2025 UK Carrier Group vs 2025 Russian Carrier Group (Naval Battle 97) | DCS

[@genxtech5584]

Honestly this isn't realistic because the Russians don't have a tug in their fleet to pull their carrier along.

[@Sidekick_Snowman]

🤣🤣🤣

[@SouthernCross75]

Ha ha ha ha😂

[@sharondamurray2577]

I mean it is true though

[@NorainuVR]

It also didn't catch fire lol

[@RedDotChiliPepper96]

1 hour and no Russian bot yet 😂

[@splatoonistproductions5345]

Here’s hoping next time the type 26 and 45 can perform at the best of their capabilities next time

[@grimreapers]

Yeh not sure why they were sh*t today?

[@gavin1506]

@@grimreapers I think not enough Rum Rations!

[@cassius_eu5970]

Would have liked to see more focus on the anti-ship missiles when they were approaching ships, as ships going down has a much bigger impact than an aircraft going down.

[@TP-ie3hj]

agree watched many,they seem to almost always be the same, way over powered blue forces with totally untouchable aircraft and 99.9% PK aam..... getting the same 7 min of destroyed J15/29k shots...was kinda nice to see them miss...the reaction to that says a lot. Was probably the most realistic part of the sim, failed tech.... but always wanting to see the ships in battle.....the commentary makes it wort it...."oh his beautiful face...what happened to your face" The video of the carrier groups out of missiles closing to guns is pretty awesome.

[@GageEakins]

@@TP-ie3hj The missiles should not miss. Modern missiles basically don't miss. Notching is not a thing with modern air to air combat. I have had to say this to so many people.

[@TP-ie3hj]

@@GageEakins So please tell me how you know this? You have been in modern air combat how many times? How many kills does the meteor have? The last time a US jet shot down an enemy aircraft was an FA 18 shooting down a SU17 that had no idea he was fired on, Syria, two side winders from point blank first missed. The F35 how many air to air kills does it have? Hell even the balloon that the USAF force fired on if you want to call it air to air took two missiles as one missed.....reality is a b!tch ...I have had to explain reality to so many people. Luckily were talking about a game so reality isnt of much use...the point you make is moot as in the game PL15 and R77 as well as R33, R37 are notched on a regular basis.

[@grimreapers]

Yeh this one was a big cock up TBH. Real shame.

[@mrcroob8563]

@@TP-ie3hj You don't just choose how many dots you put in an ellipsis............ It's 3...

[@romain5967]

I have decided this is more important than A-level revision.

[@jayykeyy]

this is the first video i've watched after finishing, best of luck with the rest of your exams

[@romain5967]

Only one more tomorrow morning.....

[@mfreed40k]

Good luck to you all!

[@AlpineVulcan]

further maths?

[@romain5967]

@@AlpineVulcan bio p3

[@cort3679]

Nice job. The ASW helos should be fair game. That would add realism and force the fighter jets to worry about defending their helos. You could place the subs further out to simulate a sonar buoy detection zone and then allow the helo pilots to determine when they have enough air cover to take off "safely". Hopefully the interference with the missile tracking can be resolved.

[@LorenPechtel]

In the real world you can't do ASW if the enemy can get air to air missiles into the area.

[@disturbeddude123]

damn, 30 kt at the surface is some mad lad move. not just the wake from the vessel, but the cavitation should have been detected by the ships passive sonar so quickly. 30kt at a non cavitating depth with even a moderate surface duct could hide a nuclear sub. but an active would eat up subs so quickly if they knew there were subs.

[@grimreapers]

Roger, sounds like a sub commander problem? :)

[@disturbeddude123]

@@grimreapers yes, dcs fix pls

[@mcjdubpower]

I'm feeling really valued again, thank you. 🔥💯👍😀

[@grimreapers]

This is important.

[@the_beef4762]

Introducing subs into these type of battles would be great to watch, insane to play I am sure. Real life carrier v carrier battles would be insane, imagine have helos searching for subs, missiles coming in, mad launching fighters all the while scanning for another group attacking from behind. Modern naval warfare is wild, so many variables.

[@Tyler_Flynn28]

Yeah that would be cool !!

[@montys420-]

Agreed, just 1v1 sub wars will be cool af or surface fleet vrs a cpl of attack subs player controlled

[@gavin1506]

imagine all this (minus missiles) with very few ways of detecting a sub.. WW2 battle...

