Actually, the deeper I went about these technologies, the more I realized they r completely not as explained and have soooo many limitations and issues (That includes all technologies not just aircrafts)
I read it was between 40 & 50 years. Night vision (or thermal imaging) was supposedly found in the Roswell crash. Foo fighters (the balls of whatever,,that buzzed allied aircraft), probably Nazi design. I dont know how much of it I believe, i doubt roswell was a ET craft, but communist or nazi craft. The germans were the most intelligent, fantastic engineers, in the world. Hence the race to drag them off to US/Soviet installations, in return for immunity. Injecting blue dye into children's eyes, and the USA/Soviet Union gives you immunity, as long as you build weapons...
Puh-leeze Enough with the Area 51 stuff and how the government is holding technology that's years and years ahead only to reveal it at a layer date... you've been watching too much Independence Day
The ALE-50 towed decoy. It can be mounted on a bunch of aircraft. I would guess this is a next gen version using the computing and sensor power of the F-35.
Its much more effective on a stealth aircraft of course, since the f16 itself would be a big glowing target that would be much harder for the decoy to copy.
I don't remember how nixie works though I'm familiar with the degaussing system but ultimately I was a lowly en2. Where my day to day job was used as punishment for deck apes and the AC rates.
The secret is in the signals it emits. Things like this have been done for before, the F16 did had had a pod that acted as a decoy when doing seed. There are also cruise missiles that are used as decoys/scramblers. The secret is not in THAT it happens, but in HOW it happens.
@@kinnymane8593 Despite and in spite of are both prepositions meaning “regardless of,” “even though,” or “notwithstanding.” They can be used interchangeably.
@@Sentinel_ICBM100%. Came to say the same thing. Also microwave ovens... Although, I'm not sure they're real. I mean - place food inside, mmmmmmmm, ding - wtf??
@@Ryan-lk4pu Yes! If I recall there were a number of inventions that also came from NASA's efforts in the 60s. Laptops, digital cameras, scratch resistant coatings, and the epic F-1 (which ironically we no longer know exactly how to make!)
And spending hard earned tax payers dollars. Because let's face it. Only the working and middle class pay taxes these days. Billionaires and corporations don't pay anything like a fair share anymore
"Washington and his generals looked at the situation [in Delaware], they looked at how it could happen, and when they [took stock of their resources] the men didn't have enough shot or powder to even fight. Washington said "all is lost." Then he said, "get me Robert Morris." " -Oliver deMille, "The Four Lost American Ideals"
Yea I was gonna say it seems like they could’ve done this 10 years ago. Pretty simple design with just a fiber optic cable that sends out pulses to “distract” missiles
I Love the antiquated concept of torpedo nets from a century ago. I seriously think there could be modern applications for it, if someone would bother with it. I don't see why the concept couldn't be expanded to an airborne platform as well, floated by drones, with high-tensile nets that are either high-explosive or discharge electrical current- hitting an incoming missile with our own missile leaves _zero_ margin for error, while deploying high tech nets gives at least _some_ margin. Plus, when our defensive missile misses, it's speeding out of the area, while loitering nets stretched between drones, would still be there, ready for follow-up salvos. I also don't see why we can't design loitering drones with CIWS, so that CIWS doesn't have to be a last-ditch defense.
I was watching something recently about jets & missiles & I never knew that firing one could be so dangerous to the one firing it. It showed countless training videos of the missiles being released & because of the speed of the jet they stay with it & some come right back up into the plane, blowing it up. That's why they show them pulling up & away after firing one. They gotta get the hell away from it.
I used to work for Raytheon and they have been selling the decoys for years for use behind F18s. They work very well. When I used to fly we had something entirely different on our big USAF aircraft. Ditto for Air Force One.
@@PsychonauticExplorer Wait until you learn about the radar spoofing missiles that can ping back a variety of signatures including multiple war planes until a HARM missile is deployed and takes out their radar entirely.
Tell us. Give us something a little more. I heard they can shoot a bunch of drones that all have the same signature so no one would ever know which one is the correct one.
"secret weapon" is a figure of speech, it just means something you keep up your sleeve as a last resort or as a trump card, it doesn't necessarily refer to a weapon system
Remember that the Wright Brothers first flight was on December 17th 1903. 120 years ago. The rate of technological advancement in aviation is frankly mind boggling.
@@angelguia4523 Ah yes, those "aliens" who've travelled unimaginable distances to visit us, only to crash when they get here, AND somehow manage to do it in some areas remote enough to cover it the evidence before anyone actually seeds it - those aliens. Given that they can't help crashing into the USA, why don't they ever crash into Times Square, (for instance)?
120 years is a long long time. That's several lifetimes worth of thinking, testing and creating, multiplied by hundreds of thousands of people. A year is a long time if you focus on something and direct all efforts toward it... a decade... Half a century?
Imagine a swarm of these. The enemy wouldn’t know how many of what. Couldn’t get a lock. Then the signal gets attacked. Then if “all is lost” it takes an L while the actual 35 was a ghost bumblebee that quarterbacked missiles from a naval destroyer 150 miles outside of engagement range. Radar still shows a mixture of 3-50 enemy airships of varying makes and model radar signatures as you eject out of your fighter right before a missile screams in and blows it to smithereens
my man, you don't know what a couple of E/G18's with TALDs can do. the F35 can just sit back and shoot as necessary, playing mini spicy AWACs for them.
How interesting would it be if somehow the tethered decoy could intercept the original coordinates of the missile launch site and re-direct our enemies missiles against them.
If air to air the plane that launched is also moving. Unless they had it update live. Also the this reminds me almost exactly of the opening scene of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning lol
If you are talking about SAM launch the redirected missile would have long lost its energy before it returned to sender, if that scenario were even possible
OBVIOUSLY anything on UA-cam is known. Come on now let's be real. To show how challenged UA-camrs are you got 29 thumbs up 29 people plus you are fucking clueless!
This jet, that was made fun of constantly for all its programming bugginess, has some nuts tech. You can't help but wonder if you can even fight against this.
@@perwestermark8920 Name me one other fighter with a quad-computing processor bank with the largest threat library in the world, that has a VLO airframe, and towed decoys.
