Saw this flick on TV in the late 80s as a kid. To me, the Firefox was the most awesome, most intimidating fighting aircraft ever. The shots where it raises parallel curtains of water in its wake was the coolest thing ever. The bird was very well designed, more than 40 years after the movie's release, it still looks as threatening as it did back then. 👍👏
Good memories of this typic Cold War period movies...this plane makes me remember the GI joe toy : black plane of Cobra : Raven from 1988, or 2008 rise of cobra model ( my favorite ) many thanks for sharing............... ; )
They added the MiG-31 as a buildable unit in Command and Conquer Generals: Shockwave Mod. One of my favorite units in the game. www.moddb.com/mods/cc-shockwave/images/phoenix-bomber-for-general-leang#imagebox
It's uncanny how the angular lines of the Firefox predicted what real stealth would look like. Even more when you consider the timeline. This came out in 1983, and the F-117 first flew in '83 but wasn't revealed to the public until '88. I wonder if the filmmakers tried to research stealth and found the original *Soviet* paper showing that angular facets reduce radar signature. I further wonder if there was any panic in the Pentagon about the film!
@@That_Stealth_Guy Would that have been for testing, before it became operational? It's wild how long it was flying before the public even knew it existed.
@@bridgecross That was for testing, tail #'s 780-785 being the test aircraft. First operational aircraft was delivered in 1982 tail # 786 AKA "War Pig" and being declared operational in Oct 1983. Fun Fact the last NIghthawk #843 was built in Jul 1990.
CInemasins has ruined all your whole generations brains. They planned for the refuel. They put the damn jet fuel on the sub explicitly for the purpose of fueling the MIG after Gant stole it. That's why the connections fit. Because they put the right hoses on the damn sub.
You Americans have one problem: you attribute to the Russians what they don't have and can't have, and then you yourself believe in their strength and force others to slow down.
Interesting that in 1982 the movie designers knew about "top secret" stealth techniques like putting the intakes on top of the wing where radar was unlikely to bounce off them.
I have got the movie DVD of Clint Eastwood and Freddie Jones in Firefox and I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
@@epi2045 Not sure if it could be believed, given how far behind the Russians have shown themselves recently. Maybe a flip with them stealing a F-5000 or whatever from a secret US installation! 😂😂
One little detail about this plane that’s pretty cool is, there are no rivets in its metal work. Soviet planes of the time were (and still are afaik) build with standard rivet work joining the skin to the airframe. But Firefox’s skin is smooth and sleek, no rivets.
I seem to recall the foxbat was actually welded together to be able to withstand the high heat of high speed interception. Had some rivets but that was underneath the welder exterior... the internet is welcome to correct me here if I'm off.
@@joshtiel2980 Doesnt work for the Firefox ... the SR-71 leaks fuel until it reaches "operating speed/temperature" ... and making it FIXED weld connections will introduce problems, because different materials expand at a different rate. You ALWAYS need to use different materials to "have the best material for a specific job".
A Mig 25 may have been able to haul in the Firefox and shoot it down with a missle. Those Migs were old but superfast high altitude interceptors armed with very dangerous air to air missiles. They were not fighter jets because they had terrible manoevrability but were developed by the Soviets specifically to intercept the SR 71 blackbird. They simply had no other role to play in the USSR's air force.
Mig 25 was a nuclear war interceptor. It's job was to intercept US fast bombers entering Soviet airspace. It had a long range radar and long range air to air missiles. With a top speed of 2000 mph it had overhaul capability against supersonic bombers.
@ingurlund9657 I love watching videos of those Mig 25s. They are freaking fast jets with an unbelievable climb rate. Very crudely made but unbelievably quick. 2000mph is hauling ass!
I saw this flick as a double feature with Rocky IIi with my father & grandpa back in the summer of 1982. Grandpa liked the Rocky movie. This one, not so much. I loved it. Dad loved Cold War movies.
The movie ending is the movie ending. In the novels, Firefox Down (second novel), the Russian pilot managed to score a hit on the fuel tank causing a leak. This refuelling by the US sub only got him to Finland and the epic story just gets bigger as the Russians capture Clint and take him back to Russia to Lubyanka KGB headquarters Lenningrad. Its actually better than the first novel and movie portion but for movie purposes its too long and grinding to include in one movie story line. Too much to unpack with Clint's Vietnam PTSD....lol. I believe there was discussions with Clint 30 years ago to make it, but it never was.
