1989 Air Battle near Tobruk U.S. F-14 vs Libyan MiG-23 | DCS World Reenactment
Vložit
- čas přidán 6. 07. 2019
- Inspired by Allec Joshua Ibay: / @allecjoshuaibay
And MaineLander: / @mainelander
Music: Pacific Storm - Meteor: • Pacific Storm
This was quite the project, quite big to me but small in other people's eye. As I was editing this, the audio managed to get offsync with the texts. something I cant fix.
This video was made using a flight simulator called Digital Combat Simulator World or DCS World.
www.digitalcombatsimulator.co...
System Model: Alienware 15 R4
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz, 2208 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
RAM: 16 Gigabytes
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060
Thank you The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind for letting me know I mixed up Enwright and Collins.
@Angry Shamrock Qaddafi claimed the Gulf of Sidra as part of Libyan territorial waters - a claim not recognized by any other nation. The US navy basically acts to guarantee freedom of the seas that facilitates world commerce. Your welcome world. The US did not sell weapons to Qaddafi.
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind pou eisai re malaka!
he just gave another order ..to SHOOT down the boats...lool
fn idiots.
@@Barkhorn11 Meh... Just like ancient Rome back in the day... we just need an excuse to go fight someone somewhere...
@@biggee316 Agreed. And shit stain countries like Libya have no business picking fights with Rome.
Do you have real footage from the event?
After all these years, the F14 is still one of the best looking birds out there.
Thanks for this video . I “ listened” to static video of the encounter a few years back and this , although less intense than audio only, was a nice representation .
I happened to be airborne not too far when this occurred doing communication relays between the carrier and aircraft near Libya. As a few hundred other sailors also have I have a copy of the gun camera view from both aircraft as well as the entire soundtrack. During a briefing with the four aviators in my flight briefing room we found out one interesting tidbit. When the second F-14 was trying to take a shot and there was a comment about taking the shot the pilot responded that he did not have a tone. Turns out he did not have a tone because the volume was too low. Right after you hear that comment there was a tone. This was when the volume turned up.
While flying our mission my crew did not know what was happening rather close to us. When we returned to the carrier to land (take a trap), we heard on the radio where the F-14's asked for a flyby. Then they commented they wanted the flight deck to see the two aircraft that shot down the MiGs. That's when we knew something was up.
The gun camera views were sent to Washington DC in the clear and were intercepted by CNN. This is how the world knew what happened well before it was officially announced. This is also why the audio/video became immediately unclassified and a lot of VCRs were capturing the audio/video from the CCTV.
Did the 14's have authorization to fire? Seems the audio had them in a "yellow-hold" from Alpha Bravo.
@@tsparks4133 A key component in any battle or engagement are 'Rules of Engagement'. This is true for any military branch. In this case the ROE stated the F-14s were supposed to try to disengage with the MiGs. This occurs when you hear the pilot state they were turning 30 degrees one way then another. Right after they disengage you hear the pilot state that the MiGs had re-engaged them. There is a distance between the F-14s and aircraft carrier that also prompts the F-14s to engage. So we hear them talking about the disengagement and reengagement as well as the distance between F-14s and MiGs.
To confuse the situation we hear Alpha Bravo, who is the Admiral commanding the battlegroup, state weapon status is 'yellow-hold'. Note that AB is an officer speaking whatever the Admiral says to say. The Admiral was not really on the radio. Timing of the weapon status was bad. We call that as throwing a hand-grenade into the cockpit. It causes a lot of unnecessary confusion. The ROE tells the pilots what to do without someone miles away not fully aware of the tactics and situation adding confusion to the situation. The engagement is a matter of minutes with lots of maneuvering and working up tactics to defend the battlegroup.
The humous side of this part of the audio is that within seconds of AB saying 'yellow-hold' you hear Fox Two. This indicates a sparrow missile was just fired. It also tells you that the F-14s aircrew were following ROE and ignored the 'yellow-hold' radio message.
@@jamesjohnsen2021 That sounds plausible, thanks for the reply. You're likely aware ROE in later engagements were/are heavily controlled/dictated by E2 and AWACS. Of course, if someone fires, you're cleared hot in most cases.
