{"id":194379,"date":"2008-09-27T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/27\/updated-pac-3-looking-at-2009-test\/"},"modified":"2008-09-27T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T12:05:00","slug":"updated-pac-3-looking-at-2009-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/27\/updated-pac-3-looking-at-2009-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated PAC-3 Looking at 2009 Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Lockheed-Martin Missiles and Fire Control<sup>*<\/sup> and the Missile Defense Agency are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-09-15&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/09\/15\/AW_09_15_2008_p46-78338.xml&amp;headline=New+PAC-3+Missile+Faces+First+Intercept+Test+in+2009\">looking at testing an upgrade to the PAC-3 Patriot SAM in 2009<\/a>. (<em>paid subscription required<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the sensor for the hit-to-kill weapon will be much the same as its predecessor, but that range will be doubled and effective altitude increased by a larger diameter motor with a two pulse motor, giving generally improved kinematics.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, they will put the missile in a PAC-2 cannister, the PAC-3 fits 4 missiles in the space of a PAC-2 now, and use folding fins for greater volumetric efficiency, and LM is hopingto be competitive in naval applications too.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Full Disclosure, in 1999-2000 and 1996-1998, I worked as a mechanical engineer for what is now Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, and I have some claim to actually being a rocket scientist.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Yes, I have worked everywhere. Maybe I can&#8217;t hold down a job, but more likely this has been my role as &#8220;technical hit man&#8221;, where you are parachuted in to take care of a specific need.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Lockheed-Martin Missiles and Fire Control* and the Missile Defense Agency are looking at testing an upgrade to the PAC-3 Patriot SAM in 2009. (paid subscription required) It looks like the sensor for the hit-to-kill weapon will be much the same as its predecessor, but that range will be doubled and effective altitude &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1096,1180,1161,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missile-defense","category-missiles","category-naval","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194379"}],"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=194379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}