Weapons that Changed Warfare: Smart Bombs
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The bat bomb didn't sink any ships, it was literally a bomb filled with over 1000 live bats intended to spread incendiary devices to Japanese buildings. It's Wikipedia page shows that photo and says it was never used in action.
looks much better than the "mystery green" drink mix...
An oddity you may consider as a side project or to include in a side project is the GBU-28 Paveway bomb (the "Bunker Buster"). Designed in 90's it has a very interesting history when compared to the majority of weapons designs (short procurement period, short design cycle and the original batch were created with repurposed, preexisting materials that had nothing to do with bombs.
3:20 - Chapter 1 - Radio guided smart bombs
7:55 - Chapter 2 - Laser guided smart bombs
12:25 - Chapter 3 - Satellite guided smart bombs
16:20 - Chapter 4 - Artificial intelligence smart bombs
- Chapter 5 -
- Chapter 6 -
"I don't think we can defeat the axis of evil by putting smart bombs in the hands of dumb people" - Billy Bragg
My stepdad was in the airforce in 80s. He got to help test Gps when it was first being developed. They could track where the humvee had been around base down to 3 feet. He asked how they could do that. The answer? That's classified. He didn't learn until 1999 that it was satilites in orbit that were tracking the device on the roof. From that they were able to develop navigation and weapons delivery systems.
The timing of this video is scary. I was just playing Sniper Elite 4 with my friend this weekend and talking about the Fritz X and the HS 293
LOL! The "Bat Bomb" shown at 7:14 is not the "ASM-N-2 Bat" radar guided bomb described, but an actual Project X-Ray bomb filled with hibernating (from cold storage, then from cold high altitude flight) bats contained within a ventilated shell that opened like a cluster bomb after being dropped. The bats, each carrying a timed incendiary device would wake up and since it was to be dropped during the day, would fly into attics and other hidden placed out of sunlight. It was never deployed, but probably would have been effective - "A series of tests to answer various operational questions were conducted. In one incident, the Carlsbad Army Airfield Auxiliary Air Base near Carlsbad, New Mexico, was set on fire on May 15, 1943, when armed bats were accidentally released. The bats roosted under a fuel tank and incinerated the test range."
Has anyone done a supercut of Simon beard growth?
Simon, during WW2 the dropping of bombs from medium and heavy bombers was controled by a Bombardier/Navigator. The Pilots job was to fly the aircraft to and from the target.
...the Norden (and other) bombsights weren't exactly "relying on mathematical prowess of a pilot" and "doing complex trigonometry"
I hope you guys keep this series going.
Guided munitions alone were incredible. SOP goes from 'how many squadrons per target' to 'how many targets per plane'.
There was also a program that used 100's of bats carrying incendiary devices to land in the eves of Japanese houses.
It worked! When tested the bats destroyed the New Mexico base where the test was taking place. Ending research there.
Almost. From the Stars and Stripes: "Several dormant bats - the “bat battalion” was kept cold with dry ice until they were ready for action - were removed from a cold storage room, armed with real bombs, and placed in the sun to be photographed.
There were two problems: the bats “warmed up” and flew away, and the Army forgot to disarm the bombs.
Despite the best efforts of the military, the bats were gone. Meanwhile, a portion of the Carlsbad base and the building housing Adam’s records were destroyed in a fiery blaze from the errant bat bombers."
Adams, a dental surgeon from Pennsylvania, was the brain behind this one. Bat-brain?
@@stevek6921 Good info and a rather comical read just imagining what they were thinking when the bats woke up and took off.
LGM "Not to say they didn't have any impact"... I'm glad you snuck that in... Interesting stuff, thanks.
Before they were able to determine the radio frequency the bombs operated on so they knew what frequency to jam, I wonder why they didn't use spark gap transmitters as a sort of blunt force approach. The technology is simple and has been around literally for centuries. You just generate a spark, and it throws off radio interference. The more power and the bigger the spark, the more powerful and distantly acting the interference is. The only down side is it jams EVERY frequency. Including ones the allies no doubt used for communication themselves. But even with that problem, they could have used it as a sort of evasive tactic when they knew they were being targeted by a smart bomb. Like deploying flares to throw off a heat-guided weapon. They only use it when absolutely necessary.
