RE-MATCH 2026 US Carrier Group vs 2026 Chinese Carrier Group (Naval Battle 114) | DCS

We simulate a naval battle with US carrier strike group versus China. Aircraft involved are F-35 Lightning C, J-35 and J-15B. Major missiles involved are YJ-21 Hypersonic, YJ-18 Supersonic, and LRASM stealth anti-ship missiles.
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[@drewfierman3834]

Maritime strike tomahawks are in active use right now, they should be included here

[@MTBScotland]

They would just be shot down given the way the sim has the SAM systems working significantly better than they actually do in real life.

[@s4ss.m8]

​@@MTBScotlandbut there's lots of them, throw those out with some LRASM to chase up, they're done for

[@Wyomingchief]

​@@s4ss.m8the problem is in order to do that you're going to have to take space from the LARSM . So in all reality the only way you're going to be able to do that and with a coordinated air and ship strike which is not possible given the limitations of DCs. Or trying to figure out a way to involve the Air Force in this strike and then you're getting Way Beyond the scope of what the actual scenario is

[@RichardJamesClarke]

It’s frustrating that we could do multiple time on target strikes across multiple platforms 20 years ago in Harpoon 2, but DCS can’t do it.

[@OscarZheng50]

@@Wyomingchief attack and ballistic missile subs can also fire tomahawks, don't know of their capabilities in dcs but irl they do they have the ability to do a coordinated air and naval strike. naval f18s, f35s, b1b lancers as well as ships and subs can do a massive tomahawk and LRASM strike which will be very effective, it'll just be super costly. you can launch tomahawks in front then follow it up with LRAMS or mix them in one big salvo and let them deconflict, the tomahawk can loiter around the airspace until it finds a target and the LRASM got its own radar that it can use to detect hostile targets based on priority threat. the ships and planes have enough LRASMS and tomahawks to do such a strike, its the SAMs they'll be taking space away from the strike group will have less defensive missiles to work with but its still over 200

[@kawco]

This is my favourite content on youtube right now. Awesome work GR!

[@robandcheryls]

You guys rock, best time of my day is watching these “sims”.

[@sshole1]

If the US has a 4 to 1(at worst) carrier group advantage to any enemy(or Two), why would they ever voluntarily try and go 1 on 1 with another carrier group, and lose that advantage?

[@forzaelite1248]

I know it's not quite in yet but F-35 squadrons do a large amount of exercises involving cruise missile detection and intercept because the DAS can lock them; hypersonic speeds means hypersonic temps and the F-35 has been on video detecting ballistic launches from ridiculously far, partially because of the light emitted in boost phase. Should be capable of datalinking the info to Aegis for either the radar to look at or to launch on if the distance information is there. Having a couple of them in the air just loitering up high would pose a serious threat to incoming hypersonics and would require J-35s to take them down first, might make for an interesting video.

[@willwozniak2826]

F 35C.....beside the Tomcat and Hornet....I like them all.

[@agnesakioyamen2576]

Stop coping and I hope cap doesn’t add this bs

[@forzaelite1248]

@@agnesakioyamen2576 elaborate...?

[@agnesakioyamen2576]

@@forzaelite1248 Send me where you found this info

[@zburnham]

@@agnesakioyamen2576 wow, man. There isn't anything even slightly derogatory or negative in this post. I'll assume that you have information I don't which supports your statement.

[@MavicAir1]

Great vid! Have gotten distracted by a few other sims and just recently got back to my DCS investment. Man I forgot how good its looks. Glad your still making great vids. (I'm the guy who gave you guys a nice xmas donation a few years back) Will be following your vids again as I'm back in the saddle so to speak.

[@dereksteneman9657]

Great work men! Really Enjoy the entire show

[@JW-bx4su]

YJ18 is much slower than YJ21. For effective saturation attach, YJ21 should be fired after YJ18 so that both reach the targets at the same time. This will more likely overload the opponent defense system.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Question: is there no ship-launched decoy missile? Those would make ASMs much more survivable for the side using them

[@exidy-yt]

I don't think you can program the ships to do this in DCS, afaik they just unload every anti-ship missile as soon as they are in it's range to fire.

[@bohan9957]

Yes, but there is no way to simulate this in DCS.

