theyre both pretty much the same.
however Hammer is IOG up till 1.5km to target after which it locks it with IR.
idk abt 38MT but it is also IOG until some point
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I’m bringing up TV contrast because that locks on to a fixed “hot spot.” 9X does not. It uses the IR silhouette to track the target. If it only tracked heat signatures it would be extremely vulnerable to advanced IR decoys.
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Can I get CCM unabbreviated please?
In IIR those two are the same thing. Unless you mean intensity for “thermal signature,” in which case no
Counter countermeasures. Methods to avoid a tracking system of any kind from being decoyed by countermeasures. This includes things like leading edge range gate trackers for old radars, guard gates for slightly newer systems, dual band IR seekers (like 9M), etc.
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counter counter measures
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i was under the assumption that IIR uses both but separately for CCM purposes
and yeah thermal signature would be a thermal hotspot imo
The other thing here is signal processing. AGM-65D, for example, is basically a TV guided missile still (contrast tracking through scan lines) while 9X and more modern missiles process the whole image digitally and then identify a target based on certain criteria.
issue with this stuff its that they have very limited range so idk how it would be possible for this kind of stuff to lock beyond a certain point
i mean theres what the PIRATE IRST does. thats image recognition. but i doubt the 9X has a database of targets with whole entire 3d models of aircraft in its databanks
its not entirely off the rails, there is systems that based on the length width or height of the thermal signature + the type can filter out certain type of missiles or even targets
Video of Aim-9X test with images of what the seeker sees:
We are all getting of topic here though.
Edit:
That isn’t really that unthinkable though, something as small as an SD card that is publicly available to consumers can today hold terabytes of data without breaking a sweat.
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dam lol it rlly was a full silhouette…
Yes, my bad.
I’m really quite conflicted on the legitimacy of X-38MT. If I had to guess I’d err on the side of “made, but never left testing” like what appears to be the case with 3UBR11.
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its more the (data) transfer speed that is the factor imo
good luck with that minimum range
Not really :) they are used to film 8k video on a regular basis.
Here is the bus-speed and speed ratings chart for SD cards:
Spoiler
UHS I are the absolute most common ones today but UHS-II are readily available, UHS-III are available but way more expensive. but if the EX exists for consumers we can only imagine what the military has access to x)
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If it had been tested, they wouldnt be using CGI for the brochure imo, as they would definitively have footage and pictures of the real thing.
I dont think its ever lead the conceptual/mockup stage, which was my original point and also something nobody has provided a shred of evidence to the contrary for.
Lots of brochures use CGI to demonstrate capabilities. I don’t see that as a “killer” point. But it is odd that no images exist of it in captive testing or otherwise. At the same time, they could just be hiding them. This is common across militaries.
That mockup for the trade show looks reasonable for an IIR or a laser seeker.
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