F-16 CBU War Crimes

[@oldfrend]

man smart cluster munitions is among the more scifi things we've done recently. i can't believe they turned flying hockey pucks into antiarmor weapons.

[@Inknov83d]

They were only used once in combat.

[@ForeverDoubting]

@@Inknov83d he didn't say they where successful anti-armor weapons xD

[@SirEpifire]

@@ForeverDoubting Part of what makes that concept so valid still is due to how lightly armored most vehicles are from on top. Flying Hockey Puck goin to do work.

[@afroamasiaca]

Bruh wait til you hear about the drone swarms

[@bronco5334]

@@ForeverDoubting They were EXTREMELY successful. That one strike, by one aircraft, destroyed almost a battalion of armor in a single pass. They just haven't been used more frequently because A ) they are expensive, and only limited amounts were made, B ) that limited amount is being kept in reserve in case of Really Big War, C ) Just because the US maintains cluster bombs in stock in case of Really Big War, does not mean that the US thumbs their nose at international conventions by using them all the time when they can accomplish the desired target effects with conventional munitions, and D ) there have not been any targets in recent years that justify their use. CBU-97/105 is designed for massed formations of armor. Recent wars have been against mostly small groups of insurgent infantry in urban areas, with only the occasional (usually unarmored) enemy vehicle, which are typically deployed as single vehicles, not formations. Against that kind of target, a Hellfire or Maverick (or even just an LGB) is a more appropriate weapon choice.

[@J00dy11]

Honestly Ralfi you surprise me every time with how good your videos keep getting!

[@ralfidude]

eyy, thanks

[@blenderalien]

He's so good, he doesn't even use the RWR Edit: Oh he noticed :D

[@makky-kat3719]

The only people to dislike this video are the survivors of the town you bombed. That's why there are so few dislikes.

[@ayeidoucareau5014]

I think it is not ok to use "war crime" as click-bait or to make cheap jokes about (simulated) war crimes. Especially, since similar incidents happened in real life.

[@makky-kat3719]

​@@ayeidoucareau5014 Okay fair, but like, not only were no actual civilians harmed in the making of the video but I don't think DCS even models civilian casualties. I hope nobody actually thinks it's acceptable to drop (even smart) cluster muntions into urban environments.

[@ayeidoucareau5014]

@Makky-Kat Yes, it is a simulation only. Still I think the title of the video and some jokes are a bit insensitive, considering that currently so many real people have to flee because of war crimes.

[@mostevil1082]

It ain't real. It's better to acknoledge it with a joke than pretend they'd be fine with this IRL. Policing jokes claiming offence on behalf of others is much more sinister.

[@ACDCROCKS135]

@@ayeidoucareau5014 I’m glad I’ll never know how miserable life can be without a sense of humor…

[@IThanatopsisI]

War Crimes: Rated 'E' for Everyone

[@MF-og1ct]

I like how at 4:50 the nav lights blinking matches up with the drums. Always love seeing your videos, thanks!

[@nicholasklein4055]

That Bill Burr reference was brilliant, lol

[@NormanconEVE]

I watched, I laughed. I watched again, I laughed again. I watched it a third time, I laughed for a third time. Was a good reference.

[@exterminator5825]

Never clicked on a video so fast in my life

[@DoradoFever]

Enjoying the Viper content, kinda did the reverse. Started with the Viper as that was what I was excited and waiting for, then feel pretty confident in it and awaiting other features so went to the A-10C II and following the 0-Hero guides. The helmet designating the targeting pod is such a huge advantage in the Hog, can't wait for it to be implemented on the Viper

[@JETZcorp]

Wags says they're aiming (not promising) to add that in the October update. Fingers crossed!

[@DoradoFever]

@@JETZcorp I did not see anything A/G HMCS on the mini-update. They did have the air to ground radar

[@JETZcorp]

@@DoradoFever I believe the term used was "mark points", which I'm led to believe are done via HMCS. I doubt we'll get a full implementation, but just the ability to look over and make a point will be a reasonable bare-bones start.

[@DoradoFever]

@@JETZcorp that is a different system. The JHMCS A/G mode is different than mark points, similar to how you can mark a point in the A-10 while not necessarily slewing the targeting pod, but allows others in your flight to see the point. Just an over simplified explanation.

[@DarKFrenzy108]

Same brother. Started with F16 but now primarily fly the A-10 II. So much destruction, situational awareness and fun.