[@coreymoyers5771]

Once the bugs are worked out, please revisit some of your most popular videos with all the recent updates to DCS. I am less interested in the sub-warfare, but seeing how the advancements impacted the results will be great. Additionally, it should be great for SEO and monetization.

[@jmtpolitico80]

It was good progress like you said. So you are on the right track, and I didn't think everything was going to go perfect this first time using the Sub's. I do find it very much entertaining because of the complexity and difficulty of doing that kind of Naval Battle. And I definitely think they should be involved from now on. Obviously I wouldn't expect you to do it all the time, but when you have enough people I think it be great to have a big Naval Battle using the Choppers and Sub's operated by human's and also Human Operator's on the ships as well. And I am sure that has to be the hardest work to try and get enough people to commit to something like that all at the same time especially when everyone lives in different parts of the world... Good work tho on this one! I appreciate it, and wasn't expecting everything to go perfect the first time.

[@Rover200Power]

The P-700 system wasn't included in the contract to overhaul the Kuznetsov according to The Internet, so it shouldn't be firing any at HMS Queenie.

[@grimreapers]

Agree but I can't remove it so we just need to put up with it for now.

[@grimreapers]

They're crap anyway.

[@Rover200Power]

@@grimreapers Park a MiG on the launchers and see what happens . . .

[@Sparks1980]

thank you for the great effort from everyone to produce this .

[@skatman3278]

Clearly something wrong with the British ships in this video. No way those missiles should even remotely be getting close to a Type-45 or Type-26. Even the Meteor was miles off it's usual efficacy.

[@vrgamingitalia8105]

there is a bug with ecm in last patch, meteor could't track for that probably

[@ivorharden]

Yeah something wasn't right. Usually the meteor missiles are reliable.

[@vrgamingitalia8105]

Yeah, it made lose lock even in dogfight mode, from behind the tail, sometimes

[@Hawkskull]

Kinda disappointed you didn't add in the two tug boats that accompany the Kutsnetsov for when it breaks down

[@dexlab7539]

QE is in dry dock forever itself - so same problems on both sides

[@WilkyTheFlyingScotsman]

@@dexlab7539 uh? Tne QE aint in dry dock and has travelled around the world more than the russian carrier which has been around for more than 2 decades longer, not to mention the russian carrier needs a Tug to accompany it all times. The POW (the other QE class) hasnt even been in dry dock for a year(only about 7 months total as of right now) and is due to be out later this month. You cannot say the problems are the same for both. The Russian carrier just spent 5 years in dry dock and has spent more than 10 years total in dry dock while the QE will only have a couple of 1 year refit's in dry dock and POW will have the same + the 8 or so months for the repairs its done (it will also of done a refit while it was in dry dock)

[@kuunoooo7293]

​@@WilkyTheFlyingScotsmanyea i hope you have improved your knowlage by now

[@WilkyTheFlyingScotsman]

@kuunoooo7293 nothing wrong with my knowledge, I am still correct as they are facts. Also I'm active sering RN and I know for a fact the QE's are nothing like the Russian carrier and neither of the QE'a are in dry dock forever.

[@AMDking0007]

The asw is a great addition. So fun to see the guys working together and finding the subs.

[@chaimp0003]

Touch late but I just realised you said we could re-do this, to be honest if it's easier to set up and you have time that would be great but I'm sure there are also better battles you have planned.

[@crimzonr9371]

I enjoy these videos. Might be alittle late lol but watching at work for 17.5 hrs helps with time. Love your work

[@voradfils]

21:15 He's expending. There's chaff in the air. A lot. Reason why missiles aren't tracking question mark?

[@deepat]

Cap your some game master, keep up the good work.

[@lordisback1947]

One thing to note is that one of admiral gorshkov class frigate is installed with zircon hypersonic missile along with another being ready for it after the zircon is being installed in 2nd kirov class cruiser admiral nakhimov

[@olivergrundy5205]

British missile didnt seem to work for some reason throughout this whole sim

[@ilovepotatos]

I'm a famous video games designer for Naval games. I'd like to see this channel incorporate more submarines like this video, even if incorrectly skewing the algorithms because its more realistic that the surface fleets who go into risk with undersea assets including surface vessels. Cheers.

