Simple and to the point, can't find information this fast and accurate with high production quality like this channel produces. Keep up the great work!

glad i found the most underrated channel on youtube

"Heat guided shotgun"

Others youtubers would take 7 to 10 mins minimum to explain this stuffs but you explained in 2 mins.You are a time saver mate keep up with your work you will be in the spotlight in one day.

The missile knows where it is, because it knows where it isn't

This video is faster and more accurate than the actual AIM-9 Sidewinder

I used to work with these frequently at Homestead AFB. The issue arose when the pilot would write in his log "no tone," or "missile won't track," after a training mission. Be advised; the only "live" component during the training missions was the seeker head. The target detector, warhead and rocket motor were inert. The aircraft crew chief would "tag" the missile (a ticket with discrepancy) and notify Job Control, who told Munitions Control of the bad missile. We'd go to the flight line and retrieve the missile, open a work order and proceed to try to find what's wrong. At the maintenance bay, we'd ground the missile, complete a safety brief and proceed to remove the seeker (head) of the Sidewinder; also known as a "G&C" (Guidance Control Section). After performing a self test of the test set, we (using technical data) placed the seeker on the TS-4044 set and attached any electrical / pneumatic sources, pressed the "go" button and monitored the diagnostic. Halfway through we'd have to rotate the seeker 90 degrees to a different plane (yaw or pitch) and hit "go" again. Somewhere along the way we'd multi-meter read the squib in the gas grain generator in the seeker to ensure its resistance was within parameters. The gas generator provided after launch pneumatic power to operate the canard control surfaces guiding the missile to the target. If the seeker passed, we annotated the paperwork, re-assembled the missile and returned it to service. If it didn't, we run it again, then, again. We might have to test continuity on the seeker umbilical, and follow the technical order troubleshooting chart. If hard broke, it got processed, packaged and sent to depot for repair. The AIM-9 L/M had an argon filled TMU-72/B stainless steel tank to supercool the seeker. It was small enough to hold in your hand, yet contained 5000 psi (Air Force. Navy used nitrogen in the rack / launcher). If the pilot exhausted this supply, then yes, he / she might have issues with target lock on. These were some of first items we checked on the flightline. Mark Williams, USAF (retired) Munitions Systems Specialist (AMMO) 1981 - 2002.

Great job, really! It is not easy to explain this stuff, I try on my channel too and I know it. Just one small remark: the engine burns for 2 to 4 seconds, not for the whole flight ...

First time I've seen a continuous rod warhead explained so straightforward.

In 1982 the USA secretly provided us (the UK) with AIM-9L missiles for use in the Falklands War, despite being technically neutral. This allowed our Sea Harriers, which are really an attack aircraft and not particularly suited to air superiority duty, to get 20 air to air kills with zero losses (2 lost to ground fire). Without this weapon we would not have had an effective carrier based fighter. And that is the story of how the Sidewinder missile was instrumental in winning the Falklands War. Thank you to our American friends 👍.

The lock on sound is so lovely

the gyros on the rollerons to make them actuate to stabilize it is genius!

great video as always. There's really no one else i could find making videos like this showing the actual functionality of different weapons systems, let alone with this much production value

I'm super glad that I came across this channel! Instantly subbed. Keep these vids coming!🇺🇸

I worked on the project back in the early 1980's, the DoD factory I worked at built the proximity fuse for the Sidewinder, this is arguably the the best air to air missle ever built.

-There been many variants of the seeker heads used in AIM-9. They have major differences between them. -On the video you can see AIM-7 on wingtip pylons. First, very few F-16 variants ever carried AIM-7, seconds, they couldn't carry it on wingtip pylons. -LOCK audio cue has nothing to do with AIM-9. Lock cue means that radar have locked on the target in ACM mode. And it says LOCK just once, not twice.

This channel is great, you just need more videos. I'll be waiting for the next ones.

Note, the current version of the aim 9 uses a focal plane array rather than spin or con scan system.

Great channel. Amazing visuals.

Great video this was a great depiction of a blast angular Warhead!!!

No BS, only useful information... It cant be real this channel. Where are the ads after every 20 seconds? I love them

That was fantastic and informative.

Got a sub from me, brilliant explaining and excellent visual to help drive the information home. 10/10 Knowledge!

Finally a video that explains how the sidewinder actually works! If there is a more in depth video, please let me know.

This channel is very underrated.

finaly exacly what i wanted to know, thx

Love the channel!

Excellent Animation. I get instant cold chills from thinking how long those must have taken :)

I love these short videos. Please do one on the FGM-148 Javelin.

This vids are so undrrated i wish i can do more than shareing them everywhere

Great job

Great video mate

Well besides all of this.. he has to explain every thing in just 1 minute ... husshh.. well done mate.. keep it up 😘

All these videos are so informative and short i want more

I didn't realize missiles would aim for an intersect point ahead of the target. I've now incorporated this into the game I'm designing.

You deserve 100x your subscriber numbers. Well done

Excellent video as always! Glad to see you heard my suggestion!

very informative.

