Brit Reacts To AMERICA OBLITERATES HALF OF IRAN’s NAVY IN 8 HOURS! 

Iran: "We blew up an American boat, that will show them!" Japan: "That was a bad idea, I did that once. They dropped the Sun on me. Twice"

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Radars 'lock on' by shining a bright narrow beam on the target to designate it. That's how the missile knows which of the various objects in the field of view it's supposed to go after. Basically, the plane points a spotlight at the enemy plane to mark it out for the missile and tell it "This is the specific thing I need you to kill." Except it's a radio-frequency spotlight instead of a visible frequency of light. Just like it's easy to tell if someone points a spotlight directly at you, it's easy to make a sensor that detects the radar version of it and warn the pilot that he's being singled out by an enemy radar.

There is a famous quote from General George Patton - "Your job is NOT to die heroically for your country. It's to make some poor dumb SOB on the other side die heroically for HIS country."

"It's never a war crime the first time" is Canada's Military creed!

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OMG, I spent months in the Persian gulf aboard the USS Ranger during this operation. This was in the 80's before the internet, email or even cable TV. Good times! Although while you are onboard the ship they don't tell you everything that the ship is engaged in. We have a saying in the Navy, "loose lips sink ships."

I think the most remarkable part of this whole thing is that they had 3 battle groups on station ready to go in 4 days. Also unrelated those numbers were just the ships that were visible, there is no chance that there wasn't at least two submarines prowling while this was going down. If the US really wanted to they could've easily done all that damage completely undetected (funnily enough the ship that would've been most likely to detect a submarine was the soviet destroyer) but this mission was also to send the don't fuck with us message so it had to be clear exactly who destroyed all of that shit

It was worth noting that at the time this happened, the Enterprise alone had about as much displacement as all of Iran's Navy. America is a global naval power that, by most measures, is ahead of the nearest three rivals combined several times over. How efficient our defense spending is can be debated, but we absolutely get some terrifying capacities from it.

It is NOT just because of the US's overwhelming military might. From Day ONE we have never allowed a country of any size to attack us and win. We defeated the world's super power twice. Or once and a mutual cease fire the 2nd time. Every muslim country in the Med attacked us in the 18th century when we had almost no military and we kicked their a$$ even though they were 5 thousand miles away. So it is determination too.

Meanwhile, Japan is screaming at Iran, "DON'T TOUCH AMERICA'S SHIPS!" Yea, that's a lesson Japan learned after December 7th, 1941, but apparently Iran never read a history book.

The determination to fight against seemingly insurmountable odds, in other words to die on your feet instead of live on your knees, is exactly why the American colonies were able to beat the British in the first place. Cheers mate!

Gotta do more of him! It's mostly American military stuff he does but not always, and his stories are always fascinating regardless.

12:30 ish ... in simplest terms... 'locked on' .... a radar sends out an active signal, which bounces back. the target can detect that radar wave hitting it. a lock on is a steady signal on the target. that is what is being detected when they get a 'locked on' warning, the continued radar waves hitting the target vessel/aircraft.

Retreating to fight another day is sometimes wise, as demonstrated by George Washington. Despite various opinions about him, he's rarely if ever labeled a coward or unpatriotic. This strategy is known as a tactical retreat. But I guess Iran missed that memo from history.

To answer your question about "how do aircraft know they've been target locked". In order to use a radar to target a unit, it needs to switch to a tracking mode (in most cases for a fighter aircraft "Track While Scan"). This changes the way the radar sends a signal to being a more direct beam to the target. Fighter aircraft generally have a Radar Warning Receiver, which indicates this change in radar signal and alerts the aircraft's crew.

America has 3 of the top 15 naval power in the world • Navy • Coast Guard • Army fleet

Easiest way to think of radar tracking and lock is like a flashlight shing on you. If it sweeps past you then you know it is looking for you and if it is constantly lighting you up, it has a lock and bad things are likely to follow.

1 of the best Reagan quotes. The 9 words Americans should fear. " I'm from the government I am here to help.

