Es el mismo sistema que no funcionó en las refinerías de Arabia Saudita...?
El Hawk es un viejo conocido en la OTAN cuyo diseño exterior data de los 60´s.
Ha recibido varios Upgrades, se actualizó el radar de tiro y sobre todo, sistemas de C.M.E. para probar las bibliotecas actualizadas de los SU-34.
Como dice Tanoarg, el formato exterior no ha cambiado demasiado, si su soft y radar, pero sigue siendo un sistema de short/medium range.
Copio características del radar controlador de los HAWK:
" The
AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel is a three-dimensional
radar used to alert and queue
Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD)
weapons to the locations of hostile targets approaching their front line forces. The Sentinel
radar is deployed with forward area
air defense units of the
U.S. Army and
USMC. The radar uses an
X-band range-gated,
pulse-doppler system. The
antenna uses phase-frequency electronic scanning technology, forming sharp 3D pencil beams covering large surveillance and track volume. The radar automatically acquires, tracks,
classifies, identifies and reports targets, including
cruise missiles,
unmanned aerial vehicles, rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. It uses a high scan rate (30 RPM) and operates at a range of 40 km. The
radar is designed with high resistance to
electronic countermeasures (ECM). Mounted on a towed platform, it can be positioned remotely from the rest of the unit, operated
autonomously and communicate with the Fire Distribution Center (FDC)
[9] via
wideband fiber-optic link. It can also distribute its data over a
SINCGARS radio network. "
Saludos!