I remember the air incident on TV must confess did wonder why this information was release to public. can I say sad that the F-14 remain in service only 7 years later. saw F-14s last airshow and departure from Cleveland Ohio Burke lakefront airport.
Not sure what kind of pilot you are/were James, but Salute! Retired US Army Infantry. You guys save a lot of lives and have brought hope in some pretty desparate moments.
This engagement was one of the first news stories I remember from being a kid in the 80s. Nice work!
@Angry Shamrock I meant the animation.
Ditto. I was 12 and this was definitely a big story that I remember from the time.
Damn dude, that was sick. Actually got my blood pumping there for a bit! Killer recreation. Honestly felt like you were along for the ride. Awesome job.
I jutst wanted to PULL something .. like a break..
So much like a video game.... well except for the GeForce and the realism of getting shot down or killed. Oh ya and you get a pay check.
USA, people can run there mouths all over the world, and I understand patriotism for one's own country, but please, don't start something with the USA that you can't finish. Because the USA will definitely do so.
@@w.allencaddell6421 f14 they never operated in Libya.
except that the karba was well equipped awacs + f14 ... bicycle vs motorcycle
Hey this was very well done. Thank you
"This is Eagle 1 Splash the Zeros, I repeat Splash the Zeros"
Great movie!
Super vid, very well done! The only note of critique I would add, is that the radome on the E2-C turns about half the speed depicted here. Great job!
Wow, the audio makes so much more sense with this, thank you for doing this! This is awesome!
This is the BEST video on this encounter between the F-14As and the two Lybian MiG-23MFs that I have seen!
Yeah, today's animations are way better than they've ever been. This video had me fooled at the very beginning.
I thought it was real video footage until I saw the hit. Excellent job! 👌🏻
This is the best audio and visuals I've seen of this engagement. Thank You
its a game
How have i only just found your channel? Epic mate.....just epic, carry on....
I'm an old guy and have never seen anything like this. Held my breath and thought; "Damn... this is the real deal." Then when the missiles were launched I was so scared thinking that someone was about to die.
Everything happens so darned fast and I couldn't believe that I was watching it.
Terrific! Thanks for posting this.
Man, I'm so proud of our pilots and all the crews that combine to make this possible.
God Bless America.
I was Harpoon Online world Champion in the final Tournament. The Mig-23 is a joke lol. We could have smoked them 100, 40, and 10 miles out. Totally playing with them.
I don't know how old you are Chuck, but sometimes I wonder what kind of shit we will have when I am in my 60's or 70's.
@judas crim Learn to spell Judas, and God bless.
DCS is a jet aircraft combat computer simulation (game) You're doing almost as much at the joystick and keyboard as a real pilot in the cockpit.
@@hortons1967 I did the original artwork for the first paper and dice version of that game. You'll see they misspelled my name.
Great job guys!!! Thank you so much for your bravery, expertise and dam good shooting!!
Awesome recreation. Well DONE sir!
respect for the editing and recreation, this was good to watch
I was aboard the USS John F. Kennedy CV-67 that day. Got a Meritorious Unit Commendation for this battle.
what unit?
Obadiah Kilgore I was in the Admin Dept, X-3, working for the CMC. And my repair locker was 7Bravo and I was the lead medical stretcher bearer.
Good job. Go U.SA.!
@Bob Smithereens really? Grow up.
nfair.
That was so heart pumping, then you hear fox 1, surreal, good kill, finally exhale... Damn. Nerves of diamond those guys
I worked on Tomcats when I was in the Navy. I think it was the baddest ass fighter ever designed. They ozzed bad ass. I loved the way they “hunched” when they shot off the cat. When they were operating they gave the appearance of authority. Very intimidating to an adversary. And the jocks flew them as if they were an extension of their being. Add the Phoenix Missile and you’ve got pure heat! Great video! The F-14 Tomcat patch was a tomcat feline with two tails standing in a boxing ring leaning with one arm on the ropes. The motto underneath said, “Anytime Baby!”
SO BADASS! SUPER PROFESSIONAL! USA!
Is the Tomcat still in service?
