My misses recognises your voice from across the room "That bloke from Grim Reapers again?" She doesn't even play DCS but she's listened to everything she needs to know if she does decide to play!
When you banked over KAF, Kandahar Air Field, there was a round body of water visible. We called it the Great Poo Pond. It is part of the sewage treatment plant and meant the entire base smelled of sewage, the whole time. Being shot at didn’t make my top five reasons for why that is my least favorite place on the planet.
I was in Kandahar from 2005-2006, I flew this map yesterday and can tell you exactly where my first firefight was. It actually made me angry, ptsd is a son of a -----
@@nathanielrose6782 I don't know why my message keeps getting deleted. Thank you for your service. You should set up a mission and put some targets down and make a run on it. Get that frustration out. I was a 62F in the National Guard but I didn't deploy. I got out 3 months before OP Enduring Freedom. My unit did deploy and a lot of my friends had some bad experiences. If you need anyone to talk to, I would be glad to talk. We will figure it out some way. Take care. I wish you the best.
@t.r.4496 I was only able to check it out for about 10 minutes, got my kids till tomorrow, once they go back I intend to level 3 mile mountain there with B-52's. I was even thinking about recreating that QRF mission I was on, after we got hit by an IED and took direct fire, it didn't take 5 minutes for predator drones and Apaches to show up at our location. I remember the infantry and the Apaches just lit up that mountain. MK19s, 50 Cals, everything in our convoy just fired everything into that mountain. It was at night so it was hard to see even with nods on. There was a lot that happened that day/night. That was a 22 hour back to back recovery vehicle mission.
That river you’re flying down between Helmand and Kandahar is the Arghandab, where lots of fighting took place during the surge of 2010-2011. The Reg Desert is to the south and actually is truly very barren.
This video brought back a lot of memories. I did two tours in Afghanistan with my first tour being out of Kandahar. My second tour being out of Camp Salerno and FOB Tillman. Afghanistan is hotter than Satan's balls in the summer and just as cold or colder than Korea in the winters. Either dry and dusty, muddy or knee deep snow. Some great times and great memories with some bitter ones. I will say hats off to the Taliban we fought, they were tenacious and nothing but respect. To the Afghan people, you are some tough and hardy folks. Nothing but respect. DCS did an excellent job of capturing what Afghanistan from the air. Almost too good LOL.
Well-explained! Good job. I purchased the full map; as you explained, most of it is not detailed. I do think the GR will thoroughly enjoy the great terrain variation. The ravines and mountain passages will soon become the standard go-to for that kind of flying. Sure to be a new DCS World favorite! *I look forward to watching you all create awesome missions in this new terrain!*
The small airfield with big runway in Lash KarGah use to be a dirty runway build by the US army , when I was there at the FoB in the city around 2005/2006. We use to secure the dirt strip for C130’s to come in to reuply our FOB. It was then built up and paved by the Brit’s some years later. I have a video of me at the end of the dirt field as a C-130 flys about 20 fr over my Humvee landing there.
Runways in that region are long due to air density being low -- higher altitudes and mid-day heats rob you of a lot of lift. So, the runways are all long so that anything can fly anywhere.
During my Roto to Afghanistan, I was at many of the southern bases. I was at Bastion when it was the size of a small hamlet. The fly by kinda Fcked me up for a minute, good/bad memories. 😔 Canadian Army Veteran
OH MY GOD!!! BASTION!?!? KHANDAHAR!?!? I spent TONS of time in Bastion!!! I was kinda "roving IT support" when I was over there with the Corps in 2011...was ALL OVER the southern 3 provinces (Helmand, Khandahar and Nimroz, if I remember correctly) so it would be AMAZING to be able to take off and land there, fly around, etc in DCS!! I NEED THIS!!!!
Looking at the map I noticed where I was at. Herat/Stone/Arena/Shindad/KAF/Bastion-Leatherneck(HIMAR heaven)... I am glad to be in Florida. hahahahahahahahah. When you fly from Arena to Bastion in copter, you still can see the roads that Alexander used.
So far I’m liking the map! Loads of potential and it will be really cool when they get the rest of it updated. It would be interesting to hear from some people who were stationed here!!
