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Originally Posted by Rockstar
Not that awesome. A carrier strike group can change course a hyper-sonic missile at mach 3 plus cant.
Now the U.S. LRASM subsonic ship killer that's a bad mamma-jamma. Not only can it move in stealth like it targets and thinks for itself.
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Nice, but at 4:34 in the video I think the LRASM would have a tough time. The key is speed. A missile going subsonic speed will be an easy target for anti-ship missile defences. Of course, that assumes the enemy has any kind of current ASMD....
And, it seems like we are behind at this point
https://breakingdefense.com/2017/07/...2500-lb-lrasm/
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Admittedly, there’s a way to go before Navy vessels are packing these new heavy-duty ship-killers. The recent test launch wasn’t from an actual ship at sea, but from a launch canister at White Sands Missile Range, positioned at the same angle and using the same launch controls as the standard Mark 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) used aboard ships. It’ll be even longer before LRASM is available for US submarines, let alone for land-based launchers. By contrast, China and Russia both arm their subs and artillery to kill ships at sea, part of the layered defenses known as Anti-Access/Area Denial. Nevertheless, between the LRASM production contract and the ship-launch test, the US is starting to catch up.
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The US is always bragging about how techno and unstoppable our weapons systems are, but I always have a skeptical mind about it. The Mark 14 torpedo is a big reason for that.