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| Navy Needed Targets To Mimic Supersonic Anti-Ship Missiles So They Bought Real Ones From Russia |
| 2020-05-18 |
| [TheWarZone/TheDrive] After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Navy acquired the same Kh-31 missiles that threatened its ships and made them into anti-ship missile targets. It's extremely important for any military to make its training regimens as realistic as possible to give its forces the best sense of the threats they might face in combat and how to respond to them. Unfortunately, developing high-quality surrogates for the weapons and other systems that potential adversaries might employ is not always easy and in some cases, it ends up being possible to just go to the source of the threat itself. The U.S. Navy faced just this predicament in the 1990s when it went looking for a high-speed target to simulate supersonic anti-ship and anti-radiation missiles and ultimately decided to just buy the MA-31, a derivative of Russia's air-launched rocket-ramjet-powered Kh-31 missile |
| Posted by:Woodrow |
| #6 Don't sweat it, Woody. Keep 'em coming! |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-18 20:42 |
| #5 Sorry. I just skimmed the title, thought it might be of interest. My sincere apologies. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-05-18 20:32 |
| #4 Title definitely click-bait-ish. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-18 17:43 |
| #3 I find the title misleading. They didn't just buy the missiles, they gave the Russians the money to get their development program unstuck in the late 90's, including all the data from the leftover Talos missiles we used as targets until then, so they could provide us with targets, they got what data they needed and didn't deliver anything in return. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-05-18 16:44 |
| #2 ET1871, I just scanned the title of your article and thought it read as "Chinese assisted ..." but then I realized there is no difference. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-05-18 12:12 |
| #1 Yeah, that was another Peace Dividend Debacle. Clinton assisted Russian kh-31 Krypton ASM program The titanium Kh-31 was built in 1988 by the Russian Zvezda-Strela State Science and Production Center for the former Soviet Union. The PM version of the Krypton missile offers extended range and features improved passive seeker electronics, enabling it to pick up a wide range of radar targets. The PM also incorporates into its design virtually all of the improvements suggested by a team of U.S. military engineers who worked on the Krypton during the Clinton years. |
| Posted by: Elmath Thuter1871 2020-05-18 10:24 |