Air-to-Air Missile Types in War Thunder EXPLAINED | War Thunder AAM Guide

The critically acclaimed Ammo Types Explained series is back once again with another episode! This video explains every single air-to-air missile in the game, with detailed explanations and visual guides to help you understand how they work. From the missiles themselves to the small differences in their classifications, I'll go over everything you need to know about AAMs.

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0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Common parameters
1:15 - Infrared
2:05 - Infrared - Guidance and Aspect
2:37 - Radar-Guided: Semi-Active Radar Homing
3:39 - Radar-Guided - Signal
4:16 - Radar-Guided - IOG & DL
4:46 - Radar-Guided: Active Radar Homing
5:08 - Beam-Riding (SACLOS)
5:28 - Command-Guided (MCLOS)
5:44 - Conclusion
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[skDoger]

Air nation guide part 2 will be uploaded next week, I just had to continue the tradition for this year as well )))

[hudsondeweerd]

Perfect timing. I just got my first jet with missiles after 800 hours.

[mnguy]

"Friendlies are also not immune to IR missiles, something the level 6 top tier premium owners know all too well." Yup, figured that one out the hard way... pro-tip, _never_ fire a heat-seeker into an active furball

[MausOfTheHouse]

You and Tim's Variety are my favourite WT channels.

[BagPiper]

Great video as per usual Sk, keep it up

[nvsp]

One thing about IR missiles though. The caged missiles arent always worse. They might asem easier to use but dont forget that flares exist too, its harder for them to deflect the missile like that

[tartzmir]

For those people who uses the superbly engineered R-27ER, launch it into the sky and de-lock, let it fly a little bit and re lock onto your target, they won't see it coming until it's too late

[bendoesentertainment]

That "happy april fools" scared me, i thought he was lying for an april fools joke

[VERTIGO]

All you need to know is that the missile knows where it is at all times

[MazonKun]

Damn let me take notes professor shit thats a lot

[bigboi]

Radar AAMs don’t receive any signals from the launch aircraft, they instead track the radar returns reflecting off the locked aircraft

[joelhermon]

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 subsystem 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 that
It was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that
It wasn't, the system has acquired 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 computer 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 subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't,
Or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of
Where it shouldn't be, and where it was,
It is able to obtain the deviation
And its variation, which is called error.

[Cap-TAIN-john]

I swear there was a certain missle i had fun with it was manual where yiu have to keep looking at the enemy to lock them till it hits

[Ccaraaa]

3:32 no? They do need to be able to pick up the radar waves to steer properly, that's why you can lose lock and the missile will still track and kill the correct target, specifically on CW radar missiles.

[GrimaceTheMask]

Can you do ground-to-air next? Thx fam

[BallSnack.]

The rocket knows where it is at all times...unless its fired from my plane then its handicapped and doesn't know its a missile.

[MrBonzi-ezho]

Private! Private! Missile cleanup needed in ammo depot 6

[Riskh_Mk]

Great video like always, you put lot if work into these animation so that's good to watch and dynamic

My only complain is that you speak a bit too fast, so as a non native English speaker it sometimes difficult to understand, but it's not a big problem i can still put the video in 0.75

[cameronviney]

You should do a video explaining the different fighting types bc as a fairly new player, I only rlly know sniping, so uhh maybe make a short on it

[cooperelliott]

How do you tell difference between radar and infrared missles when they’re tracking you?