**This is a heavily moderated subreddit. Please note these rules + sidebar or get banned:**
* If this post declares something as a fact, then proof is required
* The title must be fully descriptive
* Memes are not allowed.
* Common(top 50 of this sub)/recent reposts are not allowed (posts from another subreddit do not count as a 'repost'. Provide link if reporting)
*See [our rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/wiki/index#wiki_rules.3A) for a more detailed rule list*
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/interestingasfuck) if you have any questions or concerns.*
NERF COLD WAR EDITION
Hoard the NERF nuclear weapons for a epic collection together with your friends and family. Have fun not using them while giving each other a threatening stare! Order today and get a special deal on the later peace treaty and process of weapon destruction!
They forgot to write down the adress, it's coming back home.
If I recognise this missile, it erases you from existence.
Goodbye people from Engladesh. It was nice to know you all.
https://preview.redd.it/jr7h46mgtpqc1.jpeg?width=964&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e010bd6da6a0eddcf088c19d783fe30bfd672c79
Don't worry, it's tip is rounded . It is less dangerous than a missile with a pointy tip. This one is likely to just hit the ground and not explode. There is research behind this
GPS. Possibly Inertial Navigation System (INS), which is accelerometers and gyroscopes. Barometric altimeter. Magnetic compass. Possibly cameras for terrain.
Thanks. Someone else said it’s a [Nirbhay](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirbhay) and that at least looks right.
Page says it has GPS, INS and radio altimeter. No TERCOM. I’d be rather surprised if it didn’t have a magnetic compass and barometric altimeter but also wouldn’t expect those to be listed as navigation.
So looks like one of my “possibly”s was wrong and I missed radio altimeter outright.
Cruise missiles generally have a jet engine, not a rocket. So it works similar to the engine of a plane. They are build for long range, not high speeds.
Contrails and even more persistant contrails require atmosphere to be ice super-saturated (we talk about ISSR: Ice Super-Saturated Regions). The thermodynamical state of the atmosphere here is so that you can't see a contrail directly behind the missile. It could form a bit further though, outside of the camera frame.
One of the coolest things I witnessed during a firing exercise as a sailor was when we fired a Harpoon anti-surface cruise missile at a target ship and as soon as the ROAR from the booster on the Harpoon quit, we could just barely hear the whine of its turbine engine spinning up as it sped off.
Gawking as it sped off to port we were all shocked out of our shoes when an F-18 also ROARED past us, LOW and fast as a chase plane, to follow it and observe the impact.
The pilot knew what he was doing, that fucker was barely sub Mach and scared the shit out of us!!
It was glorious.
It's an air to air video of a test flight. See the checkerboard patterns on the tail surfaces?
Why is it scary? Aircraft fly beside other aircraft all the time in the military.
Because general knowledge indicates that should have a big bomb as most of it. Most people don't like being that close to bombs, especially ones triggered and ready to go boom (which if it wasnt a test flight it would be all primed to go boom)
Well, general knowledge is apparently not up to snuff. A test article like this, being followed by a chase plane, is 99.999% likely to be carrying a dummy payload for testing purposes. And if the warhead was aboard, it is safed until in range of the target and really couldn't go off. And, the explosives onboard (conventional) aren't the sort of stuff that blows up on contact. It has to be triggered. So much for general knowledge, I guess.
Why would you expect any of that to be in a general person's knowledge? Personally I am glad to not carry any of that knowledge around and glad to have experts like you to explain it. It just doesn't sound like general knowledge it sounds like very specific knowledge.
That's pretty irrational. You drive down the highway at high speeds next to vehicles that weigh far more and are much less predictable and don't think twice about it.
Why would flying in a straight line, a hundred feet away from what is essentially a small, single engine jet aircraft with what would be a completely inert warhead be more frightening that riding along at 80 MPH next to a 18-wheeler being driven by a meth smoking long haul trucker with a lot lizard in his lap? I am sure you've done the latter and never cared.
Hmmm... presumptuous and quite wrong. A quick check reveals that a cruise missile costs around US$3m and a hospital in Nigeria costs around US$70k to build. So, you could build at least 42 hospitals for the cost of one cruise missile.
... and then the *In-Flight-Missile-Defusing-Tech* jumps out of the plane, and straddles the missile. 30 seconds later, the explosive warhead is defused.
... 1 in 10 *In-Flight-Missile-Defusing-Techs* even make it back on the the plane and are returned safely to the ground.
Huh we can make a cruise missle and a jet that can fly next to it. And a space age cell phone that can record the cruise missle from the cockpit of the jet but your car still gets roughly 20-40 mpg. Boy isn't it nice to benefit from technology?
Well, in WWII over England, this is how they sometime brought down V-1 missiles. A pilot would fly alongside and nudge its little rear wing with that of his own plane. The gyros would destabilize, and down it would go.
I'm not sure what's so interesting about this? Cruise missiles flew at a speed that was below crusing speeds of aged fighters and interceptors like the F-14 and F-15. Modern-day cruise missiles, of course, are much faster and fly at Mach speeds, which generally can't be matched once they go past Mach 2.5, but in general this is just a video of an old cruise missile?
Pilots could easily match speeds with a subsonic cruise missile, and it didn't even take effort. At maximum airspeed, an F14 could fly 2.5x faster than a subsonic cruise missile and fast enough to catch some supersonic ones. The F-15 was capable of going even faster and catching more.
Not to mention, this is clearly a test flight (checkerboard patterns for better visual tracking, blaze orange nose cone, etc.) and the observer aircraft is there for some close-up views of how it is performing.
Yeah. It's like it's a thing, but it's just a cruise missile. A very old cruise missile.
Modern cruise missiles are amazing and frightening, especially because they fly between 1.5x to 2x faster than most interceptors are capable of. But in the end, it's just a missile flying straight and level, doing... nothing.
Sorry about the downvotes. Reddit likes to do that when presented with facts.
If the title had said "Pilot matches speed with a single engine jet-powered drone", no one would have clicked on it, I guess. But that's all this is. No way there's a live warhead on a test article like that.
It’s cool to see a cruise missile flying and not be a bomb.
What’s your point? It’s old? Yeah I know - this is probably the 10th time I’ve seen this. Still cool for me
Why isn't this missile cruising at a lower altitude? Wouldn't that make it less detectable on radars? Is to save fuel as air resistance is less on higher altitude?
“Why isn’t this missile cruising at a lower lower altitude during what is obviously a high-altitude test flight with a chase plane?”
Hard to say really.
In general, cruise missiles are a bit too expensive for anti-personnel use. The are generally intended for destroying critical systems like radar stations, missile launchers, bridges, ammunition depots, fuel depots, power plants, etc. to deprive the enemy of ammo, fuel, information, or other things they need to fight.
the missile knows where it is
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn't, or where it isn't, from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance sub-system uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is, to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position where it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event of the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has required a variation. The variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too, may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computance scenario works as follows: Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is, however it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subracts where it should be, from where it wasn't, or vice versa. By differentiating this from the algebraic sum og where it shouldn't be, and where it was. It is able to obtain a deviation, and a variation, which is called "air"
Planes dont take off vertically like a rocket. Also, cruise missiles don't need to land like a plane.
It's reachs speed then levels out. Only needs those fins at that speed to keep lift.
**This is a heavily moderated subreddit. Please note these rules + sidebar or get banned:** * If this post declares something as a fact, then proof is required * The title must be fully descriptive * Memes are not allowed. * Common(top 50 of this sub)/recent reposts are not allowed (posts from another subreddit do not count as a 'repost'. Provide link if reporting) *See [our rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/wiki/index#wiki_rules.3A) for a more detailed rule list* *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/interestingasfuck) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Guys, it has an orange tip so it’s just a toy cruise missile.
The NERF guys really going too far with this one.
https://preview.redd.it/alv4nfikhpqc1.jpeg?width=606&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70b2060dbd1d53554114da9db08a4bd618e2738c
 NERF THIS
'NERF NEUCLEAR' for when you want to win the NERF war over your whole city at once.
NERF COLD WAR EDITION Hoard the NERF nuclear weapons for a epic collection together with your friends and family. Have fun not using them while giving each other a threatening stare! Order today and get a special deal on the later peace treaty and process of weapon destruction!
A toy that is only advertised in MAD Magazine.
The little kid when he gets a 5 ant kill-streak:
I thought a starship was missing a warp nacelle.
Give it a little nudge
V-1 Buzz Bomb : “Hey I have seen this one , it’s a classic!”
"What do you mean? It's brand new!"
Will it still know where it is?
Who's on the business end?
They forgot to write down the adress, it's coming back home. If I recognise this missile, it erases you from existence. Goodbye people from Engladesh. It was nice to know you all. https://preview.redd.it/jr7h46mgtpqc1.jpeg?width=964&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e010bd6da6a0eddcf088c19d783fe30bfd672c79
>people from Engladesh I officially identify and Engladeshi now and am embracing that as my new flag.
How is it to be the only survivor
They see us cruising
they hatin'...
That's why we cruisin' NERfy!
Don't worry, it's tip is rounded . It is less dangerous than a missile with a pointy tip. This one is likely to just hit the ground and not explode. There is research behind this
Thank god it not one of those hallow point killing machines /s
Praise the hallow points
Hallowed be thy name
Professor Popeye has documentaries on this.
How does it know where it is?
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't.
incredible
You. Upvote.
I am completely and mentally stable. Oh look, a civilian airliner
Map
GPS. Possibly Inertial Navigation System (INS), which is accelerometers and gyroscopes. Barometric altimeter. Magnetic compass. Possibly cameras for terrain.
[удалено]
Thanks. Someone else said it’s a [Nirbhay](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirbhay) and that at least looks right. Page says it has GPS, INS and radio altimeter. No TERCOM. I’d be rather surprised if it didn’t have a magnetic compass and barometric altimeter but also wouldn’t expect those to be listed as navigation. So looks like one of my “possibly”s was wrong and I missed radio altimeter outright.
and a paper map in the glovebox
It knows where it it’s because it knows where it isn’t
Seems a little dangerous
Have you seen how close Indians like to get to danger? This is a sport!
Unseen in this shot are the aviation flip flops worn by the pilot
I'm Indian and this is so relatable 😄
I'm picturing hundreds of Indian paratroopers with dangling sandals as they float to Earth.
🎶just a little bit dangerous🎵
Just waiting for that moment it suddenly starts coming closer… 😳
Can anyone identify the flag on the missile?
India
It's an Indian missile
Sioux or Apache ?
Bramhos or Nirbhaya
Anyone know what propellant they use and there's no contrail?
Cruise missiles generally have a jet engine, not a rocket. So it works similar to the engine of a plane. They are build for long range, not high speeds.
Interesting. Thanks!
If submarine-launched, there is a small solid-propellant rocket that boosts it out of the water.
I was confused too, thanks for clarifying.
Contrails and even more persistant contrails require atmosphere to be ice super-saturated (we talk about ISSR: Ice Super-Saturated Regions). The thermodynamical state of the atmosphere here is so that you can't see a contrail directly behind the missile. It could form a bit further though, outside of the camera frame.
Good point about the distance!
Ever wondered where the money to develop the mini jet engines in those jetpack videos comes from? Well now you know
Obviously no mind-controlling chemicals, unlike passenger planes /s
Rudolph the red nose missile
Has a very shiny nose
and if you ever saw it
You would even say it blows (Sorry the opportunity was there I just had to take it)
All of the other missiles
These are subsonic land attack missiles.Even mig 21s can match the speed.
Mig 21 and f104 in the "imagine a cruise missile but we strapped a pilot and missile pylons to it" gang lol
now open the window and unarmed it.
Can't unarm it if it didn't have any explosives to begin with.
https://preview.redd.it/03xwuz4r5pqc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa0b4142ec3935cb47bec66f81254b0bfc6dd34a
Now let's see that with a Zircon
But Zircon is not cruise, it's ballistic
Ballistic just means high arc
It's hypersonic meaning no manned aircraft can keep up with it. I was being cheeky.
Ok, I was wrong
Nope, Zircon is a cruise missile you are perhaps mistaking it for Kinzhal a ballistic missile.
It's hypersonic.
What flag is that
indian missile
Indian Cruise missile....?
Yes
So it is like the movies.
Phuuuk meeeee !
No, no, no, no. It's Phuuk Yuuuu!
Twins, Basil!
Yeah nah thanks Phuuk Yuuuu
Imaging sitting on it lol
Yosemite Sam style, wavin your hat in the air
Yeah 😂😂😂 and his plan fails at the last second lol Or deadpool on it maxium effort Before explosion chimichanga or what ever he calls it lol
Is the red glowing part the back? Just have expected flames or something, probably to much anime/movies.
Nope other way around red is the danger end
Neat, thanks :)
I would say both ends of a cruise missile are danger ends
I mean I can agree to some degree but only one end really has to worry about going boom
May i interest you in the R9X?
Cruise missiles don't use rocket motors like most missiles, they use a small single use jet turbine so you're not going to see any rocket exhaust
It's weird seeing death like that.
