Misiles y armas aire-aire, aire-superficie y antiaéreos

[champi]

EEUU tiene unos cinco mil cazas dicen algunas estimaciones.

No hace mucho puse se puso el número de Air Force Magazine con el anuario correspondiente, donde se ve que tienen 2.094 cazas: https://www.airforcemag.com/app/uploads ... ssue-1.pdf


Por cierto, tienen un fallo muy curioso, y es que a la flota de B-1B le asignan 94 años de media

[Orel]

US Air Force receives 10,000th example of AIM-9X Sidewinder

Evidentemente, algunos de los 9X ya han caducado. Aún así... 10.000 misiles?
Cuántos cazas suman todos los enemigos de EE.UU sumados?!?!
Haced cuentas

Tengamos en cuenta que eso no significa que no pidan más!

The US Air Force (USAF) has detonated an AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) warhead for the first time.
https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing ... 99.article

Y la Horda Dorada inglesa:

The British government has given $4.8 million to the Defence Science Technology Laboratory (Dstl) for the Co-operative Strike Weapons Technology Demonstrator (CSWTD) program.
The aim of the program is similar to the USAF’s Golden Horde Vanguard, which will allow weapons to collaborate amongst themselves.
https://alert5.com/2021/07/02/britain-t ... onstrator/

Saludos

[jupiter]

Ellos tienen unos cinco mil cazas dicen algunas estimaciones.

No hace mucho puse se puso el número de Air Force Magazine con el anuario correspondiente, donde se ve que tienen 2.094

En realidad son menos, a no ser que consideremos al A10 un caza ...

[Atticus]

No hace mucho puse se puso el número de Air Force Magazine con el anuario correspondiente, donde se ve que tienen 2.094

Mea culpa. Cosas de la edad, estar vacunado y hablar de memoria. Pero que, vamos, que yo personalmente con dos mil tambien me conformaba.

[Orel]

Curioso: Rafael muestra simulación de Flanker haciendo antibuque con SPICE 250:
https://twitter.com/alert5/status/1419869882359898113

[pagano]

Curioso: Rafael muestra simulación de Flanker haciendo antibuque con SPICE 250:
https://twitter.com/alert5/status/1419869882359898113

¿Con vistas a India?

[Orel]

Supongo que a cualquier usuario de Flanker, e India es de los jugosos

[Orel]

El prototipo de AGM-183A hipersónico ha vuelto a fallar:
https://alert5.com/2021/07/30/agm-183a- ... ot-ignite/

Saludos

[champi]

Al parecer, el AARGM-ER ya ha realizado un disparo de prueba: https://twitter.com/TheDEWLine/status/1 ... 6542162944

[Truquichan]

No hace mucho puse se puso el número de Air Force Magazine con el anuario correspondiente, donde se ve que EEUU tiene 2.094 cazas:
Por cierto, tienen un fallo muy curioso, y es que a la flota de B-1B le asignan 94 años de media

El histórico de inventario por tipo de pajaro (Hay que sumar AF, guardia nacional y Reserva):


El PDF siguen sin corregirlo, pero en el artículo web les ponen 33 añicos a los B1

[Orel]

Ahí se ve también que entre USAF, ANG y AFRC tienen unos 2.100 cazas como dijo champi, pero hay que sumar los de la USNavy y USMC que serán otros ¿1.500? entre F-18, AV-8 y F-35.

Saludos

[Orel]

BAE Systems stretches APKWS range 30% using new trajectory
3 August 2021

BAE Systems has stretched the range of its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) rocket by 30% using a new trajectory. The capability will come as part of an APKWS block upgrade that will be incorporated starting with deliveries in January 2022.
“APKWS block upgrade guidance kits create an optimised flight trajectory that enables the rocket to engage targets at a steeper angle of attack, providing improvements in range and lethality,” says BAE. “The optimised attack trajectory improves first-shot success against stationary and moving targets.”

The APKWS is based on the Hydra-70 unguided 70mm (2.75in) rocket. It has a distributed-aperture semi-active laser seeker and a self-contained guidance and control system, installed between the warhead and rocket motor. When launched from a helicopter, the guided rocket has a maximum range of 2.7nm (5km) and hits targets 80% of the time within 2m (6.6ft), claims BAE. The company does not disclose the new range, but 30% beyond the APKWS’s current helicopter-launched maximum range would allow it to hit targets about 0.8nm farther, for a reach of 3.5nm.

https://www.flightglobal.com/helicopter ... 07.article

[champi]

Contrato para misiles convertir HARM en AARGM (3/8/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2718316/

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NAVY

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems Sector, Northridge, California, is awarded a $94,880,370 firm-fixed-price contract. This contract procures full rate production of Lot 10 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles (AARGM), to include conversion of 87 U.S. government-provided AGM-88B High Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARMs); and 40 Germany Air Force-provided AGM-88B HARMs into 127 AGM-88E AARGM All-Up-Rounds, and related supplies and services necessary for their manufacture, spares, and fleet deployment in support of F/A-18C/D, F/A-18E/F, and EA-18G aircraft for the Navy and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. Work will be performed in Northridge, California (80%); and Ridgecrest, California (20%), and is expected to be completed in March 2024. Fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds on the amount of $152,852; fiscal 2021 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $64,838,045; fiscal 2020 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,591,212; fiscal 2019 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $662,782; and FMS customer funds in the amount of $27,635,479 will be obligated at time of award, $815,634 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-5. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0001921C0013).
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Sería muy interesante saber donde van a integrar los alemanes el AARGM. No creo que invertir en el Tornado a estas alturas resulte demasiado rentable...

