Lock-on is a feature of many radar systems that allow it to automatically follow a selected target. Lock-on was first designed for the AI Mk. IX radar...
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Radar Lock is a 1989 video game developed and published by Atari for the Atari 2600. The game was announced in 1988, and was programmed by Doug Neubauer...
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automated systems like radar lock-on to confuse the system. Various Electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCMs) can sometimes help radar operators maintain...
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The 2018 Japan–South Korea radar lock-on dispute is about an incident between a Japanese airplane and a South Korean warship. The aircraft was part of...
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Lock-on or Lock On may refer to: Radar lock-on, where a radar automatically tracks a selected target Lock-on (protest tactic), when one or more protesters...
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Such systems often combine two radar frequencies in the same antenna in order to allow automatic steering, or radar lock. Parabolic reflectors can be either...
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technique used to break radar lock-on. The basic concept is to produce a pulse of radio signal similar to the one that the target radar would produce when...
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Constantly computed impact point (redirect from Lock (weapons guidance))
computer predicts the selected rocket, bullet or bomb will hit. Normally a radar lock is necessary, but when strafing or bombing a ground target (A/G mode;...
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when firing the AIM-54. The act of the missile achieving a radar lock with its own radar is known under brevity as "Going Pitbull". Both the missile...
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energy for the entire flight of the missile, and in fact do not require a radar lock to launch at all, only target tracking information. This gives the target...
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boresight, causing the radar to "walk away" from the target and break its radar lock-on. It is also known as angle walk-off, angle stealing, or inverse con-scan...
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lock. Lock exists in no other type of radar. The lock criterion needs to be satisfied during normal operation. Pulse-Doppler signal processing § Lock...
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missiles, one of which was a dud. At the same time, as-Sammarai achieved radar lock on Hehemann and fired an R-40 missile, which went ballistic after as-Sammarai...
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maximum cruising range. LOCKED 1. (with GROUP label) Radar lock-on; SORT is not assumed.[A/A] 2. (with position) Radar lock-on; correct targeting is...
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Blackbird routine flights over the Baltic Sea, had managed to achieve radar lock-on with radar on the SR-71 on numerous occasions. Despite heavy jamming from...
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small radar system to conduct terminal guidance to the target. This eliminates the requirement for the firing aircraft to maintain radar lock, and thus...
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vehicles reflect radio waves, thus creating radar clutter, which adversely affects radar-detection and radar-lock performance.[citation needed] The trajectories...
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Korea radar lock-on dispute – Japan alleged a South Korean navy destroyer irradiated a Japanese maritime patrol aircraft with STIR 1.8. Note. This radar is...
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radar signal that was illuminating the target. As the radar typically used conical scanning in order to keep itself pointed at the target (radar lock-on)...
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firing position behind the remaining MiG-21 of the original 4 with a radar lock, launched two Sparrows and scored a kill with the second. On May 31, Ritchie's...
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SR-71's speed, altitude, and heading were also often enough to spoil any radar lock on the plane by SAM sites or enemy fighters. At sustained speeds of more...
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Saturn), also referred to by the NATO reporting name "Bar Lock" in the west, is a 2D E band/F band radar developed and operated by the former Soviet Union. The...
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the radar's narrow beam width. This phase is also called "lighting up". It ends when lock-on is acquired. Acquisition phase The fire-control radar switches...
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three occasions, they managed to obtain a radar lock for a few seconds, but these were later shown to be Radar-locks on each other. The pilots never reported...
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Buk missile system (redirect from Fire Dome radar)
(logistics). The missiles require a radar lock to initially steer the missile to the target until the missile's onboard radar system takes over to provide final...
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war. The R.530 required a radar lock from the Cyrano radar of the Mirage III in order to be launched, but the Cyrano radar was severely hampered by ground...
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New and additional types of manoeuvres have emerged, intending to break radar lock by minimizing the Doppler signature of one's own aircraft ("keeping the...
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firing position behind the remaining MiG-21 of the original four with a radar lock, launched two AIM-7 Sparrow missiles and scored a kill with the second...
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Ground-controlled interception (redirect from Fire-direction radar)
away. Alternatively, they could turn their radars on at the final moment, so that they can get a radar lock and guide their missiles. This greatly increases...
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