AGM-88 HARM range
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Not you are the bar. Extrapolate from a single sample to infinite is very bad. I did not had home Internet connection until December of 2004…
So can you guess how many people had Internet access in 1998? Another factor the available info on Net in 1998…12/2004? Wow… you are a late-comer! Have to LOL at your extrapolation comment though - you were perfectly happy to assume the net was virtually non-existent in 1998, but appear to base that assumption on your sole circumstance?! A spoonful of your own medicine is in order perhaps?
Relax Molni - no disrespect implied or intended
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I would not assume C:MNO to be the acme of accuracy if I were you.
There are multiple versions of the HARM, and the newer ones are a lot more capable, particularly in range, than older ones.
Wikipedia will be talking about the range of the best publicly known variant. Command will either be an educated guess or OSINT of the specific variant. Falcon… who knows.
IRL the newer variants have long range, the ability to try to loiter after firing to look for targets, and probably wwre developed more recently than Falcon was.
Command has a huge database with very detailed info, and it lists seven variants of the AGM-88…though all seven have min range of 1nm with max at 70nm.
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Command has a huge database with very detailed info, and it lists seven variants of the AGM-88…though all seven have min range of 1nm with max at 70nm.
So, you would espouse the database as being large because it is accurate in all respects?
I call your attention to the magic aircraft in it.
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So, you would espouse the database as being large because it is accurate in all respects?
I call your attention to the magic aircraft in it.
Not saying its accurate due to its size but anyway thats regardless…the original point was finding out what the correct max range of the weapon is and a few people have come back with interesting views on it. It does seem that Falcon simulates the weapon being capable of firing out to, what someone said- 72nm. All depends on firing conditions such as altitude, guess the 25nm it has in tacref is a max range guide to firing a relatively low altitude. I dont know, people on here knoe a lot more than me.
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I don’t know exactly where they got that range figure but you can think of an M16 rifle has a max range of 3000+ meters but a maximum practical range of like 400m. For example I don’t (and I should learn since I’m documenting this stuff) how far the AI tend to shoot the thing.
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I don’t know exactly where they got that range figure but you can think of an M16 rifle has a max range of 3000+ meters but a maximum practical range of like 400m. For example I don’t (and I should learn since I’m documenting this stuff) how far the AI tend to shoot the thing.
The difference between a 5.56mm round fired from an M16 though is it doesnt have its own propulsion like an AGM-88 has. Once an AGM-88 runs out of fuel it falls to the ground, fuel is the main factor for a missiles’ range.
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Once an AGM-88 runs out of fuel it falls to the ground, fuel is the main factor for a missiles’ range.
Nope… (sigh).
Depends on the missile, but typically, for a short range missile, you have 2-5s of propulsion for a 30+ s battery time, ie a 30+ s of “useable” time. There are exception, some missiles do rely on propulsion to get power supply and/or guidance, but the main rules is usually : “useable flight time” = “engine duration” x 10.