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Lol. I thought it was Doc on F-15,wtf.

Haha

just missed the clickbait

@@jameshunter744 Yeah - I was thinking someone had buggered-up the title listing. Fortunately it was all interesting and sort of put Eurofighter in context.

Thanks for the heads-up, man. Now I wont have to waste time watching the entire thing!

Indeed! I'm actually pretty stoked that Germany is buying the F-35 to replace the Tornado. The T-35 and the Typhoon will make for a very well performing pair.

Yeah, less than ten minutes before the end of nearly 48 minutes video. A clickbait, and a well deserved thumb down from me

In my opinion !.The pilott ?.

@@MrKotBonifacy Same.

38:21 Craig wasn’t happy about that

Yep....... I was looking forward to a full 45 minutes of Typhoon and yet, it hardly featured at all really....

Just imagine the things being designed right now. They'd probably look alien to us civilians

The F-15 is one of the most beautiful looking things that humanity has ever made.

MG3, .50 Browning, 40mm Bofors, F15, Tornado and even the old Gepard still seems to be doing what it's supposed to do. Some things are just so good and proven that it's not worth building something new. An occasional update is enough. Man, how long have we had the F4 Phantom II? Has still done its job in the 2nd or 3rd row. The Starfighter was different. Killed over 100 pilots in peacetime.

Once I start talking about air superiority fighters, I tend to ramble on a little, lol. F-15's may be old, but they were ahead of their time so it makes sense they'd still have that "don't mess with me effect." It's quite a jump from the MD F-4 Phantom that was it's main predecessor, originally appearing in the late 50's and in later variants through the 90's. Not to dump on F-4's, however. F-4's were big, tough, and fast, but not as agile and originally didn't have internal guns, just missiles. In Vietnam, it cost the US pilots not having internal guns if missiles failed and a dogfight broke out with MiG-17's, MiG-19's, and MiG-21's. US pilots still had superior training which still kept the kill ratio in their favor, along with great support aircraft and smaller fighters.

Well, the F15 reminds me of toys that stole it's design from when I was a child. As you can imagine that wan't yesterday, but not 50 years ago either... :p Edit: Also, reminds me that cars used to be very angular, before, now they are all rond as they can be. I think it's related, like the advancing design of a F1 car.

in the description it says documentary from 2003.

Harrier Pilot stated joining Harrier squadron in 1994 and been in service for 12 years that make 2006.

@@nigelbenn4642 well noticed.

30 years of service, of course it's early 2000s, do the maths.

The Typhoon entered service in 2003 and in the intro for the F-15 they mention it's been in service for 30 years (1:29) so documentary was filmed circa. 2003.

I live next to an RAF base in next County (Hereford, home of the SAS!) and we occasionally see Typhoon's, helicopters and other military planes flying over our County, they really are impressive and put the fear of God into you, so loud you can feel their power in your body and so incredibly fast! It must be truly terrifying to have a fleet of these coming attacking your country!! When I was in Gibraltar some years back, I saw a couple of Typhoon's parked up at the tiny civi airport which also is used as a mini RAF base lol. Was great to see them so close up getting off the plane. Over the other side of the 'Rock' is also a giant military naval base with some very impressive destroyer ships from UK and US lined up and you get a very good view from the Rock on the naval base which is enormous like a town fenced off.

They are such agile planes and the pilots are incredible flying at speeds up to 2,000mph and making those turns and sudden upward flights the G-force is tremendous and they need oxygen. I remember seeing someone taken in one for a demonstration and sick all over the cockpit he just couldn't handle it lol. I also remember the display at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee the fly-over was very impressive from old to latest planes.

Shit fighter with no Stealth, but it had good mannuvre ability a few seconds before beaten when it just came out.

I did my draft in northern Germany. Decades ago. And I remember some A10 pilots doing a low pass, that clearly was for fun.

