1965 The Battle Of Ia Drang Valley - Vietnam | DCS WORLD Reenactment 

I really enjoyed this video. I was a crew chief on Jolly Greens during my participation in the Viet Nam war. While I don't believe Jolly Greens took part in this battle, seeing them included brought a smile to my heart. While I could nit-pick, for example radio calls for the A-1s were Sandy only on SAR missions. For attack missions such as this a different call would have been used. But it was very well planned and carried out. A salute to the Grim Reapers!

I enjoy some of the older aircraft videos.

Our Hueys just did what they do, make every mission look better!!😎 It was a great, fun mission, cheers Starscream! 👍

Wow! Great mission, this one was exciting. Would love to see a proper Vietnam war plane set.

it always seems to be miracle that grim reapers started without crashing. Aces.

ok, ok, I'll play Fortunate son in a separate tab myself

Glad its a video game and Cap isn't busy filming rather than fighting.

1:05:53 That was a close call for Transport 1 flight I had no idea we were just about to be taken out by Ello

My immersion is ruined until I see infantry move and/or shoot back. My immersion!

Myself and Arty in the Dragonflies did pretty good overall was a really fun mission

Wonderfull F86 f's spent a lot of my youth from 6years old with my school buddy sneaking away on free days and hung about Manston Air Base with many F86'6 ! 1949/54 period and more.

Well you know that with the F-105 Thud mod being released, it is time to try the Bombing of Hanoi prior to Wild Weasel missions. Get some!

My grandfather flew the great a1 during vietnam

Uh, them infantree standing tall. Great targets. I had to do only one LZ, believe me: not standing so tall.

Great collaboration there guys! Really great use of the FAC, clearly some talent in the team and having been a grunt on the ground with CAS supporting us in Afghanistan this is a real pleasure to watch how everyone works together. Wish I had the set up to be able to join in.

I always come to watch a few minutes of these.... 2 hrs later....

beginning of the mission Cap "How do you fly this thing" End of mission also Cap *lands like he has been flying it since birth

The A-1 played the P-47 in the longest day

Long and riveting :) Thanks GR, well done all!

I LOVED this one! Please do more like it.

Hi Cap, did you see the A-29B Super Tucano mod? Its really well modeled for a mod, a LOT of clickable button's, working MFD's, custom HUD, A/A and A/G weapons and Navigation systems which are all working!

14:14 paused to go get popcorn. Carry on!

very good battle. I really enjoyed it it felt very cinematic

Saw nightmare last night on GS. Still representing GR.

The planes with the yellow and black diamonds are basically yelling “Shoot me here” 😝

Great reenactment! Thanks for sharing!! Beyond the fact that Sandy Flight call signs were always reserved for SAR missions, the Sandy flight lists the aircraft as A-1 Skyraiders in the header, but shows them as P-47Ds for each aircrew. The thumbnail you chose shows a P-47 at the forefront, not an A-1 Skyraider.

such a ferocious enemy. They have no fear of your weapons. Look at how they just stand still out in the open while being lit up.

Camp Radcliff, also known as 'The Golf Course' by the 1st Cav. Read Chickenhawk by Robert Mason, fantastic book.

Not bad guys. More realistic than you know lol. Later on Loaches and O-2s were used to mark the areas that needed obliterating. As in DCS, it's nearly impossible to see Friendly's from 2,000 feet at 400 plus knots. Looking forward to your next adventure 😀.

I watched this last night and have been thinking about this all day. Great job GR!!!

RC trying to take off in a jug is internet gold

Call in the A1s!!! P47 intensifies

Spad's seized up all the time IRL. I thought that was very authentic. Curious about Cap's emergency landing technique; is it better to belly in or use gear? I would have tried for a landing. Anyway, loved it! Outstanding!

Fortunate Son sounds intensify...

I think Vietnam War Era music would had been cool as Hueys were approaching LZ

Those P47s looked and sounded awesome

The editing on this is tits. Every time it cuts into the helicopter, the tension just amps up.

Great mission!!

Hi. Watched again and Caps flight hitting the target looked like a ArcLight mission from afar 😂

LMAO when cap closes his canopy!

Great vid and fun but those dumb AI enemy troops! My old Dad was a WW2 veteran and I always remember him snorting at war films where troops were wandering through enemy open ground without a care in the world even though perfect cover was available. Before he was a tank driver he spent most of his training crawling through hedgerows and ditches-skills he had to employ on the battlefield when his tank was knocked out in Burma.

Great Video...! Nice!

This was REALLY well done and a ton of fun to watch. But just imagine how suicidal this would have been if the redfor had even a few manpads.....

I believe that the damage effects from rockets need adjustment as they're area effect weapons in reality

Just watch Flight of the Intruder and get yourself a hell of a good scenes of A1 Skyraiders aka Sandy.

