@@hanrenfighterjet : Wrong. US and Philippines now have a formal military alliance. US is just as committed to the defence of the Philippines today as it was back in 1941.
@@hanrenfighterjet : Yes - until Trump betrayed the Afghans by making a deal with the Taliban. In accordance with his philosophy of “America First - and to hell with everyone else”.
its r3tarded bcoz there are other youtubers who literally dont do anything other than watching someone else doing stuff, its literal stealing content but yeh theres nothing wrong with that, in comparison, this takes a lot of effort, programming, testing, the simulation is so complex to a point where you may even use it before an actual attack to a positive result but thats youtube for you, they censor alot of non insults, will refuse to pay to actual content creators but they'll pay handsomely to the brain rot creators
I’ve noticed that videos about conflict with Iran and China get demonetized pretty routinely. I’m guessing it’s one of those things the US only wants approved news sources to discuss
Because Communism is stupid. Due to the fact that humans are greedy. Why is it that those in leadership roles are wealthy, and 'The People' are enpoverished? The idea is wonderful, but it will Never work because there are evil/greedy humans in the mix! Bureaucracy is the Most heinous thing that humankind has ever done to fuck their own successful civilizations! Started with good meanings and, so far, has failed Every time! Even the U.S. has started down that path. It is a Human condition. Or, everyone could accept the gift of the World's Lord, Savior, and Redeemer Jesus Christ! But to each their own.
Can we all stop to appreciate that one F-5 that survived all the way to the end, and was, from the looks of it, leading the charge to shoot down one of the Chinese AWACS at the end? Like…those things entered service in the ‘60s.
ROCAF F5s lived a great life. They were here back when we had absoulte air dominance over the strait, before the 90s. We were launching F5s and F104s to intercept as soon as PLAF mig 21s left mainland.
Never stop what you’re doing Super Cap. You’ve provided me with many hours of entertainment and knowledge. My uncle flew the F-15 in the 80s and he is blown away by how much I know about aerial combat. I’m able to have incredible conversations with him about flying and that is all because of you and all the GR guys. I will always be grateful for all of your efforts.
Probably not every one, but pretty much, yes. The main idea is to have smart missiles with a high range and low detection planes. Idealy the F35 are able to see an enemy aircraft and get in range, before the enemy is able to spot them, shot and turn around and the missiles will find their target.
JH-7 is from the late 80s to early 00s and is actually probably the first borderline 4th gen aircraft of any type that China produced. It's wasn't a great aircraft by any parameters but still serves the "anti ship bomb trunk" role relatively effectively even today.
With the tiny number of Ukrainian Su-24s with Stormshadows still being a pain in the ass for Russia 2 years in war , those 100 plus JH-7s with cruise missiles are still a valid threat
16:06 Taiwan has acquired at least 600 pac3 interceptors from US by 2024, with newer batches coming in as MSEs. And there are at least 3 TK3 regiments deployed as of now, with newer THAAD-like improved versions underway.
Not to mention the fact that Taiwan (or at least the US CSG in the area) has Arleigh-Burke Destroyers, which are capable of carrying and launching SM-3 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) interceptors. So…zero reason for every ballistic missile fired in phase 1 of this scenario to hit their target, and multiple reasons for most (if not all) of them being intercepted outright.
@@blademaster2390patriots don’t work as well as advertised. The Russian MOD has uploaded numerous videos of single Iskander missiles destroying Patriot sites. This is more realistic than you want to accept.
@@Idontwantahandle6669 They don't work at all, 3 patriot missiles couldn't intercept a single Su-34... that is more a fat bomber than an agile fighter.
F-22's are land based jets not equipped for carrier operations. They'd have to come from Japan or the Philippines if they are there. Or Alaska. They could probably get there in 5-6 hours if needed.
@@Hurricayne92 I pretty sure theres a few f22s at kadena in Okinawa. I dont think they are officially stationed there but I believe theres always a few on the property.
These sims are interesting, thanks! I wonder if it would work for you to record the sim at reduced speed, then playback at regular, adding commentary at that point.
@@wlan246 Yea, whatever ends up working bettor for him; I just thought if it avoided having to redo it multiple times, because it crashed halfway or whatever(which sounded like what was happening to him), that could be better for him. Then only having to voice over once...
@@grimreapers Thanks for doing these! Please don't take these as a criticism; I just like trying to think of things that may help. You have a good point there, it could. The reactions to seeing it the first time are often the best! One way around that I suppose would be someone else recording it in slow mo and/or joining for the normal speed post commentary so you or them are seeing it for the first time. Could be complicated one way or the other. I'm sorry these end up being such a technical challenge and I'm glad to be able to see them whatever way works out for you. Thanks :)
Cap hates that Super Bogs won the day, I bet!😆 Thanks for all the effort you put into these, it shows, I've seen some of the old ones. "This is the last one of Taiwan I'll ever do", famous last words, Cap 2024.
@@ianmackenzie212 The Hornets have been called Bogs on this channel for years. You can dig into older videos and find the reason why but Bogs not bugs here.
23:57 And Taiwan has its own SM-2 capable Kidd/KeeLung class that you excluded and are capable of intercepting supersonic cruise missiles. Taiwanese Perrys and could launch Hsiang Feng AShMs as well, which comes in with land based version and is totally missing here also. This can also be carried by some modern Taiwanese corvettes, which are armed with amraam-like TC-2 missiles and will be able to intercept some supersonic AShMs too.
You kind of do have control over what way the planes take off from the runway. I've found if you want them to take off a certain way you have to use the weather tab. Make the wind go in the right direction for a good head wind, so the opposite way they will take off, then it works most of the time. The biggest problem is the AI just NOT doing anything half of the time.
I think the scenario is not realistic, from the last few Chinese war games, they seem to plan to encircle Taiwan covertly so the US reinforcement would come late and would be coming from outside of the battle theatre.
