Air-launched Antiship missile tests

[PoorOldSpike]

AIR-LAUNCHED ANTISHIP MISSILE TESTS

I tested the 3 most common missiles, namely the American AGM-84D Harpoon, and the Russian KH-31A Krypton and KH-35 Kayak.

 

As always, I did the tests to help me when scen-building, and post them here in case anybody might be interested..

Conclusion- ALL American warships will engage incoming Russian KH-31A's and KH-35's with their SAMs and Gatlings.
Conclusion- ALL Russian warships will engage incoming American AGM-84D Harpoons with their SAMs and Gatlings.

Below: AGM-84D Harpoon, warhead=225kg, Range 80nm

 

 

 

A Pyotr Velikiy engages incoming Harpoons with its Tors and Gatlings

 

 

 

But some Harpoons get through-

 

 

 

Below: KH-31A (AS-17 Krypton) warhead=90kg, Range 30nm, supersonic (here launched from an SU-30)

 

 

 

A Tico fights for its life against incoming supersonic Kryptons-

 

 

 

But some Kryptons get through-

 

 

 

 

Below: KH-35 (AS-20 Kayak), warhead=145kg, Range 70nm,  (nicknamed 'Harpoonski' by the West)

(Note: at the aircraft loading screen it's called 'KH-35', but in the 3D game (below) it's confusingly partly-labelled 'KH-31A' like the Krypton.

Like the other Russian and American sea-skimmers, some get shot down and some get through)

NOTE: the 3 missiles above are the main antiship missiles used by NATO and Russia, and their long range means they can be launched well outside the defending ships SAM range.

But there are smaller missiles that can be used against ships (eg Maverick F and Russian KH-29T) but they have a much shorter range which means they have to fly into ships SAM range to launch. 

Edited March 3, 2021 by PoorOldSpike

[PoorOldSpike]

A note on Russian Tunguska/Gatling dual launchers-

 

Below- They're on the two Kusnetsov Carriers and the Neustrashimy Frigate, and sometimes the Gatlings fire (top pic) and sometimes the Tunguska SAMs fire (bottom pic)-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 3, 2021 by PoorOldSpike

[Seaeagle]

10 hours ago, PoorOldSpike said:

A note on Russian Tunguska/Gatling dual launchers-

 

Below- They're on the two Kusnetsov Carriers and the Neustrashimy Frigate, and sometimes the Gatlings fire (top pic) and sometimes the Tunguska SAMs fire (bottom pic)-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cool - good job!

[PoorOldSpike]

RUSSIAN Kh-22 (AS-4 Kitchen) supersonic antiship missile test.

 

I couldn't resist tossing this one into the test playpen because its got the biggest warhead in the game (1000kg) and is supersonic,

(its the standard HE version as the nuke version is not in the game)-

 

 

 

The Tu-22's reach the launch waypoint and begin letting their Kitchens fly at a Ticonderoga 90 nm (167 kms) away.

(The encyclo says their max range is 400 km, but the best I could get in the tests was 90nm / 167 km)-

 

 

 

After launching, the Kitchens fly to 80,000 feet and level out-

 

 

 

[PoorOldSpike]

Then they begin diving as they approach the Tico (circled) which begins rocking and rolling and launching SM-2 SAMs-

 

 

Below-An SM-2 knocks out a Kitchen with a proximity airburst, and in the next pic The Tico's Gatling accounts for another-

 

 

 

 

Below-But eventually a Kitchen gets through the Tico's defences-

 

 

 

Edited March 4, 2021 by PoorOldSpike

[Seaeagle]

5 hours ago, PoorOldSpike said:

RUSSIAN Kh-22 (AS-4 Kitchen) supersonic antiship missile test.

 

I couldn't resist tossing this one into the test playpen because its got the biggest warhead in the game (1000kg) and is supersonic...

 

The Tu-22's reach the launch waypoint and begin letting their Kitchens fly at a Ticonderoga 90 nm (167 kms) away.

(The encyclo says their max range is 400 km, but the best I could get in the tests was 90nm / 167 km).

Yes and its a good choice for a test - not just because its the biggest such weapon in the sim, but because the "Backfire"/Kh-22 combination was considered the single biggest threat to US CVBG during the cold war and was the kind of thing the F-14/AIM-54 was meant to deal with.

 

 

[Northstar98]

Yeah the AS-4 should have a longer range, presumably it's due to target acquisition (IRL you'd probably have the Tu-22Ms working with an MPA (like the Tu-142 'Bear F' or Tu-95RT data-linked together), I've also heard that there's an anti-radiation variant (or at least the RADAR has a passive mode too) and an INS + TERCOM variant for land-attack.

 

The db_sensors.lua inside Scripts -> Database, gives a range of 300km.

 

Spoiler

 Name = X_22, --Kh-22
		display_name = _('Kh-22 (AS-4 Kitchen)'),
		name = "X_22",
        Escort = 0,
        Head_Type = 5,
		sigma = {15, 15, 15},
        M = 6800.0,
        H_max = 28000.0,
        H_min = -1,
        Diam = 1000.0,
        Cx_pil = 8,
        D_max = 140000.0,
        D_min = 40000.0,
        Head_Form = 1,
        Life_Time = 1800.0,
        Nr_max = 6,
        v_min = 170.0,
        v_mid = 1000.0,
        Mach_max = 3.5,
        t_b = 0.0,
        t_acc = 10.0,
        t_marsh = 50.0,
        Range_max = 300000.0,
        H_min_t = 0.0,
        Fi_start = 0.3,
        Fi_rak = 3.14152,
        Fi_excort = 1.05,
        Fi_search = 99.9,
        OmViz_max = 99.9,
        warhead = warheads["X_22"],
        exhaust = tail_liquid,
        X_back = -5.7,
        Y_back = -0.487,
        Z_back = 0.0,
        Reflection = 1.82, -- RCS, square meters
        KillDistance = 0.0,
		add_attributes = {"Cruise missiles"},

 

 

EDIT: Just did a test, if you delete the 'anti-ship -a' task that is automatically set in the advanced waypoint actions (for aircraft with anti-ship strike set as the task), and replace it with perform task -> attack group/unit at your desired waypoint, it will fire at longer range. I've so far managed to get it to fire at 250km, presumably it'll do 300km.

Edited March 5, 2021 by Northstar98