Weapons that Changed Warfare: Smart Bombs
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The bat bomb didn't sink any ships, it was literally a bomb filled with over 1000 live bats intended to spread incendiary devices to Japanese buildings. It's Wikipedia page shows that photo and says it was never used in action.
looks much better than the "mystery green" drink mix...
An oddity you may consider as a side project or to include in a side project is the GBU-28 Paveway bomb (the "Bunker Buster"). Designed in 90's it has a very interesting history when compared to the majority of weapons designs (short procurement period, short design cycle and the original batch were created with repurposed, preexisting materials that had nothing to do with bombs.
Simon, during WW2 the dropping of bombs from medium and heavy bombers was controled by a Bombardier/Navigator. The Pilots job was to fly the aircraft to and from the target.
...the Norden (and other) bombsights weren't exactly "relying on mathematical prowess of a pilot" and "doing complex trigonometry"
3:20 - Chapter 1 - Radio guided smart bombs
7:55 - Chapter 2 - Laser guided smart bombs
12:25 - Chapter 3 - Satellite guided smart bombs
16:20 - Chapter 4 - Artificial intelligence smart bombs
- Chapter 5 -
- Chapter 6 -
I worked on the guidance systems while stationed in Thailand in 1968. Consider the concrete bomb when they removed the explosives to limit extera casualties.
"I don't think we can defeat the axis of evil by putting smart bombs in the hands of dumb people" - Billy Bragg
My stepdad was in the airforce in 80s. He got to help test Gps when it was first being developed. They could track where the humvee had been around base down to 3 feet. He asked how they could do that. The answer? That's classified. He didn't learn until 1999 that it was satilites in orbit that were tracking the device on the roof. From that they were able to develop navigation and weapons delivery systems.
On one hand you gotta admire the technology behind it and loath the reason and function it's used for. How very resourceful we get to come up with ways to kill one another more efficiently while getting funding for space and environmental projects is a drag at best
Have these people developing these AI things NEVER consumed any science fiction?
The timing of this video is scary. I was just playing Sniper Elite 4 with my friend this weekend and talking about the Fritz X and the HS 293
LOL! The "Bat Bomb" shown at 7:14 is not the "ASM-N-2 Bat" radar guided bomb described, but an actual Project X-Ray bomb filled with hibernating (from cold storage, then from cold high altitude flight) bats contained within a ventilated shell that opened like a cluster bomb after being dropped. The bats, each carrying a timed incendiary device would wake up and since it was to be dropped during the day, would fly into attics and other hidden placed out of sunlight. It was never deployed, but probably would have been effective - "A series of tests to answer various operational questions were conducted. In one incident, the Carlsbad Army Airfield Auxiliary Air Base near Carlsbad, New Mexico, was set on fire on May 15, 1943, when armed bats were accidentally released. The bats roosted under a fuel tank and incinerated the test range."
That went from interesting to terrifying real quick.
Has anyone done a supercut of Simon beard growth?
LGM "Not to say they didn't have any impact"... I'm glad you snuck that in... Interesting stuff, thanks.
yup, Skynet, it's already here... we never learn, do we?...
I hope you guys keep this series going.
Yeeeeah Fact Boy!
Well, Brain Boy, it's a good thing that cutting edge military technology is just a bit more advanced than what your economies-of-scale-priced cell phone has installed in it.
Hyperbole. The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by Israel was aided by face recognition. Israel has some amazing technology.
There was also a program that used 100's of bats carrying incendiary devices to land in the eves of Japanese houses.
It worked! When tested the bats destroyed the New Mexico base where the test was taking place. Ending research there.
Almost. From the Stars and Stripes: "Several dormant bats - the “bat battalion” was kept cold with dry ice until they were ready for action - were removed from a cold storage room, armed with real bombs, and placed in the sun to be photographed.
There were two problems: the bats “warmed up” and flew away, and the Army forgot to disarm the bombs.
Despite the best efforts of the military, the bats were gone. Meanwhile, a portion of the Carlsbad base and the building housing Adam’s records were destroyed in a fiery blaze from the errant bat bombers."
