You can watch my ICBM re-entry compilation videos to see how fast these vehicles' targets are. ua-cam.com/video/j7X89a531CY/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/3ZM3y5qpMgY/v-deo.html Thank you for your comments and likes!
This is, beyond any shadow of doubt, the finest compilation video of this kind that I have ever seen anywhere, and I've been viewing these sorts of videos for long over a decade now. Exceptionally clear video (notable lack of aliasing, good color rendering, etc), original audio with no obnoxious music overlay, succinct no-nonsense presentation. I honestly haven't seen some of these clips since viewing them on the Discovery Channel and TLC in the mid 90s when they originally aired. Superlative. I just got back from viewing your MIRV reentry compilation video....I've never even seen some of these clips. I'd thought I'd seen them all by now...where are you even getting these?? Fantastic. That's a subscribe, bro. If you're into boring ancient fusion and superconductivity documentaries I got u covered on my channel, I guess 🤣🤣 Hope you have more for us soon.
@@ricklaser2846 Nah, have a read of metabunk and the meticulous physics based analysis of those videos. The "Gofast" video is of a slow high small ( 7ft) object travelling at windspeed.. ie a drifting balloon. The gimbal video is a jet exhaust seen at a great distance and its seemingly odd motion is just a predictable artefact of the flir pod gimbal mechanism. Tic tac is a distant engine heat signature that the camera gimbal looses lock on and so its apparent acceleration is just an artefact of the camera no longer tracking it.
@@Grommo Well, actually I mean MKV. They were revealed to the public around 1997, (that means they were developed much earlier). It is quite possible that this technology has improved a lot. from the type of discharge it looks like they used hydrazine as fuel
Just looking at how this thing operates, the fact it was the late 80's, and listening to how absolutely TICKLED the engineers were, this thing must have been a nightmare to get to work.
Ok, so this IS the stuff from the late 80s. Immediately when i saw that i had a feeling that i saw something like this during Reagan's presidency. I think it was part of the SDI.
@E Van I don't talk shit about it, i loved the videos! You know what's funny, btw? When information about SDI got through the iron curtain, soviet propaganda mixed these videos with scenes from Star Wars (the movie) to discredit and make fun of the technology. Because only a very small percentage of people had access to western movies, as a result, a lot of them started confusing the star wars (SDI) and Star Wars (the movie). After commie regime fell apart in November 1989, borders opened and with it, huge influx of western wares and movies started. So, when Star Wars (ep.4) finally got into theaters in 1990, people, who up to that point didn't have the opportunity to see it, actually thought, that it's gonna be a documentary about Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Hilarious! There were bootleg copies of various western movies on VHS in circulation, usually with horrendous quality overdub performed by a single person, but VHS players were a luxury, only party officials, regime protegés and various shady characters had them at home.
@@flare242 Those dubbed movies are the worst. I don't know how people can listen to it. When they released the TV show Friends in parts of Eastern Europe it was the first show that used dubbed voices that matched the characters. However, the people were used to the Borris voice doing the same voice for all the characters. So they had to redub them with the Borris voice. In some small Asian countries, they do the same thing. My wife will sometimes watch them. It's so confusing for a non-native speaker to listen to.
@@flare242 " i had a feeling that i saw something like this during Reagan's presidency. " nope Apollo program was long before Regan's presidency and official story behind landing on the Moon is exactly this type of propulsion the Moon lander was using... So computer with few Kilobyte of memmory and clock of only few Mhz was able to control in real time all the rocket engines, colect the data from sensors and calculate in real time necessary changes to the vehicle trajectory on its way back to the module on orbit... and you think it is funy that Soviet were not ready to swallow this type of stories? heh
@@Bialy_1 Because those computers were specialized computers with very simple input and output devices and no GUI or fancy operating system with 100s of drivers. You believe it or not but computer program controlling those thrusters have really simplistic task compared to modern game AI.
that's why they hire narrators to do the talking. last time they had an engineer explain his work it started a war, a depression, and a comedic impulse for the world to laugh at.
But why are they so excited it's like they didn't think that it was going to work but if they didn't think it was going to work then why did they test it not continue work on it until they thought it was going to work
@@Josh-b3c You have never built something yourself, do you?? doesn't matter how hard you've worked building something the only way of knowing if it works is by testing it, and even if you know it will work you would get happy as a normal human being.
What amazes me also,is that this thing was moving with the precision that it was,at sea level,with gravity involved.I believe these vehicles are intended for a zero gravity environment.
The engineers are so proud and celebrating. This was NOT EASY tech to make drones like this in the late 80s. The attitude control of these devices is amazing.
and with russia threatening nukes looks like we will have to pray that this tech from the 80s will save our lives anti missle systems have been developed for decades yet never had to be used well hopefully this time they work when we need them
Fun fact. My sister and her husband were both engineers on this. Both were fresh aeronautic engineers out of college and not dating at the time. My sister sent home T shirts that had the LEAP logo on them. The way the US DOD develops 1000’s of these projects and shelves them is something else. It’s the knowledge and technology that we really gain off of them.
lol they dont shelve the programs per say. the black door them. they get locked up behind compartments and paperwork, security clearance. and then if the program has a practical use its put into action, if not its simply another piggy bank now off the books. you'll notice there are no agencies or policies in place to truly shut down and double check over all assets and projects when something is "shelved" yea cool stuff comes from some of the programs. but taxes keep going up and im not seeing too much changing in the private sector that is reaping the benefits from it. lol shit it took elon for america to even truly try and get back into space!!!!
SM-3. THAAD. SM-3's are deployed on all our Navy Destroyers and I think they've even strapped one to an F-15 . Our Naval fleet is designed to fight a nuclear war, people don't realize it, but it is specifically designed for that engagement. No other conventional force comes close to matching us at sea and therefore a huge emphasis is put on shooting down enemy ICBMS.
The fact that it's doing that under the erects of full gravity is amazing. Imagining it in space, with little gravity and no air resistance is impressive.
Probably anti gravity aircraft with wormhole capability, but it is all classified of course. Secret classified programs have been going on since like WWII, there are a lot of testimonies about this although we can't know for sure
@@dlv1977 not even close. To not have any measurable resistance when going below water is beyond any conceivable tech we think we have. No doubt this explains 90% of the 1% that is unexplainable. But I am also an idiot.
This is one of the coolest…no the absolute most bad ass piece of engineering I have ever seen. Addendum: I did see this back around 15-20 years ago on TV, I think it was on “EXTREME MACHINES.” I DVRed it an showed all my friends and everyone agreed…Coolest Ever!!!
this was the best engineering you've seen? ...you were watching it be replayed in your living room long after it happened by a signal that was shot into space and bounced off a satellite that's traveling roughly 17,200 mph and once it reaches you at near the speed of light your "DVR" unscrambles the signal to let you see, hear and basically feel what they saw that day at near the speed of light again and not only for your enjoyment but you saved it to be able to show your friends & family further in the future any time you want and only by pressing a couple buttons on your remote which wirelessly controls all the features of said "DVR" as if you were holding a fucking magic wand personally given to you by Gandalf the Grey. but yeah, whipped cream cans with a gyroscope - much more incredible 🏅🏆
A lot of these videos are well over two decades old at this point but they are basically RCS systems (same used on spacescraft) crammed into a small unit. They just look insanely impressive when operating in high gravity because they are constantly having to fire for course corrections.
This was unbelievable tech 30 years ago that for the most part was kept secret. It's hard to imagine the capabilities and size of today's version given how far technology has come. Just compare a cell phone from back then to a smart phone of today!
1g acceleration is all we need for space travel the only problem is energy/fuel. But if we had ships capable of sustaining 1g flight we could fly to mars and back easily and much faster like in the series the expanse where they accelerate the first half of the way than turn around and brake in the direction they are flying for the other half of the way
1:49 I was an intern (high school apprenticeship program) at the Astronautics Laboratory at Edwards AFB when this video was first released. I always remembered it as the "go baby go" video. It's wild to see it here now. I haven't seen this video in over 30 years but I remember it very well.
