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Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II
Oh, so instead of hard intercepts, they are going to put their prayers in soft defenses. The toy doesn't even have IR jamming. I understand that at least a few SSM and ASMs are incorporating IR/IIR homing as an option... there are also ASMs with passive radar homing capability - that toy might just attract everyone with its jamming - the first wave goes for the toy, but the second wave hits when the jamming goes down and the ship itself is unmasked... |
Did you know the majority of ASM attacks that have been thwarted were by "Soft Kills"? In the Falklands RN ships both Jammed and Spoofed (chaffed) Exocets, and in Operation Praying Mantis a USN ship (might have been a Fig7) spoofed an Iranian Harpoon with chaff. I think there has been only one hard kill with a SAM in the history of naval warfare (a Type 42 against a Silkworm in the Gulf War). :hmm:
