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Originally Posted by karl262
Maybe an AEGIS ashore system?
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Nah, Aegis is a little more then that it combines a really good Radar in the AN/SPY 1 with a fire control system in layers. So a Radar, a fire control Radar, and a Command and Control system that works in layers. So on a navy ship, long range SAMS, Short Range SAMS, and a CIWS. Basically you turn a key to enable it. The SPY Radar looks for targets, the MK99, creates target solutions on everything the SPY see's. Then the Command and Control system selects the weapons, and fires them.
Basically the person running the AEGIS system, turns a key to enable from I think Hold, and the system does the decision making and firing.
The SPY 1 is a really good radar, but the issue with it, well not issue is its range is a 200 mile circle, so you'd need a lot of them. But the real benefit is the amount of power it puts out, so it can literally burn through any attempts at jamming. The other disadvantage would be its very short range in detecting things like cruise missiles, and in a rough terrain like the arctic, it would be shorter ranged then that.
So while the SPY 1 could see a ballistic inbound out to 200 miles, it probably would only be able to detect a cruise missile over flat terrain out to about 45 miles.
I would think that the idea here is to find the longest range and most powerful radar, and data link them to a ground station, and build enough radars for support and overlap in case radar stations get taken out.
It'd be kind of cool if Canada invested in some airborne Radar systems to work in conjunction with ground based radar as airborne radar gets around the terrain issues that handicap ground Radars.
Basically the Boeing E-3G Sentry. the problem is that they cost a quarter of a billion per copy, and you would need multiples of them as the detection range of the AN/APY 1 passive radar is about 500 kms.