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."
Apparently he's working on a history degree so he can teach history. He says in a podcast that it's something he's always wanted to do, because there's so much interesting and meaningful history that just nobody knows about and really should. It's awesome, I'd totally take his history class.
@michealdrake3421 this would be epic. Even the stories I do know ow about, his way of explaining, not only do I learn more. I can explain it better spmehow
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.
and given the each radar set has slightly different parameters (pulse repetition rate, frequency, power output, etc) modern planes can not only tell they're being locked on, they can tell what they're being locked on BY, from the signature of the radar.
@MarkoDask not only that but most modern military aircraft are capable of even pinpointing the general location and direction of the source locking onto them.
We’ve also got the stealth capabilities to absorb or deflect those radar waves in a way that reduces a jets radar signature so we don’t get locked onto in the first place. Modern US military tech is amazing
indeed, Canadians are some of the nicest people in peace time but when in war time their soldiers are often on demon time, i am happy to have them as allies and for having some Canadian friends!
@@Yuki_Ika7 You can't really blame them. If there is no treaty to expressly forbid something, then they cannot count on the enemy not doing a specific thing, so might as well do it yourself. It only becomes really truly messed up if you break treaties and commit actual war crimes.
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.
North Vietnam didn't attack the USA. WE attacked them. If you would finish Grammar school your posts MIGHT improve. But that is doubtful...@@SayaViking
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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.
Technically, China now has more boats. But when it comes to aircraft carriers, which is really the measuring stick, they’re not even close. I believe we have more aircraft carriers than the next five nations on the list put together.
@@Jude74 True if you count every little rinky dink skimmer they have. If you count by sheer tonnage and actual fire power America is still vastly ahead. Don't forget about all the allies that hate China...
@@robertryan7204 -- Actually larger displacement means more aircraft aboard, more weapons, but your point about the IJN Shinano, is still valid. It was build on the 3rd incomplete Yamato battleship hull after they realized aircraft carriers were more deadly than battleships, carries a large air wing and could receive aircraft from other sinking carriers. A US submarine caught it, although it was not at Midway. The Japanese navy lost 4 of it's fleet carriers there in one day and that turned the tide of the War in the Pacific.
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."
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.
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
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.
that's also why the Patriot and AEGIS system is so deadly, it doesn't have to "lock on" because of how the track while scan phased array radar system sees something it can fire without having to focus a beam at what it's targeting
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.
"Retreat, Hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.” Oliver P. Smith (October 26, 1893-December 25, 1977), Marine Corps general and commanding officer of the 1st Marine Division, famously declared this “tactic” during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
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.
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
I used to work with RWR systems. It's a passive system that takes incoming RF (radio frequency) signals and displays that information to the pilot. It will show lock-on and fired/incoming projectiles in relative space to the receiving aircraft. It can also display aircraft type, weapon loadouts, friend or foe, and more. Coupled with aesa radars, it's capabilities are astonishing.
Does this still apply today with phased radar arrays? My understanding is that PRAs don't really have that sort of "tell" in the way old radars used to. As an example, as I understand it, the PATRIOT system uses a PRA with a track-while-scan capability, meaning it can track targets without indicating to a target that it's "locked" or however you wish to describe it.
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.
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.
This, basically. To put it pretty vaguely because the actual specifics are classified national security information, Naval ships have sailors who are trained in using specialized equipment for, among other things, detecting various kinds of radar to determine what other ships and planes near them are doing to and/or around them. Locking on with a weapons system radar pings differently from just about any other kind of radar. So if someone is locking onto something like a ship, their equipment will absolutely pick it up, and the ship will react accordingly.
not to mention the two largest navies in the world, being the US navy, and the US navy's fleet of museum ships. we have more museum warships than other countries have actual warships.
And two of the top two air fleets, 1. Navy 2. Airforce I'm not sure if this is still the case, I know they've been known to flip back and forth so it could be the opposite at this moment
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.
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!
Thought the same thing when he commented about giving up…..however….I truly think Americans have more determination and never say die attitude as a whole….something about us having bill of rights maybe?
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 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.
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
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
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.
