Israeli F-4 Phantoms II In Action | Yom Kippur Conflict 1973 | Digital Combat Simulator | DCS |

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

Check out the Store: growling-sidewinder.creator-spring.com/ Thank you guys for watching and if you have any ideas for future videos please put them in the comment section below and they might just end up in the pipeline, Big thank you Mike Romeo for making the Israeli Skin for the F-4 used in this video and also please keep in mind this is not 1 long continuous flight, these are many flights spliced together in the interest of time. Thanks again, much Love.

[@generallee011]

hey got a challange for you with the f-4. next video could you try set it up where one gets damaged. and you try to push him by his tailhook. doesn`t really show. but you can be cllose for the visual of it. look up pardo`s push

[@mavecolby7562]

I'm becoming a new member, need to know what PC tower do you recommend ?

[@sambarnes9520]

In these Campaign videos are the other players real or Computer driven. And thanks for the short history lesson.

[@danielcooney5718]

Maybe bandit unknown with the Phantom or fight a 5th generation fighter

[@ArmedVeteran1987]

Day-23 Asking GS to DOgfight F-14 wings retracted only

[@dapanda2068]

I always love the mini docs u do in the beginning

[@maverickmissile801]

Yup!

[@mr.normalguy69]

It's not only entertaining but also educational.

[@SldgeHammr]

Man if you like the mini docs, boy do I have a channel for you. It’s called Mini Docs. I think you’ll find the guy sounds very similar to GS

[@havocmwf]

There are not many video content creators that get me excited but when I see a new video from GS flying the F4 Phantom I have to confess I get a little excited.

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

And I appreciate you for that.

[@havocmwf]

Your welcome@@GrowlingSidewinder

[@PvtPartzz]

Love how cinematic it was flying away from the battle with the wreckage of multiple aircraft falling all around you and in the mirror.

[@XJapa1n09]

Love the way you do these historical videos with the mini doc/combat fusion. It’s always a pleasure to see content from you! Thanks GS!

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

Thank you very much for the feedback and thank you for watching

[@Mysucculentchinesemeal]

I am so happy to see you doing a phantom video. This is the coolest looking fighter, there’s just something about the way the intakes look, the nozzles under the tail, and the resemblance to the the space shuttle all make this one of my all time favorites.

[@Dv087]

I grew up near Andrews Air Force. There were F- 4's as far as the eye could see. Back at that time they also kept B-52's. Once every couple months they would have a doomsday practice. Anything with wings had to be off the ground and under 15 to 20 minutes. When they did that at night nobody got any sleep. I remember when I first moved we saw an F-4 go in. Both pilots ejected and we were close enough just see the plane hit the ground 10 seconds. What a place to grow up!!! My father being a high-profile government employee got us tickets to see the hostages come in from Iran.

[@mikemueller8807]

Loving the F4 content. My Dad was in the ANG at Niagara Falls and got to take a ride in the pit of an F4 in the mid 80's. Flew over his civilian job office and rattled some windows...

[@deathsheadknight2137]

NIAGARA FALLS! SLOWLY I TURNED

[@mikemueller8807]

@@deathsheadknight2137 he was a firefighter for the 107th Fighter Intercepter Group. Won airman of the year or something to get the ride in the F4

[@Edwilliamjr]

These videos with context and some background history are the best, great content!

[@PitterPatter20]

Out of all the DCS channels I watch, yours has by far the best editing and camera work. Plenty of time inside the cockpit with just enough beautiful camera shots that help the viewer keep track of what's happening and to admire the fantastic visuals. Well done, and keep it up!

[@dvaritek434]

Lead sled is an absolute unit. Will never say no to more f4 content

[@702BattleBorn]

Yo GS, nice format with the minidocs intro. That was an awesome era for military aviation, So many designs. Thanks for the content. You are killing it as usual. Have a pleasant day. Cheers.

[@Bornst3ll3r]

Agreed

[@twistedfingersproject]

Back in the day, I used to sit outside McEntire AFB daily, during my lunch break, and watch the Phantoms doing touch and goes. I have to say that the Phantom is one of the loudest jets I have ever heard. Ear piercing loud even from a distance. Fun times...

