Royal Marine Reacts To Why The F-15 Terrified The Soviets 

In 1992 I was working at Boeing Everett as a contractor. I was outside walking to my car that was probably a mile walk. Paine Field was right there. A F -15 came off the runway and turned straight up. With a lot of noise it went straight up until you couldn't see it anymore. Very impressive! I've been in love with it ever since.

mustard makes some of the best documentaries on youtube about vehicles in history, would highly recommend watching/reacting to more of his content!

Don't know if it was mentioned, but the Mig-25 was flown across to Japan and landed there. Victor Belenko was the pilot who defected away from the Soviet Union and is now a US citizen.

Especially considering that the F-15 is 40+ years old astoundingly dangerous aircraft

The fat electrician has a great video on the F15 you should watch too!

The F-15 was also a throw back tho Cockpit placement/visibility to the F-86 and the WWII fighters. If you want fast development look at the P-51 Mustang (90 Days).

I was stationed in the Netherlands and they had F-15s there then I cross-trained in F-15 Avionics and spent the next 9 years working with them. Fun aircraft.

the fact that the eagle has shot down an actual satellite in orbit is actually ridiculous

Fun fact F14 and F15 are the fighter duos of the US in their era like if the F15 need to rest for a while you're fcked when the 14 is chasing you Altho the F14 is slighty faster than 15 cause of it's design it is more than enough to cause the migs to retreat and made a worst decision either fight or be exploded

hell yeah, mustard makes some of the best vehicular history content ever, I subscribed to Nebula to watch more of his videos, 10/10 worth it. been waiting for a reaction to his videos for a while now from anyone. glad it was you mate!

It would be cool to see you do some interviews. Perhaps interview someone from the Falkland Islands conflict, a modern fighter pilot, a Vietnam vet....there are many things you could do with your channel. I think this would take you to another level.

The F4 Phantom II was the ORIGINAL BEAST. I started my Air Force career working on the F4 E in 1981.

When I was very young, I saw a model kit of an F-15. I had to have it. It became my first model kit.

Victor Belenko was a fine gentleman and a great pilot who unfortunately passed away last September I hope Holly would make a movie about this guy. He was a great man and was the bravest man I ever read about.

The Vacuum tubes were for incase of a nuclear attack EMP. The use of tubes was a defence compaired to the American model that was valnerble to EMPs

you should also look up on youtube about the F-15 that shot down a satellite in the 1980's. This also scared the Russians. We had a super fighter that could carry a missile that could shot down a satellite. Space attack satellites were not out of reach for the Americans.

The energy maneuverability design wasn't part of the f15 design. They used brute force on the f15. They created the f16 with the energy maneuverability theory

The engines on the Foxbat were so powerful because the aircraft was so damn heavy. If those same engines were placed in a much lighter aircraft, i wonder just how fast it would fly

The Foxbat was fast and could go high but couldn’t dog fight. The Navy F14 TomCat had adjustable wings, controlled by a Computer. The TomCat was a great fighter jet, F15 had sped by the Air Force is a great fighter and another thing that made our equipment great was the fact they updated them as time went on.

The F-14/ Panavia Tornado was a Variable Sweep Wing, which means the plane literally changes shape mid-flight in order to have the flight geometry best suited to the speed no matter what speed it's going. But More moving parts means more points of failure, so that basically spelled the end before it really began...

"Why the F-15 terrified soviet russia." Terrified is past tense bro. It still terrifies the world.

The F-15 holds the record of being the only plane to never be lost in combat.

Enjoyed the video and thank you for your service!

How could the original leave out the time the F-15 lost a wing and still FLEW back and landed safely?

He didnt even go over the wildest story of the F-15, one flew back to base after losing a wing to a SAM. It flew because the thrust to lift ratio is so high it practically classifies as a rocket. Fat Electrician did a video about it.

thefatelectrician's "Bazooka tank" video is an absolute banger of a video, one of the funniest yet

Somewhat related, there's a pilot that survived ejecting from an F-15 at supersonic speed. over 800 mph I believe. His name is Brian Udell, and there's a pretty awesome video of him talking about it on here.

I've been a big fan of the F-15 for years. Watching it leave the runway and shoot straight up gives me goosebumps. I am fortunate that the Air National Guard stationed in my city still flies them. I get to see (and hear) them flying over my house at least 3 times a week.