Adams, a dental surgeon from Pennsylvania, was the brain behind this one. Bat-brain?
@@stevek6921 Good info and a rather comical read just imagining what they were thinking when the bats woke up and took off.
My grandfather was a huge part of the military using gps to guide the bombs instead of lasers. At that time microchips we're still relatively new, and they could only test them one at a time. During Operation Desert Storm, defense contractors contacted my grandfather asking if he could design a machine that could test microchips in bigger batches. He invented 2 machines that tested entire batches at a time, one testing more than the other. My father built the machines. The first few went to American defense contractors, and they were used to make sure the microchips we're all functioning properly so that they could be used in smart bombs.
Thats cool your family was a part of that. My grandpa started a company back in the day making control systems for industrial use. I found out he was contacted, and helped build the bomb droppers the US used to test nukes in Nevada
@@flexinclouds that's so cool! It is neat to think about all of the technology that was made possible by his invention, and in return all of the tech that was made possible by those, and so on
Simon it's pronounce egg-lynn air force base!! and those bomb shelters weren't our fault the jack wads ran the antennas over from the command bunkers a half kilometer away to fool recon systems!!!
Guided munitions alone were incredible. SOP goes from 'how many squadrons per target' to 'how many targets per plane'.
What about inertial guidance systems?
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It's so silly that people basically create things to explode their expensive computers and sort of rare becoming minerals (as a side effect it blows something else at the same time).
I would love to see a video of the wiesel tank since you guys did a video on the m50 ontos. Gotta love small fighting vehicles.
at 6:44 electronic jamming so germans tried wire guided boms with TV info going back up the wires to the bomber. Yes, the bomber had to stay on the bombing run and so was easier to shoot down
It sure is reassuring you got that right. Also, self coordinating bug bomb teams sounds splendid
I bet guided Artillery will be the next big thing!
masses of cheap drone guided high precision shells, raining down on enemy positions
Really liked this one. Not too difficult technology talk, moved along with good story and of course fantastic announcing...Well Done!
Love this video and the whole smart weapons topic.
I find the brit term "kit" entertaining. lol.
Before they were able to determine the radio frequency the bombs operated on so they knew what frequency to jam, I wonder why they didn't use spark gap transmitters as a sort of blunt force approach. The technology is simple and has been around literally for centuries. You just generate a spark, and it throws off radio interference. The more power and the bigger the spark, the more powerful and distantly acting the interference is. The only down side is it jams EVERY frequency. Including ones the allies no doubt used for communication themselves. But even with that problem, they could have used it as a sort of evasive tactic when they knew they were being targeted by a smart bomb. Like deploying flares to throw off a heat-guided weapon. They only use it when absolutely necessary.
I've actually designed a spark gap generator radio jammer myself. Though I never built it because such a device would be illegal under FCC regulations and could land me in a heap of trouble. It could do nasty things like interfering with emergency bands for police, fire or ambulance, or interfering with air traffic communications. And basically anything else that use radio. Not that it had a huge distance on it. It mighta worked for like 50 feet or so.
You answered your own question about why they didn't use spark gap transmitters for jamming. Like you said, the range of a system like that is relatively small, therefore by the time it would be able to effectively block a radio signal a bomb would be within a second or two of impact. You would also have to increase the power of a transmitter exponentially to improve range, so it quickly becomes impractical to scale something like that with more power.
Also the other part about blocking your own signals, such as comms, radar, etc. Probably not the best idea when you've got incoming projectiles. CIWS is going to rely on those to shoot it down, as well as FLIR.
@@slcpunk2740 Heh I guess that makes perfect sense then. Even if they DO just limit it to emergency situations, like if they know they're being locked on to, there's no guaranteeing they won't cut off some really message. It's not like they'd be able to give everybody a head's up and be like "hey guys I'm gonna be jamming every radio band up here so I can avoid a missile. So try not to talk about anything important for a little while."
