DIAMOND-X -- Fin Controlled Rocket -- Flight Test 1 

Fantastic project, and great video! Roll reversal is a real mess :)

Man is out here putting Lockmart to shame!! This is seriously one of the coolest projects I've ever seen, remember to charge the Navy 100x the cost!

The youtube algorithm hasn't let me eat this good in a long time. we feastin

As a veteran of supporting the LGM-25C Titan-II system in the late 1960’s, I find your project fascinating, especially the launch silo. Amazing effort in all regards!

Amazing work! Up next: Nosecone integrated infrared seeker...

Thank you for taking the time to make this great video. I enjoy seeing the progress you make and how much effort you put in to get it working the way you want, well done!

This truly is amazing, had this video saved for a week or so and just came to it. Great work and hope nothing but the best for your future launches/projects which I’ll be waiting for

A great watch, thanks for your time and effort putting this together.

This is mad good skill right here. That silo was amazing

Great engineering! Looking forward to the next models and flights.

I've been dreaming of doing something like this for years. Kudos and thanks for sharing.

Its very interesting to see this video after recently getting into the rocketry part of youtube. I belivee youre the first person ive seen to rely so heavily on simulation to refine your rocket designs!

That is sweet dude, super impressed by the variety of skills and knowledge on display here

Wooow! This is really cool!!! Thank you for taking the time to film, comment and edit all of that! Have a wonderful day!

This is some really awesome work. The MK 41 style launcher is top notch, and I appreciate the nod to the Navy. Will certainly be watching for more updates!

This is some seriously cool stuff and you're doing great work, earned a subscriber! I look forward to seeing what you do with this in the future.

I was looking for ideas for rockets for my RC jet and RU-vid directed me here. This is awesome. Thank you, RU-vid. You finally didn't disappoint me for once.

Great project, and very well-organized presentation! Quality stuff, I really enjoyed it.

Very cool project! Looking forward to your future builds!

So glad that I stumbled across your channel. This is an amazing project. I am really looking forward to seeing how it shapes up.

Great project and congratulations on successful launch 🎉

Hey this is a really cool project and a nice video, good job!

Cannot wait to see where else you can take this project! Definitely got a follow from me!

Amazing project!!

Dude whattttttttttttt! I am definitely gonna subscribe and hit the bell notification! Amazing work bro keep doing what you do.

Amazing work

I respect your patience.

If you lengthen the strakes to the fwd end of the payload bay, you've replicated the Standard missile which has been virtually unchanged aerodynamically since the 1960s - indicating a very successful design. Like with Sidewinder, you've gone from front canard control, to rear control (on AIM-9X with TV ) Have a look where the aargm-er missile is going: (2, blended) strakes along the body, but @ 45° angles from the rear control surfaces ... otherwise, looking a lot like ... Standard

Impressive work

Especially moving waypoints would be fascinating to see

Whoa! I'm glad youtube algo is giving you some love 'cuz this is some very impressive work.

Awesome Video!!

Very cool! Good job buddy!

Commenting to feed the YT algorithm. Awesome seeing a launch view without it constantly rolling.

Out of curiosity, do you have an MS, or a Ph.D? If not, you may want to consider writing all of this up as a paper and consider submitting it to be published. Great work and I'm glad to see someone working on something I've only ever considered working on, but am simply too busy to do myself at the moment. Amazing work. I do have so many more questions, but this is neither the place nor the forum for it, Good luck!

A thought I had long ago was a camera looking back at the launch pad and feeding corrections (like a mouse in a way) to a gimbaled motor (or even simpler and lighter control using 3 fins and a linear solenoid (coil) controlling the trailing edge of the fins).

VERY cool! liked and subbed! keep em coming❤️

bro is out here doing learning litteral rocket science in his free time, respect

Well done man!

Impressive. Most impressive.

Amazing project

This is so awesome!

U put a lot of people including me and a lot of youtubers to shame. Damn this project and ur work is interesting. best regards and I hope ur projects is used for good goals

Insane rocket. I don't know why you don't have more subs

would be cool if you had an endless government budget to test a slew of rockets with gps guidance to land exactly where you program it without a recovery system. But for now its great seeing your designs, telemetry data, etc. Keep up the great work, highly commendable :)

good work friend this is insane.

پروزه سخت و دیدنی بود شما خیلی دانا هستید ارزوی موفقيت ❤

Amazing video this is well worth a sub!

Hope this application for work at Spacex works out for you :) Very cool. Unimaginable project level, for me. I wish I could do stuff like this. Quite amazing.

OMG! That is soooooo cool!

roll reversal was noted with pilots in ww2 who exceeded the airpseed limits in dives. The ones who lived without their aircraft breaking up discovered their elevators would act in reverse at high enough speeds. so, pulling back as normal to decrease the dive would push them harder towards the ground.

