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No surprise that the Kurfurst did so well. It was easily the best version of the 109. The 109G was a slug that would usually fairly easily lose to the P-51D. (The F model series 109 was stated to be better than the G model by Luftwaffe pilots). Now if it was the P-51H vs the Bf-109K (H model isn't in DCS to my knowledge), it would have gone differently. Nice flying GS, and to the opponent.
WW1 Level Bombing in VR is the most terrifying way to play. You sit in a flak cloud for 60 seconds before dropping bombs, then 60 seconds after. Pray you don't get hit by the shrapnel you hear whizzing by
Good example of how a pilot's skill with their aircraft can make all the difference. Not knowing those pros and cons can easily turn a difficult encounter to disaster or success.
The WWII content is my favorite, but I like how you rotate what you're doing so that it never gets old. Thank you and congratulations on imminently reaching 500K, I celebrate your success 🤘
The advantage that the Bf-109 had in these fights was it only needed a fraction of the range that was necessary for the P-51. The P-51 had a range of 1650 miles versus 547 for the Bf-109. The fact that you could build a plane that could fly hundreds of miles of miles that still had excellent dog fighting capabilities is an amazing engineering feat. It was far easier to put a short range hot rod fighter to the skies than to build a marvel like the P-51.
That's his point. The P51 was an escort fighter. The BF109 was a intercept fighter. Yes, both fighters, but had two different roles to fill. Both were incredible aircraft.
fun to watch, I do wish you had switched planes and done another two. He's great at avoidance but I'm not sure he knows the P51 on a level he needs to fight you with it.
Amazing fights, and a great demonstration of the 109's lethality! The tactic you describe at 3:45 is exactly why I love this plane. It's very easy to fight in the vertical with the 109 and take the energy advantage. A small piece of advice that might help - don't worry as much about getting hits with the 30mm, your 12mm MG 131 has vastly higher muzzle velocity and lots more rounds, and is plenty for wrecking an enemy fighter. Psychologically I think it's very easy to fall into trying to line up the perfect 30mm shot instead of just gunning the target down with 12mm.
@@hanswolfgangmercer From personal experience, with DCS I mean, I have to slightly, just slightly disagree here. If you can line up the 30mm properly, most of the times, one hit is all that`s needed. Granted, aiming with that damn cannon isn`t an easy thing to do. The Mk.108 has horrendous ballistics. As you correctly stated, the muzzle velocity was much less since the barrel was, in practicality, too short for an airborne cannon. The problem was the space within the engine compartment itself. If I remember correctly, the predecessor of the Mk.108 actually had a longer barrel. But then again, it had to fit within the engine of the 109 so they had to shorten it. Hence the wonky trajectory of the rounds. That`s why the Mossie is one of my favourite go-to WWII fighters in that arena. Or the Spitfire.. Those 20mm Hispanos just wreck everything in its path. And have far superior ballistics.
YES, finally a full on ww2 video again, you dont know how much ive been waiting for this. Also in the first round his biggest mistake was climbing, the bf 109 is an absolute beast at climbing so he had no chance there. In the second round i liked how you could really see how small the bf 109 is at compared to the p-51 (timestamp 12:12).
The Bf 109K-4 was a plane that could keep up with a P-51 Mustang in most aspects. A reason why the _Luftwaffe_ suffered very heavy losses in the first half of 1944 was that their primary single-engined fighters were the Bf 109G-6, which only had a top speed of 386 mph (way slower than the P-47's with the "paddle" propellers and the P-51B/C models) and the Fw-190A models, which had performance fall off dramatically above 20,000 feet altitude.
In 1944 the Luftwaffe was vastly outnumbered. Already in 1942 over Dieppe there were around 200 german planes fighting against 1000 allied planes, a ratio of 1:5. By end of 1943 the numbers were more like 1:20..30. That was the decisive factor.
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I love these dogfights, they're always more exciting than BVR fights for me in the sim, especially when I'm slinging missiles that aren't easy to defeat, it's not quite as much of a dance like these fights tend to be. These WW2 planes and the early jets are just excellent to fly and fight with, I'd really love to see more of them in DCS, especially some of the Japanese or Italian planes, and other older jets like the Meteor or G.91.
Absolute correct, the BF 109 was made for "dive, shoot, climb", the center mounted guns also alowed to shoot from bigger distances...The German Aces, Adolf Galland, Werner Mölders and Erich "Bubi" Hartmann use it to perfection. Hartmann had 352 confirmed kills. Hans Joachim Marseille, had 158 confirmed kills over north Africa.He was not the typical german "Zoom and boom" fighter. He was known as an extraordinary pilot (with lack of discipline) with "dead eye" shooting precision.
Yeah Marseille could truly get the most out of his 109's... Loved the F model, hated the G2, which is the one that eventually killed him. Would have been interesting, had he lived, what he could have done in the later G models (G10 or G14) or a K4. Or even more hypothetically, throw the engine from the K4 into an F4... That'd be in interesting, though likely impossible combination.
As you were talking about how much you miss these WWII dogfights, a question came to my mind: when was the first time an aicraft used a missile (or the ancestor of the missile) during a dogfight?
In a dogfight ? Early IR missiles needed to be fired at the engine of the enemy, i.e. at his 6. That required more sneaking behind him than dogfighting. Missiles used against aircraft in WW2 were e.g. R4Ms against enemy bomber formations. Those were unguided missiles. Possibly a pilot used them also against fighters but then I guess to get rid of them to reduce weight in first place.
@@Feuerschaf Those R4Ms only needed to do one hit against a bomber either to outright destroy it or to make it go home. Thing was a scary weapon if it could hit.
Just a quick word to thank you, because of you and your videos I’m flying DCS for 2 years now in VR, mostly WW2, I learned a lot watching your videos, keep it up!
Usually when I hear the term "turn fighter" I always got the impression of "rate fighter" because everyone wants to two-circle in them. That was my experience back when I would regularly play IL-2 Forgotten Battles/1946 online in a PVP server. This was especially true for the A6M Zero series. They were great at rate fights but their poor roll rates made one-circle fights a bit tricky. Now the FW-190 had an amazing roll rate which although it was not regarded as a "turn fighter" the roll rate combined with a good instantaneous turn rate made it very good at one-circle fights.
Been watching lots of random WW2 history content after seeing Oppenheimer. That’s has the knock-on effect of me giving WW2 DCS content a hard look recently after viewing strictly jet content for years. Would love to see some 2v2 wingman action to see how that plays out in this intimate style of dogfighting!
My flight instructor was a P-51 pilot in WW2. While flying, he would tell me stories of his missions, and the next thing I knew, I was in his story but flying a Cessna 150 with a climb prop. What fun we had. Overkill 6.
Thank you for today's video and all your others, I really enjoy your content! Would you be open to doing a video with a P47D? I'm not a pilot and don't really know what I'm talking about, but I read Robert S. Johnson's biography (27 kills with 24 being single seat fighters in Europe). He said nothing could roll with the P47, even though it was big and heavy. I would be very interested in seeing a video on this and hearing your take. Thanks!
Great video as usual GS! Regarding the 30mm cannon embedded in the 109, the G-10/U4 and G-14/U4 was equipped with this armament. In fact, every 109G/K with very big fairings over the wings were equipped with thisMK108.
I generally think of the P51 as a pure energy fighter, the spitfire as a pure turn fighter, and the BF109 as a solid mix. Although I also think the different models of the 109 varied more in terms of whether it was more of an energy or a turn fighter more so than other planes.
Compared to the earlier models, the K is very much an energy fighter. It can't turn with a Spitfire anymore, but once you have an energy advantage, you'll rip pretty much any opponent.
That's what makes the 109 my favorite. Most other warbirds have one type of fight they can do and if they can't force the fight to be that fight, they lose. The 109 is an energy fighter against spitfires, a turn fighter against mustangs, and superior in every respect to the rest of the lineup.
Early models like the E's and F's were pretty handy turnfighters, while the later G's and K were purepred energy fighters with massive power-to-weight ratio's while also not being slouches in turning.
I would watch GS do WWII stuff just as much as the modern jet scenarios. If he posted a WWII campaign bit by bit I would probably watch all those too. Learned a lot from this guy and all of the video styles he does are great, even the less serious ones. More warbirds !
Even though i don't play DCS or any other flying sim for that matter, your content is awesome. Love me aome old school dog fights. Keep up the good work
Very good show! Although i think the 30mm explosive round was even more damaging than the flight sim is giving it credit for, that 30mm had the explosive power exeeding a hand grenade, whereas the 20mm was slightly more than one third of a hand grenade! There were cases where a B- 17 was brought down with one well placed 30mm! The fighting is really exiting, intresting to know the 51 was such a marvelous 'side slipper' , so that was one of it's strong suiits!
Great WW2 content. I agree with several folks that talked about start altitude...I'd be interested in this fight at 25, 000 feet, where the 109 would be trying to get at B-17s/B-24s, and the 51 is playing interceptor. Or, even better, it should be a bounce, with a 109 coming in on the six of 2-4 P-51s at 8-10, 000 as the P-51s are on a fighter sweep. Lot's of good combinations.
Much like a P-39 or a MiG-15/17/19 the guns on this will not have the same point of aim. The 30mm (or 20mm in earlier versions) shooting through the prop boss was generally intended to blow up bombers with a hit or two. If you try hitting with the cowl mounted MG 131 .51 caliber that's probably a better strategy.
He was using the MG at the end of the last fight. Even so, the MG is nose-mounted. He was having issues landing the hits due to the lack of convergence.
imagine if you were up against Erich Alfred Hartmann, the most successful fighter ace in the history of Ariel warfare... Very interesting history. Great video yet again 👏
Ww2 fights are the best ACM's, like you said it's down to skill! Flaps in the 109 and especially the p51 help the most in the famous overshooting scissor knife fight, I used to fly in warbirds, I learned every plane I could fly! The Ki84 is a German killer but my plane of choice was the P47...I got good at low speed flying using flaps, 4000 hp supercharged radial would pull the weight back to speed effortlessly. I miss flying! It's my passion....I was in top 5 of the world leader boards!
i didnt know wwii planes exist on dcs and you fly great on it.. it's breath taking rather than flying those modern birds, this is absolutely fun to watch as i dont blink my eyes👊😁
Love the regular content, but like a lot of us, I'm very much enjoying some WWII relying on pure energy conservation and precise limited gunnery. When all else fails, pure pilot skill is everything. Every trick in the book :)
Hit with fire at 10:18 was a fueltank puncture and ignition. Engine was still going strong, but I guess the DCS hits-program doesn't count a fueltank fire as devastating as the IL-2 program does. In IL-2 the fueltank would explode after a few moments.
Great fight Arch3r. Well flown. I'd like to see pilots swap places for best of five. I'll watch the longer videos with fights this good (I'll watch the longer videos anyway.)
Very nice video. But personally I enjoy the jet content more, like the F16 and Eurofighter. But hey when the rest of the community enjoys those fights more I won't complain! Keep the good work up!! Greetings from Germany.
Great job! Awesome video! I'd really like to see some ejection or bailing out in the end shots after you send them in. Love your channel. Keep it up! 😁👍💪💪
Bf-109K may be a beast in the air but it's also just as dangerous to it's pilots to get it into the air and back onto the ground as the enemy was for the BF 109K because the engine had some crazy torque and that very narrow undercarriage which still makes me shake my head
I think the reason why the P51 hit you at the start is because you went up directly vertical, giving him enough room to put his sights onto you. If he was sharper you would have been dead then and there - instead I believe you should've gone for a vertical spiral opposite the direction of which he turned (i.e. a counter-clockwise vertical spiral). That would have removed his ability to put his guns on you before stalling.
He misjudged the energy state of the P-51. He also had taken his eyes off the P-51 and when he looked back, the rounds were already inbound. If he'd have kept his eyes on the P-51, he'd have at least been able to dodge the tracers (he'd have seen them coming).
@@unixfool I think to a degree you are correct, but just because he can see them doesn't mean he's capable of fully dodging, especially near a stall state where the plane has less significantly reduced mobility. So it's no guarantee
That would hardly be a dogfight tbh, the 262 cannot at all turn, it's biggest and only strengths over the mustang are its higher top speed and uts armament. So it wouldn't really be a dogfight as much as it'll be a jet doing hit and run on a prop
The 109 was an excellent turn fighter, so very dangerous in all areas. Especially the lighter early versions could almost turn with the spitfires. The P-51 should've employed it's biggest strength over the 109 more: dive speed.
