FANTASTIC work accomplished by the coalition during Desert Storm) But in 2003, everyone wanted to only focus on the WMD's existing or not, when these clear Acts of War by Iraq were more than enough reason to go back in !
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I know they are your sponsor and all, but given the current environment....."Wouldn't you like a nice game of chess?"
(can you guess that movie quote??) 🤭
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Wow, picking this specific sponser for this video is really inappropriate, with a real conflict going on, civillians getting killed.
Operations room just wants money for new videos I guess. Hey, you know what you could do? Maybe address the conflict over blood diamonds in South Africa and let one of the warlords who has child soldiers sponser you, since you have no morals and all.
@@wannabedal-adx458 No, Joshua, I can't
Still waiting for the Battle of Ia Drang 65 Part-2 ... Watching part-1 I subscribed immediately.. & you still haven't told me about the background Music .. where can I find it?
"Point blank range" ... "three miles out"
This, to quote another history channel, is modern war.
when you're in a jet flying around the speed of sound, 3 miles is the matter of seconds.
@@jiemingou2010 Probably wasn't even breaking 500 kts. Throttle management
@@koc988 speed means range in a modern BVR engagement, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was hitting mach at this point
Got my ass chewed by an infantry MAJ once when I was new to the staff world. He said his infantry have "fucking pea shooters" (referring to their M4's). Said he don't wanna kill the enemy with those. Said he wants to kill them with artillery and from as far away as possible
Closing at Mach 1, from three miles, makes the merge in less than one Mississippi. That's damn near a guns solution.
You should consider covering the first Gulf of Sidra incident, it was a very interesting operation that is rarely talked about and could be easier to make than big battle videos
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ooh, Gulf of Sidra would be a good one.
Honestly doing both would be pretty cool, especially if done in a similar style to the one done for Stroke-3 evading 6 Iraqi SAMs over Baghdad where it uses the real footage at the end
Now I personally haven't been able to find any guncam videos from the first Gulf of Sidra incident, but I have the video for the second one saved on my PC because it's honestly just iconic to me
@@corinthianimperialstudios704 no one asked
@@0riginalFIR3
Are you okay, sir?
I was part of OSW from Jan ‘01 to May ‘02. I was actually outside Riyadh at Eskan Village for 9/11. They launched several raids on the Spoon Rest Radars while I was there and the TOC had a wall of stencils of radars and SAMs and the dates they were hit.
It was an exciting tour. Little did I know when I came home in May ‘02 I’d be back in Jordan in Jan ‘03 for the invasion of Iraq.
Lovely Eskan. It's nearly shut down now I'm told.
Did you guys ever hear rumors about another stealth aircraft that was involved that wasn’t the F-117?
@@F3PIZZA I never did and I worked in the G-3 Operations office.
@@morgan97475 it should be. They were planning the move to Qatar when I was there. It was called Operation Desert Shift. They were moving all US assets out of KSA.
@Nobody it was. Between Jan ‘01 and April ‘04, I spent 30 months in the Middle East. I was only home a short time from May ‘02 to Dec ‘02.
Thanks for making this, so tired of people asking for something they don’t understand.
Agreed
People need to stop asking for something that would cause real WW3.
We don't need a repeat of 1914 or 1939. So what if one country invades another country. It is not worth 1000s of millions of deaths world wide.
@@robertsears8323 inb4 people realize it's not only about one country, but maybe they will switch the ruler before that
@@robertsears8323 A no fly zone over Ukraine wouldn't necessarily start WW3. It would certainly lead to NATO vs Russia, possibly some CSTO members. But a 'WORLD' war is a stretch.
@@anthonymcmxcviii6549 Not a stretch when nukes are on the table.
I think %99 of people calling for a "no-fly zone" over Ukraine don't know what a no-fly zone is
Maybe they think it's no fries zones!
@@mattai2354 Real question. Wouldn't the prevalence of unmanned vehicles make this a moot point?