9:50 Mark! Kudos for saying "ship" not "boat"! But uh, ahem,you're referring to oil rigs as.... Quote One: What is the difference between rig and ship? In contrast to the mobility of drill ships, drill rigs are fixed structures that are designed to perform drilling operations on the ocean floor. They provide stability and endurance in specific drilling situations. September 18, 2023. End quote! Quote Two: Are oil rigs considered ships? Instead, the point was that a structure loses its character as a vessel if they are placed out of the water for an extended period of time. This means that a vessel is considered in navigation even if it is stationary while in the water. This also means that an offshore oil rig is considered a Jones Act vessel. August 2, 2019. End quote! Damn it! 😮😁
The FULL quote was Reagan saying “The Worst thing an American can hear is ‘“I’m from the government and I’m here to help’” Don’t cherry pick just because you don’t like republicans.
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
“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.
It's because it is so difficult for the average person to really comprehend what the American Military actually is. People have trouble envisioning something on that scale. Also a lot of countries don't have anywhere near the kind of military that America has. And America's military works on the idea of not broadcasting just how big and powerful it is. We don't hold military parades. We also don't show off all of our capabilities to the press. So people keep underestimating America's military. Even for people who study America's military, and know a good deal of what they are capable of, we only scratch the surface.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Radar is just a radio wave and can be generated or received like any other radio station. The fighter planes have radio receivers that are tuned to the enemy radar station. If that station is consistently playing music, it's looking at YOU. (it's obviously more involved than this, but that's the basic idea).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is part of the radar sensor array located in the nose of the jet that allows you to see your entire HUD as well as get input from the computer. Your International frequency array (IFA) is in charge of determining missile lock, gun range, and if you are being locked onto as well as if the enemy has you locked on. This in turn gets fed into the computer and displayed on your HUD
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.
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.)
Thing is most of the guys in the Iranian navy were trained here in the USA in the 70s. Their Air Force were trained here too in the 70s. We had a lot of Iranian Air Force here where I live back in the 70s that were trained right down the street from where I lived. My daughters dad trained here at our A F base but that was before the Shah was ousted out of Iran. After they threw the Shah out of Iran I guess they figured out they were screwed . But quite a few of those guys decided to not return to Iran and stayed here.. or went to Canada.
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
I think that there's different beam patterns for radar, like a broad pattern just to see what's there and a narrow stream for target locks. The ship being targeted is detecting what kind of beam is hitting it, i think.
Being locked on is kinda like a bat sending out a signal and it comes back to him to keep him from running into things . The ships have things that scan constantly , they know when they've been pinged ( remember submarine movies). When the intensity changes on the scanner , they know things have changed and they are probably being locked on by someone. This comes from my Navy son who served 8 years on a destroyer. He said it's a simplistic explanation but he knows that's what I need to understand. lol
Radar is a high-energy electromagnetic wave. It is easy to build a detector for the presence of such a wave, mainly because they have to operate at specific frequencies to detect their targets. In Desert Storm, we dropped leaflets on the radar installation, warning them that they would be bombed if they turned their radar on. The radar is also very easy to target with a bomb or missile.
In simple terms, fire control radar is a focused microwave radar wave. Aircraft, ships, and other assets may have passive microwave detectors for fire control radar. It’s the same concept as radar detectors that can be purchased to detect the radar for speeding.
12:35 the radar detects its locked on the same way a tank would see a camera pointing at it from a mile away. the radar had an infrared light that sees a light (literally just looks like they have a laser light pointed at them)
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.
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.
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To answer how planes know about missile locks, yes, they do have systems on board that warn of radar locks. However, the sound of a missile lock on an enemy, and the warning of an enemy locked onto you is vastly different. Aircraft also have countermeasure systems such as chaff and flares, which act as decoys to missiles so they lose their tracking and go for the countermeasures rather than the plane. However, I am unsure of how warnings of a weapon targeting a ship work
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.
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
Lock on. The ship planes radar picks up signal. All signal. Discriminators parse and filter signal to determine frequency and direction of incoming signal. Including enemy radar signal.
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"
Dude !!
😂sad but true
Sounds like Iran wants a shot at seeing the sun
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It goes, Japan to Iran: dont piss america off or they might give you a second sun to....
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."
The Fat Electrician is one of the best storytellers on RUclips. Great video
Apparently he's working on a history degree so he can teach history. He says in a podcast that it's something he's always wanted to do, because there's so much interesting and meaningful history that just nobody knows about and really should. It's awesome, I'd totally take his history class.
@michealdrake3421 this would be epic. Even the stories I do know ow about, his way of explaining, not only do I learn more. I can explain it better spmehow
@@michealdrake3421 you mean the Unsubscribe Podcast
It's him count dankula and wild west extravaganza to round out the top 3.
