F-4E Phantom Early Look! || Soviet Bomber Intercept || DCS World 

"A gun kill would be fun" Tu-22 has tail gun Wolfpack "Ah, I was't familiar with your game."

"A gun kill would be fun" Tu-22: "Yes, it would"

Just as I was thinking to myself "Doesn't the Backfire have a tail gun...?"

My ex-stepfather flew F-4Es and F-4Ds and intercepted Tu-95s out of Iceland and West Germany in the 70s and early 80s. Flew right next their cockpits a few times. Has severe hearing loss for doing so, since those turboprops were so loud. He always said “whether a Backfire, Bear, or Beagle, NEVER get behind them because of their gun. Be at least a few miles back if you are going to use a missile, and go for bore sight on your Aim-7, that way you don’t have to maneuver much as the missile rides your beam to the bomber. Ideally, you’d never use your gun or gun pod on a bomber, but if you had to, come in vertically so that rear gun couldn’t come into play. Never turn with a fishbed in the area, go vertical and roll back if you need to turn around, use your Phantom’s brute power as it’s your only advantage over them in a dogfight. If they kick in burner and run, don’t waste a growl on them if they’re more than a two miles away, your missile will lose energy before it catches up.” The Sparrow was designed to shoot down bombers, so the existing kills against MiG-21s in real life is actually very impressive… especially considering in Vietnam that 3-out-of-4 Sparrows fired dropped like a fuel tank, and only 1-in-4 that ignited actually tracked their target, with only half of those actually hitting the target and 1-in-10 at that point not even detonating… of which the Sparrow I know of that didn’t detonate still sheered the wing of the MiG-21 off just outside the aileron, and still didn’t take it down. It’s why Phantom crews often ripple-fired Sparrows, dropping two in a quick click-click, and after 1.4 seconds listening for the missile rocket’s distinct ignition sound. I know of one time both Sparrows not only ignited, but hit the target MiG and detonated-the rarest of rare occurrences in Vietnam. The best way to fight in an F-4 is to high-yo yo / boom and zoom at a steep angle so a rear gunner can’t get you in track, or just Sparrow the bomber when at the very edge of being BVR and IVR. Very fuel thirsty and smokey, but despite being an aerodynamic brick, the F-4 could go Mach 2 or 1,490 mph, give or take a few hundred mph… and is the only aircraft to have a recorded supersonic gun kill in combat-occurred during the rescue mission to get Roger Lockhart out of Vietnam (successfully) when an F-4E took out a MiG-19 (I think) at Mach 1.2 when flying off the deck after his two Aim-7s went fuel-tank mode and moonshot, followed by his Aim-4s first going Icarus Mode (“oh, big bright heat source! must get closer!”) or straight up refusing to even launch (“I like my wing wax, thank you”). Bottom line, my favorite jet, Wolfpack. Do her justice, and do not get chewed up by a bomber’s gun, please? She’s a tough bird, but not invincible… and death by rear gunner would just be embarrassing.

Maverick: Goes inverted to flip Russians the bird. Wolfpack: Writes Hello and a draws a smiley emoji on the cockpit. You'll never guess which one finished first in Top Gun school.

Your AIM-9s were tracking just fine, the issue was that you were in a tail chase against a fast target (T-22M in full burner). The missiles ran out of speed before they got to the target. Easy mistake to make against Backfires because they look like a fighter but they're actually huge, so when it looks like you are close enough you are still pretty far away.

Grew up in the 60's and 70's during the Vietnam War. I remember the pilots complained about missing when they had good tone and were locked on the target. Your kill ratio on the missiles seems about right. If you want to see a great film with cool F-4 flying, check out 'The Great Santini.'

Hell yah Wolfpack!!!!!!!!!

The Tu-22M Tail gun gets the uninitiated every time lol

Intercept two Tu-22's 8:20 Spotswood: "That was bad, Intelligence. Very bad Intelligence." I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. : "I'm sorry." -Team America 😂

Wolfpack, PLEASE find someone to be your RIO! I don't play DCS at all but I love watching F-14 crew gameplay.

