“This missile should be large enough to shoot down, i say put a Goal Keeper on the back of a AWACS!”

the vibrations from the goalkeeper firing would take out most of the sensitive radar and compter equipment on the AWACS and might even rip the fuselage apart without proper reinforcement. but a very original idea nonetheless.:)

do AWACS currently have towed decoys? the only ones i know of are mounted on fighters, and pilots still eject chaff and flares and do hard turning high G manovers to try and shake the missile.

😀 i just printed what u wroten. so there is a paper copy of it. 😉 but i dont have a scanner so i cant show u my copy. but u can always just print out ur own copy and have a look at it, it says exactly what u just written.:eek: 😀 :p

not a terribly good idea to just fly straight and level when there’s a missile comming at u. and besides, if neither a/c does much manovering, then the ‘lock on lead’ programme will not be used and the missile will have a 50/50 chance of hitting the right target.

not that simple, the UAV will have to fly close to the a/c its protecting or else the missile might ignore it completely; it cant fly too close or it might do the job of the enemy missile instead. and do remeber that itself and the AWACS will be doing highly unpredicatble and fast manuvers to try to throw off the incoming missile at this time. maned a/c would be hard pressed to do all that, and i strongely doubt that current UAV guidence tech is up for the job.

and besides, UAVs with endurance that can match AWACS’ have got to be the size of preditors, which costs millions apiece. add the cost of the new nav computers and sensors needed to do the job of imitating the AWACS intelegently and safely, and the bill might easily run into tens of millions. might be cheaper to just assign a fighter or two to each AWACS and have them go out and try to shoot down any incoming missiles.

this might be a little silly, but couldnt a very easy and seemingly foolproof way to netreulise towed decoy be to just have the missle lock onto the lead target and ignore the rest? towed decoys cant be at the front of the a/c towing it. (no matter how the a/c changes course, the towed decoy will always follwo suit, a computer programme to analyise and compair the movement of all the ‘targets’ and finding teh lead target shouldnt be that hard to write).