Could 10 X B-1b Lancers Or Nukes Beat A Rogue Imperial Star Destroyer? (WarGames 61) | DCS

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[@christopherhanton6611]

LOL WELLL DONE FINALLY YOU DID SOMETHING WITH STAR WARS 🤣

[@grimreapers]

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[@goawayihavecommentstomake1488]

“Turbolaser” is the capital ship weapon from Star Wars you are thinking of ;)

[@druunderwood5602]

So you're to blame for the UXB JDAM in my back garden

[@Defender78]

would love to see all thse B-1 bombers and F-35s and B-21s destroy the alien invaders from the movie Skyline (2010) also what if the B1 bombers could lunch cruise missiles like they did in ID4, and if the Tomcats fired Pheonix and sidewinders from BVR?

[@Pr3acherman]

@@grimreapers I had to subscribe, so funny that first encounter in this, lol.

[@Maeyanie]

The Empire: "Give us money or we will destroy London." GR: "Not on our watch. You can't destroy London if we destroy it first!"

[@grimreapers]

lols

[@jimmyphantom5572]

Lol

[@youngthaiarfssoldier8732]

lol

[@aaronmclaughlin3624]

ROFL

[@LAV-III]

Ironically that was the empire’s way of thinking with operation cinder “you can’t defeat the empire if we destroy it first rebel scum”

[@mrhedgebull1658]

Finally, the serious tactical military simulations we needed.

[@jvee4072]

thank you! i didnt wanna be that guy to say it.....

[@mrhedgebull1658]

@@jvee4072 I always seem to be that guy!

[@Jedi.Toby.M]

This type of situation occupies too much of my "hypothetical situation" part of my brain than it should...and I'm sure I'm fine with that

[@Wonderwhoopin]

They are in a f1422351516

[@grimreapers]

Tactical science is important for all.

[@ecbst6]

I think they call the big mounted guns 'turbolasers', in spite of the blaster standard.

[@MarkoDash]

Star War's main energy weapons, ignoring the more esoteric stuff, tend to have 3 different categories despite all 3 having the same functionality. despite the various names all of them seem to shoot small packets of tightly contained plasma. Blasters: Small arms-light autocannon range, from tiny derringer-like pistols to Ma Deuce equivalents like the E-web, some light vehicles mount blasters (AT-ST, etc) Laser Cannon: Main armament of ground vehicles and Starfighters, range from autocannon to tank cannon equivalents. tend to come in two flavors, light and heavy. the turrets on the Millennium Falcon and the guns of the TIE fighters are light laser cannons, the long guns on the end of the X-wing's wings and the main guns of the AT-ATs are heavy laser cannons. Turbolaser: main starship and heavy vehicle armament, range from heavy AAA equivalents to battleship main guns. are separated into light-medium-heavy-superheavy categories. The ISD is covered in hundreds of light and medium turbolasers, but the main armaments are the 64 heavy turbolasers in the eight octuple-mount turrets on the sides of the superstructure.

[@Kevin-hb7yq]

@@MarkoDash Yes, the phazers.

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@jasperkalen7571]

@@grimreapers The way I always had it in my head cannon from reading the “Legacy” era novels were that the “turbolasers” on the capital ships were analogous to a 76mm or 57mm modem turret. Mainly used for bombardment or attacking other ships, but not really meant for anti-star fighter defense (although if you got lucky, you could certainly take a star fighter down with one shot). But point defense were done with laser cannons, like the dual quad laser cannon turrets on the Millennium Falcon or on the Lancer-class cruisers. The laser cannons weren’t as powerful as the turbolasers, but were faster at tracking and more agile; more akin to 20mm point defense weapons from the WW2 era. And of course, none of them are lasers in the traditional sense; but more a charged plasma emission amplified by tibana gas.