You have the best intro's and overall sim content man. The intro voiceover is always on point, the content solid, and it helps this one has an F-4E. 😉

I have deemed this video worthy of watching while eating my food.

It fills me with joy when I see an F4 phantom pilot wth shades

We love wolfpack DCS vids keep it up

I'm so used to seeing the WWII planes in DCS on your vids that I forgot DCS even had modern jets. Please, do more, we'd love to see a campaign with these as well~

I definitely expected Jester to jump out the moment those rounds made contact with you 😆 It seems that Growling Sidewinder's conversations with him have really sunk in and he's starting to show some bravery!

Nice intercept. F-4 Thunderhogs FTW! I worked on F-4 Super J, S and RF-4Bs in the Corps.

That happy face above engines at 02:10 and 02:18 :D

1:55 Man, how can you not love Wolfpack?

When the music kicks in just as you launch a fox 1😗👌

2:18 The plane looks so happy!

Lucky bastard, Heatblur gave you access. Hell yeah

Cold war is where DCS needs to head

This was a really great dive into the F-4E Phantom II. I would love to see more videos in the craft from you in the future! It has been such an exciting and difficult plane to learn and master, but the challenge only adds to the fun and joy.

I always love when my games of interest intersect with Wolfpack's!

this feels like a scene out of a Tom Clancy novel, like Red Storm Rising

Hi Wolfpack. I was lucky enough to help test the Rolls-Royce engines that were installed in the RAF and Royal Navy Fleet air arm Phantoms in the 80s. I can not tell you what a Spey 202 sounds like in an enclosed space. Interesting fact the engines use 0.7 gallons of fuel each when on max re-heat. You soon empty the tanks when you light those babies up.

100% need more of the phantom. That was awesome. Great video

Love seeing you post DCS videos my old friend.

man your vids just hit different dude! one of my fav preview vids of the F4!

New map, new plane, cool music... Man this just put smile on my face. You should make more DCS stuff!

Great early look, mate! It would be awesome to see a full campaign from you.

Your video reminded me of my days with the 49th TFW we flew Pantoms out of Holloman AFB, NM

👁👄👁 The smiley face on the tail 😭 lol 😂

Grease pencil? Now we can feel like Fortis 1: "15 gallons, understood".

Fantastic video! Looking forward to hopefully a lot more

@0:46 can't unsee the crazy happy face on the tail of the jet.

Thank you for another awesome vid wolfpack:)

That was awesome 👍🐺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I would love to see a norwegian red storm rising esc campaign in DCS from you. The story-based sim content is one of my favorite things about your videos

I love this plane so much that i have my own nickname in its honour.

THE PLANE IS SO HAPPY!!!!! 2:17

2:17 Look at him, how happy he is to be protecting your 6 from enemy radars!

I got a couple flights in last night finally. All in all about what I expected, which is a very good thing. A couple observations… - On my first landing, which was a bit rough at Creech but certainly nowhere near as hard as a carrier landing, Jester makes a comment about needing the undercarriage replaced and then I find out I have no brakes. Now, I’m an old US Navy carrier guy. I’m used to planes that get slammed on a pitching deck all day long. That little tap and I lose my brakes??? C’mon, man! - I didn’t look too hard cuz I was wanting to get in the air and I knew I had yet to spend an hour or more setting up the controls, but all I saw were skins for either USAF jets or allied nation jets. Nothing from the United States Navy. I mean, the thing was designed and built as a FLEET defense aircraft for the US Navy. They have six skins for the USAF Thunderbirds, but not one navy skin. What is up with that? As an ex-US Navy flight deck veteran that actually served on a carrier that still had a squadron of Phantoms on board, I take great offense to this. - I may be doing something wrong procedure wise and no, I haven’t RtFM yet, but I found as I was screaming around the southern Nevada skies last night, that no matter how I set the radar up from the WSO seat, once I went back to the pilot seat, after a second or two the radar would go back to a B scope and 50 mile range. Am I missing something there? Is it supposed to do that and if so, how can I change it? Surely the pilot can do a PPI and isn’t locked into a B scope. I mean, it does show PPI for a second before it changes. - I’m also wondering why there doesn’t seem to be a Jester command to change ranges on the radar. I can tell him to change the elevation and scan size, but not the range? Edit: I looked again this morning and no, there are no US Navy skins at all. C’mon guys, this thing was built for the Navy! Edit: Okay, I get it. The US Navy never used the F-4E, only the B and J. Well I hope they’ll do a US Navy variation some day.

