Anti-radiation missile
An anti-radiation missile is a missile designed to detect and home in on an enemy radio emission source. These are designed for use against an enemy radar, although jammers and even radios used for communications can also be targeted in this manner. Earliest known anti radiation missile is variant of Blohm & Voss Bv 246 radar guided missile.
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An anti-radiation missile is a missile designed to detect and home in on an enemy radio emission source. These are designed for use against an enemy radar, although jammers and even radios used for communications can also be targeted in this manner. Earliest known anti radiation missile is variant of Blohm & Voss Bv 246 radar guided missile. Commonly carried by specialist aircraft in the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses role. The primary purpose of this type of missile is to degrade enemy air defenses in the first period of a conflict in order to increase the chances of survival for the following waves of strike aircraft.
More recently, air-to-air ARM designs have begun to appear, notably the Russian Vympel R-27EPEP. Such missiles have several advantages over other missile guidance techniques: they do not trigger radar warning receivers and they can have a longer range. The DRDO Anti-Radiation Missile called as Rudram-1 has been developed and tested by India. The MAR-1 is under development by Brazil.
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