Elite camera work. Filming a missile as it launches and keeping up with it. Finding the baseball as it goes to left field Finding a golf ball flying 2 seconds after it was driven
I actually saw this film in 1964 when it was still classified. I was stationed with the US Army at Ft Heath, Massachusetts and it was sent to our air defense site for viewing.
That's interesting, I assumed it would have been a public film so america's enemies would know what they were up against. Then again so many of those limited war engagements were kept out of the public sphere during that time.
And derpety derp. Testing the flight path of the munitions, not their effectiveness. You may notice the 100 yard miss around 7:20. This is of somewhat serious concern to friendly troops 99 yards away.
Well.... testing weapons ... napalm involves two things really... vaporization and viscosity. The napalm has to vaporize to burn like any fuel.. but it has to have viscosity so you know the spread rate at drop and its ability to stick to targets.. Any new mixture is tested.. the best way to test is on a military style target for the pilots.. So yes the tents can’t withstand napalm but did you notice that from the height that it was dropped , the trajectory it was released at combined to just cover the target? That is exactly what you want it to do in order to protect friendly troops or civilians in the area... That is what you are actually seeing..
I'm an old guy. Most of what I relate to is WW II stuff. So to me this was very impressive. And I appreciate that they showed or admitted some failures. That would have been interesting, to be on the ground crew to set this up.
We lost a lot of good F-86D's, F-80's, Deuces and tents that day. At least this film showed SOME of the actual damage after the strikes. Most films of this type only show explosions but not what the explosions actually did.
Yeah, & its ( Huge ) in person , & noteworthy to mention, other than the A-4 Navy Sky Hawk, it was routinely shot down . In fact the f-105 thunderchief and the Navy Skyhawk were the number 1 and number 2 most heavily lost aircraft in the Vietnam conflict.
Yes 02:30 '20 mm gattling gun' . This sound like the warthog but isn't it sountracked afterward ? I am just a simple amateur but it seems to me the damages done by the 'explosive' ammo are quite basic, it's a long shooting straight ahead...
The Zuni rocket would later prove its effectiveness in blowing things up when one accidentally went off and the resulting fire nearly destroyed the USS Forrestal.
I am trying to remember what Spike Milligan and his crew called the burning tanks in his war diaries...roasters or maybe cookers...some sort of kitchen appliance because of the smell of the roasted bodies inside.
@@lezlezman1843If not ovens on wheels then Tommy Cookers I would have thought. That was the nickname given to Sherman Tanks by many during WW2 on both sides. They were terribly armored American engineered and built tanks that were 20 years out of date and unless present in far superior numbers and at close range, they were virtually useless against Panzers though the British did strap a decent 17 pound anti tank gun turret onto some of them (Sherman firefly) which at least made them useful. Their advantage was that they were cheap, quick to build, easy to fix, and manoeuvrable though not so much up steep hills, for that you need a Churchill tank which can just about climb anything.
Can you imagine the "pucker" factor of the pilots dropping large ordinance at such low altitude. Going off basically right underneath them at like 30 meters.
Myself, my old man, both my granddads, and my bros al participated in these tests. Our contribution was , can be said, instrumental to success of these tests. We were the target dummies. You may thank us for our service and sacrifice. You're welcome.
Man, I was in ammo at Eglin in ‘78. We never got to see anything expended, only heard 20mm from the test squadron across the base. Wish they had shown us this, it’s cool.
I've lived in the Niceville, Fort Walton, Crestview area (the support towns for the base) most of my life, from1968 to present day. The test area in this film looks like the area around Eglin. Do you happen to know if it is actually Eglin Air Force Base test ranges in this film?
@@ApolloCDR They had, & still use weapons testing ranges at Tindall a.f.b., not too far from Eglin. Same trees/shrubs, coastal location, same topography -
there's an ex f-16 / f-18 pilot with the callsign 'mooer' on youtube -- why do they call him 'mooer'? During training he accidentally strafe cows that wander into the training area. I can't imagine the damage on soft tissue by a 20mm gun.