The f-4 was proof that even a brick can fly with enough thrust

Ah, the F-4 Phantom. The U.S.'s proof that you can make a brick fly if you put enough thrust behind it.

My only big gripe with this, is that they stripped as much weight as possible from the plane to set the records for what it could do... If you ask me it should have been as fully loaded and mission-capable as possible for them to have actually useful data for real combat scenarios. Instead of fudging it a bit.

I was a US Marine Corps avionics technician in 1976 when the Foxbat landed in Japan. The avionics I worked on still had glass vacuum tubes, so I wasn't overly impressed when the news media declared that the Foxbat was utter crap. The story I had was that the Foxbat was intended to intercept the North American B-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 jet bomber, a program cancelled in favor of the Minuteman missile. The Valkyrie hung around for two reasons--Mach 3 research and as a means to get the USSR to waste money defending against a program that had been cancelled. The Valkyrie is why the F-15 and F-22 and F-35 are not Mach 3 fighters--Mach 3 was proven to be impractical given 1960's technology (and vacuum tubes--don't forget that transistors were still a work in progress during the early 1960's). The 1950's-era "missile fighter" programs evolved for a number of reasons beginning with aircraft guns lacking range, hit probability, and damage potential. During the Fifties the Genie unguided air-to-air atomic rocket was developed and that stayed in service for decades, superseded by the Nuclear Falcon, an atomic-tipped guided missile. The revolutionary Sidewinder missile began shooting down MiG-17's near Taiwan in 1958 but only had a range of around 2.5 miles--when you recall that the F-86 Saber couldn't climb high enough to reach the MIg-17 BUT did manage shooting down multiple MiG's flying above the Sabers using the AIM-9B, it's understandable why the future of air-to-air combat was missiles. Problem--operational and political factors limited the use of long-range missiles such as the Sparrow and Falcon to within visual range. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was equipped with an electro-optical telescope that permitted positive visual identification of aircraft well beyond the distance that the naked eyeball or even a pair of binoculars could consistently achieve. Today, drones are the future of air-to-air combat--once the twin problems of control lag and lack of the drone's situational awareness have been solved. The Phoenix missile had a very long range and the F-14 was a fleet defense interceptor designed to counter long-range cruise missile attacks. Mission creep and uncooperative enemies who won't fight the way our textbooks demand they fight tend to create disappointment. The Foxbat is blind compared to the F-15 Eagle. Look at how the Foxbat's canopy is streamlined but the F-15 has a bubble canopy. The Foxbat has visual blind spots and its radar has a narrower search band. Vacuum tube radars generally have more raw output power than microchips, but digital circuits are much more sensitive--different countermeasures are required. The reason for such BIG missiles on the Foxbat was a large warhead and a larger rocket motor were required to deal with high-altitude Mach 3 heavy bombers. The Falcon of the USAF was a bomber killer that proved disappointing in Vietnam--the Sidewinder is a fighter killer. The Sparrow and its replacement AIM-120 were in-between, giving long range and large warhead while being capable of hitting a maneuvering target. Foxbat's missiles were not designed to kill fighters. Speaking of fighters, the YF-12 (based on an airframe and engine similar to the SR-71) had an internal missile bay for Mach 3 flight--the Foxbat hung its missiles in the air, causing drag and subjecting those missiles to heating by atmospheric friction. Intercepting another aircraft when both are flying at Mach 3 is quite the feat.

It may have terrified them, but it wasn't specifically mentioned to be not allowed to use in a signed treaty like the F-111 was...

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This is an aircraft, but the way we got a hold of one was a Russian pilot defected with it.

In case you havent heard of the Channel yet - I'd recommend BlueJay with his video "The Dumbest Russian Voyage nobody talks about". While BlueJay's style is more comedic you might enjoy it - he does some really good content :)

Good memory! Yes it was the Foxbat that was found to be fast, and that was about it.

The F14 had the variable sweptvwing design

Clint Eastwood flew it back, jeez

4:15 Unless the opposing military specializes in unconventional warfare where aircraft and bombs don't make a lot of sense, going to war with the US is literal insanity. According to a RU-vidr I highly respect, this is because: "The most powerful air force in the world is the United States Air Force. The second most powerful air force in the world is the United States Navy. The United States owns the sky, and the night." And the US Army and Marine Corps are in the top 10, which is also crazy.