[@sulyokpeter3941]

True, but cant do that in game. :(

[@iamscoutstfu]

@@sulyokpeter3941 Cant you have players control the ships and launch on command?

[@wlan246]

40:50 "I am a batch of many, many LRASMs on a Y-front..."

[@brentgustafson5484]

Lol Simba being sad we didnt get to see him buzz the tower of the carrier. Love the GR crew !

[@Jeffrey.1978]

@Grim Reapers - Good stuff folks! 6:30 - Thank you, Simba, for pointing that out.

[@Western_1]

I would love it if a grim reaper (not necessarily cap) produced some of these engagements in Command Modern operations using the tac view. I'm even tempted to do it if I had time.

[@mr.puffin7232]

how long does it take to set up a scenario in CMO?

[@EnglishScripter]

Its ALOT more automated. And you can do MUCH bigger scenarios.@@mr.puffin7232

[@neutchain7838]

It exists already. You will find it on their forums, it's somewhere in the first 8-10 pages. I've seen it a few days ago.

[@Maeyanie]

I agree with you. If you're going to have colour-coded smoke trails on missiles, you should also have tracers.

[@BlackLiger788]

CH, you should add a 2nd variant with visible tracers for videos like this.

[@grimreapers]

Yup

[@wickbroke2950]

The "Hollywood" variant.

[@Dawson-vn8nq]

@@wickbroke2950 cope

[@beeaye7944]

I'm simply astounded that Chinese missiles can achieve Mach 10 being powered entirely by water... ;)

[@zarthemad8386]

... dont mention the test records where 70% of them destabilized and blew up in flight

[@chadcurtiss5965]

Cool little simulation to watch! Well put together for sure. I do wonder how accurate it actually is though

[@TanksForTheMammeries]

Really entertaining. Well done.

[@jmtpolitico80]

Thank You God! Some Sanity! I have been gone on stuff for a while and have seen nothing but death and I need some fricken GR for real!!!! I cannot wait to watch this!

[@davidbirt4643]

I have been watching your DCS on my phone for a long time. I enjoy it very muchly😊

[@ShootBlueHelmets]

Brilliant! It would be nice to see complete devastation, even if one could save the map where it is at and launch whatever is left. I guess the carrier being sunk will have to do.

[@dfgdfg_]

Watching on phone as I can't afford a laptop right now Cap. Appreciate the spoken readouts 🙌

[@dphellner]

These videos in times of conflict are my favorite form of war profiteering. 😍😍

[@jmtpolitico80]

Great Explanation!!!!

[@Bacongrease00]

Never felt better to be a valued viewer

[@zburnham]

I won't speak for anyone else but I actually like the videos where BLUFOR gets the short end of the fight. It's interesting to see why "the good guys" came up short this time, and I'd argue it's more instructive than a W.

[@jamison884]

Hey Cap, thanks for the video as always. Just watching the beginning so far, but why wasn't that Tico at the front defending itself from the YJ-21's? It was relying on ships further back to defend it?

[@Alextillom]

Nice job Cap

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@willwozniak2826]

Dont feel bad Cap...i got a busted back crooked vertebraes to herniated discs and a bloody tumour right Smack at the T 12 level😢😢😢..keep your heads up mates!... heading to doctor soon...nice mission and take care all!

[@markgoodall1388]

Yikes! Take care.

[@mfreed40k]

Oof, I crushed T-12 and broke my coccyx just before July. Take care of yourself and I hope you get well fast!

[@grimreapers]

Good Lord that sounds terrible. GWS!

[@Echowhiskeyone]

Another thing DCS does not do well is electric warfare. Any way hypersonic missiles have of detecting a ship will be detected by and used as targeting against that missile. As well as disrupting the missile targeting.

[@davidm2644]

Godspeed valued Captain

[@coreymoyers5771]

With the announcement of a 2nd carrier group heading for the Mediterranean, could you run a simulation where Iran & Russia launch a surprise attack on two carrier groups?

[@grimreapers]

OK

[@coreymoyers]

@@grimreaperswhoo hoo! I hope you feel better.

[@sulyokpeter3941]

GOOD IDEA! HUGE ONE! :D

[@hughmungus2760]

hypothetically what can a carrier do against torpedoes launched from the coast if they are less than 20nm away from the shore? They likely wont see them coming until the torpedoes turn on active sonar.