Phantoms taking off combined with heavy metal was a good mix!

I like the little smiley face on the back of the phantom

That was cool. I would like more episodes please.

Unexpected but amazing surprise. Glad you got a copy.

.. needs a turret ... :D Great video, love the jet action.

Nobody narrates as well as my man wolf from the U-Boat series to anything always so interesting.

I am so looking forward to the F-4! Too bad its delayed by a day, but it is what it is.

Just love a phantom. Great job

How do you record your video feed? It is perfect quality, even on yt. Rare thing among dcs youtubers.

Yee-haw!!! Keep them coming.

This looks awesome!

Boris was getting lit up :)

Damn. That Kola map is the ultimate 90's experience...

I couldn't help but keep thinking how pretty the Tu-22M3's blue afterburners are 🥰

Hopefully heatblur makes an f111 one day… 🙏🙏🙏

Great video, I have the hardest time getting replays to cooperate.

TU-22 is called a "Backfire" for a reason there Wolfie...

That was cool man

The F4 was a plane I knew about but wasn't particularly interested in it until I started watching a series named Gate.

Phantoms are Phorever

WP: A gun kill would be fun! Tu-22: It would be fun wouldn't it?

Just wait - somebody somewhere is going to figure out a way of ensuring every pixel plane Wolfpack flies has a smiley

Hope you do more of the phantom it’s a great bird

Mate, I would love to see the F111 in battle against the Soviets.

That was great!

F-4 is a bit beyond my time but this and the F-14 are so beautiful in my opinion

Loving this.

Been watching your channel for years, since about 1500 subs. Just haven't been as into your videos lately. Glad to see something new and in the air. Not Yuri, but I'll take it.

Your own Your way to becoming an ace.

Cool. I wonder if this sim could let you re-create Cunningham’s famous dogfight?

Oh yes!!!!!!

Wolfpack345, I loved this video so much, I had to hit the like button!

Wolf, that was awesome

Cool 😎

Had to laugh for a moment that Jester was counting in potatoes. Had no idea that was an actual thing outside of just elementary recess games from when I was a kid.

Fun stuff

very exciting thumbs up video.

F4 + GHPC combo campaign.... a boy can dream.

1:53 ROFL 😂😂😂

Migs didn't have any missiles, did they?

When you said " Nice and smokey-as a Phantom should be." I laughed out loud. Since I was a kid in the 70s and loving the F4 no truer words were ever spoken. Ha

Ok... The F4 is awesome.

12:18 little did I know that counting to potato was an actual tatic used by military fighter jet pilots

Really cool airplane

how do you lock onto enemies that are flying towards you at range? my jester cant find anything untill its too late at aruond ~5 miles (we are both areound 10k feet)

I love the F4E’s nose

Sounding a bit like Simba from GR bother. ;)

Awww come man Wolfpack! You take one little small wall of lead and all of a sudden you are a pacifist and you no wanna fight no more 😂

I’ll be your wingman anytime.

F "effing" 4 Phantom. My favorite military jet of all time.

Were you trying to replay Northern Fury H-Hour from CMANO? Great book also!

15:01 you were too far for a Sidewinder shot

Are there going to be any Iron Hand/Wild Weasel missions?

I play only WW2 DCS, how hard do you wolfpack or any people qualified to answer think it would be to pick up?

There is a reason why the Phantom is still used as a trainer today