This third episode of the OVA came out in 1986. The same year as Top Gun. And just look at how awesome the animation is. Not to mention the battle scenes with the planes is so well done. Everything was handled with such care and such effort. You don't see that much stuff like this nowadays. And who could forget this stellar soundtrack?
I wonder if Top Gun had a scenario as the Area 88? Just picture an alternate story where Maverick who was a civil pilot gets betrayed by his best friend from Japan Kanzaki, so he is enforced to serve a s fighter pilot in a Foreign legion of Arsan Royal Air Force for three years! There he meets his new buddies- Goose, Iceman , Slider, Hollywood , Cougar and Merlin! I think this anti-war drama adaptation of Top Gun would get twice more Oscars for sure.
@@P42_foamer same here to an extent, but don't be too naive. Real combat is nothing like how it's portrayed in entertainment media, but I do encourage you to follow your dream
"No wonder my ass itches. I've got a bunch of Harrier AV-8As all over it!" Ever since I first heard that line, I've been using it whenever I encounter Harriers in Ace Combat
Besides the small inaccuracies here and there and the 80's overall cheesiness, you can really tell this anime was made by a military aviation lover . Gotta respect even the different sound that the rotary M-61 cannon of Nguen's (South Vietnamese guy, if I remember correctly) F-105 Thunderchief does when he is firing. Even high budget Hollywood movies fail to replicate that distinct buzzing sound (I am looking at you TopGun: Maverick).
I did a little research for f5 tigers and it has m39 cannon rather than a m134 minigun (showed in top gun 1986.) M39 also does a brrrrt rather than shooting 20 rounds per second. That auto cannon must be vibrating like hell
@@DoomDwaneCat Well, no one implied that the F-5 (or the F-20 that Shin Kazama flies) is equipped with a minigun (!) as you say. The minigun is mostly a helicopter gun in 7.62x51mm and no fast jet has this particular weapon as it's armament internally or externally. Too small of a caliber to be useful in modern aerial combat. You must be talking about the M61 Vulcan in 20x102mm that equips the F-105, F-4E, F-14, F/A-18 etc. The M39 surprisingly even though a revolver (also chambered in 20x102mm), does make a buzz when fired, thought a bit different than a Gatling rotary cannon like the M61. I always thought that the buzzing sound was produced by the motor that rotates the barrels when firing, but I was wrong. Also the difference in this sound is because of the different rate of fire every gun has AFAIK. Anyway, both TopGun movies kinda failed in reproducing it realistically. If you want to compare the M39 and M61 firing sound, search for Swiss Air Force F-5E and F/A-18 AXALP live firing videos, there are quite a few in RUclips. Thanks for the comment, cheers.
@@TheOfficial007 The F-104 camo is based on the paint scheme used by planes during "Tiger Meet" exercises. Tho AC does have a scheme based on Shin's plane in Zero and I'm pretty sure Infinity had a crossover event with Area 88 planes.
I have a feeling they may be some sort of Soviet Missiles, though I could still kind of see the rebels using AIM-9s. Still, from their profile, they look more like AIM-9Bs or Es
@@dariusti974 Good point. However, I'm not sure Harriers could mount Air Force missiles such as the J or P, either. They were designed to carry Navy missiles, such as the D, G, and H
@@irongeneral7861 In case of the anime, it's not a stupid rule, it was common practice at the time to ripple fire missiles to increase kill probability, especially since they're using older planes with very likely questionably sourced ordnance.
@@MEGATRYANT Hell, at one point in the manga, the base's dealer, McCoy, sold Mickey a bunch of faulty Sidewinders that exploded _before_ they even got to their targets.
The reason why the F-20 is in there is because at the time its production was not so uncertain as we see it. Also, it was one of the most maneuverable fighters that was in existence at the time, much better than the f-16 or 15.
It's revealed later in the manga that the people supporting the Asran Rebels are a group called Project 4, which have their hands in political and industrial circles.
On a fansite, I saw a scene from the manga, and it was Roundell who led them all the way flying a Blackburn Buccaneer. The rebels never did use harriers, but they used Mig-23BN Floggers on the scene. Nguyen never was around to participate in this mission before his arrival in the manga.
