Iran: "We blew up an American boat, that will show them!" Japan: "That was a bad idea, I did that once. They dropped the Sun on me. Twice"

@monologic4806

7 ай бұрын

Dude !!

@JohnnyD-u7

7 ай бұрын

😂sad but true

@wolfoflove1959

7 ай бұрын

Sounds like Iran wants a shot at seeing the sun

@k_famfun

7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@FLY2KO

7 ай бұрын

It goes, Japan to Iran: dont piss america off or they might give you a second sun to....

There is a famous quote from General George Patton - "Your job is NOT to die heroically for your country. It's to make some poor dumb SOB on the other side die heroically for HIS country."

The Fat Electrician is one of the best storytellers on KZread. Great video

@michealdrake3421

7 ай бұрын

Apparently he's working on a history degree so he can teach history. He says in a podcast that it's something he's always wanted to do, because there's so much interesting and meaningful history that just nobody knows about and really should. It's awesome, I'd totally take his history class.

@PulsingKrugotvoid

7 ай бұрын

​@michealdrake3421 this would be epic. Even the stories I do know ow about, his way of explaining, not only do I learn more. I can explain it better spmehow

@patrioticz2858

7 ай бұрын

​@@michealdrake3421 you mean the Unsubscribe Podcast

@DaleMontdale-xd1mc

7 ай бұрын

It's him count dankula and wild west extravaganza to round out the top 3.

@tallwalls76

7 ай бұрын

Bar none. edit. Daniel Defoe and Sam Clements approve.

Radars 'lock on' by shining a bright narrow beam on the target to designate it. That's how the missile knows which of the various objects in the field of view it's supposed to go after. Basically, the plane points a spotlight at the enemy plane to mark it out for the missile and tell it "This is the specific thing I need you to kill." Except it's a radio-frequency spotlight instead of a visible frequency of light. Just like it's easy to tell if someone points a spotlight directly at you, it's easy to make a sensor that detects the radar version of it and warn the pilot that he's being singled out by an enemy radar.

@MarkoDash

7 ай бұрын

and given the each radar set has slightly different parameters (pulse repetition rate, frequency, power output, etc) modern planes can not only tell they're being locked on, they can tell what they're being locked on BY, from the signature of the radar.

@BatouOfNexus

7 ай бұрын

Excellent explanation!

@Yardiegirl

7 ай бұрын

That was so well explained! I wondered the same thing, and now i know!

@raymurray3401

7 ай бұрын

@MarkoDask not only that but most modern military aircraft are capable of even pinpointing the general location and direction of the source locking onto them.

@53cards92

7 ай бұрын

We’ve also got the stealth capabilities to absorb or deflect those radar waves in a way that reduces a jets radar signature so we don’t get locked onto in the first place. Modern US military tech is amazing

"It's never a war crime the first time" is Canada's Military creed!

@Yuki_Ika7

6 ай бұрын

indeed, Canadians are some of the nicest people in peace time but when in war time their soldiers are often on demon time, i am happy to have them as allies and for having some Canadian friends!

@ppunion

6 ай бұрын

@@Yuki_Ika7 You can't really blame them. If there is no treaty to expressly forbid something, then they cannot count on the enemy not doing a specific thing, so might as well do it yourself. It only becomes really truly messed up if you break treaties and commit actual war crimes.

OMG, I spent months in the Persian gulf aboard the USS Ranger during this operation. This was in the 80's before the internet, email or even cable TV. Good times! Although while you are onboard the ship they don't tell you everything that the ship is engaged in. We have a saying in the Navy, "loose lips sink ships."

SO glad you are reacting to The Fat Electrician!!! Please do more, he's got some great ones. You won't regret how the US Navy was formed, Barbery Pirates!

I think the most remarkable part of this whole thing is that they had 3 battle groups on station ready to go in 4 days. Also unrelated those numbers were just the ships that were visible, there is no chance that there wasn't at least two submarines prowling while this was going down. If the US really wanted to they could've easily done all that damage completely undetected (funnily enough the ship that would've been most likely to detect a submarine was the soviet destroyer) but this mission was also to send the don't fuck with us message so it had to be clear exactly who destroyed all of that shit

@KaoretheHalfDemon

6 ай бұрын

I have no idea why this never occurred to me before.

Meanwhile, Japan is screaming at Iran, "DON'T TOUCH AMERICA'S SHIPS!" Yea, that's a lesson Japan learned after December 7th, 1941, but apparently Iran never read a history book.

@brigidtheirish

7 ай бұрын

"They dropped the Sun on me! TWICE!"

