What is the flight profile?
What is the range of it’s active radar?
How the missiles in the salvo share informations?
Is the radar capable of distinguish o carrier from a destroyer?
There was a data link between the missile and the us-a satellite?
The missile carry also some passive sensors?
The missile carry also some ecm?
The missile has been updated over the years?
It is possible that previous skills if not present in the first part of eighties have been introduced over the years?
I’ve also read in the wonderful book “cold war submarines” by Norman Polmar that the p-5 series antiship missiles (ss-n-3 shaddock) has got a two way data link to give the operator the possibility to direct the missile against a target (possibly a carrier) and not to another.
Sorry for my bad english
By: Severodvinsk - 21st January 2005 at 11:31
yeah sorry, made small mistake in the mind, P-500, P-700… I don’t have the JED article, but I don’t need it either. I’m not that interested in this missile anymore, and I read enough stuff about it, I posted that somewhere in the “Russian Attack Capabilities” Thread, maybe it’s an excerpt of the JED article? Don’t know it anymore.
Anyhow I didn’t know that about Yakhont, thank you very much!
By: Pit - 20th January 2005 at 16:28
Sev:
First Russian AShM missile with datalink capabilities and internal ECM system was Bazalt P-500.
P-700 Granit is just very improved from the early.
🙂
Do you have the “Carrier Killers” article from JED edition in 2003?
Give me a PM if you want it 🙂
P.S: Yakhont also use datalink between 3 missiles in the group 🙂 😀
By: Severodvinsk - 19th January 2005 at 20:34
that’s some crappy sources you gave….
The range of a missile’s radar is quite secret, counts for this missile too!
They share information by a data link.
The missile itself is not capable of distinguishing a carrier from a destroyer, but it has a satellite link towards the command ship. Onboard that vessel, they distinguish the ships and guide the weapon (well, that’s the way Sandbox does it, but considering the Slava and Kirov have the same satellite antennae, it probably works the same way)
Granit is the first? Russian missile to carry ECM, to what extent is of course not known.
The US-A satellite had a link to the ship, I don’t know whether it had one to the missile too, maybe they used different satellites for that, as not to overload the US-A sats. I don’t think it was accurate enough either, so an interface between the rough image of the Kasatka-B system and the missile’s own radarview would be nice!
By: djnik - 19th January 2005 at 18:16
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