Airplane Designations Explained
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Get a glimpse into all types of aircraft in the US Military, and learn how to make sense of “the codes” that are used to identify aircraft. This is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
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There actually was an A-4 Skyhawk, A-5 Vigilante, A-6 Intruder, and A-7 Corsair II. The AV-8 is exactly where it should be.
Point
That would be wrong on the official system as A is pure attack while AV is attack with vtol capability
@@blackopscw7913 soo, F-35B?? It has VTOL capability too, well, specifically STOVL but it still counts because STOVL stands for Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing while VTOL stands for Vertical Take-Off and Landing
@@LordSmallest The F-35 itself isn't VTOL capable, since only the B model is. The base A, and the modified C dont have VTOL.
So is there an A9?
Learned more about warplanes in a short video than I did in 7 years in the Air Force.
Lol
The “K” for tankers represents “Kerosene” to clear up any confusion. “S” can also mean “Spy/Surveillance” in the case of the SR-71.
Is S supposed to mean that or is that another instance of misdirection like the U-2?
This made me look up the difference between Surveillance and Reconnaissance.
I feel like I’ve heard it said they were supposed to call it the RS-71 for recon space plane but flipped it because it sounds better as SR.
@@TheObsidianX Strategic Reconnaisance
@@TheObsidianX It was originally officially RS but was read backwards when introduced. To prevent embarrassment of correcting the mistake of those on top it was officially changed SR
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@@jonachamp3946 whats MQ nine? M is modified mission and it has no mission at alll?
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So what I'm hearing is that it would be technically possible to make a prototype special electronic mission version of an electronic mission helicopter designated YEEH-4A!
How does this not exist yet
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Wow, what a great video. I am in planes for a long time but never found such a condensed version of the MDS!
A lot of the numbers that are "skipped" actually come from the experimental phase. multiple airframes will be developed by multiple manufactures and compete for the single slot that will actually be used. An example would be the F-22. During the X-22 days, there was also a X-23. the two companies competed for the bid with the USAF. Developed similar aircraft that would fill the role that was needed. And the USAF selected the one they deemed best. In this case, the X-23 was basically doomed from poor original design and changing the entire airframe mid experimental stage. And Fighters with really high numbers are not actual fighters. They are aircraft that have filled the funding for a fighter but the aircraft actually has a very different role. The F-111 is a great example, as that aircraft was basically a flying radar jammer and sub hunter. Or the F-117 which is a small bomber designed for precision strikes and small targets.
Prior to this designation system, P primarily referred to “Pursuit” aircraft (basically fighters) such as the P-38, P-40, and P-51
thats cool
Correct
Back then, F was used to refer to unarmed reconnaissance variants of pursuit planes (the F-5 was a P-38 with its weapons removed and replaced with cameras for photo-recon purposes, the F-6 was an unarmed photo-recon variant of the P-51)
@@nickfury1279 At least, in Air Force use. In the Navy, F was the fighter designation. and they even had an identifier for who made the plane. For instance, the second F in F4F Wildcat meant that it was a Grumman design. M= General Motors, D=Douglas, C=Curtis, Y= Consolidated, F=Grumman, U=Vought, A=Brewster.
The Navy system meant that a plane could have different designations, even inside the Navy. An example is the last variant of the Grumman Wildcat, which was named F4F-8 if it was manufactured by Grumman and FM-2 if it was manufactured by GM's Eastern Aircraft division.
This opened my eyes after so many years of not realizing the letters and numbers had any function and thinking they were just "names" given by manufacturing
Thank you so much, my life has become better
Fun fact, most manufacturers don't know their MDS designations until they actually receive funding from the military.
same
@@firstletterofthealphabet7308 MD=mexican dream
Many manufacturers also have their own company designation for military designs outside of the USAF tri service designation, like the P-8 Poseidon being a 737-800ERX, or the Lockheed C-141 being the L-300. This is mostly just the case when they’re developed from a civilian aircraft (like the P-8) or if the manufacturer intends/intended to sell the aircraft as a civilian model later (like the L-300). What’s even more interesting is the aircraft from foreign countries that use similar naming systems and completely ignore some of the conventions, like the Embraer C-390, which just so happens to use a numerical value three times that of the C-130 it replaces with Brazil.
