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- From: patrick.eves@canrem.com (Patrick Eves)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: af news svc 01/14/93
- Message-ID: <C1D89z.9H5@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:56:23 GMT
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- From Patrick Eves <patrick.eves@canrem.com>
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- >>From the news I heard the Iraq simply turn off their radar this
- >time and the HARMs missed their target. Can anyone confirm this
- >and if it is true then is there another way of knocking out
- >the Iraqi's AA radars ?
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- Hi Anthony,
-
- The HARM (High speed AntiRadiation Missle) was developed specifically because
- the previous antiradiation missle, the Shrike, was found to be too slow to
- hit a given radar site before well trained operators could shut down and break
- the missle's lock. If the Iraqis (and presumably others) are now getting fast
- enough to beat the HARM, then I suppose it's time to head back to the drawing
- board and develop a faster missle. Not much of a problem, really. The HARM
- is 15 year old technology, and it uses components originally developed for the
- Shrike, an even older system. A more powerful motor and faster lock-on would
- do the trick, as well as adding a "home on last known position" feature, similar
- to the one already used on laser guided GBUs.
-
- Pat
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