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@bodiegoodlow91145 ай бұрын
KEEP GOING ON
@numberyellow5 ай бұрын
NGAD vs F-15 ACTIVE, dogfight, guns and missles plzkthx SU-57 vs F-15 ACTIVE, dogfight, guns only plzkthx
@ditzydoo43785 ай бұрын
Soooo, flying cover wingman for Mav in the Darkstar. nice...
@JaxxGaming79975 ай бұрын
Play as the dark star
@leviworld35 ай бұрын
What's ur call sign would love to fly with ya sometime
SR-72 Darkstar Location - Classified because its so fast their own people don't know where it is. lol
@MrHeuvaladao5 ай бұрын
So fast it falls in Heinsberg Principle: can't tell it's velocity and position at the same time.
@victorpapaavp5 ай бұрын
Location: That way!
@benn4545 ай бұрын
@@mehmet9689It was a joke. Don't take everything so literally.
@hihihi229able5 ай бұрын
Terrain masking? What geography can it possibly be utilizing at mach 9+... Earth?
@martinbarba76895 ай бұрын
@@hihihi229able Behind the Van Allen belt....
@shauryajha94795 ай бұрын
Darkstar entering atmosphere to shoot missiles 💀☠
@SwordOfApollo5 ай бұрын
Yeah, why cruise missiles? Just lob rocket-powered air-to-ground missiles at full speed and altitude! Massive range!
@truthseeker94545 ай бұрын
@@SwordOfApollo At that speed they could just dump a load of bricks and saturate an area! 😆
@SwordOfApollo5 ай бұрын
@@truthseeker9454 Just about! Though I'd be afraid bricks would be a little too un-aerodynamic and slow down too much before hitting the ground. Inert tungsten rods with fins would probably do pretty well, though.
@grumpy2.05 ай бұрын
@@SwordOfApolloDarkstar would solve the cost inhibitors of that great 80s orbital battery idea of rods from space.
@thebeemd14705 ай бұрын
"Maybe my stealth is just that good?....." - Held my breath waiting for the surprise R-77 M...
@tedball86775 ай бұрын
Same.
@mikewebber47845 ай бұрын
Waiting for that famous jump scare 😂😂
@truthseeker94545 ай бұрын
@@mikewebber4784 GS gave that to the Russian AWACS pilot this time. 😁
@peterruiz61175 ай бұрын
😅 Those famous last words 😂 " Oh look.,The P38s are trying to climb and @#!* "
@r2020E5 ай бұрын
F22 is just built different
@DeathTitanLord5 ай бұрын
Could you just imagine watching your AWACS start to take off but notice an F22 glide from the deck behind it and just gun it down. The amount of shock and terror that would happen
@supajfuckyou5 ай бұрын
Yea or it's just starting its rollout and an f22 cruises by perpendicular and starts that looooong tuuuurn🫣
@snakedogman5 ай бұрын
yeah that was actually pretty brutal. Crew never had a chance to escape.
@ExSpoonman4 ай бұрын
My daughter: "Dad, what kind of paint job is that?" Me: "On the DarkStar? It's called Friction"
@FlamingF18s20 күн бұрын
😂
@getdat3115 ай бұрын
Always gotta pick on the AWACS. "I'm up, they see me, I'm down."
@Golgi-Gyges5 ай бұрын
Non Army grunt veterans won't get your reference 😅
@Mastashad1605 ай бұрын
@@Golgi-Gyges False. We marines are equally familiar with that reference, hahaha!
@Golgi-Gyges5 ай бұрын
@@Mastashad160 well, combat arms veteran then.
@cliffhooper35585 ай бұрын
The control tower should've told them to abandon ship before they ever took off.
@Dusther2105 ай бұрын
“I’m up, they see me, I’m down, rollover!”
@totsm235 ай бұрын
That was like 5 decades worth of Su-57 production blown up there.
@tedball86775 ай бұрын
5 decades' worth across 4 multiverses.
@Loubie20055 ай бұрын
Cope
@rtpfixit5 ай бұрын
The way the F-22 just seems to casually lob missiles that track is almost scarier than its nose authority. As for the AWACS crew, I would just have bailed out on the runway.
@guyray15045 ай бұрын
Maybe " hold that plane,i've got to go to the bathroom before takeoff ". " Where did my ride go? "
@truthseeker94545 ай бұрын
@@guyray1504
@truthseeker94545 ай бұрын
Agreed! I was thinking if I was pilot of one of those MiG-31s and I saw a bumblebee approaching at near Mach 1, when my RWR lit up I'd hit the silk.... 😆
@rtpfixit5 ай бұрын
"hold this my dude" 🤣🤣🤣
@ernestobeltran78025 ай бұрын
"Is he turning? He's turning...ah $**!!!! Punch it! Really? Punch it? We're basically in a Winnebago with wings."