[@s4ss.m8]

​​@@hughmungus2760with the amount of eyes watching the area there's no way a sub would get close, 2 carriers, 2 LHDs, an MEU and probably 10-15 support ships of different varieties, not to mention the 2-4 subs moving with their respective fleets, that's a very nasty fleet of vessels, there's almost no viable way Russia could launch a conventional strike that wouldn't warrant the litteral apocalypse of earth 😂 (Didn't mention Iran because one Carrier Fleet would flatten the entire country, let alone 2 entire Carrier Fleets, plus an entire MEU. Iran would last all of about 15 minutes)

[@TheCaptainbeefylog]

In Ultimate Admiral : Dreadnaughts there's an RNG for dud-rate on torpedoes. As your tech level increases the dud-rate goes down. It's interesting that DCS has so many other things modelled well, yet it doesn't have something like that.

[@w1serepeater972]

Love to see LRASM finally interacting with other assets! No more console kill command!

[@luihinwai1]

A Mach-10 missile (YJ-21) only has a 30% chance of hitting a Mach 0.04 target (ship), but a Mach-3 missile (SM-6) has an over 30% chance of hitting a Mach-10 target (YJ-21)

[@hughmungus2760]

CEP on YJ21s will pretty much ensure they nail carrier sized targets 9/10 times. And their use would only really be restricted to that role anyway.

[@luihinwai1]

@@hughmungus2760 yup

[@peterfinland1370]

They should be shooting the YJ-18 first, and YJ-21 soon after, so they hit about the same time. That would make defending even harder.

[@bohan9957]

Then the viewers will request more modification and nerf the Chinese side so the US side can win.

[@dyrtymike5589]

Fantastic!!!

[@clangerbasher]

Sitting at desk distance on a 27" screen at 1080p I have to move closer to read the scoreboard. But it would be too distracting any larger.

[@graystonwadzinnski6389]

Great video Cap! I always appreciate a good F-35 video

[@DarkStriker1-1]

hey cap question would anything change if you send the anti ship first on the blue side then the fighters.

[@Pimps-R-us]

Honestly Cap, I think you could make these into a 2 hour movie and we would still watch all of it ! ( or at least I know I would )

[@giupiete6536]

m8, half the world falls asleep halfway through movies so why not make it 4 hours?

[@Pimps-R-us]

@@giupiete6536 Half the world has the attention span of a gnat, Seems more like their problem then mine.

[@giupiete6536]

@@Pimps-R-us I... think perhaps you thought I came across as being critical.

[@Pimps-R-us]

@@giupiete6536 Nah, not at all. Just making a statement about society. You good man

[@DriveLaken]

@@Pimps-R-us read half of what u wrote Novel much? LMAO LOL HA HA 😂 🎉 😊

[@daviddixon6153]

What's with the lack of Tomahawk Block Va's? Those are supposed to be in active use right now.

[@grimreapers]

I can't get CH to make them and I rely on CH for all this stuff so there's not a lot I can do.

[@christopherchartier3017]

What’s so good about the tomahawk? I thought it was pretty old

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

​@@christopherchartier3017it's plentiful

[@ehta2413]

@@christopherchartier3017 Saturation missile. Basicly same idea as with drone swarm, you launch ship-ton of those old low cost missiles to distract and eat away sam's to let LRAMS to get through underneath at the same time :)

[@daviddixon6153]

Old but the Block Va are newest versions with plenty of range, payload, some stealth coating, and improved seekers meant to hitting moving targets, with a loitering capability you got something to distract the enemy and let the USN have ship to ship long range strike. We won't get into the b and c versions with the tandem warheads and thermobaric secondaries.@@christopherchartier3017

[@lutfullahkarahanl2998]

Hello valued Cap, we hope you're doing good! Seriously Cap, i wish you well. I hope you recover from whatever that is that made you sick ❤

[@kyledabearsfan]

I dont even play this game, i just like military stuff and ended up just vibing to the whole battle.

[@gabelail6961]

Lol, I got to the 46 minute mark, don't worry, the viewers are still watching your whole videos

[@Shanks9001_]

Get better soon!!!

[@solomongray6352]

I would assume the system doesnt allow for the hypersonics to hold off until the slower missiles get part way over, as to make them all come in toward target with same timing?

