The Harrier formation was pure porn.... I still have problems with my Harrier but i looove it. The only fighter i would fly instead of the Harrier will be the Eurofighter once it is released.

I was a member of the 48th TFW/548th AGS/492nd AMU during the Libya raid. We covered the operation by having a local SALTY NATION exercise. They informed us of the operation by pulling the entire squadron to the middle of ramp and briefing us. We flew our normal exercise sorties minus the 24 aircraft (18 strikers, 6 air spares).

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome

1979th CS, '86 - '89. It's a shame that DCS does not have the F-111F in its inventory. They were magnificent aircraft.

@heikojakob6491

2 жыл бұрын

Would be cool to do the Aardvark zippo in DCS

@VET0264

2 жыл бұрын

i agree, crew chief f4e Ramstein AB 81-83

@UncleSpiceDaddy_01

Жыл бұрын

They were called Wonder-Lemons as I recall, per my mates at RAF Lakenheath.

@TheLesporter

Жыл бұрын

@@VET0264 Hey Chief thanks for your service. On the subject of aircraft, I worked at the end of the runway at Barksdale AFB in the late seventies and when the B-52's had a scramble, real mission or training you could not hear yourself think for a good 30 minuets. It was almost like placing your hand over your heart when we say the pledge of allegiance. What a great feeling. Thanks again, Les.

@VET0264

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLesporter ty

The Harrier is just one of the coolest things ever, not just cool amongst planes, but one of the coolest of all things. Makes you proud to be British; again. Great flying, great video; thanks.

Nicely done. These longer missions are always fun to watch :D

Great video, Cap. I have just been going thru the comments of this video and there are some USAF pilots actually watching this reenactment , which is incredible! Anyway, for anyone who doesnt know , I am the fella who requested the reenactment of the US airstrike against the Gaddafi regime aka this video

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

I remember you! Thanks Lion x

@mrgamerlion9591

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers Fun fact : The strike allegedly killed Gaddafi's very young daughter, Hana. However, this claim has been disputed over the years and some say that she didnt exist while others claim she wasnt killed in the strike

@cf453

3 жыл бұрын

@The Beast It was the Italian Prime Minister, actually.

I was there, in the Gulf of Sidra, Jan. and Mar. 86, USS Caron DD-970.

@cubethai

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too!

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Cool!

Some of the F1-11's also took off from Boscombe Down I lived there at the time and it was GREAT to hear them all take off.

Great video Cap, awesome flying! Anyone would think that you guys knew what you were doing!

I was stationed in Rota Spain supporting this mission in 1986. One of the F111's had a problem after the mission and landed at Rota. Was a crazy time!

@edwardaspinall9438

3 жыл бұрын

Bleed air malfunction is I remember

@edwardaspinall9438

3 жыл бұрын

I knew the aircrew. Worked them on a redball in Turkey

@hoghogwild

2 жыл бұрын

Rota was a Space Shuttle Abort Site as well.

Love your corrections on grammar. It’s a voice over in my head every time I read anything.

This is the best video I have watched all of this year! You are all awesome! Thank you.

Absolutely brilliant Harrier formation on the way to Incirlik

And that Syria map is gorgeous

It's a pleasure to watch you cooperate in such professional manner. I hope I can take off with you guys one day. ;)

Great video!! Love these longer mission videos

I absolutely love the cat grownling sound when the engines revving down a bit!

Whenever I hear/read "RAF Mildenhall" mentioned, I invariably think of the Pink Floyd song "Let There Be More Light" from Saucerful of Secrets....

I was stationed at NAS Rota Spain when that went down. One of the F111 was damaged and had to land in Rota. It had a big honking hole in it, probably from AAA.

@montys420-

3 жыл бұрын

F111 were dubbed" whispering death" by the Libyans during these strikes and the strikes were so effective that Gaddafi had to back down!

@cubethai

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

Great video with great ending!

Those would be F-111F:s. The B variant was the failed Navy variant

@48:12 Is that Mav's control surfaces moving - Wow !!! Great Video. :)

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

All missiles now do that :)

I enjoyed that :) Thanks GR!

amazing flying! and you guys are fun!

Those take off shots were beautiful.

Great vid cap! That harrier really sounds like you're torturing Mr Pickles though 😂

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@randlebrowne2048

3 жыл бұрын

I wandering if that sound was the cat crying or the actual sound of the jet!

I'm related to one of the two casualties, Fernando Luis, he was shot down over sidra.