F-22 ceiling 65k feet.

Jeez, that F-15 got to 25K 8 seconds faster than the Soviet plane got to 20K, and to 30K only 15 seconds slower than the Soviet plane made it to 25K.

The top F-X design was clearly the prototype for the F-14.

They call it God's Airplane for a reason!

104 and 0 look down below, I once downed a satellite just for show😂

Air to air old school dog fights are almost imposible to have now , with the tecnology. F22 aren even seen on radar before they even fire. So by the time the other planes notice them they already got hit . The f15 had many air to air kills in irak tho.

I laughed when I watched this video.. you have no idea how many of those black and white 35mm slide projector military briefings I sat through when I was in the Air Force. The military briefing staff all sounded exactly the same- just like Navy Captain in the MiG-25 briefing film segment. Onward - I still remember when we were all shown the F15’s (in real life no less) up in Keflavik, Iceland (formerly a joint Navy P-3 Antisubmarine squadron and USAF fighter interceptor squadron playing tag with Russian bombers doing the U.S. East Coast to Cuba run). I think everyone on the flight-line was sporting wood when the first pair landed and taxied nearby. The sound alone of the engines made your internal organs vibrate. It was and still is a creature of beauty. If you get a chance, take a look around online and you can see the newest version that I would imagine are in production now if they sold enough contracts. Take care

I'll just say that as someone with a lot of military friends, I'm not fond of the Yanks overdeveloped trigger fingers in the field, but I do have to bite my tongue sometimes and say they do make damn good fighter aircraft.

Watch the History Channel series "Dogfights", available on RU-vid. The one about the F-15 is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iU7Rw0lbycI.html

i'm a fan of the Fulcrum design (they have one at the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton, OH)...but the biggest difference between American and Russian designs is the technology, and "finesse" -Russian planes are more utilitarian in terms of aesthetics- they're built to "work"- not look beautiful, and it's seems their priority is the "appearance" of superiority...The US and France have both shown that you can have both (the Rafale is a perfect example- very pretty bird...compare the Concorde to the TU-144- they look the same, but the Concorde was far more advanced, and a very beautiful plane)...

Do some from Found And Explained too lol

The F=15 made history when the U.S.Air Force used one to shoot down an old satellite orbiting in space.

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I did your job just from accros the pond. The sweeping wing went to the F14. It was a much larger and heavier craft. It scared the the hell out of the Soviets as well. I hear the latest Eagle hits 3.2.

This is the origin of the term 'Foxbat Syndrome'. TL:DR; the Soviets (or Russians, or Chinese) build themselves a thing. They then lie about its capabilities for propaganda value. So the US and NATO go. "Well fuck lads, we need to deal with that!" So they build a hard counter to the exaggerated specs. Which brings us to current year. Where Russia still hasn't learned that the US and our allies generally play down or equipment's capabilities when they assume we're exaggerating.

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in reality there are way more planes between the F-86 and the F-4

Let's just say what the US makes for aircraft ain't really, too easy to shoot down. If something breaks on military aircraft, mechanics will repair it.

about the youtube algorythem: apperantly, it does not really look at likes. it looks more at 'number of comments' 'increase of subs since' and, believe it or not, 'dislikes'......because of course it does.......broken as it is. likes dont really do anything as far as i know.

the foxbat was gained when a soviet pilot defected to japan

With its disadvantages the f4 phantom still dropped more might. It was called the mig hunter by combat vets who flew them. So there is some propaganda in this video.

Using the f-111 aardvark and the f-14

You guys make some seriously kick ass aircraft of your own…the English Electric Lightning is still one of the best fighters ever made…no joke…it’s beautiful and powerful…the new F-15 EX can do Mach 3 despite the walk back…I think that poor bastard got terminated after opening his fool mouth…but c’mon…

Gotta love a plane that shot down a satellite in the 1980's.

An (I believe) Israel owned Eagle suffered a mid air collision...LOST A WING...then landed. Check the video.

Stop asking questions that you are already answering ask you ask.

The ULTIMATE "Here, Hold my beer". 104-0. F-15 drops mic, walks away.......

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Dude they didn't cover the fact that the F-15 can fly while missing a wing.

Look up the F-14, F-16 and F-18 Hornet and Super Hornet Variants. Also Look up the SR-71 as well which is what the Foxbat was built for.

