Concentrated Shock - Vietnam '68

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During the Vietnam war, General Van Fleet (then retired) praised the increase of the use of air power in warfare as "concentrated shock". Throughout the war, the US air force would fly 5.25 million sorties over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, for loss of 2,251 aircraft, while the amount of lives they saved through timely close air support and through S&R and CASEVAC cannot be calculated, the proliferation of mass aerial bombardment as a means to prevent infantry meeting other infantry led to much more destruction and unfortunately, more civilian casualties.
Finally a new Vietnam video after at least 3 years, enjoy!
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[@canadiancrusader8408]

Aircraft Cheat sheet: 0:10 F-4 Phantom 0:24 F-100 Super Saber 0:26 C-141 Starlifter 0:28 C-130 Hercules 0:29 C-123 Provider 0:32 O-1 Birddog 0:35 A-1 Skyraider 0:37 KC-135 Stratotanker, F-105 Thunderchief 0:38 KC-135, F-4 0:40 F-100 0:41 C-130 0:43 CH-47 Chinook, UH-1 Huey 0:44 F-4 0:47 A-1 0:49 CH-53 (i think) 0:51 C-123 (i think) 1:00 F-4 1:02 F-100 1:18 F-4 1:19 F-105 1:21 A-1 1:23 F-100 1:24 UH-1 1:27 F-100 1:29 F-4 1:30 F-105 1:33 B-52 Stratofortress 1:36 C-141 1:55 CH-3 SeaKing(i think) 2:07 AIM-7 air to air missile, MiG-17(i think) 2:13 B-52 2:21 AC-47 Spooky 2:23 O-1 2:48 F-4

[@stefanwalicord2512]

Hero right here

[@frazerguest2864]

Thank you for that. It will sure make my Wikipedia searching easier.

[@samuelmcbride9740]

Good eyes. OV-10s are a personal favorite- not featured

[@guachingman]

how do you know? I mean that sincerely, is it a hobby? historian? military man? thanks

[@danreed7889]

nice job!

[@hanzgetzaluger5852]

My friend you've set an extremely high bar for future youtubers who want to do this

[@jd7338]

Fr he keeps knocking it out of the park

[@Jarpasaurus]

I’ve only just found this channel a week or two ago and can’t get enough of it. The music is stellar.

[@invaliduser6961]

Instead of Nam it's just Covid situations 😂

[@hanzgetzaluger5852]

@@invaliduser6961 😂 that's a good one

[@therealpabl0esc0bar69]

Yup me boi PENN Gaming is trying hard, still hasn't released his

[@John.McMillan]

Just absolute banger after banger, The ammount of progress made in editing skill in the last few years is staggering. Heres to a few more years, Well done.

[@MajorSamm]

Thanks a lot man, I've got at least a few more years in me.

[@John.McMillan]

@@MajorSamm Fuck yea, Looking forward to it.

[@sven_86]

Here's to a lot more years, God willing! Great stuff majorsamm!

[@noekahn2073]

@@MajorSamm Given your rate of progress that would result in monumental pictures, the oscar worthy. Whats to come after those "few years"?

[@justjon9180]

There's only one thing I wish MajorSamm would do, which is polish up all his vids like he did with the Congo Merc ones before releasing. Those look beautiful

[@grau8381]

This is some serious aesthetics. Excellent music choice.

[@kylefarris8866]

Can't go wrong with synthwave.

[@doctorchaotic3415]

@@kylefarris8866 synthwave everyday

[@kylefarris8866]

@@doctorchaotic3415 Have you heard of the artist Carpenter Brut?

[@adriangutierrez3378]

2:27 is ABSOLUTE PERFECTION. MajorSamm does not miss.

[@augustdenger8231]

More ordnance was expended by the USAF in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia than was expended by every belligerent nation in both world wars. Great video MajorSamm!

[@NathanDudani]

Glad to see all those tax dollars were well spent bombing or defoliating trees

[@user-si5vp6ud1w]

@@NathanDudani hey at least its not social and gender studies in pakistan

[@maquacr7014]

@@user-si5vp6ud1w That money gets spent on Pakistan's nuclear programme. Do you think Pakistan is fool to implement an ideology that is destroying West from within?

[@doughesson]

@@maquacr7014 Yes they are using the money for other than education but our political"leaders" are voluntarily blind to that. At least we don't have a President tweeting mean things, right?