[@2bae642]

What if I told you there's another DCS aircraft/module that carries essentially this weapon, but in a stealthy glide canister.

[@148crusader]

VIGGY DIGGY DO

[@2bae642]

@@148crusader I was thinking GB-6, but that works too!

[@skatterpro]

If you're talking about Viggen's BK90, you're underestimating the 105's severely. The BK90 is like a AGM-154A JSOW. It's got gliding guidance, but the submunitions are unguided. They're also pretty damn weak against heavy armor, if not completely pointless. The 105's have guided skeets which are designed for armor. If we ever get the AGM-154B JSOW with guided skeets, that's another story.

[@2bae642]

@@skatterpro I was talking about the GB-6 with MM-06, essentially the JSOW-B on the JF-17. And no one operates the 154B, so that's never coming.

[@skatterpro]

@@2bae642 ah, I see.

[@christianloose9875]

Best commercial for the DCS F16 ever. Now you made me really think about buying another module. :-)

[@thomasmaier7053]

Get BMS, the DCS F-16 is barely a good representation at all.

[@jungletroll3844]

@@thomasmaier7053 DCS f-16 is in EA right now so yea its quite primitive

[@john88benson]

Raining fire from above for the internet memes we love, we are the Hounds of Heaven, the Ralfi Dogs of War.

[@sam8742]

Ah the USA, enforcing but not ratifying treaties since 1945

[@kdrapertrucker]

The U.S. is not even supposed to be making treaties at all. George Washington warned against getting involved in treaties when he left office of the presidency. Warned nothing but trouble if the U.S. got involved with the intrigues of Europe.

[@PappaBear_yt]

Glad to see you're still alive. 😋 Great video, Ralfi. I was wondering the other day if H82 was gonna make some colab video with you anytime soon - and now we get this! 🤩😎👍🏻

[@romeovictor6223]

Assuming all 5 F16s loaded all 4 CBUs, good ole America would probably be more concerned that the load out alone costed upwards of 14 million dollars, rather than the war crimes committed.

[@Schnittertm1]

With the military budget of the US, 3.5 million dollars are just a drop of water in an ocean.

[@PBMainiac]

Supposing the politicians even have a moticom of respect for how they spend the money they endeavor to create out of thin air is a bold assumption.

[@EvilTwinn]

That's 3.5 million dollars compared to the cost of all those targets they hit. And the cost of trying to take out those targets with more conventional means. The cost analysis definitely views this favorably, even with the destroyed F-16 and dead pilot.

[@hphp31416]

CBUs are one of the cheapest weapons per effect available

[@romeovictor6223]

​@@hphp31416 Well yes, as long as the "effect" isnt a destroyed radar along with 3 city blocks, twenty families, children, infants...

[@btfoaccounting2902]

Top tier editing, Ralfi. Another great video

[@blessthismessss]

hellreign82 ftw coziest DCS vids ever

[@Katronicle]

this is why i’m subscribed

[@zc240x7]

i love how the server you were playing on shows the enemies as an neutral circle. very neat

[@julianmorrisco]

I prefer the viper to the FA18. To me, it feels more ‘pure’. Sure, it can’t carry quite as much but since the recent updates it can carry enough and do enough different task types. I find it less confusing and I don’t like the moving map so I always either switch it off or turn it so dark so I can see the HSD. Horses for courses, but for me, the F16 is also much better looking.

[@agidotexe7167]

The viper can carry way more atg stuff, f16 has triple pylons, f18 only has dual ones and with some weapons we cant even carry 2 for 1, we can only carry a max of 4 mavs, f16 can carry 6, so dont feel to bad ;)

[@Thebadassowl]

God damn that was *super* cinematic with the music and everything

[@titaniummechanism3214]

Seems like Clean earned that name, that first bomb toss was magnificant!

[@-nixwite-]

DUUUUDE THAT INTRO!!!!!!!!!

[@xXrandomryzeXx]

WHAT? Hellreign was there? Yoooo the best collab

[@RazgrizXVI]

I love this editing style 10/10

[@Galf506]

top notch editing and flying as usual, damn!

[@glxytoni]

its 2:14 i am drunk sitting in bed eating cereal watching this im so hapoy

[@Brooks__EU]

I was eating cereal watching this too!

[@mvaldman2001]

Hellreign flying with ya? Nice!

