AIM-9 Sidewinder
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Sep 27, 2026
Karl GrunerGUEST
[laughs]
MikeHOST
[laughs]
Karl GrunerGUEST
But, uh, uh, uh, it was definitely capable of, you know, carrying two AIM-9s, and as a secondary role, be employed in a air-to-air role.
Karl GrunerGUEST
And, uh, they did practice that occasionally.
Karl GrunerGUEST
Uh, but by far, their main primary role was a conventional, uh, air-to-ground attack and interdiction.
Micah HanksHOST
Somebody has fired a weapon at us.
Micah HanksHOST
So the pilot prepared to fire an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile in response, and at this point found that his weapons control system and communications had stopped functioning altogether.
Micah HanksHOST
So with his defense capabilities offline, he takes evasive action to try and move out of the way of this object, but this smaller object then apparently returns to the larger one.
Micah HanksHOST
And before the entire incident has concluded, they see another object seemingly drop from the larger object and descend toward the ground.
Kevin CurranGUEST
Yeah, to your point, yes, that's definitely the case.
Kevin CurranGUEST
The exact case was Burt wanted to strap Sidewinder missile rocket motors, eight of them, to
Eman JahangirHOST
the side of
Kevin CurranGUEST
Spaceship One to get the extra boost.
Kevin CurranGUEST
So they just spent their rocket motor fuel going up and getting to pass the Kármán line by 400 feet.
Kevin CurranGUEST
How are they going to do it for the next flight with 400 more pounds of ballast? So they vetted all kinds of engineering ideas.
Kevin CurranGUEST
Burt wanted to, again, strap eight Sidewinder missiles to the sides in a test flight program.
Kevin CurranGUEST
to get the extra boost to go to space and everybody on the program collectively was like what you know and you saw it you know i think pete it caused a lot of issues probably with his health you know and um so he had removed himself as a pilot um but thankfully they came up with the team came up with a much better solution which was to essentially fill the nitrous tank with a little bit more nitrous because nitrous at temperature expands.
John KaplanHOST
was acquired by Google.
John KaplanHOST
One of my favorite parts of Anne's background is that when she started her career, she was configuring camera systems on Sidewinder missiles for the F-14 fighter program.
John KaplanHOST
She's been in tech now for 32 plus years.
John KaplanHOST
Anne joined Crunchbase about a year and a half ago to help lead their shift from a product-led motion to an enterprise motion.
Ann DavisGUEST
Yeah, I think for me, I was a math science undergrad and nobody would hire me but technical positions back then.
Ann DavisGUEST
And so I started off at Grumman and found myself working on the mission computer aircraft for the F-14 aircraft.
Ann DavisGUEST
And then moved on to some secret missions back then, which were legit just putting, you know, recon cameras in a Sidewinder missile.
Ann DavisGUEST
But then when I realized that really wasn't for me, nobody else would look at me on the business side because of the technical undergrad.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Phantom was a remarkable machine capable of Mach 2 at altitude, built for intercepting Soviet bombers over open water.
Tail DraggerHOST
It carried long-range radar missiles the AM-7 Sparrow and the shorter-range AM-9 Sidewinder.
Tail DraggerHOST
But in the Vietnam Air War, the rules of engagement required visual identification before firing.
Tail DraggerHOST
You had to see the other airplane, that effectively neutralized the Sparrow in most engagements and pushed the fight down to short range where the sidewinder and maneuvering took over.
C.W. LemoineHOST
9/11 DFW flight line says, "Paul just delivered MD-80 to D terminal.
C.W. LemoineHOST
Four hours later, F-16 with live, uh, AIM-9 fly down the runway." Wow.
C.W. LemoineHOST
Well, after Burner, everyone thought it was a GA aircraft at first.
C.W. LemoineHOST
9/11 is what created the fighter pilot dream for me.
Heather PenneyGUEST
For example, when we go to war, It's a three-day cycle from the planning process to come down to the wing for the bomb dump to know exactly how many bombs they need to build to actually put all that together to bring it out on the flight line to configure the aircraft.
Heather PenneyGUEST
It doesn't happen instantaneously.
Heather PenneyGUEST
So Raisin calls down to the bomb dump and tells them to build us up some AIM-9s, some heat-seeking sidewinders.
Heather PenneyGUEST
Can you imagine if you're one of the enlisted airmen down in the bomb dump? You're not watching television.
Heather PenneyGUEST
You're probably in the middle of a card game.
Alex JonesHOST
That's because they put two Sidewinder missiles into it, and the FAA even released the tapes of that where you hear them, all right, clear to go, give them the order.
Alex JonesHOST
All right, one AIM-9, two AIM-9s, and you wait like direct, direct first, direct secondary hit.
Alex JonesHOST
And they gave the guy an award for it because the general refused to follow orders when he was told to stand down and ordered the happy hooligans out of the Dakotas who were rotated over on the East Coast to shoot that plane down.
Alex JonesHOST
So they gave you a let's roll story because Americans got tough and they rolled in there.
Alex JonesHOST
That's because they put two Sidewinder missiles into it, and the FAA even released the tapes of that where you hear them, all right, clear to go, give them the order.
Alex JonesHOST
All right, one AIM-9, two AIM-9s, and you wait like direct, direct first, direct secondary hit.
Alex JonesHOST
And they gave the guy an award for it because the general refused to follow orders when he was told to stand down and ordered the happy hooligans out of the Dakotas who were rotated over on the East Coast to shoot that plane down.
Alex JonesHOST
So they gave you a let's roll story because Americans got tough and they rolled in there.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Then, all four aircraft will be forced to land within minutes of each other, leaving no aircraft airborne to track and follow any hijacked airliners.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Instead, Nesipani tells his team, if we have to take anybody out, large aircraft, we use AIM-9 air-to-air missiles in the face if need be.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Everyone understands what this means.
speaker_3NARRATOR
An American fighter jet will be forced to shoot down an airliner full of innocent men, women and children.
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