for a maneuvering fighter sized target you’d need how many missiles like that? 10? 20? unless your oponent is totally unaware you’re shooting at him, your chances of hitting him are pretty much nil…
Hmmmmm
ASTER’s terminal dart is a lightweight, highly manoeuvring and agile missile equipped
with a high-performance active RF seeker. Thanks to the unique combination of
aerodynamic control and direct thrust vector control called “PIF-PAF, the missile is
capable of high g manoeuvres. Together, these features give ASTER an unmatched
hit-to-kill capability
CUDA solutions are very similar to the ones that we find in the ASTER family.
I agree, the CUDA is in the same boat as a F-15 Super stealth or whatever boeing has hinted. The main point here is that there has been some murmurs in the defense industry ever since Aim-120D —> JDRADM research that the Dod MAY be interested in a long term A2A weapon development. The CUDA is probably LMA’s foot in the door in case such a wish ever materialize.
Interested i am quite sure they are, if that translates into a totally new AAM for the foreseable future…
I could be entirely wrong but at least for the next decade anything other than low (Pentagon low) budget prototying and technology insertions into the AIM120/AIM9 will be quite a surprise.
1: nope, or at least if it is it ain’t in wide service yet. A longer range, stealthy cruise missile is still a weapon the indigenous industry has yet to demonstrate.
2: I am not sure if JH-7/As are tasked with recon, but short answer is no.
3: JH-7/As have been seen carrying multiple EW pods, with news reports that they are used in the escort jammer role.
LGBs with self designation, anti ship cruise missiles, land attack cruise missiles of various guidance modes, ARMs, SRAAM, dumb bombs etc are all common armament to both JH-7/A and most tornado IDS of various international air forces.
Anything in the JH-7 arsenal comparable to the 550+ km´s MBDA Taurus 350 and the Goodrich RAPTOR pod? Or something equivalent to the ECR electronic suite?
Honestly asked, my knowledge on Chinese aerospace is not exactly “sharp”.
Everything starts somewhere… and given the scale and importance of the F-35 program I expect there to be a great deal of interest in this missile or something very much like it.
Good luck with that.
Its not a program, there are no requirements, the Pentagon is broke… Excelent timing for the USAF and the US Navy to fund a new generation AAM, and one that its not needed at that.
More likely is that T-X will be merged with the Next-Generation Bomber program to take advantage of a common development path and economies of scale. As a concession to risk management, the aircraft will be required to take off vertically.
To be honest i´ve thought of that but i am expecting that this program will be merged with the US Navy F/A-XX not the USAF NGB. Merging it with a US Navy program makes some decent headlines on “Jointness”…
CUDA is a CAD design in LM´s computers.
Its not on any Pentagon budget, program, whatever, there´s not even a requirement for it, good luck…
Did you read the “low cost weapon” bit?!!!!
Given LM past history, if this CUDA transformed itself into actual hardware (it wont) i am wiling to bet that it would double the cst of one AIM120.
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