By the way, @SLC Punk! Heroin Bob's death was one of the saddest scenes of any movie I can remember. Matthew Lillard clearly wasn't acting in that scene. He was crying for real, 100%. I don't know where he went in his head to get a reaction that incredible, but it must have been somewhere DARK. It's too bad he didn't get more recognition. Crying on command is one thing. But crying HARD and for real on command, while like 20 people are watching you and the pressure's on. That takes something beyond talent. I just had to mention that. =P
@@slcpunk2740 Also I just went to download SLC Punk! cuz it's been years. I didn't realize they made a sequel to it in 2016. It must not have been very good though. It was only 75 minutes long. And you just can't recapture the magic that was SLC Punk! It was one of a kind. Just like anything worthy of being called punk is.
16:49 the ninja turtle made a bomb? lmao
The USS BARB sub sank a train by using what would now be called navy seals in a raid that was a first of its kind by the us navy and maybe ever to put explosives on a rail bridge. And also was the first to launch cruise missiles on a land based area. Those where some weapons that changed warfare for sure.
A few errors made me giggle: 8:18 - B-29s bombing Vietnam in 1965? 10:29 - Royal Air Force Jaguars in Vietnam? Plus mentions the White House and shows the capitol building.
Also its Eglin AFB not Enlin. They spelled it correct on screen, but must not have been in the script.
I used to have a Jane's book of military aircraft and it had a picture of a JDAM going in the window of a large truck. At least the driver didn't see it coming.
Watching this again after the incident in Gaza is somewhat chilling
As a Floridian, hearing him butcher Eglin kills me. Lol. Egg-Lin.
War is hell and will never completely skip the innocent.
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg
Its gona be Good
That last idea of little bombs communicating with each other to find the most probable target and zero in on it -- that's straight out of Stanislaw Lem's book "The Invinsible" (Niezwyciężony), written in 1964 Once again, a sci-fi writer predicted the future.
Slaughterbots is the exact concept you mentioned at the end. There is a short on RUclips of the same name.
that's one heck of a bridge. we should hire that crew to build all our stuff.
Smart as the men using it !
A video about the Bat bomb would be interesting, oh wait there is already one about that on Bioark channel.
Wrong answer on the Chinese Embassy: a US F117 stealth plane was shot down, the Chinese recovered part it. The parts were taken to the embassy, and subsequently got bombed.
AI bombs sound absolutely terrifying.
Hasn't anyone read/seen *I, Robot?*
You are such a “happy” guy
could you do a video on the Chrysler nuclear powered tank design?
First time seeing Simon in short sleeves.
I’ll take my smart bombs Free Range, thank you very much.
There is a theory that after the F-117 was shot down the wreckage was sold to the Chinese and was being stored in the embassy pending transport, and that is why the embassy was hit. To destroy the wreckage.
Not all "mistakes" are actually mistakes.
@@MH-Tesla I can remember an embassy in Libya that got "accidentally" smashed.
simon, do a vid on the bat bomb, it was an incendiary bomb using live bats with incendiary explosives attached. real thing, and it was just as crazy as it sounds. craziest thing was it actually worked in testing.
Huh? 8:17 That is a B-29 dropping what are probably incendiaries on Japan in WWII. It has nothing to do with any bombing attacks during the Viet Nam War. At least the other photos are related to the subject being discussed.
13:00 Nice photo of a 1960s era Air Force Base with F-101s, F-104s, B-47s, and C-130s. So what does it have to do with the 1990s development of satellite-guided smart bombs?
Yeah I immediately noticed that B-47. Don’t forget the RAF Jaguar at 10:29 too!
I couldn't even make it that far in. This bloke has the most annoying pompous voice on the planet
On the front of AI Bombs, I can only think of an old old movie I saw when I was a child. I think the movie's title was Black Star, and I'm given to understand it was supposed to be satire, maybe. But young me didn't know satire from flat tires, haha, so it was really quite terrifying in ways. One of the silliest moments though involved the ship's smart bomb...which was SO smart that it didn't want to blow up and kill itself. There was a great deal of time spent arguing philosophy with the thing. So maybe AI bombs will just end up philosophizing and not attacking anybody, heheh -
I remember that movie...Dark Star? I don't recall much save that it was low budget and rather grim.
Dark Star. Great film. I have the DVD. The bomb eventually believes itself to be god.
