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April 5th 06, 04:13 AM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval,sci.military.naval
Paul Michael Brown
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AESA as a weapon, not a sensor
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AESA is a force multiplier if you wind up going air-to-air. If you
really want a real decisive force multiplier, get stand-off precision
strike weapons (since the A+ allows you to use them). Then you can
just stay away from the other guy to start with.
If what I read in Av Leak is to be credited, AESA is capable of
"non-kinetic attacks."
Depending on the susceptibility of the ground targets to directed energy
weapons, it seems to me that AESA *might* be able to accomplish some
missions now undertaken by standoff precision kinetic attack ordnance.
And it's not inconceivable that AESA might be used against airborne
targets as well -- as a *weapon* rather than as a *sensor.* Indeed, AWST
has speculated regarding the capabilities of a large ground-based AESA
hooked into the power grid. And there has been coverage of proposals to
install AESA on transport-sized aircraft, like whatever replaces the EP-3
and/or RC-135 family.
But all I know is what McGraw Hill tells me.
Paul Michael Brown
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