Bar none. edit. Daniel Defoe and Sam Clements approve.
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.
and given the each radar set has slightly different parameters (pulse repetition rate, frequency, power output, etc) modern planes can not only tell they're being locked on, they can tell what they're being locked on BY, from the signature of the radar.
Excellent explanation!
That was so well explained! I wondered the same thing, and now i know!
@MarkoDask not only that but most modern military aircraft are capable of even pinpointing the general location and direction of the source locking onto them.
We’ve also got the stealth capabilities to absorb or deflect those radar waves in a way that reduces a jets radar signature so we don’t get locked onto in the first place. Modern US military tech is amazing
"It's never a war crime the first time" is Canada's Military creed!
indeed, Canadians are some of the nicest people in peace time but when in war time their soldiers are often on demon time, i am happy to have them as allies and for having some Canadian friends!
@@Yuki_Ika7 You can't really blame them. If there is no treaty to expressly forbid something, then they cannot count on the enemy not doing a specific thing, so might as well do it yourself. It only becomes really truly messed up if you break treaties and commit actual war crimes.
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.
Except that little issue in Vietnam
North Vietnam didn't attack the USA. WE attacked them. If you would finish Grammar school your posts MIGHT improve. But that is doubtful...@@SayaViking
@@Marcus-p5i5s What a dick. Why would you think its okay to talk to people like that?
@@Marcus-p5i5s The Taliban & al-Qaeda...
Once you reach the 3rd grade look up the work COUNTRY. Then rent IQ@@xviper2k
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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.
Many of Iran's Navy was rehashed US ships from the time of the Shah
Technically, China now has more boats. But when it comes to aircraft carriers, which is really the measuring stick, they’re not even close. I believe we have more aircraft carriers than the next five nations on the list put together.
Displacement is not a huge advantage, fire-power is. Japanese had the biggest Aircraft carrier in WW2 but it was sunk in battle of Midway
@@Jude74 True if you count every little rinky dink skimmer they have. If you count by sheer tonnage and actual fire power America is still vastly ahead. Don't forget about all the allies that hate China...
@@robertryan7204 -- Actually larger displacement means more aircraft aboard, more weapons, but your point about the IJN Shinano, is still valid. It was build on the 3rd incomplete Yamato battleship hull after they realized aircraft carriers were more deadly than battleships, carries a large air wing and could receive aircraft from other sinking carriers. A US submarine caught it, although it was not at Midway. The Japanese navy lost 4 of it's fleet carriers there in one day and that turned the tide of the War in the Pacific.
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 did not realize that was a navy saying cool
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.
"They dropped the Sun on me! TWICE!"
Japan did not learn not to mess with America's boat on Dec 7 1941 that learned it on September 2 1945
I would argue that Japan began to realize their mistake beginning 4 June 1942, and received final confirmation on 2 Sept 1945.
@@albinorhino6 Umm, I did say "AFTER December 7th, 1941"....
@@jessicacolegrove4152 Umm, I did say "AFTER December 7th, 1941"....
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
I have no idea why this never occurred to me before.
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.
that's also why the Patriot and AEGIS system is so deadly, it doesn't have to "lock on" because of how the track while scan phased array radar system sees something it can fire without having to focus a beam at what it's targeting
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.
Along with the 200 years of "why you *never* mess with America's boats."
"Retreat, Hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.” Oliver P. Smith (October 26, 1893-December 25, 1977), Marine Corps general and commanding officer of the 1st Marine Division, famously declared this “tactic” during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
But then again there's always "Retreat, hell! We just got here!" from the USMC at Belleau Wood in WWI, so....
@@brigidtheirish Japanese got away with it at Pearl Harbour
@@robertryan7204 I wouldn't exactly call having the Sun dropped on a couple of their cities 'getting away with it.'
Gotta do more of him! It's mostly American military stuff he does but not always, and his stories are always fascinating regardless.
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.
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
That's pretty accurate in how an RWR works, and most modern aircraft have an MWR as well for missiles with a passive tracking system such as IR
There's a difference between search and fire control radars, and the more advanced incorporate both in the same system.
I used to work with RWR systems. It's a passive system that takes incoming RF (radio frequency) signals and displays that information to the pilot. It will show lock-on and fired/incoming projectiles in relative space to the receiving aircraft. It can also display aircraft type, weapon loadouts, friend or foe, and more. Coupled with aesa radars, it's capabilities are astonishing.
