Talk:Ikara (missile)

Off-target

Ikara had double the range of ASROC, ASROC's flight time was 55s max, & the Mk44's max detection range 457m. How does this bear on the ability of Ikara to hit, exactly? It's very unclear. And the diagram showing ASROC PK is no help... TREKphiler ^{hit me ♠} 19:08, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

ASROC PK

Double the range of ASROC?

The article says that Ikara has a range of 10 nm and is double that of ASROC. But the ASROC article says that it has a range of 15 nm. What's the story here?--Dwane E Anderson (talk) 14:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hawker Siddeley Ikara?

Can anyone comment on why Commons has this categorised as Hawker Siddeley Ikara? Trawling throught the convoluted history of 1960s British aerospace mergers is always tricky, but did Hawker Siddeley really have that significant an involvement to appear in the naming like this? Andy Dingley (talk) 12:29, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

@Andy Dingley: There is an Ikara missile on display in the RAF Museum Cosford. Its surrounding explanatory material describes it as the “Hawker Siddeley Ikara, Ship-launched anti-submarine missile”. There is no mention of Ikara’s Australian origins. At Government Aircraft Factories#Products (an Australian entity) the Ikara is claimed as one of GAF’s products.

The likely explanation is that, by the end of the RN’s association with Ikara, Hawker Siddeley was the interfacing entity between the Australian supplier and the UK Ministry of Defence. It is also likely that Hawker Siddeley and/or its predecessor was responsible for installing and maintaining the ship-board system in RN ships equipped with Ikara. Dolphin (t) 10:47, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

My comment was spurred by visiting Cosford and uploading some photos of its Ikara to Commons.

I wouldn't trust the information boards at Cosford though. Some of them are just a bit of 1980s anti-peacenik sarcasm, but many have really quite glaring howlers on them. Their caption of the "Hawker Siddeley"_(sic) Firestreak emphasises the need for it to obtain a "radar lock" before launch. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:56, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

A heat-seeking missile that requires a radar lock! Now that’s a hybrid. Dolphin (t) 11:09, 23 June 2019 (UTC)