Two Fighter Jets Face Off in a Spectacular Night Battle - Part 2!

Operation Allied Force was a NATO campaign against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Essentially, those were the remaining two republics of a former federation, Serbia and Montenegro led by Slobodan Milošević.
On 24 March 1999, two large strike groups header for Serbian airspace. One of them focused on the north of the country and its strikers were stealth F-117s. Their air cover consisted of F-15s led by Captain Mike 'Dozer' Shower. Upon arriving on their CAP station, Dozer's flight would meet resistance in the form of Serbian MiG-29s. Two pilots, Nebojša Nikolić and Ljubiša Kulačin took off from Batajnica airbase near Belgrade and confronted the NATO fighters. While it is well known that Serbian aircraft were facing many challenges with unreliability, in this video you will see that NATO had its own share of problems, not only of technical nature but also lack of experience and poor planning.
This DCS Wold reenactment is a follow-up of a video made quite a while ago in which we focused on the southern group. Now, you will be able to see what was happening in the north.
Main Sources:
- F-15 Eagle vs MiG-29 Fulcrum | With "Dozer" on Aircrew Interview
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- Niko nije rekao neću (drugi deo) (Nobody said 'I won't do it', part two)
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- B-2 over Belgrade....an extraordinary technical achievement
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- "U predvečerje rata" - svedočenja o NATO agresiji na SR Jugoslaviju
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[@showtime112]

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[@Alex-Plaisir-FIFA]

So close and so unknown air conflict, Thx for this great job

[@showtime112]

Thank you for this feedback. The conflict deserves some more attention.

[@TheGranicd]

Had an honor of meeting Nebojša once.

[@user-dv5zn7wl4x]

lol ahahhahaa

[@alejandrocasalegno1657]

The serbians know from the take off they were doomed........but they do!!!!!!!.....Respect.

[@showtime112]

Well, yeah. They did act professionally.

[@alaric3415]

Another brilliant video! Love learning about these conflicts

[@showtime112]

Thank you again for participating!

[@bjornsmith9431]

Another great historical video Showtime 112.

[@showtime112]

Glad you appreciate it!

[@johnfisher7143]

The fog of war, broken equipment on both sides, ambiguous target detection, confusion. Not an easy environment to work in.

[@narcos5598]

Thank you for your amazing work behind and in the video 👍👍👍

[@showtime112]

Thank you very much for all the comments!

[@Phantomworks84]

Great details !!! F-104S in Cervia AB 👏🏼 5th Stormo in Cervia,4th Stormo was in Grosseto

[@showtime112]

Thanks! I knew that F-104s were stationed at Cevia at the time. I didn't check the exact unit but I wasn't gonna miss an opportunity to show a little bit of Starfighter 😁

[@Phantomworks84]

@@showtime112 ❤️

[@radioactive9861]

Once Showtime mentioned the F117 in the area I recognized this engagement. It was featured on a tv show on The Military Channel. The tv show was called 'Dogfights'.

[@showtime112]

Yes, that's the one But my intention was to give more details plus the view from the other side.

[@radioactive9861]

@@showtime112 Worked to perfection! Keep up the good work. 👍

[@showtime112]

@@radioactive9861 Thanks!

[@skyhorseprice6591]

@@showtime112 That 'View from the other side' is the best feature of your videos. Not many content creators on you tube and in DCS are willing to do the in depth research required to acquire enough data to produce such an accurate, nuanced multi-view perspective. 🤜💥🤛

[@showtime112]

@@skyhorseprice6591 I try to make this the key ingredient. Still, many accuse me of being subjective 😁

[@nekilik7165]

Hvala za objektivnost!

[@showtime112]

E, da znaš koliko puta su me optužili za neobjektivnost 😁

[@nekilik7165]

@@showtime112 samo guraj napred

[@sim_lover_hr5532]

Odlično!

[@showtime112]

Hvala na komentaru!

[@rawdyrider]

Well made vid

[@showtime112]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@touchofevil3608]

Absolutely fantastic !🙏😎🤘

[@showtime112]

Thanks, I'm glad you still appreciate these videos!

[@touchofevil3608]

@@showtime112 You're definitely the boss. I'd like watching videos about Iran-Irak war, with F14 vs Mirage F1 or Super Etandards missions for example... Thanks for your great job !🙏🤘😎

[@showtime112]

@@touchofevil3608 I did some research on the Mirage F1 in Iraqi service. Quite a few good scenarios. Some Tomcat kills, also Phantoms and F-5s. And interesting bombing raids against Iranian oil facilities. The module for DCS seems to be in the final status but there's no release date yet.

