Re: Aegis SPY-1 "Dual-Beaming"
- From: Fred J. McCall <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 02:12:38 GMT
"buff82driver" <buff82driver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:KDR wrote:
:> An article published in the May 2004 issue of the Navy League's Sea
:> Power Magazine says the USS Pinckney DDG-91 is the first Aegis ship
:> that can transmit beams from two SPY-1 arrays at the same time.
:>
:> "One of the most significant improvements is in the computer program.
:> For example, "dual-beaming" is a new feature that nearly doubles the
:> rate at which sailors can search the combat air space; it involves two
:> opposing array faces simultaneously sending out and processing pulses.
:> Previous generations of SPY-1 radars could only transmit from one array
:> face at a time."
:>
:> Anybody know why four faces cannot transmit simultaneously? Is it
:> because of the limitation in the computer program as implied in the
:> article or the four arrays share a common transmitter?
:
:Just a thought but those radars puts out millions of watts of power
:right? So maybe a ship regardless of how many transmitters they have
:can't provide enough juice to power more than one or two radars at a
:time at full power. Makes you wonder though that if this is not some
:disinformation how the AEGIS ships would have dealt with a massed Bear
:bomber high speed cruise missile attack against them/carrier(s)
:launching from a circular arc outside SAM range if not destroyed by
:fighters. I suspose they could rapidily shift which radar was radiating
:to take advantage of all radars or divide the threats into sections and
:task ships to cover northeast, northwest, southwest, southeast etc...
It's an electronically formed beam. Even if you only have one of them
you can move it around VERY fast.
The real problem with massed raids would have been when the missiles
went into terminal homing, since a separate illuminator is required
for that.
--
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
-- Charles Pinckney
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