• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How does anti-air work? Just fill the sky with flak? How do you know when and where the missle will be? Just radar?

    • rook@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      the missile is coming and radar computer guy sees it and does some calculus to figure out where the missile will be in X minutes and then tells another computer to shoot a missile at where the first missile will be in X minutes. and this second missile (the anti air missile) is specially designed to sort of shotgun a bunch of metal at the first missile to make sure it gets the hit. yep.

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          1 year ago

          What he described is old tech, russian BUK missile systems (built in 1980) work like that.