Dark Star. Eventually the bomb say 'let there be light' and explodes.
This is pretty dope having loaded and armed thousands of smart munitions. 👌
An episode about proximity fuses in WW2 would be nice to see.
You forgot the Bat bomb dude!
Yes, that is a real thing.
The bat bomb was not a guided weapon. It was a dispersed incendiary weapon that used bats to spread the charges to cause wider destruction.
The difference being a guided bomb is intended to make precise hits against single specific targets, and the bat bomb was indiscriminate in the damage it caused.
Hello @Simon can you do a video on the East Indian Company. Cheers
Nothing like a swarm of angry AI smart bombs. What could possibly go wrong ?
Thanks. I didn’t really need to sleep tonight. Lol. Terrifying.
Scary bombs
The Norden bomb sight was the first sight that could really work in far way. by dropping a bomb down a pickle barrel from 30k feet. A pickle barrel is a wishful thought lol. More like better than without anything. It was also one of the first computers and one of the smallest of the time.
Do you have a video about lifeboats?
Have you watched the Voyager episode with the AI bomb yet?
I bring mine with me now. Airbeds
How about a look at the Red Hill fuel storage facility at Pearl Harbor.
FANTASTIC TOPIC & VID!!! 👍😉✌️
BF Skinner although completely "something", his plano Pavlovian pecking pigeons plan would be better than the 'negative zero' guidance usage of dumb bombs.
How bout loiter munitions? Fly around as a drone does until it sees something it like to destroy.
How bout hypersonic delivery platforms? Like ICBMs but move too fast to be interdicted.
I am wanting another rubber rescue boat
What is their COST MINUS COST ACTS
If it was really smart it would be a missile 🤣
It's egg Lin. Not eeglin love all your videos.
wow didn't realise the German smart bombs were so effective..
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Bombs: If we destroy our own smaller number of bases the war will be over quicker.. The humans will be so happy!
Good video 👍
It’s pronounced “Egg-Lin” AFB
Egggggggggggggland AFB.
Saved nhia's life
Hey Simon. Eglin (Air Force Base) is pronounced ay-glen. Cheers!
tfw a pack of bombs has more cumulative intelligence and a better ability to work together as a team than your assigned highschool group project team
So let me get this right, the person releasing the bomb is to blame for bad strikes and not the intelligence provided by satellites and target recognition software used. AI as cool as it sounds wont limit civilian casualties in any way, I would like to see when the pentagon has too explain why a mosk was mistaken for ICBM launch site. I just hope AI bombs are not relying on geometric analysis alone as that would be the worst way to identify targets.
The more i hear about intelligence agencies around the world, I think a crystal ball might work better. They can just employ a fortune teller or two and invest all that money into universities.
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How many goddamn youtube channels does this guy have!?
kinda wished you'd mention how desperate they were to jam those they even tried electric shavers to make radio interference
We are learning to TRAVEL THRU THOUGHT
How the f*ck has this never been on Nazi super weapons shows? Feels like it's the one weapon that was actually successful
Once again as smart as the programmer...
People always talk about things like Face ID and say things like “about 50% of the time” and it’s clearly untrue. It’s extremely accurate, and anyone who sits down with the phone and demonstrates their point will be proved absolutely incorrect.
We are traveling to other planets now
Not too many photographs like that
Bombs that didn't make much of an impact... that's pretty amusing if you ask me
They jets kinda look like FLYING SAUCERS
Do you have anymore SMALL ONES?
Hiya Simon
17:34
them's just the drones from ace combat 7
not good
They never heed the warnings of science fiction writers, let's give absolute control to the computers, because they are NEVER wrong (he said with much sarcasm)
I mean never wrong.. maybe not but less wrong then humans? thats very possible.
*Why does this video make JDAMs look bad for reasons that don't relate to them? All they do is hit their targets more accurately, saving countless lives in an area that would otherwise be carpet-bombed. Those are failures of intelligence and not of this one munition. Why do people promoting rhetoric do things like this? I'll never understand it. This literally saves countless lives. All of "negative consequences" listed in this video have nothing to do with the JDAM.*