Battlestar Galactica: Viper Mark II - Spacedock 

REUPLOAD: This vid is a modernization of one of my early ones that was taken down after it was threatened with a copyright claim for no apparent reason. I altered the script slightly to include information from BSG Deadlock. WHOOPS: Just realized I said 'Port Flight Pod' when I meant Starboard. Great, that'll piss me off every time I come back to this vid lol.

Adama flying his old fighter and looking at his battlestar...one of the best closing scenes of that series

The Viper MK 2 might be my favorite sci-if fighter. I love the X-Wing, but (in the movies) they are never shown to be nearly a maneuverable as a Viper. The Vipers’ maneuvers are closer to what space fighters could/ would actually do.

As a massive fan of BSG and recently playing Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, I absolutely love your content.

Easily one of the most Iconic Sci-fi craft.

As beautiful as they look, I've always thought their engines were too large for space, but of course it makes sense for atmospheric flight.

You know it's a genuine mark of respect when "real" F-16 pilots refer to their aircraft as Vipers. Long live the Viper!

I came as soon as I saw the title SO SAY WE ALL

Love it every time you say “...Cylon war.”

Coolest fighter by far, So say we all!!

I feel like I'm repeating here but, it keeps applying, excellent work!

Because of your videos I bought the game yesterday and already played it 10+hours

Just bought my Eaglemoss Mk. II ! Can't wait to put it out on display :D

Love the BSG music. One of my favorite shows ever!

Even years later when I hear the entire fleet was scuttled when the colonials restart I have a internal moment of rage humanity is not good at putting its head in the sand and hoping trouble does not find them why they thought getting rid of the entire fleet would be a great idea I will never understand would have been a much better idea to hollow out a asteroid and put as many of the ships in them as you can so when humanity again regained spaceflight they would have complete records of the cylons that are still out there and the trouble they might pose as well as a template to jumpstart their technology to what the colonials had

0:44 "The standard Mark II is 8.4 meters in length..." F-15: 19.45 meters long F-16: 14.8 m F-18: 17.06 m F-22: 18.9 m more or less. No wonder the Vipers on the show always struck me as, well, petite. :-)

Just one little thing.The starboard flight pod was the museum.

That last image is amazing.

3 Dislikes are from cylons living among us.

I'm a simple man, I see Battlestar Galactica, I upvote.

I saw Star Wars when I was 7 years old, and BSG came out shortly after. Even as a child, as cool as Star Wars is, I still loved the ships and fighters of BSG more. The Viper is by far my favorite small fighter in scifi, followed by either the X-Wing, or the Star Fury and Thunderbolt from Babylon 5.

For the dradis onboard, I think these are only repeat displays. During the first cylon war there were huge numbers of dradis equipped vessels and thus it would make sense to provide the pilots in the vipers with accurate information, without weighing down the vipers by installing the full dradis computer hardware.

So, Viper Mk 2 have the option of flying with “Flight Assist On/Off.” Well that makes me feel better of my own piloting skills.

Have you considered covering the ships from Cowboy Bebop? They have some really interesting designs and I've never seen them really explored

Awesome video about the Colonial Viper Mark 2 Spacedock !

This show and WW2 show EXACTLY why you should never disarm your armed forces. "A wise king does not seek out war, but must always be prepared for it." Odin- Thor (2010)

the perfect fighter space plane, all engines and guns

Vipers are my favorite space fighter.. Trying to recreate it in Duel Universe right now.

The Colonial Viper Mark 2 is an awesome star fighter !

Viper Vs A wing! Both piloted by Ace's!

Sure, the Mk. 7's were more advanced, but, until Galactica figured out how the Cylons beat them during the Fall & 1st Exodus, their defense 'net systems were totally compromised. And probably even more restrictive than Mk. 2's.

Hey Spacedock! Can you do your take on the Battle of Scarif but instead of Raddus you are in command of the Rebel Fleet. The Same Objectives are in place but I'll reiterate. 1. Provide Support for Rogue Squadron Ground troops on Scarif 2. Deactivate the Scarif Planetary Shield 3. Ensure the Death Star plans are acquired and make it back to Rebel Command 4. (bonus) Minimize Alliance Casualties Your Alliance Fleet 3 Braha'tok-class gunships 3 Hammerhead corvettes At least 6 CR90 corvettes: - The Tantive IV Is Docked to the Profundity At least 4 EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigates 10 GR-75 medium transports 1 MC75 cruiser: - Profundity (Flag Ship) At least 22 BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bombers of Gold Squadron At least 42 T-65B X-wing starfighters split into: - Blue Squadron - Green Squadron - Red Squadron 2 UT-60D U-wing support crafts 1 VCX-100 light freighter Scarif Defense Fleet 2 Imperial I-class Star Destroyers - Intimidator - Persecutor At least 100 TIE fighters Shield Gate Death Star will arrive later in the Battle. Darth Vader will also arrive later via The Imp I-class SD Devastator.

There are actually full size props for the viper and jumper for sale. Pics are pretty cool. All the displays light up. They would draw a crowd for sure, especially if they were at an airbase.

Nice and well put together

That was enjoyable.

The Colonial Viper Mark II was one kick-ass machine.

