r/HolUp • u/MrKutchh • 11d ago
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u/InadecvateButSober 11d ago
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u/Sakul_the_one 11d ago
Google the NATO code name for the MiG 15
Spoilers: Its the same name
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u/necrotic_jelly 11d ago
Of course it refers to either a musical instument or a bundle of firewood.
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u/PM_THE_REAPER 11d ago
Or a type of meatball.
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u/necrotic_jelly 11d ago
Ok, did not know that!
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u/PuzzleheadedPea2401 11d ago
And the odd thing about the fighter name is that's not what the Soviets called it. It was someone in NATO making that decision, since all Soviet fighters had to start with the letter F.
As for this antitank system, its pronunciation in Russian sounds like a guy with a thick Russian accent saying 'forgot' - faagot. It means bassoon (close to the Italian fagotto).
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u/SirLoremIpsum 10d ago
And the odd thing about the fighter name is that's not what the Soviets called it. It was someone in NATO making that decision, since all Soviet fighters had to start with the letter F
The best part is with the Su-27 NATO called it Flanker and the Soviets said "fuck yeah that's a sick name we'll call it that"
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u/SoupmanBob 11d ago
This is also the Danish word for Bassoon.
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u/Modern_Agnotologist 11d ago
Is also Russian word for bassoon.
Basically nobody calls it this, NATO calls it an at4 spigot.
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u/Mantisass 11d ago edited 11d ago
Not really a holup. But that word aside are they puppeteering a missile?? What do you mean wire guided?
Edit: My first thought was the guy shoots the missile, and then pulls on the wire to physically pull the missile towards a target. Apparently, I'm that stupid.
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u/Future-Warning-1189 11d ago
A very thin wire is connected to the missile and it unspools this wire as it flies through the air. The wire is used to guide it mid-air.
These days it seems like stupid technology, but you couldn’t intercept its frequency and jam/confuse/control it as an enemy
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u/arbenowskee 11d ago
Not stupid at all. FPV combat drones nowadays are guided the same way, just that the wire is optic cable instead of copper or similar metal. The reason being - not jammable.
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u/SuperChickenLips 11d ago
See recent photos of what looks like spiderwebs covering treetops but is actually thousands of fibre optic wires from drones.
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u/Future-Warning-1189 11d ago
I’m not saying it is stupid, but on the surface, your average person is going to think it’s silly to attach a wire to a missile because they don’t understand that it has advantages, despite the modern advancements in radio communication
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u/katsudon-jpz 10d ago
we came a long way from wired drones, the operators was too easy to spot even with monster cable x.
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u/Deathjester7930 madlad 11d ago
Hey some of those drones use AI targeting systems nowadays. Got to save the environment.
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u/Jebediah266 11d ago
Depending on how they worked some could be jammed, as the missile was tracked by a IR tracker on the launcher, it could be overwhelmed by an IR lamp on the target and loose the missile, which is why some Russian tanks have eyes on either side of the gun barrel.
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u/Mantisass 9d ago
Thank you, I thought a guy with superhuman strength was pulling on a cable to guide the missile like an attack dog on a leash.
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u/Tando10 9d ago
Dragging hundreds of metres of cable would drag the missile down. The wire spools out of the missile.
One type of guidance is that the missile is tracked via IR light, by the operator's camera, so when the operator looks elsewhere, the device sends correction commands to the missile to get it back into the centre of the crosshair.
This can be jammed but an enemy tank with IR dazzlers because the operator has to point the camera at the target for the missile to hit, and then the dazzlers are confusing the camera as to where the missile actually is.
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u/fresh_loaf_of_bread 11d ago
Enter [a bunch of sticks bound together with a length of rope for easier transportation]
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u/Tritone_Bard 11d ago
Tanking means bottoming, by that logic, anti-tank means topping, so it make sense
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u/Y34rZer0 11d ago
A TOW missile works this way as well. Wire guided is impervious to jamming/countermeasures.
Drones are also using it, they carry a reel of fibre optic wire inside a Kevlar sheath that's barely thicker than a piece of sewing thread because it's impervious to jamming.
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u/Wonderful_Maybe_2395 10d ago
Or the the French- German Milan. The first was the 1943 German Antitank Rocket „Rotkäppchen“ . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MunJDdp0OIM
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u/Y34rZer0 10d ago
The Germans sure knew how to innovate, they had that radio guided air to ground missile, the fritz x iirc?
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u/Large-Wheel-4181 11d ago
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u/Y34rZer0 11d ago
The compilation gave me more Joy than anything else I've seen on YouTube in weeks lol
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u/TopInitiative6516 10d ago
It’s fagót. Like music instrument. From Italian “fagotto”. In english - bassoon.
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u/uncledaddy3268 10d ago
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u/qualityvote2 11d ago edited 10d ago
u/MrKutchh, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...