Why would they want to test impact characteristics on a tiny minesweeper ship? A supersonic missile with a 300kg is going to absolutely destroy a ship that size.
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PiSigma
"the engineer"
Not according to that photo. That ship can probably be dragged back to dock. Even the moskova suffered more damage. Looks like too much bragging from the Indians again.
Lethe
Captain
The missile did not have a live warhead.
His point (and mine) was that the test obivously wasn't to test penetration capability as you claimed. You wouldn't use an empty missile against a fishing ship in that situation.
Either this is a test of launch/readiness systems or just a test for geopolitical reasons.
Lethe
Captain
PiSigma's point was clear enough, not sure why you are eager to associate with it.
In any case the test seems to have been intended to validate the new installation aboard INS Delhi. Makes no difference to the bulk of my post i.e. purpose of reflectors is to control for extraneous variables so as to minimise the chance of someone important looking silly. The extensive media coverage goes to reinforce this, though I suspect it would've been easy enough to bury the test if it had missed. You can view it as a lack of confidence in BrahMos if you like, I see it as more of an issue of institutional culture.
PiSigma
"the engineer"
What I'm questioning is the purpose of this test. What is the objective?
If you are testing the destructive power of the missile, you would not have a dud, but use a live missile.
For penetration test, you won't use a tiny boat, because the building technique, structure and armor on a destroyer would be very different. So the data collected is basically useless. That's why you see the Americans bombing the crap out of old destroyers to see damage assessment and not mine sweepers.
If you want to test the missile seeker on target finding, then why put on the reflectors? It just make it too easy. Sure its suppose to simulate a much larger ship, but if a missile can find a mine sweeper it can find a destroyer. If u can dodge a wrench, u can dodge a ball
A systematic approach to testing involves a series of unit tests with very specific defined objectives before any integrated tests.
Also, whether or not corner reflectors help or hinder assessment of the weapon’s homing performance depends on whether the radar profile of the trail target would otherwise sufficiently resemble the profile of the weapons’ s likely wartime target. This would be all the more true if the missile’s radar and processing software is sophisticated enough to identify the target by its radar profile and aim for a point other than centroid of the reflections. In this case testing the homing performance of the weapon depends on giving the target a specific radar profile, rather than just any radar profile the target by chance happen to have.
If there are two possible interpretations for the choices and behavior of a despised enemy, one gives the enemy capabilities the benefit of the doubt, the other belittles the capabilities of the enemy, always selecting the interpretation that belittles the capabilities of that despised enemy is probably something the Russians did before the Ukrainian invasion.
As you can see, the Russians probably currently see cause to regret their choices.
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