Does Derby have a datalink / MCU capability?
Most people say it doesn’t have a datalink / MCU capability, being able only to have INS orientation if the LOAL is used. This would be a quite serious handicap.
BUT there’s an advertisement by Rafael in a Brazilian magazine (Revista Força Aérea, n. 36, set 2004) clearly saiyng “receptor de data-link”, which obviously translates as “datalink receptor”.
Other Rafael advertisements, from 2005, don’t mention any kind of datalink.
What are your opinions? There seems to be a generalized opinion about the Derby not having datalink / MCU capability, in most military / aviation online mags and forums, but that ad clearly goes against that.
By: SOC - 6th June 2005 at 14:08
Derby does have a datalink. The information was in Jane’s Missiles and Rockets, December 2001. Eitan Barzilai, Marketing Manager of Rafael’s Air-to-air Directorate, stated that when the Derby was unveiled in May or 2001 the datalink capability (which they do refer to as an up-link, as is seen in the picture somebody posted above) was still classified.
By: Peter G - 6th June 2005 at 03:23
JALW mentions the datalink.
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th June 2005 at 07:40
IIRC Ads issued for Derby in Indian def mags (Vayu?) used the word “data-link”.
Just too lazy to find the old issues and look them up.
By: Charlie Echo - 23rd May 2005 at 03:37
I thought Jane’s reported a while back that there was in fact a midcourse update, even though it wasn’t mentioned at first when the Derby was revealed?
That’s interisting, as Pit mentioned in this ACIG thread, page 2:;
http://www.acig.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3191
He quoted JALW. Does anyone of you have this Jane’s text, or a confirmation of its existance?
By: bring_it_on - 23rd May 2005 at 03:29
Could it be absent in the export version?
By: SOC - 23rd May 2005 at 03:24
I thought Jane’s reported a while back that there was in fact a midcourse update, even though it wasn’t mentioned at first when the Derby was revealed?
By: bring_it_on - 23rd May 2005 at 03:20
http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/missile_systems/air_missiles/derby/Derby.html
does not mention MCU capability..However if it is not present i bet there are some serious efforts to Add one..The isreilis are known to be working on several varients of the Alto , the derby being the export version…Lack of a MCU is a serious disadvantage specially when modern missiles being developed have 2-way datalinks.
By: Charlie Echo - 23rd May 2005 at 03:19
Could this Up Link Receiver indicate the presence of a datalink?
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