Tartiflette Fan

AARM ? A mongel variant of HARM and AMRAAM ? I would certainly expect a HARM missile to home on those signals: that is its purpose, it is not GPS-guided.

What frequencies would be used for tank-to-tank or tank-to-base communications /

osbo

AGM-88G AARGM-ER is the latest version of HARM in the late testing phase. Also ordered by Finland.

HARMs since the B version have had GPS as part of their guidance system for navigation where there is no emitter or the emitter shuts down. The replacement for HARM is in development - google Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW).

B Fraser

With winter looming, they'll be easy to spot at quite a distance.

albatross

There is a maritime portable variant! Seen off the coast of Southern France during the successful testing phase.

Apologies to the moderators if deemed inappropriate and deleted.

langleybaston

nice cap

T28B

After zero much deliberation, this post was ruled as "of interest to military aviators, on topic."

RatherBeFlying

The male visual cortex produces a powerful homing signal.

sycamore

It`s called a `bow-wave`....

SASless

So off topic......but all things considered I would suggest the Mods might consider opening a thread for a proper (now that sounds like a contradiction) discussion re the points raised in the post.

We would not want to see a brief and cursory consideration to them.....would we?

Lonewolf_50

The other cortex's signal has more gain, though.
(Is this where Graham Chapman interrupts and protests "Stop It, this getting silly!" or words to that effect?)

Tartiflette Fan

That probably wasn't within his field of vision - or interest !

Saab Dastard

Stick to the points, please gentlemen!

albatross

Yes, outstanding good idea.
Just thought that with all the bad news in the world a little uplifting humour was needed.
Now ”Back to the half filled stadium of reality.”
I always remember a comedic news report:
“There was peace in the world for 5 minutes today! Unfortunately it turned out everyone was just pausing to reload.”

NutLoose

Re the jammers, I have seen this image posted of a van set up during testing, it makes you think they may have a very narrow effective field of cover.




https://www.armyrecognition.com/defe...ntent=cmp-true

ORAC

Thoughts on the reason for the air movements in and out of Kaliningrad..

A few thoughts about unusually heavy air traffic to and out of the Kaliningrad Oblast. A 🧵

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Related thread, from an interview with the Ukrainian army CinC by General Mick Ryan

​​​​​​​“The war is now moving to a new stage: what we in the military call “positional” warfare of static and attritional fighting, as in the first world war, in contrast to the “manoeuvre” warfare of movement and speed.” An interview with @CinC_AFU….

ORAC

Naval camouflage…. 🤔🤔🤔

ORAC

🤡🤡🤡🤡

​​​​​​​Shoigu reported that Russian air defense units shot down 37 Ukrainian planes - just a week after shooting the previous 24.

He has already made calculations for destroying F-16s that aren't in Ukraine yet.….

EDLB

For the GPS frequencies from 1175 to 1575MHz those single cones do not yield much directivity. Because they are not much larger than the wavelength. I would guess that directivity/gain is less than 10dB for a single cone, so given the necessary power of a jammer you an neglect the directivity.

Sallyann1234

Since they don't know the direction of the incoming threat, they do have to cover a very wide beamwidth in total.

ORAC

Don’t think tanks are jamming GPS as they are moving targets. - these are C-UAS jammers in the frequency range from 900-2,000MHz

https://www.unmannedairspace.info/co...rs-in-ukraine/