I'm trying to put tiger balm on this jungles nuts

@ 20:17 my favorite line 🤣😂

The RC cam had me laughing, atta boy!

nice landing!

Rotor to the face! 😆 25:34

As to the model of lroquois "Huey" , given the date of the battle,of La Drang 14-19 Nov. 1965, I would guess that most were either UHIA's or most likely the UH1B ( as I believe by this time, the UH1A's were mostly designated as Medivac birds ) because the UH1B was equipped with the 960 H.P. Lycoming T53-L-5 and thus was better suited to carrying troops and supplies as well as preforming gunship duties when equipped as such.

Thus illustrates my second biggest conflict with DCS that drove me to shelve it for the time being. (first being the CONSTANT futzing to keep running with every update)! Perfectly chosen, familiar scenario. Excellent research to find key details and a similar geographical Area. Thorough mission design to work around deficiency's in available assets. Excellent staffing, briefing participation, everyone behaving and going with the plan. Wind em up, Cockpit checks, last min details, excitement builds then..... Meh... Up we go, alone in a highly detailed clickable cockpit. You, your radios, your wingman and an abyss of nothingness outside! Follow routs as best you can. Inability to recognize each other, geographical landmarks, enemy, friendly, fire? smoke???? Thousands of pounds of ordinance, rockets, bombs dropped. Impact and then meh..... No explosions, no fire, no residual smoke but a puff? Colored smoke invisible until your too close to maneuver. Flat world with no ability to get a feel for direction. Where did my wingman go? He was just off my port side! Oh wait, this frame he's back. Ground target spotted by me, wingman can't see a thing and he's at my tip. Roll in, wait, their gone, nope there they are, wait, gone again??? DIGITAL COMBAT SIMULATORY is an AWSOME flight sim, probably the best! You guys do a fantastic job!! but DCS WORLD sucks. Even with Caps' outstanding cinematics even you guys seemed disappointed in the actual execution phase . Not sure if its a limitation of all sims, how it was for pilots in real war or a major miss for DCS, but all the excitement of the build up of planning, starting and flying aircraft quickly disappeared for me, when I lift off into the emptiness, even on an active server. Back to lurking, maybe v2.8?

DCS need a F100 Super Sabre

Nice shooting of dirt!

Question, SuperCap. When you and RC were RTB after your first run-in, you started dumping cannon rounds and it got me wondering: Is barrel overheat and gun jamming modeled in DCS? Thanks for your time ✌🏼

Fun fact/Never been this early/Algorithm comment...

You forgot about the A-4. correct period aircraft

and the 7th Cavalry was regiment (1000 - 2000) soldiers

Awesome choice of aircraft, the jug is so beautiful in the ugliest of ways lol The Douglas A-1 Skyraider is another beautiful ugly duckling from the Vietnam war Any chance of seeing the skyraider doing a run in?

I thought Vietnam had more trees n stuff. Like a thick jungle

You forget the call sign broken arrow meaning need all air support cause about to be over ran and the spot helicopter was nickname the egg

Your analogy was incorrect. A battalion is about 400 a brigade is about 3000. They were up against a division, about 10,000 enemy soldiers.

Sweet!

Bit confused. I get that the P-47 stand in for the Skyraiders but whats with the Sabre's and the F/A-18's? Also does this game not allow the use of Napalm? I no it was a very controversial weapon but they dont have to show the men burning.

Hi Just curious as to why the Skyhawk and Thud wasn't used?

Engine cowling should be close in flight and open on the ground

i Drang.

55:00 what were they all shooting at? I didn’t see any targets. 🤷‍♂️

Cap, did you English-ify your Skyraider engine and install Lucas electrics into it?

where can i get a a-1 SPAD skin ? i saw a link you had in video..BUT guess it is private a it does not work :(

Can you please do the battle of Longtan. Thanks Cap.

I thought i saw an f18

As much as you guys fly and with how good you all are, none of you can take off decently with nearly any plane. Especially the prop planes. WTF is that about?

RC..?? I thought you were lead??

Strange that you posted this video. I re-watched "We Were Soldiers" two weeks ago. The Director's Cut was better if only for the scene were Hal Moore meets with General Westmorland and the Secretary of Defence (McNamara). I don't know why they deleted the scene because it was a pivotal moment in the movie. Watch it and it will leave you gobsmacked. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xlVcduLh6ec.html

Can we get an A-29B super tucano review?

I really would've liked to join in on this one but how do I do it?

hi cap could you please do a vid on an a6 intruder mod. It is a mod with a efm and doesn't require fc3 . I will give you the link if you respond.Thanks

Mel Gibson?... fuckn based!

Getting a job?... ppfffff!

Broken arrow

LOACH recc copter

Where is hot sounding chick? :(

wow these are uneducated. it's pronounced "yah drang". not "i ay" and it was a Division (10,000) not a brigade

Should have went F-100