1965 The Battle Of Ia Drang Valley - Vietnam | DCS WORLD Reenactment

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[@nbadhorse]

I really enjoyed this video. I was a crew chief on Jolly Greens during my participation in the Viet Nam war. While I don't believe Jolly Greens took part in this battle, seeing them included brought a smile to my heart. While I could nit-pick, for example radio calls for the A-1s were Sandy only on SAR missions. For attack missions such as this a different call would have been used. But it was very well planned and carried out. A salute to the Grim Reapers!

[@c.g.262]

That’s interesting, I just gave them the Sandy call sign so it would easy for the FAC to know what type of aircraft they were when they made initial contact.

[@nbadhorse]

@@c.g.262 You did a great job. I appreciate the work that went into it.

[@Senorgusanos]

My grandfather Joe Green flew a Jolly Green in the war. Wonder if you two may have crossed paths.

[@skilgannon5069]

Our Hueys just did what they do, make every mission look better!!😎 It was a great, fun mission, cheers Starscream! 👍

[@c.g.262]

Thanks Skil!

[@TheChad138]

I enjoy some of the older aircraft videos.

[@krisztm7221]

it always seems to be miracle that grim reapers started without crashing. Aces.

[@grimreapers]

agree

[@MA-iv7ol]

Wow! Great mission, this one was exciting. Would love to see a proper Vietnam war plane set.

[@RossOneEyed]

It so much needs this. A real set of appropriate planes would be a great addition to DCS. The whole Viet Nam era through 1980 needs a good set of planes to work with.

[@flyaruu]

ok, ok, I'll play Fortunate son in a separate tab myself

[@jamesdoesitmatter]

Glad its a video game and Cap isn't busy filming rather than fighting.

[@bendydcs3504]

1:05:53 That was a close call for Transport 1 flight I had no idea we were just about to be taken out by Ello

[@AndrewMurrell]

My immersion is ruined until I see infantry move and/or shoot back. My immersion!

[@grimreapers]

They were VERY well disciplined VC.

[@AndrewMurrell]

@@grimreapers lol

[@bhenders52]

Well you know that with the F-105 Thud mod being released, it is time to try the Bombing of Hanoi prior to Wild Weasel missions. Get some!

[@grimreapers]

cool

[@bhenders52]

@@grimreapers A video of an interview with Col. Vic Viccarra with very detailed mission of the first strike on a Sam2 site in North Vietnam conducted with F-105's. Mission details begin at the 50 minute mark. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6m3p6OfYrV1qrM I think this is one for a Grim Reapers Reenactment. Otherwise, I think you will enjoy this interview if you haven't seen it already.

[@hasina1461]

Myself and Arty in the Dragonflies did pretty good overall was a really fun mission

[@andreartymiuk]

I sound like a drunken Dalek.. That is because SRS was echoing everything I said 1 second later... made it incredibly difficult to talk

[@TimberDCS]

My grandfather flew the great a1 during vietnam

[@nbadhorse]

If your grandfather is still alive tell him an ex-Jolly Green says Welcome Home!

[@TimberDCS]

@@nbadhorse he is indeed still alive

[@georgegeranios2918]

Uh, them infantree standing tall. Great targets. I had to do only one LZ, believe me: not standing so tall.

[@ZacLowing]

Heh, it's like they knew they wouldn't get hit. 6000 rounds, three hits lol

[@mcscheck2000]

I always come to watch a few minutes of these.... 2 hrs later....

[@grimreapers]

I can only apologise.

[@upyr1]

The A-1 played the P-47 in the longest day

[@grimreapers]

cool

[@zdenekoldrichmarek2867]

Wonderfull F86 f's spent a lot of my youth from 6years old with my school buddy sneaking away on free days and hung about Manston Air Base with many F86'6 ! 1949/54 period and more.

[@Aethalops]

14:14 paused to go get popcorn. Carry on!

[@billysilva2859]

beginning of the mission Cap "How do you fly this thing" End of mission also Cap *lands like he has been flying it since birth

[@grimreapers]

lols lovely plane

[@mamarussellthepie3995]

Call in the A1s!!! P47 intensifies

[@darthsarcastus1064]

Great collaboration there guys! Really great use of the FAC, clearly some talent in the team and having been a grunt on the ground with CAS supporting us in Afghanistan this is a real pleasure to watch how everyone works together. Wish I had the set up to be able to join in.

