Talk:AIM-47 Falcon

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  "This seeker was a powerful system of its own, with no effective maximum range and the resolution to be able to lock onto a..."

How exactly does that work? Of course it has a maximum range. All radars do. Do you mean that the range of the radar is as long or greater than the physical range of the missile body itself? Then perhaps it should say so. AnnaGoFast (talk) 21:52, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Since this would be beyond the range of effective semi-active radar homing, a new active-radar terminal seeker was added to the missile.

Where did the idea that this missile was ARH capable come from? No source for the claim is provided, and I can't find anything that matches that. Everything I can find says it was SARH, with a canceled version that included terminal IR guidance. Larcrivereagle (talk) 17:40, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In fact the sentence the claim appears to be from, source 1, Sean O'Connor, Hughes GAR-9/AIM-47 Falcon, Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles, 2004, directly contradicts it

"Boasting a range in excess of 160 km (100 mi), the GAR-9 utilized SARH guidance, with a seeker head capable of locking on to a 9.3 m2 (100 sq.ft.) target at a range of 116 km (63 nm). The missile would fly early portions of its flight path using an autopilot programmed using pre-launch target position and heading data. Early problems with the development of the SARH seeker led to the development of a dual-mode SARH/IR seeker head."

Emphasis mine. Larcrivereagle (talk) 17:48, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The edit appears to have originated from a rewrite in 2008, with the listed source for the paragraph being the same before and after the rewrite. As such I'm assuming it originated out from a misunderstanding. Larcrivereagle (talk) 18:02, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]