The more experienced 109 pilots insisted they could turn with Spitfires, it was a matter of engine/prop/flaps management, or so I've read. You have to remember too, the same things that hurt later 109's in the turning department, affected the later Spitfires too. Would have been interesting to see what a 109 F4 could have done with the engine out of a K4, at least if all that power didn't rip the wings off the thing.
I play DCS WW2 almost exclusively, and love the P-51with it's K14 gunsight. You master that K14 and you are lethal. whenever i see the 109 K4 coming i know im in for a fight (depending of course on the pilot's skill level). In even remotely capable hands it is a potent adversary. Where most fights in the P-51 are a sprint... the fight against a K4 has to be thought of as a marathon. Your biggest ally is patience, which is easier said than done.
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Love the content, keep it up!
No surprise that the Kurfurst did so well. It was easily the best version of the 109. The 109G was a slug that would usually fairly easily lose to the P-51D. (The F model series 109 was stated to be better than the G model by Luftwaffe pilots). Now if it was the P-51H vs the Bf-109K (H model isn't in DCS to my knowledge), it would have gone differently. Nice flying GS, and to the opponent.
German 262 jet WW2 vs p51 mustang? Could be neat. Obviously you can kill new jets, so nothing you can't handle.
Tbh spitfire vs bf109 would be better. The true rivals of ww2 aviation
@@nootnoot7787and also fw 190 Vs hawker hurricane
Waiter, waiter! More WWII dogfights please!
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Absolutely sir would you like it with ice?
@@shelby2561 And a side of ground attack, too, please.
& For desert, I would like some WW1 dogfights, please.
WW1 Level Bombing in VR is the most terrifying way to play. You sit in a flak cloud for 60 seconds before dropping bombs, then 60 seconds after. Pray you don't get hit by the shrapnel you hear whizzing by
Good example of how a pilot's skill with their aircraft can make all the difference. Not knowing those pros and cons can easily turn a difficult encounter to disaster or success.
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@@H.P206The Germans are here… Guten Tag, mein name ist Epikberman
The WWII content is my favorite, but I like how you rotate what you're doing so that it never gets old. Thank you and congratulations on imminently reaching 500K, I celebrate your success 🤘
Much agree! This channel never disappoints! Always something great to watch. 😁👍💪💪
Good technique of cutting the engine at the top of the hammerhead. Prevents the engine from over revving and cutting off during the dive.
The advantage that the Bf-109 had in these fights was it only needed a fraction of the range that was necessary for the P-51. The P-51 had a range of 1650 miles versus 547 for the Bf-109. The fact that you could build a plane that could fly hundreds of miles of miles that still had excellent dog fighting capabilities is an amazing engineering feat. It was far easier to put a short range hot rod fighter to the skies than to build a marvel like the P-51.
Yeah, but this doent help much anymore in a merge...
That's his point. The P51 was an escort fighter. The BF109 was a intercept fighter. Yes, both fighters, but had two different roles to fill. Both were incredible aircraft.
Was that P-51 range with drop tanks included?
@@gfarrell80 of course but the Jug filled that role better than the p51 in my opinion.
@@dreaminknight I think this merge dogfight above 15000 ft goes to the P-51. I wonder if they'd try it?
fun to watch, I do wish you had switched planes and done another two. He's great at avoidance but I'm not sure he knows the P51 on a level he needs to fight you with it.
I've watched his videos for quite a while & I don't think I've ever seen him in a P-51 or F-15C. There seem to be a few aircraft he just won't fly
@@wadefarris308 well he has but not many p51 vs actual people, only missions. I dont know about the f15 tho.
@@wadefarris308 he's done it several times but it's been a while, he's even used it against the k4 successfully.
@wadefarris308 He has flown the F-15C a few times before. You can search a few videos of them
@@donakahorse and using the same tactics :-)
Amazing fights, and a great demonstration of the 109's lethality! The tactic you describe at 3:45 is exactly why I love this plane. It's very easy to fight in the vertical with the 109 and take the energy advantage. A small piece of advice that might help - don't worry as much about getting hits with the 30mm, your 12mm MG 131 has vastly higher muzzle velocity and lots more rounds, and is plenty for wrecking an enemy fighter. Psychologically I think it's very easy to fall into trying to line up the perfect 30mm shot instead of just gunning the target down with 12mm.
my inner nerd is going 'erm is a 13mm'
@@dawae3080 whoops typo!