Believe it or not in 13 yrs of filming @ the base where this footage hails from Not once were there any mammal casualties, our than Fire Ants.. I know this because of having feet on the ground after a shot.. & being a Hunter I thought the same thing at first but other than insects & whatever the Target was that as I said, in 13 yrs, of doing this work @ this place I, we Never saw anything that fell into Harm's way.. TRUTH..
Love the century series. Looks like a lot of fun these guys were having, important research, sure, but reminds me of burning my toys and models as a kid with rubber solution, caps, matches anything that burned and/or exploded. Very similar to this but 1/72 scale mostly.
I was young and saw those jets brings back memories of my dad he flew a Sabre the one thing I remember the most is the Sonic booms awesome. Great video.
Thoughts on video: - love that rotary cannon sawing the tail off the target. - old natural metal finish of those century series birds...gorgeous - lol at the USAF before cluster bombs. A fighter bomber attacking an area target had to smear napalm all over, and to overfly the target. That, or shoot a spray of puny rockets from pods. - oh yeah and the announcer with the classic 1960s white guy nasal voice - funny / weird test mannequins with bright eye whites! - oh yeah and damn you F-104 starfighter, a sexy look but a horrid service record, the USAF pulled it from Nam after a failed debut. Maybe the slim wing and low wing loading would have been good in a Central Europe fight, but we already had the Thud for that.
Awesome, love century series fighters. Especially F-104, if only because it's a beautiful airframe and damn fast as well. I believe that it would excelled in the interceptor role.
A good demonstration of why even old vintage equipment should not be ignored as threats today. And why some countries, such as Russia rarely scrap old stuff, but in stead mothballing it to be used as lower tier warfighting equipment for mass mobilization.
Kicking the enemy's ass and then walking away to let their buddies reoccupy the land wasn't a good strategy. Our soldiers did their jobs well. Leadership didn't.
Out of all those planes, the C-130 is still going off the production line. The Ghostrider gunship version sporting guns, smart bombs and guided missiles!
I grew up in seminole Niceville FLA in the 1960s. Range 52 was east of our house about two miles. These test were probably made at range 52. I remember these exercises daily. I was fabulous to watch these aircraft preform. You could hear the mini guns sound like the Adams family door bell.
Napalm sticks to ribs...huahh! Napalm sticks to kids...huahh! Napalm sticks to little children...all the children in the world...red or yellow black and white sticks to every kid in sight...Napalm sticks to all the children in the world!
Those cameramen were in harms way... one shot where they surveyed the damage to a convoy, the fire flared up suddenly before a cut. I hope the camera crew wasn't injured.
That was a tire on fire and it exploded just before the cut. I don't think it was harmful to the crew, the tire exploded sideways and the cameraman was standing no closer than next to the front tires, not in the line of fire. He most likely was fine but probably scared shitless. I once witnessed a truck tire explosion on the road, in the oncoming traffic, a lot of noise but nothing really dangerous. That was also the last rear tire and a car driving just behind the truck didn't even get splashed with rubber debris.
my thoughts exactly Mr. Johnston... the poor old duck...faithfully carried supplies and ammo in and then loaded with wounded and back to the beach (and thats the thanks the old war horse gets just for being ugly)
Location, location, location.... of the cameras. While they did show some misses at the end, they didn't show all the times the cameras got hit... except the one shot regarding the rocket spread - camera seemed to take a direct hit there... :)
3:19 - Remember in Star Wars, when Solo told everyone he'd lose the TIE fighters because he knew "a few maneuvers", and then he proceeds to only move slightly to the left? Yeah, that's all you had to do to lose an early Sidewinder. *_"Oh no! They've fired a Sidewinder... better keep flying straight and level then... Holy smokes! That was a close one. Good thing I was reaching for my 'Pepsi Refreshment System' and accidentally hit my stick, maneuvering me slightly to the left, or I would have been a goner"!_* th-cam.com/video/S-MEV0Ogh70/w-d-xo.html
And now we are on the verge of getting LOAL AAM that will be able to, after being launched from missile rails of a friendly fighter, make a 180 degree turn, lock on the target chasing behind the friendly fighter and then engage it while predicting and trying to preempt what evasive maneuvers the targeted enemy pilot might make. Dude technology changes everything.
