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Old 18th Jul 2012, 09:15
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Lima Juliet
 
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The Iranians are very good at adapting all sorts of things to fit - here is an open source picture of a Hawk Surface-To-Air Missile (SAM) that was adapted to be fired from an Iranian F14.



Also, if carrying some "lash-up" like that above, a speed of 350kts may be quite reasonable if a full envelope trial has not been done. Furthermore, pulse-doppler RADARs are good at measuring speed in lock, but not so great in search - the aircraft could be doing 300kts but the RADAR shows 350-400kts whilst tracking it in some form of wide area tracking mode. Finally, engaging at min range would not help as anti-ship missiles have a long range - even smallish ones like Excocet (remember the loss of SHEFFIELD? It never saw the Super Etendard).

Get the picture?

LJ

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