![]() The point is ship radars are far more sophisticated, even if it doesn't seem so because of their age (in our case 80's and late 90's). Furthermore, sea skimming involves a significant computational load, increasing the required processing power and cost" Sea skimming also hinders target acquisition, as many of the principles that hinder the target's detection of the missile also hinder the missile's detection of the target. "The use of sea skimming increases the risk of water impact with the missile before reaching the target, due to weather conditions, rogue waves, software bugs and other factors. ![]() To make it more easy I can simply citate Wiki: I dont see the problem you mentioned about height and radar lock.even 1 meter over the water gives some miles of horizon, and ship is way taller on the sea than the harpoon flight path…)Ĭorrect, but with a wave height of 1m you will get a diving missile or a missile who can't seperate waves from ships beacause it can see only clutter as you estimated for the ships radar. Cowboy became concerned and called for us to execute a max-performance collision avoidance turn: “Break left!”". Both fighters were flying formation on our respective missiles when Cowboy’s crossed directly behind ours, very close. "John Boy and I saw Cowboy’s jet, but didn’t gain sight of the small Harpoon he was chasing. This is regarding a submarine launched Harpoon, which clearly cruises all the way from launch to target at low altitude.Īnd here, regarding almost colliding with the chase plane which was following an air launched Harpoon that was fired at the same target simultaneously: "In three minutes we had covered almost 30 miles and were more than halfway to the target ship" I know people have been lower and faster, but 540 knots at 200' is low and fast." "and now we were chasing a cruise missile skimming across the ocean. "The missile climbed to several hundred feet, then arced over and quickly descended to its cruise altitude, gaining speed." (describing Harpoon launch by the submarine) "After all, we had to plan on five minutes at high speed and low altitude" (regarding following the Harpoon with the chase plane) "The Harpoon's profile was for a low altitude flight to the target, 200’ or less guided by a radar altimeter, at the high speed of 0.9 Mach – about 540 knots."
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