[@tyzilla87]

@@doughesson lol it was a bit worse than just a president tweeting mean things. Trump wasn’t a good leader of a nation. A country is not a company 💯

[@frazerguest2864]

Sam, no bullshit, this is your best one yet. And that’s really saying something !

[@MajorSamm]

Thanks a lot man, it means a lot.

[@frazerguest2864]

@@MajorSamm : Credit where credit is due mate.

[@1999Almaz]

On pair with Operation Lionheart in my opinion

[@JoeMama-fg5oq]

Not a single cellphone in sight, just people living the moment

[@Tonyx.yt.]

some living, some no longer

[@dogemeat9381]

It would be fairly difficult to be on a cellphone while flying an aircraft

[@zorbaz3940]

@@biIIybob858 it's a joke

[@zorbaz3940]

@@biIIybob858 bro the "people just living the moment" is a well known meme

[@unpibeargentino7085]

Ligma

[@hugostiglitz7373]

You can be 'cool', but you'll never be MajorSamm 'Going back in time to the 60's to bring them 80's style synthesizer music', cool.

[@SPECREY]

i wish we could have this songs at mgs v

[@DARPAinterner]

War never look so comfy and badass at the same time

[@chronicallytired02]

chào đồng chí

[@DARPAinterner]

@@chronicallytired02 oh, có người việt coi vid như vậy à. Xin chào

[@Roadkill3120]

Almost let you forget that there was a lot of killing, a lot of dying. For nothing..

[@chronicallytired02]

@@DARPAinterner video của og này kino vl ko coi mới lạ

[@diewildemathilde4432]

That shot of the planes dumping Agent Orange at 0:50 is genuinely haunting

[@ebinecksdee9872]

It's crazy how most of the munitions I work with were first used in this war

[@NathanDudani]

LaNd Of InNoVaTiOn

[@alexanderstrickland9036]

@@NathanDudani they made better bombs. They just aren’t worth the extra cost. Why use a f1 race car to get groceries?

[@ebinecksdee9872]

@@alexanderstrickland9036 that's essentially what I was told in training as to why we use all the old shit. One of the few times the military said if it ain't broke don't fix it

[@doughesson]

@@alexanderstrickland9036 B-52 to bomb an agrarian economy?

[@mr_jihan2006]

M16,M113,Chinook,b-52 and the list goes on

[@landoncarter9239]

The F-4 silhouette on that sunset was a level of badass I couldn’t have imagined

[@PrestonFrankel]

Absolutely never seen a bad video come out of this channel. Love it, as always.

[@dlistmemer591]

Real shit, some of this footage I have never seen before and I thought I’ve seen a majority of the surviving film

[@notasoviet1016]

Something about the angle they got while filming that air to air missile is really cool

[@nathaniel9071]

Today I have discovered a masterpiece of a channel; I am watching every single one of your videos at minimum once. The editing, the music, the footage, the story - all perfectly put together. Fastest I’ve ever hit subscribe, and no regrets

[@mr.mercury4247]

The footage from vietnam is hands down some of the most disturbing footage to ever exist. Watching the shockwave come out of the bombs is almost vomit inducing, the death that they are capable of causing. Seeing villages burning, people lived in those places.

[@user-si5vp6ud1w]

Yeah, you have to master the war before someone else do that to you

[@pjtel9500]

🤡🤡🤡

[@taco2422]

@@pjtel9500 shut up

[@ernestkhalimov1007]

@@user-si5vp6ud1w thank Deus the Vietnamese didnt let these crimes go unanswered. Forcing Americans to watch the Saigon evacuation was a masterpiece

[@markfrancis5528]

Honestly you need to get an Oscar for the music to film editing on this...one off KZbin channel...thankyou

[@t.j4037]

This is no doubt one of your best videos. The raw footage of the strength of bombs and planes is absurd.

[@zumate5680]

Pure hell for both captilaists and communists this war.

[@flowersflower110]

Dictators came with Mba in finance degree?

[@gabrielplese7516]

@S F jesus Christ why are you so aggresive he might not be a native English speaker

[@lukalackovic9059]

Well the US was the agressor, as they usually are

[@FaStTurdle]

@@gabrielplese7516 dudes probably from tolerant sf (san francisco)

[@truelocomax2804]

Real tragedy is that it all could’ve been avoided if the US had actually listened to the Vietnamese back in the 20’s. Ho chi-min was a big fan of the US style democracy and wanted to model an independent Vietnam in its image. He went to the negotiations at Versailles to ask the US to support its independence from the French, the US said no, and he got disillusioned and turned to communism instead.