[@grimreapers]

Would be awesome but don't think so.

[@ck12ms]

Hmm that´s an interesting thought. Another thing im wondering about is wouldn´t the Chinese push the big red button and send everything at once instead of salvos`? If so then spawn double ships with only one salvo on each ship so that everything fires at once, then despawn half of them after they fired. Is this possible?

[@hughmungus2760]

yeah a time on target strike with YJ18s and YJ21s will be nearly impossible to stop.

[@up4open]

@@grimreapers missile launch timing could be triggered by keeping them out of max range until you want them in range to fire. Absolutely changes end location and arrangement of the fleet when facing enemy salvo.

[@Wyomingchief]

​@@ck12msyeah but in that case you would also want to time those the resumes to go in at the same time of a massive Harpoon strikes at Sea would probably also utilize.

[@mshahmirraza]

So in the last video, the LRASMs were easily being intercepted by the Chinese but in this video, they were having a pretty hard time, I wonder why is that so? Also, the CIWS (Gun+Missile) was unable to defend the ship from missiles and the F-35 flying around.

[@hughmungus2760]

the only possible explanation is the loss of AWACs but yeah point defense and CWIS not shooting F35s at rifle range is pretty silly. I half expect guys on the deck of the ships to start unloading small arms at F35s.

[@TeoDP7]

Good video

[@davet80000]

can't wait to see the 2030 battle plays

[@Dimitris_Datseris]

Terminal speed of the YJ-21 is around mach 4 , it is still difficult to intercept because it is hypersonic, but not in its terminal phase, although when it’s on its terminal phase it doesn’t go hypersonic anymore.

[@billwhoever2830]

Got a source for that? The claimed speed are mach 6 during flight and mach 10 in the terminal phase. It doesnt make sense for a weapon to go slower in the terminal phase. The YJ21 is not just a ballistic missile, it has a powered flight at least on partialy if not completely. The attack is mostly vertical, the time it spends in the deep atmosphere is very very short (2-3 seconds), it doesnt slow down during that time because it might actually be accelerating using it's engine.

[@Dimitris_Datseris]

@@billwhoever2830 the thing is that a scramjet engine does not work how to speed slower than five times the speed of sound , so if it isn’t a scramjet then it’s a solid fuel booster which is terribly inefficient and would limit severely the YJ 21 is payload. Also, turning uses up a lot of energy so turning the YJ 21 is going to slow it down even further By the way, what you are saying, is that it takes three seconds for the YJ 21 to get through the deep part of the atmosphere, that would mean that the YJ 21 manages to accomplish around mach 18 while going through the deepest part of the atmosphere, at a realistic angle. It also doesn’t make sense to me why the YJ 21 would go in at a higher speed when is decelerating in the thick part of the atmosphere, it might also burn its sensors . The YJ 21 is based on an American design for a hypersonic missile that didn’t get enough funding to be completed. That’s because of hypersonic weapons were not considered a priority and also, because, even though it was a good weapon, it didn’t bring any super ability to the table, of course, there are hypersonic’s that glide in the upper part of the atmosphere at giant speeds, but the YJ 21 is not one of them.

[@Dimitris_Datseris]

By the way, the way the YJ 21 is incredibly similar to the failed American weapon I just talked about, and it is similar to the Russian kinjal ,using this information, my sources on those two missiles one of them being part of an actual patriot unit crew, and of course, my common sense ,critical thinking and my knowledge I have concluded along with many other individuals that the YJ 21 is a threat, but only if used in large numbers, hypersonic’s can be intercepted, but a lot of them like 32 hypersonic missiles is a pretty big threat, but that’s 4 055 class destroyers worth of hypersonic missiles.

[@yuning8045]

​​​​@@Dimitris_Datseriswith that terminal velocity it doesn't need a warhead. The kinetic energy is already enough to destroys carriers. K. E. = m*v^2 And just like in m*c^2 the "^2" makes a number very very big. So mach 10 is roughly 8000 km/h and because in physics we use m/s That 8000 will become (8000*1000) /3600 m/s => roughly 2222 m/s So even if the missile has a mass of 1 kg it will cause 5million joules of damage. Wich I just realizer isn't a lot... I might have done something wrong so if anyone can correct it I would really appreciate it. 🤔 Edit: I used 1 kilogram but 1 kilogram is 9.81 N so you need to multiply is by 10. Wich makes more sense cause usually ballistic missiles are a couple Tons.

