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shiny the main targets would be air defense systems similar to s-300 and radar instillations. I was wondering if it could be modified for anti-radiation missile type function?
The approach is nice, if India could manufacture something similar to the Harpy-2/harop, a smallish cheap UAV with a basic optical sensor and data-link to a ground control centre, it will be a nice weapon to have, do ISR when you have to and if something important shows up kill it then and there, no need to have sophisticated takeoff/landing routines just fire the thing up like a rocket and do a parachute landing.I assume after it is launched there is no getting it back, a bit like our (British) Fire Shadow (the Harpy may well be the basis for the Fire Shadow, as is suggested at the end of the article).
Also, can you make it so that it will go after some radar types over others, (target priority), to hit the radar that would present the largest threat to an airpackage for example (eg going after an SA-10 targeting radar over an SA-2 detection radar). Or would it go after the first radar it sees.
A bit of an oversimplification I know but still some insight would be appreciated.
I thought it was basically an anti-radiation missile, it does say that it that it is 'designed to detect, attack and destroy radar emitters.'shiny the main targets would be air defense systems similar to s-300 and radar instillations. I was wondering if it could be modified for anti-radiation missile type function?
Predator drones are retrievable and cant eavesdrop etc but Harpy is different I presume, I mean its one time use and its for SEAD. Is predator capable of dedicated SEAD???USA has Predator drones that they are currently using against pakistan it serves a different fuction, not sure about Russia.
Officially unveiling the HAROP loitering weapon at the Paris Air Show, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has announced receiving a contract to supply the HAROP Loitering Munition (LM) system to a foreign customer. Foreign sources hint the customer could be India. The contract is estimated to be worth over $100 million. Turkey is believed to be the launch customer for the HAROP, in 2005.
HAROP, a long endurance LM, can be launched from a variety of platforms. The expendable aerial vehicle combines the speed, precision and lethality of a guided missile with persistence, sensors and connectivity of a tactical UAV. HAROP can remain on a mission for six hours, performing area surveillance and reconnaissance, in support of specific area suppression and denial operations. It is fitted with an electro-optical payload, utilizing a high performance FLIR and color CCD, providing an electro-optical seeker, covering 360 degrees hemispherical field of regard. This sensor can search, detect and target, high value re-locateable, time critical, land or sea-based, moving targets, reporting their position with pinpoint accuracy, at long ranges.
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