Scott Kenny
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So you mount a Patriot launcher on a new carrier vehicle...
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But wait then its high tech super expensive new solutionSo you mount a Patriot launcher on a new carrier vehicle...
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Once they have an active radar seeker they won't be an SM-2 anymore.
Not in the german configuration of the earlier Systems which where mounted on the back of truck for better mobility at the cost of maximum munition capacityIsn't the Patriot launcher a towed system anyway?
View: https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1911694941216010469Ukraine is ready to buy U.S. Patriot air defense systems, Zelensky says. Earlier, he stated Ukraine is prepared to purchase a full defense package from the U.S. worth $30–50 billion.
Well, on the bright side, they won't be fired.Now he doesn't even want to sell stuff.![]()
There's even less in common between the 1991 SM2 and the 2025 SM2 than there is between the 1991 Patriot and the 2025 Patriot.
And pretty soon the in-service SM2 will have the same active seeker as the SM6. Though I still think there's a reason to keep the dual IIR/radar seeker versions around as well. Wouldn't be surprised if the variant after SM2 Active has an added IIR seeker to help counter radar-stealthy aircraft and missiles.
I thought the SM2s got a new motor and revised strake shape in the early 2000s?If you were talking about Aegis as a whole you would be correct, but to say that the SM-2 Block III is massively different from what it was in the 1980s is laughably incorrect. SM-2 still uses more or less the same motor, airframe, and warhead as it did at the end of the Cold War. All of the in-service variants use a RF seeker that has only received modest improvements since then.
Seeker power and control may be share-able with the IR seeker (depends on architecture of each). You'd definitely be able to share guidance control between the two.There isn't the physical space for the IR seeker in the IIIC design, that is all taken up by seeker power and control electronics. The MHIP seeker is also ancient, dating back to the eighties, and requires replacement to be effective against modern threats.