You would want to detect the BVR as early as possible. BVR seeker gets switched on at around 25KM or less. You have very less time if your relay on RWR to tell you about the BVR. What if the BVR has IR, like Mica-IR? We will soon be having Astra-IR with 2 way datalinkandy B wrote: In your previous post you note about a su30 targetting and an lca firing off an astra. Based on my limited knowledge, once the targets rwr (and obviously there are very sophisticated sets of rwrs available that include esm meausers) detects FCR why would the target not initiate immediate evasive maneuvers? No one would wait to find out. What am i missing here saar?
Also the f16s radars job isnt to identify a bvr munition coming its way. Thats again the job of the rwr/ecm/esm measures. Afaik their antennas are distributed across the airframe in order to avoid blind spots.
Based on public information available we are far away from deploying any capability where awacs start acting as targeting platforms given operating frequencies are different.
I would imagine first we would need to harmonise and deploy a fleet wide data link right?
Regarding the FCR, yes the adversary can keep dodging the track, but he is there to fight a war. It would be great to keep the adversary flying around trying to break the lock. You just wait for him to run out of fuel and he will fly back. Nowadays you have TWS(track while scan), to make this dodging business difficult. There is never a perfect BVR hit, you fire one (either yourself or from another platform), at the highest probability of hit based on your training.
The hit probability is the highest, when he doesn't know there is one coming his way..
Netra AWACS with S band can pass on tracking info to Su30/LCA, which can feed constant positional info through the jet in to Astra. Once astra gets close enough to the target, it can switch on it's seeker. I presume in future, Netra can directly guide a BVR.
S band is the same frequency as on MFStar, which Barak8 uses for positional updates. If Barak8 can do it, so can Astra.