Because the CAMM silos are just above deck level, but need a breakwater, simply joining the sidewalls to the Aster farm would create a nice paddling pool. If you need the space inside the breakwater to be freely draining, then you might as well make the hole wide enough for people to walk through.
This the one?
Yep, I'm sure the RN will have their reasons, might be something to do with rocket efflux from the hot launched Aster as a reason to keep them seperate.
Looking at that, it would also raise the CAMM cells by a meter or so. This way you're definatively adding less material to the ship.
To be fair, ESSM doesn't really have a ground launched version. AMRAAM-ER is close, which adds Taiwan and Qatar, iirc to ESSM's 18, and there's only like 9 current or planned naval CAMM users, no?
Oh neat!
There seems to be far more British involvement in the development of CAMM-MR than there was for CAMM-ER, or at least, MBDA want to put that image forward. I mean, the CAMM-MR took pride of place in the stall next to the Dragonfire DEW.
I make it 254mm (10 inch) based on original CAMM diameter of 166mm (6.5 inch) taking up ~13 small squares and base diameter of 19.5 small squares. This would make the most sense in terms of naval quad-packing into a ~22 inch VLS cell.
Only going by the model there, which may or may not be accurate.
Polish Air Force too, as some of the AD systems using the CAMM family will be operated by the Air Force units.
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Now after I measured it, the missile body does indeed seem smaller, at about 10 inches, so I'm not sure if it's gonna be that engine or not, though it still seems like it's not a detailed mock-up.
Pilica and some of the Narew batteries. Pilica is used strictly by the Air Force, by all 6 air defense battalions of the 3rd Warsaw Air Defense Missile Brigade, as a system that defends airfields and now also Wisła system batteries, and some of the Narew batteries are also supposed to be operated by the Air Force.
We'll see how the production version of the CAMM-MR will look like, I still have hope for this motor. Or at least something based on it, as WITU would have to make a slower burning fuel (according to my calculations based on data from this brochure: https://witu.home.pl/www/ulotki2022/silnik_rakietowy.pdf, it burns almost twice as fast as that of the Mk104 motor of the SM-2MR) and make the engine longer. Though adding such a booster to the ready CAMM-MR would be interesting.
Not sure what the 6x6 is, one of the Medium Protected Mobility contenders?
So they're gonna put it in launch canisters, that's interesting. Wonder if it would make integration with the iLauncher possible.
Agreed, as soon as you opt for a permanent transport/launch canister you're sacrificing the idea of having a common ASRAAM stockpile across ground and air, which is the main justification for opting for surface launch ASRAAM rather than CAMM.
Oh that's for sure, if it's meant to be an "SL-ASRAAM" and not "CAMM-IIR" then it would have to be a launch canister with a rail inside, so NASAMS style.
I don't think it would be a problem, especially now with the canisters as they would protect other missiles from the exhaust gases and the debris thrown around during launch. There are multiple hot vertical launch systems, for example the IRIS-T SLM or the SPYDER, and they don't suffer from such issues, so a properly designed ASRAAM launch container would definitely work here. And iLauncher's design would make reloading much quicker since the whole missile rack could be swapped instead of having to reload each missile on the launcher itself.
Would be pretty neat if they figured out how to stick them in something without needing to elevate the launcher. Like Tor without the rotating turret, and with western radars
That might be possible with CAMM, probably not with ASRAAM.
