Me-262 Fighters Intercept American Bombers! Forced Bail Out! IL2 Sturmovik Historic Flight Simulator

A flight of American B-25 Mitchell bombers are intercepted on a raid over Europe by Messerschmidt Me-262 fighters. This video takes you through what it was like to be the German fighter tasked with meeting the American bombers! This German Pilot is forced to bail out after taking heavy damage. This video was made using the IL-2 Sturmovik Combat Flight Simulator Great Battles series. (Kuban, Stalingrad, Moscow, Bodenplatte).
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[@Crane137]

Terrible tactics here… The Me262's advantage is speed and thus repeated high to low slashing attacks make far more sense than just moseying along behind a bomber as a target for his rear gunner!

[@euanfernandez9590]

If it works it works I guess

[@mryhdy6266]

And that 90 deg deflection shot in the beginning is rather questionable, too.

[@bonbondonk8389]

oh god the video bimbos are here nice

[@Crane137]

@@bonbondonk8389 A ‘video bimbo’ (?!?) would just say “Ooh, what a pretty video!”. Constructive advice on questionable tactics, if taken up, should lead to a more thought-provoking and enjoyable watching experience.

[@bonbondonk8389]

@@Crane137 you taking it to another level of realism hes just doing something nice and cool yes the tactics are a litle off but it doesnt say ULTRA REALISTIC does it?

[@TJ3]

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[@tlk0216]

new to gaming, I am old, looked this up, its a old game? How do I play on a laptop? What do I need to buy to play this. Any help would be appreciated...

[@windward563]

How were they able to take of with all that tall grass? Ive read the Junkers jet engines were very sensitive to foreign debris.

[@s1d2f3]

Of course they can't, the tall grass gets caught in the turbines and the rest just burned off at the start.

[@lilmacfarlan3]

I hate to be straight forward but it’s a video game. Those engines would be destroyed irl

[@catlady8324]

And why does the throttle move with no hand on it?

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Yes, 262s needed concrete runways to take off and land. The jet engines could not cope with grass. They might get clogged, and the jet flame could also set the grass on fire.

[@magnusmcgraw]

Lol , some more historical stuff for u... The Me 262, also known as the 'Schwalbe' or 'Sturmvogel', was a feared enemy. The reason for this lay in addition to their considerable speed in their heavy armament. Equipped with four MK 108 'Kurzgerät' machine cannons, two of which were placed one above the other in the slim bow of the Me 262, it was extremely effective armament for aerial combat. These very compact cannons with a caliber of 3 cm were developed by the Rheinmetall weapons company specifically for fighting bombers. The 'short device' fired 660 3cm grenades per minute and, due to its low muzzle velocity, was adjusted to the relatively short range of 450 m. A direct hit with a projectile from the MK 108 tore a 1.75 square meter hole in the paneling of an aircraft. One hit should crash an enemy fighter, three hits a bomber. In addition to this heavy armament, from March 1945 the fighters were equipped with 12 R4 / M missiles each with 5kg warheads under the wings. The 9th squadron of JG 7 flew the first live use of this new weapon on March 18, 1945. It fired twelve rounds of rockets into the bomber formations, with eight kills reported. The Relfex Revi 16B was used as the aiming device for both weapons. An FM transceiver system of the type FuG 16 ZY was installed for radio communication. Combined with the same system and switchable with the 'ZF-FT' switch, a ZVG-16 destination flight receiver with a fixed loop antenna positioned transversely to the flight direction was installed. The automatic detection device FuG 25 was used to orient the ground control centers. JG 7, set up on November 19, 1944, was the largest and with around 200 confirmed kills the most successful Me 262 unit of the Luftwaffe.

[@magnusmcgraw]

@noor mobashir sami The data are from German www.luftarchiv.de/ and I have only translated them into English. It is the historically and technically most exquisite archive of the Luftwaffe in World War II. The archive on the use of man and material by the German Air Force in World War II. Unfortunately it is only written in German, but with a good translation program, those who are really interested in the Luftwaffe in WWII will find a wealth of knowledge that is more detailed and true than any other! Mfg Magnus

[@cubicmaddness2052]

Great video. Lots of work goes into making one. I enjoy watching your cinematic productions. Can tell you really enjoy this game of ours

[@Fromard]

Fantastic! Loved this one. Could have watched it for hours.

[@MrSvetozar11]

Shot like a shooting gallery! The level of difficulty for beginners!