52:50 "Cap Winchester, and feeling sexy" :-)

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Official RAF brevity...

The Harrier is slow and can’t really take a hit, but it really is a good bomb truck, great for A-G

@TEACypher

3 жыл бұрын

Its only slow if you are used to be super sonic (which you can almost do when clean), try the C-101 or A-10 now that's slow!

@lucaallemann5941

3 жыл бұрын

@@TEACypher yep right, harrier is pretty fast considering it hasnt an afterburner

@tomriley5790

3 жыл бұрын

Can only find two cases of harriers being hit by manpads - both quite close together...

I remember as an air Cadet having a Yank officer come in as a guest to do us a talk from Lakenheath. His opening line was "What does Libya stand for guys? Lakenheath Is Bombing Your Ass"

38:48 is that a cat? LOL

@cornbread5144

3 жыл бұрын

*** Audio turned up on the Super Secret TACAN . :)

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Mr Pickles make same noise as harrier.

Was a real fun mission, harrier is great when you get a bunch flying together.

f14 was known to have engine problems so relatively realistic!

Very nice Exfil Formation flying Harriers

very nice

Stunning weather.

@55:17 Only Cap would decide to do some sight-seeing during an op... Lol!! :)

was born in upper heyford, my dad flew f-111 but i think we had moved right before this.

@grimreapers

2 жыл бұрын

cool

Top notch flying is an understatement, and the mini airshow as the end was great. I do wish the correct aircraft where available for these missions, but we can't have everything. I would love to see more World War 2 naval assets like F-4F Wildcats, F-6F Hellcats, F7F Tigercat, F4U Corsairs, TBM/TBF Avengers, and SBD Dauntless'. (NOTE: I did not include the F-8f2 Bearcat as World War II was over before the aircraft saw combat service.)

You need to do one of the Shock and Awe missions in Iraq in 2003

"All we need is a Harrier Ta Ta Da Da DA..." LMAO!

At least we could hear the Harrier's engines for once

Is it just me or does the Harrier engines seem to meow alot.

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Pussy Cat engine

48:45 was a shocking bomb run needs to practice a bit more!

@One_Piloty_Boy

3 жыл бұрын

XD that was me. I crept up on an active SA-10 or 11 site (cant remember) and was on edge to stay as close to it as possible, thats why i stayed to do gun runs, i needed to make sure i made up for my horrid cluster bombing.

Watched yesterday on the big telly. Awesome bombing runs Cap. I’m a Harrier believer now!

We finally got mentioned in something

Brilliant I'm new to this I have so much to learn .I have photographed the Reapers and mad hatters through the Mach Loop many times. My Aim is to fly the loop when I can get my F15 off the ground 🥴😊👍.really good vid love it

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome Steve!

Grim Reapers seems to be the only one who knows how to flight. The other ones drop their first bombs ever in these missions. F14 trys to drop bombs on

Cap can we have your wallpaper or is it already somewhere?

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry I don't even know where it is on my PC. Will look.

outstanding base recovery!!!!

The guys flying the F111s had a hell of a time during the real thing. The auto pilot didn't auto level so refueling was done with the pilot holding altitude manually and in radio silence. It was many of their first combat missions. Too bad the Ardvaark isn't in DCS.

Fun fact: Libya didn't claim responsibility for the attack until 2003 when they agreed to pay Germany compensation for the attack and also to the families of the non-American victims. The Libyan government refused to pay compensation for any Americans killed in the discotheque bombing.

LOLs - I keep hearing the oddest mechanical device constantly spooling down - then I realized it was Pickles the Cat. I just realize she meows in a HARMONIC of the Harrier's engine.

Harrier= short take off / vertical landing, use your vectoring on take-off so your up in the air very quickly. Is there a video of anyone actualy doing this the way your supposed too?

RAF Lakenheath produced stickers Cap for the Op which said "Lakenheath Is Bombing Your Ass" (LIBYA) I had one on my little spotters notebook. lol Those were the days.

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Wicked

I was trying to recreate the same exact mission before I saw this video, but I suck at making them.

1:25:30 - Flawless landing-sequence, Cap. If that's not how it's written the RAF handbook, it can only be due to health & safety gone mad.

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more. Back in my day all landings were like that...

1:28:00 that F14 won the game of chicken.

1:04:45 I can watch that all day

It’s the dapper capper! Sup cap!

