15,000 Miles - The Longest Range Bombing Mission In History | DCS Reenactment

[@grimreapers]

1982 Bombing Mission: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXrSlqChnreJj6s

[@MarkloopRAF]

I think the Black Buck op in 1982, is still the longest ever bombing mission, where all aircraft operated from the same base. e.g. longest bombing op away from a friendly base. As you showed, the Americans flew air to air refuellers from multiple bases along the route.

[@streetcop157]

I saw a video the other day about a f22 flying by a bomber. The f22 put on an impressive display of maneuvering and pulled up beside the bomber. And said what do you think of that? The bomber pilot said watch this. The plane continued to fly a straight level course for several minutes. The f22 said ok what was that? The bomber replied I got up. Stretched my legs. Made a sandwich and a cup of coffee and took a piss.

[@grimreapers]

ha! Love it.

[@texas8322]

😂😂😂

[@latoyagooden8371]

Do you know the name of the video?

[@streetcop157]

@@latoyagooden8371 no…maybe something by habitual line crosser. I just remember the joke.

[@CMDRSweeper]

This is quite an old joke, I have heard it with the F4 and F15 before though. I think there was a WW2 version as well, so it is old.

[@MattWaller04]

Dark using his full commercial airline pilot voice “We’re at *uuuuuuhhhhhhhh* 35,000 feet. *swallows mic* We’re pushing *uuuuuhhhhh* 20° nose down…”

[@grimreapers]

lol

[@Thewhitetile]

HAHAHA I was sick and had been up for way too many hours. Worth it.

[@MattWaller04]

@@Thewhitetile it added to the experience honestly

[@duerrkeno]

I lost it when cap used the "auxiliary lift generators". Absolutely hilarious

[@grimreapers]

Best generators.

[@v3c7r0n]

Cap & the guys are out breaking physics and flight models in DCS. Meanwhile Simba decides to start a new Kerbal Space program campaign...in DCS.

[@jhamby8773]

One of my favorite KZbin channels. The realism and humor is fantastic

[@TheJimtanker]

Whiteman AFB is a great base to visit if you ever get the chance. You can even tour a Minuteman II missile control site there.

[@grimreapers]

Cool!

[@Elevationem]

Not sure we will ever see cap in the US. :(

[@timbaskett6299]

@@Elevationem It would be nice, though!!

[@briananglin5487]

I live 15 minutes away from Whiteman. B-2s fly over my place all the time.

[@christophero55]

This has got to be one of the most bizarre and interesting missions GR has ever undertaken.

[@IJ-fj3zl]

Dear Grim Reapers, nondescript serious men will be visiting you soon to take you on an all expenses paid visit to the Skunkworks. This is not open to discussion. Have a nice hypersonic day!

[@douglasarthur2673]

Sounds like an MIB ruse to me…….

[@grimreapers]

Man what I'd give to visit Skunkworks.

[@gamehulk]

OMG you guys are crazy. I often fall asleep to the two really long falklands missions... not because I go out of my way to watch them at bedtime, but because YT loves serving them up to me even though I've already watched them repeatedly. Oh well. Add another to the playlist! :D

[@jamison884]

One of the finest bird impressions I've ever witnessed during that landing attempt.

[@brandonwestfall3241]

Dark put THREE gau-8s in a spy plane? Man after my own heart.

[@douglasarthur2673]

You have a target on your heart ? 🎯

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Well, you never know when the spying ends and the killing begins

[@timbaskett6299]

"Aft facing high velocity shaff!!!" 😄

[@Thewhitetile]

Dark like boom boom!

[@jamison884]

Cap, Commando and original RoboCop are probably my first two favorite movies when I was younger. My fascination with military weapons basically began with Commando. :)

[@grimreapers]

As soon as he whips out the quad stinger launcher... I was hooked.

[@jamison884]

@@grimreapersI think you are my long lost British brother. Same exact thing happened to me hah! I honstly have always loved British culture, and my few days visitng London were really great. There's a decent chance I'll move over there one day, particularly as my industry allows for fully remote work these days.