[@azj_]

The music is totally perfect with this video

[@estebanenrique5777]

something curious and iconic of the Vietnam War, are those recordings where an explosion raises a large white dome, this happened with great frequency since Vietnam is an extremely humid country and well that white dome is basically the condensation of that humidity and water in fractions of a second by the energy released by the shock wave, and people often confuse this with the shock wave or shock wave, but not the shock wave is ahead of the small white cloud. As always great video Majorsamm !!

[@darkninjacorporation]

Me and the boys fucking around in Arma 3 SOG be like

[@ashishbhandari2758]

Another masterpiece of Major Sam that elements orange actuat look white in the sky

[@digital_curry4776]

Yet again never fails to disappoint, thanks major! 👏

[@Efendim.]

What ?

[@digital_curry4776]

@@Efendim. ??

[@ricksmith9256]

No, he ALWAYS fails to disappoint :)

[@digital_curry4776]

@@ricksmith9256 uhh ok lol

[@Efendim.]

@@digital_curry4776 Your sentence is wrong mate but whatever

[@nolanmckinney4637]

my grandfather was shot down somewhere over northern Vietnam he was a pilot in an f100

[@pmk-es1rw]

Love the showcase on the air war. Like Desert Storm, the variety of aircraft, strike methods, and munitions used are vast and incredibly interesting to watch.

[@joeblow5214]

This is the way I sit and chill. I play gun camera footage, elephant walks, and take offs.

[@GlitchedBlox]

I literally searched this video for 30 minutes using the word "Shockwave Synthwave Music Video Vietnam 1968" but to no avail, so i changed it to "Shock Synthwave Music Vietnam" and found it.

[@tanker4516]

This is Roscoe 09 requesting Bird Dog 1, Recon over target area, spot me those Charlies. This is Bird Dog 1, we will be over in just a few, see what we can see for you, bird dog out.

[@jerrell1169]

“Hentai Ass defenses are actiff”

[@ironfisto]

Majorsam your choice of music to set the mood is awesome. The scenes are deliberately ordered to syncronize with the music flow. The ending though, was superb. I thought we were hitting the climax then the music stopped abruptly and screen turns black. That was an ultimate punchline lol. I thought it was going to be the usual fade to black, really caught me by surprise. On the side note, the mood feels similar to Koyanisqatsi, an underrated masterpiece

[@harold7970]

This song is just... so... good... the editing ... so fricking amazing

[@beargrilling9785]

All the leaves are brown And the sky is gray

[@judeodomhnaill9711]

My uncle fought there in 68, artillery mobile observer.

[@ee12321]

2:26 daaaam thats clean!

[@garymckee448]

It's amazing the amount of ordnance that was expended there that there was any enemy combatants left.

[@col.cottonhill6655]

What's cooler than synthwave with scenes of war

[@soldat2501]

Nothing?

[@crannser]

War with a synthwave soundtrack.

[@CrimeEnjoyer]

Kneecapping fascists.

[@neymarmessironaldo5881]

@@CrimeEnjoyer headstomping blm coalburners

[@CrimeEnjoyer]

@@neymarmessironaldo5881 cope harder fashcel

[@TheRealFieldMarshalRanveer]

I was about to sleep, then saw this video in my notifications

[@ZGFyZG8g]

I get hyped when the video first starts then a wave of sadness comes crashing down.

[@hando4880]

belive it or not, Majorsamm's channel has large contribution for me to join my country's armed forces. Majorsamm, making war looks sexy since 2015

[@SKUMO2005]

I was just rewatching your old videos... I accidentally exited the app and refreshed your page.... if only you could see my smile rn

[@historysabo3208]

It's insane the amount of air losses we took in Vietnam if you go through the sheer amount of aircraft shot town its larger then some of the world's biggest air forces today

[@Skankhunt-mv4vd]

aircraft back then were a lot more expendable and numerous than today. Shooting down an f35 is not at all the same as shooting down an f4. Same with modern vs old helicopters

[@thienbui898]

In 68’ Tet offensive. These close air support missions real saved the day. Without them. The Vietcong and NVA would have steam rolled the ARVN.

[@ireviewshtuff]

*"For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. This summer's almost certain standoff will either end in real give-and-take negotiations or terrible escalation; and for every means we have to escalate, the enemy can match us, and that applies to invasion of the North, the use of nuclear weapons, or the mere commitment of one hundred, or two hundred, or three hundred thousand more American troops to the battle. And with each escalation, the world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster."* - Walter Cronkite in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive.

