Could US Air-Launched AIM-174B SM-6 Missile Snipe Chinese AWACS At 230+ Miles? (WarGames 221) | DCS

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  • AIM-174B + MAKO + LRASM Anti Ship: • AIM-174B (SM-6), LRASM...
    AIM-174B (SM-6) Air to Air: • US Super Hornet Squadr...
    AIM-174B (SM-6) Anti-AWACS: • Could US Air-Launched ...
    AIM-174B (SM-6) Air to Ground: • Could Ukrainian F-16s ...
    AIM-174B (SM-6) Anti Ship: • US Super Hornets With ...
    Today we investigate whether an air-launched SM-6 missile could be used to hit Chinese AWACS and other high valued targets at ranges of 230 miles and above.
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  • @grimreapers
    @grimreapers  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    AIM-174B/SM-6 Series:
    AIM-174B vs AIM-54: th-cam.com/video/OESh6sIOdjg/w-d-xo.html
    AIM-174B vs PL-17: th-cam.com/video/3QUzqCHE0Oc/w-d-xo.html
    AIM-174B (SM-6) Air to Air: th-cam.com/video/O9H3X3bEQRQ/w-d-xo.html
    AIM-174B (SM-6) Anti-AWACS: th-cam.com/video/vAOqlgxLL3k/w-d-xo.html
    AIM-174B (SM-6) Air to Ground: th-cam.com/video/w65iggPTGWg/w-d-xo.html
    AIM-174B (SM-6) Anti Ship: th-cam.com/video/L8CiCfShm-o/w-d-xo.html
    AIM-174B + MAKO + LRASM Anti Ship: th-cam.com/video/xcWGQy6MhFc/w-d-xo.html

  • @willwozniak2826
    @willwozniak2826 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    OUTSTANDING...waiting for a Makos Hypersonic missile mission of the F 35Cs.....

    • @Anarchy_420
      @Anarchy_420 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I'd love to see AGM-183, Mako, and AIM-260 in one vid👍

    • @user-2410
      @user-2410 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As far as I understand Makos won't fit into the F-35Cs internal weapons payload, only F-35A and F-35B

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Enjoy: th-cam.com/video/np1qcVTYqb0/w-d-xo.html

    • @christopherchartier3017
      @christopherchartier3017 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@user-2410Actually it can fit in the C, just not the B since the B needs to make room for the VTOL fan

    • @willwozniak2826
      @willwozniak2826 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@grimreapers thanks man..👉🏻

  • @Echowhiskeyone
    @Echowhiskeyone 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Many decades ago, the USAF used the AGM-78 Standard Anti-Radiation Missile(ARM) and tested the XAIM-97 Seekbat, a derivative of the Standard. Both to be launched from fighter and attack aircraft. The SM-6 is a descendant of the Standard Missile. So this is very probable, but how likely would it really be?

    • @Boomkokogamez
      @Boomkokogamez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Air launched SM6 lack the booster but it has AMRAAM Radar so it is definitely doable.

    • @ashblythe9598
      @ashblythe9598 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I mean we got pictures of F-18 with SM-6 missiles attached without the booster but it's probably just some tests and unlikely to employ them.

    • @corvanphoenix
      @corvanphoenix 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@ashblythe9598 Yeah, Navy officially didn't go for it. Still cool that they tested it IMO.

    • @NeroontheGoon
      @NeroontheGoon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ashblythe9598Never underestimate the deviousness of missile slingers!

    • @christopherchartier3017
      @christopherchartier3017 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      At this point, actually very possible

  • @spinmaster4348
    @spinmaster4348 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    0:58 as of now, neither the cancellation nor the program itself has been confirmed, the same goes for aim-260 and its delay into service, and the air launched patriot was based on the pac-3 missile for anti ballistic missile purposes

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It's amazing they can keep these things so secret. Camera's everywhere.