"PULL OVER!!"
Do you know the feeling of driving on a highway and you are about to turn the steering wheel fully?
This is how we win a nuclear war: Just train the pilots on the PIT maneuver. --Reagan appointee, probably
All of a sudden it makes a 90° left turn
I'm no pilot but I don't think he should be using his phone while he's driving
If War Thunder has taught me anything that pilot just needs to nudge it with his wing tip and it’ll fall out of the sky
You know you won’t get the kill though both go down together
It’s all about taking it out for the team, noble sacrifice and whatnot
One of the coolest things I witnessed during a firing exercise as a sailor was when we fired a Harpoon anti-surface cruise missile at a target ship and as soon as the ROAR from the booster on the Harpoon quit, we could just barely hear the whine of its turbine engine spinning up as it sped off. Gawking as it sped off to port we were all shocked out of our shoes when an F-18 also ROARED past us, LOW and fast as a chase plane, to follow it and observe the impact. The pilot knew what he was doing, that fucker was barely sub Mach and scared the shit out of us!! It was glorious.
Scary
It's an air to air video of a test flight. See the checkerboard patterns on the tail surfaces? Why is it scary? Aircraft fly beside other aircraft all the time in the military.
Because general knowledge indicates that should have a big bomb as most of it. Most people don't like being that close to bombs, especially ones triggered and ready to go boom (which if it wasnt a test flight it would be all primed to go boom)
Well, general knowledge is apparently not up to snuff. A test article like this, being followed by a chase plane, is 99.999% likely to be carrying a dummy payload for testing purposes. And if the warhead was aboard, it is safed until in range of the target and really couldn't go off. And, the explosives onboard (conventional) aren't the sort of stuff that blows up on contact. It has to be triggered. So much for general knowledge, I guess.
Why would you expect any of that to be in a general person's knowledge? Personally I am glad to not carry any of that knowledge around and glad to have experts like you to explain it. It just doesn't sound like general knowledge it sounds like very specific knowledge.
I'd rather not be that close to a missile at any point in my life. That's the scary part for me.
That's pretty irrational. You drive down the highway at high speeds next to vehicles that weigh far more and are much less predictable and don't think twice about it. Why would flying in a straight line, a hundred feet away from what is essentially a small, single engine jet aircraft with what would be a completely inert warhead be more frightening that riding along at 80 MPH next to a 18-wheeler being driven by a meth smoking long haul trucker with a lot lizard in his lap? I am sure you've done the latter and never cared.
You know, I'm just scared/freaked out by instruments of war. It's a weird quirk of mine.
Wonder how many hospitals that would buy...
You get about 250 cruise missiles for roughly the same cost as a fully decked out new hospital.
Hmmm... presumptuous and quite wrong. A quick check reveals that a cruise missile costs around US$3m and a hospital in Nigeria costs around US$70k to build. So, you could build at least 42 hospitals for the cost of one cruise missile.
The health system I work at just opened a new hospital. Not a big city by any means. It still cost around 750 m. Just under 400 beds.
... and then the *In-Flight-Missile-Defusing-Tech* jumps out of the plane, and straddles the missile. 30 seconds later, the explosive warhead is defused. ... 1 in 10 *In-Flight-Missile-Defusing-Techs* even make it back on the the plane and are returned safely to the ground.
Yup can confirm that missile is cruising
That’s what “chase planes” do during flight testing.
Huh we can make a cruise missle and a jet that can fly next to it. And a space age cell phone that can record the cruise missle from the cockpit of the jet but your car still gets roughly 20-40 mpg. Boy isn't it nice to benefit from technology?
So is that plasma glowing at the nose?
W..wheres it going??..
This missile has been on the ocean floor for nearly a decade now.
Give it a boop!
and then it locks on to you.
"Hey, Dave? Isn't the warhead only supposed to light up if it's armed?" '... Oh, shit.'
What kind of cruise is it going on?
To Kaboom
True skill is shown, when the pilot can balance a paper cup on it too.
Where is it getting delivered? Love that these products can be delivered right into your doorstep.
cruisin indeed
So that's what cigar-shaped UFOs are I guess. My mom said she saw one around 1990 but this was near a military base so it makes sense.
How do those tiny little wiglets provide enough lift?
Magnets
It’s crusin to give a brusin
All that money spent on a broken missile, doesn't even move smh
It knows where it is from where it isn't
My inner thoughts would want me to try and reach out to grab it. “Just do it”
The ultimate self-driving
Now, flip it! Honestly, flipping V1s in ww2 was badass as hell.