Radar works by sending out these like, waves of signals, which may or may not bounce off other planes and return a contact. Basically a planes RWR (Radar warning receiver) detects these signals and based on the type of signal it detects, displays the corresponding warning. Like getting locked on vs getting a missile fired at you etc, these things use different types of signals. More modern RWRs can actually detect the type of radar locking you and sometimes tell you the type of threat that’s locking you, like what plane or if it’s a ground based missile system etc (This is all just my understanding of it, I could be partially wrong about some of this). But if you wanna look it up, you’re thinking about an RWR

Imagine RADAR as you carrying around a bare lightbulb. When it's dark and your "radar" is off, you can't see, but nobody can see you either unless they know where to look. Passive RADAR would be like turning that lightbulb on to illuminate the area around you. You can see things around you pretty well now, but others in the dark can also see you. Now you've found something interesting to look at, so you cover the lightbulb with a reflector and point it like a flashlight. Since all the light is being forced in one direction, that object is now *much* brighter, but if you point it at another person, they'll be able to see it immediately. RADAR uses pretty much the same principle with nonvisible light. So when someone switches from the "looking around the room mode" to "flashlight mode", the intensity of the received signal will go way up which would cause your RWR (radar warning receiver) alarm to go off.

On your question about radar locks, basically all radar sends out radio waves to detect and/or track (as with Fire Control Radars) targets. When an aircraft gets illuminated by the radio wave from the radar emitter, they have a receiver known as a Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) on the aircraft's fuselage that's able to signal the pilot that they're being tracked on radar. Similarly on naval vessels, the RWR signal is received and gets sent to the Combat Information Center (CIC) where personnel can know that their ship is being tracked on radar.

Fun bit of trivia: When you fire a bullet, it will travel in a straight line for a while, then start to fall as it loses momentum and succumbs to gravity. This is called bullet drop. "point blank" is the distance that the bullet will travel before that happens, before you have to account for bullet drop. So point blank range is the range at which you can simply put the crosshair on the target and pull the trigger. Though in air and naval combat this is a little different, at least in the modern era since naval artillery isn't quite as essential as it once was. Much of air and naval combat today relies on missiles which have not just maximum ranges, but minimum ones as well. For example, the primary short range missile used by the US Air Force is rite sidewinder, which has a minimum engagement distance of two miles (a little over 3km)

The acronym FAFO hadn't been invented yet, but Iran did it anyway. Hope they enjoyed the lesson. Happy to repeat it, any time they'd like.

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12:41 I mean for a target lock on, they have to focus a beam directly onto the target, the target can also pick up the beam.

In God we trust others we track

"Don't fuck with America" is as much a meme as it is the truth. We spend so much on our military and nations are STILL surprised....

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You really need to watch until the very end. Some of the comments he makes during the walk-off are priceless.

This guy is a great storyteller.

Reagan was a lot of fun to listen to back in the 80's, the way he worded certain things was great entertainment. His proportional part is well remembered. During that same time he referred to Iran in a potential war, "They're not that stupid". Epic take from Reagan. lol

The aircraft have an RWS “Radar Warning System” that detects the opposing radar and alerts the pilots that something or someone is locked onto them. Same for the Naval vessels I believe. I worked on Marine Corps aircraft long ago so I’m sure our systems are considerably more sensitive currently.

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Radar works by radio signals being sent and bouncing off the plane and sending the signal back to the source. That’s how they determine altitude,airspeed and so on…similar to a Bats Echo location. The plane has a sensor to alert the pilot when they’re being “painted” by radar

The Fat Electrician has great content. Most of his videos are about the American military. He has two UK centered videos. Check out The de Havilland Mosquito and Douglas Bader. The UK plays a minor role in his recent video on The Berlin Airlift.

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Gripping story!! I'm not a war fan but even I was sucked into this storyteller genius and how he told this story...even my toes curled up waiting for what happens next

Aircraft and ships (and some ground vehicles) have what are essentially radio antennae's dotted around them specifically geared to detect radio signals, including radar (RAdio Detection And Ranging). A destroyer has a few dozen of them and if someone is talking on a radio or aiming their radar guided weapons on them the crew can tell which direction it's coming from. And there's a certain bandwidth that is specific for weapons radars as opposed to communication radio, satellite communications, radio telescopes, weather radar (doppler), etc.

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“How can they tell” Easy… how does radar work? Radar emits a Radio Pulse, that pulse gets sent out bounces off objects and returns to the radar. Can that be detected? Yes… if someone is locked on to you, they are hitting you with constant radio pulses and your radar can tell you it’s detecting constant pulses that it didn’t send out.

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To answer your "how" question, its a similar tech like the one used in after-market "radar-detectors" for automobiles. To alert drivers of a traffic cop's speed radar gun.