    • @saltysteel3996
      @saltysteel3996 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​​@@grimreapers BTW, PAC3 is 10 inches in diameter, 17 feet long, and about 700 pounds. Has been fired from an F15 before.
      Edit: also the PAC3 doesn't have a warhead, it's kinetic energy "only" so direct hit-to-kill.
      Has a small lethality enhancer (shrapnel charge) for larger air breathing targets.
      Super maneuverable with the ACMs (attitude control motors) which are the solid rocket engines in the neck. Nothing can dodge it.
      It's also hypersonic (mach 5+), and it's already supersonic by the time it leaves the launcher.
      All public info available from Lockheed demo videos which go into way more detail.

    • @benson4820
      @benson4820 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Sm6s were recently seen on an operational super hornet at RIMPAC 2024, safe to say the program is not dead

    • @ArizonaAstraLLC
      @ArizonaAstraLLC 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      The US Navy just confirmed today that the SM-6 as the AIM-174 has been deployed operationally

  • @darrylsmith7871
    @darrylsmith7871 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    What if... not that the Navy would EVER deploy the SM-6 on the Super Hornet... and they'd NEVER give it a designation, like AIM-174...

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    @33:18
    The first F-16 submarine...lol

  • @tomriley5790
    @tomriley5790 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "America doesn't have any super long range missiles" Hold my beer....

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Caps famous words..."I guess I lied"...lol

    • @Doodelz02
      @Doodelz02 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ... and the LANGUAGE!! "you (F15) giant knob-face"! My poor delicate ears! 😢 😊

  • @Vsor
    @Vsor หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Another f-18 was seen with one of these yesterday. guess it isnt canceled after all

  • @dennisvandermarkt8263
    @dennisvandermarkt8263 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    You guys did a thing. Nicely done

  • @danieljones7843
    @danieljones7843 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    F15: “I’ll get the AWACS, you lot are my meat shield…”

  • @eaches
    @eaches 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Mission goes EXTREMELY WELL...... aaaaaaaand then it's time to "land".

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      hmmm... yes...

  • @bladeslicemaster5390
    @bladeslicemaster5390 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Fun to watch a complicated mission... Well Done!

  • @davidstevens-251
    @davidstevens-251 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I still find it funny that you get an altitude warning as you are coming in to land!!

  • @AxlePlaysGames
    @AxlePlaysGames 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I was surprised how small SM-6 is. I expected a plane sized missile 😂

    • @logansorenssen
      @logansorenssen 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah, surprisingly it's not that huge. Mk. 41 cells aren't all that big - so it's long, but nowhere near as big as things like Talos or S-200.

    • @AEFisch
      @AEFisch 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think the ship's vertical launcher has a booster that gets it going

    • @logansorenssen
      @logansorenssen 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AEFisch The VLS configuration for SM-6 has a big-ass rocket booster attached, yes. SM-2 doesn't (except Block IV). Not a cold-launch system like S-400 where a pancake motor lobs the missile out of the tube and gives it the first 100m/s or so of velocity before the main rocket ignites, though - Mk 41 is a hot-launch system (as is SYLVER), where the rocket booster ignites while still in the cell.
      There's actually a case to be made for calling the air-launched version here an air-launched SM-2 Block IIIc instead of SM-6. Though it probably makes things cleaner if they designate it AIM-174A instead of AIM-66something - there were earlier air-launched Standard variants like the Standard ARM and Seekbat.

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed.

  • @TheStormpilgrim
    @TheStormpilgrim 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    "I think we're really good at distracting people." You don't know the half of it.

  • @colinboneham7387
    @colinboneham7387 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great mission with a banger of an ending

  • @SklllsS
    @SklllsS 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    AWACS in front "Dark dont shoot it down!" MADE MY DAY :D

    • @dexlab7539
      @dexlab7539 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dark DIDN’T do a thing 😂

  • @sweatybotfn9982
    @sweatybotfn9982 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Love how all the PL-15s just didn’t function this time😂😅

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      They worked fine, we just flew smart and kept outside of their WEZ. (most of us)

  • @dragonbladem6899
    @dragonbladem6899 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Apparently, Russia has moved one of its Su-57 Felons to Crimea with an escort of three Su-35s. Could y’all construct an intercept battle on the side of Ukraine, NATO, Turkey, or some other opponent to try and take down the Felon before it can land at an airbase? I feel like it’d be a little bit of a challenge, especially if using non stealth fighters and would probably make a cool video

    • @saltysteel3996
      @saltysteel3996 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      From public reports about the Su57 and it being tracked on that escort, the RCS is estimated to be about the same as the Super Hornet.

