its knows this because it knows where it isnt by subtracting where it it from where it isnt or where it isnt from where it is it get a diffrence of a deviation it tells this to the guidence subsystem witch changes the trims on the missile flaps in the event that the missile dosent know where it is the guidence sub system changes the trim to drive the missile to a place where it isnt changing it into a place where it wasent it now is
People don't realize how capable the late Sparrow models are. Those things have a huge burn time and a max G-load of 30Gs against a target at sea level. *Thirty Gs.* there's a reason the Sparrow can be considered a dogfight missile after the AIM-7E-2 model
I use 4xAIM-7M's and 4xAIM-9M's on my F-15 on online servers and I get most of my kills off of Sparrows. It also helps that I've noticed that sometimes the 120's don't kill the target especially if it's large. The AIM-7 turns anything that flys into metal confetti if it connects.
@FreeBirb AFAIK that is not true, AIM-120 has a smaller diameter, half the explosive mass, is longer and has an entirely different rocket motor. There are rumors about an active Aim-7Q concept/prototype though.
You might want to consider starting the jet yourself instead of auto-start. Auto-start takes longer and misses a few things, for example it doesn't set your gun counter and it leaves your altimeter in standby.
Yup! I haven’t flown the cat in awhile and was a bit lazy on these sorties. Rarely does the gun counter or altimeter in standby ever really effect my sorties.
@OperatorDrewski rad altimeter standby means you don't have altitude markers on the HUD in landing mode. Makes a big difference if you're doing a proper carrier break, you had them on though I think. Bare minimum manual start-up is really easy. You only need air and ground power, arm the seat and start each engine then switch air source. Then just setting up while you wait. All the hard stuff is for the RIO.
@@charlesselrachski34 I know of one guy who didn't use targeting computers. Instead he used to rely on the ghost of an old man talking in his ear to get the job done. His name was Luke something or other, I forget now. Bit of a whiney bugger. Kissed his sister once, boy did we give him stick for that!
It's not the flaps that make the Tomcat so floaty: it's the entire airframe. Which is why it has the DLC system you are supposed to use that deploys additional spoilers and also why the speedbrake has to be deployed during the landing approach. The Tomcat is a plane that just wants to stay in the air
Fun fact: The Tomcat can take off, stay airborne and land again with the wings in Oversweep (= further back than they ever should go during flight, only used to stow the plane on a carrier), the fuselage just produces that much lift.
@@lgentry4832 It was actually part of the certification program, in case the wing sweep system malfunctions. But yea, if any actual pilots did this, them AND the deck crew that let them take off would be in some hot water. (It's literally their job to ensure the plane is properly configured before launching it...)
When I was a kid a family friend of ours was a top gun f14 pilot and he had the neatest photos and models around his house. He was retired by the time I knew him but I remember him showing me tons of photo albums. It was great. Rip bob Callahan. Great man
You're bullshitting yourself. lol Look how slow everything is. And the buildings don't even have definition. Just looks like blocks. Looks like a game from 2005. Lmao
Supercarrier is one of those DLCs where you're like, "ehhhhhhhhhh this seems awful overpriced..." and then you get it on a sale.... Minutes later you really understand how much more immersive it is to fly F18 and F14. I can't stand using standard carriers now, its a must-own.
9:30. This happened with us during the end of the Golf War. My carrier launched our F-14, the moment the Araqi jets saw them they decided not to continue their engagement. it was awesome. We literally just scared them away.
I, too, was there during the Golf War. I still remember the moment when I saw tiger woods in an F-14 and it scared me so much I dropped my bags, turned tail, and burned until I was feet dry over Araqi green.
@@felixu95 You should have seen us. We were throwing mulligans left and right. Our balls were slicing and dicing. Divets everywhere. The average Joe wouldn't have made it through. And don't get me started on those damn sand traps.
@@freepilot7732 I had a hearty chuckle when I read your comment. I figured it was something along the lines of autocorrect but I can never let the opportunity slide. Much respect :)
I haven’t watched the full video yet so this comment may be useless, but the TF-30 engines in the F14A acted more like ramjets, the faster and higher you are the more power they produce. The F14B’s engine were better at lower altitudes and could pick up speed a lot quicker
Yep. This also meant the F-14A was faster at altitude and maxed out ~ Mach 2.3, while the F-14B, while having more thrust, topped out at just Mach 1.9. There were several reasons for this, principally aerodynamic in case of an engine failure, but also because the F101 was just designed to be most efficient in the Transonic (Mach 0.9 - Mach 1.4) range as part of its development for the B-1A.
Very nice video, OperatorDrewski, it is great to see that you enjoy the Tomcat. A sidenote: when you lock someone with PAL, it is a PSTT lock (not a PDSTT lock), which means that any phoenix fired is active off the rails. This is always true for PSTT locks, while in PDSTT it is SARH only (and does never go active). Hence in WVR range PSTT makes sure that you can fire and forget. ;-) Best regards from the Heatblur Team.
i grew up with Janes Ww2 fighters. and i was blown away when i got my hands on IL2 1946.. but when i saw IL2 Great Battles.. I was drooling all over the place.. still working on a tight budget still not able to afford a new pc yet but i hope soon il be able to jump on it, and dcs too of course
Man, seeing videos like this brings me back to deployment. it sucks the F-14s weren't being used, but F-18s are pretty awesome too. Of course, I was in a helo squadron, but it was still rad seeing them launch.
