I was asking a guy at work who was in the navy for a long period if anything interesting ever happened. "Well I was there when we destroyed the iraqi navy" I said "Iraq had a navy" He said "Yeah for a couple of hours" This video really brings it all to light.
"Admiral, I understand the Iraqi fleet was destroyed. What was the name of this brilliant military operation and who planned it?" - "Oh...no, we just ran into them more or less by accident and sunk them all."
@@jimlthor Deservedly so. I don't think Saddam understood how powerful the US can be. Yeah, Iraq had a lot of tanks and some ships. He definitely didn't think that so many countries would unite against him. It was a lost cause once the US was given the time to build up and make up a plan to push Iraq out of Kuwait. He should have swallowed his ego and hightailed his ass out of Kuwait.
When you put it that way, it reminds me of the WWII incident where a US destroyer defeated a Japanese sub with potatoes. The destroyer originally planned to ram the sub, but they changed their mind and found themselves alongside. The Japanese crews woke up from a nap on the deck, and both crews realized they were unarmed. The sub started arming their deck gun, so the Americans went for anything they could to distract. The only thing nearby was potatoes, and the Japanese thought they were grenades and hurriedly threw them back or overboard. It bought enough time for the destroyer to move far enough to shoot and later sink the sub.
I'm sorry to disagree but I have to side with Captain Hill here, $250,000 is a small price for a chance to sink a ship with an air to air missle and become a legend in the process.
The thing is the Sparrow missile was a crappy missile for most of it's life, so using it outside of design parameters is kinda wasteful. But an enterprising fighter pilot will try anyways!!!
@@wannabedal-adx458 The US Navy had previously been able to use the more capable Standard SAM to engage Iranian vessels in Operation Praying Mantis so it was probably worth a shot.
@@RubenKelevra It did lock-on, but the missile's attack profile characteristic isn't designed for ships, hence why it fell into the water before hitting the target. It doesn't just go in a straight line from point where it's fired from. My guess: The missile lowered itself to fly level into the ship. I believe that missiles are programmed to match the altitudes of their targets so they don't have to climb or dive into their target at the last second, they only have to match the altitude and heading of their targets and hit 'em straight on. It's easier to take out a target in a 2 dimensional space than a 3 dimensional space, remove the latitude and it's just a matter of flying towards it and matching its movements (if it suddenly climbs or descends). Problem is that when you do this with a ship, it'll hit a wave and get wrecked. I'm no missile expert, but this is what I think happened. I know there are different attack profiles for Air-to-Ground weapons so that obstacle clearance isn't an issue.
For those who don’t know Iraq had an 8 year war with Iran that ended only 3 years prior. The fact that they wanted to flee to Iran shows how desperate they were.
@@TheDinkcool but how was it cleared in the first place? How did Iraq get word to Iran that they were coming in peace, and allowed to cross the border without being shot down? It couldnt have been pre arranged, Saddam would have hung them if he had any idea that was the plan.
@@nizloc4118 4:00 It was Saddam who gave the order himself to his navy to flee to Iran, according to the video. The coalition most certainly couldnt attack ships in Iran territorial waters for escalation and "rules of engagement" reasons. Could Saddam still alert Iran of his intention at the time? I would guess so. Could the intention be evident enough to Iran anyway? The ships could very well contact the iranian officials/military interlocutors directly at proper range and inform them that they seek refuge or some diplomatic reason to get to safety, in all cases. It was quite obvious for Iran that it was not getting attacked by those ships, under the circumstances. Coalition bombardements had started destroying Iraq already for a full week. And once without any air cover, the iraqi navy was sitting ducks in the water. Crossing that stretch of water indeed proved fatal to all those ships, and the efficiency of the destruction is nearly painful. It was not even a fight. They even went "hey what the heck lets test this air air missile as an anti-ship for the lolz, balls to the walls!" 🤷
That’s the thing, I could see the ship crews deciding to head to Iran, but why would Iraq send them there? I mean it’s not like Iran would ever give back the ships, or likely even the crews. So it’s still an Iraqi loss, if nothing else stick them in ports and either use their weapon systems for defense, or just pull the crews to use on land.
@@johnpatz8395 the ships that headed to Iran probably hoped that the Iranian airforce would see the NATO airforce getting in their airspace and attack them. Once the aircraft was no more, the ships would try to get back to Iraq. As for your suggestion. I just said something similar in a comment. But since the captain was ordered to sail agains the enemy and he was in the middle of the sea already, instead of sitting comofrtably in the base, he did the only thing he could think of.
The current Iranian navy is much the same. A bunch of fast attack boats they flash around to threaten ships they know are under orders not to fire back.
I doubt they have many if any actual warships. I think it's a bit loose to call any boat in the water a naval force lol. It's the same as calling their army of toyota pickup trucks a ground force.
@@slayerr4365 an army of Toyota pickups dominated the Middle East and continued to defeat large military’s until the US lead coalition came in and did their deed. Any group with enough weapons is a threat, numbers can beat tactics, numbers can beat anything. Just ask the soviets
bro. The AiM7 doesn't have enough NEW to sink a ship. It would have made a nice hole. Since it was a radar lock it probably would have hit high on the tower doing minor damage.
Pretty sure AA missiles have like 4 kg of explosives onboard. AShMs have 250-1000 kg of explosives, plus mass, plus jet fuel. It would give someone a bad day, but trying to sink a ship with an AA missile is like trying to sink a ship with a couple of frag grenades.
@@QualityPen we aren’t talking battleships, it’s a fast attack boat, 4kg is more than plenty if it hit the Exocet missiles, regardless the boat wouldn’t hold up to it
i just love the the fact the pilot locked on with an air to air missile and thought what the heck lets give it a go..... would have been way cooler if it hit... but still
Eh, physics doesn't care about what a weapon is for. Radars can lock on ships as well as they can on aircraft, and the Sparrow simply goes where the radar points it to (sort of). I honestly doubt the pilot got reprimanded for trying to accomplish his task with the weapons he had on board.
yeah but its still pretty canny of the pilot to get the missle to lock onto a ship in the first place. I wonder what kind of damage that sparrow would have even done , certainly wouldnt have sunk the ship but I figure it would have given it a nasty bite.
@@RichFreeman The us anti ship missiles where designed for large warships. Would be a waste to shoot one at the a little fast boat with armor made from soda cans.
@@billparker244 The RN is quite capable of doing the same, but the whole point of joint operations is to share resources, not to waste them with needless duplication. Of course, staying out of harm's reach and letting others take the risks is one way to avoid getting hurt. Apart from friendly fire of course... which while not unique to them, is something the US is particularly adept at. 🙄
Son of a former CF-188 maintainer here - my father knew Captain Hill personally. When he returned to base, he explained to everyone he had almost actually killed himself on one of the strafe runs. When he went in, and engaged the ship, he blinded himself and nearly flew into the ship. The CF-18 got a ship kill mark on it after. He was a chill dude from what I heard.
@@RealityIsTheNow Perfect! Let’s attach lasers to them! I mean, we use dolphins to detect mines. Worst case scenario the gulf looks like a skrillex concert.
Nē nē, tā ir kauja. In my native tongue the word for battle (kauja) is derived form the same rood as for slaughter (kaut) so Im gona say this was a battle.
@@InsolventGene Which were actually due to the iraqi military using them as shields and shooting down our missiles over populated areas. Pinpoint strikes are pretty all we did during that war with some exceptions. Almost every precaution was taken to reduce casualties.
@@TheOperationsRoom Thanks. and i wish the timeline was more clear. Is this after the airstrike but before the land attack? Or is this on land attack day 1 as well?
The military should have sued the manufacturer. I don't care what kind of missile it is, at $250k, if it gets a lock, it should hit what it was locked onto. Hell, at that price, it should come with the sensors needed to hit anything.
@@lordgarion514 It was an Air-to-air missile not an anti-ship missile, the radars are completely different. Targeting something at ground/sea level requires filtering a ton of literal background noise from the radar image to maintain an accurate lock, something the missile's radar is not designed to do well enough to hit a small boat. The pilot probably got the idea because AMRAMs have been shot at ships before, but that was surface to surface where the target was silhouetted against the horizon. Either way, we waste that kind of money all the time, $80,000 for a Javelin missile to take out a Toyota Hilux, $120,000 for a Hellfire to take out 1-2 guys, $1 million for a Tomahawk to take out a pile of dirt the enemy uses as a bunker... Most of our weapons in current conflicts are a giant (yet very effective) waste of money compared to what their use costs the enemy. At least those AMRAMs usually take out planes worth exponentially more than the missile, in the Gulf War everybody got their money's worth out of them even if a few failed.
