@@showtime112 The fact that the first kill of a Foxbat was achieved with a Sparrow is even more impressive in light of the overall poor performance history of the latter.
I have become a fan of your channel Ever since I became aware of my environment around me as an infant and subsequently as a toddler I used to watch jetfighters acrobating from the patio of my house That's way back in 1960's
I'm glad you like this content! You are obviously the target audience. My fascination with military aviation didn't start that early but I must have been 12 or 13 when I started playing computer flight simulations and building models. And yes, Top Gun has a lot to answer for 😁
Yeah, they would put on shows like that. Apparently, often after some of those Mach 3+ flights, engines were a write off. But I guess that was their scheduled propaganda cost :)
@@FlyinBrian777 I intend to do some Falklands scenarios. But the real Falklands map is being developed for DCS. Release date is not yet known but probably within a year. So, I'd rather wait for that to make the videos more convincing. Because now there's no scenery that resembles the Falklands very much.
That might non have been the original intention behind the plane's design but it ended up bbeing something like that. However, it kinda backfired with the American fourth generation fighters defeating Soviet fighters almost always, ever since their appearance.
@@josejuanbautista1352 , that is no coincidence. The Soviets copied the wings, tail and air intakes to provide stable, high Mach flight without the engines choking.
The funny thing about the MIG-25. The Soviets built it in response to our plans to built the Mach 3 bomber, the B-70. But the US canceled the B-70 when it was determined it would not be able to overcome the improved Soviet radar and air to ground missiles. The Soviets had built the MIG-25 not as a fighter, which the West didn't know, but as an interceptor, with a very powerful radar that could not be jammed. So obviously the Soviets had less faith in their ground-based radar and ground to air missiles than the West did. When the US canceled the B-70, the Soviets were already committed to the production of the MIG-25, so they went ahead with it. It was their going ahead with the program that convinced the West that the MIG-25 was an actual fighter and not just an interceptor. Thanks to that defecting Soviet pilot, the US got its hands on a MIG-25 and discovered... 1. It used a combination of steel and aluminum. Steel was used in heat critical areas. Soviets were not ready to move forward with titanium aircraft. 2. It used vacuum tubes in its radar assemblies, not computer chips, not even transistors. The idea was the vacuum tubes were impervious to jamming. Pilots and maintenance personnel were instructed not to turn the on the radar, on the ground without miles of open land in front. Otherwise you could "hurt" someone badly. Read Cancer. 3. The aircraft did not have the structural integrity to be a fighter. Even a 2g turn could damage the airframe. 4. The engines were from drones. Yes, they could do Mach 3, but at the cost of burning them out at any speed over 2.7. The Soviets were fine with this, provided it could bring down its target. The West knew that a Syrian reconnaissance version had burnt out its engines over Israel, but did not know this was the usual outcome of Mach 3 flight.
Thank you for that elaborate comment! It's quite interesting when you read about the games they were playing during the Cold War, trying to outsmart each other. Who can possibly say history is boring?
Turned out after Tovarich Belenko defected with his aircraft the West learned a lot about the MiG-25: It was a piece of junk with a never-exceed speed of Mach 2.83; any faster and you'd overspeed and overheat the engines, reducing them to scrap. The U.S. thought the large wing made it super-agile: Belenko told them the 25 weighed an apatosaurian 32 tons, necessitating the large wing. Turned out the 25 had a turning radius of literally a country mile. The plane was also quite literally made of stainless steel to withstand the heat of travelling at the speeds it did, had retractable landing lights, and used vacuum tubes for its systems as they tolerated the heat better, as opposed to microchips. It sacrificed a huge amount to even approach Mach 3. And yes, the F-15 was developed to counter it.
Possibly the biggest intelligence over-estimate of all times 😁 But interestingly, in Iraqi Air Force, their best pilots were flying the 25s. Even though 29 was much more modern. Just heard it in an interview with Rick 'Kluso' Tollini, they were apparently surprised to learn that.
Damn it super great historical Video giving it a 5 out of 5 stars as all your videos. Yes MIG-25 the Queen next to the SR-71 when it comes to SPEED. Remembering the 6. September 1976 when Russian Pilot Wiktor Iwanowitsch Belenko fled and landed with his MiG-25P in Hakodate, Japan. Wow, what a news this was back then.
Thanks again for your support and enthusiasm! As for Belenko's defection, I only read about it much later in Bill Sweetman's book about MiGs. However, only when I was researching for this video I realized the actual plane was returned to the USSR.
@@showtime112 Yes it was returned after the Western and American intelligence officers had the opportunity evaluating and examine the aircraft extensively. Belenko brought with him the pilots manual for the MIG-25 „known in NATO code as Foxbat“ 😉
@@showtime112 Belenko's story is told in a book called MiG pilot. Good read. I have a copy. What the American's learned was that the MiG 25 really wasn't all that and a bag of chips.
@@kevinjarchow8812 Made from stainless steel, combat radius of maybe 140-150nm, high altitude, high-speed point defense interceptor to counter bombers. MiG-25 was largely copied off the A-5 Vigilante and Avro Arrow. They had moles in the Avro Arrow program stealing all the technical data and material samples they could get. Planform and intake geometry were simplified from the A-5 Vigilante, but with 2 vertical tails versus the Vigilante's foldable, all-moving tail with its added complexity. Vigi was first to use that Mach 2.5 capable intake design, which was also used on the F-14. F-15 used the basic shape, but with articulating intakes for AOA and speed, along with the variable internal ramp geometry and boundary layer management system.
I'm afraid I don't have the A-10C module yet. Just the FC3 A-10A. But I have some nice historic missions from Afghanistan for it that might look alright. Thank you for your comment!