With the power of the Bayraktar's in Ukraine, it's obvious that drones and loiter munitions are way more cost-effective than F-22's and F-35's. We could send in a fleet of unmanned drones that can outmaneuver the best of the Russian Air Force. Drones that can withstand 10x the G-Forces of a human pilot. Drones that don't need to be pressurized to hold a bag of meat. There's literally no downsize. We can rev up the Military Industrial Complex if need be.
@@mattai2354 Seriously this video is from an operation in fucking 1993 lol. Do you really think No-Fly-Zones from before the iphone existed would be anything like a no-fly zone today?
Its a zone where certain aircraft can’t fly.
@@subashchandra9557 yes, you still have to shoot down planes in a fucking no fly zone, its not a fucking game that any sane person should be wanting to play with Russia.
9:05 i appreciate the detail of the fuel tanks dropping off
Yeah, I noticed that too. Nice touch.
wait, are those "bomb" looking things under the wings extra fuel tanks? I have always wondered what it is.
@@rickmartony9566 yep the Larger External Bomb looking things are Drop-tanks
I've become a follower of your channel over the last week, and this is, I think, a video that really needed to come out.
Thank you
@@TheOperationsRoom Thanks for the awesome Desert Storm series, have you considered doing a series on the Iraq War? 😃
Incredibly important military history.
Well done for presenting this!
Very relevant to so many issues.
Including current ones.
I love this channel! Super informative and entertaining.
Glad you enjoy it!
"someone is going to die in the next few minutes and it will not be me or my wingman" fucking badass sir
The production quality of this channel is absolutely insane.
Your videos are so informative, I love these. Are there any good WWI battles you could do? Or were they too static?
Jutland would be good. The last fleet action of battleships is confusing AF to read.
@@DeliveryMcGee drachinifel covers it quite well but i agree an animated version would be amazing
100 Days Offensive would be an excellent option.
Jutland, The Lost Battalion, The first Zepplin shot down over Britain would some good WWI videos. I wouldn't mind some larger battles done in multi-part series'
@@samu4176 If Drach could work in some animations, even very simple ones, it would make his already great channel even better. It's hard to visualize some of these battles, particularly battles as dynamic as air and naval battles.
Average politician thinking a no fly zone is just aerial traffic cones.
Or people on social media.
Where would we be without the big brains coming out to educate people who clearly didn't know what a no-fly zone was until now.
There was an incident around the same time where an American helicopter was mistaken for a Hind and fired upon by a fellow American jet, destroying it. I wish I could remember the date. It was in the Iraq no fly zone.
April 14, 1994. Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down by two F-15s in northern Iraq.
I've really appreciated your Twitter coverage of the invasion of Ukraine. Are there videos in the works, or is the conflict still to recent to have the necessary information?
I would bet it’s too early to provide accurate information from both sides
Well at least you considered the notion that *actively happening event* can’t be given any kind of overview when it isn’t done
@@greensoul8121 it be to bias
@@popeo1973 yea definitely. Especially with all the information coming out of it you can’t tell what’s true or not until the after action reports. Even then it won’t be too accurate because it’s written by the victor
@@greensoul8121 hope nobody wins
Another gem. Thank you so much for your quality content
Glad you enjoy it!
Operation SouthernWatch USAF Veteran - Al Jaber, AB Kuwait (1999) 👍🏾
Always a pleasure to see your videos. The graphics are fantastic and really help bring the narration to life.
OSW vet here. We were taking out SAM sites all through the 90's. The Iraqis also launched sporadic Scuds at coalition targets during the same period. I spent time in the bunkers on Kuwait and Saidi on several occasions because of the Scud tjreat.
If only Putin knew that he could just play Conflict of Nations.
That's where his strategy came from!
The F-16 pilot "visually identified the bogey as a MiG-25". At 8 miles out?
