Red Storm Rising: Chapter 21 Nordic Hammer (full) 

When I first read it ,I was attending Navy CICO school in Dam Neck VA. The Navy parts of the story really hit it accurately. (I was going to be the CICO on a Perry class FFG). I had bought the book at a local bookstore, went to dinner, got back to my quarters at 1900, and started reading. I finished it at about 0300 the next morning - and I had class to goto !

I started watching this at 1700 and just stopped at 1800 oopsie

It’s almost here now

@@legneil I was expecting it during the Yom Kippur war in 73 when our base went on alert and it was NO EXERCISE!

Was at work Spang at that time.

They really should make it into a 10 part series.

MY family are all navy, my dad was in the Pentagon when Red October hit so big, my brother had orders to staff college and to his ever living regret they changed the scnenario that year to.....RED STORM RISING! (ROFL) which means that he had to read/redread it about 5 times in the next year!

Try to read also "2034" by Elliott Ackerman and "WWIII" by Ian Slater.

"Team Yankee", by Harold Koyle is pretty good as well. WW III from the perspective of a company tank commander.

This is great!! 👍 I have the hard copy after buying 4 paperbacks. I also have the electronic copy. The best of his work.

Could be if Russia could afford to produce many modern aircraft and trained pilots to match the U.S., they can’t ,and never will be able to afford this. Oh yes and they are always a decade behind us technologically

@@jamesjohnson427they were pretty evenly matched back then

Nope, they were not

@@outrider425 A numbers advantage, which does not exist anymore.

Their mission was to bomb the airbase BEFORE fighters could arrive

I actually didn't know that. Appreciate the heads up. I had made the livery to setup for a later video. (or two) The Soviet VVS special duty station in temporary occupied Iceland opted for the grey scheme "in tom clancys world" ;-)

​@BobChanel Is this written in the book?

While i agree, I worry how much would have to be cut/scrapped so as to not have a 10 hour movie

@@djbadlt It would make a much better tv series, you could easily get two seasons of eight sequential one hour episodes, you would be able to properly develop all the subplots and really tell the story.

@charlesparr1611 oooooh I like that

Do you still have exhaust soot engrained into your skin? The J79 push it along nicely but sure left a nice _find me_ line behind the aircraft. 😀

@@pipercessna3827 Unless you put on one of the two afterburners, that would hide the smoke (learned that 3 years ago from a former GAF Wizzo)

The F-4 is beyond badass

"Your repot of fighters was judged as unconfirmed and not passed on... i did not concur in that"

In the book the initial attack by the Russian was by boat. This chapter is about an American lead attack on Iceland occupied by Russia. Hopefully these early waning system do not work when Russian are on Iceland

@@stevenbos5206i still can’t believe the Russians could have taken Iceland in the first place.

I do. We are talking about a airbase security force against a russian VDV battalion with ifvs

Wait a minute. I was relating REALITY. The book you suggest that causes you to believe that the Russians could take Iceland is FANTASY. That book's author was writing FICTION. Understand?!?@@airsoftcommando3354

Hence the difference between fiction and historical narrative. I like TC but I wish I could get real accounts from people like you. Truth is always stranger than fiction.

I’m pretty sure I had that happen to me around 1988 in a remote area in Missouri for a camping trip. MO ANG F4s always flew in groups of 4…and exactly 4 of them screamed in at tree top level over us and sharply climbed up with burners on….. it’s something I’ll never forget.

Most likely they would have either been from the ANG detachment at Syracuse or Griffis AFB in Rome NY. I used to see Phantoms there in the late 80s when i first started to visit my wifes folks who lived there

The F-4 was a great example of with enough power you could get a brick to fly!

Yes went to airshows at McGuire AFB (with parents..) as far back as the early 70's when both F-105s & F-4s were stationed there and agreed they put on good shows! Remember being around 5 y/o going up to a guard standing by a perimeter setup around a B-52. I asked him what would happen if I crossed the roped off section. Without batting an eye he replied with a smile "Well I'd shoot you..". Put a smile on my fathers face as well ☺ (who was a former member of the CAP & US Navy draftee).

yeah this kid is damn good at making movies mini movies

The whole god damn book needs to be a 10 part miniseries with at least an hour and a half long episodes.

Too many details that a movie would not be able to cram into 2 hours.

@@SeanODea25 Even a 10 part miniseries would leave lot out but would still like to watch that (miniseries not a movie).

Sure you could do a 10 part miniseries but I really feel like the Iceland story is perfect for a movie of its own. But, based on what we know now about the Russian military, how much of a true threat were they back then? Maskirovka?

I think it could be 3 series of 10-15 episodes each for the war on Europe, the Atlantic campaign and the Iceland campaign. If they show them parallel it could tie in the whole book.

Indeed, that was a fun read .. Always found him to be droll in his humor, this book was more 'human'. The whole golden fleece part was also humanizing.

