That’s a Falcon 9 – i.e. something 50% larger than the biggest military ballistic missile ever operationally deployed. Short of the sun, IR targets don’t come much easier than this.
What stands to reason is that if it was as simple as all that there would not need to be air-to-air modes for EOTS on the F-35 and neither would EODAS manufacturer NG find it necessary to acquire distribution rights to PIRATE, me thinks.
At the moment they don’t have the telescopic optics part. I’m sure there is more to it in terms of how you operate the two together. I already shown details for the Sun vs a Rocket, you can play around with rocket size a bit in the calculation but it makes no difference. And please remember that space is a vacuum so IR attenuation is nothing like what it is in the atmosphere.
EOTS is needed for even better range and identification. It’s also needed for ground target lasing.
Well, according to lukos NG is only a few minor mods away from turning EODAS into a credible alternative to the likes of PIRATE 😉
Never said that, you’re making stuff up. Selex ES has obviously been enlisted for a reason.
I don’t think the idea is to necessarily bother the own-ship pilot with this info but automatically contribute TBM detections to an early warning and launch site location network. Which is an eminently sensible capability that should make Scud hunting a great deal easier – the problem only starts when people confuse the ability find an enormous SLV at hundreds of miles (or a representative TBM at indeterminate range) with searching for and tracking *other aircraft* at long ranges.
Depends what ranges we’re talking about. 800nmi – no way it could see an aircraft at that or even half that, but circa 25nmi isn’t inconceivable, especially if it’s in afterburner.
The problem is that when you combine EODAS with telescopic optics in order to achieve better range, you will inevitably lose FOV. So, instead of spherical coverage you will end up with something like this.. I don’t think that would be too useful..
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Which is another reaosn why they have both on the F-35.
You undoubtedly lose FoV with telescopic optics, never debated this.
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