Chinese scientists plan surface-to-air missile with 2,000km kill range

[White and Green with M/S]

Didn't you post a picture of a purported fragment of Kinzhal as proof that the Patriots shot down Kinzhal? I question the validity of the so-called proof

We have lots of Almont intact Kinzhal intercepted by Patriot Google yourself, I don't want to spoon feed you, if you deny than you're lives in your falsehood

 

[War Lord]

If true, I think it might be a glider type warhead. It will engage targets from above after leaving and gliding in the upper atmosphere. It might slow down to Mach 2 or 3 at terminal stage to allow its seeker to lock on. Of course, the missile might not be very maneuverable, therefore it can only target larger planes.

It looks like a glider attached to/with a booster(s).

It'll be funny seeing a glider trying to find and intercept anything smaller than Tanker/AWACS.

Even future US AWACS are going to be more agile. Not to mention that if US military sats are as good (or better) than Chinese commercial ones, there won't be a need for AWACS to come within 500-1,000km of mainland China.

And bingo, it's not maneuverable enough.

 

[Hendarto]

Yes that's the proof, patriot intercept Kinzhal almost intact few times we have lots pictures about it, Google it I don't want to spoon feed you, if you deny than you're living in your falsehood

It doesn't look anything like double cone warhead!

 

[White and Green with M/S]

It doesn't look anything like double cone warhead!

You know nothing about aerodynamics of Kinzhal and you're trolling right now to deny the facts that most of Kinzhals are being shot down by Patriot

 

[Hendarto]

You know nothing about aerodynamics of Kinzhal and you're trolling right now to deny the facts that most of Kinzhals are being shot down by Patriot

give me proof and not a bogus blunt rounded head warhead. A typical hypersonic warhead has a pointed head See the double cone head of Kinzhal

Here is NOrth Korean hypersonic missile see the stubby wing

 

[FuturePAF]

This design probably would I serve better as a survivable offensive system. Besides, how different is this from some GDI concepts, except this is an endoatmospheric interceptor? KEI interceptor meant to be carried in the Zumwalt’s Mk.57 large VLS tubes? Btw, from its dimensions, is it meant to be carried by the Type 55 and Type 52D destroyers?

 

[Hendarto]

I thought they canceled the multiple-kill vehicle a long time ago. It is vaporware! The US has no defense against MARV or Hypersonic missile

The Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) was a planned US missile defense program to develop small warheads that could destroy multiple ballistic missiles and decoy targets. The program is expensive and has not been implemented.

 

[Hendarto]

Take Patriot’s performance in Saudi Arabia for example, between 2015 and mid 2019, Patriot batteries in Saudi service intercepted more than 230 Iranian ballistic missiles – that’s more than 1 intercept every week and highlighted the volume of ballistic missile they faced. By 2021, Saudi Arabia reported Houthi firing 430 ballistic missiles and 851 drones in 6 years that resulted in 59 civilian casualties.[1]

For context, during Iran-Iraq war the very first Iraqi Scud killed 21 Iranians. In all, Iraq launched 189 Scuds throughout the conflict that killed 2,000 Iranians and injured another 6,000 while forcing a quarter of Tehran’s popular to flee the city. So it isn’t far fetched to call Patriot being quite effective in Saudi Arabia, having dealt with an order of magnitude more ballistic missiles than any other Air Defence system in the world. This is all the while using older PAC-2 GEM-T interceptors with fragmentation warheads.

By Abhirup Sengupta on Qoura

Russia now bombs Ukraine with impunity targeting strategic power plants, gas plants, storage, etc Where are Patriots? Nowhere to be seen Here Is the report on failed interception in Saudi refinery

Why Did American Patriot Missiles Fail To Stop the Houthi's Attacks?

And what does it mean for the bigger picture?

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Why Did American Patriot Missiles Fail To Stop the Houthi's Attacks?​

And what does it mean for the bigger picture?

by David Axe Follow @daxe on TwitterL

Here's What You Need to Remember: We must change our way of thinking when it comes to precision munitions and drones, and especially the imaginary line that still seems to separate them.
The missile strikes that badly damaged a key Saudi oil facility on Sept. 14, 2019 largely remain a mystery to the public.