@@hanswolfgangmercer From personal experience, with DCS I mean, I have to slightly, just slightly disagree here. If you can line up the 30mm properly, most of the times, one hit is all that`s needed.
Granted, aiming with that damn cannon isn`t an easy thing to do. The Mk.108 has horrendous ballistics. As you correctly stated, the muzzle velocity was much less since the barrel was, in practicality, too short for an airborne cannon. The problem was the space within the engine compartment itself. If I remember correctly, the predecessor of the Mk.108 actually had a longer barrel. But then again, it had to fit within the engine of the 109 so they had to shorten it. Hence the wonky trajectory of the rounds.
That`s why the Mossie is one of my favourite go-to WWII fighters in that arena. Or the Spitfire.. Those 20mm Hispanos just wreck everything in its path. And have far superior ballistics.
YES, finally a full on ww2 video again, you dont know how much ive been waiting for this.
Also in the first round his biggest mistake was climbing, the bf 109 is an absolute beast at climbing so he had no chance there. In the second round i liked how you could really see how small the bf 109 is at compared to the p-51 (timestamp 12:12).
The Bf 109K-4 was a plane that could keep up with a P-51 Mustang in most aspects. A reason why the _Luftwaffe_ suffered very heavy losses in the first half of 1944 was that their primary single-engined fighters were the Bf 109G-6, which only had a top speed of 386 mph (way slower than the P-47's with the "paddle" propellers and the P-51B/C models) and the Fw-190A models, which had performance fall off dramatically above 20,000 feet altitude.
Pilot skill also played a factor. There were some interesting differences in how experienced pilots where employed through both airforces.
In 1944 the Luftwaffe was vastly outnumbered. Already in 1942 over Dieppe there were around 200 german planes fighting against 1000 allied planes, a ratio of 1:5. By end of 1943 the numbers were more like 1:20..30. That was the decisive factor.
@@Feuerschaf But yet, the RAF suffered very heavy losses over Dieppe because the Spitfire Mk. V was no match for the Fw 190.
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@@berndbrakemeier1418 Was für ein Unsinn, die numerische Überlegenheit der westlichen Alliierten in der Luft ist allgemein bekannt.
I love these dogfights, they're always more exciting than BVR fights for me in the sim, especially when I'm slinging missiles that aren't easy to defeat, it's not quite as much of a dance like these fights tend to be. These WW2 planes and the early jets are just excellent to fly and fight with, I'd really love to see more of them in DCS, especially some of the Japanese or Italian planes, and other older jets like the Meteor or G.91.
Absolute correct, the BF 109 was made for "dive, shoot, climb", the center mounted guns also alowed to shoot from bigger distances...The German Aces, Adolf Galland, Werner Mölders and Erich "Bubi" Hartmann use it to perfection. Hartmann had 352 confirmed kills. Hans Joachim Marseille, had 158 confirmed kills over north Africa.He was not the typical german "Zoom and boom" fighter. He was known as an extraordinary pilot (with lack of discipline) with "dead eye" shooting precision.
Yeah Marseille could truly get the most out of his 109's... Loved the F model, hated the G2, which is the one that eventually killed him. Would have been interesting, had he lived, what he could have done in the later G models (G10 or G14) or a K4. Or even more hypothetically, throw the engine from the K4 into an F4... That'd be in interesting, though likely impossible combination.
Your DCS videos are by far the best on yt. 500k are well deserved. Keep up the good work!
I’ve been watching daily for years. This never gets old. Awesome fight, great vid!
As you were talking about how much you miss these WWII dogfights, a question came to my mind: when was the first time an aicraft used a missile (or the ancestor of the missile) during a dogfight?
Well both the AIM-4 Falcon and AIM-9 missiles were introduced in 1956, very likely first fired by the F-4 Phantom
@@somepolishguy8228first fired by F86s
And AiM-7's tested on Hellcats
In a dogfight ? Early IR missiles needed to be fired at the engine of the enemy, i.e. at his 6. That required more sneaking behind him than dogfighting. Missiles used against aircraft in WW2 were e.g. R4Ms against enemy bomber formations. Those were unguided missiles. Possibly a pilot used them also against fighters but then I guess to get rid of them to reduce weight in first place.