@@LRRPFco52 Do you always invent stupid questions? You tried to align the question based on the "mention any other F35 plane that is better than the F35 plane"? Just so you can claim "but that isn't a F35 plane". Maybe sit down and ask yourself why your ego is so fragile that you need to try to ask biased questions.
@@perwestermark8920 Nothing to do with ego, just countering your claim of other planes with this technology. Keep in mind I’ve been in aerospace and defense since the 1970s specific to fighters and their weapons systems and sensors, so I see a lot of comments from people who have zero experience in this field, but I’m always learning more and wondering what other fighter has the same type of technology as the F-35, especially with regard to these types of countermeasures.
Have you heard of Kurt Tucholsky? He was famously quoted by the 'peace movement' in Germany. Surprisingly they forgot of the second half of the quote. I wonder why: "Imagine there is war and nobody joins in" - "then the war will pay a visit to YOUR home". I hope the translation is accurate enough.
The F-35 is loaded with many capabilities, but it doesn't perform any of them well. They just added as many "bells & whistles" to raise the pricetag to benefit the M.I.C..
It should be mentioned however that the ALE-70 on the F-35 is said to be a generation ahead of the older ALE-55. There’s also the fact that the decoys jamming ability gets a boost purely because it’s connected to an F-35 and can use its jamming array.
@@swiffersweatjet7815 Actually, how it works is that whenever it detects an incoming threat, the decoy transformes into a bald eagle that rips the incoming missile apart in its vibranium claws. xD But fun aside, I don't doubt that decoy on the F-35 is pretty advanced stuff, wouldn't surprise me if its a little ahead of the british stuff too. All this thing is missing is a proper long range missile like Meteor or so, and it will be unstoppable :D
@@hernerweisenberg7052 yeah, while the AMRAAM is a solid missile it’s starting to get outdated, but there are currently like 6 projects in the U.S. focused on fielding a replacement for the AMRAAM and they are all doing some interesting stuff. These missiles should go into production within the next few years iirc.
@@lokalkakan well Don't you think that making an entire aircraft cable of flying vast distances and carring ordinance Complete the Out of Wood Is Not impressive?
They do..if the aircraft picks up any enemy radar, the aircraft will send missiles to the exact enemy location. At the end of the day an enemy radar system is a nice way to reveal their location for the aircraft to automatically take out..
@@02suraditpengsaeng41 yep! Like when the Iranians reverse engineered the aim-54 to build their Fakour 90 kinda situation. There was a time that the tomcats (and armaments) were exported. Was wondering if this would be a similar situation
The jets already dominated the map in BF4 if you were any good. The only times I ever hit a jet with my launcher was when they were flying too low to deploy flares in time and I timed my shot perfectly, so I stopped carrying it. Even then, they could just eject, hit me with a sniper, and jump right back in. 😂
@@RM_VFX yes I remember the rendesniping servers. I still loved jet combat in that game and think the more weapons and deployable countermeasures the better. The F-35 can carry 6 missiles, and 2 laser guided bombs among 8 other built in weapon stations in real life
It's amazing to me that man can create such fantastic technology, yet most people using the English language still haven't figured out when to (and when not to) use the apostrophe.
Apostrophe? 98% of comments I see posted on the internet are devoid of ‘periods’, commas, capital letters where appropriate, sentence structure in general, spelling…..you name it relative to anything resembling the English language and it isn’t there. Speaking of ‘there’…. misuse of there/their, then/than, it’s/its. I could prolly😉 keep going.
Yea no argument here on the absolutely criminal inefficiency getting this thing up to snuff. But the jury is still out on whether it’s ineffective or not. We wouldn’t know that until we were involved in a major conflict. It seems Israel’s F-35s are doing just fine currently. Either way, it is certainly a world class platform. Just how good it really is, if it’s “worth” the cost…time will tell. I’d rather have it than not have it, but that’s a low bar to clear given the circumstances.
@@elibnem4126 they serve different purposes. F-35s are more like generals on the field whereas F-22s are the tip of the spear. I suppose they could have spent a fortune giving the f-22 similar capabilities but I don’t know enough to know if it’s even feasible. Either way I’m a big F-22 fan as well!
Flying at top speed toward the ground or toward a mountain, with the missile close behind, then with full power reach for the sky and watching the missile explode into the mountain, still gives me immense satisfaction. It's very dangerous and not easy, but I must have saved myself 10 times by this method.
The "genius" is in the Manufacturing Engineering staff....I worked Quality on the production floor...I can tell you it's one thing for the "eggheads" 😉 in Design Engineering to come up with something "on paper," but it's an entirely different equation for MFG Eng. to figure out how to build reproducable, dependable hardware in the real world. ❤
Most technology is a fairly simple concept really. Radar and guidance systems are really simple concepts. It's a matter of just having the correct materials to make it feasible.
All I can think about is how cars from the 80's & 90's had this exact technology and we never acknowledged the potential they had in averting potential contact from guided missiles 😍🥰😍
Im gonna say that F-35 is such a beautiful and incredible creation of technology but imagine that Rafale also got this (SPECTRA system) and has been created long before.
Are you suggesting that the Rafale got towed decoys first? Maybe compared to the F-35 considering the SPECTRA system had its first flight before the F-35 reached IOC, but decoys could’ve been in its design before then, but the U.S. has had towed decoys for decades, the F-18E/F and B-1 have had them since 1995.
@@swiffersweatjet7815 The SPECTRA system is considered superior to traditional towed decoys for several reasons: 1. **Adaptability:** SPECTRA is a comprehensive electronic warfare suite that includes radar warning, laser warning, missile warning, and jamming capabilities. It can adapt its responses to various threats in real-time, offering greater flexibility compared to static towed decoys. 2. **Stealth:** Unlike towed decoys, which can be visually detected and targeted by adversaries, SPECTRA operates passively, making it harder for enemies to detect and neutralize. 3. **Integrated Defense:** SPECTRA is seamlessly integrated into the Rafale's avionics and can work in conjunction with other onboard systems, enhancing overall defensive capabilities. 4. **Dynamic Response:** SPECTRA can rapidly analyze threats and deploy countermeasures, providing a dynamic defense that can react to evolving battlefield conditions. 5. **Reduced Vulnerability:** Towed decoys are physical objects that can be damaged or destroyed, leaving the aircraft vulnerable. SPECTRA's electronic nature makes it less susceptible to damage. Overall, SPECTRA offers a more comprehensive and adaptive defense against modern threats compared to traditional towed decoys.