[@aaronbryant1008]

Saw nightmare last night on GS. Still representing GR.

[@kenhelmers2603]

Long and riveting :) Thanks GR, well done all!

[@darrellseike3185]

I LOVED this one! Please do more like it.

[@schweizerluchs7146]

Hi Cap, did you see the A-29B Super Tucano mod? Its really well modeled for a mod, a LOT of clickable button's, working MFD's, custom HUD, A/A and A/G weapons and Navigation systems which are all working!

[@grimreapers]

Looking at it today.

[@RobRoss]

The planes with the yellow and black diamonds are basically yelling “Shoot me here” 😝

[@ianjackson8643]

very good battle. I really enjoyed it it felt very cinematic

[@jameshewitt8828]

Those P47s looked and sounded awesome

[@dabneyoffermein595]

they are very hard to taxi and takeoff as the toe-brakes are flakey and hard to bind and the tail-wheel spins and goes sideways when unlocked. It's a handful

[@SuckItYouTube19]

But they aren't A-1 Sky Raiders.🤣🤣🧐🧐🤔🤔😂😂

[@TobinTwinsHockey]

RC trying to take off in a jug is internet gold

[@Pablo668]

Camp Radcliff, also known as 'The Golf Course' by the 1st Cav. Read Chickenhawk by Robert Mason, fantastic book.

[@joshuaortiz2031]

such a ferocious enemy. They have no fear of your weapons. Look at how they just stand still out in the open while being lit up.

[@rags417]

Fortunate Son sounds intensify...

[@grimreapers]

yes it does

[@richardhockey8442]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2nOY3eihp6Dg7s

[@kennyj4366]

Not bad guys. More realistic than you know lol. Later on Loaches and O-2s were used to mark the areas that needed obliterating. As in DCS, it's nearly impossible to see Friendly's from 2,000 feet at 400 plus knots. Looking forward to your next adventure 😀.

[@dancingwilderness]

LMAO when cap closes his canopy!

[@gamb1t1]

Great reenactment! Thanks for sharing!! Beyond the fact that Sandy Flight call signs were always reserved for SAR missions, the Sandy flight lists the aircraft as A-1 Skyraiders in the header, but shows them as P-47Ds for each aircrew. The thumbnail you chose shows a P-47 at the forefront, not an A-1 Skyraider.

[@Gibsland]

GR does this as simulation referencing what the airframes actually were in whatever incident they are flying. However DCS doesn't have those aircraft so they sub with as close a representation as they can get.

[@rodbey9318]

I think Vietnam War Era music would had been cool as Hueys were approaching LZ

[@minipop1138]

I watched this last night and have been thinking about this all day. Great job GR!!!

[@MRBIG-lg9zl]

Thus illustrates my second biggest conflict with DCS that drove me to shelve it for the time being. (first being the CONSTANT futzing to keep running with every update)! Perfectly chosen, familiar scenario. Excellent research to find key details and a similar geographical Area. Thorough mission design to work around deficiency's in available assets. Excellent staffing, briefing participation, everyone behaving and going with the plan. Wind em up, Cockpit checks, last min details, excitement builds then..... Meh... Up we go, alone in a highly detailed clickable cockpit. You, your radios, your wingman and an abyss of nothingness outside! Follow routs as best you can. Inability to recognize each other, geographical landmarks, enemy, friendly, fire? smoke???? Thousands of pounds of ordinance, rockets, bombs dropped. Impact and then meh..... No explosions, no fire, no residual smoke but a puff? Colored smoke invisible until your too close to maneuver. Flat world with no ability to get a feel for direction. Where did my wingman go? He was just off my port side! Oh wait, this frame he's back. Ground target spotted by me, wingman can't see a thing and he's at my tip. Roll in, wait, their gone, nope there they are, wait, gone again??? DIGITAL COMBAT SIMULATORY is an AWSOME flight sim, probably the best! You guys do a fantastic job!! but DCS WORLD sucks. Even with Caps' outstanding cinematics even you guys seemed disappointed in the actual execution phase . Not sure if its a limitation of all sims, how it was for pilots in real war or a major miss for DCS, but all the excitement of the build up of planning, starting and flying aircraft quickly disappeared for me, when I lift off into the emptiness, even on an active server. Back to lurking, maybe v2.8?

