Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "" video.

This, but unironically.
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@arueshalaetablebuildingsociety that has to be satire, right? In the jet age, trying to get into a guns dogfight is asking for an IR missile up your tailpipe. You shouldn't even consider a second one. Just trying to line up the first shot will cost an extreme amount of energy as you increase AoA to give your target enough lead (pull a high AoA and your plane's body starts acting like an airbrake). You're sure you're gonna pick up speed and get behind another jet? By the time you've expended all your missiles and managed to score a guns kill you probably will be bingo on fuel. If both sides have expended all missiles and used their engines at full power for several minutes as they dodge homing missiles and then try to get behind each other... you have to remember that your aircraft needs to have enough fuel to return home. You can't just give her afterburner and try to pick up speed for another turnfight. The gun doesn't limit the extension of your engagement. Plus with the burst limiter and a competent pilot that doesn't try to fire too soon, the 180 rounds divided between 20 round bursts can give you nine trigger pulls, with 30 round bursts 6. It's not WW2 anymore, when rotary cannons fire a stream of bullets and an airplane crosses it, it gets sawed in half. You get between 6 and 9 opportunities to saw 6 to 9 aircraft in half. After you've fired 6 missiles (not to mention your wingmen). How many people got 12 kills in a single sortie?
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It's still an IR seeker, apparently.
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@arueshalaetablebuildingsociety that's bullshit lol worst possible metric to judge an aircraft by. You can program burst lengths on most contemporary fighter aircraft so the round count of the F-35 doesn't matter that much. Not to mention 25mm autocannon ammo is available with electronic fuzes so it can airburst inside buildings or over trenches, so it's very likely that just as the gunsight makes automatic range correction by radar, every bullet leaving the barrel probably gets fed with a self-destruct timing and shred the enemy aircraft even in a near miss.
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Earlier spin-scan reticles "thickened" the section of the reticle that was blacked out as it approached the center so that the input created by an IR source would be proportional to the angle off. As the target approached and thus the input signal increased in amplitude there was automatic gain control that would make it less sensitive. The spin-scan was later replaced by conical scan which deflected the IR source by a few degrees off center and projected it into the chopped reticle. Instead of trying to keep the IR source in the center now the seeker would attempt to maintain a consistent angle by measuring the frequency at which the target appeared and disappeared from view as it crossed the "blacked out" sections. If the target had an angle off, it's signal would draw an off center circle around the reticle and thus create an inconsistent frequency as close to the center the target would appear and disappear quickly while as it moved away from the center it would take longer to appear and disappear due to the increased diameter. So if the seeker was designed to deflect the image by 5° and the target was at the center, it's projection would draw a "cone" with a 5° point and a centered circle, meaning consistent freqency and no input to the guidance control.
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@klobiforpresident2254 Paul Allen is trying to sell his.
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