Does WT model lookup capability? I thought they didn’t model it for balance as all PD radars would just be unnotchable? If they do, then maybe that’s the case. I haven’t seen it happen though. All my sources don’t put any caveats on look down or up in that context, but do in others, so I’m inclined to say it’s a universal thing.
Due to LFM. The AIM-54C isn’t just regular HPRF. I don’t know how they exactly implement it, as they don’t say, but the idea is that you use the regular underlying HPRF waveform for doppler measurements, but use what is essentially an overlayed FMCW waveform to be able to measure to higher unambiguous ranges, allowing separation between targets in range, which the natively low unambiguous range measurement of HPRF wouldn’t allow.
There is the problem where the pulsed waveform introduces some problems with the FMCW range measurements, introducing (blind) range gaps, but it can be solved in some ways, but again nowhere does it actually say how well it performs or how they implement it.
Because reports on the Aim-54C’s aspect capabilities were getting denied due to sourcing planned capability, I made a new report: Community Bug Reporting System