How on earth could they covertly encircle Taiwan? They constantly do recon flights, satellite imagery, radar/sonar etc. There's just no way they wouldn't be detected. And as soon as one task group was discovered, they'd go on high alert and triple the recon flights and other search methods. Who knows how many American subs are patrolling out there as well?
@AureliusR by calling it a training session. The last couple of war games training caught Americans by surprise, that they don't know there was a war game, and if it were a real invasion, the American forces would've come too late
My thoughts before watching this. I am guessing that China's order of attack would be: 1. Stealth 2. Long range bombardment of surface to surface missiles. 3. Old outdated planes and ordinance. 4. Everything else. The outdated stuff will be immediately after the stealth and long-range missiles. The old stuff may even be fitted with cheap rudimentary remote piloting gear, the goal being more to force Taiwan to expend more defensive weaponry before the non-stealth x more modern planes show up.
I know both sides think they will limit themselves to that theater, but I see no reason that either side would show restraint and not start hitting mainland, or other high value targets to keep the pressure off either side in that area. Not to mention, once the US starts losing major assets like carriers, or China starts losing airbases along its coast or something, that either side wont continue to escalate things, maybe using subs on Americas West Coast, or hitting high value targets on China's mainland, such as Taiwan hitting the 3 Gorges Damn with missiles, as they have said they would in this situation. I think both sides are out of their mind to think that it would be limited to this area, not to mention allies on either side with interests that would also jump in to help. This would start WWIII for sure....
And so would the US, S Korea, Japan, Australia, and possibly India threatening along their border to keep part o the Chinese military there. This would turn into an absolutely massive engagement that is bad for everyone, but most of all China and Taiwan.
It all seems to come down to quantity in the end despite the technology. Without the tech, the quantity would not matter, but the quantity is still a huge factor if not critical.
This battle was an unmitigated disaster for the Chinese. Given the casualties that happened in this battle, it’s safe to assume that China’s not going to be able to land troops on Taiwan, having failed to neutralize the US task force in the area nor the Taiwanese Air Force. Even if the Taiwanese Air Force was wiped out like their SAMs were, the fact that there’s still a US presence in the area, combined with the Chinese PLAAF losses, means sending over any troop ships would result in their sinking. The remaining Chinese ships would also need to leave the area very quickly because they’re primary targets for the US Navy at that point. With how many pilots were killed in the fighting as well as the missile attack against a US carrier battlegroup, China would be at war with the United States after this battle and Taiwan would be an excellent staging area for US forces to fight China from.
the US carrier would be in a dire situation after this battle because its liteally in spitting distance of like, the entire PLARF which would be unloading everything they have at the carrier from land based launchers. Even if the fleet defense can shoot everything fired at it. china simply has too many missiles and would quickly run down the VLS on the carrier escorts Whats not being modelled is the vast numbers of PHL16 GMLRS strikes on taiwan which would dwarf the number of ballistic missiles china has, these would be peppering taiwan's airfields every few minutes effectively shutting down the taiwanese airforce.
@@hughmungus2760 Good luck with that. Most of Taiwan's airfields that would be used in the event of war with China are buried in their mountains. Largely untouchable by Chinese missile forces unless they go nuclear. You didn't know that Taiwan essentially has two hollowed out mountains serving as airfields that house hundreds of their aircraft? Course you know what else isn't modeled in this scenario? HELIOS, which has been steadily added to US Navy ships as they cycle in and out of port since 2022. China would have to nearly exhaust its ASMs in order to sink that carrier battle group since resupplied fighters could shoot down those older ASMs alongside the ship based SAMs and the HELIOS, and then the entire rest of the US Navy's a week, at most, out. Course that won't happen because China will need its Air Forces elsewhere, as it'll start being attacked from Guam, Japan, South Korea, and have B-2's and, soon, B-21's penetrating its airspace from the US while B-52's and C-17's unload missile attacks from over a hundred miles offshore.
@@RedneckRapture underground airbases... think about that for a second. Thats not practical because planes still need a runway to take off and having them fly through a hole in the side of a mountain to take off and land avengers style is ridiculously dangerous. No at best the hangers might be covered by a mountain but the hanger entrances can still be stuck, while the runways themselves are completely unsheltered. Ship based lasers are barely capable of handling subsonic drones much less supersonic and hypersonic antiship missiles in any significant volume. They are at best a cheaper, more accurate CIWS: a last ditch defense when all other layers have failed. They're not going to save you if your VLS cells have been depleted. The rest of the US fleet would have to trickle in from across the world and reach the theatre of battle while the entire chinese navy (as well as airforce and rocket force) is sitting right there. The local numerical superiority of the chinese firepower will make it impossible for any US surface vessel to get anywhere near the chinese coast. B2s or no, the US will be forced to use standoff weapons against china if it wants any chance of its bombers surviving. The PLAAF is fighting over friendly airspace where it has total air supremacy while the US cannot hope to escort its bombers over chinese airspace with fighters just because of the ranges involved. The US only has maybe 10,000 standoff weapons that are usable (aka non-nuclear) while the number of military, industrial and logistics targets in china number in the millions. Pentagon wargames have time and time again shown that the US just runs out of ammunition when fighting any real war with china. Hell when you look at ukraine, after 2 years of long range strikes the Russians still hasn't managed to knock out their power grid despite tens of thousands of drone/missile attacks. What chance does the US have against a continent sized country like China?
Dude.. it just is a simulation with a lot assumptions and simplifications. This has very little to do with reality which is infinitely more complex. So pipe down on the conclusions you seem to want to see. 😂
@@NowayPlucko Not going for conclusions, going for people to go back and forth with on this to waste a bit of time in pleasant debate while doing defensive driving classes, bro.
Capt, you may not know this but you need to see a vocal/singing specialist/coach. At least part of your problem is you are likely pushing the tone/frequency lower than your vocal chords can support. At a minimum a singing specialist can help you change how you talk in ways that will reduce stress on your Larynx. You may not like what they recommend but your have a problem that must be addressed. You have to manage this on IT's terms rather than your preferences. GOOD LUCK
This really shows if anything how OP the USA is. The Taiwanese navy is getting bodied by mach 3 while the US is shooting down all of the YJ21s, the F35 and super hornets are just goated.
