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Subject:
RE: Initial Question
Mark F
2/8/2004 9:04:58 PM
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Sea RAM replaces the gun with missiles. You can't fit both.
AMRAAM is actually in use as a ground-launched SAM and has been for several years. Norway uses it in combination with I-HAWK for airfield defense. In teh late-80's there was a little program called the NATO AAW missile (NAAWS) to replace the Sea Sparrow and Crotale for the NFR 90 frigate. It died but one of the losing proposals - an improved Sea Sparrow became ESSM while the Frech/Brits/Italian's went their own way with PAAMS using Aster missiles with various command systems and radars as per national taste. AMRAAM has never been seriously proposed as a shipboard weapon I suppose because to date there has been no requirement issued for it to meet.
In a shipboard environment I don't necessarily consider an active-homing anti-aircraft missile superior to one with semi-active terminal homing. True of aircraft yes, but not surface-to-air. I like the idea of a big, powerful smart radar on a ship doing most of the work, not a tiny little disposable radar on a missile. |
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