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Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
"Faced with the threat from swarms of small
boats. the US Navy is looking to equip the sensor turrets of its shipborne helicopters with the ability to designate multiple targets for simultaneous attack by laser-guided missiles like Hellfire." See: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs...tId=b logDest |
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Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
On Dec 25, 3:21*am, wrote:
"Faced with the threat from swarms of small boats. the US Navy is looking to equip the sensor turrets of its shipborne helicopters with the ability to designate multiple targets for simultaneous attack by laser-guided missiles like Hellfire." See: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs...plckController... An heir or counterpart to the QF guns meant to deal with torpedo boats, as Harpoon is heir or counterpart to the bigger guns..... |
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Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
On Dec 25, 5:25*am, "dott.Piergiorgio"
wrote: {SNIP} the ~8km range of the hellfire and the inherent low stealthiness of helos on the open sea preclude stand-off attacks against ships above ~400 tons, that is, capable of carrying guns from 57mm up and/or missiles around the seasparrow size. {SNIP} Dott. Piergiorgio. Isn't that what Penguin is for?: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/agm-119.htm |
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Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
dumpster4 wrote:
"Faced with the threat from swarms of small boats. the US Navy is looking to equip the sensor turrets of its shipborne helicopters with the ability to designate multiple targets for simultaneous attack by laser-guided missiles like Hellfire." See: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs...ckController=B log&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec 4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-0 1329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post% 3ade07c957-e8d9-407b-a712-9f7221a31b54&plckScript=blogScript&plckElemen tId=blogDest I am the god of Hellfire and I bring you: Fire I'll take you to burn. Fire I'll take you to learn. I'll see you burn! You fought hard and you saved and learned but all of it's going to burn. And your mind your tiny mind you know you've really been so blind. Now's your time burn your mind. You're falling far too far behind. Oh no oh no oh no you gonna burn! Fire to destroy all you've done. Fire to end all you've become. I'll feel your burn! You've been living like a little girl in the middle of your little world. and your mind your tiny mind you know you've really been so blind. Now's your time burn your mind you're falling far too far behind. Fire I'll take you to burn. Fire I'll take you to learn. You gonna burn ... burn ... burn ... Fire I'll take you to burn ... - Arthur Brown |
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Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
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dott.Piergiorgio writes OTOH, this concept can also be an excellent anti-landing system, esp. in defence of narrow and/or steep coastlines (here in Italy the idea will be readily adopted and more so on the other side of the Adriatic ) Sweden and Norway have done exactly that for some time... -- He thinks too much, such men are dangerous. Paul J. Adam |
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Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
On Dec 26, 3:09*am, wrote:
On Dec 25, 5:25*am, "dott.Piergiorgio" wrote: {SNIP} the ~8km range of the hellfire and the inherent low stealthiness of helos on the open sea preclude stand-off attacks against ships above ~400 tons, that is, capable of carrying guns from 57mm up and/or missiles around the seasparrow size. {SNIP} Dott. Piergiorgio. Isn't that what Penguin is for?: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/agm-119.htm True but more Hellfires can be carried than Penguins, depending on the range and number of the threats, both have their own power alleys... |
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Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
On Dec 26, 2:02*am, "dott.Piergiorgio"
wrote: [SNIP] Indeed. If we want to draw a parallel with weapons system of a century or so ago, the penguin is like the "secondary battery" available to helos, the main being the harpoon and the tertiary these navalisedhellfire.... I guess everyone can agree that a penguin is an overkill against pirate skiffs and iranian large RHIB and similiar types of pousserie Navale. Best regards from Italy, Dott. Piergiorgio. Can any helicopters actually launch Harpoon? |
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Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
wrote in
: On Dec 26, 2:02*am, "dott.Piergiorgio" wrote: [SNIP] Indeed. If we want to draw a parallel with weapons system of a century or so ago, the penguin is like the "secondary battery" available to helos, the main being the harpoon and the tertiary these navalisedhellfire.... I guess everyone can agree that a penguin is an overkill against pirate skiffs and iranian large RHIB and similiar types of pousserie Navale. Can any helicopters actually launch Harpoon? Global Security's page on the AGM-84 suggests not: http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ons/agm-84.htm. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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