Video title correction: Can the Grim Reapers intercept 350 Iranian drones & ballistic missiles? We already know the US , UK, and Israel can lol

Thanks for letting me fly this with you guys! I can't imagine the coordination and detail it must have taken to pull this off in real life - amazing work by the air forces and ground crews over the weekend.

Matrix - "sidewinders work fine, just have to get REALLY close" SuperCap - "flies the sidewinder on his wing INTO the drone" Well, it'll save on missile fuel I guess...

The cost of the defensive missile isn't compared to the cost of the attack drone or missile, but rather against the cost of the target that the drone or target would have destroyed.

When I heard about Iran's attack, I thought it sounded perfect for a GR scenario. (Does Iran know that if they really want a GR scenario that they could just post in a request?!?!)

SM-3 is really close in performance to the Arrow-3, and the SM-6 is close to the David's sling, so it is a fairly accurate representation!

You need to use a floor to deconflict, having none of your pilots descend below a particular altitude.

Did any of you think of the absolutely simplistic idea of NOT flying in the middle of the mass of drones? If you stay away from the swarm on the same side of it and fire into it, you'll never shoot each other.

The lines coming out of US and Israel is there were about 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles and between 115-130 ballistic missiles. All the drones and 25 out of 30 cruise missiles were intercepted by a coalition aircraft interdiction line before they reached Israel, Iran had warned all its neighbours about its two targets in Israel (Negev and Nevatim airbase, the origin of the attack on its Embassy compound in Damascus) and the timing of the retaliation 72 hours in advance and had asked Turkey to pass on those details to Israel as well as through back channels to the US in Switzerland which allowed the coalition aerial interdiction line to be formed as they knew the target and size of the retaliation. 50% of the Ballistic missiles failed at launch or in flight however 9 got through the US fleet/Israels air defences with 5 striking Nevatim airbase and 4 hitting the Negev base causing minor damage including cratering a disused runway, destroying some empty storage buildings and damaging a C-130 transport. No US carrier aircraft were involved with only land based aircraft taking part but US ships shot down 6 ballistic missiles, in addition the US said it destroyed 7 drones and 1 ballistic missile on the ground before they launched (presumably from Yemen). The US said its aircraft accounted for around 80 drones (up from an earlier estimate of 70) and its ships intercepted 6 ballistic missiles along with a couple of interceptions from its Patriot battery in Erbil. Jordan and UK haven said how many they intercepted and the French participated in the defence in a non-combat role as well. Israel has said it alone discharged $1bn worth of interceptors during the attack.

As a sidebar comment, I first started watching you folks with your Ghost of Kyiv simulation. It took me about 4 months to realize Grump was not actually Ukrainian... [That is why I am in the Intelligence branch!]

@17:50 "Minor problem there." As Cap loses half his wing! Good thing that the F-16 computer can adapt and doesn't need those. LOL!

120+200+30 is 350. Of which 4 got through: that's 1.14% of the shots got through. 2 people got shot down by friendly SAMs, 1 person (CAP) hit a drone, and 6 got shot down, 50% of them by Dark.

Just to maybe help offer a few answers you had questions for. The Israeli F-15Is were using AIM-7s, fox 1s so much less risk for fratricide than Fox 3s. Unclear on what armament the other coalition planes were using but all of the kill videos have been from targeting pods or native EO systems. Thanks for the videos. Maybe we’ll cross paths in the DCS skies someday.

Did you guys see the exoatmospheric interceptions and ensuing space explosions. Fkn amazing

Amazing recreation put together in such a short time. Nice work!

Great job Cap and GR, timely and interesting video.

Thank you for simulating this. Job well done!

Great work all, can't wait to watch!

Great set you guys I'm proud of you all.........

I'm 100% on team Dark / Canonball!! All that "you shot me down blah blah" is clearly what a dead person would say 😂 #lastmanstanding #expectingabuseandbanning Nicely done on literally zero notice.

Thank you. Helps a lot with my thinking on these things.