[@SelectedPeppa]

That's true unfortunately. Dcs has a bland and lifeless world. Everything looks the same and everything feels sterile and lifeless.

[@dancingwilderness]

Spad's seized up all the time IRL. I thought that was very authentic. Curious about Cap's emergency landing technique; is it better to belly in or use gear? I would have tried for a landing. Anyway, loved it! Outstanding!

[@FeiBenZhu]

Rotor to the face! 😆 25:34

[@Chef_PC]

The editing on this is tits. Every time it cuts into the helicopter, the tension just amps up.

[@914va]

Great mission!!

[@logiticalresponse9574]

@ 20:17 my favorite line 🤣😂

[@craigmacintosh6230]

Hi. Watched again and Caps flight hitting the target looked like a ArcLight mission from afar 😂

[@stevenleach9522]

Great Video...! Nice!

[@jacksaloman9513]

I'm trying to put tiger balm on this jungles nuts

[@angrypandaification]

The RC cam had me laughing, atta boy!

[@boogermcphearson5338]

nice landing!

[@martinjefferson3395]

Great vid and fun but those dumb AI enemy troops! My old Dad was a WW2 veteran and I always remember him snorting at war films where troops were wandering through enemy open ground without a care in the world even though perfect cover was available. Before he was a tank driver he spent most of his training crawling through hedgerows and ditches-skills he had to employ on the battlefield when his tank was knocked out in Burma.

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

This was REALLY well done and a ton of fun to watch. But just imagine how suicidal this would have been if the redfor had even a few manpads.....

[@jameshewitt8828]

I believe that the damage effects from rockets need adjustment as they're area effect weapons in reality

[@dabneyoffermein595]

agree. needs some work fairly soon we would hope.

[@jq7169]

Just watch Flight of the Intruder and get yourself a hell of a good scenes of A1 Skyraiders aka Sandy.

[@thomasreed8259]

Nice shooting of dirt!

[@stevenleach9522]

Sweet!

[@craigmacintosh6230]

Hi Just curious as to why the Skyhawk and Thud wasn't used?

[@grimreapers]

Too hard to get free mods into mass multiplayer games, almost impossible.

[@craigmacintosh6230]

@@grimreapers Cool. Thank you and keep up the great vids ☺

[@Definitelynotanalienoranything]

Fun fact/Never been this early/Algorithm comment...

[@RogerSanGabriel]

DCS need a F100 Super Sabre

[@WildWestRaider]

Question, SuperCap. When you and RC were RTB after your first run-in, you started dumping cannon rounds and it got me wondering: Is barrel overheat and gun jamming modeled in DCS? Thanks for your time ✌🏼

[@grimreapers]

Havn't seen anything but will have a look. Is modelled in Arma 3 I know.

[@cruzerlououtdoors1940]

As to the model of lroquois "Huey" , given the date of the battle,of La Drang 14-19 Nov. 1965, I would guess that most were either UHIA's or most likely the UH1B ( as I believe by this time, the UH1A's were mostly designated as Medivac birds ) because the UH1B was equipped with the 960 H.P. Lycoming T53-L-5 and thus was better suited to carrying troops and supplies as well as preforming gunship duties when equipped as such.

[@dannymurphy4940]

You forgot about the A-4. correct period aircraft

[@trolleriffic]

It's a mod and I don't think GR ever use anything but official aircraft in these kind of missions.

[@WildWestRaider]

@@trolleriffic As far as mods go, it's probably the best. I wish RC and co. would embrace it instead of trying to be purists about it lol

[@grimreapers]

Sadly it's too hard to get the other GR guys to install it :(

[@hoilst]

Cap, did you English-ify your Skyraider engine and install Lucas electrics into it?

[@grimreapers]

lols

[@zdenekoldrichmarek2867]

i Drang.

[@ZacLowing]

I thought Vietnam had more trees n stuff. Like a thick jungle

[@paddyret7968]

I know this is 2 years old but Vietnam has a lot of Savannah like terrain in the western parts of the country which is what most of Cambodia and Laos looks like.