I was deployed to Tarin kot in 2007 with the Australian Army. Base was run by the Dutch then. The runway was a dirt strip when we were there. Looks pretty accurate to me
Im going to have a lot of fun reinacting memories of this place, now I really want an official UH-60 DCS module to complete the OEF era of my combat tours
16:50 - Simba, It's hard to tell them not to grow poppies for opium, when every hospital across the world (including the UK and USA) uses "diamorphine" which is one of the standard 100 drugs that EVERY hospital in the world should have in stock all the time.... The best of which is grown in Afghan, licenced and paid for my the western medical industry... Diamorphine is known better by it's product name... Begins with H and means a female hero. Thing is, it IS the best painkiller in the world, and sometimes doctors need to give it to patients.
It was a British base originally for 3 and a half years until the U.S. showed up. The whole thing was built by the Royal Engineers in the British Army.
Yup. My unit actually punched a hole in the burm and built an airstrip for our birds there in 2011-ish. I was in country in 2011 and spent a TON of time there. Was BEYOND pissed to see what our senile corpse of a pResident did over there, ESPECIALLY handing Bastion/Leatherneck over to those assholes. Bastion was actually a pretty nice base...actually had paved roads and everything.
@rmp5s did route clearance along Highway 1 in 2009-2010. Remember when it was just white circus tents with no AC until they got the actual Alaska tents built on Leatherneck.
@@travisworm7489 Oorah, man. Good shit. Bastion was one of the nicer bases I went to. Always liked going there. Plus, that's where you could catch the "Badger" flights...Ospreys ate my favorite means of travel and the only way to get to some of the places I went.
You should do a Short Takeoff and Landing (STOL) competition on that super short runway. No helicopters. Oshkosh atarts this week in Winscosin USA and they always have a STOL competition there.
Tarin Kowt, or TK, was home to Camp Holland where Dutch and Australian forces were based. The airstrip was a dirt strip in reality. I may have been paved later in, but in 2008 is still was a dirt strip. Camp Holland was built right up against the city of TK.
Researching Afghanistan will be a amssive step up in things to cover from the short and relatively local Falkland War. Even if you just focus on the 80's and not the more recent mess.
The base at Shindand was a Russian logistics hub. It's huge. We had some SF and ETTs there with the ANA. Most of it was looted by the time the US got there. The US probably built all the HESCO walls, but when I was there, there weren't any walls.
When I was in Farah, the runway was crushed gravel, about a mile long. Only C-130s and C-17s landed there, and the odd Russian built, privately operated cargo planes. No aprons, hangers, etc. Sometimes they did airdrops to resupply us so they wouldn't have to land.
Long runways makes sense because much of Afghanistan is at a significant elevation from sea level, and during summers that's combined with high temperatures which further increase the effective density altitude. Because of this, landing and take-off speeds are faster and therefore runway length requirements are increased. Especially for heavily loaded, large transport or cargo aircraft, since they don't have the same kind of power to weight ratios as fighters with afterburners.
I could see where my tent was in 2003. Afghanistan is a very dirty backwards place. It is not high on the list of vacation spots. Served in Kandarhar, Jalalabad, Kwost, Shkin, Bagram, RC-East, and Helmand. I think the map needs more walls. Most homes were walled compounds. Most bombs were dropped in RC-East. Like 70%+ were dropped there in in 2009-2010.
Heh. I love the detail of piles of _stuff_ in Khandahar in some of the fenced-in places. Maybe showing your age a little, Cap. Today's kids would not really be aware of the town. If it has high-speed Internet and a nearby food source,...New York...Khandahar...London. Same difference. *Later Edit:* I noticed the pilot's boots (Timberland?). It would be cool if there were a pilot option of beach clothes (male or female) with flip-flops on. Of course, the pilot would still be wearing the helmet, seatbelts, and oxygen. I mean, just for these leisurely discovery flights, of course.
You have hesco walls to stop VBIEDS instead of fences. The more walls usually means its probably sketchy. I was ready for a 8 hour video. I was in the 101st ABN CCO 1-502nd in Kandahar 2010.
Interesting thing about camp bastion is that its roughly the same size as the town of reading. Madness how the royal engineers built basically a whole town in a few years
I served in the Australian Army in Afghanistan in 2010 as an infantry soldier, and the valley to the east of Tarin Kot (Tarin Kowt) is where I was deployed for 10months... so bizarre to see it in the sim with the GR doing a flyover 🤗
saw the map dlc live on steam, bought the full map instantly, this being a groundpounder map and me being a hog driver, this is gonna be loads of fun in the a10, also chopper missions could be great, surely with the hook when it comes out.
