Which Aircraft Or SAMs Can Intercept Hypersonic SR-72 At Mach 6? | DCS 

SR-72 Battles: Improved SR-72(mach 12): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R1r7wThM3Es.html SR-72 vs Russian Air Force & SAMs: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-onVSUUxwrqk.html SR-72 vs Chinese Navy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Els8ZXRPnrI.html Which SAMS/Planes Can Intercept SR-72: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AOpqkzBA8bw.html

A video with you and Growling Sidewinder would be probably one of the best DCS vids ever

What I love about GR is that often when questions arise during the session like "Can the AIM-120D launched at high Mach catch up from behind" Cap knows to say yes and give it a shot!

The SR-71 cruised at 85,000 feet in the 1960s. So it's safe to assume the successor would cruise at least there but probably higher. I also think he should be making more random course changes to throw off the missiles

The very idea of a 1960s plane *still* holding untouchable speed records for an air-breathing jet gives me goosebumps

Fun fact: The SR 71 actual top speed was Mach 4.4 per a Lockheed Engineer I watched in a documentary a few days ago. He said he wasn't worried about anything being "classified". That he was too old to care anymore. It was a great video. I wish I could remember the name. Sorry.

Too bad the SR-72 program was cancelled by Ed Harris

Happy to see Grump back, my favorite GR pilot. That was a fun video.

Simba is getting better and better at flying and tactics. Im proud of him

16:49 staring down the afterburners of the F-15 as it overcomes aerodynamic drag by sheer brute force and patriotism.

SR-72 probably would fly at 100000 to 120000 feet. At the flown altitude, all the aircraft could intercept the SR-72. Just need early enough notice.

I have a theory about the initial blasts not working on the plane is because of the speed and force. The explosion was less force than the movement of the SR72 moving away. It may be the same theory of soapy bubbles exploding. Just a thought. Great.

Would be cool to have a feature in the scoreboard that can tell how many kills a certain type of aircraft/ship had. Would be even better if this includes anti ship missiles that were intercepted for the ships. For example: F-22 kills: 6 Su-57s, 7 Su-35s Arleigh Burke: 2 Su-33s, 80 P-800 Oniks

Great video Cap - Bonus points to Grump for being a missile target for an hour with no complaints 😂

I was pretty sure the Viper and Eagle had the best chance from Gen 4. The Eagle’s radar and the Viper’s kinematic are forces to be reckoned with.

Great to see grump back. Fun mission shows why these types of high, fast planes are no longer really worth making.

Was waiting for Grump to do a Road Runner style “Meep-Meep” as he blew past the first missile. I was disappointed at the wasted opportunity.

"Yeaaaahhhhh!!!!!!" - Cap Hahaha...Cap really liked this sim...:)

Super fun concept guys, fn loved it 🎉

That SR-72 looks suspiciously like a movie prop. 🤔

Great to hear Grump n crew

You need an electric lightning modelled. They were used to intercept u2s on a couple of training missions.

Enjoyed that. Thanks guys

That was an exceptionally cool exercise.

That was really cool "intercept" video ! :) Best so far !

You do do the best Capt!

A big hurrah for that last test with the Sr-71s!!! BRAVO

That was fun to watch.

I personally think the SR-72 would've been much better off higher, like at 100k feet, even if it meant dropping down to mach 4 or something. Part of what made the SR-71 so hard to intercept was it's cruising alt/speed of 85k feet and mach 3.2, with .2 mach in reserve so it could speed up when shot at. SOP when a missile was fired at an SR-71 was for it to just increase speed to mach 3.35, which killed the missiles firing solution and made it burn all it's energy. So if the SR-72 was flying at, say, 100k feet and mach 4, then entered a shallow banking dive to increase speed and make the missile turn if it got shot at, i think it would actually be much harder to hit. Still an interesting video!

this was smeggin fantastic!

You should probably also use the core game SA-5 against these high altitude threats.

Good fun. "Breathe Cap" was hilarious. Thanks guys.

Really fun to see all those sexy planes. Great video... Super "where my mach meter" Cap!

The joy of killing Grumpington so many times is tangible in your voice, Cap.

Cant wait to see what kind of scenarios will be created with this new aircraft!! I think it'd be interesting if you could use The SR-72 firing AIM-260 to try n shoot down other Hypersonic Missiles! Another one I'd love to see is a scenario with The Morgan/"Hypersonic UFO", SR-72, and B-21 in one scenario!🙏👍👍

"I just don't have enough friends." I know the feeling, Cap... I know the feeling...

I was thinking about the SR-72 RCS. From what I understand the SR-71 had a similar RCS to modern gen 4/4.5 aircraft. Based on the design of SR-72, I would think it would have a similar RCS. No where near the F-22 or F-35 but I wonder what the RCS is listed in mod that was used in the video?

Kortana doing Kortana things

Simba is awesome. Continue overachieving, Sir.

Nice!!!

Ending was awesome.

You know me: when I see "hypersonic" written, I'M TOTALLY IN!!!

