Naval missiles and launchers

FORBIN

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A thread for anti-air, anti-submarine, anti-ships, land attack etc... missiles and launchers VLS and others.

For begin an interesting project : 3-Cell Extensible Launching System (ExLS) CAMM Launcher

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Sea Ceptor and GWS.26 VLS modified used by Type 23 FFG

MBDA has begun delivering hardware for the first Sea Ceptor local anti-air missile system installation after the Royal Navy approved a ‘commit to fitting’ for the Type 23 frigate HMS Argyll.
Meanwhile, the company has begun a campaign of final qualification firings at the Vidsel range in Sweden of the Common Anti-air Module Munition (CAMM) effector associated with the system.
‘‘In May this year I made the decision, with the Ministry of Defence, to commit to the fitting of Sea Ceptor on HMS Argyll,’’ Rear Admiral Alex Burton, assistant chief of the Naval Staff (Ships), told the DSEI Daily during a briefing on board HMS Iron Duke. ‘‘This is a key acknowledgement of the confidence we have in Sea Ceptor to replace the current [GWS 26 Mod 1] Seawolf system. Sea Ceptor provides a significantly improved capability [over Seawolf] and massively reduced whole-life costs.’’ MBDA confirmed that it made a first hardware delivery to Devonport − where Argyll is being refitted − in August this year. A second shipment will follow at the end of 2015.
The replacement of GWS 26 Mod 1 with Sea Ceptor forms one strand of a wider Capability Sustainment Programme being rolled out for the Type 23s.
Other aspects include the introduction of the Type 997 E/F-band 3D medium-range radar, which will provide target indication support to the Sea Ceptor system.
To minimise ship impact, Sea Ceptor installation on the Type 23s has been engineered to use existing GWS 26 Mod 1 infrastructure and interface points. CAMM missiles will be fitted in the existing VL Seawolf silo (one canister per cell for a maximum of 32 missiles).
The Type 23 Sea Ceptor fit will use two Platform Data Link Terminal (PDLT) equipments, one fore and one aft, to ensure uninterrupted 360° coverage. The PDLT provides for two-way communications between the ship and the CAMM missile; target positional updates can be uplinked from the ship to the missile in-flight, while missile status information and diagnostics can be sent back to the ship.

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Seems Cell's number wrong o_O
 

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LRASM for ships
Main difference get a booster then more long and heavier.
Air launched version AGM-158C in service on B-1B for 2018, Super Hornet 2019 after this variant for ships have a range of 930 + km the more big until now, subsonic, sea skimming, big warhead 450 kg replace in fact former RGM-109BTomahawk which was a range of 450 km, same warhead there was also for submarines UGM-109B.

It was planned initially a other supersonic variant.

Actually only USAF aicrafts which have anti-ships missiles are B-52H all modified for carry Harpoon in more can be armed with mines for naval missions.

A LRASM for submarines can be very interesting.

Alongside new SM-6, SM-6 dual and new SM-3 bl II a new US generations of missiles.

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Navy Developing Software To Give Standard Missile-6 Additional Mission Capabilities

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My bet is the new mission set is expanding the capability of the SM-6 to include it as a ASM to bridge the current standoff gap and in taking advantage of the NIFC-CA network and the expanded sensor range coming from the IOC of the E-2D's.

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Brahmos have same range as SS-N-26 max 160 nm/300 km.
Chinese and Russian have a more long range as Western in more some supersonics Western don' t have but all Western are sea skimming, altitude max of 20 m, SS-N-19 is not as SS-N-12.

Futur AGM-158C in service on B-1B for 2018, Super Hornet 2019 after this variant for ships have a range of 930 + km the more big until now, subsonic, sea skimming,

Of better have AShM with a more long range you can attack ennemy units and not him but missiles less effectives without a designator an aircraft in tactical coordination near of the target.

And USN TF with a CAW get a very long range ~ 500/600 mn with a very big salvo possible each Super Hornet can carry up to 4 Harpoon.
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Jeff Head

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...each Super Hornet can carry up to 4 Harpoon. big salvo possible
Speaking of which...

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Imagine an attack against a task force at sea with fifteen of those F/A-18Fs loaded with four Harpoons each, supported by eight EA-18Gs loaded like this:

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...with another eight F/A-18Es flying over watch CAP loaded up with 12 AAMs each, all accompanied by an E-2D and four more F/A-18Es escorting it.

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Now that would be some serious NAvy Missile launchers!
 
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A successful missile test on Thursday, in the Mediterranean Sea off the Israeli port of Haifa, is potentially a giant capability leap for Indian and Israeli warships.

Developed jointly by both countries, Israelis refer to the new missile system as the
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8, while Indians call it the
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(LR-SAM). It protects warships from the weapon that their captains most fear: anti-ship missiles, launched from submarines, ships or aircraft up to 150 kilometres away.

A modern,
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like the
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II, which costs less than $2 million, can scuttle a warship worth several hundred million dollars.

The Indian Navy's answer to this is the LR-SAM, which has been described as "an anti-aircraft, anti-missile missile". Its origins lie in the Kargil crisis of 1999, when the navy realised its vulnerability to the Harpoon anti-ship missiles that America had supplied to the otherwise outgunned
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Navy.

To counter the Harpoon, New Delhi approached
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for an emergency procurement of its newly developed Barak missiles, which could shoot down incoming Harpoons at a range of ten kilometres.