@@Feuerschaf Those R4Ms only needed to do one hit against a bomber either to outright destroy it or to make it go home. Thing was a scary weapon if it could hit.
Great throw down as always. Spad vs. Albatros? Doesn’t get anymore personal than a WW1 dogfight.
Just a quick word to thank you, because of you and your videos I’m flying DCS for 2 years now in VR, mostly WW2, I learned a lot watching your videos, keep it up!
Thanks for all of the amazing content over the years! Question: could you do a P-38, Mediterranean or ETO dogfight?
The p38 isn't in DCS, don't know about il2 tho
@@HippoDrippo- the P38 is indeed in IL-2.
Usually when I hear the term "turn fighter" I always got the impression of "rate fighter" because everyone wants to two-circle in them. That was my experience back when I would regularly play IL-2 Forgotten Battles/1946 online in a PVP server. This was especially true for the A6M Zero series. They were great at rate fights but their poor roll rates made one-circle fights a bit tricky. Now the FW-190 had an amazing roll rate which although it was not regarded as a "turn fighter" the roll rate combined with a good instantaneous turn rate made it very good at one-circle fights.
Big respect for "oldie but goldie" IL-2. The peak of fun online sim-fights.
absolutely love the WWII dogfights and they keep me coming back for more! great content all around
Can’t wait to see what this entails. Love the content recently GS, keep it up bro🙌🙌🔥
Been watching lots of random WW2 history content after seeing Oppenheimer. That’s has the knock-on effect of me giving WW2 DCS content a hard look recently after viewing strictly jet content for years. Would love to see some 2v2 wingman action to see how that plays out in this intimate style of dogfighting!
GS saw the response to the last video and delivered in ONE DAY. Keep up the great work man, so close to 500K!
My flight instructor was a P-51 pilot in WW2. While flying, he would tell me stories of his missions, and the next thing I knew, I was in his story but flying a Cessna 150 with a climb prop. What fun we had.
Overkill 6.
I absolutely LOVE the sounds effects of the engines. Sound so amazing in headphones.
Finally! Thank you! WWII fights are so good!
Thank you for today's video and all your others, I really enjoy your content! Would you be open to doing a video with a P47D? I'm not a pilot and don't really know what I'm talking about, but I read Robert S. Johnson's biography (27 kills with 24 being single seat fighters in Europe). He said nothing could roll with the P47, even though it was big and heavy. I would be very interested in seeing a video on this and hearing your take. Thanks!
Great video as usual GS!
Regarding the 30mm cannon embedded in the 109, the G-10/U4 and G-14/U4 was equipped with this armament. In fact, every 109G/K with very big fairings over the wings were equipped with thisMK108.
I generally think of the P51 as a pure energy fighter, the spitfire as a pure turn fighter, and the BF109 as a solid mix. Although I also think the different models of the 109 varied more in terms of whether it was more of an energy or a turn fighter more so than other planes.
Compared to the earlier models, the K is very much an energy fighter. It can't turn with a Spitfire anymore, but once you have an energy advantage, you'll rip pretty much any opponent.
That's what makes the 109 my favorite. Most other warbirds have one type of fight they can do and if they can't force the fight to be that fight, they lose. The 109 is an energy fighter against spitfires, a turn fighter against mustangs, and superior in every respect to the rest of the lineup.
Early models like the E's and F's were pretty handy turnfighters, while the later G's and K were purepred energy fighters with massive power-to-weight ratio's while also not being slouches in turning.
I would just say 109,spits,and yaks were light fighters the p51 and d9 were medium weight fighters that's what I say
Really like the more rough planes. Prop planes, f-14, etc.
I would watch GS do WWII stuff just as much as the modern jet scenarios. If he posted a WWII campaign bit by bit I would probably watch all those too. Learned a lot from this guy and all of the video styles he does are great, even the less serious ones. More warbirds !
1v1 ww2 fights have been something I’ve been waiting for for ages!
You ask, you receive. Ty uploading it and great vid!
Yes! I’ve really been missing the WW2 content. I’d love to see some P-51 action as well. Keep up the amazing quality GS!
that fire and smoke trail after the first round... beautiful, cinematic.
Archer is a great pilot but GS does what GS does. Two great fights. Awesome work 👏🏼
This reminds me so much of Combat Flight Simulator in the 90s. I used to love that as a kid!
