Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

[Forest Green]

Looks like the Houthi suffered some HARM!.

AARGM!

Just imagine AARGM-ER in AAM mode.

 

[Josh_TN]

I’m curious how that would have worked…

 

[Forest Green]

I’m curious how that would have worked…

The aircraft was on the ground, so it was a launch to GPS co-ordinates and MMW terminal seek.

Does AARGM have a datalink? It was mentioned in here as an expanded capability.

https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2008/gun_missile/MillerAustin.pdf

If so you could theoretically cue the missile with the launch aircraft radar and provide a mid-course update and then leave the MMW seeker to do the final bit. Probably very difficult to jam too, since not many aircraft have jamming in the MMW band.

 

[TJDougherty01]

Here are photos I took of a flight demonstration of the FA-18F Super Hornet in 2016. Nikon DSLR 24.5 Pixel with 70- 300 mm zoom.