@Bilal Khan 777 A general technical question.
Is radar integration essential to an active radar-homing (ARH) missile? The whole point of ARH is to actually provide fire-and-forget capabilities, which is what was lacking in SARH (i.e. when radar integration to the missile was essential).
Shouldn't the goal actually be in ensuring that the ARH missile can function for as long as possible on its own batteries, thus ensuring a bigger engagement bracket (like the Meteor)?
I understand in LOAL the radar could feed location information to the missile via data-link, but is direct missile-to-radar integration necessary for this purpose? Wouldn't one just need a terminal to (1) read what the radar is saying and (2) pass that info to the missile?