I actually love how it calculates the money and stuff for what it costs but it doesn't really show the cost of the fuel and the maintenance and everything else that goes along with these ships and aircraft

I think Joshua had it right, "The only winning move is not to play."

**Viewer Discretion Advised** Many innocent trees were killed in the making of this video. IRL must have been one hell of a night for all those involved.

I was waiting for this, thanks

Amazing recreation ❤❤❤

That is so surreal. Seeing this happen literally over my house.

Aircraft speed modulating the radar notch filter is super interesting.

The last part AA drone attacks wasn't well planed out, you guys should be in a very slow(210knt) open and low formation behind the drones, the way of the attack was a bit all over the place without knowing friends from foes, anyways nice to see how it played out in a game, here real Portuguese air force F-16 pilot, love the channel Grim.

Did you see the gun cam footage they released? The shots look to be taken at very close range.

From what I heard, apparently, most of the projectiles were intercepted between the Israelis, UK & US with there only being a single casualty which I can't recall if it was a fatality or not. Needless to say, once again, the insane capability of modern air defense systems has been put on display for all to see. Iran didn't really accomplish anything apart from providing everyone with valuable data on further enhancing future missile/drone interception. Insane stuff really.

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US navy did shot down at least 3 ballistic missiles from 2 Burkes. First real world combat use of SM3 in history too.

Good video cap, to keep from shooting one other, stay in a line formation space 100 to 300 meter apart. Or, you can use only Aim-7. Set a altitude for the aircraft shoot up or down at your targets. Again great video. P.S. What became your NICS investigation?

I read that the US aircraft involved were 2 squadrons of F15e's (494th and 335th).

I like how nearly flawless the no-air communications mission was for GR and then you have full coms mission and they kill each other the whole time lol. I do think the probability to kill is completely off for several of the blue force missiles because I am pretty sure there weren't that many fired.

Actually from what i heard they also used AIM-7 to avoid blue on blue, easier to keep lock and also because it cost less.

I love your vids, have you ever heard of the football war? Apparently El Salvador and Honduras had a spat in the '60s in which WWII surplus P51s were pitted against F4U Corsairs. I'd love to see you guys replicate this odd air battle. Thanks!

Depending on the variant and it's subvariant an AIM-9 can cost anywhere from 200,000 - 400,000

In real life 30-50% fail on the way up from Iran. DCS everything fires perfectly, Irans less than ideal ballistic missiles have an almost 50% fail rate lol.

The US used F-15s. F-15E Strike Eagles from the 494th and 335th Fighter Squadrons downed several Iranian drones during the recent attack on Israel.

eurofighter mentioned rahhhh

Didnt we already see this tested Saturday night? lol

Fascinating sim. Be interesting to see if the real pilots had similar headaches with drones.

I'm impressed the Shaheed drones can stay in the air that long and go that far.

"Why won't aliens visit us?" When someone wants to have some oil for themselves: 7:32

Cap, UNSI reported that two Arleigh Burkes based in the eastern med used SM3s for the first time to intercept "four to seven" Iranian ballistic missiles so your recreation is accurate!

How about using Spitfires & P-51'D's you may get a better chance at the drones, just an idea though, me-262's might also be interesting these could tackle the Cruise missiles maybe? Nicely done if otherwise, 98% taken down compared to the 99% from RL, very very well done!

It's important to point out that military sites were NOT the exclusive targets of the Iranian attack (even if a few somewhat did make it to military targets). This is not a political statement; this is a statement of fact. I get that [thankfully] politics is not the purpose of this channel, but material facts are relevant for proper context.

That's why IAF has a big stash of Aim7s. Fat Amy used Fox-2 and IRST. They had sectors of cover so they were not merged with each other like this. I fell asleep 20 minutes before it started, missed the show.

Would love to see the fighter jets replaced with Apache Helicopters with anti air missiles. I saw you guys testing out what would be the best Helicopter to use against drones and I would be interested to compare the results to the fighter aircraft. On Paper it should be a hell of a lot cheaper. Thanks for your hard work!!!