I was debating back and forth on which map I was going to get next. I knew this was going to be released but after watching all your Falkland campaigns and all the new improvements to the South Atlantic map, I chose it. And I am really itching for the Kola map, but I don't have the hard drive space. I have a new 2 TB drive on the way, but for now I must hold off. Then I see your map exploration video of Afghanistan map and now have buyers remorse. lol The Falklands map is pretty cool tho. I have been exploring it for the last couple days. So much different than the other maps.
The RAF actually put oxygen in their helicopters because the helicopters were flying on the edge of their altitude performance and so having hypoxic pilots was a bad idea.
Around mark 12:00 "Hello Ashkhagar", "Oh Hello Americans, let me get that Soviet-era Stinger out so I can give you a proper hello" (Stinger battery shelflife is around 10 years, so it's unlikely warm welcome will be successful)
The reason for the dual walls around U.S. military installations in countries like Afghanistan is usually when a local national force was used to guard the outter wall and the U.S. personnel would guard the inner wall. You see this at the bigger facitlities.
I seen an impressive sight today, as we were driving past the Ontario, Oregon airport. There were three three single engine air tankers fire planes sitting on the tarmac getting reloaded and refueled for fire fighting. I kind of wish they would put aerial wildland fire fighting into a sim like DCS. If it was modeled in DCS, I'd say you should do a "Mach Loop" run through Hells Canyon in the Idaho Oregon border. 😂😂
You are going to discover so many impressive engagements as you research the decades of fighting in Afghanistan, not just recent but also back to the Soviet years, their Vietnam. (Panshir Valley Hind runs). Look up 'Helicopter Rescue: An Incredible MedEvac Through Artillery | TEA & MEDALS' - Also UN pilots used to run incredible flights into Bagram airbase before US/UK etc forces got properly into Afghan, experienced a spiral decent into the airfield from high altitude to avoid SAMs.
The graveyard of empires. Interesting movie out of the 1980's called 'The Beast of War' about a lost Soviet T-55 tank. This map should be able to keep The Grim Reapers busy doing re-enactments all the way back to Alexander the Great..
OOOhhh how I miss working over there for almost 8 years in different fobs started in Bagram later HQRS later Kandahar also HKAIA and after went to NKC and lastly went back to Bagram until June 2021 all of this in Postal Operations.
Nice. Be interesting if you can make a first day(7 October 2001) strike to take out radars, from the three carriers in the North Arabian Sea. May need an enlarged map to the south, or start planes inflight. These were 12-14 hour round trip missions. The following days took out missed radars and started airfield and military targets. Just an idea, from someone who was there on a ship, Day One.
Well we know that the next map will be Iraq. Borders of Iran are now quite well circumwhatevered, its mostly the inside of Iran missing. PG-Iraq-Afghanistan. Then you just add Iran into the picture; and maybe a future Pakistan/India expansion to PG. Then we look a little bit to the west we see Syria-Sinai which could merge with Iraq too. So basically we have the Arabian Peninsula and Iran proper missing from our possible 1st mega-map-merge? Im crossing fingers. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Cap, Afghan is very hot. Think about a daily 35 - 40 degrees C. The Helmand river is very big and fast flowing the main river to the South. I have personally crossed it. The south is green because of the many smaller river that flows to the Helman River. To the south of the Helmand River is open soft desert plains. Local do a lot of irrigations where they will channel the water from the rivers and create a kid of man made lake and then pump the water to the fields, its amazing. There are not many tall buildings in Afghan probably a couple in Kabul, if memory serves me right. I did six months in Kabul, 6 months in Helmand and 6 months in Mazar-i-Sharif. The winter is extremely cold as well.
Hi Cap, I was wondering if you could do a scenario where you test the 3 Invincible class destroyers against USS Nimitz. This can take place anytime you want depending on the ships loadouts. Whatever would make a good video.
I was going to ask if Tora Bora is modelled but I think Cap said Eastern Afghanistan is not yet totally mapped. What I can see is a lot of places to hide enemy units... what a maze. Imagine what the war planners were thinking when they saw the terrain they would be operating in. I can see what they call it the graveyard of empires!
If you want to know some of Afghanistan’s history from a British military perspective I recommend Flashman aka The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser.
