Could An F-22 Squadron Defend Guam From Two Russian Tu-95 Bomber Regiments (WarGames 193) | DCS 

If you read through the article you'd see that modern warfare is moving into something you've already played with; the "offense/defense missile salvo". Aircraft Carriers become passive sensors and missile guidance platforms, which fits the PLA-Navy's build-out. The US is behind the curve. The Missile boats for the PLA-Navy are the "new weapon" of the future war. Meanwhile look up FARPs, the US to offset its disadvantages at sea now are repurposing the Marines (Marine Force 2030) to be FARP builders. Forward Area Refueling Points. Basically an "Island hopping 2.0" in order to turn Pacific islands quickly into refueling bases and air strips. Also my personal view is that the Chinese will just bypass Taiwan entirely. Their goal will be to seize Palau and possibly Wake Island and the whole island chains out that far...Solomon islands gets them most the way to Palau. They want to disable Kadena and Guam and replace them with their own Pacific Air Forces. I'm in the process of demonstrating that their military command structure reflects this; easier said than done. But, if you think about WW2, for instance; it's not like the Germans had a "Berlin defense division" that ended-up in Stalingrad. The divisions and their corps command structures often betray intentions. I expect the PLA has betrayed their intention to bypass Taiwan with their PLA-RF and Air Force squadrons. Taking a look at their "Brigidization" is already the first clue. Where an Air Force brigade can be rebased in some Forward operating theater. This was not possible before 2017 when the command structure were divisions centered around the "Theater command headquarters". What possible reason does China need a Brigidization of their huge Air Force if their only objective were for the Eastern Theater Command to take over Taiwan? Conclusion; China has no interest in Taiwan. It's a distraction to purposefully obscure their real intention to take over the Pacific out to Wake Island. apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD1082606.pdf

I would intercept me. I'd intercept me so hard.

It was so sly...

Absolutely laughed out loud like a Hyena when I randomly heard it in the video.

I would intercept me... 🥳

"I'd intercept me"

Noted.

not necessarily, we have been taking them out of our bases in the pacific to ship off to Ukraine lately . there simply arent making enough of them and our reserves are empty so the latest ones we have been giving to Ukraine are now coming from our own bases

@@mikesmith-wk7vy ha. If you think we've been sending anything other than the massive excess of equipment we have, you're insane. See, I know how the military functions. We keep X amount of shit on hand. Anything above that, we can sell, lend-lease, loan, etc. But, we must maintain that X amount, to be combat response ready. We haven't even reached the end of the "hey, let's throw together some FrankenSAMs to send over there. Stick Sidewinders in that old USSR launcher. Fight 50 year old tech with 50 year old tech". Now, since you don't know what you're talking about, I suggest you shut up.

​@mikesmith-wk7vy This is in no way, shape or form even remotely correct...

@@Rossiman78 Thanks, Colton. RU-vid yeeted my reply to him, and I'm in too much pain to retype it all.

I know you can hear them in "Cold Waters" 😉

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An off shore AEGIS system is actually a current part of the island’s missile defense network (open source) so it would be very likely that at least an Arleigh Burke or something similar would be in the area.

I read that usually 4 arleigh burke where there for defense, that one AEGIS system Relieves 3 burke destroyers

USN has had a Tico and one other tin can offshore as air defense since I was in the service in the 90's, so I'd say the air defense was lacking as well. The Russian attack came from the wrong direction and US would definitely see this coming from about 1000 miles away. That said, Raptors would be able to intercept at best ranges and F-16s would also have time to be loaded up in Murder Spec. Don't know how many Patriot systems on the island, but seems like one is super low.

@@species3167 idk about the patriot system itself but I know the THAAD unit in Guam just recently relocated to another one of the islands. Apparently the issue they were having on the main island was that they didn’t have enough space to employ every launcher to make a complete battery. A big concern is not creating a big eye sore for the locals, not disrupting the tourism market, etc. But definitely just like you said, no way a flight of Bears gets that close without being spotted earlier, especially not a flight that large.

AWACS hell! Satellites would have seen their heat radiation. Also the US would have had intel alerting them to the Bear presence long before they even got near Guam.

I was thinking the same thing! Was expecting a "Oops! ahhhhhhh!"

As in Hach, have, hach! 😂

Or on the turn into the Zerg swarm that was the inbound cruise missiles.

It's called PLOT ARMOR.

My dude.... We've started making fresh, new, paint still wet, nuclear weapons for the first time in 32 years. Fuck that base. While I'm sure it's strategically important to the upcoming WWIII.... The B-1, B2, BUFF, F15 through the F22, A-10 Warthog, AC-130 Spectre Gunship, *_and_* the NGAD that's cooking up..... We don't really _need_ it.........

isn't that the one Enola Gay flew from?

