Other way round, Soviet radars with western SAM's. Ukraine is damn near out of Soviet AA stocks, hence why mothballed AIM-9's are being jerry rigged to BUK's.
Absolutely insane to take in the fact that within 2 years, all those Soviet stocks were near gone.
>Other way round, Soviet radars with western SAM's.
Yeah, and this is potentially much better too. It's worth noting as an anon in another thread pointed out that at least some models of the PAC-2 (GEM+ probably) have effectively a ghetto anti-radiation mode, where you can tell them once they reach an area to then target whatever is transmitting the most. Dunno what the original idea for that was or if it was just basically a freebie (they have sensors anyway) for tactical flexibility, but it's conceivable that one of those could get lobbed into an area with an AWACS and find the thing itself. Over an ocean in open sky the AWACS would easily be the strongest transmitter for a very great distance. Intelligent operators might see it coming and go dark, but >russians
Radar is essentially a big lens or loudspeaker. Just like you can hook a digital camera to old lens, you just hook an SDR with proper code to power amplifier and it will perform the same function. Specs like bandwidth, scan angles, noise floor, beam width will be different, but besides some super exotic modes it can all be taken into account.
Maybe you won't pinoint kinzhals with 360 degree view, but can do the same patriot radar can if you look at god damn airliner within 90 degree window.
I wouldn't be surprised they incorporated Western radar.
usually the other way around. a point not yet mentioned itt unless i'm blind, in addition to what
Other way round, Soviet radars with western SAM's. Ukraine is damn near out of Soviet AA stocks, hence why mothballed AIM-9's are being jerry rigged to BUK's.
Absolutely insane to take in the fact that within 2 years, all those Soviet stocks were near gone.
mentioned: soviet mobile radars are comparatively compact and attritable. up against a soviet adversary, old disused slavshit boxes are good enough. and you can afford to lose them on a scale you can't afford to lose western radars.
This makes sense, use Russian radars near the front where they'll probably get hit and keep the western radars in the rear protecting power plants and cities.
Without knowing what it actually is, you can't really say. If they managed to make a sparrow work as-is with the sa-11 illumination radar, it's fricking great. If they just took something like an aspide launcher with its associated illumination radar and bolted it to the back of an sa-11 launcher then it doesn't really do much other than leverage the existing sa-11 command equipment and search radars. This is still a plus, but it's not as big as it could be.
Uncle UkropSam
Is it just Soviet SAM on western chassis or does it use western radar?
I wouldn't be surprised they incorporated Western radar.
Other way round, Soviet radars with western SAM's. Ukraine is damn near out of Soviet AA stocks, hence why mothballed AIM-9's are being jerry rigged to BUK's.
Absolutely insane to take in the fact that within 2 years, all those Soviet stocks were near gone.
No sense in wasting a perfectly good launcher system.
>Other way round, Soviet radars with western SAM's.
Yeah, and this is potentially much better too. It's worth noting as an anon in another thread pointed out that at least some models of the PAC-2 (GEM+ probably) have effectively a ghetto anti-radiation mode, where you can tell them once they reach an area to then target whatever is transmitting the most. Dunno what the original idea for that was or if it was just basically a freebie (they have sensors anyway) for tactical flexibility, but it's conceivable that one of those could get lobbed into an area with an AWACS and find the thing itself. Over an ocean in open sky the AWACS would easily be the strongest transmitter for a very great distance. Intelligent operators might see it coming and go dark, but
>russians
It should throw the Russians a curveball. Their defenses are designed to fight Western systems, not hybrids.
Not even AIM-9's, they're duct-taping Sea Sparrows to them.
Just goes to show how moronic Jihadi Julian and NYT journos quoting him are.
Radar is essentially a big lens or loudspeaker. Just like you can hook a digital camera to old lens, you just hook an SDR with proper code to power amplifier and it will perform the same function. Specs like bandwidth, scan angles, noise floor, beam width will be different, but besides some super exotic modes it can all be taken into account.
Maybe you won't pinoint kinzhals with 360 degree view, but can do the same patriot radar can if you look at god damn airliner within 90 degree window.
usually the other way around. a point not yet mentioned itt unless i'm blind, in addition to what
mentioned: soviet mobile radars are comparatively compact and attritable. up against a soviet adversary, old disused slavshit boxes are good enough. and you can afford to lose them on a scale you can't afford to lose western radars.
This makes sense, use Russian radars near the front where they'll probably get hit and keep the western radars in the rear protecting power plants and cities.
Slavic techno sorcerers strike again
The US is just testing radar spoofing EW, there is no FrankenSAM.
It’s pretty cool smekalka
Without knowing what it actually is, you can't really say. If they managed to make a sparrow work as-is with the sa-11 illumination radar, it's fricking great. If they just took something like an aspide launcher with its associated illumination radar and bolted it to the back of an sa-11 launcher then it doesn't really do much other than leverage the existing sa-11 command equipment and search radars. This is still a plus, but it's not as big as it could be.
That's a photoshop.
It's a great way of getting rid of ancient sea sparrows
I have yet to see any evidence these things exist, besides harm and storm shadows on modified su-24m