It was widely reported that Hezbollah used a civilian surface search radar to provide targeting information to the C-802 launcher that hit INS Hanit in 2006. Curious as to the technicalities involved. Was the launcher actually linked to the radar by a cable [after some modifications] or were instructions as to the bearings of the target given verbally, enabling the missile to fire in ''a lock on after launch mode''?
Or was the missile just fired in the direction of the target in the knowledge that the seeker head would home in to the larget target in the area, which was INS Hanit. If this was the case, wouldn't a shore based ESM have been sufficient? Using a shore base ESM - to detect a target - enabling a missile to be launched, would provide the target with little warning, as opposed to a search radar that would have ''painted'' the target and alerted it. In 1982, the Argentines took off an MM-38 launcher and used it on shore with success against an RN target [the generators used were sets deliovered in in WW2!] but I'm not sure what radar was used.
Or was the missile just fired in the direction of the target in the knowledge that the seeker head would home in to the larget target in the area, which was INS Hanit. If this was the case, wouldn't a shore based ESM have been sufficient? Using a shore base ESM - to detect a target - enabling a missile to be launched, would provide the target with little warning, as opposed to a search radar that would have ''painted'' the target and alerted it. In 1982, the Argentines took off an MM-38 launcher and used it on shore with success against an RN target [the generators used were sets deliovered in in WW2!] but I'm not sure what radar was used.