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I flew ZA402 a number of times but clearly no idea what LRMTS was in it at the time. The aircraft itself was one of the first, if not the first, GR1A recce jets and did see operational service in the first gulf war, flying low-level throughout the conflict and almost exclusively at night. It spent a great deal of time at Warton & Boscombe during its life and tended to have all the latest 'war-going' kit and it also formed part of the GR4/4A aerodynamic elements - principally the FLIR chin mounted to the other side of the nose in a similar fairing to the LRMTS. Amongst other places I flew ZA402 in Alaska, Canada and Norway. I guess it liked the winter weather...
Wow - it's like this high-tech thing, and then you see all these through-hole components and other archaic things that look like they came out of a Wurlitzer! Awesome!
I also love the mechanical decoupling, with a mechanical lowpass filter with the springs and inertia, plus the 'foam' for damping. I wonder if it is some kind of closed cell foam, or a more fancy kind of damping material.
I believe FRE is Ferranti Radar Edinburgh. I wonder what type of laser it is? It is most certainly solid-state, and flashlamp pumped. The most common will be ruby and ND:YAG. Diode pumped Er:SiO2 is becoming more common in recent years since its frequency is eye-safe even at very high power levels.
The prisms are neat- I have several from the turret head of the M901 FISTV, a laser designator tank, much larger. They were going to blow them up on the range and I asked If I could take them apart... now the prisms collect dust mostly.
This is pretty interesting. The parts (resistors etc) look like arbitrarily soldered and would not hold well under constant vibrations in flight. I wonder why they did not use epoxy resin or something to fill in the PCBs.
The blueish lens is probably the IR laser beam output. Several prisms permit to orientate the beam on that direction whatever the orientation of the head is.
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2:12 I just imagine the extremely intimidating & improved Boston dynamics doggo roboto, with this as a head, Along with the uprising of these robots, seeking out the destruction of Man! You’re out looking for food , when the sudden drones fly over ahead! Do you think you made it? Only for you to hear the heavy footsteps! Next thing you know, you hear a hum, followed by this thing popping over looking dead in your face!
Someone designed this incredibly complex system and its the 4th time I'm explaining my wife the red pole on the car battery goes with the red thingy on the booster cable!!
What does the gidance system use? Like what is beeing shot out or recived thrugh that lense? Is this thing guided by the optics? Or is it like a drone?
How does this work then? Assuming its timed pulses rather than phase shift how much power does it need to emit in order for it to work from ground reflectometry?
These are the fresh air input and output (less fresh!) of the heat exchanger for cooling the laser. You can see the filter (semi-transparent stuff) for filtering the air before entering the heat exchanger.
AMAMZING video, love them all 🫶. The mechanics inside this device are so well made. My respect to the engineers creating them. Probably a small typo on subtitel on 10:47 I understood "isolator" on the voice track.
C'EST vraiment incroyable à voir un machin de ce genre avec les composants encore pas smd etc. JE N'AI PAS EU le temps de regarder ton video ,.. quel type de laser ont ils utilise' le barreau de verre dope' au neodyme ? alors il yaura aussi les tubes de flash pour exciter et toute la compagnie des capas ...incroyable ... merci bcp... excuse pour mon français pcq. je suis italien mais j'ai etudié en belgique..
Il faut regarder la vidéo, il y a un épisode sur le laser et un autre sur le test du laser. C'est effectivement un laser Nd-YAG avec une lampe flash et tout le toutim.
@@lelabodemichel5162 ok...cetait pcq jetais au boulot je devais regarder Les roues codeuses magnetiques,et par hasard jai vu ton video ...je le regarderai au plus tot....
Wouu de verdad interesante despiece el sistema de enfriamiento el estabilizador para la fuente del láser fuese interesante tener la interfaz para hacerlo funcionar
Well, they can get a drone and explosive device, and they would have that for fraction of price. People who are paying are fans, for the privilege to disassemble that stuff in their barns.
Usually the issue is less getting it, than actually be able to replicate and use it. But in this case it's probably just to old to be useful for reverse engineering anyway.
I suspect this laser range finder/designator would in fact have pointed downwards and be able to scan in all azimuth angles and be used to mark ground targets for the various air to ground munitions that the Tornado carried.
It's part of a pod mounted on a jet fighter, to find and visually track targets and guide missiles towards them by using a laser. Basically a very fancy camera with inbuilt laser pointer.
