I was ships company on the Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71 when this took place in real life. We were in the Mediterranean and was just leaving the port call of Israel. It wasn't full battle stations, but they were on high alert and had extra Tomcats and Hawkeyes up just to keep an eye on things. It was tense knowing a retaliation attack could have come at any moment
Thank you Sir for your Service. I know many of you are modest when it comes to calling you guy's hero's but you are are Hero's and I make Dame sure of it that my kids know that, and if they run into any Vet wearing a Uniform or not, they know to give you the highest respects.
Iran has been domestically producing the silkworm missile since shipments were cut off from China in the 1980s. That means they received so many examples in the 1980s they were able to reverse engineer the missile and produce multiple missiles. So yes they did have a vast stock of silk were missiles during the Iran Iraq war.
There is something that will always remain glorious about seeing an F-14 take off from a carrier. Would love it if you guys could do a replay of The Falklands. First with historically accurate aircraft and weapons, second with updated aircraft and weapons (so Typhoon and F-35, Type 45, etc) where the Argentine military has been given a load of kit from Russia (thinking SU-24, Mig 29, maybe a few SU-27).
Great work to Cap & the Grim Reaper crews! If there is one thing that is most important to any military operation, it is timing! So great job on not pissing about, Cap! 😉☺
Hey Cap! Would it be possible to simulate if any military could strike the Russian Black Sea fleet while they’re in port in Sevastopol? Try Ukr all the way up to 5th gen strike group?
Last time I'll mention it, maybe, but I really hope you get back into tutorials. I'm watching other people's stuff now and barely any GR at all. And I am a huge fan of the Grim Reapers. But without tutorials the channel feels incomplete. Please reconsider and get back into the stuff that brought us all to your channel and made us such big supporters.
When Pickles was mentioned, I tried to think back to the briefing to remember what He was flying. It took a second or two until I realised that Mr Pickles is firmly in the Anti-aircraft role. (but it would definitely be F14 if he wasn't)
When Cameron's government got it in the neck for scrapping Harrier - most people didn't even realise Labour had already scrapped Sea Harrier. No point spending a fortune floating ground attack Harriers aircraft around the world without fighter escorts.
@@will1856 your kidding, they would’ve lasted until 6 years from this point and they scrapped it years early like that? Cuts my ass they just wanted to milk the us and the f35s which prolly cost triple to buy and maintain compared to a single harrier, they could’ve even used its hull as a base for a new fighter to act as a workhorse for the rn, like how the US uses mostly f18’s and a few f35’s. Wonder what that supposed new workhorse would look like if it was a thing. God the possibilities wasted
@@LondonSteveLee I'd disagree - lots of purpose in maintining the Invincibles and a ground attack/CAS capability. I can't think of an occasion in which fleet air defence would have been required in the last 20 years. (Times are changing now but that's pretty irrelevant). Lots of uses for an ASW/Commando/Ground attack carrier and its maintained airwing currency, experience and skill... That said the F35 is a huge step up in capability.
The Phoenix missiles may be 'lofting,' when fired from low altitudes. But some of them didn't loft at all, but flew level, until they dropped in on the targets. I'm guessing it's just a matter of launch alt...
As an American I'm keenly interested in seeing world events through the eyes of other countries - it helps me identify our own biases....and so I ask about the scenario - is it meant to be fairly real or fictional, particularly regarding the claim that Iran had no Silkworm missiles in 1988. It was my understanding that both Iraq and Iran had plenty of Silkworms throughout their war. Thanks!
@@grimreapers I had no idea from here in the states until doing some research. Ich bin ein confused/mad/disappointed human? Hope you're feeling better Cap.
Harrier, the hovering abomination with three whining pussies but only one of them is a cat. I'm sure she's a fine aircraft in real life. 10:34 I think you have a habit of destroying your engine on takeoff. I would be expecting something like 600 knots for that power setting. 450 is my regular low altitude climb speed with the harrier. Then again, it's a razbam module so everything is all over the place all the time depending on which version you're running. I never push beyond 710 JPT on takeoff because I don't count on the damage model being correct and it's always subject to change anyway.
This film is not correct about the attack on Iran. You did not count the 3 missile sites inside Bandar Abbas and the oil platforms in the south, and our Iran has 3 short-range, mid-range, and long-range missile sites inside Kish.
Why did you attack H3 with Tomcat? We Iranians did it with Phantom. We refueled twice, one inside and the second inside Syrian territory, but you did not refuel at all in your review video.
boring. do the tr3b vs the alien tic tac. thats the least you can do to atone for nuking london in your failed attempt at shooting down darth vaders space ship.
If you are doing something you don't know about, don't make a film about it. Our pilots for H3 inside Syria at an altitude of 6000 feet refueled eight Phantom planes. You should make a film based on reality.
