Considering the speed of the interceptor missile, that cruise missile got shot down.
Missile be like “Sir! Sir! Excuse me! Sir!”
That thing is hauling ass
So did they meet with a big boom? Hope so, and not above a population center if at all possible.
How the fuck has Russia still hundreds or thousands of these long range missiles? Many hundred of kilometers range, it‘s insane. Just one big pile of weapons and oil this shit hole is.
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Successful interception? It’s doing at least three times the speed of that cruise missile and the angle looked pretty good.
Gonna catch it unless it runs out of fuel.
That was magical to see.
Everytime I see these in operation I think, how can they make them more affordable though. About the only way I think it can be done with a missile is that it would need to eject the expensive tracking part and any control system used to vector just prior to detonation. With the speed differential we just saw there, then the payload can continue on reasonably predictably without rocket and it may take out the target with a proximity sensor of some kind, probably heat based. This might also have a certain benefit in that once the terminal sequence is activated, there is no thermal counter measure. It could also range find the target and estimate how long it will take to reach it, to defeat flares.
But I doubt you’d be able to eject far enough away the expensive parts to save them from the explosion whilst reliably being able to hit the target, unless it also had a rocket.
The missile it was chasing was a turbojet powered device, you can see how much slower it was, but it was built for hundreds of km’s of range.
In the future a solution might be to build a short to medium range cruising, jet powered small interceptor. This will have to launch ahead of the target unless you want to go to the trouble of supersonic jets.
The interceptor jet would designate the target from the side, using a laser such as maybe a 1550nm laser which are being developed for self-driving car Lidar systems. They are not readily absorbed in atmosphere or clouds, and there is not a lot of light in this wavelength coming from the sun, hence why they are thought ideal for use in Lidar. To laser designate the target it will need a tracking system and pointing for the laser.
It then launches a short range rocket with the laser wavelength seeker on it, it could use a pulse effect in it to make it hard to fake using decoys.
These missiles would then be a lot smaller and cheaper than patriots.
Yes your laser designating system and drone is going to cost millions to develop, but it should be significantly reusable.
Another possibility is having small short range jet drones that can intercept launched from ahead of the target, and aim at it almost head on. They would carry a ‘blunderbuss’ with sufficient pellets, that taking the aggregate of say 600mph on the missile and 600+mph pellets, such as hardened steel pellets or maybe just ordinary lead, the impact would easily slice through the missile and destroy it potentially with one pellet. As ever the control system are the expensive part working at these speeds. But cost comes down with every reuse. The interceptor would still need to be fast to cover a wide front and have tens of km or range. The Anduril Roadrunner is about the closest thing thus far.
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Considering the speed of the interceptor missile, that cruise missile got shot down.
Missile be like “Sir! Sir! Excuse me! Sir!”
That thing is hauling ass
So did they meet with a big boom? Hope so, and not above a population center if at all possible.
How the fuck has Russia still hundreds or thousands of these long range missiles? Many hundred of kilometers range, it‘s insane. Just one big pile of weapons and oil this shit hole is.
You’re mine mother fucker
We have been trying to contact you regarding your extended warranty
Sonic boom goes Hard
Usain bolt after giving me a ten second head start
Successful interception? It’s doing at least three times the speed of that cruise missile and the angle looked pretty good.
Gonna catch it unless it runs out of fuel.
That was magical to see.
Everytime I see these in operation I think, how can they make them more affordable though. About the only way I think it can be done with a missile is that it would need to eject the expensive tracking part and any control system used to vector just prior to detonation. With the speed differential we just saw there, then the payload can continue on reasonably predictably without rocket and it may take out the target with a proximity sensor of some kind, probably heat based. This might also have a certain benefit in that once the terminal sequence is activated, there is no thermal counter measure. It could also range find the target and estimate how long it will take to reach it, to defeat flares.
But I doubt you’d be able to eject far enough away the expensive parts to save them from the explosion whilst reliably being able to hit the target, unless it also had a rocket.
The missile it was chasing was a turbojet powered device, you can see how much slower it was, but it was built for hundreds of km’s of range.
In the future a solution might be to build a short to medium range cruising, jet powered small interceptor. This will have to launch ahead of the target unless you want to go to the trouble of supersonic jets.
The interceptor jet would designate the target from the side, using a laser such as maybe a 1550nm laser which are being developed for self-driving car Lidar systems. They are not readily absorbed in atmosphere or clouds, and there is not a lot of light in this wavelength coming from the sun, hence why they are thought ideal for use in Lidar. To laser designate the target it will need a tracking system and pointing for the laser.
It then launches a short range rocket with the laser wavelength seeker on it, it could use a pulse effect in it to make it hard to fake using decoys.
These missiles would then be a lot smaller and cheaper than patriots.
Yes your laser designating system and drone is going to cost millions to develop, but it should be significantly reusable.
Another possibility is having small short range jet drones that can intercept launched from ahead of the target, and aim at it almost head on. They would carry a ‘blunderbuss’ with sufficient pellets, that taking the aggregate of say 600mph on the missile and 600+mph pellets, such as hardened steel pellets or maybe just ordinary lead, the impact would easily slice through the missile and destroy it potentially with one pellet. As ever the control system are the expensive part working at these speeds. But cost comes down with every reuse. The interceptor would still need to be fast to cover a wide front and have tens of km or range. The Anduril Roadrunner is about the closest thing thus far.