Yesss! I’ve just been watching your IL2 videos last couple days! More please!
I would really like to see him play IL-2 Sturmovik lol
Glad to see you giving some WWII warbirds some TLC.
Thank you for the WWII fight…
I MISSED THEM
Even though i don't play DCS or any other flying sim for that matter, your content is awesome. Love me aome old school dog fights. Keep up the good work
Very good show! Although i think the 30mm explosive round was even more damaging than the flight sim is giving it credit for, that 30mm had the explosive power exeeding a hand grenade, whereas the 20mm was slightly more than one third of a hand grenade! There were cases where a B- 17 was brought down with one well placed 30mm! The fighting is really exiting, intresting to know the 51 was such a marvelous 'side slipper' , so that was one of it's strong suiits!
Great WW2 content. I agree with several folks that talked about start altitude...I'd be interested in this fight at 25, 000 feet, where the 109 would be trying to get at B-17s/B-24s, and the 51 is playing interceptor. Or, even better, it should be a bounce, with a 109 coming in on the six of 2-4 P-51s at 8-10, 000 as the P-51s are on a fighter sweep. Lot's of good combinations.
I absolutely loved this, and the last video! Keep them coming! Great job!
Love all your WWII stuff. Your skill in these matches is a sight to behold. More please.
I enjoy the wwII fights, I do agree on the up close and personal aspect of it. Thank you for the entertainment
I would love to see a BF-109K-4 vs the F-22, it would be an interesting fight for sure.
2:00 that throttle up sound is just mad
Thanks for the great rematch, Arch3r. Great flying.
I'd like to see more WW1 fights.
Here we go
Real dogfight
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I love the sound of the ME109, just sounds like a weapon.
Saw the rematch vid come up. Had to click like button instantly!!! 🎉
Well flown! Great watching WW2 dogfighting like this!
Much like a P-39 or a MiG-15/17/19 the guns on this will not have the same point of aim. The 30mm (or 20mm in earlier versions) shooting through the prop boss was generally intended to blow up bombers with a hit or two. If you try hitting with the cowl mounted MG 131 .51 caliber that's probably a better strategy.
He was using the MG at the end of the last fight. Even so, the MG is nose-mounted. He was having issues landing the hits due to the lack of convergence.
He started each fight with him having an advantage of him above his enemy.
imagine if you were up against Erich Alfred Hartmann, the most successful fighter ace in the history of Ariel warfare...
Very interesting history.
Great video yet again 👏
9:28 is a perfect example of how just rolling does nothing when someone is sitting behind you. Unlike in most movies.
Ww2 fights are the best ACM's, like you said it's down to skill! Flaps in the 109 and especially the p51 help the most in the famous overshooting scissor knife fight, I used to fly in warbirds, I learned every plane I could fly! The Ki84 is a German killer but my plane of choice was the P47...I got good at low speed flying using flaps, 4000 hp supercharged radial would pull the weight back to speed effortlessly. I miss flying! It's my passion....I was in top 5 of the world leader boards!
BF-109 K-4 is such a gorgeous plane
This makes me miss Battle of Britain (BOB) on the Commodore Amiga 2000. Loved the WWII battles. Was playing in the early 90s.
i didnt know wwii planes exist on dcs and you fly great on it.. it's breath taking rather than flying those modern birds, this is absolutely fun to watch as i dont blink my eyes👊😁
Cool, some tail-dragger action :)
Love the regular content, but like a lot of us, I'm very much enjoying some WWII relying on pure energy conservation and precise limited gunnery. When all else fails, pure pilot skill is everything. Every trick in the book :)
The knife fight in a telephone booth... Back then, you knew one of you was walking back, if you even made it back.
Hit with fire at 10:18 was a fueltank puncture and ignition. Engine was still going strong, but I guess the DCS hits-program doesn't count a fueltank fire as devastating as the IL-2 program does. In IL-2 the fueltank would explode after a few moments.
Been patiently waiting for the day the WW2 content comes back, let’s goooo
Oh nice, I figured it would be more of a wait to get this one. Good stuff.
Props Hell ya this is where the good dog fights are 👍
Words cannot describe my excitement to see this in my feed
Beenhere since you were 70k subs congrats on almost reaching 500k
Many thanks for sticking around so long, I appreciate you.
