the BARAK-I systems were turned off and they DO work against
C802-esque targets.
That's the very reason behind their design and deployment.
Daedalus3, we’ve all been down that road before, let’s not go there again;
www.abovetopsecret.com...
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The possibility off BARAK being switched of is ludicrous, unless the captain was insane. I haven’t heard anything about anybody getting court
marshaled.
Firstly let us accept that Iran doesn't have these weapons as far as we know.
I guess being prepared is not considered to be something of importance these days.
I’d like to know what the average life expectancy would be for a soldier that thinks like that while clearing a house.
Something like: “let’s just accept that there are no bad guys with guns behind that door, as far as I know, so I’m just going to come right
in…”
I say let’s not assume, I say let’s be ready for it.
McVadon, who has written about the Chinese navy, called the Sizzler “right now the most pertinent and pressing threat the U.S. faces in the
case of a Taiwan conflict.” Jane’s, the London-based defense information group, reported in 2005 in its publication “Missiles and Rockets”
that Russia had offered the missile to Iran as part of a sale in the 1990s of three Kilo- class submarines.
That report was confirmed by the Pentagon official who requested anonymity. The Office of Naval Intelligence suggested the same thing in a 2004
report, highlighting in its assessment of maritime threats Iran’s possible acquisition of additional Russian diesel submarines “with advanced
anti-ship cruise missiles.”
The Defense Science Board, in its 2005 report, recommended that the Navy “immediately implement” a plan to produce a surrogate Sizzler that could
be used for testing
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Then lets look at the operational range of the Sizzler.
Then lets look at anything that can get close enough to a CVBG w/o being picked up by layered surveillance.
THEN we worry about what are the chances of a 'loose' sizzler damaging/sinking a capital class ship.
Lets just see what the NAVY it self has to say about all this.
Navy Lacks Plan to Defend Against `Sizzler’ Missile
The Navy’s ship-borne Aegis system, deployed on cruisers and destroyers starting in the early 1980s, is designed to protect aircraft-carrier
battle groups from missile attacks. But current and former officials say the Navy has no assurance Aegis, built by Lockheed Martin Corp., is capable
of detecting, tracking and intercepting the Sizzler.
“This was an issue when I walked in the door in 2001,” Thomas Christie, the Defense Department’s top weapons-testing official from mid-2001 to
early 2005, said in an interview.
`A Major Issue’
“The Navy recognized this was a major issue, and over the years, I had continued promises they were going to fully fund development and
production” of missiles that could replicate the Sizzler to help develop a defense against it, Christie said. “They haven’t.”
The effect is that in a conflict, the U.S. “would send a billion-dollar platform loaded with equipment and crew into harm’s way without some sort
of confidence that we could defeat what is apparently a threat very near on the horizon,” Christie said.
The Navy considered developing a program to test against the Sizzler “but has no plans in the immediate future to initiate such a developmental
effort,” Naval Air Systems Command spokesman Rob Koon said in an e-mail.
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more;
www.bloomberg.com...
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I’ve been saying it for years. Unfortunately the ignorance of the general public is just as catastrophic as the ignorance of our
NAVY/Pentagon/etc.
Ever since Granit became operational, traditional carrier fleet deployment became obsolete.
No amount of denial and blind patriotism is going to save lives if God forbid even one of these things slams into our fleet.
Russian missiles are a HUGE problem for our fleet, and have been for DECADES, read on if dare, and keep in mind that Sunburn is the 1st generation
weapon, while currently the Russians are in 3rd!
"Nevertheless, defense analysts agree that the U.S. is fully a decade behind Russia in high-speed cruise missile designs. Russia currently
deploys and exports the supersonic SS-N-22 Moskit cruise missile, NATO codenamed "Sunburn." The SS-N-22 is considered the most lethal anti-ship
missile in the world, and flies at over 2.5 times the speed of sound only a few feet from the surface of the water."
"In July 1999, defense analyst Richard D. Fisher wrote an evaluation of the Russian-built Sunburn missile being sold to China. A senior fellow
at the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington based think-tank, Fisher reported that the SS-N-22 may be capable of a dive speed of Mach 4.5 that would
help it evade U.S. naval defenses. The Sunburn anti-ship missile is perhaps the most lethal anti-ship missile in the world," wrote Fisher in a review
of the Chinese navy. The Sunburn combines a Mach 2.5 speed with a very low-level flight pattern that uses violent end maneuvers to throw off defenses.
After detecting the Moskit, the U.S. Navy Phalanx point defense system may have only 2.5 seconds to calculate a fire solution -- not enough time
before the devastating impact of a 750-lb. warhead."
Pretty darn clear, we’re in deep doo-doo, no really, I mean it;
U.S. missile gap widens, say experts
Pentagon's hypersonic weapon program to deploy by 2010
Despite the Pentagon's development of a new generation of hypersonic missile, the U.S. is still a decade behind Russia in high-speed cruise-missile
design, according to defense analysts.
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Here’s an ATS thread from some time ago, which clearly displays the state of general denial to this problem;
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Another 1;
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RAM? Bullocks, it’s nothing more then a stop gap-band-aid KIT. It was not designed as a dedicated intercept system, and was never tested against
supersonic missile type it’s supposed to counter, much less hypersonic one, and we’ve been down that road as well;
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Conclusion?
Deep doo-doo.
The Exocet AM-39 range is 65 km,
