The development of anti-missile radar MAR-1 allowed the weapon currently has six September ups or modes of operation available for employees, chargeable to the FAB define which of them will be incorporated in the final version of the missile.
The most common are the targets of held autonomous search by the missile, which automatically identifies all electromagnetic emissions in the area of operations, classifying them into friends or enemies, and presenting them to the pilot, for the selection of a target; or to search for a specific target, selected among those existing in a large existing library in memory of the missile, updateable at any time.
The MAR-1 also has the ability to continue in attack on the target, even if it ceases its emissions. "We can identify a target using satellites to make a triangulation of your position, which then relay the information via data-link to the aircraft, which feeds the data into the missile.
But therein lies the question: who in Latin America or in Africa, our potential markets, has this technology for network-centric warfare? It does no good to put a missile capability in which no one will use. It will only cost the gun and decreases your chances of export "- says one of the engineers Mectron.
Asked if the gun has GPS system to ensure accuracy in the final attack, or if it has the parachute system to be used in the mode of attack against targets of opportunity, as the British ALARM, the company said that these figures are still secret. "What we can say is that the MAR-1 is a weapon of 350 kg, full of capabilities and does not look anything like the duty to any foreigner, overcoming inclusive, some of them. When the missile come into operation in the FAB and its capabilities are being developed, I'm sure that everyone is extremely proud of the exceptional weapon that building "- says an official of the company.
The scope that had been circulated in the press, which gave figures of 25 km for a launch to 30 thousand feet, the Mectron informs: "list is completely out of reality, are aerodynamic data from a study that were not updated. The current scope, demonstrated in tests, it is much, but much larger than this, and we will improve it further. To take an idea, recently make a test with a new engine that was so powerful it melted the mouthpiece of exhaustion and the rear portion of the missile, meaning that we had to redesign everything. Now, a real number set and I can not provide. It is confidential. "
The development has suffered various difficulties such as lack of national platform girométrica (navigation system direction of the gun) while seeking the target systems, this system has suffered embargoes while trying to purchase foreign forcing the technicians to develop the product in the country, starting from scratch, developed a block girométrico the miniaturized optical fiber with 3 orthogonal axes providing the central processing of weapon that the necessary information together with the accelerometer guarantee the accuracy of the equipment. The same occurred with the head of the search missile that when the Brazilian government tried to buy an American supplier, purchase that was clearly blocked by the U.S. government because "it is not interesting for the American defense Brazil introduce anti-radiation weapons in this region "Forcing the CTA to develop locally the head of search. The results achieved in tests and simulations was the head of that search is able to detect a low-power radar (a director of Skyguard shot) at distances over 500 km. The CTA used aircraft division HS 123 of the test flight simulators and emission TS 100 systems plus the Excalibur (05 to 18 GHZ).
Possible features (Wikipedia)
Characteristics
Reach More than 35 km to 30 000 feet.
Speed of Mach 0.5 to Mach Release 1.2
Lóbulos side angle of presentation of the radar antenna detected
60 ° angle of sight
Total length 4030 mm
Diameter 230 mm
Total weight 274 kg
Head of War 90 Kg
Guiding Passive
Fuze Active Laser
Manufacturer Mectron Industry and Trade