[@DL541]

For some reason, i would think grass and rocks going through an early jet engine would be a bad thing.

[@avidaviation67]

Yes in IRL the engine would be fucked up but videogames don't care.

[@bengtgronlund9447]

I often wonder about how similar the ME262 looks to the comic strip by Hergé, "Tin-Tin" and the Shark shaped submarine in Rackham the Red, and not to speak about the moon rocket that looks so much like a V2 Bomb

[@rolladice8739]

Great editing. Clearly shows the efforts put in! Subscribed!!

[@TJ3]

Thanks man!

[@rolladice8739]

@@TJ3 bash on regardless!!

[@LiveNinetyNine]

Hey, what are your graphics settings? Do you use any reshade program? Thanks, great video!

[@stenduginski2306]

Video: jet shoots down bomber! Every comment: wOw LoOk aT tHe gRAsS

[@ricardocorbie6803]

Good Shooting, twin .50’s got the Job done!! ✊🏿

[@ceedoubleyou]

I didn't think the ME 262 took off from grass runways?

[@magnusmcgraw]

That's right. However, you should not ignore an approach from behind a bomber formation even at high speed. Dozens of "tail gunners" were able to take you under fire with their Browning M2 twin machine guns .50 BMG caliber (12.7 × 99 mm). The large Allied bomber formations, which were protected on the one hand by strong defensive armament and on the other by long-range escorts, became a challenge that could no longer be overcome for conventional day hunting with propeller fighters approaching frontally. Due to the high speed of the Me 262 (speed difference to the bombers about 400 km / h, to the escort fighters more than 100 km / h) and the very strong armament (only a few well-placed hits from the four MK-108-30-mm- On-board cannons from Rheinmetall were enough to destroy a heavy bomber), many pilots saw an opportunity to do their job again. Since the defense of the Reich had increasing difficulties in training enough pilots for aerial battles against bombers and their escort fighters, the RLM developed the plan to fight the bomber fleets on their own bases. Colonel Steinhoff tried to change Hitler's mind. Hitler did not want to hear about it and issued an order from the Fuehrer: "With immediate effect, I hereby forbid talking about the Me 262 jet aircraft, except about the fastest or lightning bomber". So he allowed the construction exclusively as a high speed bomber. However, this did not lead to any practical use, since the 262 was planned as a fighter: The acceptance of a bomb load of 1000 kg in front of the front center of gravity meant that two of the four automatic cannons in the nose of the fuselage and the refueling of the front fuel tanks were not required. In addition, the pilot first had to “fly off” fuel for at least 40 minutes in order to produce a trim position suitable for throwing. Nevertheless, the bombing remained critical: Immediately after the bomb locks were triggered, the machine became so tail-heavy that a sudden pitching moment around the transverse axis set in, which not infrequently led to structural damage to the wings in the area of ​​the engine nacelles. Furthermore, due to the high speed of the launch, combined with a lack of aiming equipment, the probability of being hit was low; Messerschmitt's test pilot Fritz Wendel, who accompanied the jet fighters during these troop tests, noted this very clearly in his reports. Because of these problems, the maximum bomb load of 2 × 500 kg was not usually carried when bombing, but the far less problematic equipment of 2 × 250 kg, so that the machine was less tail-heavy. The amateurish “Führer's order” was all the more incomprehensible because the Arado Ar 234 was already a powerful tactical bomber that was able to perform these tasks much better. However, recent research shows that Willy Messerschmitt himself was the cause of this decision, which was apostrophized as the “tragedy of German air armament”, because he introduced Hitler to this idea in June and September 1943 for reasons of power politics. The approximately 10 squadrons that were equipped with Me 262s were used too late and too seldom against the incoming bomber formations of the Allies. The blatant shortage of aviation fuel marked the end of the German Air Force. Although in 1945 the Luftwafffe had put over 800 Me 262s into service, most of them remained on the ground. And the few aircraft from the squadrons with Me 262 that were put into service could not achieve much. JG 7, which was set up on November 19, 1944, was the largest and, with around 500 confirmed kills, the most successful Me 262 unit of the Luftwaffe. Set up from January 19, 1944 from parts of the KG-1 "Hindenburg", the Kdo.Nowotny and the JG-3 "Udet" Commodores: Osltn. Johannes Steinhoff 11/19/44 - 12/26/44 Major Theodor Weißenberger 01.01.45 - 08.05.45 Major Rudolf Sinner i.V. 02/19/45 - beginning 03.45 Squadron. la: Major Heinrich Ehrler Squadron. Adj .: Hptm. Erich Mikat Squadron. TO: Hptm. Streicher; Hptm. Frodl Squadron. NO: Obltn. Victor Preusker Planned budget size: Staff / JG-7: 6 Me 262 I./JG-7 (4 Staffeln): 52 Me 262 II./JG-7 (4 Staffeln): 52 Me 262 III./JG-7 (4 Staffeln): 52 Me 262 IV./JG-7 (4 Staffeln): 52 Me 262 Total numbers (planned) 214 Me 262 Total aircraft delivered: 372 Me 262 A-1a, A-2a, A-1a / R1 Aerial victories: 497 to 500 Locations (staff / JG-7): Brandenburg-Briest November 19, 1944 - April 11, 1945 Saatz (Zatec) April 11, 1945 - May 8, 1945