To elaborate on the Poppy fields the one thing the Taliban had done before 2001 is that they had pretty much got rid of it all. Post invasion they popped back into existence as the warlords who were fighting for both sides used it to fund their armies
I dunno what you did with the compression on this one, but do it again!, many times I could see other planes as single pixels, youtube normally compresses them to invisibility when they're that small.
Just don't fly low and slow. Then all the ugly low rez textures and terrain geometry problems will hit you in the face(yes including the "finished " high rez parts) this map has exactly the same problems as Kola and South Atlantic. Low resolution satellite based textures. This is simply a major problem with DCS' terrain engine. And it's not clear if it can ever be fixed. Flying in the Kiwoa at 200 feet down Helmand river. I came across ugly textures and wrong terrain geometry (pyramids sticking up, rivers flowing over humps, random holes in the ground) every few seconds. If you only fly at 10k+ feet or only fly low at the handcrafted parts it will fine. But in the borders between handcrafted terrain and the satellite based stuff, it looks really ugly.
@@Gunfreak19 I guess the satellite imagery has different resolutions in different areas plus having developed with Unity (dunno what DCS uses) I can imagine rendering 8K textures would be a monstrous burden for any but the highest spec systems. Like you say, fly high to enjoy the view.
the problem is not (only) the textures, but also the detail of geometry. There are no small dry riverbeds (Wadi), little humps, or other smaller terrain features you could find in Afg, nor any real ridgelines, saddles etc in the mountain range. Its sad bc operating helos is a lot less fun this way😢 Havnt been to the SW a lot. Mostly stayed in RC-N or Center.
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My misses recognises your voice from across the room "That bloke from Grim Reapers again?" She doesn't even play DCS but she's listened to everything she needs to know if she does decide to play!
Mine did the same with a youtuber named TheMightyJingles. He starts all his videos saying howdy folks. He has a british low accent.
["That bloke from Grim Reapers again?"] Laughter! The 'bloke' does have a distinctive voice.
When you banked over KAF, Kandahar Air Field, there was a round body of water visible. We called it the Great Poo Pond. It is part of the sewage treatment plant and meant the entire base smelled of sewage, the whole time. Being shot at didn’t make my top five reasons for why that is my least favorite place on the planet.
The poo pond! Right next to the transient tents haha. Good times
Oh, to live near to the poo pond... at noon and midnight the wind shifted. Good times... good times...
That smell and taste will never leave.
@@jellyonaplate1026 Or the poop fog in the evenings...
I was in Kandahar from 2005-2006, I flew this map yesterday and can tell you exactly where my first firefight was. It actually made me angry, ptsd is a son of a -----
You can guess what my last name is? Lol
Thank you for your service.
@@nathanielrose6782 I don't know why my message keeps getting deleted. Thank you for your service. You should set up a mission and put some targets down and make a run on it. Get that frustration out. I was a 62F in the National Guard but I didn't deploy. I got out 3 months before OP Enduring Freedom. My unit did deploy and a lot of my friends had some bad experiences. If you need anyone to talk to, I would be glad to talk. We will figure it out some way. Take care. I wish you the best.
@t.r.4496 I was only able to check it out for about 10 minutes, got my kids till tomorrow, once they go back I intend to level 3 mile mountain there with B-52's. I was even thinking about recreating that QRF mission I was on, after we got hit by an IED and took direct fire, it didn't take 5 minutes for predator drones and Apaches to show up at our location. I remember the infantry and the Apaches just lit up that mountain. MK19s, 50 Cals, everything in our convoy just fired everything into that mountain. It was at night so it was hard to see even with nods on. There was a lot that happened that day/night. That was a 22 hour back to back recovery vehicle mission.
I was in lashkargah during that time. Remember convoying back and forth from there to Kandahar many times and diving IED’s on route 1
That river you’re flying down between Helmand and Kandahar is the Arghandab, where lots of fighting took place during the surge of 2010-2011. The Reg Desert is to the south and actually is truly very barren.
Soooo much red sand....
This video brought back a lot of memories. I did two tours in Afghanistan with my first tour being out of Kandahar. My second tour being out of Camp Salerno and FOB Tillman. Afghanistan is hotter than Satan's balls in the summer and just as cold or colder than Korea in the winters. Either dry and dusty, muddy or knee deep snow. Some great times and great memories with some bitter ones. I will say hats off to the Taliban we fought, they were tenacious and nothing but respect. To the Afghan people, you are some tough and hardy folks. Nothing but respect. DCS did an excellent job of capturing what Afghanistan from the air. Almost too good LOL.