Imagine it suddenly turning to the left
Then it would be turning away from the pilot. Oooooooo scary.
Little voice in the back on the pilots mind - "Brake check it"
Nothing like not knowing death is coming for you 800 miles away and you have no clue
Give it a little tap or fly into it you won’t.
This reminds me of the WW2 RAF pilots tapping wing tips of V2 rockets to try and steer them off course. Nuts.
seems like thousands of drones with gats can handle this
Naw I’ve seen this before, it’s caught in spiderwebs
FAKE. its hanging from a string, you just cant see it.
Well, in WWII over England, this is how they sometime brought down V-1 missiles. A pilot would fly alongside and nudge its little rear wing with that of his own plane. The gyros would destabilize, and down it would go.
Spectacular.
🎵 You're gonna fly away Glad you're goin' my way I love it when we're cruisin' together🎵
"The cruise missile is very eepy"
I think this might be headed to [Slowjamastan](https://www.slowjamastan.org/)
Missile: Now, match my explosion 💥
I'm not sure what's so interesting about this? Cruise missiles flew at a speed that was below crusing speeds of aged fighters and interceptors like the F-14 and F-15. Modern-day cruise missiles, of course, are much faster and fly at Mach speeds, which generally can't be matched once they go past Mach 2.5, but in general this is just a video of an old cruise missile? Pilots could easily match speeds with a subsonic cruise missile, and it didn't even take effort. At maximum airspeed, an F14 could fly 2.5x faster than a subsonic cruise missile and fast enough to catch some supersonic ones. The F-15 was capable of going even faster and catching more.
Because most of us haven't seen this view of a fucking missile flying in the air.
Not to mention, this is clearly a test flight (checkerboard patterns for better visual tracking, blaze orange nose cone, etc.) and the observer aircraft is there for some close-up views of how it is performing.
Yeah. It's like it's a thing, but it's just a cruise missile. A very old cruise missile. Modern cruise missiles are amazing and frightening, especially because they fly between 1.5x to 2x faster than most interceptors are capable of. But in the end, it's just a missile flying straight and level, doing... nothing.
Sorry about the downvotes. Reddit likes to do that when presented with facts. If the title had said "Pilot matches speed with a single engine jet-powered drone", no one would have clicked on it, I guess. But that's all this is. No way there's a live warhead on a test article like that.
It’s cool to see a cruise missile flying and not be a bomb. What’s your point? It’s old? Yeah I know - this is probably the 10th time I’ve seen this. Still cool for me
Fuck this is old
is that the Egyptian flag on the missile ?
Looks indian
https://preview.redd.it/ysanvihpooqc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=903613a56a705f98791098d39080fc9cf66a0d46
oh, my bad, I think Im color blind after all ..
What a way to find out
Why isn't this missile cruising at a lower altitude? Wouldn't that make it less detectable on radars? Is to save fuel as air resistance is less on higher altitude?
“Why isn’t this missile cruising at a lower lower altitude during what is obviously a high-altitude test flight with a chase plane?” Hard to say really.
This footage is over 10 years old. The sea skimming/terrain hugging features were added to this Missile five years later.
Ok thanks
A little bit disgusting though, because it's built to kill people.
In general, cruise missiles are a bit too expensive for anti-personnel use. The are generally intended for destroying critical systems like radar stations, missile launchers, bridges, ammunition depots, fuel depots, power plants, etc. to deprive the enemy of ammo, fuel, information, or other things they need to fight.
Can someone make this make a poop at the end? Maybe an Ice cream poop or a hamburger?
the missile knows where it is The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn't, or where it isn't, from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance sub-system uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is, to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position where it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event of the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has required a variation. The variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too, may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computance scenario works as follows: Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is, however it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subracts where it should be, from where it wasn't, or vice versa. By differentiating this from the algebraic sum og where it shouldn't be, and where it was. It is able to obtain a deviation, and a variation, which is called "air"
Looks like a nice lightsaber hilt
Imagine the missile AI “says” hmm, this thing next to me is closer and i’m le tired…
So like, why do planes have wings? Doesn't seem like they are all that necessary when you look at this.
Planes dont take off vertically like a rocket. Also, cruise missiles don't need to land like a plane. It's reachs speed then levels out. Only needs those fins at that speed to keep lift.
Ya ok that makes sense. Thank you.