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This was super well-organized. Kudos for an awesome vid
Something cool about the U-2, since there's such a limited number, there is a public list of pilots that show their first flight dates, and nicknames. Also, the pilots got to keep some of their stuff; my dad kept his gloves and they're sitting in a glass box above me in display.
Nice, my dad gave me shitty genetics and cancer.
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Small correction: Tsar Bomba was actually only 50MT, not 100. It was changed in the late stages of development in order to give the pilots who dropped it a whopping 50% chance of survival versus the certain death of dropping a 100MT. Also because even the Russians knew 100MT was just too much lol
Yes they replaced the U238 tamper with lead.
Imagine they didn't make the bomb in drop test not 50MT
@@BenedictF79B even after 50MT explosion scientists were scared that it caused irreversible environmental catastrophe, so...
At least they didn’t do a Castle Bravo mistake 🤔😉
IIRC a very large percentage of the blast energy went straight up into the upper layers of the atmosphere, making the bomb less efficient, in it's effects on ground targets, than the same amount of fission material/effort being used in several smaller nukes.
Thank you, I was also researching this myself
here is the data I observe from military aircraft
A= Attacker
B= Bomber
C= Cargo/Transport
D= Dive Bomber?
E= Electronic equipped
F= Fighter
G= Glider/Permanenly Grounded
H= Search and rescue
I= (I can't find this one)
J= Special test, temporary
K= Aerial refueling plane
L= Laser equiped
M= Military Mission
N= Special test, permanent
O= Observation
P= Pursuit/Patrol
Q= Long range drone/unmanned aircraft
R= Reconnaissance
S= Scout/Anti-submarine
T= Training
U= Utility
V= VTOL
W= Weather reconnaissance
X= Experimental
Y= Prototype
Z= Planning
Actually pretty accurate, but it can get a bit more complex. I also feel like talking about stuff so this will be a bit (extremely) long.
in no particular order:
D actually designates drone control systems, which aren't aircraft, although drone director aircraft are allowed as well under the same designation. H can designate search and rescue, medivac and just helicopter (AH-64 is attack helicopter 64, UH-60 is utility helicopter 64 and so on), helicopter of course being the most common. E doesn't simply mean electronically equipped as that would be all aircraft, but rather special electronic mission, usually early warning, radar jamming or something else like that. F does mean fighter, but the most common mistake I see is people assuming that is the aircrafts primary job, in reality aircraft that only have air to air as a secondary defense while primarily being for ground strike can also have this designation. M means multi mission, I'm not sure what you mean by "military mission" tbh, thats just all of them, it also used to mean missile carrier, and then mine countermeasure, those were both dropped when the navy stopped having use for them. W does in fact mean weather reconnaissance, but it will not be used alone, always with another letter (generally C, just like tankers) (example: WC-130). X means experimental, but also aircraft designed to carry out experiments not directly related to the aircraft (flying laboratories would receive the X designation). Z does mean planned when used as a status, just as J and N are used, however Z also used to mean lighter than air, to my knowledge this is no longer recognized. L does mean laser equipped, but this was dropped quite rapidly, with the failure of the YAL-1 airborne laser aircraft, it may come back now that lasers are coming back as well, it also means cold weather equipped, although thats basically all aircraft now. V in addition to VTOL/STOL (The OV-10 for example was a short takeoff observation aircraft) means VIP transportation when appended to another letter, now exclusive to presidential (and by transfer the vice president) transportation aircraft, the VC-25, the presidential 747, is an example of such a designation. I in fact does not exist as a designation, not even retired or rarely used like many of them, which is why you couldn't find it. Of course, the greatest of them all, P, it is only used as Patrol now, but it used to be used for Pursuit, as you listed, which was generally a fighter or interceptor. A will likely be retiring soon actually as its quite obsolete, every year for quite some time now the USAF has submitted plans to retire the A-10, the senate has denied these plans every time, it will likely take the aircraft seeing serious combat to convince the senate to approve its retirement as the USAF has been trying to do. The video also stated that the A-10 is the lone example of the A designation, this is not entirely true, excluding aircraft designated AC (AC-130 is quite a famous example), the A-29 Super Tucano currently holds this designation as well, and is possibly going to be one of the last to hold the designation, as it is the only fully modernized dedicated ground strike aircraft
Anyway, I'm done pretending to know anything and talking too much.
