macelena 1,071 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 925 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 1,071 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 925 Posted December 23, 2021 Happy to help. Keep us updated on your project. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites