It's interesting to see all the losses and aerial kills in a conflict and to inspect all the details of each side . During a war, you have a lot of accident, mechanical distater, maintenance problem, which disturb the course of events. Nobody is invicible. I'm very glad that this american pilot could have ejected safely, it's not always the case.
If you are flying low over the enemy and suddenly hear a big bang that disables your plane, it's very unlikely to be mechanical failure. The allied forces lost to 52 fixed-wing aircraft in that war mostly due to SAM or AAA. IRAQ's only air-to-air kill was by a MIG 25 shooting down a navy Hornet on day one. The plane in this video is a A-10A Thunderbolt II (Serial Number 80-0248) was shot down by an Igla-1 (SA-16) surface-to-air missile. The pilot, Captain Richard Dale Storr, was captured. He was released on March 6.
I absolutely agree, this might not be the hottest new topic but I certainly find it satisfying to learn about all the little details of these conflicts.
Salut Jeanne, enfaît abbatu le 31 janvier mais déclare MIA le 2 février. 6 A10 abattu, 2 pilotes tués, 1 par coup direct de SAM l'autre en posant le A10 en commande de secours. Pose trop vite atterrissage train effondré et passe sur dos. Fallait faire un crash sur ventre ou éjection...mais trop facile à dire 😢
@@marcomarcon5802 Note that 9 out of 10 shots with big systems SA-2, SA-3, and SA-6 were cold due to operator error. They would turn off the fire control radar after launching. That means solely with this tactic corrected, US losses could've been tenfold. Among other errors, Iraqi SAMs were positioned and faced toward Iran. Correct use of all tactics would've created large losses over a long time period. Worse, if they used popup tactics with warehouses like Ukraine, US would not have gained air supremacy for up to a year.
This is a great video with excellent close ups making good use of the camera to really take you inside the cockpit and feel what the pilots experienced. You did a great job! I would love for you to finish part 2 of this A-10 video and then return to the Falklands War and finish the May 21st dogfight between the Harrier and Canberra. My favorite videos are from these conflicts: -Gulf War -Indo Pakistani Wars -Falklands War So great future ideas from these conflicts would be the dogfight of Pakistani pilot Muhammad Mahmood Alam who became an ace in a day in the 1965 Indo Pakistani War by breaking a world record downing four aircraft in less than a minute. Another idea would be any dogfight about an Israeli F-4 Phantom. I love this plane and believe that its achievements for the Israeli Air Force are not documented enough. Remember, your objective is to make the videos just like the Dogfights series from the History Channel. That is what you're doing: gaining experience and perfecting your knowledge and skills with each video you post. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for another detailed feedback. Part two of A-10 losses is already finished and will be released in a couple of days. I'm not yet sure about Canberras in the Falkland conflict. There will be some videos from Indo-Pakistani wars in the near future, I'm not yet sure which topics I'll cover first. Israeli Phantoms are waiting for Heatblur to release the F-4E module. They say it will be this winter but they also said it would be released by the end of 2022 😁
Great video! I went to that war, but only as GS level maintenance on 7th Corps radios! I was in El Khobar(Dhahran) for the scud attack too! LBE(log base echo), middle of nowhere camp, just off tapline road(MSR Dodge!). Only have analog photos!
I'm gonna put this out there, just because having been there my unit was supported by A 10's more than once. Military intelligence sucked at the time. Be it by design or incompetence doesn't matter. Pilots flew into areas being told the probability of enemy SAM activity was low. Just like we were told there were no T 72's in our combat operation zone. Both bits of intel were completely wrong. Another aircraft that suffered several losses was the AV 8. We actually found one that had been missing and presumed shot down since January of 1991. The pilot was still in his seat and although the canopy was broken, it was still closed.
@@showtime112 By the way, the aforementioned AV 8 pilot was flying low level at the time of his demise. He had no reaction time between getting hit and impacting terrain.
Interesting that neither aviator saw the smoke trail of the MANPAD. Also I would have thought the CMWS (ultraviolet warning system) would have indicated an attack and prompted flares. Glad those guys survived.
Some A-10 pilots in the book I used suggest that SA-13 might have a smokeless motor but I'm not sure about it. In DCS, it smokes. I don't think A-10s had any warning systems for IR missiles in those days. Thanks for another comment!
Love the A-10, it was the first aircraft I bought in DCS W (after the FC3 of course). And still after more than two years of playing DCS it is the only aircraft that I can say I have mastered.
I got it for $10 from a bargain bin boxed copy key, but the ground AI and overall quality of the combat experience are both very poor. I booted it up again in 2.9 for the first time in years and it's the same.
