I just want to add that the DART projectile is a beam rider
You meant SACLOS then?
I just want to add that the DART projectile is a beam rider
The Strales is not a radar per se.
It is a radio guidance system. It sends commands by radio to the shell. The FCR still has to track the target.
I am not sure if the article you quoted got Leonardo quoted correctly. Its not mentioned in the NA-30S brochure and the illustration on the brochure still shows the use of Strales.
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The entire "sensor head" makes no mention of any kind of shell guidance.
All I see here is the FCR, with the use of Ka band, is capable of generating the tracking data for the DART shells to be used accurately. Ka band itself is not used as a radio control signal to the shells.
so 6 already active?