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To: Alpha One
The Sunburn travels at Mach 3, and the newer Yahont travels at Mach 2 - 2.5 but carries a sophisticated guidance system supposedly impervious to ECM, ECCM, and utilizes Artificial Intelligence.

ECM is Electronic Countermeasures. ECCM is Electronic Counter-Countermeasures. The former attempts to prevent enemies from utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum, the latter attempts to defeat enemy ECM.

There is no such thing as a guidance system immune to ECM. Please do not accept the manufacturers brochure as being a fair and impartial analysis of a weapons system...

100 posted on 01/23/2003 11:37:06 AM PST by Poohbah (Four thousand throats may be cut in a single night by a running man -- Kahless the Unforgettable)
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To: Poohbah
ECM is Electronic Countermeasures. ECCM is Electronic Counter-Countermeasures. The former attempts to prevent enemies from utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum, the latter attempts to defeat enemy ECM. There is no such thing as a guidance system immune to ECM. Please do not accept the manufacturers brochure as being a fair and impartial analysis of a weapons system...

Perhaps the Yahont carries its own ECM, thus the need for data on the adversary's (US) ECCM systems on board? What the description said was that the missile carries ECM and ECCM data in its memory, as well as the means to evade "the enemy's air defense systems". I can't see why it'd need ECCM data if it didn't have its own active ECM.

102 posted on 01/23/2003 11:49:13 AM PST by Alpha One
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