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I've read somewhere that Australia's DSTO is studying a network-centric warfare concept which connects Jindalee OTH radar with planned Air Warfare Destroyer. This is to counter anti-ship missile carriers that come in below the AWD's radar horizon, being cued by offboard sensors. Certainly the AWD can shoot down inbound arrows, but the archers can get away unharmed. The bombers will come back reloaded, and the AWD will have to run away after emptying its magazine. The traditional solution to this is to operate only under the air defence umbrella provided by AEW and CAP. An alternative, hopefully cheaper, solution is to upgrade the Jindalee OTH radar to get fire-control quality data, link the Jindalee radar picture to the AWD in real-time, and arm the AWD with an active-homing missile (ERAM?) that can engage targets over the horizon. Here's the question --- is there any OTH HF skywave radar that has achieved fire-control quality data?
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