@@paullangton-rogers2390 Yep, seen a video explaining how it feels flying a Yak aerobatic plane, the first time. These planes are so responsive, that each tiny movement of the stick results in high G-forces. Such planes are violent, for real. When such planes have several dangerous things-you-should-never-do, things get nasty. Example? There's a fast bomber that starts a spin when you push the stick. Flying low in the mountains, going up is no problem, but going down you MUST roll over and fly inverted. High speed, very very low altitude, and when terrain gets sketchy, well, fly upside down. Some planes are not pilot friendly at all. Think about the vintage single prop fighters, these things did not want to take off in a straight line, full throttle means trouble. So weird they did not install two counter-rotating props, solving these high power prop problems. No, hundreds of pilots died simply during take off and landing, thanks to that "marvelous" plane. What, marvelous?! And that is the challenge, staying in control.

And imo F-22 is the greatest fighter of all time, it easily beats the Eurofighter in pretty much all aspects, including the eurofighters tail, because thats where it will spend its entire time in a dogfight w the eurofighter

Apples compared to oranges zzzzzz

@@aviationist1018 Except that we could have two or three Eurofighters coming at an F22 at once for the less money.

@@lenfirewood4089 watch that

@@aviationist1018 I should point out that as a dogfighter the F22 has been beaten by a French Rafale as well a German Eurofighter because despite the thrust vectoring capabilties of the F22 it isn't much use when a Eurofighter can lock on onto it's adversary even at a 90% angle offset and score a "kill"..

You must be military airport mechanic then.

that means you don't live in the USA.

@@capobilotti they need lots of servicing in order to stay stealthy. As dirt gets stuck to the skin of the aircraft, the radar cross section begins to rise. So much of the constant maintenance that your seeing from the f22 is just in order to keep it very stealthy on radar👍🏻

@@keepmahaney7412 Ever since stealth became a thing, all superpowers deployed radars with different wave length. They have usually significantly lower range, but they very likely can spot them before they get to firing range. There's significantly less time for interceptors to get in air, climb to altitude and intercept, but it's still doable. F-117 in Serbia was literally shot down by prehistoric missiles, just by estimate speed and altitude calculation of spotters reporting through radio to upcoming AA battery.

Sorry, Su27-37 gets that nod.

@@savagemako17 You mean the latest Russian clone being used to murder Ukrainians. No mate.

i'd have to give that award to the F-16XL

@@Ingens_Scherz and you ment the decades old plane ment to kill Middle Eastern civilians? Petty of you to start arguing politics when people are discussing fighters.

new japan fighters are at least 2 degrees more in every direction

THE best moment during my time here with this upload! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You sound as if you are uniquely familiar with the scenario....could it be?

@@kclevitt1 this one time on my way down in an elevator I had to let one out. It was so bad I actually felt the air behind me start warming up. Just then the door opened and I walked out. 2 middle aged women rushed in and the door shut immediately, sealing their fate. I felt horrible but couldn't help but laugh uncontrollably.

Super

You da real MVP

@@JohnGone-wl8uo Your 'dissing' of the Typoon is overblown. While its origin is a bit dated (mid 1990's), compared to the F-35 it costs less, has a substantially higher top speed, especially when loaded with it full complement of weapons, has a lower wing loading (which translates into greater agility), and may even have a higher weapons payload. It can carry 6 missiles and 6 bombs. It can take off even when the combined weight of fuel and weapons exceeds 28,000 lbs, which more than doubles the empty weight of the aircraft. I believe Lockheed's F-35 is generally superior, but not always. Don't get carried away with dissing other aircraft.