I've actually designed a spark gap generator radio jammer myself. Though I never built it because such a device would be illegal under FCC regulations and could land me in a heap of trouble. It could do nasty things like interfering with emergency bands for police, fire or ambulance, or interfering with air traffic communications. And basically anything else that use radio. Not that it had a huge distance on it. It mighta worked for like 50 feet or so.
You answered your own question about why they didn't use spark gap transmitters for jamming. Like you said, the range of a system like that is relatively small, therefore by the time it would be able to effectively block a radio signal a bomb would be within a second or two of impact. You would also have to increase the power of a transmitter exponentially to improve range, so it quickly becomes impractical to scale something like that with more power.
Also the other part about blocking your own signals, such as comms, radar, etc. Probably not the best idea when you've got incoming projectiles. CIWS is going to rely on those to shoot it down, as well as FLIR.
@@slcpunk2740 Heh I guess that makes perfect sense then. Even if they DO just limit it to emergency situations, like if they know they're being locked on to, there's no guaranteeing they won't cut off some really message. It's not like they'd be able to give everybody a head's up and be like "hey guys I'm gonna be jamming every radio band up here so I can avoid a missile. So try not to talk about anything important for a little while."
By the way, @SLC Punk! Heroin Bob's death was one of the saddest scenes of any movie I can remember. Matthew Lillard clearly wasn't acting in that scene. He was crying for real, 100%. I don't know where he went in his head to get a reaction that incredible, but it must have been somewhere DARK. It's too bad he didn't get more recognition. Crying on command is one thing. But crying HARD and for real on command, while like 20 people are watching you and the pressure's on. That takes something beyond talent. I just had to mention that. =P
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It sure is reassuring you got that right. Also, self coordinating bug bomb teams sounds splendid
Bespoke post is like raid shadow Legends. They are in everyone's pocket
at 6:44 electronic jamming so germans tried wire guided boms with TV info going back up the wires to the bomber. Yes, the bomber had to stay on the bombing run and so was easier to shoot down
Well, Brain Boy, it's a good thing that cutting edge military technology is just a bit more advanced than what your economies-of-scale-priced cell phone has installed in it.
Hyperbole. The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by Israel was aided by face recognition. Israel has some amazing technology.
It's so silly that people basically create things to explode their expensive computers and sort of rare becoming minerals (as a side effect it blows something else at the same time).
that's one heck of a bridge. we should hire that crew to build all our stuff.
Love this video and the whole smart weapons topic.
What about inertial guidance systems?
I bet guided Artillery will be the next big thing!
masses of cheap drone guided high precision shells, raining down on enemy positions
I find the brit term "kit" entertaining. lol.
That last idea of little bombs communicating with each other to find the most probable target and zero in on it -- that's straight out of Stanislaw Lem's book "The Invinsible" (Niezwyciężony), written in 1964 Once again, a sci-fi writer predicted the future.
As a Floridian, hearing him butcher Eglin kills me. Lol. Egg-Lin.
Watching this again after the incident in Gaza is somewhat chilling
A few errors made me giggle: 8:18 - B-29s bombing Vietnam in 1965? 10:29 - Royal Air Force Jaguars in Vietnam? Plus mentions the White House and shows the capitol building.
Also its Eglin AFB not Enlin. They spelled it correct on screen, but must not have been in the script.
An episode about proximity fuses in WW2 would be nice to see.
This is pretty dope having loaded and armed thousands of smart munitions. 👌
Wrong answer on the Chinese Embassy: a US F117 stealth plane was shot down, the Chinese recovered part it. The parts were taken to the embassy, and subsequently got bombed.
could you do a video on the Chrysler nuclear powered tank design?
FANTASTIC TOPIC & VID!!! 👍😉✌️
Scary bombs
Hello @Simon can you do a video on the East Indian Company. Cheers
The Norden bomb sight was the first sight that could really work in far way. by dropping a bomb down a pickle barrel from 30k feet. A pickle barrel is a wishful thought lol. More like better than without anything. It was also one of the first computers and one of the smallest of the time.
Nothing like a swarm of angry AI smart bombs. What could possibly go wrong ?
Thanks. I didn’t really need to sleep tonight. Lol. Terrifying.
