2007-11-25 14:05:23 · 9 answers · asked by zonic555 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Sidewinder missiles use their infrared sensors to acquire the target. The quality of the lock is sent to the pilots helmet as an auditory tone that gets louder and clearer the better the lock is.
Basically he's saying he has a lock on his target and can fire his missiles.
2007-11-25 14:13:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Sidewinders, and maybe other heat seaking missiles, generate a tone to indicate that they have acquired a target. This starts as a growl and increases in frequency until it sounds like a solid tone.
The weapon systems I worked on did not give a tone for radar guided missiles, for those there was a steering and solution quality indication in the HUD (based on a 'flyout' model). Radar guided missiles typically don't need to lock on before launch, or can lock on a long way before you'd want to launch. Nobody wants a useless tone bugging them while they are trying to fly the aircraft.
In the following link a couple of F-14s off Libya bring a couple of Mig-23s to an early retirement. You can hear the lack of tone when he fires AIM-7 Sparrows, the interesting phrases are "centering up the T" and "Fox 1". When these miss they enter a turning fight and there's some 'discussion' ("shoot him!" "I ain't got a tone") and just after that you hear the growl of the 'winder and the tone as it is fired. A moment later the bad guy is toast.
2007-11-26 14:39:27 · answer #2 · answered by Chris H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To add to JR's answer. When the pilot gets the lock an audible "tone" comes on over the internal head set built into the pilots helmet. If the enemy gets a radar lock on a bird the pilot will hear a beeping sound and his central control icon will light up red.
2007-11-25 14:15:59 · answer #3 · answered by tskelton155 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means that the pilot has acquired a lock on its target with either its radar system or heat seeking missiles.
2007-11-25 14:11:57 · answer #4 · answered by JR 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When he has a target locked on by his radar, a tone sounds letting him know he is locked and the missle will follow the target when he fires.
2007-11-25 14:12:55 · answer #5 · answered by theseeker4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means the flight computer has given you a auditory confirmation (tone) of a lock on (when you have your target on your sight and are ready to shoot). This does not assure you of a kill if you proceed to shoot but it gives you the best possibility of one.
2007-11-25 15:37:52 · answer #6 · answered by Marko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His onboard computer targeting system is locked on the target and it gives out a tone like "BEEP" sound. And fire!
2007-11-25 14:15:13 · answer #7 · answered by Joeyboy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The buzzing noise they hear when they lock on a target.
2007-11-25 14:29:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had asked the same question three times, and haven't gotten an answer
2016-08-26 08:09:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