@@swiffersweatjet7815 The SPECTRA system is considered superior to traditional towed decoys for several reasons: 1. **Adaptability:** SPECTRA is a comprehensive electronic warfare suite that includes radar warning, laser warning, missile warning, and jamming capabilities. It can adapt its responses to various threats in real-time, offering greater flexibility compared to static towed decoys. 2. **Stealth:** Unlike towed decoys, which can be visually detected and targeted by adversaries, SPECTRA operates passively, making it harder for enemies to detect and neutralize. 3. **Integrated Defense:** SPECTRA is seamlessly integrated into the Rafale's avionics and can work in conjunction with other onboard systems, enhancing overall defensive capabilities. 4. **Dynamic Response:** SPECTRA can rapidly analyze threats and deploy countermeasures, providing a dynamic defense that can react to evolving battlefield conditions. 5. **Reduced Vulnerability:** Towed decoys are physical objects that can be damaged or destroyed, leaving the aircraft vulnerable. SPECTRA's electronic nature makes it less susceptible to damage. Overall, SPECTRA offers a more comprehensive and adaptive defense against modern threats compared to traditional towed decoys.
@@swiffersweatjet7815The SPECTRA system is considered superior to traditional towed decoys for several reasons: 1. **Adaptability:** SPECTRA is a comprehensive electronic warfare suite that includes radar warning, laser warning, missile warning, and jamming capabilities. It can adapt its responses to various threats in real-time, offering greater flexibility compared to static towed decoys. 2. **Stealth:** Unlike towed decoys, which can be visually detected and targeted by adversaries, SPECTRA operates passively, making it harder for enemies to detect and neutralize. 3. **Integrated Defense:** SPECTRA is seamlessly integrated into the Rafale's avionics and can work in conjunction with other onboard systems, enhancing overall defensive capabilities. 4. **Dynamic Response:** SPECTRA can rapidly analyze threats and deploy countermeasures, providing a dynamic defense that can react to evolving battlefield conditions. 5. **Reduced Vulnerability:** Towed decoys are physical objects that can be damaged or destroyed, leaving the aircraft vulnerable. SPECTRA's electronic nature makes it less susceptible to damage. Overall, SPECTRA offers a more comprehensive and adaptive defense against modern threats compared to traditional towed decoys.
It's the kind of countermeasure that's hard to beat even if you know it exists. Most air to air missiles have independent targeting, meaning once they are launched they rely on (mostly) their own sensors to find the target. You would have to invest some serious money and time into making the missiles much smarter and totally change the way they can find and attack targets. It's like knowing your enemy has near perfect camouflage. Just knowing they have it still doesn't tell you where they are hiding. Some air to air missiles are wire or radio guided by the pilot or a weapons officer in the plane. Most of these are really old- 60's and 70's era tech- and have limited range and effectiveness. Either the missile is too short-range to hit targets from a safe range, the missile is too fast to guide once it reaches terminal range, or it's too slow and easy to avoid. Most militaries stopped using them decades ago, tho I think Russia still uses some.
@@Scudboy17 Wire-guided AAMs? Now I’ve heard it all. It’s like the basement-dweller comments are getting worse. I thought with information access, people would get smarter, but I was wrong.
Exactly, why would we publish our informatics & weapons systems capabilities?!? It’s no less frustrating whenever the resident @1600 Pennsylvania Ave goes on a trip…albeit somewhere on American 🇺🇸 soil or overseas. ABC, CNN, FoxNews, NBC, MSNBC: “On this day, at this time, Joe & Jill Biden will be in such a such city. My vote was stolen in ‘20…but Joe is still recognized as the Leader of Free World so let’s not announce to those who have issues w/🇺🇸 location of our sleeper……..I mean leader!
You know copying technologies isn’t easy right? First you need a decent size population of engineers and scientists that can mimic different parts of the project and years to successfully simulate the project
This is short so I’ll excuse it mentioning it of course. The emitter can also mimic other aircraft as it jams radar. It can give not only the missile a false target but multiple false targets thus lowering the hit probability significantly. All F-35 carry four of these. While the F-35 does have flares, it does not carry chaff dispensers.
The F-35 also apparently has the capabilities to hijack control over the missile and force guide it away from the aircraft, I might be wrong though and it can only direct friendly missiles
Now remember... This is the technology they are telling us about.
Now imagine the technology they AREN'T telling us about.
Actually, the deeper I went about these technologies, the more I realized they r completely not as explained and have soooo many limitations and issues (That includes all technologies not just aircrafts)
Yes, but there is lote of limitations to work it
Don’t forget. This *was* the technology they weren’t telling us about, fool.
There are anything they not telling us cuz other nations are a part of the program. And all the tech was stolen by China anyways 😂
They claimed everything about U2 spy plane before it was brought down by Soviet Union 😄
Even fighter jets are towing stuff. So American.
If you look closely you can see the truck nuts hanging off the back of the plane too!
Ikr? But I wonder why it’s not needlessly oversized without any benefits to boost the pilots ego
Typhoon already had this
@@MaticTheProto r/fuckcars
@@aniket1816 indeed
“Secret weapon” Broadcast to millions on UA-cam
Eeexactly😂
Yeah, highly secret ha
Era secreta, ahora hay otra "arma secreta" y así sucesivamente
My guess billions
Story also told by some Russian journalist 😂😂😂
The gape between publicly acknowledged tech and secret tech is about 20 years.
Source?
I read it was between 40 & 50 years. Night vision (or thermal imaging) was supposedly found in the Roswell crash. Foo fighters (the balls of whatever,,that buzzed allied aircraft), probably Nazi design. I dont know how much of it I believe, i doubt roswell was a ET craft, but communist or nazi craft. The germans were the most intelligent, fantastic engineers, in the world.
Hence the race to drag them off to US/Soviet installations, in return for immunity.