Have you watched the Voyager episode with the AI bomb yet?
If it was really smart it would be a missile 🤣
Saved nhia's life
Egggggggggggggland AFB.
So let me get this right, the person releasing the bomb is to blame for bad strikes and not the intelligence provided by satellites and target recognition software used. AI as cool as it sounds wont limit civilian casualties in any way, I would like to see when the pentagon has too explain why a mosk was mistaken for ICBM launch site. I just hope AI bombs are not relying on geometric analysis alone as that would be the worst way to identify targets.
The more i hear about intelligence agencies around the world, I think a crystal ball might work better. They can just employ a fortune teller or two and invest all that money into universities.
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How the f*ck has this never been on Nazi super weapons shows? Feels like it's the one weapon that was actually successful
Hey Simon. Eglin (Air Force Base) is pronounced ay-glen. Cheers!
Not too many photographs like that
Is the sponsor USA only?
How many goddamn youtube channels does this guy have!?
They jets kinda look like FLYING SAUCERS
We are traveling to other planets now
Maybe I need a Cricut machine
It’s a T-1000!
Bombs that didn't make much of an impact... that's pretty amusing if you ask me
They never heed the warnings of science fiction writers, let's give absolute control to the computers, because they are NEVER wrong (he said with much sarcasm)
I mean never wrong.. maybe not but less wrong then humans? thats very possible.
17:34
them's just the drones from ace combat 7
not good
Did they put julia roberts in a straight jacket in Vinita back in 1979?
Uhhhh, the bat bomb wasn't radar guided or ever used operationally.....
“Egg Lynn” not “Ee Glenn”.
thought this was about me for a sec. then I realized it said "smart bomb" not "smart bum" 🤔🤷🏼♂️
You know, the strange thing is the use of laser smart bombs was still objectively worse than using a pigeon.
When I went in there voluntarily with my dad's help?
So the weapon from Sniper Elite 4 is real.
Some "mistakes" are not actually mistakes.
Not only did that happen to us women just from tulsa county 100 beds for us.
hs- 293 not 239
5th to comment and 100th to watch ! Last time I was this early, Simon only had one channel
And no beard
Torpedoes
So, nowdays a target can be destroyed by a single plane with a couple of bombs instead of needed to use dozens of bombers and hundrends of bombs, but look at the prices of modern bombs and planes, just saying.
Love your channel, gotta say the intro music isnt great. It doesn’t fit the video. It sounds like I’m about to watch an old Warner bros cartoon show or some sort of comedy show, not a historical piece on guided bombs lol
Believe it or not, there are modern weapons they have no problem using on citizens.
I’m in the Deep South and I have been burned, skull aching, non stop pain and burning sensations. Like fiberglass on your skin. We are in a dire situation when the people we turn to in an emergency have your phone caught on a stingray, triggerfish, kingfish or harpoon. Especially in my situation, my daughter attempted suicide and I had to obtain another’s phone and scream into the 911 to get them to allow me to use my phone. They let me suddenly. GA IS RHE WORST. Gainsvillle FL, requests these deluded officials to sign a NDA that’s in direct conflict with our constitution.
It was a nice country but it no longer exists as I remember it.
Commenting on the comment about "no matter how smart the bomb, human error will always have the potential of making the bomb dumb," I think the dumbest thing about the whole thing is that humans so erroneously thinks that bombs, smart or dumb, is a smart way of solving their problems. It *is* good for nature, such a torn up battlefield full of unexploded ordnance and devoid of people having fled or gotten killed. But that's sort of a sad comfort prize compared to just how costly a method it is of nature preservation - and then it's not even why all those bombs are getting thrown anyway, which just adds to the levels of stupidity revolving around the whole concept.
But there is that, slight consolation that it is. It's time we became conscious of our planet before we manage to kill everything on it including ourselves, fighting over the scraps of what's still left while squeezing the soil of it's nutrients in an effort to feed something that amounts to 14 billion people even if only 5 billion or so actually get fed.
Conscious Planet. It might actually even be a topic for the 'MegaProjects' channel (because it is truly a massive project to take on, trying to make the planet conscious by raising the consciousness of it, ) although I wouldn't know the first thing about fitting that topic into these tight formats that Simon so expertly keeps. But it's a thing, this effort. Check it out and look it up.