@playingdoge74075 ай бұрын
No way Gaijin sponsored DCS video
@mich4215 ай бұрын
It's not the first time they've done this. I hope they take some inspiration from dcs
@fuel697dark95 ай бұрын
nah the must be propagnda
@playingdoge74075 ай бұрын
@@mich421 same, I hope so
@shauryajha94795 ай бұрын
They have a lot to learn from dcs
@serhulky97-ru6zd5 ай бұрын
They've sponsored Eva Elfie before....
@jdkroh5 ай бұрын
Darkstar Terrain masking... just hoping his radar signature blends in with the ISS?
@SwordOfApollo5 ай бұрын
Less "terrain masking" and more "Earth curvature masking."
@dylandarnell36575 ай бұрын
"What terrain?" "Europe. All of it. Plus a bunch of the Atlantic." More like "tectonic plate masking," really.
@nemilyk5 ай бұрын
Russian media: "We did not lose. All losses were friendly fire." "Really? A radar site... a SAM site... an A-50... two MiG-31s... and four Su-57s on the ground...? All in about ten minutes?" "Da."
@hosermcmoose5 ай бұрын
Da... Smoking cigarette in designated area.
@SuperSirianRigel5 ай бұрын
Don't forget the Flankers. lol
@Eis_5 ай бұрын
Tbf, the A-50 could probably be argued as a bird strike accident, but everything else? Nah.
@deadboy99555 ай бұрын
@@Eis_ The Su-57s heroically intercepted the cruise missiles while sacrificing themselves.
@garymccann29605 ай бұрын
So what is the ace requirement #? 50? 100 kills?
@Jooeybee5 ай бұрын
IR signature on that Darkstar must be mega!
@szarmywarmy5 ай бұрын
Probably slices through air so well that it creates a vacuum that can't carry heat 👍
@WWeronko5 ай бұрын
Probably, at Mach 9.6 it is uncatchable.
@SwordOfApollo5 ай бұрын
@@szarmywarmy Not the way IR works...😊
@szarmywarmy5 ай бұрын
@@logicplague Oh yeah. It goes fast enough to make a black hole.
@marcg65755 ай бұрын
@@szarmywarmy Black Hole? That's the SR-73 ;-)
@aland72365 ай бұрын
A50 are super easy to find, the plume of black smoke gives the crash site away immediately. Also, I am digging the green text and sound for the mission location info. :)
@jbc2424245 ай бұрын
It can't be said enough, how beautiful the F22 is.
@drksideofthewal5 ай бұрын
Aircraft are one of the few things where "beauty" and practicality go hand in hand.
@jbc2424245 ай бұрын
@@drksideofthewal oh I love that. Wonderfully said.
@zacharyradford55525 ай бұрын
I prefer the rugged handsomeness of the F-15 as it actually got shit done.
@markmurex65595 ай бұрын
Only because they made far more of them. @@zacharyradford5552
@jbc2424245 ай бұрын
@@zacharyradford5552 hey now, F22 gets plenty done just by virtue of the fact it even exists. ... It definitely would be nice to see it in action, though.
@khoatran-sv7je5 ай бұрын
Seeing the F22, B21 in black paint and glowing SR 72 is just eye candy.
@perspecttv89565 ай бұрын
That taxiway full of F22’s, A10’s and B1’s was awesome.
@pjthehomelessmage5 ай бұрын
Seems like an interesting doctrine. Multirole stealth aircraft causing confusion around a target while a hypersonic stealth aircraft carrying main payload towards target staying out of harms way.
@OldNorth1525 ай бұрын
When I first saw the title I thought it said "F-22 vs Dark Star" 😂
@TheGamingMotionTGM5 ай бұрын
Wonder how that would've turn out. The cat and mouse chase be quite unbalanced already, but it's worth a try.
@phantomflows05 ай бұрын
@@TheGamingMotionTGM I suppose that depends on when/where they meet, in atmosphere the F22 holds a high advantage due to mobility, but once the darkstar reaches cruise, you've got no hope of catching it at Mach 9.9 not to mention it'd be at such an altitude that the F22 would probably starve of oxygen before even getting close.
@TheGamingMotionTGM5 ай бұрын
@@phantomflows0 Like the older counterpart, it relies on its speed. You could search for example, the 1986 escape from libyan missiles as blackbird leaves them behind.
