Weapon System Concepts Flashcards
What is Harpoon?
The Harpoon is an all weather, over the horizon anti ship missile. The regular harpoon uses radar homing and flies just above the water
What is the range of Harpoon
75 nmi
What is Nulka
Nulka is a rocket propelled off board active missile decoy system. It’s a soft kill defence system
What is the range of nulka
Not known
What is a soft kill device
A sensor that disrupts the guidance of a missile is called a soft kill active-defence measure
What is a hard kill device
Countermeasures that physically strike an incoming threat is called hard kill active protection measures
What is nixie
Nixie is system that lures torpedoes away by mimics a ships acoustic signature
What the MU90
It’s a fire and forget subsurface weapon , powered by Aluminium silver oxide sea water battery
What is the NSM
Naval Strike Missile
What is the range of the NSM
100nmi
What is the NSM’s role
The NSM is a anti sea and land attack missile
What is the NSM’s key attributes:
The NSM can fly over and around landmasses, travel in sea skim mode, and execute random manoeuvres in the terminal phase, making it harder to intercept.
The target selection technology allows NSM to independently detect, recognise, and discriminate targets at sea or on the coast using an imaging infrared seeker and an onboard target database. NSM navigates using GPS, inertial, and TERCOM systems.
After being launched by a solid rocket booster, the missile is propelled to its target at high subsonic speed by a turbojet sustainer engine, leaving the 125 kg multi-purpose blast/fragmentation warhead to do its work, which for ship targets means impacting the ship at or near the water line.
What is SM6
It was designed for extended-range anti-air warfare (ER-AAW) purposes, providing capability against fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, anti-ship cruise missiles in flight, both over sea and land, and terminal ballistic missile defense. It can also be used as a high-speed anti-ship missile.
What is the range of SM2
130nmi
What is the difference between SM6 and SM2
The SM6 uses the airframe of the earlier SM-2ER Block IV (RIM-156A) missile,[12] adding the active radar homing seeker from the AIM-120C AMRAAM in place of the semi‑active seeker of the previous design.
What is active radar homing
Active radar homing is a missile guidance method in which a missile contains a radar transceiver (in contrast to semi-active radar homing, which uses only a receiver) and the electronics necessary for it to find and track its target autonomously.
What is SM2
The SM2 is an extended range surface-to-air missile (SAM) with a secondary anti-ship capability, originally developed for the United States Navy (USN)
What is CIWS
The Phalanx CIWS (SEE-wiz) is an automated gun-based close-in weapon system to defend against incoming threats such as aircraft, missiles, and small boats
What is the range of CWIS
1.5 km
What is the range of SM2
200 nmi
