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My stepdad was in the airforce in 80s. He got to help test Gps when it was first being developed. They could track where the humvee had been around base down to 3 feet. He asked how they could do that. The answer? That's classified. He didn't learn until 1999 that it was satilites in orbit that were tracking the device on the roof. From that they were able to develop navigation and weapons delivery systems.

Have these people developing these AI things NEVER consumed any science fiction?

LOL! The "Bat Bomb" shown at 7:14 is not the "ASM-N-2 Bat" radar guided bomb described, but an actual Project X-Ray bomb filled with hibernating (from cold storage, then from cold high altitude flight) bats contained within a ventilated shell that opened like a cluster bomb after being dropped. The bats, each carrying a timed incendiary device would wake up and since it was to be dropped during the day, would fly into attics and other hidden placed out of sunlight. It was never deployed, but probably would have been effective - "A series of tests to answer various operational questions were conducted. In one incident, the Carlsbad Army Airfield Auxiliary Air Base near Carlsbad, New Mexico, was set on fire on May 15, 1943, when armed bats were accidentally released. The bats roosted under a fuel tank and incinerated the test range."

"I don't think we can defeat the axis of evil by putting smart bombs in the hands of dumb people" - Billy Bragg

at 6:44 electronic jamming so germans tried wire guided boms with TV info going back up the wires to the bomber. Yes, the bomber had to stay on the bombing run and so was easier to shoot down

Has anyone done a supercut of Simon beard growth?

Well, Brain Boy, it's a good thing that cutting edge military technology is just a bit more advanced than what your economies-of-scale-priced cell phone has installed in it.

On one hand you gotta admire the technology behind it and loath the reason and function it's used for. How very resourceful we get to come up with ways to kill one another more efficiently while getting funding for space and environmental projects is a drag at best

It's so silly that people basically create things to explode their expensive computers and sort of rare becoming minerals (as a side effect it blows something else at the same time).

Guided munitions alone were incredible. SOP goes from 'how many squadrons per target' to 'how many targets per plane'.

LGM "Not to say they didn't have any impact"... I'm glad you snuck that in... Interesting stuff, thanks.

Simon it's pronounce egg-lynn air force base!! and those bomb shelters weren't our fault the jack wads ran the antennas over from the command bunkers a half kilometer away to fool recon systems!!!

I bet guided Artillery will be the next big thing! masses of cheap drone guided high precision shells, raining down on enemy positions

Bespoke post is like raid shadow Legends. They are in everyone's pocket

A few errors made me giggle: 8:18 - B-29s bombing Vietnam in 1965? 10:29 - Royal Air Force Jaguars in Vietnam? Plus mentions the White House and shows the capitol building.

The USS BARB sub sank a train by using what would now be called navy seals in a raid that was a first of its kind by the us navy and maybe ever to put explosives on a rail bridge. And also was the first to launch cruise missiles on a land based area. Those where some weapons that changed warfare for sure.

That last idea of little bombs communicating with each other to find the most probable target and zero in on it -- that's straight out of Stanislaw Lem's book "The Invinsible" (Niezwyciężony), written in 1964 Once again, a sci-fi writer predicted the future.

I used to have a Jane's book of military aircraft and it had a picture of a JDAM going in the window of a large truck. At least the driver didn't see it coming.

Wrong answer on the Chinese Embassy: a US F117 stealth plane was shot down, the Chinese recovered part it. The parts were taken to the embassy, and subsequently got bombed.

Yeeeeah Fact Boy!

War is hell and will never completely skip the innocent. "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg

It sure is reassuring you got that right. Also, self coordinating bug bomb teams sounds splendid

Watching this again after the incident in Gaza is somewhat chilling

that's one heck of a bridge. we should hire that crew to build all our stuff.

As a Floridian, hearing him butcher Eglin kills me. Lol. Egg-Lin.

I find the brit term "kit" entertaining. lol.

Really liked this one. Not too difficult technology talk, moved along with good story and of course fantastic announcing...Well Done!

AI bombs sound absolutely terrifying. Hasn't anyone read/seen *I, Robot?*

I’ll take my smart bombs Free Range, thank you very much.

16:49 the ninja turtle made a bomb? lmao

You are such a “happy” guy

This is pretty dope having loaded and armed thousands of smart munitions. 👌

BF Skinner although completely "something", his plano Pavlovian pecking pigeons plan would be better than the 'negative zero' guidance usage of dumb bombs.

Nothing like a swarm of angry AI smart bombs. What could possibly go wrong ?

First time seeing Simon in short sleeves.

The Norden bomb sight was the first sight that could really work in far way. by dropping a bomb down a pickle barrel from 30k feet. A pickle barrel is a wishful thought lol. More like better than without anything. It was also one of the first computers and one of the smallest of the time.

An episode about proximity fuses in WW2 would be nice to see.

Thanks. I didn’t really need to sleep tonight. Lol. Terrifying.

simon, do a vid on the bat bomb, it was an incendiary bomb using live bats with incendiary explosives attached. real thing, and it was just as crazy as it sounds. craziest thing was it actually worked in testing.

Smart as the men using it !

could you do a video on the Chrysler nuclear powered tank design?

How bout loiter munitions? Fly around as a drone does until it sees something it like to destroy. How bout hypersonic delivery platforms? Like ICBMs but move too fast to be interdicted.

So let me get this right, the person releasing the bomb is to blame for bad strikes and not the intelligence provided by satellites and target recognition software used. AI as cool as it sounds wont limit civilian casualties in any way, I would like to see when the pentagon has too explain why a mosk was mistaken for ICBM launch site. I just hope AI bombs are not relying on geometric analysis alone as that would be the worst way to identify targets. The more i hear about intelligence agencies around the world, I think a crystal ball might work better. They can just employ a fortune teller or two and invest all that money into universities.