Pretty cool project

Phenomenal work! I wonder how high you can send one of these in the future

Very interesting, thank you, subscribed.

I am a simple man I see guided rocket , i subscribe

Excellent channel, thank you for sharing all of your hard work. Have you considered preloading your linkages to eliminate backlash in the system?

Brilliant!

Awesome video. You got my sub.

This is so cool

Amazing!!!

way to much effort to have such little views tbh, awesome rocket design!!

Awesome modular design. Great CFD skills. Best stabilization seen so far on youtube. You could probably try to design gimbaling for the booster next, and make a real missile.

Yea i first thought you just wanted to make a sam xD But this is probably the best replica of a missile that i ever heard about.

My guy is really just out here designing missiles on youtube.

if your control planes are on the same axis as the fixed planes, move them off axis.. the airflow disturbance of the front fins will affect the laminar efficiency of the rear fins.

Very impressive, wish i had the time to work on something like this. Have you considered putting the servos up front and running linkages down to the fins internally? You could move the bulk of the mechanism fore and open up more space for the motor.

This is amazing work. Awesome job!!!!!!

Damm cool video man.

Great Video :) What software did you use to simulate the flight?

Awesome!

Super cool build, I was wondering why you didn't make the static fins retractable so you could be stable on launch and maneuverable in the air.

Your work is truly inspiring, and that's no joke. I am currently developing a flight controller for a quadcopter using the backstepping control technique. And please, I would like to know if the flight simulations that you show in the video are made with Matlab? or do you use another program? Greetings from Cusco!!!

The other BPS Space! Really cool; instant subscribe from me.

When I eventually get missile launchers in my backyard, I'd get Lafayette Systems to make them. Great video

mind blowing

neat stuff

Why does the alg only recommend you now? Subbed and notifications are on!

Hey man. Great work. I’m looking to also learn all of these things just like yourself. Where would you advise people like me to start. How did you learn, what resources do you recommend, etc. much appreciated ❤

I actually work with teams of professional engineers in the space industry. I’ve worked at a major space launch company you’ve definitely heard of. And you are putting those teams to shame. I’m a pretty old machinist so I’ve seen the rate of technological change going all the way back to the 1980’s when I first worked on avionics "computers" the size of double door refrigerators. The hinges on the cabinet were the size of your whole control system. I feel like you young guys who grew up with arduinos and 3d printers have really started taking things to the next level. Like 20 years ago these projects would have only been possible by a huge team with millions of dollars to spend. Once AI agents become a thing I think we’ll see the next doubling of capabilities. You should be proud

You are hired sir.

Hey, definitely not Hamas here. Hope to see more material. Much love, -definitely not Hamas.

So how long until you get a visit from the black-suits telling you your RU-vid might be subject to ITAR 👀😅

Well done! Very interesting watching the design evolve over time, many designs were very similar to IRL missiles. The final design shown in the simulation bore a striking resemblance to the Vympel R-24. Now to put an infared imager in the nose?

Raytheon out here taking notes.

so crazy to think that functioning rockets have been around for almost 100 years.

It's really cool! One question: What did you major in at college?

SO FRICKING COOL!

Awesome 💯

It’s a good project. I always wanted to get into model rockets but then I think to my self how I would start and never finish my project like the 30 others that I have Laing around.

Atlas like a spine🩻💀 I c what u did there🚀💜

Yep the suits are definitely going to make a visit

Lot of control theory stuff involved eh? I've been trying to get to grips with all that for a few projects I have in mind but I've found it a struggle. Probably because I'm trying to learn all the pre-requisite math as well; considering the last math course I took was high school 'consumer math'. Mainly the transfer functions I've been having a hard time conceptualizing to the point of having some sort of intuitive grasp of what's going on; regarding mainly the 'building blocks' that make them up, for lack of a better phrase. It would be neat to see a video on your process regarding systems analysis, choice of control systems layout, transfer function, etc. Amazing work though, would love to try out something similar some day.

Put a seeker and some explosives in it and it's basically a low-altitude short-range SAM

You are currently the coolest person I know

translating to freedom units made my day :D

Very neat! Impressive thoroughness. How well did your apriori vehicle models end up matching flight test data? Any plans to update your simulation models with flight-identified parameters?

Great Project, what ground control software do you use.

Nice!👌

Really cool, the roll program looked very precise. What was the deciding factor on having the static fins in-axis with the actuated fins? Couldn't this possibly have turbulent air/vortices affect the control of the actuated fins?

If you get yourself a ground radar you can measure the actual position i 3D space and cross reference the programmed flight path with the actual flight characteristics.