[@olivergrundy5205]

Can’t wait to seek type 26 with fc/ASW so it RN can fire some prober long range and deadly anti ship missiles

[@olivergrundy5205]

Filing all/most mk41 vls

[@mrprodigy7143]

My niggas dropped another banger dcs video.

[@HuyLe-qc8jc]

It's fine if you keep the AA and ASW action separate. It's extremely hard to coordinate their action together in real life so they'll operate independently. As you mentioned, subs are loud and easy to detect at 30 kt. They would only go that fast to position themselves to attack but would slow down to less than 10kt for the actual attack run. The Mk46 torpedo has a search capability when in the water. It can perform a snake or circular search pattern to locate the sub before attacking.

[@chrisparnham]

He always messes up when he includes his mates flying some extracurricular mission which is usually superfluous to the point of the video as in this case. He told us they can't destroy the submarines so what's the point of flying the helicopters?

[@jordanmartinez2432]

Hey Cap!!! Just letting you know I absolutely love all of the Grim Reapers simulations you guys put together. Ran across a Grim Reapers simulation video in the very early days of the pandemic and have been a fan ever since. Always makes the day a little better when a new GR video pops up in my notifications. Don't let the haters get you down my brother, and also a huge thanks to the whole Grim Reapers team!!!!👍😊🤘🔥🔥🔥

[@tomamor8330]

Loads of effort, thanks guys. I'm no expert, but I'm not sure the Royal Navy would commit 2/3rds of it's destroyer force. More likely x2 type 45's and x4 (or 5) 26's (or 31's.)

[@olivergrundy5205]

Nah realistically it would be 2x type 45, 2 or 3x type 26 + 2 or 3 allied ships i.e 1 or 2 burkes and another nations ships

[@olivergrundy5205]

Possibly 1 type 31 but probs not

[@tomamor8330]

@@olivergrundy5205 More than likely, but this sim was UK only. It's unlikely the UK would fight alone, but not impossible.

[@grimreapers]

Roger, T26 not working properly yet in game so best to stick with T45.

[@tomamor8330]

It's questionable whether the type 26 will be working properly in real life in 2025....

[@olivergrundy5205]

Great video CAP, cant wait for the uk vs china one tho + plz do QE with max complement of 56 jets or at least the minimum wartime of 36

[@olivergrundy5205]

Or at least somewhere in between the two - we’ll need it against teh 50 aircraft fujian 😢

[@superflyguy4488]

Just thinking "Shall i go to bed and have an early night" then this cheeky little battle pops up in my feed, looks like il be firing up the Nespresso and the big telly.

[@voradfils]

Hello, this is VOR. It was a fun and eventful video but I feel the need to clarify that neither the scoreboard nor ASW script do anything that would be able to break missile guidance. Even if they tried, the way the DCS environment works does not allow such things to happen, or at least it's not intended to. As long-time valued viewer can attest, things do break down in DCS now and then. Cap's version of the scoreboard has been unchanged since January. As for the blocked sonar messages, ED has changed how triggered text works a while ago. There are no short term workarounds, unfortunately.

[@steviitanaka5797]

It is good to see your Meteor missiles are acting just as reliable as the US AMRAAMS Vs. China in previous battles.

[@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418]

you give the P-800s an advantage by allowing full velocity at all stages of its flight.

[@TP-ie3hj]

Which is one quarter the speed of the Zircon.... so advantage ? Besides it hit a ship that is not in service while being covered by a plane that is made untouchable in the game.... using sams and air to air missiles with 99% PK that have no real world combat to prove their value.... historically the opposite has proven to be correct.........but it is just a game.

[@grimreapers]

Agree but best we can do with current game tech.

[@conmcgrath7174]

A bold move! OK, it didn't run very well but that's how you find out things? I don't need to labour about nuclear subs doing 30 knots at 50 feet/metres in an active 'hot zone', that's just preposterous, still though it was very entertaining as usual. I predict the Grim Reapers will re-visit this scenario, looking forward to it. Pax dudes, always a pleasure to watch.

[@justinswain7540]

As a viewer I would like to complain about not attacking the helos. These battles are more fun the more factors are thrown together randomly. The interaction between the ASW helos and the fighters might have been boring, might have been exciting. We will never know now.