[@mengo0456]

2:03 that Sparrow launch is so cool.

[@yusufal-rashid8990]

my grandfather served for the vietcong, he told me his eldest child killed by american weapon, until his last moment he hold grudge against the american.

[@CrimeEnjoyer]

A lot of drafted American vets and mourning families also carried a lifelong grudge against American warhawks.

[@crazyd4ve875]

@@CrimeEnjoyer and against the Vietcong

[@CrimeEnjoyer]

@@crazyd4ve875 Don't care. They had every right to defend their country.

[@deez5925]

Majorsamm is the best channel in youtube right now change my mind

[@MajorSamm]

Thanks a lot man.

[@gulfstream7235]

The planes dropping agent orange 50 seconds in.....

[@kieranjordan3313]

This is by far my favourite one, literally perfection. I’ve rewatched it like ten times. Amazing as usual mate

[@advamalstanly2928]

MajorSamm breaking the barriers of editing by inventing different modes of ecstacy throughout his recent works. Kudos and well-done mate..Cheers to the great days coming..

[@virginialoverproductions]

This is a SERIOUS aesthetic! Well done, MajorSamm!

[@ralphjackson2518]

Something I feel needs to be given a very brief overview: Operation Barrel Roll: Cas and interdiction in Laos, predates official us involvement Operation Rolling Thunder, Linebacker I, Linebacker II: sustained bombing in North Vietnam Operation Arc Light: B-52 Operations in Vietnam, lasted until 73. Operation Menu, Patio: bombing the ho chi Minh trail in Cambodia Ranch Hand: use of herbicides and defoliants such as agent orange Edit: the skyraiders shown early on were South Vietnam, and *might* have been trained under Farm Hand, but idk.

[@austindavis1686]

This is my favorite one so far

[@panicatack6318]

When sky starts to speak in American.

[@mcarfish]

Good video

[@samuelmcbride9740]

MajorSamm. To start off. Big fan. I understand conflict much better now because of your help. May you consider a video with the song Runaround- by Jan Hammer- he was the music writer for Miami Vice and think it would be very fitting. One thing that crosses my mind when I watch your videos and see someone’s face. I think what if that was me, my friends, family member. Etc. There was no music, it wasn’t done within three minutes. But to see the actions of the young in their own time. Doing things that have rippled the effects. With a liveliness to make me feel I can be one of them. In their time.

[@johnnumber1]

I think Vietnam was sorta the middle ground of aircraft technology and its usage in warfare. A combination of propeller driven aircraft, to then jets and more advanced helicopters. While we still use some propeller driven aircraft, Vietnam I believe was the last war where they were used extensively, throughout most of the conflict. Correct if I’m wrong in the comment section though. Have a good day👍.

[@jeanvaljean341]

Prop planes are good a loittering over AO and providing air support to infantry. They are not good at intercepting migs or other fast movers

[@johnnumber1]

@@jeanvaljean341 Yep. Mainly reconnaissance, close air support or rescue operations. Cessna’s, hueys, gunships, etc.

[@0ld_Scratch]

1:38 love that shot over the clouds!

[@captain4957]

I wonder how many friendly fire incidents we are watching realistically looking at all the times ordinance was accidentally dropped on our own guys or called in danger close with same result. Not hating also not wishing it but it was a factor back then so i wanted to state that. Great video

[@maquacr7014]

Many of your soldiers died after contracting cancer from agent orange in Vietnam.

[@echodelta2172]

Utterly hypnotizing, you could've extended this another 5 minutes and I wouldn't have even noticed.

[@gob6213]

yep

[@tinkandtory]

This man needs a spotify playlist - I need his spotify playlist.

[@maksimkharbyshev4525]

2 things i never regreted; doing drugs and watching major samm

[@quangcaodo8864]

What about watching Majorsamm on drugs ?

[@bman6065]

You've accomplished a great feat. You introduced me to electronic music featuring dubstep I like.

[@_Cuervo_]

I dont understand why your channel dont have more subscriptors. You have talent, dude!

[@foggyjoust7378]

My grandpa was in Nam, killed himself afterwards, never got to meet him, and I wish I could've but, it was inevitable, and the way those men got treated coming back...

[@foggyjoust7378]

@S F Wow. Just Wow.

[@myopicthunder]

Absolutely criminal what they did in Vietnam...

