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  1. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    @asianobserve You believe that ARM is the future of SEAD but not even the US believes that and are developing a missile very similar to the Smartglider concept of France. The Gray Wolf program seeks to develop low-cost, subsonic cruise missiles that use open architectures and modular design to...
  2. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    I keep repeating a fact because it is a fact. An anti-radiation missile does not have a seeker sensitive enough to detect and intercept an AESA radar at stand-off ranges. The payload big enough to do that would have to go on nothing smaller than an MQ-9. At that point it becomes useless to have...
  3. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    Once it is done with the Tornado it is not going to have an ARM capability. There are no plans to integrate AARGM on the Eurofighter. There is not going to be a follow-up programme. ARMs are obsolete in the age of AESA. We will give access of CERES to our European allies and they can use...
  4. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    A modification kit for missiles with a limited shelf life on an aircraft to be retired in the near future is not exactly a replacement. It is more like a short-term stopgap.
  5. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    Poppy was proposed and developed by the Naval Research Laboratory and run by the Department of the Navy. It was declassified years ago. You assume incorrectly. If they want access to it they will have to contribute. Either way it will still be funded, it is in the White Paper as a national...
  6. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    It took you two hours to come up with that? Poppy was for naval tracking and never achieved the desired accuracy, it was launched one at a time. PARCAE was the 80s constellation that used triangulation and was only ever for naval tracking. It was never sensitive enough to overcome the ground...
  7. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    INT simply stands for intelligence, do you know what that is? Listening to signals is a different function than tracking signals. You cannot track LPI radar from high orbit. It has to be done in LEO or suborbital depending on the sensitivity of the sensor package. You can keep beating your US...
  8. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    So according to that logic you're saying the Wright Brothers invented the aeroplane 80 years before the Rafale so it must be equivalent. The difference in technology between the Wright Flyer and the Rafale is the difference between US 1960s SIGINT and the CERES constellation coming in 2020...
  9. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    S-300 conducts LPI by frequency hopping but the beam mapping is still strong enough for AARGM to detect. The scatter effect of an AESA is no stronger than the ambient radiation of the environment at any decent range. I did read some literature, probably the same one you did and it said the...
  10. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    The Russians and Chinese have yet to employ AESA radars. It is only a short matter of time before they do and ARM missiles will be obsolete.
  11. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    The new ARMs can only target it with its own MMW in the terminal phase, or the last few seconds of flight. For all the time before that it still operates as a legacy ARM. The way that works is by zigzagging along the beam of electromagnetic radiation. AARGM is more sensitive than the last but...
  12. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    The future of radar based SAM systems is AESA. That is going to be the end of the anti-radiation missile as it cannot track a thousand scattered beams. France excepted this reality long ago with the retirement of the Martel. Our current solution is to use Spectra to acquire radar location and...
  13. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    To add to your idea it would be wise to spread out the battery to make it harder to target all of the elements. A high quality data link will let them talk over a wide area while making it harder to target and destroy. The legacy SAM sites were a perfect target for cluster bombs.
  14. Armand2REP

    Anti-Radiation Missiles vs. Radars

    @asianobserve What are you going to do with an armoured radar? The mast cannot be armoured as it would interfere with reception. Radars are the most fragile equipment on the battlefield. It increases weight, delays deployment time and will not save it from an airstrike. As air defence radars...
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