​@@JohnGone-wl8uo You'd provide a stronger argument if you skipped the personal, derisive comments. You got so carried away that your sentence about 'lightweight loser's weapons load' is disjointed. After reading the sentences which follow, I'm able to reply to your points. 1) The U.S. is testing lasers for use on jet fighters and has optimistically suggested a 20kW laser might begin to be incorporated by 2025. IF that happens (a big IF), that could be a game changer. What has been demonstrated so far is that a stable, ground based laser can down a fairly slow moving target after a number seconds of continued targeting. That's impressive. But it is a MAJOR and yet unproven extrapolation that it could do the same against a high speed missile, with the laser mounted on a high speed jet, both in turbulent air, with clouds, high humidity (which greatly attenuates laser power), etc. In the early '90's, I worked in the defense industry and saw photographs of lasers fired at objects 8 miles away (non moving laser, non moving target) - If I extrapolate what has developed in the ~30 years since to where we appear to be today, it's debatable if lasers will be on the F-35 in the next few years. But if they are, a more realistic objective would be for the laser to partially blind the missile's infrared tracking system. But even just maintaining a laser beam on a small missile moving at Mach 3 to Mach 6, all while the jet is being buffeted by winds, and the missile obscured by clouds and atmospheric distortions, is a PHENOMENAL challenge. At any rate, your inclusion of a product that's years away from even being incorporated, let alone proven in real world combat situations is NOT (currently) a persuasive argument against the Typhoon. 2) Mach 17??? The hypersonic glide missiles in development currently have no relevance as neither the Typhoon nor the F-35 have the payload capacity for these large missiles. The only fighter we have that has the been configure to carry and test this is the newer variant of the F-15. 3) IBCS (Integrated Battle Command System) Yes, the U.S. and companies like Northrop-Grumman and Raytheon are leading its development. But we work with our allies and (presumably) will share this communications capability. If so, the Europeans should be free decide whether to retrofit their older aircraft or only incorporate it into new ones. 4) Vertical landing - The lack of vertical landing is NOT essential for ALL missions. Where it is, the F-35B is indeed the only game in town. However, the Typhoon can take off from shorter runways than the F-35A. So the vertical landing argument is mission specific. 5) Communicate with an F-15EX? I don't know. Do YOU know. If you do, elaborate on it. As with IBCS, the U.S. military certainly has the capacity to drive this communications standard to be adopted by our allies and know the strategic value in doing so. 5) Flown remotely? While it has been proposed, I've yet to see that it has been done with an F-35. Unless you can establish that it not only has been proven, but is being incorporated as an option in battle, this is just another one of your hypotheticals (like the laser). 6) Targeting objects using remote assets. This was done well before the F-35 entry into combat, during our fighting with the Taliban. One example is the canon fired 'Excalibur' shell, a newer one is the 'Copperhead'. Even verbal listing of GPS coordinates suffice to then allow for terminal guidance to the precise target. However, I'm sure that many advances have been made in this area. It's our military's option whether of not to share communications with our allies. 7) 'Panther' Really?? That was the name given to the Grumman F-9F in the late 1940's. I guess old is the new 'new'. Based on your derisive comments, you're taking this WAY too personal. I like the F-35 and acknowledge it has the best combination of 'sensor fusion', communications, and stealth. My point is simply that the F-35 is not EVERYBODY's best solution, and for ALL combat situations. I don't subscribe to your premise that their military analysts must be stupid when their purchase evaluations/priorities don't match yours. An argument about the F-35's superiority in ALL situations totally fails when the F-35 is touted as a replacement for the A-10 for close air support. The A-10: - Can loiter for HOURS - Has a GIANT 30mm cannon with 1200 rounds of amor piercing munitions - It has ~11 hardpoints for carrying missiles and other munitions - Is built so tough that it's impervious to small arms fire - Has a TRIPLE redundant flight control system - Has a titanium armored pilot cockpit - Has an armored fuel tank that is also self sealing if punctured - Has TWO engines - Both engines are designed for low speed, high efficiency and SUPER tough - Has an airframe that's so tough that it has flown back to base with parts of its wing blown off by missile strikes. - Is so imposing that just the sustained presence of a loitering A-10 has suppressed enemy fire.

@@JohnGone-wl8uo No other country comes anywhere near inventing things, things we all use every day, than Great Britain. No other country comes remotely close. Invented the Jet engine, T.V, Telephone, Train, Penicillin, Computer, Hovercraft, Vertical Take Off Landing aircraft, LCD, Tanks, The World Wide Web, look at the history of each of those? A person from the UK lay at the heart of the device? I could keep going, Britain is responsible for an astonishing 54%, of all worldly inventions. Britain is also responsible for an enormous 61% of all modern day military invention. The chances are, if you were to look up any random piece of military hardware, there's a 2/3 chance it will be a British invention.

,!!

