Ground or Sea Launched Meteor missile

[PMN1]

Have there been any suggestions of a ground or sea launched version of Meteor?

 

[CIC-TAO]

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2008-5262

 

[NMaude]

Would this be a new launch-booster or the modification of an existing in production design?

 

[timmymagic]

Would this be a new launch-booster or the modification of an existing in production design?

It wouldn't be Aster as the 15's booster is 1.6m long, or VL-SeaWolfs. Presumably it would be a new design.

The papers authors were from Bayern Chemie and MBDA. Presumably they chose that total length (roughly 4.8m for Missile and Booster) for a specific application. Germany was looking at MEADS at the time, but the interceptor was the PAC-3 MSE (along with IRIS-T SL). Were they studying Meteor as a potential missile alongside PAC-3? But PAC-3 wis 5.2-5.3m long, so why would they not use that additional space for a longer booster? Or is m.1.6 the ideal speed for handover to the integral booster to get it to m2.5 and ramjet function?

 

[Grey Havoc]

Something aimed at cruise missile defence among other things?

 

[TomS]

It wouldn't be Aster as the 15's booster is 1.6m long, or VL-SeaWolfs. Presumably it would be a new design.

The papers authors were from Bayern Chemie and MBDA. Presumably they chose that total length (roughly 4.8m for Missile and Booster) for a specific application. Germany was looking at MEADS at the time, but the interceptor was the PAC-3 MSE (along with IRIS-T SL). Were they studying Meteor as a potential missile alongside PAC-3? But PAC-3 wis 5.2-5.3m long, so why would they not use that additional space for a longer booster? Or is m.1.6 the ideal speed for handover to the integral booster to get it to m2.5 and ramjet function?

I'm pretty sure Meteor was proposed as a low-cost interceptor for MEADS. (Working from memory, but I posted that idea years ago)

Post in thread 'Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS)' https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/medium-extended-air-defense-system-meads.17821/post-182303

 

[Grey Havoc]

This is likely related:

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/bayern-chemie-ducted-rocket-missile-defense-interceptor.25392/

By the way, you can ignore the Japan related posts, part of a totally unrelated project thread somehow got merged into the linked thread.

 

[Scott Kenny]

The papers authors were from Bayern Chemie and MBDA. Presumably they chose that total length (roughly 4.8m for Missile and Booster) for a specific application. Germany was looking at MEADS at the time, but the interceptor was the PAC-3 MSE (along with IRIS-T SL). Were they studying Meteor as a potential missile alongside PAC-3? But PAC-3 wis 5.2-5.3m long, so why would they not use that additional space for a longer booster? Or is m.1.6 the ideal speed for handover to the integral booster to get it to m2.5 and ramjet function?

I suspect that M=1.6 was the ideal speed for handover.

I mean, we know that the integral booster is intended to get Meteor from aircraft speed to ramjet speed, so it's probably got a ~300knot minimum speed.