Cruise missiles on Datalink.

[EchoOneOne]

As we all know, SAMs can detect and shot down cruise missiles, so why they're not sharing their position via Datalink?

[BIGNEWY]

If you have unclassified evidence it should be a thing please PM me, but I am not aware of any such thing. 

thanks

[Tank50us]

On 12/29/2023 at 7:58 AM, BIGNEWY said:

If you have unclassified evidence it should be a thing please PM me, but I am not aware of any such thing. 

thanks

If I understand correctly, this is a publicly advertised capability of the Aegis combat system, Patriot (at least the PAC3 TMK), and has existed since the F-14s introduction.

Obviously this is not a wide capability, but it is a capability that the US Military has invested heavily in.

[EchoOneOne]

bump 

[falcon_120]

If you have unclassified evidence it should be a thing please PM me, but I am not aware of any such thing. 
thanks

I guess the point of the OP is in its more broad sense, why is not everything detected shared in L16?

As far as i know for example AWACS shares enemy fighters but not an enemy TALD or cruise missile that you can perfectly detect on your radar (i mean in DCS).

Why would a EWR or AWACS know what the radar contact is? A radar track is a radar track.

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[EchoOneOne]

23 hours ago, falcon_120 said:

I guess the point of the OP is in its more broad sense, why is not everything detected shared in L16?

As far as i know for example AWACS shares enemy fighters but not an enemy TALD or cruise missile that you can perfectly detect on your radar (i mean in DCS).

Why would a EWR or AWACS know what the radar contact is? A radar track is a radar track.

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That's exactly what I meant. 

[draconus]

On 5/19/2024 at 7:15 PM, falcon_120 said:

Why would a EWR or AWACS know what the radar contact is?

Usually there are a bunch of guys/gals sitting and deciding what to mark and send on DL to whom. They're not sending raw radar picture to everyone.

 

[EchoOneOne]

1 hour ago, draconus said:

Usually there are a bunch of guys/gals sitting and deciding what to mark and send on DL to whom. They're not sending raw radar picture to everyone.

 

So why wouldn't they? 

[draconus]

7 minutes ago, EchoOneOne said:

So why wouldn't they? 

They would if they considered it a valid target.

[EchoOneOne]

25 minutes ago, draconus said:

They would if they considered it a valid target.

This is a valid target, not a clutter or anything else.

[draconus]

23 minutes ago, EchoOneOne said:

This is a valid target, not a clutter or anything else.

It's for the HQ to decide. It might be a threat and common target for AEGIS or other AD but rarely for the fighter aircraft.

[falcon_120]

Usually there are a bunch of guys/gals sitting and deciding what to mark and send on DL to whom. They're not sending raw radar picture to everyone.
 

No one said Raw radar picture, read again. I said radar track, meaning a valid target.

Why wouldn't they share a valid track of a cruise missile? When in fact this is a high piority taget for any resource available in the battlefield. BTW recently relevant when >300 drones and missiles shot by iran have been shot down by ships and fighters, or are a key priority target also in the Ukranian conflict these days.

Reality is, no one goes discarding valid radar tracks in a war, even less so being these tracks a potential weapon launched against your troops/infrastructure, and even less based on a made up assumption like HQ deciding you should not see this track cause there is an AEGIS ship nearby.

OP point is totally valid.

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[EchoOneOne]

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