Originally Posted By: ckfinite
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Strongly disagree, as I never heared of an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye giving mid-course update commands for any Patriot missiles...


The E-2D is intended to provide targeting information to the SM-6, see here and here. This data is accurate enough to provide targeting information to the launching ship, enabling midcourse updates similar to those employed by SM-2 (via the CEC datalink), just against targets beyond the radar horizon (Friedman, The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapon Systems 5e, p. 175).

A similar capability for either IADS surface EW elements or for A-50/A-100 would be similarly valuable for 40N6, and probably for 48N6 as well, if an active radar seeker was developed for it.


If you drop the requirement of SAGG endgame guidance, and you are capable of creating an active guidance package (real one, not just marketing), than it is doable...
... just took the US over a decade to develop AMRAAM, and still nobody could reliably replicate it.

Using the AMRAAM as an endgame solution, you can even build a complete SAM system without any Fire Control Radar!
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like NASAMS

Last edited by Hpasp; 04/26/15 06:56 AM.
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