[@Dimitris_Datseris]

@@yuning8045 I am amazed and happy that we have someone that is smart enough to do the math, most people don’t do that they just believe everything someone says, but what I want to say is that a hypersonic missile will take an aircraft carrier out of action, but it will not sink any modern american aircraft carrier, here’s where the warhead comes in, you see most of the damage is done on the upper part of the carrier, but warheads can damage areas of the ship that would otherwise not be damaged. Anyway, I am proud to see someone doing maths instead of believing everything he sees on the Internet

[@baladimmonstro5752]

nice video, u need make 3M22 Zircon anti-ship hypersonic missile

[@bucky5869]

I wonder how feasible energy-directed weapons would be against hypersonic missiles?

[@zburnham]

It might be all they have against hypersonics once the hypersonic tech matures. The math just gets too hard to guide a missile or a round with the necessary accuracy. I'm on the outside looking in, but I'd assume you can get a DE weapon on anything you can get a radar lock on, so I'd assume you'd just prime the round to discharge (not sure what the terminology is here) as soon as the lock was obtained. But I'm a civvie who is taking a high-school-physics approach to thinking this through.

[@Boiled_Bread]

Have your group been able to figure out how to launch LRASM from the Mk 41 VLS platform in dcs? If so you could do a scenario where a US carrier strike group goes after a Chinese naval port, effectively an opposite scenario of your Chinese strikes on San Diego.

[@RES915SQD]

We would probably use mostly tomahawks for such an attack, considering how many we have in inventory and the number of vessels that field it (think of SSGNs). I haven’t seen any physical proof USN DDGs and CGs carrying LRASM, but I would guess they are since most no longer have Harpoon fitted

[@Lorendrawn]

The fact he did the briefing again in detail despite it being a rematch.

[@frankhernandez6883]

💙 your commentary!

[@Wes147]

Every time I watch these great sims I think of if this really happened how quickly hundreds to thousands of the world’s greatest pilots who some have spent decades training, millions to billions of dollars invested and have gone through all that comes with being a world class fighter pilot personally and professionally, gone in seconds and it’s very surreal.

[@Cody38Super]

Hundreds or thousands of american pilots aren't going to get killed. China has a huuuuuge problem with both competent pilots, training pilots, flying hours, and training with dissimilar aircraft using western techniques and doctrine. Look no further than the U.S. aircraft that was intercepted in international airspace by a J-15 "Flopping Fish" who almost collided with us, had his speed brake in the full up position and the engines in full afterburner. The "Flying Shark" J-15 is called the Flopping Fish by its own news media in China because it barely makes enough power to take off from a Carrier. Their pilots suck, essentially. It takes 3 Chinese turbines for Helicopters to make the same power as 1 American turbine in a Chinook, hence why they tried to steal one. I promise their missiles don't work like they say...just like everything russian.

[@RoyTelling]

just a thought. IF I was in charge of a carrier group and I new I was going against another carrier group I would use at least a few of my stealth planes loaded with anti ship missiles sending them LOW and fast

[@TheTdtorres]

I watch them through. Gives me overnight good content to watch.

[@trevanruiz7981]

been watching grim reapers all day

[@grimreapers]

you are my kind of viewer!

[@Steve-yf9my]

AWESOME! I'm not sure my blood pressure can handle your sims. Heart attack or stroke?

[@marcsilliman8789]

My ex wife worked on the Aegis Combat System during its development…. Pretty meet the had a mock aircraft tower they used to test it.

[@viaticchart3139]

coding a mach 4-5 terminal speed missile to mach 8-10 terminal is a noteworthy change from real life

[@perryax5490]

I saw some Anti-Ship missiles on the way in right before the video ended. Did those make it through?

[@grimreapers]

I must admit I was too busy talking nonsense so didn;t notice sorry :(

[@perryax5490]

@@grimreapers Did the missiles end up sinking something or did they got shot down by more telephone poles?

[@VaibhavShete1981]

Would like to know a scenario for INdia vs Pakistan 2026 war featuring j10c and f17vs rafales and sukhois

[@jc9457]

Simba may have left his hook down and the arrester cable caught it when the cable was getting reeled back in

[@kenhelmers2603]

Thanks CAP

[@crabcrab2024]

Das war spannend!

