Hallo everybody,
I have read about the Brimstone Anti Armor Missile. It is described as a fire and forget missile with an active missile guidance system based on an active MMV seaker.
How does this work?
I am well aware about the working principles of RADAR and that you can use dopler radars to detect moving ground targets because of the dopler shift they create.
But what about stationary targets? Can Brimstone only attack moving vehicles?
Anybody can explain this to me?
By: Standard SAM - 5th June 2007 at 10:51
Sounds like some quite advanced detection algorythms and a lot of computing power packed into a comparatively small missile.
What impresses me most is the ability to identify a target by itself. I got a chance to get a demonstration of the new battlefield RADAR for the Bundeswehr
Targets are only detected by their dopler-shift, imaging is not possible, target classification done is manualy by translating the dopler-shift into sound and the operator must decide wether the sound is characteristic for a wheeled vehicle, tracked vehicle, helicopter, etc.
Ok ist works but it takes a skilled operator.
By: Distiller - 4th June 2007 at 21:50
It’s not quite so easy. It’s not a positive-ID-only database. That wouldn’t work, since you would have to have the MMW signature of all potential targets in a multitude of aspect angles, and that could easily be changed by adding reflectors. It is more like a general apparence database, so that the missile doesn’t go for funny shaped rocks or whatever. Good ID for example are tracks and multi-wheel signatures, or gun turrets. But to let the missile seek out its target after launch is not as fail safe as the usual method of firing with launch-after-lock-on, where the main work of IDing the target is done by the launch vehicle. Not sure about Brimstone, but MMW Hellfire also has home-on-jamming and home-on-communication capability. One parameter seldom does the work, so you try to take more to make sure you’re not engaging decoys.
By: Standard SAM - 4th June 2007 at 06:37
Thank you very much for your answers.
This mode of operation seemsto be rather ECM resistant, because only reacts to items in its database.
Was Brimstone ever used in combat and if yes, how effective is it?
:confused:
By: Nicolas10 - 3rd June 2007 at 20:43
… the missile has a onboard database of how its targets looks like from various angles.
Just hire the A-team to build/modify your vehicles and your brimstone is rendered pretty much useless :diablo:
By: Distiller - 3rd June 2007 at 19:51
MMW radar gives you enough resolution to discern technical objects from nature. And the missile has a onboard database of how its targets looks like from various angles.
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