Injecting blue dye into children's eyes, and the USA/Soviet Union gives you immunity, as long as you build weapons...
@@catalindeluxus8545Google it, ffs.
Sourthhhh ?🤤
50
I'm almost certain there is tech discovered decades ago we will never hear about.
My friend is a Navy helicopter pilot. Hes been in 20 yrs. He told me whatever they show us, they are already FAR beyond it. Amazing.
Puh-leeze Enough with the Area 51 stuff and how the government is holding technology that's years and years ahead only to reveal it at a layer date... you've been watching too much Independence Day
Yea. The entire world's military probably knew this 10 yrs ago. Still cool to see tho
@@dougstyles 30 years ago they knew it
Bases on the Moon. Gravity drive. Force fields and Phasers. Now, they're going to kill me.
That goes the same for all technology
The f16s had a pod that did this for when they did SEAD.
yeah this is pretty much a smaller ALQ-131pod mixed with MALD tech , I wonder what the effect envelope would be
The ALE-50 towed decoy. It can be mounted on a bunch of aircraft. I would guess this is a next gen version using the computing and sensor power of the F-35.
Its much more effective on a stealth aircraft of course, since the f16 itself would be a big glowing target that would be much harder for the decoy to copy.
@@amazin7006of course
What is sead
Naval ships have been using this same basic technology against torpedoes for many decades. When I served in the 90s it was called NIXIE.
I don't remember how nixie works though
I'm familiar with the degaussing system but ultimately I was a lowly en2.
Where my day to day job was used as punishment for deck apes and the AC rates.
Towed array system.
Clancy talks about it Nixie in Red Storm Rising.
Maybe it’s updated
These magnetic antennas for detecting submarines under water, I know for sure that they were in the 60s in the Russian Navy aero flot
Although important, it's amazing how much they put into our defense budget. I can't get pens at my school
Yeah, don't tell anybody. Remember, it's a secret weapon.
От кого? От Зимбабве?))) ...давно есть противооружие уже.
Don't worry, it wasn't mentioned in the film 'Maverick'. Still a secret! 😂
@@I___ No one asked for your opinion Russian
It's not secret... It's not new. Half the world has it
The secret is in the signals it emits. Things like this have been done for before, the F16 did had had a pod that acted as a decoy when doing seed. There are also cruise missiles that are used as decoys/scramblers. The secret is not in THAT it happens, but in HOW it happens.
A super high-tech version of wiggling your helmet around on a stick to attract fire.
Skootz why does your channel have zero content? I clicked you looking for further entertainment. I was not entertained.
😂😂
@@dustin66896
Dustin, same thing. Why you got no content? I need entertainment.
@@DustDevilRage If you want to see a K'nex roller coaster my channel is not empty. Hope it helps ;)
And will work just as well
Military intelligence around the world: we don't know the secret
Random guy on UA-cam: i know
They’re watching,the secret squirrels are out there.
I can't see how my life is improved by knowing this information and it seems that it should have been kept classified.
What have you been told that would in any way help with defeating what the Decoy does? They have been used since the late 80's
Egg zuktli
A weapon that manages to stay secret in spite of the whole Internet knowing about it. Truly amazing.
despite* 🤣 wtf is inspite
And the opponents too. :)
@@kinnymane8593 Despite and in spite of are both prepositions meaning “regardless of,” “even though,” or “notwithstanding.” They can be used interchangeably.
They like to give that impression but remember they didn’t see 911 coming
The secret is that this "secret" is a decoy.
It's crazy how creative we can be when it comes to war...
R&D from US defense projects has led to tons of technology we use today. (Internet, GPS, EpiPens, and so much more)
@@Sentinel_ICBM100%. Came to say the same thing. Also microwave ovens... Although, I'm not sure they're real. I mean - place food inside, mmmmmmmm, ding - wtf??
@@Ryan-lk4pu Yes! If I recall there were a number of inventions that also came from NASA's efforts in the 60s. Laptops, digital cameras, scratch resistant coatings, and the epic F-1 (which ironically we no longer know exactly how to make!)
And spending hard earned tax payers dollars. Because let's face it. Only the working and middle class pay taxes these days. Billionaires and corporations don't pay anything like a fair share anymore
Well, if you some enough money into anything as much as we sync money into wars, then you would expect some cool shit wouldn’t you?
"Finally, if all is lost then ALL IS LOST"
Lmao! I hate it when people use expressions or a turn of phrase wrong.
"Washington and his generals looked at the situation [in Delaware], they looked at how it could happen, and when they [took stock of their resources] the men didn't have enough shot or powder to even fight.
Washington said "all is lost."
Then he said, "get me Robert Morris." "
-Oliver deMille, "The Four Lost American Ideals"
Very nice! As a 24 year Veteran, i say very nice.
The fact that this tech is declassified EVEN without details means it's decades old tech.
It is.
The F-18C f-16, and the F-111 had this
Yea I was gonna say it seems like they could’ve done this 10 years ago. Pretty simple design with just a fiber optic cable that sends out pulses to “distract” missiles
The tow decoy system has been around for a long time for sure. Not just in fighters.
Lol, correct. It is called a towed array... Everything from ships and submarines to advanced missiles have them
This tech has been around for decades. US Navy warships use the same concept to evade torpedoes.
I Love the antiquated concept of torpedo nets from a century ago. I seriously think there could be modern applications for it, if someone would bother with it. I don't see why the concept couldn't be expanded to an airborne platform as well, floated by drones, with high-tensile nets that are either high-explosive or discharge electrical current- hitting an incoming missile with our own missile leaves _zero_ margin for error, while deploying high tech nets gives at least _some_ margin. Plus, when our defensive missile misses, it's speeding out of the area, while loitering nets stretched between drones, would still be there, ready for follow-up salvos.
I also don't see why we can't design loitering drones with CIWS, so that CIWS doesn't have to be a last-ditch defense.
Canadian method against germans torpedos few hours after the first use.
The Nixie!
The CIWS is like 13 tons, requires water and 3 phase 440VAC. You'd need a C130
@@ryanmartin4602 Nixie indeed!
That was very clever. What a way to protect an investment
I was watching something recently about jets & missiles & I never knew that firing one could be so dangerous to the one firing it. It showed countless training videos of the missiles being released & because of the speed of the jet they stay with it & some come right back up into the plane, blowing it up. That's why they show them pulling up & away after firing one. They gotta get the hell away from it.
Reusable flares
*reusable chaff i think
@@Nightmare-kg7xdyeah chaff I think would be more accurate as this sounds to be radar based and not infrared based.
@@Nightmare-kg7xd reusable decoy
Nah FOTDs aren't reusable but there are multiple loads carried from 4-12 decoys depending on the aircraft size
@@RainKing048 fancy decoy better now?
Last resort, activate the Top gun theme song,,the shedding guitar work should jam any missle
Bro is 💯 0
It actually makes the missile do a U turn and hit whatever launched it.
Final countermeasure is the sound of Tom Cruise yelling "BREAK RIGHT!"
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It can ALSO project a holographic image of itself in any direction to confuse the missile.
THATS FKIN WILDDDD
“The F-35’s secret weapon” and it’s just a towed decoy. 😂😂😂
I used to work for Raytheon and they have been selling the decoys for years for use behind F18s. They work very well. When I used to fly we had something entirely different on our big USAF aircraft. Ditto for Air Force One.
“They work very well” against cave dwellers in Afghanistan I’m sure they do.
Great! Now I have another curiousity that'll never be satisfied 🙂
@@PsychonauticExplorer Wait until you learn about the radar spoofing missiles that can ping back a variety of signatures including multiple war planes until a HARM missile is deployed and takes out their radar entirely.
Yup. The B1B has had this for decades.
Tell us. Give us something a little more. I heard they can shoot a bunch of drones that all have the same signature so no one would ever know which one is the correct one.
Are you telling me this PLANE has a TOWED ARRAY?
I know, shit was insane first hearing about it
yeah it sounds pretty similar.
Conn sonar, torpedo in the air torpedo in the air
Sonar?
Sir we are in a plan-
500kg of tnt proceeds to destroy the f35
Towed decoys are nothing new. The AN/ALE-50 was deployed in 1995.
Nothing new, the lil Gripen per example already had one for decades now
Dude, it's not towed, - it has its own jet engine and flies ahead of the plane! That's the point.
That is a different thing - you are thinking of MALD, where this sort of tech is on a cruise missile
Thanks for telling our enemies about our secret weapons...
This isn’t a WEAPON
IT’S a countermeasure
"secret weapon" is a figure of speech, it just means something you keep up your sleeve as a last resort or as a trump card, it doesn't necessarily refer to a weapon system
This technology is at least 10 - 20 years old. That decoy probably now has weapons on it itself to shoot back.
29 years.... AN/ALE-50 - first flown on F-16 in 1995....
Invisibility cloak, yes, an actual cloaking device. Ask the Klingons.
Remember that the Wright Brothers first flight was on December 17th 1903.
120 years ago.
The rate of technological advancement in aviation is frankly mind boggling.
Its alien technology being used to progress ours
@@angelguia4523 Ah yes, those "aliens" who've travelled unimaginable distances to visit us, only to crash when they get here, AND somehow manage to do it in some areas remote enough to cover it the evidence before anyone actually seeds it - those aliens.
Given that they can't help crashing into the USA, why don't they ever crash into Times Square, (for instance)?
Alien tech...🤫
120 years is a long long time. That's several lifetimes worth of thinking, testing and creating, multiplied by hundreds of thousands of people. A year is a long time if you focus on something and direct all efforts toward it... a decade... Half a century?
@@AussieDubber There's always one know all...who doesn't know as much as they think they do.
Imagine a swarm of these. The enemy wouldn’t know how many of what. Couldn’t get a lock. Then the signal gets attacked. Then if “all is lost” it takes an L while the actual 35 was a ghost bumblebee that quarterbacked missiles from a naval destroyer 150 miles outside of engagement range.
Radar still shows a mixture of 3-50 enemy airships of varying makes and model radar signatures as you eject out of your fighter right before a missile screams in and blows it to smithereens
my man, you don't know what a couple of E/G18's with TALDs can do. the F35 can just sit back and shoot as necessary, playing mini spicy AWACs for them.
Drone swarms around planes will be the future. It’s going to be like smart, flying armor. Every plane will have a little bubble of drones around it
yeah the f-35 is actually bonkers, decades ahead of what anyone else will be doing
Actually, they already have the missile version of this.
A heavy bomber could carry a dozen of these decoy/jammers to cover for it.
You have just described the MALD. Look it up
This so called invisible plane for recent radar systems is very visible for WWII type radar.
We shouldn’t be showing our technology to the enemy we never did before
Only if our politics and morals were as good as our weapons
It doesn't matter if your weapons are good enough though! MURRICA FUK YA!
Engineers make the weapons that’s the difference. You can’t bullshit your way into engineering
Maybe if you pay them as much as we overpay for the weapons
@@danielhernandez-vo9zc laughs in Boeing
@@mcmarkmarkson7115 🤣🤣🤣
How interesting would it be if somehow the tethered decoy could intercept the original coordinates of the missile launch site and re-direct our enemies missiles against them.
They probably already do
They program time limit on arming and it does not find a new target in about 12 seconds it self detonates
If air to air the plane that launched is also moving. Unless they had it update live.
Also the this reminds me almost exactly of the opening scene of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning lol
If you are talking about SAM launch the redirected missile would have long lost its energy before it returned to sender, if that scenario were even possible
Good idea to share this on YT so adversaries know they have to come up with ideas to by pass it.
They already know.
Or they are prying for more information by posting stupid stuff and other reply to it
OBVIOUSLY anything on UA-cam is known. Come on now let's be real. To show how challenged UA-camrs are you got 29 thumbs up 29 people plus you are fucking clueless!
SÓ ESTA APARECENDO A VOZ DA CURA DIVINA E A VOZ MISSIONARIA.
This jet, that was made fun of constantly for all its programming bugginess, has some nuts tech. You can't help but wonder if you can even fight against this.
you can’t
This isn't the only plane with this technology. And US isn't the only country using these kind of decoys either.
@@perwestermark8920 Name me one other fighter with a quad-computing processor bank with the largest threat library in the world, that has a VLO airframe, and towed decoys.