@@GlennLC Last non-Iranian F14s were scrapped a few years ago. Probably so they couldn't be used as a bargaining chip. Sad fate for a piece of history. Hopefully Iran does the right think and gives theirs to museums if they survive to see the end of their service.
special thanks 4 showing .hearing and seeing is so so pleasure 4 me
epic, knew someone would make a DCS recreation of this famous incident, I mean hell, the audio is sampled in falcon 4.
I knew this would look much nicer in DCS. Nice job with the upload!
Man, your work on this was first rate! I remember when this happened, I was about 13. I also remember the bombing of Libya back in 1986 under Reagan. Nice job with this, I subscribed to watch more of your vids.
The Libya bombing resulted in a Pan Am747 full of civilians getting bombed in retaliation.
@@johnanderson9494 yes I agree , but it was never intended to kill people in Britain . The bomb was timed to go off over the sea , but the plane was running 30 minutes late . Thatcher made bad karma by allowing the jets that bombed Gaddafis baby to take off from Britain and children got killed in Lockerbie . It disgusts me how children die because of Tory big-wig decisions .
Nice job on this. Had me on the edge of my seat.
That was super intense, I've never heard actual combat chatter, simply amazing!
youtube B-52 strike Viet Nam Radio chatter
Sitting on the edge on my bed and damn near fell off! The Big Dawgs taking care of business 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
I listened to a recording from inside the CSC of an attack on Tan Son Nhut air base in Nam, with my sgt who was there. Being as I was K9, CSC heard from Kilo18 once at the beginning calling in attack, then he was gone. They even had to bomb the end of our own runway.
It's nice that they are happy to see parachutes from the enemy pilots
I think that fighter pilots just want to see which one of them is best, they don't want to kill eachother
@@pietroferrari4279 More likely, killing a serviceman from another nation is a much bigger international incident than simply destroying their fighters.
This is the first video of the action where I can follow the dialog due to the graphics. Thank you for that.
SPLASH TWO! Nice job gentlemen! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!
This was crazy intense. There's something about a real event with real footage(audio) that totally trumps movie dramatizations.
really?
Libya is Dry Desert Wasteland. Muammar Gaddafi was Good to his Countrymen! Get Thee Hence Synagogue of Satan. Thou Shalt Not Kill!
You can here the genuine excitement in the pilots voice. The graphic imagery really helps. Bravo to the author of this vid for a well choreographed documentary. Good Job :-)
@@barrywhite9114 Gaddafi was a bloodthursty murderer. He died like a dog, like he deserved.
Breathing becomes audible.
"Shoot him", "I can't, I don't have a fucking tone!". Epic comment.
hell yeah
And it was due to an error in the cockpit. They'd forgotten to turn up the volume, IIRC
"fucking tone" - what is it?
@@grifon5551 Aquisition-tone from AIM9 Sidewinder
@Adrian Simmlekark my bad!
I could imagine that the Libyan Air Force saw the two F-14’s and said “remember the 1981 shoot down that we lost to, well it looks like it’s time for a rematch”
Great post, thanks for sharing this.
"What's my vector, Victor?"
"Got clearance, Clarence."
"Roger, Roger."
I'm going to have to use that. Lol
Airplane reference??🧐
Yes!
"Surely you can't be serious!"
"I *am* serious - and don't call me Shirley!"
@@michaelarnold417 such a classic
Roger Over
Over Done
My good friend was in a U.S. navy ship near Libya( in a radar room) during this event.
so?
one of our friends and fellow pilots died in the US Embassy in Lybia thanks to USAmerican politics
Mos Kito k
@@moskito5864 Isn't politics why any member of the military dies?
@@moskito5864 so?
Liked and subbed 👍🏻 great stuff 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nice reenactment! Thanks for making this...
I'm not pilot, but it certainly sounds like the awacs/radar plane was very useful for the pilots, kind of like and artillery spotter on a hill with binoculars.
Yes, the E-2C could see the entire gulf area north to Italy, the entire Libyan coast and, all the airborne aircraft. The F-14s at Gypsy station, and the other two F-14s at camelot patrol station about 75 miles (plus) west at the Camelot patrol station!
yep...that's what they do. outstanding coordination
These guys are SUPER AWESOME
Very nice recreation! Chilling, even. Thanks!
This was crazy. I remember when it happened! Go Navy!!!
