Fighter Pilot Reacts to America vs Russia Digital Combat Simulator 

Hello everyone! Thanks for checking out this video! The source video is from Growling Sidewinder and you can check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iAvPsJvm0gU.html If you liked it and want to support more like this head over to Patreon and check out some of my content there: www.patreon.com/MaxAfterburner or you can pop over to www.maxafterburner.co and grab some swag. Stay Fast!

"you keep fighting until you land" That applies to all planes not just fighters. Never give up!

Ryan, once you get your DCS rig set up you should join Growling Sidewinder and LongShot for when they go on SEAD missions. Also, Hasard Lee recently got setup for DCS so it would be cool to see you duel him as well as go on cooperative SEAD missions.

im a young teen boy looking to become a fighter pilot like you. I really take inspiration from your content. keep it up!

I think he was being sarcastic about being confident about it being a F22… just after watching his stuff for a while I think that’s what he was thinking (my first impression).

So cool you came across GS. He and his buddy Longshot are a riot and serious fun to watch. Also cool to corroborate what GS teaches with real fighter pilot like yourself.

This was interesting ! I had no idea about gyro fitted ejection seats, so a new thing learnt 😊. Also you did very well to stay calm when F - 15 was called " ordinary ". In round 1 though that F - 22 was like " look at my capability" then goodbye pal ! 😁

i dont want to be 'that' guy but that "great" in the first fight was sarcasm

I remember this video when it came out. It’s great to see it broken down like this! I highly recommend watching more GS videos because he has a lot of cool tactical scenarios as well as dogfights, BVR, whatever you want he’s got it.

I really appreciate how you break down the acronyms and explain from a pilot's perspective of what's happening in each cockpit you earned a sub for me looking forward to for more videos

You should log in and duel with growling side winder. He battled a Canadian/French pilot on DCS and it was really interesting DCS and debrief afterwards.

Love these videos! Thanks dude!

love these vids, cant wait to see you play dcs. also i like it when you keep in gs's commentary. keep it up!!!!!!!

gs/max afterburner dogfight video soon? keep up the good work ryan (hope i spelled right) ❤

Thank you Max Afterburner and Growling Sidewinder, awesome debrief.

would be so sweet to see you do DCS stuff of your own, man. nice to see the stuff that you can show in public, no need to be breaking opsec or anything. hope getting together the PC, hotas, head motion tracker isn't too painful

They’re probably saying that because they don’t get the training that American pilots do. It’s not a matter of them not wanting it. It’s more like they don’t want to admit that their budget for training is severely limited but you wouldn’t say that. You’d just make an excuse saying you don’t need to

You bring some awesome content my man. Super interesting hearing the professional critiques and analysis. Looking forward to seeing videos of your flying and hearing how DCS compares to the real thing. Thanks!

My wife got to fly with the Thunderbirds, and jump with the Golden Knights, when they came through Tyndall AFB many years ago 😁 she’s a news anchor… what an experience!!!

With many of the F-22 capacities still being classified and actually restricted from use in international war games to the point that some military reviewers state that F-22 pilots are acquiring "bad habits" because they are not allowed to push the jet to its full potential. It's questionable how useful simulator reviews may be.

Thank you very much for your insights! They're so educative! Thanks a lot!

Very cool description of the maneuvers. I think I'll get the game. Thank you for the content and your service.

I’d be really interested to get your take on differential thrust maneuvers that growling sidewinder has been using in his new videos it’s pretty interesting seeing him beat an f-22 in a 1 circle with a su-27

I love Growling Sidewinder, and this channel is a new favorite.

Damn , one of the best videos out there. The collaboration we didnt know , we need it . Damn G.S named a manuever the wrong name 🤣🤣

You make GS videos educational and add to the excitement.

Another great video! Would love to see you spend more time in DCS!

These DCS videos with Ryan and Growling Sidewinder are my favorite

That Thrust Vectoring is game changing. The aerobic manoeuvres are min-maxing against older gen airframes. How do these pilots endure these G's IRL? Phenomenal.

You have great energy man! Like your style!

I am a little upset that you actually dont have the majestic mustache advertised in the thumbnail. :p (I love Growling Sidewinder's videos and really enjoyed your analysis.)

I really didn't think I would like watching a video of an ex fighter pilot breaking down a DCS game. I really thought it would suck. Now I'm hooked. Subscribed.🤦🏾‍♂️

I love how your doing reviews of growling sidewinder it’s great he’s the man

I'm a DCS player - play poorly but have major fun. I've been following you and Growling Sidewinder for a while now. Can we look forward to more cooperation between you and GS?

