SteeljawscribeHeads-up fighter dudes 0 — all those years of shooting at hapless drones may soon be over:
Comes word, courtesy Defense Industry Daily that the QF-4 may be getting a new capability — to bite back:
Yep — that’s a QF-4 firing the missile, an unmanned QF-4. No word on if it’s an AAM or ASM (article notes that initial releases said it was a HARM, but those references have subsequently been pulled back), so our SWO buds better not be chuckling too hard yet either…
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The USAF release I looked at (just now) seemed to indicate that it was a new high speed anti-radiation AGM associated with a Navy program. That would seem to indicate something associated with the HSAD, as this Ares article states.
Mike- from your article: “HSAD combines the seeker head and guidance electronics of the AGM-88 HARM with a wingless airframe and a ramjet propulsion system.”
The missile in the picture is not “wingless”… and I actually think it might be a Standard ARM. But I am not sure.