@@lordgarion514 why would the manufacturers of air to air missiles put in the capability to hit ships, a very difficult and expensive capability to incorporate, for a missile that wouldn’t have much of an effect on a ship? We buy different missiles for different purposes for a reason. Suing a manufacturer for their missile not being able to do what it wasn’t advertised or created to do is beyond idiotic.
"Would you like to strafe a boat...???" Seriously? You asked a couple of fighter pilots if they would like to strafe a ship? Bwahahahaah! Does a bear shit in the woods?
And the fact that one of the pilots thought "This is an air to air missle, but eh fuck it, lets see if this shit will work" That was probably the best day of those pilots lives
you heard the joke about the bear and the rabbit? there was a bear and a rabbit in the woods, both happened to be shitting under the same tree the bear, being a conversational kinda guy, asked the rabbit: "do you have any problems with shit sticking to your fur?" the rabbit responded: "actually, no!" so the bear wiped his ass with the rabbit
Bagdad Bob would have announced☝️ that the infidel American navy was being decimated by the glorious forces of Saddam as you can plainly see in video. A video that didn't show any actual ship recognition but a sign can be seen of a a park pond with model ships on fire and kids🏃♀️🏃♂️💃🕺 playing in the distance.
Yes, Baghdad Bob aka Comical Ali was on air up to the last minute reporting on the devastating defeat of the coalition. I was waiting for a US soldier to walk into the studio and capture him live on the air.
@@roninjedi2494 And yet the U.N. HQ's remains in the swanky midtown Manhattan neighborhood of Turtle Bay. And when was it not a joke? They got pastel blue hats and packs... That's a set up if ever seen one.
@@raymurphy9749 I'd say the use the term "club" is a 'lil bit of stretch as to the uniformity. More along the lines of Iraqi... uhmm, 'Guys'. Near water. Boats optional.
@@rgh622 Decimate means 'to remove one in ten' I suppose if you are ignoring actual definitions then yes: just using potato to say you killed ninety percent of them is acceptable!
Missile Boat: "Phew, I think those A-6's are gone... Guys we made it!" Two bored Canadian flyboys: "Eh, sorry about that hole in your ship there, bud!"
Reminds me of the cruiser that carried the nuke *"damn nuke, you scary! Glad we offloaded that! Hey is that a periscope?"* _Gets torpedoed in shark infested waters_
There was another action, when the Iraqis fired silkworm missiles at US battleships, causing the AA guns to accidentally hit friendly ships wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2019/07/21/missile-attack-on-battleship-uss-missouri/
@@thesweatleaf I was out there, about 20 NM from the Missouri when this happened. One thing I didn't see noted in the report was the fact that most of the ships nearby not only went to General Quarters but also set CIRCLE WILLIAM for CBR defense. Apparently the missile oxidizer triggered a sensor aboard either the BB or one of the other ships. Better safe than sorry, most of us 'sucked rubber' (donned gas masks) for 2 or 3 hours until an All Clear was given. USS Nassau (LHA 4,) Flagship COMPHIBGRU 2.
When I was in the Navy, we practiced hard doing a rotor running Sea Skua re armament and refuel. Never got to use it in real life, but I personally know the lads on the ship’s flights in this video and they did a really good job. Also this even though now coming up to 30 years ago, showed how inter operability between the US, UK, Canada and other forces was essential
Seriously, I have immense respect for all of you mapping and timelapse TH-camrs for putting so much details into these videos. If I would have attempted to do this, I don't know if I could have gotten a small detail like the helicopters getting locked up by a F18 into the video or not!
Not in every language. As another commenter said already - In my language (Latvian) the word for 'battle' (kauja)and the word for 'to slaughter' (kaut or nokaut), are derived from the same root. In other words, slaughter is expected to take place in battle.There's no implication that a 'battle' should be fair or evenly matched.
This comments section: 10% People congratulating Operations Room, 50% people laughing at the beating the Iraqi navy took, 40% CANADA GETS TO STRAFE A BOAT!!!
From the UK during World War 2 the Canadian pilots were bloody heroes and many gave their lives so that people like you could have the freedom to make remarks like yous. Sleep well.
"battle : /ˈbat(ə)l/ noun a sustained fight between large organized armed forces." This wasn't that lmao.. this was a: "beating /ˈbiːtɪŋ/ 1. a punishment or assault in which the victim is hit repeatedly."
Funny thing is that the origins of battle (battualia in Latin) comes from to beat (battuere in Latin). Also, you just quoted one definition of battle. There is also "fight or hostile engagement between opposing forces"
@Alenjandro - there is no Love & War..there is just War (john wayne) in war -feelings get hurt. thus, i am going to mine yours pilgrim like a gold digger. what we're dealing with here is the difference between apples and oranges...and here you slide in a pinneapple. See..a dipshit, i can work with. the dipshit is just full of zeal and un-educated. you Sir.. are an idiot..there is no cure for you..or hope.
Wouldn't care but seeming you went gramma nazi on calling it a battle think I should point out by your own logic beating doesn't fit either because the word victim implies the party receiving the punishment is innocent. Don't think anyone apart from some tinfoil snowflakes are calling iraq innocent lol
You have to admit. The British have got balls sending a lone frigate into a Sea full of over a dozen Exocet Firing Fast attack craft. With nothing but sea skua’s for Defence. I’m glad they’re on our side.
They've been shitting on other countries at sea for almost 3 times as long as we've been a country. One might say they have _a little_ experience in that area of endeavor.
Well in all fairness, we'd learned a few things since the Falklands. The Type 42 destroyers (I think _Gloucester_ and _Cardiff_ were mentioned) had been fitted with a pair of Vulcan Phalanx guns and MUCH better jammers and chaff since 1982 and their Sea Dart SAM system had been much improved too. The Type 22 frigates ( _Brazen_ in this case) had the Seawolf SAM system which was specifically designed to shoot down sea-skimmers. Sea Skuas were specifically designed to allow small helos to kill missile-armed FACs before they got into launch range.
Your videos are my favorites of all of these history shorts on YT- Really love the simplicity and the attention on the history instead of the graphics. Thanks/keep up the good work !
Sparrow missiles actually have a demonstrated track record as antiship weapons - unfortunately mainly in friendly fire incidents. During Vietnam, USS Boston and HMAS Hobart were hit by fighter-launched Sparrows, and in a 1990s exercise the Turkish destroyer Muavenet was crippled by a pair of Sea Sparrows accidentally fired by USS Saratoga.
The fuel he burned that night cost more than his average yearly salary. If you're fighting a war while counting pennies, you're probably going to lose.
@@614LkyDvls You realize at broad-scale war is just deadly economics right? You go to war over some gain usually financial occasionally over ideologies and whoever had more money and is more efficient at spending that money to make weapons of war wins. That said on a small scale you can't get butt hurt over 1 failed missle and expect to win. Germany had superior weapons during WWII but was very inefficient in terms of money and thus ran out of money to make weapons. The USSR ran out of money during the cold war causing their collapse. The U.S. won the revolutionary war as the amount of money the U.K. would have had to spend to win outweighed the value of the colonies and Britain was going broke fast.
This is awesome! Desert Storm naval battles are something that I've never really seen much of, but this is really interesting to see. Keep up the good work!
"well done"? What a joke! When will we ever secure our own border? Instead, we fight false-flag wars over imaginary borders in countries on the other side of the world... ba-dum Tschhh well done/////derp
Canadian Army:nah...the defence budget ain't the problem....that is... News: Due to Canada,China relations, Justin Trudeau would like China's Army to train in Canada with help of the Canadian Army in Winter Warfare training Canadian Army: *sighs in: wtf we have NATO, the US, the commonwealth, and the Queen, WTF!*
@@teodorogerald Its worse than that. 75,000 PLA troops are station in Canada. To assist with any civil unrest that Canada cant handle. Trudeau has already old Canada out to China. Canada is almost occupied by China. As long as the puppet Trudeau is in power China will allow the illusion that Canada is still independent.
@@MuffHam The chinese army are not in Canada. Their military staff would not allow Trudeau to let the PLA in because of the Pentagon's ties to military staff. The US military would NOT allow direct Chinese military influence to spread that close to their border, I'd expect that sort of co mingling among US/canadian/chinese capitalists/businessmen.
@@johnmcfarlane3147 That's interesting because I know for a fact theres PLA troops on Salt Spring Island in BC Canada. And that Trudeau has signed something saying PLA troops are allowed to station in Canada to protect Chinese Government interests. Like property that the CCP has been buying up in massive amounts. Like some of the largest mineral and metal mines in Canadas North.
Yeah. As cool and interesting it is to watch these operations, it's always important to remember there are people on board these ships. Sure, they were enemies at the time, but it doesn't hurt to remember that well and work hard not to have things get out of hand in the future.
I just found this video last night. I talked with my dad about it because he was working as ATC on the USS Theodore Roosevelt during Desert Storm and Desert Sheild. I asked him if he remembers this but he just said that "We were there form the beginning and the end. We used to laugh about how easy it seemed to destroy them. On one of those days, I had a friend that was a pilot die after getting shot down".
Before the war started, was there a worry that the Iraqis would at least inflict some damage via Exocets or mines? A former colleague at my old workplace was in the Marines at that time, though he wasn't deployed there. He & his mates were bracing for news about a few vessels damaged, and even one sunk.
@@jonathantan2469I was in my senior year of high school when the Gulf War kicked off. It was actually a pretty anxious time. Far as missiles go, it was the Scuds that had people worried, not so much for their anti-shipping capabilities, though. Iraq had substantial stockpiles of chemical weapons & there was some concern that they might be used against Israel (they were, but mostly in effectively) & help kick off a larger regional war.
"Low on fuel and out of ammunition, he manages to gain a radar lock with his air-to-air missile" That's the Canadian Forces version of "Adapt and Overcome" in action right there.
The OSA II boats likely had AA guns on them (1960-ish technology). These fast attack boats are designed to attack quickly and flee...not for defensive capabilities. The boats could be a serious threat to the boats of the navies, but the airplanes had a distinct advantage over them.
Oh wow I'd always thought that it was sea skewer too! The first few times I heard CIWS said in videos I thought they were saying "Sea Witch" and that it was the name for a specific weapon system like the USN's Phalanx. 😆
After the seal clubbing the Royal Navy received in the Falklands war they must have been happy to find something to sink. www.naval-history.net/F62-Falklands-British_ships_lost.htm
@Balla you mean that lovely British Aircraft carrier which we sold to the Dutch and then they sold to Argentina and referring to the above comment the RN didnt receive a beating in fact they done bloody well since they were not fighting from a base unlike Argentina which had ports and airbases
@@thomaslambert2318 Imagine them trying it now? In this era of ultra modern guided weaponry and technological advancements a backwards little 3rd world nation like argentina wouldn't stand a chance. Hell maybe this time we should ask the US if they want in, can you imagine the devastation that would cause.
Iraqi military was the definition of paper tiger. They did a similar blunder against Iran in Iran-Iraq war too. They failed to defeat a revolution ravaged and isolated Iran despite having the support of the US, Soviets, the UK and France.
Like most "battles" in this war. 10 to 1 kill ratios were common, Iraquis often even didn't noticed they were aimed at or had nothing to defend with. That was a slaughter really.
Canada: What you won? U.S And Canada Collation Navy: Sinking the Iraqi Navy Canada: but at what cost? U.S And Canada Collation Navy: Our $250,000 Missile
I did a lot of driving in the desert with my grandfather in southern Arizona in the 80's and 90's, and we often saw A-10s flying maneuvers. It will always be my favorite aircraft. Thank you for the video!
Nah, this was Andre the Giant actively beating the ever loving shit out of a midget after spending years training to fight someone his size who flaked out of the fight last minute.
That’s what happens when you’ve been trained and equipped the entire Cold War to fight the toughest opponent you’re ever going to fight and end up fighting a wimp instead.
Great to hear about this rather unsung battle in Desert Storm. I have family that served on HMS Cardiff during that period, so it's fascinating to hear what they were up to.
Let's give credit where credit is due - and I hate to do this as an ex-USN officer: The RN''s Fleet Air Arm helos aggressive actions carried the day. p.s. I was there.
Tomcat EWO: Hey, we got us a helo, bearing 340 degrees, 25k out, on the deck. No IFF. Tomcat Pilot, jamming to Dangerzone in his headset: Yeah... Lock 'em up. Lynx pilot while shitting his pants: FOR ALL THAT'S HOLY! DONT FIRE YA DAMN YANK! DONT FIRE! DONT FIRE!
They did that to an A-6E over in the Northwest region with Red Sea-based aircraft too. RIO was using the wrong reference point on the ground when interpreting E-2C vectors, almost got AIM-7 kill on an A-6. USAF E-3A operators came over the net telling them to check fire. Tomcat crew got relegated to carrier defense after that in the Red Sea.
@@LRRPFco52 lol. Ok, sorry its not funny but it is in a way. Here I am making a joke about Top Gun and the gung ho nature of F-14 pilots and you drop this. It's face palm kind of stuff.
Whatever we might think of them, it must have been a terrifying and wholly tragic end for the Iraqi sailors, many of whom I'm sure were young and dumb and had little choice in being there. It was apparently especially unpleasant to find the floating wreckages after a night's Lynx hunt.
2:55 One A-6's targeting system failed, so the other A-6 guided their bombed with their targeting system in a joint bombing run. That's incredibly badass and impressive
I was an aircraft armourer, accurate toss bombing is impressive (non-guided). Back in the day, this sort of cooperative flying was regularly practiced for specifically, when systems fail.
I was asking a guy at work who was in the navy for a long period if anything interesting ever happened. "Well I was there when we destroyed the iraqi navy" I said "Iraq had a navy" He said "Yeah for a couple of hours" This video really brings it all to light.
Lmao
Yeah I didn’t even know Iraq had a navy at all until I watched this video.
@@ritrovolt8215 When I saw Iraq and Navy in the same sentence/title, this became a must watch.
My j vi
Best quote I’ve read here! Cheers!
USN: "Have you ever strafed a boat?"
RCAF: "No?"
USN: "WOULD YOU LIKE TO?!"
RCAF: "YES PLEASE!"
I'm pretty sure the RCAF did it's fair share during WW2 in the battle of the Atlantic
@@chrisfranklinguitar7105 and more, dear friend. Much respect to our friends across the pond
RCAF...HELL YEAH!!!
RCAF launch AAM Sparrow to destroy a boat :D
"Admiral, I understand the Iraqi fleet was destroyed. What was the name of this brilliant military operation and who planned it?" - "Oh...no, we just ran into them more or less by accident and sunk them all."
Pretty much how the last great tank battle started. And, just like this naval decimation, there was no contest.
It was on easy mode
@@288theabe Custom Battles
That amazing General's old school PowerPoint presentation was great. They asked about Sadaam as a military strategist, and the General laughed at them
@@jimlthor Deservedly so. I don't think Saddam understood how powerful the US can be. Yeah, Iraq had a lot of tanks and some ships. He definitely didn't think that so many countries would unite against him. It was a lost cause once the US was given the time to build up and make up a plan to push Iraq out of Kuwait. He should have swallowed his ego and hightailed his ass out of Kuwait.
Imagine your whole navy getting wiped by dudes flinging whatever they have left over at you on their way back to base.
😂😂😂😂
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When you put it that way, it reminds me of the WWII incident where a US destroyer defeated a Japanese sub with potatoes. The destroyer originally planned to ram the sub, but they changed their mind and found themselves alongside. The Japanese crews woke up from a nap on the deck, and both crews realized they were unarmed. The sub started arming their deck gun, so the Americans went for anything they could to distract. The only thing nearby was potatoes, and the Japanese thought they were grenades and hurriedly threw them back or overboard. It bought enough time for the destroyer to move far enough to shoot and later sink the sub.
lol and one of them attacks a ship with a fuckin sparrow
@@ErrantChordier seriously
"Hey Canada. Want to strafe a boat?"
"Fucking rights, bud. Let's have a rip."
Today they would be Court Marshaled !
FREAKSHOW they have !!!
_BRRRRRRRRRT_
Ah, finally a real Canadian response.
@@terryherrera5252 What? Huh? What are you saying?
Buds did they say would you like to strafe a boat?
All I heard was BRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTT guy.
I'm sorry to disagree but I have to side with Captain Hill here, $250,000 is a small price for a chance to sink a ship with an air to air missle and become a legend in the process.
The thing is the Sparrow missile was a crappy missile for most of it's life, so using it outside of design parameters is kinda wasteful. But an enterprising fighter pilot will try anyways!!!
Imagine the memes in the years to come if it worked
@@wannabedal-adx458 Eh, at this particular time the Sparrow was an OK weapon. Mostly. Somewhat.
@@wannabedal-adx458 The US Navy had previously been able to use the more capable Standard SAM to engage Iranian vessels in Operation Praying Mantis so it was probably worth a shot.
I don't follow, if it was crappy anyways then trying to essentially dumb fire it seems like even less of a "waste".
respect the optimism of the jet that hoped to sink a ship with a sparrow air to air missile
Imagine if he did disable it.
I think the pilot was bored and fucking around 🤣🤣
Fuck it. Im bored
Technically a ship is nothing more than a very low flying airplane. If there's enough signature, why shouldn't it lock on? 😁
@@RubenKelevra It did lock-on, but the missile's attack profile characteristic isn't designed for ships, hence why it fell into the water before hitting the target. It doesn't just go in a straight line from point where it's fired from. My guess: The missile lowered itself to fly level into the ship. I believe that missiles are programmed to match the altitudes of their targets so they don't have to climb or dive into their target at the last second, they only have to match the altitude and heading of their targets and hit 'em straight on. It's easier to take out a target in a 2 dimensional space than a 3 dimensional space, remove the latitude and it's just a matter of flying towards it and matching its movements (if it suddenly climbs or descends). Problem is that when you do this with a ship, it'll hit a wave and get wrecked.
I'm no missile expert, but this is what I think happened. I know there are different attack profiles for Air-to-Ground weapons so that obstacle clearance isn't an issue.
Peaceful Canadians: I’m sorry
Wartime Canadians: You’re sorry
Legendary comment.
Canada is insane when it comes to war, they backed the major allied powers in WW1 and WW2
They even had a section on the Geneva convention that’s created bc how cruel Canadian soldiers treats German POW’s during WW1
@@hahabrrrrr4465 the definition of “speak softly and carry a big stick”
Nah nah nah, we don't say that. We say "Sorry, eh?" and "Sorry, eh!" :P
For those who don’t know Iraq had an 8 year war with Iran that ended only 3 years prior. The fact that they wanted to flee to Iran shows how desperate they were.
No kidding. Thats always blown me away.
Not to "laugh" at them. Just seems so weird.
Also surprised Iran let them
@@nizloc4118 not a surprise. Iraq may hate Iran, but they hate the West more
@@nizloc4118 Iran kept all the stuff that Iraq brought there. That's why they let them.
@@TheDinkcool but how was it cleared in the first place? How did Iraq get word to Iran that they were coming in peace, and allowed to cross the border without being shot down?
It couldnt have been pre arranged, Saddam would have hung them if he had any idea that was the plan.
@@nizloc4118 4:00 It was Saddam who gave the order himself to his navy to flee to Iran, according to the video. The coalition most certainly couldnt attack ships in Iran territorial waters for escalation and "rules of engagement" reasons. Could Saddam still alert Iran of his intention at the time? I would guess so. Could the intention be evident enough to Iran anyway? The ships could very well contact the iranian officials/military interlocutors directly at proper range and inform them that they seek refuge or some diplomatic reason to get to safety, in all cases. It was quite obvious for Iran that it was not getting attacked by those ships, under the circumstances. Coalition bombardements had started destroying Iraq already for a full week. And once without any air cover, the iraqi navy was sitting ducks in the water. Crossing that stretch of water indeed proved fatal to all those ships, and the efficiency of the destruction is nearly painful. It was not even a fight. They even went "hey what the heck lets test this air air missile as an anti-ship for the lolz, balls to the walls!" 🤷
Iraqi navy: preparing for a war.
*First ship sinks
Iraq navy: every ship for them self.
Well they are virtually defenceless. When you become a live fire target dummy not sure what you should be doing beside fleeing.
@@therealoxcooper4616 did they have no aa defence capabilites on their ships?
@@mrrexychomp9829
Dushka machine guns and 20mm autocannons on decks aim with eyeballs, against Canadian F-18?
That’s the thing, I could see the ship crews deciding to head to Iran, but why would Iraq send them there? I mean it’s not like Iran would ever give back the ships, or likely even the crews. So it’s still an Iraqi loss, if nothing else stick them in ports and either use their weapon systems for defense, or just pull the crews to use on land.
@@johnpatz8395 the ships that headed to Iran probably hoped that the Iranian airforce would see the NATO airforce getting in their airspace and attack them. Once the aircraft was no more, the ships would try to get back to Iraq. As for your suggestion. I just said something similar in a comment. But since the captain was ordered to sail agains the enemy and he was in the middle of the sea already, instead of sitting comofrtably in the base, he did the only thing he could think of.
This explains why I never knew there was an "Iraqi Navy"
The current Iranian navy is much the same. A bunch of fast attack boats they flash around to threaten ships they know are under orders not to fire back.
Well said
I doubt they have many if any actual warships. I think it's a bit loose to call any boat in the water a naval force lol. It's the same as calling their army of toyota pickup trucks a ground force.
@@slayerr4365 an army of Toyota pickups dominated the Middle East and continued to defeat large military’s until the US lead coalition came in and did their deed. Any group with enough weapons is a threat, numbers can beat tactics, numbers can beat anything. Just ask the soviets
As the great Sergeant Dignahm once said “this shithole has more leaks than the Iraqi Navy.”
Could you imagine the bragging rights that hornet pilot would’ve had if he sunk a damn ship with a fox 1!?
bro. The AiM7 doesn't have enough NEW to sink a ship. It would have made a nice hole. Since it was a radar lock it probably would have hit high on the tower doing minor damage.
Pretty sure AA missiles have like 4 kg of explosives onboard. AShMs have 250-1000 kg of explosives, plus mass, plus jet fuel.
It would give someone a bad day, but trying to sink a ship with an AA missile is like trying to sink a ship with a couple of frag grenades.
@@QualityPen we aren’t talking battleships, it’s a fast attack boat, 4kg is more than plenty if it hit the Exocet missiles, regardless the boat wouldn’t hold up to it
I was aboard AWACS and we vectored in an F-15E with LGBs to take out a hovering Iraqi helo. One bomb, right on target. Helo goodbye!
If you hit the ammunition storehouse on-board a 4kg explosive would be more than enough to sink it
It felt like this video lasted longer than the Iraqi navy did.
O O F.
This burned harder than the fire caused by the Hellfires.
We hates it! It burns us!
damn I felt that from here
Laughs in an Italian fleet getting massacred in 4 minutes during ww2.
i just love the the fact the pilot locked on with an air to air missile and thought what the heck lets give it a go..... would have been way cooler if it hit... but still
He probably got his ass chewed for misuse of an expensive weapon.
HE just wanted free beer back at the bar IF it did work!!
@@jeffrielley920 probably.... but if it had hit... still would have gotten his ass chewed but would have had one hell of a story
Eh, physics doesn't care about what a weapon is for. Radars can lock on ships as well as they can on aircraft, and the Sparrow simply goes where the radar points it to (sort of). I honestly doubt the pilot got reprimanded for trying to accomplish his task with the weapons he had on board.
@@TLTeo Sure it can lock on, but ground return makes it very very difficult to retain that lock when it isnt designed for it in the first place
This doesn't even seem like a war. This was a joint military training exercise basically
Not even an exercise, this a military bullying
@@oskrm You know that meme "Piper Perri Surrounded
"? Iraq is Piper Perri.
As an Iraqi what u said is true, we lost so many in this war
@@oskrm I mean saddam was a bigger bully than anyone
Complete with a fortunately avouded blue-on-blue incident.
The operation room: "a $250.000 missile is wasted"
Comment section: "a meme opportunity wasted"
Pffffft! Pelosi spends more than that in a week, on designer ice cream.
Yup in the grand order of things and total cost of the war (>60 billion $ of the time, in estimation), it's absolutely irrelevant :D
@@ElementofKindness she isnt paying anything to live in your head though
At the same time the lynx’s missed with 4 harpoons designed for ships😂😂😂
Guy was just doing some research to make sure it’s only good air-air 😂😂😂😂😂
no surprise there.....Sparrows had a hard enough time hitting airplanes much less a boat
"Hey Canada! Wanna strafe a boat?"
"Holyyyyy fuck bud its go time!"
I read it in such a strong Canadian accent in my head xD
Oh you betcha bud
Just out for a rip are ya buhad?
Didn't even ask to have their beers held. eh?
It’s
"Did you just use a 250.000 dollar air to air missile to shoot at a ship?"
"Yeah, sorry eh."
"Did you hit?"
"Nah, sorry."
Mad lad
i give +1 to the pilot who tried it, you never know...
@@konstantinoskountousias3099 Like using a HARM to shoot down a plane.
I mean he had a radar lock so why not try.
Well, there is a case of a f-15E taking out a helicopter with a laser guided bomb, so it's worth a try.
@@alastair9446 Or the Luftwaffe pilot in WWII who supposedly used his Bf109 to drop bombs on B-17s in mid-flight...
😧👍
USN: "Do you want to strafe a boat?"
RCAF: "Aboot time."
th-cam.com/video/pfuvhCE-AEs/w-d-xo.html ,
RCAF: “Gonna send it.”
Yeh let me take a hit eh~
Iraqi navy: Why do I hear boss music
Say that to an AC-130 gunship.
Sailor: "Sir, we've spotted the entire Iraqi navy!"
[long pause]
Admiral: "Okay"
Sailor: Should we...engage....?
Admiral: Oh shit yeah probably
Admiral: "They have a navy? ... Whatever, they don't have a navy now."
@@levipascoe2587
Admiral: I mean, go for it, you do you. I just don't really see the point.
*Few dozens missiles are fired from helis and planes, and entire navy is destroyed without a sweat or casualty*
Admiral : Yep. So much for a fight...
Admiral: ... "So anyway - I started blastin'..."
That Sparrow was disappointed that its target wasn't a plane so it noped out of there
“I don’t get paid for this”
yeah but its still pretty canny of the pilot to get the missle to lock onto a ship in the first place. I wonder what kind of damage that sparrow would have even done , certainly wouldnt have sunk the ship but I figure it would have given it a nasty bite.
Gotta say that half the weapons employed in this video were suboptimal. Did the US just not care enough to give aircraft proper anti-ship loadouts?
@@RichFreeman The us anti ship missiles where designed for large warships. Would be a waste to shoot one at the a little fast boat with armor made from soda cans.
AGM 65 anyone?
US Military: "Hey, you can't hit a ship with an air to air missile"...
Pilot: "New phone who dis"
yes but i give +1 to the pilot who tried it... you never know...
Pilot played Ace Combat
@@jhk8396 nah, dude IS playing Ace Combat
Imagine if he actually managed to get a hit.
Hey man, I've played Top Gun on the NES. You can shoot anything with the same missiles. :p
*ATC:* Would you like to strafe a boat?
*Boeing 747 crew:* ???
Hahaha
The 747 can dump its lavatory contents with a low pass flyby
@@moonootoo This would probably be enough to sink these crappy ships
Lmfaoooo
Good one mate
@JZ's Best Friend that crying kid out front can go first
The US Navy and Airforce really saw som Canadian pilots flying by and said “get in loser, we got boats to destroy”
*hoser
@@orionred2489 *poser
Idiots, lol. The Canadians were flying air superiority patrol, they weren't equipped for air to ground, but they went anyways and did their best!
Combat is more fun with friends!
American who speaks canadian- "hey bud you wanna go for a rip?"
Canadian- "fuckin eh rights bud!"
Kill Table / Target Practice result:
UK: 14
US: 6
Canada: 1
Didn't the USN destroy 6+2 ?
We were being NICE..
Too bad we had to guide you to all the targets. We'll take an assist for each of those lol
@@billparker244 The RN is quite capable of doing the same, but the whole point of joint operations is to share resources, not to waste them with needless duplication. Of course, staying out of harm's reach and letting others take the risks is one way to avoid getting hurt. Apart from friendly fire of course... which while not unique to them, is something the US is particularly adept at. 🙄
@@billparker244 tee hee
Son of a former CF-188 maintainer here - my father knew Captain Hill personally. When he returned to base, he explained to everyone he had almost actually killed himself on one of the strafe runs. When he went in, and engaged the ship, he blinded himself and nearly flew into the ship. The CF-18 got a ship kill mark on it after. He was a chill dude from what I heard.
Cool
I'm sorry, as a fellow Canuck all I can hear in my head right now is "Sorry, eh?"
Is it just me, or does Bubiyan sound like an Asian paradise before watching this video? 😘
i love the fact that those CF-18s got a chance to go shoot something and then attempted to hit the boat with a sparrow
i totally agree. if a sparrow is all you have left to shoot.. well hell Shoot It!!. what do you have to lose?
@@stevewixom9311 $250,000
Ace Combat in a nutshell
@@razorsharpy8749 Its not your 250k though.
@@freddy67h Tax payers $250,00k
Q: What is the most important skill to be in the Iraqui navy? A: Knowing how to swim.
The gulf is famous for sharks.
@@RealityIsTheNow oh no...
LMAO
@@RealityIsTheNow Perfect! Let’s attach lasers to them! I mean, we use dolphins to detect mines. Worst case scenario the gulf looks like a skrillex concert.
Knowing what direction Iran is
This isn’t a battle, it’s a beating.
Nē nē, tā ir kauja. In my native tongue the word for battle (kauja) is derived form the same rood as for slaughter (kaut) so Im gona say this was a battle.
I'll take it!!!
147 Coaliation soldiers killed vs 25-50k iraqis. Probably the most one sided war in history
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 That's awesome
Hell, in my time they used to call that “like shooting fish in a barrel”.
The real Desert Storm are the friends we made along the way.
👆 This comment right here
are the friends
@@SpeccyMan fixed it, thank you.
True Desert Storm was the Iraqi civilians counted as collateral damage along the way
@@InsolventGene Which were actually due to the iraqi military using them as shields and shooting down our missiles over populated areas. Pinpoint strikes are pretty all we did during that war with some exceptions. Almost every precaution was taken to reduce casualties.
The shame of having to retreat to Iran...that's like hiding out with your ex-wife and her new boyfriend
Better to die I guess
If it were Saddam sure, but this is more the like kids running there so the Gansters dad made angry don't murder them for sport..
@@mostevil1082 they’re military assets under control of the adversary, they’re fair game.
Actually, its like hiding FROM your wife - AT your wifes new boyfriend.
😂😂😂
Daaaamnit, I wanted that Sparrow to hit so bad 😂
I think everyone watching did. :)
Think of the memes man
Anything is an anti ground missile if you try hard enough
If I make a time machine, first thing I’m doing is making sure that missile hits.
@@Apollo-tj1vm realistically a missile is just a very complicated bomb
Canadian F-18 Pilots, "BRRRRRRR sorry, BRRRRRRRR sorry, BRRRRRRRRRR sorry! "
LMAO!!!
I love how canada was just like sure why not
I really wish I hadn't read that while sipping fresh steamy hot coffee 😂 hahaha
@@mr.meowgi9876 There was no sure why not from the CF18 pilots, mark my words! We were ready for it flying CAP missions usually.
I'm surprised they didn't just roll over and crash those cf18s are pure garbage
This should be added to the desert storm playlist. Right?
It should, thanks for reminding me!
@@TheOperationsRoom thanks for making great content
@@TheOperationsRoom I’m happy to know I helped one of my favorite creators.
@@TheOperationsRoom Thanks. and i wish the timeline was more clear. Is this after the airstrike but before the land attack? Or is this on land attack day 1 as well?
It’s in the water tho
japan 1945: "our naval forces have been decimated"
iraq 1991: "hold my beer"
More like " hold my flotation device "
LOL...
@@Chino56751 hold my floating piece of debris
@@ShroomKeppie It sure was. We got lucky at Midway or it may have been much scarier.
ROFL 😂😂
I'm gonna stop using the phrase "Shooting fish in a barrel" and instead say "Like blowing up the Iraq navy in the Persian Gulf"
Sgt. Dignam from “The Departed”: unfortunately this shithole has more leaks than the Iraqi navy.
@@Superciuppaful That was a good one,Martin.
Deeecent
The UK, Canda, and the US getting the band back together
Probably got Canada involved too.
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
We never broke up baby ;) Since the Nazis we've been butt buddies. And I love it.
@@bobkin611 Literally lol.
Long live the anglosphere!
"Captain Hill, you wasted a $250,000 missile!"
"Yes, sir. But I'm paying it off at $30 a month. Next time I'll get the extra liability coverage."
The military should have sued the manufacturer.
I don't care what kind of missile it is, at $250k, if it gets a lock, it should hit what it was locked onto.
Hell, at that price, it should come with the sensors needed to hit anything.
@@lordgarion514 It was an Air-to-air missile not an anti-ship missile, the radars are completely different. Targeting something at ground/sea level requires filtering a ton of literal background noise from the radar image to maintain an accurate lock, something the missile's radar is not designed to do well enough to hit a small boat.
The pilot probably got the idea because AMRAMs have been shot at ships before, but that was surface to surface where the target was silhouetted against the horizon.
Either way, we waste that kind of money all the time, $80,000 for a Javelin missile to take out a Toyota Hilux, $120,000 for a Hellfire to take out 1-2 guys, $1 million for a Tomahawk to take out a pile of dirt the enemy uses as a bunker... Most of our weapons in current conflicts are a giant (yet very effective) waste of money compared to what their use costs the enemy. At least those AMRAMs usually take out planes worth exponentially more than the missile, in the Gulf War everybody got their money's worth out of them even if a few failed.
@@MrMattumbo
Now reread what I wrote, AND pay attention this time......
@@lordgarion514 Please shut up now, thanks
@@lordgarion514 why would the manufacturers of air to air missiles put in the capability to hit ships, a very difficult and expensive capability to incorporate, for a missile that wouldn’t have much of an effect on a ship? We buy different missiles for different purposes for a reason. Suing a manufacturer for their missile not being able to do what it wasn’t advertised or created to do is beyond idiotic.
"Would you like to strafe a boat...???" Seriously? You asked a couple of fighter pilots if they would like to strafe a ship? Bwahahahaah! Does a bear shit in the woods?
And the fact that one of the pilots thought "This is an air to air missle, but eh fuck it, lets see if this shit will work" That was probably the best day of those pilots lives
@@xHTxRaptorF22 He was a true test pilot that day lol.
you heard the joke about the bear and the rabbit?
there was a bear and a rabbit in the woods, both happened to be shitting under the same tree
the bear, being a conversational kinda guy, asked the rabbit:
"do you have any problems with shit sticking to your fur?"
the rabbit responded:
"actually, no!"
so the bear wiped his ass with the rabbit
Wanna strafe a boat ? Is a frog's ass watertight ?
Polar bears don't.
I'm sure during all of this the IRAQI media was like " we are dominating the coalition on a daily basis"
Baghdad Bob lol
"We are making them use up all their bombs and missiles!"
Bagdad Bob would have announced☝️ that the infidel American navy was being decimated by the glorious forces of Saddam as you can plainly see in video. A video that didn't show any actual ship recognition but a sign can be seen of a a park pond with model ships on fire and kids🏃♀️🏃♂️💃🕺 playing in the distance.
Yes, Baghdad Bob aka Comical Ali was on air up to the last minute reporting on the devastating defeat of the coalition. I was waiting for a US soldier to walk into the studio and capture him live on the air.
Another treat from the Operations Room! The poor Iraqi Navy - no contest.
Agree
*instagram thud sound*
I would like more frequent treats please.
thats what happens when your generals are cousins of your dictator rather than real war experienced generals lol
Iraqi Navy: A term that brings a muffled tone of laughter to any U.N. meeting.
“The U.N” a term that makes any American or NATO country laugh at its mere mention because of the joke it’s become haha
@@roninjedi2494 And yet the U.N. HQ's remains in the swanky midtown Manhattan neighborhood of Turtle Bay. And when was it not a joke? They got pastel blue hats and packs... That's a set up if ever seen one.
Iraqi yachting club would be more appropriate
@@raymurphy9749 I'd say the use the term "club" is a 'lil bit of stretch as to the uniformity. More along the lines of Iraqi... uhmm, 'Guys'. Near water. Boats optional.
I had better Navy ship power in my bathtub, 10 years old..
"The operations rooms has uploaded" The only part of the notification I read before clicking on it. Your videos are always amazing.
When it comes to modern was he is the best.
thanks!
@@TheOperationsRoom more pls
I won’t lie, I thought the thumbnail said “The Iraqi Navy Destroyed The Operations Room.”
They wish 😎
@@TheOperationsRoom lol absolute mad man
6:45 Sinking 21 of 23 vessels is significantly more then decimating them.
very good point, my good sir
i guess you could say it was decimated 23.181 times
So, perhaps nonagimate? Nonaginta is Latin for ninety...I think.
Decimate, obliterate. Potato, potato....
@@rgh622 Decimate means 'to remove one in ten' I suppose if you are ignoring actual definitions then yes: just using potato to say you killed ninety percent of them is acceptable!
Iraqi Navy: The world's newest man made reef company
Lmfaooo
that'd be a good operation name: Operation Artificial Reef
Saddam wanted to buy a glass bottomed boat, so he could inspect his navy !
@@ayzy5010 Operation Scrap Sinker
@@imstuckinthe80s What Navy? Oh...those second rate wannabes
I remember that day. I was there. We didn’t refer to it as the Battle of Bubiyan. We referred to it as the Bubiyan Island Turkey Shoot.
Hope your proud of yourself!
Like the Great Mariana's Turkey Shoot in WWII
reverse turkey shoot
@@winddrinker155 Did they fight back at all?
It has a nice ring to the name, I like it.
So the Iraqi navy was destroyed in basically unplanned attacks. Amazing how powerful the Allies were in this war.
Missile Boat: "Phew, I think those A-6's are gone... Guys we made it!"
Two bored Canadian flyboys: "Eh, sorry about that hole in your ship there, bud!"
Reminds me of the cruiser that carried the nuke *"damn nuke, you scary! Glad we offloaded that! Hey is that a periscope?"* _Gets torpedoed in shark infested waters_
@@visionist7
_sad indianapolis noises_
Brits and Americans: vectoring to victor Charlie one niner zero bravo
Canadians: Just gonna fucking send it.
Been there, done that, said it.
This is the greatest comment on this page.
Erik Larson I can’t tell whether the bar is that low or if I underestimated how good this comment was, but either way, thank you.
TIL there was a naval action during Desert Storm.
Naval Action - that sounds more like Subic Bay
There was another action, when the Iraqis fired silkworm missiles at US battleships, causing the AA guns to accidentally hit friendly ships wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2019/07/21/missile-attack-on-battleship-uss-missouri/
@@thesweatleaf Oops.
@@thesweatleaf I was out there, about 20 NM from the Missouri when this happened. One thing I didn't see noted in the report was the fact that most of the ships nearby not only went to General Quarters but also set CIRCLE WILLIAM for CBR defense. Apparently the missile oxidizer triggered a sensor aboard either the BB or one of the other ships. Better safe than sorry, most of us 'sucked rubber' (donned gas masks) for 2 or 3 hours until an All Clear was given. USS Nassau (LHA 4,) Flagship COMPHIBGRU 2.
@@AaronRMG You are welcome. Please make sure to explore the rest of the site. It isn't my site, but rather a site I enjoy very much.
When I was in the Navy, we practiced hard doing a rotor running Sea Skua re armament and refuel. Never got to use it in real life, but I personally know the lads on the ship’s flights in this video and they did a really good job. Also this even though now coming up to 30 years ago, showed how inter operability between the US, UK, Canada and other forces was essential
Seriously, I have immense respect for all of you mapping and timelapse TH-camrs for putting so much details into these videos. If I would have attempted to do this, I don't know if I could have gotten a small detail like the helicopters getting locked up by a F18 into the video or not!
I watch a lot of this sort of thing and I have decided to award 'The Operations Room' the coveted title of Best TH-cam Channel EVER.
Doesn't the word "battle" imply some kind of resistance?
lmao
"Massacre" sounds more on point, yes.
🤣🇺🇸🦅
Not in every language. As another commenter said already - In my language (Latvian) the word for 'battle' (kauja)and the word for 'to slaughter' (kaut or nokaut), are derived from the same root. In other words, slaughter is expected to take place in battle.There's no implication that a 'battle' should be fair or evenly matched.
If you are in a “fair” fight, you are in the wrong fight.
2:56 That right there go’s to show that, as much as advanced tech and cutting edge equipment helps, training and coordination will always be vital.
This comments section: 10% People congratulating Operations Room, 50% people laughing at the beating the Iraqi navy took, 40% CANADA GETS TO STRAFE A BOAT!!!
I was really hoping that Sparrow shot would have worked out
From the UK during World War 2 the Canadian pilots were bloody heroes and many gave their lives so that people like you could have the freedom to make remarks like yous. Sleep well.
@@legend9335I'll keep that in mind :)
@@legend9335 Dude it's all in good fun we are well aware of Canada's Illustrious military history.
@@warrocketajax373 understood
"battle
:
/ˈbat(ə)l/
noun
a sustained fight between large organized armed forces."
This wasn't that lmao.. this was a:
"beating
/ˈbiːtɪŋ/
1.
a punishment or assault in which the victim is hit repeatedly."
Funny thing is that the origins of battle (battualia in Latin) comes from to beat (battuere in Latin).
Also, you just quoted one definition of battle. There is also "fight or hostile engagement between opposing forces"
@@allenz7688 Yeah that first definition doesn't apply because the Iraqi navy 1) wasn't large 2) wasn't organized and 3) didn't fight...
