I have all but missed this thread until today, when I have a question about Sea Chaparral system......
Some of their Yang Class Destroyers (Gearings) mounted Sea Chaparral launchers, before they were all upgraded under the Wu Chin III program that added the SM-1 in box launchers.
The vast majority of Taiwanese Gearing, Allen M. Sumners, and Fletcher classes destroyers, some former-Crosley and Rudderow classes destroyer escorts, and a handful of auxiliary ships received the Sea Chaparral system. The Gearing class DDs modernised under Wu Chin III programme were upgraded straight from stock FRAM I configuration.
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How much of an improvement could be made if the AIM-9X is used as the projectile to the Sea Chaparral system?
I'm under the impression that the Sea Chaparral only receives verbal directions from its ship's radar operators, but the actual aiming and targeting is still done manually, without being slaved to the ship radar (ROCN auxiliary ships that carried Sea Chaparral do not even have air search radar).
Under this scenario, would the better seeker of the AIM-9X bring noticeably superior efficiency to the Sea Chaparral system?