@jessicacolegrove4152

7 ай бұрын

Japan did not learn not to mess with America's boat on Dec 7 1941 that learned it on September 2 1945

@albinorhino6

7 ай бұрын

I would argue that Japan began to realize their mistake beginning 4 June 1942, and received final confirmation on 2 Sept 1945.

@willarth9186

7 ай бұрын

@@albinorhino6 Umm, I did say "AFTER December 7th, 1941"....

@willarth9186

7 ай бұрын

@@jessicacolegrove4152 Umm, I did say "AFTER December 7th, 1941"....

It is NOT just because of the US's overwhelming military might. From Day ONE we have never allowed a country of any size to attack us and win. We defeated the world's super power twice. Or once and a mutual cease fire the 2nd time. Every muslim country in the Med attacked us in the 18th century when we had almost no military and we kicked their a$$ even though they were 5 thousand miles away. So it is determination too.

@SayaViking

7 ай бұрын

Except that little issue in Vietnam

@user-po3ev7is5w

7 ай бұрын

North Vietnam didn't attack the USA. WE attacked them. If you would finish Grammar school your posts MIGHT improve. But that is doubtful...@@SayaViking

@dalebillings6703

7 ай бұрын

@@user-po3ev7is5w What a dick. Why would you think its okay to talk to people like that?

@xviper2k

6 ай бұрын

@@user-po3ev7is5w The Taliban & al-Qaeda...

@user-po3ev7is5w

6 ай бұрын

Once you reach the 3rd grade look up the work COUNTRY. Then rent IQ@@xviper2k

It was worth noting that at the time this happened, the Enterprise alone had about as much displacement as all of Iran's Navy. America is a global naval power that, by most measures, is ahead of the nearest three rivals combined several times over. How efficient our defense spending is can be debated, but we absolutely get some terrifying capacities from it.

@robertryan7204

5 ай бұрын

Many of Iran's Navy was rehashed US ships from the time of the Shah

@Jude74

4 ай бұрын

Technically, China now has more boats. But when it comes to aircraft carriers, which is really the measuring stick, they’re not even close. I believe we have more aircraft carriers than the next five nations on the list put together.

@robertryan7204

4 ай бұрын

Displacement is not a huge advantage, fire-power is. Japanese had the biggest Aircraft carrier in WW2 but it was sunk in battle of Midway

@hinderwl

4 ай бұрын

@@Jude74 True if you count every little rinky dink skimmer they have. If you count by sheer tonnage and actual fire power America is still vastly ahead. Don't forget about all the allies that hate China...

@Bill_the_curious

3 ай бұрын

@@robertryan7204 -- Actually larger displacement means more aircraft aboard, more weapons, but your point about the IJN Shinano, is still valid. It was build on the 3rd incomplete Yamato battleship hull after they realized aircraft carriers were more deadly than battleships, carries a large air wing and could receive aircraft from other sinking carriers. A US submarine caught it, although it was not at Midway. The Japanese navy lost 4 of it's fleet carriers there in one day and that turned the tide of the War in the Pacific.

12:30 ish ... in simplest terms... 'locked on' .... a radar sends out an active signal, which bounces back. the target can detect that radar wave hitting it. a lock on is a steady signal on the target. that is what is being detected when they get a 'locked on' warning, the continued radar waves hitting the target vessel/aircraft.

@MisterW0lfe

7 ай бұрын

that's also why the Patriot and AEGIS system is so deadly, it doesn't have to "lock on" because of how the track while scan phased array radar system sees something it can fire without having to focus a beam at what it's targeting

Retreating to fight another day is sometimes wise, as demonstrated by George Washington. Despite various opinions about him, he's rarely if ever labeled a coward or unpatriotic. This strategy is known as a tactical retreat. But I guess Iran missed that memo from history.

@brigidtheirish

7 ай бұрын

Along with the 200 years of "why you *never* mess with America's boats."

@RLKmedic0315

7 ай бұрын

"Retreat, Hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.” Oliver P. Smith (October 26, 1893-December 25, 1977), Marine Corps general and commanding officer of the 1st Marine Division, famously declared this “tactic” during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.

@jordanpeterson5140

7 ай бұрын

But then again there's always "Retreat, hell! We just got here!" from the USMC at Belleau Wood in WWI, so....

@robertryan7204

5 ай бұрын

​@@brigidtheirish Japanese got away with it at Pearl Harbour

@brigidtheirish

5 ай бұрын

@@robertryan7204 I wouldn't exactly call having the Sun dropped on a couple of their cities 'getting away with it.'

