deckingraj
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All 3 methods you mentioned are not effective in bringing down the AEW&C, satellite guidance is provided to mostly land attack missiles and bombs, for A2A it has not been used.
For AEW&C, first of all the launching platform has to find and track the aerial platform, and it would be a tough job to do so, but once done, then it will have to launch the missile, so now once launched, the aircraft which launched has to keep the AEW&C in its radar to keep the missile feeding the location of the target to an extend where the missile reaches and its own radar takes over, which i believe is mostly 50-60KM away from the target or so.
So problem now here would be for the launching platform MKI to keep a track of the AEW&C through out the traveling time of the missile, if it looses the track it won't be able to feed the missile where to go and the missile may go to the last location provided, from where the target may have moved on, MKIs can be attacked also during this time period and they may have to get engaged in dog fight thus the missile will again lose the location feeding, plus other such scenario can come up where the aircraft can lose the missile and the missile can go astray.
Anyway, here is some reading which can be useful in understanding how missile and bomb guidance work, both A2A & A2G or even SAMs.
Missile guidance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taimi sir...Don't you think MKI's won't come alone if there mission is to kill the AWACs??? Or they will come in good numbers to keep the irritating interceptors away??? What i am not able to comprehend is that how deep inside Pakistan is safe/comparatively safe for Pakistani AWACS???
here are my points...
MKI's are mini awacs in themselves....If i go by wiki then they have 350 KM search range and 200 KM tracking range....If not wrong Pakistani AWACS have a range of 450 KM....K-100 has a reach of 400 KM....If not wrong then MKI's will have to maintain a distance of atleast 250 KM distance to earn a Kill....Now my question to you is how much strategic depth would be the right depth for PAF to keep the asset safe??? In my eyes it should be atleast 250-300 KM away from India border or else MKI's can fire these missile from well with in India border....On top of that if IAF use their Phalcons to guide MKI's fire missiles then not sure what would be a safe depth...
Can you please elaborate a bit on it???
On top of that how much a threat is once MKI's are equipped with Brahmos???
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