No. Last served with the Air National Guard in 1984...35 years ago. I recall the Collings Foundation tried to get permission to restore and fly a Thunderchief some years ago, but the USAF said no way.
If it's a V1 rocket bunker it may be a leftover from the first days after they got the German rocket scientists to the US. IIRC they tested V1s and V2s before moving on to ICBM stuff.
“Through our extensive field testing, we have determined that things designed to go boom, do in fact go boom”.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH LMAO
They were pumping out the most kick ass aircraft at this time. The Century Series.
Elite camera work.
Filming a missile as it launches and keeping up with it.
Finding the baseball as it goes to left field
Finding a golf ball flying 2 seconds after it was driven
I actually saw this film in 1964 when it was still classified. I was stationed with the US Army at Ft Heath, Massachusetts and it was sent to our air defense site for viewing.
That's interesting, I assumed it would have been a public film so america's enemies would know what they were up against. Then again so many of those limited war engagements were kept out of the public sphere during that time.
How old are you sir?
No you weren't!
81@@sidv4615
Finally man has emerged victorious over a balsa wood RC plane.
The drone downed by the cannon was actually a full metal manned fighter at one point. I believe it was an F-80 converted to be a target aircraft
Good thing they carried out these tests or the world would never have known if canvas tents could withstand a napalm attack.
What clumsy weapon that is; evokes a hail mary fuel dump of external tanks
And derpety derp. Testing the flight path of the munitions, not their effectiveness. You may notice the 100 yard miss around 7:20. This is of somewhat serious concern to friendly troops 99 yards away.
@@earlygail Just do not be there when they explode, toast!
Hey bro, gotta nuke something amiright?
Well.... testing weapons ... napalm involves two things really... vaporization and viscosity.
The napalm has to vaporize to burn like any fuel.. but it has to have viscosity so you know the spread rate at drop and its ability to stick to targets..
Any new mixture is tested.. the best way to test is on a military style target for the pilots..
So yes the tents can’t withstand napalm but did you notice that from the height that it was dropped , the trajectory it was released at combined to just cover the target?
That is exactly what you want it to do in order to protect friendly troops or civilians in the area...
That is what you are actually seeing..
I'm an old guy. Most of what I relate to is WW II stuff. So to me this was very impressive.
And I appreciate that they showed or admitted some failures.
That would have been interesting, to be on the ground crew to set this up.
How old are ya sir?
We lost a lot of good F-86D's, F-80's, Deuces and tents that day.
At least this film showed SOME of the actual damage after the strikes. Most films of this type only show explosions but not what the explosions actually did.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who randomly got this in their recommended in 2019 lol😂😂👍👍
That thunderchief was sure a sexy beast....
Yeah, & its ( Huge ) in person , & noteworthy to mention, other than the A-4 Navy Sky Hawk, it was routinely shot down . In fact the f-105 thunderchief and the Navy Skyhawk were the number 1 and number 2 most heavily lost aircraft in the Vietnam conflict.
I kid you not I could hear the narrators accent before I clicked on the video.
Mid-Atlantic/Transatlantic accent? That's common for the era.
Indiana....That was the standard for narrations. In many ways it still is the standard for TV newsreaders.
To hear the BRRRRRT! of an A-10 from a plane 20 years its senior was interesting.
John Kaiser - I didn’t see or hear an A-10 in this video.
John Kaiser Most airplane guns sound quite like that actually.
20mm Vulcan Cannon Baby 😎
Yes 02:30 '20 mm gattling gun' .
This sound like the warthog but isn't it sountracked afterward ? I am just a simple amateur but it seems to me the damages done by the 'explosive' ammo are quite basic, it's a long shooting straight ahead...
