The Ruhrstahl Kramer X4 or RK 344 was one of the earliest air2air missiles and heavily influenced the design of cold war ATGMs

How it worked and which effects were utilised in its design is explained in this video.
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Use the timestamps if you only want to see how a single component worked.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:14 what was X4
2:48 History
6:00 Components
7:07 Rocket
9:13 Magnetism
11:38 Guidance system
19:24 Fuze (Kranich)
23:03 Production
24:38 X4 Mission
26:16 Influence
27:21 END

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IMAGES
all animations were made by me in blender
videos of flying planes were recorded in the game IL-2 Sturmovik 1946
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Mattias Billemyr / Marinmuseum (Swedish Naval Museum)
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Kaboldy
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The original uploader was B. Huber at German Wikipedia
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CeeKay
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