I'll have what you're smoking
@@bees1664 Herbs, pord'. Herbs and spice and all things nice, coming right out of the ground.
Anyway, it all starts in the soil, all those tiny fungi and bacteria and microbes just doing what they do and in consequence making everything else possible; even me sitting here typing. I wish I was allowed by YT's exception rules to just link to that homepage, Conscious Planet. But it's not, so it'll get autodeleted if I try.
I can however link internally. So instead I'll link to this great, great song which might induce some nice vibes into your ear-canal. In lieu of me passing ..the herb, kinda. th-cam.com/video/3LXr89pMU2Q/w-d-xo.html
Hi there *Sideprojects*! Can you show a bit less video of yourself in all the channels you have, and perhaps instead some illustrations of the things you're talking about? I know I would be more interested.
Yikes 😬
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First on first
Dear advertiser if you run a ad at the start of the video I will not even consider buying your product that is the most annoying crap
Same here. I always skip forward two minutes.
Have these people developing these AI things NEVER consumed any science fiction?
I worked on the guidance systems while stationed in Thailand in 1968. Consider the concrete bomb when they removed the explosives to limit extera casualties.
On one hand you gotta admire the technology behind it and loath the reason and function it's used for. How very resourceful we get to come up with ways to kill one another more efficiently while getting funding for space and environmental projects is a drag at best
*Why does this video make JDAMs look bad for reasons that don't relate to them? All they do is hit their targets more accurately, saving countless lives in an area that would otherwise be carpet-bombed. Those are failures of intelligence and not of this one munition. Why do people promoting rhetoric do things like this? I'll never understand it. This literally saves countless lives. All of "negative consequences" listed in this video have nothing to do with the JDAM.*
That went from interesting to terrifying real quick.
Yeeeeah Fact Boy!
Simon it's pronounce egg-lynn air force base!! and those bomb shelters weren't our fault the jack wads ran the antennas over from the command bunkers a half kilometer away to fool recon systems!!!
yup, Skynet, it's already here... we never learn, do we?...
It’s pronounced “Egg-Lin” AFB
There is a theory that after the F-117 was shot down the wreckage was sold to the Chinese and was being stored in the embassy pending transport, and that is why the embassy was hit. To destroy the wreckage.
Not all "mistakes" are actually mistakes.
@@MH-Tesla I can remember an embassy in Libya that got "accidentally" smashed.
Its gona be Good
Huh? 8:17 That is a B-29 dropping what are probably incendiaries on Japan in WWII. It has nothing to do with any bombing attacks during the Viet Nam War. At least the other photos are related to the subject being discussed.
13:00 Nice photo of a 1960s era Air Force Base with F-101s, F-104s, B-47s, and C-130s. So what does it have to do with the 1990s development of satellite-guided smart bombs?
Yeah I immediately noticed that B-47. Don’t forget the RAF Jaguar at 10:29 too!
I couldn't even make it that far in. This bloke has the most annoying pompous voice on the planet
The USS BARB sub sank a train by using what would now be called navy seals in a raid that was a first of its kind by the us navy and maybe ever to put explosives on a rail bridge. And also was the first to launch cruise missiles on a land based area. Those where some weapons that changed warfare for sure.
The bombs may be smart, but the politicians okaying their use, well, let's just say a turnip would be insulted to be compared to one... :P
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You forgot the Bat bomb dude!
Yes, that is a real thing.
The bat bomb was not a guided weapon. It was a dispersed incendiary weapon that used bats to spread the charges to cause wider destruction.
The difference being a guided bomb is intended to make precise hits against single specific targets, and the bat bomb was indiscriminate in the damage it caused.
wow didn't realise the German smart bombs were so effective..
I’ll take my smart bombs Free Range, thank you very much.
A video about the Bat bomb would be interesting, oh wait there is already one about that on Bioark channel.
AI bombs sound absolutely terrifying.
Hasn't anyone read/seen *I, Robot?*
I would love to see a video of the wiesel tank since you guys did a video on the m50 ontos. Gotta love small fighting vehicles.
It's egg Lin. Not eeglin love all your videos.
Bombs: If we destroy our own smaller number of bases the war will be over quicker.. The humans will be so happy!
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