Could One F-15E With QUICKSINK Bomb Have Stopped The 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack? (Naval Battle 139)

[@grimreapers]

Original Video With Laser Guided Bombs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpKnoK2OpruahNE

[@hotfightinghistory9224]

Of all the titles Ive held in my life, Valued Viewington is one I am very proud of. Definitely in the top ten....

[@MattWaller04]

Same here 😂

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

I joined the USN in 1986 and the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier. It was just commissioned and my first real cruise was Shock Trials. There are 4 detonations, each one closer to simulate how the ship reacts to a near miss. They detonated 40,000 lbs of HBX and brother, let me tell you what Hell sounds like. When they did the first one and knew it was the furthest I was thinking holy SHIT we're not gonna survive the last one! I am an 18 year old punk kid thinking I was all that and when faced with the power of underwater shock waves, you get a real life lesson on what power really is. Water transfers energy so much more efficiently than air. That hydrostatic wave that hit the ship lifted me off my feet. The last and closest detonation really tore up the ship. Lots of pipes that were not welded properly came apart. I remember going into a berthing compartment and seeing bare metal bulkheads because the steam pipe let go and blistered the paint off the steel. But that's why they did it. Better to discover those problems early and not in real battle. We went straight back to Newport News where she was built and stayed over a month repairing the "deficiency list" as they called it.

[@kkordeth3885]

Might have been interesting to see it happen from the perspective of one of the destroyers. Just sailing along and have 6 carriers disappear in a minute would be terrifying.

[@riparianlife97701]

"So, I guess we're going home now?"

[@Kevin-hb7yq]

@@riparianlife97701 Hold position and wait for orders

[@riparianlife97701]

@@Kevin-hb7yq Fall on your swords.

[@schnuffelhase1968]

Imagine to stand on the upper deck and see the bomb coming ... then short relieve "Oh, it missed!" ... then boom and you have to swim home (if you're lucky) 🤔

[@r.b.ratieta6111]

My mind is being rocked by the idea of how many U.S. Marines, Japanese Army, and Naval members from both sides would have been spared had the Japanese naval carriers been taken down in one fell swoop like this. Ironically it probably would have made things worse for Europe. The United States could have said, "We have the wherewithal to defend our oceans, so we don't need to directly get involved" and England likely would have been caught in a brutal stalemate for more years than before having to wrestle the logistics of its Army and Navy coming in from all corners of the world to defend the island. Ironically, since Australia would have less need to concentrate their forces in Southeast Asia, it probably would have been the Aussies coming in clutch for the British if such a scenario took place.

[@taemien9219]

To give the Brits credit, they probably could have taken Germany and bent them over pretty badly on their own. The Empire's industrial base was just that much more than Germany's.

[@imapopo2924]

@@taemien9219 Yes, but it would have taken years and have been _extremely_ costly in both men and materials. Britain was already in dire economic straits after WW2 with US help. Without it, Britain would be even worse off in pretty much every way. The Allies would no doubt still win the war, but at much greater cost.

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

2:02 I'm so glad that you didn't die. I really like this channel and I don't want the videos to stop.

[@johngulyas695]

11:20 Can I imagine? Yeah, it’s called Midway 😎

[@trev8591]

Carnage! If you were there maybe you'd think you had sailed into a massive minefield?

[@Del_S]

Hm, now try "Can a single F-15E stop all the bloody spambots in the KZbin comments sections".... :P

[@OliverVonLindenthal]

Only as a "QSCBU" (QuickSinkClusterBombUnit) 😁

[@FleetDefenderRA5]

They can, but sadly the just respawn.

[@reesemobley5311]

As a maintiner who works on the 15s at RAF Lakenheath, I appreiciate you making this video. and not constantly sending complaints to us for the noise. Lol, keep up the good work. (Fyi the 35s are way more annoying)

[@yuuzyerbrejn9603]

Somewhere, Barnes Wallis is proudly looking down saying "took you guys long enough to reinvent my bombing concept."

[@matsv201]

Next up... could 100 B1 bomber stop the entire ww2.

