AV-8B Harrier: High Weight "Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing" SRVL Overview | DCS WORLD

[@PaVVroo]

Amazing to see my request being fulfilled. Thanks a lot! Also fun fact - VAAC Harrier was an old twin seat plane with FBW system added in the backseat (front seat pilot was there only for safety reasons)

[@grimreapers]

Awesome thanks man x

[@napnic]

I have been doing this already. I am proud of myself lol. Thanks GR!

[@_od_7825]

Just to point out it was done in the Falklands...as usual it wasn’t done by the US first.

[@PaVVroo]

I would love to know more about this. Do you have any source on that info?

[@E69Nazgul]

Me too

[@_od_7825]

Hostile Skies: The Battle for the Falklands - David Morgan. He had to come into the Hermes with very low fuel, too low to allow him to do a vertical landing, so he did a rolling landing, in the dark and bad weather. From memory.

[@christianmaas8934]

Well yeah...its a british aircraft. No need for holier than thou

[@_od_7825]

Christian Maas uh huh...except someone somewhere has yet agin thought “Murica! Only we could do this. Let’s claim we did it to develop something for someone else because they’re too dumb to have thought it up for themselves.” Despite the fact the RAF landed Harriers like this all the time, and I’m sure most operators of the Harrier do/did. However, it’s then led to a post on KZbin by someone asking an innocent question because they believed it. Just like the claim that VIFFing was ‘invented’ by the US Marine Corps. There’s life outside the US, but Murica!

[@BradKarlovec]

3am out here in Ohio loving the chance to watch an interesting video. Love you guys!

[@Mako2-1]

Lol same here in miami fl

[@richardmetellus2336]

same nyc #no sleep gang

[@AXL4LIFE229]

Same here in Ga. :)

[@matthewdowd4686]

12:43 in California

[@grimreapers]

^^ now that's loyalty x

[@jessicafox4554]

This is even possible with the heaviest harrier stores loadout (about 10300lbs iirc) and full fuel, if a little difficult. No excuses to push that doorbell ever again!

[@stay_at_home_astronaut]

I deployed aboard USS Tarawa in the 1980's

[@jackhaffenhoff1365]

So u want to be 50-60 degree nozzles until 300ft height from touch down then between 75 and 77 degrees. Also try and maintain 10degrees alpha. Your landing speed will be dictated by your gross weight

[@Papershields001]

It’s never made sense why the Royal Navy Built two supercarriers only to skimp on the catapults and buy 35Bs instead of Cs.

[@leggett2287]

Because it was estimated to cost £1.5 billion! plus the EMALS at the time was unproven and full of glitches. But mostly blame the RAF for the carriers not haveing CATOBAR.

[@PaVVroo]

Money. It was either 2 ski jumps or one emals in their budget constraints

[@Papershields001]

Leggett 228 fiddlesticks. Sure, a steam pump and a bit of aluminum connected to a nose wheel...costs 2’billion dollars...

[@PaVVroo]

@@Papershields001 For the Ford class it costs around 800 milion 2008 US dollars. Even american officials criticise it.

[@leggett2287]

@@PaVVroo yes because it's that simple 😐, don't hate on me its just what BAE systems quoted to the MOD, and if you know BAE it'd probs of gone up to £2 billion. Also no carrier built in the 21st century will use steam catapults, theyre 60s tech.

[@kibathemechanic4967]

5:27 "It's so quiet. I know now why they call it 'Silent Night'."

[@grimreapers]

lol

[@Mojje42]

Cool i would really like to know what causes that oscillation in the Harrier and if there's any way of countering it? so far it's happened like 90% of my landing attempts resulting in either crashing into the carrier or needing to go around

[@kodefashmodefa]

i thought i read somewhere that US f-35s are going to have to land on the UK's new carrier since the US marine's carriers arent big enough for this rolling F-35 landing?

[@kodefashmodefa]

@Brian Coley the article i read made it sound like they had to land there to land with stores, leave the stores on the hms queen Elizabeth and the hms prince of Wales. It gave the impression that the marines were there because the america class ships couldnt recover heavy jets.

[@PaVVroo]

@Brian Coley Weapons get more and more expensive, also in XXI century dumping fuel into the sea is quite unpopular.

[@themelonman7363]

Are you guys planning on doing more C/A ship tutorials soon? I love those vids and the way you guys do them.

[@grimreapers]

Only one more ship left to do, that new chinese LHA. Here are the others at bottom: kzbin.info/aero/PL3kOAM2N1YJfs5272P1a-PN_gtergxxu4

[@themelonman7363]

@@grimreapers Awesome, would you guys ever consider doing mod showcases or doing tutorials like those for modded ships?

[@matthewdowd4686]

Hey cap your the man man! You got girlfriend Vietnam! Lmfao! Keep up the stellar content good sir!! Big fan.

[@grimreapers]

I do have a secret GF in Vietnam, please do not tell my wife.