2019. Earlier in the year, the Pentagon had issued a stop work order on the project following a design review deferment in December 2018 due to the failure of critical components meeting technical specification.
@@coachjoe3074 Yes, but even that has organic curves to it. It's not a strict axis pivot perpendicular to the velocity vector that it continues along, in some weird insectoid way of trying to maintain radar lock from it's nose on. Damn, that was a really clunky sentence. I hope that makes sense lol
@@Blakearmin also, what you described is almost exactly how a dragonfly flies. Including target lock, vertical and horizontal orientations, either perpendicular or otherwise, in relation to movement vector, etc. Hell, they can even fly backwards while hunting. Dragonflies straight up don't give a fuck. Theyre monsters
@@michielotsen6317 All those military sightings had no visible means of propellant, and had no known origin, hence why they were so concerning to Congress, and why Congress created a task force in response to the Pentagon report… civilians were not privy to the good stuff.
@@nicholasbstone Humans are on verge of becoming and interplanetary (violent) species, it would make a lot of sense if you were an ET race to study us Earthlings while keeping their distance. They probably see humans like we see bacteria in a Petri dish, interesting to look at, but you don’t want it to spread.
You could hear how proud and happy the Wizards behind the curtains of this Incredible Machinery happening. I can imagine myself building something incredibly impossible and being successful with the process. It will surely give you Goosebumps.
These give me Battlefield LA vibes. Been following this program since the 80's as a little kid being so fascinated with how these brilliant pebbles just hover like that.
I was trying to place the sound it was making, it sounded sorta familiar. Now I think that I know why. Wasn't there something in the movie that made that sound? Was it in "District 9"?
It's cute, but it would burn a lot of fuel in a very short period of time. You'll notice none of the tests last more ten-fifteen seconds and it's out of fuel. Fuel to weight ratio is a very real thing. And hovering burns a lot of fuel.
I worked at the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Test Range at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during the bulk of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) testing. All I can say is... these are the cutest little kill enhancement devices I've ever seen, and we loved killing nuclear warheads before they reached the atmosphere.
@@carloscontreras3633 I'll put it this way. The f22 is an absolute killing machine, and it's 20+ years old... The f35 is a watered down f22 that we shared with "friends". Imagine what we have NOW The thing in this video is 40 years old ... 👀
I am amazed by the lenght of the time it can stay airborne, as it does not seem to be connected to a hose, feeding it the reaction mass, but using only a pressurised tank (which it ofcourse has to lift by itself). I also did not think that pulsed cold gas thruster can produce so much force on our atmosphere (probably very inefficient but cool anyway). Kudos to whoever built this! *sorry for bad english, cant be biotgmhered to write propetly Edit: It uses a hypergolic thrusters for propulsion and cold gas ones for stabilisation.
I am no expert, but based on the flame and smoke, it looks more like a single solid rocket engine with multiple exhausts in every direction, that can be switched on or off really fast. This could explain why the thrust is never "off", only redirected elsewhere.
@@scrambledmandible Idiots usually aren't humble. By which I mean people who don't think that it's necessary to meet the reader half-way by proper use of language usually don't feel sorry for not having made the effort to communicate clearly.
@@jaffredoflorentin3230 I think it's hypergolic fuel in pressurised tanks. Each engine is fed by fast acting valves. Hypergolic fuels burn instantly upon contact with an oxidizer, no ignition is needed.
I actually saw this video on VHS tape in 1994. I also remember reading about brilliant pebbles and their earlier iteration, smart rocks. I assumed that's what i was seeing in these videos, at the time. I never thought I'd see this footage again. It brings back memories
That thing is freaking awesome! Now imagine it doing that while traveling at a massive velocity on an intercept course with something moving incredibly fast in the opposite direction! The accuracy necessary is incredible!
Watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Battle: Los Angeles (shaddup, they're good for some mindless fun!), I couldn't stop wondering where I'd seen vehicles getting around like that before, and now I finally get to have that "AHA!" moment! Thanks for dropping this blast from the past, OP!
Besides being one of the coolest devices I've ever seen! The absolute excitement of those engineers from seeing all their hard work a complete success is intoxicating!!
I have been looking for this video on UA-cam for so long now I saw this on UA-cam about 7 or 8 years ago and honest to God I always thought this device is probably what the tic tac object is seen by the fighter pilot off the coast of California it's pilotless so they can withstand any amount of G-Force and it's capable of serving a really important role in space defense or nuclear deterrent technology is just so damn cool that this video was finally found by someone else they had enough interest in it to look it up that is so fucking cool whoever found it out there in the UA-cam world
When I first saw one of these hover, about 5 minutes ago thats exactly what I thought. Plus this technology is over 30 yes old, just look at a cell phone 20 yrs. The possibilities?
If they had THIS in the 80s, imagine what they've probably been able to do with it since then. Things like this just MIGHT be responsible for some of the weird UFO sightings people have seen. Cause think about it, has anyone heard the government talk about these things since then? There probably so advanced now that there able to go at super sonic speeds and able to stop on a dime and take off like a rocket. Which could explain a lot of sightings of things coming to a stop really fast and taking off just as quickly. And with the small thrusters it would be relatively silent. Just a thought.
Thank you for saying it so I didn’t have to write all that out. It was exactly what I was thinking. The only thing you’re missing is the connection to current day nuclear threats happening. Maybe that’s why were being so brazen and telling Russia “go ahead let’s go to nuclear war, bring it!” Maybe we have something that can wipe out their nuclear weapons before they are a threat.
I thought the same thing. The only thing I don't understand is how you'd power one to hover in earth's gravity... unless they've got some other propulsion tech that we don't know about.
@@T.M.... Pretty much EXACTLLY what I was thinking. Either an advanced version using solely man made tech, OR a whole new version using info and tech they got from else where.
This technology and similar experiments like it effectively lead to the invention of cruise missiles, which are nothing but unmanned jet engines designed to crash into a target. Which in turn lead to modern drone warfare, so there's no doubt that even more advanced experiments are being conducted now.
I'm aware that the Standard SM-3 missiles uses Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicles called the LEAP program. Very interesting to see these test vehicle performing.
it is meant to operate in space, yes it is using RCS to achieve lift, Yes its horribly inefficient, because reason 1&2. This is meant to be loaded with dozens or hundreds of others onto a LEO rocket and deploy on the projected intercept course of a nuclear ICBM missile and fly in coordinated formation and collide Kinetically with the missile to destroy it using the energy of 1000's mph merging velocity
@@aviator2252 Correct, I completely understand and agree. I wonder what is currently being developed or being used. Has to be massively more impressive. This tech is "pill" territory.
@@mikoriad As far as I am aware this is still the best for Leo intercept, ballistic phase may have some new tech for sure idk what now the stopped the ABL testbed, so it may be we have moved to ground based laser defense
i think what made these things so unique is having such a small profile vehicle with enough fuel to just pump out lil bursts of thrust to conserve its fuel and still maneuver incredibly well
2:10 we can make out a thin hose I read elsewhere that the main thrust is just a single solid rocket chamber providing output for multiple rapidly switched exhaust nozzles, whereas orientation is chilled gas. But different vehicles may have used different powering schemes. All of them certainly look impressively agile.
I have been looking for this for a long time! I vaguely remember seeing one of these clips on the Discovery channel and I remembered it as some kind of satellite which did not need to follow orbital mechanics, since it could just hover
They don't hover. These are maneuvering systems for guiding a missile to intercept its target. Picture a bullet flying towards a bullseye; if the bullseye suddenly moves to the left, the bullet fires a thruster and moves to the left to keep the bullseye directly in its path. It's necessary because hitting a target at orbital speeds requires an insane amount of precision, so a projectile trying to hit a target in space needs to be able to control its trajectory to within a few millimeters.
@@carmatic These ALSO follow a ballistic trajectory. The only thing the thrusters do is let them fine tune their trajectory to ensure they hit what they're aiming at. The fact that it can hover only shows that it can accelerate at more than 1G in any given direction.
