Iranian F-5s Facing MiGs and SAMs (And Who Was The Most Successful F-5 Pilot Of The War)
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2022
- As Iraq launched the invasion of Iran in September 1980, Iranian F-5 pilots found themselves flying risky airstrikes into Iraqi airspace. Counter-air missions were given high priority and in this video, we will focus on two missions against Iraqi airbases at Kirkuk and Mosul, flown by two groups of four F-5Es each from the 2nd Tactical Fighter Base. On these missions, Iranian pilots faced MiGs and SAMs and Capt Yadollah Sharifi-Ra’ad (also spelled Sharifirad) would get a chance to prove why he would eventually become the most successful F-5 pilot of the Iran-Iraq War.
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Yet another excellent episode. The patriotism of the IRIAF officers is exemplary. They have been treated rather harshly by the government, but in the event of war, they are willing to once again risk their lives to defend their homeland. They may not like their government, but they are fighting for the nation and people of Iran, not for the regime.
Keep up the good work, please give us more!
Stories of Iranian pilots are probably the thing that fascinates me the most about this war! More is certainly coming up!
@@showtime112 Agreed. For me personally, I used to believe that the IRIAF had been almost totally crippled (particularly the Phantom and Tomcat squadrons) after the Shah was deposed due to lack of technical knowledge and spares, and also due to the political purges. It wasn't until 2016 or so, when I get to read some excellent books about the IRIAF, that I realized how much more powerful they had been; which is a testament of the dedication, skills and patriotism of every pilot and mechanic of the IRIAF.
@@i.setyawan This was a common understanding in the West, right until about 2000. I think.
@@showtime112 True... but remember, almost all the Iranian pilots were western trained, and that led to much of the distrust of them by their own government. Their excellent and unexpected performance was no surprise to those of us who helped train them know how dedicated and resilient they were.
One paroled Iranian pilot remarked on the irony of killing the same men who indirectly saved his like by expediting his parole
Two very interesting "Duel" in the Iran-Iraq war are the Mi-24 Vs AH-1J and the F-14 Vs Mirage F-1😀😀
True! I hope that Mirage is released soon, I got some interesting stories to cover with it 😁
a cobra killed an Mi-24 with a TOW missile !!!
@@cartersmith8560 Is possible, the Mi-24 was big and the Cobra was very agile.
Another great video. Is there a flyable Mirage F1 in DCS yet? I know in the last years of the war the Iraqis got F1EQ Mirages from France and they went up against Iranian F-14s. Tomcat was largely superior but the Mirages got some F-14 kills of their own.
Not yet, but very close. Aerges is making a Mirage F1 CE, BE, EE, and M
Thanks for your support! Currently, we have a Mirage F1 mod but pretty soon, we should have a high-fidelity module as well. When it comes out, I'm definitely doing some of those Tomcat kills.
Looking forward to that one!
@@showtime112 the F-5...."the little fighter that COULD and DID"....punched way above its weight.
The IRIAF attack on the H-3 complex in western Iraq in April 1981 deserved a complete video.....23 aircraft and four helicopters destroyed and many more damaged, was a flight of six F-4E and two F-4D, the refuelling was two 707 over the desert in Deir E Zor.....syrians "See Nothing"😁😁 and even a french adviser die in the attack.
Oh, that story is getting my attention when we get the Phantom in DCS. We have recently gotten the H-3 complex!
There are report several soviet and east german technician were killed in the air raid.
After the attack while flying back to iran they come upon long column of iraqi support unit heading toward iran.iranian f4 used there 20mm cannon to strafe the target.
After the attack.saddam was enrage has several iraqi af personal executed.
Very interesting adventure on this famous war. We're waiting more stories about this period because it takes place a lot of aerial events.
Thanks for the comment! Lot of stories in the Iran-Iraq War for sue! And especially when we get the Phantom!
@@showtime112 Sure, it will be very interesting, because the conflict takes place during 8 years. It's very long so a lot of things had happened.
It stays the falklands war in 1982, but there are not the right planes for the moment on DCS. So, we have to wait.
But, with the Phantom we have the Yom Kippour war in 1973, you could do something very interesting for the future.
Thank you for your message, see you soon, you have to keep going, it will be more and more interesting with the new planes development in DCS.
This was an amazing video!
Thanks for the hard work!
I've forwarded it to all of my Facebook Followers!
Thank you very much for your supportive comment! I'm glad you liked the video.