Thank you.
I watch these videos as much for the commentary as anything else...."I was expecting pointier mountains," is just classic. 😂😂😂
Very disappointed we didn't get a flyby of the Kandahar Poo Pond!!!! Its the most memorable part of KAF! Once you've smelled it you can never forget!
lol, I thought it was for fishing? lol 🇨🇦
@@robandcheryls you can catch all the brown trout you want.
Well-explained! Good job. I purchased the full map; as you explained, most of it is not detailed. I do think the GR will thoroughly enjoy the great terrain variation. The ravines and mountain passages will soon become the standard go-to for that kind of flying. Sure to be a new DCS World favorite!
*I look forward to watching you all create awesome missions in this new terrain!*
Greetings Reaper!
I spent a year in Afghanistan 04/05. I found no pine trees with green pine cones! What up, Dark!
The small airfield with big runway in Lash KarGah use to be a dirty runway build by the US army , when I was there at the FoB in the city around 2005/2006. We use to secure the dirt strip for C130’s to come in to reuply our FOB.
It was then built up and paved by the Brit’s some years later. I have a video of me at the end of the dirt field as a C-130 flys about 20 fr over my Humvee landing there.
Runways in that region are long due to air density being low -- higher altitudes and mid-day heats rob you of a lot of lift. So, the runways are all long so that anything can fly anywhere.
Thanks for the informative and positive video Cap
During my Roto to Afghanistan, I was at many of the southern bases. I was at Bastion when it was the size of a small hamlet.
The fly by kinda Fcked me up for a minute, good/bad memories. 😔
Canadian Army Veteran
Thanks!
OH MY GOD!!! BASTION!?!? KHANDAHAR!?!? I spent TONS of time in Bastion!!! I was kinda "roving IT support" when I was over there with the Corps in 2011...was ALL OVER the southern 3 provinces (Helmand, Khandahar and Nimroz, if I remember correctly) so it would be AMAZING to be able to take off and land there, fly around, etc in DCS!! I NEED THIS!!!!
Looking at the map I noticed where I was at. Herat/Stone/Arena/Shindad/KAF/Bastion-Leatherneck(HIMAR heaven)... I am glad to be in Florida. hahahahahahahahah. When you fly from Arena to Bastion in copter, you still can see the roads that Alexander used.
So far I’m liking the map! Loads of potential and it will be really cool when they get the rest of it updated. It would be interesting to hear from some people who were stationed here!!
I was deployed to Tarin kot in 2007 with the Australian Army. Base was run by the Dutch then. The runway was a dirt strip when we were there. Looks pretty accurate to me
It was a dirt strip in 2010 also.
The walls are HESCO, so basically metal mesh with earth in between it so very easy to make and stops bullets/blast very effectively
Im going to have a lot of fun reinacting memories of this place, now I really want an official UH-60 DCS module to complete the OEF era of my combat tours
All these places we have learned so much about for the past 20+ year. Had family who spent time in Maymana.
16:50 - Simba, It's hard to tell them not to grow poppies for opium, when every hospital across the world (including the UK and USA) uses "diamorphine" which is one of the standard 100 drugs that EVERY hospital in the world should have in stock all the time.... The best of which is grown in Afghan, licenced and paid for my the western medical industry...
Diamorphine is known better by it's product name... Begins with H and means a female hero.
Thing is, it IS the best painkiller in the world, and sometimes doctors need to give it to patients.
Great point!
Camp Bastion was a joint base between the British and US. Camp Leatherneck was the US side and the Marines were based there.
It was a British base originally for 3 and a half years until the U.S. showed up. The whole thing was built by the Royal Engineers in the British Army.
Yup. My unit actually punched a hole in the burm and built an airstrip for our birds there in 2011-ish. I was in country in 2011 and spent a TON of time there. Was BEYOND pissed to see what our senile corpse of a pResident did over there, ESPECIALLY handing Bastion/Leatherneck over to those assholes. Bastion was actually a pretty nice base...actually had paved roads and everything.
@rmp5s did route clearance along Highway 1 in 2009-2010. Remember when it was just white circus tents with no AC until they got the actual Alaska tents built on Leatherneck.
@@travisworm7489 Oorah, man. Good shit. Bastion was one of the nicer bases I went to. Always liked going there. Plus, that's where you could catch the "Badger" flights...Ospreys ate my favorite means of travel and the only way to get to some of the places I went.