    • @normanmadden
      @normanmadden หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      How long till we see an SU-57 getting towed by a tractor?

  • @gameactual
    @gameactual 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was my 2nd GR video after watching #215 (Iran mission). Great video and the ending made me lol. 👍😎

  • @robotswithgunzlol
    @robotswithgunzlol 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of the most enjoyable videos in a while. Good effort. 🙂

  • @emfournet
    @emfournet 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gorgeous, gentlemen! Loved it.

  • @JBSmoke1
    @JBSmoke1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very cool concept and awesome video, Gents!

  • @DarkAgeTM
    @DarkAgeTM 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    That SM-6 ripped chineese AWACS to shreds. What's the warhed on that thing?

    • @brandonwestfall3241
      @brandonwestfall3241 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      64kg, per Wikipedia
      AIM 120 is 20kg, for reference

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      64kg would shred an AWACS.

    • @brandonwestfall3241
      @brandonwestfall3241 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@grimreapers Easier to list thing that aren't shredded by 64kg, lol

  • @mrlodwick
    @mrlodwick 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Awesome crew!

  • @saltysteel3996
    @saltysteel3996 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Does the DCS USA AWACS not have the electronic decoy and jammer pod that can be deployed and towed behind the jet?
    They also added this to the F35 upgrade.
    And the PAC3 Patriot has already been fired from an F15 (air to air) a long time ago.

    • @dexlab7539
      @dexlab7539 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yea, AWACS are dumb in DCS unfortunately

  • @JamesWellsIndiana
    @JamesWellsIndiana 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    With fuel reserves, being so mission critical, why wouldn’t the first bird lunched be a tanker, so that the planes could be refueled somewhere closer to the target just enough to top them off. Wouldn’t there already be a tanker flying, if tensions were high, just to make such a mission possible and more safe?
    Why not launch the slower birds first, so they could fly in a more fuel efficient manor, then let the faster bird catch up?
    With just a little bit more planning, this mission would be a lot easier.

  • @kathrynvega6867
    @kathrynvega6867 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    saying fuel's gonna be close at 17 miles? looks like Cap forgot about the SATAL 2021/22 Gold Final that GR won by gliding an F16 37 miles :P

  • @jerrycallaio5130
    @jerrycallaio5130 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Mach 500....Whoops.... (Talk About HyperSonic) Error Will Robinson! About @27:50

  • @timblack6422
    @timblack6422 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It’s a GRaeaT DAY!

  • @jcremeringful
    @jcremeringful 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You guys did a thing!

  • @captain_kirkyt2481
    @captain_kirkyt2481 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It would be cool for you guys to do this but you fly f-15ex and possibly with aim 260

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Our AIM-260 in DCS only has a range of 135 miles, we'd have to get twice as close.

  • @chrisstopher2277
    @chrisstopher2277 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Would a missile kill people by flying over them if it was able to travel at mach 40 while doing nap of the earth? How far away would it be safe or deadly?

  • @choctaw2sticks193
    @choctaw2sticks193 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    love those landing you guys . . . 👍

  • @AEFisch
    @AEFisch 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Does DCS have the integral fuel tanks for the F16? Way less drag and extra fuel. Jamming pods are integrated with new radar as well.

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      WE have IFT modelled in the Block70 but not visible on the actual 3d model.

  • @erickelley7703
    @erickelley7703 หลายเดือนก่อน

    VX-9 is still testing slinging the SM-6 on the Hornet. See Naval News for early June 2024. In that article, they make a good leap regarding the SM-6 needing X band telemetry which could be provided by something else downrange. Hornet would be a missile truck and then go home.

