Scott Kenny
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It'd show up as soon as that nose cone hit atmosphere.Anyone ever hid a warhead in a nose-cone hoping to be ignored? For larger missiles.
It'd show up as soon as that nose cone hit atmosphere.Anyone ever hid a warhead in a nose-cone hoping to be ignored? For larger missiles.
“Hmmm that contact is on a trajectory towards our airbase should we intercept it?”Anyone ever hid a warhead in a nose-cone hoping to be ignored? For larger missiles.
with even smaller systems like Iskander deploying small rf decoys.
They wouldn’t but to my knowledge they’re also only for terminal stage though solely RF decoys could mess with cuing.RF penaids like those carried by the SS-26 Stone wouldn't against the SM-3's EKV as it uses a two-colour IIR seeker not an RF-seeker.
Those are far shorter range than the missiles Iran used in their attack. As such, if they ever do enter SM-3 engagement envelopes, cuing in time to hit them would be difficult.Something that occurred earlier today is that there's already been an opportunity for the USN to combat test the SM-3 Block-II and that's in the Red Sea intercepting ballistic missiles launched by Houthi terrorists.
You wouldn't waste an SM-3 on that sky trash.Something that occurred earlier today is that there's already been an opportunity for the USN to combat test the SM-3 Block-II and that's in the Red Sea intercepting ballistic missiles launched by Houthi terrorists.
Not Block IIA.It has been "bloodied" now if reports are correct.
Anyone ever hid a warhead in a nose-cone hoping to be ignored? For larger missiles.
Something that occurred earlier today is that there's already been an opportunity for the USN to combat test the SM-3 Block-II and that's in the Red Sea intercepting ballistic missiles launched by Houthi terrorists.
Those are probably too low of an altitude for SM-3 even if it was desirable.
Interview with Gerry Hueber, requirements and capabilities' vice president for the naval power business at Raytheon, during Sea Air Space 2024.
Hueber sheds light on the following topics:
01:29 - SM-6 including its latest at-sea test with the MDA
02:51 - ESSM Block 2
03:37 - Australia's Guided Weapons Explosive Ordnance Enterprise
04:45 - Challenges to ramping up missile production in the US