If you got DCS I would watch all your dogfights, would love to learn from the best👌🏻

I think the "fantastic" may have been sarcastic

Great commentary! We DCS Fans really enjoy this content!

I love these vids!

Growling Sidewinder recently made a video revisiting the idea of random US jets VS Soviet jets, except in his newer video each person can only use a jet once, and that video features more types of jets aswell.

Love the commentary! But are these dogfights realistic, being so close to each other?

Great review.

The Jet Clean shaving cream is SUPERB, by the way!!

There is a US-based simulator which is supposed to be superior to DCS. It's called NOR by Meta Immersive Synthetics. It is currently only for military use, but there is some talk about making it open to the general public as commercial software. If you have any influence with anyone who might have some say in whether the public will also be allowed to fly on NOR, please put a good word in for us!

What a great little niche for you. I love watching Growling, Grim Reapers, etc. It's better than TV. You get to come in as an expert and repurpose all this great content that's second nature to you. Don't you love RU-vid (most of the time?)

Hi, mate! I have just discovered your channel and I must say that I like your style of presentation! I'll sure be following you.

Great video

Dogfights are like street fights: There are no rules, and they always end up on the ground.

I wouldn't call it excitement with Growling Sidewinder, more like 30% excitement and 70% sarcasm.

Do more videos like this love it

Max great video. I’m an NROTC MIDN with a flight contract and Im commission in a year. What should I do to prepare for flight school. I understand Air Force flight school is different then Navy fight school, but if you had any tips that would be great. I got my hands on the T-6 b student flight manual and have been reading that, but is there anything else I should do?

Yeah 😊

Hello max afterburner, do you see the match fight between F22 VS MIG 31, you will surprise, that match, definitely on growing sidewinder.

Bro I swear I saw a pic of you and saw the max afterburner and thought to myself "this guy just looks like he Flys F15s" 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well done! More of the same sort of commentary, please!

So idk if you know but the F15 E is coming to dcs soon, would be cool to see you check it out when it releases

see this is the shit i have trouble with. merging and all that. For one this situation only happens when players agree to only use guns. It does happen in open battles like the sidewinder server but it's rare you actually get close enough and you both just happen to be out of missiles or one of you, but i still want to learn, but what if you run out of energy first and stall?

Is there any sources for other videos like this? I'd really like to see more of these American vs Russian flight combats. (Or any other Nation vs Nation fight simulations)

"That's a normal F-15"????? I flew the -E for 18 years, thank you very much. Care to meet me in the real thing?? I'm 60 and haven't been in the cockpit for, uh, awhile and I'm short one eye. Bet I can still take you in 2 minutes or less, lol!

I know i've spent too much time on youtube if I find Jim Carry's dogfighting channel. Subbed

Oh, and BTW, thanks for your service. Keeping our skies safe... 👍

Hey Max what do you think of the F-14 Tomcat?

For someone who knows absolutely nothing about jets just fascinated by them you make everything so easy to understand.

GS video and former pilot react? It's time for a beer and snack then.

Can you play DCS yourself, and vs against the highest skill AI??

If there's one thing I've learned from watching Growling Sidewinder and his friends, it's that a skilled pilot can win in just about any plane, and a pilot who doesn't know their plane's capabilities and how to take advantage of them is just a target, no matter how fancy their ride.

Growling Sidewinder also gives a decent, well-understood, running commentary.

Something is wrong with the link you provided for your company. When I followed the link a page from Shopify appeared asking me to finish setting up the domain. Just thought you should know.

you should check out the f15 strike eagle in development for dcs, maybe you could give them some help modeling the systems because of your experience with the plane

@growlingsidwinder is awesome. deff deserve props.

The 30mm HEF shells of the Flanker's gun have about the mass, fragment dispersion, and explosive mass of a typical frag grenade. Hell of a punch in those things. Like someone taped an M61 to your plane

I never knew Fire Marshal Bill was in the Airforce

Great job

Love Growling Sidewinder and Grim Reapers Thanks for the breakdown! God Bless

what do you think of the more 6th generator fighters such as a F/-XX

Good stuff

70k subscribers!!! This man is climbing like an f15 unrestricted!!!

“I will break you.”

The worst part about watching his DCS videos is all the dirt bandits on my phone screen.