The A10 got sent in too deep and at too low altitude and took so much battle damage that they had to be pulled back to save them for the ground war phase.
0:41 If "success" came at an unacceptable cost, it wasn't really a success. Flying low always increases loss rate which is why Coalition Forces restricted aircraft from flying below 10000 feet after the first few days of the war, when there were heavy losses by low-flying planes like the A-10 and Tornado. The real lesson learned from the Gulf War is that avionics is the most important factor. The accurate bombing computer in the F-16 allowed it to achieve great success using unguided bombs. And the A-10 was only effective because it was one of the few allied aircraft that could carry Mavericks at the start of the war. See Military Aviation History's video about the F-16 to understand how important avionics are in modern air combat. It matters more than armor or guns. That's why the Air Force is more interested in developing planes like the F-35 and retiring obsolete designs like the A-10.
The cost for A-10s would have been much lighter had it not been employed for deep interdiction missions (which wasn't its job). Of four A-10s lost over enemy territory, two were lost in one single deep mission.
They were shot down because they foolishly decided to make gun runs at low altitude on the vehicles. Even on deep strike missions, employing PGM’s or dumb bombs at higher altitudes is much more effective. The truth is, planes like the A-10 are only ideal in very permissive environments. Even in permissive environments it is more cost effective to use turboprop aircraft instead of jets for CAS.
I wouldn't say it was a joke but like the rest of Iraqi military, it was very rigid and inflexible. Plus, US really developed ways of fighting it since Vietnam.
Muchas gracias. Enhorabuena por esta primera parte. Muy bueno el trabajo realizado.
Gracias
Thanks a lot for your positive comment!
These are fantastic videos. Informative and exciting.
Thank you for such positive feedback and for being a subscriber for so long!
Can't wait for part 2!
You didn't wait too long! :)
It's interesting to see all the losses and aerial kills in a conflict and to inspect all the details of each side . During a war, you have a lot of accident, mechanical distater, maintenance problem, which disturb the course of events. Nobody is invicible. I'm very glad that this american pilot could have ejected safely, it's not always the case.
If you are flying low over the enemy and suddenly hear a big bang that disables your plane, it's very unlikely to be mechanical failure. The allied forces lost to 52 fixed-wing aircraft in that war mostly due to SAM or AAA. IRAQ's only air-to-air kill was by a MIG 25 shooting down a navy Hornet on day one. The plane in this video is a A-10A Thunderbolt II (Serial Number 80-0248) was shot down by an Igla-1 (SA-16) surface-to-air missile. The pilot, Captain Richard Dale Storr, was captured. He was released on March 6.
I absolutely agree, this might not be the hottest new topic but I certainly find it satisfying to learn about all the little details of these conflicts.
Salut Jeanne, enfaît abbatu le 31 janvier mais déclare MIA le 2 février. 6 A10 abattu, 2 pilotes tués, 1 par coup direct de SAM l'autre en posant le A10 en commande de secours. Pose trop vite atterrissage train effondré et passe sur dos. Fallait faire un crash sur ventre ou éjection...mais trop facile à dire 😢
@@marcomarcon5802 Note that 9 out of 10 shots with big systems SA-2, SA-3, and SA-6 were cold due to operator error. They would turn off the fire control radar after launching. That means solely with this tactic corrected, US losses could've been tenfold. Among other errors, Iraqi SAMs were positioned and faced toward Iran. Correct use of all tactics would've created large losses over a long time period. Worse, if they used popup tactics with warehouses like Ukraine, US would not have gained air supremacy for up to a year.
2ème partie du A10 à instant
Safe to say this video kicked a**.
U go Showtime 112 !!!!!!
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Thanks for another enthusiastic comment!
Thank you for the Vids and Merry Christmas😊from Berlin, Ringo
Thank you very much and Merry Christmas to you as well!
This is a great video with excellent close ups making good use of the camera to really take you inside the cockpit and feel what the pilots experienced. You did a great job!
I would love for you to finish part 2 of this A-10 video and then return to the Falklands War and finish the May 21st dogfight between the Harrier and Canberra.
My favorite videos are from these conflicts:
-Gulf War
-Indo Pakistani Wars
-Falklands War
So great future ideas from these conflicts would be the dogfight of Pakistani pilot Muhammad Mahmood Alam who became an ace in a day in the 1965 Indo Pakistani War by breaking a world record downing four aircraft in less than a minute.
Another idea would be any dogfight about an Israeli F-4 Phantom. I love this plane and believe that its achievements for the Israeli Air Force are not documented enough.
