>>64336340>Imagine having a missile that sucks so much you need to guide it yourself Kek
>>64336906I guess the benefit to that is that it's immune to countermeasures. It seems to have had quite some success in Ukraine, making the Russians more than reluctant to do CAS with jets and helis.
>>64336340>be at a shooting event>dude has a grom manpad>says it's refrigerated>says that when you fire you press the trigger, and then you hold the target in your sights and then when the missile acquires it, it launchesis that actually true or was i being had?
>>64336906Except the newest version has automatic tracking.
>>64337042That's how all self-acquiring IR seeker MANPADS work.
>>64337078Pretty much all modern beam riders have autotracking. The Starstreak and Martlet launch unit has it as well. In fact, unless I'm mistaken, Starstreak was based on the RBS 70. It was a result of the same British-Swedish joint effort which (also) produced the NLAW, though it follows different design ideas from RBS 70.
>>64337042The refrigeration is necessary because cooled seekers are sensitive enough to pick up the heat in the airframe from atmospheric drag.Uncooled seekers are like first gen technology and needed to be staring down the exhaust pipe to get a lock and would do weird shit like locking onto clouds because they were reflecting sun rays. All-aspect seekers allow you to get a lock even on a plane coming towards you and are less likely to be distracted by sun reflections but pretty much require cooling because it makes the photosensitive elements react to that specific band of the IR spectrum.Pulling the trigger to give launch authority and then the system fires when ready is extremely common in weapons. If you release a bomb in CCRP mode in an aircraft it's the same thing. You pickle to give release authority before you reach the drop point and the flight computer times the release and sends the command to the pylon when the time is right.
>>64337462You're mistaken
>>64337355>>64338843fantastic read, thanks anons, the more you know
>>64338843Worth noting that, while uncooled seekers tend to be pretty shit against aircraft, the latest generation of IR sensors is good enough to be used in fire & forget ATGMs.
>>64338862He's not, the beam is steered by the control unit, all the operator has to do is select a target from within the picture and keep the target within FOV until impact. It's basically like pointing your phone camera at someone and the phone handles the focus on their face regardless of where they move within the picture.