[@touchofevil3608]

@@showtime112 Yes, please keep me in touch !😎🙏🤘

[@sofjanmustopoh7232]

I’m fighting 24 fighter plane Just like Kungfu movie 🤣

[@showtime112]

That was supposedly reported to the pilot after he was recovered. Maybe they counted the air tankers and AWACS too 😁

[@nekilik7165]

U kakvom je stanju bila tehnika dobro smo i prošli

[@jdsaldivar5606]

82ND AIRBORNE Watching the F-15 fighting the Mig -29 is like watching 2 super Hot Chicks throwing Chingasos!! Yeeehaw!!

[@showtime112]

I've never thought of such analogy. Dogfight like a chick fight 😁

[@box8brewing829]

Great seeing the subscriber number increase for you! Another quality reenactment from KZbins' best!

[@showtime112]

Thanks. However, the number of subs can be misleading. The views are way, way down. Most people just don't bother unsububscribing.

[@michaelwilson2649]

These videos are fantastic. Well done, or as they say in the military, 'BZ'.

[@showtime112]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked them!

[@brightpakistan5476]

I like 👍 this video Very good

[@showtime112]

Glad to hear it!

[@andrijakostic3941]

Odlicno kao i uvek! Bez ikakve zamerke! 💪

[@showtime112]

Drago mi je da si zadovoljan!

[@batelube3241]

I love your video thanks for the amazing content. And it is good to see some more of Allied Force Operation too.

[@showtime112]

Thanks, I appreciate your quick comment!

[@batelube3241]

@@showtime112 :)

[@alecfoster4413]

Slick Willie's tail wagging the dog.

[@trashy7871]

That F-15 jumpscare tho.

[@muhammedahmed4063]

Will there be a video of F-117 shootdown

[@showtime112]

Someday, yes. Not sure exactly when.

[@abbaerfani9007]

great job by show time 112 it's life history on this video

[@showtime112]

Thank you for your support!

[@Only_God_Is_Allah_SWT]

Yes when they were throwing cluster munition on Bosnian cities, Serbian MiGs worked perfectly.

[@showtime112]

Sanctions apparently work. They might be slow but they have an effect (clearly demonstrated by the state of FRY's Air Force in the late 1990s).

[@gazgazgaz2]

I do love your vedios, it is so high quality and amazing captures with editing. Thank you so much for running this channel and hope you get a Gold KZbin one day 👍👍👍

[@showtime112]

Thanks, I appreciate your support and good wishes!

[@estellemelodimitchell8259]

Hey Showtime 112, thanks for another great reenactment of the air war over Yugoslavia. I really enjoyed watching your videos. I’m just wondering if you could produce a video on the shooting down of Lt. Col Goldfein in his F-16, and Lt. Col Zelko in his F-117 The former later became the Air Force Chief of Staff, and the latter befriended his nemesis who shot down his stealth aircraft. Would be a great story to tell on how they were targetted by the Serbs and how they evaded capture behind enemy lines.

[@showtime112]

Thank you for your comment! These two incidents are on my to do list. If this channel keeps going on that long, they will be covered.

[@estellemelodimitchell8259]

@@showtime112I hope your subscriber base increase. Not sure if you had covered the conflict in Libya over 10 years ago. But if you could do a video on the loss of an F-15E Strike Eagle during Operation Odyssey Dawn, that would be great as well. Many thanks in advance and please keep up the good work!

[@showtime112]

@@estellemelodimitchell8259 I already have plenty of subscribers who don't watch the content. I haven't covered any of the Libyan stuff, the F-14s replay track in DCS doesn't work so it is hard to do any videos about it. We don't yet have the F-15E but it should be released in near future.

[@pontiacGXPfan]

friendships form in bizarre circumstances

[@planemod8399]

serbs might’ve had a chance if yugoslavia chose the proposed Mirage M2000 over the mig-29 but the mirages were too expensive and yugoslavs were investing in the “Novi Avion” (proposed yugoslav-made fighter jet which never got into production because of the yugoslav wars) and there was also a time where yugoslavia was supposed to buy mirage III aircraft but because of france’s stance on the algerian war, mig-21 were bought and yugoslavia started buying soviet military equipment since

[@showtime112]

Mirage 2000 might have made some difference but probably not significant as they also only had semi-active RH missiles and would have also been difficult to maintain under the sanctions (likely even more). I have to say I didn't know that Mirage III was considered for purchase at that time. The French are usually not too fussy about politics when they sell their weapon systems :)

[@GannicusMisteriosdeHonduras]

Do you have videos of the gulf of Sidra incident?