[@Jedisherm]

@@jasperkalen7571 Correct, The TBLs had a hard time trying to follow the smaller starfighters which is why the Ties were needed for CAP/screen. But very little is mentioned about the quad laser sets for anti-starfigher role. IIRC, in the Xwing Series The Bacta War, they talk about the armament of an Imperial MKII and what would need to be stripped for Booster Terrik to have the ship privately. They mostly addressed the TBLs, Ions, and tractor beams.

[@jyralnadreth4442]

Thinking about it...the Imperials will be intercepting comms talking about B-1s coming their way, the Imps are probably on the floor laughing thinking you are sending B1 Battle droids to kill them 😂

[@captaincactus1414]

Heheh

[@SoshoKozadokaGojiraChargedUp]

And then they start to hear the booms erupting all over their ship

[@colmanaburn]

Roger Roger

[@alicorn3924]

@@SoshoKozadokaGojiraChargedUp and then experience the PTSD under a WW1 artillery barrage, without dying of course

[@SoshoKozadokaGojiraChargedUp]

@@alicorn3924 yep

[@randlebrowne2048]

Don't forget that, despite the name, Star Destroyers are actually carriers as well. Imagine trying to get through a screen of Ties, before even getting in range of the turbolasers!

[@carrisasteveinnes1596]

And they have layered force fields or defence screens, and I read the turbo lasers have range up to 1600km. Plus they have forward velocity of up to 900 km/hour under antigravity atmosphere flight.

[@LordRyn]

@@carrisasteveinnes1596 That's overkill by modern standards, I'm sure even the rebels had their hands full

[@CreeperDude-cm1wv]

Imagine all the ace combat protags, plus maverick and monarch taking that on.

[@Riken]

And the layers of force fields being created by the shield generators

[@b-chroniumproductions3177]

@@LordRyn early Rebellion had to fear small frigates let alone Star Destroyers, late-war Rebellion had some of their own comparable capital ships (the Mon Calamari cruisers)

[@osuna3525]

I always liked how the B-1R they were considering years ago also spells B-ONE-R *_BONER_*

[@grimreapers]

lols

[@BaseSerpentMessmer]

Lol

[@KroMagnum4]

Was a crew chief on the B1B at McConnell AFB back in the 80's. I think AGM-69 SRAM's would have been better. Thanks for the memories.

[@justfun287]

Nice

[@Gunni1972]

You beat a Star destroyer? LOL

[@KroMagnum4]

@@Gunni1972 Yup 1985 over the Mojave desert, but that's classified.😎

[@hoghogwild]

24 SRAMs internal on 3 rotary launchers. The BONE is awesome, B-52 payload at 2% the RCS with 600 knots capability at 200 feet. Didn't have its nuclear mission long.

[@KroMagnum4]

@@hoghogwild Yup.

[@rodrigonunez9451]

Imerial Star Destroyers vs B-1s, F-14 and argentinian MiG 21 with nukes over London? Man this is what i call Quality Content.

[@alicorn3924]

when the Falklands war goes wrong

[@alexander1485]

Imerial?

[@cmotdibbler4454]

The east end of London now looks like a scene from fallout 4... which is a mild improvement.

[@dankuchar6821]

This type of accurate scientific research is so important! Thank you for your service!

[@Kevin-hb7yq]

Vital information to be sure.

[@ladsvideos]

"Sir, for the first time ever the Rebels AREN'T evading our turbo lasers!"

[@Patrician9000]

My good friends dad flew the B1 when we were kids, I didn't realize how cool that was until I got older. He once told me that dropping a bomb at that speed was like throwing a golf ball into a solo cup from a speeding car. RIP Sir.

[@BlokeOnAMotorbike]

4x F101-GE-102 engines on the Lancer. Total thrust in excess of 120,000lb with afterburner.

[@grimreapers]

Wowser!

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

They were used in COIN for this earthshaking effect. Flying low and fast, they can cause the ground to shake with the sheer noise of those engines with afterburner on. Was a good way to get insurgents to disengage and flee, revealing their hiding locations to circling UAVS .