@@_TheRealMud the A designation and it's retirement or not with the Hog is indicative of the strange place the military often finds itself. I expect the A-10 to eventually be retired purely from running out of parts. But Fighter/Attack aircraft are both expensive and fairly fragile. So something will come along that's more resistant to ground fire for that role when a whole air strike isn't needed. Seeing an AQ wouldn't be all that surprising now that I think about it (Ground-Attack drone)
You have to consider that prior to 1962 there was no real standard naming or numbering convention for aircraft. Which is why you have aircraft like the TBF-Avenger, SBD-Dauntless, the F4U Corsair and the F4F Wildcat. And why there is no real consistency between the numbering of the "P" aircraft (P-51, P-38 P-47 P-61 etc).
Interestingly enough there is a similar naming convention in place for Naval Ships as well. CV, CVA, CVE, CVL, CVN are all designations for aircraft carriers. CC, CA, CL, CG are designations for cruisers, and DD, DDE, DDR, DDL DDG were used as designations for destroyers.
I would most likely be Interceptor
So you could have a aircraft named the YEET-69
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was hoping to see the SR-71 Blackbird. i love that craft!!
nice way of adding layers of complexity to understand! great compilation n video wow
"they can hit a target with a great degree of precision"
Shows a clip of a pilot missing every single shot
Gotta love the humor of this channel 😂
Hey, they did hit with great precision, just not great accuracy lol.
@@daddysempaichan lmao
Tbf that's super accurate by airstrike standards.
It was just a warning shot.
LMFAO the accuracy is just too bad for him, maybe just a small angle of precision will add accuracy maybe
LMFAO the humor is so good
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It's fascinating to think that the lifespan of these aircraft are often longer than the generation that built them. My father was too young for the Vietnam war, but plenty of his older friends flew in a Chinook there. I flew in those same vietnam-era helis in Iraq and they were still going strong.
still good tools. The B-52 will be over 100 years old before its retired. Thankfully this isn't some rotten tool like Russia hands out
@@d36williams The Soviet machines were definitely quantity over quality, sometimes accompanied by a list of specific feature requirements, thanks to the way the Party set targets in such a vertical way. Russian machines are a definite improvement, or at least they were before slipping well down the line again. I suspect learning from the Soviet way of running things (ie ranging from poorly to outright screwing themselves to be more evil with no benefit) is why China's military technology is so much better than Russia's ever has been, as well as their ability to manufacture complex systems domestically - big issue for Russia atm since they can't repair equipment with so many parts locked behind sanctions.
As an aside, I finally got to see a B-52 a year ago. It flew from Japan to NZ for an air show, made a few passes and headed straight back to base. Did not realise how bloody massive those things are, dwarfed our Air Force's little C-130's 😂
@@d36williams HOLD THE FUCK UP, the B-52 was made in 1955 ? I always thought the thing was launched in the mid 70s, i never thought that it's all the way back in '55. That makes it almost 68 years old now.
@@darkySp
The number 52 is roughly the year the contract was released.
In the USAF, we like to say “When the last B-21 is flown to the boneyard at Davis-Montham, the pilots will get their ride home in a B-52.
Were still flying the Chinook somehow. That bird is an absolute beast though!
YEH-60B is a prototype (Y) electronic warfare (E) helicopter (H) equipped with a high precision radar antenna mainly designed to detect moving targets on a battlefield and datalink the location of them to army ground stations (stand off target acquisition). It’s based off of an A model Blackhawk which is the 60th designated helicopter (-60) and it’s the second prototype of the YEH variant. (B) The first one (YEH-60A) having a radar that was susceptible to ice. They fixed the icing problem in the B model.
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so basically it has a radar almost ice proof that can strategically see enemy forces on the ground and its base H is a black hawk
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That makes sense the a-10 is about as fast and around the same altitude as a ww2 plane
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YEH-60B meaning: Y is for Prototype then E is for Electronic, H is for helicopter, 60 the 60th design or for a name and B for the second series.