Hvala na prijedlogu i komentaru. Vjerujem da je IL-2 dobra, svojevremeno sam igrao originalni IL-2 i Pacific Fighters. Možda si ga i ubodem. Iako sam trenutno fokusiran na DCS i mlažnjake. Tu još imam godinama čime se zabavljati 😀
Nisam siguran koliko bi točno imao fps-a ali mislim da ne bi imao nekih velikih problema. Ja imam Ryzen 5, nešto slabiji ali nije ni približno iskorišten dok se vrti DCS. Moja grafička je bitno slabija od 1080 ti a uspjeva ga nekako vrtiti na recimo srednjim postavkama. Ima nešto zapinjanja ali to bi se možda moglo riješiti da kupim SSD i instaliram DCS na njega. Uglavom, ta konfiguracija bi ti trebala biti zadovoljavajuća do daljnjeg.
It was supposed to be rain. In the description, weather was bad when all this happened but I didn't want an overcast. Also, RF-4 probably wouldn't have been sent on a mission in such a weather. But DCS doesn't have a nice transition between overcast and nearly overcast. So, rain appears to fall in quite a sunny weather.
Well, yes and no. Even though these Sparrows were much better than the Vietnam-era ones, they still couldn't be trusted completely. You will see what I'm talking about in the next video to be released.
Showtime 112, will you be producing videos about World War 1 aerial combat? With the modern digital graphics, I think your show could offer interesting perspectives on it.
WWI is not in near future plans but some day it might be. There's a simulation called Flying Circus which I might acquire, looks pretty good. However, those same guys released a whole series of simulations covering WWII called Il-2 Great Battles. I have most of those so I will start releasing some WWII reenactments in the near future.
@@showtime112 WW2 would be a very worthy subject. So many unknown, minor air force engagements, like the Romanian and Hungarian aircraft on the Eastern Front, or the Finns, just to mention a few - the Vichy French are another. I look forward to viewing your presentations on the subject. Really excellent material you have, still going through it all.
I forgot to mention the War in the Pacific as well, with Dutch F2A Buffaloes, or neutral nations defending their air space...there's a wide area of subjects you could work with
@@patrickcloutier6801 Thanks again. As for those cases you mention, I came across a story of Finns capturing a damaged Soviet LaGG-3 and then using it to shoot down another LaGG-3. I believe the proper skin exists so I'm looking forward to making such stories!
@@patrickcloutier6801 For now, the War in the Pacific is not well covered by simulations. Il-2 covers the Russian Front and the West (Britain, France, Belgium, Germany etc). But hopefully they will release something in the future.
The only problem I have wi5h DOS is the topography. The maps dont match the actual land escapes on these battle recreations. Other then that for a nerd like me I do enjoy the recreations of historic battles.. Very enjoyable...
Actually, this video comes very close to the actual locations. OK, F-15s were based at Tel Nof and this is Ramat David but the intercept took place over Lebanon. But this is just one of those things that you have to accept. Most movies are not filmed on real locations either. I don't know a single Vietnam movie that was actually filmed in Vietnam 😁 Thanks for the comment!
@@showtime112 well, when talking about vietnam movies, the best film was "hamburger hill" which was filmed in the Philippines. It was close. I get that. I was just saying it's kind of annoying to see the topography off. But I do enjoy watching.. Thanks for the reply...
That's right but in reality, the F-15s took off from Tel Nof. There are many places not available on DCS maps but I choose some other locations to represent them. Kinda like in movies where one location often stands in for another.
They did. They brought a HAWK battery on a mountain top in Lebanon. I actually tried to do a video about that but gave up. Missiles in DCS apparently never just damage airplanes. They either miss completely, or they shoot them down.
I was station on Okinawa at Torii Station sigint site when a foxbat pilot defected. He got to Misawa air base in norther Japan on fumes. The SR 71 recon flights over the Kamchatka peninsula were halted when the foxbat move into the area because it was thought it could shoot down an SR 71. The soviets were going bonkers wanting their plane back. The Japanese and USA stalled them for three days. During this time they examined the plane closely. At the end of the three days they gave the soviets their plane back in crates. They had taken the whole plane apart. They discovered that the plane could do mach 3 but would be out of gas when it did. The next day SR 71 flight started up again.
Read of this an immense long time now. Repeated here what you said when Syria's 21 and 23 downed in one F15 mission. "Migs no match for..." *SYRIA DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO USE ITS WEAPONS.* Israeli cadets graduate with a lot of TRAINING. Primarily DOGFIGHTING. A FLOGGER in a horizontal turn with the EAGLE goes vertical and with a turn, cut inside its turn - 6 0'clock position. The FOXBAT isn't agile and i feel a mistake developing it - a cancelled XB 70 only left a few supersonic reece jets. Too many compromises. Tactic - Bring its blistering speed to bear, launch missiles - accelerate supersonic away, no dogfight. Pilots are are taught DF nevertheless. I'm proven right cause the FB used the same to evade F15s during and after the Gulf war. In that war in the FB scored damage to the eagle in the Samurra Air Battle. Its how weapons are employed - the weapon is merely extension of the man.
@@showtime112 Thank you. My memories were a little faulty since I remember another encounter over the Bekaa Valley in 1982 involving an Israeli F-16 downing a Syrian Mig-25. & I suppose that the nationality of the pilot didn't match that of the plane markings.
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy I didn't know that an F-16 shot down a MiG-25. Do you have any additional info on that? I think they only had short range IR missiles back then.
@@showtime112 Sorry, it's only a piece of news I heard on the BBC, but I think that was my faulty memory. It must have been the 1981 incident with the F-15 taking out the Mig-25. & by the piling- up of news, the F-15 became the F-16 with the mig-25 staying its downed self, & 1981 merging into the 1982 Lebanon war. At the time the F-16 was much prominent as a bully-buster ! However the bulletin specifically mentioned the Bekaa Valley. By the way concerning the Mig-25, I remember an ad in an American military magazine for the Ryan Firebee 3 Mach3 target drone, that told to train for the real thing which is the Mig-25 !