[@uhohmemebiggestboy212]

Your best bet for attacking a star destroyer that we're gonna say doesn't have any tie fighters and non operational shields since you weren't intercepted and you the bombs hit the surface of the star destroyer, is to attack from the back, no guns can see you, just don't be level with the engines as they will vaporise anything that gets close, but the star destroyer is perfectly designed for frontal assault and flanking, so you need to attack from behind it to not get shot down immediately

[@justjackmarstonwithinternet]

I doubt the engines would vaporize immediately but they would certainly obliterate any chance of the fighters using missiles that are in any sense using heat

[@edwardnigma2216]

The bridge tower has a few turrets on it for defending the rear of the ship, but admittedly far fewer than the rest of the ship. Attacking from the rear would pretty much be the ONLY option seeing as the ISD has a distinct targeting/firing range advantage.

[@uhohmemebiggestboy212]

@@justjackmarstonwithinternet in the games if you get close to engines in a star fighter or what not it will do a lot of damage true not literal vaporisation but I wouldn't bet that jets and bombers from earth would have any chance

[@TheRandomshite123]

Even with TIE's there is still a chance, they suck in atmosphere and the basic model doesn't have standoff weapons, shields or point defence so sidewinders or CWIS could probably take them down

[@Kelnx]

@@TheRandomshite123 Well yeah, but no half-intelligent captain of a Star Destroyer, or any Sci-Fi battleship would even enter the atmosphere. Just stay in orbit, deliver your demands, and be untouchable. A single Star Destroyer could basically control the entire earth from space with just threats. You can't fight what you can't reach, and they can bombard infinitely from orbit.

[@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze]

Good guys: “WE DID IT, WE SAVED THE CITY!” The city in question:

[@TzeentchLord412]

An ISD carries turbolasers. Blasters in Star Wars are infantry weapons.

[@jvee4072]

they are hangin out the port holes man....

[@5Andysalive]

What is a "turbolaser"? Does the light of the laser move faster than light then? Given that almost all fights in Star Wars (and Star Trek) happen at ludicrously tiny distances, that doesn't even seem necessary.

[@jyralnadreth4442]

@@5Andysalive Turbolasers and Laser cannons as GAS Plasma Laser weapons....the Laser is a transmission beam that Plasma basically sticks too (Its a real scientific possibility) and rides the beam to the end. The Laser is a component rather than the whole weapon just like Star Treks phasers have lasers involved. Blasters are different in that they are pretty much just plasma weapons with very short range just like Star Trek Enterprise started with in 2151

[@mrcontroversy222]

@@jyralnadreth4442 you are a FUCKING nerd. AND I LOVE IT

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@DavidBrown-yd9le]

I’m not sure what engines are on the bone but one night I was driving a truck across i94 and two of these took off over me. I can’t put into words how LOUD they are

[@jasonbiggums]

Was visiting my family at one of the airbases the B1s fly out of. From more than a mile away from the flight line it shook the windows of the building I was in and the lightposts outside. It's a crazy plane, I hope to be able to fly one of them when I join the air force

[@razorfett147]

120,000 lbs of thrust moves a SH1T-ton of air 😳😆

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

Back in 2008 I was sitting in the drivers seat of an M113 in a vehicle column in Helmand province Afghanistan. We had been sitting there waiting for the better part of a day when EW says taliban has eyes on us and our TACP calls in a show of force with a B-1 on afterburners over our column, only problem is they didn't seem to care about any minimum altitude flight restrictions because as they passed overhead It felt like if I stood up and stretched I could have touched their underside, it was loud as hell.

[@Psychobolic77]

I think your -bombers- bones got shot down by the destroyer as they passed overhead on your second run. They must have just got into range of the guns after they dropped their bombs. Looking on the bright side, the Thames now has a lovely, only slightly radioactive, pond connected to it by a blast crater. Just call it landscaping.