[@deadmeat8754]

"2025 UK Carrier Group vs 2025 Russian Carrier Group". Wait. What? What Russian Carrier group?!? What have you been pouring in to your vape? 😉

[@giantnanomachine]

1:24 The Russian side is missing the tug boat they need to keep the Kuznetsov moving. And the firefighting ships to keep it from self-immolating.

[@christophero55]

15:49 Seems like a good wargame to me! Kirov vs Gorshkov, 80's Battlecruiser vs 2020's Frigate. Size and brute force or modern tech?

[@petestripes0920]

Hi Cap! Great video again and love the strive for increased accuracy... I just worry that adding in the submarines in this way is moving away from it: there is no difference in submarines or submarines defense, so essentially its just how good your wonderful humans are and nothing to do with the countries 😅 love the vids of course! Keep going!!

[@vrgamingitalia8105]

There is a problem with last patch and ecm, if mig were with ecm on ofc meteor won't track well

[@Mikest2]

2025 Russian Carrier Group? What is this science fiction talk. They have one carrier and it practices self immolation every time it attempts to leave port.

[@haythemsandel8303]

You're leaving out the Zircon hypersonic missiles for the Gorshkovs.

[@billwhoever2830]

I think that the Russian Carrier would keep their aircraft on the defense until the F35s decide to go to the offense. I also think that the Russians will launch more anti ship missiles than what was seen in the video. The Russian strategy heavily depends on large sized anti ship missiles disabling the carrier. Such cruise missiles are carried on large cruisers (idealy kirov) and cruise missile submarines which were both missing in the scenario. A kirov, although not as capable as the modern destroyers-frigates, carries 20 p700 granits which can be launched 625km (388nm) away from the enemy carrier, this means that the UK strike group would be under attack well before the scenario even begins.

[@Tomdog83]

As soon as you took the scoreboard down it looks like the meteors started working

[@sulyokpeter3941]

Run this again but without submarines Cap if you can, and place the 2 CSGs much closer to each other(150 nautical miles), so the UK Type 45s will have a chance to shot their anti-ship missiles. :D My theory about the lot of meteors missed is that the AI F-35Bs actually fired at the blue submarines and at the Russian helicopters. Maybe. You can see in the tacview the meteors looks like they heading towards the blue submarines. Very very interesting. But because they ran out of range it went for the last know location of the subs. One more thing is that the frigates would be the last line of defense for the Carrier(This is what I saw a lot of times, the best example is what happened at the Falklands war, when Argentina sank the HMS Sheffield). Basically the 3 Type 42 Destroyers was much more away in the front from the carriers and the 2 Type 22 Frigates was the last line of defense for it... They was positioned basically next to the 2 carriers. This where I got the information from kzbin.info/www/bejne/amnSdq2Ioap1ZtU (If you are not interested in the video, just check the Task Force formation around 4 minutes 35 seconds)

[@CJWall_rott]

So good I’ve already watched it twice

[@CJWall_rott]

That’s a lie btw how would I have watched it 2 times 8 minutes after it came out

[@trevorday7923]

Although I'm warming to the F-35 I do have to confess that the MiG-29 will always look damned hot to me

[@ivorharden]

Please do 2000s Royal Navy carrier group vs 2020s Royal Navy carrier group. I would love to see if a f35 is truly more advanced than a Harrier.

[@steve-iw2bg]

F35 would smash the harrier

[@ivorharden]

@@steve-iw2bg but would it? In a previous video a f16 was being destroyed by a f86.

[@Rover200Power]

They don't have a Harrier with a radar in game, so no AIM-120.

[@ivorharden]

@@Rover200Power such a shame

[@steve-iw2bg]

@@ivorharden if they got within visual range and out numbered the F35 by 30-1 the harrier might be able to shoot it down, but in a carrier Vs carrier the F35 wouldn't even need to be in stealth mode.

[@Vsor]

Well that explains why the US military didn't adopt the meteor. They don't work if you are also doing ASW.

[@LondonSteveLee]

You're basing reality on a game?

[@Vsor]

@@LondonSteveLee it's a joke lol

[@danhodson7187]

A good learning exercise, real shame it didn't fully come off. How did that Russian anti-ship even get through?? I think it wasn't just the Meteor's being affected by the anti-sub scripts. Normally that would've been eaten up. Would love to see it run again if you get the bugs worked out, guys!