Listening here this kind of Dolby surround sound is emotioning, but I think that it must be more emotioning yet when they projected many years ago in the theater cinema's. 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️🎬🎬🎬🎬👍👍📽️📽️📽️📽️
That landing gear must be really tough and well-built... I know ice can be a very hard surface not unlike asphalt but still, there must be lots of holes and whatnot... But who cares ?? It's a fucking good movie 🙂🙂🙂
Landing large aircraft on ice is well established in the Arctic and Antarctica. Mind you, they are prepared strips, but still ice. For example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lake_Aerodrome
The Firefox design owes a lot to the YF-17 Blackbird, the Phantom and the Hornet.......Im not sure that particular design could do mach 6, but lets suspend that disbelief for a while longer!
More like the A-12 !! The SR-71 fighter version that carried Missiles. It's shorter in length, but uses a interceptor radar system. Only problem, missiles do Mach 2. Jet does Mach 3.22 !!?? OOPS! It would had protected the XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 Bomber.
I read that the MIG31 mockup had a VM motor connected to the main landing ger and that the nose gear was cobbled together from an F-4's nose gear. Would have been neat if it could have been preserved somehow...
im confused on the take off and landing clip they used a real model.. did they build a 1/5 size model or something of it because those clips were using a real model of it without any 3d editing.. 0:30 and 1:42 edit: Pulled straight from wiki "For filming, four large-scale replicas were created, along with one full-size model that had dimensions of 66 feet long, 44 feet wide, and 20 feet high. The full-size model was built from a radio station broadcast-antenna skeleton and was capable of taxiing at 30-40 mph." So they did have a smaller model i bet they had one that actually flew and was radio controlled and thats what those scenes were.
Good info , thanks. I think you can see the wires in 0:30 scene. I heard before that one model actually flew so your info is correct. Amazing how how they did all those things.
@@telzer hmm i went frame by frame at 0:30 using , and . and dont see any. Looks like its actually flying in wind too. If you heard that a model was flown then yea i think that was a radio controlled 1/5 model in those scenes! pretty cool
@@descentmvm sorry on 0:34 there's wires. hard to spot. i watched on blu-ray tv and you can just barely see them. i don't see them on youtube so clearly.
Clint is one of the best actors and best directors. His movies are almost always very entertaining. Unfortunately, the "MiG-31" is not believable and the effects are reminiscent of "Thunderbirds."
Is there anyone out there who knows enough about airplanes and aerodynamics and physics and all that shit that can support the possibility that a plane like this really flies? because the truth is a very cool plane and it would be great to see it be part of some real life air force
Rumor has it, its aerodynamics suck and its probably not flightworthy. But it does look very beautiful - my teenage years dream plane and all time favorite.
What happens when the system has been tapped into with the same code frekinsy and the computer and the pilot response with out the plane going down as a restart
Recuerdo que cuando ví esta película creía que el diseño y capacidades del avión eran muy futuristas y de ciencia ficción pero a la fecha de hoy, a 39 años de su estreno en la gran pantalla, se puede notar que se ha avanzado mucho y que esta ficción ya no se encuentra muy lejana.
You mean at 1:51? It looks like they can change their sweep angle, something like how the F-14 swings its wings when going supersonic. I have to admit that's actually quite neat. I had ideas along those lines as a fighter plane fanboy when imagining designing my own ultimate fighter plane.
My Dad and I went to see this when I was younger. Great memories and great movie! Love anything Clint is in.
same here
Watched it in Blackpool went to the circus held a a python and sat on a croc or gator I was about 10 lol kfc was a no go lol x
Before Tom Cruise we had Clint
Tom, who….?
No comparison...Clint is the Man!!
Did you really just say that?
And that’s all we ever needed!!!!
And WAY better for it!
Saw this flick on TV in the late 80s as a kid. To me, the Firefox was the most awesome, most intimidating fighting aircraft ever. The shots where it raises parallel curtains of water in its wake was the coolest thing ever.
The bird was very well designed, more than 40 years after the movie's release, it still looks as threatening as it did back then. 👍👏
Good memories of this typic Cold War period movies...this plane makes me remember the GI joe toy : black plane of Cobra : Raven from 1988, or 2008 rise of cobra model ( my favorite ) many thanks for sharing............... ; )
Resembles it, doesn't it? :) I still have that plane, somewhere around here.
I really like the practical effects of this movie. The SXF were not great back then, but man, those models and props! Great work.
One of the best movies with jets. I loved.
