Re: AWACS vs JSTARS



Typhoon502 wrote:
I posted too soon. :-/ At any rate, I'm not sure you really want to
try to stuff both missions into one airframe, unless it's the size of
a 777 and can handle the hardware, power, cooling, and manning
requirements that you'd need to really, properly push enough wattage
through the sky.

Doing things like that in a stealthy manner was the concept behind Tacit Blue: http://ftp.fas.org/irp/mystery/tacitblu.htm
As far as manning requirements, the plane could carry just a pilot; all data from the radar could be up-linked to a satellited and from there to a command center, where everything could be viewed, and from where the radar on the aircraft could be commanded from. In fact, this mission could be done by a large UAV instead of a manned aircraft.
That would lighten it up enough to give it greater mission duration or higher altitude capabilities.
It certainly wouldn't be cheap though.

Pat
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