@johngeiger3770Ай бұрын
F-22 will be killed by stall. Or its own missiles coming back down.
@banditdelta71725 ай бұрын
Crazy the Raptor is basically running late 90s early 00s tech and nothing really come close to it
@ragedmayhem13 күн бұрын
It has been upgraded and new avionics and radar system
@RupertFoulmouth5 ай бұрын
I can't say how many times I have mistaken a bit of dirty on my screen for a hostile aircraft.
@FrostYT44445 ай бұрын
The glowing red hot metal of the Darkstars airframe looks so menacing. The sheer scare factor from that alone probably gave anyone lucky enough to see it chills...that is if they can even see it
@FrostYT44445 ай бұрын
@@teeanahera8949 That is true. But I think the only time the airframe is glowing red is when it's like 80 k feet in the air so I don't think Infrared Signature will pop up. Maybe it will but I don't think the enemy will notice them because the SR-72 is going to be used with another aircraft or some sort of diversion. IDK how it works exactly. just really high cruising height
@_wayward_4945 ай бұрын
@@teeanahera8949 it is pretty much at the edge of the atmosphere, i absolutely doubt anyone is gonna see it
@getdat3115 ай бұрын
Using an AIM-120 to take out an enemy IAD radar system is the stuff of legends! Bravo, my man.
@clairecelestin84375 ай бұрын
I love the F-22 so much, and she looks so beautiful in that capri sun skin. That mission was a rush. That AWACS crew; what a way to go... Rolled over just after takeoff and no chance to bail out. That was a nasty crash.
@danielwibbels50705 ай бұрын
Took way too long to realize that was plasma build up on the Darkstar. I thought it was just a sick ass paint job.
@jasonvick555 ай бұрын
Yeah, I’d say that S-300 site was a little more than disabled lol
@christopherreed47235 ай бұрын
I remember an old Buck Rogers TV episode (yes, a long, LONG time ago) where the villain was a telekinetic and had jammed the controls of Rogers' starfighter while he zeroed in for the kill. Buck frantically calls for someone to distract the villain, and Rogers' wingman rolls in and vaporizes the villain's fighter. Distracted...neutralized...disabled ...yes.
@helldad46895 ай бұрын
Loving these more hypothetic, futuristic sci-fi scenarios, but I think this one is straining credibility a little bit. A new batch of Su-57s actually getting delivered? Really breaks my suspension of disbelief.
@Ilyak19865 ай бұрын
If you saw one of Alex Holings's latest videos, the F-22 is getting stealth pods. MIght be time for more than just 6 AMRAAMs ^_^
@zacharyradford55525 ай бұрын
Chinese balloons won’t see it coming.
@Justapilot_97005 ай бұрын
Everything in this mission was awesome!!! The SR72 flying on the edge of the atmosphere glowing red hot, the unrestricted climb after take off, the crazy hard turn to defeat the russian missile, the B2 casually dropping his deadly payload, every each detail was just perfect 😙🤌 (KISS CHEF)
@tedball86775 ай бұрын
When the F22 is the oldest aircraft with the simplest tech/stealth on the mission...
@VagabondTexan5 ай бұрын
OK, you got me with terrain masking. Behind the moon. Perfect. Bravo.
@snakedogman5 ай бұрын
That attack on the radar site... turning the F22 into a Stuka divebomber!
@businessprodigy_5 ай бұрын
15:26 that truck trying to escape from the cruise missile and just got smashed a second later 😂
@SwordOfApollo5 ай бұрын
I like the one that goes through the Su-57...👽
@benn4545 ай бұрын
@@SwordOfApolloFelon was doing its Mirage impression.
@SwordOfApollo5 ай бұрын
@@benn454 Yes, I get it. Very droll, huehuehue.😋
@jaxbunny80495 ай бұрын
We need you flying the darkstar next vid
@MicahBlackburn5 ай бұрын
Not modeled
@hydranmenace5 ай бұрын
I thought the same but honestly even if it had a modeled cockpit and everything it would basically just be him flying in a really high and fast straight line. Maybe with a slowdown, dip into atmosphere, and back up again. Cool in a sense but maybe not great for entertainment.
@JoRoWi835 ай бұрын
Fun fact: China literally changed certain satellite orbits when they spotted the Dsrkstar prop being used for Top Gun
@maeror10225 ай бұрын
That SR-72 Darkstar is terrifying
@ianobrien32485 ай бұрын
Circling like a shark and then lighting up that AWACS was crazy. I can't imagine the air traffic controller there would have tried to send them up!
@PuckeredMeatball5 ай бұрын
I've had UPS toss my deliveries farther than your AMRAAM traveled to that radar dome. Super casual point blank. Good stuff.
