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How the U.S. Military's New Ship-Killing Missile Turns Targets' Radar Against Them
2017-12-08
The Pentagon’s newest anti-ship missile uses technology from the B-2 stealth bomber to home in on and sink enemy ships. The Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), the U.S. Military’s first new anti-ship missile in more than thirty years, homes in on the very radar signals an enemy ship broadcasts to defend itself. The result is a missile that can work in so-called "denied" environments when navigational assets such as the Global Positioning System are unavailable.

The Navy’s main anti-ship missile, the Harpoon, first entered service in 1977. Called an "anti-ship cruise missile," the Harpoon launched from a ship, aircraft, or submarine, and uses an active radar system to detect enemy ships and home in on them. Although progressively updated over the years, Harpoon has grown pretty long in the tooth and is due for a replacement.

The active radar guidance system on many older anti-ship missiles has always been problematic. Anti-ship missiles are launched in the enemy’s direction and fly close to the surface to the water‐in the case of Harpoon just thirty feet above the wavetops‐in order to stay off the enemy’s radar screens for as long as possible.
Posted by:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

#2  Old idea. Anti-radiation missiles have been around a long time and work well against SAM and AAA radars.

The air defense people got smart and set up 3-4 radars and turn them off and on at different times and the targeting system shares the data.

Then the attackers got smarter and programmed the missiles to go for the last location of that certain radar type/bandwidth.

Then the defenders got mobile radars.

Then the attack set up the missiles to loiter until they detect the signal.

Been fun times for all.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-12-08 09:13  

#1  Ok so I’m assuming the Chinese have already stolen the design and are now capable of the same thing?
Posted by: Dino Omomp5550   2017-12-08 09:06  

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