Personally, as someone pretty passionate about military aircraft, Ive never been able to see alot in real life, especially the F14, obviously, so the idea of active ones or even **potentially** active ones is quite a concept for me, thus I have spent quite some time on google and bing maps in the past. In the 4th row of the southmost side of the aircraft boneyard in Tucson, there appears to be a 4x f14's and if you go about 300m north followed by a lonesome singular one, I found a further 2x on the NW corner along the road. Now thats easy pickings though. On bing, the 4 are moved north 300m, however it appears that 2x are in the yard closest to the south-southeast, without wings Its also fun to try and sus out the Iranian air force bases for planes left out, You can see stuff such as F-4's and all sorts of old school classic aircraft. On the very very east side of Mehrabad Air Base, You can see one F14 sitting out, very clearly aswell. On Bing maps there's another one chillin with all the helicopters on the southside. Isfahan International Airport also has 5x out in view on the right side of the base, sitting next to their hangers. on Bing maps theirs *potentially* 7 there. I could be wrong about some of these aircraft being F-14's, please correct me if I am, sometimes I do in-fact get a tab bit too excited when i see swept wings, and they can turn out to be F-111's etc. Enjoy this useless information as I prepare myself for the hate bombardment, for this is a joyous TH-cam comment section.
I imagine there are a LOT of F-111's sitting around... I'm sure all those Toms in the Boneyard are empty shells. It's awful that we destroyed those aircraft just bc of the Iranians. Thanks, Reagan!
@@theonlyegg Tell me about it! Im gutted. Im a young Australian fella, so my days of being able to see one and remembering and able to appreciate it enough were gone before i was even born. @Luca Bloor and @theonlyegg I Appreciate the kind words! F-111's are quite a common site I would believe aswell, however i only recall seeing a few in the boneyard last i checked, might have to do some more research on that one! Unfortunately I have recently come to the realisation that my beloved F/A-18's are slowly but surely getting there and will soon be gone for good out of atleast the RAAF, with the classics already gone last year (2021- RAAF, 2019 for US Navy, still current for USMC and Spanish Air Force) Im hoping to get my butt into gear and get into university or something along the lines to eventually get up into either the front or rear seat of a Super Hornet or Growler before they are gone in '2030' from RAAF, which may very well end up being '2026/2028' sad days since i dont have any, well... liking for the F-35. Too modern, its like old cars, loud, slow, no AC, always breaking, yet you cant go get an 'upgrade'. Sorry about that, bit of a sad, useless rant about a young mans dreams and fondness for old aircraft... maybe i just like cougars i guess
I watched it twice last week it was so good not the original but god tier for me a DCS player since I got the tomcat first cause you and the original I use the 16 more but I do fly the 14 every now and then.
I worked with a guy who was a mechanic on a carrier during the Gulf War, I can confirm that the "A' models were pretty much all upgraded from the older engines, at least from his account. He worked on F-18s, but they had Tomcats onboard during his service.
It's so cool how realistic this is with the ground crew and everything. It's badass and i'd love to do it, but i'm certain i'd be overwhelmed by all the controls.
I find a good work flow with a RIO is I hand over the phoenix controls to the RIO in BVR that way I can keep an eye for anything else and he can tell me where to position the jet, then when we get into visual range 20nm or less I take over on the weapons and RIO does the spotting, feels like a better flow in my opinion so give it a go next time your up!
2:43 Drewski, as you’ve seen TG:M, you (and everyone else who has seen it) will get this reference… “Why are the wings coming out Mav?” Anybody who hasn’t seen it yet… what are you waiting for? Get your butts to your nearest cinema! 9:20 that’s called “keeping up the foreign relations” 😂
Call me weird, but every time I see an F-14 I can't help myself but to whisper "you beautiful thing"... I was born on September 2, 1974, and the first deployment of the Tomcat was 20 days later, I feel I'm bonded with that amazing aircraft! Awesome work, Drewski. Keep it up!
Drew I just had the best movie experience of my life watching top gun maverick, only to come home and see you’ve made another vid on the tomcat!! One of my better days thank you for all you do and keep on going❤️❤️
Trying not to spoil, but I absolutely adored the part in Top Gun: Maverick where two characters went into the plane to escape after the crashes. It's like it went full circle from the first movie. I know who the two characters are, but I'm just not saying cause I don't want to spoil it. It was just so cool to see those characters in THAT plane and them demolishing fighters right off the production line with a relic like the certain plane they were in.
Drewski just so you know, the launch parameters for a phoenix are like at 50 miles, best to shoot a pheonix at around 40-50 then at 10. 10 I usually just use sidewinders.
My neighbor and good friend, Ret. Commander Scott Cartvedt (former Blue Angels) was the pilot who flew the canyon scene and trained the actors in the movie. We house-sat for him and his wife while they were away. I went to a premier here in Colorado and met some of the cast. Scott is the most humble dude you'll ever meet and you’d honestly never guess he is such a badass. He's in some exciting new stuff coming soon!
I just gotta say. Top Gun maverick is the first movie in my whole life I haven't heard anything bad about. My only complaint is they never used the original version of the top gun anthem. Some of the best guitar ever.
I don't fly jets but have been a private pilot since 17yrs old so over 30yrs now with 5k hours and a Cirrus G3 owner. After seeing how much flying games have come since the days of Falcon. The one thing that would make this or any similar game complete would be, traffic control or deck/ramp crew traffic guidance, not just for the cat shot but from chocks, chains to parking after landing etc, that would make it so immersive. My sister is a US navy sea hawk pilot and her husband flies Growlers (not on the same ship) and both said the same after watching some of these videos.
I spent 4 years on the Theodore Roosevelt, which at the time was brand new, just having been commissioned in 1986. The sole reason I joined was the Top Gun movie. I remember going through basic training and being so tired and sore all the time. One of my buddies looked up at me once when we were mopping the deck at 2 in the morning and said "...I wish I never seen that movie now..." Our DI used to call us all Tom Cruise wannabees. I bet 30% of the recruits in my company were there from that damn movie. Best recruiting tool the Navy ever had.