A remake with a change in sound balance of the missile tone would be good.

Great, pls more

Thank you, this channel is pure gold.

THIS FUCKING CHANNEL NEEDS FUCKING MILLION SUBS.i learned more on this than 3 years of ballistic school

The quality is astonishing.

Keep it up you will be famous

Awesome

i always wondered what that weird buzzing noise was. kinda scary knowing that's the missile talking to you.

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

Very nice

The Sidewinders should be on the wingtips, and the missiles on the wingtips in the video should be where the Sidewinders are

This is a very clever design, more clever than I thought. Could you please specify what version are you describing? I've heard that AIM-9X has full blown thermal camera instead of basic sensor.

Best. Channel. Ever.

Rolleron Piece of Art

I wonder when will you make a video on how a JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) works?

Very Good Quality Human

Just the facts. We don't care about the fluff! Great video! Take Care and be safe, John Ps: You know it's an Excellent video, when it takes longer to type the comment, than it took to watch the video!

Developed at China Lake Naval Weapons Center, right across the road from my childhood home of Ridgecrest, California. One more thing, this is where some very big earthquakes hit earlier this year (2020.)

👍👍 simple and most accurate of information.

I could almost hear you talking over the sound effects.

I once held a sidewinder nosecone. It was really weird. Apparently it spins while in flight. From a distance it looked opaque, but up close you could see it was made of a dark glass -- I think it was sort of a brown/orange.

It really amazing how military tech was way ahead of it time, just remember all this was made before we had nowadays computers

Please do a video on the french 550 MAGIC missiles

this is one of the best channels on YT !!! ps: i have a question. why you put sparrows on the sides and sidewinders under the wings?

Finally, now I know what a Sidewinder growl is.

Late 80s when playing F18 interceptor on Amiga....that's the lock sound with a a diamond on the HUD .......the final splash word was the Goal.

Nice presentation I worked with the Aim 7 and Aim 9 on F-4 Marine Phantoms (75-85) but my favorite was the F-14 Phoenix missile but since the F-14 retirement I never heard any more about it. Know what its fate was? Curious Minds want to know. Semper Fi

As I understand it, the latest versions of the AIM 9 use a rotating mirror. Since the photo voltaic cell can't discern position, only hot and cold (scalar quantity), it uses the position of the mirror to judge the bearing of where the signal is coming from. But can anyone tell me how the weird interrupter disk works instead?

Nice video. Could anyone explain to me how the target vectoring works? For the missile to know how much to overcompensate to hit the it would have to know the distance to the target? How does it do that?

I find that "brrrrrrrr lock lock" absolutely terrifying

How did you create those visuals of the mig in IR ?

I'm curious, do you create your own models or do you get them from an asset store?

It was envisioned that the original continuous rod warhead would travel to the wing mounted engines of some conventionally shaped bomber, detonate, and the expanding rod would then chop the fuselage in half. Thought to be more effective than simply peppering the plane with a handful of fragments in a more commonplace warhead.

How do you just got 2000 subscribers? You deserve 2.000.000. Seriously.

I've got a question about that: how does the missile know the distance to the target, since ist only a 'passive sensor'? I suppose you need distance information to 'lead' the missile

at 1:15 in the video what do you mean? Annular Blast Fragmentation warhead and a Continuous-rod warhead are the same thing...

Are there explanations about how the 9x off-boresight capabilities works?

Where did you get the tone sound on 0:22

You madlad

The fact this missile was developed in the 1950’s *mind blown*

was the Frag charge not before the continous rod charge? or did i get something wrong?

Dang good shit

This is underrated

Can you do more A/A Missiles? R77 AIM54, R27 etc

Those gyroscopes are actually pretty genius.

When the enemy aircraft seen the missile warning and shuts off the engine and goes for a controlled glide will it still get the kill?

what is resolution of infrared seeker ? I heard its 16x16 pixels

Whoever thought of the tiny wheels... genious.

I know about the advantages of the "continuous rod" warhead of the "earlier versions." Can someone explain to me why blast-fragmentation warhead is better? Thanks.

Morpheous: -Tank ¡load the misile program! Neo: I know how a sidewinder works

what kind of IR Detector it used?

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insane to think that the AIM-9X is still the same missile from the 50s underneath all those upgrades.

Where has this channel been this whole time?

The F-16 3D model at the beginning is using AIM-7s on the wingtips. This is wrong. Only AIM-9s and AIM-120 are supported on wingtips.

damn that's cool

i had a toy with that design. you throw it and it goes really far. what's the name of it? i would like to buy another one.

amazing just in 80years we go from "people flying is stupid idea" to "flying here is stupid idea"

Isn't the sideindwer should be gliding and the rocket booster are only for few seconds of flight?

Used to have a model rocket of this bad boy. Good times

WING MOUNTED SPARROWS *anneurysm* Great video though.

Could you please anyone tell me the similar film name I saw long time ago.but the target was passenger plane .