Mustard has the best short videos on vehicles and ideas like this

The navy used a variable sweep wing fighter. The legendary F-14. It had pretty close to the same capabilities as the f-15 had a few tricks up it’s sleeve that the f-15 didn’t have and was a carrier launched aircraft

Knowing the F-15 having ground attack capabilities as well Warthogs hovering overhead should be encouraging for ground troops, knowing some whoop ass is a radio call away.

Exactly so, the F-86 and the MiG-15 were the transitional designs from prop fighters. Jet Technology was new, and everyone was experimenting to find the best designs. These two could be considered like the Model A Ford would be to the Ford Mustang muscle car. They wrre learning platforms for improvents later on.

LOL....My brother was an F-15 pilot during Desert Storm. I had no idea Soviets were scared of it.

The MiG 25 used VACUUM TUBES in avionics?🤡🤣. I was today years old when I learned that. BTW, very proud to be in St. Louis, home of McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing Defense, which designed and still builds the F15 in all domestic and foreign variants, including the EX. It’s no match for the F35…but will go down in history as one of the most formidable combat aircraft ever built.

It’s interesting that the Soviet up until the Vietnam war also though guns would be obsolete, so the earliest versions of the the MiG-21 didn’t have guns either.

Early MIG's like the 15 were powered by an engine derived from the Rolls Royce Nene Jet engine. Which was sold to them in a fit of stupidity.

Paper Skies also makes incredible videos, many on the soviet/russian aircraft

Have you done the Eurofighter Typhoon yet?

A polish f 16 pilot once said that everybody feared russians and their air force, but any time any 4th gen western plane met their soviet counterpart in combat, it wasn't a fight, it was an execution. When a wing of f16s finally heard, that mig 29s were spoted by an awacs in the middle east it was a race to see who would shoot down the first mig 29 by an f 16. There was no doubt there. They were literally racing to be there first.

Number 3 on the scrapped concept, didnt they just put those wings ,but all three positions , on our planes?

Americans build things and downplay the performance, Soviets built things and overstate it's performance.

Oh damn! I thought I was subscribed! I watch your vids so frequently that they just pop up automatically, now. Well damn, I'm part of that 90% 🙁 NOT ANY MORE!!

Yes the Mig 25 is that aircraft. A Russian pilot defected to Japan and they were able to study it and found out it wasn’t what Russia said it was.

There is a dogfights of history episode that featured a fight between mig 25's and f 15's on youtube if you wanna check it out

Watch Air Force One lol

Two things,there was a g model, took out a satellite I believe the pilot was named johnson, also flew from Dakota . A Israeli pilot collided with a mig in mid air. The mig went down in a ball of fire. The 15 lost it's starboard wing from the intake out. The pilot landed the aircraft intact minus its wing. Only pilot ever to accomplish this FACT.

MURICA

I'd have to say the f-15 and f-14 will always be the best fighters in the u.s. history please do a video on the F-14 tomcat

The F15 is now over 110 to 0 in air to air combat..... however... when the F22 went up against the F15... the F22 went 40-0 against F15s flown by F22 pilots.... And now do you see why the F22 is considered the best air combat plane on the planet?

😂😂😂😂😂

The Hellcat designed and built during WW2 to beat the Japanese Zero is a prime example of the US ability to build superior aircraft. It replaced the Wildcat which was out maneuvered by the Japanese Zero. The Hellcat totally changed the course of WW2. It totally dominated the Zero.

The fat electrician did a video on the "the most gangster fighter of all time" if you want a good laugh

That’s a great video but it’s not why Russia was afraid of the F-15. The reason was because America shot down a satellite of their own out of space with the F-15. And because it could still fly missing a wing.

Fat electrician did a awesome video about the F-15 eagle.

He didn't touch that the f15d can fly missing a wing. There was a case where an Israeli f15d lost a wing and continued on and flew back to base. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wxJcEz3h4tU.htmlsi=qbpzuv0qflIOZymL

The SU and F airframes are terrifying. The Russians won’t use their SU airframes in this Ukrainian war. They can’t lose any more face.

Nothing more than a flying tractor with crap hanging off it!!

The F-4 was very good at what it was designed for. It’s still used to this day by many countries and remains a powerful ground attacker and is still plenty fast enough to carry out is interceptor role against common kinds of bombers.