F-16 daylight raid on Baghdad, day 3 of Desert Storm

F-16, callsign Crud 2, dodging SAM launches during Desert Storm. This was in the same 16 ship package with Stroke flight which is on another video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uh4yMAx2UA). To see the full account of this and other aircraft including two that were shot down go to http://www.lucky-devils.net/afm.html and scroll down to Day Three.

This was one of the largest daytime raids and after 2 nights of pounding by coalition forces the Iraqi's were throwing everything they had.

The vid starts out with his premission arming before takeoff as he narrates into the video. The vid cuts briefly to the radar in MFD mode which is ground map. The radar waring receiver tones and chrips can be heard often. Later in the vid you can hear them supporting Stroke 1 who had been hit and was limping home until his engine failed. He ejected, was captured and later released.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• F-16
• Viper
• Desert
• Storm
• SAM
• missiles

[stoneyj50]

fpm?

[squirly]

Cool. I love these videos, wish there were more of them on youtube!

[cipri91]

he says the flight path marker(fpm), of the hud.

It's so slipped because there were a fucking powerfull wind...it's too difficult speak of it english for me...but it's for wind, imho...

[mikefan09]

cant wait to see hud from gulf war 2

[CanYouFeelTheRythym]

24 G? really =s

[spins321]

@squirly Because sitting in the actual jet is a bit different than sitting on a computer looking through the monitor. Monitors force your view into a very narrow tunnel and cause one to be overly dependant on the HUD. In real aircraft, you have the benefit of more tactile feeling of your environment (movement of the aircraft in various axis; sense of motion, etc) where the HUD is secondary tool for flight rather than a primary tool for direction and attitude in daylight conditions.

[squirly]

FPM = flight path marker. How come these guys never use drift/counter offset? the fpm is all over the place!

[redz27m]

what is that sound beeping continously??

[chug26]

did it really take 7 min to get ot bagdad

[perplexedmoth]

That much of wind also is actually helpful to dodge SAMs

[perplexedmoth]

yeah, fpm slips due to the heavy wind. in the DED, It can be seen as 119 knots of wind speed from 242.