macelena 1,070 Posted December 23, 2021 In case you don't know me, I'm a Sgt in the Spanish Army, currently getting training in electronics at the Army's Polytech School. I just did a proyect in which i updated the circuitry from a WW2 VT fuze with solid state electronics, and i wanted to keep doing stuff like that, updating vintage electronics to solid state. Could anybody point me where I could get some declassified, legal electrical schematics for early, vacuum tube Sidewinders guidance circuits? Meaning Bs mostly, I read it was around built with 24 parts and the greatest challenge was to get it to work with so few. The closest i got to it was this: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KJakker 910 Posted December 23, 2021 (edited) This should help you. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A"Bureau+of+Naval+Weapons" Looks like they have manuals and patents related to sidewinder. Edit: These may also help. https://archive.org/details/fire-control-equipment-manuals/ Edited December 23, 2021 by KJakker 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macelena 1,070 Posted December 23, 2021 7 hours ago, KJakker said: This should help you. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A"Bureau+of+Naval+Weapons" Looks like they have manuals and patents related to sidewinder. Edit: These may also help. https://archive.org/details/fire-control-equipment-manuals/ Thanks a lot! There a lot of stuff to milk out there Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KJakker 910 Posted December 23, 2021 Happy to help. Keep us updated on your project. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites