@@adamofblastworks1517 such small creatures don’t have enough weight to require one, as long as they land on grass or in some other soft material they live Without injuries
@@ARockyRock Most, if not all Air-to-Air munitions are Radar-based and are not aware of their physical position. It is not of importance, as and air target cannot be marked and targeted in air by GPS systems. Only air-to-ground munitions utilize GPS, since targets are targeted in only the X and Y axis, and not in the z.
Nah m8 this is Royal Airforce. U.S airforce is "The missile knows where it is because it knows where it isnt. Subtracting where it is from where it isnt thus gets where it wasnt. CONFUSED SCREAMING"
The single most amazing thing here is the fact that the uploader let the video be the resolution it naturally wants to be rather than adding black bars to force it into 1080p or something. It baffles me that people still do this in an age when the software can happily scale video to any screen as required. Even Netflix does the black bar nonsense, causing ultrawide aspect ratio movies that should fill my monitor perfectly to instead float half-sized in the middle of a sea of blankness.
If you hit "stats for nerds" you can see that it says the Optimal Res/FPS is 426x94@10, anything above that is up-scaled. RU-vid instantiates 240p these days just because most people have large monitors and they certainly don't have a 94p height check. 94/426 = 0.220657 and this is the coefficient they use for flexy width scaling as the video gets bigger. It's nowhere close to 1080p height-wise, though if you have a super-wide monitor or stretch it along multiple monitors and somehow fullscreen it across all of them you can get a bit closer.
I expected the helmsman to go down with the ship, glad his patriotism and urgent sense of duty mixed with a possible concussion from the engine ignition didn't render him blind or confused enough to eject in time.
Brave men. ❤️ Even though they only know where they aren’t they still abandon the ship regardless if they’re most likely behind enemy lines. We shall never forget their sacrifice. 🙏🏼🕊
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this explanation! I have love missiles since before I could spell "Missile". Needless to say the Sidewinder family has always been one of my favorites. Dr Mc Clean (sorry if I misspelled his name) was one of my heros.
HOW IS THIS THE ONLY VIDEO ON YOUR CHANNEL? THIS IS BRILLIANT, AND THE WORLD NEEDED MORE OF IT FIVE YEARS AGO, FOUR YEARS AGO, THREE YEARS AGO AND RIGHT NOW! Seriously, if you still monitor this channel, this was the best thing i've seen all day, a great explanation of how things work, and I would love to see more in this style.
Now, imagine a missile where the control computer actually manage to jettison and return to base, saving cost for the next launch, instead of getting destroyed?
I was confused for a moment by the little guys throwing balls, as I always thought the Sidewinder was a heat-seeking missile. However, Wikipedia confirms that the newer models feature radar guidance as well as infrared.
The 'ball throwing' is representing detonation, not guidance. Modern AIM-9s have a laser-optical proximity fuse: they bounce laser pulses off the target and detonate when the returns say that they're close enough.
I was a 31631l missile maintenance tech in the USAF, this is exactly the way it is, and if the little green guys inside don't get their Cheerios and wasabi that AIM 9 won't fly!
omfg - I Just found this, loved every second of it and I think they should use this as the "new" training video for sure, at least its more entertaining!
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
