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Old 19th Jul 2012, 11:05
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Spudh
 
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I also fired a Skyflash at a target floating in Cardigan Bay ably supported by AI-24 FOXHUNTER; so if the Iranian Tomcat/Hawk combination is able to do the same then that 54kg warhead in the missile would do considerable damage.

Fair enough LJ, I didn't know A-A radar could lock up stationary targets, but then again the Foxhunter was at least a generation more modern than the AWG-9.

Everything I ever read about AWG-9 made me believe that while it could detect such targets as you've described using search mode that it used doppler mode in the look down/shoot down scenario and so couldn't lock up a target that had no speed relative to the ground return in targeting mode.

I thought this was one of the weaknesses of the AWG-9 which wasn't resolved until the F-14D came along with the APG-71. I'm open to correction here though.

Like you said 54kg of a warhead is no joke.
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