This is easily one of the best TH-cam channels on deck. Love to watch the action! And, thank you for all of your hard work, it is appreciated (and I am subscribed as well).
Yeeei, Norwegian F-5A 😊 Remember those while growing up, nimble little rascals but pretty much toothless. Often left with just the cannons because they carried max load of fuel to operate over vast areas of land and sea in Norway.
un-CAP-PED Greatness. Not sure if anyone else feels the same when I say your formation flying is the highlight for me. The shenanigans and everything else is good but the tight formation flying is the real highlight for me. Perhaps this is engrained in me watching your 1160 Mile Long Distance Strike video, with fully loaded Tomcats closely together, then having a another jet like the Flanker scoot up along side, joining you, and we get to see the differences between the jets or, a little Green Button with its puny engines trying to breathe fire. So, always a pleasure when you and Simba and all the fellas squeeze together for the in or egress. Very nice to see formation landing as well. Cheers.
Using all available forces,. could have been an awesome 3 part series, since realistically no country would commit their entire military, certain pct would be kept in reserve.
It is so hard to wrap your head around the height and speed of the missile intercepts. Two items the size of a small car hitting each other at 30-40 miles away traveling at mach 4. Such a scenario was unfathomable just a few years ago. And those will be obsolete in another decade or so as laser and railgun munitions mature.
CAP made the correct comment: suppose all this happened at once? Could the computing power of the various units handle it? There would be planes, missiles, drones, decoys... I am guessing they stress test all the computers to see what happens... but there would be an unimaginable number of contacts to manage.
And lots of things that could go wrong in reality. Like the german frigate where an anti air missile exploded on launch and the whole vls was out of action.
All parties interested in actually winning are running similar war simulations with massive computer farms 24/7 at an ever increasing complexity, but the fidelity of the result is only as good as the inputted data so the most important thing is to remain as honest as you can and not fudge the numbers to please your superiors or whatever reason you might have.
If getting demonitized is such an issue, why don't you start up a Patreon to help support your efforts. You've got 400k subscribers...pretty sure quite a few of those enjoy your content enough to put a few bucks towards helping you make more of it.
Hey Cap, hypothetical question. If you ran the simulation on slow speed could your pc handle having all the assets at once? I am thinking you could pre record the video and then react to a sped up version.
problem is too many IA script running at once and constantly reacting to the environment will create huge fps lags, you can however set it to spawn 100 enemies, when the hundred dies then you spawn another 100 and so on; i wonder if quantum processor computers would be able to simulate this without any lag at all that would be awesome and allow the making of huge battles where thousands fight each other
@@unskilled822 The problem, as I understand it, is that DCS is designed for single core rather than multi-core and modern CPUs get their performance largely through having many cores. A modern gaming laptop often has 24 cores (with an i9-13900hx for example) but DCS won't make use of it resulting in 10% or so of the CPUs potential performance. On the high-end workstation CPU, you can get up to 96 cores, but DCS will have little to no performance improvement because of old software engineering.
Demonetisation compensation for CAP😉really enjoing your vids since years. Hopefully some day you don‘t have to worry about this too much…..greets from germany
Hey Cap, another great sim considering the parameters in which you were restrained. Although I seriously doubt China could launch a sneak attack on Taiwan like this.
This is just one battle, though admittedly there's unlikely another one of the same scale. My main gripe would be that both sides know this would be _the_ battle, so China is more likely to send a larger portion of their navy/air force over from other sectors to participate. The number is probably a huge underestimate compared to a battle IRL.
@@andyyang5234Wouldn't the USA also send over a larger portion of their Navy and Air Force? After all, America can't allow Communist China to take over Taiwan's extremely valuable chip industry.
I appreciate you hard work to simulate a battle of this size, but it just seems there are too many compromises you have to make for it to retain its value and realism. I prefer the smaller engagements that the computer can actually handle.
Epic fight, even with the phasings to keep the CPU load manageable. Really highlights the utility of ground based missiles, due to the confined theater, air sortie rate limitations. PLA would be flinging hypersonic cruise and ballistic systems plus subsonic cruise missiles in all directions, going after basing in Taiwan and any supporting facilities/platforms. There might be a big blue wave of support from those scattered bases/platforms, but their generation rates would be decimated PDQ. Fingers crossed we never see it for real. Peace.
Starts with a draw here - ends with hyperinflation and mass unemployment in the United States after trade with China is severed. U.S. weapons and munitions manufacturing also evaporates due to critical components from China and Taiwan no longer being available.
In reality, the US controls the global economy and global oceans, on which China relies upon to ship their goods and imports. The Chinese economy dies if the USN simply sits outside the second island chain and interdicts or ships every tanker or cargo ship heading in or out of China. Game over. China has no real foreign power projection, and the US and its allies control most of the global supply chain.
Thank you for the considerable work required to make this happen. You are a master of this simulator and your fairmindedness in the treatment of attacking and defending forces is the main reason for the very entertaining character of your videos. I am always concerned the allies might not prevail and this keeps me on the edge of my seat. Your videos are an everyday watch for me. Please keep up the good work!
You paired down the counts due to processing power. If someone volunteered additional processing power to run the sim and record it, can you share the full battle setup, let them run it, and then watch it back as a replay for the channel?
Maybe the taxi fumble wasn't a fumble after all. There's no way Taiwan would have its entire air force combat ready at any given moment. I'm guessing you'll have 2 or 3 flights of 4 at the ready, but the rest would be under maintenance, inspection, etc. Then you have to arm and fuel them; you have a limited supply of logistic vehicles to do so, so you couldn't do them all at once; some pilots would be on leave so you have to recall them and many, many other factors that would delay the deployment of the whole air force.