[@user-nj9ne3rh3c]

Watching your starting briefing - is there a way in DCS to have 2 types of YJ-21, one that performs as the specifications, and another where you “nerf” the game file so it doesn’t perform properly - and load the Chinese warship with a mix of both so it launches them but half just fizzle?

[@Kasper2142000]

do you include USA lasers and Railgun? or are they not available?

[@jmtpolitico80]

Ok I just got your answer from listening to the rest of the Predictions! My bad for not listening to the whole thing!!!

[@whousley]

As I recall that also makes Scuds way to accurate compared to real life too...to the point of it being kinda silly.

[@jameshealer1395]

that one ship countinously getting hewart attacks with seeing a missle coming so close then getting destroyed again and again

[@Nordy941]

J15 can likely carry 2xYJ12 when launched from type 003 catapult

[@redmadedog2789]

Cap couldn’t the us carrier carry more than 56 fighters?

[@Dimitris_Datseris]

Exactly

[@theswiller85]

Closer to 90 I thought?

[@McAllisterCo]

The Nimitz carry’s on average 75 planes while deployed and the new fords carry 90 on average.

[@leongao5120]

AFAIK it's to model not jets being ready

[@lonurad1259]

@@McAllisterCo literally just redid a match to buff the US because too many americans were coping and you're still complaining? Unbelievable

[@gundamator4709]

I am quite excited for American hypersonics, I think they will be a massive problem for the Chinese assuming there are some ship launched ones that can go at the start.

[@hughmungus2760]

I have a feeling the only thing that can launch a hypersonic on the US side are strategic bombers, they're far too large to VLS cells and fighters to carry.

[@cyronader]

Can the F-35 quarterback for the F-18s? What I mean is when the F-35s are up close and can detect J-35s, the F-35s can data link to the F-18s in murder spec to fire off their AIM 260s from a distance? Or this goes beyond what DCS can do at the moment?

[@McAllisterCo]

Did CH do something to the LRASM radar cross section? Seemed much more susceptible to Sam missiles

[@grimreapers]

It wasn't actually CH, it was core game that's changed. They can now be detected and the RCS can't be made any smaller, or they no longer work at all. It's a weird thing that happened, but I suspect this is just how it is now so we'll just have to accept it :(

[@duanemckinley9353]

@@grimreapers The Type 055s seemed to not defend except with CIWS which was interesting. Regardless of realism, I think not having LRASM be an auto-kill cheat code makes things a bit more interesting to watch.

[@gundamator4709]

@@duanemckinley9353 Agreed

[@hughmungus2760]

@@duanemckinley9353 they were at least shooting SAMs at them this time. but no AWACs and poor performance of HQ9s at close range really hampered them. The HHQ10s should have been firing though.

[@benwiggins6162]

If CH is able to remodel the YJ21 to fly faster, would it not also be possible to remodel the SM3 to have a lower ceiling of effectiveness?

[@crypticPk]

I'll have you know, sir, I did make it to the end 😂

[@jerrycallaio5130]

CH.... Please Put Back The Tracers On CWIS...

[@grimreapers]

+1

[@surters]

Those AWACS needs some body guards.

[@Daledout]

Can you set the missiles to 1.5 per target for the yj's?Is that possible?

[@maynardhahn8118]

Yes, I am on my phone. It’s the only thing I got to watch it with.

[@tacocat729]

both side actually got buffed

[@Gabriel_McMillan]

I'd like to coin a new term. I call it "Stealth Discipline". It's defined as doing what one has to do to avoid their F-35 ever coming within the detection and engagement range of a J-35. It seems like that went quite well in the NGAD video, a bit better than it did here, from my observations. It went well, don't get me wrong. I think the team and you Cap did an excellent job. But where you lost an F-35, I think it can generally be attributed to a lapse in "Stealth Discipline". Just a bit of a friendly after action review, if I may. Seems like the double tapping missiles went better, but I agree that it might make sense to reduce that for the lowest risk, highest possibility of intercept. Even still, when you could lose a ship, 5%-10% risk of not intercepting could be considered too much. Overall, seems like good strategy, so this is really the only criticism I could come up with.

