054/A FFG Thread II

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A.Man

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HHQ-16 from one of the first 054A's

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tphuang

tphuang

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by far the best picture of HQ-16 we've seen. don't recall any other one showing such great details in action.

also if you follow the original article, this launch was part of training against for 4 high speed drones where 3 got intercepted and the last one got soft killed.
 
Blackstone

Blackstone

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tphuang said:
by far the best picture of HQ-16 we've seen. don't recall any other one showing such great details in action.

also if you follow the original article, this launch was part of training against for 4 high speed drones where 3 got intercepted and the last one got soft killed.
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Soft killed?
 
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chuck731

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Jeff Head said:
Yes. Either with Electronic Counter Measures (ECM), decoys or chaff. In this case, probably with ECM.
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Or possibly physically damaged the missile enough so it no longer homes in on its target, but without actually destroying the missile's ability to maintain powered flight.

With incoming AShM, one has to score a hard kill to garranty the missile won't get you. A soft killed missile might already be a terminal trajectory when "killed", and the riddled corpse of the missile would simply glide unguided into the target by its momentum.
 
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joshuatree

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chuck731 said:
Or possibly physically damaged the missile enough so it no longer homes in on its target, but without actually destroying the missile's ability to maintain powered flight.

With incoming AShM, one has to score a hard kill to garranty the missile won't get you. A soft killed missile might already be a terminal trajectory when "killed", and the riddled corpse of the missile would simply glide unguided into the target by its momentum.
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Then one hopes the CIWS will be spot on.
 
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