Independence Day - Final Encounter Air Battle Scene

[@olivierp.3604]

- "Eagle 2" - " I'm on it" Boom. RIP eagle two. Best line of the show.

[@konigkaos8090]

The left wing man too. I see them I see them “boom”

[@vieiraft]

@@konigkaos8090 Is the left wingman a girl? Looks like.

[@MarkMeloon]

You can tell this movie is pure fantasy because the President is younger than 70 years old.

[@Adelina-293]

LOL!!!!

[@romangeneral23]

Blame the system; not the individual

[@saberiandream316]

Yeah, if only, huh?

[@davidrubio-lf5rc]

And he actually takes charge. You don't see that often

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

If he was 70, the psychic link during the lab scene would have killed him.

[@hpa2005]

If anyone was wondering when the pilots say "Fox One" or "Fox Two": The phrases said by the pilots when firing their missiles is NATO brevity code for the types of missiles being launched. "Fox One" means a semi-active radar-guided missile (AIM-7 Sparrow), "Fox Two" is an infrared-guided (heat-seeking) missile (AIM-9 Sidewinder), and "Fox Three" is an active radar-guided missile (AIM-120 AMRAAM).

[@bman3794]

@@hpa2005 I was always confused by the military jargon until you explained it to me thank you

[@pazoned]

then you got eagle six saying random shit like S7

[@OurWorldIsBroken]

Amazing, the aliens travel 50 million lightyears to attack Earth and then they forget to bring the latest Windows Security update!!!!

[@roelmd8907]

They didn't expect that the earthlings used Mac..

[@ThiagoMarquardt]

They didn't pay WinRAR

[@stayingwithit8632]

Who ever has time for that, especially while coordinating a intergalactic invasion

[@indoroyale7848]

Perhaps they disabled it in hopes of playing a few pirated games 😂

[@roelmd8907]

@@indoroyale7848 or using earthling's VPN 😂

[@TITANMAN251]

AV8-Harriers, F-14 Tomcats, F-18 Hornets.

[@jimward89]

legendary jets for the air

[@Tataymokalbo]

How Top Gun Maverick are rescued a mission😂...

[@Ghost_Alfa_One]

Sup Mobius 1, you still in touch with SkyEye?

[@edmonddantes8965]

Hey Mobius 1!

[@MightyJosh1985]

@@jimward89 jets don't usually go anywhere else

[@Rubashow]

"Thanks Fox. I thought they had me." "You did it! I was worried for a moment."

[@theguybehindyou4762]

“Fox! That’s one of ours!!”

[@azatH-d6s]

Hey Eistein!

[@mybasecampisuptownhighrent]

I am not American born but having lived there, I love USA and this movie is just one of the best. The casting for this movie was bloody spot on and superb.

[@compass_Matt]

I think of the foreshadowing in the beginning of the film when President Whitmore is first introduced to the film. The news anchors on the television are talking about how weak his is and what a wimp he is. Then throughout the film he exhibits bravery every step of the way. To which he then gives one of the most legendary speeches before literally leading his troops into what they had to imagine at the time was certain death.

[@averyvaliant]

I remember how amazing this was in the cinema, I Was only 16 at the time. This scene in particular was just amazing with the visuals and music, but also the surround sound effects of missiles and bullets firing everywhere. Ah, I miss movies like this.

[@aaronmarks9366]

I was 13, and same. During the city destruction scenes, I swear I could feel the flames and fiery wind blasting past me

[@Scooter_McLuvin]

Yes out of missiles. Still, a good volley of 20 mm rounds from the Vulcan could have done a lot of damage

[@christianresel8051]

Not realy. Those missles barely scratched the outer armor layer, if at all. All they did was look good after impact, nothing major. 20mm? Wouldnt even dent the cityship. Against the superweapon i dont know. If at all it could have ben the laser hitting a target like directly in front of it that destroyed it (we will never know).

[@Scooter_McLuvin]

@christianresel8051 armor piercing 20 mm at several thousand rounds a minute...... that is a lot of firepower.......brrrrrrtttt

[@lethalfang]

That would hardly dent a WW2 era battleship.

[@Scooter_McLuvin]

​@@christianresel8051 I was referring to the primary weapon

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

@@Scooter_McLuvin Several thousand rounds a minute for all of about ten seconds.

