What a remarkably funny guy Starbaby is! Just a natural storyteller. Could listen all day.

Gotta love Oingo Boingo

That was fun! Starbaby knows how to tell a tale! Just subscribed. Can't wait for more. I was in the 401st TFW at Torrejon AB from 1982 to 1986. The deployments to Aviano, Incirlik, Sardinia, & RAF Waddington were highlights of that four year tour, capped by a Viper ride dropping concrete MK84s on the Bardenas range. Outbound, we tangled with some Vipers from Ramstein that were deployed to Zaragosa.

Loved the Italy stories. In the early 90s, for the first Balkins stuff, I (young enlisted guy) was lucky to go TDY to Vicenza and worked at the CAOC where myself and a British guy disseminated classified messages. Even the enlisted food was great. Most vivid memory was on night shift, a colonel comes in and askes me to wait in THE "room" so she could to run to the bathroom. She said if anyone radios in, push "that button" and tell them to stand by. For about 4 mins this 3 striper was in charge of the air mission! I also went to the same places in Verona, hung out on the Army post, etc.

This was a fantastic interview! I grabbed a beer, put this one up on the big tv screen and just enjoyed every chapter. Perfect host, awesome guest.

Such epic anecdotes. It’s wonderful to hear them firsthand rather than just reading about them.

Single Malt on the desk..... Glass loaded..... This will be good!

Catching up with all the Starbaby content. Awesome stuff. My most anticipated thing this year is the F15E. My second most anticipated thing is watching yourself and Starbaby multicrew it!

I love the cheems in starbay's background

Glad to see the number of subscribers going up. Terrific interviews!

@davidd708

Жыл бұрын

This is such a great channel/podcast... it has been so puzzling watching it stay undiscovered by the military aviation enthusiast community for so long. I hope it's about to reach critical mass and finally get the reach it deserves. Like a work-of-art TV show that doesn't get ratings until season 3, then becomes culturally central for a few years.

@gnudj2918

Жыл бұрын

Rooting. They're awesome.

Always a blast... wonderful, cheers Steve and Starbaby

Great videos for people who are interested in military aviation. Thank you. (Star Baby rules!)

Airport "Obrva" is actually the military airport Ladjevci, near city of Kraljevo, which today is also the civilian airport "Morava" (LYKV). That command bunker and the infrastructure that were hit were emptied a month before the attack. The runway was damaged. Certainly, immediately before the attack, only non-usable weapons and equipment were left at the Airport. Military planes were able to use the main road near the airport as secondary runway which was not damaged at all. The second target is the "Prijanovici" fuel depot near the small town of Pozega. The problem with fuel was because the Yugoslav Army had too much fuel that it had nowhere to transfer for later use. About 30% of the fuel remained in the storage tanks. Except for the aforementioned reason, the pilots and observation equipment cannot recognize whether 30% or 100% of the fuel exploded after the hit, because the explosion is huge anyway. So that target also cost NATO more than it caused damage to the Serbian Army. The ammunition factory is "Sloboda" in the town of Cacak. It was attacked several times and many rockets were shot down by the Air Defense, which were deployed on the surrounding hills. As I have already stated, all military equipment was removed from military locations to a safe location a month before the attack, so that only demolished buildings and an empty warehouse remained. Later, the repeater on Mount Ovcar, which was used to broadcast state and local television, was bombed. The antenna was destroyed, but as far as I remember, there was no major interruption of the TV broadcast. In essence, all military facilities were emptied on time, and only old, unusable equipment remained in them. Also, this same broken technique was deployed in the meadows and hills without any camouflage in order to be bait for NATO.

@milomilovic7703

9 ай бұрын

A ove koji ovo gledaju misliš mnogo interesuje aerodrom Lađevci? Boli ih bre kita, budale pojma nemaju ni gde je ni šta je, oni kao zombi samo slušaju priču

@ivicamilosavljevic4706

6 ай бұрын

I can confirm what was said before... ;) Regards from Serbia

@sluzbazaorganizacijucentra4050

2 ай бұрын

@@milomilovic7703 Ma koga zabole za jenkije, ovi naši smradovi što odaju poštu neprijatelju, e oni su gomna.

This guy is funny as hell

Cool and funny stories. this is what a great content should be like. thanks Steve , Starbaby and all of SMEs.

Thanks boys, I've watched this all the way through twice now. Loved it both times.