While impressed with the Barak, the admirals wanted longer-range protection, given the navy's "blue water" ambitions of controlling wide swathes of ocean. Operating as a part of a widely dispersed flotilla, a capital warship (destroyer, frigate or corvette) needed to not just protect itself but to also create a protective "air defence bubble" for smaller accompanying warships.

In January 2006, New Delhi and Tel Aviv agreed to develop a longer-range Barak that could counter anti-ship missiles of the future. New Delhi allocated Rs 2,606 crore to this project, which would enhance engagement ranges seven-fold, to 70 kilometres. Enemy fighter aircraft, which presented significantly larger targets than anti-ship missiles, could be detected and destroyed at longer ranges.

It was agreed that India's Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) would develop the missile's solid-fuel, two-pulse propulsion motors - 30 per cent of the work share-, while
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Aerospace Industries would build the rest of the LR-SAM.


Of this, Rs 1,700 crore were for three LR-SAM systems for the new Kolkata-class destroyers that India was building. Meanwhile, Israel planned to fit three systems on its Sa'ar 5 corvettes, its biggest and most advanced warships.

It was one of these corvettes, the Israeli Naval Ship Lahav, which conducted the test on Thursday. This was the first time the LR-SAM was tested on a warship, fully deployed in "combat configuration". The anti-ship missile was simulated by a "pilotless target aircraft" that was racing towards the ship at 500-550 kilometres per hour. This is slower than the Harpoon anti-ship missile which travels at about 865 kmph, and barely half the 1,150 kmph speed of the Exocet anti-ship missile.

A senior defence ministry official described the test to Business Standard. As the pilotless target aircraft flew toward the Lahav, the corvette's MF-STAR radar, the heart of the LR-SAM system, quickly detected it. The MF-STAR (multi-function surveillance, tracking and acquisition radar) can detect targets up to 200 kilometres away, but the actual range at which this test was conducted remains secret.

How it unfolded
Strategic affairs website DefenseNews quoted an Israeli official telling reporters that the target was acquired "at a range of more than 20 kilometres but less than 120 kilometres."

Automatically, the MF-STAR began tracking the target, displaying in real time its distance, altitude, direction and velocity on a multi-function display in the ship's operations room - on the LR-SAM's command system.

Meanwhile, an interceptor missile, housed in a canister in the warship, began its pre-launch checks. Within seconds, the LR-SAM's command system had computed engagement scenarios and calculated the impact point, where the outgoing missile would meet and destroy the incoming aircraft - a bullet hitting a bullet.

At the designated nanosecond, the interceptor missile roared out of its canister, engulfing the Lahav's deck in a ball of fire. Quickly gaining supersonic speed, it levelled out and streaked towards the incoming missile, guided by continuous target updates transmitted by the MF-STAR over a data link.

Seven kilometres short of the target, a seeker on-board the missile switched on; now the missile was itself locked onto the target, tracking its manoeuvres. The dual-pulse motor fired again, accelerating the missile that was, by now, merely "coasting". This increased velocity allowed the missile to manoeuvre sharply, keeping up with the target's evasive zigzags - termed "target dynamics".

As the interceptor arrived a few metres from the target, a proximity fuse detonated its 23-kilo high-explosive warhead. This aims to destroy the target or damage it enough to prevent it reaching the mother warship. In Thursday's test, the Israelis claim the proximity fuse was irrelevant, since the interceptor missile directly hit the simulated target. "It was metal on metal," says an Israeli source.


"All the subsystems of the missile performed as predicted and achieved the desired goal of hitting the incoming target," an Indian defence ministry statement corroborated on Friday.

The next step
The ministry says the next test will involve the LR-SAM being fired from INS Kolkata. After it is validated in at least three tests, the LR-SAM will be deployed in all the three Kolkata-class destroyers (Project 15-A); four Project 15-B destroyers being constructed in Mazagon Docks; and seven frigates that will soon begin construction in Mazagon and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Kolkata. The LR-SAM will also be installed on INS Vikrant, the indigenous aircraft carrier being built in Kochi.

The Israeli navy, meanwhile, will install the Barak 8 on all three of its Sa'ar 5 corvettes, and four new Sa'ar 6 corvettes that are being built in Germany.

Senior
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sources describe working with the Israelis in developing the LR-SAM as "a lesson in professionalism and capable project management". The LR-SAM, which was to be operationalised in October 2012, is running three years late, but DRDO admits this is because of Indian delays in developing the dual-pulse motors, which required developing an entirely new propellant.

Meanwhile, the Indian Air Force, which faces a dire shortfall of capable missile systems to defend Indian airspace, is plugging this gap, courtesy the LR-SAM. In March 2009, it signed a Rs 10,075-crore contract with DRDO for a ground-based version called the Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MR-SAM).

The contract is for 18 fire units (each equipped with 24 missiles) to be delivered by October 2016. Each fire unit includes radar, three missile launchers, and a command system. "There is 90 per cent commonality between the LR-SAM and the MR-SAM. We are on track to conduct the first full MR-SAM test in the first half of 2016," says a senior DRDO official.

With development of this new generation missile almost complete, the production chain has begun to roll. The missiles are being integrated at state-owned Bharat Dynamics. Several private sector companies, such as Godrej & Boyce and SEC, are parts of the production chain.

"We are doing concurrent production, and have placed orders for sub-systems. A large part of the LR-SAM will be built in India, bringing down costs and increasing our capabilities," says a DRDO official.

This missile production chain is assured of orders for at least the next two to three decades. A missile has a limited shelf life of seven to nine years and, as they complete their service lives and are consumed in training, replacement orders are guaranteed.
 
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