[@showtime112]

No. The F-14's replay track in DCS doesn't work at all so it is very hard to do any videos with it.

[@jimfashik]

His call sign dozer in the 80 series Robotech the the enemy leader his.name.was dozer nice call sign very nice video

[@showtime112]

Thanks for providing the info.

[@PappaBear_yt]

👍🏻🍻

[@showtime112]

Thanks once again!

[@Dog.soldier1950]

An air campaign designed by politicians but not exactly the USAF finest moment

[@showtime112]

Just like everything else, when you scratch beneath the surface, you can find a different picture.

[@su-25frogfoot74]

Do you even know the cause of the offensive?

[@ratagris21]

Great video presentation. Provides more insight compared to the Dogfights version. Dozer said they're called missles and not hitiles for a rrson. Most pilots ripple fire for successful kills. 1 sets up the other for the kill. 🎩🎱🎯🏁♠♦♣♥🌼🏵🌸💙💛🔱🌻🇺🇸🍀

[@showtime112]

Thanks! The objective was to provide some more perspective compared to the Dogfights.

[@ratagris21]

@@oreticeric8730 go kiss bunker Grandpa

[@ivan2795able1]

Maby due to jamming of radars and electronic countermesures Serbians tought that they where fighting 24 aircraft. Because 8 aircraft apered as 24.

[@showtime112]

It is a possibility

[@valley6636]

Moram ti zahvaliti što uvijek staviš hrvatske titlove, ja i tata volimo gledati tvoje videje zajedno, a njemu puno pomažu titlovi :)

[@showtime112]

A čuj, domaća publika je ipak domaća publika 😁

[@jeremycaufield8605]

And that’s why you should always train for the dogfight, technology can fail.

[@showtime112]

True. And not just technology, but the circumstances in general. Especially, RoE can make things complicated.

[@codystout5353]

I bet the 117 pilot needed to change his underwear after this flight.

[@showtime112]

Quite possibly 😁

[@domovinivjerni]

jel ovaj skin za 29 custom?

[@showtime112]

Je. Ima ga za skinuti, na jednom sam samo "prekucao" serijcki broj da bude povijenso dočan.

[@bryce.hooops]

im thinking of getting into dcs with a i5 11400 and a rtx 3060ti and i will be flying the f14. Do you think that will be enough for me to play high settings with no fps stutter

[@su-25frogfoot74]

How much ram do you have?

[@showtime112]

It's hard to say because I don't have this exact configuration. I can tell you that F-14 is probably the most resource hungry module in DCS. And yes, you should have at least 16GB of RAM.

[@skyhorseprice6591]

As usual, great video with both high cinematic & historical quality. Plus, this one in particular was extremely enlightening regarding issues involving equipment glitch/failure. I am constantly astounded at the manner in which an increasingly annoying cascade of seemingly minor problems can result in uncleared missions and sometimes death -- "my radar is unresponsive," and "damn radio doesn't work!" & "...f*@q+#*g IFF won't work now? What next?”...... Far too many times this leads to _"Remember that last Mig? Yeah? You Do? So do I, he's the one I couldn't ID because my IFF took a crap, and you couldn't tell me you ID'd him as hostile BECAUSE YOUR RADIO TOOK ANOTHER CRAP AAARRGGH!!...so he bombed our airport & we couldn't land, so we went bingo, couldn't make it to the tanker, AND there was no blue airport close enough for us to even deadstick it in, so we crashed! Next time our maintainers ask us to do something, we damn well better DO THAT SHIT!!"_ K, I got carried away lol, but still, that is essentially the ugly truth behind any military effort, whether defensive or offensive, in which the cascading effect of multiple glitches and equipment failures can result in catastrophic failure of an entire campaign. Sobering. But great content man. You're one of the few channels on DCS that often explores such matters through the use of carefully crafted DCS simulations.

[@showtime112]

Thanks for this detailed evaluation! :) Very often, I choose a topic based on same general description and when I start to research, there's so many interesting details there which I was completely unaware of.

[@darhammora7867]

There was a 4th MiG-29 downed that night for unknown reasons, possibly malfunction or Serbian SAM

[@showtime112]

Officially, three. Plus two more on the 26th and one weeks later.

[@darhammora7867]

@@showtime112 that’s the number of shoot downs, but not the total number of lost aircrafts, as 4 were destroyed on the ground on the 4th day (including one UB version with two seats

[@petardopudja4290]

@@darhammora7867 UB still flying in Serbian Air force, soo..... bad info. They destroyed lot of wooden mockups of mig 29s

[@darhammora7867]

@@petardopudja4290 yes, 1 UB still flying of 2 originally present

[@halonsox]

Could you recreate the Serbian Mig victories?