The Tomcat is the coolest fighter ever. It’s like a Tiger 1. Timeless.
I'd have walked through hell wearing gasoline underwear to have been able to fly the F-14 Tomcat for my country. Those were some supersonic cans of whoop ass!
You to huh?
i guess those weren't the qualifications requirements then I take it?
@@dalecrossman6835 No, but I found the only enlisted job on a combat aircraft and signed up!
All from watching Top Gun.😂 I wanted to be a fighter pilot so bad!
So I talked with a Navy recruiter and he told me I could become a SENSO operator on an S-3 Viking. So I did!
Excellent job of syncing the simulation to the audio! It was about as close as I'd like to be to actually being there.... LOL
Yeah don't use the Microsoft video editor.
I live in a rather rural area. Last month I was driving by regional airport here (out in the country) and I saw a fighter jet ready for takeoff. I was going about 60 mph when I passed it, sitting on the runway about 100 yds. from the highway. Hey, we are way out in the country here. Not something you see often, although since we have an extremely long runway (alternate runway for the Space Shuttle), you see some interesting things doing touch and go's. I immediately turned around in the middle of the highway and went back to see what the heck that was! I first thought it was an F-111, being swing-wing and a high single tail, but it had double exhaust - and besides, there are no F-111's in operation anymore, as far as I have found. I later found it was a Mig-23. Olive green, no markings that I recall. Somebody else had seen it take off from the same airport a couple of weeks before and taken a picture. So apparently there is a Mig-23 residing in backwoods East Texas and someone is flying it fairly often!
if you're sure it had dual exhausts then it wasn't a mig23 which has one engine. and if it wasn't an f111 then it was probably an su-24 which looks almost identical to an aardvark.
ya the Russians improved on it rather quickly with the Mig - 27 version of the same plane, and immediately sold it to their customers (the Mig - 23 that is), so it's completely plausible that someone with a lot of maintenance money might be able to acquire a vintage plane like that
@@daviddriver4716 Wasn't the MIG-27 the ground attack version of the MIG-23?
this was better than watching it on Discovery. I had better awareness of what actually happened here. Love this reenactment.
You can hear the relief as the Tomcat crews keep repeating, "two good chutes". There was no ill will toward the Libyan pilots who had to obey orders or else.
Yo dash99er, great video.... Very nice work.
Nice recreation bro....liked and subbed! Well done!
This was AWESOME!!!!! Some Top-Gun $hit!!!!!
Every time I see /hear the replays on this... "Good hit, good hit one one..." I wanna jump outta the chair and just yell YEAH!
I liked it. I applaud your editing.
If you watch Ward Carroll video the former RIO on an F-14 on this incident he basically was saying Collins the RIO was trigger happy. Launching the second sparrow before the first lost radar tone. Basically saying Collins was sloppy.
Then RIO Enright was telling his pilot Cook to switch to Sidewinder meaning FOX 2 meaning it was still in Sparrow mode. Then Cook got the message and switched to Sidewinder. So as Ward said the view changed to HUD mode which you hear that buzzing noise meaning the Sidewinder has a heat signature for you to fire your Sidewinder.
@whocares notme because he was actual flew inside the F-14's. Was actually a RIO officer like Goose in Top Gun. So this guy actually SERVED in the Navy during the time of this battle. So War Carroll knows what he is talking about.
I was onboard the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy (CV-67) that day. We went to general quarters and watched it live from the F-14 video. That was an intense sequence of events.
Did the fleet feel threatened too or just the TomCats? I don't remember the political situation - but I was in the 5th Grade and this was my current events report. I would (much later) fly as an ABM on AWACS
Wow..this makes "Top Gun" look tame. The real deal Holyfield.
That was Great. I love that between the arieal battle.
You need to train 1000 hours for that single minute
I remember this! Scratch 2 for the NAVY!
Man the audio conveys the nervousness of the situation doesnt it?
"I can't get a Fucking Tone" vs Top Gun.
seeing all your months of training coming into reality that could potentially take your life and seeing those migs trying to head onto you in a provocative/intentional manner.. yes, i'd probably get nervous..
I was doing my 2 weeks reserve duty up at point Loma where the Navy's air control schools are for the West coast, and they had pins that had a side view of a sidewinder with Navy 2, Libya 0 on it.
