Harm doesn't have a ramjet engine and Akbaba looks nothing like HARM. When you have NATO standard Mk81 as the baseline you won't have radically different geometry for a small-diameter bomb.
As far as I know, this is not true. Kalkan has electronic scanning on a single axis. Aselsan used it as a stepping stone and switched to electronic scanning on 2 axes.
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Against what? Against 50 square meter B-52 or against 1 square meter fighters. Its range against fighter-sized targets is shared above.
but i didn't understand one thing : if by example i had an AIM-120 AMRAAM missile with a range of about 105 km and the lock on range is below 90 km , how am i gonna use the weapon ? or maybe the 90 km range is for shorter ones like the AIM-9X Sidewinder IIThe equipment used in an-apg83 radar has a signal range of 370km.
But there is also the detection range of target (knowing what your target is and where it is.)
This detection range , according to below site is 65 nautical miles (120km).
And the range of locking on to a target in real world. That, according to what @Afif has posted, is under 50 nautical miles (under 90km).APG-83 AESA Radars to Improve F-16 Air-to-Air, Air-to-Ground Performance - Avionics International
The Northrop Grumman AN/APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR) for U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters by Lockheed Martin is to provide 5th generation radar features akin to those of the […]www.aviationtoday.com
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let's say against an Su-30 which has a gigantic RCS
Somewhere between 120-150km depending on the RCS of Su-30 ( approx. 4 square meters).
oh , so the detection range is dependent on the RCS of the enemy plane
Well, you don't.
so the weapon launching is also dependent on the RCS of the plane and the detection range of the radar
i would say that Su-30 has a bigger RCS, (around 8-10 range)
some say 5-14
Yes, you wont be getting a weapons lock without a radar lock, but there are some "modern" instances where you can use other aircraft radar via datalink to guide your missiles, we can give Kızılelma using TF-X radar to launch a missile as an example
it is also dependant on how good your radar and return dB is, (lower the return dB, lower the minimum signal that can be detected) T/R modules increase the resolution and protection against EW, also makes you able to allocate more antennas for EW or ED
that's why it would play a decent role as a wingman for future 5th and 6th gen fighters , a cost-effective substitute for some models like the MQ-28 Ghost Bat or the XQ-58 Valkyrie
Exactly, somewhat external sensors for the 5/5.5/6 gen aircraft, making them able to combat without risking the main aircraft