@@pike100 As an Asian American. Cry over your own cause, not someone else's. My grandma is from korea, met my papa during the korean war. Meals at her place were usually rice and bulgogi. She had a five gallon bucket of soy sauce and a pallet of rice bags like 3 feet high. Up to the kitchen counter. She gave me bowl cuts til I was 12 ish and stopped letting her cut my hair. When trump was elected, I was called numerous mexican slurs. Because apparently some people think only Mexicans have that shade of skin. Speaking of. When I wasn't with my grandma or parents, I was with who I consider my other family. A Mexican family with 12 kids, 2 biological and the rest adopted. I got to experience riding in the trunk of the suv with two other kids, looking out the back window as Gasolina by daddy yankee played. Then on top of that, I had one white friend and mostly black friends through high school. As far as racism goes. Learn the nuance between a joke, learn the few words you don't say. Otherwise screw off
My biggest problem with doing it in sections like this is you take away all of the navy’s ability to defend all the incoming missiles that are trying to destroy the land air defenses and military targets. The navy aegis system is the best in the world and is much more effective and efficient then land based systems so it severely weakens their defensive capabilities.
Makes me long for the old Harpoon game. What would that have been on modern hardware. This was a great exercise, I enjoyed that, thank you for setting it up
@@lelolson3373Mostly speculation on many older generation fighters being converted due to the significant yet somewhat hidden nature of their presence in that specific region.
@@lelolson3373 yup they were talking about using those planes and the j7 as drones, maybe dummy missile carrier. at the very least someone would have to deal with them, and as i read it's pretty cheap to convert them if you use them as expendable cannon fodder.
J-6 already has drone variant used for targeting, probably the j-6 is not worth the effort at all not even for use as suicide drone, but the j-7 might be worth it, drop 2 missiles and crash onto something, distract AA, whatever those things can do. but who knows.
In another video a while back he mentioned the mods they use can't make use of multi-core processing, it causes tons of bugs, so a threadripper would be a waste of money for them.
Now you need to look at Philippines and US battles over the Philippine Sea and Islands.
US wont help the phillipines. no profit in it unlike taiwan
@@hanrenfighterjet : Wrong. US and Philippines now have a formal military alliance. US is just as committed to the defence of the Philippines today as it was back in 1941.
@@timonsolus USA had the same formal military alliance. with Kabul. LOL
@@hanrenfighterjet : Yes - until Trump betrayed the Afghans by making a deal with the Taliban. In accordance with his philosophy of “America First - and to hell with everyone else”.
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It’s insane to me that TH-cam would demonetize your channel. You’re showing a video game. No blood. No nudity. Not sex. Hardly any cursing.
Come to think of it, the cursing has diminished quite a bit over the years. It might go away entirely when he gets an upgraded PC.
its r3tarded bcoz there are other youtubers who literally dont do anything other than watching someone else doing stuff, its literal stealing content but yeh theres nothing wrong with that, in comparison, this takes a lot of effort, programming, testing, the simulation is so complex to a point where you may even use it before an actual attack to a positive result but thats youtube for you, they censor alot of non insults, will refuse to pay to actual content creators but they'll pay handsomely to the brain rot creators
I’ve noticed that videos about conflict with Iran and China get demonetized pretty routinely. I’m guessing it’s one of those things the US only wants approved news sources to discuss
@@Four9sFineJewelry if you dig into TH-cam a little bit, you’ll find that Google is a company run by children for the benefit of those children.
Wait TH-cam demonetized Grim??
Reading the video title, my first thought was, "Why would the U.S. help China attack Taiwan?"
Nice!
作为中国人我的想法是美国都参战了 为什么还在考虑台湾 而不是美国本土 难道他们都在中国本土作战了 还想着我们会不让战火蔓延在美国？美国是忘记朝鲜战争 越南战争你们战败的事情了？
Because Communism is stupid. Due to the fact that humans are greedy. Why is it that those in leadership roles are wealthy, and 'The People' are enpoverished? The idea is wonderful, but it will Never work because there are evil/greedy humans in the mix! Bureaucracy is the Most heinous thing that humankind has ever done to fuck their own successful civilizations! Started with good meanings and, so far, has failed Every time! Even the U.S. has started down that path. It is a Human condition. Or, everyone could accept the gift of the World's Lord, Savior, and Redeemer Jesus Christ! But to each their own.
That's just how OP Taiwan really is. Need to team up, obviously
@@veryanonymous5423 _Someone_ has to keep Taiwan's imperial ambitions in check...
Can we all stop to appreciate that one F-5 that survived all the way to the end, and was, from the looks of it, leading the charge to shoot down one of the Chinese AWACS at the end? Like…those things entered service in the ‘60s.
F5 has always been a Goat.🐐
ROCAF F5s lived a great life. They were here back when we had absoulte air dominance over the strait, before the 90s. We were launching F5s and F104s to intercept as soon as PLAF mig 21s left mainland.
Wow, just wow...
Never stop what you’re doing Super Cap. You’ve provided me with many hours of entertainment and knowledge. My uncle flew the F-15 in the 80s and he is blown away by how much I know about aerial combat. I’m able to have incredible conversations with him about flying and that is all because of you and all the GR guys. I will always be grateful for all of your efforts.
Thanks for the fish
Every day that starts with words "hello valued viewers" can't suck 😂
The F16's taxiing to take off have unburdened themselves from what has been
They must have grown up in a middle class family
Looks like the first one just fell out of a coconut tree
I laughed so hard at this I went into a flat spin…thank you for making me laugh out loud
I'm still laughing 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
So in reality, every F35 would have fired all of their weapons and headed straight back to the boat to rearm and refuel, right?
Probably not every one, but pretty much, yes. The main idea is to have smart missiles with a high range and low detection planes. Idealy the F35 are able to see an enemy aircraft and get in range, before the enemy is able to spot them, shot and turn around and the missiles will find their target.
