in the scope of the debate, the LACM version of BrahMos should not be discussed; it's AShM vs AshM. The reason is that the Russians have no need to develop one more LACM while the Indians need more standoff weapons.
Now, regarding BrahMos vs Yakhont, it is true that BrahMos has a more sophisticated electronics package, but again, IndianFighter, you post technical information that is not valid for the debate.
""'The Indian Navy (IN) is to induct the BrahMos supersonic multi-role cruise missile into operational service. Efforts are now underway to integrate the BrahMos navigation and guidance systems with high-speed data links that will be able to receive course-correction and terminal guidance cues from the navy's Heron II unmanned aerial vehicles and maritime patrol /ASW aircraft launched from shore-based air bases and equipped with SAR payloads, as well as from the ship-borne Kamov Ka-31 airborne early warning helicopter. Currently, as part of on-going efforts to achieve a fair degree of proficiency in network-centric warfare, three project 15-class DDGs, three Project 1135.6-class guided missile frigates and the aircraft carrier INS Viraat are equipped with high-speed data links through which tactical control of the INS Israel Aircraft Industries /MALAT-built Searcher Mk2 and Heron II UAVs is exercised while at sea for real-time maritime reconnaissance.'""
what high speed data link? You can't go around saying "high speed" without some sort of hard technical facts.
""'The seeker uses a hybrid form of pulse compression, in which bursts of short pulses are phase-coded so that they can be compressed; the bursts can also be Furier-transformed to discriminate chaff clouds. This particular pulse compression technique was adopted to hold down peak power, so making ESM detection difficult.'""
yeah, alone with every other terminal seeker after the 60s. Fourier transform is not hard, you learn it in your second year in College of Engineering. It's just using a finite amount of trig functions to describe ANY waveform. From this you can do a F-transform to find the descrepencies in signal strength.
"The above mentioned capabilities of a continous datalink, and advanced ECM are not reported to be present in the Yakhont."
IndianFighter, I'm not sure where you learned debate, but double checking your facts should come naturally to any normal human.
This is from Bharat Rakshak itself, since you apparently don't trust anything not Indian.
The missile's designers assume, that the enemy would detect the launch of the missile at the distance of 300 km and take measures to destroy it. However, being resistant to jamming, having the flight velocity of 750 m/s and making complex maneuvers during flight, the Yakhont ASCM shall anyway reach the target. It is not the high speed or jamming protection that makes Yakhont an advanced weapon system.
It's major advantage, not too much advertised by NPO Mashinostroyeniya representatives, is the guidance system which has accumulated all the NPO experience in developing electronic systems of AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabling to fight against single warships (one missile - one ship) or even against a group of warships (a flock against a group).
this is one of the primary aspects of ECM.
Oh, and INS using the present target location method requires contineous data link, a "high speed" one at that.