@@LRRPFco52 Do you always invent stupid questions? You tried to align the question based on the "mention any other F35 plane that is better than the F35 plane"? Just so you can claim "but that isn't a F35 plane". Maybe sit down and ask yourself why your ego is so fragile that you need to try to ask biased questions.
@@perwestermark8920 Nothing to do with ego, just countering your claim of other planes with this technology. Keep in mind I’ve been in aerospace and defense since the 1970s specific to fighters and their weapons systems and sensors, so I see a lot of comments from people who have zero experience in this field, but I’m always learning more and wondering what other fighter has the same type of technology as the F-35, especially with regard to these types of countermeasures.
Imagine they spent this much effort on things to benefit humanity
Like the taxpayers money in ukraine and now israel and illegal people coming in the usa
I want you to look up USA spending pie chart. It will blow your mind.
Our mass majority of spending IS social welfare. Not Military.
Have you heard of Kurt Tucholsky? He was famously quoted by the 'peace movement' in Germany. Surprisingly they forgot of the second half of the quote. I wonder why:
"Imagine there is war and nobody joins in"
- "then the war will pay a visit to YOUR home". I hope the translation is accurate enough.
Imagine they didn't have to because of despotic undemocratic totalitarian nobheads
Towed decoys are so 1990s, but now we have fiber optic towed decoys.
The F-35 is loaded with many capabilities, but it doesn't perform any of them well.
They just added as many "bells & whistles" to raise the pricetag to benefit the
M.I.C..
Are we talking about the M2 Bradley?
Oh... the F35. Yeah, they airplane version of the Bradley.
@@subtlename2873Yup. Like a Bradley with wings.
Bullshit. It does most of them well.
I know. Good luck keeping this thing flying for any length of time
@@theophany1770 Ha! Introduced in 2006 it's now 2024! Lol!
It is a towed decoy and it is not new at all, the US has used them since 1995.
So have the British
@@MSkallywagg Yeah I think they started development in '87 and had it on the Tornado since the early 90´s and on the Typhoon from ~'95 or so.
It should be mentioned however that the ALE-70 on the F-35 is said to be a generation ahead of the older ALE-55. There’s also the fact that the decoys jamming ability gets a boost purely because it’s connected to an F-35 and can use its jamming array.
@@swiffersweatjet7815 Actually, how it works is that whenever it detects an incoming threat, the decoy transformes into a bald eagle that rips the incoming missile apart in its vibranium claws. xD
But fun aside, I don't doubt that decoy on the F-35 is pretty advanced stuff, wouldn't surprise me if its a little ahead of the british stuff too. All this thing is missing is a proper long range missile like Meteor or so, and it will be unstoppable :D
@@hernerweisenberg7052 yeah, while the AMRAAM is a solid missile it’s starting to get outdated, but there are currently like 6 projects in the U.S. focused on fielding a replacement for the AMRAAM and they are all doing some interesting stuff. These missiles should go into production within the next few years iirc.
The secret power of the F35 is that it can blow up entire budgets, without taking off a single runway.
😂
This. It's not very good.
Ah yes, the old "F-35 expensive" line.
Ooh, maybe you can go with "Technology will never beat a skilled pilot", or "the F-35 can't dogfight" next...
@@jon2922Don't forget the good old "It's not stealthy because low frequency radars can detect it!"
@@m01mast3r show me, how this invisible aircraft will operate without very visible airfield? :D i would attack anything where it can land...what then?
Imagine if humanity used its talents and resources for the betterment of our being, rather than its destruction.
They F-35 is so advanced that only 28% of the aircraft are mission capable while the rest is useless. All this at an astronomical cost.
Can you make a video about the insane engineering of the havilland mosquito?
i would love that
I’m sure there is an older long-form video on it already. Also, *Rex’s Hanger* is another great channel for aviation technology/history videos.
It was made of wood? It's not insane engineering,
@@lokalkakan well Don't you think that making an entire aircraft cable of flying vast distances and carring ordinance Complete the Out of Wood Is Not impressive?
There's already one put there.
Should have a
Return to sender signal
Hahaha
😂😂😂
They do..if the aircraft picks up any enemy radar, the aircraft will send missiles to the exact enemy location. At the end of the day an enemy radar system is a nice way to reveal their location for the aircraft to automatically take out..
“Say hello to my little friend”.
The more I hear from that aircraft the more I am amazed
That jet, such incredible ingenuity and modern technology. Good to see ❤
This old technology
Me wondering why they shot an AMRAAM at an F-35
Is the Ukraine getting armaments for their falcons? 🤣
@@alexandermaynard5386??
Probably friendly fire scenarios
And he probably mean partner turn to enemy, how many time outside of Iraq?
@@02suraditpengsaeng41 yep! Like when the Iranians reverse engineered the aim-54 to build their Fakour 90 kinda situation. There was a time that the tomcats (and armaments) were exported. Was wondering if this would be a similar situation
They got very close, but I know what your alluding to. Easy to close in to a Typhoon because its a huge bloop on the radar screen.
Thought it was gonna be a lazer or vaporizer the way the thumbnail looked
This brings advantages and disadvantages at the same time
I’m sure many other aircraft in the USAF, whether it’s an F-35, C-17, F-18 or AWACS aircraft, already have this and other counter measures as well.
I know for a fact the F-16 uses it.
Remember, it's a secret.
It's literally not.
Counter-counter-measure: a camera to choose the bigger target.
Amazing technology, on paper. Last committee hearing I watched said majority of f-35 don’t even fly
Gotta love the Irish accent “the F tirty five ….” 😂😂😂😂
Ha. I’m Irish. Watch it!!
I was tinkin' tha same 😂
Don't take the piss pal
It's just a question of time until drones will make these expensive planes obsolete
Drones with AI are the future.
the U.S. is already developing drone wingmen for the F-35, NGAD, and F/A-XX.
Just yesterday I saw something somewhere about F16s getting fully turned into drones.
