I really enjoyed this video. I was a crew chief on Jolly Greens during my participation in the Viet Nam war. While I don't believe Jolly Greens took part in this battle, seeing them included brought a smile to my heart. While I could nit-pick, for example radio calls for the A-1s were Sandy only on SAR missions. For attack missions such as this a different call would have been used. But it was very well planned and carried out. A salute to the Grim Reapers!

@c.g.262

3 жыл бұрын

That’s interesting, I just gave them the Sandy call sign so it would easy for the FAC to know what type of aircraft they were when they made initial contact.

@nbadhorse

3 жыл бұрын

@@c.g.262 You did a great job. I appreciate the work that went into it.

@Senorgusanos

Жыл бұрын

My grandfather Joe Green flew a Jolly Green in the war. Wonder if you two may have crossed paths.

Our Hueys just did what they do, make every mission look better!!😎 It was a great, fun mission, cheers Starscream! 👍

@c.g.262

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Skil!

I enjoy some of the older aircraft videos.

Wow! Great mission, this one was exciting. Would love to see a proper Vietnam war plane set.

@RossOneEyed

2 жыл бұрын

It so much needs this. A real set of appropriate planes would be a great addition to DCS. The whole Viet Nam era through 1980 needs a good set of planes to work with.

ok, ok, I'll play Fortunate son in a separate tab myself

Glad its a video game and Cap isn't busy filming rather than fighting.

it always seems to be miracle that grim reapers started without crashing. Aces.

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

agree

1:05:53 That was a close call for Transport 1 flight I had no idea we were just about to be taken out by Ello

Well you know that with the F-105 Thud mod being released, it is time to try the Bombing of Hanoi prior to Wild Weasel missions. Get some!

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

cool

@bhenders52

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers A video of an interview with Col. Vic Viccarra with very detailed mission of the first strike on a Sam2 site in North Vietnam conducted with F-105's. Mission details begin at the 50 minute mark. kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6yI2NKiXbOopLQ.html I think this is one for a Grim Reapers Reenactment. Otherwise, I think you will enjoy this interview if you haven't seen it already.

My immersion is ruined until I see infantry move and/or shoot back. My immersion!

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

They were VERY well disciplined VC.

@AndrewMurrell

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers lol

Myself and Arty in the Dragonflies did pretty good overall was a really fun mission

@andreartymiuk

3 жыл бұрын

I sound like a drunken Dalek.. That is because SRS was echoing everything I said 1 second later... made it incredibly difficult to talk

The A-1 played the P-47 in the longest day

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

cool

Uh, them infantree standing tall. Great targets. I had to do only one LZ, believe me: not standing so tall.

@ZacLowing

2 жыл бұрын

Heh, it's like they knew they wouldn't get hit. 6000 rounds, three hits lol

My grandfather flew the great a1 during vietnam

@nbadhorse

3 жыл бұрын

If your grandfather is still alive tell him an ex-Jolly Green says Welcome Home!

@TimberDCS

3 жыл бұрын

@@nbadhorse he is indeed still alive

I always come to watch a few minutes of these.... 2 hrs later....

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

I can only apologise.

beginning of the mission Cap "How do you fly this thing" End of mission also Cap *lands like he has been flying it since birth

@grimreapers

2 жыл бұрын

lols lovely plane

Wonderfull F86 f's spent a lot of my youth from 6years old with my school buddy sneaking away on free days and hung about Manston Air Base with many F86'6 ! 1949/54 period and more.

Long and riveting :) Thanks GR, well done all!

RC trying to take off in a jug is internet gold

14:14 paused to go get popcorn. Carry on!

I LOVED this one! Please do more like it.

Saw nightmare last night on GS. Still representing GR.

Hi Cap, did you see the A-29B Super Tucano mod? Its really well modeled for a mod, a LOT of clickable button's, working MFD's, custom HUD, A/A and A/G weapons and Navigation systems which are all working!

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Looking at it today.

very good battle. I really enjoyed it it felt very cinematic

Great collaboration there guys! Really great use of the FAC, clearly some talent in the team and having been a grunt on the ground with CAS supporting us in Afghanistan this is a real pleasure to watch how everyone works together. Wish I had the set up to be able to join in.

The planes with the yellow and black diamonds are basically yelling “Shoot me here” 😝

Not bad guys. More realistic than you know lol. Later on Loaches and O-2s were used to mark the areas that needed obliterating. As in DCS, it's nearly impossible to see Friendly's from 2,000 feet at 400 plus knots. Looking forward to your next adventure 😀.

Camp Radcliff, also known as 'The Golf Course' by the 1st Cav. Read Chickenhawk by Robert Mason, fantastic book.

such a ferocious enemy. They have no fear of your weapons. Look at how they just stand still out in the open while being lit up.

Great reenactment! Thanks for sharing!! Beyond the fact that Sandy Flight call signs were always reserved for SAR missions, the Sandy flight lists the aircraft as A-1 Skyraiders in the header, but shows them as P-47Ds for each aircrew. The thumbnail you chose shows a P-47 at the forefront, not an A-1 Skyraider.