Del mismo día, contrato para desarrollar una nueva variante del JASSM:

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AIR FORCE

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Florida, has been awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification (P00023), increasing the face value of contract FA8682-18-C-0009, Group One Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) development, by $21,781,695. This modification provides for the change in the work and contract type necessary to develop the new air to ground (AGM-158) JASSM B-2 missile variant. Work will take place in Orlando, Florida, and is expected to be completed by June 28, 2024. This award is the result of a sole source acquisition. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $7,365,764; and fiscal 2020 other procurement funds in the amount of $8,672,136 are being obligated at the time of award. The total cumulative face value of the contract is $235,023,264. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity.
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[champi]

Sobre el sustituto del JASSM, parece que la USAF ya trabaja en ello y quieren más alcance: https://www.airforcemag.com/air-force-r ... placement/

En el artículo también comenta la versión B-2, de la que acabamos de ver un contrato de desarrollo, y la próxima D:

Aug. 5, 2021 | By John A. Tirpak
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The Air Force only has a “small ramp-up” planned for the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) variant of JASSM, Collins said. He declined to say why the service is only buying a small handful of LRASMs, saying only that requirements are determined by the Air Staff. Not as many Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles will be needed as Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles because “of the target set we’re going after.”

The JASSM-ER (extended range) is the preferred version, and the Air Force is “transitioning” to the B2 version of the missile while doing “initial … tech insertion” to create a “D” version of the missile, Collins reported, saying the directorate will “continue to evolve” the weapon. The D model provides “more flexibility.”

A Lockheed Martin spokesperson said the Air Force executed a modification to its 2018 JASSM contract Aug. 3, “giving the program the go-ahead for several missile enhancements and capability upgrades that will be cut-in in upcoming production lots.” These will be “formally recognized” with the designation AGM-158B-2, she said. Future variants are being planned, but LMCO left it to the Air Force to discuss their designations. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin could immediately comment on what new capabilities the updates provide.
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También se comenta sobre otros programas, JATM incluído:

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Collins could not give any new details about the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM), revealed at the same conference two years ago, when then-program executive officer Maj. Gen. Anthony W. Genatempo, said it would be ready for tests from the F-22 in 2022. Collins said the Air Force is “pushing forward and executing” the program, but he is restricted from further comment due to its sensitivity. The missile is set to replace the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile sometime this decade and is purported to have a range to compete with China’s new long-range air-to-air missiles such as the PL-15.
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The Air Force is finalizing its acquisition strategy on the Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) and will “move out on that later this year,” Collins said. Although the program started out as a variant of the Northrop Grumman AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile, Collins said the plan will be to open the program up to “a competitive contract.” The AGM-88G is the Navy’s successor to the High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM).

Although SiAW will be a stand-in weapon, Collins explained that the “extended range” means it can go farther than the initial Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile, but that he could not discuss ranges. “ER on AARGM means something different than ER on JASSM,” he offered.

Collins said the Air Force is aware of various papers published in recent years suggesting the Air Force could get more punch out of its direct-attack munitions by putting range-extending motors on them, noting the service is moving in that direction.

“We have a program [called]… GPAW, the Global Precision Attack Weapon, which is in its early phases, looking at concepts of what the future direct attack weapon looks like,” he said. “And in that study space, there are certainly a number of options [that include] … putting a motor on existing weapons.” The armaments directorate is also looking at the Army/Navy/Marine Corps Joint Air-to-Ground Missile-Fighter, which is a project to replace the Hellfire and Maverick missiles.
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[Atticus]

Sobre el sustituto del JASSM, parece que la USAF ya trabaja en ello y quieren más alcance:

A mi me hace gracia porque si lo miras desde cierto punto de vista, lo que quieren son misiles "soviet style". Lo que los rusos llevan diseñando desde hace cuarenta años: misiles para lanzar desde donde cristo perdio el mechero. Lo cierto es que siempre estamos dando por supuestas superioridades de unos sobre otros y en este campo los americanos estan bastante atrasados. Mientras los rusos ya tienen disponible un misil de crucero de larguisimo radio de accion y coste muy asumible, y ya tiene desplegados misiles hipersonicos (con todos los peros que se le quiera poner a estos ultimos), los useños andan todavia en fases de pensamiento, planificacion y pulpo en garaje.