Another brilliant video. These skirmishes among these lesser known conflicts are very interesting. Thanks for making these.
Thank you for commenting! More to come.
Another very well done video Showtime112 and apart from a few minor quibbles, I think you very nicely depicted the action of that day. Please keep up the great work.
Thank you for your support, new content coming up soon!
Thanks for great video, I love Showtime 112 !!!
Thank you for your support, glad you like the content!
The editing on your videos is awesome. Just as awesome and the content, thanks for sharing.
Thank you! It's nice to hear people think you are doing something right.
What a good idea those tv-cam effects !!! keep up the good work, always like to watch your reanacments movies!
I always try to find ways to make the videos look fresh and different. Thanks for the support!
Nice job! Great as always.
Thanks for the comment!
Great video and history as always. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, working on new stuff all the time!
Great video. Have just downloaded the F5, with Iranian Livery. Taking of in Tehran with the Updated main International Airport.
Thanks! Yes, it's a really nice little fighter and quite pleasant to fly.
The design lead on the F-5 program was Edgar Schmued, who had previously worked for North American where he had designed the P-51 Mustang, the F-82 Twin Mustang, the F-86 Sabre, and the F-100 Super Sabre. He also worked on the B-25. It looks like he may have known what he was doing.
I was wondering why there was no music in the intro?
I like how you setup the scene with intro music in your videos, anyway liked your video. Good work.
Finding the right music is a bit hard. It needs to be royalty free. Also, I sometimes experiment to see if videos without a long intro are more successful. So far, it seems they are not 😁
Jedan od boljih videa u zadnje vrijeme!
I ja sam zadovoljn kako je ispao!
Beautiful video thank you ❤
I never had much use for any theocracy, but I always loved the F-5 and especially Iran's twin tailed variant. You don't know where I could find a complete set of inexpensive plans to make a model from do you?
In my opinion....the F-5 is still the sexiest plane ever made.....
👌❤
Great footage! Long live the brave Iranian soldiers who defended our motherland during the savage Iraqi invasion of Iran.
Now, in 2023 not only is Saddam long (dishonorably) dead ... but Iraq, as a country, is long gone as we knew it.
I, for one, will "Never forgive and Never forget!"
Thanks for the comment!
Informative video
I like it 👌
I'm glad to hear it!
Brilliant video. Thanks
I'm happy to hear it, thank you!
Good job by you again and as Iranian I remember those days they were like yesterday great video
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the reenactment! I feel not enough is known about this conflict and I intend to cover it some more in the future.
EXCELLENT video. I wonder how many hours did you spend by creating this 12 min. episode ? Keep on working and Thanks ¡¡¡¡¡
Thanks for the comment. A video will take between three and five days of full-time commitment. It depends on how complicated the research is and how well DCS cooperates (or more precisely, the AI and the replay track)
Great Video!!!!!.....
Glad you liked it!
Great video. I was thinking of making some missions and possibly a campaign revolving an f-5 pilot in this war. Would need to do some research first. Do you have a good source regarding the air war?
Thanks! I remember like it was yesterday when you commented on my early attempts 😁 As for the sources on Iran-Iraq War, the one that has the most details about The F-5 is Babak Taghvaee's 'Iranian Tigers at War'. It's published by Helion and Company. Plenty of stories about attacks on airbases, oil refineries, dams, advancing Iraqi troops..... and some air combat with Iraqi MiGs.
Great naration well done
Thank you very much for your positive feedback!
Great video and presentation of this aerial victories.🎩♠🎯🏁🌼🌸💙💛🌻🇺🇸🍀
I appreciate your positive feedback!
@@showtime112 Yw
Sharifi rad now living in Toronto Canada
Great contenf again, But can you also make some content on The falkland wars or the cold war.
Thanks! Falklands are waiting the release of the South Atlantic Map for DCS. It should also contain lots of assets used in that war so it wouldn't make sense to do it now. Razbam is giving an interview for the Air Combat Sim Podcast soon. I hope we get some info on possible release date.
the simple FR-5 proved itself roughly a match for the Mi 21 in this war and the Ethiopia somalia war
awesome
Thanks for the feedback!
Great action for F-5
Thanks!
great, Weldon
Thanks!
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Thanks for your continuous support!
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I know a good product cuz I keep watching!!
Two hours since upload and I watched it.
Thanks for watching!
@@showtime112 Are you from Croatia? I am Greek.