@Gibsland

3 жыл бұрын

GR does this as simulation referencing what the airframes actually were in whatever incident they are flying. However DCS doesn't have those aircraft so they sub with as close a representation as they can get.

Spad's seized up all the time IRL. I thought that was very authentic. Curious about Cap's emergency landing technique; is it better to belly in or use gear? I would have tried for a landing. Anyway, loved it! Outstanding!

Call in the A1s!!! P47 intensifies

I think Vietnam War Era music would had been cool as Hueys were approaching LZ

Fortunate Son sounds intensify...

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

yes it does

@richardhockey8442

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/a2yflKalgZy2fbw.html

I watched this last night and have been thinking about this all day. Great job GR!!!

Thus illustrates my second biggest conflict with DCS that drove me to shelve it for the time being. (first being the CONSTANT futzing to keep running with every update)! Perfectly chosen, familiar scenario. Excellent research to find key details and a similar geographical Area. Thorough mission design to work around deficiency's in available assets. Excellent staffing, briefing participation, everyone behaving and going with the plan. Wind em up, Cockpit checks, last min details, excitement builds then..... Meh... Up we go, alone in a highly detailed clickable cockpit. You, your radios, your wingman and an abyss of nothingness outside! Follow routs as best you can. Inability to recognize each other, geographical landmarks, enemy, friendly, fire? smoke???? Thousands of pounds of ordinance, rockets, bombs dropped. Impact and then meh..... No explosions, no fire, no residual smoke but a puff? Colored smoke invisible until your too close to maneuver. Flat world with no ability to get a feel for direction. Where did my wingman go? He was just off my port side! Oh wait, this frame he's back. Ground target spotted by me, wingman can't see a thing and he's at my tip. Roll in, wait, their gone, nope there they are, wait, gone again??? DIGITAL COMBAT SIMULATORY is an AWSOME flight sim, probably the best! You guys do a fantastic job!! but DCS WORLD sucks. Even with Caps' outstanding cinematics even you guys seemed disappointed in the actual execution phase . Not sure if its a limitation of all sims, how it was for pilots in real war or a major miss for DCS, but all the excitement of the build up of planning, starting and flying aircraft quickly disappeared for me, when I lift off into the emptiness, even on an active server. Back to lurking, maybe v2.8?

@SelectedPeppa

3 жыл бұрын

That's true unfortunately. Dcs has a bland and lifeless world. Everything looks the same and everything feels sterile and lifeless.

Those P47s looked and sounded awesome

@dabneyoffermein595

3 жыл бұрын

they are very hard to taxi and takeoff as the toe-brakes are flakey and hard to bind and the tail-wheel spins and goes sideways when unlocked. It's a handful

@SuckItYouTube19

2 жыл бұрын

But they aren't A-1 Sky Raiders.🤣🤣🧐🧐🤔🤔😂😂

LMAO when cap closes his canopy!

Hi. Watched again and Caps flight hitting the target looked like a ArcLight mission from afar 😂

The editing on this is tits. Every time it cuts into the helicopter, the tension just amps up.

Great mission!!

The RC cam had me laughing, atta boy!

This was REALLY well done and a ton of fun to watch. But just imagine how suicidal this would have been if the redfor had even a few manpads.....

Great Video...! Nice!

I believe that the damage effects from rockets need adjustment as they're area effect weapons in reality

@dabneyoffermein595

3 жыл бұрын

agree. needs some work fairly soon we would hope.

Great vid and fun but those dumb AI enemy troops! My old Dad was a WW2 veteran and I always remember him snorting at war films where troops were wandering through enemy open ground without a care in the world even though perfect cover was available. Before he was a tank driver he spent most of his training crawling through hedgerows and ditches-skills he had to employ on the battlefield when his tank was knocked out in Burma.

nice landing!

Fun fact/Never been this early/Algorithm comment...

@ 20:17 my favorite line 🤣😂

I'm trying to put tiger balm on this jungles nuts

Hi Just curious as to why the Skyhawk and Thud wasn't used?

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Too hard to get free mods into mass multiplayer games, almost impossible.

@craigmacintosh6230

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers Cool. Thank you and keep up the great vids ☺

Just watch Flight of the Intruder and get yourself a hell of a good scenes of A1 Skyraiders aka Sandy.

DCS need a F100 Super Sabre

Rotor to the face! 😆 25:34

Question, SuperCap. When you and RC were RTB after your first run-in, you started dumping cannon rounds and it got me wondering: Is barrel overheat and gun jamming modeled in DCS? Thanks for your time ✌🏼

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Havn't seen anything but will have a look. Is modelled in Arma 3 I know.

You forgot about the A-4. correct period aircraft

@trolleriffic

3 жыл бұрын

It's a mod and I don't think GR ever use anything but official aircraft in these kind of missions.

@WildWestRaider

3 жыл бұрын

@@trolleriffic As far as mods go, it's probably the best. I wish RC and co. would embrace it instead of trying to be purists about it lol

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly it's too hard to get the other GR guys to install it :(

Cap, did you English-ify your Skyraider engine and install Lucas electrics into it?