[@5Andysalive]

interesting philosophical question: If they demand less ransom than a bomb/missile would cost (or London houses) to shoot them, would we try or just give in? how much is not negotiating with terrorists worth? Not to mention the fact that that MASSIVE thing would drop straight at the place we just "saved". I guess it doesn't matetr because nobody down there survived the bombs anyway. So after much evaluation: It probably makes sense.

[@timesthree5757]

That and it's london. Like new york, Chicago, and LA not gonna cry any.

[@user-mc3nt6sg9d]

I think you did more damage to the city than the stare destroyer could have hoped to do.

[@Canthus13]

So one of my friends in high school flies/flew the Bone. (Not sure if he's back in them now, or if he's still commanding a transport wing on an Army base) He turned down the opportunity to be an astronaut to stay in the B-!B. Mighty fine plane.

[@joshm1660]

So, really the Empire covertly trained you as a stormtrooper without your knowledge to ensure your fateful marksmanship.

[@raymondhurley44]

My back garden backs onto Fairfield airfield. We are having a bbq and watching the airshow in my own garden with my own toilet facilities.

[@grimreapers]

nice...

[@lordsqueak]

Wow, that was Cinematic af !!! But,, to be fair,, your bombs on east end, is nothing compared to the damage of that thing falling out of the sky. Infact, it is probably a very bad idea to shoot it down at all, until it's outside the city. Actually, if the Independance day aliens had figured that out, and just landed their ships on the city, instead of wasting all that energy on special effects, it would have been a very short movie.

[@vernonkuhns3561]

Why didn't you eject and parachute onto the starcruiser and save London by hand to hand??

[@mfreed40k]

Just ride space horses, that apparently is a thing now.

[@grimreapers]

YES!

[@t.sorvig3540]

Star Wars has both Lasers and Blasters, but what you are referring to are called Turbolasers. They are the main anti-ship armament in the Star Wars universe. You'll see these most prominently on Capital ships, whether they be the Republic Venator Class, the CIS Lucrehulk, the Imperial Star Destroyer, etc. Blasters are generally handheld weapons (guns) carried by individuals and troops, though iirc some ground vehicles have scaled up blasters as armament. I am an enthusiast, not a nerd, thank you.

[@discofountain]

I've loved B-1's since I was a kid, every great once in a while I can hear a B-1 flying over head.

[@_Yep_Yep_]

Gotta hit the shield generators first bros.

[@jrsmiff6590]

In the old xwing game an ISD went into hyperspace with my poor xwing directly in front of her bridge , I'm sure I got a posthumous Rebel Alliance medal of honor for that

[@Creationeer]

Some crazy bastard wanted to replace the B-1b's engines with the same ones from the F22 with thrust vectoring to make a super fast, "Heavy Fighter" for rapid response anti-air for US air space defence. Please do it :) I love the Lancer, great looking planes.

[@Flojer0]

The super sonic formation sounds like a sparrow brought some coconuts

[@jeronb787]

Can’t tell if someone already answered B-one Motors are F101-GE-102s almost identical to the motor in the F-16. I was TDY @ RAF Fairford in 2018 with 2 bones from Dyess AFB. Miss working on her!

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@Nails077]

Someone missed an opportunity to make a B-1D variant.

[@SuperSpud69]

This was super cool, I just wish the star destroyer was to scale. It looked so small at an altitude of 20k feet, but a star destroyer is about a mile in length, or only a quarter of that distance.

[@Demonslayer20111]

Kinda depends what class of star deatroyer you are talking about. There are multuple classes and thus multiple sizes

[@SuperSpud69]

@@Demonslayer20111 I'm referring to the Imperial class star destroyer, which in this video is shown.

[@Sansarii_Minecraft]

Imperial I or Imperial II class?

[@SuperSpud69]

@@Sansarii_Minecraft It doesn't really matter, they're both about the same size

[@Foxiol]

It would be awesome to reproduce the Independence Day movie scene when they deactivate the shields from the massive ship. And then all those ships flying all around in a massive battle.

