The reason Russians don't use catapults on their carriers is that steam catapults don't work well in cold climate. That's also one of the reason USN is developing EMALS
That is definitely NOT the reason. Also they have one carrier , no s not plural. Their military is an absolute joke lmao. They couldn’t afford to build a catapult carrier, let alone get the supplies needed AND put it all together. Most of the ships they build end up scrapped and sold off before even getting halfway finished.
a10 can out turn an su27 at low speed no? of course, good job going vertical. i remember a japanese zero ace who did that to wildcat pilots cuz they couldn't match his climb. his life ended when he tried to do that to a hellcat. do you prefer the pipper or funnel gunsight?
+Victor Katilis Not low speed, but low alt and good energy it can make one good turn and completely outturn a flanker. After the one turn, the A-10 loses. It has no energy to do a sustained turn rate. That's where the Flanker wins. But the A-10 for sure outturns the Su-27, at least in the initial turn. It's up in the air what happens after that. I have fought PLENTY of Flankers in my A-10 and won most of those fights because of the stupid tight turn rate.
reason for launching catapult: - They don't need to use it... their engines have enough power to get you in the air even with payload. - It uses valuable space - It can damage/kill - If it breaks you can't launch a jet... Carrier becomes a useless ship. BTW @ 15:53 you could already fire the missile. Subbed :)
Just saw the video and noticed i'am the a10 at 10'20" ish learning the a10 nine years ago and having no clue of it at that moment... But that changed :) Enjoying your videos, very entertaining. Cheers!
I know this video is as old as it is, but I have to say that that laugh just cracks me up every time, so thanks for that Ralfi. It's always fun to watch both missiles and wingmen go stupid.
SpicysaucedHD if you haven't checked out Ralif's Sh*ts and Giggles Videos yet there are 2 of them that have the "F" counter for Line and his run of F-Bombs
***** I couldnt care less about what people think. In the moment I watched the video I was thinking this and I've written it in the comments. Nothing bad about it and no hard feelings involved. There was just something about the tourette syndrome in my mind :) FUCK! Shouldnt have fuckin said this. Fuckin not funny. ralfidude Love your content man :)
What are the normal tactics for the SU-27/33? Just skirt right around the AO and come in low from the sides? I know we cant really go head to head with the F-15 as they have a ridiculously good radar and autonomous missiles which the Su's don't have. Any pointers? Thanks in advance. Great Vid.
hahaha thats me at the end :D Linebacker was derping about, and i just shot him then i saw you ralfi and knew it was you. i had a perfect lock on you and was half a second off shooting then you saw me at that moment i knew i was dead.
Pro tip. Next time, leave your nose below the horizon. You have a very tight turn rate and you could have probably whooped me if you hadn't gone in the vertical with me. Of course I was banking on that though which is why I did it. Still, awesome job taking Line out. His bitching about it made it all that much better.
Michael E It is a really good idea to get some dogfighting experience in that aircraft. It will help in these situations. It's not exactly unheard of to have A10s face off fighters, and I've done my share of killing Sukhois in my A10.
Poised Tuber I'd have no idea, but in general there's a lot of stress involved in carrier operations. Planes that operate from aircraft carriers have always been build much stronger than ones that operate from land.
Ski jumps with arrested landing are stupid. You're paying this HUGE amount of money for the ship, including everything needed to make a proper CV, and then you're going to go and cripple your capabilities compared to catapults to try and save a couple cents at the very end? It makes zero sense.
Бернардо Галкер Plus - for catapult the plane needs special undercarriage that can sustain the pulling (and well - that can be attached to the catapult)...
As always.. keep up the good work ralfi, awesomevideos with lots of laugh's and an angry linebacker as always.. I would even watch the vidoes if i dont play DCS..
Hi Ralfidude, nice vid(s) man Always fun to watch..... but i really wonder What you think ore oppinion is on the updatet SU27, the combat, tight turns, cobra etc?
Why would the Russians use a catapult? Unlike US Naval Carriers, they aren't expecting to launch anything big. The Russian carriers are more accurately designated "Aircraft capable missile cruisers." All that they actually are intended for is offshore support, and therefore only really plan on launching small-ish craft that can easily launch using the upward turned deck and without catapult assistance.
Ony carrier Ulyanovsk was cancelled when CCCP collapsed. Kuznetsov is heavy missile cruiser, not carrier. It only has flight deck larger than other cruisers and it operates few fighters to assist itself. Its main armament consists of battery of antiship P700 and huge battery of anti-aircraft missiles. Class of its own.
That crash into the mountainside WAS pretty funny. I could see it coming though. I was like, he's gonna hit, trajectory don't look good there, aaaaand boom! Lol, betchya didn't realize it happened at precisely 4:20.. Well done. Had fun watching this.
Excellent kills, too bad for the BLUEs who did not have a F-15 or two doing CAP. Also, some videos of yours appear at 1080p, this one only up to 720p. Is it a problem my side or is it TH-cam that encoded at this level?
I feel like the carrier takeoff in the start should have been a Give away... The Su-33 is the Only Su-27 Variant that can take off from a carrier. And it has Canards partly to give it better lift and a shorter takeoff distance.
Hey ralfi just wondering. I'm in school to become a navy air traffic controller. Wouldn't wake turbulence affect you when ur taking off behind line. Or is wake turbulence not simulated in dcs?
Navy atac eh? NEVER, EVER let some joker named Maverick buzz the tower. On a serious note, if you ever come across a helo, MH-53E specifically, with the callsign of Vulcan, could ya give em priority? Thanks lol.
Hey Ralfi, I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now and just wanted to tell you keep up the great work. Also, if you were to suggest a flight sim for someone to get into sim flying, what would you suggest? I currently have DCS-A10 (bought it a while ago) but never could get REALLY into it, but would be willing to give it a try again, or buy another sim to try. Again, thanks for all the great videos and hours wasted in front of my computer!
Hi! Kinda late to ask you this in this video, but I just watched and I wantend to know what mode is in the HDD while you were aproaching to the AO. or is it just and old version of the actual HDD on the updated SU-33?
Su-33KMF vs. unknown numbers A-10 Charlie: Hit-and-run tactics should keep you clear of any attempted riposte. Approaching from six o' clock high, dual R-77's into the centermost target to break up the formation; R-73 on target two, gun into target three, then flank power and bug out - beware surviving targets' 30mm magnums.
+ralfidude what, it's TOTALLY reasonable to expect any pilot to expend a pair of R-77's (ER? ET?) on a Hog... what's your issue? The Hog is the pinnacle of anti fighter defense, if you're putting LESS than two medium range missiles into them, you're doing it wrong. Oh, wait...
Madbrood Keeping with WW2 pragmatism and recognizing the limits of sensor technologies, the Russian Federal Air Forces followed the Soviet-era PVO's lead in terms of following up an infrared-guided MRAAM with a radar one, and the current MiG and Sukhoi fighters are built with the same salvo capacity for the R-27 and R-77. (The R-109 flown by the PVO's Mikojan-Gurjevich-31SFP is a notable exception, being fired at ranges typical of the USN/Raytheon RIM-162 SAM and flying at speeds where infrared sensors would be blinded by nosecone heat.)
Don't know if You can still do it or not, But you used to be able to Pull the Video Off youtube as a Copy, But it would be the same one that was posted none the less.
"Only at the very end did they send in ONE guy after me as I was RTB" Actually, it looks like it was the A-10 that killed Line who decided to rage switch to a fast-mover, not a different guy that actually cared about what was happening to the A-10s. Assuming that the guy who ejected as you and Line were talking about bringing him back to the carrier was him.
No... you totally missed the video. After lines death, as I was RTB, line was heading towards me to meet back up. A fighter showed up on my 6 and I kept on trucking while Line went past me and pressed on him. He killed him while getting hit, then still managed to get back to the carrier. Or were we watching two different videos mate?
ralfidude Guess I just made an incorrect assumption then. At 18:38 it shows a Blue player ejecting, which I assumed was the guy in the jet that Line shot down. It's the same name as the guy in the A-10 who killed Line at 14:46 and then tried to dogfight you at 16:16.
Im not blaming you but, since you and the other guys don't remember his name (sorry) talked about alt tapping while getting attack, i experience it aloe the time on the 104th phoenix… i kind of sucks...
The navy is one of the worst maintained branches of land oriented Russian Army so they go with what's cheapest. Also Jak planes were VTOL and soviets didn't want carriers for some reason in the first place. Maximizing the possible take off output wasn't a priority so the ramp works good enough. There will probably be no catapults until the electromagnetic ones are made (Which developed in Russia since 80's btw)
Why russians have no catapult? Money! Steam driven catapults are maintenance intensive, as you have large steam pipes coming out of the propulsion plant to the catapult spaces, as well as other auxiliary systems to convert that steam energy into lateral motion. All of that costs money and over the lifetime of the carrier it adds up to quite a bit of maintenance dollars. Also catapults are much more expensive to build as the design of the carrier changes and it doesn't allow for the ability to launch and land several aircraft in succession.
Flight leader can't avoid mountain at the clearest weather conditions. *Blaming Wingman* LOL!
Every second in Caucasus, ten hogs are slaughtered, for just £3 a month, you could help a hog in need. Text "CHAFF" to 0800 warthog today
Love how line blames someone else for him flying a perfectly good airplane smack into a mountain.
The reason Russians don't use catapults on their carriers is that steam catapults don't work well in cold climate. That's also one of the reason USN is developing EMALS
That is definitely NOT the reason. Also they have one carrier , no s not plural. Their military is an absolute joke lmao. They couldn’t afford to build a catapult carrier, let alone get the supplies needed AND put it all together. Most of the ships they build end up scrapped and sold off before even getting halfway finished.
These kind of videos make me wish some of my friends liked these kind of sims :|
I can relate :/
whats ur steam names?
Same here :(
My situation as well
Make new friends who play these games? pfft old friends who needs them?
a10 can out turn an su27 at low speed no? of course, good job going vertical. i remember a japanese zero ace who did that to wildcat pilots cuz they couldn't match his climb. his life ended when he tried to do that to a hellcat.
do you prefer the pipper or funnel gunsight?
+Victor Katilis Not low speed, but low alt and good energy it can make one good turn and completely outturn a flanker. After the one turn, the A-10 loses. It has no energy to do a sustained turn rate. That's where the Flanker wins. But the A-10 for sure outturns the Su-27, at least in the initial turn. It's up in the air what happens after that. I have fought PLENTY of Flankers in my A-10 and won most of those fights because of the stupid tight turn rate.
Another quality landing by Hot Pocket!
21:23 "I can hear the FUCK from here"
I died
That ending was hilarious.
Hahaha, that picture-in-picture at 19:38 is masterfully done, Ralfi
reason for launching catapult:
- They don't need to use it... their engines have enough power to get you in the air even with payload.
- It uses valuable space
- It can damage/kill
- If it breaks you can't launch a jet... Carrier becomes a useless ship.
BTW @ 15:53 you could already fire the missile.
Subbed :)
LOVE IT!!! I'd love to see more Cap (combat air patrol) Ralfi's!! and in Arma 4!! A-10 dominates too much.
> Linebacker, killed by A-10 from behind
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Just saw the video and noticed i'am the a10 at 10'20" ish learning the a10 nine years ago and having no clue of it at that moment... But that changed :) Enjoying your videos, very entertaining. Cheers!
I know this video is as old as it is, but I have to say that that laugh just cracks me up every time, so thanks for that Ralfi.
It's always fun to watch both missiles and wingmen go stupid.
"fuckin ralfi in the fuckin back, fuck him he's a backseat driver imma fuc....eh....fox 3" xD
Holy fucking shit that ending...I almost had a heart attack hahahah.
Dude, some of the best dogfight footage you've uploaded. Awesome stuff
You have to display a "fuckin" counter in videos with this guy. Seems kinda helpless if every 2nd word is "fuckin".
Fuckin' right, man! We need a fuckin' fuckin' counter for the fuckin' kids playing this fuckin' game.
synapse131 Fuck yeah!
SpicysaucedHD if you haven't checked out Ralif's Sh*ts and Giggles Videos yet there are 2 of them that have the "F" counter for Line and his run of F-Bombs
***** says "mofo..."
***** I couldnt care less about what people think. In the moment I watched the video I was thinking this and I've written it in the comments. Nothing bad about it and no hard feelings involved.
There was just something about the tourette syndrome in my mind :)
FUCK! Shouldnt have fuckin said this. Fuckin not funny.
ralfidude Love your content man :)
been loving the amount of vids lately :D
What are the normal tactics for the SU-27/33? Just skirt right around the AO and come in low from the sides? I know we cant really go head to head with the F-15 as they have a ridiculously good radar and autonomous missiles which the Su's don't have. Any pointers? Thanks in advance. Great Vid.
20:49 Straight up made me drop the floor pissing myself laughing LMFAO
hahaha thats me at the end :D
Linebacker was derping about, and i just shot him then i saw you ralfi and knew it was you. i had a perfect lock on you and was half a second off shooting then you saw me at that moment i knew i was dead.
Pro tip. Next time, leave your nose below the horizon. You have a very tight turn rate and you could have probably whooped me if you hadn't gone in the vertical with me.
Of course I was banking on that though which is why I did it.
Still, awesome job taking Line out. His bitching about it made it all that much better.
haha :) i never dogfought with the a10 so that was new to me, i was trying to fly like i fly in il2 clod
Michael E It is a really good idea to get some dogfighting experience in that aircraft. It will help in these situations. It's not exactly unheard of to have A10s face off fighters, and I've done my share of killing Sukhois in my A10.
That ending made it worth it.
Oh god, that ending. My sides are at about the orbit of the ISS.
Glad to see you fly Flankers too
sorry u feel that way someone that is pretty smart as you, you got one hell of a heart
Jokes aside, a Ski Jump is a lot cheaper and requires 0 maintenance compared to a catapult.
I saw somewhere that the catapult puts a lot of stress on the frame of the plane from the excessive G's. Is that true?
Poised Tuber I'd have no idea, but in general there's a lot of stress involved in carrier operations. Planes that operate from aircraft carriers have always been build much stronger than ones that operate from land.
Ski jumps with arrested landing are stupid.
You're paying this HUGE amount of money for the ship, including everything needed to make a proper CV, and then you're going to go and cripple your capabilities compared to catapults to try and save a couple cents at the very end? It makes zero sense.
Tk3997 It makes sense if that's not an aircraft carrier but an aircraft-carrying heavy cruiser.
Бернардо Галкер Plus - for catapult the plane needs special undercarriage that can sustain the pulling (and well - that can be attached to the catapult)...
the failed landing at end was soooo funny LMAO! hahaha
As always.. keep up the good work ralfi, awesomevideos with lots of laugh's and an angry linebacker as always.. I would even watch the vidoes if i dont play DCS..
This was bloody hilarious, Linebacker must just make your day with some of the shit he says and does.
I have to censor a lot...
well the stuff you don't censor is priceless :)
Brilliant video as always Ralfi! Maybe I'll bump into you one day :P
Hi Ralfidude, nice vid(s) man Always fun to watch..... but i really wonder What you think ore oppinion is on the updatet SU27, the combat, tight turns, cobra etc?
"I want you to eject right fucking now" HAAAAAHAHA
19:30 fucking killed me
I know it's old but had me chuckling!
Why would the Russians use a catapult? Unlike US Naval Carriers, they aren't expecting to launch anything big. The Russian carriers are more accurately designated "Aircraft capable missile cruisers." All that they actually are intended for is offshore support, and therefore only really plan on launching small-ish craft that can easily launch using the upward turned deck and without catapult assistance.
Ony carrier Ulyanovsk was cancelled when CCCP collapsed. Kuznetsov is heavy missile cruiser, not carrier. It only has flight deck larger than other cruisers and it operates few fighters to assist itself. Its main armament consists of battery of antiship P700 and huge battery of anti-aircraft missiles. Class of its own.
Great video dude! always good videos. Takecare.
That crash into the mountainside WAS pretty funny. I could see it coming though. I was like, he's gonna hit, trajectory don't look good there, aaaaand boom!
Lol, betchya didn't realize it happened at precisely 4:20..
