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Second, what you really want is PROCESSING. Just throwing radar energy at the water just means you have to sort through more sea clutter. Because the Sunburn also has a passive tracking mode, your choice of active defence also means that you can stop hoping on your soft-kill measures - hmm, nice radar source+ECM (Nulka decoy) vs nice radar source + ECM + massive SPY-1 radar emission ... tough decision. Further, to kill something with Aegis, the SPG-62 must manage to illuminate the target clearly in the endphase.
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On the other hand, the Sunburn's IR plume is so large that it's probably visable over the horizon, and the SM-2 now has an auxiliary IR homing capability. I also imagine the newer SPY-1D(V) is much more effecive in picking out sea-skimmers from wave clutter.
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Further, to kill something with Aegis, the SPG-62 must manage to illuminate the target clearly in the endphase.
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And? You can prove that would be a problem, especially for the newer version of Aegis.
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ESSM relies on the radar. As for RAM, you still want the radar to point the RAM launcher in the right direction and it is based on Sidewinder.
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Given that standard ROE fires four RAMs against each incoming missile on slightly different vectors, I'm not too worried about it's capability to intercept Sunburns. As for ESSM, once again, can you prove that the the Aegis system would be incapable of keeping up with the missile's maneuivers, especially the latest versions?