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Full of info! Thank you.
Suuper cool, learnt a few things thanks
Now I know why the AC130 is designated that way. It’s a modified mission of Attack while it’s basic mission is Carrier. In this case it carries a whole lot of cannons to fire upon the enemy.
cargo
"Make sure to hit anything that doesn't have flare on"
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D: drone
H: search & rescue, not necessarily helicopters
L: cold weather as well as laser
Q: unmanned
V: vip transport
W: weather recon
Thank you
Isnt a drone unmanned?
@@______1043 AFAIK, drones are controlled by operators on the ground and UAV's can be self-flying... not sure though. Could be the other way around
Hmmm V22 Osprey
@@atlas-3541 Was misnamed. It should have the C designator as it's a cargo aircraft.
Thank u for the lesson!
F-117 is also a well-known exception to the rule. It's primarily a bomber but because of its stealth characteristics, they needed fighter pilot type skill sets to fly it successfully so gave it an F designation to attract the right sort of interest.
You forgot some of the most legendary aircraft, the A-12 and its big brother the SR-71 “Blackbird”; both were reconnaissance aircraft and deserve a special place in aviation history.
I think the SR-71 is my favorite machine ever built.
or the F-117 "Nighthawk"
Ah yes, Attack aircraft 12.
Ah yes (x2) anti submarine reconnaissance 71
The a12 and sr71 are related, aren't they?
designed to detect moving targets on the battlefield and downlink the information to an Army ground station.YEH-60B.
Yeah but why YEH-60B
This helped me start an air unit for my sci-fi milsim group! thanks!
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The concept of this video is so original. I get to see many unique and original concepts in your videos. Thank you for your hard work to keep us entertained and teaching us so many things.
Thanks very much!
13:22 the Tsar Bomba was 100 megaton but the soviet engineers were really worried about how much damage it would do so they halved it to 50 megaton
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My military knowledge has increased.
Also, YEH-60B means it is a prototype electronic warfare avionics installation helicopter 60 model B.
So basically it is the second model of a prototype electronic warfare helicopter. Used for electronical warfare
That’s vague. We know it’s an electronic warfare helicopter but what does it do? Electronic warfare is used for many things.
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the YEH-60B was mainly used to detect enermys on the battlefeild
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The U.S. Army Air Service used the term “P” for pursuit aircraft, adapted from the French Avion de Chasse for pursuit or hunt airplane. After World War II, the term fighter was formally adopted by the USAF with the designator “F.
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5:23 My internet has been crashing a lot recently and it actually got me lol
These puns are kind of good, not gonna lie. Thanks for explaining the letter in this video!
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13:18 The actual blast yield of the Tsar Bomba was more likely around 50-60MT of TNT. The initial design had 100MT in mind, however in the end they didnt utilize the full capability.
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@@amurdera4409 Da fuq??
They did so because the pilots were basically dead if they dropped 100mt tsar, but with 50 or 60 mt they faced smaller chances of dying
You know it's powerful if the Soviets lower its blast yield
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Y=prototYpe
E=special Electronic installation
H=Helicopter
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60=60th design
B=2an version of this design.
Lol, prototYpe. I always thought Y comes from experimental being X and Y follows X in the sequence of development and the alphabet.
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* The tsar bomba was actually only 50 megatons not 100. the russians could have made it 100 but were scared that it woukd be too big
Also it wouldn't fit Tu-95, largest bomber in soviet air force
Its dangerous if it made the Russians scared
@@krxzovic That doesn't make sense, the yield was lowered by replacing fissile material with a tamper, not by making it smaller.
What the fuck? What does that have to do with this?
@@somedudes6455 bro he mentioned in the video that the tsar bomba had 100 megaton but it was actually obly 50. We are Politely correcting him
2:35 that was a good one!
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The YEH-60B is an UH-60 transdormed into an electronic warfare aircraft and it is in test and itis the B variant?
