A point to note is that the company we bought the missiles from has 5 engineers ? lol man we should just invest the money in local engineers and we have 100,000k engineers in Pakistan
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CAMEX approves guarantee to sell missiles to Pakistan (main source Associated Press)
The Chamber of Commerce (CAMEX) days approved 2/12/2008 guarantees the Union for the delivery of 100 missiles by the company Mectron for the government of Pakistan. According to Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, the contract between Mectron, the Pakistani government and the Air Force (FAB) was signed in April this year and depended on approval of the government guarantee for the operation. Jobim said Mectron receive for such export 85 million. The minister explained that a contract is important because Mectron increase its production capacity of a missile to five missiles per month. "What will quintuple the capacity of the company in respect of manpower and skill," Jobim said.
The minister said the Mectron is a small, high technology, consisting of five engineers from the Institute of Aeronautical Technology (ITA), but has the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social (BNDES) as a partner. Jobim said that the missiles are anti-radiation, which are coupled in planes to identify the source of radars and are able to destroy them."It works as a very effective monitoring of space and land," said the minister.
The development of anti-missile radar MAR-1 allowed the weapon currently has six set ups or possible modes of operation being employed, being a dependent of the FAB define which of them will be incorporated in the final version of the missile. The most common is the search for targets autonomously performed by the missile, which automatically identifies all the electromagnetic emissions present in the area of ​​operations, classifying them into friends or enemies, and presenting them to the pilot to select a target; or search for a specific target, selected from among those existing in a large library in memory of the missile, updatable at any time.The MAR-1 also has the ability to continue the attack to the target, even if it ceases its emissions. "We can identify a target using the satellites to triangulate its position, which then pass the information via data-link to the aircraft, which feeds the data into the missile.
But then the question remains: Who in Latin America or Africa, our potential market, holds the technology of network-centric warfare? . No use putting in a missile capability that nobody will use. This only raises the costs of gun and decreases your chances of export "- says one of the engineers Mectron. Asked if the weapon has GPS system to ensure accuracy in the final attack, or if you have a parachute system to be used in order to attack targets of opportunity, as the British ALARM, the company said those figures are still classified. "What we can say is that MAR-1 is a weapon of 350 kg, full capacity and that there is nothing due to any similar foreign, surpassing even some of them. When the missile comes into operation on FAB and its capabilities are being revealed, I'm sure everyone will be extremely proud of the exceptional weapon we build "- says a company official. The scope that had been published in the specialized press, which gave numbers of 25 km for a launch on 30 thousand feet, Mectron states: "This is totally out of reality, are given an aerodynamic study that were not updated. The current range, demonstrated in tests, is much, much larger than this, and we will improve it further. So you can have an idea, recently carried out a test with a new engine that was so powerful it melted the exhaust nozzle and the rear portion of the missile, so we had to redesign everything. Now, a real number set and I can not provide. It's confidential. "
The development has undergone various difficulties such as lack of national platform gyros (navigation system, weapon direction) while looking for the target systems, this system suffered embargoes while attempting to purchase external forcing technicians to develop the product in the country, starting from scratch, developed a miniature block the fiber optic gyros with three orthogonal axes, providing the central processing of weapon and required information along with the accelerometers guarantee the accuracy of the equipment. The same happened with the missile's seeker head that when the Brazilian government sought to buy a U.S. supplier, purchase one that was clearly blocked by the U.S. government as "not interesting for the American defense in Brazil to introduce anti-radiation weapons in this region "forcing the CTA to develop locally the search head. The results achieved in tests and simulations was that the search head is able to detect a radar low power (a head shot Skyguard) over distances of 500 km. The CTA used HS 123 aircraft of the division of flight tests and simulations emissions TS 100 systems plus the Excalibur (05 to 18 GHZ).
Possible features cited by author from wikipedia
Range More than 35 km to 30 000 feet.
Speed ​​Release Mach 0.5 to Mach 1.2
Display angle Sidelobes of the radar antenna detected
Viewing angle 60 °
Overall length 4030 mm
Diameter 230 mm
Total mass 274 Kg
War Head 90 Kg
Guiding Passive
Fuse Active laser
Manufacturer Mectron Industry and Trade
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