Sidewinder - The Weapon That Changed Air Combat

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Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/science-tech. Sometimes the origins of the most successful inventions belie the life they go on to have and this was the same for the weapon that changed aerial combat, the Sidewinder AIM-9. This is the story of the project that was killed off once by the infighting within the US Navy and kept alive by the engineers that created it until it proved itself against the competition. This video is sponsored by MagellanTV https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid Written, Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and Footage : US DoD, USAF, US Navy A big thank you also goes to all our Patreons :-) Eριχθόνιος JL Abrakodabra Kobra / 25% Alistair Brown Andrew Gaess Andrew SMITH Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom ChasingSol Collin Copfer Daniele Noacco Etienne Dechamps Florian Müller George Bishop II Henning Bitsch Henri Saussure inunotaisho james t early Janne Kurikka Jim Early Johan Rombaut john edwards Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Kedar Deshpande Ken Schwarz László Antal Lawrence Brennan Lorne Diebel MajorFluffy Pyloric SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort Vincent Will Lowe Music from the Youtube library Imperial Forces by Aaron Kenny Heaven and Hell by Jeremy Blake