26:43 the Raptor is DAMN LOUD! I used to drive by Luke AFB in Phoenix and boy howdy the noise!

Where was the Typhoon or Viggen?

19:43 xD Man that brought me back decades hahaha

It's been awhile since I've heard a good "meooooow"

SCRAMJET engines are absolutely fascinating, really hoping to see them appearing on real life aircraft very soon

Kortana and Grump - Ya! Welcome back 😊

I wonder what the SR-72’s RCS might be in reality. Surely it has to be stealth to survive at all? Otherwise is it not just a new version of the SR-71 but faster?

What about the eurofighter? I thought I read, it and the raptor had the highest service ceiling and it has the fastest climb rate?

In my best Mr. Burns voice......Excellent!

Nice to see Cortana back in action

Looked to me like the 1st missles blew up after the SR-72 went past, detonation wasn't quick enough.. imho. LUV these "for science" videos Cap!

I'm only 1m 50secs and I already know this is gonna be epic!! 😃

Would be nice to include a Gripen for a salute as the Swedish airforce intercepted and got a solution on a Blackbird.

Mach 6 and 100k+ altitude plus a slight adjust in thrust and a very small turn is all your would need for most any missile. Missiles wouldn't have enough energy to change course in time for intercept.

The angle on the thumbnail had me thinking the blackbird was a star destroyer

A 1974 BAC F53 EEL armed with two "Instant sunshine" Red Tops would intercept an SR72. The story around is that in 1974 an EEL "BOUNCED" the SR71 in the mid Atlantic as it was setting the record crossing. The SR71 had to be refueled mid way and the RAF used the opportunity to intercept it by the EEL supplied by Victors. The BAC EEL was powered by 2 Avon 302 r's that developed over 40,000 lbs of thrust in a frame weighing less than 25,000 lbs and was capable of mach 3 in short burst although no one ever found out how fast they could fly as the engines would run out of fuel before the EEL stopped accelerating They are still far quicker than the present day F35's and from mach 0.9 are doing mach 1.8 before an F35 has dragged itself to mach 1.4. Limited fuel and burning nose cones were the only vices the EEL had but it could climb over 15,000 ft in a 5 G turn @ 450 knots without loosing speed and Brian Carrol took his one up to 87,300 ft where the only limiting factor was the Pilot.

I think you could have use a better intercept approach, that limits the angle you are fireing at. Like an S curve starting at the airfield, ending opposit to the approach vector of the SR 72

Would have been interesting to have the English Electric Lightning try an intercept.

I would like to, respectfully, give a warm welcome to the lovely lady! Is always such a pleasure to hear the sweet voice of a lady among the boys on these activities! Thank you!

I wish the XR-2 Ravenstar from Orbiter Space Flight Simulator could be apart of this, its a space plane amalgamation of the X-15 and SR-71 with scramjets operable at Mach4+ to push you past Mach 15+ then once higher Alt. is reached you can increase to Mach 27+ to complete your orbit but I would love to see GR try to intercept that!

Cap is now clearing his throat with any word ending with a C. Paccchhh 1

What I think is going on with the damage model is probably that it is working exactly as it should. Basically an explosion will expand at about the speed of sound, or a bit faster, but that creates a problem when you're trying to destroy something that flies away at hypersonic speeds. Because of this a missile needs to explode ahead of a hypersonic target to catch it in the explosion. That would explain why the missiles that exploded from behind or from the side did no damage but the missile that exploded in front of it set the plane on fire. That or the damage model of the plane isn't working at all and the missile killed the pilot because it was just in front of it.

Surprised you didn’t try a foxbat. Interceptor for interception

I love the "hey this would be cool" and then just do it......

SR-72 looks like the lovechild of an SR-71 and a jelly bean. You can see the curves of the jelly bean gene present.

We have to come up with a name for "the baby". Some cool GR moniker like Baby Cap or Pooper Cap, which I really like. I am sure Cap has changed a few...uh...less than clean bottoms in the last few months? So, I vote for Pooper Cap, please chime in your name and Cap can choose.

Nice to hear Cortana. Missing Matrix.

First- GR, that looks more like the Darkstar from Top Gun Maverick, which is no doub't inspired from the SR-72 Project, but LOL they didn't call this one the Darkstar even thoguh looking a that cockpit and windows, thats what it is the thing you said about that model of the sr 72 engines blowing up- is that because this is a darkstar,which i assume the mod maker set to blow up at mach 10.2 in line with the movie source material? because in the real world, things like the blackbird - just had compressor inlet temp limits, not speed limits...and the engines don't "blow up" if you hit that point, lol Surprised GR said no missile is as fast as this- the R 37 hypersonics carried by the Foxhounds and the modern flankers(i dont know if any of your flanker drivers used it ) can move in the same speed regime Anyway, thank you GR, your supersonic vids are my abosolute favorite! Curious what would happen if they were all trying to intercept a mach 3 or whatnot plane at 100,000k ,or 120,000 k...altitude I LOVED the bonus rounds with the blackbirds and foxhounds(lol, no foxbats eh? :P ) LOl, the R -37 would have gotten a Mach 6 boost on top of a mach 3 foxhound, and would have put those speed boosted amraams to shame :P

I was confused why it wasn't doing mach 10 till I realized it wasn't the top gun darkstar and the irl sr72 lol

Just wondering if the missiles would fuse correctly or would the SR-72 actually outrun the explosion...