Surprisingly enough, those Dassault Mirages are actually IAI Kfirs. Kfirs are a heavily augmented Dassault Mirage 5, with a J79 engine (License-built) and canard foreplanes. It also has dog-toothed leading edges. Due to their canards, they have a habit of losing a lot of speed during hard turns.
I was introduced to this series through the Viz Comics adaptation. I saw the three OVAs a few years later. At the time, there was no one producing “realistic” aviation anime.
Well, I had been writing a live action film script for the past few years for Area 88 with this scene intended as the final aerial combat scene....but now thanks to Top Gun: Maverick, anything that is done in any similar fashion will just be considered a copy of it. :(
From what I know, it was the USMC who first discovered VIFFing in 1983, which is where they practiced it. The British might've used it, but I'm pretty sure they scored most of their kills with AIM-9Ls, which were supplied to them by the US right before being deployed.
@FighterGuDude3214 The plane they call first an F-5 its his previous plane, an F-5E decorated just the same livery wich is shot down in OAV2 , there is definitily an F-15 in the manga (its from the commander)
@coolleect Also faster then the F-16, those are the two of the reasons General Dynamics pressured the US goverment to stop funding it as their aircraft was available. The otherone was it was half the price and could do all or more then the F-16.
Well, there are some other differences: The F-20 was mach-2 capable, and was able to use BVR weapons (such as the AIM-7 Sparrow). It also was one of the first planes (other than the F-15 and F-16) to use HOTAS controls.
Ik I'm crazy late, but in the re-release of Area 88 Shin does fly an F-5 so many people probably get confused despite obvious art style, animation, and music differences
Love this anime so much! My first non-mecha anime. I just wish the dub would get a better editor, the fist line in this clip, "we leave tonight at oh-900 (0900)." Oh-900 (or 0900 hours) would be 9 AM, in the morning. 9 PM would be 2100 hours.
I didn't mind it but the way they would have most planes exploding rather than just trailing and smoking down used to annoy me as not every jet always explodes before it hits the ground.
@1bearcatf8f Yeah in my opinion they should have replaced the F-20 with the F-5E Tiger II. Or heck, Shin flew the Saab 35 Draken in the Manga, so why not that one.
Viffing, the move demonstrated here, in the first episode of James May's Big Ideas, was put to devastating use in the Falklands War fought between Argentina and the UK in the Austral winter of 1982. Using this technique, Harrier pilots chased by Argentine Mirages could slow their jets very rapidly in flight and get behind their attackers in an instant, a decidedly handy maneuver in air-to-air combat. Handy it was for the British: no Harriers were lost in dogfighting during the war. jalopnik.com/the-eeriness-of-viffing-a-harrier-5715656
He scraped up against the wall of the canyon. Likely neglected to take into account the height of the tailfin, which snagged, forcing the nose of the aircraft into the canyon wall
@@ryanlak1234 Probably debris from the previously exploded planes got into its air intake destroying the engine and set the plane on fire. In 4:14 you can see some sparks coming out of the exhaust.
somehow they have the budget to get that many aircraft with aim-9s and a lot of pilots. Just lay off like half of them or smth. The series is cool but seems to have plot gaps
@@breezygamer1179 Simple: The Aslanian Air Force bought a shit-ton of surplus US military aircraft. The Manga goes into better detail, with them originally only having F-5As, A-4Es and Fs, early F-4s (Cs and Ds), F-100s, and F-8s. Later on, the majority of the aircraft are destroyed, and Saki is forced to rent out 10x Kfir C.2s. Later on, McCoy starts buying back new aircraft (it isn't shown in the OVAs, but McCoy usually blackmails other militaries or suppliers to get newer aircraft in). I just assume Area 88 takes place in an Alternate universe where, after Vietnam, most older aircraft used by the US military get sold for cheap, possibly scrap. McCoy is then able to buy it all via changing serial numbers, or buying said scrap airframes. In the Manga, Shin used a Draken at one point. In order to get it for Shin, McCoy had to buy two scrap J 35OE as and fuse them together. He then has to get the engine from another country, and has to go to yet ANOTHER country just for the afterburner. Mickey's Tomcat was originally intended for Iran, but wasn't able to get there in time before the revolution. The F-14 was mostly just sitting in a shipping container in Italy for awhile. Eventually, McCoy was able to change the serial number for it, so it had the number of a scrapped a. Then, he was able to buy the F-14 for as cheap as scrap. In order to get Greg's A-10, McCoy had to bribe some NATO members (guess NATO itself operated A-10s in this universe...)