    • @miltechmoto
      @miltechmoto 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Which jets don't have x band and which do?

  • @sullyfubar
    @sullyfubar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The F-15EX veridical stabilizers match like the F-15C and unlike the F-15E.

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Here's a hypothetical situation.
    Design the StarShip in game. Use the military version of StarShip. Launch Star Ship from the U.S., have Star Ship enter back in the atmosphere over Russia or China and have the Star Ship while in horizontal flight, drop rapid dragon creates.
    This is to test if the U.S. military does get a Star Ship. What could they use it for?

  • @forestgrant3437
    @forestgrant3437 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Centerline tank vs middle tank

  • @kousand9917
    @kousand9917 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    love how Okinawa, is the Falklands

  • @SuperAd1980
    @SuperAd1980 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Me likey.
    This was fun

  • @janicmeier1
    @janicmeier1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They shoud install sommeting licke Sea-Ram on these big AWACS

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I like it!

  • @user-nh6cw5wu2p
    @user-nh6cw5wu2p 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    isn't that call a wild weasel style mission cap ?

    • @dexlab7539
      @dexlab7539 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kinda except with a chainsaw

  • @petermclelland278
    @petermclelland278 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When you're at war, the other side isn't waiting around to be a target.They will be proactive!

  • @sammysmirh3889
    @sammysmirh3889 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fantastic CAP

  • @nobodyhome8148
    @nobodyhome8148 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Who knew Pooosh could walk on water 🤣

    • @dexlab7539
      @dexlab7539 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yup, he’s very religious 😂

  • @Kevin-hb7yq
    @Kevin-hb7yq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They did a thing.

  • @-Ripcord-
    @-Ripcord- 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Where has Sock been?!?!

    • @dexlab7539
      @dexlab7539 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ya he’s disappeared. I think him and Grump had an issue?

  • @pancudowny
    @pancudowny 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cap: "Sheeps operating Patriots...!"
    Me: Are you sure they're not wolves in sheeps clothing?😁

  • @stevenmiller184
    @stevenmiller184 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yay!

  • @kenhelmers2603
    @kenhelmers2603 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good fun!

  • @GatorAaron
    @GatorAaron 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you aren't sticking around to the very end...may all your spins be flat.

  • @sdghtjsdcgs
    @sdghtjsdcgs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow. That thing blew that AWACS to shit.

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It really did!

  • @nathanellis3111
    @nathanellis3111 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just remembered this thought I've had for a while. Does the 515 taking off in the lead with afterburner help the planes behind them take off shorter? The more air over the wings add lift, and the F15 is pushing a lot of air over the wings of the planes behind it.

    • @markredacted8547
      @markredacted8547 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No, it hinders any aircraft behind due to wake turbulence (disrupts air-flow over the wings, minimising the amount of preferable undisturbed air), in civilian aviation aircraft wait a minute behind similar sized aircraft and 2 min behind larger aircraft before they take off to give the wake turbulence time to dissipate. Being fighter jets they create less wake turbulence so the effect is diminished yet still present so spacing is still used for maintaining a safe distance. You will see exceptions (aerobatics teams) blue angels, Thunderbirds etc. train to fly in turbulence, but it is not the norm, (wake turb = less lift = longer take-off run). 😉

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ^^ great explanation!

    • @nathanellis3111
      @nathanellis3111 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @markredacted8547 I get there would be a lot of turbulence. A ton more for civilian aircraft. A little Cessna in a strong wind can get airborne though, and there is a ton of turbulence.
      I'm guessing it would come down to wind speed, weight, aerodynamics, turbulence etc.

    • @nathanellis3111
      @nathanellis3111 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @grimreapers Yo Cap. Hope you're feeling better. Youre soundong good. Maybe you could test this somehow in DCS? Turn on hurricane force winds and do a standing start.