[@Cam-tn6dw]

This video is fucking incredible

[@FilthyAmerican]

Hugely under-rated video on the channel

[@caffeinatedbuffalosauce883]

Peace through air superiority

[@captainvanhorn773]

Shock and awe boys, shock and awe

[@ronangaelicprince3239]

I take my hat off too you sir

[@chec8timi374]

You should do one on the 1970 october crisis in Quebec. Always love the content!

[@wheres_all_the_pie1991]

cool video man I really love your content

[@TN-xx4ih]

Haven't heard this song since the early days of my Synthwave journey. I'll need to re listen to it more

[@lancegideondiokno1774]

Why sleep when you can watch asthetics filled history vids from majorsamm (It's literally 3:24)

[@julianscaeva4334]

I am so fucking glad I stumbled over this channel.

[@thenowhere4882]

Could you imagine flying FAC back then in a little bird dog, with NVA and Viet Cong practically able to spit on you. Un-fucking-real

[@tommyle7376]

My dad was on the little Cessna doing recon mission. He was glad he wasn't on the ground because he saw all those tracers going back and forth and it was really intense

[@thenowhere4882]

Huge level of respect for your Pops

[@RrRr-or5tw]

No way I’m first also awesome as always and still the only channel I’m subscribed to where I actually watch every video.

[@_monti142]

best youtube has to offer

[@martyREq2]

Man your videos are getting better and better each time.

[@marclayne9261]

MajorSamm......An Aesthete That Looks At War...as, Ernst Junger & Yukio Mishima....

[@jethrotertiusthethird2439]

Another amazing video from one of my favourite channels. You are clearly really improving with your editing and it shows. I cannot wait to see what else you will achieve in the future.

[@fernandoguzmanfernandez3466]

A Vietnam war video without "Fortunate Son"? Thank you, MajorSamm

[@tylertaylor250]

I’ve been watching your videos for half a year, I truly don’t know how you’re able to match a good/perfect song for every video.. however what I love is the educational purposes from the comments of your community and the videos themselves. I know this either over said or just another comment in a sea of discussions but this is a great channel

[@mr_jihan2006]

"When two elephants fight,it was the grass that suffers"- an African proverb

[@mycoolhandgiveit]

I think this might be my favorite out of your current work. Not that the others are bad but damn this is just perfect

[@doctorchaotic3415]

My jaws dropped because im late but glad im not gone before seeing this. This is some good stuff Sam.

[@jessemartinez907]

Major samm another great hit I love your channel so much, please upload the live streams you recently made if you can, and do another one soon I love hearing them when I study

[@zmajodnocaja5088]

In the end, the human being is stronger than the bomb.

[@slarclar]

Your videos are absolute work of art!

[@giovannitani1064]

MajorSamm i'm totally in love with your videos and i really enjoy this one as preavious ones. I Always check your description. This one, in my very humbly fan opinion, could also spent a word about the many civilian victims of the u.s. airpower under huge bombing, desfoliating, etc. I dont want to start an argument, please keep going on with your job.

[@MajorSamm]

Thanks a lot man, you made a good point, I was struggling to think of a description for this video and I rushed it a little but I added a bit about the side effects now.

[@giovannitani1064]

@@MajorSamm you're the best! I love how we could feel those old days through your editing work, so i made that point only to remember how bad was the war, in an historical view.

[@iainkemp3274]

Definitely one of your more sobering efforts MajorSamm. Well done.

[@kebabking7025]

Top shit samm thoroughly enjoyed! Keep it up! Thx

[@mrmakhno3030]

Vietnam had a really good and wide-spreading air defense forces at that time,from Mosin and outdated MG of guerilla to SAM and MiG of regular force. If we hadn't , I'm not sure about the victory, because the US air power is too great.

[@taco2422]

Ok

[@kleinesschreckgespenst319]

Also du bist ein vietnamesischer Antifaschist/Kommunist in Deutschland?

[@bigassspoon4768]

Who would win a technological super power or some rice farmers

[@StrohmaniasFlyingCircus]

Neither. Only the investors win.

[@alwayscurious3357]

_PAVN. Which is a professional army and took the brunt of the fighting really is quite ignored in topics like these..._

[@bathtub1171]

IDK Vietnam is still a "crappy" country but I cant say anything better about the US.

[@_monti142]

this footage is jaw dropping

[@Monsterpala]

Humankind : I dream of flying God : why? Do you dream of flying near the sun? Humans : nah we just want to bomb the crap out of a forest...

[@johnarbuckle6583]

Seeing the shockwaves from those bombs is insane