@@pootisspencer2579 there was an area 88 collab event in AC Infinity years back. They had F-20A Shin Kazama, A-10A Greg Gates, AV-8B Kim Aba, and F-14A Mickie Simon on offer.
Funny enough it's not even a VTOL maneuver, it's called a "Pugachev Cobra", you can see the Yellows use it in Ace Combat 4 with the Flanker and Mig 31 I imagine since you come to a near complete stop, the anime writers thought it was a VTOL designed maneuver, but it's not! Trying it in a harrier will cause it to spin out of control, you have to have movable wings, like the remodeled F15S and F22
@@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer Nobody does a cobra in this video. And it doesn't require moveable wings, the maneuver had been done at least as far back as the 1960s in the Saab Drakken. The maneuver has also been performed in a Mig-21.
This is called VIFFing, or Vectoring In Forward Flight. You move the nozzles closer to their vertical orientation, in order to re-direct thrust. It was coined by the US Marine Corps in the 1980s
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This third episode of the OVA came out in 1986. The same year as Top Gun. And just look at how awesome the animation is. Not to mention the battle scenes with the planes is so well done. Everything was handled with such care and such effort. You don't see that much stuff like this nowadays. And who could forget this stellar soundtrack?
I wonder if Top Gun had a scenario as the Area 88? Just picture an alternate story where Maverick who was a civil pilot gets betrayed by his best friend from Japan Kanzaki, so he is enforced to serve a s fighter pilot in a Foreign legion of Arsan Royal Air Force for three years! There he meets his new buddies- Goose, Iceman , Slider, Hollywood , Cougar and Merlin! I think this anti-war drama adaptation of Top Gun would get twice more Oscars for sure.
Only Macross DYRL
Both area 88 and TOP GUN inspired me to become a navy fighter pilot as my dream job
@@P42_foamer same here to an extent, but don't be too naive. Real combat is nothing like how it's portrayed in entertainment media, but I do encourage you to follow your dream
@@chiefturion7134 yeah ik I've seen vids of real life combat so I know it's gonna be hard but thx for encouraging me
"No wonder my ass itches. I've got a bunch of Harrier AV-8As all over it!"
Ever since I first heard that line, I've been using it whenever I encounter Harriers in Ace Combat
@ThyPeasantSlayer They appear in numerous Ace Combat games, mainly as enemy-only units.
That’s Yak-38
Yep they are always being enemy bots and unplayable except in Assault Horizon, Infinity and Project Wingman
@@johnsoncheung4576 its harrier dude based on the design
@@thypeasantslayer3621 In Zero you face a unit of harriers in the Garden sector of Glatisant.
Besides the small inaccuracies here and there and the 80's overall cheesiness, you can really tell this anime was made by a military aviation lover . Gotta respect even the different sound that the rotary M-61 cannon of Nguen's (South Vietnamese guy, if I remember correctly) F-105 Thunderchief does when he is firing. Even high budget Hollywood movies fail to replicate that distinct buzzing sound (I am looking at you TopGun: Maverick).
They actually hired a former Japanese air force pilot as technical consultant when producing this.
I did a little research for f5 tigers and it has m39 cannon rather than a m134 minigun (showed in top gun 1986.) M39 also does a brrrrt rather than shooting 20 rounds per second. That auto cannon must be vibrating like hell
@@DoomDwaneCat Well, no one implied that the F-5 (or the F-20 that Shin Kazama flies) is equipped with a minigun (!) as you say. The minigun is mostly a helicopter gun in 7.62x51mm and no fast jet has this particular weapon as it's armament internally or externally. Too small of a caliber to be useful in modern aerial combat. You must be talking about the M61 Vulcan in 20x102mm that equips the F-105, F-4E, F-14, F/A-18 etc. The M39 surprisingly even though a revolver (also chambered in 20x102mm), does make a buzz when fired, thought a bit different than a Gatling rotary cannon like the M61. I always thought that the buzzing sound was produced by the motor that rotates the barrels when firing, but I was wrong. Also the difference in this sound is because of the different rate of fire every gun has AFAIK. Anyway, both TopGun movies kinda failed in reproducing it realistically. If you want to compare the M39 and M61 firing sound, search for Swiss Air Force F-5E and F/A-18 AXALP live firing videos, there are quite a few in RUclips. Thanks for the comment, cheers.