[@riparianlife97701]

Only DCS has figured out how to make the B-1 work. Rockwell/Boeing couldn't pull it off. I know because my piece-of-shit dad was the head of circuit design.

[@matsv201]

@@riparianlife97701 It wasn´t quite that they didn´t make it work but becasue it was so horrible expensive to fly. Also they need to dismantle the whole airplane to digitize it

[@riparianlife97701]

@@matsv201 One crashed because of fuel slosh. Another had faulty nose gear. It has the radar cross section of a Buick. The EW package was designed by a company that made audio equipment, in order to get budget votes from New York. The B-52 has better EW. It's garbage, and can't be flown over hostile territory without the crew becoming POW's or corpses. It only exists because Reagan never stopped being the governor of California, and greenlit it as a favor to Rockwell, who contributed to his campaign.

[@matsv201]

@@riparianlife97701 Well the B52 have a brand new overhaul, of cause it have better EW, its like 40 years newer. Maybe you should check how many B52 have crashed. Its more than 2. Of cause for the B2, 10% of the planes have crashed. The B2 is technically a better plane than the B1. The issue is that there are only 21 of them and becasue its only second gen stealth, its really expensive to repair. The 4th gen stealth as the B21 supposed to solve that issue.

[@riparianlife97701]

@@matsv201 B-52 has way, way more hours flown. The AF knows better than to waste much time on the B-1. It's a white elephant pork project. If you look at Davis Monthan on Google Earth, you can see they ripped the wings off a bunch of them as part of the SALT treaties.

[@Four9sFineJewelry]

Ah yes! The classics. “Could X stop the Japanese fleet at Pearl Harbor.” I missed these. lol great video!

[@grimreapers]

They're putting my kid through school.

[@Four9sFineJewelry]

@@grimreapers I’m all for seeing more, personally. To this day, I still love the movie, “Final Countdown.”

[@frankholub4673]

"That explosion came from inside the Kaga. Same as the Akagi. The gaijin must have brought something with them. A bomb."

[@matsv201]

Imagine the aniral coming back. Navy head quarter: how did you lost 6 carriera? Amiral: there showed up to planes and bomb them. N: did only two plane sink all 6 carriers? A: Actually one was a observer. N: so one plane bomed 6 carriers, how many bombs missed? A: all of then, but the carriers sunk anyway. N: those bombs had to be absolutly enormus, how big was the plane? A: a span of about 15meter, just slightly bigger than our zeros. N: so the bombs all missed by 10 feet, so the aircraft dropping them got to be pretty close? A: No it was barley vissible. N: how come you didnt shoot it down? A: it was doing mach 2. N: what a mach.

[@grimreapers]

lols!

[@exidy-yt]

no matter how bad the English, the funny shines through. ;-)

[@Jim-vp1nq]

Really funny comment 🤣 😄 😂

[@fishwithapipe]

Makes me wonder, how did the sonic boom sync up with the bombs exploding?

[@Doodelz02]

Fantastic historical context and preview of upcoming strategy! Nicely done!

[@StanislavaJindrovava]

Your videos are a true oasis for the mind and soul. Thank you for your creativity and inspiration!🚗🙀🕊

[@teresaharmon4405]

Nice work Cap! Hope you had a good voice day. Sounded great to me!!!

[@Omni2389]

Since This Weapon Is Very Powerful, I Wonder If It Can Destroy A Yamato Class Battleship?

[@alexv3357]

Yes. There's no ship that can survive being hit with several 2,000lbs bombs.

[@FleetDefenderRA5]

Well, I think the question is: could it survive 1... because I cannot help but think even if you survive one, there would be a significant weakening of the hull's superstructure.

[@anathardayaldar]

Imperial HQ: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON"T KNOW HOW IT HAPPENED???

[@coreymoyers5771]

The next question is whether 1941 technology could emulate the results if it had known to target the bombs like that.

[@mstevens113]

Not a chance, they couldn't aim a bomb that accurately.

[@coreymoyers]

@@mstevens113AI can.

[@mstevens113]

@@coreymoyers AI didn't exist in 41!

