*can anti radiation missile designed to deal with SAM engage a powerful radar of fast moving F15 closing in on you* These are some questions that I hope deserved to be answered, yet some how my comment keeps vanishing
@@man15h They don't until they are pre-staged (side weapon bay opened), and they suffer from masking from the body of the aircraft unlike similar weapons fitted to wing tips of other aircraft. This limits the speed the missiles can be fired from. Sidewinders are not particularly effective from the F-22 platform due to lack of HMD cueing. Indeed a conventional gen 4 aircraft with modern avionics will have a much better chance of a successful IR missile engagement. A Gripen or tranche 3 onwards Eurofighter pilot could just look over his shoulder - cue an IRIS-T or ASRAAM from his HMD and hit the button - the missile will do the rest (lock after launch). None of this getting a lock by pointing your nose rubbish - things have moved on. F-22 is way behind the curve - the avionics systems are completely obsolete. Brilliant plane - obsolete systems.
Reality: a couple of drone intercepts happened, lets show them to the public! Grim Reapers: our drone was intercepted, lets start a World War 3 immediately!
Some nice flying today guys and girls. Shoutout to Grump (glad to have him back) for thinking he had a Grippen to land sans fuel and Cap for a great looking refuel. This scenario may become reality in the not too distant future.
The rebels fought back during the Arab spring when many countries were seeing a rise in unrest. The rebels in Syria were actually winning against Assad until the Russians intervened and basically destroyed Aleppo. They changed the tide for Assad by supporting him and the Americans help the Kurds control the oil rich areas in east Syria. It gives the Americans an area to operate from to attack ISIS but it also keep Iran, Turks, Russia, Assad, and ISIS from killing the rebels. Many factions were fighting for control of certain areas.
Never understood why north America needs middle eastern oil.. when they have enough oil and gas in North American to supply itself. I guess it’s just harder to drill in America than the Middle East
i would suspect any combination of "could raptor" and vs russian is usually a yes. Now more than ever. Also by no means a suggestion: Assad is as big a piece of work as any Isis leader! Also also, i know the Arma videos didn't get many views but they were always great fun. Kind of a school trip with the occasional hostile action. But i guess the baby has now replaced Pritchard.
First flight of the Raptor was September 7th 1997 and was variously designated F-22 and F/A-22 before it formally entered service on December 15th 2005. (per Wikipedia)
I was at Edwards Air Force Base during the fly off of the YF-22 and YF-23. Back in the early 90's. Remember, the concept of the YF-22 dates back to 1986.
One of the reasons the Russians intervened is Syria was they received exclusive use of a Deepwater port in the Mediterranean in Tartus. from Bashar al-Assad. Its the only one they have in the Mediterranean.
Hell yeah!! Thank you for the heads up on this, I had only read a headline in passing about this redeployment. I am a huge history nerd, and I have to say, watching your guy's tactics today, staying out of range, lobbing long shots, and turning cold only to be replaced by the next incoming Raptor immediately made me think of an ancient Spanish tactic that was later adopted by the Romans called a Cantabrian Circle!! Literally the same concept only men on horseback using arrows or javelins when they were on the side of the circle closest to the enemy. Super Cap, if you do make it stateside and are in the southwest, I've got to recommend the Grand Canyon. I know it's just a big giant hole in the ground, but it is absolutely one of the world's natural wonders!! Bonus, Arizona gets a ton of US military aircraft overhead!! Luke AFB right next to where I live has F-35's, Davis-Monthan in Tucson has A-10's, and there is a Raytheon facility there as well, so the sky is full of aircraft!! Probably the wildest one I've personally seen was the QF-16. Biggest thing to see as an aviation enthusiast down there though is the Boneyard!! It's where America mothballs old airframes, and there are more than 3000 birds out there just enjoying the good weather and being kept in case they are ever needed again. That being said, if you do come to the southwest, hit me via Facebook and let me know, I would gladly load up the wife and kids to show you around any of the above-mentioned locations, and we would be happy to provide food and lodging or even just a lift from the airport if you needed!! I feel like that is the very least that any of us dedicated viewingtons could do to repay Super Cap for all the work you do, and I bet you will find the same offer as I'm proposing anywhere you end up going stateside!! Great flying as always Grim Reapers!!
