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Using an Exocet to blow up a land-based radar? Huh. What ultimately makes something an anti-ship missile rather than an anti-things-on-land missile? Is it a matter of the warhead? The speed? The approach?
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For a start, it is sized to gently caress up a ship, it is also designed to do bad things to a ship in terms of what sort of armor to expect to have to penetrate (very little, as it turns out there's little viable armor against house sized objects falling from just below the Karman line at mach 7) and when after the impact the fuse should trigger the explosives, inside or under the keel to snap it in half (so a longer time than a general purpose weapon), furthermore there's the matter of the approach, breathless horizontal ram from trying to speed through last second CWIS fire (tends to blow up inside) or a slanted or vertical impact either from being a house rocket dropped from half orbit or popping up from a more or less sea skimming trajectory (tends to detonate under the ship to smash the keel and either cut it in half or cause enough shock damage to render it non functional) and then there's the fun stuff like being specialized enough against specific things in a specific enough environment that you can have a group of missiles work as an autonomous squadron with tactical data links with each other and skimming the surface and one popping up regularly to look over the horizon to check where the target's moved to. In general they tend to be able to be launched from afar, nobody wants to launch an AShM from visual range. (There's a good article from a Russian officer about the joys of being the idiot who goes out to look for the AA fuckfest that a modern fleet is: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol67/iss1/7/ ) Virtually all AShMs can be used against surface-as-in-ground targets, Iraq did it in the Iran-Iraq war and both episodes of the Gulf Wars. SIGSEGV fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Apr 12, 2023 |
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Posting in support of (non-nine) dashed lines. It takes me a lot of effort to try to parse the game screenshots. I wasn't able to follow Hayard Gunnes, so maybe it's lack of experience, but it's a lot of thinking for an LP.
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Apr 12, 2023 05:14
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The dotted trails do help in better describing the scene
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Hopefully I died on impact. I blame my theater commander.
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Apr 12, 2023 12:43
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wedgekree posted:I.. Have no idea who is winning here. whoever has the contract to replace the $billions of equipment that have been destroyed in the past 3 hours
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E Depois do Adeus posted:whoever has the contract to replace the $billions of equipment that have been destroyed in the past 3 hours 
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PurpleXVI posted:Using an Exocet to blow up a land-based radar? Huh. The upgraded versions of the Exocet (and the Harpoon, BTW) have a secondary land-attack capability. Earlier versions are strictly anti-ship.
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PurpleXVI posted:Using an Exocet to blow up a land-based radar? Huh. In the past it was often seeker head design. An antiship missile only has to look for a single blob of heat/radar reflection/what-have-you against a cold flat ocean background, which early active radar seekers could generally do (you home in on the one big reflection you had and hoped it wasn't a chaff cloud); the land is a much more complex environment, which is one reason why it took until more powerful computers and the rise of TERCOM/GPS/imaging cameras in the 1980s and 1990s before they could achieve something similar. (This is one reason why, in real life, the Russian use of Kh-22s in a land-attack role against Ukraine usually resulted in wildly inaccurate impacts -- the 1960s-era inertial navigation modules and the ancient-rear end radars literally could not pick out targets on the ground, so they tended to home in on things like random shopping malls.) The dotted lines are a great help, and as someone who's only played CMANO, are the ejected pilots from aircraft a new CMO addition or are they specific to this scenario? It's really cool watching some of the more subtle additions and refinements from the Hayard Gunnes.
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Question so what NATO doing right now since two NATO nations are shooting at each other.
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They are watching both nations windmill slam the article 5 button while wondering who to back to keep locking down the Marmara sea straights.
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ChaosDragon posted:Question so what NATO doing right now since two NATO nations are shooting at each other.  mostly
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President Macron will negotiate a ceasefire any day now!
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ChaosDragon posted:Question so what NATO doing right now since two NATO nations are shooting at each other. Arguing over who gets E Depois do Adeus posted:the contract to replace the $billions of equipment that have been destroyed in the past 3 hours
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Yooper posted:Destroy the Greek Parliament and Pentagon (Greek armed forces HQ), located in Athens Eagerly awaiting this counterstrike
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