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long range AAM with missile submunition

Has missile technology advanced enough that the next generation of long range AAMs could be designed to engage 2 targets? What might enable that is the fact that long range missiles will have a long range thanks to a sustained thrust ( with a ramjet motor for instance ). The missile will be able to redirect its flight after it has launched its missile submunition.

The missile submunition would not nessecarily need to be powered. If it is launched at high speed by the missile in the right direction, it should have a range of about 20km if it has a small diameter and not much drag. 20km is roughly the range of a modern IIR seeker. The mini missile would need to have a high maneuvrability ( if possible with side thrusters ) and a small warhead ( say around 2kg ) to increase the effect.

The mini missile would not weight more than about 10kg, which is about 5% of the weight of a meteor, so it wouldn’t affect the range too much. The fact that it has no motor would make is short enough to fit in a relatively short payload section, and would also reduce the cost.

The main missile would have its own warhead to intercept the second target. If there is only one target to intercept, both the submunition missile and the main missile would attack it, which would increase the pk.

I don’t think it would be worth it to have more than one sub munition, because the main missile would have to maneuver too much, which would require too much propellant, the missile would become too big.

That would be good for stealth planes because it would double the number of aircraft they could shoot down. Also long range missile are very expensive, so they would be more cost effective if they could attack a 2 targets.

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