I think the spontaneity was 100% sarcasm. Lol

The more realistic these simulators get, the more they become a useful teaching tool for real-world fighter pilots. Imagine if you could have Hans-Joachim Marseille as your instructor. Or Adolf Galland. You could potentially have a lot of super pilots. That said, that's where Ai comes in. Whatever generation aircraft ends up being piloted by Ai will be able to learn and adapt instantly. That is NOT science fiction. It is almost here now.

i had an idea to make an rc drone aircraft years ago that had variable inlets and outlets for the incoming and outgoing air/thrust. but i wanted to mix it with something like a biplane... thou not with a wing in front and one in back but in front and back of the fusilage, offset with one slightly higher. oh and it was a 1 engine idea. the idea thou was to put the wings on rotating drums to allow them to either be locked in place or to rotate so as to allow the body of the aircraft to move independantly of their angle in providing lift. idk if that makes sense... basically you could fly it like a biplane, with 1 wing abof the other and the body pointing straight up or straight down... because the inlets and outlets would also move to keep their flows/forces (thou reduced, since it isn't optimum in that configuration) anyhow i figured it could help keep targeting and other systems in some way if not change the angle of attack for lets say a gun... idk if a missile could be launched in that configuration. well ya i wanted to make an rc of it to test it... for potential larger scale systems. idk what the g forces and such would be anyhow. i'm a dreamer and a thinker, so its just an idea i had years and years ago. i don't have the ability to actually make one, but eh its a dream right. peace. sorry, i wanted to share.

Just if anyone is wondering, most of the dogfights Growling sidewinder does are guns only.

When I first started watching GS, I thought he was an ex fighter pilot. His knowledge and vocabulary is pretty damn good!

He wasn't excited it was an f22, that was pure sarcasm

Damn bro you flew the Strike Eagle… I’m jealous 💯

where is the link to the videos that you are using?

More growling sidewinder reacting videos plz

Growling was being sarcastic about the f22.....its like fighting a leaf on the wind....with teeth and the sun behind it.

Where does the voice come from in the intro?

@ 6:37 we can all clearly see the bullets passing waaaay way below your plane and it makes all of the physical sense to be that way as the shooting plane has high AoA (so the bullets trajectory will be curved downwards) and it's also not pointing it's nose above or leading your plane but lagging it's sight behind your plane. How on Earth did the bullets hit? Not visually nor physically! It's just a decades unfixed bug in DCSs servers (lagg maybe to blame idk but it's always there) and if people don't address it, it will be there to forever stay. In all other combat flight sims, the opponents hit me only after pointing their nose accordingly well ahead (lead) on my plane's trajectory (logical) depending on speeds and geometries in order to have the bullets land on my plane, but no, on DCS servers you can spray the bullets perfectly on your enemy and have none simulating a hit or just miss them badly and then go a WHOOOT?... as you see your target in flames and it simulates that you hit when in fact you never hit it visually fact which is also confirmed with TACVIEW ACMI. Done TACVIEW vs DCS own recording comparisons for this issue many times and confirmed that TACVIEW shows the truth that the bullets pass well by while DCS simulates that they hit=).

I can't wait for the dcs strike eagle

To start with, I’d never fly into a combat zone that low! 😬😬 ground to air to much of a threat, plus maneuvering that close to the ground traps you into a horizontal plane, & a climb would slow you down, making you more vulnerable.

Mig 29 fighting f22 : realism

Definitely at least try a quality VR setup somewhere... It's night and day difference from head tracking. Being a pilot you've got the stomach for it :D

Hey Ryan you should really come to the DCS Dogfighters server once you get your DCS rig set up. That’s where most of the serious guys are. GS is great at what he does, but you’ll find more challenging competition in DCS Dogfighters. I’d love to hear your take on the DCS F-16 flight model once you go a couple rounds against a Hornet or a Mirage.

The fact that Ryan hasn't reacted to Adrian Caprazo's ELI-21 is a travesty.

Great video Loved the step by step breakdown on tactics Thanks

Actually he was being sarcastic about being up against a F22. I watched many of his videos and I know his sarcastic voice, BUT he never gives up!

SPLASH 1 GET HIM

I would love to see your reaction to one of three Hypops: Hypothetical Operation wargame 3d visualizations videos: USA vs Russia: Breaking the S-400 (with F-35s), USA vs China: To Sink a Carrier, China vs USA: War Erupts in the South China Sea. Guy is LEGIT, few days ago Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) asked to use his animation in Report about future Taiwan conflict