By combining two existing technologies, Russian engineers have devised what could be the world’s deadliest air-to-air missile. And the U.S. military doesn’t have anything like it … or adequate defenses. Designers at the Detal bureau, part of the state-owned Tactical Missile Munitions Corporation, added an active electronically-scanned array radar—a so-called “AESA”—to the nose of a long-range R-77 missile to produce the K-77M model. Thanks to its new guidance sensors, the K-77M is way more accurate than other missiles.
How accurate? Flying 40 miles or more, the K-77M should be able “to maintain lock on even the most agile maneuvering target,” according to one scientist and defense specialist in the Pacific region whose country’s laws prohibit him from speaking on the record about weaponry. In light of the scientist’s expertise, War is Boring agreed not to publish his name.
בתגובה להודעה מספר 2 שנכתבה על ידי strong1 שמתחילה ב "Pilots: Russia’s New Dogfighting Missile Can’t Miss"
אז לקחו טיל א"א רגיל מונחה מכ"מ אקטיבי ופשוט חידשו לו את המכ"מ לסוג AESA, וישר אומרים שהוא הכי טוב בעולם?
זו כתבה ישנה והאתר לא אמין בעליל. warisboring ידועים בדיסאינפורמציה ולרוב נשמעים לא יותר מחובבנים.
נערך לאחרונה ע"י ariel_zuk בתאריך 21-07-2016 בשעה 22:58.
Germany’s V-2 ballistic missile was one of the most remarkable weapons of WWII, years ahead of it’s time. After the war, the US Army and civilian agencies fired captured examples for research, both military and scientific. Less well-known is that the US Navy fired one example off an aircraft carrier
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have become an essential support element, providing Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance prior, during and after air strikes. But current platforms are too slow and vulnerable to operate in contested airspace. The US Air Force and DARPA are looking at new concepts of operations that will enable unmanned platforms to support the future air component in all operational environments.
One such concept is the use of air-launched UAS program is the Gremlins, a DARPA initiative to develop reusable a air launched Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). In March 2016 the agency awarded technology research contracts to four teams to explore different approaches, innovative technologies and systems enabling aircraft to launch volleys of low-cost, reusable UASs, and safely and reliably retrieve them in mid-air.
The lethal A-10 Warthog now comes with added firepower. Thanks to an urgent request, A-10s and F-16s in Afghanistan are now armed with the new APKWS laser-guided rockets, giving them a deep magazine of high-precision weapons. The APKWS or Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System is a guided version of the veteran 2.75-inch Folding Fin Aerial Rocket, an old-school rocket that has been in service since 1948. The original FFAR was created for air-to-air fighting but rapidly became a mainstay of the air-to-ground arsenal in Korea, Vietnam, and subsequent wars. It's especially effective from helicopter gunships. The basic version is the M-151 "ten pounder," so named because of its 10-pound high explosive warhead.