09:45 you can hear it too. Hign rate, big exosive ammos there.
losing two fighter jets during weapons testing is brutal! At least (according to the narrator) all of the crews made it out alive
The Zuni rocket would later prove its effectiveness in blowing things up when one accidentally went off and the resulting fire nearly destroyed the USS Forrestal.
I was impressed the H43 didn’t lose rotor synchronisation even as it started falling.
"Test equipment in one of the tanks showed severe heat damage"
*cuts to footage of tank on fire*
Was just about to say. ITMH
I am trying to remember what Spike Milligan and his crew called the burning tanks in his war diaries...roasters or maybe cookers...some sort of kitchen appliance because of the smell of the roasted bodies inside.
@@lezlezman1843
Spike Milligan called them ovens on wheels as I remember
@@lezlezman1843If not ovens on wheels then Tommy Cookers I would have thought. That was the nickname given to Sherman Tanks by many during WW2 on both sides. They were terribly armored American engineered and built tanks that were 20 years out of date and unless present in far superior numbers and at close range, they were virtually useless against Panzers though the British did strap a decent 17 pound anti tank gun turret onto some of them (Sherman firefly) which at least made them useful. Their advantage was that they were cheap, quick to build, easy to fix, and manoeuvrable though not so much up steep hills, for that you need a Churchill tank which can just about climb anything.
Whatever they called them, it's a hell of a way to go...roasting inside one of those things. I couldn't think of many things worse.
Unlike reality, no humans were harmed in the making of this video.
Apparently your reality is one that is false. 3 pilots had to eject and were harmed...
@@MichaelD-fn5lv yep. That F-105 and chase plane that the delayed bombs didn't delayed.
"You blew up Thomas the Tank Engine! NOT COOL, BRO!"
But Thomas was a servant of a totalitarian state, didn't you know?!
www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/4602170/thomas-the-tank-engine-bleak-dystopia/
....i enjoyed this little look back at our military's history.
-thank you.!
Impressive footage, takes skill to track a missile to its target with a camera from the 60's!
15:18 where the jets accidentally blow themselves up in a bombing run is pretty interesting.
I remember hearing about this incident in some other program. Just can't remember which one. That's some bad luck. Glad they made it out though.
I tried explaining this to someone as a situation that calls for a "retard bomb"... I still got hit with shrapnel.
I like playing flight sims, DCS is the best for military. and it will do the same thing, if your to close to bombs impact you can damage your own jet
I'd sure like to hear that story ,if those pilots are still alive today.
All Aircrew survived with minor injuries, and soiled flight suits.
Can you imagine the "pucker" factor of the pilots dropping large ordinance at such low altitude. Going off basically right underneath them at like 30 meters.
Especially the two bombs that skipped over the target with the delayed fuse. Coulda been bad haha
Great find. Those weapons still look pretty badass 55 years later.
Myself, my old man, both my granddads, and my bros al participated in these tests. Our contribution was , can be said, instrumental to success of these tests.
We were the target dummies. You may thank us for our service and sacrifice. You're welcome.
Man, I was in ammo at Eglin in ‘78. We never got to see anything expended, only heard 20mm from the test squadron across the base. Wish they had shown us this, it’s cool.
I've lived in the Niceville, Fort Walton, Crestview area (the support towns for the base) most of my life, from1968 to present day. The test area in this film looks like the area around Eglin. Do you happen to know if it is actually Eglin Air Force Base test ranges in this film?
@@ApolloCDR They had, & still use weapons testing ranges at Tindall a.f.b., not too far from Eglin. Same trees/shrubs, coastal location, same topography -
Can you imagine all the bunnies and squirrels that were torched to a crisp in the forests of this range.
there's an ex f-16 / f-18 pilot with the callsign 'mooer' on youtube -- why do they call him 'mooer'? During training he accidentally strafe cows that wander into the training area. I can't imagine the damage on soft tissue by a 20mm gun.
Believe it or not in 13 yrs of filming @ the base where this footage hails from Not once were there any mammal casualties, our than Fire Ants.. I know this because of having feet on the ground after a shot.. & being a Hunter I thought the same thing at first but other than insects & whatever the Target was that as I said, in 13 yrs, of doing this work @ this place I, we Never saw anything that fell into Harm's way.. TRUTH..
