No. The military wouldn't use a VBIED. The last video looks like a drone or something was flyin around and managed to be in the right place at the right time.
Also, Tommy Taliban loves to chill on mountains with badass cameras just to catch people blowing themselves the **** up.
Well you have to compare it to the YF 22, which was so much more edgy and bulky compared to the slick curves and unconventional design of the YF-23. (Come on, no horizontal stabilizer and yet awesome performance? No wayyyyy)
Keep in mind that the YF-23 had also a navy variant sketch design, something the YF-22 is missing. FM was better under all aspects.
However, McDonnell Douglas was already in a bad situation. Only 7 years later it closed.
It's clear that to everyone that the US did not choose the airplane because of performance but because of lobbysm, in fact, this was the last competition for fighters in the US and now Lockhead now doesn't have anymore competitors; which is not a good thing, since competitions is what drives technolgies forward.
FM was better under all aspects (Except manouvrability, but what are the chances to get in a dogfight today?. Who engage first win in most of the situations.)
what is the moving red light in the missile impact videos? is it the missile itself or a targeting device? (does kind of a loop the loop thing). you can see one in video 5 of this comp.
the red light is an ATGM missile, yes, but it is not the propellant. The propellant wouldn't be that bright, so to see where they are firing the missile, there is a tracer on the missile.
thats what i was thinking, or fly by wire but the speed of some of the videos makes it look like it is a laser (obviously giant red visible lasers are not used by any competent military).
that's not a laser its the propellant igniting out the back of the rocket. The ATGM was fired from near the camera's position out and away toward the tank.
The light that you see is most likely an incandescent infrared bulb in the back of a 9K111 Fagot ATGM or the BGM-71 TOW ATGM. The reason you can see it is that a camera can pick up the infrared light of the bulb, just like your phone camera with your TV remote IR transmitter. The infrared light is used by the sights on the launcher to determine the location of the ATGM, and if necessary correct the trajectory, as can be seen happening with the eratic jerks of the missile.
That last one was disgusting to watch. I watched a larger portion of the video, where they actually show the suicide bomber, and he was crying as he sat in his APC. Not sure why ISIS uses armor as suicide vehicles. Maybe it holds more.