[@cszabo8899]

Beautiful cinematic action, GS! Loving all this F-4 content.

[@johnhermann7498]

You were so target fixated on that MiG-21 at the end that I was afraid you were going to get a surprise before you bagged it... Love the F-4 and I am eagerly awaiting the release of the Heatblur F-4...

[@popeyethesailorman7850]

I worked in the Navy rebuilding J79 engines for the F4 as well as working on the after burner section.

[@timbaskett6299]

Really enjoying all the F-4 content. The F-4 (RF-4) is the first high performance military aircraft I remember seeing. They were RF-4C from Gowen Field in Boise when we would go to the airport.

[@Lee-sti8wrx]

Love these long vids with you battling it out with multiple aircraft. Really enjoy the short documentary at the bigging as well. I reckon i could watch this for hours. Good job and explanations as usual dude.

[@mangoman62]

The real-life recce version of the F-4 was a hoot! 500 knots ground speed at 200 feet AGL over the Nevada desert, definitely a hoot!

[@khoatran-sv7je]

I love these mission like videos, it immerses you in the conflict and gives you a better perspective of what pilots would've experienced in combat.

[@jamilayahyaoui101]

Beautiful video...usually im chopper pilot...today i took the flanker 33 and just wooooooo ...now i exactly know why most of pilots in DCS are flying jets instead choppers

[@F22raptor46]

That last kill was a lot like the dogfights of Midway. One F-4 probably used up like 4 missiles on one Mig and he kept dodging them all

[@PotatoGod6969]

I think your Sinai videos are the best ones they just feel different I think it has something to do with the maps I would like to see more videos on this map, keep it up

[@caioaugustoaddonovillela3348]

Fantastic Growling SideWinder

[@jpklein740]

Crazy timing with Yom Kippur in a few days

[@maitreytelang2312]

Hey man, can’t wait to see you back in the Flanker!

[@aceblaneescabusa5371]

13:36 reminded me of TGM final dogfight between Mav and the unknown pilots when the flares hit the radar missile at some perfect timing. I suggest you for the 47th time a boss fight between the MiG-29 Fulcrum/Su-27 Flanker vs Su-57 Felon for a dogfight or mixed BVR scenario to test your pilot skills since you mentioned in that back in the old days, it probably means that pilot skills matter the most while the existing tech did less. Impress us GS! Keep making meaningful flight contents!

[@andrewb325]

I love the F-4 content. What a legend.

[@theram8787]

Yes I have been waiting for this for at least a year. Thank you!

[@broneauell]

Well here comes part two with F-16/15’s 😅

[@Maxdady01]

As close to a Colonial Viper design as there has been in real life! Beautiful aircraft.

[@joshaustintech]

Fun story - in 2012 I got to see a four-ship formation of the last of the operational Israeli A-4s flying while touring in Israel. They were retired very shortly after. Presumably they were from the Flying Tigers squadron. They were flying so low and so fast I saw them before I heard them!

[@Wesb1118]

My favorite videos of yours are these operation videos! I'd really love to see one with the F-22. I know you've done a lot of videos with the F-22, but I don't think I've seen one yet where you're in a giant furball air fight in one. It'd be great to see how the Raptor performs in a heavy air-to-air fight like that!

[@mr.highschoollocksmith6080]

That there was the hardest working sparrow I’ve ever seen!

[@coreyyanofsky]

the bits of aircraft falling out the sky that can be seen in the rearview mirror at 14:06 are quite the visual

[@roberts9095]

Can't believe we were still so willing to sell them after the USS Liberty incident.

[@disposablehero4911]

I would like to see what modern engineering and materials could do with the F4 frame. Thrust vectoring, aesa radar, etc.

[@termitreter6545]

Germany F-4E ICE had F-18 avionics and Aim-120s, that was pretty good. Otherwise F-15s are influenced a lot by Phantoms, you kinda see the heritage.

[@chrisepping447]

I wad stationed with the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing in Torrejon Spain during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. We had the F-16C/D. The 614th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing was the first aircraft to do daylight raids on downtown Bagdad.

