DCS: PvP F-18 Hornet Vs Mirage 2000C Online BVR Fight. 

Hope you guys like the video, Thanks again to Antos for offering up his mirage for this video.

"My strategy as usual when flying american planes is to spaamram till I win"

You fired 3 AMRAAMs before he could even get in range. Great review of a 6 ft tall adult beating up a 4ft 9 in kid in boxing.

I love the combination of the dog fight and the subsequent Tacview analysis. Your explanations make it easy to understand what is actually happening and why. Great fight for Antos and you!

AIM-7 instead of AIM-120 would have been a more fair fight.

Very expensive fight

antos: the fastest fox 2 in the West growling sidewinder: *_YOU FOOL_* the fastest fox 3 in the West

Mirage pilots like dropping both chaff and flares because everyone just uses countermeasure programm 5 ;)

Congratulation for both of you. Mirage pilot over-reacted twice to your launches (60km and 40km). No need to make all these manœuvres at these ranges. He lost the SA down in mountains. But 1 Vs 1 in Fox 1 Vs Fox 3 set up is really hard.

Mirage pilot: "if you think, you are dead".....😍

Semi active potato missiles.

Excellent duel, you demonstrated that knowing is half the battle

The odds of wining against 10 fox3 and with greater range are really low.

Great video. I really enjoy the tac view helps me understand the strategies better. Thanks for sharing!

I love the anylitical break down at the end...dog fights are about knowing your aircraft, weapons and your opponents as well. Well done.👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻☕️

Super crazy. According to Wikipedia the upgraded version or AIM-120D has a classified range, but many have speculated it to be around 160km. What a mind blowing advantage. Almost triple your initial engagement length. You could have waited until then to switch on the radar and lock him up and gun him down. Or, lock him up from super far. Also, don’t take the profile picture seriously.

My first time watching one of your videos and 5min in it was an easy subscribe. Great explanations of what happened and good teaching as well!

Very educational. I still fly Mirage on your server against Fox3’s. My learning curve on defensive maneuvering has gone up like never before. I’m not up yet in closing the gap with heaters cause I lose my opponent’s position dodging his Fox3’s. One day I’ll get there. Thank You for sharing.

What an amazing video. I’ve obviously only just seen this and is now one of my favourite videos on you tube. Thank you for the upload this is awesome

If a notification pops, one must watch😌

Finally some Pvp footage. Thx dude

10:00 If he hasn't been maneuvering a lot, he can be legitimately worried that he's seeing a pitbull that's had a leisurely cruise to close proximity, and would thus have enough energy to follow him down a mostly straight dive. 10:30 If it's on a long program, it'll keep doing this even after reaching cover. The whole thing could come down to him having his dispensers on auto. If so, I suspect the track file would show this. 13:43 You could already have a maddog near his position at this point. That would eliminate the race to fire first - where altitude, and perhaps also raw missile speed, gave you a handicap. Even if he would be first though, it would be a mutual kill.

correct me if im wrong but chaff is a countermeasure to radar guided missiles?

That was way closer than I thought, great video! Could you do more of these online fights? The thing I'd want to see most is a fight between two equal aircraft, possibly ones which don't have FOX-3 missiles. Can you make that happen?

MICA's instead of the Supers AAMs and that 50-50 leveling would'v payed lovely results for Antos, great vid and insight (as always) from you matey.

Mirage guy here, honestly, Fox-1 vs Fox-3 is an interesting fight. I've beaten Hornets before, but generally it's because I lure them into weak positions and employ defensive tactics before we go sub 20 miles (get lower and fall back into mountains; spoof the radar and give me more space to maneuver my aircraft). After the Hornet follows, like they often do, send a long 530 to push them defensive. If they want to lose the 530, they have to dive into the mountains, therefor forcing them to lose the radar advantage. After that, I just have to close the distance, get to the merge, and come out on top. Overall great fight on both parts. Edit: This is my typical defensive to offensive tactic when engaged with Fox 3 aircraft.

Great fight! Its amazing how close it was in the end

The radio blabber in the background made it more immersive at the same time somewhat surreal. Some are talking over coms in another-day-in-the-office-style one is experiencing silently a duel to the end which could suddenly result in a cruel and painful death being engulfed in a ball of fire oO Anyhow I immensly enjoy these videos and the radio background adds alot in the end.

Great video! I hope we gonna do some more PvPs later on. :)

I would have gone inverted and down towards the ground for terrain masking as the mirage shot his missiles. It's not very likely for him to dodge that amraam, but if he did, you would need to find some cover. Good fight tho, nice seeing both sides of the fight.

Great flying once again... man I enjoy these vids.

I use the mirage, I haven't found a way to change the counter measures programming, maybe i'm just not looking enough, the default mode I think is 2-5 chaff and 2 flares per one push of the button

Holy crap. I've been here since you started and now you're getting 40k+ views! Congrats man

Good kill! And excellent tactics. I see why the Aim-120 is favored by pilots. You should do this more often.