@@fredflintstone8569”Drones with AI”
Were those what those fictional SkyKillers in Terminator were? 😅
Yeah that looks like a real secure system that got going on there
F35 has the superpower of the price
I got these idea in 2017 when my dream still was to be a pilot of fighter jets, it's amazing to know now that , my idea was among useful innovation 😮
This would’ve been so nice to have as a countermeasure in Battlefield 4
The jets already dominated the map in BF4 if you were any good. The only times I ever hit a jet with my launcher was when they were flying too low to deploy flares in time and I timed my shot perfectly, so I stopped carrying it. Even then, they could just eject, hit me with a sniper, and jump right back in. 😂
@@RM_VFX yes I remember the rendesniping servers.
I still loved jet combat in that game and think the more weapons and deployable countermeasures the better. The F-35 can carry 6 missiles, and 2 laser guided bombs among 8 other built in weapon stations in real life
Dan Hampton mentioned towed decoys in his book as a wild weasel and they were flying F16s
The tech we don't know about would blow your mind....
It's amazing to me that man can create such fantastic technology, yet most people using the English language still haven't figured out when to (and when not to) use the apostrophe.
See most people using the English language are definitely not "creating such fantastic technology"
Hey don’t call me out like that
Apostrophe? 98% of comments I see posted on the internet are devoid of ‘periods’, commas, capital letters where appropriate, sentence structure in general, spelling…..you name it relative to anything resembling the English language and it isn’t there. Speaking of ‘there’…. misuse of there/their, then/than, it’s/its. I could prolly😉 keep going.
@@pistolgripswho cares it’s a comment section not a dissertation
@@Aaron-wq3jz it’s not that I care. I get a good laugh out of fools like you.
He fails to mention that the if impact is imminent the decoy detaches as well to open the distance.
And it brews a perfect espresso
That's what I'm talking about 😜 being in control
If num_aircraft > 1:
target = firstAircraft
If you're Russia/Iran: don't use the code above
lol
No no if you're a US enemy please do use this code. I promise it's this simple and your system will work.
Bro wrote his first hello world yesterday
Comment section iq comment
"How did we not think of this before"
One of the most expensive and least effective fighter planes. And the most dangerous, well done.
Yea no argument here on the absolutely criminal inefficiency getting this thing up to snuff. But the jury is still out on whether it’s ineffective or not. We wouldn’t know that until we were involved in a major conflict. It seems Israel’s F-35s are doing just fine currently. Either way, it is certainly a world class platform. Just how good it really is, if it’s “worth” the cost…time will tell. I’d rather have it than not have it, but that’s a low bar to clear given the circumstances.
Bro believes the russian propaganda lmao
F-22 > F-35 Should have just stuck with them
@@elibnem4126 Hmmm almost like there is a reason...
But no, a random in a comment section said so, so it must be true
@@elibnem4126 they serve different purposes. F-35s are more like generals on the field whereas F-22s are the tip of the spear. I suppose they could have spent a fortune giving the f-22 similar capabilities but I don’t know enough to know if it’s even feasible. Either way I’m a big F-22 fan as well!
Mad scientist everywhere
Lil buddy, they carry 5 of them.
that is so sick!!! the tech in these jets never ceases to amaze me!!
USA : Someone have made a video on our secret wepon
Who did it??
When UA-cam knows "military secrets" you can be 200% sure its NOT a secret...
Flying at top speed toward the ground or toward a mountain, with the missile close behind, then with full power reach for the sky and watching the missile explode into the mountain, still gives me immense satisfaction. It's very dangerous and not easy, but I must have saved myself 10 times by this method.
I have a friend who helped to design this. It’s a simple concept, yet genius to design and implement.
Name please?
The "genius" is in the Manufacturing Engineering staff....I worked Quality on the production floor...I can tell you it's one thing for the "eggheads" 😉 in Design Engineering to come up with something "on paper," but it's an entirely different equation for MFG Eng. to figure out how to build reproducable, dependable hardware in the real world. ❤
@@Stenn333 there is nothing genius about designing something without close coordination with mfg
Most technology is a fairly simple concept really. Radar and guidance systems are really simple concepts. It's a matter of just having the correct materials to make it feasible.
Make sure your wing man’s aware you deployed it!
F-35s fly 25-40nm from each other, not in close formation.
*And we have over 1000 x F-35's built already! The USA has a BIG head-start on WW3!!!*
Keep dreaming. Only good for paperweight.
Paperweight. Keep dreaming.
At 100 million per plane the fact is 29% of the fleet are usable the locker martin as it was said in US parliment is an expensive paper weight
All I can think about is how cars from the 80's & 90's had this exact technology and we never acknowledged the potential they had in averting potential contact from guided missiles 😍🥰😍
F-15: Back in my day we didn’t have fancy stealth tech or radar jamming! If you wanted to dodge a missile you had to work for it! 104-0!!
According to my father who was an f4 pilot in Vietnam and later on in an f15, did indeed have jammers and been around for decades
Everybody in AFROTC wanted to be a pilot. Always the coveted dream job.
F-35 tows more than your cummins diesel with its tow mirrors out
Im gonna say that F-35 is such a beautiful and incredible creation of technology but imagine that Rafale also got this (SPECTRA system) and has been created long before.
Are you suggesting that the Rafale got towed decoys first?
Maybe compared to the F-35 considering the SPECTRA system had its first flight before the F-35 reached IOC, but decoys could’ve been in its design before then, but the U.S. has had towed decoys for decades, the F-18E/F and B-1 have had them since 1995.
@@swiffersweatjet7815 The SPECTRA system is considered superior to traditional towed decoys for several reasons:
1. **Adaptability:** SPECTRA is a comprehensive electronic warfare suite that includes radar warning, laser warning, missile warning, and jamming capabilities. It can adapt its responses to various threats in real-time, offering greater flexibility compared to static towed decoys.
2. **Stealth:** Unlike towed decoys, which can be visually detected and targeted by adversaries, SPECTRA operates passively, making it harder for enemies to detect and neutralize.
3. **Integrated Defense:** SPECTRA is seamlessly integrated into the Rafale's avionics and can work in conjunction with other onboard systems, enhancing overall defensive capabilities.
4. **Dynamic Response:** SPECTRA can rapidly analyze threats and deploy countermeasures, providing a dynamic defense that can react to evolving battlefield conditions.