@@janos5555 next script of hollywood movie
JH-7 is from the late 80s to early 00s and is actually probably the first borderline 4th gen aircraft of any type that China produced. It's wasn't a great aircraft by any parameters but still serves the "anti ship bomb trunk" role relatively effectively even today.
With the tiny number of Ukrainian Su-24s with Stormshadows still being a pain in the ass for Russia 2 years in war , those 100 plus JH-7s with cruise missiles are still a valid threat
China is turning them into unmanned drones
That anti missile system was battered so badly it's texture was blown off 😮
oof
Did you give up on Rumble? Their search functionality is garbage, but I would suffer through it to help you monetize your videos.
It worked Ok but you don't really get any $ from it at all which is sad. Maybe I'll re-visit it at some point.
16:06 Taiwan has acquired at least 600 pac3 interceptors from US by 2024, with newer batches coming in as MSEs. And there are at least 3 TK3 regiments deployed as of now, with newer THAAD-like improved versions underway.
Not to mention the fact that Taiwan (or at least the US CSG in the area) has Arleigh-Burke Destroyers, which are capable of carrying and launching SM-3 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) interceptors.
So…zero reason for every ballistic missile fired in phase 1 of this scenario to hit their target, and multiple reasons for most (if not all) of them being intercepted outright.
@@blademaster2390patriots don’t work as well as advertised. The Russian MOD has uploaded numerous videos of single Iskander missiles destroying Patriot sites. This is more realistic than you want to accept.
@@Idontwantahandle6669 They don't work at all, 3 patriot missiles couldn't intercept a single Su-34... that is more a fat bomber than an agile fighter.
@@Idontwantahandle6669 Source? The only one I've seen hit launchers that were being transported, I.E. not active.
@@blademaster2390 Taiwan doesn't have any Arleigh burke destroyers. Where did you get that information from?
NO F-22 ???! 😩
Are there any based in the Phillipines? I was sure there are only 35s in Okinawa. They cant take off from carriers right?
F-22 does not take off from carriers only f-35 and older jets
F-22's are land based jets not equipped for carrier operations. They'd have to come from Japan or the Philippines if they are there. Or Alaska. They could probably get there in 5-6 hours if needed.
@@Hurricayne92 I pretty sure theres a few f22s at kadena in Okinawa. I dont think they are officially stationed there but I believe theres always a few on the property.
F-22 was rosterd in for vacation .
These sims are interesting, thanks! I wonder if it would work for you to record the sim at reduced speed, then playback at regular, adding commentary at that point.
i thought of that too, but imagine the poor guy having to re-record, or at least re-dub, his comments as he speeds it back up...
@@wlan246 Yea, whatever ends up working bettor for him; I just thought if it avoided having to redo it multiple times, because it crashed halfway or whatever(which sounded like what was happening to him), that could be better for him. Then only having to voice over once...
It would yes BUT because I'm not running it live I'm pretty sure the commentary will be stale and boring.
@@grimreapers Thanks for doing these! Please don't take these as a criticism; I just like trying to think of things that may help. You have a good point there, it could. The reactions to seeing it the first time are often the best! One way around that I suppose would be someone else recording it in slow mo and/or joining for the normal speed post commentary so you or them are seeing it for the first time. Could be complicated one way or the other. I'm sorry these end up being such a technical challenge and I'm glad to be able to see them whatever way works out for you. Thanks :)
Funny part is the boring talky part is my favourite part of the videos.
Cap hates that Super Bogs won the day, I bet!😆
Thanks for all the effort you put into these, it shows, I've seen some of the old ones.
"This is the last one of Taiwan I'll ever do", famous last words, Cap 2024.
Not being an ass. Just fyi super bugs as they are super hornets. Hornets=bugs
@@ianmackenzie212 The Hornets have been called Bogs on this channel for years. You can dig into older videos and find the reason why but Bogs not bugs here.
@@ianmackenzie212 Yeah it's a play on words and a meme on this channel. Because the FA-18 is so easy.
23:57 And Taiwan has its own SM-2 capable Kidd/KeeLung class that you excluded and are capable of intercepting supersonic cruise missiles.
Taiwanese Perrys and could launch Hsiang Feng AShMs as well, which comes in with land based version and is totally missing here also. This can also be carried by some modern Taiwanese corvettes, which are armed with amraam-like TC-2 missiles and will be able to intercept some supersonic AShMs too.
That's some cope.
You kind of do have control over what way the planes take off from the runway. I've found if you want them to take off a certain way you have to use the weather tab. Make the wind go in the right direction for a good head wind, so the opposite way they will take off, then it works most of the time. The biggest problem is the AI just NOT doing anything half of the time.
I've heard people say about the wind before but for me it never seems to make any different?
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I think the scenario is not realistic, from the last few Chinese war games, they seem to plan to encircle Taiwan covertly so the US reinforcement would come late and would be coming from outside of the battle theatre.
How on earth could they covertly encircle Taiwan? They constantly do recon flights, satellite imagery, radar/sonar etc. There's just no way they wouldn't be detected. And as soon as one task group was discovered, they'd go on high alert and triple the recon flights and other search methods. Who knows how many American subs are patrolling out there as well?
@AureliusR by calling it a training session. The last couple of war games training caught Americans by surprise, that they don't know there was a war game, and if it were a real invasion, the American forces would've come too late
Thanks for taking the time to create this wonderful simulations, these are my favorite GR content!
My thoughts before watching this.
I am guessing that China's order of attack would be:
1. Stealth
2. Long range bombardment of surface to surface missiles.
3. Old outdated planes and ordinance.
4. Everything else.
The outdated stuff will be immediately after the stealth and long-range missiles. The old stuff may even be fitted with cheap rudimentary remote piloting gear, the goal being more to force Taiwan to expend more defensive weaponry before the non-stealth x more modern planes show up.
Thanks for the hours spent putting this together Cap!
Well done on 400k Grim Reapers, thanks Cap and Boys.