@@tomservo5007 can you provide a link to his channel or something?
That radio controlled jet being blown out of the sky sure is some amazing tech for the day
Michael Wilson - Google Kettering and Sperry Bugs: Radio-controlled aircraft from over 100 years ago!
Whoever made this video did a excellent job. Bravo!
6:46 -- *_"Damn it! They got my camera! I was still paying for that!"_*
Awesome sound effects
Napalm and Brrrrrrrrrrr gun is the way to go.
😆😆👍👍the brrrrrrrr gun is my all time favourite 😆😆😆
Brrrrrrrrrrrrr and Napalm and VietNam won hahahahahahahahahahahaha
@@dickkehoe4740 NV won because the pussies in Congress defunded the war
Very nice weapons testing and damage assessment.
Thanks to show us those great images.
Thank you again for the upload.... I love the films also the American narration .
Love the century series. Looks like a lot of fun these guys were having, important research, sure, but reminds me of burning my toys and models as a kid with rubber solution, caps, matches anything that burned and/or exploded. Very similar to this but 1/72 scale mostly.
What is your favourite century series fighter?
Excellent video.
"Nothing but net". I love these movies. They never miss.
EDIT...until the end. 💥💪
The Teen series are the best jet fighters, but the Century series are the coolest!
5:54 The most demonstrative "was" ever uttered.
I love this video, no shitty music, just solid destruction!
The narrator makes this perfect.
I was young and saw those jets brings back memories of my dad he flew a Sabre the one thing I remember the most is the Sonic booms awesome. Great video.
And short contrails. Me too.
Not getting a sonic boom from a Sabre unless he puts it in a highly inadvisable steep power dive.
I'm calling bullshit. The Sabre was subsonic.
How old are you sir?
@@combativeThinker not the super sabre
That was awsome.I love watching this old stuff.thanks for sharing, hope to see more.
Thoughts on video:
- love that rotary cannon sawing the tail off the target.
- old natural metal finish of those century series birds...gorgeous
- lol at the USAF before cluster bombs. A fighter bomber attacking an area target had to smear napalm all over, and to overfly the target. That, or shoot a spray of puny rockets from pods.
- oh yeah and the announcer with the classic 1960s white guy nasal voice
- funny / weird test mannequins with bright eye whites!
- oh yeah and damn you F-104 starfighter, a sexy look but a horrid service record, the USAF pulled it from Nam after a failed debut. Maybe the slim wing and low wing loading would have been good in a Central Europe fight, but we already had the Thud for that.
what about all this shit falling on your sons and daughters? Cool, is not it?
decimated550 We sold the German Luftwaffe a bunch of Starfighters and they had a terrible time with them. The 104 just sucked.
*high wing loading
Awesome, love century series fighters. Especially F-104, if only because it's a beautiful airframe and damn fast as well. I believe that it would excelled in the interceptor role.
The C 123, when you gotta move that heroin from the Iron Triangle, and fast.
Those 2 3/4 inch rockets at 5:04 sure do the trick!
God that 4 F-104 napalm drop was so hot
Great video! Thanks for posting!
Those napalm bombs look like they just filled regular drop tanks with napalm
That would be correct but have no fear, you can be assured Raytheon charged you ten times the cost price at least.
ArmyOfAll Of course! It’s not a repurposed drop tank! It’s a tactical advanced napalm delivery system.
A good demonstration of why even old vintage equipment should not be ignored as threats today.
And why some countries, such as Russia rarely scrap old stuff, but in stead mothballing it to be used as lower tier warfighting equipment for mass mobilization.
most of that old military equipment in the video typically is FUBAR'd beyond repair
the attack on the helicopter looked like something from a Jerry Anderson production.
If I saw that in a movie I would have said, "geez what terrible special effects"
Was anyone else surprised by the Zuni rockets punching through the 3’ wall? Videogames had led me to believe they were way more nerfed...