Can’t tell tell ya how much I look forward to these

Love the banter. Awesome podcast, glad you're growing.

Brilliant interview. Loved it and very informative.

Playing Fastpitch Softball for the USAF out of Lakenheath was the equivalent of his airshow experience 3 to 4 times a year.... best memories EVER.

Awesome video! Thank you.

Looking forward to this one! Thanks Steve and Starbaby!

I fear Starbaby is getting better at this the more you have him back on!

Congrats on 10K

Eagerly awaiting the next instalment like any good addict! 😂 brilliant as always.

@GoViking933

Жыл бұрын

Me too..

Absolutely fantastic as always. Thanks Steve and Starbaby!

Hell yeah!

wonderful!

TQM ! QAF ! Quality Air Force ! WOOOOOOO ! (OMG, what a horrible time).

another great show thanks

1:26:24 This is some stuff I would think only happens in DCS public lobby

Minute 20 unlassified footage compilation was great!

Great podcast.

Oh yeaht this is gonna be a good one

Awesome video oingo boingo

What's better than Starbaby stories? MORE Starbaby stories! ;) It's always a fascinating evening listening to you gentlemen.

Amazing story teller and memory. I can’t remember what I did last week :)

Well,i find it interesting listening partitionaly,i was trying to find a part where pilot Pietrucha maybe talk about some of his pilot colleges hit train on bridge in valley of Grdelicawhen 13 civil people died in that mission(atack).Still,its weird watching how pilot Pietrucha speaks about it in possitive manner,puting akcent on beef sandwiches and Italian food in 4 star hotel between missions…I was 9 years old and i remember fear and anxiety…and happines because we were not going in school in that period,we had more time to play foorball on street,offcourse only till siren for air danger alarms.Nothing personal for crew,no bad blood but we can not forget that.Greetings from Serbia.

14:55: “How resistant is the airplane I fly to nuclear shockwaves and EM pulse resulting from weapon deployment?” “You don’t need to know.”😂

I was an Avionics Test Engineer at Robins AFB starting back in the early 80's. I wrote the Automated Repair Software on the ALR-56A, C RWR High Band Tuner for the F15A, C, E. Like most engineers, we are just cogs in the wheel. I retired in 2019 and the Test Software Package had been rewritten since the 90's for newer test platforms... but was basically the same test strategy I designed in the early 80's and 90's. To you F15E drivers that flew in harm's way... Did the system 56C deliver better than the 56A that I cut my teeth on as a Test Engineer. I worked 36 years in EW on the F15 and the F16 mainly RWR systems. Like I said we never really were in contact with the drivers unless we were knee deep in QDR.

More please.

Star baby has got to be my favorite. As a scale modeler I appreciate getting close to a jet I’m building . Castle air museum is a wealth of opportunities for this purpose as I am building 3 RC-121 Warning stars

I couldn't fly a flag yet love these interviews.

Great music! Oingo Boingo?

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions

Жыл бұрын

Yes

I didn’t know Rich Evans was a WSO

I love the culinary diary.

Damn Starbaby, idk what the hell that music was, but some AC/DC or Mötley Crüe would have done that video way more justice.

Thank you, I really enjoyed this, great interview.

Combat Proud…that was a Doc Foglesong thing to make bases pretty. I was a crew chief in the 494th from 92-95 and again 98-2000, probably launched you out a few times. Mine was 91-0605.

I love the doge cheems in the hud in the eagle !😂🙂🙃

HUD Cheems in the background clued me in that this would be good.

Come on, Starbaby, let's do "Elusive Victory" over Vassal for either a milestone or for a charitable cause! (I'd also be willing to do "World at War", if there's a Vassal module for it!)

For own reference 01:19:30

Starbaby is such a legend

Great interview. Will we get to see those clips that Starbaby talks about towards the end ?

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@Kingjoffyjofa

Жыл бұрын

@@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Awesome. Thanks for taking the time to do these too. We all greatly appreciate it.

Was a crew chief in the 494th 97-99 great times

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions

Жыл бұрын

So the odds I broke your airplane are pretty good, then.

Starbaby Never Disappoints and if he ever has I don't remember it! Lol Should have been a General dammit 😁 When does pt 2/4 drop? 😉

@10percenttrue

Жыл бұрын

I trim out all the stuff where he disappoints and leave in all the stuff where my son interrupts the interview :). Part 2 (of three) will follow in around 10 days' time.