And then this scene was used for a mission in Ace Combat 7.
Minus the Harriers and the addition to searchlights in the ravine.
The Harrier AV8s are in the Ace Combat 7 mission, you can destroy them before they take off on the base, but it isn't explicitly mentioned
There were already missions like these in Ace Combat 2
Now that I think about it. The tiger camo for the F-104 probably was based on the F-105 camouflage in this scene.
It also reminds me of Ace Combat 6 mission 10, Ragno Fortress. The Harriet's just appear out of nowhere
@@TheOfficial007 The F-104 camo is based on the paint scheme used by planes during "Tiger Meet" exercises.
Tho AC does have a scheme based on Shin's plane in Zero and I'm pretty sure Infinity had a crossover event with Area 88 planes.
Greg throwing off twoAIM-9P missiles without a flare, in an A-10A no less.
Badass
I have a feeling they may be some sort of Soviet Missiles, though I could still kind of see the rebels using AIM-9s. Still, from their profile, they look more like AIM-9Bs or Es
@@Tigershark_3082 Not sure if you could Mount R-60s on a Harrier though 🤔
@@dariusti974 Good point. However, I'm not sure Harriers could mount Air Force missiles such as the J or P, either. They were designed to carry Navy missiles, such as the D, G, and H
Not to mention he had so many bombs and rockets weighing his plane down.
It's cool to see that they included a lot of details for Shin's Tigershark, such as the part where he switches to guns, and programs the HUD.
I wish this series was longer. The animation, music (especially those 80’s guitars), and writing are amazing.
damn this is my Ace Combat anime.
Indeed
It even has that stupid rule that you have to shoot two missiles at s time whenever possible yo kills someone with them.
@@irongeneral7861 In case of the anime, it's not a stupid rule, it was common practice at the time to ripple fire missiles to increase kill probability, especially since they're using older planes with very likely questionably sourced ordnance.
@@MEGATRYANT in case of the ANIME, yes
@@MEGATRYANT Hell, at one point in the manga, the base's dealer, McCoy, sold Mickey a bunch of faulty Sidewinders that exploded _before_ they even got to their targets.
just came back from Top Gun Maverick. Remind me of this scene. Just amazing.
My thoughts exactly
i like how the clip ends on a war crime XD
Gotta love the dogfights in this anime. Especially the music. It fits with the action SO well.
9:49 Bro is on a Mercenary style play through
Well, he is a merc after all...It's sad when they go young like that...
The reason why the F-20 is in there is because at the time its production was not so uncertain as we see it. Also, it was one of the most maneuverable fighters that was in existence at the time, much better than the f-16 or 15.
LOL. That F-14 Tomcat with the bunny logo that you see at 05:00 was flown by my squadron, VX-9 Vampires. LMAO.
Oh damn, you were in VX-9
I believe VX-4 also used the logo
7:01 pilot: your mine Harrier: disappears pilot: where the hell did he go? Me: I think you made him mad.
5:07
Shin: I’m going in! Cover me Porkins!
The rebels are well-armed and well-financed
It's revealed later in the manga that the people supporting the Asran Rebels are a group called Project 4, which have their hands in political and industrial circles.
On a fansite, I saw a scene from the manga, and it was Roundell who led them all the way flying a Blackburn Buccaneer. The rebels never did use harriers, but they used Mig-23BN Floggers on the scene. Nguyen never was around to participate in this mission before his arrival in the manga.
3:27 - uh Shin, you just got that guy killed by telling him essentially to go up straight into a rock. Nice going.
Eh, don't worry, Landhart pulled up too high, he was asking for it.
Oof
He's too low and then he's too high
It's not a military anime without at least 6 guys kicking the bucket before even arriving at the objective.