MIG-25 was a serious achievement, high-speed and altitude, but its role was only 1; Interceptor-Role. It's real job and only job was to shoot down the SR-71 Recce aircraft. That is the ONLY reason this aircraft with its massive engines, was designed to do...nothing more. Soviet Union was manic about this Recce aircraft, its ability to perform and avoid their defenses, the Blackbird gave them nightmares. In fact, at one particular mission, it tried to compete with SR-71 but could not, MIG-25 would burn out its own engines in the attempt, it was not durable in metallurgy and SR-71 would simply outrun it; it had plenty of space on the throttle and simply pulled away from the MIG. The Russians tried repeatedly to just get ahead of it and throw its missiles far in advance of the flight and pray it would catch one. Never did on its own. There were a few documented occasions when the SR-71 experienced engine trouble and it terminated the mission, and on one occasion, the Swedish Air Force REACTED and protected the Blackbird on its return. PATCH HOLDER!
But what happened to the Syrian Pilot? What was he attempting to do? Did he get lost and wander over Israeli airspace? Was he eventually captured? I do remember seeing on the news, Israeli soldiers and citizens cheering as they threw chunks of the Mig-25 onto the backs of Army trucks.
Thanks! It is called Digital Combat Simulator World, or DCS World for short. You can try it for free here: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/
@@showtime112 I figured it out 😂 thank you very much for taking the time to respond. unfortunately I don't have a PC that's why I asked for Android. hopefully a game like this or similar will come out for devices. I will see your videos
Why launch two Fox-1s? It is my understanding that the first missile goes stupid and stops tracking as soon as the second is launched. So launching a second missile right after the first just wastes a missile as only the second missile would then be tracking. That is the primary advantage of active homing Fox-3s over semi-active Fox-1s. The Fox-3s have their own radar, and thus more than one can be launched to track one or multiple targets at the same time, whereas the Fox-1s rely on the plane's radar for guidance and only one can be tracking at any given time. Am I wrong in this?
Oh, don't get me started on this 😁 I had a rather heated discussion with one of the viewers. I even made a special video where I tested multiple launches from various platforms, you can check it out. (summary: it works) This viewer heard it from Ward Carrol (I suppose that's where you got it too, based on your 'terminology'). I even asked him about it in a comment but he never replied. However, plenty of people replied to my video and the best conclusion in my opinion is that only F-14 can't guide multiple Sparrows. It has something to do with the way AWG-9 works, it changes frequency after each launch. But other platforms such as F-4, F-15 and F/A-18 CAN guide multiple Sparrows (as plenty of historical examples prove). Their radar's don't change frequency of guidance and the first Sparrow has no idea that other Sparrows were launched.
@@MTMILITIAMAN7.62 I tried it with F-15, F/A-18 and MiG-29. All of them can guide multiple SARH missiles to a single target. I don't have F-14 but I will soon give it a free trial so I'll probably try it to see how it works.
I ask myself: what is the merit of being on board with technologically superior equipment and pressing a button to win the fight, without even seeing the enemy? Since the invention of the missile, the art of dogfighting has ended; The last war in which pilots measured their worth was the Korean War.
Well, there was plenty of dogfighting in Vietnam as well. Not necessarily with guns but missiles from that era were quite limited and you had to place your aircraft in a good position to achieve hits.
So the Syrians send up poorly trained pilots in interceptors (the Mig -25 is no fighter) against Highly trained pilots in F-15s,arguably the BEST fighter in the world at the time....what did the Syrians think was going to happen.
Well, until that time, the F-15s efficiency wasn't yet that obvious. MiG-25 was the best Russians had to offer and Syrians could either play that card, or retreat from Lebanon with tails between their legs. Loosing a bunch of men isn't something dictators are too concerned about.
@@showtime112 Bad news for me, i hope in future there will be MiG-31 which would be interesting to play in some fictional campaign or mission,and yes you got nice videos.
@@savamomirovic4439 Oh, I agree 😊 But it's very unlikely. ED is not allowed to make any modern Russian airplane in high fidelity. A 'third party' with a HQ outside of Russia could, but how are they gonna get the data?
That is possible but if you wan to 'correct' someone like that, it would be desirable to back it up with some sources. For example, 'Iranian F-14 Units in Combat' by Bishop and Cooper have no MiG-25 claims on the list until September 1982.
Interesting thing is that in the Desert Storm, MiG-25 proved to be the most effective fighter in Iraqi hands. Better than far more modern MiG-29 and Mirage F1.
@@showtime112 unknown if that was true most of the gulf war the US kept hiding the casualties of their aircrafts and even when Iraq gave proofs they lowered the number of casualties or said that they got shot down by an anti air
@@husseinoskovjino9398 you need to read my reply again and again to maybe understand who is the dumb one lol by the way the USA hide it's casualties temporarily to try to rescue its pilots and or destroy its vital equipment my dear pepas
@@davidturcotte5677 They weren’t propaganda stories What you are saying is invalid Also neither did your army destroy 100000000000 million Iraqi tanks because of one brave American soldiers with a rocket launcher with unlimited rockets
@@husseinoskovjino9398 so the tankers were just surrendering to American helicopters for fun, eh? Remember the term" teeth, hair and eyeballs"? That's all that was left of over a thousand Iraqi Republican Guards after B 52 strikes. And the F15 was the fighter that guarded those 52's to and from their targets. No losses due to any interference from the Iraqi air force.
@@davidturcotte5677 average American reply No wonder you guys believe that shermans can destroy T72s from the front Sorry david but reality doesn’t speak sides neither are western sources are believable
Ne kužim. Nitko ovoj dvojici u miggovima nije javio da im dolazi netko s leđa? Nisu imali pojima da su ozračeni radarom? Nitko s sirijske strane nije vidio na radaru dva f15 da dolaze? Pa kakva je to vojska??
Mislim da nije bilo s leđa već više odnapred ili strane. Moguće je da su se toliko fokusirali na presretanje izviđačkog Phantoma da nisu toliko obraćali pažnju na ovo. Možda je i RWR bio neispravan. Teško je reći točno bez svjedočanstva Sirijaca.