Holy fu*k. This is amazing footage. And sick.
13:40 is a pretty incredible sight. It looks terrifying
The purr of those Gatling guns is just sweet.
That’s what I call a great day at the range 😂
EL Kaboom! Surprised the Starfighter was selected for these tests. Interesting.
One of the best videos on the TH-cam
This was the coolest thing I have ever seen.
I make the same noise as a Gatling gun after I eat Broccoli ... 🥦
😂😂😂😂
Lol exactly
For me it's cheese whizz.
Likewise, except with pintõ beans ...
Ivor Adamskivich
Is that out the top end or bottom 🤣🤣🤣🤣
And so Mr. McNamara was satisfied that the USAF could easily subdue the Vietcong. I wonder if he showed this film to LBJ?
No doubt ,it looked good on paper
It sure didn't help the troops with Johnson micro-managing the war. Nixon wasn't so hot either.
Kicking the enemy's ass and then walking away to let their buddies reoccupy the land wasn't a good strategy. Our soldiers did their jobs well. Leadership didn't.
The jet after the small chopper...it's like a hawk after a pigeon.
Man, you guys sure killed a lot of trees!
Awesome post! Love those old jets
"All men survived with minor injuries". Minor back then was different than today.
Out of all those planes, the C-130 is still going off the production line. The Ghostrider gunship version sporting guns, smart bombs and guided missiles!
W M D yeah, like the JATO on them. Always a crowd pleaser at air shows.
@@brucesmith9144 Well, up until 2009, if I recall. After that, no more JATO show.
They relocated the rockets to the wings I believe. I saw the blue Angel's C-130 use RATO a few years ago.
Michael D ok, thanks for that info.
This is gold.
Tough break for the guy flying the helicopter.
Loaded lots of these on the F100 at Phan Rang in 1968 in the 615TFS. Day in day out I hoped we help our guys out in a tuff spot.
Awesome of you to do your duty
Your guys didn't have any good reason to be there. That makes them the bad guys. And you, too.
@@chalocolina3554 the good reason was stopping the Communist Vietnamese from killing the free Democratic Vietnamese.
chalo colina
The American tradition of spitting on troops is alive and well, I see.
How old are you sir?
This film reminds me of Commanders call. We always had some type of interesting USAF film. Talk about getting ready for Vietnam!
Hitting a 13 foot target with guns, no matter how slow it was moving, speaks volumes of the skill pilot and the quality of the targeting components!
I have a wild guess and say that was the Eglin reservation. Concerning was a system's command base. I was stationed there back in the early eighties.
good ground support
Surprisingly accurate, actually.
Peace through superior firepower! 👍✈️
0:45 Were those F-101 Voodoo aircraft? You see the RF-101 version at 1:53.
Those were all RF-101Cs
I grew up in seminole Niceville FLA in the 1960s. Range 52 was east of our house about two miles. These test were probably made at range 52. I remember these exercises daily. I was fabulous to watch these aircraft preform. You could hear the mini guns sound like the Adams family door bell.
You hear the children screaming
@@fullyawake7955 Children are screaming from ISRAELIE bombs and missiles, in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.
@@michaelthomas7178 yes they are so so sad that weapons that cause so much pain are idolised end war start peace
Sorry to pick on the USA it's all empires I'm Irish and know it's not the people but the psychopaths in power
How old are you sir?
When I go to heaven, this will be my every day.
Heaven will be so good you will forget that you even ever enjoyed this stuff.
Napalm and 2.75 my Fav...USMC 70-74...
The thunder chief was an absolute beast.
Nasty. Those guys dropping the napalm looked really low.
F-104 strafing.
Wow
I am stuck on Napalm, because Napalm stuck on me...
Loved that cadence...
It can also be a mood enhancer and attitude changer!
Napalm sticks to ribs...huahh! Napalm sticks to kids...huahh! Napalm sticks to little children...all the children in the world...red or yellow black and white sticks to every kid in sight...Napalm sticks to all the children in the world!