First time I've ever seen Harriers acting that ominously.
One of the iconic mission of all time.
That’s a reference for the scene in 《Top Gun: Maverick 》
Ever noticed how the F-4,F-18,Mirage are mostly the ones that crash or shot down?
Surprisingly enough, those Dassault Mirages are actually IAI Kfirs. Kfirs are a heavily augmented Dassault Mirage 5, with a J79 engine (License-built) and canard foreplanes. It also has dog-toothed leading edges.
Due to their canards, they have a habit of losing a lot of speed during hard turns.
@Stargeneral410 Let me fix my mistake really quickly
Stumbled apon this anime today. The art style is awesome!
I think top gun 2 got some inspiration from this scene
I was introduced to this series through the Viz Comics adaptation. I saw the three OVAs a few years later. At the time, there was no one producing “realistic” aviation anime.
3:28 I can't believe Quagmire died
LMAO
7:04 That's a slick move.
War Thunder Tier 7 Air RB looks hype
Cancer now
Soon, the F-20 will be in-game, I can feel it
@@Tigershark_3082damn. right on the money
I did not realised that the F-105 thunderchief was also featured.
One of the most intense scenes in animation history
This is the closest thing to an Ace Combat anime. -3
This is the anime that made Ace Combat a thing in the first place.
@@jldldr3933 you forgot that Top Gun, Star Wars and Afterburner also inspired them to create Ace Combat
jesus the last scene
I believe that is an A-4, also, Area 88 has no Mirages if I recall correctly, just Kfirs.
Yep.
So this is where Ace Combat Got their idea for that goddamn ravine raid.....
And Ace Combat was what Top Gun Maverick got their idea from.
ravine raids*
This manga and OVA is the main inspiration of Ace Combat Zero and the inspiration for the AC7 Cape Rainy Assault too
A4s v harriers ? Thought it would go the other way (Falklands)
Top Gun: Maverick Canyon Mission (colorized), circa 2022.
This was before Top Gun
@ that’s the joke.
God the plane gore is so juicy
Well, I had been writing a live action film script for the past few years for Area 88 with this scene intended as the final aerial combat scene....but now thanks to Top Gun: Maverick, anything that is done in any similar fashion will just be considered a copy of it. :(
9:00 Gimli: that's still only counts as 1
At 7:00 and 7:24 , isn't that the maneuver that the British pilot use on the falklands war? I forgot the name...
its called VIFFing (Vectoring in Forward Flight).
From what I know, it was the USMC who first discovered VIFFing in 1983, which is where they practiced it. The British might've used it, but I'm pretty sure they scored most of their kills with AIM-9Ls, which were supplied to them by the US right before being deployed.
Starfox needs that kind of stage.
In the game "U.N. Squadron" on the arcade version above the canyon, you fight a V-22 Osprey and on the SNES version, you fight an SR-71 Blackbird.
Isn't the sr71 a spy plane with no weapons?
@@novemberdelta1282 yes it is, never been upgraded with missiles.
@@TheJasonsvideos ah.
@@novemberdelta1282 There was an armed variant called the A12 Archangel
@@joshuanishanthchristian5217 oh? I mean i've heard of it but never knew it actually carried weapons.
0900 at night? Does he not mean 2100?
5:28 so true
What time period is Area 88 set in?
Also
8:12: Top Tier Air RB in War Thunder be like
This part is set in 1982. The first OVA was set in 1979
came here after watching new Top Gun
@FighterGuDude3214 The plane they call first an F-5 its his previous plane, an F-5E decorated just the same livery wich is shot down in OAV2 , there is definitily an F-15 in the manga (its from the commander)
Dubbing's pretty good. Probably a lot more recent than 1986, to be honest. I swear some of these guys did Ace Combat dubbing as well.
Only Chris Patton (Shin) probably. He's doing work for Bang Zoom since 2016, though he still does voice work at Sentai Filmworks too.
This anime was dubbed in 2005.
Jeez dude
Now that's what some may call
Against the Genova convention
Mission of Top Gun Maverick
This anime should be called, "Honey! I forgot to order the SAM's!"
Kinda cool to see that some pilots actually manage to get out, you know. Till some people commit war crimes. 🤣
@AstroChickenII I think it's called "Forcing Breakthrough" in the OST.