@@bewsket No. I was ships company. An enlisted Aviation Ordinanceman which was responsible for all the weapons that went on the planes. If you watch the movie, you saw guys on the flight deck with red jersey's on. I was one of those guys. Hard work and long hours, but I was 18 and it was a hell of an experience. Something I will always remember. I joined as a boy and became a man
I added that Kuznetsov on the server you were playing on. I didn't realize that it was trying to send the Russian fleet to the shadow realm until after I watched your video... Glad to see people enjoying the server!
i would love to see a game like DCS where you could actually walk around on the base in first person and talk to people with proximity voice chat exchanging stories and have mini games to play together and then once in a while you would get an unidentified aircraft you need to take care of so you need to run to your jet and then take them down or investigate the threat, maybe make a room with daily missions and tasks and such for the airbase
The Libian shootdown story kind of has a life of its own as most combat stories seem to have. Ward Carroll has a good TH-cam video on the real story of the shootdown. It isn't what we think. Apparently an observer watching the whole thing taking place contradicted the story that the Libian aircraft kept changing course to merge with the US Aircraft. Apparently, there were disciplinary actions taken behind the scene. Ward's channel is pretty good. I highly recommend it.
I was on the Nimitz CVN68 and that was pretty awesome launch. I had a friend blown off his feet by a hornet and luckily he landed in the netting and didn't get completely blown off the carrier.
Piece of advise, with phoenix always use the TWS and stay high (30-35 angel) they have a lot of range and they are fast. For what You did you should use sparrows
Another fantastic video Drew! I love that you mentioned the Operations Room, that channel is amazing. It's great when two of my favorite TH-cam channels have a crossover moment.
Less than 10 still in storage of varying models (A, B, D) all non flying condition from a quick open source search. TBH who knows the complete picture, but the DOD said they cut up the remaining flyable F14s to prevent Iran and China from getting parts. There is one in possession of a Hollywood company, and it was last used for Top Gun Maverick and is not flight worthy.
I did the SAME thing lol. Went into the movie with very low expectations and then I found myself smiling for the last 20 minutes of the movie lol. I LOVED it! And I also could not wait to get home to play DCS lol
Gotta love the pump when you come back from watching TGM, and you load up DCS..shoot,I did the same thing😂 but I loaded up in a F-16..it was a good run that's for sure! Great video as always Drewski!! Still my favorite Toober of all time!💚💚
Just finished watching the movie 2 hours ago. THE MOVIE WAS AMAZING! I was surprised to see you release a DCS Video. I always watch your Tarkov Content.
15:51 navigator with three landline phones, a cup of coffee and office stuffs : «Hello, this is the Ghost Rider, how may I help you? Yes.. Certainly, unfortunately Mr Drewski seems a bit busy right at the moment as we are landing the aeroplane, and lot of people are calling us, but we will do the necessary. Yes, thank you for calling, have a good day! Phew.»
one cool thing i learned from an vet f14 pilot was that you can distinguish the variants based on the colour of their exhaust cones. i can’t remember the term he used but you guys get the point
Succesfully almost overspeeded the flaps on takeoff :D I usually put everything up as soon as I am off the deck, that thing accelerates like a beast. Also yeah the tf30 does spool up on high aoa... Quite funny you can fly it on idle for a long time if you're empty on both fuel and stores
If you've been using Phoenix to engage maneuvering targets at less than 20 miles, there's a reason you've been having problems - it's not a dogfighting missile. It was designed for long range, non-maneuvering targets (mainly bombers). While it can be used at ranges as low as 2 miles, typically for engagements under 20 miles, you'd use the AIM-7M/P. Most of the US kills during Desert Storm were with the AIM-7, and those that failed were primarily due to ignition issues (suspected to be due to the age of the fuel grains in the solid rocket motor).
@@theglitchedmissile9239 6 seconds ago well they could just have seperate lobbies you know, weapons and no weapons and if you just wanna do some co-op you could have pvp and pve
The missile knows where it is at all times, it knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t or from where it isn’t to where it is which ever is greater, it contains the knowledge of where it should be and goes to that position
SPOILER WARNING: I wasn't sold of Top Gun Maverick, I felt the whole premise strayed really far from reality having to canyon run with old planes because of blahdeblah. The odd placement of the SAM sites and yadaya made it feel more like a bond film. Then Rooster hit the chaff button for the first time and I was sold. The inner child in me seeing a flare dump with incredible sound design went nuts. Everything after that was pure joy, from the Hind Gunship coming in, to the og F-14 v 2x Su-57 (5th gen or whatever they call them in the movie).
The ending felt like a homage to cheesy 80s action flicks and I’m okay with that. Not super realistic but that’s okay, the first movie wasn’t either. It also introduced the F-14 to the newer generation.
Btw I would like to put into perspective, the P-700 Shipwreck weights 7000 kilo's, so if you convert that to lbs, that is 15432.36 lbs, so you have 15,400 lbs flying at you with 1102311310.9 lbs of force hitting you
too all newby. DCS as a 2 week trial for every planes, map and extra module ( like the supercarrier) on they main website . available until the end of june. also DCS do 50% sales in every occation they can. you can wait for summer sale if you want to save some $$$ DCS itself is free
MOAR DCS PLEASE Fun fact about the tf-30’s, yes they are wheezy sob’s down low, but get high and light the fires, higher and faster you go the happier they are, MUCH higher Mach speeds (2.5+ if I recall) than the B variant, test pilots had to pull throttle back because they were afraid the airframe would start to come apart.