Seeing stuff like this is what made me study to be mechanical engineer only got 3 years left and I'll bee hopefully working on something that is as exciting as this project.
This tech being released on video in 1989 according to the one video is amazing considering what other tech the U.S. has but would never put on video for people to see. Now it has been 33 years later and I can only imagine what the U.S. has now. Everyone talks about how Russia and China have these hyper-sonic rockets that the U.S. cannot handle, I call BS. The U.S. has been working with hypersonics forever, to say that the U.S. doesn't also have hypersonic missles or ways to takedown a hypersonic warhead is crazy.
@@saddlepiggy I feel like that gap is going to get farther in no time with quantum computing. They have, in my opinion, the power to change the world for the better. I also believe they won't be used for that.
Indeed. NK and other are trying to launch their nukes. US has made nukes almost useless. With MOAB, Railguns etc. Hypersonic missles cant dodge the speed of light aka Laser Defence systems
This video 's first clip when i saw the first time i thought it so mesmerizing but might be out dated so didn't saved it, but I never forgot and never (unfortunately) saw anything like it again, so, I started searching and searching at the end had to give up .. (felt sad that I didn't save the video) but after so many years seeing it with its cousins performing for so long is so cool. Thanks , (I saved it to my playlist. lol )
I wonder how many people realize that standing still in atmosphere is just about the last thing the vehicle is supposed to do. I guess it's just a convenient test of a bunch of systems and processes.
Most people don't get it. Still need to get dialed in on the orbital mechanics to deliver this thing. It's just a final yard adjustment system, basically an autonomous docking system. That said, it is very impressive to get it to hover in atmosphere.
I bet the engineers behind it created it as some concept without big expectations and even with some funny or silly nickname, but it worked extremely well.
The program some of these were designed around actually did have a pretty funny name. I think “smart rocks” was its original name before it became “brilliant pebbles”
Reminds me of a 3D Animation I saw years ago ( most likely based on this ) where a guy on, I think, a motorcycle was being hunted by two or three of such systems armed with autocannons though the abandoned ruins of a city.
I remember it too. The guy picks up a keycard, which trips the drone security. They chase him into a highway tunnel, right? And the chaser drones were air-launched by a VTOL
I wonder if this thing was an inspiration for the drone ships in the movie Battle: Los Angeles. Cause they hover & fly around EXACTLY the same way this thing does. Lots of thrusters pulse-thrusting in variable ways to give the craft either a baoanced hover, or certain directional & atitude changes.
I don't know why, but that bang-bang control method for those thrusters makes that thing scary as shit. I still vividly remember watching the movie "Battle LosAngeles" and that one UAV instantly brought this to mind. And it was scary as hell in that movie too.
I’ve been watching wondering when we’ll see that kind of rapid movement in drones but so far the only near thing to it is pre programed drone flights. I guess we don’t have computers capable of thinking so quickly.
@@j.jarvis7460: I'm waiting for someone to watch R/C helicopters do 3D and realize "Holy crap... Computerize that thing and nothing can hit it!". They can accelerate so fast they look like they disappear. They start/stop explosively. Crazy stuff. It's worth finding some video's of someone flying REALLY hard 3D...
@@j.jarvis7460 That's not really the case though. This is actually a trivial control problem, doubly so with todays hardware. A 2 dollar core could iterate a control loop for something like this 1000 times a second (1ms slices) and have enough compute time left over to whistle dixie. Even 30 year old off the shelf consumer hardware could do it with ease. And, now that we have MEMS hardware like crazy miniaturized gyro's and accelerometers, that makes it even easier. Heck, I'd be exceptionally surprised if they aren't already building entire 6 degree gyro/accel into some cores making you able to do the entire control (outside of data acquisition/hardware drivers) in a single die.
@@GamingHelpI agree. Trivial tasks done nowadays with a 50 cent microcontroller and a mems gyro/ accelerometer. still for the time this was an incredible achievement.
What they have today: A miniature version of this so that more can be mounted on a single interceptor missile. How do I know? Because we achieved this tech level in India around 12-15 years ago and the programs running now will produce the aforementioned in another 15 years or so.
What blows my mind is how a super secret vehicle leaked to the public. Can as well have been done on purpose. If that's what YOU are authorized to see, imagine what you can't.
The program wasn't classified. All of the videos were labeled for official use only. I worked in the Space Experiments Directorate at the rocket lab at Edwards during this timeframe.
100% look up Iran UFO incident. Those little “UAPs” that the government claims to know nothing about were attacking Iranian nuclear facilities in 2004. Iran even accused the CIA of operating them lol.
Excellent distraction from zero point energy. The child in me enjoys it. Recalling the toys using compressed air from 80’s - Air hogs… flying craft to cars fast forward to hobby grade quads with brushless motors depleting high discharge cells. Beautiful times we are living.
This reminds me of the concept to allow the F-17 and other stealth aircraft to to only remain airborne, but to maneuver nimbly. Computers allow instantaneous micro thrust adjustment to control a constantly ‘falling’ aircraft. But now, the exoatmospheric crafts applies constant propulsive energy in all axes, then simply increases/decreases propulsion to achieve immediate maneuvering! Imagine if they could use some ionic (or other electromagnetic) force as the multi-axial propulsion!!!!!!
A lot of what is shown here was developed during Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars Defence Initiative days. Nice collection of videos. Most videos you are seeing are literally decades old…
@@theUNEXPLAINABLEuap Not much Air time, less than 30min and way too noisy. Propulsion is a major issue. Not to mention size. They had to down size it just to make it flyable. If you want Jets in Russia u need Aircraft "Carriers".
Wow the engineering behind this blows my mind! Is there more information on how this works if it's liquid 2 stage combustible like most rockets today or if it's a jet engine operating with compressed gas thrusters? I just find this so Interesting and want to know more!!! Thank you for this video! Oh and how big are these? It's hard to tell without any scale in the video for size defination
"It is approximately 52 inches in length, 24 inches in diameter and weighs approximately 120 lbs." Official statement from Boeing about GMD system's EKV. THAAD and SM-3 missile use smaller kill vehicles.
I TOTALLY remember seeing some images of this....... I thought I was dreaming. BUT Now that I see it here....This just brings back memories of US ability, money, and Ingenuity of American Scientists.
Well. The people who worked on this are their 60s and 70s now. If successive generations failed to adopt what came before them, don't expect much progress. Projects existing at the time have languished for want of funding.
Imagine a bigger version of this in the shape of a pill , people will mistake it for a UFO , especially how it moves unlike any plane today and with immense speed
@@xDRAGONSHAGGERx If we're talking thermal plasma, that would show a pretty noticeable heat signature. If I remember correctly the objects appeared to be running cold from thermal footage.
This reminds me of Battle LA. Could water electrolysis be used as fuel for this, as in HHO gas aka Browns gas? Another question is could turbines or pulse jets be used for this in atmo? Pulse jet version would keep cost and maintenance down.
I think this kind of thing is better for space missions where you need super precise maneuvers. For a hovering aircraft on Earth, I think we are fine with helicopters, they are probably cheaper and use less fuel that this kind of thing. But I also think that this technology could be used to make a more stable VTOL aircraft like the Harrier or F-35, but is probably needlessly expensive and complex.
Exactly....the one on the news everyone is freaking over....under the national security act they never have to confirm it all they have to say is, "it's ours don't worry" or maybe not even that much they might just continue the story of, "we don't know😏"
No it's not. They saw them on radar descending from space to sea level in seconds. The saw them hovering for 10h straight. It looks like it for sure but the performances of the ufos are to radical.
@@kyzer97320 you realize this is designed to go in space? It was designed to intercept ICBMs so saying they saw it come from space actually gives more credibility....in the video they say too, "without a human pilot it's capable of maneuvers previously unachievable by conventional means"(not an exact quote but they say it)....so there's more credibility
@@kyzer97320 think about this as well before you talk about the flight time...these are scaled down versions...12"-2' long....yeah they're gonna have a short flight time just as with other drones..but once you start making them into the size of aircraft or slightly smaller...the flight time increases, the forces they can endure also increases. You say it "went into the ocean"...ok, were you there were it landed? Did any of the videos show them sticking around to see if any boats or helicopters coming to perhaps pick it up...no. The softest spot and safest spot to conduct untested top secret aircraft maneuvers is over water. That's where we use to drop the big fuel canisters for the shuttles right? I'm not saying there isn't aliens but not ever UFO is gonna be extraterrestrial.
@@kyzer97320 and not to drill it in more but Predator Drones, the ones the military uses...they have a flight time of what...24-48hrs? Without having to be refueled, they just kinda glide in the upper atmosphere (honestly I could be wrong) but they can refuel mid air why can't these? Also what about that XB-71(I'm sure the names wrong) spacecraft? That top secret shuttle the Military uses...it has a cargo bay on it and it stays up in space for months at a time, it could've had one of these in it and dropped it off in space. ua-cam.com/video/h2FQHfCV_Uo/v-deo.html
The fact that these were developed makes me question if some of the UFOs being spotted are really just hovering aircraft using this technology. I’d be very surprised if the govt just straight up abandoned this 🤔
I had this conversation with someone few months back but I'm pretty sure we're both on the same page they had to be drones there's no other explanation experimental drones and then when they got tired of using them they let us fly them but now you need a permit and you can't fly and surnames base with him anymore because of these reasons
Thats EXACTLY what it is lmao, our military likes to wait 10 or more years (understandably so) before telling the population about its newest tech. I cant imagine what we use these days that common people dont know about.
You can watch my ICBM re-entry compilation videos to see how fast these vehicles' targets are.
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Thank you for your comments and likes!
I think the tic tac ufo is just an new generation of MKV, or something like that.
@@ricklaser2846 I like your thinking
This is, beyond any shadow of doubt, the finest compilation video of this kind that I have ever seen anywhere, and I've been viewing these sorts of videos for long over a decade now. Exceptionally clear video (notable lack of aliasing, good color rendering, etc), original audio with no obnoxious music overlay, succinct no-nonsense presentation. I honestly haven't seen some of these clips since viewing them on the Discovery Channel and TLC in the mid 90s when they originally aired. Superlative.
I just got back from viewing your MIRV reentry compilation video....I've never even seen some of these clips. I'd thought I'd seen them all by now...where are you even getting these?? Fantastic. That's a subscribe, bro. If you're into boring ancient fusion and superconductivity documentaries I got u covered on my channel, I guess 🤣🤣
Hope you have more for us soon.
@@ricklaser2846 Nah, have a read of metabunk and the meticulous physics based analysis of those videos. The "Gofast" video is of a slow high small ( 7ft) object travelling at windspeed.. ie a drifting balloon. The gimbal video is a jet exhaust seen at a great distance and its seemingly odd motion is just a predictable artefact of the flir pod gimbal mechanism. Tic tac is a distant engine heat signature that the camera gimbal looses lock on and so its apparent acceleration is just an artefact of the camera no longer tracking it.
@@Grommo Well, actually I mean MKV. They were revealed to the public around 1997, (that means they were developed much earlier). It is quite possible that this technology has improved a lot. from the type of discharge it looks like they used hydrazine as fuel
Just looking at how this thing operates, the fact it was the late 80's, and listening to how absolutely TICKLED the engineers were, this thing must have been a nightmare to get to work.
Ok, so this IS the stuff from the late 80s. Immediately when i saw that i had a feeling that i saw something like this during Reagan's presidency. I think it was part of the SDI.
@E Van I don't talk shit about it, i loved the videos! You know what's funny, btw?
When information about SDI got through the iron curtain, soviet propaganda mixed these videos with scenes from Star Wars (the movie) to discredit and make fun of the technology.
Because only a very small percentage of people had access to western movies, as a result, a lot of them started confusing the star wars (SDI) and Star Wars (the movie). After commie regime fell apart in November 1989, borders opened and with it, huge influx of western wares and movies started. So, when Star Wars (ep.4) finally got into theaters in 1990, people, who up to that point didn't have the opportunity to see it, actually thought, that it's gonna be a documentary about Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Hilarious!
There were bootleg copies of various western movies on VHS in circulation, usually with horrendous quality overdub performed by a single person, but VHS players were a luxury, only party officials, regime protegés and various shady characters had them at home.
@@flare242 Those dubbed movies are the worst. I don't know how people can listen to it. When they released the TV show Friends in parts of Eastern Europe it was the first show that used dubbed voices that matched the characters. However, the people were used to the Borris voice doing the same voice for all the characters. So they had to redub them with the Borris voice. In some small Asian countries, they do the same thing. My wife will sometimes watch them. It's so confusing for a non-native speaker to listen to.
@@flare242 " i had a feeling that i saw something like this during Reagan's presidency. " nope Apollo program was long before Regan's presidency and official story behind landing on the Moon is exactly this type of propulsion the Moon lander was using...
So computer with few Kilobyte of memmory and clock of only few Mhz was able to control in real time all the rocket engines, colect the data from sensors and calculate in real time necessary changes to the vehicle trajectory on its way back to the module on orbit... and you think it is funy that Soviet were not ready to swallow this type of stories? heh
@@Bialy_1 Because those computers were specialized computers with very simple input and output devices and no GUI or fancy operating system with 100s of drivers. You believe it or not but computer program controlling those thrusters have really simplistic task compared to modern game AI.
I love how the narrator is all calm and serious as he explains the thing while the engineers are screaming like children in the background.
that's why they hire narrators to do the talking.
last time they had an engineer explain his work it started a war, a depression, and a comedic impulse for the world to laugh at.
Its the god damn tic tac UFO.
That's not the engineers. It's the "sales" department, lol.....
Aerospace engineers are insane. Every single one I work with is not normal.
@@joshuakuehn lmao guess I'll fit right in then.
The engineers are so happy
You'd be happy too if you just made a UFO
@@tractorbasil5713 it's not a UFO because it's identified
But why are they so excited it's like they didn't think that it was going to work but if they didn't think it was going to work then why did they test it not continue work on it until they thought it was going to work
@@Josh-b3c You have never built something yourself, do you?? doesn't matter how hard you've worked building something the only way of knowing if it works is by testing it, and even if you know it will work you would get happy as a normal human being.
I would too given those are a right bitch to do
the fact that it was tracking a heat source _through_ a wall autonomously 30+ years ago... To imagine the tech today, is properly terrifying.
What amazes me also,is that this thing was moving with the precision that it was,at sea level,with gravity involved.I believe these vehicles are intended for a zero gravity environment.
@@JustSomeGuy1979definitely has the capability at least😏😉
Cyberpunk is here now and we just dont know it
That back engineering from the dozen recovered ET craft 🤫
Hey, anyone here knows how it moves forward and backward? ... As the video shows how well it can move vertically and horizontally.
The engineers are so proud and celebrating. This was NOT EASY tech to make drones like this in the late 80s. The attitude control of these devices is amazing.
There is an animation called 'Ruin' by 'Wes Ball' where these drones were an inspiration for a chase scene with a motorcycle. I highly recommend it.
it was actually very easy for me to do this in the late 70s, but i guess i'm built different
and with russia threatening nukes looks like we will have to pray that this tech from the 80s will save our lives anti missle systems have been developed for decades yet never had to be used well hopefully this time they work when we need them
@@TAKIZAWAYAMASHITA The Tsar is the bomb.
I don't even think they had software back then. Probably all analog
The engineers don't even care what you wanna use this thing for, they just love the sound it makes and the way it moves.
Sound pollution enters the chat
They are excited it finally works. Lots of trial and failure is not shown.
thats why its so scary. they dont care how much death this thing is intended to bring.
I don't know what it's called I just know the sound it makes when it tracks and kills an ICBM.
@@housemana
How does it bring death?
It’s so insanely stable, It hovers like a cinema drone. Amazing engineering
Same concept different Propulsion
But with rockets!
It's the magic of gyroscopes
This thing is for missile movement in space
@@alqaeda7040 we also have Ion Rockets.
Fun fact. My sister and her husband were both engineers on this. Both were fresh aeronautic engineers out of college and not dating at the time. My sister sent home T shirts that had the LEAP logo on them. The way the US DOD develops 1000’s of these projects and shelves them is something else. It’s the knowledge and technology that we really gain off of them.
They didn’t shelve it. This is probably the technology generator for what became the Tic-Tac UFO.
lol they dont shelve the programs per say. the black door them. they get locked up behind compartments and paperwork, security clearance. and then if the program has a practical use its put into action, if not its simply another piggy bank now off the books. you'll notice there are no agencies or policies in place to truly shut down and double check over all assets and projects when something is "shelved" yea cool stuff comes from some of the programs. but taxes keep going up and im not seeing too much changing in the private sector that is reaping the benefits from it.
lol shit it took elon for america to even truly try and get back into space!!!!
@@rebelroar78god I wish
I wouldn’t share that
@@rebelroar78great hypothesis. I can see that being a reality. The tic tac is a great reference.
This looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, damn... It moves so accurately and fluidly!
They are 1000s of years ahead of us
This is what your aloud to see hahah and it’s from the 80’s
@@claytonjames9841 fr we can only wonder what other experimental projects are classified.
I like that you say this. Battle of los angeles, there the alien ships move just like those 👍🏻😄
Yeah wondering about what the tippy top scientist are working on keeps me up at night lol! 🤖 😳
I saw these things in Battlefield 4 and figured they were absolutely fictional, this footage is awesome. Thanks for enlightening me!
this is meant for ICBM interception not a drone unfortunately
@@aviator2252 yes but the technology is still insane
SM-3. THAAD. SM-3's are deployed on all our Navy Destroyers and I think they've even strapped one to an F-15 . Our Naval fleet is designed to fight a nuclear war, people don't realize it, but it is specifically designed for that engagement. No other conventional force comes close to matching us at sea and therefore a huge emphasis is put on shooting down enemy ICBMS.
@@MooseMeus Neptune (RU) 🤣
sometimes i read the comments i write and im like holy shit i mustve been drunk@@seus5878
The fact that it's doing that under the erects of full gravity is amazing. Imagining it in space, with little gravity and no air resistance is impressive.
Some of these tests look like being done in that huge vacuum chamber. When you see no smoke it's probably that.
@@jackmclane1826 3:05 no smoke huh
@@1degRazz Did I say all the tests were made there? I don't think so... -.-
@@jackmclane1826 There would still be smoke in a vacuum chamber but it would act much different than how it acts in atmosphere.
Those are designed to pull dozen of g's. This 1g is basically nothing to them.
It's crazy that a lot of these vehicles were filmed during the 90's and are considered relatively "low tech" compared to today's modern EKV's.
I love how you can just hear the amount of hours they put into the machine through all of that yelling and cheering. What a beautiful video
This video/ tech is from 89. Imagine how far along these guys are today.. makes you wonder what they really have flying 🛸 around the 🌎
Probobly level 23 of genderstudies
The tic tac maybe?
Probably anti gravity aircraft with wormhole capability, but it is all classified of course. Secret classified programs have been going on since like WWII, there are a lot of testimonies about this although we can't know for sure
literally all the ufo sightings
@@dlv1977 not even close. To not have any measurable resistance when going below water is beyond any conceivable tech we think we have. No doubt this explains 90% of the 1% that is unexplainable. But I am also an idiot.
This is one of the coolest…no the absolute most bad ass piece of engineering I have ever seen.
Addendum: I did see this back around 15-20 years ago on TV, I think it was on “EXTREME MACHINES.” I DVRed it an showed all my friends and everyone agreed…Coolest Ever!!!
this was the best engineering you've seen?
...you were watching it be replayed in your living room long after it happened by a signal that was shot into space and bounced off a satellite that's traveling roughly 17,200 mph and once it reaches you at near the speed of light your "DVR" unscrambles the signal to let you see, hear and basically feel what they saw that day at near the speed of light again and not only for your enjoyment but you saved it to be able to show your friends & family further in the future any time you want and only by pressing a couple buttons on your remote which wirelessly controls all the features of said "DVR" as if you were holding a fucking magic wand personally given to you by Gandalf the Grey.
but yeah, whipped cream cans with a gyroscope - much more incredible 🏅🏆
@@jmk1727 geez did you invent satellites or something.... don't be so offended 🤣....you're one of those UA-cam know it alls huh😅
@@frankiethebull8269 I applaud those that point a finger at the finger pointer.
You had a dvr 15-20 years ago?
@@06fz1000 TiVo, the first popular DVR, came out 22 years ago.
A lot of these videos are well over two decades old at this point but they are basically RCS systems (same used on spacescraft) crammed into a small unit. They just look insanely impressive when operating in high gravity because they are constantly having to fire for course corrections.
try 4 decades old
Try 3.
This was unbelievable tech 30 years ago that for the most part was kept secret. It's hard to imagine the capabilities and size of today's version given how far technology has come. Just compare a cell phone from back then to a smart phone of today!
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@@antoniolsn2518 Its a mono so yeah probably N2H4.
Imagine what the military has done with this tech since it went dark for the past 40 years.
Arming robot and drones.
It is used on Thaad missile for anti nuclear
Like voice to skull tech.
Ironman!!
I was wondering this as well
Love how the engineers don't hide their joy
Wait why was this recommended to me lmao
Poland to space when
@@kosmokainen3988 because you like it and we know it
lmao right they sound like the COD kid who gets a killstreak at round start
@@edwardcardozo8325 soon my friend
When it's hovering in Earth's gravity, it's actually accelerating at 1G. Imagine how fast it could go in 0G.
That thing is a bullet. Or a cannonball.
1g acceleration is all we need for space travel the only problem is energy/fuel. But if we had ships capable of sustaining 1g flight we could fly to mars and back easily and much faster like in the series the expanse where they accelerate the first half of the way than turn around and brake in the direction they are flying for the other half of the way
How fast in mph is 1G? 9.98m/s ?
@@DanielGrovePhoto 1G is acceleration. Your speed depends on how long are you accelerating for.
@Spastik i get 6
It's approx. 9.8 m/s squared. m/s is a unit of speed, m/s^2 is acceleration (meters per second per second to understand it better).
1:49 I was an intern (high school apprenticeship program) at the Astronautics Laboratory at Edwards AFB when this video was first released. I always remembered it as the "go baby go" video. It's wild to see it here now. I haven't seen this video in over 30 years but I remember it very well.
1:49 oh my God 😂😂
I can't imagine the kind of technology they have right now
instagram filters unfortunately.
@@jebes909090 thats what they want you to think lol
Same.
2019. Earlier in the year, the Pentagon had issued a stop work order on the project following a design review deferment in December 2018 due to the failure of critical components meeting technical specification.
@@jebes909090 they’re all under black projects
This is wildly impressive. But the way it moves creeps me tf out. It's so precise and unnatural.
Ever watched a dragonfly hunt?
Ever seen Mark Zuckerberg?
@@coachjoe3074 Yes, but even that has organic curves to it. It's not a strict axis pivot perpendicular to the velocity vector that it continues along, in some weird insectoid way of trying to maintain radar lock from it's nose on.
Damn, that was a really clunky sentence. I hope that makes sense lol
@@Blakearmin love me some organic curves, if ya know what I'm sayin.
@@Blakearmin also, what you described is almost exactly how a dragonfly flies. Including target lock, vertical and horizontal orientations, either perpendicular or otherwise, in relation to movement vector, etc. Hell, they can even fly backwards while hunting. Dragonflies straight up don't give a fuck. Theyre monsters
Remember those spottings of extremely fast, small, and omnidirectional craft? Those are these put with decades of improvement.
Tictacs!
Nah, they must be "aliens" from "outer space"
@@michielotsen6317 All those military sightings had no visible means of propellant, and had no known origin, hence why they were so concerning to Congress, and why Congress created a task force in response to the Pentagon report… civilians were not privy to the good stuff.
