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Reply With QuoteOTH=Over the Horizon, right? How is that possible? Where/how do they get target acquisition?
BTW, before the USAF converted it's wing of BUFF's to harpoon, the USAF's standard antiship weapon was(get this), the AIM-7M Sparrow!
OTH=Over the Horizon, right? How is that possible? Where/how do they get target acquisition?
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Even with target aquistion, a damn Sparrow couldnt hit the broad side of a barn
LOL, like it or not, that was thier primary ASuW weapon.
Actually, a certain A-10 driver that used to frequent another site, by the name of Alfa Kilo(sure BR remembers him) said that they worked great in the role.
Think about it, a ship is a huge unmanuevering(by AAM standards) target, and Sparrow was a Mach 4 missile with decent stand of range in that sort of flight profile(if i had to guess i'd say 50 miles from high altitude).
If a 4 ship of Eagles salvo'd 4 Sparrow's each, it would be pretty effective against most ships.
"OTH=Over the Horizon, right? How is that possible? Where/how do they get target acquisition?"
From the extremely powerful APS-137 ISAR radar mounted in the nose.
I remember AK. Yeah, but how would the radar go over the horizon and than bounce back to where the plane was? If the plane maneuevered they'd lose the reflection.
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Interesting,Originally Posted by M21Sniper
Not that is the sort of thing you just don't read about on the weapons catagory sites... I don't doubt it, but I am suprised.
OK. so what anti-ship weapons apart from 5in will it have?
"I wonder what the theoretical maximum number of Harpoons a -52 could carry?"
16 is the authorized number.
"OK. so what anti-ship weapons apart from 5in will it have?"
SM-2.
Lots of them.
Block 1 RAM also has an anti-ship mode, and though i've never seen it reported, i'd be shocked if ESSM wasn't anti-ship capable also.
Pretty much all SARH weapons are anti-ship capable, including the mighty Phoenix AAM(and the AMRAAM AAM). It's a matter of the launch platform having the right surface engagement modes for it's radar.
I know for a fact that an SPG-62 FCR illuminator can target ships(it has to for the SM-2s), so odds are, the ESSM can ride the same beam onto a surface target the SM-2 does.
What i'm not sure about is whether an SM-2 Block IIIB with IR terminal homing can home on a ship on it's terminal approach without illuminator support. If it could, that would be a pretty nasty surprise, because the target wouldn't be tipped off by the SPG-62s emmisions.
Last edited by Bill; 06 Jan 05, at 02:27.
is the "SPG-62 FCR illuminator " for surface craft or aircraft, I'm confused
I know there was an SM-2 board, but its late so sorry I'll ask. What is warhead on SM-2? Isn't SM-2 AA as well?
The SPG-62 is the fire control radar on US Aegis class warships.
SM-2 is anti-air, anti-ship, and anti-surface. If the target can be illuminated by the FCR, then the target can be hit with SM-2s. This would include coastal land based targets.
SM-2 has a 165lb warhead, but more importantly, hundreds of pounds of unextinguishable rocket fuel.
sounds very versatile. points to whoever designed it.
That would be Raytheon, the makers of pretty much all US missile systems.
They are very good at what they do.
well... doing a little searching on here for the USS Houston and the ABDA fleet during the battle of Sunda Strait, I ran across this thread..
I'm sitting in CSMC onboard the USS Momsen DDG 92 right now as I'm typing this, after having been assigned to the Momsen since May 1 2003, yes I'm a plankowner. I attended the Christening of her in Bath, and it's funny, but looking at my watch, the bottle broke across the bow at 11:02 am on August 9th.. (a rather significant date and time in history, since that's to the minute that the bomb exploded over Nagasaki)
I will depart for the last time the Momsen on September 1st and head to Florida for the Navy's recruiting school.
I've had some good times on here, some bad, but I will always remember this ship and hope that she has a great future ahead of her.
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