You do get that heat will be transferred away over time, so the longer it takes to get to the point where damage occurs, the more work the system will need to perform to heat it up. and that with cooled detectors they are often starting from a fairly low (Cryogenic) temperature.
inserting a jamming Waveform is antithetical to an attempt to damage the as it requires the Jammer to pulse in a pattern to function. Where as destruction would necessitate the complete use of the duty cycle to transfer as much energy as possible in as short a time for a variety of reasons.
It’s more than enough to guide on, and it’s not like guidance can’t be resumed should the Jamming cease at some point during flight.
So how exactly is it supposed to interfere with dual band seekers? since the other band is outside the jammers bandwidth for example the POST seeker equipt Stinger using a UV channel to bypass IR lasers.
UV is only for reference and can’t be used as primary tracking. Cause against head on targets it will underperform, It basically is like IOG, cause primary tracking is still IR, and UV is only used when IRCM is activated.
Also by specifically IR I meant that guy’s comment on type 99 which uses visible light cause it blinds enemy tank gunner.
It is inaccurate and that’s why it is only on when IRCM is up, and when flares are applied the HOJ doesn’t necessarily pick up the correct signal. Also that just means the centre of mass is missed as the LDIRCM in question is at the bottom of the target.
As I said, achieves the same thing, but one much more achievable than the other.
And there is a reason they are cooled to that sort of temperature, cause they don’t work otherwise. Pixels on IIR is more fragile than you think. Anyway this is completely down to chance and it’s not like stupid flares have not jammed AIM9X twice in a row, by a su22 or sth never the less.
“The detected signal may be negative (a non-radiating target seen against a bright background) or positive (a radiating or reflecting target seen against a dark background). Preferably, The seeker will initially operate in the visual contrast mode until an adequate IR signal is available to home the missile. If a sufficiently IR radiating target is present, the seeker may select and receive in the IR mode.”
in what way? When all four quadrant sectors of the detector are receiving equal energy it is pointed at the source.
Small FoV, and if long time coefficients are introduced into the mapping the impact of flares can be reduced, especially if additional segmentation passes are performed to spatially disambiguate contacts.
That why it’s got a proximity fuse, also terminal “diving” maneuvers are not unheard of either, just look at the Redeye.
They do, they just become less effective.
And they are a tiny target to hit a such a distance, don’t forget that Lasers still obey the Inverse-Square law so are significantly effected by distance.
It’s really not. Engineers tend to know what they are doing.
A lot of the processing is done in software so it was probably caused by an improperly configured threat library, and probably not having non simulated data for whatever formulation that was used, or a bug somewhere. It’s not likely to happen again.
And IIR missiles are 100% effective? no. Against IRCM targets 70% at best. It is down to chance, and the engineers don’t know what they are doing cause everything is top secret, so they don’t know what they are up against any way.
However again this is down to chance, dependent on range and humidity and stuff like that that affects LDIRCM’s energy transfer onto IIR seeker.
Which means objective achieved for LDIRCM. Especially at sort of 9-10km range.
Which is hugely energetically inefficient.
Which makes HOJ the more difficult, as LDIRCM has the potential to fill that seeker.
That is 1. if it is the correct source and 2. much of the sectors would be filled out by LDIRCM and therefor HOJ would thus rely on gradient of IR signal closer to the edge to work that out. Not very accurate and this applies more so nearer the missile to LDIRCM.
That is nothing but a design, there is a reason why no one tested UV missiles, it is basically a fail safe thing much like Strela’s photocontrast mode. Also that sort of LOAL is not used anymore due to excessive need for IFF, which is modernly done predominantly with DL and not UV.
While sure compartmentalization is a thing so not everything that is known is likely to be shared. Foreign Military Exploitation is definitely a thing just look at how far the “Have Idea” / “Constant Peg” program and it’s constituents went and how broadly it trained Top gun graduates.
there really isn’t that high of a power density at those sorts of ranges.
Source? it does so at the last second, so it really isn’t that much of a waste, and we know that it is effective.
It literally would not matter if it did or not, The quadrant seeker works regardless, by design, it’s conceptually similar to an inverse monopulse seeker functionally.
If it was not why is the DIRCM system active? or at all relevant to the discussion if it is down to operator error?
You clearly don’t quite understand how it works, I would recommend reading the following passage;
Who isn’t using a direct vision scope and therefore will only get a flash on their screen, not warcrime eye damage. It’s basically the same concept as these LDIRCM modules except in a significantly less efficient wavelength.
Yes it can? For example, the titular Mi-28NM uses UV MAWS to direct its LDIRCM. Tracking accuracy is actually a strong point of UV sensors…
Detecting burnt out missiles is not tho, so it shouldnt be able to use its LDIRCM vs burnt out missiles lol (not that it should even work on the missiles it works on)
I was finally able to hop on and check my ka-52, it does have the LDIRCM, it looks like there’s one between the engines on top and looking at it from the front there’s one next to the right dazzler
Yeah, lasers with the power output to actually destroy materiel at distance are usually quite large. Another example of a similar system is the US prototype Stryker DE-SHORAD system. It’s got a pretty large laser turret on top.
While it is certainly possible to even melt metals like tungsten with a semi-handheld laser, the range at which you can properly transfer all of that energy will be very limited. Focusing the energy output is crucial in actually destroying things rather than dazzling them.
The 52 in game right now has it though, was just wanting to let you know. I can’t post an image as I’m using my phone and I play Xbox but it has one laser turret by the right dircm when looking at it from the front and possibly one on top in the middle of the engines.
Edit: I do actually think the one in top is a light but the one by the dircm is the laser system
Why are you gaslighting yourself like this, literally no one says that the Ka-52 somehow has a third laser DIRCM for some reason, the 2 L-370-5 (the ball DIRCM) are literally the only configuration it’s know to use.
And while some articles say that they can be swapped out for L-370-5L (the one the Mi-28 has) there’s no evidence for it.
You could maybe search for evidence of it having equipped them, as they look very distinct and getting a photo would be the only way for the Ka to ever get LDIRCM as even the new Ka-52M doesn’t use LDIRCM.