For your new computer you need to get a CPU with the highest possible clock speed. 4ghz+. Dcs doesnt use multiple cores, so the clock speed is what is limiting performance.

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

It's like no one paid attention to the SAM threat though lol.

The commander of the mission: www.aviationheritagepark.com/aviators/arnie-franklin/

Video Valued by Valued Viewer!

Hey Cap can you guys do the US invasion of Grenada in 1983? Thx

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

thxx Lenn

Funny thing is that the F-14 really was is the closest thing to the F-111's, the A actually had the same engine as the F-111.

@hoghogwild

2 жыл бұрын

Both TH30 engine family, just different variants. the F-111Fs that flew the raid used the TF30-P-100 engine that at max thrust. 25,100 for the while the F-14A used the TF30-P-414A engine making 20,900 lbs thrust. Both TF30 engines use a afterburner design with 5 zones of augmentation.

hi cap

Apparently, this was the first time the F/A-18 saw combat. I thought that was interesting - just read that.

Cap, the border fence says hi.

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Why put a fence there!!??!?

@randlebrowne2048

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers Consider it a surprise final exam for new pilots.

25:07 Nice hookup!

I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall when this Op was staged. We were on 12 hour shifts for 30 days+ straight. Hundreds of KC-135 Stratobowsers and KC-10 Extenders came into Mildenhall to support the aircraft that Spain and France refused to let fly over their countries. We bombed the what-ist out of Libya, as we should have... FYI, it was this in retaliation of the bombing of a German Dicso but the Lockerby Scotland flight of a TWA flight

@UncleSpiceDaddy_01

Жыл бұрын

FYI The Spanish and French Gub'ments would not let us fly over their countries due to retaliation concerns,

@UncleSpiceDaddy_01

Жыл бұрын

Of course the SR-71s were beautiful taking off before sunrise the morning of from Mildenhall...

*** GR/CAP , How about an Airplane Taxi Race. Whoever is the fastest without leaving the ground. :) .... I may have requested this before.

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Yeh it's sitting in the idea hopper Corn, jst can't seem to find time...

Cap, if you live near Mendenhall, that means you live on the coast!!!!.... I'm very jealous!!! The southeast English coast is one of my favorite places!!!!!!!!

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Yeh about 80min drive from coast.

@razor75250

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers fens????

Very nice! That was some sexy Harrier action there...well done to all. After all, only real pilots fly the Harrier ;)

59:22 best bomb run ever

@flighttherapybullisticfpv133

3 жыл бұрын

Im new to DCS, do you know what actually caused that to happen?

@Ventura60kts

3 жыл бұрын

@@flighttherapybullisticfpv133 My guess would be diving to target and releasing bombs then hitting their own bombs mid air.

@flighttherapybullisticfpv133

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ventura60kts ya i thought that might be it.. dropping bombs below their arming height will do that i guess lol

Can you guys work on not hitting the same target over and over again and wasting weapons? I'm not taking the piss ,just an observation.

Was this the attack for which France would not grant over flight rights, so they had to fly an extra thousand miles or so? Oh, and the French embassy wound up getting damaged? Le oops....😅

@bearsmith3655

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was. My dad was a USAF intel officer involved in the planning at the time. I remember how much it pissed him off that the French did that.

No way I’m from Newfoundland

59:24 lol

Ok the jets sounding like caged. Kittens would absolutely kill ke

Are they ever going to let us have the intruder in DCS????......grrrrrrr!!!!!!!!

@One_Piloty_Boy

3 жыл бұрын

I think its in development by a third party.

Herr Cap should have landed und done little shopping.... boy shopping because that is vat Limeys do, ja?

i love your vids but im sad that the discord server is 16+

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

I have no choice :(

Common cap stop hating on the green button hornet!

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

I'm just pulling your leg x

@randlebrowne2048

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers I must have missed the origin of that joke. What green button are you referring to?

Meeeeoow 🐅

look at all that tax money go up in flames

listen to the cat

Jave your fun..... Some day you will pay.

Me.

shoot the harrier next time

Who keeps meowing like a cat?

It's computer sh**t not something real

Did we loose anybody. hahahhahahhahahahah maybe one or two. hahahhahaha the real mission only lost 1. You guys lost practically a whole squadron. Many bombs hit open dirt. Can't say when was the last time you guys bombing was so bad. There was one hornet who kept hitting a radar over and over again with 20mm and that damn thing wouldn't blow up and kept spinning. Super Radar this one was.

amazing flying! and you guys are fun!