Watching this really makes me want to test out my new GeForce RTX 3060 on DCS so I'm gonna go learn the F-16 :) I watched a video of Thunderbirds flying and it made me want to fly that :) I'll probably fly the Hornet this weekend :)
Man I would be thrilled if DCS made a version of the Super Tomcat that we never actually got. To see the Tomcat with modern technology would be something else
on dcs main website . you can freely try every module for 2 week until the end of june. then we will have to wait for a other 6 month for the chrismas trials to be back. ps: you can loan the f 14 , carrier module and persian map at the same time for he same experiance. in the video
Tomcat is my the most beloved module in dcs. Though it takes huge time to fully understand a plane, it is gorgeous on every aspect from nice worn textures through ancient cockpit tto the way it reacts to controls. All fbw planes feel like arcade toys after this monster. But be aware, it is inferior to all other 4th gen in the game when they have fox3, however you still can claim positive k/d ratio on modern servers If you will be patient enough to master this bird
If you change mode/stp to boresight, the Phoenix will go active off the rail. Don't know what the maximum range is for this mode, but i believe it was within 10 miles. Very useful for those close quarters
Also you can open acm cover and lock emeny through pal. Phoenix will act like a modern fox3 after this and it won't just fly forward hoping to lock something
The modified F-14 A was actually called the F-14A+ the the manufactured F-14B. The Pratt Whitney TF 30 engines had compressor stall issues during certain maneuvers.
Whats crazy is we still do fly closer enough to the enemies to snap some photos of them. one of the squadrons from my ship actually got a few photos of J-15s flying next to our F/A-18s where you can see the pilots.
The missile *k n o w s w h e r e i t i s*
its knows this because it knows where it isnt by subtracting where it it from where it isnt or where it isnt from where it is it get a diffrence of a deviation it tells this to the guidence subsystem witch changes the trims on the missile flaps in the event that the missile dosent know where it is the guidence sub system changes the trim to drive the missile to a place where it isnt changing it into a place where it wasent it now is
@@wafflewhale9354 solid
Because it knows where it isn't.
It knows this because it knows where it isn't
*i t k n o w s w h e r e y o u a r e*
"WHAT WHERE YOU THINKING!?"
"YOU TOLD ME NOT TO THINK!"
is one of my favorite lines
What where?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
love the new one
@@theGovernmentHatesYou in the new top gun movie
XD
That was pure Comedy gold
People don't realize how capable the late Sparrow models are. Those things have a huge burn time and a max G-load of 30Gs against a target at sea level.
*Thirty Gs.* there's a reason the Sparrow can be considered a dogfight missile after the AIM-7E-2 model
I use 4xAIM-7M's and 4xAIM-9M's on my F-15 on online servers and I get most of my kills off of Sparrows. It also helps that I've noticed that sometimes the 120's don't kill the target especially if it's large. The AIM-7 turns anything that flys into metal confetti if it connects.
actually 25G's for the E-2/3, the E-4 might be 30G's, without mentioning F/M/N etc
@FreeBirb AFAIK that is not true, AIM-120 has a smaller diameter, half the explosive mass, is longer and has an entirely different rocket motor.
There are rumors about an active Aim-7Q concept/prototype though.
I'll have to run AIM-7s more then. Plus, since they can't go pitbull, they won't accidentally lock a friend lol.
@@lanejohnston934 Unless your radar do it by itself XD
You might want to consider starting the jet yourself instead of auto-start. Auto-start takes longer and misses a few things, for example it doesn't set your gun counter and it leaves your altimeter in standby.
Yup! I haven’t flown the cat in awhile and was a bit lazy on these sorties. Rarely does the gun counter or altimeter in standby ever really effect my sorties.
@OperatorDrewski rad altimeter standby means you don't have altitude markers on the HUD in landing mode. Makes a big difference if you're doing a proper carrier break, you had them on though I think. Bare minimum manual start-up is really easy. You only need air and ground power, arm the seat and start each engine then switch air source. Then just setting up while you wait. All the hard stuff is for the RIO.
@@mostevil1082 As a RIO in DCS I can confirm this. Cold starting the 'Cat is such a pain.
some people like to fly without their targetting computers
@@charlesselrachski34 I know of one guy who didn't use targeting computers. Instead he used to rely on the ghost of an old man talking in his ear to get the job done. His name was Luke something or other, I forget now. Bit of a whiney bugger. Kissed his sister once, boy did we give him stick for that!
It's not the flaps that make the Tomcat so floaty: it's the entire airframe. Which is why it has the DLC system you are supposed to use that deploys additional spoilers and also why the speedbrake has to be deployed during the landing approach. The Tomcat is a plane that just wants to stay in the air
@John Carlson you dont keep your feet on the throttle under braking
Fun fact: The Tomcat can take off, stay airborne and land again with the wings in Oversweep (= further back than they ever should go during flight, only used to stow the plane on a carrier), the fuselage just produces that much lift.
@@nickowen7406 sometimes you do. Some group b rally cars did that to keep the turbo spooled. But most of the time you dont.
@@Anthony-td6mn I'll concede that. But with the advent of anti lag, it's an obsolete practice
@@lgentry4832 It was actually part of the certification program, in case the wing sweep system malfunctions.
But yea, if any actual pilots did this, them AND the deck crew that let them take off would be in some hot water.
(It's literally their job to ensure the plane is properly configured before launching it...)
When I was a kid a family friend of ours was a top gun f14 pilot and he had the neatest photos and models around his house. He was retired by the time I knew him but I remember him showing me tons of photo albums. It was great. Rip bob Callahan. Great man
My dad keeps talking about the same thing but it was his uncle
This doesn't look realistic at all. Battlefield 5 beats this big time.
