Physical damage to the missile would be "hard kill".
Soft kill systems ares designed to confuse incoming missiles with electronic counter-measures, decoys, smoke, flare, chaff, IR or laser jamming, etc.
054/A FFG Thread II
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Physical damage to the missile would be "hard kill".
Soft kill systems ares designed to confuse incoming missiles with electronic counter-measures, decoys, smoke, flare, chaff, IR or laser jamming, etc.
Blackstone
Brigadier
CIWS are considered soft kills?
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Soft kill is a Jammer or dazler or system designed to decoy or confuse a inbound enemy guidence system. Hardkill is using a projectile or explosive to either distroy or deture a enemy round. So Close in weapons system would be a hard kill as its intended to destroy a incoming missile.
i wasn't clear, but the original report was talking about decoy + chaff here.
CIWS are hard kills too
joshuatree
Captain
No, I was responding to a scenario painted that a soft kill is already on terminal trajectory and still gliding in based on momentum. Then you would want your CIWS to finish it.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Soft kill farther out hard kill as it closes. So decoy and jam at range if it breakes that window missile and if it gets past that a wall of Lead from your CIWS
ECM, chaff, etc. soft kills are designed to either cause the incoming missile to turn away (or down into the ocean) or otherwise go completely off course in an attempt to either hit the wrong thing, or because their guidance/processing/internal comms/chips have been so completely screwed up that they lose complete control.
If you can do that out even several hundred yards away from the ship, you have a good chance of avoiding any damage from the missile continuing on in a trajectory that hits the ship. Of course the closer and closer the weapon gets to the ship before you do that...or even get a solid hit from a CIWS...the greater chance that the hulk/debris are going to coninue on and hit the ship. And of course if your ECM only scores a partial impact on the systems, then the less chance you have of it falling far enough off course in the terminal phases to miss too.
And at high sub-sonic and particularly speeds in excess of the speed of sound, that's going to still cause potentially significant damage.
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So has it been confirmed that the type 054A is nearing the end of production if so I have a theory Id like some imput on. The Type 054A is a replacement the really old Type 053's which are being phased out or transfered to foreign navies () . While the Type 054B will be replacements for the far more modern Type 053 H2/H3 (or the HQ-61/ and HQ-7 missile ships) ( , )