Stuart Galbraith Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Found this and thought it was entirely too good to not share. More as I find them. Try not to mind the 1980's Porn music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPirYXaMK0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stuart Galbraith Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Wzemzc4os Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 1, 2018 Author Share Posted November 1, 2018 Top Gun before 'Top Gun'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 2, 2018 Author Share Posted November 2, 2018 Mig29SMT, or so im told. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 I've been on a bit of a Harrier kick, and found this gem: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 3, 2018 Author Share Posted November 3, 2018 Good show, I remember the series when it was first on, I seem to recall another one was on the Huey. Sean Bean playing a part where he doesnt die. Im still amazed we pulled that off. Although reading a contemporary American paper, there was a description of a Sea Harrier in the US (it doesnt say where) out manoeuvring an F16 at low altitude. So maybe its not quite so surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 It would depend on the speed of the engagement. Obviously, the slower the fight, the greater the Harrier's advantage. My platoon commander in OCS was a Phantom pilot, and once described an engagement with a Harrier where the AV-8 literally turned on a dime in front of him.IIRC, the Sea Harriers in the Falklands didn't use any vectoring in their dogfights, though. As described, it was mainly tactics and probably good vectoring by controllers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 3, 2018 Author Share Posted November 3, 2018 No, they didnt viff once as best as I can recall. Areed on vectoring though. Ironically from Wards book, the RN had grave misgivings about the radar in the Sea Harrier, but Ward's squadron (I think on Hermes) persisted with it and got it tuned, and it provided good results.When you think that they didnt have a single airborne radar that wasnt mounted on a harrier, the results look even more remarkable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 (edited) They didnt have the Sea King AEW kluge at the Falklands? Edited November 3, 2018 by shep854 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 4, 2018 Author Share Posted November 4, 2018 I dont believe that entered service until afterwards If I remember rightly. That why they had so many picket ships (and losses thereof). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 I believe you're right. There was a clip in the video I posted with a Sea King AEW in the background. I assumed it was Falklands footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Ward was on invincible - his bio of the conflict is continually whining about how Hermes only had half the taskings with two-thirds of the squadrons, plus a claim that his lot tended to make it back on the fumes in the tanks, whereas Hermes' squadrons were far more "by the book". He makes it clear that the radar was a tricky beast, but insists that invincible had techs on board who seemed to be able to make it work, to the point where they ignored command who had told them not to use it because all it did was give your position away. He claims that the surface search mode worked fine when properly tuned, with significant range (might even have been 100+ miles). Quite why one set of techs could make it work and not the others is a mystery. His discovery of the internet hasn't exactly endeared him to a lot of people - I'm afraid he's been accused of blinkered service-related bias, but given that's how the respective Chiefs behave, it's not really a surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Thanks for that, its been a while since I read it. Speaking of Sea Harriers, I can remember this back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Somehow I dont see us doing this with F35's either.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRv2cVF0CdM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Equally goofy, but way better flying--at 2:50, the Tomcat stalls and nearly goes in: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 (edited) Ive seen this many times, but I never noticed that. The Tomcat was a bitch when you got it into a spin, standing orders were if sweeping forward the wing didnt do any good, you have to punch out. One of the more realistic bits of Top Gun. Well, other than the gay volleyball anyway. Maybe they should do a follow up where an F15J Squadron goes back in time to 1944 Japan. Edited November 5, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 This is quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 (edited) This is good, from 1981. Watch from 14 30 onwards where they practice an attack run. Edited November 5, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Maybe they should do a follow up where an F15J Squadron goes back in time to 1944 Japan. That has to be an anime already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Probably is. I saw one Japanese film where they were fighting off Flying Saucers with a Mixture of X15's and RATO TSR2's, so everything goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 There's Zipang with an aegis destroyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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