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No need to speculate: "As described by Dassault Electronique, the passive radar seeker would be used to HOME in on the emitting air-defence radar"

Again, Germany had no own development, it was a joint one and that's the base of Armiger, with the same dual mode seeker and the same Ramjet propulsion base and no relation to HARM. Just because you want to link everything to the US somehow, it doesn't mean it's true.

:biggrin2: That's why I said that it was renamed, but it still was a joint development, which included French technology and I already explained why it was so expensive. Germany moved on alone, but the missile was too advanced, to be cost-effective.

Because Armiger was not the name of the initial project, but Aramis: https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/anti-radiation-missiles-9991/ https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/seeing-double-27656/ Which lead to Armiger and it's "shark jaw" seeker design: Lol, you really need to...

We only have Russian Kh 31 so far, which also can be used only by MKI and since the upgrade from Mig 29 as well. DRDO has an own missile in development and testing, but there were reports about weight issues. If we add SPICE 250 to Rafale, we could make it more useful for SEAD, but given the low...

It was a joint programme with France, but it was (as often with European projects) too advanced! It was based on Meteor, with the same Ramjet propulsion, but contrary to the AAM, here the range and not the speed was the aim. Apart of the propulsion, they had developed a dual mode seeker, to...