Gotta do more of him! It's mostly American military stuff he does but not always, and his stories are always fascinating regardless.

Easiest way to think of radar tracking and lock is like a flashlight shing on you. If it sweeps past you then you know it is looking for you and if it is constantly lighting you up, it has a lock and bad things are likely to follow.

1 of the best Reagan quotes. The 9 words Americans should fear. " I'm from the government I am here to help.

@JustMe-dc6ks

7 ай бұрын

And Republicans have made a point of giving Americans reason to fear their government for at least fifty years.

@jomahawk7488

7 ай бұрын

The FULL quote was Reagan saying “The Worst thing an American can hear is ‘“I’m from the government and I’m here to help’” Don’t cherry pick just because you don’t like republicans.

@louierivera7512

3 ай бұрын

Well said 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The determination to fight against seemingly insurmountable odds, in other words to die on your feet instead of live on your knees, is exactly why the American colonies were able to beat the British in the first place. Cheers mate!

@christineharrison7815

5 ай бұрын

Thought the same thing when he commented about giving up…..however….I truly think Americans have more determination and never say die attitude as a whole….something about us having bill of rights maybe?

@robertryan7204

5 ай бұрын

Well in 1776 with the help of the French. Not that clear cut in 1812

To answer your question about "how do aircraft know they've been target locked". In order to use a radar to target a unit, it needs to switch to a tracking mode (in most cases for a fighter aircraft "Track While Scan"). This changes the way the radar sends a signal to being a more direct beam to the target. Fighter aircraft generally have a Radar Warning Receiver, which indicates this change in radar signal and alerts the aircraft's crew.

@TheComicBookJoker

2 ай бұрын

This, basically. To put it pretty vaguely because the actual specifics are classified national security information, Naval ships have sailors who are trained in using specialized equipment for, among other things, detecting various kinds of radar to determine what other ships and planes near them are doing to and/or around them. Locking on with a weapons system radar pings differently from just about any other kind of radar. So if someone is locking onto something like a ship, their equipment will absolutely pick it up, and the ship will react accordingly.

America has 3 of the top 15 naval power in the world • Navy • Coast Guard • Army fleet

@brigidtheirish

7 ай бұрын

Number 4: Museum ships.

@jishani1

7 ай бұрын

not to mention the two largest navies in the world, being the US navy, and the US navy's fleet of museum ships. we have more museum warships than other countries have actual warships.

@dj11o9er

7 ай бұрын

... Since when the hell does the Army have a fleet...?

@mostlytrue3150

7 ай бұрын

And two of the top two air fleets, 1. Navy 2. Airforce I'm not sure if this is still the case, I know they've been known to flip back and forth so it could be the opposite at this moment

@lisaanderson3549

7 ай бұрын

​@dj11o9er9 I've heard of the Merchant Marines, though. Maybe he meant that?

Radar works by sending out these like, waves of signals, which may or may not bounce off other planes and return a contact. Basically a planes RWR (Radar warning receiver) detects these signals and based on the type of signal it detects, displays the corresponding warning. Like getting locked on vs getting a missile fired at you etc, these things use different types of signals. More modern RWRs can actually detect the type of radar locking you and sometimes tell you the type of threat that’s locking you, like what plane or if it’s a ground based missile system etc (This is all just my understanding of it, I could be partially wrong about some of this). But if you wanna look it up, you’re thinking about an RWR

@flyboy6392

7 ай бұрын

That's pretty accurate in how an RWR works, and most modern aircraft have an MWR as well for missiles with a passive tracking system such as IR

@ZekeRivers

7 ай бұрын

There's a difference between search and fire control radars, and the more advanced incorporate both in the same system.

@iTz_JLAR

7 ай бұрын

I used to work with RWR systems. It's a passive system that takes incoming RF (radio frequency) signals and displays that information to the pilot. It will show lock-on and fired/incoming projectiles in relative space to the receiving aircraft. It can also display aircraft type, weapon loadouts, friend or foe, and more. Coupled with aesa radars, it's capabilities are astonishing.

@aethyr6776

6 ай бұрын

Does this still apply today with phased radar arrays? My understanding is that PRAs don't really have that sort of "tell" in the way old radars used to. As an example, as I understand it, the PATRIOT system uses a PRA with a track-while-scan capability, meaning it can track targets without indicating to a target that it's "locked" or however you wish to describe it.