[@walkerhartge9177]

The Heavy Laser Cannons which are like 100mm CIWS have a range of 5 kilometers and an ISD has 8 quad heavy Laser cannons for anti-fighter

[@OllamhDrab]

Heehee, when attacking an ISD it's probably best not to come in head-on, that's where they have the most gunnery coverage, hence the wedge shape. Best to catch em from behind if possible, jus t break off best you can and probably head for the deck. :) Dunno how faithful that game mod is, though. :)

[@rebelgaming1.5.14]

Somehow coming from below would be even more effective due to the fact the ISD has only light turbolasers below.

[@OllamhDrab]

@@rebelgaming1.5.14 Somewhat, indeed, though it's hard to do that with gravity bombs. :)

[@rebelgaming1.5.14]

@@OllamhDrab cruise missiles or even ASMs might do the trick

[@frankbarnwell____]

Another silly thought. 4x F-22 vs a Klingon bird of prey. With AI Spock driving wearing the Trek 4 headband, of course.

[@FlightDreamz]

I was going to suggest a Star Trek vs. modern planes matchup (glad I'm not the only one thinking of that)

[@vanguard9067]

For the love of god, not the headband please. Please!

[@grimreapers]

COOL

[@fourthdrawerdown6297]

This is what’s missing from the Kenobi tv series.

[@brittgardner2923]

Realistically, this would halt an Imperial attack just on the grounds of, "Holy shit! They just dropped over half a million pounds of conventional explosives and six tactical nukes on one of their own most historic and important economic and cultural centers to kill ONE Star Destroyer! These people are savages! We're leaving!"

[@Geolaminar]

Tarkin doctrine: "we shall make the population fear us" Londoners: "the only thing I'm afraid of is leaving a thermonuclear carpet bombing half-finished"

[@alicorn3924]

when we are the Tarkin Doctrine: **Doom Music intensifies**

[@therealdebater]

Incidentally, I've actually landed (in a Chipmunk) on that runway, and I can testify that it is huge. Even the sides of the runway were over the horizon, in that tiny aircraft. It was like a gnat landing on an elephant's (censored).

[@KOS762]

I think they used mig-21 in the movie "Iron Eagle".. it was a cheesy movie, but still fun to watch.

[@waterrr356]

This is the funniest thing ever 😂, as a huge Star Wars fan I see this as an absolute win

[@paulharrison2325]

I hope you feel better soon, thank you for the video, always entertaining.

[@zevynozevyn4102]

The Rockwell is so beautiful 😍 love that byrd. So I did a little checking watched a video or two or three or four and came to the conclusion that on takeoff a Rockwell b1b lancer when it engages its afterburners it's simultaneous all four light at the same time.

[@kellywalker9268]

"Imperial Star Destroyer is a real bitch!!" Best one liner ever!!

[@PrinceWesterburg]

I’m glad that you chose the option that was waaaay cheaper than paying them £1m! XD

[@fernandorosati9450]

No, the Argentine never had a MIG-21 or non estern block military equipment, only it was a posibility by the J-7 to the Chines, but in 1969, the Argentinian Air Force by the Mirage IIIEA/DA, and in 1972/79 too packs of 25 each of the IAI M5 "Nesher" which here (in Arg.) we call "Dagger", all were in the Malvinas (Falkland) war.

[@bigbore4498]

Well let’s see…. You missed the first time and bombed London, doing the Empire’s bidding for them. And destroyed all the B-1’s. Then you bombed London again but hit the star destroyer, losing all but one B-1. Then you nuked London 6(?) times. And finally you blew up the star destroyer sending it crashing into London. You guys are most definitely not AllState Insurance (“You’re in good hands with AllState”) for London. You should name your planes the Enola Gay Bockscar.

[@panachevitz]

You need to protect yourself from chaos...like me.