Ali čitajući knjige sa opisima stvarnih sukoba, stalno se provlači jedna stvar. Događaji iz stvarnosti često nemaju smisla ako ih probaš objasniti kroz DCS. Zaključak, koliko god DCS bio realan, ipak je samo simulacija.
@@showtime112 dosta tih izraelskih priča se mogu protumačiti kao "lovačke" priče u kojima nema baš nešto previše istine. Gledao sam svjedočenje izraelskog pilota Rona Ronana. Tip se s wingmanom Borio protiv 12 MiGova 21. Čak je i wingmanu rekao da ide kući a on će još malo biti u borbi. Hm... I naravno nitko ga srušio nije .. no ovo je samo igra. Super kanal.
Techo, velocidad, aceleración y el más potente radar puesto en un caza...600Kw o algo así. Diría que problema es lo que va encima del asiento en la cabina.
F-14 will have to wait a while. My system has some problems running that module. I have to figure out what I need to upgrade. But F-14 in the Iran-Iraq War, definitely yes some day.
I was actually going to do that one some time ago. But then the Reapers released a video about it. I usually don't like their reenactments but this one wasn't too bad. Which doesn't mean that I can't do a better job 😁
Fake video.Its never shoot down mig25 by Israel .They only shoot down arab contrries fighter planes.Also Indian pilots flying over Plaestine (Israely) sky safely that time.
This guy is a Democrap, no truth to his words. Truth is, when Iraqi pilots identified F15s in the area, they would run to Iran and hand over their jets! Even the Mig29 is no match for the F15.
F-15? Cool! Now you have 103 more videos left to do 😁
Some of these missions scored multiple kills so I think the number should be reduced a little. But that still leaves me with a lot of work to do :) :)
108 as of a few more F-15E kills against Iranian armed drones over Syria.
The Israeli F15 has 61 victories in dogfight
@@gabrieljoseph6310 Yeah. I was talking bout the total number.
That poor lone Sparrow so close to achieving it's life's goal, so close yet so far away!
Yeah, instead it joined a huge majority of its sisters who failed miserably 😁
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The abortion was used by the Israeli missile Python 3
@@showtime112 The fact that the first kill of a Foxbat was achieved with a Sparrow is even more impressive in light of the overall poor performance history of the latter.
I have become a fan of your channel
Ever since I became aware of my environment around me as an infant and subsequently as a toddler I used to watch jetfighters acrobating from the patio of my house That's way back in 1960's
I'm glad you like this content! You are obviously the target audience.
My fascination with military aviation didn't start that early but I must have been 12 or 13 when I started playing computer flight simulations and building models. And yes, Top Gun has a lot to answer for 😁
@@showtime112 agree or disagree? Maverick got goose killed?
When I was in the military, we would track Soviet Mig-25's moving at Mach 3+ over the Mediterranean Sea regularly.
Yeah, they would put on shows like that. Apparently, often after some of those Mach 3+ flights, engines were a write off. But I guess that was their scheduled propaganda cost :)
@@showtime112 Thanks for the response. Any chance you could do Falkland Islands air war stuff in the future? Good channel, keep up the good work.
@@FlyinBrian777 I intend to do some Falklands scenarios. But the real Falklands map is being developed for DCS. Release date is not yet known but probably within a year. So, I'd rather wait for that to make the videos more convincing. Because now there's no scenery that resembles the Falklands very much.
@@showtime112 it'll be worth the wait then, because you'll want to do it proper! Thanks again. 👍
@@showtime112 I read that the speed also shortened the life of the airframes considerably.
Excellent video. As a teenager I remember the general emotion when Victor Belenko landed in Japan.
Thank you! That was certainly one of the key events of the Cold War. Not just in aviation.
Really good video!
Thanks! Glad you like it.
MiG 25 be like: When you scare your opponents so much that they try to create a plane based in what they think you can do
That might non have been the original intention behind the plane's design but it ended up bbeing something like that. However, it kinda backfired with the American fourth generation fighters defeating Soviet fighters almost always, ever since their appearance.
@@showtime112 I know, i love that irony, btw, i know people tend to create myths about soviet/russian technology, but that sure was another level xD
looks like the A 5 Vigilante.
@@josejuanbautista1352 Yeah, the wing shape and top fuselage.
@@josejuanbautista1352 , that is no coincidence. The Soviets copied the wings, tail and air intakes to provide stable, high Mach flight without the engines choking.
The funny thing about the MIG-25. The Soviets built it in response to our plans to built the Mach 3 bomber, the B-70. But the US canceled the B-70 when it was determined it would not be able to overcome the improved Soviet radar and air to ground missiles. The Soviets had built the MIG-25 not as a fighter, which the West didn't know, but as an interceptor, with a very powerful radar that could not be jammed. So obviously the Soviets had less faith in their ground-based radar and ground to air missiles than the West did.
When the US canceled the B-70, the Soviets were already committed to the production of the MIG-25, so they went ahead with it. It was their going ahead with the program that convinced the West that the MIG-25 was an actual fighter and not just an interceptor.
Thanks to that defecting Soviet pilot, the US got its hands on a MIG-25 and discovered...
1. It used a combination of steel and aluminum. Steel was used in heat critical areas. Soviets were not ready to move forward with titanium aircraft.
2. It used vacuum tubes in its radar assemblies, not computer chips, not even transistors. The idea was the vacuum tubes were impervious to jamming. Pilots and maintenance personnel were instructed not to turn the on the radar, on the ground without miles of open land in front. Otherwise you could "hurt" someone badly. Read Cancer.
3. The aircraft did not have the structural integrity to be a fighter. Even a 2g turn could damage the airframe.
4. The engines were from drones. Yes, they could do Mach 3, but at the cost of burning them out at any speed over 2.7. The Soviets were fine with this, provided it could bring down its target. The West knew that a Syrian reconnaissance version had burnt out its engines over Israel, but did not know this was the usual outcome of Mach 3 flight.
Thank you for that elaborate comment! It's quite interesting when you read about the games they were playing during the Cold War, trying to outsmart each other. Who can possibly say history is boring?
@@showtime112 , not me!
From what I heard the Engines used on the mig-25 only had a service life of 150 hours on early verisons.
Wow! I had no idea this happened. In 1981 i was active duty navy, and in school, so i was kinda busy at the time.
There was always something going on between Israel and Syria,no real peace since 1948. Still the same to this day.
Turned out after Tovarich Belenko defected with his aircraft the West learned a lot about the MiG-25:
It was a piece of junk with a never-exceed speed of Mach 2.83; any faster and you'd overspeed and overheat the engines, reducing them to scrap. The U.S. thought the large wing made it super-agile: Belenko told them the 25 weighed an apatosaurian 32 tons, necessitating the large wing. Turned out the 25 had a turning radius of literally a country mile. The plane was also quite literally made of stainless steel to withstand the heat of travelling at the speeds it did, had retractable landing lights, and used vacuum tubes for its systems as they tolerated the heat better, as opposed to microchips. It sacrificed a huge amount to even approach Mach 3.
And yes, the F-15 was developed to counter it.
Possibly the biggest intelligence over-estimate of all times 😁 But interestingly, in Iraqi Air Force, their best pilots were flying the 25s. Even though 29 was much more modern. Just heard it in an interview with Rick 'Kluso' Tollini, they were apparently surprised to learn that.
@@showtime112 They thought they were hot ships, then. You have to be a specialist in a Mach 3 interceptor.
Still not a piece of junk at all
In your logic then American Aircarfts in general are trash
@@husseinoskovjino9398 You're welcome. 😒
And yes it is a piece of junk. If it destroys its engines to achieve it's mission it's not a success.
@@benlaskowski357
they were heated hotly hot
Damn it super great historical Video giving it a 5 out of 5 stars as all your videos. Yes MIG-25 the Queen next to the SR-71 when it comes to SPEED. Remembering the 6. September 1976 when Russian Pilot Wiktor Iwanowitsch Belenko fled and landed with his MiG-25P in Hakodate, Japan. Wow, what a news this was back then.
Thanks again for your support and enthusiasm! As for Belenko's defection, I only read about it much later in Bill Sweetman's book about MiGs. However, only when I was researching for this video I realized the actual plane was returned to the USSR.
@@showtime112 Yes it was returned after the Western and American intelligence officers had the opportunity evaluating and examine the aircraft extensively. Belenko brought with him the pilots manual for the MIG-25 „known in NATO code as Foxbat“ 😉
@@LockOnNow Must have been one super interesting puzzle do break up and reassemble again :)
@@showtime112 Belenko's story is told in a book called MiG pilot. Good read. I have a copy.
What the American's learned was that the MiG 25 really wasn't all that and a bag of chips.
@@kevinjarchow8812 Made from stainless steel, combat radius of maybe 140-150nm, high altitude, high-speed point defense interceptor to counter bombers.
MiG-25 was largely copied off the A-5 Vigilante and Avro Arrow. They had moles in the Avro Arrow program stealing all the technical data and material samples they could get.
Planform and intake geometry were simplified from the A-5 Vigilante, but with 2 vertical tails versus the Vigilante's foldable, all-moving tail with its added complexity.
Vigi was first to use that Mach 2.5 capable intake design, which was also used on the F-14.
F-15 used the basic shape, but with articulating intakes for AOA and speed, along with the variable internal ramp geometry and boundary layer management system.
Interesting video! Well done.
Thanks! I'm always happy when people find these older videos.
F15 Eagle the best fighter ever built
Many would agree. The most successful certainly.
I worked c-shop on the F15. Loved that jet! Nothing matched it in the air in the 80's!
Jet sounds realistic as it is. Good job👍🏻
Thanks for commenting!
Can you make a A-10C Video?
I'm afraid I don't have the A-10C module yet. Just the FC3 A-10A. But I have some nice historic missions from Afghanistan for it that might look alright. Thank you for your comment!
the first victim of the mig-25-foxbat was the idf-af f-15c in 1976.
Pozdrav, ovaj vikend možeš uzet IL-2 Battle of Satlingrad. Košta 2€ igrica je super i zbilja je preporucam. video je top!
Hvala na prijedlogu i komentaru. Vjerujem da je IL-2 dobra, svojevremeno sam igrao originalni IL-2 i Pacific Fighters. Možda si ga i ubodem. Iako sam trenutno fokusiran na DCS i mlažnjake. Tu još imam godinama čime se zabavljati 😀
I like this video. Very very nice
Thank you so much 😀
Vec dugo razmišljam da kupim ryzen 5 3600 i gtx 1080 ti sa 16gb rama pa koliko bi imao fps u dcs-u na high-medium podešavanja?
Nisam siguran koliko bi točno imao fps-a ali mislim da ne bi imao nekih velikih problema. Ja imam Ryzen 5, nešto slabiji ali nije ni približno iskorišten dok se vrti DCS. Moja grafička je bitno slabija od 1080 ti a uspjeva ga nekako vrtiti na recimo srednjim postavkama. Ima nešto zapinjanja ali to bi se možda moglo riješiti da kupim SSD i instaliram DCS na njega. Uglavom, ta konfiguracija bi ti trebala biti zadovoljavajuća do daljnjeg.
Is that snow in the final scene?
It was supposed to be rain. In the description, weather was bad when all this happened but I didn't want an overcast. Also, RF-4 probably wouldn't have been sent on a mission in such a weather. But DCS doesn't have a nice transition between overcast and nearly overcast. So, rain appears to fall in quite a sunny weather.
Good video
Thank you very much! Feel free to check some other too.
I like the AIM7 in formation for a bit.