7:30 Having been slightly obsessed with this topic when it happened, here's my take: Assad and Putin are both strongmen, like Kim Jong Un, that despise the West. They work together to achieve their geopolitical goals. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Syria under Assad is huge buyer of Russian arms. Additionally the Syrians are leasing to the Russians the naval base in Tartarus - Russia's only direct access to the Mediterranean and one if it's 4 naval bases outside of Russia (the US has at least 15). It's also ice-free year round, which all except two naval bases in Russia are not. (I cannot stress this enough, Tartarus is a huge factor here.) When you're trying to project power beyond your borders, and maintain your strategic goals, this is hugely important - I mean if Assad fails, Russia's access to the Mediterranean fails as well... as you guys would obviously know, case in point Okinawa for the Americans. In fact the Syria - Russia relationship is similar to the Japan - USA relationship, in many aspects beyond the military, and goes back to the Cold War. Fun fact: if you look at Syria's parliament it's basically only Arab Socialists and Communists. They're not like the hardcore Islamic monarchies in the gulf that are friendly to the US. 7:35 They didn't win. The war is still ongoing, believe it or not. What Assad and Putin did achieve though, is driving ISIS to near extinction (along with Turkey and the US), and liberating about half of Syria from the rebels, again, not entirely. Around 8,000 square kilometres or around 6% of "Assad's Syria" is still under FSA. In addition ISIS holds maybe half as much. The non-Assad part, everything north of the Euphrates river is controlled by the Kurds. Btw the way they manage their de-facto independent state is actually really interesting - for more info just google Rojava. So yeah in short, only about 65% of Syria is controlled by Assad and his Russian buddies. 7:40 It's not that they want to throw out the Americans "now". They never wanted them there in the first place. As you know, the US doesn't tolerate the likes of Sadam Hussein and Gaddafi in the region. He's reasonably paranoid. The only thing in common Turkey, the US, Russia, Assad have in this conflict is eradicating ISIS. Other than that they basically hate each other, as ironic as that is given that Turkey is a part of NATO meanwhile the US sided with the Kurds which Turkey is against... You then get this bizarre scenario of NATO weapons fighting NATO weapons. Anyway, the Americans showed up uninvited on the pretext of fighting terrorism, as usual. Then Russia stepped in, which was kinda surprising at the time. To further clarify - Assad has external enemies like the US and the West, but even internally he has three enemies: ISIS, the FSA and the Kurds. All this got blown off the lid when the Arab Revolution started and he just couldn't hold down his iron fist. Add to that Turkey randomly meddling along it's borders with it's own insane plans... you get the point. Interestingly we're now seeing parallels to that in Russia - the trigger was the recent invasion of Ukraine, but since it strained the Putin regime so much (just as the Arab Revolution did to Assad), he ended up having one of it's own, Wagner PMC, stage a mutiny. Now imagine if all hell breaks loose and every faction that's dissatisfied with Putin starts fighting him, and in the process start fighting each other as well. Now add to that foreign militaries and that's basically the state of Syria since 2011. Hope that clears it up a bit!
They mentioned "seeing it from the ground" and I gotta say it was really weird. I saw a tanker actively fueling a C-17 with a second tanker trailing them, in a sustained turn, flying low over a big city.
I don't know why, but your videos are so good to watch in the evening after a long day of work. Like recently I've been having sever social anxiety, stress, depression and your videos helped me a lot! I actually look forward to a nice cup of tea and a new episode. It's relaxing but at the same time mentally stimulating in a perfect amount. I'm feeling good rn. Thank you. Keep up the busy upload schedule! :)
F22..... takes me back to TFX days and F22 - Total Air War days..... TFX was 1993 for PC Dos so that's 30 years, and included the Typhoon too. Loved those games.
I believe Russia has supported Assad because it views Syria as a critical ally in the region. Russia has a naval installation and other bases in Syria, which it believes it can use to project power into the Mediterranean. With Turkey in NATO, Russia knows its warm water ports in the Black Sea are always at risk of being denied access through the Bosporus Strait. The bases in Syria theoretically give Russia leverage to prevent that from happening.
