Miller21 escribió: ↑05 Ene 2022, 06:06
BATTLE-EAGLE escribió: ↑04 Ene 2022, 21:18
Se espera el NLOS 2 ojo asi lo llamo Yo , es la nueva version de 52 km de alcnce man in loop ahi si seria otra cosa en la artilleria del EJC.
Uy hermano si, se equivoca y por lejos, el que hace eso es el Spike 5ta generación (Spike 5), nada de NLOS 2, NLOS es la comunicación. Y como dicen es solo la versión que se entrega desde helicópteros.
Ni tan equivocado es el Nlos y tendra mas alcance y lo veras le pasara como el Spike LR a Lr2
Rafael is working to increase the range of its helicopter-launched Spike Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) missile to 27nm (50km), an increase of about 10nm over the air-to-ground weapon’s current capability.
Hay que esperar y veremos a cuanto incrementara en modo tierra a tierra
To stretch the reach of the missile, Rafael is developing a trajectory for firing the winged, rocket-powered weapon from 5,000ft in altitude. The extra height will give the missile a glide slope that boosts range.
Source: Lockheed Martin
Spike NLOS is an interim solution for the US Army, but will also compete in the service’s Long Range Percision Munition programme
In March, the US Army validated Spike NLOS as an interim long-range precision weapon for its Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter by hitting a target with the missile at 17.3nm. The service envisions the Apache firing the missile while flying low to the ground, a tactic that is designed to keep the attack helicopter within the radar shadow of mountains and valleys, and out of the sight of short-range air defences, such as the Russian-made Pantsir-S1 missile and gun battery.
Firing Spike NLOS at 5,000ft would force a change in tactics for operators from launching the missile from covered positions to doing so from stand-off ranges. According to Boeing, the AH-64 has a maximum climb rate of about 2,800ft per minute – meaning launching Spike NLOS at 5,000ft might expose the helicopter to nearby anti-aircraft weapons for several minutes during ascent, firing and descent.
To take advantage of the longer-range shots, a helicopter launching Spike NLOS would have to operate from a safe area, says Gal Papier, vice-president of business development at Rafael USA, the US subsidiary of the Israeli company.
“Our advantage here is you’re not threatened, or less threatened from MANPADS, so you can fly high,” he says, referring to shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles. “We’re changing a bit the concept of deployment here.”
Rafael has already successfully demonstrated the Spike NLOS hitting a target at 21.6nm in an internal test, Papier says. Rafael plans to attempt a 27nm shot within two years, he says.
LONG-RANGE PRECISION
The US Army is interested in acquiring new long-range weapons to out-gun advanced anti-aircraft weapons fielded by foes such as Russia and China. It is planning to replace its air-to-ground Lockheed Martin AGM-114 Hellfire missiles with the Long Range Precision Munition. The Hellfire’s range is limited to 4.3nm.
The service had planned to hold a shoot-off demonstration in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022 for Long Range Precision Munition candidate weapons. The US Army reportedly purchased 170 examples of the Spike NLOS in fiscal year 2020 as an interim solution. US-based Lockheed serves as the weapon type’s prime contractor for the service. Rafael and Lockheed are putting forward Spike NLOS for the Long Range Precision Munition programme as well.
The Spike NLOS could be directed toward a target using strike coordinates gathered by an air-launched effect, says Papier. The missile uses an electro-optical camera, infrared seeker or semi-active laser guidance system to hit its target.
The weapon uses an inertial measurement unit, instead of a GPS receiver, to navigate to a target. The missile has a radio frequency datalink to transmit a video feed back to its launch helicopter, allowing a pilot to steer the weapon into a target manually.
“The missile flies closer and closer to the target; the operator can see more and more details, and then all he needs to do is put the cursor on the target and lock the tracker,” Papier says. “We call it mid-course navigation.”
The electro-optical camera can guide a missile to within centimeters of a mark, he says. “We put a Coca Cola can on the target and take it out from 32km,” says Papier.
The video feed of the outbound missile can also be shared with other helicopters using Rafael’s BNET datalink. That might allow a commander to fire a lead missile and then use his weapon’s video feed to point out nearby targets to other attack helicopters, whose missiles could be launched on a slight delay, says Papier. Such a salvo tactic might be useful for ambushing a convoy of tanks, he says.
https://www.flightglobal.com/helicopter ... 77.article