That wasn't scheduled :)
okay should have waited a tick lol good man 👍🏻
Gerat job by show time 112 and I like to see video about Iranian F14 kill the MIG25 in Iran Iraq war thanks again
Thanks! There will probably be a video about it someday.
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That was one hell of a taxi...
You mean, too long? 😁
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82ND AIRBORNE
That had to be the scenic route taxi!!
Looking at all those missiles the F-15 carries is it any wonder those jet have a perfect air to air combat record!
Well, yes and no. Even though these Sparrows were much better than the Vietnam-era ones, they still couldn't be trusted completely. You will see what I'm talking about in the next video to be released.
They were called AMRAAMs then!
@@showtime112 They were called AMRAAMs then.
@@showtime112 the way sparrow failed even to start against iraquí fighters.... Just like comedy
Showtime 112, will you be producing videos about World War 1 aerial combat? With the modern digital graphics, I think your show could offer interesting perspectives on it.
WWI is not in near future plans but some day it might be. There's a simulation called Flying Circus which I might acquire, looks pretty good. However, those same guys released a whole series of simulations covering WWII called Il-2 Great Battles. I have most of those so I will start releasing some WWII reenactments in the near future.
@@showtime112 WW2 would be a very worthy subject. So many unknown, minor air force engagements, like the Romanian and Hungarian aircraft on the Eastern Front, or the Finns, just to mention a few - the Vichy French are another. I look forward to viewing your presentations on the subject. Really excellent material you have, still going through it all.
I forgot to mention the War in the Pacific as well, with Dutch F2A Buffaloes, or neutral nations defending their air space...there's a wide area of subjects you could work with
@@patrickcloutier6801 Thanks again. As for those cases you mention, I came across a story of Finns capturing a damaged Soviet LaGG-3 and then using it to shoot down another LaGG-3. I believe the proper skin exists so I'm looking forward to making such stories!
@@patrickcloutier6801 For now, the War in the Pacific is not well covered by simulations. Il-2 covers the Russian Front and the West (Britain, France, Belgium, Germany etc). But hopefully they will release something in the future.
The only problem I have wi5h DOS is the topography. The maps dont match the actual land escapes on these battle recreations. Other then that for a nerd like me I do enjoy the recreations of historic battles.. Very enjoyable...
Actually, this video comes very close to the actual locations. OK, F-15s were based at Tel Nof and this is Ramat David but the intercept took place over Lebanon.
But this is just one of those things that you have to accept. Most movies are not filmed on real locations either. I don't know a single Vietnam movie that was actually filmed in Vietnam 😁
Thanks for the comment!
@@showtime112 well, when talking about vietnam movies, the best film was "hamburger hill" which was filmed in the Philippines. It was close. I get that. I was just saying it's kind of annoying to see the topography off. But I do enjoy watching..
Thanks for the reply...
Curious missile launches there other than that, good mission. SUBBED,
Thanks!
Great video!! The airbase is Ramat David, there's no Tel Nof in the Syrian map.
That's right but in reality, the F-15s took off from Tel Nof. There are many places not available on DCS maps but I choose some other locations to represent them. Kinda like in movies where one location often stands in for another.
@@showtime112 True, the F-15s is located in Tel Nof. Amazing video, All of them!
Thanks, I'm glad you like them!
Didn't they shoot down another MIG-15R too? The kill was shared between a F-15 and SAM Battery
They did. They brought a HAWK battery on a mountain top in Lebanon. I actually tried to do a video about that but gave up. Missiles in DCS apparently never just damage airplanes. They either miss completely, or they shoot them down.
I was station on Okinawa at Torii Station sigint site when a foxbat pilot defected. He got to Misawa air base in norther Japan on fumes. The SR 71 recon flights over the Kamchatka peninsula were halted when the foxbat move into the area because it was thought it could shoot down an SR 71.
The soviets were going bonkers wanting their plane back. The Japanese and USA stalled them for three days. During this time they examined the plane closely. At the end of the three days they gave the soviets their plane back in crates. They had taken the whole plane apart. They discovered that the plane could do mach 3 but would be out of gas when it did. The next day SR 71 flight started up again.
Thank you for the additional info!
The pilot wrote a great book about his life in the Soviet Union and defection.
I use foxbat as my callsign in some flying games on my phone, rip Mig
It's a cool callsign.Better than for example fishbed 😁
@@showtime112 honestly they could have came up with a better name than fishbed, that must have been on a Monday when they all came back to work lmao
@@alexwest2573 I agree, one of the least cool codenames for a Soviet fighter.
Read of this an immense long time now.
Repeated here what you said when Syria's 21 and 23 downed in one F15 mission. "Migs no match for..."
*SYRIA DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO USE ITS WEAPONS.*
Israeli cadets graduate with a lot of TRAINING. Primarily DOGFIGHTING.
A FLOGGER in a horizontal turn with the EAGLE goes vertical and with a turn, cut inside its turn - 6 0'clock position.
The FOXBAT isn't agile and i feel a mistake developing it - a cancelled XB 70 only left a few supersonic reece jets. Too many compromises.
Tactic - Bring its blistering speed to bear, launch missiles - accelerate supersonic away, no dogfight. Pilots are are taught DF nevertheless. I'm proven right cause the FB used the same to evade F15s during and after the Gulf war. In that war in the FB scored damage to the eagle in the Samurra Air Battle.
Its how weapons are employed - the weapon is merely extension of the man.
Two Fox-1 for a Foxbat.
Was that over the Bekaa Valley ?
In part, yes. But that's not a part of the 1982. Lebanon War.
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Thank you.
My memories were a little faulty since I remember another encounter over the Bekaa Valley in 1982 involving an Israeli
F-16 downing a Syrian Mig-25.
& I suppose that the nationality of the pilot didn't match that of the plane markings.
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy I didn't know that an F-16 shot down a MiG-25. Do you have any additional info on that? I think they only had short range IR missiles back then.