[@cryhavoc8461]

Captain of the senior battleship: I've got command!

[@FleetDefenderRA5]

Captain of the senior battleship: I've got command! RETREAT!!!!!!! :)

[@zealman79]

Captain Trump going "I had the 7th biggest ship at the start of the day, now I have the biggest, all within 35 seconds"

[@Kevin-hb7yq]

I feel like you could probably get the whole group to try this with modern escort ships for added valued Boom Boom.

[@amiyourcharm]

Love to see a cost analysis of modern and legacy weapons to destroy battleships!

[@S1lv3r4do]

Given the limited range of free fall bombs and the resultant vulnerability of the attacking aircraft, why not attach a glide bomb package?

[@maxlin3442]

QS-ER?

[@rharmonson]

Freaking awesome. Thank you!

[@benjaminshropshire2900]

Has anyone sketched out a bolt on booster rocket for standard bomb cases? I'm thinking something where you lob toss the bomb and a rocket kicks for a few seconds in on the way up to give it more standoff. If it could be combined with existing precision terminal guidance packages the even a cheap dumb booster might be worth something.

[@maxlin3442]

That's AGM-130 and AASM Hammer for ya

[@missingdogmusic]

You're describing exactly what the AASM Hammer (French) munition is; it is used in Ukraine at the moment with a lot of success.

[@benjaminshropshire2900]

@@missingdogmusic A quick look at the AASM wiki pages makes it look close, definitely very close to the same idea. But at a first glance, it's at least 10x the price point I'm thinking about. For one thing, it mentions that the guidance package is part of the kit; why not plan on using any guidance package already in deployment? For another, it sounds like the rocket is way more complex than the sheet metal tail sections used on dumb bombs. I'm thinking of something more like a Q class solid rocket, which _amateurs_ occasionally build, one at a time, for something like $3000 and could give a 1 ton payload a 3G kick for 3-6 seconds. An existing Paveway II nose section plus $5k in rocket and sheet metal for the tail and you are still around 10x cheaper.

[@ndfgaming6824]

the skipper?

[@k3ndawg7]

There is currently a program in testing, that adds wings to the QuickStrike kit. A possible range of 40 miles from a 35,000’ altitude.

[@ricbrown1114]

Can you imagine being Yamamoto, standing on the bridge of Yamato, watching that happen, especially if and more than likely, the strike happened in the middle of the night? (I know, I know, it doesn't make for good video, lol)

[@timbaskett6299]

And with that, the IJN becomes a home land defense fleet. 😂

[@mariomezquita3492]

You know it's gonna be asked, Cap: Could Ukranian F-16's carrying QUICKSINK destroy the rest of the fleet at Sevastopol? I'd much rather watch 'Could Cap and the Grim Reapers shoot down at volley of 50 Cruise missiles/Shahed drones over Ukraine while flying only WWII era fighter planes in Colourful livery?' ;) Keep 'em coming, Cap.

[@FrankStallone42]

Perhaps, if the ukranian f16s arent shot down by their own patriot missile systems.

[@briandix4633]

I miss daily airshows. Born at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, then grew up in Connecticut watching the ct Air National Guard flying Warthogs over on a weeky basis. Moved to Phoenix in 2018 and the first place 3lived was under the flight path from Luke AFB to the training range. I moved to the other side of Phoenix a few years ago and now its rare to see anything other than commercial

[@bryanwarren2578]

You mentioned living along the flight path of F-15E's... I once lived along the flight path of F/A-18E's that I worked on at a squadron in Lemoore, CA ❤the sound of freedom❤

[@nigeldepledge3790]

12,000 lbs of bomb . . . Hmm, that's approximately the weight of a single Tallboy . . .

[@astronomywithclaire]

Ok.. just did my first take off in DCSW in the Su25T.... I love this sim!! Watching you all fly is one thing... flying one of these is something else!

[@tom23rd]

Imagine losing your entire fleet of aircraft carriers in 30s 😂

[@thetruth1]

I lived at Andersen AFB for a couple of years, and regardless of the wind direction, I recall that aircraft only ever launched and landed to the north. I believe it had something to do with the dip toward the southern end of the runway and the presence of communities beyond. If my recollection is wrong, I'll happily accept that.