Well done. Had fun watching this.
*Smashes into moutain*
“Why would my wingman make me do that”
ya know...the amount of Shits and Giggles that ralfi could probably get from being Lines RIO in a Tomcat would be awesome
Fun fact: There's a difference between bearing and heading in the Aviation world.
Things without radar are very venerable in the DCS world. Poor hogs.
5:30 "blue player jihad crashed"
I like that.
Oh HotPocket, how I love thee...
"You got killed by an A-10" LOL :)
Nice comparison at 19:30.
"I can hear the FUCK from here"
Had me lol'ed most of the way through.
18:00 Yeah that really was the perfect response.
Does the blast shield on the carrier not work in MP? I never see it work in MP but it works all the time in SP.
IT"S A MISSED APPROACH GO AROUND AH F*CK!
Excellent kills, too bad for the BLUEs who did not have a F-15 or two doing CAP. Also, some videos of yours appear at 1080p, this one only up to 720p. Is it a problem my side or is it TH-cam that encoded at this level?
entertaining as always :)
Their fighters don't need a catapult lol
12:31 It looks like the aircraft ur in has forward canards...I thought you were flying a Su-27...?
F. Abu-Taha Su-33- Designated Flanker-D
F. Abu-Taha yeah I was like wtf!
I feel like the carrier takeoff in the start should have been a Give away...
The Su-33 is the Only Su-27 Variant that can take off from a carrier.
And it has Canards partly to give it better lift and a shorter takeoff distance.
Hey ralfi just wondering. I'm in school to become a navy air traffic controller. Wouldn't wake turbulence affect you when ur taking off behind line. Or is wake turbulence not simulated in dcs?
Not simulated here unfortunately.
Navy atac eh? NEVER, EVER let some joker named Maverick buzz the tower. On a serious note, if you ever come across a helo, MH-53E specifically, with the callsign of Vulcan, could ya give em priority? Thanks lol.
This game aged well
Hey Ralfi, I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now and just wanted to tell you keep up the great work. Also, if you were to suggest a flight sim for someone to get into sim flying, what would you suggest? I currently have DCS-A10 (bought it a while ago) but never could get REALLY into it, but would be willing to give it a try again, or buy another sim to try.
Again, thanks for all the great videos and hours wasted in front of my computer!
If you have FC3 or one of the simpler aircraft models try those out. Then let yourself get hooked :D
You had one job Jeff!
20:50 ♪HooooootPockeeeeet♪
gosh ..you guys make me laugh :-) as always
Just lead the Hogs to the slaughter.
4:18 LMAO EPIC FAIL
Hi! Kinda late to ask you this in this video, but I just watched and I wantend to know what mode is in the HDD while you were aproaching to the AO. or is it just and old version of the actual HDD on the updated SU-33?
HDD before the update
Su-33KMF vs. unknown numbers A-10 Charlie: Hit-and-run tactics should keep you clear of any attempted riposte. Approaching from six o' clock high, dual R-77's into the centermost target to break up the formation; R-73 on target two, gun into target three, then flank power and bug out - beware surviving targets' 30mm magnums.
+B. C. Schmerker Are you having a stroke?
+ralfidude what, it's TOTALLY reasonable to expect any pilot to expend a pair of R-77's (ER? ET?) on a Hog... what's your issue? The Hog is the pinnacle of anti fighter defense, if you're putting LESS than two medium range missiles into them, you're doing it wrong. Oh, wait...
Madbrood triggered
Madbrood Keeping with WW2 pragmatism and recognizing the limits of sensor technologies, the Russian Federal Air Forces followed the Soviet-era PVO's lead in terms of following up an infrared-guided MRAAM with a radar one, and the current MiG and Sukhoi fighters are built with the same salvo capacity for the R-27 and R-77. (The R-109 flown by the PVO's Mikojan-Gurjevich-31SFP is a notable exception, being fired at ranges typical of the USN/Raytheon RIM-162 SAM and flying at speeds where infrared sensors would be blinded by nosecone heat.)
Rafli is an ace at this
Really nice video with a lot of laugh
Whoa, who sounds like optimus prime?
