Pyros, are you the same “super secret clearance” guy from the other thread? The self proclaimed special “organization” employee that is “well” informed by reliable sources that I can’t talk about due to security issues?

It’s all good bud, do your thing, but the link is dead though.

I’m out for some tea and a smoke. Later all, cause getting out for a puff is a goddamn adventure every time.

Because the Raytheon Patriot Program Manager told me so, and I happen to believe him. I mean, why would he lied

lol, what, he saw the evil commi running with a bunch of secrets files??looool

man the reasearch teams are humans and have their pride

there are concepts that are researched by many words teams, not only americans or russians

there are clear cases of info gathering from soviets, like the walkers case, but dont compare that with tipical arrogant cold war claims, even such cases dont mean tech transference

again the fact is that the s300 is very different to be considered even an inspiration from the patriot, for example the s300 have different multimode radars operating in diferent freqs, instead the patriot use only one set



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Thanks for the links iskander.. I kinda had the suspicion that nothing changed with the patriot intercept record but did not have enough time or interest to go hunt down the information.... Would have mentioned my feelings but i have no interest in getting shouted at for questioning superior American technology without 10 links and 5 eyewitness acccounts....

Stellar

BRAVO StellarX

Great post man. I’d love to disagree with you sometime, because I know you’ll do your part diligently and I will surely learn something if I’m wrong.

I for one appreciate your efforts, but I’ve been down this road with roage1 before and to be honest I simply block his posts, because it’s just no use. Cheers mate.

Just to throw my two cents in;

“See whose are by far the most accurate. It's the reason why US ICBM's have smaller warheads, because they are more accurate, whilst Russia tends to have larger warheads.”

Has nothing to do with technology. The difference in the approach is dictated by expected targets. Soviet cities are large and built from brick and concrete with deep shelters built specifically to withstand nuclear blasts, thus requiring more accurate warheads. American cities are based around the small “down town” centers with large surrounding suburban areas built from 2by4s and sheet rock. No big mystery here, just simple common sense.

Here’s another tidbit for all to consider.


Statistical threat assessment basics.

The deadlier the weapon is, the less combat it sees with resulting lower kill ratio in comparison to more common weapons.

Two main reasons are; as soon as its presence in combat area is know, enemy does everything possible to avoid it. The other, as long as such weapon retains its deterrent capabilities, the more important such value is for the one who wields it, and if the very concept of such weapon is defeated, it will lose its most important attribute.

As simple example, with out a doubt .50 cal rifle is the most effective sniper weapon today, yet it has the lowest kill ratio compared to other calibers.

S300+ and up are simply at the top of the chart in the category.

Originally posted by iskander
S300+ and up are simply at the top of the chart in the category.

No doubt, iskander.
The Russians have long held an edge in anti-aircraft weaponry.
Reason being that it had and continues to have to counter the US advantage in airpower.
No big mystery here, just simple common sense, correct?

And despite your links to indicate the superiority of the S-300+ air defense systems over the PATRIOT, the PATRIOT missile defense system is still an effective anti-air platform. Furthermore, the US Navy's Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) naval based anti-air defense system is unquestionably the most capable ship mounted anti-air platform in the world, unless of course, you wish to attempt to discredit that, as well?






seekerof

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Seekerof, my immediate family member served as an USAF IO for years and is now retired. He was stationed in Turkey among other places, so believe me, I don’t have neither the intention nor interest in “discrediting” our military capability. You’re barking up the wrong there my friend. I only state what is well known. The verdict on SM-2 is still out by the way, and I for one will not be the one jumping the gun.

“Reason being that it had and continues to have to counter the US advantage in airpower.”

Again, look up your own data. Start with simple numerical superiority of Soviet forces through out the cold war. Phantom verses Mig-21 and so on.

To get you going, here’s an outtake from the Langley Air Force Base report by Lieutenant Colonel Hiram Hale Burr, Jr back from around 1977. If you’d like the full report u2u me.

“THE extensive modernization of the Soviet Frontal Aviation forces could decide the survival and success of its ground forces against NATO’s armed forces in a future conflict. The Soviets once emphasized interceptor aircraft with a short range and small payload, but their tactical doctrine now stresses interdiction deep into enemy territory and close air support for their ground forces. The Soviets have developed large numbers of modern aircraft with improved performance in range, weapon, payload, avionics, and electronic countermeasure equipment. They have arrived at a position where their force structure seems capable of carrying out their strategy and tactics in a high-intensity warfare situation. The superiority of U.S. and NATO air forces has eroded because of qualitative improvements in the technology of Soviet aircraft. These Soviet high-technology systems, coupled with the long-standing numerical superiority of FA forces, have greatly increased the threat to NATO ground and air forces.”

well, out of that "im on the USAF" or "thats a secret", the sm2 is a good missile, but it havnt active homming gudance and the modern system is heavely based in the spy1, that is good for some targets, but bad for others

and dont start with that "american airpower" and these discussion of "my daddy is stronger than yours"

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right, the sm2-system can be considered as an semi-antiballistic missile like the s300

so whats goin on the american fans will say that then the s300 is a copy of the sm2??? lol



[edit on 9-12-2005 by grunt2]

Originally posted by iskander
“See whose are by far the most accurate. It's the reason why US ICBM's have smaller warheads, because they are more accurate, whilst Russia tends to have larger warheads.”