Does this still apply today with phased radar arrays? My understanding is that PRAs don't really have that sort of "tell" in the way old radars used to. As an example, as I understand it, the PATRIOT system uses a PRA with a track-while-scan capability, meaning it can track targets without indicating to a target that it's "locked" or however you wish to describe it.
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.
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.
This, basically. To put it pretty vaguely because the actual specifics are classified national security information, Naval ships have sailors who are trained in using specialized equipment for, among other things, detecting various kinds of radar to determine what other ships and planes near them are doing to and/or around them. Locking on with a weapons system radar pings differently from just about any other kind of radar. So if someone is locking onto something like a ship, their equipment will absolutely pick it up, and the ship will react accordingly.
America has 3 of the top 15 naval power in the world
• Navy
• Coast Guard
• Army fleet
Number 4: Museum ships.
not to mention the two largest navies in the world, being the US navy, and the US navy's fleet of museum ships. we have more museum warships than other countries have actual warships.
... Since when the hell does the Army have a fleet...?
And two of the top two air fleets,
1. Navy
2. Airforce
I'm not sure if this is still the case, I know they've been known to flip back and forth so it could be the opposite at this moment
@dj11o9er9 I've heard of the Merchant Marines, though. Maybe he meant that?
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.
They may just be the best metaphor for it I've ever read. Nicely done.
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!
Thought the same thing when he commented about giving up…..however….I truly think Americans have more determination and never say die attitude as a whole….something about us having bill of rights maybe?
Well in 1776 with the help of the French. Not that clear cut in 1812
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 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.
Mmm, I dunno about "minor role." The Germans, perhaps, had a minor role, but England was lifting almost the equivalent cargo during that operation.
@Saureco He's saying they are a small part *of the video*
You definitely need to watch all of his videos.
Fat Electrician is by far one of the best youtubers, definitely check more of him out
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
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.
watch his video "angry old veteran vs 700 redcoats"
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
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.
Not so great now. They are supporting the Rusdians in Artillery and drones
This guy is a great storyteller.
Watch the Fat Electrician tell the story of the USS Texas
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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.
9:50 Mark! Kudos for saying "ship" not "boat"! But uh, ahem,you're referring to oil rigs as....
Quote One:
What is the difference between rig and ship?
In contrast to the mobility of drill ships, drill rigs are fixed structures that are designed to perform drilling operations on the ocean floor. They provide stability and endurance in specific drilling situations. September 18, 2023.
End quote!
Quote Two:
Are oil rigs considered ships?
Instead, the point was that a structure loses its character as a vessel if they are placed out of the water for an extended period of time. This means that a vessel is considered in navigation even if it is stationary while in the water. This also means that an offshore oil rig is considered a Jones Act vessel. August 2, 2019.
End quote! Damn it! 😮😁
1 of the best Reagan quotes. The 9 words Americans should fear. " I'm from the government I am here to help.
And Republicans have made a point of giving Americans reason to fear their government for at least fifty years.
The FULL quote was Reagan saying “The Worst thing an American can hear is ‘“I’m from the government and I’m here to help’”
Don’t cherry pick just because you don’t like republicans.
Well said 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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
That’s because he was an entertainer.
@@chrispavlich9656 Yeah, it might have been because Reagan was an actor prior to getting into politics, great observation. lol
In God we trust others we track
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
“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.
"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....
It's because it is so difficult for the average person to really comprehend what the American Military actually is. People have trouble envisioning something on that scale.
Also a lot of countries don't have anywhere near the kind of military that America has.
And America's military works on the idea of not broadcasting just how big and powerful it is. We don't hold military parades. We also don't show off all of our capabilities to the press.
So people keep underestimating America's military.
Even for people who study America's military, and know a good deal of what they are capable of, we only scratch the surface.
Well Vietnam, Afghanistan and Korea did more than scratch the surface
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.
2- 1000 Lb bombs is what he meant! The one airplane dropped a single 1000 lb bomb down the smoke stack’
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.
Electronic equipment receives the radar pulse that has a steady pulse locked in .. lights and noise
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Fire control radars operate at specific frequency so we have receivers when thay detect radar at that frequency it means they are locked on
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.
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.
Just like to point out, that was a single CSG (Carrier Strike Group) there are 11 CSG's total
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.