[@sugarnads]

1 : 262s operated from concrete strips. 2 : luftwaffe operated in either 2 or 4 ships not 3. Hell the RAF had stopped flying in 3s by the end of 1940 3: boom and zoom dude

[@kriegsmarinebismarck7122]

It's not ment to be realistic

[@threadworm437]

@@kriegsmarinebismarck7122 il2 is meant to be realistic

[@alapapapa084]

@@threadworm437 Its not, its still a game, you can't pretend to see an extremly realistic emulation....

[@wyattpeterson6286]

Won't the soft ground cause the landing gear to get caught and make the plane crash?

[@DanielCPhillips]

Me-262's could not operate from overgrown tall grass fields like this. Ingesting grass or foreign object damage would have destroyed the axial flow turbojet Junkers Jumo 004 turbines - particularly as they were made from stainless steel, rather than chromium alloys that were needed, but not available. The other consideration is both jets and the Walter rockets of the Me-163 would set a grass field on fire in summer, and the scorch marks, once photographed by Allied reconnaissance planes, would result in the bombing of the area to try to stop the jets.

[@federicovahle8231]

Excelente job! I love the video!

[@gneisenau7529]

Where i go to school in ww2 it was planned to build a factory for me 262 , it wasnt built but you can still see hangars there 👨‍🏭

[@mikemontgomery2654]

Looks like your ingress into the bomber stream could use some work. 😆

[@beautifulsunflower835]

Nice video. Good job.

[@jiaconis]

I SUPER enjoy your presentations Sir! Keep em Coming!!

[@eligido]

Why would you fly from behind, join the formation THEN shoot, instead of using your speed to boom zoom or something where you use the forces of your jet vs these gunnning nests ? You coulda prolly saved a couple of shots to your engines if not save the 262....

[@beans6449]

:|

[@beans6449]

You realize in real life the thing was best in boom and zooming

[@beans6449]

Plus they sucked at turning

[@beans6449]

Plus guns had low velocity so they had yo get up and close

[@legopachycephalosaurus6825]

@@beans6449 The best tactics were a swipe from the top with their superior energy and height advantage. I’d imagine following closely behind a bomber formation would exactly be the smartest idea.

[@robertsmith2227]

The B25's, the H&J models had up to 16 .50 caliber machine guns on them and a 75mm tank cannon under the pilots seat in the nose. They were used in the Pacific but not sure about Europe. Maybe a video about how and why they turned into the awesome machines they were? Bismarck Sea maybe?

[@SynteticCocoons]

Schwalbe had an ejection seat. Didn't work?

[@SteveBrownRocks2023]

Very good video! 👏🏼😎

[@fitt4393]

Love it. Subscribed

[@bobbyb.6644]

Grass wouldn’t attract fighter bombers like tarmac?🤔

[@truk5161]

Nice vid. Pretty sure those delicate Jumo turbines would have exploded on take off sucking in all that grass! LOL

[@texasrockshillcountry6574]

Why do you all CONSISTENTLY have planes and even jets now taking off in knee high cornfields? I'm not an aviation expert, but I DO know that you are going to need a runway to take off.

[@codaalive5076]

This are Me262-GCM (Grass Cutting Machine).

[@Imnotyourdoormat]

great video...but compressor stall due to wheat-ingestion just aint gonna look right on the clipboard. he advanced the throttles too fast and cooked the impellers and the fragile nose-gear would never take that kind of beating and stay intact.

[@ArmandDePoiters]

I love this plane 💙

[@sdtx1112]

By that time of the war, the skies were full of allied fighters. No bombers of any type would be flying over Germany without escort.