Yes.@@MarkoDash

I'd intercept me. . .

Of course.

Haha

Man that would rule.

Well they both have rear-facing guns, so I don't see why not??

No way that's possible, the island would capsize from the weight.

LOL :) 🤣@@ThatZenoGuy

Not really, runway patchwork can be done somewhat quickly. It’s more about base infrastructure.

Welp... It will take about a month or so to build new 200 cruise missiles

@@user-qn3xu5ee3t How long to replace the crew and airframes of the Bears?

@@mnanthony3-ty3qh practically impossible since the Bear is no longer being produced

@@jaguargr3 They could pull several dozen of them out of storage and upgrade them but that would take months if not years. The point is moot though since they would fire their cruise missiles from at least 500++/800++ miles/kilometers away.

It can't see missile with it's radar. Discovered that here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gJEB-fPN6VY.html

Could you cheese it with more sidewinders?@@grimreapers

It was trying to make it ever so slightly fair for Russia, considering the staggering difference in our military capability and theirs.

GR videos are primarily aimed at being entertaining rather than pure Milsim, they need to reach as broad an audience as possible and that won't happen if the video is boring. In real life the incoming AC would have been spotted a long way off, in real life there would be Naval assets and maybe ISTAR assets, but then that would be a very boring video.

⁠@@TBH-nu2soYou do understand the differences in doctrine and how both countries’s military forces are vastly different from one other. And this has nothing to do with Russia’s capabilities, as there’s no possible way to hide an entire regiment of Tu-95’s traveling across the Pacific to attack Guam. No matter what coalition this is, this wouldn’t be possible anyways.

Well we can certainly add Navy in for the re-run.

@@rebelliousfew I'm more just leaving it in there for people who think Russia WOULD be able to do that. There would already be a flight of Raptors up, Aegis-armed destroyers in the area would have identified the bombers a long time ago and likely intercepted most, and there would be at least a few more PATRIOTs as a backup.

yeah yea. Elite Merc unit, I like the sound of that. hahahahahah thanks for watching.

That's the most impractical idea I've ever heard

@@HighRiskV well, yeah! But kind of cool in a steam punk sort of way. However as happened in the gulf recently, using million dollar missiles to knock down a $100,000 drones is pretty impractical too.

This would have been the opening act of a war. Large scale bomber formations 1000 miles out to sea, in INTERNATIONAL AIRSPACE, while provocative, even if deliberately so, is not illegal. It bears watching for sure, and there would be high level communications, warnings and threats but until an ADIZ or boundary is busted, or a missile falls out of the belly, it could just be formation practice.

@@aztec0112 True, but the scenario assumes a state of conflict anyway as no country's national airspace extends to 370 miles beyond it's borders! So regardless of communications, the only way the US could make a legal first strike here is if they left it late enough for the Bears to launch all their missiles anyway. All of which is entertaining the idea that the US wouldn't voluntarily make that first act of war should 2 entire regiments of strategic bombers come within 400 miles of an airbase and presumably fail to turn away or respond at all to radio commands. After all if it was just formation practice, why are they doing it 400 miles East of Guam, which is to say the wrong side of the island from Russia *and* a long way away too!

The Russians would never launch a surprise attack like this with that much firepower nearby. I think this is why the video is so effective. It shows how they can hit us if we have our pants down.

Misfire out of how many? Remember the UFO incident last year, the F22 had to fire the second time after the first air to air missile shot missed.😂😂😂

​@@piuswanyaga8361air to air missiles aren't designed to shoot down balloons

God that would be the Ultimate universe cross over xD

just looked it up and this sounds amazing, I hope he sees this and considers it

What if arma zeusing and DCS had a baby

woah that sounds amazingly interesting!

Pretty crappy😅😅😅😅

Well if they arent in the game, someone probably made a mod of them

Thanks Super J

THAT "glitch" in DCS is the single biggest factor as to why Blue had no chance.

@@aztec0112 Well thats how a Ukrainian Mig-29 crashed when it was shooting down cruise missiles with guns and the debris hit the aricraft.

not to mention if they didnt bug the scramble

Apra Harbor houses a naval base. It would not be unreasonable for a DDG or two to be moored there.

lol love it!

Bears don't fly with escorts on long missions.

That's a great point, I never even thought about that.

Scenarios like this one definitely make the case for maximum weight of missiles from a single launched interceptor, though more ground based batteries (data linked to planes that can actually see the threat) would probably be a better solution.

Thank you!

Yes I saw that video also. Crazy.