Fox 3 vs Fox 1, shame on it .. ! With equivalents weapons, maybe the fight would have ended quite differently .. :) Nice video instead, and nice defense from M2K pilot :)

to be honest , i keep on watching ur debreifing and now , i understood what's was going on exactly ..;wonderful, really amazing , i've never seen somth like this before , probably most of the real jet's pilot are impressed also, step by step you described eveyth....good job and great thks for all devs and trackir's or VR helmet manufacturer making our dream coming true

That is a missile comparision. Doesn't matter if it is a Eurofighter, F-15, F-18, F-16, F-35... the AMRAAM, without another competing Fox-3 (or jamming pod), will win. Good video.

good fight!, can you do a merge pvp fight F/A18C vs SU27 with AIM 9X's vs R73's? I'm wondering if there's is finally something that can compete with those flankers and their heat seekers :)

Great seeing 'both tracks' :) Thanks guys!

You got any tips on keeping situational awareness in a fight with multiple targets? I'm definetely not good enough to be playing multiplayer but even in the FC3 campaigns against AI I have troubles staying on top of the situation once the first stage of the fight is over. That is I get the enemy groups on my radar, lock some up, fire when I'm close enough, then go defensive when they fire at me and then once we merge I just lose it completely. I'm all over the place frantically searching with radar, with my eyes but it usually comes down to me getting shot down by a heatseeker that I didn't spot because I didn't know where the enemy plane was.

Great video! I didn't notice you fire off any countermeasures at the Mirage's missiles. Did you? Or, were you just expecting your AMRAAM to hit him before his missiles hit you?

Love the m2000

Another great video GS, but i want you to drop your AMRAAMs for M model Sparrows (and your AIM-9Xs for Ls...) in the next one. Also the loadout of 10 (!) AMRAAMs is an overkill and not realistic in any case. I would have never agreed to fly against you knowing that you carry half the carrier's arsenal of active AAMs. Kudos to Antos who not only did agree but almost splash you in the process :) . But to be honest, If Antos did not have the terrain masking option, this video would be maybe 4 minutes long. Try to setup more even engagements that will increase the viewers interest. For the next fight i suggest both flying over sea or land and carry similar armament, like 2 SARH (or 4 in the case of the Hornet, which is realistic), a drop tank and 2 heat seekers. I would like to see pilot vs pilot, not weapon vs weapon, if you know what I am saying :). Sierra Hotel. PS: I have no clue if DCS allows you to select anything else than AIM-120s and AIM-9Xs for your Hornet.

Man that was some awesome flying brother, by your opponent too for him to even the odds he did get close! 👍🏽 keep up the awesome work.

One thing I wonder how it would have turned out differently: if you can fire your AMRAAM at supersonic speeds, the missile doesn't need to fight trans-sonic drag and it'll be much faster. This is usually what I recommend but this may not have been better in this situation. On the down side, when he went defensive in the mountains, he would have came back up at a closer distance. What do you think?

Does this game work well with mouse/keyboard or console controllers? I've been thinking of getting HOTAS but until then I only have those.

Great break down of the fight. What could you have done different to not end up in that shootout at the end?

That was pretty clutch. LOVE the break down.

Love your vids. How are you getting the display on top right of your screen showing speed, brg alt, etc?

Wonder what would have changed if the Mirage was equipped with MICA missiles? I have heard some do carry that missile.

thanks for the video !! F 18 with 10 missiles (fox 1-2 and 3) VS a Mirage with 4 missiles (Fox 1 and 2, and not the best one on DCS), the only chance for the Mirage is to hide in mountains, and to get the Merge. Then, he has a chance, because less heavy and better agility. A second round would be interesting.

Hi Buddy ! I see you got Lucky whit this Pilot in Mirage, he was having low-level experience in M 2000-C, but if was me it would be different store...… lol. Video was great Thanks.

I wonder if Antos would have been able to send off a sneaky magic instead of the 530s, it might have allowed him to turn earlier and avoid the 120.

Great tutorial. Would it have helped both pilots to drop long range tanks ? Or was this forgotten in the heat of battle !!

Enjoyed the video but change up the Amraams for Sparrows next time. Bit more skill involved instead of spamram :)

Good kill! Mirage pilot did a great job but as you said he wasted countermeasures!

I love your videos. I got all excited when I saw you were flying a Marine bird, OORAH! Come to find out as of November 2017 that squadron, VMFA-122 is now flying F-35's. Still, OORAH!

This is a great video! I have a few questions. Was the comm chatter in game or added, and if you added it, where did you get it from? And secondly, at about 4:30 you active the bore sight circle on your HUD. I forgot how to do this on my hornet, and I don't remember what it's called in the settings menu. Can you tell me what it's called so I can remap it?