Always preferred the Viper over the X-wing.

my fav fighter craft

Nice little ships 💚👽

I’d love to see a dogfight between a Viper and an X Wing , I wonder which one would win the battle ? 👽💚

Great vid as always, mate. Cheers.

holy wow - where do you get all this info - it's fantastic and remarkable to understand the Viper even more :)

Have you done any vids featuring “Space above and beyond”

Watching this in jan 2020 just ordered the mk 1,2 vipers from Eaglemoss

The Mark II Viper is iconic within the Battlestar Universe.

How about a video about the ghost fleet offensive?

Could you do a video on the Mark 1/Classic Viper? That would be great to see.

I prefer the mark 7 but when you talk about how good the mark 2 served mankind in two wars against the cylons the end made sad, they drive so much incredible ships direct into the sun... allways hated that ending.

Hey SpaceDock, keep up the good work. Could you do a video on the Titan ship from Titan AE or maybe the Dreg Mother ship or Dreg Fighters?

The last mark II’s were located on Galactica’s starboard flight pod not the port on the mini-series.

I do so love the Viper MkII design from the RDM version of Battlestar Galactica. The original Viper design from the original series is a cool looking fighter, but the RDM Viper MkII just cleans it up and streamlines it, to make it *that bit* more realistic. It's just a beautiful looking fighter. What I can't figure out, is how they made the supposedly superior Viper MkVII so damn ugly. That thing is hideous to look at. I suppose that's the point in a way - the Viper MkII is the hero fighter of the series, so it had to look good on screen, and the Viper MkVII had to look like a soulless redesign.

The Argo

35 minute ad for a 4.5 min video. GG RU-vid.

You should make one of the Mark I

I like that vid69 painting.

Can you do a video on the space 1999 eagles and hawks the mark nine hawks which I’ve always loved... They were warships...

Id love to see you make some andromeda ascendant ship videos :)

the oberon dread class of wh40k or a other super heavy staceship of the imperium

Ah, the wannabe X-wing... (I'm joking of course but it's hard to deny where the inspiration of the design came from.)

I'm just excited to see the new B/SF-17 in Star Wars. It's about time they introduced more bombers other than the BTL Y-Wing

Can we see a review of the Viper Mk 1?

T-47 Snowspeeder or the Pergrine fighter from Star Trek please.

Dude, you should do the TIE Avenger.

Will you do a video on the colonial viper mk 1 from the original battlestar Galactica series please?

Please do the Recusant Class Light Destroyer

How about doing the ship from Starship Troopers I liked the video from you a week or so ago but interested in the ship like the Roger Young

I'd like to see the original Jupiter 2 from lost in space .The Seaview from voyage to the bottom of the sea .

What i found very strange about S3 was that the entire crew of the pegasus vanished with the ship even though lee explicitly said that Pegasus' fighters where guarding the fleet. Where are they all? Why are they still bothering with the mk2's? They should have more than enough mk7's...

In pretty sure Galactica had 40 mk 2 in the museum flight pod

I love your work but I found an error. The starboard flight pod was the museum not the port flight pod.

Have you considered doing a review of the Viper Mk I (original series)...?

Legends version

Be interesting to see a compassion between a Viper MkII and a Babylon 5 SA-23 Aurora Starfury or the B5 SA-26 Thunderbolt Star Fury.

Neat.

anyone else noticed how somehow they got what was suppose to be adamas viper on the galactica but in razor you see it lost when he ejects durring the last battle of the war after a collision with a raider?

can you do a episode on children of a dead earth?

Have you ever thought of taking the forces from one IP and battle and 'translating' them into comparable forces of another IP. Example, translating the Rebel Fleet at Scarif to a Federation Fleet from Star Trek or Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica and then analyzing the fight from there. I know you have something similar with your Versus series but it was just an idea.

Could you do video about the battle star pegasus

Harrower Class Dreadnought. I mran you did do the terminus so why not its bigger meaner cousin

If you think about it, humanity in the Battlestar Galactica universe could find remains of destroyed vipers when they start interstellar travel.

Could you do a video about a Wraith hiveship from Stargate?

Question: have you ever read any novels by Ian Douglas? I have quite a few of them and find them...interesting. He seems to go out of his way to make things as 'realistic' as possible, but I'd like to know your thoughts on the various series' if you have any.

I have a interesting question what if the star forge from kotor could produce stargate zpms

I'm Viper Captain on line

Where does it hold all the fuel? Or does it just run for 5 minutes and go dead?

Adama / Thrace 2020

Can you make a video analysis of the Destiny Ascension from Mass Effect?

Hey space ever thought of covering Hyperion corporations from borderlands massive H shaped Helios space station?

nothing like going old school as they say if it isnt broke dont fix it

What source did you use to put the number of Mk IIs at 80 in the beginning of the Exodus?

What no mark 1 and what about Buck Rogers ship

I wish they'd never scuttled the remaining fleet ships, such a sad end for such magnificent machines. They could've just sent them off into deep space with the last Cylons. Oh well.

A frakking excellent fighter. No felgercarb

So what became of Adamas ship after it landed on Earth? is it in the lost city of Atlantis perhaps (which would have been a nice spin off lol BSG : Atlantis, but someone would probably get sued lol, better call for Romo Lampkin)

What is that piece of music in the background called? I checked Battlezone II and found nothing, but I assumed it was from RDM's BSG. Help, anyone?

well i prefer raptor tbh. But Mark II kicks ass too

Instead of rebooting the series entirely, they should make a continuation where modern earth is attacked by cylons and finds the Battlestar Galactica scuttled on the moon where Anders crash landed it instead of flying it into the sun.

Improvement

What about Star Wars E-Wing?

Could you do Home One