{"id":194278,"date":"2008-10-11T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/11\/denels-looking-at-radar-guided-a-darter-derivative\/"},"modified":"2008-10-11T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T10:38:00","slug":"denels-looking-at-radar-guided-a-darter-derivative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/11\/denels-looking-at-radar-guided-a-darter-derivative\/","title":{"rendered":"Denel\u2019s Looking at  Radar Guided A-Darter Derivative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img88.imageshack.us\/img88\/5403\/aw092920081241l7450751jh8.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>The South African aerospace company Denel is looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-09-29&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/09\/29\/AW_09_29_2008_p34-83789.xml&amp;headline=Denel%26rsquo%3Bs+Radar+Guided+A-Darter+Considered\">developing a radar guided version of its A-Darter infra-red short range dogfight missile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This mirrors the work that Denel and Rafael did on missiles, the R-Darter\/Derby.  <\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Rafael produced  an active radar guided variant of their Python missile called the Derby.<\/p>\n<p>The A-Darter is reported to have a 20km range, and replacing the missile seeker with a more aerodynamic radome would improve range, though I would guess that even if the missile were not to grow significantly, having a version with a lower and longer thrust profile could increase range even further.<\/p>\n<p>The Umkhonto shown above is a SAM based on the A-darter technology.<\/p>\n<p>One of the goals of both the Darter and the Umkhonto programs is to have no foreign components subject to foreign government export restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African aerospace company Denel is looking at developing a radar guided version of its A-Darter infra-red short range dogfight missile. This mirrors the work that Denel and Rafael did on missiles, the R-Darter\/Derby. Eventually, Rafael produced an active radar guided variant of their Python missile called the Derby. The A-Darter is reported to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1008,1180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-defense-procurement","category-missiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}