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions

Жыл бұрын

Don’t let him snow you. I never disappoint

There's one thing I won't ask Starbaby. And that's 'for his mixtape'.

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions

Жыл бұрын

After episode 4, it will go up on the Air Piracy Productions KZread channel. Van Halen, of course.

Bucket of raw fish, aka pickeld herring ? Yum.

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions

Ай бұрын

Without the pickling

@thomaslockard9686

Ай бұрын

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions worked F-4s at Hahn before transitioning to F-16s. Most of our '69 models went to Spang after conversion.

Love ❤️ it

Starbaby For President!!!!

Random fact: Ontario has 250,000 lakes. About 20% of the world's fresh water. Sorry Finland :) Yes, I am full of other useless facts if you need them! Great interview and amazing footage. Thanks!

What type of weapon are the ones where we see from the bombs perspective? Like at 21:24

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions

Жыл бұрын

Those are GBU-15s, which are AGM-130s before the rocket motor.

@audunskilbrei8279

Жыл бұрын

​@@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Hey. Thanks for the reply! Is the bomb at 22:22 also a GBU-15? And what are those things falling off the bomb a little while after it is dropped? Are they little booster rockets perhaps to give the bomb more range? Great job on the videos. I stumbled over them because I've been a little hooked on the Strike Eagle lately. Very entertaining to hear you speak. Are you interested in DCS? If so I expect you are looking forward to the Strike Eagle module.

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions

Жыл бұрын

@@audunskilbrei8279 With the rocket motor added (that's the thing that belches smoke and drops off) the EGBU-15 becomes an AGM-130. Same seeker (either TV or IR). It does extend the range. Come on over to the discord channel if you have more questions.

The US-only ATO! Rumour has it that one night Porsche flight tagged on to the US-only ATO in the north only to have the US-only ATO cancelled - the entire ATO was scrubbed. Porsche flight fell through the cracks because they were on the NATO ATO and didn't get the word. Porsche lead was a ground abort and through a series of judgement errors the wingman was cleared single-ship (!!!). In Vicenza the big board showed one solitary F-15E attacking from the north without another asset within hundreds of miles. Charge!! Rumour has it Gen Short lost his mind. All rumour of course, but WAY more than 10% true.

Starbaby is a national treasure.

We're having some technical difficulties with KZread, in that the system took a 17 second clip that was supposed to be deleted and made it the whole clip. Stand by...

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions

Жыл бұрын

We now return to our regularly scheduled broadcast

The “Q” word! I instinctively yelled out “that’s a $ buck!” and no one had any idea of what I was talking about.

I was munitions expediter, Zulu Loop supporting 555th, 494th and 492nd Fighter Squadrons during Allied Force. It was 12+ hour roller coaster ride from 2400 to 1200 humping AMMO for the Falcons and Eagles. Great time and the Strike Eagle is one bad ass weapons platform. Rudy AMMO 1981-2007

The NSI environment at the Heath SUCKED......... ADD to that the non-stop deployments......Northern and Southern Watch. 113 Combat sorties flown right out Lakenheath.

So far my favorite part has been "schwanze dance"

@LinuxLea

Жыл бұрын

It's even better in german: "Schwanz Tanz".

Audio is out of sync from 1:22:41 looks like more than a minute offset for the rest of the interview. Great interview though

@10percenttrue

Жыл бұрын

Looks OK to me. Might have been a YT gremlin?

@-theflea-4561

Жыл бұрын

Looks okay now, could be the YT gremlins..

Starscream transformers 1986

Missing the full video now?! 😢

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions

Жыл бұрын

It's back

@TheThorntube

Жыл бұрын

@@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Brilliant!

So that is why we couldn't shot down any of the Eagles in '99 - they were blessed.

HIgh speed cheerleader....xD

"Ive' never forgiven the stealth guys for BS'ing me before the war", this is what makes Starbaby such a grat guest, he'll call anyone out when he has to. My ancestry's Jugoslav too, all my father's side of the family had to leave Jugoslavija & became refugee's in Canada, Australia and one distant cousin in Illinois, USA. Mother's side's Serbian, they're all stil there. I live in Ukraine. The doom just follws my family line everywhere. heh :( You can't make this s**t up....