Remember, your objective is to make the videos just like the Dogfights series from the History Channel. That is what you're doing: gaining experience and perfecting your knowledge and skills with each video you post.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for another detailed feedback. Part two of A-10 losses is already finished and will be released in a couple of days. I'm not yet sure about Canberras in the Falkland conflict.
There will be some videos from Indo-Pakistani wars in the near future, I'm not yet sure which topics I'll cover first.
Israeli Phantoms are waiting for Heatblur to release the F-4E module. They say it will be this winter but they also said it would be released by the end of 2022 😁
Good video. Merry Chrismas from Finland.
Thank you for appreciating it and Merry Christmas to you as well!
Great video!
I went to that war, but only as GS level maintenance on 7th Corps radios!
I was in El Khobar(Dhahran) for the scud attack too!
LBE(log base echo), middle of nowhere camp, just off tapline road(MSR Dodge!).
Only have analog photos!
Thank you for sharing your personal experience! So many are needed to support those that actually fire their weapons at the enemy.
Awesome video as always!!
Thank you very much for the positive feedback!
I'm gonna put this out there, just because having been there my unit was supported by A 10's more than once. Military intelligence sucked at the time. Be it by design or incompetence doesn't matter. Pilots flew into areas being told the probability of enemy SAM activity was low. Just like we were told there were no T 72's in our combat operation zone. Both bits of intel were completely wrong. Another aircraft that suffered several losses was the AV 8. We actually found one that had been missing and presumed shot down since January of 1991. The pilot was still in his seat and although the canopy was broken, it was still closed.
Thank you for sharing your experience. Yes, intelligence data is often not accurate but I guess it's a pretty challenging thing to do.
@@showtime112 I have my own opinion on the matter, but here is not the place for that conversation.
@@showtime112 By the way, the aforementioned AV 8 pilot was flying low level at the time of his demise. He had no reaction time between getting hit and impacting terrain.
Interesting that neither aviator saw the smoke trail of the MANPAD. Also I would have thought the CMWS (ultraviolet warning system) would have indicated an attack and prompted flares. Glad those guys survived.
Some A-10 pilots in the book I used suggest that SA-13 might have a smokeless motor but I'm not sure about it. In DCS, it smokes. I don't think A-10s had any warning systems for IR missiles in those days. Thanks for another comment!
@@showtime112 Yep, pretty sure most, if not all, US aircraft didn't have IR warning receivers back then.
The important thing to remember here is the remarkably good survival rate of A-10 pilots due to that aircraft's amazing toughness!
It is important to note that small IR missiles like Stinger or Igla only burn for about 1 second. After that, no smoke only inertia.
@@JAnx01 That would explain it. Didn't know that.
Love the A-10, it was the first aircraft I bought in DCS W (after the FC3 of course). And still after more than two years of playing DCS it is the only aircraft that I can say I have mastered.
Thanks for commenting! It's good to have mastered at lest one module. I'm more of a 'play everything a little and master nothing' kind of a player 😁
I got it for $10 from a bargain bin boxed copy key, but the ground AI and overall quality of the combat experience are both very poor. I booted it up again in 2.9 for the first time in years and it's the same.
That's awesome! It took me from 2013 to 2023 to get decent at it!
Yea man the AI leaves a lot to be desired.. however supposedly they're working on making it better which I actually believe.
Great video! 😊
Glad you think so!
Nice video!
Thank you Chups!
Why can't *I* have one of these? "Dear Santa, I've been a good boy this year..."
Well, if Air Force starts retiring them, you might be able to purchase one cheaply 😁
Thanks for the video 😊
Thank you for watching!
Great video. An interesting story
Thank you for the positive feedback!
Really great aircraft, able to survive even the worst damage
Toughness was its main feature, thank you for commenting!
Close support missions are among the most dangerous and no plane was better designed for them.
Exactly. As this video and the next one will show, A-10 pilots never knew where danger could come from.
Most planes can do close support better with laser guided munitions. What the a-10 is good at is loitering.
@@Hyper_1989I wouldn’t want a laser-guided anything hitting CLOSE - as in within hand grenade range - to me.
@philsmith2444 I wouldn't want an inaccurate 30mm gun hitting in that range either. It has about a 5-10m impact zone for the 30mm gun.
The A10 got sent in too deep and at too low altitude and took so much battle damage that they had to be pulled back to save them for the ground war phase.
The warthog goes Brrrrrttttttt! Great video. Excellence by Showtime 112! Happy Holidays to you and your viewers. ♠️🎩🎯🎱🇺🇸🏁🇮🇱🇺🇦🌻🔱🏵️💮🌸🌼🏴☠️🏹
You can recognize that gun among dozens of others 😁 Happy holidays to you as well!