Imagine RADAR as you carrying around a bare lightbulb. When it's dark and your "radar" is off, you can't see, but nobody can see you either unless they know where to look. Passive RADAR would be like turning that lightbulb on to illuminate the area around you. You can see things around you pretty well now, but others in the dark can also see you. Now you've found something interesting to look at, so you cover the lightbulb with a reflector and point it like a flashlight. Since all the light is being forced in one direction, that object is now *much* brighter, but if you point it at another person, they'll be able to see it immediately. RADAR uses pretty much the same principle with nonvisible light. So when someone switches from the "looking around the room mode" to "flashlight mode", the intensity of the received signal will go way up which would cause your RWR (radar warning receiver) alarm to go off.

@IceCavalier

7 ай бұрын

They may just be the best metaphor for it I've ever read. Nicely done.

The acronym FAFO hadn't been invented yet, but Iran did it anyway. Hope they enjoyed the lesson. Happy to repeat it, any time they'd like.

@robertryan7204

5 ай бұрын

Not so great now. They are supporting the Rusdians in Artillery and drones

"Don't fuck with America" is as much a meme as it is the truth. We spend so much on our military and nations are STILL surprised....

@AzureIV

6 ай бұрын

It's because it is so difficult for the average person to really comprehend what the American Military actually is. People have trouble envisioning something on that scale. Also a lot of countries don't have anywhere near the kind of military that America has. And America's military works on the idea of not broadcasting just how big and powerful it is. We don't hold military parades. We also don't show off all of our capabilities to the press. So people keep underestimating America's military. Even for people who study America's military, and know a good deal of what they are capable of, we only scratch the surface.

@robertryan7204

5 ай бұрын

Well Vietnam, Afghanistan and Korea did more than scratch the surface

On your question about radar locks, basically all radar sends out radio waves to detect and/or track (as with Fire Control Radars) targets. When an aircraft gets illuminated by the radio wave from the radar emitter, they have a receiver known as a Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) on the aircraft's fuselage that's able to signal the pilot that they're being tracked on radar. Similarly on naval vessels, the RWR signal is received and gets sent to the Combat Information Center (CIC) where personnel can know that their ship is being tracked on radar.

You definitely need to watch all of his videos.

The Fat Electrician has great content. Most of his videos are about the American military. He has two UK centered videos. Check out The de Havilland Mosquito and Douglas Bader. The UK plays a minor role in his recent video on The Berlin Airlift.

@saureco

7 ай бұрын

Mmm, I dunno about "minor role." The Germans, perhaps, had a minor role, but England was lifting almost the equivalent cargo during that operation.

@Rammstein0963.

7 ай бұрын

@Saureco He's saying they are a small part *of the video*

watch his video "angry old veteran vs 700 redcoats"

Gripping story!! I'm not a war fan but even I was sucked into this storyteller genius and how he told this story...even my toes curled up waiting for what happens next

Fun bit of trivia: When you fire a bullet, it will travel in a straight line for a while, then start to fall as it loses momentum and succumbs to gravity. This is called bullet drop. "point blank" is the distance that the bullet will travel before that happens, before you have to account for bullet drop. So point blank range is the range at which you can simply put the crosshair on the target and pull the trigger. Though in air and naval combat this is a little different, at least in the modern era since naval artillery isn't quite as essential as it once was. Much of air and naval combat today relies on missiles which have not just maximum ranges, but minimum ones as well. For example, the primary short range missile used by the US Air Force is rite sidewinder, which has a minimum engagement distance of two miles (a little over 3km)

Reagan was a lot of fun to listen to back in the 80's, the way he worded certain things was great entertainment. His proportional part is well remembered. During that same time he referred to Iran in a potential war, "They're not that stupid". Epic take from Reagan. lol

@chrispavlich9656

5 ай бұрын

That’s because he was an entertainer.

@MacMc691

5 ай бұрын

@@chrispavlich9656 Yeah, it might have been because Reagan was an actor prior to getting into politics, great observation. lol

Radar works by radio signals being sent and bouncing off the plane and sending the signal back to the source. That’s how they determine altitude,airspeed and so on…similar to a Bats Echo location. The plane has a sensor to alert the pilot when they’re being “painted” by radar

This guy is a great storyteller.

Fat Electrician is by far one of the best youtubers, definitely check more of him out

12:41 I mean for a target lock on, they have to focus a beam directly onto the target, the target can also pick up the beam.

“How can they tell” Easy… how does radar work? Radar emits a Radio Pulse, that pulse gets sent out bounces off objects and returns to the radar. Can that be detected? Yes… if someone is locked on to you, they are hitting you with constant radio pulses and your radar can tell you it’s detecting constant pulses that it didn’t send out.