Has nothing to do with technology. The difference in the approach is dictated by expected targets. Soviet cities are large and built from brick and concrete with deep shelters built specifically to withstand nuclear blasts, thus requiring more accurate warheads. American cities are based around the small “down town” centers with large surrounding suburban areas built from 2by4s and sheet rock. No big mystery here, just simple common sense.

Hmm, this shows a blatant lack of knowlege of the missions ICBM's have been built for since the 70's. Have you ever heard the term ' counterforce ' ? This is where an oppposing enemies nuclear forces are attacked without targetting cities. That is why ICBM's have become more accurate so as to target an enemies silos. The Soviet missiles are less accurate thus require a larger warhead to dig the enemies silos out. US missiles on the other hand are more accurate and need less of a blast to achieve the same result. Simple as that.
The US Trident II D5 SLBM is the first and only, as far as I know, sub launched missile which is accurate enough to perform counterforce strikes as well

well about the missils accuracy, that we cant confirm, only we have claims, the slbms arent so precisse as most people thinks, and the missile tech isnt a sci-fi of 100% effectiveness, anyway a nuke missile really dont need milimetrical presicion, but even the smart bombs arent so smart

i really doubt that ant slbm could be more precisse than a movile ground launched icbm

one thing are claims, other is the reallity -and that goes for russian and american and all the worlds harware-



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Originally posted by grunt2
well about the missils accuracy, that we cant confirm, only we have claims, the slbms arent so precisse as most people thinks, and the missile tech isnt a sci-fi of 100% effectiveness, anyway a nuke missile really dont need milimetrical presicion, but even the smart bombs arent so smart
one thing are claims, other is the reallity -and that goes for russian and american and all the worlds harware-

Being 100 hundreds meters further away could mean needing more than a 50% increase in warhead power. Say ffrom 300kt to 500kt. So yes accuracy makes a huge difference when taking out installations haredened to withsatnds nuclear attack.

Every site and book dealing with Ballistic Missiles rates the US Peacekeeper and Trident II D5 as the most accurate intercontinental missiles around.

I've haven't really ever heard Russia claim it has the most accurate missiles. If you have plaese send me the article.

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man these are claims, only that, but the slbm tech isnt so precisse, there is too much uncertaily in the start position-conditions in the launch, an peackeeper have much more precission, all about ICBM-SLBM and nukes are claims -well general numbers, actually-, they wont sell peacekeepers to israel

but if you have doubts about the russian capacity, just the the buran -yes a patheic case- that done a whole flight under remote-automatic control



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yeah, in the 80s all the people said that the laser/smart bombs were super/duper, but the reallity was other, man always the industry over-hipe ther stuffs, is just marketing, but any common guy knowing some of the tech knows that the reallity is much more complicated

btw almost all the icbms use stellar-inertial guidance

anyway i really dont like to talk about icbms, is mostly speculative, only like to talk about general ideas in that topic


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the mk5 also uses some of the british cheveline tech that was used in the polaris system that they fielded (uk)

Originally posted by grunt2
yeah, in the 80s all the people said that the laser/smart bombs were super/duper, but the reallity was other, man always the industry over-hipe ther stuffs, is just marketing, but any common guy knowing some of the tech knows that the reallity is much more complicated

Your argument is moot, history has shown that smart bombs are several orders of magnitude more effective than the dumb forefathers.

btw almost all the icbms use stellar-inertial guidance

A technique pioneered by the US and rather old by today's technology. The US has the technology as I said earlier, to incorporate GPS guidance into the missiles and reentry vehicles, further increasing their accuracy.

Harlequin
the mk5 also uses some of the british cheveline tech that was used in the polaris system that they fielded (uk)

Cheveline referred to the penetration aids used in the British PBV, did it not ?


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well, the russians also have gps, did you know??, but even with that the slbms have their own nature, look even russian slbm with gps and the gods hand will have an uncertaily and a error margin that is hard to manage

about the samrt bombs i dont know about your "magnitude" stuff, im only saying that were not as most people thought

anyway this is another thread


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