Russia and Syria are historical allies. Syrians see Russia as a friendly country and a help against the terrorists. Including the US who are stealing their resources. It's sad to see how brainwashed the western population is, to be so blind about crimes committed by the US.
Cap you should go to San Diego next year! It’s close to Mirimar the original top gun school. It also has the Midway museum. All the valued viewers here would like to meet you!
Cap, just saying, if you come to America, you've got three places to go see: 1) Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This is where the Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville, first made their heavier-than-air flight in 1903. Interestingly, I just found out about a month ago I'm a distant cousin to the Wright Brothers. 2) Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan. Greenfield Village has a replica of the Wright Brothers' Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop they built their early aircraft in, not to mention other historical exhibits. 3) Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. This is a major eastern US air base for land aircraft. 4) Honorable mention: Whiteman AFB in South Dakota. This base houses both B-1 and B-2 bombers.
The Midway Carrier and Air and Space museum here in San Diego are great as well. Also multiple Navy/Marine bases with F18s/F-35s flying around all day which is fun. I can see the airfield from my office and spend too much time of the day day dreaming watching them take off and land.
Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida. Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler (Savannah), Georgia. Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Georgia. I just had to plug the naval museum where I received my Navy commission. I'm a Georgia resident now.
I once flew in a C-130 from North Carolina to Gander, New Foundland. Refueled. Just west of the Azores we did an inflight refueling then landed in Germany. During the refueling we got up to look out the windows - but were told, "Don't make a lot of noise - you DON'T want to distract the pilots."
He should visit Indian land stolen by Ben and Jerry's in Vermont. If he's quick, he could be made an honorable tribal member and get in on the self inflicted grift. Lefties are so dumb, their uber-virtuous pandering and the backlash is really satisfying to see, especially when it's Indians fkn with them, they can't just tell them to f off.
QF-16 drones harassing Russian aircraft in retaliation would be better. If Russia thinks it is okay to damage or destroy drones, it should be okay for the drones to fight back in self defense.
If Syria can’t keep ISIS out, they will get the US involved with or without Syrian permission. Harboring terrorists that are a threat to the US is a quick way to become a testing ground for US weapons. Put up air defenses and it will make no difference.
Don’t need to bother with a stealth fighter when QF-16 can wild weasel S-400 and destroy the Russian ground systems with no risk to pilots and only risking high hours retired F-16 airframes that were just parked in storage.
Russia is there defending the airspace of Syria, as per the request of the Syrian government and military. They're there as friends. American drones are there as terrorists. Illegal invaders. Anyone who refuses to accept that is a POS. Russia should flat out shoot them down and pretend that Syrian airforce did it. Americans have no place in Syria, go home.
Just a lovely mission everyone. Jumping from one type of aircraft to another isn't easy. Real Air force and Navy pilots spend years learning and training in just one type of aircraft, but with that said there are some pilots that can fly almost if not all types in inventory. My son-in-law is one of these pilots and he has 35 plus years in the U.S.A.F.
I live in central Arkansas and got a treat of a flight of F-35’s refueling at a 5-10k feet. The 35’s were flying clean. Who knows what they were carrying. I’d seen F18’s with 4 AIM 120’s and 2-4 AIM 9’s, and sometimes instead of 120’s 2 larger something.?.
Yea, they can take on some civilians in 3rd world countries. Too afraid to fight Russia though. They'd drop down like flies after being sprayed with bug spray. Just like the F117.
Come on out to D-Day Ohio in Conneaut, Ohio next August. The organization I work for brings lots of fully functional WWII tanks for an invasion reenactment. There will be flyovers, 3 days of battles and lots of vendors. Food for thought.
Great vid Cap 👌! Could you do a video scenario showcasing the power of hive-mind via Link16 using a couple F-35 running stealth in front of a wing of missile trucks (F-15s or F-18s) using the "shared" radar from the F-35s vs say a Russian air wing of couple Su-57s running with a wing of other gen 4 missile trucks that don't have the technology to share radar? I'm guessing you'd need to use an AWACS to simulate Link16?
Cap, you should Google what the US did a certainly not russian force attacking a US position in Syria. They just slaughtered them with their whole arsenal. 200 Kia on the no russian side. One injured interpreter on the us side. I don't think the us will move an inch.