@@nicholasbstone Humans are on verge of becoming and interplanetary (violent) species, it would make a lot of sense if you were an ET race to study us Earthlings while keeping their distance. They probably see humans like we see bacteria in a Petri dish, interesting to look at, but you don’t want it to spread.
From my understanding, they didn't emit any heat like these would.
I absolutely love it when engineers get to see something they’ve spent ages on finally come together and work❤️
You could hear how proud and happy the Wizards behind the curtains of this Incredible Machinery happening. I can imagine myself building something incredibly impossible and being successful with the process. It will surely give you Goosebumps.
These give me Battlefield LA vibes. Been following this program since the 80's as a little kid being so fascinated with how these brilliant pebbles just hover like that.
*ABSOLUTELY*
Just said that, seconds later I find your comment. 😂😂
I was trying to place the sound it was making, it sounded sorta familiar. Now I think that I know why. Wasn't there something in the movie that made that sound? Was it in "District 9"?
It's cute, but it would burn a lot of fuel in a very short period of time. You'll notice none of the tests last more ten-fifteen seconds and it's out of fuel. Fuel to weight ratio is a very real thing. And hovering burns a lot of fuel.
@@jstephenallington8431 It's said above,the movie is called 'Battle: Los Angeles'
man, I fucking love the sound of happy engineers
The
WOO!!!!
YEAHH!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!
Gets me 🤣
Yorkshire engineer: That'll do!
Normally it's the sound of bad language, flatulence and arguments with MANAGEMENT.
sounds like they overdubbed the reactions to a winning home run in the world series.
As long as they're not cheering in German.
I remember seeing this in the 80s as a kid on TV. Never seen it again until now. So awesome!
I see where Dice got their inspiration for the XD-1 Accipiter 👀
Yessss final stand was amazing!
We’re never getting 2143. :(
But given how new Battlefield games are, I think I’ll stick to playing the old 2142 via the Reclamation project.
I remember my friend said "BF4 is too futuristic" because of the XD-1.....so then I showed him this video🤣
This comment brings back nostalgic memories
I worked at the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Test Range at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during the bulk of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) testing. All I can say is... these are the cutest little kill enhancement devices I've ever seen, and we loved killing nuclear warheads before they reached the atmosphere.
👀
👀👀
If these are cute…then…😮
@@carloscontreras3633 I'll put it this way. The f22 is an absolute killing machine, and it's 20+ years old... The f35 is a watered down f22 that we shared with "friends".
Imagine what we have NOW
The thing in this video is 40 years old ... 👀
Tf
I am amazed by the lenght of the time it can stay airborne, as it does not seem to be connected to a hose, feeding it the reaction mass, but using only a pressurised tank (which it ofcourse has to lift by itself). I also did not think that pulsed cold gas thruster can produce so much force on our atmosphere (probably very inefficient but cool anyway).
Kudos to whoever built this!
*sorry for bad english, cant be biotgmhered to write propetly
Edit: It uses a hypergolic thrusters for propulsion and cold gas ones for stabilisation.
I am no expert, but based on the flame and smoke, it looks more like a single solid rocket engine with multiple exhausts in every direction, that can be switched on or off really fast. This could explain why the thrust is never "off", only redirected elsewhere.
Why is it that everyone who apologizes for having bad English has equal or usually better English skills than native English speakers
@@scrambledmandible Idiots usually aren't humble.
By which I mean people who don't think that it's necessary to meet the reader half-way by proper use of language usually don't feel sorry for not having made the effort to communicate clearly.
@@jaffredoflorentin3230 I think it's hypergolic fuel in pressurised tanks. Each engine is fed by fast acting valves. Hypergolic fuels burn instantly upon contact with an oxidizer, no ignition is needed.
@@jaffredoflorentin3230 It looks like the one at 1:57 is most likely a SRB with adjustable gates, but I don't think any others are
I actually saw this video on VHS tape in 1994. I also remember reading about brilliant pebbles and their earlier iteration, smart rocks. I assumed that's what i was seeing in these videos, at the time. I never thought I'd see this footage again. It brings back memories
That thing is freaking awesome! Now imagine it doing that while traveling at a massive velocity on an intercept course with something moving incredibly fast in the opposite direction! The accuracy necessary is incredible!
If you've played Battlefield 4 you know how deadly these things can be haha
Was looking for the battlefield fan.
🤣
Had a guy on Battlefield 3 that would absolutely murder other teams with the MAV. LOL
The Ancippitor✊😅...hate those too when I'm not in control 😏
Was looking for this comment lol
Watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Battle: Los Angeles (shaddup, they're good for some mindless fun!), I couldn't stop wondering where I'd seen vehicles getting around like that before, and now I finally get to have that "AHA!" moment! Thanks for dropping this blast from the past, OP!
If they had things like these 40 years ago now imagine what they could have right now
DO have
no sh*t
DJI drone? LOL
Besides being one of the coolest devices I've ever seen! The absolute excitement of those engineers from seeing all their hard work a complete success is intoxicating!!
I have been looking for this video on UA-cam for so long now I saw this on UA-cam about 7 or 8 years ago and honest to God I always thought this device is probably what the tic tac object is seen by the fighter pilot off the coast of California it's pilotless so they can withstand any amount of G-Force and it's capable of serving a really important role in space defense or nuclear deterrent technology is just so damn cool that this video was finally found by someone else they had enough interest in it to look it up that is so fucking cool whoever found it out there in the UA-cam world
When I first saw one of these hover, about 5 minutes ago thats exactly what I thought. Plus this technology is over 30 yes old, just look at a cell phone 20 yrs. The possibilities?
It’s crazy how this weird looking object can save us from getting vaporized in case of nuclear warfare
I’ve been looking for this vid too
Absolutely fascinated when I first saw it
Bingo
Your dog is amazing, he is hunk
If they had THIS in the 80s, imagine what they've probably been able to do with it since then. Things like this just MIGHT be responsible for some of the weird UFO sightings people have seen. Cause think about it, has anyone heard the government talk about these things since then? There probably so advanced now that there able to go at super sonic speeds and able to stop on a dime and take off like a rocket. Which could explain a lot of sightings of things coming to a stop really fast and taking off just as quickly. And with the small thrusters it would be relatively silent. Just a thought.
Thank you for saying it so I didn’t have to write all that out. It was exactly what I was thinking. The only thing you’re missing is the connection to current day nuclear threats happening. Maybe that’s why were being so brazen and telling Russia “go ahead let’s go to nuclear war, bring it!” Maybe we have something that can wipe out their nuclear weapons before they are a threat.
I thought the same thing. The only thing I don't understand is how you'd power one to hover in earth's gravity... unless they've got some other propulsion tech that we don't know about.
The alleged "tic tac" UFO video would be simply an advanced version of what you see in this video.
@@T.M.... Pretty much EXACTLLY what I was thinking. Either an advanced version using solely man made tech, OR a whole new version using info and tech they got from else where.
This technology and similar experiments like it effectively lead to the invention of cruise missiles, which are nothing but unmanned jet engines designed to crash into a target. Which in turn lead to modern drone warfare, so there's no doubt that even more advanced experiments are being conducted now.
What an amazing machine!
That thing moves like some of those 'UFO's' that have been reported changing speed and direction instantly.
And to think several decades of potential advancements have gone into this technology. Thank you for this upload
1:22
Dictor: just talking.
Background: *crazy man.mp3*
Dude, it's absolutely beautiful
I'm aware that the Standard SM-3 missiles uses Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicles called the LEAP program. Very interesting to see these test vehicle performing.
it is the most beautiful thing ive ever seen. I can die happy if i ever manage to build anything half as awe inspiring as this.
This reminded me of how some of the ships stabilize in Star Citizen. What an awesome feat, though it looks soo inefficient.
it is meant to operate in space, yes it is using RCS to achieve lift, Yes its horribly inefficient, because reason 1&2. This is meant to be loaded with dozens or hundreds of others onto a LEO rocket and deploy on the projected intercept course of a nuclear ICBM missile and fly in coordinated formation and collide Kinetically with the missile to destroy it using the energy of 1000's mph merging velocity
@@aviator2252 Correct, I completely understand and agree. I wonder what is currently being developed or being used. Has to be massively more impressive. This tech is "pill" territory.