Thank you for your fabeoulus videos and accurate information. Can you do a video on H3 attack by IRANIAN AIR FORCE? ❤🤍💚
Thank you for appreciating the content! The H3 attack will be covered relatively soon as the F-4E module for DCS should be released in the near future.
Classic video.
Thanks!
Would love to see some Rhodesian bush war ones or Zimbabwe A.F. in the DR Congo.
It might be possible someday. Thanks for the suggestion!
Man, are those sirens loud or what?!? 😁🤭
Cheers! 🍻🙋🏼♂️
I actually had to reduce their volume by a lot :)
@@showtime112 I know that world objects' sound volume in DCS tend to be louder than other components... I mean, this is how it's supposed to be IRL, but sounds like this makes everyone in my house turn their heads and question WTH am I watching. 😁🤭🍻🙋🏼♂️
@@PappaBear_yt Sorry if I caused any 'alarm' in your house 😁😁
@@showtime112 Nice, I see what you did there! 😎😁👍🏻
its the configuration of the bombing IRIAF F-5E correct that they had 1 centerline droptank, 2 aim-9 on the wingtips and bombs on the inner pylons? becoyse i was seeing on the hellenic airforce the practice of using the F-5A with 2 wingtip droptanks when in bombing missions in order to have more of fuel. on cap missions they use 2 aim-9 on the wingtips and 1 centerline droptank.
I sometimes wonder if Arab and Iranian pilots could have achieved more than they have, if they did not live under governments that were suspicious of their national heroes.
Well, it certainly didn't help. Regimes like that are usually extremely paranoid.
A lot of iranian pilot were being torture by the mullah when the war began.the mullah force to release the pilot this time fight for the ayatollah
F-5 and the Sea Vixen are the two best looking jets ever built.
The F-5 sure was an elegant little thing!
good fly
Thanks!
Great video as always 👍
A suggestion for you my friend :
Both iran and Iraq did some great areal operations against each other
For EX: iran did the operation with f4 phantoms named attack on H3. which there were three airbases located in the most western part of Iraq (it was complete success)
Or
The Iraqis did a operation with mirage f1s and bombed the NEKA power plant located in the Northern part of iran(it was complete success)
Thank you for the comment and suggestion! The Iranian attack on H3 is on my to do list. Resent expansion of the Syria map includes the H3 airbase complex. Now, we are waiting for Heatblur to release the Phantom module. They said it would be this year.
Mirage F1 module for DCS should also be released this year and I'm going to give it a lot of attention!
@@showtime112 thank you
Your the best❤
I am so thankful , for using correct skins for F-5 , many thanks and so beautiful video
They are available so it would be a waste not to use them. Thank you for watching and commenting!
How can player, at 3:12 drop MK-82 with no depressed sight set? Set to -85 (down), begin sttack from 5000 feet target 5000 feet from target, place aircraft into 30 deg dive at 400 KIAS. Release at 1800 feet slant distance, break to the side to avoid blast. Its an old fashioned manual bombing technique from WWII , Korea, and Vietnam, but thats what F-5E suppourts.
These videos don't try to be 100 percent accurate in terms of procedures. It would take way too long to learn everything, video output would be rare and they wouldn't reach any audience because YT algorithm isn't kind to those that upload rarely.
Dude should write a book
He actually did. It's called 'Flight of the Patriot'
@@showtime112 awesome.. thank you. Love these re-enactments by the way.
@@guaporeturns9472 So glad to hear it!
Mr sharifi may see this video😘😍
He might. But he would probably find too many details not accurate 😁
Targets were not , as shown on the video, Alouette but Gazelle helicopters.
They are Gazelles because there's no Allouette in DCS.
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@@showtime112 hvala ti puno
Iran air force ❤️🇮🇷
Those low level bombing runs seems risky. Especially against modern AAA.
This was the only way unless you head SEAD aircraft, jammers etc. Medium level bombing really became effective in Desert Storm but the Coalition had many more assets enabling it (unlike Iran).
They hang most of the high rank from the shah regime . Barely any of them left . All the high ranks were gone by the revolutionary elite
Why bomb perpendicular to the runway? Although that said they seemed to bomb accurately
One group attacked from the north and the other from the south in a quick succession. Confusing the air defense was probably the most important thing there and attacking along the runway from both sides risked a collision. I'm not absolutely sure but that's what it seems to me.
@@showtime112 yeah I considered that after I typed. You are likely right.