[@Orieni]

Actually, an idea to test would be to get a Soviet strike, air and a SAG, such as might be used to attack a US super carrier, targeted against your modern Russian carrier group. A battle between the ages. You could try your modern Russian frigate against a Kirov in the process.

[@MathewBooth-k7k]

Congratulations on your little bundle of grimness. Hate to add to your workload, but the F-35 is pretty much going to be everywhere for a long time, so tweaking it's realism is warranted. The F-35, in extremis, can use flares, but notably (at least in the B and A models) NOT chaff. Those use a streaming decoy that is similar to surface warships' "Nixies." I know it's a small thing, but has been bugging me lately. Tata!

[@olivergrundy5205]

Why were uk ships firing their missile so slowly - especially t 26 - mushroom farms are very quick firing as are cold launch

[@olivergrundy5205]

Definitely some problem with that there

[@bacco0447]

Were the mig29s constantly chaffing? I saw like a trail of constant chaffs at some point but maybe im wrong

[@SM-rn3xy]

The scoreboard was clearing the sub tracking everytime it updated - is it possible it was resetting something in the Meteors as well? Could be it was your problem, not the ASW stuff.

[@voradfils]

Thanks, scoreboard has been the same since January. It has been used alongside meteors countless times without issues, not that it could do anything to them in the first place. It used to work just fine alongside other messages, too, until ED changed something a few versions back. This is just DCS being DCS, unfortunately.

[@nathanboney5954]

good video. we need one with bad weather also

[@olivergrundy5205]

Btw CAP, Uk queen liz has higher launch rate than kutznetsov

[@NightshadeX85]

The Chaff looking pretty OP on the MiG there CAP.

[@rogesc7183]

It would be nice to see a QE CV at a full real fighter carrier load out.

[@joshuasenior4370]

@@cj64343exactly. I think they mean a more “wartime” loadout. Which would have closer to 36 jets

[@olivergrundy5205]

Cap you need to add Spear-3 to f-35 so RN can hit the Russians with anti ship missiles - especially the frigates - as each f-35b can carry 8 Spear-3 and 1 meteor

[@LondonSteveLee]

SPEAR-3 is already running late (2025 unlikely) and certainly won't be F-35 ready until at least 2028-2030. British F-35Bs won't be carrying Meteor by 2025 either - that requires the block 4 upgrade and the chances of that happening by 2025 is practically zero.

[@5Andysalive]

Looks like it was ASW+Air2Air+Score board causing the trouble? With the score board off, missiles seemed to track again. Sure they work it out.

[@liamh7383]

Love the vids, but one small critique. Get the bugs out the system before broadcast. I want to see a good accurate video. Not another version of the US v China pilots/missile saga a few weeks ago. Other than that, love the channel

[@MathewBooth-k7k]

Again, I'm sure your other sub driver viewingtons shrieked plenty after last week, but allow me to stick my oar in the water, so to speak. Enemy subs vs. capital surface combatants (such as Ford or Nimitz class CVNs or the Red equivalents) would surely be their first-flight sub classes and their very best skippers - this means SSNs. ASW can rapidly become a headache, especially if you are not super familiar with that subclass of naval combat, and here are some more dreary details for your delectation. First, torpedo range - US Mark 48 ADCAP max range is 24 miles (not 12 as currently modeled) and Russian and Chinese torps would be equivalent. Second, detection from the surface - P3C Lockheed Orion or P8 Poseidon aircraft would usually be available for support of the task group, using another thing for you to model: sonobuoys. Sonobuoys, also used by the SH-60 Seahawk helos prior to actually dipping, are layed ahead of the fleet to get first contact on enemy subs. Third, figuring the thermocline, a layer of seawater where temperatures change where sonar performance can sometimes not penetrate. Good skippers will hide from your helicopters and surface ASW ships by using the Layer. For more fun, top tier Chinese attack boats will have short range anti-air capability to shoot down helicopters, so hovering near them (they can hear your rotor noise) might be a bit suicidal. Much for you to digest, certainly dyspeptically. I am a huge fan of your work, and your updating of DCS realism as time goes by is hugely appreciated. Bye for now, Cap.

[@mots503]

Could it not look like the initial meteors tracked but after the scoreboard began updating they stopped working? When you disabled the scoreboard it looks like the next wave of meteors started working again. All the videos you made where aim120d’s weren’t working - and you attempted to restrict launch parameters to fix them - were they all made after you started using the scoreboard?