[@beans6449]

:|

[@beans6449]

No the 262 during it's entire life span was defending berlin from countless allied bombers

[@chisox551]

Being honest i love the ME-262.

[@Cybernaut76]

If you have too much speed and need to bail out of Me-262, one solution is to take altitude just to lose speed.

[@albanmahoudeau1779]

Pull Paladin:

[@dryvegan8873]

awesome!!! thanks for making these! anyone know if IL 2 will run on a macbook pro?

[@xXrandomryzeXx]

It runs on my potatoe laptop on lowest settings, it will run on a macbook surely. But i mean, my laptop is shit and still runs il2 so you will be fine

[@xbiggrape8802]

Liked and Subbed :)

[@TJ3]

Welcome aboard!

[@thefellathathuntsvatniks]

Me-262: I'm... sorry. Please... bail out... now.

[@gregkal2007]

The 262 was 100 mph faster than anything America had, at the time ......!

[@Metaphix]

looks like a great white shark with wings

[@ZARUSI]

HELL YEAH! I AM ENJOYING THIS VIDEO!

[@scottgarrity989]

First on takeoff the engines would of sucked in all the tall grass they were parked in and taxiing causing flameout or explosion.

[@Seadog..C5]

I love green fod

[@crazymoose9875]

As i remember the Me262, needed long Landing tracks....that takeoff would be more suitable for the "all terrain" butcher Bird.....!!!!

[@franciscoamaya4587]

Franky a this remind me of the movie Austin power the bombers being fatbastar and the jets being Rick Moran anybody for risotto

[@nicopolis7377]

I have never heard of a jet takeoff from a field .

[@DataWaveTaGo]

Some lessons here: Me262A1 | 7 Kills in a flight | Outro kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXi2i4GXn92Dpsk Me262A1 | 6 Kills in a Flight | No music until Outro kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoPcqGuHerWer80

[@sharatsharma8273]

Nice.from the grassy tales.

[@Arianta21]

The meadow must be mowed, otherwise the Me 262 cannot start there. The risk of parts being sucked into the air intake of the nozzles would be too great

[@beans6449]

Everyone looks at the grass bigger question where the FUCK even is the runway and why are they not in mountains 262s where kept in hidden bases located in a bunch of mountains

[@markscion]

How to start a brush fire in meh .. 262 easy lessons

[@soppdrake]

I helped dig up a Mitchell that had crash-landed in an English bog during WW2. It had to be left alone as the remains of the crew were still in it. :(

[@erichrudorfferr]

All the crew died? = ((((

[@xXrandomryzeXx]

@@erichrudorfferr no they stayed there for the rest of their life

[@erichrudorfferr]

@@xXrandomryzeXx It hurts to think about that 😔

[@legopachycephalosaurus6825]

Alex - Unity lmao

[@soppdrake]

I was there the first day. I wasn't there for the next day's dig when they discovered the skeletons.

[@angelorizkynanda3827]

Perfect i am from Indonesian

[@radajem77]

okay?

[@michaelfrench3396]

I guess this game doesn't realize that the ME262 was like the first jet in operation with an injection seat or one of the first.

[@michaelfrench3396]

That plane would have exploded way before that guy ever got out in real life. I thought the damage models and these games were supposed to be accurate 😂

[@beans6449]

It did not have a ejection seat why'd do you think everyone who survived bailing it had injuries from getting slapped by the tail

[@beans6449]

@@michaelfrench3396 also no they would not have just exploded sure the engines would just rip themselves off the plane but not explode

[@vikramkolluru9360]

And thats how luftwaffe became Lufthansa

[@apollo21lmp]

good vid, except B25's didn't have belly turrets.

[@beans6449]

And uh b17s where more used in 1945

[@numberpirate]

Running primitive jets through grass fields seems like a bad idea eh?

[@chrishickman9738]

As soon as I saw the LONG grass I ditched the vid... IRL it would never take off from that field... small wheels LONG grass, man 4" grass gave me a 1.4 extension on my AC11 never mind a me262 with grass above the engine nacelle lol... TJ3 History just went to the bottom of my view list...

[@mrkrakychen5325]

what to do when your plane is going down with flames and extreme G's? rub your face of course

[@Winitu5073]

My grampa fly at 1945 at de age of 18 de Me262

[@Keyboard_Thoughts]

Wow that was awesome! I think

[@larrypacman8511]

This kind of airfied ( grass) doesn't suit To 262...