[@alicorn3924]

that's one ISD as well, the Empire has thousands more at their disposal, and with enough "motivation", they could reach half a million ISDs

[@MarkMeadows90]

Silly mission, but hopefully nothing like that happens in real life lol

[@VulcanM61]

I heard shit is going down in 2025, have your bomber B1 lancer ready just in case

[@MarkMeadows90]

@@VulcanM61 sure, if I can afford one lol

[@atoriusv5070]

If I remember right, the B-1b can go mach 2.5? Fast as hell for a bomber. Might've done better (lower casualties) with an ultra high altitude dive bombing run to put more bombs into the same spot instead of super long bomb lines. They're built for the upper atmosphere missions, so using them that way would've helped keep out of range yet get a solid bombing strafe.

[@therussianbias3703]

there's also the problem that star destroyers have an engagement range of at least 75km and possibly up to 135km, it can reach speeds of over 900kmh so if they were to drop bombs within firing range they'd prob get shot down and if outside it it could move out of the way

[@guitrplayr47pl0x60]

The most unrealistic part of this is being able to get that many B-1's in the air at the same time. Those jets are broke as fuuuuuuck

[@grimreapers]

yip

[@C0mmanderX]

i dont think the B1's missed the star destroyer. theyre dropping bombs so the AI is thinking its on the ground. its not really designed to drop bombs on a thing thats 7000ft high

[@mrhedgebull1658]

This.

[@Kevin-hb7yq]

This is exactly why these sorts of things need to be simulated.

[@s87343jim]

I was thinking the same thing as well.

[@subbot8077]

Awesome video! The B-1 is powered by four GE F101 engines, specifically the -102 variant on the B-1B

[@Debbiebabe69]

You destroyed the ISD = win. You also destroyed the cesspit that is London = double win.

[@Anarchy_420]

PLEASE🙏 Stealth Squadron's VS Star Destroyer Fleet!👍👍 Stealth Squadron's Center Front Formation-- Flying in Two Formations of Five-- Ten F-22 Raptors! Few miles behind and above-- Two formations of Four YF-12A's! Flying underneath-- Five F-117's! Flying a few miles behind-- Eight B-2 Spirits formations of Two! Right Flank-- Fifteen F-35's in Three formations of Five! Few miles behind-- Ten F-117's in Two formations of Five! In the back-- Four B-2 Spirits in formations of Two! Left Flank Mirrors The Right Flank with one exception-- The Millennium Falcon with Four X-Wing's and Two Y-Wing's! Please have a Stealth way in back with a Nuke if all else fails! ;) Star Destroyer Fleet-- LOTS of Tie-Fighters, Good amount of Tie-Interceptors, Eight Tie-Hunters, and Four Corvette Raiders!! Corvettes start airborne, it'd be cool if YF-12's target Corvettes!👍

[@Anarchy_420]

When your feeling better of course, hope your well soon🙏

[@thomasthurman7840]

Just gonna say, that’s a LOT of models and calculating for their computers

[@Anarchy_420]

@@thomasthurman7840 they've done similar things in the past, should be no problem, I've seen them use more aircraft than this before ;)

[@Anarchy_420]

@@thomasthurman7840 its right around 100 aircraft for the Stealth Squadron's... much less for The Star Destroyer Fleet, shouldn't be a problem

[@joshuanewman1273]

Yo new video lets go

[@BorisBlade7]

Came for the action, stayed for the Lawn Dawn.

[@WookyDooky]

When the bombs exploded, my guys computer was on life support.

[@hueyiroquois3839]

10:05 If the afterburners don't light simultaneously, I think there might be a problem with yaw moment.

[@sunny-sq6ci]

what about b2s? wonder if stealth would actually work against it.

[@Akrilloth]

I seem to recon they use strange quantum-tech to pinpoint the miniature gravity wells of enemy vessels rather than just radar, so probably not, unless you have the tech to jam said detection.

[@adamvaliant2949]

i like the unguided bombs over residential areas! It's a nice touch 👍

[@bigmikegaming1583]

great video guys. keep it up. love these videos.

[@profo4544]

This is probably what would happen lol, it would just use its point defense lasery batterys to just shoot at the incoming bombers like a hundred phalanyx's shooting at you only they have much further range.

