BrahMos cruise missile/ Indonesia

ferryman2393 SG

I am not surprised that the Indons or Malaysians would suddenly review in to acquisition of such weapons considering how Hezbollah managed to inflict significant damage to Israel using UNGUIDED rockets and missiles.

ATM was interested in MLRS way before the latest lebanon conflict. similarly with TNI-AD. the latter have some MBRL locally made but lack the range. seemed that some ATM's conventional new hardware were acquired after their stint in the balkans. things like artillery locating radars, bakhtar shikan, MLRS. nothing like a front row seat to see how the weapons performed...

ferryman2393 SG

Still, to be able use such a weapon, you still need extensive information in order to use it effectively. You can't just point it down a direction 300km away, and tell it to fly 260km and activate its radar and hit something. Something must see it at the distance of 300km, and tell it precisely where to go in the first place.

somebody mentioned KA-31 earlier. i'm not sure but it seemed that KA-28 with Alba-F radar has a 250km range against LARGE surface vessels (i'm being a parrot here). POSSIBLY KA-31 can do better.

and the helicopter need not be using its radar at full reach. information of the target is provided by secured data link to the launch platform (which can be, say 200 km away?) as well as the missile itself during its mid course update.

if in doubt, just use some fixed wing aircraft, with the necessary surface-scan radar of course. i think there're many types out there. no need satellites.

ferryman2393 SG

some read on Alba-F radar.

Another Phazotron-NIIR's achievement in building heliborne radars is the Alba-F long-range radar. The system became a basis for upgrading the Kamov Ka-28 shipborne helicopter's fire control system for firing the Kh-35 missile. Its top-notch performance make the Alba-F able to be integrated into various rotary-wing aircraft, including those flying search and rescue (SAR) missions. The Alba-F radar is designed for surface surveillance of both the land and sea. Whatever the sea state, the all-weather day/night system performs the following tasks: - monitoring and guarding the national border within a circular coverage area whose scan radius totals 250 km; - detecting maritime surface ships including pinpoint ones (life boats, speedboats, etc.); - coastline mapping as well as generating quality image of the coastal terrain within the specified angular domain; - identifying friend or foe and tracking 10 targets and determining their precise position within the all-round coverage area; - determining the positions of thunder-heads, showers and other meteorological phenomena; - detecting dangerous turbulent zone within the atmosphere; - conducting search and rescue operation in adverse weather. The Alba-F coherent-pulse X-band radar is a multimode system featuring high resolution and pulse-to-pulse carrier frequency tuning. The radar boasts the 20-m accuracy in range by virtue of compound signals with large bandwidth duration products. The bearing accuracy makes up 20 angular minutes owing to the mono-pulse direction-finding technique. The Alba-F's different operating modes ensure acquisition of large vessels with a radar cross section (RCS) of 3,000 m at a distance of 250 km in sea state 5; 550-m RCS medium ships at a range of 50 km; and 1-m RCS small craft at 30 km. To cap it all, the radar ensures coastal area mapping with 10-m resolution, while spotting thunder-heads, clouds and dangerous turbulent zones in the 'meteorological' operating mode.

as i said i'm being a parrot here. if it lied, i lied.

papabear20046 SG

Ka-31 cap

Ka-31 is fitted with the E-801M Oko (Eye) airborne electronic warfare radar which features a 6x1 meter planar array mounted beneath the fuselage. The radar is folded and stowed beneath the aircraft's fuselage before being lowered into a vertical position, to allow 360º mechanical scanning of the radar once every ten seconds. The radar can simultaneously track up to 20 airborne or surface threats, and can detect fighter-sized aircraft from a range of 110 - 115 km and surface ships at a horizon of 200 km from an altitude of 9840 feet. Some sources state that the radar allows detection of up to 200 targets at any one time and track targets 20 simultaneously, with detection range of aerial targets up to 80 nautical miles (150 km) and surface targets up to 135 nautical miles (250 km). Developed by the NIIRT (Nauchno-Issledovatelskiy Institut Radiotekhniki) Radio Scientific-Research Institute in Nizhny Novgorod, the radar antenna weighs 200 kg (441 lbs). The co-ordinates, speed and heading of a target gathered by the radar are transmitted via an encoded radio data-link channel to a ship-borne or shore-based command post.

This encoded radio data-link channel will enable airborne network centric warfare,due to its advanced real-time capability. The secure data-link and onboard communication systems have a range of 150 km, at altitudes between 4950 and 11,000 feet. Ka-31s are also being fitted out with the Abris GPS featuring a 12-channel receiver. The GPS is designed & developed by Kronstadt - a firm in St. Petersburg, Russia. Abris will provide all satellite navigation data. Other Kronstadt systems featured in the Ka-31 helicopter will include navigational equipment for digital terrain maps, ground-proximity warning, obstacle approach warning, auto-navigation of pre-programmed routes, flight stabilization and auto homing onto and landing at the parent carrier/base and information concerning the helicopter's tactical situation.

Cost US $23.1mil (2001 $)

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