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HOKUM · 11-03-2004, 23:45 PM

Good Evening,

Every ship has a problem of detecting and locking on to low flying targets over the horizon, I know that AWACs negate this problem but what if your without it in the middle of the ocean on convoy duty or something? Most frigates only have short range sams and ciws so i presume they dont really expect to engage aircraft. But what about the aegis and diet aegis systems can they combat aircraft and missiles out past 10 miles (or whatever it is), flown at surface levels without AWACs giving them info?

11-03-2004, 23:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
HOKUM Banished Join Date: 09-21-04 Posts: 32	Ship based AAW Good Evening, Every ship has a problem of detecting and locking on to low flying targets over the horizon, I know that AWACs negate this problem but what if your without it in the middle of the ocean on convoy duty or something? Most frigates only have short range sams and ciws so i presume they dont really expect to engage aircraft. But what about the aegis and diet aegis systems can they combat aircraft and missiles out past 10 miles (or whatever it is), flown at surface levels without AWACs giving them info?