[@russkatherealoriginal6904]

You do realize how fast modern aircraft are?

[@profo4544]

@@russkatherealoriginal6904 Those batterys are meant to track fighters in space moving much faster than atmospheric fighters so, they wouldnt have a issue shooting or leading them, theyre targetting systems are advanced.

[@supremecaffeine2633]

@@profo4544 Star War vehicles and weapons are actually pretty slow and short ranged compares to modern weapons. A normal person can literally see and dodge blaster bolts.

[@profo4544]

@@supremecaffeine2633 Yeah people could see the deathstars laser to before they died, ur point? The deathstar was 140-160 km long lol, with class 4 hyperdrives to. So a Moon, going lightspeed isnt fast to you idk what to say lol idk, have u read any expanded universe book? the stuff that lucas approved, long before disney came around, theyll get into some of what the weapons are capable of. On the movie screen it might look like they can dodge this and that, you have to realize its a movie. A proton torpedo might not be as atompsherically as fast as some missiles we have, but a proton torpedo locked on isnt going to miss.. Heres a small quote "Proton torpedoes were capable of incredible maneuverability, such as making a 90-degree turn within a turning circle of one meter.[4] They could also ignore ray shields but were stopped by particle shields."

[@profo4544]

@@supremecaffeine2633 By the way i have a playlist on my channel with unabridged audiobook versions of new jedi order series, almost impossible to find audiobooks, Rare stuff, only made for specific librarys for blind people. The njo book series is like 19 books, not including short storys, so getting them all uploaded nobody has even fully done yet, unabridged. Abridged you can find them, but itll take a 10 hour book and turn it into 3 hours. If ur a real starwars fan, not some fake new fan, or some fan whose just only watched the movies, check these out. This has the best material, the authors who wrote the expanded universe collabed with george lucas, so there much more legit then disney crap.

[@vernonkuhns3561]

Threatening London? Isn't the mayor calling on Allah to protect it??

[@Hand6108]

It would be a miracle to get a 10 ship to all take off. Ha. Great video.

[@kellerweskier7214]

as a bit of a starwars nerd. this is kinda fun. The Star Destroyer has shields, but only phase-array, for protecting from energy weapons like laz0rs and stuff. It also has a atmospheric stabilization shield to hold atmosphere if the hull is breached It has no way of protecting from PHYSICAL attacks. so, bombs, bullets, battery. ect. will damage its hull.

[@opencirclefleet]

I believe that the point defense cannons on the Star Destroyer would be able to reach the bombers even at 20,000 feet and would probably shoot all the bombers down before they could release their bombs. I also am skeptical that the amount of bombs used would be enough to take it down (even if they all hit) as you would first have to take down the shields, and there is a good chance the shield systems on the ship could take most if not all of those bombs before going down. The ship would probably escape relatively unscathed even if all the bombs hit. There is also a chance that the MiGs would have been shot down before they could release their bombs. However, I think one or two direct hits from a nuke could probably one-shot a star destroyer even with shields up.

[@theoneneo5024]

What if the shields are only designed to stop energy weapons. Remember the fighters routinely fly below shield level on Star Destroyers.

[@opencirclefleet]

@@theoneneo5024 Ships in Star Wars have three types of shields. Ray shields to stop energy weapons, particle shields to stop physical projectiles, and navigational shields to stop radiation and asteroids. The reason starfighters can fly below shields is that they are moving slow enough that the particle shields can't stop them. The bombs were moving at supersonic speeds, which is most likely too fast to go through the particle shields.

[@DidWeMakeIt]

No ​@@opencirclefleet

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

So now I understand that your computer is the source of that heat wave...

[@alcamorim]

Awesome video guys! I was laughing so hard. Very good work!

[@5Andysalive]

The fps drop gave me a good old Kerbal pre-64bit pre-explosion freeze nostalgia flash. It was the harbinger of the impendent booms.