There was small contingent of 🇨🇦 too 😉
Shout-out to Alexander the Great who founded Kandahar.
Can't wait for the Carry On up the Khyber re-enactment
You need Snowdonia for that anyway! 😉 😂
I love GR reviews. So much better. Maybe time to do some new module buyers guides for the newer ones (as well as updates)
You should do a Short Takeoff and Landing (STOL) competition on that super short runway. No helicopters. Oshkosh atarts this week in Winscosin USA and they always have a STOL competition there.
Can’t wait to fly around RC East again!
When I was there 70% of all bombs were dropped there. 2009-2010
Tarin Kowt, or TK, was home to Camp Holland where Dutch and Australian forces were based. The airstrip was a dirt strip in reality. I may have been paved later in, but in 2008 is still was a dirt strip. Camp Holland was built right up against the city of TK.
Researching Afghanistan will be a amssive step up in things to cover from the short and relatively local Falkland War. Even if you just focus on the 80's and not the more recent mess.
Spent a year of my life working the Apache D with the British Army at Camp Bastion.
That layout is a lot more accurate then I expected.
The base at Shindand was a Russian logistics hub. It's huge. We had some SF and ETTs there with the ANA. Most of it was looted by the time the US got there. The US probably built all the HESCO walls, but when I was there, there weren't any walls.
I just purchased the big Afganistan map after looking at this video so, thanks! DCS, give this guys a beer 😅
When I was in Farah, the runway was crushed gravel, about a mile long. Only C-130s and C-17s landed there, and the odd Russian built, privately operated cargo planes. No aprons, hangers, etc. Sometimes they did airdrops to resupply us so they wouldn't have to land.
awesome i was looking or a detailed video like this on Afghanland map. this is super! Grim Reapers yay
Long runways makes sense because much of Afghanistan is at a significant elevation from sea level, and during summers that's combined with high temperatures which further increase the effective density altitude.
Because of this, landing and take-off speeds are faster and therefore runway length requirements are increased. Especially for heavily loaded, large transport or cargo aircraft, since they don't have the same kind of power to weight ratios as fighters with afterburners.
I could see where my tent was in 2003. Afghanistan is a very dirty backwards place. It is not high on the list of vacation spots. Served in Kandarhar, Jalalabad, Kwost, Shkin, Bagram, RC-East, and Helmand. I think the map needs more walls. Most homes were walled compounds. Most bombs were dropped in RC-East. Like 70%+ were dropped there in in 2009-2010.
Heh. I love the detail of piles of _stuff_ in Khandahar in some of the fenced-in places. Maybe showing your age a little, Cap. Today's kids would not really be aware of the town. If it has high-speed Internet and a nearby food source,...New York...Khandahar...London. Same difference.
*Later Edit:* I noticed the pilot's boots (Timberland?). It would be cool if there were a pilot option of beach clothes (male or female) with flip-flops on. Of course, the pilot would still be wearing the helmet, seatbelts, and oxygen. I mean, just for these leisurely discovery flights, of course.
You have hesco walls to stop VBIEDS instead of fences. The more walls usually means its probably sketchy. I was ready for a 8 hour video. I was in the 101st ABN CCO 1-502nd in Kandahar 2010.
What I was going to say - fences don't stop a VBIED.
Great to see Poo Pond modelled. Good times……. There was a sign next to Poo Pond that said “No Dumping” always got a chuckle
Interesting thing about camp bastion is that its roughly the same size as the town of reading. Madness how the royal engineers built basically a whole town in a few years
Yeah the Royal Engineers are hugely underappreciated and hugely vital.
Watching Cap play with his new toy!
Great help, held off on this map until I got a look at it.
It's the Alaska livery that kept Matrix's jet together, any other states paint job would have crumbled 😜
Why can't you watch tv in Afghanistan?
Telly ban 🤣⛳
I served in the Australian Army in Afghanistan in 2010 as an infantry soldier, and the valley to the east of Tarin Kot (Tarin Kowt) is where I was deployed for 10months... so bizarre to see it in the sim with the GR doing a flyover 🤗
I have read about complaints about the South West map. But to me, it looks amazing. Amazing enough to buy it.
The river is the lake. The lake is a hydro electric headwater, That's why you have the power lines.
That canyon river looks great for high stakes boghammer racing ❤
Graphics looks like from year 2000
the helicopters part is just so amazing!
