HUNTER KILLER | F-15 Eagle Vs 2x Su-27 Flanker | INTERCEPT | Digital Combat Simulator | DCS |

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

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[@southyes]

nice videos

[@Miguelcooldude777]

Day 89 asking for F35C vs F/A-18F Super Hornet

[@chadjmoore]

Great dog fight. Superior flight skills wins most times. Great content!!

[@leftnut7508]

Former armament maintainer here, that long gun burst definitely killed your gun. At a minimum we'd have to take it out, guage check the barrels and probably replace each of them, x-ray the housing, and maybe keep some of the original gun to put back in. Your jet will be grounded for 4 days at most unless we got an extra gun. Cool kill tho, lol.

[@kraitshakti]

Golden comment. Thank you.

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

Worth it lol sorry for the extra work tho boss

[@dubyaaa]

Still cheaper than the AWACS

[@goranstevanovic4724]

And what would be a permissible burst? Like, 2 secs?

[@nomadicrain]

@@goranstevanovic4724 typically 1 second or just less.

[@ege5804]

''Now i gotta go gun the awacs'' Proceeds to unleash the entire belt into one engine.

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

ahaha yaaa unloaded the entire gun into him looool

[@spider_corsa]

He's just drop out more weight for avoiding bingo over hostile territory :D

[@ege5804]

@@GrowlingSidewinder His extended warranty is surely not a problem anymore..

[@SkeetSystem]

is it too much to ask that you just hit the dish 🙈

[@Jay_the_AV8R]

How Air Force 1 of him

[@xJAWAx]

I originally started watching for the 1v1 dogfights, but to me these missions are the coolest now. Love stuff like this. Keep em coming.

[@Shintareth]

Love the profile picture

[@xJAWAx]

@@Shintareth thank you! It's Breckenridge Colorado.

[@Shintareth]

Looks amazing I'll have to head out and have a look around some day.

[@netwrkguy]

I love it how you just drop your external tanks just willynilly over whereever you are.🙂🙂

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

Ya, not my problem anymore lol

[@rangerrick8220]

I've often wondered what (who?) they fall on....

[@Acrophobia2]

@@TheNapalmFTW no they have very specific guidelines when dropping tanks. Although I’d it was an emergency I’m sure they just drop then whenever.

[@kdrapertrucker]

@@Acrophobia2 in a dogfight situation they get dropped no matter what.

[@oliverhafez9011]

How to make napalm diy in 1 button!

[@cshan2313]

"I paid for the whole ammo, I use all the ammo"

[@markstott6689]

I wanted a guns kill on the AWACS and that's what you gave us. Plus it was a nice touch showing your return to base. Thank you.

[@Amadeus_Flyfishing]

I'm fairly new to DCS and fascinated by your situational awareness. So much to learn from ;)

[@hernerweisenberg7052]

I can reccomend the F-5. Underpowered, under armed (only 2 old sidewinders), lowtech, no fly by wire, radar is shit, only very little chaff and flares. But so much fun to fly. And forces you to develope a feel for you speed, how hard you pull to not break off your wings, not to loose too much energy, and how to use your Mark I eyeballs, how to use countermeasures effectively, etc. Very hard to defeat modern planes, but a lot of fun and it makes you a better pilot. Once you get used to all that, you can switch to a more modern plane, bring in radar, BVR and so on after you got all the basics covered :)

[@jfs366]

@@hernerweisenberg7052 I agree, it teaches you really good basics, specifically stick control because you can rip your wings off if you pull too hard but it’s far more forgiving than other planes. And navigation in that thing is so easy, the tacan is incredibly easy to use.

[@calico8361]

loving all of these 1v2/3/4/5/etc fights, they really show of your skill

[@Vanessaira-Retro]

I had a feeling it would be that type of episode. Especially when GS said he needed to gun the AWACS so, WHEN THAT BATTLEFIELD THEME KICKS IN!!!

[@andrewberry7117]

@@Bolter024 bro lol

[@andrewberry7117]

@@Bolter024 statistically there are probably less women than men who like this kinda stuff but there still are plenty *shrug*

[@pugachevskobra5636]

You’re a man; do you genuinely like this content???

[@michaelold6695]

I would say that the flanker had a partial win. He made you use all your AMRAMs so you had to gun the AWACS. If the AWACS had bugged out at the beginning of the fight they might have made it to safety. Also the flanker could have bought enough time for other air assets to intercept you before you could take out the AWACS.

[@jamison884]

That works both ways. The USAF has an abundance of jets, so it would be a rare engagement to start out with 1 vs. 2, to begin with, and then once contact is made, it would also be a rare event for the USAF to send fewer reinforcements (if the scenario called for it of course). The Davis-Monthan Air Force Boneyard in Tucson Arizona (where they have a detailed preservation process to place many operable jets and helicopters into long-term storage) represents of a larger air force than just about every country except for the top 10 or so worldwide. For example, 326 F-16s, 161 F-18s, and 174 F-15s. :)

[@tanmayhaldar7565]

@@jamison884 in the given scenario chosen by GS.... Only 1 flanker almost had his number..... If the second one wasn't lost to manoeuvre kill.... The scenario would have been lost. I don't think it has much meaning comparing entire air forces, rather the specific scenario chosen by GS. Thus it's a Partial win or as some put it moral victory for the flankers.

[@jamison884]

@@tanmayhaldar7565 Oh I agree it's a partial/moral victory for the flankers, I was just responding to this specific part (below) to make the point that additional engagement time to call in reinforcements wouldn't necessarily be to the Flanker's benefit. It's not a big deal, either way, just a fun little BVR engagement. :) "Also the flanker could have bought enough time for other air assets to intercept you"

[@timothyparker2354]

Thank you for the explanations on what it is your seeing and where in the radar etc... It really helps ppl like me follow and understand what your doing and why...

[@sledgehammerk35]

F-15 Eagle… 50 years in service and still one of the most bad ass fighters in the world.

[@botondsipos3341]

And none of them have been shot down yet!!! 😎

[@RRninja-jq6lp]

@@botondsipos3341 actually Saudi one was shot down recently. 108 : 1 is still extremely impressive

[@botondsipos3341]

@@RRninja-jq6lp I did not know. Thanks for the update. And yeah F-15 is still a legend.

[@RRninja-jq6lp]

@@botondsipos3341 it wasn't even air combat , pilot jut flown it in to a syrian sam site

[@riddlex]

GS just spray painted the AWACS with bullets. Now that's art.

[@michaeladar1763]

Gotta say the full blast of the gun on the AWACS produced a moment in this channel that made me smile like it never has before! Apparently I wasn’t subbed so yeah thank you for the good laugh on that!

[@Sivalente1]

Love the little touch of adding the bird landing after a successful hunt.

[@FD1CE]

You got a crazy commander who sends you to fight against an AWACS with a 2 ship escort!

[@regarded9702]

Love it when you talk through the basics whilst playing, helps me better understand what's happening and makes the fights much more interesting

[@botondsipos3341]

Am I the only one here that is actually glad GS ran out of amraams? So we could watch an F-15 adding some extra air intake on that il-76LL awacs from a very close distance. It was sooo satisfying! I really love this channel! Keep doing that mate! Your videos are amazing :)

[@oscarzheng9902]

if the su 27 wingman didnt die, the f15 wouldn't have completed the mission as the f15 will have to use two times more missiles on the su 27s and might not even kill them. gs had to use all his amraams on one flanker to get the kill

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

That’s right, I probably wouldn’t have completed the mission

[@InSearchOfReality]

@@GrowlingSidewinder Sooo.......round 2?

[@chankra2467]

I really liked you showing the landing at the end there maybe show takeoff as well next time. It looks so cool :)

[@stanwolford9743]

Love the mission/objective videos! Thank you!

[@lionofsparta1401]

Watching you gun the AWACS was so satisfying Watching you kill large planes in general is super satisfying More large plane killing videos! Maybe a cargo intercept

[@The08450]

Love to see this exact mission flown in an F-22!!!!

[@Noisy_Cricket]

Would probably just go shoot the AWACS and move on lol

[@imza5535]

@@Noisy_Cricket exactly what I was gonna say lol. Ignore flanker and fly formation with the awacs

[@Ilyak1986]

For reference: GS in an F-22 with normal A2A loadout (6x AIM120, 2x AIM9X) took out 7x F-15 EX. As in the review of Top Gun Maverick that I think I saw on Jell-O's youtube page (former F-14 pilot, IIRC), the quote is: "5th generation fighters are *comically* better." All the R-77 defending GS has to do? Stealth just says "yeahhhh, no need for that". Just sneak into the MAR, 1 missile apiece, then dispatch the AWACS, and that's that. The F-35 can probably do similar things, honestly. So long as it doesn't get into a merge situation, the F-35 should be about as effective as an F-22 so long as armaments last.

[@Gauweezy]

I'd love a video of a basic tutorial on how to read the radar and what a lock with a good shoot authorization looks like. You have it in snippets here and there but not a dedicated video! Keep it up Side the content is great!

[@pugachevskobra5636]

Same here💯

[@Sithman1776]

That was awesome! Wish I could’ve seen you gun down the AWACS from cockpit view.

[@robsonfujii461]

What a beautiful spin that AWACS tail did.

[@alitabbal9529]

You are a true Eagle driver, keep flying the mighty F-15!

[@LuisDiaz-fs8uh]

Can you use a HARM against an AWACS?

[@georgewright3949]

A B52 fire control radar attracted a HARM over Iraq so I guess so?

[@rangerrick8220]

Can't imagine what the guys in the AWACS were feeling seeing you so close on their six.... least it went fast.... sorta...

[@sidskievaski5937]

Love the modern Eagle missions!! 👏👏👏

[@MobileTaskForceE11]

4:09 Sounds like Gigachads wife lmao

[@cloudforest4087]

You f**ked that mission up! Oh, that AWACS getting torn. lol

[@MCItreble2023]

Woah... That really kept us at the edge of our toes there... especially the 10 mile R-77-1, super close

[@Ev0L5]

Noob question...going cold mean getting close to water to cool your heat output? How would the F-15 rank in all the fighters? You talk really highly about it.

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

Hi there, going Cold means to turn away from the bandit, to be hot is to be nose on, same for the bandit, if the bandit is hot on you means he's coming towards you. as for the F-15 its one of the greatest fighters ever built, a combat score of 104-0 in air to air combat, meaning no eagles have ever been lose in air to air combat in the world. That's a big statement and a testament to how good the aircraft is.

[@andreipendle1778]

Ok, that ending was awesome. Just came here to say this, great vid.

[@anathemasit7521]

Great content, keep it up bro

[@edwardking186]

He makes incredible content! One of the things I look forward to every day! A GS video!

[@JessidGallardo]

You should do the US vs Russia thing again but with the rule that you can't choose the same jet twice so it's more interesting. Do like 5 or 6 rounds so you can have different engagements. Also make it bandit unknown so you have to choose your jet carefully.

[@radiod698]

Determined.

[@skyhorseprice6591]

Man you surgically slice n diced that AWACS! That was unexpectedly satisfying.

[@pietroferrari4279]

"now i gotta gun the awacs" crew inside awacs " oh lord he comi------- BRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTT"

[@numbersletters3886]

I was so happy when you shot the last missile, lol. Wanted to see u gun the AWACS, lol. Awesome!

[@Alphafortress]

Can't help but be impressed with your comentry Love it

[@seanmurphy7011]

Is it best to take an AWACS one-circle or two-circle?

[@sgt.grinch3299]

You don’t see the AWACS getting zapped too often. Nice job.

[@factfilenews]

If you were a real fighter pilot, would you have shot down the AWACS or just ripped through it's radome? Wanted to ask, because you emptied your magazine on it.

[@michaelold6695]

In a purely cold calculation, it is better to take out the aircraft rather than just the radome. The radome can be repaired. If the aircraft is shot down, it is the pilots and crew as well as the total loss of the aircraft

[@totallynotthecia]

That awacs kill was brutal

[@huntergerszke8135]

That was absolutely fantastic man I can’t believe you got that shot off

[@nicomeier8098]

Gunning the AWACS must have been quite satisfying...

[@sgt.grinch3299]

I loved it when you went low and really fast. Great job.

[@marcuscsik1509]

The way you unload all the rounds on that poor AWACS 😂😂😂

[@chaz__]

AWACS occupants: Deploy flairs!!! Wait he's not firing..oh what the fuck ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@_jaegerboy_]

Flown the skies of DCS for 1/2 year's with the F-15C now, I'm genuinely impressed by your high level of situational awareness, how do you achieve that?

[@LoScorpioneRosso1]

By your propic I can immediately understand why you fly the F-15C

[@jacobdoolan4978]

He has been flying for 4+years lol

[@son-of-a-Haitian]

Wow, you like shooting your load of bullets. That last Flanker gave you a lot of stress. You are a good shot. You could have just targeted each engine at a time. You had time. Did you consider that maybe you could have given the crew a chance to bail? What is this, total war? Excellent show as usual.

[@The_Original_Brad_Miller]

I'm enjoying these mission orientated vids more that the regular 'ol dogfighting ones. With the dogfights while there is the possibility of an exceptional kill by either of you, the mission ones have a greater range of things that can go wrong. I hope to see more of them in the future. Views from the peanut gallery...

[@mictest12]

Flanker #1 "I'm dropping to avoid...dropping to avoid...dropping to avoid...dropping into poppies....look, a field of poppies.....THOSE AREN'T POP---"

[@AtlasJay]

This was an awesome video. I think you may have been in serious trouble if the Flankers wingman hadn't crashed!

[@akdomun]

Man I wanted to see the slow-mo of that gun kill at the end!

[@ohalrighthen4301]

Downing an AWACS with guns is Air Force Cross stuff. Imagine the anxiety of AWACS crews when GS got closer by the minute...

[@PartTimeJedi]

Love stuff like this even more than the 1 V 1 vids

[@OpinionatedMatt]

Would be cool to have a Flanker video trying to use the IRST as the main tracking and targeting system. Not sure it’s possible to survive long enough to get to use it tho.

[@IndyBobcat]

Really enjoying the objective-based videos.

[@GyroLove]

Bet the barrels on that M61 are like throwing a hotdog down a hallway after slinging a couple hundred pounds of 20mm into that poor awacs

[@sodadrink8363]

are we really gonna ignore how gs was nearly taken out by the dead awacs’s severed tail 😂

[@GM-fh5jp]

GS thought he was in an A10 there at the execution of the AWACS :) Bbbrrrrrr.

[@Henschmen38]

Tge offensive objective based mission was a cool idea for a video, I hope you do more of these!

[@WhiskeyDale]

now that , was funny as hell. good shootin' Tex

[@jeramelbarcelo1075]

I was quite shocked with that gun burst at the end. Hope those barrels are still worth repairing.. maybe?

[@The2flame]

When you fire your fox 3 and dip to defend, braking your radar lock, how can your missile still reach target when it can't Pitbull yet?

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

Breaking lock forces the missile pitbull

[@The2flame]

@@GrowlingSidewinder huh, never knew that, neet. (also, respect for answering my question on a 7 month old vid)

[@TheHaiko117]

Just imaging beein part of that awacs crew and hundreds of bullets rip through that airplane. Anyone that survived the bulletstorm can now just wait to hit the ground.

[@richardb4313]

Gunning an unarmed plane like that feels a little like mass murder though.

[@samcs06]

What a terrible way to go out. Blacked out on a middle of a dog fight and you crash into the ground. Your consciousness wouldn't even know what happened

[@og_propagandapdx8592]

That was an …. Aggressive burst into that awacs

[@Krommer1000]

12:23 Oh, those poor bastards.

[@geedub7912]

That was pretty fricken AWESOME!!!

[@remain_]

Having the contexts of a mission was grwT

[@johnmarston2616]

It would be cool to see a PVP F-14 vs Foxbat 2v2 BVR fight!

[@ivan9312]

Hey GS, I ve been watching your every video for the last 2 years and I have my first question for you. How does your aircraft radar know when the enemy is only pinging you and trying to lock you vs. when you actually get locked and radars alert tone changes to a locked alert? Is there change in frequency of an enemy radar or what is the clue in tech terms for a radar to know it is getting locked? I know the reason why alert changes when the missile goes pitbull as its a different radar signal coming in fast but what is the reason of alert change between scanning and locking. Thank you so much. cheers from edmonton, alberta, canada

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

hello there another fellow canadian. Thank you for watching so many of the videos goes a long way to supporting the channel. To answer your question when the aircraft is being locked and its trying to communicate that to the pilot its the RWR or Radar Warning Receiver which is doing it not the Radar. The RWR is responsible for detecting enemy radar signatures and displaying them to the pilot. It is also the RWR that is making the audible tones again trying to communicate with the pilot about the nature and severity of the threat. From my understanding the way it interprets this and understands that the aircraft is being locked is by the frequency of the radiation that it is detecting. When the Enemy radar is just scanning the radiation of his radar just passes over you and a low amount of it hits your aircraft the RWR uses this to show you the location of the radar emission. When he tries to lock you his radar focuses on you and shoots a bunch of radiation at you to try to lock you up the RWR picks up this increase of radiation and interprets it as a radar lock. (this is a pretty basic explanation of how the system works) I hope this answer your question.

[@toddmenard2330]

Loved this, but I wish you would’ve shown the lead up to intercepting the AWACS

[@jamesnorth7318]

See when your cranking (defending cold) after an ammram shot, does it not break the Lock from the aircraft, even though you have 60 Deg radar, it looks as if the radar won't send the missile so it using its own seeker, does this not make the missile less effective? I.e goes Pitbull earlier and RWR indication earlier on bogie?

[@gliran1]

Hi GS, after firing Fox3s you often go cold and turn to defend before the missile goes pitbull. Do AIM120s auto-pitbull when losing track or mothership radar?

[@jonathanlarsson5511]

Man I cant wait til I will buy a new PC. Your graphics looks amazing man. My PC can push pretty high settings, but yours makes mine seem like a potato xD

[@kellan2771]

If they didn't shoot because of the jam, why did you defend? Couldn't you have pushed in and forced them even more defensive?

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

I didn’t want to take the risk that if they got burn thru their r77 would catch me cuz I’d be so deep into the MAR, wanted to play it safe

[@Iwillfigureoutanamelater]

Would holding your lock instead of instantly defending every time increase the effectiveness of your AMRAAMs?

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

Depends on the range. At longer ranges yes. At shorter ranges not really.

[@JF-xq6fr]

If I had 1000 missiles left, I would gun killed that IL-76... Damn, watching that F-15 fall into view was like a Little piranha chasing a giant goldfish, and ripping it to shreds.

[@jannikproger8088]

can you please do a 3 player vs 3 players like the eagles vs flankers you did some time ago

[@Rose_Butterfly98]

Now that's how you gun an AWACS.

[@joeycallahan913]

This would be a great learning mission.

[@thefakequake]

would love to see some videos on the tornado

[@heathb4319]

Note to self... Don't use your plane as a microscope to see the ground better.

[@Sheerkon]

great job... very exciting to watch.

[@hunterbell1679]

He really gave that AWACS both barrels

[@clockworkorange3628]

Imagine being the a-wax, watching all your boys go down and knowing you're next the arena damn thing can do about it

[@Agm1995gamer]

I wonder if an f14 with the phoenix could climb to high altitude and fire at the awacs before engaging with the flankers.

[@TheSuperhomosapien]

There's a good chance. It's basically what the Phoenix was designed to do.

[@DeathPenny]

Casually murders 30 crew members of the AWACS ….. now it’s Miller time

[@Hmd1414]

Loool😂 he used all the 940 rounds in that M61A1 gatling gun

[@luish19779]

I see this video and after that, I have to turn on my computer 😉

[@mihalybalint8969]

IDK about you guys, but if I'm ever in a situation when I'm so desperate to pull out from a dive that I black out from the G-s, the last thing I want to do is wake up in the last possible second. Last second of your life is just pure, unfiltered, Mach 1.2 horror.

[@LJSZN]

I could not see that flanker at all until he blew it up😭😭

[@zachboyd4749]

"Trigger discipline? Never heard of it." -GS, probably

[@Ob1sdarkside]

When you turn F 15 into a lawn mower