An AV TM-300 cruise missile was fired from an Astros II launcher during a 2016 test.
Credit: Avibras
The radar on a Brazilian Air Force Embraer R-99 patrol aircraft finds a target, then relays the coordinates over the horizon via Brazil’s Geostationary Satellite for Defense and Strategic Communications to an Elbit Systems RQ-900 with a specially equipped satellite antenna. The latter then sends the...
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