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The Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System is an air defense system developed by the United States Navy to defend warships from air attack. Since its introduction the system has been improved and sold to several United States allies.
Global security - MK-74 Guided Missile Fire Control System
- The SM-1 MR is installed on FFG-, DDG-, CG-, and CGN-class ships equipped with a Tartar combat system. Mk074 French Navy technology Military electronics of the United States Military computers fr:Tartar SM1
Description
The Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System, or Mk 74 Guided Missile Fire Control System, or just "Tartar", is a US-built medium-range anti-aircraft missile system. The French version used on the s is composed of a vertical rotating magazine holding 40 missiles, a Mk 13 launcher, two AN/SPG-51Cfire-control radar
A fire-control radar (FCR) is a radar that is designed specifically to provide information (mainly target azimuth, elevation, range and range rate) to a fire-control system in order to direct weapons such that they hit a target. They are sometim ...
s and one DRBJ11 three-dimensional air search radar. Though the entire weapon system is commonly called Tartar, tracing back to its original linkage to the RIM-24 Tartar missile, it utilizes medium-ranged RIM-66 Standard missiles.
Deployment
It was installed on numerous UScruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several roles.
The term "cruiser", which has been in use for several hu ...
and destroyers in the 1960s through early 1990s such as the s, s, s and the s. It is also in use in other countries such as the fleet escorters of the French Navy ''Kersaint'', ''Bouvet'', ''Du Chayla'' and ''Dupetit-Thouars'', and was also in use on and {{ship, French frigate, Jean Bart, , 2.
RIM-66B Standard
Starting in the middle 1960s a new family of guided missiles referred to as the Standard missiles were developed to replace the poor performing missiles used by existing fire control systems. The RIM-66A/B Standard replaced the earlier RIM-24C Tartar used by the system. The new missile made Tartar into a true medium ranged system. Besides having longer range than the RIM-24, the new missile was more accurate and reliable.New Threat Upgrade
Vessels of the ''California'', and ''Virginia''-class cruisers and the Kidd-class destroyers had their Tartar systems upgraded to modification 14 or 15 standard which enabled them to employ the Standard Missile 2 as part of the New Threat Upgrade (NTU) program. The New Threat Upgrade equipped vessels could utilize the inertial guidance systems on the SM-2 and time share illumination radars for semi-active homing in the terminal phase of the intercept, increasing the number of targets the Tartar system could attack at the same time. The New Threat Upgrade Tartar ships could function nearly as well as Aegis Combat System equipped vessels, except for dealing with saturation missile attacks. The NTU still requires the AN/SPG-51 radar to acquire a lock on the target and illuminate it just before intercept.See also
*Fire-control system
A fire-control system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director, and radar, which is designed to assist a ranged weapon system to target, track, and hit a target. It performs the same task as a ...
* RIM-66 Standard
External links
Global security - MK-74 Guided Missile Fire Control System
- The SM-1 MR is installed on FFG-, DDG-, CG-, and CGN-class ships equipped with a Tartar combat system. Mk074 French Navy technology Military electronics of the United States Military computers fr:Tartar SM1