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.
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.
I remember when your channel was just getting started brother!
I think you were at 1k subs when I first found you.
Congrats and all the success and so close to 100k!
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)
The Chubby Electron guy has made his Kabir debut!
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.
🇺🇸🫡 Iran fear us till this day
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.
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.
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.
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.
Radar is just a radio wave and can be generated or received like any other radio station. The fighter planes have radio receivers that are tuned to the enemy radar station. If that station is consistently playing music, it's looking at YOU. (it's obviously more involved than this, but that's the basic idea).
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.
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.
Yeah, there's lots of details, but if you're getting steady waves rather than a pulse, someone's pointed directly at you.
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.
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.
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.
It is part of the radar sensor array located in the nose of the jet that allows you to see your entire HUD as well as get input from the computer. Your International frequency array (IFA) is in charge of determining missile lock, gun range, and if you are being locked onto as well as if the enemy has you locked on. This in turn gets fed into the computer and displayed on your HUD
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.
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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.)
What a country like Iran needs to realize is that is a small portion of the U.S. ships and aircraft.
What US needs to realise this was 1983 and Itan is now propping up the Russians
Please more of this guy. I like watching him.
Definitely check out more of his videos!
The A6 pilots who said they fired at us first reminded me of kids fighting on the playground saying he hit me first
Nitpick, the A-6 bombardier does not sit behind the pilot. The seating positions are side by side.
Thanks for reacting to this, he is the best story teller
Thing is most of the guys in the Iranian navy were trained here in the USA in the 70s. Their Air Force were trained here too in the 70s. We had a lot of Iranian Air Force here where I live back in the 70s that were trained right down the street from where I lived. My daughters dad trained here at our A F base but that was before the Shah was ousted out of Iran. After they threw the Shah out of Iran I guess they figured out they were screwed . But quite a few of those guys decided to not return to Iran and stayed here.. or went to Canada.
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
You better ask Japan what happens when you touch our stuff?😂
I think that there's different beam patterns for radar, like a broad pattern just to see what's there and a narrow stream for target locks. The ship being targeted is detecting what kind of beam is hitting it, i think.
Being locked on is kinda like a bat sending out a signal and it comes back to him to keep him from running into things . The ships have things that scan constantly , they know when they've been pinged ( remember submarine movies). When the intensity changes on the scanner , they know things have changed and they are probably being locked on by someone. This comes from my Navy son who served 8 years on a destroyer. He said it's a simplistic explanation but he knows that's what I need to understand. lol
Radar is a high-energy electromagnetic wave. It is easy to build a detector for the presence of such a wave, mainly because they have to operate at specific frequencies to detect their targets. In Desert Storm, we dropped leaflets on the radar installation, warning them that they would be bombed if they turned their radar on. The radar is also very easy to target with a bomb or missile.
You really need to watch until the very end. Some of the comments he makes during the walk-off are priceless.
In simple terms, fire control radar is a focused microwave radar wave. Aircraft, ships, and other assets may have passive microwave detectors for fire control radar. It’s the same concept as radar detectors that can be purchased to detect the radar for speeding.
12:35 the radar detects its locked on the same way a tank would see a camera pointing at it from a mile away. the radar had an infrared light that sees a light (literally just looks like they have a laser light pointed at them)
Dude America has info on everyone. On everything.
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.
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.
High frequency radar is detectable by the onboard radar similar to an active sonar ping.
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I highly recommend the Cassius Clay episode. No, it's not about Muhammad Ali, but about the original Cassius Clay... and he was a BAMF, let me tell ya - and way ahead of his time when it came to advocating for civil rights.
To answer how planes know about missile locks, yes, they do have systems on board that warn of radar locks. However, the sound of a missile lock on an enemy, and the warning of an enemy locked onto you is vastly different. Aircraft also have countermeasure systems such as chaff and flares, which act as decoys to missiles so they lose their tracking and go for the countermeasures rather than the plane. However, I am unsure of how warnings of a weapon targeting a ship work
I imagine planes detect a radar lock the same way a radar detector works in a car.
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.
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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
Lock on. The ship planes radar picks up signal. All signal. Discriminators parse and filter signal to determine frequency and direction of incoming signal. Including enemy radar signal.
If you look at his history account of the barbary Pirates You will know why the United States do not like it when you mess with our boats.
Iran does not have Nukes yet.