Last time I heard about HADES, it was a long range radar with sar and gmti coupled to an electro optical sensor and sigint capability.tomuk wrote: ↑04 Jan 2024, 18:59AIUI it isn't a great big SAR\MTI radar but SIGINT kit.SW1 wrote: ↑04 Jan 2024, 18:18What is the proposed sensor fit for HADES ?tomuk wrote: ↑04 Jan 2024, 17:49Yes as apart from similar airframes the sensor fit is completely different between Sentinel and HADES.new guy wrote: ↑04 Jan 2024, 17:46Still, the sensors and systems aboard this new aircraft will have been different to our theoretical upgraded or not on sentinel. Therefore yo can't really claim "and we just retired ours" when they do are things.SW1 wrote: ↑04 Jan 2024, 17:16
It was due an upgrade that had been repeatedly put off due to heavy operational demand.
The “planners” determined they had ordered a load of new aircraft they didn’t have any crew or funding to operate unless they sacrificed other aircraft. Neither Poseidon or protector replace the function the aircraft conducted and neither did mean the aircraft were old or not worth the cost.
If you were then going to claim your are basing your army model on fighting the deep battle then you may of considered supporting that rather than just putting out words around it.
Which funnily enough was not a million miles away from the configuration Raytheon was offering on sentinel.
So a roughly similar a/c with roughly similar sensors doing the roughly similar mission of airborne stand off ground surveillance, target identification and pattern of life mission targeting for long range surface to surface strike weapons.