@Alenjandro - there is no Love & War..there is just War (john wayne) in war -feelings get hurt. thus, i am going to mine yours pilgrim like a gold digger. what we're dealing with here is the difference between apples and oranges...and here you slide in a pinneapple. See..a dipshit, i can work with. the dipshit is just full of zeal and un-educated. you Sir.. are an idiot..there is no cure for you..or hope.
Wouldn't care but seeming you went gramma nazi on calling it a battle think I should point out by your own logic beating doesn't fit either because the word victim implies the party receiving the punishment is innocent. Don't think anyone apart from some tinfoil snowflakes are calling iraq innocent lol
You have to admit.
The British have got balls sending a lone frigate into a Sea full of over a dozen Exocet Firing Fast attack craft. With nothing but sea skua’s for Defence.
I’m glad they’re on our side.
They've been shitting on other countries at sea for almost 3 times as long as we've been a country. One might say they have _a little_ experience in that area of endeavor.
@@DarkMatterX1 Exocets are fucking scary and they don’t care how long your naval tradition is
@@DarkMatterX1 Ask the HMS Sheffield...
@@DarkMatterX1 So you have rather the Brits had been destroyed and that charming fellow Sadams people had won??
Well in all fairness, we'd learned a few things since the Falklands. The Type 42 destroyers (I think _Gloucester_ and _Cardiff_ were mentioned) had been fitted with a pair of Vulcan Phalanx guns and MUCH better jammers and chaff since 1982 and their Sea Dart SAM system had been much improved too. The Type 22 frigates ( _Brazen_ in this case) had the Seawolf SAM system which was specifically designed to shoot down sea-skimmers. Sea Skuas were specifically designed to allow small helos to kill missile-armed FACs before they got into launch range.
Your videos are my favorites of all of these history shorts on YT- Really love the simplicity and the attention on the history instead of the graphics. Thanks/keep up the good work !
In Captain Hill's defence, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Including the ones which cost more than an average yearly salary.
Sparrow missiles actually have a demonstrated track record as antiship weapons - unfortunately mainly in friendly fire incidents. During Vietnam, USS Boston and HMAS Hobart were hit by fighter-launched Sparrows, and in a 1990s exercise the Turkish destroyer Muavenet was crippled by a pair of Sea Sparrows accidentally fired by USS Saratoga.
@@ARCNA442 Mission failed successfully? lol
The fuel he burned that night cost more than his average yearly salary. If you're fighting a war while counting pennies, you're probably going to lose.
@@614LkyDvls Oh I'm well aware of the cost of these things. Just making a joke, lol
@@614LkyDvls You realize at broad-scale war is just deadly economics right? You go to war over some gain usually financial occasionally over ideologies and whoever had more money and is more efficient at spending that money to make weapons of war wins. That said on a small scale you can't get butt hurt over 1 failed missle and expect to win.
Germany had superior weapons during WWII but was very inefficient in terms of money and thus ran out of money to make weapons.
The USSR ran out of money during the cold war causing their collapse.
The U.S. won the revolutionary war as the amount of money the U.K. would have had to spend to win outweighed the value of the colonies and Britain was going broke fast.
This is awesome! Desert Storm naval battles are something that I've never really seen much of, but this is really interesting to see. Keep up the good work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Cos they lasted about 15 mins 😉
This was interesting, well done! 👍
Another bastard spoke.
"well done"? What a joke! When will we ever secure our own border? Instead, we fight false-flag wars over imaginary borders in countries on the other side of the world... ba-dum Tschhh
well done/////derp
I thought it was just a train channel....
a missile that costs more than my house is lost to the sea, just like that
you need a bigger house....
@@TheKbochenek don't we all
@@TheKbochenek - he said from his doublewide
That missile Canada lost was probably 1/10th of the yearly defence budget
Canadian Army:nah...the defence budget ain't the problem....that is...
News: Due to Canada,China relations, Justin Trudeau would like China's Army to train in Canada with help of the Canadian Army in Winter Warfare training
Canadian Army: *sighs in: wtf we have NATO, the US, the commonwealth, and the Queen, WTF!*
It's way higher than two and a half million.
@@teodorogerald Its worse than that. 75,000 PLA troops are station in Canada. To assist with any civil unrest that Canada cant handle.
Trudeau has already old Canada out to China. Canada is almost occupied by China. As long as the puppet Trudeau is in power China will allow the illusion that Canada is still independent.
@@MuffHam The chinese army are not in Canada. Their military staff would not allow Trudeau to let the PLA in because of the Pentagon's ties to military staff. The US military would NOT allow direct Chinese military influence to spread that close to their border, I'd expect that sort of co mingling among US/canadian/chinese capitalists/businessmen.
@@johnmcfarlane3147 That's interesting because I know for a fact theres PLA troops on Salt Spring Island in BC Canada. And that Trudeau has signed something saying PLA troops are allowed to station in Canada to protect Chinese Government interests. Like property that the CCP has been buying up in massive amounts. Like some of the largest mineral and metal mines in Canadas North.
In my time, they used to say that was “like shooting fish in a barrel”...
I think we still say that.
Shooting fish in a BUCKET.
@@tehbonehead Shooting fish in a coffee cup.
Now they say "like shooting the Iraqi Navy in the Persian gulf"
The Great Persian Gulf Turkey Shoot
R.I.P to all those lost at sea.
❤
Yeah. As cool and interesting it is to watch these operations, it's always important to remember there are people on board these ships. Sure, they were enemies at the time, but it doesn't hurt to remember that well and work hard not to have things get out of hand in the future.
RIP Sparrow missile. 😔
No one wins in war, but it is inevitable.
hear hear.
I just found this video last night. I talked with my dad about it because he was working as ATC on the USS Theodore Roosevelt during Desert Storm and Desert Sheild. I asked him if he remembers this but he just said that "We were there form the beginning and the end. We used to laugh about how easy it seemed to destroy them. On one of those days, I had a friend that was a pilot die after getting shot down".
Before the war started, was there a worry that the Iraqis would at least inflict some damage via Exocets or mines? A former colleague at my old workplace was in the Marines at that time, though he wasn't deployed there. He & his mates were bracing for news about a few vessels damaged, and even one sunk.
@@jonathantan2469I was in my senior year of high school when the Gulf War kicked off. It was actually a pretty anxious time. Far as missiles go, it was the Scuds that had people worried, not so much for their anti-shipping capabilities, though. Iraq had substantial stockpiles of chemical weapons & there was some concern that they might be used against Israel (they were, but mostly in effectively) & help kick off a larger regional war.
Well that’s tough but he shouldn’t really have even been there
A-6's:Now thats alotta damage!
uss theodore roosevelt: How about a little more!!
I can picture perfectly the flex tape guy saying that 😂😂👌
Lynxs: Nice navy you got there, be bad if someone made it go boom.
Lmao 😂😂😂
Lynxs: Oi, mate! You got a loisense for that fleet?
@@spartanalex9006 what is a loisence?
@@spartanalex9006 Iran: nope we just stole them and called it ours.
@@JohnyG29 How License is pronounced with a thick British Accent.
"Low on fuel and out of ammunition, he manages to gain a radar lock with his air-to-air missile"
That's the Canadian Forces version of "Adapt and Overcome" in action right there.
I like this canadian guy in F18 be like "I wonder if it gonna lock ? Oh, it's locked ? Nah, oh wait ... whatever, rocket go shhuuuuuuuu"
"Fox One!!"
The speed at which this channel produces these videos is simply amazing. Especially considering their quality. Good job!
Glad you like them!
"Would you like to strafe a boat?"
*VULCAN GO BRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*
Missiles go WHOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHH
@@Interdictiondeltawing and SPPLLAASSHHHH
@@juusojd and *BOOOMMM*
M-61 Vulcan when you have to live long and propser......brrrrrrttttttttt
The fact that the Iraqi Navy had no Anti-Air is beyond me.
Saddam needed another palace, duh
The OSA II boats likely had AA guns on them (1960-ish technology). These fast attack boats are designed to attack quickly and flee...not for defensive capabilities. The boats could be a serious threat to the boats of the navies, but the airplanes had a distinct advantage over them.
@@allenz7688 aeroplanes had an advantage over aa guns, kinda ironic
Feel like even a few shoulder launched AA missiles could maybe have slowed em down. Least knocked an F-18 out. Maybe.
They probably had a contract with the French and language difficulties and Evil Union EU paperwork messed things up again.
I just assumed the missile was 'sea skewer', but it turns out it's actually Sea Skua (now replaced by the Sea Venom).
