Man, I really enjoy watching your videos on the air war in Vietnam. Your choice of music at the start rocks and it makes watching enjoyable. Keep up the excellent work.
Excellent work as always! Yet, I am always amazed at how many people comment/complain about the aircraft being the wrong model number, the wrong armament, wrong ejection seats and wrong ships, etc... Especially after you clearly explain this in every single video. Pay attention before being so quick to criticize and correct.
Thank you! It seems that most criticism comes from misunderstanding. Some don't even realize it's a simulation and maybe think I'm using some kind of 3D animation software. That would probably take a year to do a single video 😁 Others think that a simulation can have all the aircraft, ships, vehicles etc in every variant that existed. It would take a century to make such a simulation 😂
Yeah, but if you have to explain away everything, then wait until you can do it accurately. He may as well be using a Ford Mustang against a PAK FA. "My video game software didn't have the correct F4 phantom or the correct plane number; also, it's not the correct skin but I put together this simulation anyway so I can get subscribers and be popular on RU-vid". I'm sure we all have heard the addage. If you are going to do it, do it right.
The MiG-21 is easily my favorite plane. I have the MiG-21MF in war thunder, and have flown it in both realistic and sim. I will probably be getting dcs for Christmas. Can’t wait to fly the MiG is dcs. As far as I know, dcs is way more realistic. Would like to see a video on the f-100 super sabre. Great video as always!
From 1966 to 1969 my dad was involved in upgrading the AF F-4 C models to the Radar in the D models at Clark AF base in the Philippines and later at Ubon, Thailand.
@@showtime112 not too many actually...last year when I turned 50, he finally told me about the night the TET offensive started, he was at Ubon Thailand, and shit was off the hook!
@@showtime112 Valid point (and sorry for the late reply). With the upcoming F-4 modules for DCS, there's bound to be a Naval Phantom of some sort, so you're gonna have an absolute blast with that
@@Tigershark_3082 Heatblur announced the development of two Phantom variants. First, there will be the E model and after that, a yet unspecified naval model. My guess wold be the S but we are yet to see. With the Phantom, I can keep this channel going for at least two years doing nothing else 😁
To je jedan mod koji daje još dvije dodatne boje. Crnu i onu svjetlo-zelenu. Pošto je ovo u stvarnosti bio PFM koji je imao crni cockpit, onda sam stavio tu boju. Hvala na komentaru!
@@showtime112 Poveznica s tim kožama u kokpitu? PS: prevedi u google da ne bih bio bezobrazan :) - Link to those cockpit skins? PS: translate in google so I would not be rude :)
@@hannesorisson1200 Here't the link: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3312710/ Btw, google translate is usually so bad that people will generally understand a lot better if you just write English 😁
Love the new clouds, those lower cast below the Phantoms at start were just beautiful. BTW did you say F-4B or D? I thought B was naval version and D Navy? PS: Love those F-4, still the most beautiful ugly fighter ever build :)
Thank you for your comment. As for the Phantoms on this missions, they were B models. And you have probably summed it up the best way possible with that definition 😁
One more great Historical Video Content coming out of the Showtime112 treasure chest. About the music. Maybe some people are not really aware of what can happen to one's RU-vid account if you use copyrighted music without the permission of the original Artist or the Music record company. RU-vid can close down your account i wouldn't take that risk by any means. And if some people feel the music was not fitting with the video content then that's the way it is in life one cannot please everybody it's not gonna work. Showtime112 has done at his best whatever is possible with the resources he has at his hands. He's spending a great amount of time getting all those content together and getting it along the community. I treasure the amount of time and research he puts in his videos i don't take it for granted.
Thanks for the confirmation! Btw, I don't know if you saw my video about John Glenn in Korea. Do you know if his kills can be matched with communist losses records?
@@showtime112 In Korea BOTH sides claims are most of the times far from reality, If you want to know about soviet operations "Red Devils over the Yalu" by Igor Seidov is very interesting book.
@@showtime112 One very, very interesting video can be the shotdown and death .of at the time top USAF Ace "George Davis in February 1952 by chinese pilot Zhang Jihui
@@alejandrocasalegno1657 It seems so. I found this n my notes of interesting events to reenact. I believe that it's not a 100% sure who shot Davies down. Or do you have some other info?
Beautiful video, Thanks. By the way have you turn on MSAA graphic option in DCS? If not, try to make MSAA x 4. It would be much nice for graphic quality on edges.
I haven't really played with that option. My system is not exactly high end so I really need to balance between graphics details and acceptable fps. I might try to see how it works.
It would be great to see an enactment of R.A.F Tornado men Peter's and Nichol who got downed over Iraq during the Gulf war.I don't know if this has been covered by Showtime1 ? but l believe they got hit by a SAM somewhere over the desert at ultra-low level in their 'mud-mover tonka' ? Their book is amazing too.
So far, we only have AI controlled Tornado in DCS. But, a high-fidelity module in in development. No release date yet but when it comes out, there will be Tornado videos for sure.