[@ChrisbyFlanker]

Love these style videos! great editing

[@comradesoupbeans4437]

"in theory" is doing a lot of work there

[@Kimchi_Studios]

Learned the F16 in BMS, flying it in DCS is so fun and intuitive. It butters my buns.

[@yesseru]

Watching these DCS videos makes me wanna get a better PC and grab myself a HOTAS.

[@jrodz808]

I really liked the style and flow of this video

[@theooooot9469]

bit of a late comment, been learning the f16 and something that ive noticed, you can do a very effective pop-up strike with the cbu105, fly at 100-200 ft above the ground and when your time till drop gets to 10 seconds, go to 10 degrees upwards and hold release, you can do multi launches as well, instantly ruining any sam site

[@katyusha9319]

0:36 that's my boys!!! 114th!!!! SODAK ALL THE WAY SUB UMBRA LARUM TAURUM!!!

[@willbowers8003]

CMDS MODE > BYPASS. A man of culture I see.

[@krostouin]

Welcome to the F-16 club !

[@Macbook3]

Germ loves the fighting falcon

[@risingsun9595]

Me on the A-10C holding a CBU-105: This right here is my problem solver.

[@phoenixsui]

I wish the FA-18 could cary those. I am almost tempted to learn A-10 or F-16 just for this weapon ;D. But i am to lazy. I love the FA-18. And soon the AH-64D.

[@TANNER2316]

Fun fact i live near china lake and a couple days ago some people were doing trash clean up along the highway and someone found a unexploded cluster munition 😂

[@alpine7313]

YEAAAH HELLREIGN FEATURE!!!!

[@emkaes7625]

Oh wow, ralfi flying the F-16, prepare to see something amazing.

[@francesboy2]

Man DCS really looks pretty in a night setting

[@TangoIndiaMike144]

Bill Burr was an awesome surprise.

[@rasheedgregory3459]

I was lmao because he threw Bill Burr in the video 🤣

[@TheJackHood]

The CBU knows where it is because it knows where it isnt

[@FlightSimCasual1915]

god this looks so amazing how much gaming and realism has changed to this god thank you

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

CBU War Crimes: exist Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz entered the chat.

[@TomP-148]

Ralfi dude finally doing what Viper pilots have been doing for a year. Dropping all the CBUs

[@hvymtal8566]

Ah, the popcorn bombs. Always a fun one

[@thegamemingk4933]

3:45 I believe because of the position of that SAM site it makes the village a "military target" not 100% sure though.

[@MrTonyharrell]

I was a munitions tech in the USAF and next to nuclear the cbu is my favorite.

[@wesschaffran9088]

I.Y.A.A.Y.A.S!!!

[@evanallouche]

Finally Ralfi does some boom booms in my love, the Viper

[@Daniel-jq4qk]

Ah yes, Love being able to toss the 105's like that.. Provides you the ability to use terrain as masking the whole time as well as stand-off range.

[@peterlaanguila6089]

Great video. But I would love to see you all trying to hit the tanker. And some ferry flying in formation.

[@KruegerleDE]

Man that was beatiful. Thanks.

[@TheCodyLaxton]

Loved the cutscene when you all got on burner! The like to dislike ratio on this video is awesome XD

[@bencanaya382]

That was exquisite

[@garethhughes5745]

That intro was fantastic

[@TRPilot06YT]

That landing was s m o o t h

[@sam8742]

Ralfi or sleep? And I've chosen sleep, it's 5am I need help

[@shoemannclara]

You made the wrong choice.

[@Hunterxrt]

Where do you live? Japan?

[@sam8742]

@@Hunterxrt Which other place is English speaking in the same timezone?

[@Hunterxrt]

@@sam8742 S.Korea? Taiwan? Philippines? 🤔

[@sam8742]

@@Hunterxrt ENGLISH! Not Tagalog or Chinese or Korean I live in Australia

[@Power5]

Damn those CBUs are like the easy button LOL. Just chuck them in the direction of the target and bug out. LOL I do love how those "smart" CBUs decided the entire village had insurgents in it though.

[@jubuttib]

The GB-6 SFWs on the Jeff are even more of an easy mode: Slightly more pucks, and they're gliders, giving you something like 30-40 nautical miles of range from altitude. =)

[@peytonhastreiter6866]

The bill burr meme was awesome

[@LynchGaming1999]

man bro your videos are entertaining asf

[@Gunthazv2]

that was indeed a warcrime

[@ErulianADRaghath]

More CBU, please! That was cool as hell.