Is this the flight simulator?
No, DCS World.
Mr sharifi was Most succiful r5pilot
Since when do migs carry aim 9s ?
If I remember correctly, Iraqi MiG-21s actually carried some AIM-9s purchased from Jordan. They also carried French Magics. Pakistani MiG-19s (Chinese J-6 copy) also carried AIM-9s in the 1971 War. But most importantly, Soviet R-3S (AA-2 Atoll) is a direct copy of early AIM-9. It was so direct that some sources say spares were interchangeable between the two. To sum up, those missiles in the video are not AIM-9s but R-3S. They just look the same.
@@showtime112 huh I was aware that we had given some to Jordan and Pakistan what with our some what stable relationship but I didn’t know they then sold some to Iraq nor that Iraq also had French magic missles and and ahhhh so true I forgot and the r-3 copy is it Russian in origin ?
Kada će biti nešto vezano za SRJ
Nisam siguran, kad mi dođe inspiracija. Idući svakako ne a iza toga, tko zna?
Hey, my first time here, im old-school guy. Please don't make a fun of me and tell me are those games? Or you just create these clips like animations or cartoons?!
Please let me know if i can find this realistic game to play and create my own clips ! Appreciate it
Hello! My videos are created with flight simulations, primarily DCS World. You can download and play the basic package for free here: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/
You can install Open Beta version since it gets the updated early. In the free package, you get two airplanes and two maps, others need to be bought. There's a two week free trial for all the modules and if you want' to buy any of them, wait for sales (there's one now). Then, you need to learn how to fly a certain airplane and crate missions by the game's mission editor. (find tutorials on YT) Then, you use replay track to capture video (replay tracks in DCS are a bit broken and don't always work so don't be surprised)
@@showtime112 thanks for your help.
Long Live the King, and Long Live Patriots of IRAF who remained loyal to their country during the Iran-Iraq, war eventhough the new regime had executed hundreds of them for having sympathy with the The deposed King, Shah.
There ars report 800 plus iranian af personal were executed by the mullah.
@@richardque4952 💚🤴🦁🤍♥✌
Did you bomb the runway intentionally? There was nothing there but you could've targeted buildings all around.
These bombs looked like standard 750 lb. bombs rather than anti-runway bombs so that's why I'm asking.
Hitting the buildings might not have been very useful. Hitting runways will at least put the airbase out of action for a while and deny its use in a critical moment.
And just think, those fighters were a gift from the United States...
I didn't know they were a gift
@@showtime112
The F-2Ø was originally intended for export to our various allies, which Iran was until the so-calke revolution; Because we weren't flying them ourselves nobody would buy them, but we gave a few dozen or so to some of our poorest allies. When the coup, uh, I mean revolution came along the Satanic Church Of Iran took control of them.
I remember that in the mid 1980's, Bangladesh trained a lot of Iraqi fighter pilots.
Could be. There were some Indian pilots too.
As an Iraqi i can see that you are biased to Iran as my father told le a stories about the war there was too mnay dogfights between iraq and iran and both sides won some and lost some of these fights
You see what you want to see. There are videos on this channel about Iraqi victories too. Topics are dictated by availability of info (not the best for the Iraqi side) and assets in simulators such as DCS World (F-5 and F-14).
زنده باد ايران
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Interesting! But most importantly, it helps with the YT algorithm :)
Daj nesto iz 1999 iznad srbije tokom nato bombardovanja
Nekoliko vida je snimljeno. Bit će ih još ali ne mogu točno reći kada.
@@showtime112 na kanalu sada nema tih videa,koliko sam video
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@@showtime112 e hvala puno
I have watched your videos regarding this era , and its clear that you are biased to the Iranian air force.
I have read one single comment of yours and it's clear you are a product of a totalitarian regime. My nation is the best, my enemies are the worst and anybody who doesn't agree with me 100% is a liar.
Iraq is poor country.
I never had much use for any theocracy, but I always loved the F-5 and especially Iran's twin tailed variant. You don't know where I could find a complete set of inexpensive plans to make a model from do you?
Thanks for commenting! I agree on the F-5, and I'd say it's not as popular as it should be. As for your question, I'm afraid I can't help you with that.
@@showtime112 The Saeqeh is a sleek looking fighter and I always thought that Vietnam should buy (or preferably steal the plans and tooling for that one and possibly reengine it. They already have experience with F-5s an an indigenously built clone might help them keep China honest LOL