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Ukraine is using yak 52 to hunt small drones

If everything is modeled correctly, I would guess a Spit with eight .303 machine guns would be in its element

Almost the perfect mission for a Hawker Hurricane! Great video cap

My Therapist has a Flight License, and at least in the US, one of the tests for that is flying entirely by instruments. If you use the windows you fail. The instructor/proctor is the co-pilot, so they can take over if you flub. But you have to be able to fly blind to fly legally, at least in this jurisdiction. Also pretty sure your HUD let you know you were upsidedown and falling while you were lost in those clouds.

Re: Quad 20: Can't be believe all those hits didn't hit any thing critical???

I laughed far too much at the end 😀

"Claims" and reality is different. Ukraine said 300km range, wirh S300 missile. Russia says the plane crashed when it was flying to the air field. I wonder if the S300 will be able to shoot down a plane at a distance of 300 km that is flying from a missile, and to the missile.

Why aren't we using Lasers to shoot drones down?. The U.S. has the T-USLP weapon that shoots in 1 quadrillionth of a second virtually turning the air into plasma. It stands for Targeted Ultra Short Laser Pulse.

Not one of you went full "Hot Shots" and tried to swat a drone out of the air with their wing. Amazing discipline for a GR mission.

No mention of the Yak 52 shooting down a drone a few days ago?

awesome display! I really believe that this is what a protracted decade long modern WW will look like after 7 or 8 years of conventional warfare and all the high tech supply chains and high tech chip factories have been taken out.

Would SKYWAVE radar show up on the panes detector???

You should make it a better economy question with the warbirds. Put modern SAMs on the land and go after them with warbirds. This would then put a penalty (financially) to letting drones get past you. The SAMs would shoot down any leakers to accomplish the mission, but cost a tonne to do it. BTW it was a FIM-92 on a Predator MQ-1

All those Raytheon turrets in the drink

After watching grassland take-offs, I finally understand why those historically ingamous "Knights of Ni" were so interested in "Shubberies". 2 or 3 well placed shrubberies would simply have been catastrophic!! "The defense department regrets to inform you that ... yada yada ... small plants" 😋

I think the Boulton Paul Defiant has finally found its calling!👍

Would guess a bomber like the B-17 or Lancaster might work better, as could fly parallel to the swarm, and the gunners could take out the swarm.

Interesting 🤔. 👽👍

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“How do I know if I have a laminar flow wing”…. Get out man 😂

Hey, bit of a weird request, there is a video out of an aim-120 variant chasing down a Kh101 in cruise. In the video from ukraine the aim120 is still supersonic ,(I think), and reaches the point where the Kh101 was about 13 seconds later. I bet the Aim120 caught up, but I was wondering if you could simulate it, under different conditions to see if the Kh101 could have avoided the aim120 variant? I'm almost certain it caught up, but could make for an interesting video, could defo put a spin on it like, "Could F16 intercept Russian missile?!?!?!?" or something of that nature, anyway, love the work, keep it up, thank you :)))

How about using Flak as well?

hi, in "saved games" - "DCS" I don't have the Openbeta folder. where do I put the mods? Openbeta in DCS no longer exists

Ukraine has been using YAK 52 prop trainers with guns fitted to go at the drones ..

In a way, the AIM-9 & AIM-120 (as well as cruise missiles and smart bombs for that matter) are drones delivered to their launching area by high-performance aircraft.

Seems like the P-38 would have been well suited for this one...

I thought the sport biplane would've done better based on the Spitfire's performance, but I didn't think about the massively reduced visibility.

The US explained why their glide bombs arent being effective Russia can completely jam areas the size of Estonia.

No it would have been shot down. It was an elevator Jackscrew sheared off. Unless Ukraine had metal fatigue missiles that hit a 6 inch screw.

To anwer: no it doesn't even carry enough munitions to kill more than probably 10 planes, if that. His cannonsor machine guns probably have like a couple seconds worth of ammo, not very useful in this scenario

@ any GR, can you use a game controller on DCS to fly as I’d love to join in

would be interesting if the drone attack was performed at night. Outcome would be different ?

