Interesting video.

Anyway, I doubt the Granit can be chased. MiG-31, in spite of its tremendous speed was designed with Tomahawks in mind. The only scenario I can imegine a Granit can be chased is to place the Foxound just in the same place and the same time the Granit breaks from water (and I even doubt the Foxhound can follow the missile for long time). If you consider some initial time/distance miss, the missile is gone.

You have it merge like the F-15 did with the Tomahawk. Maybe that happens at Mach 2.5 and 40,000 feet. Anyway it was just a thought.

Granite is Mach 2.5 at higher altitudes only, dropping to Mach 1.5 at low altitudes.

Anyway, I doubt the Granit can be chased. MiG-31, in spite of its tremendous speed was designed with Tomahawks in mind. The only scenario I can imegine a Granit can be chased is to place the Foxound just in the same place and the same time the Granit breaks from water (and I even doubt the Foxhound can follow the missile for long time). If you consider some initial time/distance miss, the missile is gone.

Mig-31 fly near Mach 3 just at very high level (aound 60.000 ft). At low level its speed fall below Mach 1.5.

Granite is Mach 2.5 at higher altitudes only, dropping to Mach 1.5 at low altitudes.

http://warfare.ru/?lang=&catid=312&linkid=2082&linkname=SS-N-19-Shipwreck-/-P-700-Granit

“At high altitude, the missile speed is Mach 2.5, while at low (sea-skimming) altitude, it is Mach 1.5. “

It is the same in this very interesting document:

http://www.dtig.org/docs/Russian-Soviet%20Naval%20Missiles.pdf

Mig-31 fly near Mach 3 just at very high level (aound 60.000 ft). At low level its speed fall below Mach 1.5.

The problem is that SS-N-19 fly at mach 2.5. Tomahawk do it at mach 0.9.

“Mig-31”

Now if someone could find a video of a Mig-31 chasing a flock of SS-N-19 Shipwrecks.

The problem is that SS-N-19 fly at mach 2.5. Tomahawk do it at mach 0.9.

Now if someone could find a video of a Mig-31 chasing a flock of SS-N-19 Shipwrecks. 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqOBEuCtvf0&feature=related

A Pakistani mirage chasing airlaunched cruise missile (Raad) around 0:24-0:28. It also shows the seperation around 0:17 .

Yeah there are a few of them out there. I’ve seen F-4s chasing ALCMs, F-16s chasing JASSMs, and I’ve got another video somewhere of a F/A-18 launching a SLAM-ER and then following it to the ship/target.

Reminds me of this photo:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Tomahawk_with_F-14.jpg