
How can the US Army’s Gray Eagle drone survive against integrated air defences if it expected to fly “racetrack patterns tangential to the IADS threat at 80 km distance”
According to Defense News
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2020/1 ... d-threats/
The Gray Eagle is relatively slow and I presume not highly manoeuvrable compared to fighter aircraft. In the event of the RWR indicating a hostile SAM launch could the Gray Eagle dive below the radar horizon in the brief time before potential impact? Or would it have to rely on jamming? How can it survive at this seemingly short distance from IADS?
According to Defense News
The Army wants its Joint All Domain Operations (JADO) Gray Eagles to have synthetic aperture radars, moving target indicators, electronic intelligence and communications intelligence capability as well as air-launched effects and radar warning receivers, according to a new market survey.
Now, the Army wants help from industry with those payloads for its Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems. Specifically, the service is looking for systems that are capable of helping with joint operations across all warfighting domains against high-end threats from adversaries such as China and Russia, according to a solicitation published Dec. 2 to a government contracting website.......... Gray Eagles must survive against an “Integrated Air Defense System (IADS)-rich environment,” the request notes. This means the Gray Eagle would fly “racetrack patterns tangential to the IADS threat at 80 km distance”
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2020/1 ... d-threats/
The Gray Eagle is relatively slow and I presume not highly manoeuvrable compared to fighter aircraft. In the event of the RWR indicating a hostile SAM launch could the Gray Eagle dive below the radar horizon in the brief time before potential impact? Or would it have to rely on jamming? How can it survive at this seemingly short distance from IADS?