In God we trust others we track

The aircraft have an RWS “Radar Warning System” that detects the opposing radar and alerts the pilots that something or someone is locked onto them. Same for the Naval vessels I believe. I worked on Marine Corps aircraft long ago so I’m sure our systems are considerably more sensitive currently.

22:41 Mark! 4.7K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍 You're welcome, and thanks! 😊 Notes: Nice commentary! Bye for now! 🖖

To paraphrase "No poor dumb SOB ever won a war dying for their country. They won by making the *other* poor SOB die for theirs".-US General George Patton So yeah, patriotism is fine and dandy but suicidal actions like that are just stupid.

Well, any military aircraft has sensors on them, ships too, that can detect radar, and can tell the difference between search and track radar. Search radar is general, look at this area and find things. Track radar is for targeting.

odds are the ship radioed HQ, told them what the americans said and were probably chewed out then told to attack the ship which is why they said 'we are only following orders' on the second communication.

I am not an expert so take this with a grain of salt. So Radar uses Microwaves that are meant to be sent out and reflect back to the receiver to see objects. You can tell how far away it is based on how long it took to come back. All a plane or ship would have to knowit is locked is if it receiving microwave radiation consistently. This is probably wrong but how I understand it to best of my knowledge.

@TheNaldiin

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, there's lots of details, but if you're getting steady waves rather than a pulse, someone's pointed directly at you.

The Chubby Electron guy has made his Kabir debut!

9:50 Mark! Kudos for saying "ship" not "boat"! But uh, ahem,you're referring to oil rigs as.... Quote One: What is the difference between rig and ship? In contrast to the mobility of drill ships, drill rigs are fixed structures that are designed to perform drilling operations on the ocean floor. They provide stability and endurance in specific drilling situations. September 18, 2023. End quote! Quote Two: Are oil rigs considered ships? Instead, the point was that a structure loses its character as a vessel if they are placed out of the water for an extended period of time. This means that a vessel is considered in navigation even if it is stationary while in the water. This also means that an offshore oil rig is considered a Jones Act vessel. August 2, 2019. End quote! Damn it! 😮😁

I really like the Fat Electrician he is a master storyteller. I really like it when he makes funny out of the story in good taste. And you're a good host and reactor. That's why I keep coming back to you. Hey just leave our boats alone (smiles)

What a country like Iran needs to realize is that is a small portion of the U.S. ships and aircraft.

@robertryan7204

5 ай бұрын

What US needs to realise this was 1983 and Itan is now propping up the Russians

You must watch angry old man vs 700 red coats ,it is absolutely insane

Bruh, only the US has a Navy worth a dam, every other country in the world has nothing comparable

Just like to point out, that was a single CSG (Carrier Strike Group) there are 11 CSG's total

There are radar detectors on most naval vessels and aircraft. They detect certain frequencies of radar that are used for targeting systems and they are very directional. So if you get a high band Impact from a radar in the certain frequency. Then your target locked and you can expect an incoming missile. This is why it is very rare for military to target another military's asset because it's effectively saying I'm going to shoot.

the best explanation about being "target locked" came from my husband in the Army and whose grandfather was a Naval Commander- Imagine i'm looking for you in a dark forest. I would have a flashlight that i would move back and forth to see. There are trees and animals but they are not what I want so i keep moving it. When I find you, I would keep my flashlight pointed straight towards you. If you move, I move the flashlight to keep you lit up. I can increase the brightness and focus the beam of light to see you better. You can tell that I have you target locked because you have eyes and are wondering who has a flashlight out here. That is the premise for "target locked". And you would know the position of anyone else who was out with you so you would know that whoever has the flashlight is not someone you know. (the beam of light would the be the green line you see travel across the radar while navigating the ship

🇺🇸🫡 Iran fear us till this day

When you're "locked on" you get a narrow beam locked on to you. The Radar warning receiver (RWR) picks It up and tells you that you are locked on. Imagine a search light that's searching an area. This is the scan mode where the search light is moving in circles. Then when it finds what it is looking for, it'll concentrate on that and follow it. This is the track mode. However, modern radars have a "track while scam" (TWS) mode that gives you no warning. If this is the case, you have to assume you are being targeted and fired up on and fly according to that.

