SRBMs with ARH guidence - early use and adoption.

Why SRBMs with passive radar homing were not intorduced?
I think that it could be done with WW2 tech.
Certainly states with Scuds could lump one its enemies to supress radars?
Iraq, Egypt, Syria all could have used such tweaked Scuds for great efect.
Espacially in 60s-80s when not many SAMs had ABM capability it could do great trick.
 
Probably because a ballistic missile is a ballistic missile. Terminal guidance is something that only really came into it's own in the 1980s with the combination of computers and electronics that existed in that era making it possible. So while it might be possible to put the equipment in an ordinary anti-radiation missile in a Scud in the 60's, there're quite a few other issues to deal with. For example, since ballistic missiles aren't exactly all that stealthy a weapons system, what happens when the target radar, having detected the incoming missile,shuts off it's radar for the next five-ten minutes?
 
Probably because a ballistic missile is a ballistic missile. Terminal guidance is something that only really came into it's own in the 1980s with the combination of computers and electronics that existed in that era making it possible. So while it might be possible to put the equipment in an ordinary anti-radiation missile in a Scud in the 60's, there're quite a few other issues to deal with. For example, since ballistic missiles aren't exactly all that stealthy a weapons system, what happens when the target radar, having detected the incoming missile,shuts off it's radar for the next five-ten minutes?

It misses. But will radar see it? Something like Hawk Radar will not see probably do to high apogee. Kh -28 caome to service in 1973 so I could see Scud warhead with it.
Mode of operation is to get aproximate place where radar is.
Fire missile with basic guidence done by Gyros,
Once passive reciver picks op signal it corrects curse.
If radar switches off it follows commands done by Gyros.
 
Probably because a ballistic missile is a ballistic missile. Terminal guidance is something that only really came into it's own in the 1980s with the combination of computers and electronics that existed in that era making it possible. So while it might be possible to put the equipment in an ordinary anti-radiation missile in a Scud in the 60's, there're quite a few other issues to deal with. For example, since ballistic missiles aren't exactly all that stealthy a weapons system, what happens when the target radar, having detected the incoming missile,shuts off it's radar for the next five-ten minutes?

Plus Scud Warhead has more room that somthing like Kh 28 making it possible even before that.
 
So basically an anti-radiation missile writ large? At a guess the countries that were advance enough to manufacture missiles accurate enough for something like this would generally prefer to use aircraft carried munitions since it gives them greater knowledge and discretion over the targets they're firing at. Plus if you're going to be dropping laser-guided bombs anyway, one of the main reasons why you'd be suppressing your enemies air defences in the first place, then you might as well just use regular missiles if you're already there as it were.
 
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