Love the JG-26 Schlageter scheme.
bf-109 vs p-51 is too common. We need a battle of the titans i-16 vs f-22.
WWII fights are my favorite! Would love to see more!
Superb rematch with an outstanding fight. Would love to see the K4 against a Spitfire.
Dam GS, already doing the match up? You make these so dam fast!!
This will be a fun one!!
Yes! More WW2 fighters please! Love the videos
Absolutely love the sound of the engines
Great fight Arch3r. Well flown. I'd like to see pilots swap places for best of five. I'll watch the longer videos with fights this good (I'll watch the longer videos anyway.)
ya'll should try the P-47 VS the 109
10:40 He just indentified as a rocket powered jet, you gotta accept and tolerate that
Great high-aspect gunnery from Arch3r in the P-51 at 6:47.
Great fight! Glad for the rematch! Maybe some with you flying the P-51?
Would love to see a bandit unknown with only ww2 birds
nOICE! More WW2 fights/missions/slaps/kills please! :)))
After seeing the latest version of Two Morons, I forgot how much I liked the WWI biplane fights- would love to see you back in a Sopwith Camel
Very nice video. But personally I enjoy the jet content more, like the F16 and Eurofighter.
But hey when the rest of the community enjoys those fights more I won't complain!
Keep the good work up!!
Greetings from Germany.
I didn't know the 109 had that flare launcher in the cockpit!
Great job! Awesome video! I'd really like to see some ejection or bailing out in the end shots after you send them in. Love your channel. Keep it up! 😁👍💪💪
Bf-109K may be a beast in the air but it's also just as dangerous to it's pilots to get it into the air and back onto the ground as the enemy was for the BF 109K because the engine had some crazy torque and that very narrow undercarriage which still makes me shake my head
The WWII dogfights are definitely more "personal" and frantic. No GPS or computer, just skills. 😀
I think the reason why the P51 hit you at the start is because you went up directly vertical, giving him enough room to put his sights onto you. If he was sharper you would have been dead then and there - instead I believe you should've gone for a vertical spiral opposite the direction of which he turned (i.e. a counter-clockwise vertical spiral). That would have removed his ability to put his guns on you before stalling.
He misjudged the energy state of the P-51. He also had taken his eyes off the P-51 and when he looked back, the rounds were already inbound. If he'd have kept his eyes on the P-51, he'd have at least been able to dodge the tracers (he'd have seen them coming).
@@unixfool I think to a degree you are correct, but just because he can see them doesn't mean he's capable of fully dodging, especially near a stall state where the plane has less significantly reduced mobility. So it's no guarantee
It would be cool to see more stuff like this , like the Me262 vs P51
That would hardly be a dogfight tbh, the 262 cannot at all turn, it's biggest and only strengths over the mustang are its higher top speed and uts armament. So it wouldn't really be a dogfight as much as it'll be a jet doing hit and run on a prop
The 109 was an excellent turn fighter, so very dangerous in all areas. Especially the lighter early versions could almost turn with the spitfires. The P-51 should've employed it's biggest strength over the 109 more: dive speed.
I don’t think that would’ve worked, maybe for a 109g the 51 might’ve gotten away, but the K-4 is a whole new story
The more experienced 109 pilots insisted they could turn with Spitfires, it was a matter of engine/prop/flaps management, or so I've read. You have to remember too, the same things that hurt later 109's in the turning department, affected the later Spitfires too.
Would have been interesting to see what a 109 F4 could have done with the engine out of a K4, at least if all that power didn't rip the wings off the thing.
I was waiting for this
low alt dogfight... well, it's not the best place for P-51.
K-4 is a beast at this alt.
Great flying, pleasure to watch.
I’d love more WWII dogfights. Corsair vs P-51?
I play DCS WW2 almost exclusively, and love the P-51with it's K14 gunsight. You master that K14 and you are lethal. whenever i see the 109 K4 coming i know im in for a fight (depending of course on the pilot's skill level). In even remotely capable hands it is a potent adversary. Where most fights in the P-51 are a sprint... the fight against a K4 has to be thought of as a marathon. Your biggest ally is patience, which is easier said than done.
Not sure if DCS has the F variant of the 109 but that would be a good one against an early p51. Also any 190's with the radial. Awesome vid man.