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AAM-4B ( AA missiles with AESA seeker )
The AAM-4B is fitted with a missile seeker featuring Active Electronically-Scanned Array (AESA) radar and a greatly improved data link
By incorporating AESA capabilities into the AAM-4B, it seems possible that Japan has designed a uniquely capable air-to-air missile. While most front-line fighters of today are outfitted with AESA, no known air-to-air missiles are similarly equipped.
Technical Research and Development Institute indicated that the AAM-4B could be launched from a far greater distance than the AAM-4, an increase in range of as much as 20 percent. The Institute also stated that activation of the AAM-4B’s autonomous guidance system would be possible from a range 40 percent greater than that possible with the AIM-120B AMRAAM. Also, the AAM-4B was reportedly designed to match or outperform the Russian AA-12 Adder. The enhanced performance of the AAM-4B is claimed to be partly the result of an increase in the level of power transmission incorporated in the AESA.
http://defense-update.com/20120314_japan-making-its-f-2-fighter-fleet-more-lethal.html
ASM-3 (stealth supersonic ramjet missiles with very small size )
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is currently developing the (X)ASM-3 high-speed anti-ship missile as a successor to Japan’s Type 93 (ASM-2). The new missile has an integrated solid propellant/ramjet motor and a range of 200 km. It reportedly includes a dual-mode imaging IR and active radar terminal seeker.
http://all-about-military.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/japans-asm-3-supersonic-anti-ship.html
Opher ( autonomous LOAL IR guider bomb )
“When a pilot arrives in the target areas he can release up to four Opher systems in the approximate direction of the target. The infra-red imaging seeker on the bombs then autonomously acquires the target and guides the bomb to it.
“This is a unique weapon; it can be used at day or night. Its also good for operations in the European scenario where low cloud interrupts the guidance of weapons that rely on line-of-sight targeting, such as laser guided bombs and optically-guided missiles.
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/opher-bomb-deployed-in-kosovo-52884/
Autonomous target acquisition – no target designation required before or after launch
Fire and Forget
Pilot friendly
Point target hit capability
Multiple bomb release per sortie
No A/C modification
Adverse weather capability
Convertible to LIZARD by switching to laser seeker
Targets: motorized vehicles, ships
The algorithm exploits object parameters such as geometry and intensity of the thermal signature to discriminate the target return soil. The kits are added to a dumb bomb Mk82 227kg of which now have a CEP of 120 cm against moving targets until 150m/ho resulting in at least one “mobility kill” leaving the target paralyzed.
The processor Opher has an algorithm to differentiate the types of target. A tank with the engine running can be differentiated from others with engine off. The combat car with engine running has priority acquisition because the other may have already been destroyed. A tank on fire is the last priority.
The Opher was integrated into the F-4E, A-4, F-15, F-16, Kfir, Mirage, AMX and MiG-21 Lancer
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May 26, 2013 at 2:21 pm