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Well, any military aircraft has sensors on them, ships too, that can detect radar, and can tell the difference between search and track radar. Search radar is general, look at this area and find things. Track radar is for targeting.

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2 reasons why the US was able to accomplish this. 1. The Iranian Navy during the event wasn't a very big navy so the act of sinking a few ships equated to half of their navy. 2. Iran's navy is localized to the waters they need. The US operates blue water fleets. This means the US Navy can be practically anywhere on the globe there's contiguous blue while Iran's navy is stuck relatively near their harbors and points of interest. So instead of finding a needle in a haystack, it became finding a needle in a sandbox. Still difficult, but a lot more manageable.

The way it works is that they have sensors (receivers that detect signals in radio bands known to be used by enemy threat systems) that can detect enemy radar signals that are 'painting' them; and based on what the signals are doing you can tell if you've been 'locked'; typically, the radar goes into high PRF (the pulse rate doubles and the beam narrows onto the target, to help burn through countermeasures and 'lock' the target) and the sensor on the platform being painted (i.e., our aircraft or ship, the enemy's 'target'), can therefore detect that they are no longer just being observed, but that the radar is in a state to support a weapon launch and guide to to the 'target', i.e. OUR ship. This change in the signal is a clear sign that the engagement has moved from a 'check them out' stage to an 'engage the target' stage. This is when responses to such incidents get kinetic.

odds are the ship radioed HQ, told them what the americans said and were probably chewed out then told to attack the ship which is why they said 'we are only following orders' on the second communication.

Targeting radars are a different frequency and intensity than "average" radars. The returns from Targeting radars are more intense because the missiles require more information to make them occupy the same space at the same time. That's my layman's knowledge of the subject.

Think of a radar like a flashlight (torch) in the dark you use it to find things. If youre looking for people you find them, but if you're keeping eye on one particular person you keep the light on them. RWR, a Radar Warning Reciver can "see" other radar waves, it also knows when when that frequency of watching increases which indicates a guidance lock for missiles

What a country like Iran needs to realize is that is a small portion of the U.S. ships and aircraft.

Thanks for reacting to this, he is the best story teller

Please more of this guy. I like watching him.

Definitely check out more of his videos!

I love the way he tells the story.

The tanker escort mission was called Operation Earnest Will. When we would enter or leave the gulf through the Straits of Hormuz, Iran would light us up with their Silkworm missile radars. And steaming around in mined waters is rather nerve-racking. I was an EW2(SW) on the USS Merrill (DD-976), SAG B, during this engagement. We wound up doing all the shooting on the Sassan oil platform because Lynde B. McCormick's gun had dropped sync and was "walking" and they couldn't fix it in time. After the engagement we had a joke: How does the Ayatollah inspect his fleet... Glass Bottomed boat. The Soviet Udaloy destroyer was gathering intel. As to how a ship knows it's being targeted, that's the Electronic Warfare Technician's job. The EW's have equipment to intercept the radar and be able to identify what kind of radar it is and what mode it is in. I know this because that was my job. A few details wrong, but it doesn't detract from the story and NO ONE gets ALL the details right.. I love Nic's presentation. I've seen most of his videos and they are awesome.

the best explanation about being "target locked" came from my husband in the Army and whose grandfather was a Naval Commander- Imagine i'm looking for you in a dark forest. I would have a flashlight that i would move back and forth to see. There are trees and animals but they are not what I want so i keep moving it. When I find you, I would keep my flashlight pointed straight towards you. If you move, I move the flashlight to keep you lit up. I can increase the brightness and focus the beam of light to see you better. You can tell that I have you target locked because you have eyes and are wondering who has a flashlight out here. That is the premise for "target locked". And you would know the position of anyone else who was out with you so you would know that whoever has the flashlight is not someone you know. (the beam of light would the be the green line you see travel across the radar while navigating the ship

I really like the Fat Electrician he is a master storyteller. I really like it when he makes funny out of the story in good taste. And you're a good host and reactor. That's why I keep coming back to you. Hey just leave our boats alone (smiles)

Your own radar array can pick up the signals from another active radar... that how you can tell if you've been locked on to. (When a specific target is being ranged, there will be a narrow intense radar beam, it's the radio equivalent of a spotlight.)

There are radar detectors on most naval vessels and aircraft. They detect certain frequencies of radar that are used for targeting systems and they are very directional. So if you get a high band Impact from a radar in the certain frequency. Then your target locked and you can expect an incoming missile. This is why it is very rare for military to target another military's asset because it's effectively saying I'm going to shoot.