[@caioaugustoaddonovillela3348]

Spectacular Phantom PH 4 Fighter Airplanes

[@gijoe1of3]

My fav is watching you fly the F-4. Doing these up close type of dog fights!! Do more please

[@jesuschrist-alphaomega]

I was lucky enough to get a chance to work on F4s in the Marines. VMFA 112 MAG 41. Loved the F4 that served in WWII as a kid both F4s are such awesome looking aircraft. VMFA. Means fighter attack.

[@CajunMarine33445]

My Grandfather was a USAF F-4 Squadron commander, always loved the F-4 Phantoms

[@Gozar111]

Love the F4! Great flying!

[@jimb4169]

I used to watch these F4s take off in St Louis where they were built. Loud and Smokey.

[@jts0221]

Love these Phantom vids, cannot wait until the HB Phantom comes and we can see how a more modern version fares

[@Salmon117]

I love mil sims, but it’s sad this conflict still lives on today. Thanks for the great video, wishing for peace.

[@StuartKoehl]

The IDF-AF were never big fans of the AIM-7--it was expensive, and not all that effective (at least, not until the M model). So it was not unusual for them to put an ECM pod in one Sparrow well (usually starboard forward), and sometimes a rearward facing BDA camera (port well forward), and only carrying two Sparrows in the after wells. This could free up the outboard wing pylons for additional air-to-ground ordnance, including an AGM-45 Shrike or two, or perhaps a couple of CBUs for FLAK suppression. By the latter half of the Yom Kippur War, the IDF tended to stay above 16,000 feet, and rely on a combination of Shrikes and jamming to defeat the SA-2, -3 and -6, because AAA, especially the ZUS-23-4 Shilka, was causing the majority of IDF losses.

[@michaelohogan8318]

I think the F-4E versus the F-35 would be the perfect mixed generation guns only fight.

[@barbarossa1234]

My uncle started off flying F4s in the Navy. He ended up in Navy Intelligence. Rest in Peace Capt Richard Stroud Loveland, USN.

[@imdoobie80]

Absolutely amazing work. I still recommend F-4 vs Bandit Unknown 4 rounds.

[@anthonyhershko]

Amazing as ALWAYS!!!!

[@MH-wo4be]

Love the history lesson to start video. 10/10

[@commandergeokam2868]

I love the F4 phantom so much man!!!

[@willshoham]

I want to see someone make a Cessna DCS mod and have Aim-9X’s mounted on its wings and then have growing sidewinder use it in a dogfight 😂

[@Sivalente1]

I grew up in israel, my classmates' dad was an IDF airforce pilot, flew phantoms, and then f16s, and he said that the phantoms had a beauty to their flight that the f16 just couldn't replicate.

[@poppopdadski7559]

F4 phantom is like an indy car combined with a sledgehammer.

[@Ilyak1986]

Loved the mini-doc!

[@resurgam_b7]

Ooh, I liked the history dose at the beginning, more of that please :)

[@420Hezzi]

Brother your channel is a masterpiece 💪 keep dropping us with this content

[@joh2805]

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the war (by the Hebrew calendar). Great video, and huge respect for the crews operating these amazing machines during the terrible war.

[@DIVeltro]

I really enjoy the earlier jet content. It really seems like you work for the kills rather then just point and click. I'm really curious how the mirage f1 would stack up to an F4...or how a MiG 19 would fare against either. I am really curious to know.

[@jayteegamble]

Those sparrows actually did something!

[@mildmanneredthinkingman9323]

I've always wondered and I'm sure someone in the comments here can tell me. Why does the F-4 make a sound like it's an old typewriter? That really hard choppy clang sound? like around 6:33?

[@suecobandito8954]

Stick shaker is modeled. Stall warning.

[@jameshewitt8828]

Question ref the Radar scope, all those bricks that flood it, is that clutter from the ground returns via the main lobe and sidelobes?

[@ulrichschenk8202]

Reminds me of my days when I got Jane's IAF. Good times!

[@KillerKev1961]

Patience + determination = fruition. Wait....scratch that, skill!