Great Video! Great work there!
Excellent Video!
Yes bro you are right. Actually man inside the cockpit which matters. It is not just that you have a better aircraft. Watch this link below twill end and then you would come to know what actually had happened on 27th Feb 2019 between IAF and PAF...
czcams.com/video/zOyqgxPuIUw/video.html
I was there, my squadron was HS-7, the helicopter squadron for the ship during that med cruise, I worked in the Airframe shop at the time, I remember this day, like it was yesterday! Proud to be a Navy Veteran 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
Richard...WE are very "proud" of you and all our vets!
Thank you for your service!! Proud of ALL military folks...
No body gives a fuck you murdering piece of shit.The entire Libyan fairy tale was made up...IRAN and SYRIA were behind 103 bombing.....in retaliation for the good ole US Of Arrogant Assholes shooting down an Iranian passenger plane...with NO remorse or NO apologies for that crime.Libya was taken out because of its oil,and the refusal to follow the corrupt criminal Yankee Petrodollar Scam.Its time the rest of the world banded together and wiped the vile plaque and filth and scum known as the US off the earth.There is no more evil pile of shit on the planet.
Your vets are murderous slime ridden filth...and should all be led to a slow painful death....The US military has only been in ONE justified battle in its history.....Grenada.All the rest were bullshit
That incident involved 2 Tomcats from Fitron 41 (VF 41 Black Aces) From NAS Oceana and deployed onboard USS Nimitz. It happened actually on August 19, 1981.
Awesome video! Gives you goosebumps! For all of you involved that day thank you for your service
Fk you along with them
looks so real. amazing!
The recreation was absolutely impressive! You could be a director given how you expertly combined audio with images!
🤦🏻♂️
God I love this country!!
If you don't love this country, you don't understand the meaning of the word......
Fun fact: The actual recorded phrase at 3:46 was used in the movies "Under Siege" & "Clear & Present Danger"
Happy ending for MiG23, Cool!
I didn't know they got that close to each other. Man that was wild. Good work. Ct/tx
The audio from this encounter was incorporated into the music of the old Falcon 4.0 game’s main menu. I recognised it because I played the game 😉
Yeah, I loved that game. I used to play it over lan with my roommate who was taking pilot lessons.. He always beat my ass in dogfights, so I preferred when we'd co-op lol.
I say thee nay There is Falcon 4 BMS which is a modded version of the old game for running on current systems with Win 10. Go google it!
@@woiace Yup! And don't call it a "game" ever again ;) It's a sim ;)
@@jakobole Yes of course! Thanks 😅
@@woiace Now, don't do it again ;) Have a nice day sir, from F4 callsign "VIP"
I was on the ship from which the F-14's were launched. We listened to this live over the 1MC. We were at GQ for hours and hours and it was so GD hot you could not hardly breathe.
And everyone who debates whether or not these guys did the right thing need to ask YOU.
Great job! Heart-pounding recreation.
In the space of 50 yrs, dog-fights went from being up close and personal with your opponent, to firing a missile at them when they are 13 miles away
Amazing how quickly the action happened! The pilots need to think and respond instantly!
Those Migs never had their missile directing radars turned on. Imagine being the Libyan squadron commander, knowing that "El Supremo" had ordered you to send your guys in to sacrifice themselves for an ignorant, wishful thinking. political miscalculation
@@jefftheriault7260 still don't know why they buzzed on US plane,clearly wants something to happen.....and didn't even prepared for it. Lol
BRO 😱😱😂😂😂😂THIS IS AWESOME 👏 GREAT JOB THIS VIDEO IS SICK 🥴🤒🤢🤮 . You did an awesome job 😎
One of the coolest damn videos on ytube. Very well done, sir!
Alpha Bravo warned CloseOut out of a second flight of two but CloseOut mistakenly thought it was the same two they were dealing with.
Actually, there was a second flight of two Libyan fighter and they were forty plus miles behind the first two MiG-23MFs but, they turned around and returned to their base. They never posed threat to the F-14s.
Jamie Lancaster
“The other 2 Migs are buggin out”. Sorry just had to. Lol
@@MrCarnutbill67 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
The Libyan pilots just wanted a polaroid with Maverick and Goose
@MJW That's a beautiful polaroid of MJW :)
They were inverted...