[@sctthyland]

Awesome choice of aircraft, the jug is so beautiful in the ugliest of ways lol The Douglas A-1 Skyraider is another beautiful ugly duckling from the Vietnam war Any chance of seeing the skyraider doing a run in?

[@jackwhite1022]

and the 7th Cavalry was regiment (1000 - 2000) soldiers

[@c.g.262]

There were two engagements. This mission only focused on only one, the 1/7 Inf BN, Hal Moore's unit. An US Inf BN is approximately 600 soldiers, including organic Service and Support elements which would not take into battle. If memory serves LTC Moore never had more than 400+ soldiers on the ground at any one time. It's okay because 400 infantry on the ground vs. an equal number of enemy infantry at one time will crash DCS anyways. We make the stuff work in game as best we can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ia_Drang

[@weed89ilt]

where can i get a a-1 SPAD skin ? i saw a link you had in video..BUT guess it is private a it does not work :(

[@josiahrickens4556]

You forget the call sign broken arrow meaning need all air support cause about to be over ran and the spot helicopter was nickname the egg

[@alangaudry724]

Engine cowling should be close in flight and open on the ground

[@grimreapers]

We tried, engines just exploded in the air within minutes, had to do a 2nd try with cowls open.Made it further but still melted. Something wrong ATM.

[@alangaudry724]

Maybe you need to richen the mixture

[@DavidVanmeterDutch]

As much as you guys fly and with how good you all are, none of you can take off decently with nearly any plane. Especially the prop planes. WTF is that about?

[@veespike]

Tail draggers are a pain in the ass when they are on the ground. Especially if you don't fly them every day.

[@grimreapers]

Completely agree. When u fly all of the planes, becomes impossible to remember how to operate all of them I find.

[@potatopower707]

It’s hard to land! It really models the fact you have almost no control when going 60kt down the way.

[@zumbinis]

I'm just a lurker, but I wondered while watching if DCS view can be raised when in cockpit view for pilot to see over the nose better. Microsoft Flight Simulator allows that.

[@RobRoss]

55:00 what were they all shooting at? I didn’t see any targets. 🤷‍♂️

[@elijahhall8650]

Bit confused. I get that the P-47 stand in for the Skyraiders but whats with the Sabre's and the F/A-18's? Also does this game not allow the use of Napalm? I no it was a very controversial weapon but they dont have to show the men burning.

[@victorcajilog5355]

I thought i saw an f18

[@abdulmismail]

Strange that you posted this video. I re-watched "We Were Soldiers" two weeks ago. The Director's Cut was better if only for the scene were Hal Moore meets with General Westmorland and the Secretary of Defence (McNamara). I don't know why they deleted the scene because it was a pivotal moment in the movie. Watch it and it will leave you gobsmacked. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp25lJergc1pm8U

[@grimreapers]

Great scene!

[@johncrichton4341]

I really would've liked to join in on this one but how do I do it?

[@grimreapers]

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[@jmsmeier1113]

Your analogy was incorrect. A battalion is about 400 a brigade is about 3000. They were up against a division, about 10,000 enemy soldiers.

[@davidbirt4643]

Can you please do the battle of Longtan. Thanks Cap.

[@FatOnAxis]

hi cap could you please do a vid on an a6 intruder mod. It is a mod with a efm and doesn't require fc3 . I will give you the link if you respond.Thanks

[@grimreapers]

Send link please.

[@tadficuscactus]

Mel Gibson?... fuckn based!

[@grimreapers]

lol

[@914va]

RC..?? I thought you were lead??

[@jackphibbs8749]

Can we get an A-29B super tucano review?

[@grimreapers]

Looking at it tomorrow.

[@tadficuscactus]

Getting a job?... ppfffff!

[@zdenekoldrichmarek2867]

LOACH recc copter

[@joselynalicemay6225]

Broken arrow

[@tadficuscactus]

Where is hot sounding chick? :(

[@mattfairfield9103]

Quit being a sweaty creep “Tad”. Have some dignity and respect

[@potatopower707]

Now just stop, man.

[@jackwhite1022]

wow these are uneducated. it's pronounced "yah drang". not "i ay" and it was a Division (10,000) not a brigade

[@potatopower707]

It’s just a game, just dudes having fun.

[@jett2753]

Should have went F-100