[@EagleFighterJet]

Even if destroyed, the missile remnants can move at incredible speeds and damage ships

[@LeviBulger]

Are you suggesting that the shrapnel/debris would just continue to the target after being blasted out of the sky 😂

[@novabrooks9550]

Would it work to try and make a bigger coalition carrier group to allow the yanks’ and brits’ carrier groups to deconflict?

[@WenisTRON]

No Tracers, No Fun. Know Tracers, Know Fun. Bring back the tracers.

[@mshahmirraza]

The Type 055s and 052Ds are quite underpowered in the DCS as compared to real life.

[@duanemckinley9353]

What about them is underpowered?

[@mshahmirraza]

@@duanemckinley9353 Weapon and sub systems both seem quite underpowered

[@user-ft2zc5or9d]

​@@mshahmirrazahow would u know if they're underpowered? They've never been used

[@mshahmirraza]

@@user-ft2zc5or9d What kind of modern destroyer in the world cannot shoot down an F35 within 10 to 15 miles? You can even see the jet at this range with your eyes.

[@bohan9957]

@@user-ft2zc5or9d And how do you know they're not underpowered?

[@ericray1097]

Who needs hypersonic missiles when ya have lasers?

[@loganhall3477]

I would love to see a % of GDP calculator alongside the cost of the weapons used/lost

[@hughmungus2760]

Its going to get interesting when china gets the PL17 with 400km of range which can snipe AWACs all the way across the map.

[@dennisjuulpoulsen8509]

Would be great to see a naval battle between China and Japan or China vs Japan and South Korea

[@jeffreybell5043]

The Ticos are not firing, but I am currently at the 12 min mark, only see the destroyers defending

[@hughmungus2760]

With respect to accuracy of hypersonics, its well known that MARVs with active radar like the pershing 2 from the 80s could guide themselves with a CEP of 30m, China has most likely well surpassed technology from the 80s and could get that down to half that which is more than accurate enough to hit a carrier sized target.

[@wind_runner6836]

yeah they haven't gotten to stealing that yet lol

[@hughmungus2760]

@@wind_runner6836 Didn't even have to steal it, Clinton literally sold them that tech in the 90s. How do you think chinese ICBMs went for 300m CEP down to 20m in less than a decade?

[@wind_runner6836]

@@hughmungus2760 bro a president cannot unilaterally sell anything financial powers are the sole domain of Congress. Don't just make stuff up lol especially something that is so clearly wrong. It wasn't Icbm tech it was satellite launch tech an that stuff they had developed. I don't support the move but it's not the same type of rocket. Congress also Approved and it was a transfer no selling.

[@hughmungus2760]

@@wind_runner6836 the exact controversy was that clinton allowed civilian satellite technology to be transfered to china. This enabled china to greatly improve the reliability and accuracy of their spaceflight capabilities. which had a dual use application of making chinese ballistic missiles more accurate. Furthermore this greatly accelerated the chinese aerospace industry in general allowing for countless other weapons systems to be improved. It defacto was Clinton selling china the tech. That being said, theres no denying that china has at least equivalent tech, their more modern ballistic missiles are entirely capable of hitting targets under 10m in size.

[@ellinecockburn2601]

Cap, video idea: F35I (so it will have "Sidekick")with Python 5s and AIM 120D-3s and a RCS of 0.0001m2 (according a to 4 star US General stealthy more stealthy than Raptor) vs F22 with AIM 120D-3 and AIM 9X. Could you guys do. But Cap please fly the F35 since your last F22 and F35 vs SU 57 and J20/SU35 videos you were never in the F35. Thanks loving your content.

[@hughmungus2760]

Its safe to assume anything under 20nm will be engaged by EOTS rather than radar so unless the F35I has optical stealth its going to get seen and engaged.

[@draxisstormshadow3244]

one thing that seems forgotten is spy satalights both side have so ether side would know when the other leaves port and watch them

[@edwardschneider2716]

Can a defensive ship decide ; well enough of this and shoot offensive weapons at the first hint of being shot at instead of having to defend all the way to the end?

[@F-15SE]

Lets go Reapers

[@jmtpolitico80]

Yes this is so what I needed Thank You Guys! I needed to see that The Free World can Defend OurSelves!!!! They first one I only watched till the carrier was taken out.