All those who seem to think all NATO has to do to ground the Russian air forces is to declare a no fly zone should watch this. The number of aircraft (and air crews) that it took to enforce a no fly zone over southern Iraq was staggering. And this was over a country that was not in a hot war with active AA batteries as well as manpad anti aircraft missiles all over the place. Anyone who thinks a no fly zone over Ukraine without killing Russian pilots and AA and SAM gunners AND losing a bunch of planes and air crew to ground fire or sams is nuts.
US casualties would be virtually 0.
@@ZzSeaSniperzZ maybe 1 or 2 shot down.
@@ZzSeaSniperzZ u missed a 1 and a 0 following it ...
5:24 imagine being at an Iraqi radar and seeing that
Love your videos. It's really interesting to see the more detailed accounts of these conflicts and events on both a strategic level and just as a whole.
A new operations room video. Weekend has been made.
My brother flew Provide Comfort flights over Northern Iraq so thanks for providing this background on the effort he participated in. You probably know this already, but F-16 pilots refer to their ride as the Viper and not Falcon.😉
I think its the viper now, but it was the falcon back then. The F-16 has had too many different names lol
F-16 Fighting Falcon is the actual full name of the aircraft, so it makes sense he calls them falcons as shorthand
its officially the Falcon but the usaf nickname it the viper. because fighting falcon sounds shite :D
Supposedly due to the appearance resembling both a vipers head, and the Colonial Viper from Battlestar Galactica.
@@yedoom Pilots and their crews give their own nicknames for the planes they fly and maintain, The B-52 Stratofortress is called the BUFF, the F/A-18E/Fs Super Hornets are called Rhinos, the A-10 Thunderbolt IIs infamous nickname of Warthog or 'Hog, the F-15E Strike Eagles are called Mudhens. Even the F-35 Lightning IIs have a new nickname, Panthers.
Each new Operations Room video for me is not just 'another video to watch now' - it's an event!
Amazing content. Been a fan since the beginning. Keep up the great work!
My VII Corps was only 100 miles from Baghdad during Desert Storm...so close, yet so far.
Rip to the civilians
the comms for that engagement between the mig25 and 2 F-16's is available here on youtube...pretty tense sounding stuff.
One can only dream of when TOR does a whole series on what's now underway in Ukraine.
Best summary of Operation: Southern Watch: HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON, OLD MAN?!
Thank you once again.
32 tomahawk missiles? Jesus christ, the facility wasn't just 'rendered useless', it was atomized.
10:35 that those block 50 F-16's came brand new to Spangdahlem in 1994 as we moved the block 30's out. I was in the blue tail squadron then (23rd FS) I can't imagine what the flight hours are on those things today.
Brilliant video. I hope you also cover the no-fly zone they implemented up north for the Kurds.
Respect to anyone who has served as a Wild Weasel. Sick unit name.
"Well I was down in Southern Watch, flyin' my F-16, when lead called for a picture, and AWACS came back clean ..."
Putin must've launched this invasion by accident, thinking he was playing your Sponsor's game
Excellent presentation and such a clear voice
My Squadron the 4th FS did both Operation Northern and Southern Watch from 98-01 that I can remember. For the Northern part we flew out of Incirlik, Turkey.
Another great video. Always well informed video and this one is especially relevant. Keep up the great work.
Top notch as always. Carry on and keep them coming.
I was in the Big Red One during Desert Storm. Everyone was kind of baffled that we didn't get to finish the job.
All they do is lie.
"clear to kill, he's a bandit" -legend
There was also an RC-135 RIVET JOINT aircraft supporting the strike.
Imagine the suffering of the iraqi people because of saddam hussein and the US, having to suffer bombings, sanctions, uprisings, death of family members for a decade.
You know what they say, sucks to suck
All USAs fault
@@tehrealscrub7226 So the US made Iraq invade Kuwait?
LOve your channel, I always look forward to seeing your presentations .thank you! 👍
Finally!!!
Worth the wait!!!!
This is a cakewalk compared to trying the same thing in Ukraine. NEVER establish a no-fly zone there.
Excellent video as usual
I love your videos, you make amazing content....
Keep up the great work.....
Well done. Very professional and informative content as always.....