    • @markredacted8547
      @markredacted8547 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nathanellis3111 Different wing types generate different vortices behind them, most aircraft civilian and military aircraft think 737, 777, A320, F16, F15 rotate (take-off) around the same speed with an average of 157kn (180mph/290kph) depending on load-out etc. The only difference being the drag and vortices behind the aircraft causing turbulent air. Also keep in mind turbulence is relevant, I am not exactly sure why you assume the Cessna experiences more turbulence? maybe I misunderstand you, but that same turbulence is felt on every aircraft it is just felt differently due to the engineering design of the aircraft and how it manipulates the air around itself. A Cessna will feel a roll for example that you have to counter with rudders due to the propeller rotating air which spirals across the surface of the body where it makes contact eventually on the left side (facing forward) of the rudder, (pilots pov, prop spins clockwise, this air will make contact with the left side of the rudder which pilot corrects with right foot forward on the yaw peddle straightening the aircraft, in a jet, air is thrusted equally backwards and no yaw is required to correct excluding cross wind, the only air impacting the front of the jet is caused by momentum it's designed to be slippery (kind of) as this just opens up more about connected vs disconnected airflow. in this example alone I hopefully show how although both planes may look similar they are designed to interact with the air differently. My recommendation look up a book called "Understanding Flight" (David W. Anderson & Scott Eberhardt) it is a great book on how flight works as well as explaining wing design and it's interactions with the air. Sorry for the long message I didn't want to just put the book info in and say "do research" as that would be rude, so I put some ideas I think might help you understand airflow, without being able to draw pictures it is a little difficult but hopefully my memory of aerodynamics in aviation isn't too broken and I helped in some way. 😉

  • @superflyguy4488
    @superflyguy4488 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Extract or withdraw, never ever retreat.

  • @jamesricker3997
    @jamesricker3997 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ukraine does have an aerospace industry.
    They could have put a second stage on a SA-2 or did an air launch while guiding it with a ground based radar.

  • @Archer89201
    @Archer89201 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Could you do a scenario of USAF vs Navy from 1980s/90s

  • @mrjava66
    @mrjava66 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A stealth uav like a wraith or a sentinel carrying a missile to within 100 miles is a better way to do this sort of thing. Lobbing Thre hundred mile range missiles into an airspace is a tremendously risky action. Such a missile could go off and hit almost anything.

  • @modelpro72
    @modelpro72 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Happened to Damp Sock?

  • @timkirby5179
    @timkirby5179 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    31:25. Outside of Stanley all the roads are gravel tracks. I doubt it's would be a comfortable landing. Oh! Sorry this is not the Falklands!

  • @mikeclark7002
    @mikeclark7002 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Have you seen the figures for a high lob boost cruise profile for the Meteor, especially the projected figures for the Japanese version which will have the AESA seeker and the new anti radar software update. Realistic ranges against a big slow target forgoing the final boost intercept mode are crazy long and I mean crazy. There is also the boosted Meteor model using a version of the ASTER booster for air long and the figures are just silly. Saying nothing that isn't in the PD if you burrow.

  • @totalNERD-eo7wx
    @totalNERD-eo7wx 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    OK hear me out, AIM-174B launched from the weapons bay of a B-21 (To maintain Stealth)

  • @rumannkoch4864
    @rumannkoch4864 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Anyone know what happened to Fly? Haven't seen him for a while.

    • @SuperAd1980
      @SuperAd1980 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He's about in the land of GR discord

    • @dexlab7539
      @dexlab7539 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He’s been around a lot in recent videos…can’t miss that German accent

  • @timbaskett6299
    @timbaskett6299 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What missile was it that the US Navy used to kill the satellite? Maybe that was the missile that replaced the concept of the ASAT missile the F-15 carried. It would be interesting to have an air launched version to kill a satellite!! Just looked up the missile the Navy used. It was an SM-3. I wonder if you could mount it on an airborne platform to kill a satellite!!

  • @abialo2010
    @abialo2010 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    can you do this again but with f22s doing sneaky action or a nonsensical version with av8s

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      5th gen is just too easy. They can only see us at 20 miles. Too boring for us.

  • @JClark2600
    @JClark2600 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hey Cap why do you still have all your AIM's left...?