I know that aircraft is fictional but it's one of the best designs I've ever seen.. It looks fantastic 😁
It looks like 70's futurism
Look up BAC TSR2
They added the MiG-31 as a buildable unit in Command and Conquer Generals: Shockwave Mod. One of my favorite units in the game. www.moddb.com/mods/cc-shockwave/images/phoenix-bomber-for-general-leang#imagebox
@@digitalradiohacker If you want to see one in the metal they have the only one at Cosford Aircraft museum near to Telford England.
@@leahall I might check that out actually. I thought they'd torched all of the prototypes and had no idea that there was one on display.
Thanks!
It's uncanny how the angular lines of the Firefox predicted what real stealth would look like. Even more when you consider the timeline. This came out in 1983, and the F-117 first flew in '83 but wasn't revealed to the public until '88. I wonder if the filmmakers tried to research stealth and found the original *Soviet* paper showing that angular facets reduce radar signature. I further wonder if there was any panic in the Pentagon about the film!
Actually it came out in 1982. I remember seeing it in the theater that summer.
Lotta stuff came out weird. The helicopter in Red Dawn was what the original Hinds looked like.
First flight of F-117A was in 1981, by tail #780 which is on static display on Nellis AFB.
@@That_Stealth_Guy Would that have been for testing, before it became operational? It's wild how long it was flying before the public even knew it existed.
@@bridgecross That was for testing, tail #'s 780-785 being the test aircraft. First operational aircraft was delivered in 1982 tail # 786 AKA "War Pig" and being declared operational in Oct 1983.
Fun Fact the last NIghthawk #843 was built in Jul 1990.
By far one of my favorite movies ..... Clint is a legend
Must have seen this movie a hundred times, never noticed the delta wings swept back.
I'm glad the sub had the right connections to refuel a top secret jet from a foreign country.
Good point:-)))
The Wonders of Hollywood 😂
CInemasins has ruined all your whole generations brains. They planned for the refuel. They put the damn jet fuel on the sub explicitly for the purpose of fueling the MIG after Gant stole it. That's why the connections fit. Because they put the right hoses on the damn sub.
Sailors who knew where to meet the stolen aircraft from another superpower were able to improvise.
Bought them from Japan
Omg such a masterpiece of a film of the decade.
It's about time they made a Firefox 2!
Awesome movie. One of my favorites.
как название фильма?
You Americans have one problem: you attribute to the Russians what they don't have and can't have, and then you yourself believe in their strength and force others to slow down.
@@foreigner777 FIREFOX 😊 ! BERNIE GERMANY BOLLYWOOD LOVER AUS NBG
First! Love it btw. Now you just need to score the whole movie
Thanks. That would be interesting. Too bad the movie itself is so divided into two parts. First part is so slow and second part is the better one.
Nice roundrel
@@telzer Could be the intro sequence for the sequel ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Down
Great montage and music! 👍👏
Years a head of its time this movie.Stealth,look and fire helmet,smart missile fire and forget. Thanks for sharing👍
It was actually "Think & fire"
Brilliant film!!!
My all time favorite movie Jet Fighter of all
Captain: "Remember we're friendly. Wave, Stewart!"
Stewart: "'Wave?'"
This film made me enlist in the Air Force. Jets give a certain type a Hard On.
They should film the sequel “Firefox Down” with Scott Eastwood.
The downside of making this Firefox down sequel is that the plane itself would be submerged underwater for the film's entirety. 🤷♂️
@@willywonka4340 It really lived up (or down) to the title in that respect.
Interesting that in 1982 the movie designers knew about "top secret" stealth techniques like putting the intakes on top of the wing where radar was unlikely to bounce off them.
I have got the movie DVD of Clint Eastwood and Freddie Jones in Firefox and I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
Spettacolare ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
One of mi favorites movies from the 80's.
Would love to see a sequel to FireFox!!!!!!
There was a second book written called "Firefox down' .. same guy who wrote the first. It's pretty good, too bad it was never made as a sequel.
Yeah. Russians steal SR71 Blackbird 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@JustAboutTime Considering how there’s so many remakes and sequels… that would be so sweet if they did Firefox Down.
@@epi2045 Not sure if it could be believed, given how far behind the Russians have shown themselves recently. Maybe a flip with them stealing a F-5000 or whatever from a secret US installation! 😂😂
One little detail about this plane that’s pretty cool is, there are no rivets in its metal work. Soviet planes of the time were (and still are afaik) build with standard rivet work joining the skin to the airframe. But Firefox’s skin is smooth and sleek, no rivets.