[@TR4Ajim]

Isn’t this basically what Billy Mitchell tried to show the Navy back in 1920?

[@mstevens113]

Without seeing the result I'd say yes. Enough damage could be done to render the carriers a mission kill.

[@kentgoldings]

I give you, Kido Butai, everyone’s favorite punching bag.

[@patriotic80]

What happened to RC. I never see him on here anymore? Love this channel Cap and the GR’s are awesome.🤘😎🤘

[@christophero55]

I was visiting my brother in law at Mountain Home Air Force base in Idaho earlier this year and I got to watch the F-15E's there taking off, doing turns and landing. You could hear those Pratt & Whitney turbofans roaring all day. It was great. For someone who loves aviation its a real treat but I could see how people not interested could get annoyed by the constant noise. Especially with F-35s around my understanding is they are VERY noisy.

[@briandix4633]

Im not 100% sure, but there was a ship in WW2 (the Fat Electrician did a video about it) that shot down a kamikaze plane, the plane hit the water then detonated under the keel

[@tokencivilian8507]

Great stuff Cap.

[@jakeslouw3416]

45 seconds: that is scary.

[@CJWall_rott]

thanks cap

[@YT-mn4eq]

I wonder if they'll make quick sink ground launch variants like the GLSDB. I'm sure Taiwan will like those

[@richardgreen364]

Nice video. It shows you still have to get “close” to use it you’d probably need at least another 20 aircraft doing SEAD and CAP just so it could get in a position to deliver it. Is this a new thing in the inventory? Don’t ’SPICE’ kits do the same?

[@theoneneo5024]

Yes! Next question.

[@knightsun2920]

OHHH the new F15 II Bomber in action, and "a thing happened".

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@grimreapers >>> Great video...👍

[@seancarter1275]

That white F15 is awesome.

[@jimgreen3041]

Science !

[@samedmundson6470]

It's an airborne "back breaker" torpedo!

[@adamedwards1937]

Duxford stooging about flightpath here.

[@AdamosDad]

They would have surrendered that day, and Isoroku Yamamoto, would have un-alived himself.

[@kickinvideo333]

Of course, GPS targeting wouldn't be necessary as the US spy satellite network would've caught the fleet before formation. Communications monitoring and pattern maneuvers would've given them away long before they could even make a move. Assuming that our F15E is in 1941 and our satellites don't exist, to be fair, you should redo this model without satellite GPS assist if possible.

[@chrisstopher2277]

Sounds like a cool bomb humans always create new and intersting ways of killing eachother. Anyways, Not sure why but i envision you living in a hobbit hubble. Thanks for your work sir.

[@GearheadCountryRadio]

Try those bombs on the Yamato

[@warrenglen7636]

One mistake. No GPS available, so you would still need to track the target with your laser.

[@evernewb2073]

uhhhh...that method doesn't actually work all that great on larger ships? like, to the point where we've tried it with _nukes_ and it didn't work reliably? even if you're using a large enough charge to actually succeed in breaking the keel damage compartmentalization is a HELL of a thing for keeping ships afloat, it'll cripple their ability to function but even literally cutting the ship in half wouldn't "sink it within a matter of seconds". it's certainly economically viable though: broken keel on a ship means it is almost certainly going to be cheaper to build an entirely new one than to even attempt to repair it, it probably isn't sunk and might not even be mission-killed but it is _definitely_ budget-killed and that's most of what they care about.

[@duanemckinley9353]

We have used it to on a modern 39,000 ton warship and the ship broke in half and sank ridiculously fast. For context that is as large as the largest carriers involved in the strike on Pearl Harbor and larger than a Type 075.

[@kenhelmers2603]

Wow!

[@KmonCentz]

Next... WW2 Japanese fleet against rapid dragon

[@Herbymac0811]

Makes you think though…. A “Final Countdown” situation. Would you stop the attack and set the world on a completely different course through history? Or allow it to happen and live as we do today with history as it is?