[@MacTechG4]

Maybe I’m missing the obvious, but doesn’t an ISD have a massive blind spot behind it? (engine cluster) Why not approach from aft; fly over the top (aren’t Turbolasers side mounted on the edge of the triangle hull?) and drop ordinance from above and behind?

[@michaellawrence6677]

I knew you’d miss. I loved that very well indeed. Thanks, I needed that.

[@brokenursa9986]

To address Cap's question, in Star Wars, blasters are generally small arms. Mounted cannons are called lasers, and the big, anti-ship lasers are turbolasers.

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@thelightlord6081]

The big lasers are Turbo Lasers I do believe. Blasters are like the handheld guns. You also have Ion cannons

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@Dman1998]

14:54 the Emperor Palpatine cackle 🤣💀

[@mphelps7919]

14:53 - Cap channelling Emperor Palpatine.

[@daviddunster9305]

We had a "BONE" buzz us out of nowhere. Very low altitude approach.

[@lynskeyti9940]

Lol at the 1 tomcat flying with all the lancers

[@JK-zq9vw]

I’ve actually sat in a imitation spot on a Taxiway and watched as a similar size group of B-1’s took off. My favorite was after spending 72 hours preparing and loading the aircraft with fuel and a full load of bombs. It took a lot of runway for it to get in the air. The wings drooped down and then lifted up right before it broke ground. The pilots tipped their wings as they past the parking spot on the ramp as a Thanks. Said aircraft took a 6 mo. summer getaway

[@josesierraromero8316]

Thrawn: naive natives. Captain Keeran: orbital bombardment at my command.

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @Grim Reapers! Can't wait for the next video man! From what I can tell each B-1 Lancer is $317 Million American Dollars, and you've lost about 20. So you've cost the U.S. Military about $6,340,000,000 USD. This isn't taking into account the 2 F-14D Tomcats that you've lost as well as all the Bombs that you've loaded and lost on this mission as well. All in all, quite the "Smashing" hit.

[@Oscar-qh5jn]

Oh the poor sick Cap laugh lol, hope you feel better soon

[@cockatoo010]

Therapist: the supersonic box formation doesn't exist, it can't hurt you. Supersonic box formation: 12:06

[@grimreapers]

lols

[@Slikx666]

A classic GR video. 😀👍

[@ryanhooper4660]

B one... so happy I figured that out before this video!

[@kill3st]

"Well, We bombed London" ~SuperCap

[@zandarrthegreat6790]

LOL. That first sortie was awesome.

[@cheguevara7478]

Well, it wasn’t hard to work it out, remember that it took several volleys of 12 neutron torpedoes, ie. Space Nukes, to destroy them

[@BriarHex_18351]

sounds like gun shots when the rows of bombers pass by

[@riphopfer5816]

Star Destroyers are armed with turbolasers and ion cannons, the latter of which is a bit like an EMP.

[@73jbirch]

Really fun video!

[@beermanmccool1226]

"That could not have been planned better!" *Londoner in the Ruins:* "I disagree!"

[@RTS907]

Thanks Cap and RC for keeping the world safe !

[@glytchd]

Exactly, I was thinking similar. "Why not launch a heafty sub-sonic or super-sonic AGM *at Range*" But then, I realized: ECM & ECCM & ECCCM of Star Wars is bigger than a Horses..er, 'Cannon'. Seriously, anything less than a pre-programmed pattern would be MORE than Blind. I doubt AMRAAMS would work even on a TIE, Aim-9s likely would tho. Of course, they could just beam it with high-intesity EM and fry all the circuits. So I think 'Rocks' were the Best choice here. Mechanical Triggers. Yes.

[@nigahiga545]

“Oh my… we’ve killed the whole of London as well” 😂😂

[@erikerice9068]

Actually, from underneath, it looks like a triple diamond formation.

[@Palmerrip]

Having Independence Day vibs from this video.

[@MChill111]

This was hilarious. Please make sure you are ill at LEAST once a week in future!! 😂😂