Message from @Crow
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thats right missiles do cost an actual fuck ton
for example an IR camera, a computer, and a program that says "point missile towards brightest glowing bit"
amraams go for what 300000 dollars imagine buying it of "the black market"
idk what you would do with an amraam
shoot it with bullets?
but wouldnt that make it very susceptible to being misled
that's why planes use flares
yes so we are back at 2018
and why missiles use as many backup systems as they can squeeze in
"if IR feed isn't clear, rely on UV", "if UV feed isn't clear, try sensing plane's magnetic fields", "if NO feed is clear, estimate range to target, if range is less than 50m, detonate anyways and hope for the best otherwise deploy parachutes"
GPS, too. not for an anti-air missile obviously but for ground targets
even better idea let childeren from chinese factories fly those rockets not susceptible to flares dont cost alot and are still guided
million dollar idea here
Japanese did that
yeah and the germans
manned torpedoes
but they didnt use chinese factory childeren
V1 or the V2 some of the ancestors of the ICBMS nowadays
ye, Japanese patriots are more reliable
the japanese also had manned missiles
kamikaze pilots
definitely not V1 or V2 at least
no im talking about the germans using v1/2
yeah those weren't manned
i confused them with something else
yeah my bad
the japanese still did the most crazy stuff as in weaponry
if it werent for weapons the germans would be the lunatics
with their scientists
I think you may have gotten those two mixed up...
wait what
are you still talking about the v1/2 issue?
Germans had Vampir, the first infantry night-vision, a really crazy idea at the time.
The first jet fighter, Me-262, that was insane for it's time
Me 163 Komet, a rocket-powered plane with photo-cells and a cannon mounted facing up, that would blitz past under enemy planes and the cannon would automatically fire when the photocell got blocked, as human reaction speed was nowhere near good enough to hit, a crazy idea in and of itself
"Silbervogel", a project never finished that would have sent a 100 ton plane shaped like a flying wing, carrying liquid oxygen and oil mixed with powdered aluminium as fuel, fly West skipping (like you skip a rock on water) on the denser layers of the atmosphere once you get higher up, technically reaching space, eventually reaching the states where it'd drop a 10 ton bomb, and continue going West to where the pilot would hopefully be able to slow down and parachute to safety in Japan
Of course the V1 and V2 that laid the groundwork for both the US and Soviet space programs
Patterned camouflage
And a ton of other crazy stuff
how much of this actually worked?
i know military researchin and experimenting was very high so alot of stupid shit got approved aswell
all of those worked, except Silbervogel which would have needed more heat shielding to not burn up (as they were mostly guessing what the atmosphere would be like)
Komet worked, but wasn't very successful
Vampir worked, and was a nightmare for those facing it, but it saw too limited deployment and of course has very niche uses to begin with
Me 262, the jet fighter, revolutionized air combat overnight and jet fighters have been the norm since. Patterned camouflage is used by almost every military across the globe, and the children of the V1 and V2 project took us to the moon and gave us things like satellites
also the stg
I wasn't counting that one as the idea isn't crazy, it's sensible and they were just the first to do it properly. No doubt people elsewhere analyzing the war accounts in hindsight would figure out something between the infantry rifle and the SMG is needed and it makes a lot of sense to make the two one and the same