Airplane Designations Explained
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Get a glimpse into all types of aircraft in the US Military, and learn how to make sense of “the codes” that are used to identify aircraft. This is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
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The “K” for tankers represents “Kerosene” to clear up any confusion. “S” can also mean “Spy/Surveillance” in the case of the SR-71.
Is S supposed to mean that or is that another instance of misdirection like the U-2?
This made me look up the difference between Surveillance and Reconnaissance.
I feel like I’ve heard it said they were supposed to call it the RS-71 for recon space plane but flipped it because it sounds better as SR.
@@TheObsidianX Strategic Reconnaisance
@@TheObsidianX It was originally officially RS but was read backwards when introduced. To prevent embarrassment of correcting the mistake of those on top it was officially changed SR
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@@jonachamp3946 whats MQ nine? M is modified mission and it has no mission at alll?
Learned more about warplanes in a short video than I did in 7 years in the Air Force.
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Thank you, I was also researching this myself
here is the data I observe from military aircraft
A= Attacker
B= Bomber
C= Cargo/Transport
D= Dive Bomber?
E= Electronic equipped
F= Fighter
G= Glider/Permanenly Grounded
H= Search and rescue
I= (I can't find this one)
J= Special test, temporary
K= Aerial refueling plane
L= Laser equiped
M= Military Mission
N= Special test, permanent
O= Observation
P= Pursuit/Patrol
Q= Long range drone/unmanned aircraft
R= Reconnaissance
S= Scout/Anti-submarine
T= Training
U= Utility
V= VTOL
W= Weather reconnaissance
X= Experimental
Y= Prototype
Z= Planning
Actually pretty accurate, but it can get a bit more complex. I also feel like talking about stuff so this will be a bit (extremely) long.
in no particular order:
D actually designates drone control systems, which aren't aircraft, although drone director aircraft are allowed as well under the same designation. H can designate search and rescue, medivac and just helicopter (AH-64 is attack helicopter 64, UH-60 is utility helicopter 64 and so on), helicopter of course being the most common. E doesn't simply mean electronically equipped as that would be all aircraft, but rather special electronic mission, usually early warning, radar jamming or something else like that. F does mean fighter, but the most common mistake I see is people assuming that is the aircrafts primary job, in reality aircraft that only have air to air as a secondary defense while primarily being for ground strike can also have this designation. M means multi mission, I'm not sure what you mean by "military mission" tbh, thats just all of them, it also used to mean missile carrier, and then mine countermeasure, those were both dropped when the navy stopped having use for them. W does in fact mean weather reconnaissance, but it will not be used alone, always with another letter (generally C, just like tankers) (example: WC-130). X means experimental, but also aircraft designed to carry out experiments not directly related to the aircraft (flying laboratories would receive the X designation). Z does mean planned when used as a status, just as J and N are used, however Z also used to mean lighter than air, to my knowledge this is no longer recognized. L does mean laser equipped, but this was dropped quite rapidly, with the failure of the YAL-1 airborne laser aircraft, it may come back now that lasers are coming back as well, it also means cold weather equipped, although thats basically all aircraft now. V in addition to VTOL/STOL (The OV-10 for example was a short takeoff observation aircraft) means VIP transportation when appended to another letter, now exclusive to presidential (and by transfer the vice president) transportation aircraft, the VC-25, the presidential 747, is an example of such a designation. I in fact does not exist as a designation, not even retired or rarely used like many of them, which is why you couldn't find it. Of course, the greatest of them all, P, it is only used as Patrol now, but it used to be used for Pursuit, as you listed, which was generally a fighter or interceptor. A will likely be retiring soon actually as its quite obsolete, every year for quite some time now the USAF has submitted plans to retire the A-10, the senate has denied these plans every time, it will likely take the aircraft seeing serious combat to convince the senate to approve its retirement as the USAF has been trying to do. The video also stated that the A-10 is the lone example of the A designation, this is not entirely true, excluding aircraft designated AC (AC-130 is quite a famous example), the A-29 Super Tucano currently holds this designation as well, and is possibly going to be one of the last to hold the designation, as it is the only fully modernized dedicated ground strike aircraft
Anyway, I'm done pretending to know anything and talking too much.
@@_TheRealMud the A designation and it's retirement or not with the Hog is indicative of the strange place the military often finds itself. I expect the A-10 to eventually be retired purely from running out of parts. But Fighter/Attack aircraft are both expensive and fairly fragile. So something will come along that's more resistant to ground fire for that role when a whole air strike isn't needed. Seeing an AQ wouldn't be all that surprising now that I think about it (Ground-Attack drone)
You have to consider that prior to 1962 there was no real standard naming or numbering convention for aircraft. Which is why you have aircraft like the TBF-Avenger, SBD-Dauntless, the F4U Corsair and the F4F Wildcat. And why there is no real consistency between the numbering of the "P" aircraft (P-51, P-38 P-47 P-61 etc).
Interestingly enough there is a similar naming convention in place for Naval Ships as well. CV, CVA, CVE, CVL, CVN are all designations for aircraft carriers. CC, CA, CL, CG are designations for cruisers, and DD, DDE, DDR, DDL DDG were used as designations for destroyers.
I would most likely be Interceptor
So you could have a aircraft named the YEET-69
F-117 is also a well-known exception to the rule. It's primarily a bomber but because of its stealth characteristics, they needed fighter pilot type skill sets to fly it successfully so gave it an F designation to attract the right sort of interest.
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YEH-60B is a prototype (Y) electronic warfare (E) helicopter (H) equipped with a high precision radar antenna mainly designed to detect moving targets on a battlefield and datalink the location of them to army ground stations (stand off target acquisition). It’s based off of an A model Blackhawk which is the 60th designated helicopter (-60) and it’s the second prototype of the YEH variant. (B) The first one (YEH-60A) having a radar that was susceptible to ice. They fixed the icing problem in the B model.
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so basically it has a radar almost ice proof that can strategically see enemy forces on the ground and its base H is a black hawk
What you said isn't unclass...
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Cant tell if that last part is real or a reference to iron man
That was honestly such a slick transition to the sponsor commercial
that sponser transition was so good it made me watch it lmao
Putting the avocados at the beginning and then during the Sponsor video - literally the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life
designed to detect moving targets on the battlefield and downlink the information to an Army ground station.YEH-60B.
Yeah but why YEH-60B
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My military knowledge has increased.
Also, YEH-60B means it is a prototype electronic warfare avionics installation helicopter 60 model B.
So basically it is the second model of a prototype electronic warfare helicopter. Used for electronical warfare
That’s vague. We know it’s an electronic warfare helicopter but what does it do? Electronic warfare is used for many things.
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@@UltraMagaFan you dont recognize it from independce day? they have it fixed with lights to try and communicate to aliens :P
the YEH-60B was mainly used to detect enermys on the battlefeild
OH MY GOD. It makes so much sense. Idk how I never realized how straight forward the military aircraft designation system actually is. My mind is blown, and this is an absolutely amazing video! It makes me love all of those planes like the F-22, F-15, B-2, B-29, C-5M, etc. Thank you so much for making this video.
You stated a total of: Two Fighter aircraft, Two Bomber aircraft, and, One Cargo aircraft
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If you actually read into the F-15 with the wing ripped off the pilot didn’t know the wing was ripped off he said if he saw the wing was gone he would’ve ejected right then and there but he didn’t know he thought it just started a listing
was hoping to see the SR-71 Blackbird. i love that craft!!
5:23 My internet has been crashing a lot recently and it actually got me lol
So this is how to work out the designation - unless they decide to ignore the rules! Please don't put a UA-cam taken down notice halfway through the video - I almost had a heart attack! Well played!
That was the smoothest transition to the sponsor of the video, ever!
It's fascinating to think that the lifespan of these aircraft are often longer than the generation that built them. My father was too young for the Vietnam war, but plenty of his older friends flew in a Chinook there. I flew in those same vietnam-era helis in Iraq and they were still going strong.
still good tools. The B-52 will be over 100 years old before its retired. Thankfully this isn't some rotten tool like Russia hands out
@@d36williams The Soviet machines were definitely quantity over quality, sometimes accompanied by a list of specific feature requirements, thanks to the way the Party set targets in such a vertical way. Russian machines are a definite improvement, or at least they were before slipping well down the line again. I suspect learning from the Soviet way of running things (ie ranging from poorly to outright screwing themselves to be more evil with no benefit) is why China's military technology is so much better than Russia's ever has been, as well as their ability to manufacture complex systems domestically - big issue for Russia atm since they can't repair equipment with so many parts locked behind sanctions.