OH MY GOD. It makes so much sense. Idk how I never realized how straight forward the military aircraft designation system actually is. My mind is blown, and this is an absolutely amazing video! It makes me love all of those planes like the F-22, F-15, B-2, B-29, C-5M, etc. Thank you so much for making this video.
You stated a total of: Two Fighter aircraft, Two Bomber aircraft, and, One Cargo aircraft
So this is how to work out the designation - unless they decide to ignore the rules! Please don't put a CZcams taken down notice halfway through the video - I almost had a heart attack! Well played!
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Gave a like for the incredible transition
If you actually read into the F-15 with the wing ripped off the pilot didn’t know the wing was ripped off he said if he saw the wing was gone he would’ve ejected right then and there but he didn’t know he thought it just started a listing
The official mission of the U-2 when it was introduced, was weather research. Ironically, several years later, there was a version of the U-2 called WU-2, used for exactly that.
Should have been named WX-2 or WX-1 or something along there. WX literally meens (W=)Weather (X=)Reaserch.
@@axelfoley5265 X is Experimental? Not research?
@@LordSmallest X is the status designation for Experimental status, but it is also the mission designation for Research.
@@StickyBomb0512 I didn't know that, ty
Imagine they added another U....
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Informative and hilarious. The big balls to manscape transition had me rolling on the floor.
Really enjoy these kinds of explaining videos thx
You pick great stock footage
Good stuff here!
Wasnt tzar bomba just a 50 megaton bomb and not 100 megaton. Soviets were planning to make 100 megaton bomb, but after testing thrir 50megaton bomb they decided it was powerful enough and didnt make any 100 megaton bombs.
@BloxyHD Just put a longer fuze in there and morr parachutes so it would still be in the air after the fuze goes off
1:56 that line was pure gold
That segue was..."chef kiss"
Winner of the best transition I've seen yet award goes to you lol
You deserve an Oscar for the sponsor transition. Well done sir.
That was the smoothest transition to the sponsor of the video, ever!
That was honestly such a slick transition to the sponsor commercial
Smooth, very smooth. The smoothest transition to a sponsor ever. Haha 😂
This is the best add placement of an add and add itself, that ever existed
Wow!
i had no idea the designation numbers meant that!
Ayyy, is that the boneyard in some of the footage? That definitely looks like AZ background.
Also, interesting tidbit to the A10; the A10’s cannon had to be modified as it was too precise. It was hard to strafe an area as you had to accurately pinpoint every target. Different mounting materials were used and a weight was set offset to destabilize the gun to add just a slight spread at distance.
So that means AC-130 is attack +cargo design 130. Makes sense because Ac-130 is used for cargo and attack
I don't think so. It can't do cargo because it's full of guns, so it wouldn't be used for cargo. I think it's that the C-130 is the base platform, but the preceding "A" is the modifier, so it's a C-130 modified for an attack role.
It carries cargo. And the cargo is hellfire. Sweet, sweet, hellfire. (The A in AC means while it was originally for Cargo, it is converted specifically for Attack purposes and not cargo.)
Well C is the base platform and A stands for attack. Makes sense cuz the AC-130 is a gunship and gunships satisfy the attack role hence the A
Gun,bomb,and ammunition are cargo too
yes, Starting from the C-130 Cargo, it is modified to have Weaponry to attack ground targets
I was in the Navy for a little over six years. I was with the electronic reconnaissance Squadron and the birds weekly were the ep-3e and ea-3b.
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neat, I actually has a P-8 Poseidon doing touch and goes at my local airport (KILM) a few nights ago, was pretty neat to see it flying around low like that
Come to Jacksonville Florida. There is AWKAYS one of these flying around. It flys so low you can see the probe arm sticking out the back.
S Designation: Attack submarines
R Designation: Spy on the enemy
SR-71: Wait I'm supposed to hunt submarines?
SR was used to indicate Strategic Reconnaissance, a non-standard designation.
quite sure they don't fly over oceans but ok.
Tbh it was a typo it was designed to be designated R-71
Yeah that's what confused me
I saw the X-29 in the thumbnail and had to click it, forward swept wings on jets look awesome, it's why the X-29 and the SU-47 are some of my favorite planes ever
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Ima do the same
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