G.B. DESIGNS WERE AHEAD OF TIME ALL THE WAY FROM WW1 //// THANKS TO THE BRITISH FRANK WHITTLE DESIGNING THE FIRST WORKING ( JET ) FROM WW1 THE SWORDFISH TO HARRIERS, TORNADOS, TYPHOONS, VULCAN BOMBER, LANCASTER, SPITFIRES, HURRICANES, AND HUNDREDS MORE FOR THE LAST 100 YEARS AND MORE.

@@raymond8344 Whittle designed the first jet engine and tested it on a bench in 37. They signed a contract with the British to make the Gloster E.28/39 aircraft. Meanwhile in Germany during 39 n 40, Hans von Ohain designed a jet Engine for the M 262 which flew prior to the British getting Whittles Engine airborn for the first time in May 41. The Whittle was a great engine and England handed the design of the 1X and drawings of the W.2B to General electric which made a modification and GE went on to create the Bell XP-59A Airacomet. I'm not sure if England sold or gave there US the engine design because of WW II . But the US then gave the modifications and design back to England. A very fast pace as a result of WW II I'm sure. The Germans were not able to mass produce the ME until 44

@@mdnealy4097 I know it was frank whittle. the first proper working engine that did not seize up when it landed every time.

How fucking cool is it to be a us/uk pilot, being able to fly F22, F35, Typhoon, B2 etc

@@mdnealy4097 England?

Thanks.

😂😂😂😂

can anyone tell me the typhoon showing from which air force?

exactly

@@abdullahalmamunopu5993 it's a factory aircraft. See the multi national decals. A combination of the coutnrys involved with development. The film is getting a little old now.

That goes to show how much the training and essentially pilot skill is the most important and crucial factor in any fight, within or beyond visual range!

30 years old cutting edge technology XD

Hi are the UK making an eletric Tempest?

I agree

Whole video is stupid u talking about audio 🔉

@@arue1lodare188 .

Yeahhhh

What 😉

Dont disgrace the Mirage please...

Don’t insult the Typhoon! The west never used Russian technology as it’s the other way round and them RAF Typhoons just performed that perfect 70 for the Queen

Sick my guts you use it against small country

@@anathonyjamaica4390 wtf lmao no they use it against people seeking to cause great harm to their country, the same as you would do if someone was attacking and destroying your country

It was designed for when the Cold War became a hot war in Europe, supporting ground troops, operating from improvised runways like roads or even clearings in forests. Takeoff weight = plane + crew + fuel + bomb/weaponload. So if it was very close to the front line it would carry weapons and not fuel so still could take off vertically.

I like how Spanish speakers use the Greek words as they really are and sound. AEROPLANO ΑΕΡΟΠΛΑΝΟ

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@KUNG FU WARRIOR-KING how tou got any of that out of what he said I dont no. Stop taking my religion and making it a ugly thing, stop spewing hate and think for yourself.

@KUNG FU WARRIOR-KING all he did was the same exact thing you did where you said that you were glad that a huey was on the list.

@KUNG FU WARRIOR-KING and who killed millions of people in the name of Allah.

@KUNG FU WARRIOR-KING I understand you're young and the only thing you're interested in his video games. You have a lot to learn sir

@KUNG FU WARRIOR-KING so again you can't answer any of my questions, but I'll ask another one. Since you're all smart and you're the all high-and-mighty explain to me how Islam is your religion before it's mine. Trust me I'm not the person you want to go to battle over religion with.

@@ivancarrasquillo4577 i removed the defensive aids computer from a typhoon in may that was originally fitted to typhoon BS001 in 2001.

I'd love to hear Jeremy Clarkson narrate this......

@@philbarrett3739 Yes, he's done it before though.

Id love to see it go up against a Sukhoi

Su 27, Su 35, Rafalele, Mig 29 etc etc etc ............

A long, long time ago, notice how there was no "replacement" for the F15...

for real

Gripen is nice. But there’s no point guessing which is best because we will never see these planes against eachother. I regularly wonder why we can’t war against the French but it just never happens. Until we get another war, lets just admire all the Jets. Not the French ‘flying citreon’ rafale tho.

@@d.tim1989 Indeed, they're awesome machines all if them. But yeah, French can stick to baguettes! ;)

@@d.tim1989 the rafale is a very good jet though. i might be french but thats just facts at this point

Actually you would want to, but can't.