@@Eagle0watch7dv bullshit
You're bullshitting yourself. lol Look how slow everything is. And the buildings don't even have definition. Just looks like blocks. Looks like a game from 2005. Lmao
@@Eagle0watch7dv cry
Supercarrier is one of those DLCs where you're like, "ehhhhhhhhhh this seems awful overpriced..." and then you get it on a sale.... Minutes later you really understand how much more immersive it is to fly F18 and F14. I can't stand using standard carriers now, its a must-own.
Just in time! A new DCS video from Drewski was exactly what I wanted at this moment.
same
Drewski and DCS is a match made in heaven. But I'll never forgive him for the pain he has caused my wallet with these videos. Such a great game!
saaaaame
Is this PC only?
21:38 I have no words to describe just how much these kind of small moments bring some warmth to my heart in this cold cold world.
Brazilian Air Force???
this man just keeps getting better he's a milsim lover and dcs pilot and now i know he watches operations roon ? love the content keep it up drewski
Fr The Operations Room is such an awesome channel, i can’t stop myself from rewatching the Desert Storm episodes from time to time.
9:30. This happened with us during the end of the Golf War. My carrier launched our F-14, the moment the Araqi jets saw them they decided not to continue their engagement. it was awesome. We literally just scared them away.
I, too, was there during the Golf War. I still remember the moment when I saw tiger woods in an F-14 and it scared me so much I dropped my bags, turned tail, and burned until I was feet dry over Araqi green.
@@felixu95 Too funny. I see my typo. I appreciated your satire. Damn auto correct.
@@felixu95 You should have seen us. We were throwing mulligans left and right. Our balls were slicing and dicing. Divets everywhere. The average Joe wouldn't have made it through. And don't get me started on those damn sand traps.
@@freepilot7732 I had a hearty chuckle when I read your comment. I figured it was something along the lines of autocorrect but I can never let the opportunity slide. Much respect :)
Watch the birdie!!
The engine increased because of the high AOA it also has compressor stall physics at low speed high AOA its pretty mint
Right on lol
Quite possible? If they implemented that too. Should hear that bang, though?
yes
I absolutely love your videos, and I am absolutely blown away by the fact that DCS has the correct hand signals by the flight deck crew
why wouldnt they lol
I haven’t watched the full video yet so this comment may be useless, but the TF-30 engines in the F14A acted more like ramjets, the faster and higher you are the more power they produce. The F14B’s engine were better at lower altitudes and could pick up speed a lot quicker
Yep. This also meant the F-14A was faster at altitude and maxed out ~ Mach 2.3, while the F-14B, while having more thrust, topped out at just Mach 1.9. There were several reasons for this, principally aerodynamic in case of an engine failure, but also because the F101 was just designed to be most efficient in the Transonic (Mach 0.9 - Mach 1.4) range as part of its development for the B-1A.
As a former F-14 ordnanceman, this looks like the real thing. Amazing attention to detail!
Very nice video, OperatorDrewski, it is great to see that you enjoy the Tomcat. A sidenote: when you lock someone with PAL, it is a PSTT lock (not a PDSTT lock), which means that any phoenix fired is active off the rails. This is always true for PSTT locks, while in PDSTT it is SARH only (and does never go active). Hence in WVR range PSTT makes sure that you can fire and forget. ;-) Best regards from the Heatblur Team.
Having grown up with Jane's US Navy Fighters 97, DCS blows up my childhood imagination.
now imagine it within vr … to me it was a life changing experience
i grew up with Janes Ww2 fighters. and i was blown away when i got my hands on IL2 1946.. but when i saw IL2 Great Battles.. I was drooling all over the place.. still working on a tight budget still not able to afford a new pc yet but i hope soon il be able to jump on it, and dcs too of course
@@mikelagaffe I had Janes WW2 as well, nearly wore the CDs out! The current IL2 is so amazing, just wish they'd release some Pacific Theatre content!
“The flaps make it so lifty!”
- Orville Wright, 1903
served on a CVN carrier from 99-02 launching them was on cats 3 and 4 so much fun
Man, seeing videos like this brings me back to deployment. it sucks the F-14s weren't being used, but F-18s are pretty awesome too. Of course, I was in a helo squadron, but it was still rad seeing them launch.
Personally, as someone pretty passionate about military aircraft, Ive never been able to see alot in real life, especially the F14, obviously, so the idea of active ones or even **potentially** active ones is quite a concept for me, thus I have spent quite some time on google and bing maps in the past.
In the 4th row of the southmost side of the aircraft boneyard in Tucson, there appears to be a 4x f14's and if you go about 300m north followed by a lonesome singular one, I found a further 2x on the NW corner along the road. Now thats easy pickings though. On bing, the 4 are moved north 300m, however it appears that 2x are in the yard closest to the south-southeast, without wings
Its also fun to try and sus out the Iranian air force bases for planes left out, You can see stuff such as F-4's and all sorts of old school classic aircraft.
On the very very east side of Mehrabad Air Base, You can see one F14 sitting out, very clearly aswell. On Bing maps there's another one chillin with all the helicopters on the southside.
Isfahan International Airport also has 5x out in view on the right side of the base, sitting next to their hangers. on Bing maps theirs *potentially* 7 there.
I could be wrong about some of these aircraft being F-14's, please correct me if I am, sometimes I do in-fact get a tab bit too excited when i see swept wings, and they can turn out to be F-111's etc.
Enjoy this useless information as I prepare myself for the hate bombardment, for this is a joyous TH-cam comment section.
Love the commitment to searching for them bro!
WOW, dude! Impressive research!
I imagine there are a LOT of F-111's sitting around... I'm sure all those Toms in the Boneyard are empty shells. It's awful that we destroyed those aircraft just bc of the Iranians. Thanks, Reagan!
@@theonlyegg Tell me about it! Im gutted. Im a young Australian fella, so my days of being able to see one and remembering and able to appreciate it enough were gone before i was even born.
