[Blackhawk]

Been watching Fox News, and they've been running background feed from the cameras in Baghdad while they keep yapping. I happened to be paying attention to the background just as a Tomahawk reached its target. Sounds just like a small jet making a low pass then boom plus the fireball.

That's a new battlefield sound -- new to me anyway.

Wait 'til the game programmers add the sound effect to their games. :D

[WilderBill]

It should sound like that. It is a small jet.

[Schuey2002]

You right, it sounded like a small fighter jet making a bombing run..

[jmbg29]

Wait 'til the game programmers add the sound effect to their games.They already do. Jane's Fleet Command, 688(I) Hunter/Killer, and Sub Command.

I use TLAMs to blow stuff up real good all the time!

:evil: :evil: :evil:May the good Lord take a likin' to ya, and blow ya up real soon!

[Blackhawk]

It should sound like that. It is a small jet.However, the sound is like: Sounds just like a small jet making a low pass then boom plus the fireball.I suppose an F80 or F86 in Korea on a low level bombing run that just flew into a cliff before pickling might have been the first time such a battlefield sound was heard, but there would have been a lot of secondary post crash noises plus there would have been multiple blast ignition waves.

The Tomahawk has a very nice, clean, high speed jet noise followed by a single blast acoustic wave. Very crisp, and the jet must be a sound that soils underwear of those on the ground who have heard the terminal sounds of a Tomahawk.

[ahadams]

hmm, probably true, Blackhawk, probably true - only thing similar before that (other than an ME-262 proving it really did have dog slow accelleration) would have been a V-1 which was a pulse jet and apparently produced a distinct and very different sound.

[Blackhawk]

The V1's had a gyroscopic autopilot with a barometric altitude hold. They burped along on their course until they ran out of fuel when they became silent, nosed down due to lack of thrust and a forward cg/cp, and detonated on impact.

For those on the ground, there wasn't much to worry about until the engine quit. They were crude, inaccurate, and their main benefit was as a terror weapon -- but that's what they were designed to be.

AFAIK, they were the first cruise missile since the Rhona wasn't sunk with the Nazis' aircraft launched remotely piloted rocket powered bomb until later. Even if that antedated the V1, the V1 was launched from a stationary launcher like sub and ship launched Tomahawks. The B52 launched Tomahawks are an analog of the German's rocket powered bombs.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I'm sure glad the Nazis were headed by an impatient megalomaniacal sociopath instead of a patient one like Saddam because German is a tough language among other reasons.... :rolleyes:

[general]

Here's a Tomahawk Cruise Missile .wav file for ya.:p

[Blackhawk]

Thanks, general, but it's pretty muddled compared to the sound of the one I heard on the news.