I know both sides think they will limit themselves to that theater, but I see no reason that either side would show restraint and not start hitting mainland, or other high value targets to keep the pressure off either side in that area. Not to mention, once the US starts losing major assets like carriers, or China starts losing airbases along its coast or something, that either side wont continue to escalate things, maybe using subs on Americas West Coast, or hitting high value targets on China's mainland, such as Taiwan hitting the 3 Gorges Damn with missiles, as they have said they would in this situation. I think both sides are out of their mind to think that it would be limited to this area, not to mention allies on either side with interests that would also jump in to help. This would start WWIII for sure....
LRASM needs a terminal phase booster to sprint to the finish at Mach 2
I it just needs a more accurate stealth model in terminal phase. They wouldn’t get picked off like that.
Itd be cool to see them test our ideas. Better stealth or boosters. Drone missile carrier ships networked with aegis, etc
Great job Capt!
But all those US drones sleeping on the bottom of the ocean...🤫
Let’s hear it for old fashioned fighters
In reality, China would have moved in assets from other commands to assist.
And so would the US, S Korea, Japan, Australia, and possibly India threatening along their border to keep part o the Chinese military there. This would turn into an absolutely massive engagement that is bad for everyone, but most of all China and Taiwan.
Let’s get an I9, 4090 Ti, 990 pro ssd, and some high speed 128gb ram
Yes plz.
The level of detail and time it must take to set these up is more impressive than the outcome!
Honestly, in a pre-war scenario, this could be realistic force sizes of China wanted to test their air defence
It all seems to come down to quantity in the end despite the technology. Without the tech, the quantity would not matter, but the quantity is still a huge factor if not critical.
This battle was an unmitigated disaster for the Chinese. Given the casualties that happened in this battle, it’s safe to assume that China’s not going to be able to land troops on Taiwan, having failed to neutralize the US task force in the area nor the Taiwanese Air Force. Even if the Taiwanese Air Force was wiped out like their SAMs were, the fact that there’s still a US presence in the area, combined with the Chinese PLAAF losses, means sending over any troop ships would result in their sinking. The remaining Chinese ships would also need to leave the area very quickly because they’re primary targets for the US Navy at that point. With how many pilots were killed in the fighting as well as the missile attack against a US carrier battlegroup, China would be at war with the United States after this battle and Taiwan would be an excellent staging area for US forces to fight China from.
the US carrier would be in a dire situation after this battle because its liteally in spitting distance of like, the entire PLARF which would be unloading everything they have at the carrier from land based launchers. Even if the fleet defense can shoot everything fired at it. china simply has too many missiles and would quickly run down the VLS on the carrier escorts
Whats not being modelled is the vast numbers of PHL16 GMLRS strikes on taiwan which would dwarf the number of ballistic missiles china has, these would be peppering taiwan's airfields every few minutes effectively shutting down the taiwanese airforce.
@@hughmungus2760 Good luck with that. Most of Taiwan's airfields that would be used in the event of war with China are buried in their mountains. Largely untouchable by Chinese missile forces unless they go nuclear. You didn't know that Taiwan essentially has two hollowed out mountains serving as airfields that house hundreds of their aircraft?
Course you know what else isn't modeled in this scenario? HELIOS, which has been steadily added to US Navy ships as they cycle in and out of port since 2022. China would have to nearly exhaust its ASMs in order to sink that carrier battle group since resupplied fighters could shoot down those older ASMs alongside the ship based SAMs and the HELIOS, and then the entire rest of the US Navy's a week, at most, out.
Course that won't happen because China will need its Air Forces elsewhere, as it'll start being attacked from Guam, Japan, South Korea, and have B-2's and, soon, B-21's penetrating its airspace from the US while B-52's and C-17's unload missile attacks from over a hundred miles offshore.
@@RedneckRapture underground airbases... think about that for a second. Thats not practical because planes still need a runway to take off and having them fly through a hole in the side of a mountain to take off and land avengers style is ridiculously dangerous.
No at best the hangers might be covered by a mountain but the hanger entrances can still be stuck, while the runways themselves are completely unsheltered.
Ship based lasers are barely capable of handling subsonic drones much less supersonic and hypersonic antiship missiles in any significant volume. They are at best a cheaper, more accurate CIWS: a last ditch defense when all other layers have failed. They're not going to save you if your VLS cells have been depleted.
The rest of the US fleet would have to trickle in from across the world and reach the theatre of battle while the entire chinese navy (as well as airforce and rocket force) is sitting right there. The local numerical superiority of the chinese firepower will make it impossible for any US surface vessel to get anywhere near the chinese coast.
B2s or no, the US will be forced to use standoff weapons against china if it wants any chance of its bombers surviving. The PLAAF is fighting over friendly airspace where it has total air supremacy while the US cannot hope to escort its bombers over chinese airspace with fighters just because of the ranges involved.
The US only has maybe 10,000 standoff weapons that are usable (aka non-nuclear) while the number of military, industrial and logistics targets in china number in the millions. Pentagon wargames have time and time again shown that the US just runs out of ammunition when fighting any real war with china.
Hell when you look at ukraine, after 2 years of long range strikes the Russians still hasn't managed to knock out their power grid despite tens of thousands of drone/missile attacks. What chance does the US have against a continent sized country like China?
Dude.. it just is a simulation with a lot assumptions and simplifications. This has very little to do with reality which is infinitely more complex. So pipe down on the conclusions you seem to want to see. 😂
@@NowayPlucko Not going for conclusions, going for people to go back and forth with on this to waste a bit of time in pleasant debate while doing defensive driving classes, bro.
The amount of work you put into these simulations is incredible. Thank you and your team!
So in summary China can’t land a single boat. Has he run simulation where US stays out?
Have you considered investing in a better server/rack mounted system?
"This war can never happen" - Famous last words.
No one ever started a war over pride or reclaiming old territory.
Do you know anything about history?