[@BuckshotDragon]

Good show

[@user-mz5lr7zx4s]

Have news about F15E? New weapons, systems?

[@Larry_fm_MD]

a normal fighter or bomber couldn't get close enough to do this in real life, but could a "rumored" or "hypothetical" hypersonic aircraft like the dark star or sr72, whatever is rumored to already be flying, drop these on the heavily defended aircraft carriers?

[@GrumpyGamerGuy]

We do have some cool new toys in our inventory now. Woe be the foe who wants to test us. Looking at you Russia.

[@ivorharden]

Could an f15ex with quicksink bombs destroy the Spanish Armada?

[@treytyer1629]

Whose livery is that on the White F-15 because that paint looks like a very specific companies?

[@grimreapers]

Poosh's

[@philiplaidlaw]

Wonder what they would have done if this had happened? Press home an all out naval engagement or return to Japan?

[@agent_skully]

I enjoy your videos like this and see that you do them in 1440. Do you have the ability to go full 2160?

[@Koozomec]

From Kidō Butai to Kidō Bottom.

[@jameshewitt8828]

Gosh I’d love to meet one day cap for a bit of spotting or something cap, I stay down in Colchester but I’m from Scotland and proud hence my Irn Bru addiction

[@OJGAMING2]

Can you do an Il2 ww1 recreation

[@grimreapers]

The entire war?

[@OJGAMING2]

@@grimreapers battle of the Somme or any other battle you have access to. Thanks Cap

[@budgieboi8979]

​@@grimreapers yes obviously, every single soldier, every single vehicle. Just borrow a NASA supercomputer for a bit, I'm sure they won't mind

[@johngulyas695]

The air campaign over the St Mihiel salient in 1918 would be cool.

[@bladeslicemaster5390]

Amazing

[@presterjohn9088]

So this US anti ship missile is only effective against moderately defended carrier groups? Good thing the US has all the carrier groups.

[@joeharris3878]

What if FDR had not been reelected and couldn't have maneuvered the Japanese to attack Hawaii and the Phillipines ?

[@mdruane]

Does DCS model the F-18 Growler well? I'm just thinking of a series of MALDs with one B2 with a Growler at the front to get the B2 and Quicksinks in before the bad things happen.

[@grimreapers]

Sadly Growler is not modelled at all :(

[@mdruane]

@@grimreapers So sad. That would be a banger. ;-)

[@AdamosDad]

Same mission with a B1B. By, by Kido Butai

[@ShorelineThomas]

Did you say GPS guided? Could these work before the GPS era?

[@grimreapers]

GPS INS bombs can actually work without GPS signal.

[@ryno07962]

Could we see a Chinese or UK carrier group against the Pearl Harbor attack?

[@grimreapers]

Enjoy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZDce6iGndtgnbc

[@doozydoge1053]

Spoiler alert! YES.

[@rocktechinc]

What impact would 4 squadrons of A6E Intruders have had on the bombing of Europe during WW2. Could they have made it to Berlin and back. 1 A6 could carry 4 times the bombs as 1 B17

[@mikelsworld74]

Couldn't you achieve the same results with the British earthquake bomb in WW2?

[@dirkaminimo4836]

How do they laser 6 ships at same time with one plane?

[@karlstathakis7786]

my man still using Chrome like it's 2010

[@grimreapers]

I've only just upgraded from Internet Explorer.

[@BuckshotDragon]

Yep Merica 🇺🇸 **** yea...

[@john-paulsurrall9099]

Helloooooo Boys!

[@JohnLange-ip6er]

anyone else find it hard to watch any videos from them after learning what they look like? also the fake callsigns for attention is super cringe ngl

[@dragondude6984]

46 seconds ago is crazy

[@FerDzone205]

What an immature people comparing a modern weapon against oldies weapons&assets instead compared them to those enemies new and modern weapons if it can destroy them.tssk What a idiot ideas it is !!

[@thorodinson6449]

1st minute yayy

[@Truck1738]

What about An Iran bog hammer gunboats vs carrier , see the affect on a smaller gunboat mass

[@grimreapers]

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