@@mikoriad As far as I am aware this is still the best for Leo intercept, ballistic phase may have some new tech for sure idk what now the stopped the ABL testbed, so it may be we have moved to ground based laser defense
i think what made these things so unique is having such a small profile vehicle with enough fuel to just pump out lil bursts of thrust to conserve its fuel and still maneuver incredibly well
That was what impressed me the most. So much thrust generated with so little space available for fuel.
2:10 we can make out a thin hose
I read elsewhere that the main thrust is just a single solid rocket chamber providing output for multiple rapidly switched exhaust nozzles, whereas orientation is chilled gas. But different vehicles may have used different powering schemes. All of them certainly look impressively agile.
Man, this is too cool.
I can only imagine what this has evolved into over the last 40 years.
Amazing collection of these videos!!! I've tried finding these on various occasions and have only seen a third of what you have here. Love it!!!
Those engineers in the background probably have the same level of joy that SpaceX engineers had when Falcon 9 landed successfully for the first time.
I have been looking for this for a long time! I vaguely remember seeing one of these clips on the Discovery channel and I remembered it as some kind of satellite which did not need to follow orbital mechanics, since it could just hover
They don't hover. These are maneuvering systems for guiding a missile to intercept its target. Picture a bullet flying towards a bullseye; if the bullseye suddenly moves to the left, the bullet fires a thruster and moves to the left to keep the bullseye directly in its path. It's necessary because hitting a target at orbital speeds requires an insane amount of precision, so a projectile trying to hit a target in space needs to be able to control its trajectory to within a few millimeters.
Hovering in place would require a lot of sustained energy. I think it's easier to get into a geosynchronous orbit.
@@chaotickreg7024 thats what made these things so special, because everything else does the easy thing of following a ballistic or orbital trajectory
@@carmatic These ALSO follow a ballistic trajectory. The only thing the thrusters do is let them fine tune their trajectory to ensure they hit what they're aiming at. The fact that it can hover only shows that it can accelerate at more than 1G in any given direction.
You’ve gotta appreciate the constant cheers of joy from the engineers in the background.
Seeing stuff like this is what made me study to be mechanical engineer only got 3 years left and I'll bee hopefully working on something that is as exciting as this project.
Try projects at home too
Good luck!
This tech being released on video in 1989 according to the one video is amazing considering what other tech the U.S. has but would never put on video for people to see. Now it has been 33 years later and I can only imagine what the U.S. has now. Everyone talks about how Russia and China have these hyper-sonic rockets that the U.S. cannot handle, I call BS. The U.S. has been working with hypersonics forever, to say that the U.S. doesn't also have hypersonic missles or ways to takedown a hypersonic warhead is crazy.
I’ve always heard Skunkworks and other top secret programs are 30 years ahead of public knowledge.
@@saddlepiggy I feel like that gap is going to get farther in no time with quantum computing. They have, in my opinion, the power to change the world for the better. I also believe they won't be used for that.
We can shoot missiles down with lasers now
@@lol_0kkay Giant "lasers"?
Indeed. NK and other are trying to launch their nukes. US has made nukes almost useless. With MOAB, Railguns etc. Hypersonic missles cant dodge the speed of light aka Laser Defence systems
Nothing is more joyous than the sound of excited engineers.
Oh to be part of a team that creates and innovates with things like this.
Just imagine what is in development nowadays
more shit to cause kessler syndrome i assume. Humanity really is JUST smart enough to fuck ourselves over.
I now have no doubt the military has flying tic-tacs in 2020's
This video 's first clip when i saw the first time i thought it so mesmerizing but might be out dated so didn't saved it, but I never forgot and never (unfortunately) saw anything like it again, so, I started searching and searching at the end had to give up .. (felt sad that I didn't save the video) but after so many years seeing it with its cousins performing for so long is so cool. Thanks , (I saved it to my playlist. lol )
before that advent of MEMS gyros. Amazing!
I wonder how many people realize that standing still in atmosphere is just about the last thing the vehicle is supposed to do. I guess it's just a convenient test of a bunch of systems and processes.
Most people don't get it. Still need to get dialed in on the orbital mechanics to deliver this thing. It's just a final yard adjustment system, basically an autonomous docking system. That said, it is very impressive to get it to hover in atmosphere.
Simple solution
It’s sent on a fast missile to intercept a rocket that it detaches from, and can make adjustments in space, and keep its speed
I bet the engineers behind it created it as some concept without big expectations and even with some funny or silly nickname, but it worked extremely well.
That's not how this works 😅
The program some of these were designed around actually did have a pretty funny name. I think “smart rocks” was its original name before it became “brilliant pebbles”
Reminds me of a 3D Animation I saw years ago ( most likely based on this ) where a guy on, I think, a motorcycle was being hunted by two or three of such systems armed with autocannons though the abandoned ruins of a city.
That might have been the battlefield 4 trailer
I think the movie you're thinking about is Battle Los Angeles
@@dsdy1205 Nope, it was a 3D Animated Short.
@@Duraltia ah then Yelectric is right
I remember it too.
The guy picks up a keycard, which trips the drone security.
They chase him into a highway tunnel, right?
And the chaser drones were air-launched by a VTOL
I wonder if this thing was an inspiration for the drone ships in the movie Battle: Los Angeles.
Cause they hover & fly around EXACTLY the same way this thing does. Lots of thrusters pulse-thrusting in variable ways to give the craft either a baoanced hover, or certain directional & atitude changes.
I don't know why, but that bang-bang control method for those thrusters makes that thing scary as shit. I still vividly remember watching the movie "Battle LosAngeles" and that one UAV instantly brought this to mind. And it was scary as hell in that movie too.
I’ve been watching wondering when we’ll see that kind of rapid movement in drones but so far the only near thing to it is pre programed drone flights. I guess we don’t have computers capable of thinking so quickly.
@@j.jarvis7460: I'm waiting for someone to watch R/C helicopters do 3D and realize "Holy crap... Computerize that thing and nothing can hit it!". They can accelerate so fast they look like they disappear. They start/stop explosively. Crazy stuff. It's worth finding some video's of someone flying REALLY hard 3D...
@@GamingHelp what I’m seeing is our processing power is far from this reality.
@@j.jarvis7460 That's not really the case though. This is actually a trivial control problem, doubly so with todays hardware. A 2 dollar core could iterate a control loop for something like this 1000 times a second (1ms slices) and have enough compute time left over to whistle dixie. Even 30 year old off the shelf consumer hardware could do it with ease. And, now that we have MEMS hardware like crazy miniaturized gyro's and accelerometers, that makes it even easier. Heck, I'd be exceptionally surprised if they aren't already building entire 6 degree gyro/accel into some cores making you able to do the entire control (outside of data acquisition/hardware drivers) in a single die.
@@GamingHelpI agree. Trivial tasks done nowadays with a 50 cent microcontroller and a mems gyro/ accelerometer.
still for the time this was an incredible achievement.
I’m really glad to hear them speaking English in the background. Imagine what’s behind closed doors today! This is 40 years ago.
What they have today: A miniature version of this so that more can be mounted on a single interceptor missile.
How do I know? Because we achieved this tech level in India around 12-15 years ago and the programs running now will produce the aforementioned in another 15 years or so.
What blows my mind is how a super secret vehicle leaked to the public. Can as well have been done on purpose. If that's what YOU are authorized to see, imagine what you can't.
maybe its shown specifically to make us imagine things that don't actually exist?
@@rumfordc It is possible too
The program wasn't classified. All of the videos were labeled for official use only. I worked in the Space Experiments Directorate at the rocket lab at Edwards during this timeframe.
40 years ago. Can you imagine what we have now
Gender confusion
One of these videos is from 1989? HOLY! Yeah I’m starting to think UFOS are unclassified weapons.
Yes.
100% look up Iran UFO incident. Those little “UAPs” that the government claims to know nothing about were attacking Iranian nuclear facilities in 2004. Iran even accused the CIA of operating them lol.