Yemen's Houthi rebels, who have been at war with a Saudi-Emirati coalition since 2015, claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks on two Saudi Aramco facilities, but it’s unclear that the Houthis alone possess the capacity for long-range, precision-guided strikes.

It’s possible the attacks involved far-flying drones firing small, guided munitions. The Aramco sites are around 800 miles from the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border. Iran’s hard-line Revolutionary Guard Corps in the past has supplied the Houthis with weaponry including drones and components for ballistic missiles.

But one thing is clear. The attack revealed the limits of Saudi Arabia’s seemingly sophisticated air-defense system. Riyadh in recent years has spent billions of dollars building up six battalions of U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air missiles and associated radars. The Patriots didn’t stop the recent attack.

And it wasn’t the first time Saudi Arabia’s Patriots have failed. At least five Patriots apparently missed, malfunctioned or otherwise failed when Saudi forces tried to intercept a barrage of rockets targeting Riyadh on March 25, 2018.

 

[Shanlung]

Russia now bombs Ukraine with impunity targeting strategic power plants, gas plants, storage, etc Where are Patriots? Nowhere to be seen Here Is the report on failed interception in Saudi refinery

Why Did American Patriot Missiles Fail To Stop the Houthi's Attacks?

And what does it mean for the bigger picture?

nationalinterest.org

Why Did American Patriot Missiles Fail To Stop the Houthi's Attacks?​

And it wasn’t the first time Saudi Arabia’s Patriots have failed. At least five Patriots apparently missed, malfunctioned or otherwise failed when Saudi forces tried to intercept a barrage of rockets targeting Riyadh on March 25, 2018.

A refresher of how badly Patriot failed and failed and failed again



And as demonstrated so clearly in KSA the Aegis and Patriot systems defending Saudi a joke as the Aegis and Patriot cannot even detect a few sub Mach cruise missiles not to talk of taking them down. Even to now, no one sure where those came from and who flown them. Despite overlapping coverage of those Patriot and Aegis systems.

And now easy peasy and no sweat in taking out Mach 3 missiles effortlessly out of Ukraine sky

The American systems dunno where the slow poke missiles came from and if missiles did not go off with bangs leaving smoke and fire, might not even have existed at all

New sales pitch? US makes the world’s ‘finest’ anti-air systems, but sometimes they just don’t work, Pompeo explains
Saudi air defenses like Patriot & Aegis don’t match their advertised properties, unfit for real combat – Russian Army (MAP)

 

[SecularNationalist]

Is it for shooting down spying satellites over China?

 

[guangdongt]

The debate here reminds me of the debate 10 years ago when China used ballistic missiles to strike mobile aircraft carriers. Some of the technologies, guys, will really mature over time.

 

[DevendraRajput]

The debate here reminds me of the debate 10 years ago when China used ballistic missiles to strike mobile aircraft carriers. Some of the technologies, guys, will really mature over time.

Striking ships using ballistic missiles has been a thing for very long time.

R-27 Zyb - Wikipedia

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Prithvi (missile) - Wikipedia

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Hitting planes at 2000 km is a snake oil for nothing can track targets at that distance.

 

[majesticpug]

Striking ships using ballistic missiles has been a thing for very long time.

R-27 Zyb - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Prithvi (missile) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Hitting planes at 2000 km is a snake oil for nothing can track targets at that distance.

Tracking by satellites is not snake oil even with today's technology. It will be better in the next 5-8 years. I'm not sure how shooting down a plane is possible when variables (position, height, speed, direction, etc.) will be different when the missile gets to the targeted airspace. I believe this could be a loitering missile similar to loitering munitions, except it's designed to crash into jets at much higher speed than the loitering munitions (basically, suicide drones). This could be used to execute a no-fly zone over or near Guam, if it ever comes into production.

