Re: Future PLAN Backfires versus US carriers (or any other hostile ships for that mat
Well, to say for certain we'd have to know the flight profile of the incoming missile, sea skimming or high altitude diving? After a hit from a small defence missile like RAM or SeaSparrow, a sea skimmer is going to go into the water with very little chance of debris hitting the ship, unless it's a point blank hit very close to the ship (a few hundred meters).
A high altitude diving attack at the ship is more likely to result in debris damage to the ship, but because the missile is making a high altitude attack it will be detected by the ship much sooner, so the ship has a better chance of hitting it with a larger and longer ranged missile before the attack missile gets close enough for debris to endanger the ship. Even if debris does reach the ship, the further away the attack missile is hit, the more the debris spreads out and looses speed as it falls.
There are just too many variables to say for certain exactly what would happen.
MIGleader said:
Well, to say for certain we'd have to know the flight profile of the incoming missile, sea skimming or high altitude diving? After a hit from a small defence missile like RAM or SeaSparrow, a sea skimmer is going to go into the water with very little chance of debris hitting the ship, unless it's a point blank hit very close to the ship (a few hundred meters).
A high altitude diving attack at the ship is more likely to result in debris damage to the ship, but because the missile is making a high altitude attack it will be detected by the ship much sooner, so the ship has a better chance of hitting it with a larger and longer ranged missile before the attack missile gets close enough for debris to endanger the ship. Even if debris does reach the ship, the further away the attack missile is hit, the more the debris spreads out and looses speed as it falls.
There are just too many variables to say for certain exactly what would happen.