[@jeeves_uk]

I love these long flight videos great to have on while working.

[@Anarchy_420]

Love the changes made! I see you took my advice about a Bomber!!😅👍👍 1:07:25 The SR-72 would be perfect for The New Air-Air Nuke you've made!!🤯👍

[@Thewhitetile]

This is the kind of thing I can get behind - Dark

[@ecliptix5436]

Cap, I just wanted to tell you good luck and we're all counting on you.

[@grimreapers]

lol nice film.

[@daszieher]

As a teenager (in the 80's), I used to joke that we will one day see recon aircraft so fast that they will have to fly inverted to give the pilots positive gees. We're not too far off with the SR-72 😂

[@bamafan-in-OZ]

I love these long scenarios, they conversations and antic's are always fun. Just need fly back for the next one

[@NathansWargames]

Robert Timm and John Cook flew 150,000 miles in 64 days (record for civilian refueled flight)

[@grimreapers]

Holy cow that's amazing.

[@jadefalcon001]

Another super-wild one is the Rutan Voyager, which got around the entire world on a single fuel load. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in D.C. has it hanging in one of their galleries.

[@nbtoppers2]

That's insane

[@BreakingWildGaming]

i spent 6 months on Diego during Enduring Freedom. As an Australian with our small contingent of CAP F/A-18s, seeing the US bombing airpower of B2s, B1s and B52s was something to behold.

[@tolifeimmortalsans9483]

@Grim Reapers it warms my heart to hear Cap singing "Im walking in the air" From the Snowman

[@crashatau]

Cap missed the opportunity to use the classic arnie quote. Simba: "How do I recover from space?" Cap: "Gettttttt doooooowwwnnnn"

[@seeker-pm1qi]

Why is that guy speakingggggghhhhaaa lykkhhhaa thaaathaa

[@Redssracer-de5de]

SuperCap surf'n his jet, catching hyper-sonic waves...🏄🏻😁👍👍

[@saintuk70]

Simba, that's one small step for man, one massive mach for GR

[@Jackson-1985]

man i love you so much :)

[@GrumpyGamerGuy]

I will never get that two+ hours back lol good job Dark!

[@grimreapers]

lol

[@saintuk70]

Nice seeing DCS modelling the scram cons

[@CJWall_rott]

I watched the entire video no skipping are you proud of me cap

[@grimreapers]

Incredibly proud! Well done!

[@CJWall_rott]

Probably the only 17 year old viewer that did

[@GolddenWaffles]

LOL Dart not being able to pull out was so funny 😂😂😂

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Being able to pull out in time is tight!

[@thediscernist1606]

This was exceptionally silly. Thanks

[@Pre613]

With all the adjustments being made to keep the plane on target, wouldn’t it make sense to have A.I. fly the plane with human supervision.

[@grimreapers]

That would be cool.

[@texas8322]

I love these crazy ass missions. It gives the guys time to do their jokes and off the wall stunts. "I'm going to SPAAAAACE-AAAH!!"😂😂

[@mirthenary]

13:10 Loved the Airplane! reference. 👍

[@adrianhawkins8995]

I honestly thought the GR Solution to the problem, would be to swap out pilots.. Each member of the Grim Reaper's crew could take 2-4 hour shifts in manning the aircraft in DCS, logging in as they are able to from each time zone..

[@Aliyen]

At 30:16 you can see the twinkling of some sort of heavenly body (another GR?) to the lower right of the HUD. Good thing Cap wasn't in an F-16, or he'd start chasing it.

[@JSS011]

It's the horizon bar on the HUD I think.

[@NerdishNature]

“Flap flap I’m a Pinguin” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 ❤

[@voradfils]

46:15 Circumference grows linearly as a function of radius / diameter. It's right there in the formula 2 * pi * r. 10% extra radius = 10% extra distance.

[@grimreapers]

OK V, you win this one, but next time will be mine!