[@gustgamer2155]

GAME NAME PLEASE???

[@TJ3]

IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles

[@megameman3875]

Perfect 10/10

[@timonsolus]

A complete masterclass in how NOT to fly a Messerschmitt Me 262...

[@TJ3]

Aw, thank you so much

[@feivelfranzmadula6722]

@@TJ3 Um dude do you realize he is not complimenting? Read closer

[@twistedyogert]

Props? Where we're going we don't need props.

[@Ayyo8976]

Wait didn't the me 262 have ejection seat?

[@colinkelly5420]

No, which resulted in the ME262 being something of a difficult aircraft to get out of in an emergency. Beyond the KIA numbers, a fairly large number of pilots who did bail out of their ME262s struck the tail on the way out, often badly wounding them.

[@Ayyo8976]

@@colinkelly5420 wow i didn't know thanks

[@beans6449]

:|

[@AussieDisciple]

WHEW! that Earth is, like, f-l-a-t ....

[@PaoloMenini]

Ma che bel video di menta

[@carlosroberto322]

Eu quero muito esse jogo

[@zekepaz2271]

flying slow and matching the speed with the bombers is a poor strategy

[@SlickCrusty]

would have been good if they had got the meteor to take on the me262

[@beans6449]

They only deployed meteors to kill the v1 rocket threat

[@wntu4]

Well if you meant to demonstrate the least intelligent way to use a 262 I would say you accomplished that mission.

[@TJ3]

Thank you so much!

[@dumbnock4787]

great!

[@galapot2380]

Love it

[@alfonsorodriguez2743]

Look Mama! I set my airfield on fire!

[@redjacc7581]

i thought IL2 was the eastern front?

[@beans6449]

:|

[@redjacc7581]

@@beans6449 hehe its a mod then?

[@beans6449]

@@redjacc7581 :|

[@edwardpetervanbrenkelen5054]

ME 262 NEVER too off from grassfields...allways concrete or tarmac runways....they put the grass on fire and exposed their airfields....

[@TJ3]

THEY DO IN MY VIDEOS lol

[@davesmyrnaga]

The Me-262 didn’t have head up instruments. No AI or anything else.

[@magnusmcgraw]

You never attack a bomber formation from behind ...

[@beans6449]

Well the Germans did cuz speed

[@kakmaster6945]

Nice!

[@francois1606]

Je ne suis pas sur que les réacteurs aient apprécié la moisson du décollage?

[@radajem77]

?

[@royseibel511]

In the late war 262s used the autobahn

[@fxhockeyrocks2]

Dude that is NOT how to attack a bomber formation

[@Comradefroggo]

109 dislikes reminded me of BF 109

[@tututijn8973]

Those are b-24's

[@ottomeyer6928]

just don't taxi for an hour.

[@4games2gamers]

rookie me-262 pilot

[@johnhunt1725]

Oh yeah, all that vegetation getting sucked into the engines during takeoff is just perfectly fine. smdh

[@michaelmax5161]

3 attacks... 1 damaged... 1 down... And then knocked out? Come on! Fly a 109...

[@kriegsmarinebismarck7122]

Yall fr acting like its ment to be realistic

[@manoelmissias1803]

yo queria cer um piloto de.um.cassa

[@waltersergio3032]

The 262 could NOT take off from grass runway.Most times they used parts of autobahn ; roads.

[@SaltyDawg-wu5kr]

Bailing hay on take off. 262

[@richardhertz1989]

this whole flight made no sense

[@1TRUTH2U]

Rookie... You cost a lot of money to axis

[@hanspeter9445]

So ein Quatsch!! Bei dem Start wären die Turbienen nach kurzer Zeit ausgefallen, bei dem vielen Unkraut welches in die geraten wären.

[@petercousins1645]

Jets would not have taken off in grass that long, too many hidden hazards, & can find no records of any other allied aircraft being attacked by me 262 other than B17 Flying fortress, & you've missed out the swastika on the tail again turret gunner would have had better chance of winning lotto jackpot x2 than shooting down 262 NO ME 262s were shot down by turret gunners they were too fast, it might only be a game but try & get facts right reminds me of film 'The great escape full of fictional events!

[@ЕвгенийПопов-ш6е]

Самолёт с низкорасположенным двигателем разгоняется по травяному полю, вы представляете сколько всякой гадости двигатель засосет в себя?

[@ВТА-у3д]

тем более, что первый немецкий пробный реактивный самолёт, хоть и сбивали их с поршневых машин