As an israeli that sat in the shelter because of that attack , and love your videos , thanks so much for recreating it !

you guys are crazy😂 love it!!

The US has 2 squadrons air born when it started, US has patriots in Iraq and Syria that were used as weapons moved across towards Israel, Jordan and UK airforce, plus Jordanian air defense, most was taken out before ever reaching Israeli air space.

I wonder if the older sparrow missiles would not perhaps have been better suited for such a scenario. They DON't have a mind of their own and thus will only go after a target that the mother plane has got locked up. In the case that the lock is lost they won't\can't re-acquire a random target, thereby eliminating the chance of them going after friendlies on their own. Unless, the PILOT actually makes an error and locks the wrong target... OR Change the rules of engagement... EVERYONE HAS to hold fire while flying AROUND the drones by a radius of at least 5 miles. Then, slot-in behind the drones and take them out from the rear. Planes already at the rear of the drones should fly in a "line-abreast" formation (roughly), to avoid anyone from going out in front on their own. If anyone does go out in front of the others on his own, he only has himself to blame... Certainly doable and having everyone coming in from the same angle (i.e. from the rear of the drones) is probably the safest way to do it. It would also ensure that no-one gets in the line of fire from the IRON dome and the targets.

I should ask on discord but I'm here so hopefully I'll get help... is the scoreboard a mod? how do I get that scoreboard showing?

Great video! I wonder if having a higher frame rate makes missiles more accurate.

I was watching a video earlier today, it was from 2016 and it was showing US military testing drone swarms deployed from fighter jets. I think thats the future, why fire missiles when you can just send up a swarm of flying AI hand grenades.... If a missile misses, its scrap metal... if a drone misses, it just flys home and recharges.... and you can get 1000 of them for the price of your basic missile. I'm happy to see the military types were on the ball, I only really thought of drones as a useful weapon in about 2018. Not a relevant or useful comment, but.... For the algorithm!

We'll find out soon...

IIRC the IDF uses a pretty sophisticated IFF system on the Iron Dome system to prevent friendly fire incidents... at least with IAF aircraft. Track, identify, identify/confirm, track, verify, fire

I do NOT say this to degrade the man for his accent. BUT, for the LONGEST time I watched his videos and every time he said "THATS AN ORDER", I thought he was saying "THATS AN HORS D'OEUVRE". I was like, wtf is he talking about... But no. He was just pronouncing "order" like "Or-DERR" with a hard "R". Which, to me (what with my bad hearing) was interpreted as him saying "That's a small snack served before dinner, typically at cocktail parties". And similarly, I thought, for a long time, that "Hello valued viewers" was "Hello VALLEY viewers". Like, I THOUGHT he had given his viewers a nickname, and I was wondering for the longest time what the "Valley" was. I wondered if it was a reference to the videos where they fly as fast as possible through mountain valleys dodging AA guns and missiles or something. But no. My stupid deaf ass ears were just hearing him wrong. lol this has been my Ted talk, thank you for listening.

6:20 99%, 95 was highest until then 34:07 - practice and preparations!

They indeed do it, well some came through.

Question (from an uninformed individual): could you put IFF transponders on fox 3 missiles so it knows not to track friendlys?

In Tehran IRL: "Told you we should have fired 351."

The IFF mode 4 plus the awcs would help mostly... But I'm guessing from 20 yr old knowledge...

Israeli here, Good to see that you posted a video so soon after. GJ ! 👍

Modify the aging A10s to accommodate a gun that can target and fire on drones automatically. Could even have the A10s flown remotely. Few missiles, lots of bullets and extra fuel tanks so they can stay aloft. So an airborne automatic drone killing machine.

I am noting a lot of failures from Fox 3 missiles here. On Ate Chuets' debrief of the actual attack, he noted that airplanes sent up to destroy the incoming stuff were equipped with AIM7 Sparrows. He commented that the Sparrows, probably because they rely on the planes' more powerful radar, had a higher PK on drones and small targets. Maybe you should try it out? Also, because they are guided by the mother plane for a higher duration, you might have less friendly fire? Finally, fun fact I got from his video: princess Salma of Jordania might have participated in shooting down drones in her F-16. And... She didn't ruin her F-16 like Cap did. ;-)

Doesn't IFF help with friendly fire?