As an aside, I finally got to see a B-52 a year ago. It flew from Japan to NZ for an air show, made a few passes and headed straight back to base. Did not realise how bloody massive those things are, dwarfed our Air Force's little C-130's 😂
@@d36williams HOLD THE FUCK UP, the B-52 was made in 1955 ? I always thought the thing was launched in the mid 70s, i never thought that it's all the way back in '55. That makes it almost 68 years old now.
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The number 52 is roughly the year the contract was released.
In the USAF, we like to say “When the last B-21 is flown to the boneyard at Davis-Montham, the pilots will get their ride home in a B-52.
Were still flying the Chinook somehow. That bird is an absolute beast though!
The official mission of the U-2 when it was introduced, was weather research. Ironically, several years later, there was a version of the U-2 called WU-2, used for exactly that.
Should have been named WX-2 or WX-1 or something along there. WX literally meens (W=)Weather (X=)Reaserch.
@@axelfoley5265 X is Experimental? Not research?
@@LordSmallest X is the status designation for Experimental status, but it is also the mission designation for Research.
@@StickyBomb0512 I didn't know that, ty
Imagine they added another U....
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Wow!
i had no idea the designation numbers meant that!
S Designation: Attack submarines
R Designation: Spy on the enemy
SR-71: Wait I'm supposed to hunt submarines?
SR was used to indicate Strategic Reconnaissance, a non-standard designation.
quite sure they don't fly over oceans but ok.
Tbh it was a typo it was designed to be designated R-71
Yeah that's what confused me
Wow, what a great video. I am in planes for a long time but never found such a condensed version of the MDS!
Manscape gets some pretty great ads, but this is probably the best I've seen yet
Informative and hilarious. The big balls to manscape transition had me rolling on the floor.
That click moment when it says this video is no longer available just got me good haha
This was super well-organized. Kudos for an awesome vid
This helped me start an air unit for my sci-fi milsim group! thanks!
"a designation chosen for pun"
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@@spencerjackson3754 guilty as charged, dad for over a decade
13:23 Tsar Bomba had a theoretical yield of 100Mt if it’s lead cladding was switched out for a uranium one. This would also have greatly increased the fallout, so the test organizers chose to use the lead cladding instead, bringing the actual yield down to 50Mt. Even still, it remains the largest man made explosion on earth.
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1:57 really 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seriously, that’s what it stands for.
I love this videos so much
I think this is the first time in my life I've heard "tzar" pronounced correctly.
Yea, basically tzar = sar, whilst czar = zar
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The aircraft could be a prototype special electronic installation helicopter, its the second variant of its type designated yeh-60B
1:12 Multi role, not multi mission...
5:02 The numbers 3-20 were skipped because they had already been used, from the Keystone B-3 to the Boeing Y1B-20.
The tsar bomba was planned to be 100mt but ended up at 50.
That's a Russian measuring tape. You have to convert it.
I can’t wait to see what I get to learn today
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Our F-117A at Area51 was not a fighter, but carried two-2K bombs. Good video. -Ret USAF
time stamp 13:25...the Tsar Bomb was designed originally as a 100 megaton bomb but because of fears and concerns was limited to only 50 (still biggest ever detonated)...just thrownin that out there...side note...that shock wave was said to have circled the globe 3 times!!
Military: To organize aircraft categories let us make a system fo that
Also military: screw them lets give this fighter an A category🤣
Or a strategic bomber F. F117
Thank you for that wealth of information!
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Another exception was the F-117. It was an Attack aircraft but was given the Fighter designation. A common joke back when it was designated was that they wanted a fighter pilot to fly it and knew they wouldn’t if it was the A-117.
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I love his factuality, yet informality, especially when talking about balls.
There actually was an A8 in the form of the Harrier, it’s designation being AV8, the V stood for vtol.
18:00 Did you watch the damn video like at all? You're literally talking about the AV8 Harrier, genius. What never came to be was an A6.
Ohh hey... wasn't paying attention?
Never mind, Belka does nothing wrong, so you don't have to worry about that.
M is for multi use. Such as MQ-9A. This is because it is and attack, reconnaissance, and other basic mission plane.