They probably are invisible and travel through time now.
Excellent distraction from zero point energy. The child in me enjoys it. Recalling the toys using compressed air from 80’s - Air hogs… flying craft to cars fast forward to hobby grade quads with brushless motors depleting high discharge cells. Beautiful times we are living.
What is zero point energy?
@@alphaindustries5775Hope this adds to your awareness of what is possible.
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Literally came here because it was mentioned in a little short that I saw and now I'm watching this whole thing and my mind is blown this is amazing
Dude same. How have we never seen or heard of this anywhere ever
Imagine that thing chasing you.
This reminds me of the concept to allow the F-17 and other stealth aircraft to to only remain airborne, but to maneuver nimbly. Computers allow instantaneous micro thrust adjustment to control a constantly ‘falling’ aircraft.
But now, the exoatmospheric crafts applies constant propulsive energy in all axes, then simply increases/decreases propulsion to achieve immediate maneuvering! Imagine if they could use some ionic (or other electromagnetic) force as the multi-axial propulsion!!!!!!
Wth are you talking about
A lot of what is shown here was developed during Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars Defence Initiative days. Nice collection of videos. Most videos you are seeing are literally decades old…
I worked on this project, it was awesome! There is a model of a vehicle on display at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley-CA.
When were you there? I started in 90 working through 92.
1988-1989 as a Sub designing and building the electronic interconnect@@kingrichard29
This looks so advanced in general but the fact that it looks like a super old recording makes me think the usa forsure has ufos 😁
well, ,yea it would literally be a ufo to an observer because you wouldnt be able to identify it. so yes?
I doubt seriously the USA has UFOs. If we did they would have something better as far as propulsion than this I believe.
@David Pryor THX
@@rick7884 They have NOW
I wonder how much computing power that had, if any. Amazing feat for the time
At least one footage shows date at 89
First clip shows sustained flight for 43s under earth gravity.
From that I estimate a Δv of 400-450m/s.
So this is 40 years old. The 'ufo' sightings recently are almost definitely just an evolved version of this thing.
Not really. UFO's don't make sound or have a visible means of propulsion. Sightings have been reported for over 80yrs.
I’m starting to think so
@@theUNEXPLAINABLEuap Not much Air time, less than 30min and way too noisy. Propulsion is a major issue. Not to mention size. They had to down size it just to make it flyable. If you want Jets in Russia u need Aircraft "Carriers".
Wow the engineering behind this blows my mind! Is there more information on how this works if it's liquid 2 stage combustible like most rockets today or if it's a jet engine operating with compressed gas thrusters? I just find this so Interesting and want to know more!!! Thank you for this video! Oh and how big are these? It's hard to tell without any scale in the video for size defination
"It is approximately 52 inches in length, 24 inches in diameter and weighs approximately 120 lbs." Official statement from Boeing about GMD system's EKV. THAAD and SM-3 missile use smaller kill vehicles.
these are all mono propellants to keep size and mass down
@@Elios0000 awesome thank you
@@cr0wmp918 awesome thank you for that extra info. It really helps me get a better understanding for this awesome feat of engineering
@@cr0wmp918 Thanks for the specs on that.
the fact that something from 80s looks so terrifying as this, i wonder what are they working on nowadays...
I love how this thing levitates completely still while tracking
I TOTALLY remember seeing some images of this....... I thought I was dreaming. BUT Now that I see it here....This just brings back memories of US ability, money, and Ingenuity of American Scientists.
If this was the late 80s... Imagine the stuff we have today that civilians don't get to see.
Nothing
They burned all the money on genderstudies
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Thursday morning on the loo scrolling my feeds and then this. Thanks, UA-cam Algorithm, you know me so well. Made my day.
If this was 80s. Wonder what they havent shown in 2023
I know, makes you wonder what they have done with cloning since they cloned that sheep, Dolly.
Well. The people who worked on this are their 60s and 70s now. If successive generations failed to adopt what came before them, don't expect much progress. Projects existing at the time have languished for want of funding.
Imagine a bigger version of this in the shape of a pill , people will mistake it for a UFO , especially how it moves unlike any plane today and with immense speed
So this is what all those fighter pilots are seeing as UFOs 😂
No, what the pilots saw was even more confusing as they couldn't see a form of propulsion system being used by w.e they saw.
@@skillfulgoose101 could still be gov property with a more advanced propulsion system, plasma perhaps...
@@xDRAGONSHAGGERx If we're talking thermal plasma, that would show a pretty noticeable heat signature. If I remember correctly the objects appeared to be running cold from thermal footage.
When I heard about the UFO stuff happening, this is the first thing I thought of
looking at this, I just know that today's technology consists of horrors beyond my comprehension.
This reminds me of Battle LA. Could water electrolysis be used as fuel for this, as in HHO gas aka Browns gas? Another question is could turbines or pulse jets be used for this in atmo? Pulse jet version would keep cost and maintenance down.
I think this kind of thing is better for space missions where you need super precise maneuvers. For a hovering aircraft on Earth, I think we are fine with helicopters, they are probably cheaper and use less fuel that this kind of thing.
But I also think that this technology could be used to make a more stable VTOL aircraft like the Harrier or F-35, but is probably needlessly expensive and complex.
@@raico6890 Good point.
There's your UFOs people.
This is some of the coolest footage I've ever seen!
Isn't this the UFO in the recent released videos? These were engineered in the late 80's and people are shocked seeing these kinds of things now?
Exactly....the one on the news everyone is freaking over....under the national security act they never have to confirm it all they have to say is, "it's ours don't worry" or maybe not even that much they might just continue the story of, "we don't know😏"
No it's not. They saw them on radar descending from space to sea level in seconds. The saw them hovering for 10h straight. It looks like it for sure but the performances of the ufos are to radical.
@@kyzer97320 you realize this is designed to go in space? It was designed to intercept ICBMs so saying they saw it come from space actually gives more credibility....in the video they say too, "without a human pilot it's capable of maneuvers previously unachievable by conventional means"(not an exact quote but they say it)....so there's more credibility
@@kyzer97320 think about this as well before you talk about the flight time...these are scaled down versions...12"-2' long....yeah they're gonna have a short flight time just as with other drones..but once you start making them into the size of aircraft or slightly smaller...the flight time increases, the forces they can endure also increases. You say it "went into the ocean"...ok, were you there were it landed? Did any of the videos show them sticking around to see if any boats or helicopters coming to perhaps pick it up...no. The softest spot and safest spot to conduct untested top secret aircraft maneuvers is over water. That's where we use to drop the big fuel canisters for the shuttles right? I'm not saying there isn't aliens but not ever UFO is gonna be extraterrestrial.
@@kyzer97320 and not to drill it in more but Predator Drones, the ones the military uses...they have a flight time of what...24-48hrs? Without having to be refueled, they just kinda glide in the upper atmosphere (honestly I could be wrong) but they can refuel mid air why can't these? Also what about that XB-71(I'm sure the names wrong) spacecraft? That top secret shuttle the Military uses...it has a cargo bay on it and it stays up in space for months at a time, it could've had one of these in it and dropped it off in space. ua-cam.com/video/h2FQHfCV_Uo/v-deo.html
imagine if someone was still publicly advancing on this style, just how advanced it would be today
They might look like the 'UAP' drones the jet fighters captured on video.
that someone has the biggest military budget on earth and dont advertise what they do
@@noahlirnirs1541 that's why he said publicly. Read the comment before replying.
The fact that these were developed makes me question if some of the UFOs being spotted are really just hovering aircraft using this technology. I’d be very surprised if the govt just straight up abandoned this 🤔
It's it's just our govt...
I had this conversation with someone few months back but I'm pretty sure we're both on the same page they had to be drones there's no other explanation experimental drones and then when they got tired of using them they let us fly them but now you need a permit and you can't fly and surnames base with him anymore because of these reasons
Thats EXACTLY what it is lmao, our military likes to wait 10 or more years (understandably so) before telling the population about its newest tech. I cant imagine what we use these days that common people dont know about.
no jet plum