[@voradfils]

Thanks, DCS doesn't allow mission scripts to modify missiles. Cap's version of the scoreboard has been there since early January.

[@gosborg]

The Meteors started working again as soon as you turned off the score board.

[@Jeffrey.1978]

@Grim Reapers - Good stuff Cap! You are always going to have bugs and things to work out when you introduce new content. Regardless of the outcome, that was entertaining. Can you try redoing the scenario, without the ASW element, to see if that was in fact the issue causing everything else to act funky?

[@X35C]

Mr Douglas: You can't plug in a 2 with a 6. Green Acres

[@aztec0112]

Subs at 30kt would be easily detectible on a towed array or passive sonobuoy. Consider a zig zag pattern for the main group while setting an ASW picket ship(s) doing a sprint and drift pattern (listening on the drift)

[@GrahamMilkdrop]

Teething problems with compatibility are always going to be a cause of frustration in sims. When they work they're great though and ultimately worth the effort, I think. It all seemed to function when the scoreboard was switched off.

[@alexleiper2506]

Great to watch guys, could you maybe run it again without the scoreboard from the start? Meteors tracked better after you shut it down...

[@voradfils]

Thanks, scoreboard was never "shut down", that option simply suppresses the display. It keeps gathering the stats in the background as usual.

[@5Andysalive]

There are quite a few fuel cell powered (H+O=power) subs. They have no Diesel and can stay submerged for weeks. As far as i know, among others Germany, Sweden, Greece and Israel have those. A swedish one quite famously sunk (simulated) a US carrier without being noticed. Should be easy to adjust by just disabling whatever makes the DCS Diesel subs to Diesel subs. Size is similar. You know, no surfacing, no smoke, speed and stuff idk but should be possible to find (as exactly as these things can be found)..

[@tarn1135]

“Oh look the Russian “carrier” is sinking without anyone touching it” - that’s what would happen in real life.

[@tgsgardenmaintenance4627]

Gorshkov's would possibly have Zircon's on board! That would change things a bit?

[@markanderson3870]

Umm you forgot to mention how many tugboats would be towing the Kuznetsov.

[@watcherzero5256]

31:10 Meteor flys through the Migs wing!

[@bigmull]

Not enough smoke from Kuznetsov.

[@jmtpolitico80]

That really sucks that the best missiles I think that are out there are just not working! I'd be pissed, matter a fact I was just sitting yelling at the missiles to work! Like they were going to listen to me! lol

[@warrior3614]

They should add the new Kirov class ship that was upgraded the Admiral Nakhimov will enter service this year.

[@lachyt5247]

I'd like to see a convoy escort mission (no need for air power other than ASW helos), if you can get submarine torpedos and TSAMs working. Have a large merchant fleet being escorted by a minimal ASW destroyer screen and hunted by submarines. I'm not certain the current available mechanics are sufficient to make it interesting but submarines hunting shipping is a major factor in modern unrestricted submarine warfare.

[@rickcoona8368]

We have Nuke Subs! (but they can't Fire their Torps so...Yeah.)

[@DrDezaro]

I reckon there is a target conflict in the data link as the GR missiles use the AWACS data links and they probably need an air/surface datalink and a surface/sub datalink

[@frenchcar7664]

It would be very interesting if they model the modernised Admiral nakhimov battlecruiser

[@Idontwantahandle6669]

The meteors started working after the mig shot down one of the British AWACS.

[@shtorm2616]

I think that the ASW should be completely removed for now because its still very much incomplete. The biggest features missing are ships also doing ASW and different submarines having different acoustic signatures not just depending on their speed. They should be added to battles like these when the said features are implemented.

[@shtorm2616]

and sonobuoys too

[@voradfils]

Thanks, the capability for different acoustic signatures is there already and I half expected Cap and the boys to make use of it. That chart shown in the videos is a sample chart and actually meant for the submarine operator to give a general idea how fast one can move in which circumstance. That's why slow speeds are green and fast ones are red. Big plans for the ASW script, but it's going to take a while.

