What’s nice is that the technical data sheet confirms mprf mode for the apg71
(Apg 70 already had it so I would assume it was just carried over)
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F-14 Program Office (Directly Involved with Grumman) state Mach 2.34 Speeds.
Grumman themselves release this very interesting brochure:
I’ll just post this here instead of the Aim-54 thread, but Hughes themselves calls the Aim-54 a “highly maneuverable missile”.
Bringing these sources together, “from Cruise to Mach 1.8” means from Mach 0.75 to Mach 1.8 in 75 seconds.
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In an update to this, finally figures other than the one in the Outsider’s View/the Aero Series 25 Grumman F14 Tomcat figure (90 N.M nominal for a 5m^2 target without any indication of radar search volume, target speed geometry ETC) which I assume is a cumulative 50% probability of detection.
F4X has a mention of the AWG9
111.3 N.M , Mach 3 closure rate, 40k ft, 5M^2 target and a Wide Scan search pattern. I wouldn’t say it’s under VS as its for a multishot which is TWS
Even if it said 90N.M and only mention is the pd, passing from 50% Pd to 85% pd is
Like before, 10 is 100% pd, and horizontal axis is km against a 19m^2 target. Blue is the Mig31s radar, red the old F14 info and dotted red is just shifting the F14s curve so that the 85% pd is at the range(purple vertical line) where the old 50% pd was.
And the dashed line is just the 111.3 N.M figure adjusted for target’s RCS(19m^2) and set at 85%Pd by the second vertical line
And here how it fares to all radar detection ranges I’ve been able to gathered (excluding mirage 3, F4J, mig 25 and mig 23)
10 in the vertical axis is 100% pd and horizontal is detection range in nautical miles. All for a 5m^2 target.
From left to right.
- Apg-66 (F-16A)
- N-019 (Mig-29)
- AI 24 stage 1( 1988 Tornado F3)
- APG-65 (F-18A)
- N-001 (SU-27S)
- N-007 (Mig 31 - 80s)
- AI 24 stage 2 ( value gotten from datamine)
- APG-63 (F-15A/C of 80s)
- AWG-9(F-14)
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someone needs to put this on a shirt
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a hat as well