[@showtime112]

Which ones would that be? There's no official claim from the Serbian side, let alone any confirmation from the NATO side.

[@halonsox]

@@showtime112 🤔once I read about some kind of air guerrilla tactics from the serbs, though I guess it was only especulations then.

[@showtime112]

@@halonsox Never happened.

[@halonsox]

@@showtime112 ohh those bastards lied to me then lol.... I also read that a non confirmed MiG23 killed an Israeli F15 on the Lebanon war... 🤔😄

[@RustMostHatedPlayer]

i would rather just no commentary and just let the video speak for itself

[@showtime112]

I couldn't speak enough. There's no way the situation could be explained without talking.

[@dushyantchaudhry4654]

How come the MiGs just never seem to get a lock... fist missiles are fired almost without any manouvering by the F15s in these videos

[@showtime112]

Well, in this case these aircraft were not maintained very well and sometimes, their radars barely worked. Plus, Americans usually employ some kind of ECM which further reduces the capabilities of their opponents. And the AAMs that MiGs carried had a much shorter range than what NATO had at the time.

[@dushyantchaudhry4654]

@@showtime112 makes sense

[@N238E]

Not sure who was luckier, the MiG pilots or the NATO pilots.

[@showtime112]

If it wasn't such a serious thing, parts of this would look like a comedy of error 😁

[@VikingTeddy]

How did the IFF get a false id?

[@showtime112]

IFF generally can give a positive ID or unknown. F-15s also had a 'non-cooperative target recognition system'. Exact details on how it works are classified but it can recognize a specific type of an aircraft. Or it gives no ID when it can't. There was a false ID by the AWACS when the second MiG-29 was declared friendly after the close encounter with the F-15s. I'm not sure exactly why that happened. Perhaps the operator was inexperienced, or it was getting a signal from another contact and it was confused with the MiG.

[@Lucas-lq9cn]

I know I have been bothering you about this for a while but there was a su 35 downed in a top gun style dogfight against a mig 29 it looks as if they entered a 1 circle horizontal fight before the mig 29 got on the other's tale and fired what i can only guess was a r 73

[@Lucas-lq9cn]

i love your videos btw and keep up the great work

[@showtime112]

Thanks for the comment. If you are talking about Ukraine, I'm probably not doing that conflict yet. I did two videos before but there was some info in the early days, now it seems a lot more scarce.

[@mustang1912]

Pretty sure the migs were unarmed in real life.

[@showtime112]

Why? Who would send an unarmed aircraft into battle?

[@mustang1912]

Because nato kept bombing civilians.

[@planemod8399]

maybe they had at least 5 23mm rounds in their cannons 😉

[@patrickcloutier6801]

Considering that 2/3 of the US F-15 missiles failed against the Serbian MiG-29, one can easily see this engagement going against the American pilot, had the MiG-29 and its pilot benefited from better maintenance.

[@showtime112]

True. On my announcement post, this guy thought he was funny and compared MiG-29s against F-15 to a boxing match between himself and Mike Tyson at his prime. But when you analyze things more deeply, it could have gone the other way. Even if one of the MiGs was able to launch an R-73, it could have been a kill.

[@TheGranicd]

Problem was also being outnumbered not to mention amraam had more range then R27s.

[@merlingt1]

And if the F-15 radio hadn’t failed, he would have had 4 F-15s and possibly other F-16s firing at him. What’s your point?

[@EastGames-uy6mc]

First!🙃

[@showtime112]

Good to see you back!

[@hphp31416]

NCTR system in f15's radar is probably main reason it could achive high kill score despite tight RoE

[@showtime112]

True. That goes for Desert Storm too.

[@vladimirmilosavljevic1483]

Do godine u prizrenu

[@showtime112]

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[@micovujovic94]

Mig29 with outdated and not working radar equipment versus new f-15 with full equipment and services + Awax plane radar help . Mig 29 if radar working pilot lucky have only 40km range , f-15 with awax help 120 km , so he is able to lock mig 29 before he saw projectile alert 📢 Brave plots from mig29 know it but they go up to try do something to defend country from nato aggression who bombing civilians in Belgrade .

[@billpugh58]

To stop Serbs bombarding innocent people finally.

[@robertburge7582]

Spoiler Alert: F-15 wins. In other news, grass is green and the ocean has water. Seriously, with how poorly the Russian Air Force is performing in Ukraine it just seems completely comical to fly against the legendary Eagle in any Russian made aircraft. MIGs havent been effective against American made fighters since 1973 (Vietnam).

[@showtime112]

No idea what gave you an impression this was a news channel.