look. it’s probably a laser seeker, but “too small to be an IR seeker” is nonsense. 9X’s staring FPA is smaller.
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apples to oranges
Also for a long range shot against a ground target?
Gajins allergic to mmw weaponry as seens with brimstones
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Not in the slightest lol
very much is
Explain to me exactly how the diameter of the missile matters for a staring fpa, please. In detail. I can explain exactly how it does not but considering you’re going “nuh uh” i would like you to respond first.
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im not saying that though
I think what you are looking at is a ball bearing
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Hugely off topic but Hughes’s AAAM is not really a meteor. It shares the fact that it is powered by a ramjet but is a very different design in countless ways. It’s more an evolution on Phoenix than a MRAAM.
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wait i was confused and now i understand why, i wanted to reply to Demokrat4 response about agm169. not to you
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it’s a matter of telescope magnification and expected FoV. It doesn’t matter if your 256x256 FPA is 5mm x 5mm or 25mm x 25mm(it does matter but not in this way) as long as your telescope, refracting or cassegrain, provides the expected magnification. Which is something that can be accomplished in small OR large packages.
locking onto a heat signature is one thing. but to track a target’s thermal silhouette completely (since its not just an Anti tank weapon but also an anti building weapon), requires a larger seeker
although later we found out that it is infact a thermal seeker mockup. the thing i pointed to earlier is the servo motor side
Heh, IIR technology has become pretty modern in the last decade. The Rafale for exemple uses IIR systems with half spherical FOV for their missile approach and warning system since 2012-2013, and can be seen on the tail. It’s a pretty small device in general, despite having a pretty big lens to get that big FOV.
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The copy pasted the seeker from the AGM65
one of the example of small and large fov IIR seekers is literally the MAW of f22
the bluish screen thingy is the MAW here, its ir band (definitely iir unless it will struggle detecting missiles)
All I see is a crumbling ram coating
this
yeah but its still larger than a pinhole lol
We’re not talking about the Kh-38 in general but the MT variant specifically, of course some variants have been used but the Kh-38MT was seemingly never used