@danielbrown93685 ай бұрын
The casual conversation as he was coldly just murdering the first two flankers. "Those two fox 2's must've missed so sending a fox 3 - so anyways back to what I was talking about"
@initialdeeznuts86145 ай бұрын
The Raptor and Darkstar are just partners in crime at this point.
@noe-tobin5 ай бұрын
True, but the raptor/raider is a cooler combo IMO since they're both real life and at the pinnacle of stealth for their given roles
@zacharyradford55525 ай бұрын
How do you know the Darkstar isn’t real or something similar isn’t out there?
@ragedmayhem13 күн бұрын
@@noe-tobindarkstar is real and being tested
@DR-mc7fn5 ай бұрын
GS was trying to fish with his wingtips.
@wamanning5 ай бұрын
uh...how does a mach 9 aircraft fly a "terrain masking" mission profile?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
@Ifoughtpiranhas5 ай бұрын
Very quickly?
@GrowlingSidewinder5 ай бұрын
It goes behind the moon lol
@dunodisko22175 ай бұрын
That AWACS kill was just disrespectful 😂
@Aotearas5 ай бұрын
Ye, I don't think that SR-72 going nearly Mach 10 was terrain masking anything unless it tried really hard to escape earth atmosphere and hide behind the moon.
@GrowlingSidewinder5 ай бұрын
It was terrain masking behind the moon lol
@dylandarnell36575 ай бұрын
It was masking behind the next continent over.
@resurgam_b75 ай бұрын
1:01 Darkstar "SitRep: Terrain Masking" behind what terrain? The moon? 😂
@GrowlingSidewinder5 ай бұрын
yes lol
@kleinerfarmer15 ай бұрын
Nah, hit the throttle and be interpreted as meteorite by the radar.^^
@MissMoneypenny-z8j5 ай бұрын
Thumbs up, as always, for another enjoyable and interesting video, GS. Eagle Dynamics, at 15:15, gave that second-over SU-57 *AMAZING* stealth capability.
@shane412255 ай бұрын
The f 22 is a scary fighter just imagine the real capabilities of it that’s classified, I guarantee it’s wicked especially since they aren’t allowed for export lol
@lexwaldez5 ай бұрын
It's hard to decide which is more far fetched... an SR-72 delivering a cruise missile strike or the Russians delivering a squadron of functional SU-57's. I think I'll call both things equally unlikely.
@CapulloSpawn5 ай бұрын
How mean. The Awacs pilots have just decided who gets which snack and you just shoot them away. 🤣
@kasper_4295 ай бұрын
The F-22 is basically a cheat code, and I love it!
@JesusChristItsJasonFrog5 ай бұрын
That taxi view from above, that vertical take off… damn 🥵🥵🥵🥵
@happyhaunter_55465 ай бұрын
This was an AWESOME mission...Overwhelming force on display.
@kasper_4295 ай бұрын
7:45 Who says the Raptor can't do A/G? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ValentineC1375 ай бұрын
It's kinda cute seeing the Sidewinder flare against flankers
@johnnyrocketa12575 ай бұрын
Darkstar shooting "Cruise" missiles, and destroying four "Fifth-Gen fighters" -Alternate Top Gun story😂
@firebald29155 ай бұрын
Whoa... ! A whole nest of Raptors. Sweet !
@rmcgraw79435 ай бұрын
Darkstar is empirical proof of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. 😂
@Saltfly5 ай бұрын
That awacs hit was ruthless
@imsogoated405 ай бұрын
crazy that gaijin sponsored a dcs vid lmaoo they got balls
@boirobot5 ай бұрын
The battlefield theme music was a beautiful touch at the end.
@ThunderSims5 ай бұрын
6:03 , "let's head over to the island" ... Bruh 💀💀💀☠️☠️
@emery23105 ай бұрын
Ahh..the Theme Song of Champions! F-22 and DarkStar!!!❤️
@egillis2145 ай бұрын
Darkstar come in? What is your ETA? Vader One here. ETA is 2 mikes to your loc. Roger Vader One. Say your fuel state and distance & bearing to commence your run? Vader One. Fuel state 99. Range 5000 at 180. Ah, say again Vader One? Vader One, range 3000. Roger Vader One. 3000 clicks! Repeat ETA? Vader One, repeat ETA 30 seconds, range 500, bearing now 330 weapons hot. Ah, Roger? Vader One. Cleared hot. Vader One, Roger now on exfil. Out. Vader One? WTF?