I bring mine with me now. Airbeds

If it was really smart it would be a missile 🤣

wow didn't realise the German smart bombs were so effective..

kinda wished you'd mention how desperate they were to jam those they even tried electric shavers to make radio interference

Hello @Simon can you do a video on the East Indian Company. Cheers

Scary bombs

Have you watched the Voyager episode with the AI bomb yet?

They never heed the warnings of science fiction writers, let's give absolute control to the computers, because they are NEVER wrong (he said with much sarcasm)

I am wanting another rubber rescue boat

People always talk about things like Face ID and say things like “about 50% of the time” and it’s clearly untrue. It’s extremely accurate, and anyone who sits down with the phone and demonstrates their point will be proved absolutely incorrect.

FANTASTIC TOPIC & VID!!! 👍😉✌️

Do you have a video about lifeboats?

What is their COST MINUS COST ACTS

How the f*ck has this never been on Nazi super weapons shows? Feels like it's the one weapon that was actually successful

Hey Simon. Eglin (Air Force Base) is pronounced ay-glen. Cheers!

Bombs that didn't make much of an impact... that's pretty amusing if you ask me

Saved nhia's life

We are traveling to other planets now

We are learning to TRAVEL THRU THOUGHT

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How many goddamn youtube channels does this guy have!?

*Why does this video make JDAMs look bad for reasons that don't relate to them? All they do is hit their targets more accurately, saving countless lives in an area that would otherwise be carpet-bombed. Those are failures of intelligence and not of this one munition. Why do people promoting rhetoric do things like this? I'll never understand it. This literally saves countless lives. All of "negative consequences" listed in this video have nothing to do with the JDAM.*

They jets kinda look like FLYING SAUCERS

Did they put julia roberts in a straight jacket in Vinita back in 1979?

Not too many photographs like that

17:34 them's just the drones from ace combat 7 not good

Uhhhh, the bat bomb wasn't radar guided or ever used operationally.....

Once again as smart as the programmer...

You know, the strange thing is the use of laser smart bombs was still objectively worse than using a pigeon.

Do you have anymore SMALL ONES?

Maybe I need a Cricut machine

Uh oh , it's the fritz x .

Still having illegal adds forced into your video by KZfaq I see

When I went in there voluntarily with my dad's help?

Is that were BIRD BRAIN came frommm ?

Hiya Simon

“Egg Lynn” not “Ee Glenn”.

So the weapon from Sniper Elite 4 is real.

See ancient astronauts Kurt vonnegut

hs- 293 not 239

Not only did that happen to us women just from tulsa county 100 beds for us.

thank you . ( 2022 / Oct / 18 )

Believe it or not, there are modern weapons they have no problem using on citizens. I’m in the Deep South and I have been burned, skull aching, non stop pain and burning sensations. Like fiberglass on your skin. We are in a dire situation when the people we turn to in an emergency have your phone caught on a stingray, triggerfish, kingfish or harpoon. Especially in my situation, my daughter attempted suicide and I had to obtain another’s phone and scream into the 911 to get them to allow me to use my phone. They let me suddenly. GA IS RHE WORST. Gainsvillle FL, requests these deluded officials to sign a NDA that’s in direct conflict with our constitution. It was a nice country but it no longer exists as I remember it.

Dear advertiser if you run a ad at the start of the video I will not even consider buying your product that is the most annoying crap

Love your channel, gotta say the intro music isnt great. It doesn’t fit the video. It sounds like I’m about to watch an old Warner bros cartoon show or some sort of comedy show, not a historical piece on guided bombs lol

The Israelis have a bomb they call Spice?!

You mean smart bombs are nothing new?

Torpedoes

Hi there *Sideprojects*! Can you show a bit less video of yourself in all the channels you have, and perhaps instead some illustrations of the things you're talking about? I know I would be more interested.

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Before they were able to determine the radio frequency the bombs operated on so they knew what frequency to jam, I wonder why they didn't use spark gap transmitters as a sort of blunt force approach. The technology is simple and has been around literally for centuries. You just generate a spark, and it throws off radio interference. The more power and the bigger the spark, the more powerful and distantly acting the interference is. The only down side is it jams EVERY frequency. Including ones the allies no doubt used for communication themselves. But even with that problem, they could have used it as a sort of evasive tactic when they knew they were being targeted by a smart bomb. Like deploying flares to throw off a heat-guided weapon. They only use it when absolutely necessary. I've actually designed a spark gap generator radio jammer myself. Though I never built it because such a device would be illegal under FCC regulations and could land me in a heap of trouble. It could do nasty things like interfering with emergency bands for police, fire or ambulance, or interfering with air traffic communications. And basically anything else that use radio. Not that it had a huge distance on it. It mighta worked for like 50 feet or so.

My grandfather was a huge part of the military using gps to guide the bombs instead of lasers. At that time microchips we're still relatively new, and they could only test them one at a time. During Operation Desert Storm, defense contractors contacted my grandfather asking if he could design a machine that could test microchips in bigger batches. He invented 2 machines that tested entire batches at a time, one testing more than the other. My father built the machines. The first few went to American defense contractors, and they were used to make sure the microchips we're all functioning properly so that they could be used in smart bombs.

yup, Skynet, it's already here... we never learn, do we?...

The map was a McDonald's map, they fast food is bad

Bombs: If we destroy our own smaller number of bases the war will be over quicker.. The humans will be so happy!

So, nowdays a target can be destroyed by a single plane with a couple of bombs instead of needed to use dozens of bombers and hundrends of bombs, but look at the prices of modern bombs and planes, just saying.