Or, this is just a for-a-laugh article by SCMP.

 

[DevendraRajput]

Tracking by satellites is not snake oil even with today's technology. It will be better in the next 5-8 years. I'm not sure how shooting down a plane is possible when variables (position, height, speed, direction, etc.) will be different when the missile gets to the targeted airspace. I believe this could be a loitering missile similar to loitering munitions, except it's designed to crash into jets at much higher speed than the loitering munitions (basically, suicide drones). This could be used to execute a no-fly zone over or near Guam, if it ever comes into production.

Or, this is just a for-a-laugh article by SCMP.

So you will track planes using satellites? LOL!

Lets say somehow you do that in the day, what will you do at night? SAR wont work because of stealth and the fact that satellite has to move quite a bit to get enough synthetic aperture.

Okay since you do not know how shooting down air borne moving targets work. Here is a basic flow.

You detect a hostile using your scanning radars.
You track them using your scanning / firing solution radar. Tracking calculates its position, velocity (speed and direction).
You fire the missile with location you last found.
While missile is flying, you keep on tracking the target.
You update the new location of the target to missile using data link.
Eventually missile arrives near enough the target that it can use its own onboard radar to track the target and chase it. You do not need to provide any further updates.

Now, how will anyone track from 2000 KM away?

 

[Hendarto]

Striking ships using ballistic missiles has been a thing for very long time.

R-27 Zyb - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Prithvi (missile) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Hitting planes at 2000 km is a snake oil for nothing can track targets at that distance.

Well ever heard of over-the-horizon radar? With new algorithms, AI, and Supercomputer processing, The fidelity of OH radar improves considerably. Then you can add satellite or high-altitude HALE to confirm it

High Frequency (HF) Over the Horizon Radar (OTHR) Metric Accuracy | SBIR.gov

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Over-the-Horizon radar (OTHR) uses ionospheric reflection to propagate HF transmissions to long range (~ 500 to 5000 km). The ionosphere is a dynamic “mirror” that varies diurnally, seasonally, and with the solar cycle. Geolocation of targets observed by OTHR, (Coordinate Registration; CR), requires accurate real-time ionospheric modeling and HF propagation calculations to convert radar-measured target signal delays and beam steers to geographical position.

Our team at NWRA is the developer of what is arguably the most sophisticated CR capability currently in existence, CREDO (Coordinate Registration Enhancement by Dynamic Optimization). CREDO uses OTHR vertical and oblique backscatter soundings to model the ionosphere by applying Tikhonov’s methodology for solving ill-posed problems (extended to multidimensional nonlinear inverse problems and optimized for fast numerical solution). This produces the smoothest ionosphere that agrees with input data within measurement error. More recently we developed a Tikhonov-based ionospheric data assimilation capability called GPSII (GPS Ionospheric Inversion; pronounced “gypsy”). GPSII is capable of ingesting data from GPS and LEO satellite beacons, in situ electron density (e.g., DMSP or CHAMP satellites), JASON altimeter, DORIS, and vertical incidence sounders. We propose to merge the CREDO and GPSII capabilities into a state-of-the-art OTHR CR capability and demonstrate resulting metric accuracy improvement. BENEFIT: The incorporation of additional ionospheric data beyond conventional OTHR vertical and oblique backscatter soundings is expected to improve the fidelity of real-time ionosphere models, resulting in improved OTHR Coordinate Registration metric accuracy. The Next Generation OTH Radar (NGOTHR) is expected to have the additional benefit of elevation information in its backscatter soundings, and this can be incorporated in our solution method for additional fidelity. Furthermore, because GPSII uses a non-radar-centric coordinate system, a single self-consistent ionosphere model can be developed for multiple OTH radars in the same region. This will result in consistent CR of targets in overlapping coverage areas and ensure smooth track continuity as targets move from one radar’s coverage to another. Improved CR metric accuracy will enhance the applicability of OTHR as a wide area surveillance asset for Air Force and Homeland Security applications with dramatic cost savings over alternative microwave radar solutions.