Does the US not have a supersonic SSM?

[Molon Labe]

Originally Posted by Pillar

Yeah I was just thinking about the motor running out and a heck of a lot of that range being glide... so no, this isn't a good anti-ship missile. The motor burn range and then a little bit of cruise after that probably aren't far at all. The radar problem might be solved by a helicopter - ? I'm not sure they have the capability to do third party guidance for missiles like that. At glide-phase ranges they probably wouldn't be harder to shoot down than a harpoon, maybe easier, in fact.

I'm quite positive that they don't have that capability. The SM-6 will have AMRAAM-style datalink guidance followed by autonomous capability, so it's possible in theory that a 3rd party platform could provide the link information, but the SM-2 and SeaSparrow absolutely do not have that capability or anything like it.