@Luca Bloor and @theonlyegg I Appreciate the kind words!
F-111's are quite a common site I would believe aswell, however i only recall seeing a few in the boneyard last i checked, might have to do some more research on that one!
Unfortunately I have recently come to the realisation that my beloved F/A-18's are slowly but surely getting there and will soon be gone for good out of atleast the RAAF, with the classics already gone last year (2021- RAAF, 2019 for US Navy, still current for USMC and Spanish Air Force)
Im hoping to get my butt into gear and get into university or something along the lines to eventually get up into either the front or rear seat of a Super Hornet or Growler before they are gone in '2030' from RAAF, which may very well end up being '2026/2028' sad days since i dont have any, well... liking for the F-35. Too modern, its like old cars, loud, slow, no AC, always breaking, yet you cant go get an 'upgrade'.
Sorry about that, bit of a sad, useless rant about a young mans dreams and fondness for old aircraft... maybe i just like cougars i guess
Wow didnt know all this was on google maps, hell there are dozens of a10s and other cool things by the tomcats thanks man!
Operations Room also made a documentary about Major Tullia, who dodged 6 anti-air missiles back in Desert Storm, incredible story.
I watched it twice last week it was so good not the original but god tier for me a DCS player since I got the tomcat first cause you and the original I use the 16 more but I do fly the 14 every now and then.
So glad that you took the time to learn, not to light the cans on takeoff, don't think most players understand how much thrust the B had
Absolutely love Operations Room's content. I cant wait for the next vid
Yea his military breakdowns are second to none :)
it's pretty cool to see the deck crew actually doing the hand signals and such
I'm so glad you mentioned Operations Room. They have some extremely well done and educational videos on a lot of history.
I worked with a guy who was a mechanic on a carrier during the Gulf War, I can confirm that the "A' models were pretty much all upgraded from the older engines, at least from his account. He worked on F-18s, but they had Tomcats onboard during his service.
It's so cool how realistic this is with the ground crew and everything. It's badass and i'd love to do it, but i'm certain i'd be overwhelmed by all the controls.
It’s easy as baking. A little of that and more of this and a twinkle of that and voila!
*explosions*
At first I was really overwhelmed by the f/a 18 c hornet controls once you start to learn it becomes really easy
You’ve gotten me hooked on DCS and a new upload is always a welcome sight
The hand signals and the launch procedure is so cool to see in a game.
I find a good work flow with a RIO is I hand over the phoenix controls to the RIO in BVR that way I can keep an eye for anything else and he can tell me where to position the jet, then when we get into visual range 20nm or less I take over on the weapons and RIO does the spotting, feels like a better flow in my opinion so give it a go next time your up!
"Thank you for saving my life"
"It's what my Dad would have done"
Man tears, engage.
2:43 Drewski, as you’ve seen TG:M, you (and everyone else who has seen it) will get this reference…
“Why are the wings coming out Mav?”
Anybody who hasn’t seen it yet… what are you waiting for? Get your butts to your nearest cinema!
9:20 that’s called “keeping up the foreign relations” 😂
capitalizing on top gun faster than war thunder
lol
Call me weird, but every time I see an F-14 I can't help myself but to whisper "you beautiful thing"... I was born on September 2, 1974, and the first deployment of the Tomcat was 20 days later, I feel I'm bonded with that amazing aircraft! Awesome work, Drewski. Keep it up!
Weird
Drew I just had the best movie experience of my life watching top gun maverick, only to come home and see you’ve made another vid on the tomcat!! One of my better days thank you for all you do and keep on going❤️❤️
Trying not to spoil, but I absolutely adored the part in Top Gun: Maverick where two characters went into the plane to escape after the crashes. It's like it went full circle from the first movie. I know who the two characters are, but I'm just not saying cause I don't want to spoil it. It was just so cool to see those characters in THAT plane and them demolishing fighters right off the production line with a relic like the certain plane they were in.
Drewski just so you know, the launch parameters for a phoenix are like at 50 miles, best to shoot a pheonix at around 40-50 then at 10. 10 I usually just use sidewinders.
My neighbor and good friend, Ret. Commander Scott Cartvedt (former Blue Angels) was the pilot who flew the canyon scene and trained the actors in the movie. We house-sat for him and his wife while they were away. I went to a premier here in Colorado and met some of the cast. Scott is the most humble dude you'll ever meet and you’d honestly never guess he is such a badass. He's in some exciting new stuff coming soon!
I just gotta say. Top Gun maverick is the first movie in my whole life I haven't heard anything bad about.
My only complaint is they never used the original version of the top gun anthem. Some of the best guitar ever.
I don't fly jets but have been a private pilot since 17yrs old so over 30yrs now with 5k hours and a Cirrus G3 owner. After seeing how much flying games have come since the days of Falcon. The one thing that would make this or any similar game complete would be, traffic control or deck/ramp crew traffic guidance, not just for the cat shot but from chocks, chains to parking after landing etc, that would make it so immersive. My sister is a US navy sea hawk pilot and her husband flies Growlers (not on the same ship) and both said the same after watching some of these videos.
I spent 4 years on the Theodore Roosevelt, which at the time was brand new, just having been commissioned in 1986. The sole reason I joined was the Top Gun movie. I remember going through basic training and being so tired and sore all the time. One of my buddies looked up at me once when we were mopping the deck at 2 in the morning and said "...I wish I never seen that movie now..." Our DI used to call us all Tom Cruise wannabees. I bet 30% of the recruits in my company were there from that damn movie. Best recruiting tool the Navy ever had.
How long ago was it? How was your experience overall? Did you end up flying any planes?
