Explained: NATO SAM & AAA Systems 1934-1998 | DCS WORLD

0:00 Intro
1:14 WWII AAA
4:17 M-163 Vulcan
5:50 MIM-23B Hawk
10:10 Roland ADS
12:52 Flakpanzer Gepard
16:34 Avenger FIM-92
18:27 Stinger FIM-99
19:21 MIM-104 Patriot Pac-2
24:37 MIM-72G Chaparral
26:25 Rapier
29:11 M6 Linebacker
30:28 NASAMS
33:50 EVERYTHING

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[qfinck]

If you watch the Linebacker again, you'll notice that it spun its turret and elevated the gun and launcher. At that position and elevation is the launcher pod reload position. IIRC, there are two guys in the back whose job is to pull the empties out of the launcher and put in new rounds. That's why the Linebacker didn't use its guns. It was reloading missles.

Also, the Gepard is built on a Leopard I hull chassis so it's a beefy boy.

[LaCorvette]

I approve of the Roland launcher at 12:48 exploding so hard, it briefly activated the switch window dialog and turned itself into the auto-cannon configuration.

[wallyhiggens]

I just realized how hard it is to fight real SAM sites that have human operators making real decisions like holding fire until a jet is in a bad spot

[FATMAN_tactical]

12:00 the infantry guy with a Garand shooting too
bless his cotton socks

[firestarteronyoutube]

26:39 dad was part of the RAF Squadron who operated these out in the Desert in Gulf 1 and 2. The killer thing with Rapier is that it is just so insanely manouevrable. The gunners on Rapier were also drilled in firing them extremely well, so hit and kill was highly probable if a target came in kill zone. Fortunately in the Gulf Wars Iraq never managed to sortie over British Bases and so Rapier was never needed.
It was used in the Falklands, but was hampered by poor crew skill (they hadn't done training on Rapier for a couple of months) and lack of spare parts, as well as difficulty tracking targets thanks to ground clutter around Falkland Sound.

[razvanmazilu]

I think the problem with the Patriot is less its capability and more its AI which blows its load at long range where the kill probability is low.

[charlietheunicorn]

The Jeep really makes these videos pop when watching, due to size comparison showing how big or small these systems are IRL.
Kortana Scott and Simba GG.

[herethen]

DCS really must focus on the AI part of the “sim”. Sure the modules are great but without a proper AI it becomes so stale.

Great video though 😁

[vulgar_potato]

Last rant lol, the AI grinds my gears for patriot being a 14 series because we’d never fire at a target we know we wouldn’t hit, that being said though Patriot has been tailored more towards TBM’s.

[hartzaden]

with the a hawk battery, it can guide any number of missiles to a single target per fire control radar, a normal site is 2 FCRs for six launchers.

[millermonsterair]

anyone else remember an older flying "sim" called SU-27 Flanker that was on DOS, and what feels like forever ago? i noticed a few of these looked familiar and even though it took me a min, it hit me that i remember them from SU-27 Flanker. i used to love playing that "sim" and honestly, id love to get ahold of a copy of it and spend hours on it again.

[rubiconnn]

Every time I see the Avenger I always think about how incredibly hot it must get inside of the gunner's cabin with that giant window while sitting out in the baking desert sun.

[SolNacht]

I can see Cap hiding random Gepards in future matches, for that "Surprise" factor

[tomsoki]

Stop telling them when it fires, especially with the IR ones. It’s supposed to be somewhat real and doing that makes it WAY easier to avoid

[gmanadventurer]

This game seems to discount all US weapons. But the Gepard looked like something out of the Terminator movies, can't wait to see it in some of the missions you do.

[formallyknownasj.a.]

I love how there’s cows out in the fields with the SAMs. That way, once the SAMs are destroyed you can have a bbq.

[erikerice]

Outside of Shilka, the Gepard is probably the coolest AAA unit.

[tionstav]

Surprised they don't have the Nike sites.

MIM-3 Ajax was the worlds first operational and deployed sam, It's a wacky 2 stage much like the soviet S-75.

[Duvstep]

+Grim Reapers I think the reason the Vulcan fired once and stopped at first was because it couldnt calculate the lead needed while kortana was flying directly overhead; would be a waste of ammo

[montys-]

Stinger missile seeker has an IR and UV tracking abilities so it ignores counter measures and hits what's not admitting UV I.e a jet in the sky, however not sure when this seeker was put into service it could've been later then 89