flanker143
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cant we use it as an lr sam ??
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cant we use it as an lr sam ??
Range for head on, launched from a fast moving platform towards a non maneuvering target at high altitude would be much greater than for being launched stationary platform, from low altitude, towards maneuvering target. Many other factors also get involved.
Can you explain it a bit more ? I dont think its true. A missile can be jammed regardless of whether a country has brought a missile or not... If that were the case IAF would not have answer to AIM 120 C.
Aircrafts such as growler does jam the radars of the aircrafts that fires the missiles -- if they can jam the radars , then pretty much they can jam the missiles fired from the aircrafts.
Astra is active guidance system BVR missile. Active guidance BVR missiles can be jammed unless the missile has a capability to home in on the equipment that is trying to generate the jamming signals.
For example :-
AIM 120 C5 is a active guidance BVR missile. However the great thing about this missile is , if a aircraft tries to JAM the missile then AIM 120 changes its guidance and homes in on the source which is trying to send the jamming signals.
ASTRA doesnt have this capability , as far as i know it is just another active guidance missile.
it's an air to air missile.whats it for?
When I said that if we don't have a missile we can't jam it?!!!! Ofcourse a missile can be jammed without having it but when an A2A missile is exported their is possibility that the frequency of the homing head can identified by that country and can develop specific jammer for that kind of frequencies also can test on the missile in real time. So it makes quite easier for the EW systems of the aircraft to jam the missile.
So its better to have a foreign fighter armed with indigenous missiles.
There were some reports that China developed jammers for some Russian missiles they have.
Many many thanks for the info Sir!
Ok I will reply to you but first can you pls tell me what is ECCM? And what it does for a missile like AIM 120C, as seems like you are very familiar with the missile? And how AIM 12C turns from active homing missile to anti-radiation missile? what gives it such capability?