The Multiple Kill Vehicle

[@annonimity276]

Not only is this tech we had almost 2 decades ago, it's the tech we had 2 decades ago that the Pentagon felt wasn't important enough to keep classified.

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

The Pentagon likely felt that there was no need to keep it a secret as it wasn't a offensive weapon, and also due to the fact that no one else on earth likely could come up with a effective equal and apparently no one has.

[@Baloo555]

You say this as if America's technological competency is increasing with time also the MAD doctrine calls for publicly demonstrating and even exaggerating your capabilities to make the enemy less confident.

[@MasterChiefFloyd]

​@@Baloo555 America's technological competency was increasing with time until we opened the floodgates to jeets

[@SoloRenegade]

@@Baloo555 i can tell you from personal experience, teh US has things you've never heard of. some of them used operationally.

[@AntonGudenus]

@@Baloo555 MAD only needs you to claim high enough capability to keep destruction assured. Having too effective ABM weapons actually could hurt MAD. And while the Russians are known to overstate and underdeliver, the US is known to understate and overdeliver. If you think about it, that "lowballing" tactic actually could be much more effective for MAD, because it alway will keep your enemy wondering, what arkane technology you actually have in your back hand. While consistently bing unmasked as prone to overrepresenting your capabilities actually could hurt your MAD potential in the long run. Exaggerating is a desperate move that ultimately reduces credibility. Just imagine how terrifying it would be as a Russian general to be briefed on a US superweapon that hard-counters some of your best weapons, that the US did not even feel the need to announce. Until it suddenly shows up in its full glory or is unmasked by spies. Being intercepted by an F-22 is scary. Being intercepted by a UFO with US markings out of nowhere is terrifying. If that happens a few times, then the enemy is sure to secong guess any agressive plans. Because for all they know, the US could have a magic space-laser to shoot any and all of their ICBMs out of the sky.

[@dennisv3435]

my boyfriend is an electrical engineering graduate here in melbourne - military engineering is one of the things we bond over. He told me about this, but i remembered it myself from Battlefield 4, I never knew it was a real thing! Crazy Great video again AMAH

[@ZelenskyTheMadClown]

Why aren't you married?

[@Christian_Johansson]

@ZelenskyTheMadClown dumb question

[@kju520]

@@dennisv3435 and you're a man?

[@Zerobar78.]

That has to be the inspiration for the alien ships in "Battle Los Angeles", they look just like that in the way they hover/manuever.

[@RedTail1-1]

Absolutely! you're spot on! Nice catch and what a great film. Really captured the feeling of urban combat that we experienced in OIF/OEF

[@intorsusvolo7834]

Also the ai drones in the video game ‘Prey’. (The 2017 one)

[@RedTail1-1]

The first time I saw footage of this thing as a kid I was blown away. At the time our most advanced weapon was the TOW missile and we were so proud of that system... I thought, why are we so proud of a missile on a wire when they had things like this sitting in the trash pile. Then we strapped a GPS on a bomb and declared it the greatest achievement in military history... I feel like we could be so much farther ahead in tech if the right programs were funded properly...

[@officialjulesy]

Imagine what they have now

[@someoneelse9271]

Yes but the government and industry is no longer run by serious people. This is probably peak for the USA

[@ScumfuckMcDoucheface]

​@@someoneelse9271 haha no way man, I think it was more like the US peaked in the 50s and 60s and its been on steady decline ever since. To be fair Canada sucks at everything too. haha I live in Windsor ON right across the river from Detroit, so i have some insight. haha

[@johncraig7823]

We have Electric Lasers shooting at the speed of light now for intercepting ICBM's & Anti Ship Missiles & for Fighter planes in Air to Air combat! You cannot run out of Ammo just need Electric power source & it is lighter than a gun with ammo.

[@Aaronsmith-cu8ii]

Yeah Lasers. Companies like BAE, Elbit and Rhinemetal are working on such such systems.

[@RedTail1-1]

I mean... The latest and greatest in military tech is 4 swords bolted onto a hellfire missile, so...

[@VincentNajger1]

4:45 is an incredible photograph. If you want to convey just how mind-numbingly terrifying the Cold War was to someone who was born after it ended, that would be a perfect image to show them just how 'proper lights out for everybody, forever' it really was.

[@ComfortsSpecter]

Battlefield 4 My Beloved

[@destroyeris3k]

been waiting for this one for a while!

[@Foquro]

Bruh, I never realised how huge that thing is, in the test flight videos it always looks so small

[@minhmeo9506]

Damn, that’s the alien drone in Battle: LA ❤

[@DamplyDoo]

Didn't forget, these videos of it are hovering in GRAVITY. They would normally operate in zero g. Meaning a lot more maneuverability and power in space

[@KurtBoulter]

I remember watching the videos of these in the 90's on the Discovery Channel. I was impressed then!

[@ptonpc]

I remember the the discussions about Brilliant Eyes and Brilliant Pebbles of the SDI era.

[@TheOriginalCoda]

This plus modern drone tech, plus AI, and what could possibly go wrong?

[@j-twd930]

@@TheOriginalCoda This is just an anti-ballistic missile warhead? Nothing to worry about, it literally stops nukes from hitting you

[@patrickp4827]

Just hope Boeing never tries to make these things or we're all dead.

