[HN Gopher] Free SAM (Surface to Air Missile) Simulator (2009)
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Free SAM (Surface to Air Missile) Simulator (2009)
Author : okl
Score : 85 points
Date : 2024-03-31 07:30 UTC (2 days ago)
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| nocoiner wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| This 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 wrote:
| It was originally posted two days ago (click on "past" to see
| the original date). Mods sometimes resurface content that
| didn't get traction.
| rightbyte wrote:
| Ah ok. I got really confused.
| dang wrote:
| That's an artifact of HN's re-upping system. The system
| is described at
| 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&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 wrote:
| > _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 wrote:
| Too 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 wrote:
| You're not fooling me, I've seen Ender's Game! Not gonna play it.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| (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 wrote:
| Well, we already tried pigeon-guided missiles...
|
| https://www.military-history.org/feature/pigeon-guided-
| missi...
| mdaniel wrote:
| the submission from 2021 had a "Let's Play" stream showing the
| thing 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 :-(
| secondcoming wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| If 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
|
| It's available via Library Genesis if you don't want to make an
| interlibrary loan request.
| wing-_-nuts wrote:
| >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 wrote:
| I stumbled across it while looking up flash radiography for
| nuclear weapons :-)
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| There'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
|
| 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 wrote:
| Compare to this simulation of a modern Patriot intercept
| (warning: gets very loud and stressful as it has all the warning
| sirens):
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| https://youtu.be/RDJgQErMSdA?t=976
| 1oooqooq wrote:
| "How the patriot missile works (include paid promotion)"
|
| raytheon is really trying to hit those quarter projections.
| sukruh wrote:
| Reminds me of Dangerous Waters, a submarine/sonar simulator:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNFcTKo-eVY&t=447s
| omoikane wrote:
| Excellent documentation: > How can I score
| points? No points are given during game play, as
| in reality.
| ethbr1 wrote:
| A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
| dkga wrote:
| One of my favourite movies!
| steviedotboston wrote:
| does it include The SAM Song?
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