😂😂😂😂 love the description on this VOD

The way it works is that they have sensors (receivers that detect signals in radio bands known to be used by enemy threat systems) that can detect enemy radar signals that are 'painting' them; and based on what the signals are doing you can tell if you've been 'locked'; typically, the radar goes into high PRF (the pulse rate doubles and the beam narrows onto the target, to help burn through countermeasures and 'lock' the target) and the sensor on the platform being painted (i.e., our aircraft or ship, the enemy's 'target'), can therefore detect that they are no longer just being observed, but that the radar is in a state to support a weapon launch and guide to to the 'target', i.e. OUR ship. This change in the signal is a clear sign that the engagement has moved from a 'check them out' stage to an 'engage the target' stage. This is when responses to such incidents get kinetic.

He's one of my favorite channels on KZread. You'll love his stuff

So... "How planes sense radar lock for dummies!" You know that thing you can put in your car to detect when a cop is using radar speed detection? We'll call it a, "Radar Detector" for ease. Yeah, same thing. XD

Aircraft and ships (and some ground vehicles) have what are essentially radio antennae's dotted around them specifically geared to detect radio signals, including radar (RAdio Detection And Ranging). A destroyer has a few dozen of them and if someone is talking on a radio or aiming their radar guided weapons on them the crew can tell which direction it's coming from. And there's a certain bandwidth that is specific for weapons radars as opposed to communication radio, satellite communications, radio telescopes, weather radar (doppler), etc.

You can tell when you have been locked onto by the steady beam of X-band radar (microwave emmisions) and it sets off an alarm in your early warning system.

To answer your "how" question, its a similar tech like the one used in after-market "radar-detectors" for automobiles. To alert drivers of a traffic cop's speed radar gun.

12:36 depends on the missles, Habitual Linecrosser explains it wall, but it can dect the single of the missle like knowing u are being scanned

Iranians weren’t learning their World War histories well. Terrible idea to go up against the most badass superpower in the World. Love the video.

Planes and ships know a radar lock occurs because of having a radar receiver. Radar is just a chopped up radio signal, so engineering a receiver to capture it is quite easy.

Radar is just a radio wave and can be generated or received like any other radio station. The fighter planes have radio receivers that are tuned to the enemy radar station. If that station is consistently playing music, it's looking at YOU. (it's obviously more involved than this, but that's the basic idea).

Planes, ships. land targets can always tell if they have been locked on to by a radar. It is the same thing as a radar detector in your car, except much more sophisticated. They can tell if a radar has swept them casually or targeted them for attack. A sweeping pass is performed by low bandwidth radar, and targeting is performed by high frequency precise radar. If a plane or ship detects a continuous high frequency radar focused on them, that is a radar lock.

Us planes have receiver boxes that search through radar frequencies. When it detects a radar signal on a preset frequency it alerts the pilot with and alarm light and audio alarm.

The tanker escort mission was called Operation Earnest Will. When we would enter or leave the gulf through the Straits of Hormuz, Iran would light us up with their Silkworm missile radars. And steaming around in mined waters is rather nerve-racking. I was an EW2(SW) on the USS Merrill (DD-976), SAG B, during this engagement. We wound up doing all the shooting on the Sassan oil platform because Lynde B. McCormick's gun had dropped sync and was "walking" and they couldn't fix it in time. After the engagement we had a joke: How does the Ayatollah inspect his fleet... Glass Bottomed boat. The Soviet Udaloy destroyer was gathering intel. As to how a ship knows it's being targeted, that's the Electronic Warfare Technician's job. The EW's have equipment to intercept the radar and be able to identify what kind of radar it is and what mode it is in. I know this because that was my job. A few details wrong, but it doesn't detract from the story and NO ONE gets ALL the details right.. I love Nic's presentation. I've seen most of his videos and they are awesome.

2- 1000 Lb bombs is what he meant! The one airplane dropped a single 1000 lb bomb down the smoke stack’

Thing is most of the guys in the Iranian navy were trained here in the USA in the 70s. Their Air Force were trained here too in the 70s. We had a lot of Iranian Air Force here where I live back in the 70s that were trained right down the street from where I lived. My daughters dad trained here at our A F base but that was before the Shah was ousted out of Iran. After they threw the Shah out of Iran I guess they figured out they were screwed . But quite a few of those guys decided to not return to Iran and stayed here.. or went to Canada.

"He who controls the sea controls everything."

To answer your question. Planes can detect when they're being locked onto through a device called a radar warning receiver. The radar beam emitted from an enemy aircraft or missile will be picked up by that and a warning will sound in the pilot's helmet. Heat seeking or optically guided missiles are harder to detect because they don't emit radar waves, but there are other ways to detect them too.