[@chraffis]

Great vid!!👏👏 I’ve been waiting for someone to do a piece on those things. I’m completely amazed by them and by people’s seeming disinterest in them. Judging by the lack of vids there are on KZbin, anyway. Thank you!

[@madmadimadison7542]

I'm sure we'll all know what's goin' down when we hear of a clandestine military operation called "Pickleball", or "McEnroe" pop up 🤔

[@skij99]

Do you have any plans to cover space race era rockets / rocket engines? Thank you for your great work!

[@cylesmith8291]

Hell yeah, the MKV!

[@bigpuppy9923]

Taiwan could probably make thousands of these MKV's to be be deployed from C-17's over their island, in case they were under attack, by aliens or such.

[@FontaineLovers]

@@bigpuppy9923 yeah, aliens....😏

[@RampAgentX]

interesting activity, decades ago....

[@brendanesposito]

Cool… frightening but cool

[@darylcav6285]

That is some of the coolest shit I have ever seen

[@FinFunnel68]

ah yes the venerable Sazabi’s funnels ……

[@nitroxide17]

Smol buzzyboi

[@lukak1774]

oh yesss

[@alphgeek]

Basically a space torpedo.

[@Desmaad]

Are you sure this isn't a joke? This looks like something out of Sci-fi!

[@PosthumousAddress]

The Arrow 3 KV with a large,. single booster on a gimbaled hinge is better, larger divert capability, with an IR/UV seeker head that's also on a hinged seeker so it can do a proportional navigation with its seeker pointed in one direction towards the target, with the booster pointing the KV to the intercept point. Also a better look-shoot-look capability with the Arrow 3 KV design using a single thrust vectored boost rocket with all the rocket power put into that single point, which makes it both faster, and also it can divert much more radically in direction. It allows you to also launch at an earlier stage than you can for GMD or SM-3 where you need to wait until you have exquisite tracking data kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnS6fqNpq6iqkKs But yes, generally you will need to pack a dozen or two dozen KVs into a single rocket to make it in any way seriously effective in a warfighting environment. The fact they have these massive $50 million rockets carrying a single kill vehicle

[@kaizaro4377]

What? Don't remember this in BF4. The MAV maybe? Totally different platform...

[@baronvonslambert]

It's a map pick up in the Final Stand DLC maps. It's called the XD-1 Accipiter in game.

[@RedTail1-1]

You likely didn't play the part of the game that had it. Did you even touch the campaign? You're acting as if something can't exist because you don't remember it...

[@baronvonslambert]

@@RedTail1-1 It's not in the campaign, it's only in the last multiplayer DLC, Final Stand.

[@kaizaro4377]

@ Ah, thanks! I took a break from BF just before then, I had played nonstop from the days of BF3. Much appreciated.

[@baronvonslambert]

@@kaizaro4377 Plenty of servers are still up and pretty full most days on all platforms if you're ever looking to pick it up again. I never really got into BF1 and I skipped BFV, I just swap between 4 and 2042 depending on my mood.

[@Shubhabratabanerjee]

Why they stopped multiple times midway ?

[@ptonpc]

Basically politics and money. The worry was that if one side has a near perfect (Or good enough) ABM system then a first strike is more likely. Either due to one side having confidence in their missile defences or the other side hitting as hard as it can before the missile defences block everything. There are smaller scale systems in place now (that we know of) and imagine research continues to some degree.

[@mankihonda983]

yeah might work if thettargets are not continuously maneuvering like latest gen ICBMs are.

[@1v1rajang85]

This was back then too💀💀

[@edwardfletcher7790]

This is REALLY disturbing 🫤

[@ReggieDurano-x1o]

This multi kill vehicle can frickin stop the russian Oreshnik MIRV warheads... or f this thing can work in low altitude, it could be an anti-drone weapon... for warhead, they should put a shotgun type birdshot bullets... not kinetic kill so they can be re-used...

[@angelaferkel7922]

Lmao well thats not quite how physics work 😂😂

[@ReggieDurano-x1o]

@angelaferkel7922 well, thats what they said to orville and wilbur wright... but holy sh*t, we got the An-225..

[@angelaferkel7922]

@@ReggieDurano-x1o you do know that this here was basically a hand built custom piece of EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE engineering Its NOT suited for drome warfare as drones are CHEAP weapons that are not worth putting thing thing up against Not even mentioning the flight duration or the lack of it They cant strap a shotgun to it as its "warhead" And the Oreshnik can most likely not get taken down by a many decades old system

[@alphgeek]

​@@ReggieDurano-x1o The Wright brothers used wind tunnels and advanced engineering design. They weren't just two bike shop goons who made a lucky guess.

[@ReggieDurano-x1o]

@alphgeek so, what Ur saying is that, Northtrop Grumman and Raytheon are a bunch of "fly by night" hoax company?

[@K1VV1939]

Wait!!! so Australian Military Aviation History is 100% Fantasy ... Just checking I'm a Russian Bomber Pilot ... Just Checking over

[@ptonpc]

Nope. These things really existed. The research really was done. Try to keep up.