Those cameramen were in harms way... one shot where they surveyed the damage to a convoy, the fire flared up suddenly before a cut. I hope the camera crew wasn't injured.
yea i saw that! i think it mightve been a truck tire exploding
Awkward High Fives I think most of the cameras were remote operated. At least the downrange ones
That was a tire on fire and it exploded just before the cut. I don't think it was harmful to the crew, the tire exploded sideways and the cameraman was standing no closer than next to the front tires, not in the line of fire. He most likely was fine but probably scared shitless. I once witnessed a truck tire explosion on the road, in the oncoming traffic, a lot of noise but nothing really dangerous. That was also the last rear tire and a car driving just behind the truck didn't even get splashed with rubber debris.
Underrated!
Turn on captions and every time the gattling gun fires, it will read as applause!!!
The history buff in me cringed at the destruction of some of that WWII equipment, DUKW, Shermans and the deuce and ahalfs. 😦
"invaluable training" lol hey they went out with a bang! Which was also documented.
my thoughts exactly Mr. Johnston... the poor old duck...faithfully carried supplies and ammo in and then loaded with wounded and back to the beach (and thats the thanks the old war horse gets just for being ugly)
Complete and total destruction of ground targets. Ground camera survives unscathed. 😂
Location, location, location.... of the cameras. While they did show some misses at the end, they didn't show all the times the cameras got hit... except the one shot regarding the rocket spread - camera seemed to take a direct hit there... :)
Most successful test of all time
Feels like I'm watching the Vietnam War Highlight Reel... thanks
3:19 - Remember in Star Wars, when Solo told everyone he'd lose the TIE fighters because he knew "a few maneuvers", and then he proceeds to only move slightly to the left? Yeah, that's all you had to do to lose an early Sidewinder.
*_"Oh no! They've fired a Sidewinder... better keep flying straight and level then... Holy smokes! That was a close one. Good thing I was reaching for my 'Pepsi Refreshment System' and accidentally hit my stick, maneuvering me slightly to the left, or I would have been a goner"!_*
th-cam.com/video/S-MEV0Ogh70/w-d-xo.html
And now we are on the verge of getting LOAL AAM that will be able to, after being launched from missile rails of a friendly fighter, make a 180 degree turn, lock on the target chasing behind the friendly fighter and then engage it while predicting and trying to preempt what evasive maneuvers the targeted enemy pilot might make.
Dude technology changes everything.
Great video on vintage air power! The star fighter flying is amazing with it tiny wings. Humming bird of fighters. Haha
The Lawn Dart, as it was known.
9:20 Thunderchief was a bomb truck!
Are any still flying?
many f-105's were lost during Viet Nam war.
No. Last served with the Air National Guard in 1984...35 years ago. I recall the Collings Foundation tried to get permission to restore and fly a Thunderchief some years ago, but the USAF said no way.
@@jacksons1010 That's a shame.
We saw so many news clips of them in action over Vietnam.
I do remember one crashing on approach to landing at McGuire AFB back in '80-'81.
@6:24 that bunker design is for a German V1 buzz bomb! Did they do this test in Europe or had the Warsaw Pact adopted the design?
If it's a V1 rocket bunker it may be a leftover from the first days after they got the German rocket scientists to the US. IIRC they tested V1s and V2s before moving on to ICBM stuff.
Wonder which bases/ test ranges this was filmed.
Imagine this being a real life mission, you get good hits and now the enemy hates you even more so now, @ 15:08
The enemy can't hate you if they're all dead
True but I doubt that was the only enemy in the area
This footage is alot better that ufo footage from last week!
I don't see the UFO video can you give me a link to it I looked in the list but I didn't see it
those things they drop, if they collide mid air would they detonate?
At 12:33 he says B-26 but, in the video it was actually an A-26 Invader.
At some point after the B-26 was decommissioned, they reclassified the A-26 as the B-26, just cause they wanted to make life difficult for everyone!
Between 1948 and 1965 the WWII A-26 was redesignated as the B-26.
They sure had fun those days