The Insane Engineering of the Javelin

Here’s the latest episode of the Battle of Britain. It’s fucking good. Trust me nebula.app/videos/realengineering-battle-of-britai…

best weapon for home defense 11/10 would buy again

I would be interested in a similar video about the stinger.

The fact that Texas Instruments who came up with the Javelin ATGM, the same company who makes calculator, measuring devices and others, shows how a company is capable of creating something outside their fields.

It's a shame Youtube is pushing brilliant content like this off its site, just because it happens to be about weapon systems.

As someone who has carried one up a few mountains, i would refrain from calling the jav “lightweight”

This video has so much information about the operation of the Javelin that I almost feel like I need a security clearance to keep watching.

I think the javelin falls is an an incredible piece of equipment, any piece of equipment that can destroy an expensive target consistently by using less money is incredible

one of the highest quality channels on youtube, every video is well edited and researched with great footage and animations backing it up. keep up the good work.

one of my former math teachers used to work on guided missle systems in the airforce, if we didn't feel like having a "normal" class some would just ask a question about it and he just couldn't help himself but the joke was on us cause he somehow would cram math into the story anways :)

From what I understand the Javelin can also take down a chopper in direct-mode. It's doesn't work in top-down mode because the blades of the chopper confuse the tracker.

I was happy to see the familiar topography of Fort Hunter Liggett, where the Javelin was tested by CDEC in the 90s. I was employed there from 1984-1997, where we tested tactics and weapons systems.

Thats some seriously clever engineering gone into this system! Hence why it cost so much. But still better than the cost of a tank!

The first time I heard about the Javelin was in Battlefield 3, where I thought its functions were made up or at least exaggerated for the sake of gameplay. It was hard to believe that a man-portable weapon could have such advanced tracking capabilities.

Slight correction. Anti-tank rifle wz. 35 was most often equipped with cartridges that were not to penetrate the armor, but by kinetic energy to tear off its pieces on the inside, creating shrapnel that would injure or kill the crew. The whole thing was kept strictly secret, which is why the soldiers of the Polish army were usually not aware of how such a shell can be used. They fired at the enemy vehicle even five times, and this vehicle continued to move, although after the second shot, the crew was probably dead or seriously injured.

Officer: "Where is ur CLU soldier!?" Private: "I have no CLUe."

Man, this is an EXCELLENT Javelin introductory course

I was privileged to have fired the prototype of the javelin, its predecessor the blowpipe seemed prehistoric in comparison.., the javelins aiming system is so simplistic in that all you had to do was place the oval circle over the target and press fire and the tracking system done the rest.

I’ve had the javelin as my daily carry for a few years now 10/10 never felt so secure

Hard to believe the same dudes who make my school’s calculators make a F*ckin’ missle system