Yea, god bless a country that's basically acting as a terrorist, illegally invading a sovereign nation and stealing their resources. Fuck a country like that and everyone who supports it.
US also supports Kurds in their operations zone and thats a another situation which gets tense time to time with Turkey and US and sometimes Russia. Latest IS leader was killed by Turkish Intellingence's SOF team and the one before him was killed by US SOF in Idlib province with support of Kurds and Turkish Intelligence. Civil war won by Assad but that seemingly is won only in the East and some of the Mediterranean coast, to the north and east fighting still goes on between Russia Assad Kurds Turkey and some other groups.
@@alekosalekadis6095 article link pls. And were the planes fitted with their radar reflectors that they often use in training and ferry flights? More details needed pls!
If you wind up anywhere near Pittsburgh, we can arrange some full-auto maximum boom boom. Also nearby is Fort Necessity, and a bit further Gettysburg. Lots of American civil and revolutionary war history around here. Oh, and I also mentioned the old Nike missile site just around the veritable corner from us.
So much cool stuff to see in the old USA it’s hard to recommend anything without knowing which part of this big ol country you’ll be in. There are some cool air and space museums in every part though. Hope you have fun. If you’re in the northwest let me know be happy to help you out
unless you particularly like doing the ferry part of this why don't you air spawn closer with lower fuel to simulate the ferry then air refuel and continue the mission. You could do the take off as B roll then reset server and do the air spawn thing.
Perhaps, this is an informed YT audience. Just listened to that newscaster and thought that it's not unusual that (any) a countries' pilot is a cowboy/showoff/aggressive when you have aircraft in areas that a different country does not like. (example, Chinese aircraft colliding with a manned US recon) What is your sentiment?
Yeah it's a very strange description to act as if the Russians were "harassing" the totally innocent US jets and drones. If US aircraft are illegally invading another country's airspace, then that country and its allies are completely within their rights to even shoot those aircraft down. Look at what the US did when an unarmed Chinese balloon flew over their airspace. Somehow nobody was saying that the US was "harassing" the balloon. It's a completely asinine rhetorical spin to claim that defending your or your allies' airspace is "harassment".
that's not how intercepts are supposed to work. the US/NATO sends raptors up to intercept Russian assets in the baltic and Alaska like all the time, but on those intercepts, usually they behave like profesionals and everyone goes home. Unless they send a flanker to escort which then make dangerous turns into the fighters
@@cockatoo010 There's a pretty big difference between skirting someone's airspace you're not at war with, and directly flying into the airspace of a country you have been bombing for years. If Russia had been dropping bombs on the US for several years, I think you'd find that US interceptions would also look quite different.
The Syrian civil war created a lot of break off groups including a group of Kurdish enclaves which the U.S. backed. Once ISIS came on scene the U.S. put special forces on the ground to help out the Kurdish forces they allied with. Russia has been allied with the Assad regime since the jump but all sides kind of dropped everything to fight off the ISIS incursion
So cap I don't know where in America you will be, but if your in California you should go to Edward's AFB, it's the flight test center for the air force. And NASA has a site there as well. You can get passes to go on base pretty easily. I would go to the base by you and ask exactly what you'd need now but you'd love it. Also Skunk works is in Palmdale just down the road.
@darwinjina I'm serious nasa has a museum on Edward's, its one of the first nasa locations. Nasa .Dryden the space shuttle used to land there. And really the Skunk works is just 20 miles or so down the road. The whole area is known as the aerospace valley. There's also the first civilian spaceport 20 miles down the road in the other direction. I grew up there, and I lived in lakenheath where cap is now but I was there in the 70's as a kid. I remember bury st Edmunds stores where I could get candy by the weight. Can't do that here. Good times.
Cap, you asked for suggestions about places to visit in the U.S. I have something of a list . . . The Smithsonian air and space museum. The Trinity test site. USS Missouri museum (if you happen to be in Hawaii) USS New Jersey museum (if you visit anywhere in the top right-hand corner of the continental US) Edwards Air Force Base (I don't know if they allow visitors, but I'm sure they'd let you in once they know who you are) Any museum that has an SR-71 or an A-12 Any museum that has an X-15
