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The system has not performed "a lock on the target", at least not in the way that the language leads you to believe. The tool is making a prediction, that withi
by reduce 12y ago
The system has not performed "a lock on the target", at least not in the way that the language leads you to believe. The tool is making a prediction, that within a certain level of confidence, and given the present parameters, that firing the missile will result in the neutralization of the target.
There's growing number of ways, both active and passive, that targets can be tracked or future positions predicted. One of the answers on that page hints at this, the other answer is misleading and often not how it's done in many modern systems.
Source: engineered parts of these systems before.
- berkut 12y agoThe radar and weapon control systems are "locked on" to from the aircraft's perspective - I don't really understand what you're talking about... A particular target has been identified, it is being tracked (maybe at the expense of scanning for other targets if its an older system, probably with track-while-scan otherwise), and based on this updates are being sent to the missile in order to control its initial trajectory when it gets launched to point it in the correct direction.