Capt, you may not know this but you need to see a vocal/singing specialist/coach. At least part of your problem is you are likely pushing the tone/frequency lower than your vocal chords can support. At a minimum a singing specialist can help you change how you talk in ways that will reduce stress on your Larynx. You may not like what they recommend but your have a problem that must be addressed. You have to manage this on IT's terms rather than your preferences. GOOD LUCK
Thanks but I think I've found out whats going on with my voice. Please hit me up in Discord if you want to chat.
This really shows if anything how OP the USA is. The Taiwanese navy is getting bodied by mach 3 while the US is shooting down all of the YJ21s, the F35 and super hornets are just goated.
This simulation doesn't take into account the absolutely horrid ready rate that the US Air Force has now.
This is easily one of the best TH-cam channels on deck. Love to watch the action! And, thank you for all of your hard work, it is appreciated (and I am subscribed as well).
Yeeei, Norwegian F-5A 😊 Remember those while growing up, nimble little rascals but pretty much toothless. Often left with just the cannons because they carried max load of fuel to operate over vast areas of land and sea in Norway.
Great work Cap, always appreciated by the VV's!
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I went on this quest 😂
un-CAP-PED Greatness. Not sure if anyone else feels the same when I say your formation flying is the highlight for me. The shenanigans and everything else is good but the tight formation flying is the real highlight for me. Perhaps this is engrained in me watching your 1160 Mile Long Distance Strike video, with fully loaded Tomcats closely together, then having a another jet like the Flanker scoot up along side, joining you, and we get to see the differences between the jets or, a little Green Button with its puny engines trying to breathe fire. So, always a pleasure when you and Simba and all the fellas squeeze together for the in or egress. Very nice to see formation landing as well. Cheers.
Using all available forces,. could have been an awesome 3 part series, since realistically no country would commit their entire military, certain pct would be kept in reserve.
It is so hard to wrap your head around the height and speed of the missile intercepts. Two items the size of a small car hitting each other at 30-40 miles away traveling at mach 4. Such a scenario was unfathomable just a few years ago. And those will be obsolete in another decade or so as laser and railgun munitions mature.
I am old enough to have watched the liberal media make fun of Reagan mercilessly over missle defense and "star wars". Idiots.
but would the navy be able to shoot down some of those ballistic missiles so the patriot batteries wouldn't get overwhelmed
CAP made the correct comment: suppose all this happened at once? Could the computing power of the various units handle it? There would be planes, missiles, drones, decoys... I am guessing they stress test all the computers to see what happens... but there would be an unimaginable number of contacts to manage.
And lots of things that could go wrong in reality. Like the german frigate where an anti air missile exploded on launch and the whole vls was out of action.
All parties interested in actually winning are running similar war simulations with massive computer farms 24/7 at an ever increasing complexity, but the fidelity of the result is only as good as the inputted data so the most important thing is to remain as honest as you can and not fudge the numbers to please your superiors or whatever reason you might have.
If getting demonitized is such an issue, why don't you start up a Patreon to help support your efforts. You've got 400k subscribers...pretty sure quite a few of those enjoy your content enough to put a few bucks towards helping you make more of it.
roger will push Patreon.
Hey Cap, hypothetical question. If you ran the simulation on slow speed could your pc handle having all the assets at once? I am thinking you could pre record the video and then react to a sped up version.
He should get a server for each force but I don't think he's got the money for that.
problem is too many IA script running at once and constantly reacting to the environment will create huge fps lags, you can however set it to spawn 100 enemies, when the hundred dies then you spawn another 100 and so on; i wonder if quantum processor computers would be able to simulate this without any lag at all that would be awesome and allow the making of huge battles where thousands fight each other
@@unskilled822 The problem, as I understand it, is that DCS is designed for single core rather than multi-core and modern CPUs get their performance largely through having many cores. A modern gaming laptop often has 24 cores (with an i9-13900hx for example) but DCS won't make use of it resulting in 10% or so of the CPUs potential performance. On the high-end workstation CPU, you can get up to 96 cores, but DCS will have little to no performance improvement because of old software engineering.
That probably would work yes, but it's hard for me to commentate on that type of setup if you know what I mean.
@@grimreapers what cpu do you actually have?
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Demonetisation compensation for CAP😉really enjoing your vids since years. Hopefully some day you don‘t have to worry about this too much…..greets from germany
Thanks!
Hey Cap, another great sim considering the parameters in which you were restrained. Although I seriously doubt China could launch a sneak attack on Taiwan like this.
The US sends more than 30 billion to Ukraine quarterly. That's a drop in the bucket.
This is just one battle, though admittedly there's unlikely another one of the same scale. My main gripe would be that both sides know this would be _the_ battle, so China is more likely to send a larger portion of their navy/air force over from other sectors to participate. The number is probably a huge underestimate compared to a battle IRL.
@@andyyang5234Wouldn't the USA also send over a larger portion of their Navy and Air Force? After all, America can't allow Communist China to take over Taiwan's extremely valuable chip industry.
1 trillion dollars every 100 days
…US bankruptcy in 3…2…1…
I blame them for demonetising you as they are trying to turn everything into generic crap just to make it easier to sell ads.
RIP GS. You did the Brits proud
I appreciate you hard work to simulate a battle of this size, but it just seems there are too many compromises you have to make for it to retain its value and realism. I prefer the smaller engagements that the computer can actually handle.
As far as the computing overload, you could run the simulation at half speed and then double the speed in editing. (Quarter then quadruple?)
44:13 Insanely beautiful poem
Epic fight, even with the phasings to keep the CPU load manageable.
Really highlights the utility of ground based missiles, due to the confined theater, air sortie rate limitations. PLA would be flinging hypersonic cruise and ballistic systems plus subsonic cruise missiles in all directions, going after basing in Taiwan and any supporting facilities/platforms.
There might be a big blue wave of support from those scattered bases/platforms, but their generation rates would be decimated PDQ.
Fingers crossed we never see it for real.