Fire in the sky 🔥👆
But no Smoke on the Water 😁😁😁
@@showtime112 😁😉👍
Sretan božić,🎅mate...brrrrrttt 💥💣
Thanks, merry Christmas to you as well!
I wonder why the pilot didn't see the parachute.
Storr ejected at rather low altitude so it's not so strange.
Nice video! wonder what they were hit by.
Thanks! The exact systems that hit Storr is unknown and I've seen different interpretation. It really could have been any of the IR systems.
No coms from the downed pilot? great vid thanks WW2 rule never return to the same target for a second predicable run.
Thanks! It seems that everything was happening so fast that either the pilot had no time to communicate, or perhaps radios malfunctioned.
This is the Iraqi army that was the veteran of the long war with Iran, they had so much combat experience and plenty tricks up their sleeves.
Yes, there were quite a few guys handy with their weapons systems. It was probably the rigidity of the entire system that was their biggest flaw.
In this case, I think the USAF made a pretty obvious mistake. If you go to an area too many times in a row, a SAM operator isn't going to like that.
First..as usual. Hit but survivor💪
Congratulation for your speed! :)
@@showtime112Sretan božić🎉🎅 mate.....brrrrrttt 💣💥
@@dominiqueroudier9401Thanks, likewise!
I know that if they missed their Primary objectives their secondary targets were an Accordion factory and a Mime school!!
Yeah, and they also hit that baby food factory :)
0:41 If "success" came at an unacceptable cost, it wasn't really a success. Flying low always increases loss rate which is why Coalition Forces restricted aircraft from flying below 10000 feet after the first few days of the war, when there were heavy losses by low-flying planes like the A-10 and Tornado.
The real lesson learned from the Gulf War is that avionics is the most important factor. The accurate bombing computer in the F-16 allowed it to achieve great success using unguided bombs. And the A-10 was only effective because it was one of the few allied aircraft that could carry Mavericks at the start of the war.
See Military Aviation History's video about the F-16 to understand how important avionics are in modern air combat. It matters more than armor or guns. That's why the Air Force is more interested in developing planes like the F-35 and retiring obsolete designs like the A-10.
The cost for A-10s would have been much lighter had it not been employed for deep interdiction missions (which wasn't its job). Of four A-10s lost over enemy territory, two were lost in one single deep mission.
They were shot down because they foolishly decided to make gun runs at low altitude on the vehicles. Even on deep strike missions, employing PGM’s or dumb bombs at higher altitudes is much more effective. The truth is, planes like the A-10 are only ideal in very permissive environments.
Even in permissive environments it is more cost effective to use turboprop aircraft instead of jets for CAS.
@@gtdcoder Why would high altitude missions be better? SAMs love high altitude planes.
@@burningphoneixmost SAMs were destroyed.
Maybe Hydraulic failure no sign of a Manpad, Triple AAA Guns firing and S.A.M firing.
Hydraulic failure isn't likely as something obviously hit the plane. Perhaps a well placed AAA shot.
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Hvala!
Luftherrschaft ist immer vom Vorteil. Eine gute Infanterie bringt aber den Sieg.
Well, in this particular war infantry played a rather minor role.
Iraqi Air Defence was a joke. Imagine if this plane faced a serious Air Defence
Dead meat.
I wouldn't say it was a joke but like the rest of Iraqi military, it was very rigid and inflexible. Plus, US really developed ways of fighting it since Vietnam.
Its not a supersonic fighter.its easy to shotdown
Not really, when properly used.
@LEE...337 correct bro.but slow moving planes will become an easy target for anti aircraft SAM dn canons rite
That golf has name its called Persian gulf why you guys ferried to say the name.
That's not its only name as far as I know.
اشهد الا اله الا الله
واشهد ان محمد رسول الله
لا اله الا الله
الله اكبر والعزة لله
لاحول ولا قوة الا بالله
I’m a simple guy, I see A-10 and I click on it.
It is a simple airplane 😁 Thanks for the comment!
L' A10 è un bellissimo aereo, dovrebbero cercare d'evolvere questa macchina, il video è un lavoro eccellente! 👍🍀👽👻🤩😃
Thank you for appreciating the video. I'm afraid that the era of such closely specialized aircraft is gone forever.
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Thanks for the comment!
A-10 was shoot down by enemy??? Who is enemy A-10 agressor US terror air force who is attack iraq?? or iraq is enemy who was defend himself??
Cut the political crap, please.