My brother is on an aircraft carrier in the gulf....says they are all freaking out about the new russian missile china and iran has. That the US military is lacking in anti missile technology...and also has nothing to match the russian made new "sunburt" missile. Is this true?
2007-03-29 04:10:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Ive been looking around the web/asking questions. So far...what ive found out is 1)The us does not have a supersonic missile. he have the harpoon which is from the 70's. As far as defense we have the Aguies(sp?) system that the russian missile was made to destroy.
Further question. If we have a military budget spending more the the russians and china...why dont we have better technology?
2007-03-29 04:33:32 · update #1
What most people don't seem to remember when they read about the " sizzler missile " is that it is not a supersonic missile.
It is a sub sonic missle with a 300 KM range.
That has a super sonic burst capability during its terminal guidence phase of 10 KM.
Navy ships are outfitted with both
RIM-7M/P Sea Sparrow a supersonic anti air/anti missile that have a range of 19 KM.
and
RIM-162 ESSM supersonic anti air/anti missile with a range of 50 km.
Both could shoot down a Sizzler well before if came into terminal guidence range where it would go supersonic.
Not counting the fact that an aircraft or submarine would have to be within 300 km of the fleet to launch a sizzler in the first place.
2007-03-29 09:44:55 · answer #1 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sunburn and Sizzler and the C-802 (Chinese Harpoon) are all interesting pieces of hardware... I went thru the Straits of Hormuz several times after the Iranians got the C-802 from China... we were always alert. And also itching to pull the trigger.
The KEY to defense against such missiles is to NOT let the "aggressor" get into the launch envelope... to ID any and ALL ships within a 400 mile radius of the carrier, and then to detect any missile when it's launched. The Navy has the Sparrow, CIWS, and new Rolling Airframe missile for ships defense. And of course chaff.
The Tomahawk, Harpoon and Penguin are all sub-sonic, but the US and Israel are developing a upgraded anti-shipping missile
2007-03-29 11:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by mariner31 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For low flying weapons and torpedos, there is the SLAT system developed by the French and Italians. Just because the Russians claimed to have invented something, doesn't mean it will work. Sure the Russians do well at basic systems, but their advance systems have been at best laughable.
Why doesn't the U.S. buy Russian military equipment instead of using old U.S. military equipment to get a rough idea? It's because Russian equipment has been deemed too unsafe to be used by U.S. forces. Even one captured APC was deemed unsafe because the transmission could catch on fire and burn up the crew inside. The F-22 was designed to go up against a Russian test aircraft that crashed and is no longer made.
The various anti ship missles the Russians and Chinese have are known to break up on flight. The U.S. would have to develop a missle on their own to simulate the Russian and Chinese models to do what their missles claim to do. This technology would then probably end up falling into the hands of the Russians and Chinese and then they could make a working version of what they planned on doing in the first place.
2007-03-29 12:14:44 · answer #3 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wouldn't worry too much. The russians and chinese have indeed developed some very fast cruise missiles, but they don't appear to be terribly accurate, and their range isn't too impressive either- certainly a lot less than that of Tomahawk. The Aegis defence system is no longer absolutely state-of-the-art, but it isn't obsolete either, and should be able to track incoming missiles at that kind of speed.
2007-03-29 11:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by Ian I 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Russian weapons are traditionally over-hyped. Remember how the T72M was supposed to be so much better than our tanks in the first Gulf war? How the MIG29 was supposed to be so much better than the F15?
Claiming that these weapons are so great sells a lot of newspapers - but you are relying on people who have managed to be wrong 100% of the time.
2007-03-29 12:20:08 · answer #5 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can think Clinton and Gore for this. They sold and gave away a lot of our best missile secrets to China and Russia
2007-03-29 11:24:26 · answer #6 · answered by Boomrat 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think that missile is much overplayed and overhyped. Back when I was in they had us all sweating the fearsome SCUD. Buwahahahahahaha, sunburn is another one.
2007-03-29 11:18:35 · answer #7 · answered by George D 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I heard about that, we have nothing. That's why the some peoplein the Pentagon are nervous.
2007-03-29 11:18:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