Ain’t no one gonna talk about how my man Nguyen just casually committed a war crime?😊😊
4:30 harriers doing harrier shit, you dont turn around and engage them lol
War thunder moment
This show is just classic. Love it :)!!!!
I like this soundtrack theme! What's the name of it?
@HunterR909 You're right. It gives a new meaning to "badass".
@coolleect Also faster then the F-16, those are the two of the reasons General Dynamics pressured the US goverment to stop funding it as their aircraft was available. The otherone was it was half the price and could do all or more then the F-16.
F-20 = F-5 with one big engine.
Just to clear any shit up.
P.S: the main dude flies an F-20.
Well, there are some other differences: The F-20 was mach-2 capable, and was able to use BVR weapons (such as the AIM-7 Sparrow). It also was one of the first planes (other than the F-15 and F-16) to use HOTAS controls.
Ik I'm crazy late, but in the re-release of Area 88 Shin does fly an F-5 so many people probably get confused despite obvious art style, animation, and music differences
They just don't make them like this anymore, the animation, detail and plot is unmatched
Love this anime so much! My first non-mecha anime. I just wish the dub would get a better editor, the fist line in this clip, "we leave tonight at oh-900 (0900)." Oh-900 (or 0900 hours) would be 9 AM, in the morning. 9 PM would be 2100 hours.
i wish my greek dub vids had your video quality, that would be epic :(
I didn't mind it but the way they would have most planes exploding rather than just trailing and smoking down used to annoy me as not every jet always explodes before it hits the ground.
Hey, this is like an ace combat mission
Cape Rainy assault except its dogfight, not base assault.
Since the series predates AC, it'd be more accurate to say that several ace combat missions are like *this.*
Man, and I thought the Death Star trench was tight!
the best dogfight cartoon in the universe
@1bearcatf8f Yeah in my opinion they should have replaced the F-20 with the F-5E Tiger II. Or heck, Shin flew the Saab 35 Draken in the Manga, so why not that one.
And later in the manga he flies a Grumman X-29A.
@@TheJasonsvideos Yeah, but it didn't make a whole lot of sense
Shin actually flies F-5 before it was shot down and then replaced with F-20
From 9:35 to 10:00...that was just fucking cold. Just as he ejected. I mean, I know they're mercs, but hell even mercenaries have some kind of honor.
Yeah
Damn. He should’ve waited till he got a bit lower to open his chute
And in the future, Ace Combat fans would consider this sort of mission to be...normal.
2:38 the reason why the a 10 can't get speed is because is not designed to go to mach 1.6 or mach 2
They do be rocking the Harrier like that Hydra in GTASA
best dub is the greek one....
The characters match up to the voices perfectly..!
The f105 thunder chief can haul ass at mach 2 . She is not a joke .
hopeless misunderstanding of how Harriers fly...
Viffing, the move demonstrated here, in the first episode of James May's Big Ideas, was put to devastating use in the Falklands War fought between Argentina and the UK in the Austral winter of 1982. Using this technique, Harrier pilots chased by Argentine Mirages could slow their jets very rapidly in flight and get behind their attackers in an instant, a decidedly handy maneuver in air-to-air combat. Handy it was for the British: no Harriers were lost in dogfighting during the war.
jalopnik.com/the-eeriness-of-viffing-a-harrier-5715656
Definitely gotta set some time aside to watch this in full one of these days…
u.n. squadron is the video game of this.
4:08 Why was that plane destroyed even though pilot dodged the explosion?
He scraped up against the wall of the canyon. Likely neglected to take into account the height of the tailfin, which snagged, forcing the nose of the aircraft into the canyon wall
@@Tigershark_3082 That makes sense. What about the other plane at 4:16? Seems that the pilot didn’t crash into anything yet why was his plane damaged?
@@ryanlak1234 Probably debris from the previously exploded planes got into its air intake destroying the engine and set the plane on fire. In 4:14 you can see some sparks coming out of the exhaust.
@@Nobody-rj2meYep, exactly
And I thought TIE fighter pilots were drunk.
@armymen135 sometimes a missile explosion can destroy the ejection mechanism.
