Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Anti-radiation missle capabilities? Message-ID: <1990Aug21.024249.220@cbnews.att.com> Date: 21 Aug 90 02:42:49 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Will Martin Can anti-radiation missiles, which usually are used against radars operating in the UHF or microwave range, be used against targets emitting lower frequencies, like HF radio? Could such a missile be used to home in on the antenna of a transmitter being used to jam shortwave broadcast reception, for example? [After the first missile takes out the antenna, could a second one then home in on the transmitter itself, assuming it is still operating briefly before the operators shut it down, or the internal protection circuits notice that the antenna load is gone, and shut the transmitter down in self-protection from burnout?] Or would the propagation modes and general lesser directivity of lower radio frequencies keep the homing functions from operating correctly? If it does work, can the radio-reception frequency span of the missile's homing circuitry be "dialled in" in the field, or is this something that has to be factory-set? Regards, Will wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil *** "Fire and Forget" means never having to say you're sorry... ***