@@CakePrincessCelestia Actually you can, but you wouldn't want to. If you black out from g-forces and you push your stick diagonally forward you're gonna be a really flat pancake along with your fighterplane worth over a hundred million dollars.

Wrong answer, go do your home work and update your comment. Your halfway correct but stealth is the best period. All the US stealth aircraft can fly through the area with little fear of ever being detected and if they were they’d be gone before the enemy realized they were there.

fun fact: the b2 stealth bomber has a radar cross section the size of a bumblebee

That's what i thought when i first heard the voice

I saw a t rex in Warsaw. I thought what are the chances of that.

@@ianmasters4225 Ah, but was it on new years eve? If not it don't count. :P

You can never tell what those Canadians are gonna do.

I completely agree with this, although the Eagle is incredibly quick and the only aircraft to shoot down a low orbiting satellite!

Cool story bro. F-15 was designed in the 50s. Replace F-15 with F-22 and let me know how that goes.

@@kevinh3979 the f22 in a proper donny make no mistake but it’s far to expensive to replace the whole fleet of f15.

Then enters the F15 Eagle EX

Yeah, there are alot of false statings in this video, also the Harrier Is not the only fighter able to take off and Land vertically, f35's for example can do that aswell, probably better due to more modern tech

Have a new brain transplanted in China.

@@_x_Elizabeth_x_ dumb blondes know best , eh doll?

You're very, very badly informed. The F-15 was designed to gain and mantain air superiority, to confront and beat any possible opponent in air-to-air confrontation. It is a pure fighter. You're talking about the F-15E, the fighter-bomber derivative (nearly identical at first glance, apart from being a two-seater). And deploying nukes, definitely, wasn't the reason for the dimensions of the aircraft.

@@andreabindolini7452 You are partially right. I think I was thinking of the F15E Strike Eagle when I said that. I know the F15 is one of the best ever air-to-air fighter jets. Wasn’t its development radically altered in response to the Fox Bats before we realized it was a shit plane? However, why you’re only partially right is because the F15 was considered a compromise by the Fighter Mafia, which wanted it much lighter. However, one or more of the branches wanted it to be a plane with the speed to enter enemy territory and payload capacity to drop nukes on enemy territory. One of the reasons was, as I mentioned before, that when it was under development we were not yet fully confident in our ICBMs to deliver MAD level strikes. The fighter mafia wanted the F15 to be something like the size and weight of the F16.

The f14 was not a stolen desgin it was utterly unique for swing wings and was very maneuverable more than what most people think.

@Fred Barendse Hi there I've always been under the impression that Mercedes was German. West German pre re unification. So confused as to what friend Russia has to do with Mercedes.

Stands out clearly 👍. Now US has purchased quite a few Flankers from multiple sources for use in more realistic training missions of various types. Seems like the logical thing to do.

Well of course we have excellent British military pilots . As for the typhoon being awesome, some may beg to differ on that issue

@@airzulu2733 if looks could kill, the enemy would be dead.

I rather have a jet that both flies hypersonic & lands like a helicopter with a stability of a blimp.

the Tempest wasn't mentioned bc it doesn't exist. It's not a "new fighter" but just an idea

@@j0hnd0e16 the video was a new post. I was just dating the contents with examples that dated the video. The Tempest is more than an idea, it is now a project with more than a billion pounds that has been spent on it so far. It is also a joint project between the U.K., Italy and Sweden. The U.K. and Italy were part of the F35 stealth project, with the U.K. making the aft section and Italy making the wings. The U.K. also has experience with vectored thrust as well as the helmet. The other European sixth generation project members, Germany, France and Spain, have no experience or past anticipation of any of the above, especially stealth. This makes the Tempest the one to watch.

The guy says the F-117 doesn't reflect RADAR, I doubt he cares much about accuracy.

@@j0hnd0e16 I'm working on Tempest and can assure you, it is not just an idea

Ofc it's old. When was the last time you saw or heard Tiffany Dell on the TV?

The English Electric Lightning when i bought a model kit it came with its fuel tanks above the wings not below has all other aircraft i was surprised and tought what a great idea.