It will be cool to see the hook flying around.
Afghanis is the currency
Afghans are the people
My friend, next door neighbor and Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman died there. :(
I can't wait for an Apache video with this map.
Fun fact. I was in Bastion when it snowed one winter. Bastion is about 3000ft ASL.
saw the map dlc live on steam, bought the full map instantly, this being a groundpounder map and me being a hog driver, this is gonna be loads of fun in the a10, also chopper missions could be great, surely with the hook when it comes out.
I was debating back and forth on which map I was going to get next. I knew this was going to be released but after watching all your Falkland campaigns and all the new improvements to the South Atlantic map, I chose it. And I am really itching for the Kola map, but I don't have the hard drive space. I have a new 2 TB drive on the way, but for now I must hold off. Then I see your map exploration video of Afghanistan map and now have buyers remorse. lol The Falklands map is pretty cool tho. I have been exploring it for the last couple days. So much different than the other maps.
The RAF actually put oxygen in their helicopters because the helicopters were flying on the edge of their altitude performance and so having hypoxic pilots was a bad idea.
Around mark 12:00 "Hello Ashkhagar", "Oh Hello Americans, let me get that Soviet-era Stinger out so I can give you a proper hello" (Stinger battery shelflife is around 10 years, so it's unlikely warm welcome will be successful)
The reason for the dual walls around U.S. military installations in countries like Afghanistan is usually when a local national force was used to guard the outter wall and the U.S. personnel would guard the inner wall. You see this at the bigger facitlities.
I seen an impressive sight today, as we were driving past the Ontario, Oregon airport. There were three three single engine air tankers fire planes sitting on the tarmac getting reloaded and refueled for fire fighting. I kind of wish they would put aerial wildland fire fighting into a sim like DCS.
If it was modeled in DCS, I'd say you should do a "Mach Loop" run through Hells Canyon in the Idaho Oregon border. 😂😂
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You are going to discover so many impressive engagements as you research the decades of fighting in Afghanistan, not just recent but also back to the Soviet years, their Vietnam. (Panshir Valley Hind runs). Look up 'Helicopter Rescue: An Incredible MedEvac Through Artillery | TEA & MEDALS' - Also UN pilots used to run incredible flights into Bagram airbase before US/UK etc forces got properly into Afghan, experienced a spiral decent into the airfield from high altitude to avoid SAMs.
Jez-us Cap, I wasn't going to buy this map, and now you've reviewed it. Does look "mint"... So, now I'll have to buy it now......😋👍
The graveyard of empires.
Interesting movie out of the 1980's called 'The Beast of War' about a lost Soviet T-55 tank.
This map should be able to keep The Grim Reapers busy doing re-enactments all the way back to Alexander the Great..
OOOhhh how I miss working over there for almost 8 years in different fobs started in Bagram later HQRS later Kandahar also HKAIA and after went to NKC and lastly went back to Bagram until June 2021 all of this in Postal Operations.
Thanks for the Tour.
p.s. over 99% of the people in Afghanistan are super friendly and hospitable, just like everywhere else in the world
the rest are politicians, capitalists and lawyers - just like everywhere else in the world 😂
I was at FOB Zangabad, inside the Panjwayi district. It'll be interesting to see it from the air. Lol... even if it is a digital environment.
Nice. Be interesting if you can make a first day(7 October 2001) strike to take out radars, from the three carriers in the North Arabian Sea. May need an enlarged map to the south, or start planes inflight. These were 12-14 hour round trip missions. The following days took out missed radars and started airfield and military targets.
Just an idea, from someone who was there on a ship, Day One.
Well we know that the next map will be Iraq. Borders of Iran are now quite well circumwhatevered, its mostly the inside of Iran missing.
PG-Iraq-Afghanistan. Then you just add Iran into the picture; and maybe a future Pakistan/India expansion to PG.
Then we look a little bit to the west we see Syria-Sinai which could merge with Iraq too.
So basically we have the Arabian Peninsula and Iran proper missing from our possible 1st mega-map-merge? Im crossing fingers. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Nice map! Thank you, GrimReapers, Cap! Cap: if you find any good books about Afghanistan, let us know. I have only one about Soviet activities.
"I'm going to find a way to have my naval battles here... 9,000 feet above sea level." - Cap
Bost is Lashkar Gah. I spent a while there back in 2007 and 2008.
nice! and watched until the end! Wasn't too long... I'd say, just right 😂
Helmet province gets a lot of rain in the winter months and has large underground water storage.