Thank for that Andy Kaufman moment @ 5:30
As someone who works on military aircraft, everything he said was correct
Numbers are not skipped. They are usually designs or requests that do not get funded for design or for designs that never get funded to be built. Sometimes they are proof of concept requests that get designation numbers assigned, in case they come to fruition later.
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5:57 did he use a Roblox game to show what one of the planes looked like
Ffs its not roblox, its kerbal
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oh, excellent segue, sir
Thank u for the lesson!
So what stealth technology was used for the sponsorship? I agree with everyone, that was pretty smooth. I didn’t see it coming. Lol
Minute 1:54 was highly unexpected, that really got me lmao
Thats a good fucking sponsor transition, imma buy one just for that
My lovely A-10 Warhog on the lead 😎
13:20 The tsar bomba that was tested was 50 Mtons of TNT, although the original design was 100.
Never though that you can get ball's maintenace advertisement in a military information video xD
TRANSITION OF THE YEAR
Well done ad transition.
a prototype variation helicopter known as variation B with eletronic warfare as primary mission, based on the UH-60A
Did someone else wear headphones and nearly shat their pants at 1:38?
The C5 is so big that the paint on it alone weighs a ton, and the horizontal stabilizer is larger than the entire main wing of an F104.
Tsar Bomba was 50 Megatons. It was originally planned to be 100, but they knew there was no way the crew would ever be able to escape. So the scales it back to 50. It broke windows 1000km away, and the shockwave was so powerful that it was measurable on the Richter scale on its 3rd trip around the world.
7:55 “ you’ve got a hole in you’re right wing!”
I love that there's a designation for lighter-than-air craft. My dream army job would be to fly the blimp
"Your balls will thank you." made me laugh
The Y prefix only designates a prototype if it's based on an existing design (The YF-4E for example) otherwise it signifies a preproduction/service test aircraft. The proper prefix for a prototype (A new design) is X,, X signifies an experimental aircraft when used as an affix only (For example the X-15). Another thing you left out was the use of V and W as prefixes, the V prefix indicates an aircraft used for carrying VIPS (For example the VC-25A aka Airforce One) and the W prefix is for a weather reconnaissance aircraft (For example the WC-135 or WP-3).
That sponsor transition reminded me to like the video
That F 15 pilot has big balls you landed it with one wing
The f-111 is a exception in the naming system as it is used as a bomber and almost never used as a fighter
Some of the design numbers are out of sequence so they allude to their civilian counterparts. For example, the KC-10 is based on the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10.
I liked the video SOLEY based on the Manscaped ad. 😂😂😂
You forgot M which is multi purpose. The MQ-1 gray eagle has the m designation because it has a camera for recconisance, but it can also have a weapon payload. The RQ-7 shadow has the r designation since it can only do reccomisance and can't have a weapon payload.
goddamn that man has the biggest ball made of pure steel.
What did P, F, SBD, SB2C, SBD, TBF/TBM mean in WW2?
The prefix had to do with the manufacturer of the aircraft. For example, the TBF Avenger was produced by Grumman and the TBM was produced under license by General Motors.
Suuper cool, learnt a few things thanks
Now I know what the "S" in SR71 stands for. Space Reconnaissance
You had UH-1N on screen but showed an alpha model UH-60
Its an Experimental prototype Electronic warfare Hellicopter, 60th one built, 2nd model of the series
ah, yes, the GA-130, predecessor to the CA-130,
and the GR-2, but it got shot down by a ground to air missile so they came out with the GR-71, but it had weird fuel that was expensive, so now we have the YR-72
5:24 really got me 😂
there is an A-8 it just wasn't called that at the time I'm pretty sure it's the crusader
Crusader was the F8. The attack version is the A7 Corsair.
5:25 who else thought that the video was actually taken down?
So the helicopter designation should mean
Y:Prototype [Status]
E:Electronic Warfare [Basic]
H:Helicopter [Vehicle]
60: 60th Design
B: There was an A version
You forgot W for Weather Reconnaissance for the case of the WC-130
L in a modified mission designates ski equipped for landing on snow like the LC-130.
If a Brit was involved in the Harrier’s designation, then I have no doubt that the play on words (letters and numbers) was intended.
I never understood why the X-32 and X-35 weren't designated as the YF-24 and YF-25 instead when the winner of the JSF was always intended to go into service.
I was NOT prepared for that sponsor
5:12 YOOO is that a Moroccan f16 man i love those