To answer your question. Planes can detect when they're being locked onto through a device called a radar warning receiver. The radar beam emitted from an enemy aircraft or missile will be picked up by that and a warning will sound in the pilot's helmet. Heat seeking or optically guided missiles are harder to detect because they don't emit radar waves, but there are other ways to detect them too.

You can tell when you have been locked onto by the steady beam of X-band radar (microwave emmisions) and it sets off an alarm in your early warning system.

When you're "locked on" you get a narrow beam locked on to you. The Radar warning receiver (RWR) picks It up and tells you that you are locked on. Imagine a search light that's searching an area. This is the scan mode where the search light is moving in circles. Then when it finds what it is looking for, it'll concentrate on that and follow it. This is the track mode. However, modern radars have a "track while scam" (TWS) mode that gives you no warning. If this is the case, you have to assume you are being targeted and fired up on and fly according to that.

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Never panic in any situation,if you panic it makes everything worse

Planes and ships know a radar lock occurs because of having a radar receiver. Radar is just a chopped up radio signal, so engineering a receiver to capture it is quite easy.

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They know becuase each radar system has their own distinct wave pattern. Radar warning systems will detect the incoming radar beam, cross-reference the wave pattern against its internal library of know threat wave patterns, and then alert the pilot (or ship in this case) that they are being targetted.

12:36 depends on the missles, Habitual Linecrosser explains it wall, but it can dect the single of the missle like knowing u are being scanned

Just like to point out, that was a single CSG (Carrier Strike Group) there are 11 CSG's total

For your question @ 12:33 about radar warning receivers. It's actually quite simple in principle to make a machine to detect when someone is shining their radar at you. Simplified, a radar system is just a radio, it transmits radio waves, then listens to and times the reflections. If you build a machine that is simply an antenna and a receiver tuned for the radio frequencies your enemy's radar uses (there's only a limited amount of frequencies that are useful so it's not like you need to cover a wide range) and make it set off an alarm when it detects something you've technically got a radar warning receiver. With a bit of R&D you can make one that tells you what direction the signal is coming from, what kind of radar is pointed at you, if they're locking you or not, ect. It's basically just half of a radar set but set up to listen for other people's radar signals not your radar signals.

Found this answer about Target lock on in fighter jets. So there are radio receivers on different parts of the plane. These can detect when radar hits them. Different radar systems do things differently so it can also tell the difference between different radar systems. It can tell when the aircraft has been locked on rather than just pinged by radar because a radar lock on is an intense beam of radar energy that continuously tracks the aircraft. So it's constant and high powered. A radar lock does this so it can feed very accurate positional data to the weapon system. Normal radar, which will be sending out a wider beam and so less intense for anything it's hitting on gives more general direction and range. However, this doesn't tell you anything if the system locking onto you using infrared (Heat Seeker) because that's a passive system so nothing from that is hitting the plane. It's just looking at the plane and detecting the plane's heat.

Us planes have receiver boxes that search through radar frequencies. When it detects a radar signal on a preset frequency it alerts the pilot with and alarm light and audio alarm.

Its called a radar warning receiver that will let them know they they are being looked at by radar then locked then fired at. It will also let them know what is looking at them etc etc.

Planes, ships. land targets can always tell if they have been locked on to by a radar. It is the same thing as a radar detector in your car, except much more sophisticated. They can tell if a radar has swept them casually or targeted them for attack. A sweeping pass is performed by low bandwidth radar, and targeting is performed by high frequency precise radar. If a plane or ship detects a continuous high frequency radar focused on them, that is a radar lock.

Iranians weren’t learning their World War histories well. Terrible idea to go up against the most badass superpower in the World. Love the video.

Nitpick, the A-6 bombardier does not sit behind the pilot. The seating positions are side by side.

I am not an expert so take this with a grain of salt. So Radar uses Microwaves that are meant to be sent out and reflect back to the receiver to see objects. You can tell how far away it is based on how long it took to come back. All a plane or ship would have to knowit is locked is if it receiving microwave radiation consistently. This is probably wrong but how I understand it to best of my knowledge.