[@hpa2005]

0:26 - at 100 yards, volley fire PRESENT......FIRE!

[@BigstickNick]

I always thought about how long those Aliens had the shield, then all of a sudden they had the explosion. They had to be like *oh shit*

[@theguybehindyou4762]

“We’ll have to destroy them ship to ship!” -Darth Harvester

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

I.T. dropped the ball. Though he did say the shields would probably only be down a matter of minutes which is a good response time.

[@1987phillybilly]

MAN!! The 90s! Such a GREAT time for action movies!!

[@samanli-tw3id]

@@1987phillybilly defo

[@LawrenceReitan]

I was 6, excited to watch this movie. And year after year when they broadcasted it on TV. Good times

[@mischievous7129]

Saw this in theaters, and it was truly epic.

[@kevdipple5000]

What I'd like to know is how David and Steve survive a in a crashing alien space craft ,falling to earth at a high rate of speed and land only where they can be conveniently picked up. Walking away from said craft. surely they should be dead.

[@LiberumFatalis]

Its a movie, you should first ask how the super advanced aliens didnt noticed up a 1947 crashed ship entering their mother ship. Logics dont apply in hollywood. Anyways best movie ever

[@WaveForceful]

You are trying to make sense of it when they crashed in a super advanced spacecraft.

[@Mr.Possums]

There's a level in Star Fox 64 that slightly resembles this but I guess minus the huge ship. Also very fitting to say _Fox 2_ Good times.

[@MTMT7777]

There is a big ship👍

[@JJ-vc6gt]

The guy really said I see him ! I see em! Gets blown up a second later

[@sonrouge]

Word is that in some theaters, that second missile striking the ship drew a standing ovation. Considering how dark the movie is and how much this one sliver of hope was built up, I can certainly believe it.

[@Jondave]

This really did happen. I know it sounds like one of those "and everyone clapped" tales, but I remember. It was different back in 1996.

[@bman3794]

I always wondered why they couldn’t just nuke the ship with the shields down?

[@D.M.S.]

Too close to Are 51. Too many civilians

[@SilentArc]

@@D.M.S.that’s a good point. Could’ve used low yield nukes. Or surface to air missiles of some sort

[@dejvidrizo]

CGI budget to low

[@ReddwarfIV]

Supposedly that's exactly what Russia and China did.

[@christianresel8051]

No nukes or nuke carriers left. This here assault was a last ditch effort as we all know. And they went so hard all in you see tanks and patriots fire at the ship at the end, so how would they even be able to launch one of those? Suicide style? not gonna happen.

[@IceCreamNotCoffee]

If you look closely at 1:00 you can see a tiny F/18 floating to your right on the screen

[@TecDeepBen]

Never understood why they didnt use Tomahawks and that stuf at the end

[@thedeplorable8370]

Resources maybe? The movie made a point that the aliens targeted military bases

[@christianresel8051]

They did. Watch the scene again. You see multiple HEAVY impacts from larger than fighter rockets on that ship's bottom. At least patriots did fire, if not even other tanks etc.

[@vieiraft]

@@thedeplorable8370 And what about the Navy? A bunch of destroyers, carries and subs are probably available.

[@davidlewis5189]

​@@vieiraft If they attacked Military Bases, chances are if the Navy had sent Jets from Aircraft Carriers, and they were destroyed in the 1st Counterattack, the aliens likely struck the naval stations & aircraft carriers the same way they did El Toro...

[@Jdub14000]

I remember the theater erupted when the first missile went through.

[@hpa2005]

Unless I'm mistaken: the pilot of Eagle 7 is the same guy that wore the Harley-Davidson hat. I had a thought that he was a fighter jock in Vietnam and after the events of this movie he encouraged Miguel Casse to become a pilot and mentored him.

[@Lancelot0311]

You are not mistaken my friend. I confirmed they are the same person. Thanks for pointing this small detail out !

[@hpa2005]

@@Lancelot0311 you're welcome :)

[@hpa2005]

@@Lancelot0311 one other thing: the pilot at 0:21 looks like he could have been a Korean War vet

[@jeffk2420]

15 miles in diameter and we decide to fire a bunch of sidewinder missiles instead of bombing

[@BrowncoatGofAZ]

I don’t think they would’ve make it through the fighter screen, or even the ship’s weapons. Plus, they might’ve all been destroyed when they attacked the military bases.