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Sorry, it's only a piece of news I heard on the BBC, but I think that was my faulty memory.
It must have been the 1981 incident with the F-15 taking out the Mig-25.
& by the piling- up of news, the F-15 became the F-16 with the mig-25 staying its downed self, & 1981 merging into the 1982 Lebanon war.
At the time the F-16 was much prominent as a bully-buster !
However the bulletin specifically mentioned the Bekaa Valley.
By the way concerning the Mig-25, I remember an ad in an American
military magazine for the Ryan Firebee 3 Mach3 target drone,
that told to train for the real thing which is the Mig-25 !
ST 112: how about showing the Belenko Mig 25 defection to Japan?
Possibly. But I'm not sur how to make it look really interesting. At least, we would need a better 3D model for the MiG. This one is centuries old 😁
MIG-25 was a serious achievement, high-speed and altitude, but its role was only 1; Interceptor-Role. It's real job and only job was to shoot down the SR-71 Recce aircraft. That is the ONLY reason this aircraft with its massive engines, was designed to do...nothing more. Soviet Union was manic about this Recce aircraft, its ability to perform and avoid their defenses, the Blackbird gave them nightmares.
In fact, at one particular mission, it tried to compete with SR-71 but could not, MIG-25 would burn out its own engines in the attempt, it was not durable in metallurgy and SR-71 would simply outrun it; it had plenty of space on the throttle and simply pulled away from the MIG.
The Russians tried repeatedly to just get ahead of it and throw its missiles far in advance of the flight and pray it would catch one. Never did on its own. There were a few documented occasions when the SR-71 experienced engine trouble and it terminated the mission, and on one occasion, the Swedish Air Force REACTED and protected the Blackbird on its return.
PATCH HOLDER!
O f15 virou caminhão na estrada? Kkkk
The first aim7F hit?
I can't remember exactly but I think so.
7:16 F4E not RF4E because nose totaly different and no20mm gatling gun under nose
There's just one variant of F-4 in DCS and that is the E variant. So it needs to stand in for any other variant when needed. It's not a mistake.
But what happened to the Syrian Pilot? What was he attempting to do? Did he get lost and wander over Israeli airspace? Was he eventually captured? I do remember seeing on the news, Israeli soldiers and citizens cheering as they threw chunks of the Mig-25 onto the backs of Army trucks.
Hello, what good videos, what is the name of the game or simulator ??? congratulations
Thanks! It is called Digital Combat Simulator World, or DCS World for short. You can try it for free here: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/
@@showtime112 thank you for taking the time to respond. i guess it's for pc ?? i dont think it works for android? Again, thank you very much
@@yoendryhernandez7064 Yes, it's PC only. Too complex for Android. But you can still watch my videos 😁
@@showtime112 I figured it out 😂 thank you very much for taking the time to respond. unfortunately I don't have a PC that's why I asked for Android. hopefully a game like this or similar will come out for devices. I will see your videos
Why launch two Fox-1s? It is my understanding that the first missile goes stupid and stops tracking as soon as the second is launched. So launching a second missile right after the first just wastes a missile as only the second missile would then be tracking. That is the primary advantage of active homing Fox-3s over semi-active Fox-1s. The Fox-3s have their own radar, and thus more than one can be launched to track one or multiple targets at the same time, whereas the Fox-1s rely on the plane's radar for guidance and only one can be tracking at any given time. Am I wrong in this?
Oh, don't get me started on this 😁 I had a rather heated discussion with one of the viewers. I even made a special video where I tested multiple launches from various platforms, you can check it out. (summary: it works) This viewer heard it from Ward Carrol (I suppose that's where you got it too, based on your 'terminology'). I even asked him about it in a comment but he never replied. However, plenty of people replied to my video and the best conclusion in my opinion is that only F-14 can't guide multiple Sparrows. It has something to do with the way AWG-9 works, it changes frequency after each launch. But other platforms such as F-4, F-15 and F/A-18 CAN guide multiple Sparrows (as plenty of historical examples prove). Their radar's don't change frequency of guidance and the first Sparrow has no idea that other Sparrows were launched.
@@showtime112 Good to know! Is this represented accurately in DCS?
@@MTMILITIAMAN7.62 I tried it with F-15, F/A-18 and MiG-29. All of them can guide multiple SARH missiles to a single target. I don't have F-14 but I will soon give it a free trial so I'll probably try it to see how it works.
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I ask myself: what is the merit of being on board with technologically superior equipment and pressing a button to win the fight, without even seeing the enemy? Since the invention of the missile, the art of dogfighting has ended; The last war in which pilots measured their worth was the Korean War.
Well, there was plenty of dogfighting in Vietnam as well. Not necessarily with guns but missiles from that era were quite limited and you had to place your aircraft in a good position to achieve hits.
Mig 25 in 1964? Are we chronologically correct?
That was the first flight, yes.
So the Syrians send up poorly trained pilots in interceptors (the Mig -25 is no fighter) against Highly trained pilots in F-15s,arguably the BEST fighter in the world at the time....what did the Syrians think was going to happen.
Well, until that time, the F-15s efficiency wasn't yet that obvious. MiG-25 was the best Russians had to offer and Syrians could either play that card, or retreat from Lebanon with tails between their legs. Loosing a bunch of men isn't something dictators are too concerned about.
the US panicked and wound up producing the greatest jet fighter of all time; 104-0
Is MiG flyable in DCS?
MiG-25, sadly no. On the other hand, 15, 19 and 21 are.
@@showtime112 Bad news for me, i hope in future there will be MiG-31 which would be interesting to play in some fictional campaign or mission,and yes you got nice videos.
@@savamomirovic4439 There's a MiG-31 mod. Not high fidelity, based on Su-27 I think. External model is pretty good.
@@showtime112 thats fine, but i would like to see a original MiG-31. I hope you agree with me 😀
@@savamomirovic4439 Oh, I agree 😊 But it's very unlikely. ED is not allowed to make any modern Russian airplane in high fidelity. A 'third party' with a HQ outside of Russia could, but how are they gonna get the data?