Re the cost difference on shooting $20k drones with $500k+ missiles, it’s something that has to be shot down, but with DragonFire and new laser air defence at £10 a pop, that’s going to spin the difference on its head if it’s effective

should have used david sling too, it can also intercept ballistics

Well we know they did get through. The drones and cruise missiles were AD fodder. But I saw a video of multiple missile impacts at the airbase.

Where to get that mods shown on the top right of the screen showing statistics

Wouldn’t most of the ac be carrying mostly fox2s’. F16i’s and f15i would probably be carrying pythons 4/5s?

The coalition forces didn’t even allow most missiles/drones to enter the Israeli airspace, insane lol

Dealing with irl. Not many of them got through. Iran had to tell the countries around it that it was going to happen. So everyone knew it was coming. Then Jardon has deals with Israel. The only reason it did anything. Israel will have to do the same if it does anything back. As both countries have to fly into other countries airspace.

Why the f are there tax filling commercials after the final cut off date?

The problem with DCS is everything works pretty much the way the manufacturers and propagandists say the will. Not much has been said by either side that apparently half of the ballistic missiles either didn't launch or blew up shortly after launch.

The answer to the friendly fire question is ABMs, both ground-based and airborne

I'll be watching a little later but, regardless of the DCS results, we know they can/did IRL.

CAP: "Fox-4"

awesome cap ,my favorite part is the taxpayers costs for these wonderful wargames!!!luv ya

Given how slow the Shahed drones fly, how effective would WWII era fighters be against them? Might be a much more cost-effective versus AMRAAMs, Patriot, and Iron Dome Arrow missiles?

Great video..... let's give Peace a Chance ✌️

What would be a decent spec computer for dcs ? I9 or i72tb 32gb ram ?. Decent monitor?

The U.S. DoD estimate that approximately one half of Iranian ballistic missiles failed at or immediately after launch.

Cap as someone who was on the ground watching this shit unfold above my head, dcs seems to have done the fireworks justice

17:50 I'm pretty sure it's traditional to launch the sidewinder before taking the drone down with it ;)

I think the in-game ABM defence is overstimated and this video kinda prooves it too. IRL ~120 BM were launched from Iran, but as US officials said about half of them failed on launch or during flight and didn't have to be intercepted. Also we know that 7 of them leaked through. So 7/60 leaked from a combination of Aegis SM3, arrow 2 and 3 and patriots in Iraq in one of the most well protected airbases on earth with layered AD from an attack that was expected and everyone was on 100% alert and ready for it. Here in game 3/120 leaked and the simulated missle was DF26 which definetly is much harder to intercept than anything Iran fired on Israel yesterday. Also on many occasions in the game senarios you simulate "surprise attacks" so that would bring interception rates even lower. So yeah...in order to make the game more realistic some parametrs of the balistic missles and the ABM defence have to be tweaked.

did the drones got a physics modell? if yes maybe try flip them with the wing like the british did with V1 missiles? :)

What bet did Simba lose to have to fly a bog!?

350 drones and missiles were used. In the end, the Iranian economy is now poorer.

That was fun and cool, but now you need to see if you can do it at night! lol

I occurs to me, instead of sending up actual fighters to take out drones, A10s might be a better option, they can pull up right behind the drones, slow down and let their main gun cut thru the drones, one after another, they can fly in formation just above the drones.

I would assume the missiles and raider would be programmed to target only a specific aircraft type such as cruise missiles and drones.

36:40 i assume a lot of wheels are turning quite fast currently to find cheaper ways to deal with drones.

15:30 wouldn’t it be more cost effective for these planes to be equipped with directed energy lasers such as THOR

Has anyone modelled australia's metal storms different pulse modes to see how effective it is and is it still going or did they scrap it?