[@MaryHemmings]

President giving up Chicken McNuggets. Heroic!

[@stevesibaja3123]

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[@stevesibaja3123]

Russell Casse will be remembered as Hero he beats the Aliens💪💪💪💪💪💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@verdebusterAP]

This battle never made any sense Shields are down Hit em with nukes

[@Jupiter.141]

Where's the fun in that?

[@verdebusterAP]

@@Jupiter.141 A nuke cripples the ships and forces it down You have negated their numbers and instead of losing hundreds of pilots and aircraft

[@WaveForceful]

@@verdebusterAP It was implied they did for the others.

[@georgevanhoose6333]

Except they were right on top of a refugee base & hi-value military target.

[@MightyJosh1985]

@@WaveForceful no it wasn’t. It showed them getting downed by conventional weapons/ aircraft. Australia doesn’t have nukes, nor does Egypt.

[@dylanwalker7624]

Against a ship the size of a city, there is no other weapon such AGM-86 AGM-158 as Tomahawk missiles only fighters with AIM-9 sidewinder and AIM-120 missiles, which have a small warhead and for such a ship these missiles are like mosquito bites. In reality, the role of the fighters would be to protect the B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers, which would drop 2,000 lb Mark 84 bombs on the ship.

[@ISAFSoldier]

I believe is a bit of an oversight with production and script. The Hornets should've been calling Bruiser instead of Fox 3 as they were tossing AGM-84 Harpoons.

[@joeswanson733]

Would those bombs do anything to the city ship. It's a 19km ship made of alien metal

[@ISAFSoldier]

@@joeswanson733 You see the damage that a sidewinder does....true that its not much but it somehow punches through the front plating and leaves glowing damage behind.... a single 2000 lb bomb is enough to sink a Cruiser class ship, just to give perspective. A B1 can carry 62 of them

[@tideatmilehigh2727]

In actuality they probably would've been using lower yield nuclear weapons imo.

[@joeswanson733]

@@tideatmilehigh2727 yeah like the one the dropped on Nagasaki

[@league5553]

Love the damn movie one of my all time favorite...looking back to this scene now i notice how slow all the jets ans alien ship was moving and flying is hilarious 😅

[@maxfrankow1238]

Russell was back in Nam here. He was perfectly at home in this environment. Poor guy.

[@hisdudeness8328]

I wish they had had him flying an F-4 Phantom. Would have been great to have a scene of him climbing back into the cockpit and greeting the old girl like they were long lost friends reuniting.

[@48Ender48]

Still don't know how we defeated them with a handful of F-18's and they had 1000's of little pew pew ships.

[@vadrak6197]

Geee hmm I dont know, perhaps it is a movie...just saying.

[@48Ender48]

@@vadrak6197 🙄

[@MrSSili]

It’s coming soon

[@RichardWFE]

love how no one mentions the one actor first starts off as eagle 9, then goes to eagle 3, then eagle 2

[@vieiraft]

Rip Eagles 3 (the first one), 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8

[@M.A.S.K._Crusader]

EAGLE 7 FOX 2!

[@Lancelot0311]

Eagle 7 Survives and is the guy with the John Lennon glasses and Harley Hate at the end of the movie.

[@terrencejackson2977]

If everything was blue against the laser they might of stood a chance😂

[@spencergayan2426]

There were F-14s beneath the F-18s. 2 out 3 of my favorite 4th generation fighters.

[@TheDude50447]

Harriers as well right behind the Tomcats. Though tbh the Tomcats dont need to be that close. Have them higher up and further back hammering the Mothership with Phoenix missiles once they confirm the shields being down.

[@AnthonyMcqueen1987]

Bill Pullman the GOAT of fictional president's.

[@Oyakat88]

bro if I move

[@CoolsBreeze]

A mistake in the movie was that the president fired 5 missiles when he only had 4.

[@RichardWFE]

As President he received the buff of extra ammo 😂

[@napoleonwhitehorse971]

I noticed this just now and all of my existence, I didn’t thought about this! I was carried away by the action and thrill then I see the materialistic mistake! 🤣🤣🤣 “Eagle 1, Plus One!” 🤣🤣🤣

[@JustinR316]

0:34 EAT LASER TIC TACS!! 😂

[@luisenriquelennon4069]

Russel Case is the true hero

[@eddie4324]

Always thought they’d be better using artillery on the ship.