  • @akisakis7980
    @akisakis7980 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Blue background color when you see the map??? how??? i want it hahaha

  • @johncande1
    @johncande1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If only there were places or extra taxiways somewhere to get off the runways. You guys should invent that.

  • @DJeb86
    @DJeb86 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Which map is this please ?

  • @0cujo0
    @0cujo0 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hmmm what about an air-launched SM-3 Missile? :-D

  • @Whatisinaname-88
    @Whatisinaname-88 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How did you get the kill count and tax Payer cost on the top right corner?

  • @mattthemouse1
    @mattthemouse1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Next mission: US Navy Carrier Group against the Chinese navy, only this time the US Navy jets are armed with SM-6’s. Now _that_ will be interesting!

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      oof wouldn't want to be Chinese in that battle...

    • @zachhoefs9543
      @zachhoefs9543 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Given that the SM-6 is also a confirmed anti-surface and anti-ship missile... yeah, that would be a nightmare for the reds.
      Rumors of a B model AIM-174/SM-6 that will mount a bigger booster and bigger warhead, to be utilized as a strike missile.

  • @GatorAaron
    @GatorAaron 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I swear I about fall out every time Cap replies to someone's pun. 😂😂

  • @kskeel1124
    @kskeel1124 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    AMRAAM and PL-15 were pretty much useless today...

  • @Pre613
    @Pre613 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It would make more sense to send in F-22’s and F-35’s first to get in close and engage the Chinese fighters.

    • @TimvanderVelden-dp3fs
      @TimvanderVelden-dp3fs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sure, but Cap said they were using 4th gens to make it more of a challenge.

  • @stephenfowler4115
    @stephenfowler4115 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why no refueling tanker?

  • @ryabow
    @ryabow 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "who needs super long range missiles when your fifth gen fighters can *actually* get within spitting distance?"
    -USAF, probably

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yup that's absolutely true BUT that's not the sexy way, will not impress any girls like that.

    • @dexlab7539
      @dexlab7539 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@grimreapersYup, chics hate 5th gen pilots 😂

  • @Rylin545
    @Rylin545 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Would it be viable to down an awacs with a harm missile I wonder

  • @carlousmagus5387
    @carlousmagus5387 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good mission 🖖🏿🇹🇼

  • @BlackMesa322
    @BlackMesa322 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did Cap fire a missile? :P

  • @Flying8ball01
    @Flying8ball01 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You said that the SM6 was probably never put into service because of it's weight. Therefore you used the F15. What if you used a B21 as a super long range stealth air to air fighter 🤔

  • @layneanderson9582
    @layneanderson9582 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    lost a F-16 who got shot down or crashed

  • @weibrot6683
    @weibrot6683 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This video came 2 months early

  • @dropbagit
    @dropbagit 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Why isn't china and japan used in game? Is the whole world not modeled? Genuinely curious.

    • @duanemckinley9353
      @duanemckinley9353 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      DCS does not have the whole world modeled so they have to pick an existing map to use.

    • @dropbagit
      @dropbagit 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@duanemckinley9353 Oh ok, thanks for clearing that up for me!

  • @beko23
    @beko23 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ummmm your intro might be incorrect lads...The US AIM-260 with 200km plus is set to enter service this year....

  • @jerishigan6567
    @jerishigan6567 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The sheep want blood 😂

  • @rogerupi999
    @rogerupi999 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    15 seconds🫡

  • @Plastikdoom
    @Plastikdoom 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is cool, I like it, but he fact being left out. Is we don’t feel the need for a dedicated missile to do this. As the only true super power. What does that say? We already can. With existing missiles and aircraft/drones. Deal with this problem of enemy limited awacs, and is zero issue to do so/naval ships and missiles. Everyone knows what we release is already 2 plus decades old at least. And we could do it 20-50 years earlier even if at horrific cost.