@@herculeanmeal9270 Oh, anybody you've ever heard of is copyrighted. Even artists from 1940s or 1950s that are long forgotten. I tested some of that old music for my Korean War videos. All copyrighted.
Good video despite flying the MIG, I thought DCS had the model of the F4 complete. The Sundowners are one of my favorite, but the fighting 143 Pukin Dogs are #1. Overall I enjoy the reenactments
No, they are working on it, I think it will be either J or N version or at least navy version. But there are some free community mods out there but they are so so, not as accurate as full fidelity models from official sources. Still I would be lying if I did not admit it is fun to take the old Phantom up for a spin once in a while.
Thanks! Well, they've been promising us the Phantom for years but still, it seems so far away. The Phantoms were in fact from VF-51, the sister squadron but I didn't have their skin.
Nekoć davno sam se i ja time bavio. Nekako mi je u dugoročnom planu da probam opet 😁 Inače, ovi Phantomi su iz VF-55 samo nije bilo njihovog skina. No barem sam na istom nosaču 😉
0:12 F4E phantom!!!!!!!!!!noooo its airforce version with 20mm gatling gun under nose and thin nose cone. USnavy F4B and J have big nose cone and under a infrared sensor. Meanwhile greats videos mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@showtime112 For vietnam USnavy model F4B and J, RF4B Marines and 10 modelG. for Usaf model C,D,E and RF4C. some F4C converted inEF4C for wildweasel to help F105F
Only now you noticed that?!? You are losing your touch 😁😁😁 True, this is F-4E masquerading as F-4B. It is explained in the video. Also, there is a Ticonderoga class cruiser pretending to be Long Beach.
Gentlemen and seriously, the US Navy spent a lot of money on ammunition and fuel to destroy it with an old truck??? Does military intelligence assume that the destruction of this important military target would induce North Vietnam to surrender?
Not all the missions end up exactly as planned. Plus, there were so many patrols, protection of high-value assets etc which burned a lot of fuel and aircraft resources. Highly effective missions are not that easy to do.
PFM cockpits varied between either the blue-grey cockpit + black instrument panel of other early Soviet jets, or the more iconic turquoise. The MiG-19's cockpit is a pretty good template for earlier colouration although the main colour could range from very pale blue to almost a medium grey.
@@showtime112 hello it,s dauphin34500 with cellular. Have istvan toperczer book Air war over north Vietnam by squadron signal. Read first mig21 used were F 13 and afterPF. For more info watch this book and Mig21 by bill gunston with osprey air combat 1986. For mirage F1C , i wait your request mate🙋♂️👍
@@dominiqueroudier9401 Thanks for the suggestion. I have Toperczer's MiG-21 Units of the Vietnam War and Mig-17 and 19 Units of the Vietnam War. Will try to find the ones you mention too.
@@showtime112 My source is from the book of test pilot of Finnish Air Force. There is information that Mig-21PFL was sold to Vietnam and Mig-21L to India. PF and PFM versions had possibility to bleed bypass air from the engine to landing flaps to increase lift. No information if this model was sold to Vietnam or not, however. Thanks for the video. Amazing graphics.
@@showtime112 yes if my remembers are in good condition; my job was to refuel kerosene and others things. Unfortunately not pilot!!! But if i watch the module i can say if mistakes or not!!!!send message mate
Yo !!! From a USN vet. A little work on your research. Ticonderoga Crusers weren't used during the Vietnam war. They were first commissioned in 1978.The Long Beach was nuclear powered built on a WW2 cruiser hull. I knew a retired USN commander that served on the Long Beach in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Long Beach had shot down several Migs with Talos Rim 8 missiles. The USN Commander was the weaps officer and was part of those shootdown. Also the part that NVA had mutual respect for Pilots and Aviators who were shot down and were guest at the Hanoi Hilton if you watch the footage and interviews I dont think NVA had mutual respect for the POWS captured during Vietnam. Please take a break from gaming and CNN, read some history books....
You probably mean well with this comment but my advice to you would be to pay attention instead of making quick criticism. At 8:08 I clearly explain that there are some inaccuracies here because of the lack of assets in DCS World and that such cases needed to be approximated with available assets. I specifically mention the Long Beach. And I am perfectly aware that Ticonderoga only came later but that's literally the only US cruiser in the game. People don't understand how complicated it is to develop a model. Aircraft modules such as MiG-21 here may take more than 10.000 man hours and more than a million dollars to develop! And as the result, we will never have a simulation that has all the aircraft, ships, tanks etc. As for the mutual respect thing, again you misunderstood. I know that during the war, American POWs weren't exactly getting the Geneva Convention treatment. I was talking instead about the meetings between American pilots (some of them ex POWs) and the Vietnamese pilots that took place decades after the War. I read the accounts of these meetings form several American veterans and my impression was that there wasn't any hate or resentment from either side. That's what I was talking about.
Enjoy your episodes in general, but if you could, would you please omit the heavy metal music for the American side. It is a bit comical even, having nothing to do with those times, which were anything but comical. Thank you.
