SM-3 evolution plan.

Sferrin, thanks.

I never realized the scope of the Navy’s anti-ballistic missile program.

Here are some PDFs relating to it. (the big one has the first graphic I posted)

http://www.xmission.com/~sferrin/sm-3_stuff.zip

I was looking for some more information and found this little fact:

http://www.raytheon.com/feature/standard_missile/mission4/index.html

“SM-3 trajectory over 500 nautical miles“

What is the source of the image? It looks like a part of a .pdf or a powerpoint?

The 21 inch diameter was mooted for the LASM, but I though that the land attack mission had now been passed down to a quad-packed GMLRS derivative?

Good question. I stumbled on it a few weeks ago and forgot where.

LASM would have been old SM-2s modified for the surface to surface role. No boosters on them or anything. I think they had a modified warhead and their flight paths were modified so they’d slow down before impact because apparently they were impacting too fast. Anyway it didn’t have hard target or moving target capability so the USN cancelled it. It was also known as SM-4. Quad pack GMLRS has also been cancelled.

http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-165.html

Also I’d be interested in any info anybody might have on what kind of SAMs/ABMs they’re kicking around for the new VLS system. (Supposedly KEI will be going to sea but there’s no way it would come close to fitting in the new VLS system. Any idea how they plan on doing it?)

What is the source of the image? It looks like a part of a .pdf or a powerpoint?

The 21 inch diameter was mooted for the LASM, but I though that the land attack mission had now been passed down to a quad-packed GMLRS derivative?