Great job good sir...
US to Saddam: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?
Taliban to western forces: How many times will we have to teach you this lesson old man?
Thanks
Thank You!
No-Fly Zone where have I heard that before hmm
seriously nice timing with this one
watched an interview with an f14 pilot on that mission , was pretty interesting
not allowing to fly in my own country? hm?
Wish you did a video once a week they’re awesome
this is better than the history channel
MORE,MORE….I love your animations of really battles.👍❤️😁🇨🇦
I once heard a story from Southern Watch, The pilot said “I was down in Southern Watch, flying my F-16, when lead called for a pic and AWACS came back clean. But I saw a contact on my scope and it was running hot, and though I wasn’t targeted, I went ahead and shot.” Now in this pilots defense he never even noticed that his nose was pointed East. Though I imagine that Iranian fighter pilot was surprised to say the least. He also tried to take it back, but by then it was too late.
This is the content I love, well, I love all your content
OK, now do the sinking of the Moskva
US used it's satellite's to target and guide UKR missiles into sinking ship and killing Russian's.
All those planes up at the same time is crazy
10 to soon i was just here to see if a new video came out.
🤔World Police😏
Lovely jobely
How was any of this not an act of war?
Nations don't declare war anymore. They didn't even declare war in the Korean War, the Vietnam War or the Falklands War
These are great videos!
I’m both fascinated and somewhat grossed out by how many resources were spent here, other priorities and all but still
Crazy to me that NATO does shit like this and people think theyre like, infallible good guys
NATO is not infallible. Anything else?
NATO *are* the good guys, you fifth columnist clown.
Did you miss the part about Saddam invading Kuwait and spending the next few years harassing and raiding across their borders?
A no fly zone in THAT context makes NATO villains?!
This was a UN operation not NATO.
Why did you say the "23rd Fighter Squadron is conducting a Wild Weasel Operation"?? WWs F-4s.
Algorithm zone
USA: I play the electronic jamming pod card
IRAQ
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6:00 just remember ALL THAT FOR 17 targets.
You do not want this shit in Ukraine.
These no fly zones had to be one of the most criminal act in our recent history. Like how did people think it was ok or had the right to tell another country if and how it could fly in its own country ??? Apalling.
GSG-9 freeing the passengers of the "Landshut" would be a nice watch
Lesgo bois. New Ops room vid
Give us part 2 of The Battle of Ia Drang 65 arleady ! :D
Appears the Cruise Missles proved more effective than the manned aircraft.
Will you make video for Battle of Y-29 1945/1/1?
I really love your videos!!!
Hell yes.
There was also a Northern Watch going on at the same time.
Protect civilians? You mean oil fields...
muh oil
Problem?
Could you imagine turning on the radar and ping 100 plus contacts 😂 from the world
Would you maybe cover the Iran Air 655 incident
You should do one about John Chapman, it's a really interesting story
Awesome video, as always.
I would love a break down on Iraqi freedom
Once a bogie is identified, it’s no longer considered a bogie and instead classified as a bandit
Concerning the Iraq war in 2003 - I clearly remember these events and numerous other problems with Saddam Hussein NOT complying with the coalition agreements after the end of hostilities of Desert Storm....
These events alone were plenty of reason to go back into Iraq and "finish" the job left over from Desert Storm. (Not meant to diminish the FANTASTIC work accomplished by the coalition during Desert Storm)
But in 2003, everyone wanted to only focus on the WMD's existing or not, when these clear Acts of War by Iraq were more than enough reason to go back in !
What a dumbass Iraq was complying with the UN.
Only problem is we failed to do anything successful with post-Saddam Iraq after "going back in". At least it's not Afghanistan.
love your content
I am kinda with Sadam on this, Iraq air space is his and the coalition placed a restriction.
Saddam invaded Kuwait.
My favorite content creator!
It's the best place to have a cookout.
Never change your voice 👍😃
If it truly was a "No-Fly Zone", no aircraft would be operating within it.