Friday, 1 October 2021

Long-Range Air to Air Missiles : Guidance, Radars and Datalink

Normally, the targets of long-range air to air missiles (LR AAM) were bigger aircrafts like AWACS, transport or aerial refuellers because of their bigger radar size and hence they can be tracked by AI radars of fighters at around 150 km range. Also LR AAM needed a big and powerful radar on the side of firing aircraft, implying that conventionally only big aircrafts could carry such heavy missiles.