I seem to recall the foxbat was actually welded together to be able to withstand the high heat of high speed interception. Had some rivets but that was underneath the welder exterior... the internet is welcome to correct me here if I'm off.
@@joshtiel2980 Doesnt work for the Firefox ... the SR-71 leaks fuel until it reaches "operating speed/temperature" ... and making it FIXED weld connections will introduce problems, because different materials expand at a different rate. You ALWAYS need to use different materials to "have the best material for a specific job".
Looks so much like the Blackbird
Wish they could remake this movie.
When i have a problem with my Firefox browser i always say to myself...i have to think in Russian😂🤗
FrieFox 1982 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👏👏👏🎬🎬🎬🎬📽📽📽📽
Looked badass back then, looks badass now.
Only Clint could act the Russian. The Enigma of Russia never fails to die out.
Take that bad boy back up to Mach speeds! Love that take off like your leaving the World behind.
First movie role of Clint Eastwood was bombing _Tarantula_ with Napalm as a jet pilot - looks like he never forgot how it's done 😄.
Fantastic ice landing...
A Mig 25 may have been able to haul in the Firefox and shoot it down with a missle. Those Migs were old but superfast high altitude interceptors armed with very dangerous air to air missiles.
They were not fighter jets because they had terrible manoevrability but were developed by the Soviets specifically to intercept the SR 71 blackbird. They simply had no other role to play in the USSR's air force.
Mig 25 was a nuclear war interceptor. It's job was to intercept US fast bombers entering Soviet airspace. It had a long range radar and long range air to air missiles. With a top speed of 2000 mph it had overhaul capability against supersonic bombers.
@ingurlund9657 I love watching videos of those Mig 25s. They are freaking fast jets with an unbelievable climb rate. Very crudely made but unbelievably quick. 2000mph is hauling ass!
those reversible front canards are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw this flick as a double feature with Rocky IIi with my father & grandpa back in the summer of 1982. Grandpa liked the Rocky movie. This one, not so much. I loved it. Dad loved Cold War movies.
The movie ending is the movie ending. In the novels, Firefox Down (second novel), the Russian pilot managed to score a hit on the fuel tank causing a leak. This refuelling by the US sub only got him to Finland and the epic story just gets bigger as the Russians capture Clint and take him back to Russia to Lubyanka KGB headquarters Lenningrad. Its actually better than the first novel and movie portion but for movie purposes its too long and grinding to include in one movie story line. Too much to unpack with Clint's Vietnam PTSD....lol. I believe there was discussions with Clint 30 years ago to make it, but it never was.
Spirit of the West Top Gun 🔥
The landing and takeoff both look like they're straight out of Thunderbirds!
Awesome movie!
Super film j'ai bien aimé
Redo the special effects for this amazing movie.
When a reboot ?? it is the moment i think.
Loved the book. Loved the movie.
If only the Orcs could actually build a plane this good
Listening here this kind of Dolby surround sound is emotioning, but I think that it must be more emotioning yet when they projected many years ago in the theater cinema's. 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️🎬🎬🎬🎬👍👍📽️📽️📽️📽️
The Original Audio & Sound effects were Better! 🕯
Wasn't John Ratzenberger in this in a small role ,say the sub crew ?
Good work!
Thanks!
The plane is scary looking.😮
This was like the plane version of Airwolf.
This movie deserved better visual effects!!
Wheres the free movie of this.... its one of the best
Now in museum jaja
That landing gear must be really tough and well-built...
I know ice can be a very hard surface not unlike asphalt but still, there must be lots of holes and whatnot...
But who cares ?? It's a fucking good movie 🙂🙂🙂
Landing large aircraft on ice is well established in the Arctic and Antarctica. Mind you, they are prepared strips, but still ice. For example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lake_Aerodrome
@keith6706 Thank you 👍👍
The Firefox design owes a lot to the YF-17 Blackbird, the Phantom and the Hornet.......Im not sure that particular design could do mach 6, but lets suspend that disbelief for a while longer!
More like the A-12 !! The SR-71 fighter version that carried Missiles. It's shorter in length, but uses a interceptor radar system. Only problem, missiles do Mach 2. Jet does Mach 3.22 !!?? OOPS! It would had protected the XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 Bomber.
Did anyone ever notice that blackened object in the background at the time marker 0;23, looks like a cruise ship painted black.
Now D.A.Y.R.L. steals the SR-71 while Clint steals the fictional Russian equivalent Mig- 31. Got to love the 80's Action Films
yo la en el cine con mama q era fan de CLINT EASTWOOD ❤❤❤
Great movie.
