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From: phil@brahms.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Future of SAM
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Date: 29 Apr 91 19:10:23 GMT
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From: phil@brahms.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)


Artillery now likes to shoot and scoot to avoid counterbattery.
When are we going to see SAM systems that do the same thing?

Is there such a thing as spread spectrum radars that are hard
to detect?

If SAM systems shoot down flying objects, why can't they shoot
down Tacit Rainbow and HARM type things? Isn't that the whole
idea behind Navy AEGIS/Standard Missile type systems?

How about an RPV/helicoptor/AWACS on a cable type of thing
for SAM systems? Could the RPV be cheap enough that you could
put up a bunch of them, making it harder for Wild Weasels to
completely blind you? They could shoot down one or two or three,
but you've got two dozen RPVs up.

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I'm the NRA.