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- From: hhtra@usho21.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
- Subject: Re: Marine Aircover <was New Carrier Plan>
- Message-ID: <By0tEu.8qy@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- References: <Bxx23p.MvB@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:23:17 GMT
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- From hhtra@usho21.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
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- In article <Bxx23p.MvB@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID) writes:
- |> A 1000 kg ASM warhead is another matter. Since it sees fairly low
- |> stresses during flight, the proportion of HE filler should be roughly
- |> comparable to an aircraft bomb. A 2000 lb Mk 84 contains about 1000 lb
- |> of HE, so our warhead should contain about 500 kg of HE filler, give
- |> or take. Again, since this is a low stress/shock situation, you can use
- |> good filler, some sort of high RDX composition (Comp A series or
- |> equivalent). This amount of HE going off next to a ship is going to
- |> cause SERIOUS blast damage. If the missile hits above the belt it's
- |> even worse. The BB-vs-BB-critical parts of the ship (engineering, main
- |> battery, conning tower) will no doubt survive, but much of the superstructure,
- |> missiles, secondary armament, masts, electronics, stacks, etc. may not
- |> fare all that well. Phalanx doesn't necessarily improve the situation,
- |> since our system's kill mechanism is (you guessed it) detonation of the
- |> missile warhead. The ship will survive such a hit, but will not be fully
- |> mission-capable afterwards. All IMHO of course - comments requested.
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- It depends at what range the Phalanx engages and hits the missile.
- Will that much damage be done if it is exploded a few hundred yards
- away? And Phalanx doesn't have to explode it, just knock it down.
- A few lucky hits in the motor or fins could drive the missile into
- the sea. I've seen footage on TV of a Phalanx exploding incoming
- target drones, one close (100 yards?) another far (500 yards?).
- Scuds were knock down without their warheads exploding in the air.
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- |>
- |>
- |> #a scenario might be for coast defence artillery to fire
- |> #DPICM (cluster) and try and scrub the topsides. while
- |>
- |> On the topic of "scrubbing topsides", I was discussing this sort of thing
- |> with a gunner's mate on I believe it was USS YORKTOWN. He said that if
- |> they (for Lord knows what reason) were engaging a ship with the 5 inch
- |> mounts the tactic they would use is to fire prox fuzed rounds targeted
- |> just above the ship to strip her of her fire control sensors, and then
- |> engage with delay fuzed HE to inflict substantial damage. Anybody run
- |> into this sort of thing?
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- The HARM missile is being given harder shot in its warhead in order
- to inflict more collateral damage to semi-hardened targets such
- as ship superstructures and topside equipment.
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- TRAVIS
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