[@markstott6689]

Up to 40 F-35B's can be carried on the QE & POW In wartime. This assumes we buy enough 😂

[@LondonSteveLee]

We only have 30 qualified F-35B pilots across ALL services and that includes some yanks being loaned to us. We couldn't cover 12 F-35Bs per carrier without borrowing most active RAF F-35B pilots. And despite this desperate situation the RAF decided to banish hiring whites in the pilot programme! Good luck finding Criminal-record free people with first class STEM degrees in our "ethnic" population! This is intentional suicide by the wokes at the top.

[@Kakarot64.]

Should have kept some harriers to flesh out the carrier airwings at least until either F35B's are delivered in high enough numbers or a mid life refit adds the electric catapults for F35C's (or a theoretical carrier version of Tempest).

[@lukio12]

can you do a video similar to the china attack on australia but attack on the UK? Add in eurofighters, ideally with f35 and eurofighter being equipped with spear 3. Apparently they think f35b will be able to carry 8 spear3s and 2 meteors all internally.

[@grimreapers]

Working on it.

[@zahnatom]

i think the meteor is too easy to notch. its a 2016 missile so i'd imagine that its got a near unnotchable seeker

[@msytdc1577]

47:56 not notching, script conflicts making missiles act dumb.

[@grimreapers]

TBH all of the GR missiles are too easy to notch, we can't give them AESA seekers in game yet sadly. On the plus side, it's equalled out on both sides.

[@LondonSteveLee]

Notching is fantasy against any modern western RADAR system. That was dealt with decades ago.

[@xxinfamyyyxx]

Interesting. I spent 10 years serving on RN Nuclear attack boats.

[@jovianr9498]

Seacepter is believed to be unable to address high speed targets.

[@bardslee]

I think we need a rematch!

[@davidgreen9957]

After you turned off the scoreboard, the Meteors started working...

[@grimreapers]

hmmm interesting...

[@slcliffdiver]

They started tracking soon after the scoreboard was turned off for the sub hunting problem.

[@ryanjones2297]

You guys seriously need to up the realism for the Russian side, we need the tug boat modeled, as well as the Carrier having to choose between heat and propulsion.

[@msytdc1577]

The vodka will keep them warm, so burn that coal and get headed towards the tug so they can get towed back to port and get more vodka.

[@buphalosawse5571]

Also we need a % chance every few minutes that the Eldritch horrors in the sealed off sections of the Kuznetsov break free.

[@bearcatracing007]

Yes and America carriers catching fire more without help from the other side 😂

[@ryanjones2297]

@@bearcatracing007 well, for 1, this video doesn't have any American carriers in it, and 2, no, stop watching chinese/russian propaganda.

[@grimreapers]

Fair comment.

[@RyanC232]

Honestly this isn't realistic because Russia doesn't have glue, tape, and potato holding everything together

[@phillipeandreewich5993]

The Kirov (now Pyotor Vilenki) and sister ship Nakhimov are being refitted. They are apparently being fitted with over 180 S300 missiles, 18 SSN-22 Shipwrecks (or Zircon), at least 80 Tor M1 AA missiles and interlocking kashtan guns. Because the S300 naval variant can also be used in Anti ship, this will give the refitted Pyotor Vilenki a vast array of very fast and intelligent missiles capable of working as a pack and even evading SM3 missiles. Big warships are a thing of the past, but perhaps they are also the future because the bigger the ship, the higher the capacity and launch rate of missiles. The idea that low profile/small ships are preferential is rapidly becoming outdated as radar will become too powerful to hide from and their small size will rob them of any meaningful ability to saturate missile defences, making them useless in offensive anti ship. If you model the Kirov properly, it will be a very potent ship.

[@JJ-1-1]

Russians will still lose unless they bring their tug,

[@willwozniak2826]

Interesting being a 2025 Russia Naval fleet without their Zircon anti-ship Hypersonic missile. Would like to see how that missile will fair out if it comes to DCS.

[@cestall1]

I just noticed the "Taxpayer" losses in the upper right XD

[@jmtpolitico80]

Nice to watch a good Naval Battle again! Specially with Nuclear Subs! Thanks Guy's!

[@svartmetall]

Have you factored in Admiral Kuznetsov randomly catching fire, as it is prone to doing?

[@CaptainHat]

Did notice that the Meteors stsrted tracking after you switched the score board off?

[@bardslee]

If the QECV was going to use 24 F-35's they would have 2 squadrons of 8 air superiority and 1 squadron of 8 as strike.