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

lols

As to the model of lroquois "Huey" , given the date of the battle,of La Drang 14-19 Nov. 1965, I would guess that most were either UHIA's or most likely the UH1B ( as I believe by this time, the UH1A's were mostly designated as Medivac birds ) because the UH1B was equipped with the 960 H.P. Lycoming T53-L-5 and thus was better suited to carrying troops and supplies as well as preforming gunship duties when equipped as such.

Nice shooting of dirt!

Awesome choice of aircraft, the jug is so beautiful in the ugliest of ways lol The Douglas A-1 Skyraider is another beautiful ugly duckling from the Vietnam war Any chance of seeing the skyraider doing a run in?

and the 7th Cavalry was regiment (1000 - 2000) soldiers

@c.g.262

3 жыл бұрын

There were two engagements. This mission only focused on only one, the 1/7 Inf BN, Hal Moore's unit. An US Inf BN is approximately 600 soldiers, including organic Service and Support elements which would not take into battle. If memory serves LTC Moore never had more than 400+ soldiers on the ground at any one time. It's okay because 400 infantry on the ground vs. an equal number of enemy infantry at one time will crash DCS anyways. We make the stuff work in game as best we can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ia_Drang

I thought Vietnam had more trees n stuff. Like a thick jungle

@paddyret7968

11 күн бұрын

I know this is 2 years old but Vietnam has a lot of Savannah like terrain in the western parts of the country which is what most of Cambodia and Laos looks like.

Sweet!

Engine cowling should be close in flight and open on the ground

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

We tried, engines just exploded in the air within minutes, had to do a 2nd try with cowls open.Made it further but still melted. Something wrong ATM.

@alangaudry724

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you need to richen the mixture

where can i get a a-1 SPAD skin ? i saw a link you had in video..BUT guess it is private a it does not work :(

55:00 what were they all shooting at? I didn’t see any targets. 🤷‍♂️

You forget the call sign broken arrow meaning need all air support cause about to be over ran and the spot helicopter was nickname the egg

I really would've liked to join in on this one but how do I do it?

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

This weekly schedule is open to all: - Tues 1900GMT Arma 3 (need to be a member of TFA discordapp.com/invite/MSYJxbM) - Thurs 1900GMT IL-2 - Fri 1900GMT Random Game (Friday Fun Night) - Sat 1900GMT DCS Training, Lead By Apollonaut - Sun 1900GMT DCS (Sunday Funday) Full Timer Members only: - Mon 1900GMT DCS - Wed 1900GMT DCS All accessable through our Discord channel: discord.gg/cATmE3d (16+ age limit)

i Drang.

As much as you guys fly and with how good you all are, none of you can take off decently with nearly any plane. Especially the prop planes. WTF is that about?

@veespike

3 жыл бұрын

Tail draggers are a pain in the ass when they are on the ground. Especially if you don't fly them every day.

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree. When u fly all of the planes, becomes impossible to remember how to operate all of them I find.

@potatopower707

3 жыл бұрын

It’s hard to land! It really models the fact you have almost no control when going 60kt down the way.

@zumbinis

2 жыл бұрын

I'm just a lurker, but I wondered while watching if DCS view can be raised when in cockpit view for pilot to see over the nose better. Microsoft Flight Simulator allows that.

I thought i saw an f18

Strange that you posted this video. I re-watched "We Were Soldiers" two weeks ago. The Director's Cut was better if only for the scene were Hal Moore meets with General Westmorland and the Secretary of Defence (McNamara). I don't know why they deleted the scene because it was a pivotal moment in the movie. Watch it and it will leave you gobsmacked. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qqCKxcaufMuclcY.html

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Great scene!

hi cap could you please do a vid on an a6 intruder mod. It is a mod with a efm and doesn't require fc3 . I will give you the link if you respond.Thanks

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Send link please.

Can you please do the battle of Longtan. Thanks Cap.

Your analogy was incorrect. A battalion is about 400 a brigade is about 3000. They were up against a division, about 10,000 enemy soldiers.

RC..?? I thought you were lead??

Can we get an A-29B super tucano review?

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Looking at it tomorrow.

Bit confused. I get that the P-47 stand in for the Skyraiders but whats with the Sabre's and the F/A-18's? Also does this game not allow the use of Napalm? I no it was a very controversial weapon but they dont have to show the men burning.

Mel Gibson?... fuckn based!

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

lol

Getting a job?... ppfffff!

Broken arrow

LOACH recc copter

Where is hot sounding chick? :(

@mattfairfield9103

3 жыл бұрын

Quit being a sweaty creep “Tad”. Have some dignity and respect

@potatopower707

3 жыл бұрын

Now just stop, man.

wow these are uneducated. it's pronounced "yah drang". not "i ay" and it was a Division (10,000) not a brigade

@potatopower707

3 жыл бұрын

It’s just a game, just dudes having fun.

Should have went F-100