[@JSFGuy]

🙋.. normally posted 3 hours from now, I'll have to come back to it.

[@dcsfun1724]

where can I get this version of the SR-72?

[@DarkAgeTM]

Simba not only got lost on his way to target, he lost Earth.

[@usa-1129]

I like the pov looking at the nose. It's like a periscope view from the Blackbird ( there's periscopes all over those, one in the canopy)

[@GolddenWaffles]

Yeah this is nuts!

[@Anarchy_420]

Please create a scenario with F/A-XX, SR-72, and B-21!🙏👍 All three 6th gen aircraft in one Vid! DCS Triple 6 Mafia ;)

[@schism6600]

Putting a new spin on coffin corner. Explosion corner!

[@Pablo668]

If the fuel you were carrying had a specific gravity on .8 then you were carrying 400 metric tons of fuel. That's fairly weighty. (rough estimate)

[@grimreapers]

Yeh, we have to mess with the lift generation to allow it to even take off.

[@jimmyapolis]

You guys went from pilots to astronauts back to pilots. 😃

[@jakubstefanski6892]

good film

[@JSFGuy]

Film? Has not been film and decades.

[@RT-qd8yl]

@@JSFGuy What?

[@obelisk21]

You asked who would watch this and all I can say watching you flapping like a duck over the runway and tail standing had me in tears laughing. It was worth it.

[@xlskull4639]

Cap flapping his lil flaps off for dear life was bloody hilarious. Great group, sad to see Bird go early. Funny bunch

[@dhwave1]

I enjoyed watching the initial climbs and seeing how wacky this concept plane flew. Thanks for the hard work on this one. Question, can you modify the plane and bomb at a faster speed? Dropping to mach 1 seems to negate the value of this speed demon.

[@katyusha9319]

Why does dark sound so like Emo???

[@grimreapers]

Dark is indeed VERY emo.

[@wolfgangamadeus1246]

Oh my ... the vocal ffffrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

[@good4politics]

"Go to rockets full" Not responding "Hello Major Tom Are you receiving? Turn the thrusters on We're standing by" There's no reply

[@mrlodwick]

Just brill content.

[@jonathantoymaker]

This was cute but China isn't dreaming about beyond Mach 6 😂

[@speeddemon2262]

Awesome

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

This reminds me of an LHX attack chopper mission where you had to kill an SA-something SAM because a B-2 prototype was making a demo flight in the area and its stealth/ecm wasn't fully operational yet :) So I imagine a guy in a futuristic chopper flying your flight path in the target area ahead of you taking out threats so you can show off :)

[@jcremeringful]

Great fun!! I must be mental

[@user-bm4ow6fh2x]

I guess it would have been preferable to modify the aerofoil to justify the increase in lift physics but doubling the length of the SR-72 is a nice modification. In MSFS flying the dark star is tricky because the basic airframe does not have enough lift, especially near the tail to smoothly land.

[@johnhodgson4216]

Love the Boom Boom.....

[@terencyowens9491]

At 1:15... Cue: BGM Landing of the Fireflash from the Thunderbirds pilot episode.😛😂

[@jmtpolitico80]

Sweet!!!

[@JSFGuy]

What is?

[@parnavad1794]

Imagine you fly for that long to drop a bomb and you miss😂😂😂

[@biffisgreat]

Some say he has a picture of his A-10, in his A-10, all we know he's called Simba.

[@nbtoppers2]

That was astonishing and hilarious

[@jrizos06]

27:55 Simba to spaaace!

[@RobDBlackwolf]

I know he has sometimes troubles with going the right way, but getting lost in space is impressive even for him.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

How do you measure engine revolutions on a SCRamjet?

[@grimreapers]

It's not a proper scramjet, just an interpretation of it in DCS.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

@@grimreapers - oh, OK.

[@talec184]

A very interesting video. I wish you knew the flight model better, I bailed after 10 minutes of listening to Doc.

[@grimreapers]

Roger, this one wasn;t for everyone's tastes.