  • @Vtarngpb
    @Vtarngpb 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    RIP AIM-54 🥲

  • @docauger2032
    @docauger2032 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thaad😅

  • @tylerchristopherson4245
    @tylerchristopherson4245 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    3300 hundred pounds! lol

  • @Plastikdoom
    @Plastikdoom 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And why aren’t you doing a ballistic climb until the engines flame out like when we shot down our own satellite footing the Cold War. To prove to Soviets we can shoot down theirs too? F-15’s can do more than Mach 2.05 of pushed to absolute limit of failure, stepped down a few percentage. Also they don’t flame out at high speed until like 70k plus feet, they are damn near space fighters. Literally. Give them 2-3 stages of JATO’s, and lox
    For aux tanks, they could be space fighters. Literally that’s the funny part and they could still carry their normal air to air compliment of weapons. And be straight up low endurance space fighters: with a couple orbits max.

  • @AmericanBattlewagons1944
    @AmericanBattlewagons1944 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    whats a statue mile

    • @TheStormpilgrim
      @TheStormpilgrim 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      About 310 of those Michelangelo's Davids end to end, or 5,280 feet.

    • @duanemckinley9353
      @duanemckinley9353 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And it is being called out since aviation makes heavy use of the longer nautical mile (6076 ft or 1852 meters)

    • @grimreapers
      @grimreapers  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Statue mile is the type of mile you use on land and in your car. A nautical is 15% longer.

    • @dexlab7539
      @dexlab7539 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@grimreapers…that’s why I measure my giggity in nautical miles 😂

    • @philipr.6090
      @philipr.6090 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@grimreapers"Statute," not statue. 😊

  • @kenc9236
    @kenc9236 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sheep air defense. Well' that's something you don't see every day. lol

  • @mr.starks
    @mr.starks 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Russian awac didn't stand a chance. Crazy...

  • @BoraHorzaGobuchul
    @BoraHorzaGobuchul 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Would you intercept me?

  • @aurorathearcticwolf4243
    @aurorathearcticwolf4243 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "keep ahead of the F-15" only in DCS and IRL mission breifings, if sent alone that thing would just melt away even tho everything china has for "modern fighters" are nothing more than cheap imitations of russian garbage (they have nothing but 3rd, 4th, and 4.2nd gens), the J-20 is the closest they will ever get to a US built fighter but even that is TRASH (hence why im calling it a 4.2nd gen) so your attention to realism is unmatched and makes for sime interesting stuff! keep up the great work and maybe someday we will have that final standoff and see who has the superior firepower in the East China Sea! *now where did i park my star dreadnought*

  • @rhodie33
    @rhodie33 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love it when people takes China on its word about their missile capabilities. It's not like we haven't caught them exaggerating like Russia does, lol.

    • @luluapple1067
      @luluapple1067 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Chinese economy is only 10 times bigger than Russia lol

    • @leexingha
      @leexingha 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "I love it when people takes China on its word about their missile capabilities" - false. most people undermines our military assets particularly the ones we created from reverse-engineering & research
      "It's not like we haven't caught them exaggerating like Russia does" - which part of Russia's military asset was exaggerating? care to explain coz i never seen one. or r u referring to Russia's cold war relics crushed by modern western assets?

    • @ethan3818
      @ethan3818 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@leexingha unfortunately for china their military is sub par when it comes to quality equipment

    • @leexingha
      @leexingha 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ethan3818 its fine as long as the margin isnt too wide. also, war isnt won by just equipment alone
      remember, when GB underestimated IJ prior to invasion of Singapore? the attitude costed them 2 capital battleships

    • @dexlab7539
      @dexlab7539 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ethan3818You based that on what data?

  • @BirdstrikeJack
    @BirdstrikeJack 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wait. why you guys use DCS for current political tension simulations? i dont get it really. if some china channel did the same id react in the same manner. this isnt righ nor fits DCS comunity guidelines. you should stay away from this kind of DCS content. its inpropriate torwards chinese DCS players at last. simulate nuke impact on Britain using channel map or something gross. Id mind that too. youre sinking in my eyes guys. use some other software if you like but you just provoke low level efforts here. im shielding my DCS part from this.