Peace.
Cap your knowledge is astounding, my hat is off to you. I so enjoy your missions
Great video Cap! Way to end a series!
That patriot radar isn't a patriot radar... that's more of the new LTAMDS with 360 capability
Yes I noticed that also.
"You need to listen to the brief or it wont make any sense" Also "nothing has changed so im not going to go into detail"....
lols
FYI Cap, I always watch the "Talky Bits" 😂.
CAP is running the Boeing Super Computer!
With or without the doors falling off mid flight? 😂
Starts with a draw here - ends with hyperinflation and mass unemployment in the United States after trade with China is severed. U.S. weapons and munitions manufacturing also evaporates due to critical components from China and Taiwan no longer being available.
In reality, the US controls the global economy and global oceans, on which China relies upon to ship their goods and imports. The Chinese economy dies if the USN simply sits outside the second island chain and interdicts or ships every tanker or cargo ship heading in or out of China. Game over. China has no real foreign power projection, and the US and its allies control most of the global supply chain.
These are the best!
Thank you for the considerable work required to make this happen.
You are a master of this simulator and your fairmindedness in the treatment of attacking and defending forces is the main reason for the very entertaining character of your videos.
I am always concerned the allies might not prevail and this keeps me on the edge of my seat.
Your videos are an everyday watch for me.
Please keep up the good work!
thxx
No apologies necessary Cap!
You paired down the counts due to processing power. If someone volunteered additional processing power to run the sim and record it, can you share the full battle setup, let them run it, and then watch it back as a replay for the channel?
My friends and I are hardware nerds and probably could help you out if you'd like. What are the specs of the computer you are running this on?
JH-7 first flew in 1988... not 1950's aircraft lmao, but idk if they even exist in DCS so prolly don't matter for this
Maybe the taxi fumble wasn't a fumble after all. There's no way Taiwan would have its entire air force combat ready at any given moment. I'm guessing you'll have 2 or 3 flights of 4 at the ready, but the rest would be under maintenance, inspection, etc. Then you have to arm and fuel them; you have a limited supply of logistic vehicles to do so, so you couldn't do them all at once; some pilots would be on leave so you have to recall them and many, many other factors that would delay the deployment of the whole air force.
The ace Chinese pilot's name is actually Wang Long.
He tried to warn his buddy about the Americans behind him by shouting his name. But all he got out was "Sum Ting Wong"
@@hf117j IMO, this kind of joke is racist - from a patriotic American.
@@hf117j they also shouted out "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow!"
@@pike100 As an Asian American. Cry over your own cause, not someone else's. My grandma is from korea, met my papa during the korean war. Meals at her place were usually rice and bulgogi. She had a five gallon bucket of soy sauce and a pallet of rice bags like 3 feet high. Up to the kitchen counter. She gave me bowl cuts til I was 12 ish and stopped letting her cut my hair. When trump was elected, I was called numerous mexican slurs. Because apparently some people think only Mexicans have that shade of skin. Speaking of. When I wasn't with my grandma or parents, I was with who I consider my other family. A Mexican family with 12 kids, 2 biological and the rest adopted. I got to experience riding in the trunk of the suv with two other kids, looking out the back window as Gasolina by daddy yankee played. Then on top of that, I had one white friend and mostly black friends through high school.
As far as racism goes. Learn the nuance between a joke, learn the few words you don't say. Otherwise screw off
@@hf117j I stand by what I said; that was a racist joke. We should be better than that.
Would be cool to heavier weather, test the accuracy of the air to air missiles. Ai is very smooth though
My biggest problem with doing it in sections like this is you take away all of the navy’s ability to defend all the incoming missiles that are trying to destroy the land air defenses and military targets.
The navy aegis system is the best in the world and is much more effective and efficient then land based systems so it severely weakens their defensive capabilities.
What are you talking about? That price is absolutely nothing compared to the economic loss of Taiwan.
Very interesting. Also thanks for all the old tutorial vids. I'm a new player and they've been super helpful
Pleasure.
Navy guy here. The replacement for the Reagan is the George Washington
Makes me long for the old Harpoon game. What would that have been on modern hardware.
This was a great exercise, I enjoyed that, thank you for setting it up
You sound perfectly fine, sir.
Congratulations on the 400k.
Raytheon drooling for this fight
You know the strange thing about puberty is how it changes the voice :)
Good job guys. Your explanations are on point. Your hard work to bring this forward is awesome❤
You forgot about China's 900 J-6 fully autonomous attack jets.
The J-6 is soon nearly 100 years old dude. What are u talking about autonomous lol
@@lelolson3373Mostly speculation on many older generation fighters being converted due to the significant yet somewhat hidden nature of their presence in that specific region.
@@lelolson3373 yup they were talking about using those planes and the j7 as drones, maybe dummy missile carrier. at the very least someone would have to deal with them, and as i read it's pretty cheap to convert them if you use them as expendable cannon fodder.
J-6 already has drone variant used for targeting, probably the j-6 is not worth the effort at all not even for use as suicide drone, but the j-7 might be worth it, drop 2 missiles and crash onto something, distract AA, whatever those things can do. but who knows.
Nice work, Cap. Thank you, sir.
I appreciate the effort, Cap! Love your videos! Please stay healthy!
If you want to simulate bigger battles maybe try Command: Modern Operations?
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Very cool battle cap!
Recommend a threadripper, 4090, and 64gb of ram
In another video a while back he mentioned the mods they use can't make use of multi-core processing, it causes tons of bugs, so a threadripper would be a waste of money for them.
@@Reniconix damn that suckz
Cap, always appreciate the effort you and your team does to make these videos. I enjoyed the series and will keep watching.
Team 'Murica, F@@@ yeah! 😊
You need to do a collab with Linus to get a server built that can run a mission profile in real time.
51:25 RIP Winglong 😢
you need to get a threadripper
I understand the server software is still largely single-threaded.
thankyou for your effort.