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From: cem@cs.brown.edu (Charles E. Moylan)
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Subject: AMRAAM vs. ARM
Keywords: missiles AMRAAM ARM
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Date: 15 Feb 91 07:21:18 GMT
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From: cem@cs.brown.edu (Charles E. Moylan)

In a few previous postings it has been pointed out that jet fighters carrying
(and using) large radars are vulnerable to ARM missiles (i.e.
the kind that look for an emitting, presumably hostile, radar and home in
on it). 

Would this neccesarily be true for an aircraft firing an AMRAAM?  I ask 
because I'm under the impression that AMRAAM carries its own radar guidance
system.  Thus, wouldn't it be possible for the firing aircraft to light up
its radar just to the point of contacting the target and firing the AMRAAM?
As soon as the AMRAAM was launched, the firer could shut off its radar, thus
evading any incoming ARMs, and the AMRAAM would guide itself to the target.
Is this not possible for some reason?

-- 
Charlie Moylan (cem@cs.brown.edu)