I love that Reagan quote, but he cut off the first part of the quote. "The nine scariest words in the English language are 'I'm from the Government and I'm here to help'."

Think of a radar like a flashlight (torch) in the dark you use it to find things. If youre looking for people you find them, but if you're keeping eye on one particular person you keep the light on them. RWR, a Radar Warning Reciver can "see" other radar waves, it also knows when when that frequency of watching increases which indicates a guidance lock for missiles

For those who don’t know about Reagan that well. He was at that time the person who believed in and based his decisions especially military on the phrase f about and find out more than anyone in history up to that point

There is a difference between being tracked and being locked on when you’re a plane. The electronics can tell the difference.

Your own radar array can pick up the signals from another active radar... that how you can tell if you've been locked on to. (When a specific target is being ranged, there will be a narrow intense radar beam, it's the radio equivalent of a spotlight.)

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2 reasons why the US was able to accomplish this. 1. The Iranian Navy during the event wasn't a very big navy so the act of sinking a few ships equated to half of their navy. 2. Iran's navy is localized to the waters they need. The US operates blue water fleets. This means the US Navy can be practically anywhere on the globe there's contiguous blue while Iran's navy is stuck relatively near their harbors and points of interest. So instead of finding a needle in a haystack, it became finding a needle in a sandbox. Still difficult, but a lot more manageable.

@YourLightning28

7 ай бұрын

We also have coastal fleets

@PlanetEarth3141

7 ай бұрын

The US didn't need to locate any Iranian naval units. They already knew where they are at all times. How can you not know that?

@Amen-Magi

7 ай бұрын

At this time, Iran had 300 ships and bought 24 frigates from England and America, so these 3 ships were not half of Iran's navy.

@PlanetEarth3141

7 ай бұрын

@@Amen-Magi The last time Iran could have bought ships from the US or UK would be when the Shah of Iran was in power. Not since. Over fifty years or so. Which means Iran no longer has them or they are rust buckets far out of date. You didn't mention that? Your point is useless.

@Amen-Magi

7 ай бұрын

@@PlanetEarth3141 iran/iraq war happend 40years ago they have those ship at that time

Its called a radar warning receiver that will let them know they they are being looked at by radar then locked then fired at. It will also let them know what is looking at them etc etc.

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The A6 pilots who said they fired at us first reminded me of kids fighting on the playground saying he hit me first

Yes the planes have defensives that turn on when they are targeted. The amout of information is a lot. It can give plane type, speed and altitude etc.

They know becuase each radar system has their own distinct wave pattern. Radar warning systems will detect the incoming radar beam, cross-reference the wave pattern against its internal library of know threat wave patterns, and then alert the pilot (or ship in this case) that they are being targetted.

In MOST all modern fighter planes and most warplanes period, they have a variety of radar warnings, while passive scans ARE detected, they ar typically harmless, but FOCUSED radars ARE NOT HARMLESS, focused scans (RADAR LOCK) are required to transmit needed data to the weapons that they are intending to shoot at, In U.S. warplanes, it is called RWR or rear warning radar, although it can detect radar from all directions, I do not know what other countries call theirs, but there is also something that all ALLIED aircraft have that our enemies and potential enemies do not have, it is called IFF or (IDENTIFY FRIEND or FOE) a similar system is used on warships, to prevent friendly fire incidents.

Fighter jets have radar warning receivers, which not only alert when you're being locked on, but also let's you know exactly what kind of missile would be fired, so the pilot already know which countermeasures to take

For your question @ 12:33 about radar warning receivers. It's actually quite simple in principle to make a machine to detect when someone is shining their radar at you. Simplified, a radar system is just a radio, it transmits radio waves, then listens to and times the reflections. If you build a machine that is simply an antenna and a receiver tuned for the radio frequencies your enemy's radar uses (there's only a limited amount of frequencies that are useful so it's not like you need to cover a wide range) and make it set off an alarm when it detects something you've technically got a radar warning receiver. With a bit of R&D you can make one that tells you what direction the signal is coming from, what kind of radar is pointed at you, if they're locking you or not, ect. It's basically just half of a radar set but set up to listen for other people's radar signals not your radar signals.

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In simple terms, fire control radar is a focused microwave radar wave. Aircraft, ships, and other assets may have passive microwave detectors for fire control radar. It’s the same concept as radar detectors that can be purchased to detect the radar for speeding.