Love the videos... Just curious what your favorite fighter is to use? I've seen you using a wide variety, but you must have a favorite

More one on one's with the Mirage. Such a sexy plane. Edit to add, where are these radio chatters coming from? Are you guys adding it into your videos when editing?

great video love these commentaries!.... i want to play so bad but i feel like a need a day or two vacation to focus on a plane :)

Great video demonstrating “Know thy enemy”. You knew what he was flying (eg. missiles and their engagement envelopes) and the fact that he would most likely ‘honour the threat’ (eg. firing an Amraam beyond its effective kill range). You were the cat to his very small mouse 😉

If Hornet had been killed first, would AMRAAM hit?

Loved the PvP

doesn't drop bags and flaring for radar guided? still put up a good fight even if he isn't proficient

5:31 , the sound of the mirage 2000

From the last video that I saw that you did of the turn on Measure.. when I saw him do it.. I said his Dead. Nice video keep them coming

Why no post mortem? Great info leading up to the big question that never got answered: What should you have done better, than be just 1 sec faster on the draw?

You got me as a sub mate 👍 been watching alot of your vids, good com's, good video, and informative

Great Channel. How about a fight with Panavia Tornados?

Wonderfull video, as usual, one question: as we saw in one of your last videos: you can give a huge range to the aamram going at 50k feet. Why did you choose to stay low this time fighting the mirage? Wouldn't it be easier if you were very high for the range and also to make it harder for the mirage to hide in the mountains? Thanks!

Hi, I’m new to the channel and looking at getting involved in this platform. Could you give any advice on the PC setup you run to allow this game to look and run as awesome as it does?? Cheers 👍🏻👍🏻

are you a pilot in real world or just virtual? Your knowledge seems like youve actually flown combat AC to me.

Yes, but all that flare dropping looked really cool for the purposes of the video 😄

Liked, subbed, thanks! You helped a rookie out!

very impressive and informative Video, thanks for sharing

In February 27 2019 Pakistan also shot down a Mig 21 bison and a mirage 2000 or probably Su-30 with same AIM-120 c, we are not sure about the second aircraft as it was shot down in enemy territory, while mig 21 crashed inside Pakistan. i had a question that can AWACS assist the fighter jet in locking and guiding the AIM-120 s ? Because we fired the AIm 120s from Jf-17 thunders not F-16s, so Jf-17. Can you shed some light on this.

the greek 2000-5 its a foking beauty so sexy fighter!!

Btw why you dont use AMRAAMS in inertial mode so he will be awared only oce AMRAAM swap in own radar?

Hi. I am new to this community and I want to ask wich plane is the best to start. Am really interested in this sim and jets :D. Nice video btw. (Sorry for my english, l speak spanish).

Just discovered your channel it's awesome. BTW is the f-18c your favorite plane too?

Going back to watch this video...it's interesting how much your technique has improved. I doubt you'd ever fire an AIM 120 from 60 clicks out.

BETTER THAN TOP GUN!

Sound of the flyby sounds just like a real jet so cool

As a huge fan of the F/A-18 and it being pretty much the only plane I fly now in DCS, the Mirage 2000 looks amazing, and I hope to get it eventually. But I wanna fly my F-14 I paid $80 for before I buy any more modules lol! Good kill, devil dog!

I've been watching your videos for a while. I noticed you constantly have the advantage. Fox 3s, in the F14 video. Put yourself at a disadvantage, use fox 1s, aim9ms, etc. And you'll earn my sub.

Lots of Professional fighter pilots in here

is that radio traffic a soundmod or edited afterwards to that video for more "fidelity"?

I must question the flight profile of the M2000. A large delta wing cannot sustain speed through a high g turn. Thats a well known fact and a trade off that aircraft designers have to consider. Thats why the F-18 for example has a straight wing. Large delta wings are ideal for high stability and climb rate at very high speed, not for turn fights. The Viggen in this regard seem correct, the M2000 on the other hand... I’m not so sure.

how did you get the radio chatter in the background?

When the Mirage came over the hill, i expected him to shoot one semi radar, and one IR at you, in that order. Antos tried to do a "surprise madafaka" really hard, and almost got it.

Is it best to have a dedicated joystick for this type of game and if so what one would you recommend thanks great video.....

Great video

The guy POPINg all those flares lol

amazing he actually managed to launch two matras and put you into danger

Hypothetical senario: Your F-18C w. same setup (10 AIM-120C + 2 AIM-9X + Cannon + 1 centerline tank) Vs. Mirage 2000-5 Mk.2 (6 MBDA MICA RF + 2 MBDA MICA IR + Cannon + 1 centerline tank) Looks like a closer match to me :)

Hey bud, it Bret T. You really should consider becoming an instructor. You are hyper competitive, competent, humble and you never stop instructing. You go out with the goal of kicking butt and then without being an ass... teach, instruct and help others to become better at this game.

Good morning everyone!

What is that thing that sticks out of the mirage 2000's nose?

My girlfriend took my AMRAAM at Mach 2.9.