Airplane Designations Explained 

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@@DingDingTheRU-vidBuddy its japanese not chinese (im pretty sure)

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That would be wrong on the official system as A is pure attack while AV is attack with vtol capability

@@blackopscw7913 soo, F-35B?? It has VTOL capability too, well, specifically STOVL but it still counts because STOVL stands for Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing while VTOL stands for Vertical Take-Off and Landing

@@LordSmallest The F-35 itself isn't VTOL capable, since only the B model is. The base A, and the modified C dont have VTOL.

So is there an A9?

Is S supposed to mean that or is that another instance of misdirection like the U-2?

This made me look up the difference between Surveillance and Reconnaissance.

I feel like I’ve heard it said they were supposed to call it the RS-71 for recon space plane but flipped it because it sounds better as SR.

@@TheObsidianX Strategic Reconnaisance

@@TheObsidianX It was originally officially RS but was read backwards when introduced. To prevent embarrassment of correcting the mistake of those on top it was officially changed SR

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@@jonachamp3946 whats MQ nine? M is modified mission and it has no mission at alll?

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Correct

Back then, F was used to refer to unarmed reconnaissance variants of pursuit planes (the F-5 was a P-38 with its weapons removed and replaced with cameras for photo-recon purposes, the F-6 was an unarmed photo-recon variant of the P-51)

@@nickfury1279 At least, in Air Force use. In the Navy, F was the fighter designation. and they even had an identifier for who made the plane. For instance, the second F in F4F Wildcat meant that it was a Grumman design. M= General Motors, D=Douglas, C=Curtis, Y= Consolidated, F=Grumman, U=Vought, A=Brewster.

The Navy system meant that a plane could have different designations, even inside the Navy. An example is the last variant of the Grumman Wildcat, which was named F4F-8 if it was manufactured by Grumman and FM-2 if it was manufactured by GM's Eastern Aircraft division.

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Many manufacturers also have their own company designation for military designs outside of the USAF tri service designation, like the P-8 Poseidon being a 737-800ERX, or the Lockheed C-141 being the L-300. This is mostly just the case when they’re developed from a civilian aircraft (like the P-8) or if the manufacturer intends/intended to sell the aircraft as a civilian model later (like the L-300). What’s even more interesting is the aircraft from foreign countries that use similar naming systems and completely ignore some of the conventions, like the Embraer C-390, which just so happens to use a numerical value three times that of the C-130 it replaces with Brazil.

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Actually pretty accurate, but it can get a bit more complex. I also feel like talking about stuff so this will be a bit (extremely) long. in no particular order: D actually designates drone control systems, which aren't aircraft, although drone director aircraft are allowed as well under the same designation. H can designate search and rescue, medivac and just helicopter (AH-64 is attack helicopter 64, UH-60 is utility helicopter 64 and so on), helicopter of course being the most common. E doesn't simply mean electronically equipped as that would be all aircraft, but rather special electronic mission, usually early warning, radar jamming or something else like that. F does mean fighter, but the most common mistake I see is people assuming that is the aircrafts primary job, in reality aircraft that only have air to air as a secondary defense while primarily being for ground strike can also have this designation. M means multi mission, I'm not sure what you mean by "military mission" tbh, thats just all of them, it also used to mean missile carrier, and then mine countermeasure, those were both dropped when the navy stopped having use for them. W does in fact mean weather reconnaissance, but it will not be used alone, always with another letter (generally C, just like tankers) (example: WC-130). X means experimental, but also aircraft designed to carry out experiments not directly related to the aircraft (flying laboratories would receive the X designation). Z does mean planned when used as a status, just as J and N are used, however Z also used to mean lighter than air, to my knowledge this is no longer recognized. L does mean laser equipped, but this was dropped quite rapidly, with the failure of the YAL-1 airborne laser aircraft, it may come back now that lasers are coming back as well, it also means cold weather equipped, although thats basically all aircraft now. V in addition to VTOL/STOL (The OV-10 for example was a short takeoff observation aircraft) means VIP transportation when appended to another letter, now exclusive to presidential (and by transfer the vice president) transportation aircraft, the VC-25, the presidential 747, is an example of such a designation. I in fact does not exist as a designation, not even retired or rarely used like many of them, which is why you couldn't find it. Of course, the greatest of them all, P, it is only used as Patrol now, but it used to be used for Pursuit, as you listed, which was generally a fighter or interceptor. A will likely be retiring soon actually as its quite obsolete, every year for quite some time now the USAF has submitted plans to retire the A-10, the senate has denied these plans every time, it will likely take the aircraft seeing serious combat to convince the senate to approve its retirement as the USAF has been trying to do. The video also stated that the A-10 is the lone example of the A designation, this is not entirely true, excluding aircraft designated AC (AC-130 is quite a famous example), the A-29 Super Tucano currently holds this designation as well, and is possibly going to be one of the last to hold the designation, as it is the only fully modernized dedicated ground strike aircraft Anyway, I'm done pretending to know anything and talking too much.

