Rumors abound that the Phalanx is too short ranged to handle the Sunburn. SeaRam's been rumored to be the next generation CIWS capable of handling the supersonic sunburn type missiles with very good results in testing (but of course totally unconfirmed).
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/966345/posts
http://www.raytheon.com/products/ste...s01_055726.pdf
I've never read any reports about the effectiveness of SeaRam on a two stage missile like the SS-N-27. Its probably not the speed of the missile that complicates the intercept, but the fact that the target you were tracking suddenly splits in two (the terminal phase and the residual of the subsonic phase) with not much time to respond to the sudden high speed addition of the terminal warhead.
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I don't understand why they are still giving those lame NATO names these days when everyone has access to the Russian names now. The Cold War NATO names are still dominant, but the post Cold War? Who really remembers the SA-20 Gargoyle better than the S-300PMU? The SA-21 Growler instead of the S-400? And for some reason SA-23 is the S-300VM even though the S-300VM came almost a decade before the deployment of the S-400 (just starting right about now).
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I don't understand it either. I think we should start calling the Akula sub the "Bars" and the Typhoon sub the "Akula" like Russia intended... going to confuse the heck out everyone though