[@jpenir]

Id take this president over the current one in office

[@nimbly1693]

I love this movie. I just wonder where America's missile subs are. I would think that tomahawks from a sub in the Gulf of California should have been able to make it.

[@ultramega4117]

0:29

[@Oyakat88]

GIVE ME THE PHONE!

[@indigenoustruthspeaker3129]

90s trailer be like voice over In the face of extinction, can the human race be saved or face the extinction event in their own planet what we call it home EARTH the Fallen kingdom 🌎

[@rbclc]

Would Harpoon/Maverick more suitable for that kind of target? It seems that Sidewinder/Sparrow/AMRAAM doesn't have enough explosive charge to deal some penetration damage.

[@christianresel8051]

Not realy. What most dont understand is that you need to hit weakspots in order for those to work. Belt armor of an iowa is already to strong, i imagine the aliens being way harder armored given they barely took damage from the initial barage if at all.

[@lethalfang]

Absolutely. AA missiles are designed to shoot down human-made aircraft that are fast, agile, and fragile. For instance, AMRAAM has a 44lb. high-explosive fragmentation warhead. To bring down a behemoth mothership there, Harpoon (488 lb warhead), Maverick (up to 300 lb), Tomahawk (1000 lb) are gonna be better weapons.

[@kingsteve8083]

Harpoon would be more suitable because it has a 500lb warhead, and can also be fired from a distance. TBH, 500-1,000lb cruise missiles would be best; launch from 100 miles away, in relative safety, avoid getting too close to the ship or the alien fighters. Plus, 1,000lb and 2,000lb bombs as well; they'd do more damage.

[@nigelmiller6177]

surface to air missiles?

[@jsmcmxlvii]

Conveniently, all of the fighter aircraft are Navy and Marine Corps. I guess the USAF decided to begin early work on the sequel already, lol.

[@hisdudeness8328]

No. Most of the USAF aircraft had been destroyed in the failed counter attack the previous day.

[@jsmcmxlvii]

@@hisdudeness8328 How do you know, that was never shown in the movie. And if that were the case, why risk your remaining aircraft? In reality, this is a Hollywood movie, and Hollywood is in Southern California, and the Navy has a large presence in SoCal.

[@CroGaming420]

In reality it would be better to use cruise missiles and ballistic missiles or anything else instead of the sidewinder

[@liammartin4450]

I never understood why they didnt use high level bomber planes or artillery

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

I don't think high level aircraft mean anything against craft that can casually reach orbit and artillery is a sitting duck against an enemy with air superiority.

[@kingsteve8083]

That question makes more sense for the first battle, immediately after the cities were destroyed. By the time of the final air battle, though, I think they were using whatever they had left. I'd imagine that heavy bomber bases would have been eliminated within hours of the first battles. Artillery, I agree with. My guess for the Area 51 battle is that there wasn't any nearby. But in other areas, yeah; I'd have had any howitzers going, MLRS rocket artillery, even tanks just pointing their guns upwards at the ships.

[@davidlewis5189]

​@kingsteve8083 I believe the thing was the Military was concerned with the evacuation of civilians, and when the city destroyers were starting their destruction in the 1st wave, many military personnel that were on military bases near the cities, or otherwise trapped in traffic trying to get in said cities, were vaporized, also taking much needed missiles and fighter jets. Then when the Fighter Squadrons that tried to confront the Destroyers couldn't penetrate the shields and were wiped out by the alien fighters, they likely swarmed the nearby bases where the fighter jets came from and destroyed those military bases too, further depleting resources...

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

@@davidlewis5189 Not likely. 100%. Not only did they swarm Area 51 later but much earlier, it was mentioned that the aliens knew exactly where to hit them. In that sense, it doesn't make sense that Area 51 wasn't also hit right off the bat.

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

@@davidlewis5189 Not just "likely swarmed". They were 100% swarmed. It showed it in the movie: "We have incoming." "Friendly?" "I don't think so sir." pew pew pew pew

[@KisekiFan]

I always wondered why they were only equipped with 4 missles only. Maybe because it's standard but I dunno enough to know.