@@_TheRealMud the A designation and it's retirement or not with the Hog is indicative of the strange place the military often finds itself. I expect the A-10 to eventually be retired purely from running out of parts. But Fighter/Attack aircraft are both expensive and fairly fragile. So something will come along that's more resistant to ground fire for that role when a whole air strike isn't needed. Seeing an AQ wouldn't be all that surprising now that I think about it (Ground-Attack drone)

You have to consider that prior to 1962 there was no real standard naming or numbering convention for aircraft. Which is why you have aircraft like the TBF-Avenger, SBD-Dauntless, the F4U Corsair and the F4F Wildcat. And why there is no real consistency between the numbering of the "P" aircraft (P-51, P-38 P-47 P-61 etc). Interestingly enough there is a similar naming convention in place for Naval Ships as well. CV, CVA, CVE, CVL, CVN are all designations for aircraft carriers. CC, CA, CL, CG are designations for cruisers, and DD, DDE, DDR, DDL DDG were used as designations for destroyers.

I would most likely be Interceptor

So you could have a aircraft named the YEET-69

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Imagine they didn't make the bomb in drop test not 50MT

@@BenedictF79B even after 50MT explosion scientists were scared that it caused irreversible environmental catastrophe, so...

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IIRC a very large percentage of the blast energy went straight up into the upper layers of the atmosphere, making the bomb less efficient, in it's effects on ground targets, than the same amount of fission material/effort being used in several smaller nukes.

still good tools. The B-52 will be over 100 years old before its retired. Thankfully this isn't some rotten tool like Russia hands out

@@d36williams The Soviet machines were definitely quantity over quality, sometimes accompanied by a list of specific feature requirements, thanks to the way the Party set targets in such a vertical way. Russian machines are a definite improvement, or at least they were before slipping well down the line again. I suspect learning from the Soviet way of running things (ie ranging from poorly to outright screwing themselves to be more evil with no benefit) is why China's military technology is so much better than Russia's ever has been, as well as their ability to manufacture complex systems domestically - big issue for Russia atm since they can't repair equipment with so many parts locked behind sanctions. As an aside, I finally got to see a B-52 a year ago. It flew from Japan to NZ for an air show, made a few passes and headed straight back to base. Did not realise how bloody massive those things are, dwarfed our Air Force's little C-130's 😂

@@d36williams HOLD THE FUCK UP, the B-52 was made in 1955 ? I always thought the thing was launched in the mid 70s, i never thought that it's all the way back in '55. That makes it almost 68 years old now.

@@darkySp The number 52 is roughly the year the contract was released. In the USAF, we like to say “When the last B-21 is flown to the boneyard at Davis-Montham, the pilots will get their ride home in a B-52.

Were still flying the Chinook somehow. That bird is an absolute beast though!

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so basically it has a radar almost ice proof that can strategically see enemy forces on the ground and its base H is a black hawk

What you said isn't unclass...

based

Cant tell if that last part is real or a reference to iron man

That makes sense the a-10 is about as fast and around the same altitude as a ww2 plane

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Hey, they did hit with great precision, just not great accuracy lol.

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Tbf that's super accurate by airstrike standards.

It was just a warning shot.

LMFAO the accuracy is just too bad for him, maybe just a small angle of precision will add accuracy maybe LMFAO the humor is so good

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Isnt a drone unmanned?

@@______1043 AFAIK, drones are controlled by operators on the ground and UAV's can be self-flying... not sure though. Could be the other way around

Hmmm V22 Osprey

@@atlas-3541 Was misnamed. It should have the C designator as it's a cargo aircraft.

cargo

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I think the SR-71 is my favorite machine ever built.

or the F-117 "Nighthawk"

Ah yes, Attack aircraft 12. Ah yes (x2) anti submarine reconnaissance 71

The a12 and sr71 are related, aren't they?

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Yeah but why YEH-60B

That’s vague. We know it’s an electronic warfare helicopter but what does it do? Electronic warfare is used for many things.