Cap, Afghan is very hot. Think about a daily 35 - 40 degrees C. The Helmand river is very big and fast flowing the main river to the South. I have personally crossed it. The south is green because of the many smaller river that flows to the Helman River. To the south of the Helmand River is open soft desert plains. Local do a lot of irrigations where they will channel the water from the rivers and create a kid of man made lake and then pump the water to the fields, its amazing. There are not many tall buildings in Afghan probably a couple in Kabul, if memory serves me right. I did six months in Kabul, 6 months in Helmand and 6 months in Mazar-i-Sharif. The winter is extremely cold as well.
Hello Grim Reapers!
This is the only DCS map that scares me because danger could be coming from anywhere.
When I was there in 2010, population of the Kandahar base was 30,000.
Hi Cap, I was wondering if you could do a scenario where you test the 3 Invincible class destroyers against USS Nimitz. This can take place anytime you want depending on the ships loadouts. Whatever would make a good video.
Will investigate, thanks a lot!
@@grimreapers no problem. Glad to support one of my favorite TH-camrs
As a challenge - the service ceiling of the Huey is supposed to be 12,600feet (according to google...)
From what I know, Afghans eat a lot of rice and corn. They also eat poultry, beef, and lamb.
Read Ed Macy's APACHE book...some excellent scenarios 😊
Lots of missions in/around the Kunar River Valley.
I was going to ask if Tora Bora is modelled but I think Cap said Eastern Afghanistan is not yet totally mapped. What I can see is a lot of places to hide enemy units... what a maze. Imagine what the war planners were thinking when they saw the terrain they would be operating in. I can see what they call it the graveyard of empires!
When on the F10 menu, I wish you would use the satellite view
If you want to know some of Afghanistan’s history from a British military perspective I recommend Flashman aka The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser.
Long runways equates to "hot and high" (hot temps/high altitude)
@52.05: India crashed into Asia. That's the geological action that created those mountains.
To elaborate on the Poppy fields the one thing the Taliban had done before 2001 is that they had pretty much got rid of it all. Post invasion they popped back into existence as the warlords who were fighting for both sides used it to fund their armies
I dunno what you did with the compression on this one, but do it again!, many times I could see other planes as single pixels, youtube normally compresses them to invisibility when they're that small.
How crazy is it that the US can roll into a hostile country and build a major city size base.
The cities look like they could be great for combined arms and helicopter/commando missions....
Long runways due to altitude and heat. Choppers are going to be difficult.
They even showed the poo farm at KAF. The first time I ever went to a TGIFridays was at KAF.
Can you go fly around Kajaki. I spent 6 months there, 1 of the most simplistic 6 months of my life.
So we used to fly from the Persian Gulf map to the SW Afghanistan map and back in a single sortie.
wow!
I think that one field near the Iran border is where the Soviets launched from during an operation which ended up accidentally invading Iran.
Have they announced if Abbottabad will be covered on this map?
I am constantly amazed by the quality of these terrains. The levels of detail of such large areas just blows my mind.
Just don't fly low and slow. Then all the ugly low rez textures and terrain geometry problems will hit you in the face(yes including the "finished " high rez parts) this map has exactly the same problems as Kola and South Atlantic. Low resolution satellite based textures. This is simply a major problem with DCS' terrain engine. And it's not clear if it can ever be fixed.
Flying in the Kiwoa at 200 feet down Helmand river. I came across ugly textures and wrong terrain geometry (pyramids sticking up, rivers flowing over humps, random holes in the ground) every few seconds.
If you only fly at 10k+ feet or only fly low at the handcrafted parts it will fine. But in the borders between handcrafted terrain and the satellite based stuff, it looks really ugly.
@@Gunfreak19 I guess the satellite imagery has different resolutions in different areas plus having developed with Unity (dunno what DCS uses) I can imagine rendering 8K textures would be a monstrous burden for any but the highest spec systems. Like you say, fly high to enjoy the view.
the problem is not (only) the textures, but also the detail of geometry. There are no small dry riverbeds (Wadi), little humps, or other smaller terrain features you could find in Afg, nor any real ridgelines, saddles etc in the mountain range. Its sad bc operating helos is a lot less fun this way😢
Havnt been to the SW a lot. Mostly stayed in RC-N or Center.
poppies grow best in gravel