December 1, 201015 yr From Jane's China discloses new SD-10 combat capabilities By Robert Hewson 01 December 2010 China's SD-10 beyond visual range air-to-air missile (AAM) may be a considerably more capable weapon than has hitherto been believed. Officials from the SD-10's manufacturer, the Luoyang Electro-Optical Technology Development Centre (LOEC), say the SD-10 was designed from the beginning to function with a dual-mode seeker operating in distinct active and passive radar homing modes. If so, the SD-10 (and current production SD-10A) are the first AAMs to enter service with this acknowledged capability. In lengthy discussions with LOEC at the Airshow China 2010 in Zhuhai between 16-21 November, the operating modes of the SD-10 were described to Jane's in detail. The missile has an active-radar terminal homing capability which has been public knowledge since the first details of the SD-10 were officially released in the middle of the last decade. What has remained unspoken until now is the missile's claimed ability to home in on radar or electronic warfare emissions from the target aircraft, without support from the launch aircraft or use of the missile's own active seeker modes. [CV32: Emphasis mine] A LOEC official told Jane's that the passive mode was not intended to be the missile's primary targeting method - and cited the risks to friendly aircraft when relying on passive guidance mode alone. It is not clear if the SD-10's seeker can continuously alternate between active and passive modes in flight, or if it makes a less sophisticated 'one time' switch. [CV32: 'Unspoken' by the Chinese perhaps. Jane's own Air Launched Weapons was reporting a passive 'home on jam' capability as early as 2003].
December 1, 201015 yr From Jane's China discloses new SD-10 combat capabilities By Robert Hewson 01 December 2010 China's SD-10 beyond visual range air-to-air missile (AAM) may be a considerably more capable weapon than has hitherto been believed. Officials from the SD-10's manufacturer, the Luoyang Electro-Optical Technology Development Centre (LOEC), say the SD-10 was designed from the beginning to function with a dual-mode seeker operating in distinct active and passive radar homing modes. If so, the SD-10 (and current production SD-10A) are the first AAMs to enter service with this acknowledged capability. In lengthy discussions with LOEC at the Airshow China 2010 in Zhuhai between 16-21 November, the operating modes of the SD-10 were described to Jane's in detail. The missile has an active-radar terminal homing capability which has been public knowledge since the first details of the SD-10 were officially released in the middle of the last decade. What has remained unspoken until now is the missile's claimed ability to home in on radar or electronic warfare emissions from the target aircraft, without support from the launch aircraft or use of the missile's own active seeker modes. [CV32: Emphasis mine] A LOEC official told Jane's that the passive mode was not intended to be the missile's primary targeting method - and cited the risks to friendly aircraft when relying on passive guidance mode alone. It is not clear if the SD-10's seeker can continuously alternate between active and passive modes in flight, or if it makes a less sophisticated 'one time' switch. [CV32: 'Unspoken' by the Chinese perhaps. Jane's own Air Launched Weapons was reporting a passive 'home on jam' capability as early as 2003]. According to the article, it's more than that, there's also the capability to home on radar emissions, Air to air HARM?
December 1, 201015 yr Author According to the article, it's more than that, there's also the capability to home on radar emissions, Air to air HARM? Yes, rather obvious from reading the article, no?
December 2, 201015 yr According to the article, it's more than that, there's also the capability to home on radar emissions, Air to air HARM? Yes, rather obvious from reading the article, no? And just how are you going to simulate that on HCDB...?
December 2, 201015 yr Author And just how are you going to simulate that on HCDB...? Good question. And, sigh, I cannot. (Yet, at least ... however, if enough folks add it to their 'wish list'. )
December 6, 201015 yr I believe that the Russians have an ARM version of AA-10. Anti-AWACS maybe but it seems a bit short ranged for that. You'd have to run the gauntlet of CAP and the AWACS screaming for help just to get a shot off. Later D
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