i honestly believe that modern COIN aircraft are an incredibly important asset for modern militaries, especially economically. I'm shocked that they arent being invested in as much as i believe they need to be. I understand that the proliferation of things such as iglas and stingers, as well as larger turret mounted guns (think .50s, 20s, 23s, etc in a truck bed, or even emplaced) is the major deterring factor as to why they havent been invested in, but if you think about it, they would be incredibly useful outside of front line use. Rapid border/coast line response in lieu of the much more expensive per hour patrol aircraft (just response, not standard patrol), drone swarm protection, faster strike potential in comparison with attack helos. If you went the bronco route as opposed to the super tucano you could also theoretically use them as light transport/resupply, think airdropped (wishful thinking i know). there is just so much capability overlap that these COIN aircraft can provide at a tiny fraction of the day to day and procurement costs level. While the super tucano can cost about the same as an A-10 per plane, the per hour cost of a super tucano is 1500 bucks, as opposed to 20k for the a-10, let alone the other aircraft america/allies use for seemingly menial tasks that a COIN aircraft would excel at. I guess at the end of the day its a cost vs safety consideration. If deployed intelligently, ie in non-frontline combat (such as ukraine) i genuinely the cost savings far exceed the risks. In a day and age where even a small conflict requiring dedicated forces can seriously damage a nations economy, i think its prudent to start considering these cheaper alternatives for non-front line combat duties.

Have you flown any F-4U's? Reenact a baa baa Black sheep squadron flight.

Interesting test and another great video. Thanks Reapers.

The mission designer is locked up in the basement. Working on your next mission....lol

Holy shit. I just this second realized that you guys did this concept months ago, and just yesterday it was done in real life, and now here we are recreating it.. you like... made the future...

I wanna see USA carrier group vs….. USA carrier group.

Cap., you should roll your camera during everything, even the practice. Then you can show us or just use that footage.

We got our first airplane in 1982. We stored our airplane at a farm and would talk off from the grass field. We've never had any issues.

Interesting! I have to say that-although I understand why you chose 'on fire' as the kill marker-I'm pretty sure the actual kill count was a lot higher for most of the aircraft. The pressure hull on a U-boat is about 18mm and it's not armor grade steel. The resistance to pressure comes from the shape of the hull more than the thickness of the steel. I suspect a lot of those rounds penetrated the upper hull which means the sub is incapable of diving and will probably sink-just not too fast. Incidentally, the gun on the P-39 was located under the pilot's seat. According to Edwards Park, former head of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum who flew them in WWII, firing the cannon gave the whole war 'a subtly sexual sense'. The 20mm that some were armed with fired faster, while the 37mm was slower. I think he said he was a 37mm man himself, but it's been years since I read his book "Nannette" about his P-39 who recognized in him a fellow coward and saved his life by acting up on dangerous missions. I highly recommend it.

Now do drones vs the Yamato or Imperial Japanese Navy strike group.

I would think that the Mosquito, P-38 and B-25 (unfortunately neither in game) and BF-109, with their nose guns would be best for this. [Thinking] On the other hand, the American fighters all use .50 BMG, and German fighters and Mossie use .20mm cannon, both of which are surely more effective against hard-to-kill targets than the British .303. Seems to me the Spits are especially ill-suited for this job.

My question is, what warbird type planes can be produced today that can do this job? We cant send in all the historical warbirds.

I was researching MEMS gyros to see which one I want in my IMU design, when I found out that the gyros used in quads and such, can drift up to 10º/S. That's per second! On the other hand a MEMS gyro for navigation, has a drift of 0.001º/Hr (that's per hour!), but costs minimum $3K. That explains why these drones drop out of the sky, or land a few seconds after losing GPS. These cheap gyros used in FPV and such, all suffer the same shortcoming. I thought anti-drone guns EMP'd the electronics to make them drop like that. They just block their communications.

Hey Cap, one extremely minor thing you could change-when you title a chapter something like “Take off”, UA-cam doesn’t show it as a point on the timeline but the entire section of the video from that point until either the next chapter or the end of the video shows up as “Take off” (so usually the majority of the video is a chapter called take off). I think it would be better to call the chapter where you do the mission something like “Battle” or “Mission”.

Hey, do you think a single 15 megaton nuclear bomb dropped on the Jap fleet could have stopped the attack on Pearl Harbor? How about six Harpoon missiles launched from one Ticonderoga class cruiser? Or how about a laser cannon fired from a single Ford class aircraft carrier? Or, hey, could a single asteroid as big as Pluto landing on the front lines of Europe in WWI have stopped Hitler from starting WWII? Can a half dozen eggs dropped from a highway overpass into heavy traffic on I-10 in Maricopa County at night stop a thousand illegal aliens from entering a sanctuary city? What other stupid hypothetical questions can we waste time exploring today boys and girls?

Suggestion for a scenario: a strike aircraft fight Pitting the A10 and Su25 and or the Mig27 and F111 against another in a Air to air engagement

I thought you had to fly too close and dump fuel on them like a certain bunch of war criminals from a country that shall remain nameless but which sits East of the Polish/Russian border. In the meantime the drones bend their props on your airframe

Only $50K for each UAV? That's a fantastic deal only available in DCS. Even the "shitty Shahed" is $20K