Hm. It's a bit like saying that swing music has nothing to do with WWII. And more precisely, it's hard rock, not heavy metal. I'd really, really say it has a lot to do with the times. This genre completely defines the early 70s. Sure, this song is not nearly as good as Hendrix, Zeppelin, Deep Purple or Sabbath but those are all copyrighted. It is still loud and dramatic (just like fighter jets) and it evokes the era. I know because that's ,my favorite period in music.
Zamislite,nekoliko desetaka tisuća dolara vrijedna misija. Dići avione,bombe gorivo dijelovi i onda to sve potrošio na tužni kineski kamion. Koji vrijedi sto dolara. Jadni vozač. Koji pehist
Da, vedro nebo baš iznad njega mu je bilo kobno. Iako to nije rijetkost u ovakvim nekakvim sukobima da tehnološki naprednija strana potroši na cilj municije koja košta puno više od samog cilja.
Pogledaj malo videe iz afganistana. Tamo neki taliban ispali 2 metka iz tetejca u zrak (vjerovatno svadba), ovi odgovore barazom iz svega svacega dobrih 10 minuta bez prestanka. Taliban vec doso kuci, pojeo otusirao se, a ovi jos pucaju rafale tisuca metaka u zbunje i drvece. Komicno za gledati. :)))))))))))
They were not POW - USA never proclaimed a "WAR" against North Vietnam. After being capture all US pilots were informed, that they are just criminals - not POW. That is why they all were not treated like POW. I'm not the lawyer - I took it from "Vietnam" a document movie, made by Ken Burns. -"I demand to be treated according Geneva convention. I'm Prisoner of War, and an officer" -"To be prisoner of War there must be a War first, there is no war between North Vietnam and United States. You are just a murder"
Kinda hypocritical because North Vietnam never declared war on South Vietnam. Didn't stop them from sending their troops down. Treatment of prisoners really shows what you are like, never mind formalities.
@@showtime112 It's not so easy. Don't get me wrong. I do understand pilots, they thought that they have right to do what they do. But today we can see how does it looked like on the ground. Many innocent people killed. Most military targets were just an imagination US high stuff, and it's not my word. So use to say US pilots who were sent to bomb jungle. Most targets were just civilian objects. There is no word in my language to describe what I think about a man who drops a bomb over city or village. Almost everyone in N.Vietnam lost someone thanks to US bombs. To be honest I am very surprised, that Vietnamese people were so polite to US pilots after catching them. I'm not sure If people in US would be so polite being in the same situation. How someone who came with Idea of "Killing free" zones expects to be treated like a human? ... It's ... Nazi idea. The only difference is that Nazi tried to hide it and made it in "Concentration Camps", while LBJ, Nixon, Westmoreland and others had no shame. BTW. I strongly recommend "Vietnam" by Ken Burns. Listen to what US/NVA/RVA/VC soldiers say about these war. I am not against US. Nixon and Johnson were... IMHO
Sorry. I endured about 30 seconds of this cheesy background music and lost any interest in seeing how this turns out. Either narrate these videos, or just leave the game sounds in and be done with it. If you need bad music to generate interest, maybe you don't need to make the video in the first place?
Well, thank you for your opinion. I don't think the music is cheesy. Is it as good as the original from the period? No. But originals can't be used because of copyright. The idea is to make introductions cinematic. And I don't think movies are ever made without any music, right? To me (and probably the majority of people in the West), the soundtrack of Vietnam is hard rock. That's why I think it fits, regardless of anybody's personal taste. Videos have time stamps so you can easily skip the introduction and go straight to narration if you hate it that much.
@@showtime112 Well, the music was so poor that I never got to discover any "narration". And yes, movies have been made without music; or without music so poor and overbearing that it obscures and overwhelms the subject of the video. Try not to re-make Top Gun!! I'd like to direct your attention to a set of historically themed videos for this series, in which the author recreates famous battles through the years using the aircraft and weapons of this game system. He is quite detailed in setting up what happened and explaining why, and then making it happen on-screen. NO MUSIC. He just talks, and you hear the cockpit noises and some jet wash during the "flyby" sequences. And it's very interesting and engaging, not to mention educational. Just sayin'. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t1zFCKwjty0.html
@@Stiglr Well, apart from military aviation, one other thing I'm passionate about is music (I'm sensing you are not). So I couldn't be any clearer in saying that music I use for my videos is NOT poor or awful or whatever else you want to use. I don't understand this other part, it is some kind of sarcasm? The link you included is one of my videos. And it also has music in the intro sequence.. Did you mean to paste some other link?
@@showtime112 I'm a musician, and have been probably for longer than you've been alive; is that "passionate" enough for you? As for the music, it *is* both "bad" and "awful". That link, as I said, has almost NO music in it; it's chiefly narration. If it's yours, great; it shows that you CAN make a video without cheesy music dominating it. In that case, follow your own lead. Trust that what you're presenting in the game is interesting enough to hold someone's interest without overbearing "Top Gun" soundtracks.