@@bewsket No. I was ships company. An enlisted Aviation Ordinanceman which was responsible for all the weapons that went on the planes. If you watch the movie, you saw guys on the flight deck with red jersey's on. I was one of those guys. Hard work and long hours, but I was 18 and it was a hell of an experience. Something I will always remember. I joined as a boy and became a man
absolutely love the animations for the deck crew and how life like it is, like it was motion captured
I added that Kuznetsov on the server you were playing on. I didn't realize that it was trying to send the Russian fleet to the shadow realm until after I watched your video...
Glad to see people enjoying the server!
Excuse me, could you tell me which server this is?
@@GolddenWaffles It's the hoggit Georgia at war server. It's a public server but has a password you can find on their discord.
i would love to see a game like DCS where you could actually walk around on the base in first person and talk to people with proximity voice chat exchanging stories and have mini games to play together and then once in a while you would get an unidentified aircraft you need to take care of so you need to run to your jet and then take them down or investigate the threat, maybe make a room with daily missions and tasks and such for the airbase
The Libian shootdown story kind of has a life of its own as most combat stories seem to have. Ward Carroll has a good TH-cam video on the real story of the shootdown. It isn't what we think. Apparently an observer watching the whole thing taking place contradicted the story that the Libian aircraft kept changing course to merge with the US Aircraft. Apparently, there were disciplinary actions taken behind the scene. Ward's channel is pretty good. I highly recommend it.
I don't know if I could take the time to learn this game but the mechanics of this and how it applies in real life never ceases to amaze me
Yup simulators nowadays are awesome! In hiking simulator series Arma, it really feels like you hiking in woods with your buddies!?
Your DCS videos helped nudge me along to finally purchasing a hotas and a plane for vr.
I’m literally waiting for DCS to finish downloading right now. Been super excited for the last week or so since my HOTAS came to hop into this sim!
Have fun, happy flying!
Have fun man :)
Gotta love the Tommy Cat! Great cinematics and b-roll, great video Drewski!
I was on the Nimitz CVN68 and that was pretty awesome launch. I had a friend blown off his feet by a hornet and luckily he landed in the netting and didn't get completely blown off the carrier.
Piece of advise, with phoenix always use the TWS and stay high (30-35 angel) they have a lot of range and they are fast.
For what You did you should use sparrows
Another fantastic video Drew! I love that you mentioned the Operations Room, that channel is amazing. It's great when two of my favorite TH-cam channels have a crossover moment.
7:24 last I heard there was about 2 dozen F-14Ds still mothballed in the Boneyard somewhere.
Less than 10 still in storage of varying models (A, B, D) all non flying condition from a quick open source search. TBH who knows the complete picture, but the DOD said they cut up the remaining flyable F14s to prevent Iran and China from getting parts. There is one in possession of a Hollywood company, and it was last used for Top Gun Maverick and is not flight worthy.
All empty shells.
Regarding to Wikipedia the Iran still use them.
I did the SAME thing lol. Went into the movie with very low expectations and then I found myself smiling for the last 20 minutes of the movie lol. I LOVED it! And I also could not wait to get home to play DCS lol
Keep up with the great content!
Gotta love the pump when you come back from watching TGM, and you load up DCS..shoot,I did the same thing😂 but I loaded up in a F-16..it was a good run that's for sure! Great video as always Drewski!! Still my favorite Toober of all time!💚💚
2:23 I'm suprised that the boat can stay afloat with this dudes' balls of solid steel
that liftoff sequence , I LOVE THAT . i need to get this game and play this lmao this is sick!
DCS is looking great. I want to see night time carrier launch and retrieval.
Just finished watching the movie 2 hours ago. THE MOVIE WAS AMAZING! I was surprised to see you release a DCS Video. I always watch your Tarkov Content.
Watching drewski play dcs makes my head hurt but, still entertaining.
15:51 navigator with three landline phones, a cup of coffee and office stuffs : «Hello, this is the Ghost Rider, how may I help you? Yes.. Certainly, unfortunately Mr Drewski seems a bit busy right at the moment as we are landing the aeroplane, and lot of people are calling us, but we will do the necessary. Yes, thank you for calling, have a good day! Phew.»
for a nice cinematic shot when taking off from the carrier, press the fly-by view just before saluting
one cool thing i learned from an vet f14 pilot was that you can distinguish the variants based on the colour of their exhaust cones. i can’t remember the term he used but you guys get the point
This looked so authentic. I worked v-1 on the cvn-71. This freaking awesome!!!!
As a previous navy f18 AE with multiple carrier deployments .. this is spot on!
Ayo In class and watching Drewski play DCS ? Hell yeah
Bruh pay atention to the class
@@Gustavo.C.. man gotta get that daily dose of DCS cmon
9:18
"Greetings!"
"This is a great shot, Mav! I should be a photographer!"
"Geez I crack myself up"
Succesfully almost overspeeded the flaps on takeoff :D
I usually put everything up as soon as I am off the deck, that thing accelerates like a beast.
Also yeah the tf30 does spool up on high aoa... Quite funny you can fly it on idle for a long time if you're empty on both fuel and stores
i had a history teacher who worked on every f14 variant and the early f15s on a supercarrier he was such a cool dude he loved talking about it
Isn’t that story about the f14s taking photos and giving them the finer the story that inspired the opening scenes of the original top gun?
thats what they based it off of
the F14 intercepting like it was built for puts a tear to my eye
That GarandThumb style intro tho, gold!
If you've been using Phoenix to engage maneuvering targets at less than 20 miles, there's a reason you've been having problems - it's not a dogfighting missile. It was designed for long range, non-maneuvering targets (mainly bombers). While it can be used at ranges as low as 2 miles, typically for engagements under 20 miles, you'd use the AIM-7M/P. Most of the US kills during Desert Storm were with the AIM-7, and those that failed were primarily due to ignition issues (suspected to be due to the age of the fuel grains in the solid rocket motor).