12:54
Aww, the poor baby :c
God damn that looks fun. I need to try and play
Was it Line that crashed into the mountain and raged to Jav right after.
d e v i l i s h
Linebacker... OhKrappa
00:18 Beacuse their jets have better engine than yours, hah! An european :P
20:45 .... made me like the video
I can see some of the Sceens for the next Shits & Giggles Video in this ralfidude XD
unfortunately the footage was deleted after i rendered it since i rebuilt my PC. Long story, back ups aren't too reliable...
Ouch, That was some Good Stuff to use too.
What about Pulling a copy off TH-cam?
Don't know if You can still do it or not, But you used to be able to Pull the Video Off youtube as a Copy, But it would be the same one that was posted none the less.
"Only at the very end did they send in ONE guy after me as I was RTB"
Actually, it looks like it was the A-10 that killed Line who decided to rage switch to a fast-mover, not a different guy that actually cared about what was happening to the A-10s. Assuming that the guy who ejected as you and Line were talking about bringing him back to the carrier was him.
No... you totally missed the video.
After lines death, as I was RTB, line was heading towards me to meet back up. A fighter showed up on my 6 and I kept on trucking while Line went past me and pressed on him. He killed him while getting hit, then still managed to get back to the carrier.
Or were we watching two different videos mate?
ralfidude Guess I just made an incorrect assumption then. At 18:38 it shows a Blue player ejecting, which I assumed was the guy in the jet that Line shot down. It's the same name as the guy in the A-10 who killed Line at 14:46 and then tried to dogfight you at 16:16.
Lord Kelvin that was me, except someone else killed me.... line did not shoot me down, it was someone else.
what do you use to move your head down, up, left and right inside the cockpit? and what joistick do you use?
+Viktor B. Thrustmaster Warthog
Sylvex Dragonskin
and to move your head inside the cockpit?? your mouse?, xd.
Viktor B. That's a choice but I would go for joystick too obviously, TrackIR is also possible. And soon an HMD like Oculus or Steam VR.
did that so many times, so many guys pissed, so much fun xD
Nice video guys enjoy watching lol
I'm french, my english is bad so I don't understand all but the little I do , is amazing guys ahah LMFAO =D
so you guys are flying the sfm sukhoi cuz you cant handle the afm one? :D
old footage bitch
Im not blaming you but, since you and the other guys don't remember his name (sorry) talked about alt tapping while getting attack, i experience it aloe the time on the 104th phoenix… i kind of sucks...
EPIC FINAL! HAHAH
that was fucking hilarious
How old is this recording, hence the old HUD
How do you use the radar? I'm sad to say I'm like Jav and wouldn't have seen anyone on my radar. It never seems to work for me. :/
I should clarify to say "how do you personally make use of the radar to find contacts?".
do the tutorials and ask around the DCS forums for more help. This is not the greatest place for essay amounts of response on the subject.
Poor hogs :( :(
wait a minute,is that an su-27?
lmfao I love Jav
So are the A-10's in this flown by AI or is this all open world with people flying the A-10's ?
Antifaith29 MP server
How do you get the gun sight without the funnel?
you need the radar lock, without it you get the funnel since there is nothing being tracked.
wrecking a10's in the best aircraft in the world.
Ralfi you laugh like Goose XD
lmao awesome video.
start lock on ?
they don't use it because their aircraft don't need it. just saying. ;)
The navy is one of the worst maintained branches of land oriented Russian Army so they go with what's cheapest. Also Jak planes were VTOL and soviets didn't want carriers for some reason in the first place. Maximizing the possible take off output wasn't a priority so the ramp works good enough.
There will probably be no catapults until the electromagnetic ones are made (Which developed in Russia since 80's btw)
Why russians have no catapult? Money! Steam driven catapults are maintenance intensive, as you have large steam pipes coming out of the propulsion plant to the catapult spaces, as well as other auxiliary systems to convert that steam energy into lateral motion. All of that costs money and over the lifetime of the carrier it adds up to quite a bit of maintenance dollars. Also catapults are much more expensive to build as the design of the carrier changes and it doesn't allow for the ability to launch and land several aircraft in succession.