Oh wow I'd always thought that it was sea skewer too! The first few times I heard CIWS said in videos I thought they were saying "Sea Witch" and that it was the name for a specific weapon system like the USN's Phalanx. 😆
So the missile was from Boston?
I heard Skewer too and thought what a great, and accurate, name for a missile. Almost disappointed it is Skua.
@@loudechant7034 couldn’t agree more, kind of sad it wasn’t skewer.
Skua is a fierce, predatory sea bird - get it. (how is a kebab better than that 🙄)
More like "Royal Navy Seal Clubbing Another Navy Again... But This Time With Helicopters"
After the seal clubbing the Royal Navy received in the Falklands war they must have been happy to find something to sink. www.naval-history.net/F62-Falklands-British_ships_lost.htm
@@gurkslunga Clubbed? The British turned the Belgrano into a mass grave and a coral reef at the same time.
@Balla you mean that lovely British Aircraft carrier which we sold to the Dutch and then they sold to Argentina and referring to the above comment the RN didnt receive a beating in fact they done bloody well since they were not fighting from a base unlike Argentina which had ports and airbases
@@gurkslunga "seal clubbing royal navy received in the falklands" is a weird way of spelling " the Argentinians lost the war"
@@thomaslambert2318 Imagine them trying it now? In this era of ultra modern guided weaponry and technological advancements a backwards little 3rd world nation like argentina wouldn't stand a chance. Hell maybe this time we should ask the US if they want in, can you imagine the devastation that would cause.
Damn... They were outclassed in every aspect
I mean what would you expect from a undeveloped country that literally did trench warfare just prior to this conflict
Look at the size of the colaition. The world government wanted Sedam gone but Iraq would not get rid of him and so he was removed by force.
@@NapoleonBonaparte5 First world armies also use trenches when on the deffence. Its just that they are usually on the attack.
Iraqi military was the definition of paper tiger. They did a similar blunder against Iran in Iran-Iraq war too. They failed to defeat a revolution ravaged and isolated Iran despite having the support of the US, Soviets, the UK and France.
After the iraq-iran war iraq had a lot of debt and the economy was bad so they could buy new weapons so yeah what do u except
Iraqi boats: carry Exocet missiles.
Royal Navy: quick! kill it with fire!
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controller: "you wanna strafe a-"
fighter pilot: "YES!"
Aircraft Carrier group vs Speedboats, tranports and minelayers is a battle? Seems like one side didnt even open fire at any point.....
Like most "battles" in this war. 10 to 1 kill ratios were common, Iraquis often even didn't noticed they were aimed at or had nothing to defend with. That was a slaughter really.
@@thomaskositzki9424 i think you mean 100 to 1
@@akjohnny5997 lol
Nah.. it's thousands to one
But i wonder why those "warships" were seems like unarmed like civilian ship and receive no air support from the airforce?
@@tip1441 yes, but didn't look like one
I’ve been waiting for this for so long.
Really starting 2021 off right.
Canada: What you won?
U.S And Canada Collation Navy: Sinking the Iraqi Navy
Canada: but at what cost?
U.S And Canada Collation Navy: Our $250,000 Missile
X30
Canada's 250000 Loonie Missile
ahhh those where the canadians
Uhh taxpayers dollar hello
Canada: www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-us-canada-40098563&psig=AOvVaw3i4SMU5xSIWmhvMcfIPBzK&ust=1609771955315000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCMC8s_6BgO4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
I did a lot of driving in the desert with my grandfather in southern Arizona in the 80's and 90's, and we often saw A-10s flying maneuvers. It will always be my favorite aircraft. Thank you for the video!
This is legitimately the equivalent of Andre the Giant fighting a midget and just holding the midget back at arm's length.
Nah, this was Andre the Giant actively beating the ever loving shit out of a midget after spending years training to fight someone his size who flaked out of the fight last minute.
@@fludblud less flaked out more died of “complications” lol
@@stephenvargas5806 Well this is '91 so not dead yet, lets just say he was in ICU.
@@fludblud
The funny thing is they waited until December 26th to formly dissolve the ussr. Like it was one last fuck you to the west.
So the Iraq war was played with Easy mode with MOD on
Just look at the size of the colaition. The anglo-american alliance is not the be mesed with when united.
Basically
When you play as the US, yeah
That’s what happens when you’ve been trained and equipped the entire Cold War to fight the toughest opponent you’re ever going to fight and end up fighting a wimp instead.
@@phased-arraych.9150 Exactly. It's like you prepared to fight mike Tyson for 20 years but end up fighting some random loud-mouth off the street 😂😂
Great to hear about this rather unsung battle in Desert Storm. I have family that served on HMS Cardiff during that period, so it's fascinating to hear what they were up to.
So you call several adults ganging up to beat a weak kid "a battle"? :P
@@justalonesoul5825 Look up the USS Stark Incident and see what an Exocet could do to a warship. Those things had to be taken out.
Please produce more Gulf War videos! There are 13 WWII channels to a dozen but what you did with the Gulf War scenarios is very very unique 📈
The moral of the story dont make a war if you dont have an air force
the Iraqi's did have an air force.
@@danglingdave1787 a *credible* air force
@@tackytrooper it wasnt too bad actually but the coalition had over 2000 jets you aren't beating that.
Iraq just lost a 8 year war with Iran so put that in perspective as well
@@TruthOne313 yep
Let's give credit where credit is due - and I hate to do this as an ex-USN officer: The RN''s Fleet Air Arm helos aggressive actions carried the day.
p.s. I was there.
We would have saved you a few more.... but over the years we have developed a strong dislike of Exocet missiles.
Well said
Judging by this recount they certainly appeared to be extremely effective.
@@MrGamingCookie If I were Margaret Thatcher, the Argies would have developed an even _stronger_ dislike of _Polaris_ missiles!!!
Thank you for your service...from a USN Mustang.
I find it very ironic that the only thing that the Iraqi navy can do is to flee to their former enemies ports.
Only two ships made it, so they can't even really do that.
The Iranians interned pretty much everything and never gave it back.
Crew was most likely majority shia.
@@silenthunteruk borrowed it on a permanent basis
They were still enemies. Just not at war. Saddam was an idiot for thinking the Iranians would return his planes and ships after what he did.
This is when you're level 10 and wondering into a level 50 area..
Not much of a “war” when one side is literally having fun
*that one Chad who tried to hit a boat with an A-A missle*v Yeah agreed
The kind of people who sign up to fly combat aircraft are crazy motherfuckers, they're having fun all the way until their bird takes a hit.
The only people that worked hard during that war were the ordnance troops and oil rig workers.
Those lynxes were having a hell of a day😃
it reminds me of those swordfish from ww2
@@madisntit6547 Probably an adjustment needed that was done securing successful further attacks.
Tomcat EWO: Hey, we got us a helo, bearing 340 degrees, 25k out, on the deck. No IFF.
Tomcat Pilot, jamming to Dangerzone in his headset: Yeah... Lock 'em up.
Lynx pilot while shitting his pants: FOR ALL THAT'S HOLY! DONT FIRE YA DAMN YANK! DONT FIRE! DONT FIRE!
Damm fell out of my seat. That was so funny BUT probably very true.
@@jamesdewey3259 Top Gun, baby. All the way. =)
Tomcat Pilot: I GOT TONE!!
They did that to an A-6E over in the Northwest region with Red Sea-based aircraft too. RIO was using the wrong reference point on the ground when interpreting E-2C vectors, almost got AIM-7 kill on an A-6. USAF E-3A operators came over the net telling them to check fire. Tomcat crew got relegated to carrier defense after that in the Red Sea.
@@LRRPFco52 lol. Ok, sorry its not funny but it is in a way. Here I am making a joke about Top Gun and the gung ho nature of F-14 pilots and you drop this. It's face palm kind of stuff.
Congratulations...The quality of the narrators diction has hugely improved, makes all the difference.Good video.
Excellent content once again.
As a Welshman, it makes me pleased to see the role HMS Cardiff played.
A guy from Llannelli agrees with you bud! 😁👍👍👍👍
UTC: Wanna strafe a boat?
Canadians: So anyway, I started blasting.
Whatever we might think of them, it must have been a terrifying and wholly tragic end for the Iraqi sailors, many of whom I'm sure were young and dumb and had little choice in being there. It was apparently especially unpleasant to find the floating wreckages after a night's Lynx hunt.
2:55 One A-6's targeting system failed, so the other A-6 guided their bombed with their targeting system in a joint bombing run. That's incredibly badass and impressive
I was an aircraft armourer, accurate toss bombing is impressive (non-guided). Back in the day, this sort of cooperative flying was regularly practiced for specifically, when systems fail.