Exactly this. Using an AIM-54 at 10 miles on a maneuvering fighter sized target is less than ideal.
Unlike the MSFS 2020 version, you can actually you know... Fire weapons.
bro they need to add weapons
@@Timewalker13 not that easy since missle mechanic is pretty....complex
@@Edward.Hudson or maybe they don't want people just shooting down planes and griefing
@@theglitchedmissile9239 6 seconds ago
well they could just have seperate lobbies you know, weapons and no weapons
and if you just wanna do some co-op you could have pvp and pve
@@Timewalker13 No weapons and no crashy crashy, it's part of the deal they have with Lockheed Martin, Boeing and others.
Superb stuff. Thank you for your support and professionalism OD. Kind regards Nick
You can be my Wingman any time Drewski...........
The missile knows where it is at all times, it knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t or from where it isn’t to where it is which ever is greater, it contains the knowledge of where it should be and goes to that position
SPOILER WARNING: I wasn't sold of Top Gun Maverick, I felt the whole premise strayed really far from reality having to canyon run with old planes because of blahdeblah. The odd placement of the SAM sites and yadaya made it feel more like a bond film. Then Rooster hit the chaff button for the first time and I was sold. The inner child in me seeing a flare dump with incredible sound design went nuts. Everything after that was pure joy, from the Hind Gunship coming in, to the og F-14 v 2x Su-57 (5th gen or whatever they call them in the movie).
The ending felt like a homage to cheesy 80s action flicks and I’m okay with that. Not super realistic but that’s okay, the first movie wasn’t either. It also introduced the F-14 to the newer generation.
Btw I would like to put into perspective, the P-700 Shipwreck weights 7000 kilo's, so if you convert that to lbs, that is 15432.36 lbs, so you have 15,400 lbs flying at you with 1102311310.9 lbs of force hitting you
It always feels like Everyday Astronaut is in the jet, very similar voices
Your friendly F-5E with three bags here. You should try CAP in the F-5 with me. Two Fox 2s, a lot of gas, and a dream. Nuts 1-1
too all newby. DCS as a 2 week trial for every planes, map and extra module ( like the supercarrier) on they main website . available until the end of june. also DCS do 50% sales in every occation they can. you can wait for summer sale if you want to save some $$$ DCS itself is free
MOAR DCS PLEASE
Fun fact about the tf-30’s, yes they are wheezy sob’s down low, but get high and light the fires, higher and faster you go the happier they are, MUCH higher Mach speeds (2.5+ if I recall) than the B variant, test pilots had to pull throttle back because they were afraid the airframe would start to come apart.
Ive decided to get into DCS, this looks like the perfect hobby to keep me out of jail
My league of legends bud just got locked up stay out of trouble.
@@Appreciation-Community locked up for what
played league probably sexual harassment
2:51 Me: SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH
Drewski: I think that means kneel
Me: Yeah... that probably makes more sense...
Watching this really makes me want to test out my new GeForce RTX 3060 on DCS so I'm gonna go learn the F-16 :) I watched a video of Thunderbirds flying and it made me want to fly that :) I'll probably fly the Hornet this weekend :)
Man I would be thrilled if DCS made a version of the Super Tomcat that we never actually got. To see the Tomcat with modern technology would be something else
Im pretty sure the Super Tomcat is still classified because of the Iranian Air Force so I don’t think they’d be able to
@@tacticalluke8782 it's not like Iran could make the plane. I guess I don't understand why Iran having some f14a planes would matter
@@ChiTown915 Sorry, I’m not very knowledgeable on it. It would be nice to see a Tomcat with fly by wire though
Haha I love this video! I was planning to get the F-14 and this is exactly the type of video I want to see!
on dcs main website . you can freely try every module for 2 week until the end of june. then we will have to wait for a other 6 month for the chrismas trials to be back. ps: you can loan the f 14 , carrier module and persian map at the same time for he same experiance. in the video
Tomcat is my the most beloved module in dcs. Though it takes huge time to fully understand a plane, it is gorgeous on every aspect from nice worn textures through ancient cockpit tto the way it reacts to controls. All fbw planes feel like arcade toys after this monster. But be aware, it is inferior to all other 4th gen in the game when they have fox3, however you still can claim positive k/d ratio on modern servers If you will be patient enough to master this bird
@@ВячеславФролов-д7я Ok! Yeah I really love this plane now. I only have to find time to learn how to fly and use it now haha
@@samgau2 Yeah I do that sometimes but I feel 2 weeks isn't enough to learn the whole plane.
If you change mode/stp to boresight, the Phoenix will go active off the rail. Don't know what the maximum range is for this mode, but i believe it was within 10 miles. Very useful for those close quarters
Also you can open acm cover and lock emeny through pal. Phoenix will act like a modern fox3 after this and it won't just fly forward hoping to lock something
Did ED model the tendency of the A variant to experience compressor stalls?
yes they did
@@GolddenWaffles Thanks!
Dark Docs and Dark Skies are great channels for small and concise docos.
Was that a garandthumb reference at the beginning?
The modified F-14 A was actually called the F-14A+ the the manufactured F-14B.
The Pratt Whitney TF 30 engines had compressor stall issues during certain maneuvers.
Imagine flight deck crews having this to train for flight ops in the early 2000's...
Whats crazy is we still do fly closer enough to the enemies to snap some photos of them. one of the squadrons from my ship actually got a few photos of J-15s flying next to our F/A-18s where you can see the pilots.
‘Neat’ video as always, that RIO guy won’t shut up though.
It’s pronounced ‘Technea-sh-ium’ not ‘Tech-neat-ium’ ;)
Garand thumb joke in the first 5 seconds? Love it!