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Free SAM (Surface to Air Missile) Simulator (2009)
- nocoiner 3y agoI stumbled across this a few weeks ago. It’s an amazing systems simulator. The biggest thing I took away from it is that SAM missile crews may have one of the toughest jobs on the battlefield.
- rightbyte 3y agoThis is a deja vu. Did you post this exact comment earlier to the same link, posted days ago? Are the timestamps messed up? It says 35 min ago for me for your post and 2h for the article.
- scoot 3y agoIt was originally posted two days ago (click on "past" to see the original date). Mods sometimes resurface content that didn't get traction.
- rightbyte 3y agoAh ok. I got really confused.
- dang 3y agoThat's an artifact of HN's re-upping system. The system is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and links back from there. About the timestamps, there are past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20timestamps%20re-up&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... I hope that will make sense. Sorry for the confusion—I know it's weird but the alternative turns out to be even more confusing and we've never figured out how to square that circle!
- 082349872349872 3y ago> SAM missile crews may have one of the toughest jobs on the battlefield. If so, then SEAD ought to be a worthwhile investment. What are the lead times on (a) a SAM battery, and (b) a SAM operator?
- H8crilA 3y agoToo long on (a) - but there are workarounds that require creativity. See "FrankenSAM". Also, interceptors! Ammunition is something that always runs out either quicker or much quicker or much much quicker than anticipated when shit hits the fan. Because of that I do think we should have a lot more NASAMS constructed, packed up in storage and waiting for the next crisis, as there it's hard to run out of the AMRAAM ammo.
- Cerpicio 3y agoYou're not fooling me, I've seen Ender's Game! Not gonna play it.
- 082349872349872 3y ago(a) we know parrots enjoy not only social media, but playing video games (b) parrots have better visual acuity than humans (c) a parrot's mess is cheap: they eat like, well, birds (d) ??? (e) profit from the military-industrial complex [compare The Game of Rat and Dragon (1955)]
- wrs 3y agoWell, we already tried pigeon-guided missiles… https://www.military-history.org/feature/pigeon-guided-missiles.htm https://www.military-history.org/feature/pigeon-guided-missi...
- math_dandy 3y agoThese were rendered obsolete by shark-mounted lasers.
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- mdaniel 3y agothe submission from 2021 had a "Let's Play" stream showing the thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26125294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26125294 (it's also toward the bottom of the sites page but the YT player is black with an error) I'm glad those mediafire links are still live because the multiple wayback snapshots are basically bogus due to the extensive use of JS to make the real URL :-(
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- secondcoming 3y agoI own a copy of Paul Zarchan's 'Tactial and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction'. The maths is probably beyond me at this stage but I was always interested in how guided missiles actually work.
- philipkglass 3y agoIf you're also curious about how guided missiles do their business after arriving at the target, I found this an interesting read: "Tactical Missile Warheads" by Joseph Carleone https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/4.470677 https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/4.470677 It's available via Library Genesis if you don't want to make an interlibrary loan request.
- wing-_-nuts 3y ago>It's available via Library Genesis if you don't want to make an interlibrary loan request. This made me chuckle. Way to fast track having homeland security audit your checkout history.
- philipkglass 3y agoI stumbled across it while looking up flash radiography for nuclear weapons :-)
- jazzyjackson 3y agoThere's some awesome youtube videos that teardown guided missiles to identify what goes into them, one i watched was packed with fpga chips, ah, a Javelin: https://youtu.be/11_5TB0-lNw https://youtu.be/11_5TB0-lNw I wasn't even looking for it I think it got recommended because I like videos about Apollo and Soyez, same thing essentially :D
- jerlam 3y agoCompare to this simulation of a modern Patriot intercept (warning: gets very loud and stressful as it has all the warning sirens): https://youtu.be/RDJgQErMSdA?t=976 https://youtu.be/RDJgQErMSdA?t=976
- 1oooqooq 3y ago"How the patriot missile works (include paid promotion)" raytheon is really trying to hit those quarter projections.
- sukruh 3y agoReminds me of Dangerous Waters, a submarine/sonar simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNFcTKo-eVY&t=447s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNFcTKo-eVY&t=447s
- omoikane 3y agoExcellent documentation: > How can I score points? No points are given during game play, as in reality.
- steviedotboston 3y agodoes it include The SAM Song?
- golergka 3y agoHow cool would it be to have this integrated with DCS.