MBDA Future Cruise / Anti-Ship Weapon (FC / ASW)

[Scott Kenny]

although the flight profile for that 800km range would be interesting to know.

Supersonic to high supersonic flight for the entire distance suggests mostly a high flight path, not sea-skimming.

The only low altitude supersonic AShCM I'm aware of is the Kalibr variant with the rocket terminal stage, M2.5-M2.9 for ~50km. You'd have immense drag and airframe heating if sea-skimming, and IIRC roughly Mach 1.2 is the aluminum heat soak speed limit so the airframe would have to go to titanium or thermal composites.

 

[zjz]

Now, Exocet was interesting because the fuzing was not impact, it was pseudo-proximity. The radar seeker would give a time-to-go estimate just before impact, and the fuze would set that plus a few milliseconds as the actuation time. Other designs use actual impact-plus-delay fuzing or void-counting fuzes to get a detonation properly inside the hull.

This is interesting information .... wouldn't this be susceptible to the accuracy of the radar wave form used?

 

[timmymagic]

That almost certainly means that Stratus LO will have a range above 1000km reading between the lines, although the flight profile for that 800km range would be interesting to know.

To be honest I'd be disappointed if it didn't hit 1200km+ if its got a turbofan onboard.

 

[Forest Green]

Supersonic to high supersonic flight for the entire distance suggests mostly a high flight path, not sea-skimming.

The only low altitude supersonic AShCM I'm aware of is the Kalibr variant with the rocket terminal stage, M2.5-M2.9 for ~50km. You'd have immense drag and airframe heating if sea-skimming, and IIRC roughly Mach 1.2 is the aluminum heat soak speed limit so the airframe would have to go to titanium or thermal composites.

ASMP-A does M2+ at sea level.

 

[Scott Kenny]

ASMP-A does M2+ at sea level.

For the whole flight?

 

[Forest Green]

For the whole flight?

I think it can be but it depends on the profile selected. It's M3+ at altitude.

 

[NMaude]

For the whole flight?

Yes, as it is ramjet powered and its' ramjet won't function at subsonic speeds.