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@@UltraMagaFan you dont recognize it from independce day? they have it fixed with lights to try and communicate to aliens :P

the YEH-60B was mainly used to detect enermys on the battlefeild

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@@amurdera4409 Da fuq??

They did so because the pilots were basically dead if they dropped 100mt tsar, but with 50 or 60 mt they faced smaller chances of dying

You know it's powerful if the Soviets lower its blast yield

You stated a total of: Two Fighter aircraft, Two Bomber aircraft, and, One Cargo aircraft

Also it wouldn't fit Tu-95, largest bomber in soviet air force

Its dangerous if it made the Russians scared

@@krxzovic That doesn't make sense, the yield was lowered by replacing fissile material with a tamper, not by making it smaller.

What the fuck? What does that have to do with this?

@@somedudes6455 bro he mentioned in the video that the tsar bomba had 100 megaton but it was actually obly 50. We are Politely correcting him

Lol, prototYpe. I always thought Y comes from experimental being X and Y follows X in the sequence of development and the alphabet.

Should have been named WX-2 or WX-1 or something along there. WX literally meens (W=)Weather (X=)Reaserch.

@@axelfoley5265 X is Experimental? Not research?

@@LordSmallest X is the status designation for Experimental status, but it is also the mission designation for Research.

@@StickyBomb0512 I didn't know that, ty

Imagine they added another U....

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The F-1XX planes are called the century series and basically represent bleeding edge technology at the time they were released. Although some of the YF-1XX planes are just captured foreign planes.

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@BloxyHD Just put a longer fuze in there and morr parachutes so it would still be in the air after the fuze goes off

I don't think so. It can't do cargo because it's full of guns, so it wouldn't be used for cargo. I think it's that the C-130 is the base platform, but the preceding "A" is the modifier, so it's a C-130 modified for an attack role.

It carries cargo. And the cargo is hellfire. Sweet, sweet, hellfire. (The A in AC means while it was originally for Cargo, it is converted specifically for Attack purposes and not cargo.)

Well C is the base platform and A stands for attack. Makes sense cuz the AC-130 is a gunship and gunships satisfy the attack role hence the A

Gun,bomb,and ammunition are cargo too

yes, Starting from the C-130 Cargo, it is modified to have Weaponry to attack ground targets

SR was used to indicate Strategic Reconnaissance, a non-standard designation.

quite sure they don't fly over oceans but ok.

Tbh it was a typo it was designed to be designated R-71

Yeah that's what confused me

Cus Russia was scared of the effects, and you know something is scary if Soviet Russia got scared of it

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@@Sp00kq it was Khrushchev. Gorbachev was the one in power when USSR collapsed. He's still alive

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@@sirsplintfastthepungent1373 ?

Fixed wing (including swept wing), as opposed to rotary wing. There is no category for variable geometry wing.

The F-14 is a fixed-wing aircraft. Yeah, it can move the sweep angle of it's wings, but it is still considered a fixed-wing aircraft. The word fixed, i would presume, means that the wing is stationary in relation to the plane. I.e. the wing doesn't generate lift by moving itself. Unlike a helicopter, which moves it's wings (the blades) in order to generate lift.

@@gordonrichardson2972 rotary wings mostly refers to helis, right?

@@A.i.r_K rotary wing is helicopters. Helicopter rotors are especially rotating wings or airfoils.

@@Luna-4L0n5 Ah thank you for the clarification!

Yea, basically tzar = sar, whilst czar = zar

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Come to Jacksonville Florida. There is AWKAYS one of these flying around. It flys so low you can see the probe arm sticking out the back.

Seriously, that’s what it stands for.

I was under that impression as well, I thought the 50 mt one was actually tested but they designed a 100 mt version as well

It is 50 megaton but It was supposed to be 100 megatons. What a nuke.

No, you should be more impressed by the PILOT. Every good fighter pilot knows 1 wing is essential, 2 wings are a luxury.

@@kendellmoore8367 ur not wrong about the pilot, i just didn't know planes were that stable

@@4dirt2racer0 Yeah it's crazy he didn't even know he was missing a wing he later stated if he had known he would've ejected haha

@@kendellmoore8367 dam really??? I missed that part completely Im goin to have to watch again im usually pretty good at guessing or estimating the outcome or results of something, i love when somethings completely counter intuitive like this lol im weird

That's a Russian measuring tape. You have to convert it.

Yea but the missing wing is real

Im thinking Z is one of the later modifications, with the 1 being a modification of Z, but its so minor you cant just add another variant

The ah1 Cobra is much older

Or a strategic bomber F. F117