5. **Reduced Vulnerability:** Towed decoys are physical objects that can be damaged or destroyed, leaving the aircraft vulnerable. SPECTRA's electronic nature makes it less susceptible to damage.
Overall, SPECTRA offers a more comprehensive and adaptive defense against modern threats compared to traditional towed decoys.
I don't wanna write 😴
@@swiffersweatjet7815 The SPECTRA system is considered superior to traditional towed decoys for several reasons:
1. **Adaptability:** SPECTRA is a comprehensive electronic warfare suite that includes radar warning, laser warning, missile warning, and jamming capabilities. It can adapt its responses to various threats in real-time, offering greater flexibility compared to static towed decoys.
2. **Stealth:** Unlike towed decoys, which can be visually detected and targeted by adversaries, SPECTRA operates passively, making it harder for enemies to detect and neutralize.
3. **Integrated Defense:** SPECTRA is seamlessly integrated into the Rafale's avionics and can work in conjunction with other onboard systems, enhancing overall defensive capabilities.
4. **Dynamic Response:** SPECTRA can rapidly analyze threats and deploy countermeasures, providing a dynamic defense that can react to evolving battlefield conditions.
5. **Reduced Vulnerability:** Towed decoys are physical objects that can be damaged or destroyed, leaving the aircraft vulnerable. SPECTRA's electronic nature makes it less susceptible to damage.
Overall, SPECTRA offers a more comprehensive and adaptive defense against modern threats compared to traditional towed decoys.
@@swiffersweatjet7815The SPECTRA system is considered superior to traditional towed decoys for several reasons:
1. **Adaptability:** SPECTRA is a comprehensive electronic warfare suite that includes radar warning, laser warning, missile warning, and jamming capabilities. It can adapt its responses to various threats in real-time, offering greater flexibility compared to static towed decoys.
2. **Stealth:** Unlike towed decoys, which can be visually detected and targeted by adversaries, SPECTRA operates passively, making it harder for enemies to detect and neutralize.
3. **Integrated Defense:** SPECTRA is seamlessly integrated into the Rafale's avionics and can work in conjunction with other onboard systems, enhancing overall defensive capabilities.
4. **Dynamic Response:** SPECTRA can rapidly analyze threats and deploy countermeasures, providing a dynamic defense that can react to evolving battlefield conditions.
5. **Reduced Vulnerability:** Towed decoys are physical objects that can be damaged or destroyed, leaving the aircraft vulnerable. SPECTRA's electronic nature makes it less susceptible to damage.
Overall, SPECTRA offers a more comprehensive and adaptive defense against modern threats compared to traditional towed decoys.
This reminds me of a towed array from a submarine or ship
Love when a public video says "Secret" 😂
And when they merge AI with these weapons, it'll know the difference between a decoy and the jet.
That line better be tough as fck or strong as steel or else it will snap when the jet goes fast or does tight maneuvers
If only the program managers and engineers had thought of that.
Golly, I hope they thought to test that. /s
There are at least 35 years of towed decoy institutional knowledge, flight testing, and operational use in combat. The tethers work just fine.
@@michaelrains64295it's fiber glas
The Russian jet fighter engineer watching this: "Hmm, da, da... Is good to know, blyat"
It's the kind of countermeasure that's hard to beat even if you know it exists. Most air to air missiles have independent targeting, meaning once they are launched they rely on (mostly) their own sensors to find the target. You would have to invest some serious money and time into making the missiles much smarter and totally change the way they can find and attack targets. It's like knowing your enemy has near perfect camouflage. Just knowing they have it still doesn't tell you where they are hiding.
Some air to air missiles are wire or radio guided by the pilot or a weapons officer in the plane. Most of these are really old- 60's and 70's era tech- and have limited range and effectiveness. Either the missile is too short-range to hit targets from a safe range, the missile is too fast to guide once it reaches terminal range, or it's too slow and easy to avoid. Most militaries stopped using them decades ago, tho I think Russia still uses some.
Yep and by the time they build one the US will be another 15 years ahead in technology.
@@Scudboy17 Russian jet fighter: "Hmm, da, da, I shoot transponder, problem go away"
Russian jet fighter engineer:
Vodka poisoning
@@Scudboy17 Wire-guided AAMs? Now I’ve heard it all. It’s like the basement-dweller comments are getting worse. I thought with information access, people would get smarter, but I was wrong.
Next level AA missiles with cameras and IRST.
I guess it ain't no secret now thanks dude!
Welp there goes that secret 😂
You don't think other countries know more than this UA-camr with their intelligence?
@@aberba it was a joke 🙄
@@s.l.2409
Not a very good joke
Thanks for letting the enemy know that.
This isn't a secret. Do you really think this is the first time this was ever published?
Exactly, why would we publish our informatics & weapons systems capabilities?!?
It’s no less frustrating whenever the resident @1600 Pennsylvania Ave goes on a trip…albeit somewhere on American 🇺🇸 soil or overseas.
ABC, CNN, FoxNews, NBC, MSNBC: “On this day, at this time, Joe & Jill Biden will be in such a such city. My vote was stolen in ‘20…but Joe is still recognized as the Leader of Free World so let’s not announce to those who have issues
w/🇺🇸 location of our sleeper……..I mean leader!
You know copying technologies isn’t easy right? First you need a decent size population of engineers and scientists that can mimic different parts of the project and years to successfully simulate the project
Man the millions of us that have witnessed this secret weapon are so privileged and blessed.
This is short so I’ll excuse it mentioning it of course. The emitter can also mimic other aircraft as it jams radar. It can give not only the missile a false target but multiple false targets thus lowering the hit probability significantly. All F-35 carry four of these. While the F-35 does have flares, it does not carry chaff dispensers.
... and calls for an A-10 for back up.
@@MaxAbramson3 More like as bait
Gracias
The F-35 also apparently has the capabilities to hijack control over the missile and force guide it away from the aircraft, I might be wrong though and it can only direct friendly missiles
I watched your War Thunder Tank Battle. You went out in a blaze of glory.
Every time I cook up a chicken pot pie in my microwave I think of all the technology that surrounds my pot pie...
@@Broimsatan
Chicken pot pie is F’n Grrrrrrreat!
I like these latest fighter jets