the new MBDA anti shipping concept:
By: DTJJ - 24th June 2011 at 14:38
Lot more detail here (Mach 3 high-level or mach 2+ low level, ability to use all warheads together as a unitary blast etc)
By: Jonesy - 23rd June 2011 at 13:15
Saw it at the show. The video is confusing. The point would certainly be to release the warheads outside the reach of the BMD and CIW systems. Awww. Don’t like it. Single big boooom Russian style 200/400kg is still better than dropping some tiny SDB look-a-likes.
I like the idea of bussing out submunitions to overload defensive hardkill fire-channels. The combination of high ingress speed at wavetop plus submunitions is a bizarre one though. The use of submunitions is an acceptance that you are going to be tracked…..why bother going low?. If you are relying on saturation of defensive fires to get your hit in anyway why not send the bus vehicle aeroballistic…and faster. The high altitude gives a missile seeker head a proper field of view for target detection/assessment/discrimination and the bus-out phase enables target engagement almost regardless of the opposing area defence envelope. You going to ripple off half a dozen expensive Aster30’s at BAT-style smart submunitions?.
Perseus looks a bit of a halfway formed thought to me I’m afraid!.
By: Distiller - 23rd June 2011 at 12:30
Saw it at the show. The video is confusing. The point would certainly be to release the warheads outside the reach of the BMD and CIW systems. Awww. Don’t like it. Single big boooom Russian style 200/400kg is still better than dropping some tiny SDB look-a-likes.
By: Das Kardinal - 21st June 2011 at 19:08
I wonder if there’s some ANF/ASMP DNA in there.
By: kev 99 - 21st June 2011 at 17:09
Well its rather cool use of the music from Modern Warfare 2. (Stoked for MW3 by the way).
I presume looking at the intake that its supersonic. As for the sub munitions wouldn’t fighter style chaff dispensers be small, lighter and easier to install. When the missile is in the terminal phase it pumps out some chaff to help blind the defences.
Seem another report that confirms it’s definitely supersonic.
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st June 2011 at 15:03
I presume looking at the intake that its supersonic.
Concur. The low aspect ratio of the wings is another give away, with that kind of planform (hell, they’re practically strakes rather than actual wings) on a subsonic weapon range would be poor, no point in going for an air breathing engine.
By: swerve - 21st June 2011 at 14:06
Not sure about the sub-munitions, seem a bit OTT to me, also would it be classed as a cluster weapon?
The ban applies to submunitions under 20kg, & which are not individually guided. The Perseus submunitions are said to be 40kg.
By: Fedaykin - 21st June 2011 at 13:59
Well its rather cool use of the music from Modern Warfare 2. (Stoked for MW3 by the way).
I presume looking at the intake that its supersonic. As for the sub munitions wouldn’t fighter style chaff dispensers be small, lighter and easier to install. When the missile is in the terminal phase it pumps out some chaff to help blind the defences.
By: kev 99 - 21st June 2011 at 13:34
Looks expensive.
Not sure about the sub-munitions, seem a bit OTT to me, also would it be classed as a cluster weapon?
Talk about it being ready for deployment after 2030, seems like a long time for developing an anti ship missile.
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June 21, 2011 at 11:30 am