[@eduardgunis4541]

F-18 can carry more than four missiles. Assuming the opposion of giant mothership and alien fighters one could expect to carry more ordnance, yes.

[@christianresel8051]

movie shit.... a real fighter for an assault like that? at least 4 racks of 3 missles each. The F14 can handle those, not to mention the F16 can too. The F18? Has them as well. So whyever they didnt show them is beyond me... best part? This was around the time the F22 entered mass produced service, and she carries around 8 missles in her belly as well AND she can equip missle racks on her wings.

[@stevesibaja3123]

Eagle 1 Fox 3

[@Jonathan-co6eh]

Imagine a remake of this, just replace the CGI with better ones.

[@shamriadam7483]

The strange thing abt this movie.....USA only have F18s to attack the alien ship?

[@visencorp6502]

You can see they have various fighter jet in this scene, including 3rd generation aircraft, meaning that the worlds military has been obliteratef and they use whatever remaining in their disposal

[@Oyakat88]

good lukc :)

[@Oliepolie]

You can tell this movie is pure fantasy because the Active Radar Homing Missile wouldnt actually lock onto a stationary target (even if its floating above the ground) as the closing speed would be the same as the aircraft's closing speed to ground, thus the missile would be effectively notched.

[@AndreaPetragnani-c8j]

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[@AndreaPetragnani-c8j]

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[@Packer1290]

Where's the Tomahawks?

[@Oyakat88]

bro its like this

[@OneSec0511]

Really??finished the video im the middle??lol

[@Thermocup]

Does anyone have any missiles left?

[@markok.8440]

In real world only 1 ufo could destroy all US crafts.

[@Holaaa325]

Where is navy ship and other missile launcher vehicle

[@Norcal1990]

F18 is king

[@nathangallegos9304]

Better than top gun

[@Oyakat88]

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[@gamerdaddy2570]

only americans saved the world the rest of the armed forces of the world just watched 😂😂😂

[@alexdeghost2729]

Uuhh did you not watch the movie? The entire WORLD was fighting. Largest air battle in mankind verbatim

[@JojoJoget]

Bro didn’t watch the movie

[@samanli-tw3id]

@@alexdeghost2729for example, Luftwaffe brought down a ship near Munich.

[@kellyscout-vw4mz]

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[@konigkaos8090]

Left wing man who looked like a teen getting smoked was always like damn got popped right after lock. No escape RIP

[@RichardWFE]

The actor for him was 16 at the time

[@Oyakat88]

bro it's 1:09 the god

[@Oyakat88]

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[@ratuadilFF]

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[@snakesonaplane114]

I always assumed that was a woman pilot, right? They never bring attention to it at all and theres only 1 or 2.

[@samanli-tw3id]

Yeah, really, so many pilots and all of them are men?

[@danielserrano591]

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[@danielserrano591]

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[@sickheadache9903]

Without a Doubt..When I went to the movie to see this Film..There were so many grinch worthy moment, the worst screenplay ..Make Irwin Allen’s The Swarm seem as poetic as Shakespeare ..ID4 Ripped off Every Good and Dumb Film. This was truly a dumb cartoonish film. Over Produced, Over Directed..Over Acted. Insane Plot. As if we couldn’t see Large as city Spaceships..in space approaching( there will be a moronic geek to explain why I am wrong) 💩🥴🤔

[@Oyakat88]

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[@LuisFelipy]

Owww 0:18

[@Oyakat88]

its time to kiss

[@danielserrano591]

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[@wellifthemediasaysit]

Terrible, cheesy steaming pile of bullshit film!

[@レッドハン]

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[@Jamaal-z7x]

I love this movie. But why the hell are they using puny air to air missiles against that ship. They should have dusted off the old genie nuclear air to air missiles. But I know this movie is just a fun watch. Everything doesn’t need to be perfect

[@samanli-tw3id]

Yeah, A2A missiles against a Manhattan-sized spaceship is kind of like trying to destroy an M1 Abrams tank with pistols. However, Area 51 is a testing ground for aircraft so A2A missiles are the only available weapons. We also don’t see how the other ships weee defeated.

[@AnnaWare-zm9yq]

AUSTRALIA. DELETE. age 30. age 30. DELETE.

[@kevinnavarro2180]

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