@sogerc15 ай бұрын
DCS needs to work some more on their engine. First GS used the F-22 almost as a speedboat and yet the water was not disturbed and then a truck went through the Su-57's wing like a ghost.
@fierypickles44505 ай бұрын
Sr72 is genuinely terrifying. Sky darth vader
@davidger81335 ай бұрын
Darkstar : go low I'll go high Raptor : I just go kill
@thomasmelvin13335 ай бұрын
“AWACs: coverage online, we are airborn.” …2 seconds later, “We’re down.”
@kasper_4295 ай бұрын
15:16 Lol'd at the truck clipping through the SU-57 model. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@koswimmer15 ай бұрын
imagine going outside, looking up and the last thing you see is a raptor coming straight at you dropping an aimram
@lancegigs90225 ай бұрын
He really spawnkilled that AWACS 😂
@doktorfaustus5 ай бұрын
Darkstar pilot be like, "okay boys, here's your missiles, I'm outta here. Gettin' hungry... cravin' cheesesteak for some reason. Where the heck are we? Black Sea? Okay, that's cool. Should be in Philly by lunchtime."
@Rose_Butterfly985 ай бұрын
F22 hitting a notch is like going full Jason Bourne
@King_Dusty_Of_Pookytopia5 ай бұрын
I liked that airshow takeoff...!
@pkpnyt4711Ай бұрын
That unrestricted takeoff climb was awesome!
@WinVisten3 ай бұрын
Those ground-based radar domes look like gigantic golf balls. XD
@markdonalds773529 күн бұрын
This reminded me of Super Dave saying “ IT IS YOUR FAVORITE ?!”
@PepperDog765 ай бұрын
These videos just keep getting get better. Any chance we’ll see some historic battles again? WWI and WWII? Thanks for the epic content, man.
@VioletWyvern5 ай бұрын
11:35 (*You destroyed the AWACS, "Tsar Vladimir I" was very unamused...*)
@staysafe10965 ай бұрын
That AWACs literally sh!t their pants😂
@Eis_5 ай бұрын
Just a request: JDAM carrying F-22 on a Deep Strike Mission.
@hermanlopez29455 ай бұрын
AWACS did not have a chance, poor guy.
@TheGrrson2 ай бұрын
I love how the SR-72 glows red hot
@rossbowditch12585 ай бұрын
You should have formed up on the AWACS....
@matttrap30515 ай бұрын
That Viking Departure was BA! How about some WW1 stuff please?
@lando12965 ай бұрын
15:43 was a sick sequence with that drop!
@TulakomLive5 ай бұрын
This video: How to turn F-22 into WWII drive bomber.
@whalehands5 ай бұрын
So Fox-2s are worthless unless you let them dump all the flares out. Really taking that "American aim-9x goes for Russian flares" story to the extreme!
@benn4545 ай бұрын
It depends. The F-22's 9X certainly didn't miss when flew formation with GS's Flanker.
@Seth905 ай бұрын
man... must be half the USAF's Raptor fleet on that base 😉
@Utubesuperstar5 ай бұрын
There isn’t anywhere near 85 or so there
@corvanphoenix3 ай бұрын
This is comfort viewing for me. Thanks guys!
@flywheel9862 күн бұрын
When my squadron was TDY at Kadena AFB (SR-71 operation base), I had a chat with a Habu driver in the O-club one evening. He couldn't really talk about actual performance data, but he did say this using "suppose" as the lead in, "If we had to punch out at max mach over NY City, our pods would be recoverd somewhere near Las Vegas". Supposedly ""Darkstar" has almost twice the mach rating, where would they wind up after punching?
@brianrossi92335 ай бұрын
YES! MORE RAPTOR!
@donaldkeller8815 ай бұрын
Freaking awesome mission with the F22! Would love to see more F22 videos in the future?! Great job on another amazing video GS!
@MightyEighth19425 ай бұрын
Trade offer at 9:50 Russians get: cool airshow over base Raptor gets: a good meal
@falkov14415 ай бұрын
You know its gon be good when GS gets sponsored by War Thunder 💀💀💀
@BurakkuHishou5 ай бұрын
How dead do you want the enemy on this mission? I want a Raptor, a Spirit, and a Darkstar deployed. Dear Lord,,,
@Michael_Michaels5 ай бұрын
What if you fly the Darkstar next time? I was expecting a bit more from it. thanks for sharing. The F-22 sometimes seems invincible!
@gabsguayabas5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the "eagle of valor" decoration :D
@hennie53075 ай бұрын
Man that BF4 theme still hits hard
@richardward91115 ай бұрын
Awesome video. What a combined effort with 3 incredible aircraft.