[@SldgeHammr]

Civilians casualties? You mean “Acceptable losses?”

[@julianviefers6703]

Poor hellreign gonna get courtmarshaled

[@flyguy1237]

court marshalled to death.

[@Th3Orange]

Was that Hellreign hellreign!!!!??? Amazing. :D

[@viper31stvfw86]

great to see, that you finally fly the f-16. i e-mailed you i think around last year and asked you about the "16" and you told me, that you are not interested in it, for the moment, cause of the "beta-status". good to see in it now and the video was absolute aweseom, send greetings to all the other guys, that fly with you in thag mission. i appreciate your footage and enjoyed it, especially the firework that you guys created that night...awesome^^ greetings from germany stay healthy and fly safe ^^

[@JD96893]

i love you Ralfidude

[@henrikoldcorn]

I wish the AGM-154B had been a thing…

[@pato_anao1447]

0:10 could somebody tell me from which viper this cockpit is from, because it is very different from the bl.50

[@johjoh9270]

not sure, think Israel modified one Edit: F16D block 52 rear cockpit

[@daryl75052]

Love the O'Grady reference

[@juanchelini5937]

F-16 War Crimes B-52 over Vietnam: bitch, please...

[@symie8]

Nice. Thought it was BMS at one point (which is certainly not a bad thing)! Do you and your troops not fence in when on night ops?

[@frogisis]

these things are so wacky to me, they seem like a bomb idea from a Dr Seuss book

[@twotailedavenger]

You know what has to be done now that there's CBUs in DCS, right? Now we need napalm. Anyone working on an F-4?

[@FirstDagger]

ED suspended their F-4E indefinitely. All third parties probably have enough on their table with the modules they announced.

[@flyguy5591]

@@FirstDaggerHeatblur just announced it today

[@michaelmcconnell3777]

why are the nav or any identifying aircraft lights left on?

[@rhysgoodman7628]

This will need to be redone with the Mudhen when it releases. That can carry fifteen CBU-105s.

[@Bushy_P]

The vid title got the like here.

[@S1lverspike]

Like the new video format

[@kirk_7632]

how do you look at the target sites? is there an f key I'm missing?

[@pinkbanana1276]

“It’s got a good spreeeaaad”

[@tinkertailor7385]

"Oh wonderful. I get to commit the war crimes"..... God I laughed. Shouldn't have. But I did.

[@pyroscot]

Another quality video nice one Ralfi. KZbin didnt even bother to notify of this which is a tad annoying. I also see the BMS boys have viewed it, 13 dislikes LOL just no pleasing them fella. Pyro

[@SecuR0M]

The Virgin Tomcat with a rack of Mk-20s vs the Chad Viper with a single CBU-105.

[@relfch9296]

Great stuff man ...

[@Duvstep910]

I love the Viper; still fly it in F4:AF

[@sirplanes6342]

Did the plane call you "bad player" at like 10:00?🤣

[@spec7777]

It started with bad player, then it became Chad player and al last it came down to chaff flare

[@VuLamDang]

Ralfidude is great. But Ralfi, Arlios and Hellreign all together? I think I just came

[@LogieT2K]

the Viper will always be my favourite

[@kalashnikovdevil]

Any suggestions on where and how to get started with DCS world and other more serious flight sims?

[@TheKhakikid]

Ralfi, bud. Quality fuckin content.

[@Real_Claudy_Focan]

These munitions are "banned" per se.. The treaty only agrees that if the manyfacturer cant provide a >90% of destruction of all "missed" sub-munition, signataries of the treaty can't used them It's a tricky "legal" thing ! They basically say "we dont use submunitions, we banned them" but in reality they use them if manufacturer guarantees them (and in case of fail, responsability is ook by manufacturer and not a sovereign state that can be courted in UN councils) "Modern problems require ...legal solutions !"

[@shafrimokhtar4525]

Nice vid.. you should really work for History Channel or something and make all the military video more interesting.. if you are not doing that already. 😁

[@OzDeaDMeaT]

OP AF

[@Crazylogie]

Savage AF

[@PBMainiac]

Bro what is that most shredding tune played during the strikes? Edit: OK I was able to Shazam it during a part where ralfi wasn't talking. It's "Broken" by Karl Casey.

[@ralfidude]

Or just check the description

[@PBMainiac]

@@ralfidude I am not a smart man, OK? Love the channel. Going to go bury my head in the sand now.