[@ga9633]

Is there an F-4 sim that uses two players per jet, one pilot and a WSO? For AIM-7s lockons and IFF were done by the WSO, the pilot flew and kept the aim dot in the ASE (Allowable Steering Error) Circle, got Shoot lights, watched his Rmax/Rmin, selected Interlocks In, selected missile stations, turned on the CW transmitter which the missiles would tune to, and would fire an AIM-7 when parameters were met. A pilot could also shoot an AIM-7 using the Auto Acq function (nosewheel steering button)

[@PhoenixYTBE]

1973 was the year my father was born!

[@JammyTheGoat347]

egale 106 never back down great vid

[@Eric-kn4yn]

Travelling thru iran 1971/2 saw 2 phantoms taking off i was 13 then

[@bigorangemachine]

I am pretty sure the Phantom had an issue with their missiles (fox 2s) that after experiencing high G load it screwed up the tracker.

[@Casual_Cthulhu]

Looking cool is half the battle.

[@DChrls]

Those F4's were a real menace. 😛

[@CajunMarine33445]

Great Video!!!

[@raulferrerpedro2060]

Hello from Spain🇪🇦🇪🇦

[@PvtPartzz]

Can you show us a dogfight against the Mig23 with the F4? That’s a fight I really want to see.

[@Mike_Romeo]

There is no flyable miG23 in this sim yet

[@BwfVid]

That's some great action!

[@energystar8711]

Phantastic

[@reavercon]

Maybe this is a question for the Discord channel, but my VSN F4 just goes into a flat spin any/every time I pull any G's in a turn. Maybe it is just me, but it is unflyable. Anyone have any tips while I wait for Heatblur's. Got my pre-order shirt a few weeks ago... so we are a bit closer!

[@adamferguson8781]

Awesome......

[@KingofDoubleBogey]

Indeed it was legendary!

[@frankbizzoco1954]

Is there an IAF livery that comes with the VSN F-4? I didn't seem to come across one.

[@rattler123]

Hi, I was not sure if there is Tejas Mk1A is available on DCS. If yes please do a video!!!

[@jakubkopecky9878]

Is the SA-4 Ganef implemented in DCS?

[@meatpopsicle1567]

The Phantom was proof that, with enough thrust, you can make a brick fly.

[@mrthingy9072]

GS, you really should answer the phone. Someone is trying to call you in that cockpit. (showing my age with that one)

[@peterharitos7719]

Can we get some more missions like this but with the f-86 saber

[@amiyana2221]

Thanks for doing this sick video showing Israeli fighters at their finest and thanks for doing this video right before yom kippur 😆

[@Universal_exports87]

I really hope that the Heatblur F4 Phantom has an IAF skin.

[@idiedoof4339]

Day 36 of asking for Viper vs Jeff BVR

[@thomasharden2727]

What is that clicking sound when you’re in high G’s?

[@TheRaptorXX]

It just does what it says on the tin...

[@anthonyhayes1267]

Me hearing the news about Pat Robertson a few months ago 15:15

[@johnharris8394]

Are you on Rumble?

[@StuartKoehl]

You would have had that last MiG easily, if you were flying a real IDF F-4E. Your Vulcan would have shredded him. Which is why the IDF-AF insisted on the E-model Phantom and never accepted any fighter that didn't have a gun.

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

So ridiculous to make a fighter with no gun.

[@vicroc4]

@@GrowlingSidewinder Some lessons can apparently only be learned from experience. This was something it cost way too many lives to figure out.

[@samuel123478]

PHANTOOOOOM CONTENT LETS GOOOOOOO ((:

[@bitkarek]

i wonder what would it look like if you jumped in thise fight with F16 or F22 :D or SuperHornet?

[@behroozkhaleghirad]

Cool question: can anti-radiation missiles be used to shoot down an enemy fighter jet? I mean radar is radar, something like HARM must get "attracted" to any source that emits the waves.

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

I believe a harm once hit the tail of a b52 from the radar emissions from the radar gun sight but to hit a fighter would be crazy and I don’t think it has ever happened.

[@Mike_Romeo]

Russia have passive anti radar air to air missiles based on the R-27 but they are the only ones who seems to use that

[@Dirtdiggglers]

What is your take on the new F15 EX? How long before it will be on DCS do you think?

[@a..c..2469]

I would love to see if he ever has rage quit, he seems always calm during times I literally lose my shit😂