@@ginamathews2338 down
@@VenturiLife invert me
@MJW .......Yes,it is! A Beauty.
Well done Maverick, Goose and the Ice Man. Permission to buzz the tower :-)
That was fantastic. Tomcats. You rule
It is stunning to me that this video has the RIO of Gypsy 207 correctly identified as Leo Enright at the beginning, then throughout the engagement identifies the RIO of 207 as Collins. Leo Enright directed this entire intercept/shoot from the back seat of Gypsy 207 with pilot "Beads" Connelly, the CO of VF-32. Leo was on CAG staff at the time.
Just stumbled upon this video. It's bogus. Tomcats from VF-41(Black Aces) onboard USS Nimitz were the ones who actually shot down Gaddafi's Sukhoi Su-22M Fitter fighter bombers in Gulf of Sidra Incident that took place on August 19 1981.
@@MrJsjoy79 In 1981, Hank Kleeman/Dave Venlet and Larry Muczinski/Anderson shot down two Libyan S-22 fighters. In 1989, the incident described in this video occurred. It is Navy 4, Libya 0 in air combat.
@@MrJsjoy79 yup that incident youre describing occurred 8 years before this one
@@MrJsjoy79 Not bogus, just the wrong timeline for you. Hence the reason you see F-14 '4' and Migs '0'. Two Migs were shot down each time.
The best aircrafts and the best pilots will produce the victorious results
Doesn't hurt that the "enemy" were there for nothing but posturing and likely weren't even packing armament (that second part is a guess based on no attempt to return fire when attacked.)
I heard this audio in the early 90s.
You did such a good job with this. Just wow.
Excellent work.
That was scary. When the second MiG shot by I thought they had trouble.
I remember when this happened, Air Force bases in the US went on high alert.
Now that was some exciting shit !
I have finally found the Growling Sidewinder intro audio lol
Thank you for my close air support, saved my ass a few times
IF I could travel time, I wouldnt return as a millionaire - I'd come back as a combat pilot flying the top tech in the world. What a pleasure and thrill! Thank you for your service!
So you'd rather be a fighter pilot than a millionaire?? 🤔😆
@@RellyOhBoy any day of the week
I'm still alive to remember Screen Door
What’s screen door?
@@wasyaname zee dee heart obligations to a bowl, in Italy ~1986
Mig Pilot #1: “Hey Mig Pilot #2 would you care to join me in a game of Fuck Around and Find Out?”
Mig Pilot #2: “Hell yeah Mig Pilot #1 that sounds awesome!”
😅
Superb..... Thanks.
Major part of Libyan pilot training; swimming lessons!
Lol
and using diarreas as a flotation device.
Go To Hell
1 Libyan pilot dead, 1 went swimming
And be ready to defend your country against US hegemony
"who's up there?
cougar, merlin, maverick and goose.... ""
Maverick bro!😎
“Great... Maverick and goose...”
Oh shit... I missed!!!
GODDAMN IT MAVERICK!
@@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg the fly by lmao 😎
your channel is wonderful!!!!
this was very entertaining :D ty
I was on the kitty hawk during G1 and happened to be in CIC when we had a pair break the 23rd parallel. Dude, you heat the stress on these guys and your heart is jumping out of your chest with them. This shit gets real. But G1 (and before because this was at the end of my 13 years before I was 100%ed disabled) forever endeared the F14 as the baddest ass plane ever to me.
My adrenaline is kicking just from listening. Can't imaging the focus that is needed in irl outside a sim.
To think nowadays they don't even use a Rio anymore, how do single pilots do it.
Good question. It's not easy being an REO on the F14. You have to choose which type of radar to use and then which area of the sky to scan and the scan pattern. Of course, having the AWAK around would help to give them headings to scan and altitude to scan.
I use to play Fleet Defender and it was fun just being the REO.
Just think the government spent 1,000,000 per fighter pilot,what a deal... cool heads
Computers, everything is fly by wire and automated now.
One of the reasons single pilots can do it is that the computers are more advanced. It’s all computerized systems can manage a lot of things that used to be handled by the RIO
Very nice Work !!! :)