DCS: BULLDOGS - Short Film (2023)

This film has been made using in-game footage from DCS WORLD by Eagle Dynamics. Sound design and visual effects have been added for dramatic purposes. © 2023 - J.P. FERRE - Do not redistribute this video. Hi all! I'm thrilled to present my new 16 minutes short film DCS: BULLDOGS. This project took 9 months in the making and depicts a fictional CAS mission with radio coms between A-10 pilots and a JTAC. The challenge was to be as realistic as possible, so all dialogues and procedures have been overseen by a real life JTAC!! Expect to see something they don't show you everyday in Hollywood movies :) For the third time, this new production has been made with the precious help from the Joint Task Force Francophone (JTFF). Hope you'll enjoy! Please, let me know what you think in the comments below! Thank you so much for your support, it always means a lot!!! Fly safe. Fly Metal. Greetings from France ++ JTFF Website: jtff.fr/SITE/ JTFF Discord: discord.gg/A25um4zSgm DCS Screenshots Discord: discord.gg/rC6PwWGbFd Directed & Edited by J.P. FERRE Screenplay by DOC - youtube.com/@doc4854 Voice actors: EMERALD / ROBIN / SAPPHIRE / RAPTOR DAD - youtube.com/@RaptorDad JTFF 354th FS pilots: DOC / TERADOR / SHARKO22 / ALRIP BARTHEK's Caucasus Re-textured Mod: forum.dcs.world/topic/218225-bartheks-caucasus-red… Special thanks to NICO / ICEMAKER / WOLF and EAGLE DYNAMICS Special thanks to KINDER Music provided by PremiumBeat and Soundridemusic - youtube.com/@soundridemusic/featured Additional sound FX used from the Jet Strike Pack by VIDEOCOPILOT - www.videocopilot.net/ Thank you for watching. Like, share & subscribe. Visit: www.jp-ferre.com/

Former Hog pilot here with my stamp of approval. Makes me miss the good old days!

Former Hog driver here. Nicely done old-school mission. 90% of the critical time wasted with excessive comm has been eliminated nowadays by the use of SADL/Link 16.

you know the film is good when you don't skip to the action and listen to the conversations

standing ovations

This is a work of art! If this was a trailer for a full feature length film, I'd be booking cinema tickets right now!

Wow! I have no words! This is the most realistic and exciting A-10 cinematic I've ever seen! Outstanding work my friend! Loved the comms work! The music gave me goosebumps, and nothing like hearing a good A-10 gun fire to spark up the day! I was so invested I wanted more lol!

I appreciate you taking time to make a video showing the A-10 in a deeper manner. I’m just a retired Army Infantryman so my input is from my experiences with the A-10 in two wars. The A-10 only carries a set amount of flares so they can only evade so many SAM’s/MANPAD’s before they’re in a vulnerable position. The Air Force keeps a close eye on enemy activity on the ground which they get constant updates from various sources including the US Army. They do this so they know which areas are high risk to slower aircraft like the A-10 and helicopters. In a forested terrain, the A-10 will drop down to NOE level to avoid direct observation that MANPAD launchers rely on more than larger SAM systems, IR tracking missiles are a difficult threat to detect when they launch so they tend to have an AWACS scanning for all missile activity in a sector they’re traveling through. Flying NOE (Nape Of the Earth) and sometimes even lower is a sure way to avoid most missile systems detection but it requires strict focus from the pilot. If there’s friendly forces not far from where the MANPADS and SAM’s launched from AWACS can request Army attack helicopters to do a hunter-killer mission to find and destroy the enemy that fired on the birds. Another option is 155mm artillery, with modern munitions the artillery can take out pinpoint targets within 30 miles but the artillery doesn’t always have too many of those special munitions so it has to be critical before they’ll approve the use for a single MANPAD site but, they will gladly use them on a SAM site. A-10’s we’re designed to take out enemy vehicle columns and of course, tanks, lots of tanks but they found that the A-10 was an excellent platform for various stand-off weapons and bombs so, they turned it into a flying dump truck, lol. So it can do massive bombing runs and I’ve seen that myself and I almost feel sorry for the house those poor Iraqi bad guys were in since it collapsed on top of them when the A-10 hit it, this was in the winter of 2003 on the south side of Baghdad near Al-Rashid where my unit was posted (FOB Muleskinner/Camp Cuervo) I was in 2-6 Infantry, 1st Armor Division. I mention these details just to give a better context to what we did there for those who like to track unit locations and activities. We were later put on FOB St. Michael’s which was a hell hole, we got hit daily but the Iraqi’s sucked at being accurate. We rarely called in air strikes and just used the 3 155mm M-109’s on the FOB to fire back when we got mortared. So if you ever wanted to make a video then hopefully I provided some information to make it interesting. I’m not saying this video was not interesting, just thoughts for a future video. That said, the way A-10’s are used in the European theater is a bit different since we know there’ll be tanks coming out of the demon hole so then the A-10 will be in her original environment and so will I as an 11H, Heavy Anti Armor Weapons Infantryman where we use the TOW system to engage tanks starting at 4,000 meters. It takes about 15 seconds for the missile to reach that distance and nothing survives a good hit (if the missile is aimed at the tracks, it’ll just blow apart the tracks and suspension and not penetrate the crew compartment which is a waste of a missile since I’ll have to fire another missile to kill it.

I’m so glad you’re able to capture the heroism that the warthog brings. The plane is truly about those guys on the ground. Keep up the amazing work JP. Idk why I haven’t seen your work sooner

I just watched this video and I gotta say, AMAZING JOB!!! The JTAC did a phenomenal job with calling in the fire missions, the pilots executed them flawlessly, the cinematography was stunning, and the overall communication between the pilots, command and ground was spectacular!

Awesome. Thank you for your time and for sharing your art with us once again, JP. 🤩

Comme d habitude JP , un travail de qualité rendant hommage tant à DCS, qu aux pilotes réels et virtuels !!! Encore merci et bravo pour ces créations passionnées et de qualités inégalées !

Un grand grand bravo JP pour ce nouveau projet qui pose les standards.... Superbe travail sur le script et sur les voiceover, un régal ! Merci de nous donner la chance de participer sur tes projets !

This was done really well. I was aircrew on AWACS and this was pretty on the nose. I will say nowadays a lot of the comm between the JTAC and the A-10 would be mitigated by Link-16/SADL. This is outstanding work!!

Had to share this with my friends. Excellent work, and proof of why the A-10 will always have a place in the hearts of infantrymen everywhere.

I have the upmost respect for anyone who can fly these and im blown away at the people who can fly them on DCS, im learning and studying the controls but i will be playing soon

I just found your channel today and I must say that your videos are the best DCS videos on Youtube without a doubt. 10/10. You've got a talent for this my friend. Keep it up

Wow, une dinguerie, ça passe super vite et c'est super bien fait, bravo !

Love it when the ladies are dressed up, and let out to play

Whose are like to watch Air Planes movies 😅?