[@seanmataya2290]

If you guys made a DVD I would buy it 🎉

[@grimreapers]

lol

[@mfreed40k]

Wow.

[@chrisvinicombe9947]

Good laughs thanks guys

[@jameswilliams1116]

Have you considered a variation on Operation Bodenplatte?

[@grimreapers]

Will investigate.

[@mirthenary]

I made a plane once in Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator. I made the speed so high, if you so much as nudged the stick you'd blackout

[@BlackLiger788]

XXX corps made it a decent distance up that road...

[@jonathantoymaker]

Ask CH about the Type-52DL...

[@johnord684]

Are we there yet

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

4:"26 I mean when going hypersonic speeds you need less lift because of the shock cone. Hence why all hypersonic planes have stubby wings so it's not scifi at all but an aconism because DCS does not model hypersonic speeds very well... Which why not make the engines more effcent with the same power instead of add more gas?

[@Thewhitetile]

Because DCS lol. Just another restriction that we faced. But it did make it more interesting.

[@bengordon9352]

“I’m gonnnna givvvee it a litttle more throttttle”

[@Tracked350Z]

I hate that B2's get all the credit.

[@JJ-1-1]

I love your movie trivia Cap I said commando straight off.

[@grimreapers]

Ah, you are the kind of person I want to have a beer with.

[@onefan1249]

Cap Aladdin for the win!

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

5:30 Why not just make the Command and Conquer Generals Aurora bomber at that point instead of bending the darkstar in ways it really shouldn't be... Or just go with it's profile of one massive bomb?

[@MattWaller04]

Underrated game.

[@jonabbott7538]

Comment on the Key West discussion re: the Harriers and the 7 mile bridge. They actually blew up a section of the OLD bridge which had been replaced with the new one prior. That was from the movie True Lies with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[@grimreapers]

Ah, thx.

[@Thumblegudget]

Ah! A computer simulation. The place where scramjets work best.

[@steverose3019]

"We're not going to do a 44-hour mission." I thought you guys called yourselves gamers?

[@grimreapers]

I know I know.... fatherhood...

[@vintagepairdisplayteam910]

We will have to do the Boeing Stearman next, a bit more sedate (4G or so) 😊

[@grimreapers]

Looking forward to it.

[@IndyCarFanatic]

In next weeks episode...the gang bomb The Moon in a Half-Million Mile round trip week-long live stream!

[@DemerDRN]

I'm not popular, I'm just a giant bitch… - Cap 2023

[@DemerDRN]

1:27:29🔥😂🍻🫰

[@YorkPlays_]

GR just made the SR-73 by accident

[@timblack6422]

It’s a GREAT DAY!

[@douglasarthur2673]

Can any GR’s confirm that in space no one can hear you scream ? 😱

[@grimreapers]

We could still hear Simba...

[@texas8322]

​@@grimreapers😂

[@jugganaut33]

The British still hold the record for the longest range bombing mission from a single airfield. The challenge is exponentially harder america cheated. By launching tankers from airfields in the direction of travel.

[@GotAerialllc]

ADVICE : call out everything before doing it and drink some coffee

[@Dirtyharry70585]

Now thats smokin Mach 11

[@Mimossa77]

Long ass video, but watched it to the end.

[@grimreapers]

Well done! You get a prize.

[@tundramusicproduction]

Just setting this mission up in msfs to try in the dark star ⭐️

[@grimreapers]

Cool

[@tundramusicproduction]

@@grimreapers can confirm: mission is 1:47 mins to on station time, dark star is extremely easy to lean off course. At one point I was 980 miles north of trajectory. Wish I could simulate JDAM delivery but just came out of hyper cruise and reduced to 400kts to simulate. 4 refuels en route. 🤘🏻

[@AC-ed1jz]

SCRAM jet, yes! 👍

[@StanfordYell]

Have you tried to recreate the plane that shot itself down with it's own guns?

[@kdaltex]

Do they ever bomb anything?