Your info is wrong buddy! The first MiG 25 fox bat was shut down in 1980 by Iranian f14 pilots who shut down an Iraqi MiG 25 during the Iran-Iraq war!
That is possible but if you wan to 'correct' someone like that, it would be desirable to back it up with some sources. For example, 'Iranian F-14 Units in Combat' by Bishop and Cooper have no MiG-25 claims on the list until September 1982.
He said ; first F15 ( no F14) kill against a Mig25 ....
It's a great
Thanks for commenting!
did the syrian pilot eject?
The sources don't specify it, I'm afraid.
Israeli Air force commander said at the time:" Syrians don't know how to use the Foxbat, if we had them, nobody could ever touch us."
Interesting thing is that in the Desert Storm, MiG-25 proved to be the most effective fighter in Iraqi hands. Better than far more modern MiG-29 and Mirage F1.
@@showtime112 unknown if that was true most of the gulf war the US kept hiding the casualties of their aircrafts and even when Iraq gave proofs they lowered the number of casualties or said that they got shot down by an anti air
Oh yeah maguey Russian weapons are so good that's why they won all of the gulf wars right ??? wise up my dear pepas lol
@@buzzbee4445 you are dumb to believe that the gulf war was won by the Iraqi side
@@husseinoskovjino9398 you need to read my reply again and again to maybe understand who is the dumb one lol by the way the USA hide it's casualties temporarily to try to rescue its pilots and or destroy its vital equipment my dear pepas
Iraq also took down the F15 two times with the MIG25 in western Iraq one Isreali F15 was shot down by a foxbat and in the gulf war too
No official records on these propaganda stories. Just lies to keep Mig pilots flying.
@@davidturcotte5677 They weren’t propaganda stories
What you are saying is invalid
Also neither did your army destroy 100000000000 million Iraqi tanks because of one brave American soldiers with a rocket launcher with unlimited rockets
@@husseinoskovjino9398 so the tankers were just surrendering to American helicopters for fun, eh? Remember the term" teeth, hair and eyeballs"? That's all that was left of over a thousand Iraqi Republican Guards after B 52 strikes. And the F15 was the fighter that guarded those 52's to and from their targets. No losses due to any interference from the Iraqi air force.
@@davidturcotte5677 average American reply
No wonder you guys believe that shermans can destroy T72s from the front
Sorry david but reality doesn’t speak sides neither are western sources are believable
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Thank you for your comment!
@@showtime112 your work is very impressive! Thank you for your passion.
Ne kužim. Nitko ovoj dvojici u miggovima nije javio da im dolazi netko s leđa? Nisu imali pojima da su ozračeni radarom? Nitko s sirijske strane nije vidio na radaru dva f15 da dolaze? Pa kakva je to vojska??
Mislim da nije bilo s leđa već više odnapred ili strane. Moguće je da su se toliko fokusirali na presretanje izviđačkog Phantoma da nisu toliko obraćali pažnju na ovo. Možda je i RWR bio neispravan. Teško je reći točno bez svjedočanstva Sirijaca.
Ali čitajući knjige sa opisima stvarnih sukoba, stalno se provlači jedna stvar. Događaji iz stvarnosti često nemaju smisla ako ih probaš objasniti kroz DCS. Zaključak, koliko god DCS bio realan, ipak je samo simulacija.
@@showtime112 dosta tih izraelskih priča se mogu protumačiti kao "lovačke" priče u kojima nema baš nešto previše istine. Gledao sam svjedočenje izraelskog pilota Rona Ronana. Tip se s wingmanom Borio protiv 12 MiGova 21. Čak je i wingmanu rekao da ide kući a on će još malo biti u borbi. Hm... I naravno nitko ga srušio nije .. no ovo je samo igra. Super kanal.
Foxbat is just a fast plane and that's all
Essentially, yes. However, it appears that the only kill scored by Iraq in the Desert storm came from a MiG-25. Or maybe it was just luck.
@@showtime112 true
Techo, velocidad, aceleración y el más potente radar puesto en un caza...600Kw o algo así. Diría que problema es lo que va encima del asiento en la cabina.
@@alfredofernandez823 Es posible. Gracias por el comentario.
Its radar, missile and sensor suits weren't anything to sneeze at, even if they were superseded by US counterpartners quite quickly.
not a russian pilot in foxbat
Who said it was?
one idf-af f15a-eagle(,baz) eagle in hebrew. shoot doen one mig-25-foxbat of the syrian arab air force..
سلام لطفا یه شیمیل بامرام تماس بگیره مرسی
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@@showtime112 👄👄👄
Second, this time 😐
You must be losing your touch 😁
@@showtime112 I will be more alert in the future :)
iranian f14 first foxbatt kill
F-14 will have to wait a while. My system has some problems running that module. I have to figure out what I need to upgrade. But F-14 in the Iran-Iraq War, definitely yes some day.
@@showtime112 thanx
remember it wasn’t amazing performance all around only in a straight line pig couldn’t turn for crap
True. It was designed for a specific purpose which wasn't needed anymore but it tried to do various other things.
Iranian f5 iraq foxbat kill 1987
I was actually going to do that one some time ago. But then the Reapers released a video about it. I usually don't like their reenactments but this one wasn't too bad. Which doesn't mean that I can't do a better job 😁
mig-25 most overrated fighter ever
There's a lot of competition for that title, everybody seems to have its own favorite :)
Fake video.Its never shoot down mig25 by Israel .They only shoot down arab contrries fighter planes.Also Indian pilots flying over Plaestine (Israely) sky safely that time.
Oh, you are a comedian, aren't you? 😁
This guy is a Democrap, no truth to his words. Truth is, when Iraqi pilots identified F15s in the area, they would run to Iran and hand over their jets! Even the Mig29 is no match for the F15.