" Would you intercept me, I'd intercept me " 😋

how do you change the flight model?

Be interesting to see how an EE Lightning and the Foxbat would do. Would they zoom climb?

6:05 also at this speed the plasma or alike in front of the airplane would reflect itself pretty well radar

Why not use the eurofighter with meteor, a plane and missile used very often for intercepts? Also lovely British engineering

@grimreapers Realistically the F-16 is not as fast as the Raptor, but you did mod the game so that makes sense, Raptor has a top speed of Mach 2.2 with Afterburners, the F-16 only hits 1.6 with Afterburners (incidentally the Raptor has a cruising speed of Mach 1.5 or 1.6 without afterburning But the reason planes like the F-15 and F-14 are so fast (with the F-14 and F-15 actually being faster in a straight line then even the Raptor) is because they not only have twin engines like the Raptor does, BUT the F-14 and 15 can suck in larger amounts of air in any given moment compared to the Raptor, the reason for this is because the air intakes on the Raptor are much smaller compared to the F-14 and F-15 who have much larger air intakes, but we have to keep in mind that the reason the Raptor doesn't have larger air intakes is because having larger air intakes would compromise it's Stealth, and since Stealth is the name of the game of modern air fighting, speed has been put slightly into the back seat of things. THAT said, here is a top speed comparison F-14: The F-14A is powered by twin Pratt & Whitney TF30-P-414A engines while the F-14B is powered by two General Electrics F110-GE-400 engines. These engines combined with the big air intakes on the F-14A and B allow this plane to fly at a top speed of Mach 2.34 with Afterburners. F-15: The F-15E is powered by twin Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220 or 229, which combined with the equally large air intakes (the intakes of which are essentially as large if not larger then the ones on the F-14A and B models) allows this plane to BLITZ through the air at Mach 2.5, it is single handedly the fastest of these three planes, however like the F-14s it has to use Afterburners to achieve this speed, which means just like the F-14s this plane is a FUEL guzzler when traveling faster then sound, but...... F-22: Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan engines, capable of Super Cruising at Mach 1.5 (no afterburner needed), highly fuel efficient because of this super cruising trait, however it's air intakes being small restricts its top speed because it can't pull in as much air in any given moment compared to the F-14 and F-15. So while it is indeed slower then the other two the obvious advantages however are its Super Cruise (which neither the F-14 or F-15 have) and it has massive stealth capabilities and is almost just as fast. But in todays world where speed is not the biggest, most important thing, this doesn't matter, the F-14s and the F-15s would get SMOKED by the Raptor because of it's insane stealth, it's super maneuverability and not to mention it's superior payload. Man Pratt & Whitney have a monopoly here.....:D Sorry for the info dump! Thought you might like this info :3

For Science! "I'm taking my Blackbird to space"

What about the YF-12? Would the additional launch speed allow the missile get a higher speed?

I think the damage models were working, but the shrapnel couldn't catch the plane once it blew up. To make a good hit, it would have to explode in front of the plane.

"oh, i'm doing the prostate exams...? hell yeah!"

Would like to see if he was offset by 40miles from the sams, would they would still hit.

We all know about Simbas's altitude, is that the word I mean?

You missed a scenario, SR72 vs Aliens! In all seriousness, Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell would be proud of you all today.

Nice guys!.. you LUCKY DOGS.....YOU STRUCK GOLD WITH THE NGAD PROTOTYPE.

SR-71 was tracked by Soviet radars as far as 480km. That enough warning time for MiG-25s to scramble for a mission kill, and MiG-31s to position into intercept firing solution.

Hi cap Why is the is the eurofighter typhoon not included...65Kftmin

Gawd, that commentary was FUNNY! ....and interesting.

anything to hold the Simba down haaha

FWIW, "wumingzhi" is probably 無名子, which translates roughly to "nameless one"

This. But have the players try to fly a anti sat profile. Or as a race to see who can go the highest and fastest from a standing start.

Fun!

if the pilot only touched his joystick at mach 6, he'd be compacting himself into a .rar, probably.

No one can bring down a Simba

What a pity the English electric Lighting has never been modeled.

Was it not possible to have a Eurofighter or Rafale in this? Great video btw.

No Typhoon with Meteor?

Park that SR-72 at 140,000, at Mach 6, and fire every last SAM you can think of, at it.

Can you please update the F-35 to be more in line with what we know about the F-35 now? It's far more maneuverable, more stealthy (specifically from the front), and far more powerful in terms of radar than what the model is now. Also, the new AIM 120D upgrade is software only to get it to be on par with the PL-15. Your last video implied that there's only a couple hundred upgraded 120's. If it's software only, why would you not update the software on every missile before it's loaded onto a plane.