"The Israeli military said more than 25 projectiles were fired on Tuesday. Several were shot down by its Iron Dome rocket interceptor while others landed in empty lots and farmland."
Wait, what? How can you even shoot down a mortar shell with an anti-missile system? Is this some next level jewish propaganda? Or is it really possible to shoot down a mortar shell with a rocket?
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We have the technology. Read about it. Its called Iron Dome. You posted the name of it in your OP. We have sensors and guidance technology. Plus mortars are moving relatively slowly if you can intercept them at the apogee if their ballistic path. Also, you can calculate the mortar shell path and determine roughly where they will land and so not waste rockets on ones that are tracking to nowhere important.
mortar shells aren't especially challenging targets. They go up, and then come back down, in a parabolic arc. Nothing else. You can accurately describe their flight path using high school math. They aren't radar stealthy either. The hardest bit would probably be that for the little ones, they don't have much flight time, but for a big boi with range, there's probably a good bit of hang time.
So you just kind of detect one on your anti-missile radar system, decide to shoot an anti-missile missile at it, and do so.
>How can you even shoot down a mortar shell with an anti-missile system
I mean how do you track a mortar shell?
It has no heat signature to track and since mortars can be fired from pretty much anywhere, it should be pretty much impossible to know where did it fire from no?
>It has no heat signature
Everything has a heat signature. Also, it's called "radar".
>hitting a subsonic projectile with no ability to maneuver
how does it tell a mortar shell from a bird? It should have the same signature on a radar.
speed?
>It should have the same signature on a radar.
There are a lot of approaches, but this assumption itself is not really correct.
And I am guessing that this advanced radar can also pinpoint the point of origin and its traveled path?
If you have the arc and position relative to the radar....
Because dont (or extremely rarely) fly in parabolic arches. A radar target moving from ground level to several thousand feet in seconds isn't a bird and computers can calculate the flight path from its radar track in seconds. It can then determine the best moment to launch an intercept rocket with highest impact probability in milliseconds. Its really not that hard to detect the mortar. Yes mortars can be launched from anywhere but they tend to be aimed at certain targets. You only need to set up your Rader net and rocket launchers in the target area. In Israel the targets are usually jewish settlements and military checkpoints ir other military targets, or just border cities in general.
Boy, am I learning new shit about radar tech today.
How come? I thought radar sends out waves and then processes the reflected waves to get the size and shape of the object in the tracked area. However due to the way the waves reflect and dissipate during the travel, signatures should be less distinct from each other with more distance between the radar and the object, no?
Do you know what a CRAM system is? It's a Counter Rocket, Artillery, and MORTAR system.
YES. The radar track can be reverse calculated from the moment of detection to determine where the launch point was and where the impact point will be within x% probability. Radar can be made to detect very quickly, and computers work quickly as well to calculate the path. The rocket guidance and the actual mechanical functioning of the rocket is where virtually all of the error come into play. The detection and calculation are very easy to do with modern electronics.
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not the user you responded to, but I'm pretty sure that's irrelevant in this case. It all comes down to viewing sequential radar readouts over time. If you're looking at a single instant, then yes a mortar shell would probably look similar to a bird. Howecer, if you're viewing the way an object travels over the course of several seconds in multiple radar readings, you could probably tell the difference based on change in velocity, elevation etc
Well, this has enlightened me. Thank you all for updating my knowledge on radars and anti-missile systems.
Yes, you are talking about the nature of physical laws of waveform energy. What you say is true however we can overcome and enhance the signal with higher energy levels and thus reduce the signal noise. Further, you are probably picturing the large swinging radar beam that cycles ones per second used to track airliners. What these systems use is quite a bit more rapid in its processing and much more targeted after an event has begun. You may have a larger full field sensor detecting 360 degrees when an event begins and then when a launch is determined to be happening by the system a secondary array of sensors more rapid and targeted take over tracking the individual shells.
> I thought radar sends out waves and then processes the reflected waves to get the size and shape of the object in the tracked area.
It does. That "size/shape return signature" is called the radar cross section, and it is heavily dependent on the geometry and materials of objects that the radar waves encounter. These features can be used to distinguish targets either manually or "automatically".
Automatically can be very, very efficient and involve many types of integrated sensor data.
>starts a thread on Jow Forums before even bothering to google Iron Dome
How many birds are made of metal and fly in a ballistic arc at hundreds of miles per hour?
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Plus they cost nearly 100,000 USD per shot. Versus these homemade spigot mortars made with 20 bucks worth of metal scrap and propane cylinders.
Iron dome is for short ranged projectiles
This includes rockets
RT is short for retarded
It was probably C-RAM.
Either they used their missiles in a very predictive manner, or a CIWS-type CRAM system got it. How's it like to know paranoia and conspiracies in place of easily obtainable knowledge and basic intuition about weapon defenses?
Oh hey, you're that guy from the other thread. How's the repressed sexuality going?
Are mortar rounds affected by wind?
I was a scout/sniper and forward spotter for Mortar teams in the army but we never really got into the specifics of what the mortar teams are doing - Just relay targets and corrections.
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