Just watch the news

You should read Yukikaze. It's not quite Tom Clancy as far as realism or setting, but it's a surreal hard military sci-fi/techno thriller that features next generation highly advanced fighters fighting aliens in the future, and the author details the advanced future aerospace technologies in great detail such as scram jets, stealth, highly advanced-near sentient AI, cyber & electronic warfare, supermaneuverability, drones, etc...

Your welcome. 👍 I'm just glad people like it.

Yesh.. there's kind of limited assets in DCS world. Its more what parts of the chapters could I bring to life with that I have.

This was set in the 80s. Cruise missiles were mainly used for nukes. And some Navy ships and subs land strikes.

Most of those details are straight out of the Sim. Appreciate the Kudos! 👍

In all seriousness Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Dudes talented as F**K.

So Soviet radar wouldn't pick them up, Iceland's terrain hid them

@@eeblihp If they were hiding from radar, then why did they send the Phantoms in?

This was explained in the book by the fact they did not think the Soviet put fighters on the airfield yet they got told by the character on the ground but they ignored him. So they just thought they had Sams to worry about

Also on weasle missions the G models were paired with E models .

Thanks! If people like them that much I dont mind. Im not too worried about subscribers. Just enjoy making them when I get time.

@@BobChanel it’s a great idea & was very entertaining to watch! Great job

There are limiting factors at play here. I try and stay true to the book as best I can with what I have available within the sim and try and do it all within a confines that looks appealing to a video. (and do it in a Top Gun meets Red Dawn style if that makes sense) If Clancy got it wrong and I cant adjust the narration then I kind of have to get it wrong.

@@BobChanel I know... but! 😉

Yes Punta Arenas but with the trees removed and basically the base facilities destroyed with some scripts. Really starts to look like Iceland.

@@BobChanel Base Aérea Chabunco. Cool to be helpful

@@jackmcfann ive thought about re-doing some of these and.. well correcting some things. Fan fiction as it were.

It's a limitation of the game he uses on these videos. DCS doesn't model the Standard ARM, reason, as I understand it, is that some parts of the missile are still top secret. Which is funny as the game does model the later HARM missile.

Eh, the tech was quite a bit closer then, and the Soviets had 10x the troops and economic power of Putin's Russia. Russia today of course did not really advance its doctrine or it's tech all that much since the 90s. They have some good systems. Kalibr is actually a very good missile as an example. And their frigates and smaller boats seem to be halfway capable, although they did a terrible job maintaining the larger soviet era ships like Moskva. The maintenance report for Moskva reads like a horror story. S300 and S400 anti air systems are actually quite good, but I think Russia itself is not very well trained on their own systems and therefore don't get much out of it. Ukraine has only S300, yet it is using it effectively to shoot down Russian planes and cruise missiles to great effect. And the Tor and Pantsir systems seem to be pretty good as well, but Russia. So I am not so sure Russian AA is a bad system, rather a bad defense doctrine for Russian forces. Although it doesn't help against stealth aircraft like F-35, so it isn't cutting edge. Good enough for most planes in the world though. But much of the "Feared' russian hardware is indeed vaporware. T-14 Armata tank and SU-57 plane is basically prototype concept that they only have a few of, and they aren't that impressive. SU-57 has a squadron of 5 operational airframes with another 6 prototype airframes. And its vastly inferior in stealth to an F-35, so it's not that dangerous. T-14 only has about 10-20 prototype elements, and we know they have teething issues. Russia can't build them in large numbers and its debatable if it is actually superior to any tank the US has. It is also a VERY expensive tank, and it does have some interesting features that I think might be copied and implemented better in future western designs. Russia's curse is that they CAN design great systems, but never to scale, and is often stolen and made far better by it's enemies.

Def not in the official music score but not horrible beats 🤣

My best analysis of the situation was they were referring to the F-4's that had done the SEAD the "escorts". That is the only time he mentions the bombers had escorts and had no word of another aircraft that were involved with that strike package. I think he was conveying ignorance on the side of NATO/US. Also cant not recommend the book enough. Ive read it a few times and have listened to the audio book about a dozen times now.

@@BobChanel Okay thanks for letting me know. I will defiantly pick it up soon. Any great work on this looked like it was part of a movie.

As mentioned at the beginning of the video, the Americans didn't think there were any Soviet fighters on the island yet. In the book, US intelligence assets on the island (US troops who had avoided capture when the Soviets had captured Iceland) reported the fighters, but the report was deemed "unreliable".

That plus the new B-52 model.. Trust me ive been contemplating it.

It’s pretty much history now. Read it back around 1990-92, when it was current, and was impressed. But warfare, aerial warfare in particular, has changed a lot over the last 30 years.

и где истребители прикрытия бомбардировщиков? которые должны бороться с Су27

Cope harder.

to be fair, A B-52 is easy bait for any fighter aircraft. It is a big, slow bomber that should never fly in an area with significant anti air systems or fighters.

They would screw it up like they did with “ Without Remorse”

@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 You are probably right.