How did they know the fuel connectors would fit together?
Special effects go from thunderbirds to battle star galactica
this movie will make the worlds second best browser in history.
Tell me movie name
@@warriorguddu8448 firefox
New sound edit? Bit of a racket to be honest. Thank God for the original sound track, perfectly matched the visual story
I read that the MIG31 mockup had a VM motor connected to the main landing ger and that the nose gear was cobbled together from an F-4's nose gear. Would have been neat if it could have been preserved somehow...
my god. how those effects look terrible nowadays eh? but agreed. great movie back in the day
I loved the books
Excellent
What a beauty
I Would Like to See This in CGI.
Ich mag das video danke kameraden
I wonder! Where was Maverick when this Movie Came Out? I Think Clint Eastwood would had Kick his Ass! LOL
"FireFox, l'Arme absolue"..............................................OK, Let's Go Home !!!!!
Excelente filme !! Muito bem produzido , show !!!
"Ok lets go home" plane automatically enters Russia coordinates into computer
Super.
reminds me of fireball XL 5
nice paper models
im confused on the take off and landing clip they used a real model.. did they build a 1/5 size model or something of it because those clips were using a real model of it without any 3d editing.. 0:30 and 1:42
edit: Pulled straight from wiki "For filming, four large-scale replicas were created, along with one full-size model that had dimensions of 66 feet long, 44 feet wide, and 20 feet high. The full-size model was built from a radio station broadcast-antenna skeleton and was capable of taxiing at 30-40 mph." So they did have a smaller model i bet they had one that actually flew and was radio controlled and thats what those scenes were.
Good info , thanks. I think you can see the wires in 0:30 scene. I heard before that one model actually flew so your info is correct. Amazing how how they did all those things.
@@telzer hmm i went frame by frame at 0:30 using , and . and dont see any. Looks like its actually flying in wind too. If you heard that a model was flown then yea i think that was a radio controlled 1/5 model in those scenes! pretty cool
@@descentmvm sorry on 0:34 there's wires. hard to spot. i watched on blu-ray tv and you can just barely see them. i don't see them on youtube so clearly.
....Very old technology,,but we have in Transylvania - new cosmic one..
Jai bhawani 🥰
Top! Parece os Night Heaven dos Cobras de GI JOE!
among Clint's best work, ranks right up there with the Gauntlet, Paint Your Wagon and Bronco Billy......
Enjoyed playing the video disk game .. wish I could play it now..
Uma das melhores atuações de clin Eastwood, esse filme é muito bom, melhor que top gun
Clint is one of the best actors and best directors. His movies are almost always very entertaining. Unfortunately, the "MiG-31" is not believable and the effects are reminiscent of "Thunderbirds."
And now we know that it was America that had all the cool stuff. Russia makes only vodka and potato
True. Back in the day Mig-25 was on a different level than SR-71.
Russia has lots of cool stuff. The real MiG-31 is an awesome aircraft. 😊
Is there anyone out there who knows enough about airplanes and aerodynamics and physics and all that shit that can support the possibility that a plane like this really flies? because the truth is a very cool plane and it would be great to see it be part of some real life air force
Rumor has it, its aerodynamics suck and its probably not flightworthy. But it does look very beautiful - my teenage years dream plane and all time favorite.
@@NBDY-lp9vp ah really? wow, i dont knew that you say, interesting, but as you say is a very cool airplane ;)
It never went into full production, but look up the BAC TSR2
What happens when the system has been tapped into with the same code frekinsy and the computer and the pilot response with out the plane going down as a restart
大学生だった頃、映画館で見たよ。
Nice work. I would've appreciated for the replacement of Maurice Jaurre's horrible score, alone.
Reminds me a little of an F-35
Recuerdo que cuando ví esta película creía que el diseño y capacidades del avión eran muy futuristas y de ciencia ficción pero a la fecha de hoy, a 39 años de su estreno en la gran pantalla, se puede notar que se ha avanzado mucho y que esta ficción ya no se encuentra muy lejana.
This sounds like a Dark Wave band
Reminda ne this when Iwatchthis o. Bigscreen
Firefox was a beautifully designed aircraft forward kenards operated strangely though
You mean at 1:51? It looks like they can change their sweep angle, something like how the F-14 swings its wings when going supersonic. I have to admit that's actually quite neat. I had ideas along those lines as a fighter plane fanboy when imagining designing my own ultimate fighter plane.