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You better ask Japan what happens when you touch our stuff?😂

The usual way they can tell a lock is from the continuous wave radar hitting them. A search radar uses some variation of the spinning dish that most of us associate with radar. That is good for detecting that something is out there and an approximate location. In order to actually hit it, you need far more precise information. The track radar looks a lot like the search radar except it does not spin and it uses a much higher frequency (higher frequency = better resolution). It looks around in the general location given by the search radar until it gets a good solid return. It then locks on giving some very precise targeting data. This also acts as a guide to radar guided missiles that use the ships track radar return to home in on the target. So a search radar give you an intermittent bleep as their beam sweeps past you. The track radar once on to you, stays on to you. So instead of a slow Bleep....bleep.....bleep, you get a continuous BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. On modern fighters, the pilot does not listen to the beams directly, instead a computer does. It ignores the search pattern but if it catches a continuous beam it sounds an alarm. That means you have about 4 seconds to live unless you start banking hard and throwing chaff or decoys. Needless to say people react very badly and very quickly to getting locked onto.

2- 1000 Lb bombs is what he meant! The one airplane dropped a single 1000 lb bomb down the smoke stack’

I'm normally not very patriotic. Like even on the 4th of July I'm very mildly 'America, Fuck Yeah!' but I like this guy he's hilarious. That 5 Gum bit had me good for a while.

Many outmatched armies who knew they would not win continue to fight purely out of defiance.

Yes the planes have defensives that turn on when they are targeted. The amout of information is a lot. It can give plane type, speed and altitude etc.

The A6 pilots who said they fired at us first reminded me of kids fighting on the playground saying he hit me first

You can tell you have been locked on by something called ESM. Training also tells you what kind of ship is sending the radar signal that is locking on to you and what their capabilities are. Often, it can tell you exactly what ship it is. Oh, btw, all this information is available in a bookstore or public library or online, so I am not divulging classified information. Many sonar and periscope plus ESM systems are are passive listening devices covered by radar absorbing material that cannot be detected. You just have to listen. Many other countries do not have this technology, therefore their ships are very noisy and easily detected

To paraphrase "No poor dumb SOB ever won a war dying for their country. They won by making the *other* poor SOB die for theirs".-US General George Patton So yeah, patriotism is fine and dandy but suicidal actions like that are just stupid.

Electronic equipment receives the radar pulse that has a steady pulse locked in .. lights and noise

High frequency radar is detectable by the onboard radar similar to an active sonar ping.

I love that Reagan quote, but he cut off the first part of the quote. "The nine scariest words in the English language are 'I'm from the Government and I'm here to help'."

In MOST all modern fighter planes and most warplanes period, they have a variety of radar warnings, while passive scans ARE detected, they ar typically harmless, but FOCUSED radars ARE NOT HARMLESS, focused scans (RADAR LOCK) are required to transmit needed data to the weapons that they are intending to shoot at, In U.S. warplanes, it is called RWR or rear warning radar, although it can detect radar from all directions, I do not know what other countries call theirs, but there is also something that all ALLIED aircraft have that our enemies and potential enemies do not have, it is called IFF or (IDENTIFY FRIEND or FOE) a similar system is used on warships, to prevent friendly fire incidents.

We (Navy sailors) called this the “Day of a thousand rounds”.

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So to answer the missile lock radar system question .. The main technology that a military aircraft takes advantage of to lock on and track an enemy aircraft is its onboard mounted radar. Aircraft monitors generally have two modes: search and track. In search mode, the radar sweeps a radio beam across the sky in a zig-zag pattern.

Radars are a certain frequency of sound wave. When that frequency is detected you know you're locked on by another plane.

Fighter jets have radar warning receivers, which not only alert when you're being locked on, but also let's you know exactly what kind of missile would be fired, so the pilot already know which countermeasures to take

They have a Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) which tells them theyre being tracked by radar. Itll also notify of the kind of track and whether there's a radar lock and a missile has been launched unless its launched without a lock, where the plane just tells the missile where to go before using its own seeker in the last second. The only time you won't know you're being tracked is via a passive radar track where they aren't scanning with their radar, instead they're just looking at the radar hitting them and tracking that way. Some can launch missiles whilst passively tracking as the missiles have their own radar seeker. The missile will go to where the plane tells it its receiving radar signal from and then just before impact, the plane will hand control over to the missile which has its own radar seeker which activates. This doesn't leave much time for the enemy to react to the missile. Even if your radar is being jammed, you can launch missiles via home-on-jam which looks at where jamming is coming from and use its own separate radar seeker to locate and kill the enemy plane.