Here’s the thing, we talk tough as Americans, but we generally don’t like starting fights, and we certainly don’t want to try and conquer nations for land, resources or funsies. Most of the stuff we do is in response to people taking a swing at us, and so we have to respond to keep that stuff to a minimum. There’s no point in delivering a lesson of “knock it off, stupid” if there’s nobody left to relay the lesson to others, that’s why we at least try to keep it proportional. For what it’s worth, the guy in the F-4 with the wing blown off did live, he made it back to land where I think he crash landed but survived. That guy learned that using a Vietnam-era fighter against the best tech the US Navy had in the late 80s was a bad idea

I imagine planes detect a radar lock the same way a radar detector works in a car.

Found this answer about Target lock on in fighter jets. So there are radio receivers on different parts of the plane. These can detect when radar hits them. Different radar systems do things differently so it can also tell the difference between different radar systems. It can tell when the aircraft has been locked on rather than just pinged by radar because a radar lock on is an intense beam of radar energy that continuously tracks the aircraft. So it's constant and high powered. A radar lock does this so it can feed very accurate positional data to the weapon system. Normal radar, which will be sending out a wider beam and so less intense for anything it's hitting on gives more general direction and range. However, this doesn't tell you anything if the system locking onto you using infrared (Heat Seeker) because that's a passive system so nothing from that is hitting the plane. It's just looking at the plane and detecting the plane's heat.

The usual way they can tell a lock is from the continuous wave radar hitting them. A search radar uses some variation of the spinning dish that most of us associate with radar. That is good for detecting that something is out there and an approximate location. In order to actually hit it, you need far more precise information. The track radar looks a lot like the search radar except it does not spin and it uses a much higher frequency (higher frequency = better resolution). It looks around in the general location given by the search radar until it gets a good solid return. It then locks on giving some very precise targeting data. This also acts as a guide to radar guided missiles that use the ships track radar return to home in on the target. So a search radar give you an intermittent bleep as their beam sweeps past you. The track radar once on to you, stays on to you. So instead of a slow Bleep....bleep.....bleep, you get a continuous BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. On modern fighters, the pilot does not listen to the beams directly, instead a computer does. It ignores the search pattern but if it catches a continuous beam it sounds an alarm. That means you have about 4 seconds to live unless you start banking hard and throwing chaff or decoys. Needless to say people react very badly and very quickly to getting locked onto.

They have a Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) which tells them theyre being tracked by radar. Itll also notify of the kind of track and whether there's a radar lock and a missile has been launched unless its launched without a lock, where the plane just tells the missile where to go before using its own seeker in the last second. The only time you won't know you're being tracked is via a passive radar track where they aren't scanning with their radar, instead they're just looking at the radar hitting them and tracking that way. Some can launch missiles whilst passively tracking as the missiles have their own radar seeker. The missile will go to where the plane tells it its receiving radar signal from and then just before impact, the plane will hand control over to the missile which has its own radar seeker which activates. This doesn't leave much time for the enemy to react to the missile. Even if your radar is being jammed, you can launch missiles via home-on-jam which looks at where jamming is coming from and use its own separate radar seeker to locate and kill the enemy plane.

12:22 "How can someone tell when radar locks onto them?" The way radar works is you send out a radio wave and wait for it to bounce off something and come back into your receiver. Radio waves are just light in a frequency (color) we can't see with our eyes, but various antennas can receive. There are different kinds of radar for different purposes and they have different radio wave characteristics. A general purpose "is there anything nearby" radar will send out the radio wave in every direction. Because you're broadcasting energy in every direction, and energy is expensive (just like your phone battery always running out), it's a low energy broadcast. If the radio waves were visible light, think: a dark night (no other radio wave sources in that frequency) with a red (low energy) naked (shining in all directions) light bulb that is dimly putting out just enough light to get a tiny reflection back and give a sense of what's around. Because those radio waves are low energy (it just needs to give you an impression of the general direction and size of something), it's not good enough for targeting (guiding a weapon to a precise location). The targeting radar is a high energy focused beam. If radio waves were visible light, think: a bright (light up the target to make it stand out clearly) blue (high energy = precise location) spotlight (no need to waste energy blasting this in every direction). The "target" has receivers which say "oh, I see a dim red light over there, someone is trying to locate me", or "oh, shit, this bright blue spotlight is aimed right at me and it tracks my movements no matter where I go - they've got a target lock on me".

We (Navy sailors) called this the “Day of a thousand rounds”.

As an American all I can say is how many times do we need to teach this lesson? Leave out boats alone. First it was barbery wars then the Japanese.

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Lock on. The ship planes radar picks up signal. All signal. Discriminators parse and filter signal to determine frequency and direction of incoming signal. Including enemy radar signal.