Fun fact: It's better to fly between cliffs at night than to deal with modernized radar air defenses
Bien dessiné!! bonne anim, bonne ambiance!
yeah this reminds me of the new top gun lol
they would have had more luck risking SA-5s and taking anti-radiation missiles than that ravine
They're mercenaries. They can't even affored AGM-65 Mavericks
somehow they have the budget to get that many aircraft with aim-9s and a lot of pilots. Just lay off like half of them or smth. The series is cool but seems to have plot gaps
@@breezygamer1179 Simple: The Aslanian Air Force bought a shit-ton of surplus US military aircraft.
The Manga goes into better detail, with them originally only having F-5As, A-4Es and Fs, early F-4s (Cs and Ds), F-100s, and F-8s.
Later on, the majority of the aircraft are destroyed, and Saki is forced to rent out 10x Kfir C.2s.
Later on, McCoy starts buying back new aircraft (it isn't shown in the OVAs, but McCoy usually blackmails other militaries or suppliers to get newer aircraft in).
I just assume Area 88 takes place in an Alternate universe where, after Vietnam, most older aircraft used by the US military get sold for cheap, possibly scrap.
McCoy is then able to buy it all via changing serial numbers, or buying said scrap airframes.
In the Manga, Shin used a Draken at one point. In order to get it for Shin, McCoy had to buy two scrap J 35OE as and fuse them together.
He then has to get the engine from another country, and has to go to yet ANOTHER country just for the afterburner.
Mickey's Tomcat was originally intended for Iran, but wasn't able to get there in time before the revolution.
The F-14 was mostly just sitting in a shipping container in Italy for awhile.
Eventually, McCoy was able to change the serial number for it, so it had the number of a scrapped a.
Then, he was able to buy the F-14 for as cheap as scrap.
In order to get Greg's A-10, McCoy had to bribe some NATO members (guess NATO itself operated A-10s in this universe...)
You mean, the conflict between Argentina & U.K. ?
Yes. Mirages vs Harriers
No problem it's like playing video game,.....Ace Combat
If you have the dvd, why won't you release more in english
Just a nice little warcrime at the end😃
it is like a viedo game.........ACE COMBAT
Phantasm BANDAI NAMCO
SAVE AREA 88
MAKE ACE COMBAT 8 WITH IT
get it
88
And 8
Heheh
Ace Combat 7, Mission 14
@@pootisspencer2579 there was an area 88 collab event in AC Infinity years back. They had F-20A Shin Kazama, A-10A Greg Gates, AV-8B Kim Aba, and F-14A Mickie Simon on offer.
Can harriers really move like that ?
Somewhat, but they're not nearly as responsive
Plus Where Is Act II?
Do A-4's ever get any wins or love in this
Looks like Kfir don't either
Also the Tigershark, Tiger II, F-16 Falcon & F-14 Tomcat
@FighterGuDude3214 IT IS an F-20 ... just look at it goddamnit!! IT has a single fraking engine!!
They did the A 4 Skyhawk dirty
I want to marathon this anime. What should i watch first? the OVA or the series? Are they connected?
Watch the OVA first for sure. They have different endings, but the OVA is just better.
@@Bishounen okay... Thanks bro
OVA is more psychological. While 2004 series is more action based series. I like them both though
@@kejiri3593 noted. Thanks.
can harriers even pull those kind of hairpin manuevers?
Funny enough it's not even a VTOL maneuver, it's called a "Pugachev Cobra", you can see the Yellows use it in Ace Combat 4 with the Flanker and Mig 31
I imagine since you come to a near complete stop, the anime writers thought it was a VTOL designed maneuver, but it's not! Trying it in a harrier will cause it to spin out of control, you have to have movable wings, like the remodeled F15S and F22
@@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer Nobody does a cobra in this video. And it doesn't require moveable wings, the maneuver had been done at least as far back as the 1960s in the Saab Drakken. The maneuver has also been performed in a Mig-21.
Yes I believe they can look up the Falkland war that Britain fought the Argentina Air forces
This is called VIFFing, or Vectoring In Forward Flight. You move the nozzles closer to their vertical orientation, in order to re-direct thrust.
It was coined by the US Marine Corps in the 1980s
Owned.
I love the F-5